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Iximché, the last Maya City tour
The Main Plaza and several administrative buildings remain surrounded by nature. Iximché keeps it's colors and beauty with Mayan temples witnesses of the past. Our trip begins leaving the city and enjoying a nice breakfast at Tecpán on beautiful wooden constructions, there, discover traditional combinations of Guatemalan flavors and fresh pure air before heading to this maya site.
A guided walk will tell about the historic events among strong resistance of the Mayan soldiers against the European soldiers. The most intense chapter is a tale of failed alliances and betrayals with a king seeing the city falling into ashes, literally. Tikal was out of the panorama during the new era (abandoned city), while protagonists as Utatlán, Zaculeu and Iximché where the center of important battles.
Witness a Maya RitualIximché remains as a sacred Maya site. People from all over the country (and in fact, from all over the world) visit and see traditional and ancient rituals with a variety of reasons and purposes: peace, health, wealth, and balancing the energies. Also, the Museum is a complementary treasure exhibiting pieces of the past including gold elaborated jewelry.
Ready for lunch? let's head to a set of magic restaurant among trees and local handcrafts. Try the cream, cheese, meat, chicken, "churrasquitos", tortillas, caldos, pepián, jocón, mole, torrejas and other varieties including vegetarian variations. Add some fresh beverages prepared with colorful sweet fruits as you enjoy the sound of live marimba among colorful handcrafts, and don't forget to try the excellent coffee. The colors of the products can only be matched by the fruits available for your enjoyment. This region is famous by the quality of the food, specifically: the chorizos, longanizas, cream and cheese along with the "herrajes", a very tasty sweet bread best enjoyed with coffee, but among the variety, the breakfast is a special treat, come and find out why.
San Juan El ObispoBack to La Antigua Guatemala we head to the historic convent of San Juan El Obispo, a beautiful building that remains in service, once of critical importance to propagate Christianity and Catholicism all over the region. A guided walk with historic explanations will tell you the secrets of preserved pieces, the work of the nuns of Bethania in care of the place and most of all, the challenges and daily life of the complex that remains as a peaceful refugee for the soul.
Enjoy the magnificent views of the plaza, the fountain, and the historic church with preserved imagery, true historical art pieces. At one side the views of volcanoes and on the other the landscape and the panoramic of the city. Few steps from here: taste homemade wine, variety of chocolates, deserts and fresh natural beverages.
- 6:00 Ready to leave Guatemala City / La Antigua Guatemala and head to Tecpán.
- 7:00 Breakfast with fresh food and local combinations at Santa Apolonia or any other colorful option around Tecpán iconic restaurants.
- 8:30 Back on the road heading to Iximché, Sacred Maya site where ancient rituals still take place.
- 13:00 Time for lunch; enjoy traditional food with amazing high quality local products.
- 14:45 Now let's cross La Antigua Guatemala reaching one extreme of the city, and then discover the ancient Convent of San Juan El Obispo. Try some interesting flavors too.
- 18:30 Enjoy hand picked options of restaurants in La Antigua Guatemala for some local traditional meals; get familiar with the stories of ingredients and combinations and as the night comes near, so is the time to try some local desert along with the nicest coffee; an intimate encounter with Guatemala traditional cuisine with historic explanations.
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Daughters of Abraham: Women's Interfaith Book Group
The goal of our gatherings is the slow, thoughtful work of getting to know each other over a good book.
We are a group of Jewish, Christian and Muslim women who want to deepen our knowledge of our own and one another's faiths. By reading books that teach us about each other's faith traditions and learning about the practice of our respective faiths, we hope to increase our respect for all the Abrahamic religions. We are committed to building relationships among us.
Our name emphasizes the common elements that unite us. In all three of our traditions, Abraham is revered as the first monotheist. In a sense, he is the "father" and we can be thought of as his "daughters". Even though we are "daughters" of different "mothers" , Sarah and Hagar, Abraham is the father of us all. By naming ourselves Daughters of Abraham, we are recognizing that there is more holding us together than separating us.

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|Adoration of the Shepherds by Gerard van Honthorst (1620)
When Old English speakers wanted to speak of other people and their religion, Old English speakers would say demonym adjectives prefacing the word holiday.
To English speakers, other people and their other religions do not have holidays. They have days of significance to their religion.
Americans came to say the phrase happy holidays as a Christmastime greeting, which the sellers of Camel cigarettes introduced in advertising to Americans in 1937.


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The top 5 qualities of a good bartender
One of the main things that will attract patrons to bars that is besides a good atmosphere, great quality of drinks, good entertainment and good food is a good bartender. The skills of the bartender both interpersonal and mixology are what will keep patrons coming back for more and more.
Let's take a look at the top 5 qualities of a good bartender.
They should be very knowledgeable about drinks
A bartender's job is about drinks therefore good bartenders should be experts of mixology. Part of mastering this skill is having a great knowledge about drinks including how best to take them, when to take them, what blends best with the drinks and so on. Many patrons will always want the bartender's advice therefore they should have this knowledge at their fingertips.
They should have good people skills
Good bartenders should be good with people. This will include them being able to strike up a conversation with everyone, be able to read their mood, being able to lift their spirits as well as knowing when not to bother a patron with too much small talk. The bartender's personality should be one that 5.
They should be very attentive
A good bartender should be very attentive especially when it comes to their patrons. Attentiveness comes in handy when serving the needs of the customer such as reading their mood and knowing the perfect drink to uplift them, knowing when the customer needs a refill or when they have had too much to drink and so on. Attentiveness will also come in handy during inventory management.
They should have a good memory
A good bartender must have a good memory. Nothing pleases a patron more than coming to the bar and immediately being served their favorite drink without even asking. Regular customers will always want to be remembered either by their name or by their choice of drinks and the only way a bartender can do this is by having a good memory. Their ability to also remember all the different drinks, how they mix and so on will be dependent on their memory. Has a Keen Memory: Great bartenders have excellent memories. They remember regular customers' drinks, as well as what new customers are currently drinking. They also have dozens of drink recipes memorized.
They should be really good at multitasking
Bartenders will often need to multitask as they mix and serve drinks, and engage patrons in conversation as well as handle cash. This will require them to be really good at multitasking so that they don't make any mistakes while doing any of these tasks.
If you are thinking of becoming a bartender or of hiring a bartender then these are the skills you should be sure to look out for.
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We were thrilled to present on the topic Expanding Metaliteracy Across the Curriculum to Advance Lifelong Civic Engagement at Cedar Crest College last week! The Cedar Crest Curriculum Committee invited us to present a summer workshop to build on the great work they are doing to map information literacy/metaliteracy across the curriculum. We were very impressed with the work they are doing and enjoyed our time with the faculty, librarians, and administrators very much. This is the slide deck for the facilitated presentation and it includes the world premiere of our new book cover for the forthcoming Metaliteracy in Practice! Be sure to check it out!
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Presentation on MOOCs and Badges at SUNY CIT
The Metaliteracy Learning Collaborative presented on the culmination of their work over the past year for an Innovative Instruction Technology Grant (IITG) at SUNY's Conference on Instruction and Technology on May 28th. A panel composed of all eight members of the grant team, including PIs Tom Mackey and Trudi Jacobson and co-PIs Kathleen Stone, Michele Forte, Amy McQuigge, Kelsey O'Brien, Allison Hosier and Jenna Pitera, discussed the development of two MOOCs on two different platforms, both of which were supported by the metaliteracy learning objectives. Designing Innovative Online Learning: An Investigation of Digital Badges Integration with Two MOOC Platforms offered insights about the collaborative development and facilitation of both the Coursera and Canvas MOOCs and the extent to which we were able to integrate the Metaliteracy Badges.
Metaliteracy Presentation Videos Now Available via ESC-TV
As part of our SUNY wide Conversations in the Disciplines event hosted at Empire State College, we recorded the keynote presentations and panels. These videos are now available via ESC-TV and include the morning keynote presentation by Tom Mackey and Trudi Jacobson, entitled Developing Metaliterate Learners: Transforming Literacy Across Disciplines. We also feature the morning Reaction Panel with Richard Fogarty, Carleen Huxley, and Michael Youngs. The afternoon sessions are also available, including the keynote presentation by Randy B. Hensley and Reaction Panel: Brian Morgan, Paige Jaeger, Tor Loney, Karen Mahar, Dave Brown, and Ashley Smolinski. All of the videos are available at Metaliteracy Conference 2013.
Metaliteracy Discussed at Westchester Library Association Mid-Winter Conference 2014
Tom Mackey presented on the topic Promoting Access for All with Open and Online Learning at the Westchester Library Association Mid-Winter Conference at The Gateway Center at Westchester Community College. The theme of this year's conference explored distance education and also featured Linda Braun, youth services Manager for Seattle Public Library, and keynote speaker Joe Nocera, Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times and commentator for NPR's Weekend Edition. The one-day conference featured Linda Braun's use of Google Hangouts, Tom Mackey's discussion about open and online learning, MOOCs, OERs, and Metaliteracy and Joe Nocera's keynote about digital privacy. This is the complete PowerPoint presentation by Tom Mackey:
Conversations in the Disciplines
Last week we participated in a SUNY-wide "Conversations in the Disciplines" focused on metaliteracy. This is a competitive program that provides funding for a one-day conference to promote interactivity and dialogue. We experienced a full-day of activity that examined many dimensions of metaliteracy and covered a range of issues from K-12 to higher education to open learning. This is the PowerPoint presentation from our morning keynote "Developing Metaliterate Learners: Transforming Literacy across Disciplines."
Metaliteracy MOOC Talk Plenary
We launched Metaliteracy MOOC on September 4 at the University at Albany with colleagues from SUNY Empire State College and the University Libraries. Our opening plenary was facilitated through Blackboard Collaborate and included Tom Mackey, Trudi Jacobson, Tor Loney, Jenna Hecker, Nicola Marae Allain, and our colleagues from the Metaliteracy Learning Collaborative Michele Forte, Kathleen Stone, Mike Daly, and Mark McBride. We were joined in person by three UAlbany students and online by one of our graduate students from Empire State College. The first MOOC Talk was developed in Prezi and provided an overview of key metaliteracy terms, updates on recent metaliteracy activity, and two figures from the Metaliteracy manuscript recently completed by Tom Mackey and Trudi Jacobson for ALA Books. A recording of our first interactive session via Blackboard Collaborate is available at our Topic 1 page at Metaliteracy MOOC. In the spirit of Open SUNY we coordinated shared press releases that have been published at the Empire State College web site and the UAlbany Web site. The live MOOC Talk session was fascinating for us as we facilitated the talk with several presenters, allowing us to look at metaliteracy from multiple perspectives. We were also inspired by the post-MOOC Talk (that we did not record) because it allowed us to talk through the MOOC format itself and it felt very much like a spontaneous seminar about MOOCs. We have also seen an asynchronous conversation unfold via Twitter at #metaliteracy in response to the talk. We look forward to our upcoming MOOC Talks. On September 18 Char Booth will examine "The Metacognitive Dimension of Metaliteracy," a key aspect of the metaliteracy model.
Meta or MEGA literacy!
Metaliteracy has been featured recently in two new publications. A new UNESCO document entitled Media and Information Literacy for Knowledge Societies (2013) provides a brief definition of metaliteracy and makes it central to the conclusion. According to this new publication:
As an umbrella term, it covers many of the other literacies. It also seems to overlap with new literacies such as multiliteracies and global literacy. It is a metaliteracy. It is transversal in its nature and can be seen as an iceberg concept which is much bigger than what it is seen at first sight. Information literacy can be easily called a megaliteracy which is composed of many other skills and literacies (p. 85).
As a comprehensive and unifying metaliteracy, the idea of a megaliteracy is not needed, since the the meta already encompasses this idea. But this is an intriguing way to look at it and certainly addresses the interconnected nature of emerging literacies. Great to see metaliteracy brought into the conversation.
We also note another new publication from Betty Hurley-Dasgupta, Carol Yeager, and Catherine Bliss from SUNY Empire State College about the first MOOC they offered in the SUNY System entitled Creativity and Multicultural Communication. The authors make several references to metaliteracy in their article cMOOC and Global Learning: An Authentic Alternative in The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN). According to the authors,
Clearly, we need to scaffold the development of metaliteracy skills for learning through cMOOCs. Some scaffolding could be accomplished by incorporating more self-assessment into the MOOC. For future MOOCs, we plan to incorporate shared rubrics to help participants assess their own metaliteracy skills, (Yeager, et.al, 2013, p. 144).
This is an important point that demonstrates the potential impact of a metaliteracy perspective on the cMOOC learning experience, and how learners could gain new insights and knowledge in these open and collaborative spaces. We definitely need metaliteracy rubrics for MOOCs to enhance the experience for independent and collaborative learners.


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As extreme temperatures, droughts, and weather have become more common over the last few years, there has been increased consumer and business interest in being more aware of the way we grow plants and manage landscapes. There are a variety of commonly available solutions that you may already be utilizing and recommending to your customers. These include planting drought-resistant and native species, mulching, and using efficient watering methods. Out of this interest to modernize, biochar and humectants are 2 components that have made their way into the marketplace and are now available in ARBORChar® Summer Stress and NutriRoot®. These products offer unique combinations of multiple ingredients which help hold water, build soil, and improve plant growth and an appearance even during difficult conditions.
Biochar is created by burning organic matter without oxygen in a process called pyrolysis which produces a highly porous, negatively charged carbon material which helps soil to store and exchange nutrients. Think of biochar as a bit of a multitasker. Regarding reducing water use, biochar's porosity allows it to hold up to 10 times its weight in water. This helps make it a great addition to sandy soils because it helps reduce leaching of water and fertilizers. Likewise, it's a great addition to clay soils because it reduces compaction while providing a carbon source for microbiology. And then, like charcoal it can also act as a filter and buffer. Biochar that has been enhanced with nutrients and/or organic material will add value to the soil and improve plant growth.
Humectants are substances often used in foods and lotions to help retain moisture. These substances are called hygroscopic, meaning they can attract ambient water. Humectants added to the soil will attract water vapor from the atmosphere within the soil and condense it back to a liquid form. They will then retain the liquid for the plant to absorb.
Here is an example of the humectant process turning the crystals into water.
Using humectants is an easy way to reduce overall water use by helping plants more efficiently use the water they receive whether, through rainfall, humidity, irrigation or hand watering. As well as preventing water loss through evaporation by condensing the vapor back into a liquid form.
Now, add biochar to the mix, and you've got some serious water holding capacity!
ARBORChar Summer Stress 0-0-9 is a fertilizer, water manager, and biochar blend. Perfect to apply in hot summer conditions, it contains humectants as well as Iron, Magnesium, and Potassium to promote greening. It's available in 1 and 4 lbs. and covers up to 400 sq. ft.
NutriRoot 2-2-3 Liquid Soil Applied Fertilizer is a unique blend of essential minerals, seaweed extract, humic acid, surfactants, and humectants supplying a single product to reduce watering, accelerate root growth, and improve transplant success. NutriRoot is available in 8 and 32 fl. oz. measure & pour, 32 fl. oz. hose-end sprayer, and 1 gallon concentrates.
Both tools are great for drought stress regions, transplants, or just overall reduction in the labor of watering. They can be used on all plants indoors and out. Be sure to stock NutriRoot and ARBORChar Summer Stress this June. Your customers will appreciate the time they save and love the way their garden looks!
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I have created this blog for the sole purpose of the blogroll on the right-hand side.
It monitors all of the blogs that I follow and indicates the last time a blogger posted.
The list is by no means exhaustive, so if you'd like to leave a link, drop it in comments.
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Both brands are very strong in their respective areas, but it's unlikely that Spotify on its own will help Samsung to sell more TVs. As part of an overall "connected entertainment" offering, though, Spotify is potentially a strong addition. Exactly how strong may well depend on Spotify's business model.
Streaming audio services on TVs are nothing new – US customers have been able to enjoy the Pandora streaming service on their TVs and set-top boxes for a couple of years already. Given this, how will Spotify help Samsung? The most obvious answer is that Pandora is only available in the USA, so customers in Europe and elsewhere can't use it. Another reason is that Spotify lets you build your own playlists and select exactly which tracks to play. It seems like Spotify should have a major advantage.
As with other services that move to the TV, though, Spotify will face a challenge in building a user interface that works well on a TV screen with a TV remote. They seem to have been successful with this on Samsung devices, but if Spotify is to become available on other TVs and set-top boxes then a lot of care needs to be taken to minimise the amount of effort needed to support a consistent user interface on many different platforms. As services like iPlayer have found, this can be a huge challenge given the current level of market fragmentation.
The second challenge will be the business model for Spotify on connected TVs. While the (ad-supported) PC version is free, the TV version costs £10 per month - the same price as the mobile version. The question is therefore; how many people will be willing to pay the extra £10 a month to access this service on their TV, when other entertainment services are available for free?


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Green Pencils and Pens
Every year Americans discard 1.6 million pens. Placed end to end, they would stretch 151 miles—equivalent to crossing the state of Rhode Island almost four times!
This is the time of year when many of us are busy buying school and office supplies. Here is a great listing of environmentally-conscious pens and pencils to help us to make better choices for the earth.
Although we throw them away, they can impact the environment in ways we do not often think about. Pens, pencils and markers are often tossed into the garbage and not recycled or reused. Their components and packaging are made from non-renewable resources and can contain environmentally damaging chemicals.
- As consumers, we can make educated decisions in our purchasing of these items–decisions that will help to lessen their impact upon our natural environment.
- Many companies presently carry one to several lines of products which have positive environmental attributes. These attributes include recycled content, refillable options, nontoxic inks and more environmentally responsible packaging.
- Green Seal has surveyed manufacturers and distributors and has recommended products in various categories for our product table. The Recommended Products Table contains information on manufacturers and brands.
To read Green Seal's environmental rating and recommends brands of 15 pens, 20 pencils, three markers, and two crayons—as well as information on recycled content, refillability, packaging and availability of writing instruments—download Green Seal's Choose Green Report. Although this report was published in 1998, it is still relevant.
Adapted from a Green Seal Choose Green Report, by Green Seal. Copyright (c) by Green Seal. Reprinted by permission of Green Seal.
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WordPress eCommerce themes can convert your online site into a web store that is fully functional and will let you promote both digital and physical products. Such themes will also allow you to receive payments online. When it comes to the functionality, WordPress themes are so flexible they will allow you to combine your blog and business presentation with a fascinating showcase of your products.
WordPress first came out as a blogging platform in 2003. Since then, it has progressed dramatically into one of the most popular content management systems on the internet. An increasing number of websites are now powered by WordPress, including plenty of eCommerce sites. There is no shopping cart feature built into WordPress but you can create a fully functional web store through eCommerce plugins and themes. The possibilities are virtually endless and you need to conduct some real research before deciding to create your online store.
To help you, I have done my own little research and came up with a list of more than 20 WordPress eCommerce themes that are really powerful. All of the themes presented in this post are packed full of features, have convenient support and user friendly.
To become familiar with all of the WordPress eCommerce themes I have compiled for you, I urge you to check each example out meticulously. You might also want to check out WordPress eCommerce themes that are mobile friendly and responsive. As you may already know, an increasing number of people are now accessing the web through their mobile devices and you will want your website to look great on all types of container. Once you are done browsing, share your thoughts and suggestions with us through the comment section below. Do you know of some powerful WordPress eCommerce themes that you think should be added to my list? If this post enlightened you, kindly share it with your friends.
MayaShop – A Flexible Responsive e-Commerce Theme – MORE INFO
eStore eCommerce WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
This ecommerce theme for WordPress will provide you with an elegant solution in selling products online. It can be configured easily and provide integration options with a number of the most popular ecommerce plugins, which include Simple PayPal Shopping and eShop.
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This theme has a minimalistic design. It organizes products neatly on your site so that visitors will not have a problem in searching for what they need. It also comes with a number of great plugins that will help you in controlling and managing purchases and client payments.
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This responsive and flexible ecommerce WordPress theme will make your online store look good and beautiful. It comes with powerful options that allow changing of color. Shoppinggo fits a wide variety of categories. It is ideal for practically all kinds of products, will allow you to create new homepage layout and customize color.
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This powerful and smooth WordPress ecommerce theme has all the tools that you will ned to start a successful shop online. It is responsive, beautiful and comes with unique mobile layout that makes it easy for your clients to browse on your site.
Propulsion – responsive business & eCommerce – MORE INFO
This responsive theme for WordPress is ideal for users that like to have a portfolio, business or ecommerce website. It is based on the WooCommerce shop and bbPress Forum plugins. Propulsion comes with a wide variety of options that will allow you to change styling, fonts, colors and layout from the backend.
This theme is created to make your small endeavor appear reliable, established and big. It has plenty of airy space in between detailed typography and large images. The theme is designed to make your viewers focus on content.
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Camp will let you showoff your work online. The theme is fully featured, easy to customize and comes with a detailed help file and extra features such as responsive layout and ecommerce ready shop.
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Sapatoo is a multipurpose and elegant design that has all the advanced features needed for launching a profitable online business. It is stunning, mobile ready and comes with a homepage that boasts of a large image slider.
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This theme will provide you the power you need to open an online storefront. It was created to blend with several popular ecommerce plugins that will allow visitors to use their favorite system without any issues.
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Anyway, dear readers, I'm going to ask you a really big favour. I'm leaving this post with the normal blogger commenting system turned on. IntenseDebate comments should reactivate with the next post, once I've installed the new template. So if you find that you would like to comment on future posts but are unable to, please click back to this post and tell me. I know it's a pain, and you have better things to do, but think of it as your good deed for the day. I'll leave a link on the sidebar.
Your reward for another post about commenting software is this incredible website. It's just beautiful. But you have to wonder what she's doing to that baby to get her to sleep for long enough to do this. Hat Tip: my sister.
And while I'm breaking my 'no more metablogging ever again' rule, I remembered something I meant to say last time. Some of you don't have your blogger public profiles enabled, and it means that we can't see your blog. (Kerry in Oregon, I'm talking to you!) You comment, I click on your name to go across to YOUR blog and say hi and... there's no link. If any of you do have a blog, but it's not visible when someone clicks on your name, I'd love it if you could leave a link. If you don't mind sharing, of course.
Coming up next... more from choose your own adventure blogging . I've now done #5 and #2 from the list and I'm feeling a bit like I'm beginning to take myself a bit too seriously. So I think that next up will be #8: Photographing Babies. Because nothing says Not Serious like accidentally lying down in dog poo to get the perfect angle. Not that this has ever happened to me. Obviously.


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What is eyelid ectropion and entropion?
Ectropion denotes an eyelid that hangs away from the eye, while entropion describes an eyelid that is turned toward the eye so that the lashes constantly rub the surface.
What are the causes of eyelid ectropion and entropion?
Eyelid ectropion and entropion can occur from aging, trauma, Bell's palsy, previous surgery, and other diseases.
What are the symptoms of ectropion and entropion?
These are eyelid problems that cause redness and eye irritation, sometimes leading to corneal damage and loss of vision.
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Country singer Luke Bryan is having a good year.
His first Teen Choice Awards nomination. Second year as one of People's Country's Hottest Guys. A CMT Award.
And did we mention the Country Man's son Bo is going to be a big brother come August?
So what are the Nashville hottie and wife Caroline thinking they'll name the little guy?
They're sticking with the letter "T" (Bo is actually Thomas Boyer) and going for Tatum Christopher.
Although considered a female name, it's starting to gain popularity in recent years on both sides of the gender divide, a spike that started in the 2000s. Tatum is ranked 395 in the names for kids in the entire U.S.
Where have you heard this one before? Oh yeah, another celeb having a mega year: Channing Tatum, who starred in hit Dear John this spring and whose documentary film Earth Made of Glass was selected to premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.
And don't forget Tatum O'Neal, youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award back in the 1970s (for best supporting actress in Paper Moon if you're curious).
Sounds like good company, but what does it mean? According to the Baby Name Finder, Tatum is English and means "brings joy."
Which fits for just about every baby out there, but let's hope it's another good omen for Bryan and his family.
Image via BurningKarma/Flickr


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5 Random Things From A Week in Cancun
After a busy week up in Banff at the ANT+ Symposium I traded a foot of snow for steaming hot…weather…with The Girl. We'd long been looking forward to this trip, as it'd be the first week away from the kiddos … Read More Here
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48 Hours in Guatemala City
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Training at 7,500 feet
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Recently I've done a lot of pastel galaxy nails, so I thought I would try something with some darker colours, just to mix it up a bit.
I really love how this turned out, so there are a lot of photos to go with this one! :)
I chose to use blues and purples for these. My base colour is O.P.I "I Saw... U Saw... We Saw... Warsaw" (I love the name because of my weird obsession with Poland). Then I sponged on the purples: O.P.I "Funky Drunkey" Australis "Peek-A-Boo" and BC Shade 6. The last colour I sponged on was the light blue: Australis "Aqua." I applied a quick dry top coat then I stamped on the stars. Added some sparkle with China Glaze "Fairy Dust" (best glitter polish EVER), and finished it off with Essence better than gel nails fast dry top coat (by far the best top coat I have ever tried).
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Yep, I really love my galaxy nails!
I will do more again very soon. :)


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As tempestades que fazem cheias no Reino Unido têm origem no Pacífico
CLARA BARATA 16/02/2014 - in Público
Relatório dos serviços meteorológicos britânico tenta explicar a estranha persistência do mau tempo que causou cheias recordes.
Nunca choveu tanto em Dezembro e Janeiro em Inglaterra e no País de Gales nos últimos 248 anos – o que é dizer desde que se começaram a fazer registos metodicamente, diz um relatório publicado já este mês pelos serviços meteorológicos britânicos. A culpa é da corrente de jacto do Atlântico Norte, que está particularmente activa e que se está a ligar com o Pacífico Oriental.
Em resultado deste estranho padrão das correntes atmosféricas, as latitudes médias da Europa ficaram como que com um botão encravado na posição que diz "fabricar grandes tempestades". A isto poderá juntar-se outro fenómeno: no Árctico, as temperaturas têm subido duas a três vezes mais do que no resto do planeta e isso poderá ajudar a mudar as correntes de jacto, tornando-as por exemplo mais lentas. Isso pode traduzir-se na persistência de uma tempestade, ou de condições de frio extremo ou grande precipitação sobre um determinado local durante bastante mais tempo do que o habitual.
As correntes de jacto são ventos que normalmente sopram de Ocidente para Oriente. Fazem percursos sinuosos, que podem mudar subitamente de direcção, parar ou dividir-se. Formam-se devido à combinação da rotação do planeta sobre o seu próprio eixo e o aquecimento da atmosfera, mas ficam perto das massas de ar com grandes diferenças de temperatura, como as da região polar e como o ar quente que segue em direcção ao equador.
O percurso tomado pelas correntes de jacto influencia fortemente a meteorologia, pois pode gerar depressões – como a mais recente tempestade de neve na costa leste dos Estados Unidos, na semana que passou, em que morreram pelo menos 20 pessoas. Ou as cheias históricas no Reino Unido, que ainda continuam: cálculos preliminares do Met Office [os serviços meteorológicos britânicos] apontam para que o fluxo do Tamisa e de outros rios do Sul de Inglaterra e de Gales foram os mais elevados desde 1947 – o ano em que se registaram as piores cheias na região durante o século XX. A Escócia teve o Dezembro mais húmido desde que se começou a fazer registos, em 1910.
O jacto do Atlântico Norte, diz o relatório Recent Storms and Floods in the UK do Centro de Ecologia e Hidrologia do Met Office, está neste Inverno 30% mais forte do que o habitual, o que provocou um padrão de tempestades excepcionalmente fortes a partir de Dezembro. Estranhamente, o tipo de tempo que se está a registar em virtude desta ligação entre as bacias oceânicas via correntes de jacto seria compatível com um ano de La Niña – um fenómeno climático em que a temperatura das águas do Pacífico oriental desce, e a do Pacífico ocidental sobe. É o contrário do mais conhecido El Niño.
Só que "as temperaturas actuais da superfície do Pacífico não sugerem que estejamos num período activo de La Niña ou El Niño", lê-se no relatório do Met Office". Mas "é razoável afirmar que o mau tempo que se vive no Reino Unido tem raízes nos trópicos".
Por que é que a meteorologia está a ser tão inclemente, então? Para isso o Met Office não tem respostas, embora políticos e activistas britânicos estejam a aproveitar o momento para apontar a necessidade de investir na luta contra as alterações climáticas – que 51% dos cidadãos aponta como a origem das cheias e do mau tempo que afectam o Reino Unido.
Já dos Estados Unidos chega a contribuição de tentar compreender quais os efeitos sobre a meteorologia no aquecimento que se sente de forma acelerada no Árctico. Na conferência anual da Associação Americana para o Avanço da Ciência, em Chicago, Jennifer Francis, da Universidade Rutgers (New Jersey), falou nos seus estudos que apontam para que a perda de gelo no Árctico – que desde 1980 é já equivale a 40% do território dos EUA – favoreça a formação de padrões meteorológicos persistentes em latitudes médias.
A entrada de grandes quantidades de calor e humidade na atmosfera no Outono e no Inverno reduziria as velocidades dos ventos das correntes de jacto, fazendo com que permaneçam mais tempo sobre um mesmo local, como se tem verificado em vários episódios de fenómenos climáticos extremos, explicou a cientista, baseando-se num estudo que publicou em 2012 na revista Geophysical Research Letters.
Labour leader says UK is 'sleepwalking to a crisis over climate' as storms bring more major disruption and flooding
Toby Helm and Jamie Doward
The Observer, Sunday 16 February 2014 / http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/15/ed-miliband-stark-warning-climate-change
Britain is sleepwalking towards disaster because of a failure to recognise that climate change is causing the extreme weather that has blighted the country for more than a month, Ed Miliband has warned.
The Labour leader says in an interview with the Observer that climate change is now an issue of national security that has the potential not only to destabilise and cause conflict between regions of the world, but to destroy the homes, livelihoods and businesses of millions of British people.
Criticising David Cameron for appearing to backtrack on his commitment to the environmental cause, he calls on senior figures in all parties to unite behind the scientific evidence that climate change is a key factor in extreme weather. Failure to do so, he warns, will have catastrophic consequences.
Miliband says the science on the issue is now overwhelming, citing the government's own special representative on climate change, Sir David King, who recently warned: "Storms and severe weather conditions that we might have expected to occur once in 100 years in the past may now be happening more frequently and the reason is … that the climate is changing."
Miliband says: "In 2012 we had the second wettest winter on record and this winter is a one in 250-year event. If you keep throwing the dice and you keep getting sixes then the dice are loaded. Something is going on."
Suggesting the country rebuilds the frayed national consensus on climate change and shows the kind of cross-party unity seen in wartime, he adds: "We have always warned that climate change threatens national security because of the consequences for destabilisation of entire regions of the world, mass migration of millions of people and conflict over water or food supplies.
"But the events of the last few weeks have shown this is a national security issue in our own country too with people's homes, businesses and livelihoods coming under attack from extreme weather. And we know this will happen more in the future.
"The science is clear. The public know there is a problem. But, because of political division in Westminster, we are sleepwalking into a national security crisis on climate change. The terrible events of the last few weeks should serve as a wake-up call for us all."
With the Tory party divided over whether extreme weather can be linked to climate change, a leading independent adviser to the government has also joined the fightback against the sceptics. Lord Krebs, a member of the Climate Change Committee, described those who question the science as "the flat earthers of contemporary society who show a flagrant disregard for the future needs of our children and grandchildren".
Krebbs said not enough was being spent on flood defence because "we have not taken a long-term view of what needs to be done".
An Opinium/Observer poll shows more than half of voters (51%) believe the recent floods are a sign of climate change and global warming while 24% do not and 20% are neutral. Among young people aged 18-34, 60% blame climate change, while 44% of those aged over 55 take the same view. Some 51% say David Cameron has handled the crisis badly while 21% says he has done well.
Political fallout from the floods and storms continued as it was confirmed that three people died on Friday during weather which left tens of thousands of homes without power.
A woman killed in a car crushed by falling masonry in Holborn, Holborn, central London,, was named as minicab driver Julie Sillitoe, a 49-year-old mother of three. An 85-year-old man died after the 22,000-tonne liner Marco Polo, on which he was returning from a cruise to South America, was hit by a freak wave in the Channel causing water to enter through a window. The man was airlifted off the vessel with a woman in her 70s, but later died. Bob Thomas, 77, from Caernarfon, died in hospital after being hit by a falling tree in his garden on Wednesday.
More than 30 people had to be rescued from a seafront restaurant in Milford on Sea, Hampshire, after wind-blown shingle shattered windows and the sea flooded in.
Chief Inspector Gary Cooper, who co-ordinated the rescue, said it was probably the most difficult joint operation he had been involved in during his 28 years of policing. "The extreme weather conditions of stones being thrown from the beach with the power of the wind to smash windscreens of fire engines and military trucks was almost like they were being shot from a rifle," he said.
There was disruption across Britain's road and rail networks, with hundreds of trees uprooted. Many train services were cancelled. Some 22 severe flood warnings – indicating a danger to life – were issued for coastal communities from Cornwall to Hampshire, Gloucester and the Thames Valley, where rivers remain at their highest levels for decades.
Nearly 190 less serious flood warnings and 320 flood alerts were also in place on Saturday.
Miliband said he was ready to work with politicians of all parties, including "green" Tories such as Zac Goldsmith, to rebuild the consensus around climate change. He announced a three-point plan to tackle the crisis, including tougher decarbonisation targets, moves to strengthen the country's resilience to floods, and a push to boost business investment in the green economy.
He said that "dither and denial" would be disastrous for the country.
Ed Miliband: 'Britain is sleepwalking to a climate crisis'
Dither – and denial – over the widely agreed cause of extreme weather are paralysing government and steering the country towards a security crisis, believes the Labour leader
Toby Helm, political editor
The Observer, Saturday 15 February 2014 / http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/15/uk-floods-climate-change-disaster-ed-miliband
We are on the 3.30pm train from Birmingham to London and it feels like a race against time. Outside, the fields are flooded and the rain is lashing down. More bad weather is heading in fast from the west. Two days before, on Wednesday, Virgin Trains called a temporary, early-evening halt to services in and out of Euston and passengers are worried it may do so again.
Aside from a nagging anxiety about getting home, Ed Miliband is having a decent day. Earlier, he dropped in on south Manchester, where Labour had won the Wythenshawe and Sale East byelection with ease, before heading to Birmingham to explain his union reforms to a group of mostly enthusiastic party activists.
Now, however, he wants to discuss something far more important: climate change, its consequences, and his plans to combat its worst effects. Between 2008 and 2010, Miliband was secretary of state for energy and climate change at a time when David Cameron was positioning himself as a believer in everything green. It seems like an age ago that they trod such similar ground.
"I genuinely believed he believed it," he says of the prime minister's ultra-green phase as opposition leader. "He talked a lot about it. It seemed to be close to his heart."
Since then, though, much water has passed under the Tory bridge and Miliband is not at all sure what Cameron believes. The economic crash and recession helped put green politics out of fashion in Conservative circles and austerity made the whole agenda seem, at least to some, like an expensive luxury the country could not afford.
In 2012, Cameron sacked a green energy minister, Charles Hendry, and appointed a climate change sceptic, Owen Paterson, as environment secretary. Where being green had once been a defining mission, for Cameron and others it had become a financial burden and a source of party division. Last year, Cameron was said to have been wandering around Downing Street talking of his wish to be rid of all this "green crap" .
As the wind buffets our carrriage, Miliband describes Cameron's claims to be leading the "greenest government ever" as nothing more than a joke these days. Last week – after more than a fortnight of storms and wall-to-wall media coverage of a country under water – he tuned into the prime minister's press conference and heard Cameron equivocate when asked about the link between climate change and storms and floods.
Cameron said: "I think the point I would make is, whatever your view, clearly we have had and are having some pretty extreme weather. So whatever your view about climate change, it makes sense to mitigate it and act to deal with that weather." Everyone had a right to their own view, but the prime minister would not stick his neck out. Had he lost faith in climate change as the cause of the extreme weather and was he no longer prepared to lead the debate? Miliband was mystified and dismayed.
"It is pretty extraordinary that [in Cameron's case] it has gone from a core conviction, a part of his irreducible core, to a matter of conscience as to whether you believe it or not," he says.
For the Labour leader there is no doubt. "In 2012 we had the second wettest winter on record and this winter is a one in 250-year event. If you keep throwing the dice and you keep getting sixes then the dice are loaded. Something is going on," he says.
Miliband has plenty of experience on climate change. In 2008, he navigated the Climate Change Act, which committed the UK to cut its emissions by at least 80% by 2050, through parliament. It passed with only five votes against.
At that time, all three political parties appeared united about the scale of the problem and the measures that needed to be taken. The act was regarded around the world as a model. But today, squabbling and inconsistent messages from ministers, and pressure from Ukip has split the Tories from Labour and the Liberal Democrats on green issues.
Miliband is keen not to be seen to be laying too much blame at Cameron's door, when so many people are suffering the terrible effects of flooding. It is not a time for political point-scoring but for leadership, he says.
But he struggles to avoid personal criticism, because he believes the Tories' divisions on the issue are having an effect on policy. "The reality is that the action we take as a country depends on whether you believe in climate change. If you believe that the climate has been changing for centuries – and that this is no different – then why would you believe that it is necessary to take all the measures that are required?
"What we have seen for the last couple of weeks is that that [attitude] has impacts.
"So when the government downgrades flood protection, cuts the floods budgets, cuts the adaptation budget – all of those things – that has an impact."
He says it is urgent that a national consensus is rebuilt behind the scientists' view that climate change is to blame for extreme weather – because otherwise the planning about how to respond will continue to be inadequate.
More money, he admits, will have to be spent on flood defence – though he is adamant that a Labour government would find it by reordering priorities rather than increasing overall spending.
He wants the floods to serve as a wake-up call and suggests that the need for national unity on this issue is just as urgent as it is in wartime. "We have always warned that climate change threatens national security because of the consequences for destabilisation of entire regions of the world, mass migration of millions of people and conflict over water or food supplies," he says.
"But the events of the last few weeks have shown this is a national security issue in our own country, too, with people's homes, businesses and livelihoods coming under attack from extreme weather. And we know this will happen more in the future."
Miliband's declared mission is to rebuild a national consensus on the subject. That task is, however, hugely complicated by the divisions in the Tory party between climate change deniers, agnostics and believers.
"The problem is that either denial or dither on climate change will damage the country. Denial is damaging because it means you won't take the steps necessary, but dither is damaging, too, because it means you are half-hearted about taking the necessary measures.
"The science is clear. The public know there is a problem. But, because of political division in Westminster, we are sleepwalking into a national security crisis on climate change."
He calls for "decent people" in the Tory party and the Liberal Democrats to join the cause, "to come forward and say, we can't have this ambivalence any more because it will be disastrous for this country".
■ The Thames Barrier at Woolwich was shut for a record 16th consecutive tide yesterday to reduce flood risk for communities along the Thames, which recorded some of its highest levels in 60 years.
■ The Energy Networks Association said electricity had been restored to 572,291 properties across the UK since the storms struck, but 16,092 homes, mostly in north Wales, remained cut off.
■ Local authorities are providing 10,000 sandbags a day to home and business owners trying to protect their properties. Around 5,800 properties have flooded.
■ An estimated 7.3 million tonnes of water is being pumped off the Somerset Levels every day.
■ 5.2 million properties in England – one in six – are at risk of flooding. Of these, 1.4 million are at risk from rivers or the sea alone, 2.8 million from surface water and 1 million are at risk from both.
Climate change: time for the sceptics to put up or shut up
If climate change sceptics have a coherent explanation for the events we are witnessing, it's time they held an international conference and told us what they believe
Henry Porter
The Observer, Sunday 16 February 2014 / http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/16/climate-change-deniers-put-up-or-shut-up?CMP=fb_gu
Say I were to ask you to prove that the dinosaurs were wiped out when an asteroid collided with the Earth 66m years ago, in what is now snappily called the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.
If you were as weirdly obsessed by these catastrophes as I am, you would maybe start by citing the worldwide layer of sediment known as K-Pg boundary, which was first discovered near Gubbio, in Italy, and is thought to be the fallout from a massive explosion. You would mention the soot that is associated with this layer, the site of a huge impact in the Yucatán region of Mexico 66m years ago and, finally, you'd ask what else could have caused the dinosaurs to die out more or less overnight. A sceptic might respond that this is all supposition, evidence tenuously linked to fit a very recent theory: none of it constitutes proof and no one can ever know why the dinosaurs vanished to allow the rise of mammals and the eventual evolution of man.
So you would quote more evidence, such as the presence in the K-Pg layer of iridium, an element rare on Earth but not in asteroids, as well as the altered state of quartz, which can only be made under extremely high pressure, such as is caused by a huge impact of a 10km asteroid. You would mention the long darkness when only ferns grew and the fact that the seas were emptied of all but the most tenacious species.
Ah, but this is still all very hypothetical, the sceptic would say, at which point you might give up and tell him, yes, a spacecraft might have visited Earth and exterminated 75% of the world's species, but you're going with the best available evidence. The sceptic would walk away, satisfied that he had achieved a draw, not from the merit of his argument, but simply because he had not let you convince him.
This is where we are with the climate change deniers. The absolute proof of manmade global warming is unlikely to arrive until it is too late and so the deniers are scrupulously indulged with equal time in the argument, where, taking the part of Little Britain's wheelchair user Andy to our Lou, nothing is ever good enough for them.
They are always the sniping antagonists, rarely, if ever, standing up to say: we believe in the following facts and here is our research. It is a risk-free strategy – at least for the moment – that comes almost exclusively from the political right and is, as often as not, incentivised by simple capitalist gain. Hearing Lord Lawson argue with the impeccably reasonable climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins on the BBC Today programme last week, I finally boiled over. It is surely now time for the deniers to make their case and hold an international conference, where they set out their scientific stall, which, while stating that the climate is fundamentally chaotic, provides positive, underlying evidence that man's activity has had no impact on sea and atmosphere temperatures, diminishing icecaps and glaciers, rising sea levels and so on.
Until such a conference is held and people such as Lawson, Lord Monckton, Christopher Booker, Samuel Brittan and Viscount Ridley – names that begin to give you some idea of the demographic – are required to provide the proof of their case, rather than feeding off that of their opponents, they should be treated with mild disdain. I don't say deniers should be banned from media outlets, as the website Reddit has attempted to do, but just that there should be agreement that they must now qualify, with argument and facts, for the balanced coverage they receive in such places as the BBC.
I believe so passionately in the Natural Causes Climate Change Conference (the NCCCC, perhaps) that the fee for this column is offered to start the ball rolling. And I will be the first to buy a ticket, because the deniers' case has about a tenth of the strength of the warmists' case and I want to see them flounder, as all the scientific guns are trained on them. Of course this will not happen – why would someone such as Lawson exchange the comfortable position of ringside critic for the roll of protagonist? But for him and the rest of the deniers, a failure to put up will soon mean they have to shut up, simply because no one is listening.
With each new freak weather event, they look more and more superfluous to the debate about how we survive the 21st century.
For the moment, however, they have a disproportionate influence because they've created the illusion that this is a finely balanced discussion where a person can reasonably support either side. They empower a certain amount of stupidity, laziness, selfishness and ignorance in the minds of many, and I hope some of the younger deniers, though few, live to acknowledge responsibility.
I mentioned that most deniers come from the right and it is true the uninterrupted business of capitalism, which often entails waste of resources and energy, is a priority, but there is something deeper that explains why there are so few deniers from the left and that is to do with conservative mind. In his 1956 essay "On Being Conservative", the philosopher Michael Oakeshott wrote that the man of conservative temperament is "not in love with what is dangerous and difficult; he is unadventurous; he has no impulse to sail uncharted seas. What others plausibly identify as timidity, he recognises in himself as rational prudence. He eyes the situation in terms of its propensity to disrupt the familiarity of the features of his world".
This is so perceptive about the conservative instinct and I think it explains the reluctance among many sane people to come to grips with the enormous implications of manmade climate change: the radical actions we must take to avert further rises and how we should adapt our societies and economic systems to cope with extreme weather events associated with even the tiniest temperature rise, which are now agreed by both sides.
To suspend hostilities for a moment, it seems to me that both sides should start by considering the undeniable waste of energy in British cities, where office lights shine through the night and supermarkets pump out hot air at open entrances and cold air in their freezer sections. Energy saving and a huge insulation programme might prevent the construction of more wasteful wind turbines, some of which, in the extreme weather of last week, burst into flames or had to be shut down.
We have to come to some agreement soon or the deniers won't be the only dinosaurs.
Wavier jet stream 'may drive weather shift'
By Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent, BBC News, Chicago / http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26023166
We can expect more of the same and we can expect it to happen more frequently"
Prof Jennifer Francis
Rutgers University
New research suggests that the main system that helps determine the weather over Northern Europe and North America may be changing.
The study shows that the so-called jet stream has increasingly taken a longer, meandering path.
This has resulted in weather remaining the same for more prolonged periods.
The work was presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Chicago.
The observation could be as a result of the recent warming of the Arctic. Temperatures there have been rising two to three times faster than the rest of the globe.
According to Prof Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University in New Jersey: "This does seem to suggest that weather patterns are changing and people are noticing that the weather in their area is not what it used to be."
The meandering jet stream has accounted for the recent stormy weather over the UK and the bitter winter weather in the US Mid-West remaining longer than it otherwise would have.
"We can expect more of the same and we can expect it to happen more frequently," says Prof Francis
The jet stream, as its name suggests, is a high-speed air current in the atmosphere that brings with it the weather.
It is fuelled partly by the temperature differential between the Arctic and the mid-latitudes.
If the differential is large then the jet stream speeds up, and like a river flowing down a steep hill, it ploughs through any obstacles - such as areas of high pressure that might be in its way.
If the temperature differential reduces because of a warming Arctic then the jet stream weakens and, again, like a river on a flat bed, it will meander every time it comes across an obstacle.
This results in weather patterns tending to becoming stuck over areas for weeks on end. It also drives cold weather further south and warm weather further north. Examples of the latter are Alaska and parts of Scandinavia, which have had exceptionally warm conditions this winter
With the UK, the US and Australia experiencing prolonged, extreme weather, the question has been raised as to whether recent patterns are due to simple natural variations or the result of manmade climate change? According to Prof Francis, it is too soon to tell.
"The Arctic has been warming rapidly only for the past 15 years," she says.
"Our data to look at this effect is very short and so it is hard to get a very clear signal.
"But as we have more data I do think we will start to see the influence of climate change."
Prof Francis was taking part in a session on Arctic change involving Mark Serreze, the director of the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado.
He said the idea that changes in the polar north could influence the weather in middle latitudes - so-called "Santa's revenge" - was a new and lively area of research and somewhat controversial, with arguments for and against.
"Fundamentally, the strong warming that might drive this is tied in with the loss of sea-ice cover that we're seeing, because the sea-ice cover acts as this lid that separates the ocean from a colder atmosphere," Dr Serreze explained.
"If we remove that lid, we pump all this heat up into the atmosphere. That is a good part of the signal of warming that we're now seeing, and that could be driving some of these changes."


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FC: Romeo and Julliet
1: Act 1 scene 4 1.The boys were going to crash the Party. 2.He had a dream that something was going to kill him ant the party. 3.That he is in love with Romeo and he's gay.
2: Act 1 scene 5 1.It provides comic relief and give the actors time to change. 2.It's ironic that when he walks into the room and sees Juliet and then Rosaline slips his mind. 3.Tybalt tells one of the servant to go and get his sword so he could fight Romeo because he thinks Romeo is going to crash the party but he got stopped by Lord Capulet because he didn't want the party to be ruined and because Romeo had done nothing wrong. 4.Romeo plays mind tricks with Juliet so he could get her to like him. He grabs her hands, and says they're holy, then kisses. Then she says he has given her lips a sin, so he kisses her again to take it back. 5.We get foreshadowing because Juliet says "my grave is like to be my wedding bed" which means she'll marry and then die.
3: Act 2 scene 2 1. They thought he was hideing in the bushes with Rosialn. 2. Romeo was actually was talking to Juiet. 3. Romeo compares her to the sun, and he compares her eyes the stars Act 2 scene 2 4. Mercutio thinks that love is all physical and Romeo thinks that it is more emotional than physical and all that they talk about on the balcony is emotional love. 5. It means that if you called a rose a tulliip it would still be a rose becasue you can smell it and it would always smell like a rose. 6. He swears his love by the moon and Juliet dosen't want him to swear by the moon she wants him to swear by somthing that never changes she wants him to stay Romeo and never change. 7. Juliet proposes to Romeo but she made it sound like Romeo did .
4: Act 2 Scene 4 1. hat has happened as a result of the party-crashing? Tybalt was bitter because he couldn't fight Romeo at the party so he wants to fight him later. 2.What does Mercutio call Tybalt and why? Mercutio calls Tybalt "more then the Prince of Cats" whichmeans he is better then the best swordsman ever. 3. Why is Mercutio so crude when describing Romeo's night? Mercutio was crude when describing Romeo's night because he thought that Romeo was in the bushes with Rosaline doing dirty things. He is jealous because he likes Romeo. 4. How does Mercutio treat the Nurse? -He is very rude and does not like women in general and he thinks the nurse is a very dirty old woman. 5. What is interesting about the way the Nurse and Peter speak to one another? -They speak to eachother in full sentences and don't use iambic pentameter which means they are not fully educated. 6. What do the Nurse and Romeo decide to do regarding the marraiage? -In about an hour they will meet at the abbey and get married and then they will give Romeo a rope so he can climb up to Juliet's room and they can spend the night together. 7. What is the mood of the scene? The mood in the scene is a pretty happy mood and is actually joking around with Mercutio.
5: Act 2 scene 5 1. well julet is complaning because the nurse won't tell her what romeo said about the wedding. 2. the nurse is tochering julet because she made her go and find romeo. Act 2 scene 6 1. In this scene Friar and Romeo are talking and then Friar marreys Romeo and Juleit. 2.NO IT IS NOT. n
6: Act 3 scene 1 1.Mercutio and Tybalt start to fight and then Tybalt kills Mercutio. 2.Romeo gets mad at Tybalt because Tybalt killed his cousin. Romeo then kills Tybalt. 3. Romeo's choices led to his downfall because he marries his enemy, he kills a Capulet, and he breaks the law. . 4.A tragic hero is created because he or she has a fatal flaw, which they keep doing over and over, until they die or lose everything. 5.Romeo's fatal flaw is that he keep doing thing over and over again witch make him soon loose everything or he dies.
7: Act 3 Scene 2 1. The confusion is that the nurse is saying that tybalt is died but Julleit think that the nurse is saying romeo is died but he not. 2. 3. she dosen't feel sad or mad for the fact that tybalt is died 4. Juliet doesn't think it is right when the Nurse scolds Romeo because she thinks that she can only scold him because there married. 5. she go's and trys to find romeo so julleit isn't sad any more.
8: Act 3 Scene 3 1. I think it is pretty good for the fact the he married Romeo and Julliet. The Friar is like a father-figure and advisor for Romeo. 2. He thretents to kill him self because of what he did although he just escaped it. 3. He suggestions that he should go and see Julliet tonight so he could go and make thing right. 4. Romeo decids to go and so Julliet so he could stay with her.
9: Act 3 Scene 4 1. Juliet's fate is that she is going to get married to Paris on Thursday. 2. Capulet's only concern about setting the wedding date is that everyone will still be mourning Tybalt. This tells us that Capulet is neglectful of Juliet's feelings. Act 3 scene 5 1. its when Romeo says he hears the larks singing, which means that it is morning. Juliet says, "No it is the nightengale" which means it is still night. She says this because she wants him to stay longer. But if Romeo stays, he'll get killed, so Juliet then agrees it is a lark and he goes. 2. its saying that
10: Act 3 scene 5 1. its when Romeo says he hears the larks singing, which means that it is morning. Juliet says, "No it is the nightengale" which means it is still night. She says this because she wants him to stay longer. But if Romeo stays, he'll get killed, so Juliet then agrees it is a lark and he goes. 2. The foreshadowing is that Juliet says she feels the next time she sees him, he'll be at the bottom of a tomb (coffin) dead. He says, "Me too!" 3. She is shock and devastated and she tells her mom "I would rather be with Romeo then marrie Paris".
11: 4. Capulet is very angry with julleit and tells her that she marries paris or gets out of his house. 5. these lines prove that he is not a very good father,"I will drag thee on a hurdle thither. Out, you green sickness, carrion! Out, you baggage!You tallow face"! 6. i believe that julleit ask the nurse what to do because the nurse i like her mother and the nurse adoures her.
12: Act 4 scene 1 1. frier tells him to slow down and to think of julliet . 2. she say's tell paris that she's married but not right to his face. 3.juleit was getting up set about 4. jullet would rather die then spend her life with him. 5. Step one - fiar lorence gave her the posen Step two- then he told her what will happen when she takes it. Step three- and then she will live a happy ever after.
13: Act 4 Scene 2 1. The servant man is talking about cooks who lick their own fingers because it is his job to find a good cook, and if a cook doesn't lick his fingers, it means even he doesn't like his own food! 2. An unexpected result of Juliet telling her dad she'll marry Paris is that he moves the wedding to tomorrow, leaving Juliet with no time. Act 4 Scene 3 1. Juliet is unsure about taking the poison because she thinks that maybe a) she'll wake up in the tomb and go crazy being locked in with dead bodies and b) she think the Friar might trying to kill her to prevent himself from getting into trouble and c) she might suffocate in the tomb and die. 2. She imagines herself saving Romeo from Tybalt's ghost.
14: Act 4 Scene 4 1. This scene is about Julliet takeing the possin and sort of dieing. Act 4 snece 5 1. They make it seem like the bride has already married death. 2. They are sad because there daghter died tragicly 3. He said that Julliet was not want ed to marry Paris so they should just move on and that Julliet is in a better 4. It is because then the other actors have time to get ready for the next scene.
15: Act 5 Scene 1/2
16: Act 5 Scene 3 1. i wasn't there for the play so i don't


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It is officially the first day of Autumn! Hopefully it won't be too rainy here in the Pacific Northwest. I want to be able to enjoy the cooler temperatures and gorgeous fall colors.
It was so fun to play with this new tree die cut and stamp set from Lawn Fawn. I've seen so many fun ideas for different ways to use it. I found my card inspiration HERE. I love the scalloped border with the faux stitching.
Paper - Doodlebug - Happy Harvest collection
Tree, grass, and leaf die cuts - Lawn Fawn
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"Valencia is a beautiful city, I'd live there. Nice apartment, very bright, located in a strategic position, attached to the central market and just a few steps from place de la reina but also from place de ayuntamiento. Not suitable for those with the sleeper being a first floor overlooking the street with a cute balcony accessible from all French doors of the apartment. Unfortunately I could not see the shared terrace that must enjoy a nice view. "
"Valencia é una bellissima città, mi piacerebbe viverci. Appartamento carino, molto luminoso, collocato in posizione strategica, attaccato al mercato centrale ed a pochi passi da place de la reina ma anche da place de ayuntamiento. Non adatto per chi ha il sonno leggero essendo un primo piano affacciato sulla strada con un balcone carino accessibile da tutte le portafinestra dell'appartamento. Purtroppo non ho potuto vedere il terrazzo comune che deve godere di una bella vista. "
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"Lovely spacious and light studio apartment in an amazing location for exploring the old city. Very close to the famous Market Central - great for getting your breakfast every morning! Air conditioning was great, all amenities covered in the apartment. One floor up so not too noisy with shutters closed, although i did take the precaution of taking earplugs as there were nighttime revellers passing by on the street below. One minor problem: shower filled up very quickly as not draining properly although shower itself was good and strong."
"This was a great place to stay! It was right in the heart of the action but also well placed for travelling to other areas of the city too. The apartment had everything that we needed to make our stay enjoyable. We used the kitchen facilities to cook the amazing fish that we bought from the central market that is just next door! The wifi was fast and reliable which is more than we can say for some of the hotels that we stayed in during our stay! There was a little street noise at night but that isn't a complaint, it just reminds you that you're staying in one of the most vibrant parts of the city. We will certainly be returning to Valencia and would be more than happy to stay at Bolseria!"
"The location and facilities of the apartment. Perhaps the sound insulation of the building. The attraction of the property is that it is located right in the bustling city centre. Drawback is the outgoing youth all night noisy is present. In my opinion, is there an easy way to do something about it. Even better to bring this directly to the renovation."
"De ligging en voorzieningen van het appartement. Wellicht de geluidsisolatie van het pand. Het aantrekkelijke van het pand is dat het midden in het bruisende centrum ligt. Nadeel is de uitgaande jeugd die de hele nacht luidruchtig aanwezig is. Volgens mij is daar op een eenvoudige manier iets aan te doen. Nog beter bij de verbouwing dit direct mee te nemen."
"Pleasant apartment, very complete. We have fine in can cook. Everything worked perfectly. Good service and accessibility of the organization. Location right in the Centre of Valencia. Highly recommended."
"Fijn appartement, heel compleet. We hebben er prima in kunnen koken. Alles werkte perfect. Goede service en bereikbaarheid van de organisatie. Ligging midden in het centrum van Valencia. Echte aanrader."
"It has an amazing location, close to the main square and all of the bars and restaurants. When checking in, we were given a complete guide to the local area sights to see and restaurants and bars to try out. It was a lovely large apartment for two people, clean, and when we asked for anything, it was delivered immediately. Unfortunately, due to the apartment's amazing location, and thin windows, outside is busy for most of the night, so if you're a light sleeper, you may get woken up."
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By Lorri Nandrea, Leader Community Writer
"I am now trying an experiment very frequent among modern authors, which is to write upon nothing; when the subject is utterly exhausted, to let the pen still move on...."
That's Jonathan Swift in 1704, satirizing the tidal wave of (in his view) bad writing unleashed by the newly improved printing press. Suddenly, persons other than highly educated male aristocrats could publish their writing, even sell it. Publishing was a wild frontier: copyright hadn't been invented, the novel hadn't been named, no one agreed on what kind of writing should be made public, and you could make lots and lots of copies.
Swift hated this development. According to him, if you don't care about "method, and style, and grammar, and invention"; if you don't mind the writer "transcribing from others and digressing from himself," then hasten to your nearest bookseller's. Otherwise, retreat to your private library and read the classics (in Latin).
Flash forward 310 years. It's the age of the Internet, and though much has changed, much has not.
Like the press, the web promises, or threatens, that anyone can publish anything, for everyone to read. The web has repeated these same threats and promises because the press failed to fulfill them. The free-for-all of the 18th century gave rise to a highly organized publishing industry that effectively restricted access to publication for the next two centuries. But now the internet has undermined all that, restoring Swift's concerns and raising new ones too.
My own pet concern is "content." Definition: articles designed to lure readers to a commercial website, or a website that consists mostly of ads. If while Googling Jonathan Swift, for example, I click a link to a biography published on a site that's promoting a film, the marketer who put it there has succeeded.
A fitting analogy might be the bog light, the phosphorus glow that leads travelers into wastelands rather than cozy inns or interesting towns. "Content" provides brief, general information on a topic, stripped of vivid details, original research and provocative questions. Once it takes root, moreover, you can't get past it. The same basic package of content gets reproduced all over the web. By making it seem as if that's all there is to say on the subject, "content" vacuums the interest out of the world. Its real purpose is not to educate or inform, but to position readers, directing their eyes toward products.
One antidote to "content," I want to suggest, is Wikipedia. Like many teachers, I resisted Wikipedia at first. Precisely because it departs from familiar models of individual authorship, it seemed unstable and illegitimate.
Yet I've come to appreciate the merits of Wikipedia as a truly communal intellectual space. Its open monitoring system presents a radical alternative to the closed, hierarchical gatekeeping (too often corrupted by cronyism) that curbed the printing press. Because it is neither commercial nor institutional, neither private nor governmental, neither corporate nor individual, Wikipedia is uniquely capable of realizing democratic ideals for the production, preservation and dissemination of knowledge. By providing connections to scholarly texts, moreover, each entry leads readers into instead of away from a topic.
Amid the wastes of "content" on the web, Wikipedia shows the up side of a publishing free-for-all. It models what Swift's "rabble of scribblers" can accomplish when they work together.


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