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Thread: Building & Plumbing a Rodent Rack
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Here are a bunch of pictures I took when I built a mouse rack about a year ago. I thought some people might be interested to see it while in the process of building it.
Sorry, it's kind of long. It doesn't all fit so had to split it up, first post is building it, second post is plumbing.
Make sure the tubs fit between the spacers before going on, they should be tight but not so tight that they are hard to pull through.
The slide rails for the middle spacers should be placed so that they are centered over the spacer and are even with the back of the level. There will be about a 4" gap between the front of the slide rail and the front of the level. This is so that you can remove the tub without running into the sipper valve that will be going through the screen at the front.
Here is a picture of an end slide rail and a middle slide rail so you can see that the middle rails are centered on the spacer and the ends are flush with the spacer on one side. I attach the slide rails with glue and 2" 6d finishing nails, make sure you drill guide holes first that are slightly smaller in diameter then the nail before nailing them on. Otherwise you could split the slide rail or the spacer underneath it.
Heres a picture of a finished level upside down and shown from the end so you can see the gap at the front of the slide rails.
Here is a picture of the completed level flipped right side up complete with tubs.
I used four 2" X 4"s as uprights, one at each corner, to attach the levels to. The 2" X 4"s are each 72-1/2" long. I marked them at 6" from the bottom and then every 7" after that (levels are attached so that the top of the level is at 6" from the bottom, then 13" then 20" then 27" etc...) for a total of 10 levels. Then I attached 1" X 4" boards 46-1/2" long, to the back of each level as a backstop for the tubs and as additional bracing to help keep the rack square.
Last edited by rabernet; 11-18-2006 at 12:17 PM. Reason: Merging thread to sticky
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11-18-2006, 12:58 AM #2
Plans for plumbing a mouse rack (also long)
Here is a continuation of my other post. this section deals with plumbing
For water, I ran 1/2" PVC tubing throughout the rack with Edstrom Variflow valves for the water valves. I used the type with the screw on connectors instead of the barbed connectors, the barbed connectors are used with flexible tubing. You can get these at http://www.agselect.com/
I drilled 3/8" holes in the middle of 40 PVC end caps so I could screw the valves in, no need to tap the holes, the valves screwed into the pvc fairly easily with a socket wrench. I did not screw in the valves permanantly at this time, I just wanted to show you how they look. I cemented the end caps onto 40 90 degree elbows with a 1" long piece of 1/2" PVC tubing.
For fittings, I used a total of 40 end caps, 52 90-degree elbows 39 T's 2 shut off valves, one screw on quick connector and a bulkhead fitting. I also used the better part of 6 lengths of 10' X 1/2" PVC tubing.
In this picture you can see a completed level, you can see the end caps are attached to the elbow which attaches to a 5-1/2" piece of tubing that attaches to a 'T' The back of the level where the 'T's are attached to each other starts with a 4-1/5 length of PVC, then a 'T' then a 9-1/2" length of PVC then another 'T' and another length of 9-1/2" PVC and the 3rd 'T' then another length of 9-1/2" PVC with an elbow on the end. The goal is to make sure that the end caps are all flat and on the same plane. You can see where I goofed up and had to cut the level apart and fix it with straight connectors so that it was flat. A good way to assemble the level would have been to cement the 5-1/2" tubes to the 'T's first, then attach the 'T's together with the 9-1/2" tubes making sure to use a hard flat surface so that the 5-1/2" tubes stay laying flat on the floor, attach the elbows with the end caps last (make sure they're pointing in the right direction). A rubber mallet is handy to make sure the tubes are seated all the way into the fixtures. I cemented everything together with PVC cement.
Here is the rack with all the watering levels waiting to be attached to the upright water supply tube which is leaning against the bench to the left of the rack
Make sure that each end cap is laying flat against the hardware cloth before you attach the sipper valves. you'll need to cut out a square of wire using needlenose wire snips to make sure that the valve can fit through the mesh.
screw the base of the valve into the end cap through the hardware cloth.
Screw the top of the valve into the base.
Make sure that all of the valves are firmly screwed in through the hardware cloth into the PVC tubing and make sure that the whole assembly is level to cut down on air pockets.
Here is a picture of the valve going through the hardware cloth, view is from the front of the rack.
Here is a picture of the upright water supply line before it was attached and cemented into the levels. There are 6" tubes between each of the 'T's. I also put a shutoff valve in the middle so that I could shut off the water to the lower 5 levels and just use the upper 5 levels if I ever wanted to.
Here is a picture of the upright water supply tube after it's been attached to each level, you can see I have a screw on quick connector at the top.
Here is a closeup of the middle shutoff valve.
Here is a picture of the completed rack with tubs. You can see I've also added casters to the bottoms of the 2"X4"s So I can wheel it around and clean around it out easier.
Here is the water supply bucket that I'm using. I used a clear bucket so I could see the water level, it also has a top so that dust doesn't get into the water supply. The PVC is attached to the bucket using a bulkhead fitting that basically is a compression fitting that screws in through each side of a hole at the bottom side of the bucket. This is then attached to a short length of PVC tubing going to a shutoff valve which then goes to an elbow that goes to the other half of the screw on quick connector.
Here is a picture of the completed bucket assembly attached to the water supply tubing with the screw on quick connector. The whole thing rests on top of a piece of plywood nailed to the top of the rack. When complete, you'll have a low pressure gravity fed watering system for your rack.
Here is the completed rack with the water supply hooked up. It contains 10 levels in all with 4 tubs per level for a total of 40 tubs. When I have it filled to capacity I expect to have 1.3 adult mice in each tub for a total of 160 adult breeder mice which I hope will eventually supply me with over 1000 pinkies a month .
Let me know if this was helpful to anyone building their own mouse rack or if you have any other tips or suggestions you would make.
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11-18-2006, 01:17 AM #3
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Re: Plans for building a mouse rack. (long)
I remember those pics! I used a very similar design after seeing it on the KS forums, thanks for posting it up (both then and now ) Has it lived up to your expectations? I found that my Peromyscus can actually get to the tubs with the 1/2" spacers (man they can chew too!), but no problems with the lab mice. How has the PVC plumbing job worked out? I used flexible sprinkler drip line and it has worked well. Anyway, thanks again for sharing!
11-18-2006, 03:09 AM #4
The PVC tubing is working out great. It's the best thing I did on that Rack. If I were to do it over again, I'd want bigger tubs though, These tubs are a bit small for raising an entire litter to weanling size. Still, overall it's worked out pretty well.
11-18-2006, 04:23 AM #5
Re: Plans for plumbing a mouse rack (also long)
Wow! Great thread Mark! I'd like to do a similar rack setup eventually, only for rats. I like the rigid PVC setup, I'm sure it is less likely that the lines would clog with PVC. How well do you like the watering system as far as ease of maintenance?
Keep up the good work with your DIY threads.
11-18-2006, 05:17 AM #6
Mark, I've been looking for this for about 6 months.. I remember you posting it awhile back and I could not find it again. Thanks for posting it again..
P.S. Looks like you did a great job building it..
11-18-2006, 05:59 AM #7
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Mark, thanks for posting the details with pics. It sure does help!
When we built a rat rack recently we used the usual flexible tubing . . . I will definitely consider the PVC next time. Thanks again.
11-18-2006, 08:12 AM #8
Originally Posted by JBallPython
From my experience, even with narrow tubing, the issue isn't the lines clogging , it is with the valves clogging.
I'm really curious about the pros for watering setup using pvc vs flexible tubing. From my experience even in a no light condition slime builds up inside the lines, im assuming it would be the same for pvc. If this is the case, how do you clean the pvc out, because the "slime/algae" breaking off and clogging the valves would get annoying quick.
Edit: oh and i am in awe at how good of a job you did with that pvc heh, it scares me just thinking of trying that.
11-18-2006, 12:18 PM #9
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Thank you for posting these, I've merged them and stickied it so that it's easy for folks to find! Great job!
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11-18-2006, 01:48 PM #10
Re: Building & Plumbing a Rodent Rack
Thank you for merging this together, it does make it a lot easier to read.
As far as clogs in the water line, Amazingly I haven't had one yet. Maintenance on it has been very minimal. I've had only one instance where the mice stuck some wood splinters in the valve holding it open. I lost the mice in that tub and it was a mess to clean up, but I figure one time in a year isn't too bad. Other then that the only thing I do is add a capful of bleach to the water every time I fill the bucket. The person I got this idea from is Sean Bradley of EBN, He said that he's also never had a clog but just to be on the safe side he would occasionally unscrew the valves from the PVC and run water through it to flush it out. I haven't done that yet myself so I don't know how big of a job it would be.
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Todd Malm Jul 26, 2019 4:47 PM PDT
According to a report from BET.com, just a couple of days after Mahershala Ali was cast as Blade in the upcoming reboot of Marvel’s classic series, fans online began urging the studio to hire Jordan Peele to sit in the director’s chair. Jordan has directed two major movies of the last two years, Get Out, as well as Us.
The Oscar winner, however, has chosen to take his name out of the potential candidates. Speaking with reporters from Rolling Stone, the director claimed he had no interest in directing the comic book franchise.
“I have a lot of stories to tell, and it just doesn’t feel right,” the Academy Award winner remarked. The director is currently producing a reboot of the classic Candyman series.
Ironically, in the past, Peele said he wanted to make new films and original stories, rather than contribute to reboots of pre-established brands.
As fans of the director know, he has found major success in film and television, including in both horror and comedy genres. His first big role came sixteen years ago when he was hired on Fox’s Mad TV. He was on the series for approximately five seasons before finally leaving five years later in 2008.
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He went on to create Key and Peele, which was a Comedy Central hit that was on the air for approximately three years. However, the production which made him a major star was Get Out, released two years ago in 2017, for which he was given numerous awards and nominations.
This news comes after it was revealed Wesley Snipes wouldn’t get to reprise his role as Blade. On the star’s Instagram, he congratulated Mahershala for getting it and said that’s just the way the entertainment business worked.
Fans of the actor know he said in 2014 that he would definitely take on the role as Daywalker again if he was offered. Mr. Snipes starred in the first Blade in 1998, again in 2002, and then finally in 2004.
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en | N/A | N/A | Before India Launched Its Mars Mission, There Was a Blessing from the Gods November 8, 2013 Hemant Mehta
You may have heard that, earlier this week, India launched a spacecraft that will soon be orbiting Mars (for a fraction of the cost it took American scientists, no less).
What you may not have heard is what the Indian Space Research Organization Chairman K Radhakrishnan did before the launch: he took miniature versions of the rocket and spacecraft to a local temple and asked the (idols of) deities for their blessings, saying later that “a little divine intervention” wouldn’t hurt.
ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan holds a model of the Mars orbiter that may or may not have been blessed by the Gods (via Associated Press)
You know, if you think your rocket — your pinnacle-of-scientific-achievement-rocket! — need supernatural help, maybe it’s time to double-check your calculations instead of speaking to the spirits.
Shrey Goyal is appalled by Radhakrishnan’s behavior:
… such irrational behaviour from the head of the Indian government’s primary space agency is unbelievably senseless… This is not just ignoring the spirit of enquiry, but outright denying and denouncing the scientific method. How does taking on such an ambitious project even make a difference in our technological prowess, if praying to our imaginary friends in space is seen as a reasonable precaution? When the agency which is supposed to be a temple of science and uphold the search for truth and new knowledge, is worshiping a Hindu deity in such a public manner, are we making any progress at all? We should all be thankful that a black cat did not cross the scientist’s path; otherwise the mission could very well have been postponed…
dded another important voice of dissent, referring to Article 51(A)(h) in the Indian Constitution which says it’s a duty of all Indian citizens:
“We strongly condemn the attitude of the Chairman of ISRO K Radhakrishnan who has insulted the Constitution of India by placing the replica of the satellite meant for the Mars mission at the feet of a deity at Tirupati. He is unfit to occupy the position of the head of the space mission and should be immediately sacked.
This is why the work of Dr. Narendra Dabholkar was so important. This is why the work of Sanal Edamaruku is still so vital.
It’s not just a frivolous pleasant tradition. It gives credit where it simply isn’t due. It shows a lack of confidence in the scientists who made the mission to Mars possible, as if they need some additional help to succeed. And if the head of the ISRO says he wouldn’t mind some “divine intervention,” what hope can we possibly have for those people in India who know far less about science? |
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What about when you first entered the program, how was this form of insanity toward liquor explained?
What does sanity mean to you now?
Then I become miserable, my life can get out of control, I can feel that insanity has returned.
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CRYP staff also used the camps to gauge the teens’ interest in future art internships at the Cokata Wiconi teen center, as well as in a potential nine-month Lakota Arts Fellowship. The camps not only offer a glimpse of the creative experiences the teens would have as interns, they also emphasize what is required of all CRYP teen interns
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You can’t write this stuff, here is what happened –
- In a wide ranging interview by Frank Bucholtz in the Langley Times over a year ago, Eric Woodward was asked clearly if he was aware of the Heritage Guidelines and everything it entailed in terms of height and façade guidelines within the Heritage Conservation Area. He stated yes he was aware of them, thought they were a great idea and agreed with all of it.
- After buying the old IGA property and the Hardware sight next door, he proceeds with plans for a 3 story building breaking every guideline conceivable led by none other than his consultant Kurt Alberts. You remember the former Mayor who, while in office, put in place strengthened bylaws so this kind of abuse could not happen.
- With the help of Kurt’s friendly Council they approve of the breaking of these rules, regulations, bylaws and approve the building, ultimately ruled by the B.C. Supreme Court to be illegal.
- Township taken to court by citizens group and loses. Construction stops.
- Eric Woodward reapplies under a new process requesting an OCP change and Spot Zoning for his site only on Coulter Berry 2.0 with a virtually unchanged building size and lot coverage.
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en | N/A | N/A | t was enlightening to hear expert opinions from the panel discussion “Can global adoption of cryptocurrency ever happen given the volatility in recent months?”
Investors said they were not sure whether there might be a better time for fundraising in six months. Beth Ferreira added that “Some companies have to raise. If you, as a founder, can figure out a way to hold on and not to raise, do that.” General advice was, “If a founder can, they should postpone fundraising as long as they can.” |
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White welcomed the news. "This much needed improvement will increase the safety of a heavily traveled road and promote new development in our community," he explained. "While large metropolitan areas often seem to be prioritized over rural ones like Tyler County, it is only fair that we receive this assistance, and I commend TxDOT for recognizing our local needs and allocating resources to address them. I anticipate this improvement creating more good-paying middle-class jobs and growing our economy in Tyler C TxDOT in the future to further develop our transportation infrastructure." |
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Freshman (2012-13): During her first year at Dartmouth, Bessen racked up 12 singles wins and 12 doubles triumphs ...competed primarily at No. 2 doubles and No. 5 singles ...picked up her first collegiate dual match singles win against Wisconsin on Feb.1 in straight sets at No. 6 ...won her Ivy League singles debut versus No. 72 Cornell at No. 6 in straight sets ...won five straight singles matches in the middle of the season ...
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en | N/A | N/A | _______I don't like people talking about be behind my back, unless he's really hot, calling my name and pulling my hair..
_______I bought a smartphone today. And it came with unlimited 'Staring at your phone to avoid contact with other people' minutes.
_______I'm not fat, I'm just big boned. Who am I kidding, I'm just glad my small brittle bones haven't broke under the weight of all this fat.
_______I'm going to eat her cat, if you know what I mean.
_______I reckon I can tolerate most anything ... but that caps lock thing has got to go.
_______BREAKING NEWS: I found some dignity. If no one claims it in 24 hours, I'm keeping it.
_______Ladies; you need to practice giving head frequently if you really want to suckseed.
_______Kinda hard for me to tell anymore, if I'm on 'The Food Network Channel' or Facebook! :(
_______I want to find a girl who loves me for my money..... but doesn't understand math...
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_______I always look the other way when my dog does "his business" 'cause, you know, he needs a little privacy while he pays bills and takes care of his banking and stuff.
________It's a beautiful day to go outside and stare at your phone.
________I tried to order "The Ultimate Dallas Cowboys Fan Guide" off of Amazon to give to a friend. A message from Amazon popped up that said "customers who bought this product also bought "How to Act Like a Total Douche for Dummies."
________ENOUGH WITH THE RAINBOWS! You're gay, we get it!
________Jehovah's Witnesses don't like it when they ask if you have a relationship with God and you say, "Only when I'm having an orgasm''
________I think it's nice that we have this day to to recognize, and celebrate fools, because there are so bloody many of them.
________remember the time I watched you shower? ..of course you don't.
______If you carry on speaking after using the expression 'needless to say...', I will attempt to dislocate your jaw with my elbow.
_______Just had to take the walk of shame... I'm now regretting having worn these f**king flip flops.
_______Girl scout cookies make you fat, Thats why I just eat the thin mints.
_______The morning after pill.....is actually made of crushed up coat hangers......
_______My 14 year old just came home from school and told me they learned about the Greek god Herpes today in school...guess I should cross Harvard off of potential schools.
_______Whenever I visit someone in a hospital I always bring them fruit, fluff their pillows and steal their meds.
_______"Your grammar is perfect, your logic is flawless and I enjoy exclusively to thoughts of you"... an example of a perfect comment I've yet to receive....
_______If you sit near the door, and can run fast enough, there IS such a thing as a free lunch.
_______Don't just assume anything...unless it's the position.
_______Aaarghhh !!! every time I pour a round of drinks, it goes all over the place...Im sick of it....also I need glasses.
_______ If you own one pair of Crocs... you own too many Crocs.
_______Don't let the propeller hat fool you... I have no idea how to fly this plane.
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en | N/A | N/A | The Polar Plunge is what happens when thousands of people run into icy cold water to raise money for Special Olympics. Each team raises a minimum number of pledges from friends and family. Then on "plunge day," they run or jump into the water and get out as fast as they can. It's all done for fun and to raise money for a great cause! |
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en | N/A | N/A | For every wildlife fan, close encounters with wild creatures must be a dream come true, although certainly not as near as this Irish visitor got. The man received the surprise of his life while on a safari in Kenya's Masai Mara reserve when an adult wild cheetah approached too near for comfort. The entire incident was captured on video, and it is too heart-pounding to watch!
"I've lived in Kenya," Horsey, a Kenyan from Mombasa, told Caters News. "He [the cheetah] simply wasn't afraid to come up close and personal." Mickey seemed unconcerned at first, but I believe he was worried it would attempt to sit in his lap. You surely don't want that, unlike a domestic cat."
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The part when she cleans her closet, all sections shall have been cut.
I've found the book enthralling, very inspiring. Would recommend it to anybody. Thanks to the author.
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Mit lebendigen Beispielen aus dem Alltag nimmt uns Rubin mit bei ihrem happiness project. Danke!
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The triple whammy of discrimination: Caster Semenya inspires us all
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Semenya’s fight is the struggle for all women to be accepted as they are naturally. You don’t see men receiving the same type of scrutiny. How ironic that Olympic athletes have to take a testwhile they’re forcing intersex women to takedrugs to alter their bodies. (Intersex is a term “) Once again, on an international level, women are being given the message that their bodies need to be controlled and regulated.
In February 2019, group who had previously ruled in Chand’s favor. On Wednesday, May 1, 2019, they denied Semenya’s appeal even with evidence against IAAF’S new rules and despite overtly admitting their ruling was discriminatory. The CAS justified their decision by saying this was a necessary step to create “fairness” in women’s sports. Their ruling is clearly gender, racial, and sexual identity discrimination.
Semenya has 30 days to appeal this decision. She is not conceding loss. Her Twitter response on that morning reaSince this decision, millions of people around the world have shouted out in support of Semenya. The World Medical Association is directing its members not to comply with the “new” regulations due to unethical and health concerns for women athletes such as Semenyaupport Caster Semenya on March 21, 2019. The South African government and Olympic Committee along with millions of South Africans are solidly behind her. Billie Jean King’s Twitter response showed strong support for Semenya: “I am disappointed bys, which will prevent Caster Semenya from competing as her authentic self. I stand with you.” Once again, it’s men regulating how women’s bodies should look and what levels of hormones women should carry.
Joan Steidinger, CMPC-AASP, is a sports psychologist and an athlete. She is the author ofand the forthcoming Stand Up and Shout Out: Women in Sport Demand Equality.
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I am going to be honest here and say I am immensely intrigued by the situation in Medjugorje however the author's writing style just didn't flow very well for me - it took me a long time to read this book and I could definitely put it down in between chapters. I highly recommend it for anyone who reads and loves historical fiction - I think it may have just been that I love myself more plot and less fact. However it has led me to search for a different telling of the story which I intend to do after I get through my bookcase of current reads! |
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I am writing to provide some perspective on what San Benito can expect if Measure R passes.
This measure is aimed at killing the Strada Verde Innovation Center, which has been under consideration as a source of economic development, revenues and jobs for San Benito County for three years. It is a proposed testing and proving facility for self-driving cars and would include substantial research and development facilities that would bring good jobs at all levels of the skills spectrum and millions of dollars per year for the county, San Benito schools and other important agencies which deliver critical services residents rely on.
Proponents of Measure R say it is about safety. What they do not tell you is that it would eliminate the safety agreement between Strada Verde Innovation Center and TriCal to relocate potentially significant chemicals away from TriCal and the proposed innovation center. Instead, those chemicals will remain onsite at TriCal with no additional safety policies.
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It funds critical county services like road repair, public safety and social services. It creates new revenues for schools to address needed infrastructure repairs and more.
Measure R is opposed by the San Benito Dem Farm Bureau, local labor unions, fire fighters, Sheriff Eric Taylor, farmers, ranchers and many more. I urge you to vote No on Measure R.
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The Leadership Academy is a series of eight workshops designed to introduce teacher leaders, classified leaders, and other interested personnel to an array of topics essential to educational leaders. Each session is conducted by a local administrator, well-respected for his/her expertise on the topic. Fred Van Vleck, Ed.D., Eureka City Schools Superintendent, and Cheryl Ingham, Director of Instructional Leadership for the Humboldt County Office of Education, are co-facilitators for the Academy.
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MJC vice president and general manager Sal Sinatra couldn't provide an estimated attendance figure because, he said, people were still entering the Baltimore facility at about 3 p.m. EDT.
MJC officials were, however, working to fix a problem that developed mid-afternoon: plumbing in the Pimlico facility. There was no running water in restrooms and other areas; the scope of the problem wasn't immediately known but it was triggered by a broken water pipe about two miles from the track.
"You'll probably see something when we sit down as a group in June or July," Sinatra said. "My real goal now is to get this business back into a good position. If we can do it with Pimlico and Laurel (operating), I want to do that."
State and local government officials would like the Preakness to stay put as well. And some sort of financial incentives aren't out of the question.
"I think all parties do," Sinatra said of keeping Pimlico and Laurel in the mix. "I think (Frank Stronach) wants to keep the Preakness here. I think if we keep the Preakness here and run a Keeneland-style meet, say 18 days, it's a win-win for everyone.
The Friday card May 15 registered large gains in attendance and total handle, which jumped from about $11 million last year to $18 million, thanks in part to excellent weather that kept scratches to a minimum.
"We did really well yesterday," Sinatra said. "That was a very (strong) card, but that card could do even more than that." </s> Deutsche Bank's CoCo Payments Hinge on Obscure Accounting MetricBy
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- Impact of government changes seen as ‘temporary phenomenon’ is on track to revisit the seven-year low recorded in 2016 after tax and regulatory changes dampe this year is more likely to be at the lower end of the 650 metric tons to 750 tons forecast in February and close to the 666.1 tons notched up last year, P.R. Somasundaram, managing director for the London-based council in India, said in an interview, adding the headwinds may start easing next year.
Global jewelry demand fell 3 percent in the third quarter mainly because of India’s introduction of a uniform goods and services tax in July While large, on, smaller outfits faced difficulties, the council said in a report on Thursday.
This year’s uneven monsoon rainfall may hurt income in parts of the rural economy, which makes up 60 percent of India’s consumption of gold, the council said. “This could have a knock-on effect on jewe,” it said.
The government measures haven’t permanently dented demand and are a “very temporary phenomenon,” Somasundaram said. “You will see the demand coming back because GST would have stabilized and quite a lot of these quarterly interventions in terms of policy decisions, the trade is almost getting used to these and adapting themselves.”
Gold futures in Mumbai are up about 8 percent this year, while global prices in dollars have risen 12 percent. </s> Shahrukh's kids unhappy with him
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Purchased this 2012 car new at the end of the model year for $16,300. It is the GLS model with a manual 6-speed transmission and has all the goodies I require in a vehicle. Since purchasing this car, I've done all the scheduled maintenance and driven it about 100,000 miles. It has been rock solid reliable. It gets a steady 32 to 36 miles per gallon in mostly highway driving.
Nice combination , great wifi all over my house now and thats not easy saying that I live in a log cabin and the logs seem to block out all other solutions that I have tried over the years. </s> I thought about the assessment rules on the train on the way home. It would be possible to attempt to set myself up for a really big score through careful planning... get the Q on the quadruple letter score, and the Z on the triple word score, and so on, but that would be really boring and not at all like the real game. So to compare games of solitaire Super Scrabble I will compare average points per turn. Hence I'm usually motivated to play the best word for any move. I did find myself not wanting to waste spaces that I thought I could get a good score on. The 7 spaces where BENEFITS ended up was an example - I knew it would be easy to play a 7 letter bingo ending in S on a triple word score, so I left the spot available until I had one.
The game lasted 2.5 hours and I found myself tiring about halfway through. The board is so big and there are so many places to play (though not as many as you'd expect) that you get worn out trying to consider all of the possibilities. Sometimes I just played a word because I liked the word and wanted to remember it later - BIOTA, VATIC, ZORI, ARIEL. And sometimes I played a poor word to get rid of some letters to try to get something decent on my rack.
DICING 22
SPLINTS 36
JILT 27
MOAN 22
JEANS 24
TORNADO 66 (bingo #1)
VANE 38 - if there had been an L I could have played HEAVENLY!
YAWNED 30
AXON 40
PACE 44
COW 21
BENEFITS 77 (bingo #2)
DOCTOR 27
FUSED 23
GRUBS 38
BIOTA 24
CUE 10
SQUAT 77
PIXIES 69
DAMN 37
MOW 32
UNSATING 58 (bingo #3)
WONTS 40
WHY 30
ZEE 41
VATIC 20
HULK 38
PORGY 46
DIMMER 42
WEDGE 20
QI 21
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KNEEL 18
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MANY 42
USHER 51
FIB 33
LARCH 44
ZORI 57
RAJ 28
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RAFTER 36
TUP 16
ARIEL 20
OFTEN 20
KNOT 28
TOE 17
ZIT 12
for a total score of 1776 in 52 turns = 34.2 points per turn.
My impression is that rack management is more important in this game than in the small game. If you think 3 Us on your rack is bad, consider the possibility of having 7! Also, although scores were slightly higher than the original game, they weren't dramatically so. The quadruple letter tiles and quadruple word tiles are way out in the boondocks, and a word like WONTS on a DWS and QLS is worth 40, when in the original if you got it on a DWS and a TLS it would still be worth 32. If I average about 340 points per game, and this counts as 4 games, then that's about 30% higher. High yes, but not silly.
Anyway, this game was hard work. I allow myself to look in the dictionary (because I'm here to learn, not to compete fairly) and 2.5 hours of anagramming, considering possibilities and looking up words that don't exist (e.g. BIOTECH and FUNCTOR) sucks the energy out of you. That's why I have to go to bed now.
By the way, here is a photo of my niece, just because she's cute.
Based on that criteria, you should be posting photos of your sisters ;)
But Trixi makes me laugh, too.
Don't let Friendless take photos of people. He obviously likes the pose where your tongue is sticking out, and the angle right up your nostrils.
lucky she's not a snotty tottie.
Auntie Jack should have posted thisphoto taken by Auntie Scrabblette instead.
She look like a wee innocent child.
This is the time of life when she is at her prime. She has a chance now Friendless. She can be saved!
Set her on the right track. Remember she can do well if you keep her away from your naughty thoughts.
You want the best for this little one don't you? Then don't influence her too much. And she will become a good prude. I is seeing she has the potential!
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1 October 2021 5 October 2021 by Nirali Sahoo, Ammar Abdulhamid and Mike Peel
Wikidata is Wikimedia’s structured data repository. It is connected to Wikipedias and the other Wikimedia projects, and holds structured data about a huge number of concepts. This includes every topic covered by a Wikipedia article, as well as scientific papers, astronomical objects, and many other topics.
Wikidata has been growing rapidly since it started in 2012, but is still a long way behind Wikipedia articles in terms of the amount of data it stores. In particular, the English Wikipedia has a lot of semi-structured content in the form of infoboxes, lists, and introduction sections. Unlike other language Wikipedias, there hasn’t yet been significant mass-migration of this content to Wikidata. While this information is kept only in English, rather than being in Wikidata’s multilingual structured data, it can’t be easily used by other Wikipedias with more Wikidata integration, or by external websites that use Wikidata information.
While this is being slowly tackled by volunteers importing data manually or with the help of scripts, there is no deadline in the Wikimedia projects – so this process can take a long time. The problem also presents a great student project to automate the imports into Wikidata. Enter Outreachy – an internship program with a focus on diversity, which the Wikimedia Foundation regularly participates in, and which comes with scholarship of US$6,000. This presented a great opportunity to get a motivated student focused on this work for a fixed period of time, while they also learnt about Wikimedia and coding, and at the same time helps it increase the diversity of the Wikimedia movement and the tech community in general.
The project focused on using Python, and in particular the ‘pywikibot’ package, to automatically read in Wikipedia articles, and write out structured data to Wikidata. This focused on relatively simple things like external website identifiers, as well as much more complex things like lists of historical buildings. Mike Peel was the project mentor; he has written various Pywikibot scripts that run on a Raspberry Pi as User:Pi bot.
The initial period of Outreachy is a set of contributor tasks, which both introduce students to the community and the work to be done during the internship, and also serve as the evaluation process for the students – unlike traditional internships, there are no CVs to look at within the Outreachy process! Students started understanding how Wikidata works by looking through Wikipedia articles and matching up how pieces of information are stored in Wikipedia articles and Wikidata, going on to write initial scripts to access that information in Python, and to write information into Wikidata.
Over 20 students submitted a starter task during the initial contribution period, which lasted a month – after which Mike had to make the really difficult decision to select a student – or fortunately in this case, two students were able to do the internship, between May and August 2021: Ammar and Nirali. Ammar is from Nigeria and has some experience editing Wikipedia and Wikidata before. Nirali is from India. Both were new to Pywikibot and bot editing.
The import of data begins with the extraction of information, which involves the selection of topic areas of the Wikipedia articles, and then extends to the selection of focus area of each article from the chosen topic, for example: infoboxes, external links, etc. The topic areas might vary from different categories or lists to different templates that are being used in the Wikipedia articles.
The actual extraction and import of information then occurs with the help of python scripts which are developed using the pywikibot module. The pywikibot module is an extensive tool allowing developers to interact with the pages in different Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons, in a simplified way. When interacting with wiki pages, pywikibot offers variety of functions that allow to get the raw wikitext of the page, the title, the canonical url, permanent link as well as old version text for a specified old revision. It also provides the developer with functions for retrieving different Wikimedia projects’ pages, accessing and making changes to the contents of Wikidata Items.
While the scripts vary on the basis of the topic area chosen and the information that is aimed to be imported, they do have certain common elements or pattern to follow:
Retrieving the contents of the Wikipedia article’s page (when the focus is only on a single article) or iterating through the articles in a given page and retrieving each article’s page (when a list or category of articles is targeted)
Extracting the information to be imported to Wikidata from the Wikipedia article. This is usually achieved with two main approaches:
Using regular expressions if extracting from the article body text or working on the entire raw text.
Expanding templates and iterating through their key-value pairs, if looking for certain information which is known to be in a particular template.
Validating the data. In some cases validation might be necessary, for instance to prevent error on attempted save in Wikidata or to prevent exporting malformed/invalid value.
Importing the extracted information to Wikidata by assigning appropriate property IDs to them
Additional steps might include task-specific steps and the addition of import sources, i.e., the latest revision of the Wikipedia article during the time of import and the language wiki from which the information is being imported, which is considered as a good practice. Out of the above-mentioned steps, most of them can easily be achieved by the pywikibot module. Often times, queries are made of Wikidata information using SPARQL in order to avoid the addition of information that should ideally be present only once (for example, Soccerway IDs for players).
The validity of the developed scripts is ensured after the approval of bot requests. Bot requests are used to submit the scripts for our bots for community discussions where other community members and admins verify the credibility and check for errors in the functioning of scripts. Bot requests involve describing the purpose and tasks to be performed by the script and, after the relevance of the functionality of the bot is confirmed, the bot operator is asked to perform test edits on a small number of articles to ensure the accuracy of the imports. Once the test edits are approved, the bot gets the permission to perform the live edits, i.e., the import of data from all articles in the topic area. This can be done in batches, in order to keep track of any errors in the scripts, or as a whole. It can be a one-off run, or it can be something that runs regularly (daily/weekly/monthly).
As well as working on the project, Outreachy asks the selected interns to write bi-weekly blogs on various themes provided by the Outreachy Organizers. These themes can range from the initial experience of the interns in the Outreachy program to what the interns plan to do once the Outreachy internship comes to an end. Though the themes are provided by the Outreachy Organizers, the interns are free to write the blogs on any theme or topic that they want to. Nirali’s blog can be found on WordPress and Ammar’s blog can be found on Hashnode. Outreachy also organizes bi-weekly chats with other interns, mentors and the organizers and provides assignments to both, mentors and interns, in order to maintain an interactive environment all the while indulging in a continuous evaluation process with periodic feed-backs about the work done.
The import of data from Wikipedia to Wikidata can be quite complex, and can have more conflicts or issues than just syntactic errors preventing the script from running.
Property mapping: Proper knowledge of the topic area is essential so as to avoid the import of bad data due to the incorrect assignment of properties to data, especially in cases of properties that have similar meanings but are used for different contexts. For example: The use of P276 (location) and P131 (located in the administrative territorial entity) to mark the location of a monument, landmarks, etc.
Varying structures of articles: Various articles have different structures for mentioning the same details—even if they belong to the same topic area. This makes the development of scripts challenging since they need to cover as many different structures as possible. For example, the headquarters of an organization can be mentioned as “headquarters” or “garrison” in the Wikipedia article.
Missing properties: Certain properties that might be important have still not been added in the list of Wikidata properties. An example can be the property of “leader” for organizations, especially the non-profit ones. This leads to some data being left out while importing other information from the article into Wikidata.
Incorrect Value: Some values in Wikipedia can be plain wrong (and exporting them to Wikidata worsens the problem). This happens for instance for identifiers like Netflix ID, where in some cases articles were linked to the wrong identifier in Netflix website due to similarities in the name (or even exact same title, for movies produced in different years).
Of the mentioned hurdles, the most challenging and exciting task was to develop scripts to accommodate the various structures in Wikipedia articles. It made us think of the optimal ways to consider all possible test cases and to implement them in the scripts—all the while caring for the time consumed writing and running the import scripts.
Apart from these, perhaps the most difficult hurdle was to identify what to import. Given the huge number of topic areas and articles in Wikipedia, the selection of one of these out of the thousands of others was the most time consuming task, especially when initial searches were in the wrong place. While it is true that only around 20-25% of Wikipedia articles have been synchronized with Wikidata, even this can be a huge number of articles to avoid while searching for articles whose information has not yet been imported to Wikidata.
However, despite these few hurdles, the project made us familiar not only with the use of python scripts but also . Often times, we, as general users, tend to neglect what goes on behind the scenes for managing the articles. Getting involved in the project made us realize the intricacies involved with the management of data and it’s structure in both, Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Nirali presented at Wikimania 2021 as part of the ‘Integrating Wikidata into the Wikimedia projects’ panel. Both Nirali and Ammar are continuing to operate their bots on Wikidata to import information from the English Wikipedia regularly, now as volunteers rather than interns. AmmarBot now has over 8,000 edits, and NiraliBot has over 3,000 edits.
Wikimedia Foundation continues to participate in Outreachy –Outreachy and Wikimedia, have a look at Outreachy.org
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I am so incredibly happy, I can’t thank you enough!
It’s nice to be helping and supporting a good cause and to have a chance of winning something.
What would you do if you won the house? Live in, rent out or sell?
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Israeli air Force Once again strikes syrian Army in western syria. That’s Golan heights where these Oh so moderate rebels are also lodged.
Isn’t he the guy who picked Sarah Palin for VP and lost terribly against Obama? Yeah doesn’t show much intelligence.
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Elsa defends her thesis. Congratulations, Elsa!
Field begins a fall rotation.
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Blane's paper appears in Org. Lett. (link). Congratulations, Blane! Good Luck in your graduate studies at UNC Chapel Hill!
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en | N/A | N/A | Andrew Love, the soulful tenor saxophonist - who as one half of the Memphis Horns graced many classic hit records over several decades - has died at his home in Memphis at the age of 70.
They backed up Stephen Stills, Rod Stewart, the Doobie Brothers, Joe Cocker, Sting, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Gabriel, U2, Jimmy Buffett, Willie Nelson, B. B. King and Robert Cray, the latter who they visited the UK with to promote the 1990 hit album �Midnight Stroll,� which they played on.
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by Lisa | Wednesday, January 6, 2021 | Art, Blog | 1 comment
Ten years ago Tesco sneakily gained planning permission to open on Cheltenham Road, inspiring the No Tesco in Stokes Croft campaign. Tesco still opened, but without late opening or a liquor license, thanks to the local campaigners. Fast forward to today, Tesco are at it again, with applications in for both late opening (until 11pm daily) and liquor sales! Clearly they think enough time has passed now that no one will notice if they get the rules changed.
If you wish to object to this process you need to submit objections to email hidden; JavaScript is required by Tuesday January 12, quoting application number 20/05171/PRGRT. You can also request permission to speak at the alcohol licence decision meeting.
Green councillor Carla Denyer has provided us with the template below (PDF here) to help you write your objection…
Here is how you can quickly edit the template below to make it more personal and impactful:
If you live near Cheltenham Road/Stokes Croft say so, it will lend weight to your arguments that you are a local resident.
Include as many examples as you have of problems relating to alcohol in the Stokes Croft / Cheltenham Road area. A personalised letter, especially in the opening paragraph, is so powerful. Remember that Councillors do not necessarily know the area, so this is your chance to bring the reality of Stokes Croft’s drinking culture to life.
The following four objections relate to the four criteria the Council will use to decide whether the grant a licence, plus the issue of ‘Cumulative Impact’.
In any extra arguments you make, remember it has to relate to the sale of alcohol at the premises, or the committee will not take it into account.
There are a large number of bars, clubs, take-aways and off-licences within a short walk of this branch of Tesco. Because of this existing high concentration of licenced premises, until a recent change in national licensing law, the majority of this area was covered by one of two Cumulative Impact Areas (CIAs), on Gloucester Road and Stokes Croft.
Although the change in the law has removed these CIAs, the licensing committee can still consider the cumulative impact of all these premises. Please do so.
2) Prevention of crime and disorder
This application disregards the serious street drinking problem in Stokes Croft. The problem is so bad that in 2010 police had to introduce a ban on the sale of strong alcohol on Stokes Croft. (https://prsc.org.uk/police-work-with-shopkeepers-to-amend-licenses-to-forbid-retail-of-high-strength-lagers-and-cider).
Stokes Croft and the surrounding area is where many of Bristol’s drug, alcohol and homeless support agencies are based, their location being both a response to and an attraction for many homeless people in the area, many of whom have severe alcohol and drug addictions.
Another licence in the area would make this even more of a hotspot for street drinkers, increasing crime and disorder in the area. While I sympathise with the difficult lives that many street drinkers have had, unfortunately when intoxicated they do often cause crime and disorder issues, to the detriment of themselves and others. This threatens the special independently-minded community that I love in this area of Bristol.
Tesco’s application offers nothing to counter this problem – all wording in the application is their standard wording, demonstrating that the applicant has taken no account of the circumstances in this location.
In 2010 the Police objected to the license application by Tesco at this premises because of the risks to the public. I hope they will do so again.
Stokes Croft and Cheltenham Road are already not the safest places to be at night, because of the level of alcohol abuse that takes place in the area.
[Add your own story of a scary/dangerous experience you or your friends have had on the road as a result of the availability of cheap alcohol from off-licenses in the area.]
4) Prevention of public nuisance
Aside from issues where public safety and public nuisance cross over, there are causes of public nuisance that will be exacerbated by another off-license in this area.
‘Pre-loading’ is a common phenomenon where people buy cheap alcohol from a retailer like Tesco, get very drunk at home or in public spaces, and then go out into bars, pubs and restaurants. This is done to save the individual money, but it has a detrimental effect on other local businesses and their customers. For instance, Canteen, a popular bar/restaurant nearby, had strong objections to the licence application in 2010 on the basis that they already have frequent problems with customers who have ‘pre-loaded’ on cheap supermarket booze. This creates an unpleasant atmosphere for other customers and encourages the drinking of alcohol by those who would not normally want to drink much but who feel uncomfortable in these venues unless under the influence of alcohol.
A nuisance would also be caused by litter from the Tesco store. This stretch of road is already plagued with discarded cans and broken glass, presenting a danger to pedestrians and cyclists who use the road. Bottles and cans of alcoholic drinks are a common type of litter in the area, so another off-licence is likely to add to this problem.
5) Protection of children from harm
Dolphin School is only 150 metres away from this Tesco store, and Colston’s Girls School is 300 metres away. Cotham School is also nearby. Hundreds of schoolkids walk past and shop at this the Tesco every day. The ‘Think 25’ initiative is helpful but is not perfect. I am worried that school children will be regularly exposed to adverts for cheap alcohol on their way to and from school, and may be tempted to buy some or ask friends to buy for them.
Marcus Garvy on 07/01/2021 at 12:09 AM
Colston’s Girls School ? Oh dear – come on Carla ! Get with the programme – its 2021 now y’know ?! |
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en | N/A | N/A | I've been awaiting with anticipation the opening of Liberty's new Hall of Pretty Stationery (HoPS) for several weeks now. I love the Liberty print notebooks (although I still prefer to write on a Moleskine), stylish leather-covered photo albums and creative greetings cards but previously, these items were scattered throughout the store (with the posh handbags, overpriced homewares and pricey chocolates, respectively). Until now.
The HoPS was open today when I was passing through, however, and it was filled with an array of lovely items. They have a range of Moleskines and Pantone notebooks (including some Pantone sketchbooks with papercover), more expensive leather-bound journals and photo albums, cards, wrapping paper and various quirky, stationery- or office-related gifts. Oh and not to mention all the Apple compatible Liberty print products (iPhone sleeves, iPad cases, etc.). I particularly liked this witty notebook (also in the series: "teachers I met and liked" and "Londoners I met and liked").
For once, I resisted the temptation to buy myself yet another notebook and although I was very taken with a display of beautiful paperweights, I have no need for a paperweight and so managed to escape without handing over the contents of my wallet. I do also appreciate Liberty's decision to separate the classy greetings cards from the yummy but expensive chocolates; this will definitely help to restrict my ill-considered impulse buys. |
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en | N/A | N/A | Four children found at an address where a 15-year-old boy was discovered dead in a bath are under police protection, officers said.
Two of the youths found at the flat went to hospital for treatment and were discharged, the Metropolitan Police said.
A man and a woman, both aged 27, remain in police custody following the death of the badly-injured teenager at a flat in Newham, east London, on Christmas Day.
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en | N/A | N/A | Perhaps it’s because I’ve recently found myself in the aging vortex that this is top of mind, but the chatter about women reaching a certain age — about the ghost female — has been going on for generations. Who is she?Where did she go?And was she ever here?
After 40, women sense an invisibility, perhaps at times encountering reflections of themselves from the corners of their social and cultural periphery. What do the outer realms of our universe mirror back at these female phantoms?
Alice Steinbach wrote in The Baltimore Sun that “Gloria Steinem once suggested that Marilyn Monroe was a female impersonator; that all women are female impersonators. What we are impersonating, in this context, is the male vision of what a woman is or ought to be. But the vision of what women ought to be stops somewhere around the age of 50. The male gaze has no vision beyond that. And so women become ‘invisible.’”
Of course, not everyone feels this way, and not everyone fits into the cliches I just projected on the page when describing women. But stay with me for a moment. Does it actually matter at what age a girl or a woman begins or ends feeling invisible?
It’s a cruel process — becoming invisible in a society that amplifies aging in the backdrop of time, using technological advancement to simulate the youthful “you.”
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The National Museum of Women in the Arts published a surveyThe study’s co-author, Marina Gertsberg, notes that “galleries may discriminate for the same reason the broader market does: they’re skeptical about emerging female artists’ likelihood of future success. Dealers may be concerned that a woman will take time off to have children and raise a family — thereby making her career trajectory and prospective output less reliable than that of a man.”
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en | N/A | N/A | "We do not self-contain children" When I interviewed for my current job, I was told this. Firmly. I had mentioned that I wanted a self-contained room.
What I'm finding is that this school operates like my last middle school. There are no self-contained rooms. Just resource rooms.
In a resource room, all kids who need extra help are in a class together.
Think about this for a minute. With No Child Left Behind, the very lifeblood of the school is dependent on whether or not the kids with mild and high incidence disabilities pass a test. So you might have 8 kids in a resource math class. Five of them will have some sort of learning disability or mild intellectual disability. And you have to make them proficient in grade level math by the end of the year or all hell breaks loose. And then three of those kids have low-incidence disabilities -- non-verbal, severe multi-handicapped, etc. They are happy to sort color bears.
Who are you going to teach to?
If it were a true self-contained class, then the teachers could tailor the instruction to the severely disabled kids instead of having to teach them as well as the kids with mild disabilities. If it were inclusion, the kids with severe disabilities could benefit from participating in the classroom environment. As it stands now, the resource room doesn't seem to do "my" kids any good.
It was like that in the first middle school I taught in and it's like that here.
And in my intro to special ed class, the instructor drew a diagram that presented the resource room as a less-restrictive option than any other on the list. It's the most restrictive and the least tailored to the needs of severely disabled kids.
Why are LABELS more important than what we are actually doing? If you are in a room all day with the two other kids in your grade level who have similar disabilities, you are self-contained, even if other kids come in and out all the time.
One day... I will take over the universe and end this crap.
As of now, I need to do a visual schedule for a kid who doesn't really change classes. At all.
**Note: said professor was put in his place by a blind student, who challenged his idea of "residential school" being the "place where you have to lock em up." She brought up that her local school was very restrictive because no one knew how to teach her and to be in an environment where everyone knew how Braille was liberating.
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I've spilled a lot of virtual ink regarding Tropical Thunder. So, to quote the character that the movie supposedly mocks, "That's all I have to say about that."
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Gathering the bread crumbs
For a while now, I've wanted to gather all of medical info in one place so I can review it and hand it off to my new rheumatologist.
I obsessed. I looked at Google Health, Microsoft Health Vault, EMRy stick. Through Google Health, I learned of MediConnect Global and My Medical Records.com, all of which seemed like good ideas, until I learned the fees that MediConnect Global charged and I saw Asa Hutchinson, Homeland Security on the board of directors of MyMedicalRecords.com. I'm not entirely sure that my SED rate is a matter of national security, but I don't trust Homeland Security or any agency that would wiretap Americans.
Google Health was both too limited because I couldn't add my own scanned documents, and too scary, because, well, it was Google. I love them, but I already get creeped out when I send an email about a personal topic and am suddenly bombarded with ads. I have no expectation of privacy on the net and I don't usually let that bother me too much, but there seemed to be a line I didn't want to cross there.
Ditto for Microsoft Health Vault. Dude, they can't get my Windows Mobile 5 phone to talk to my Vista computer and they make both operating systems. I don't quite trust them to have it together.
And I don't know if having my health records out there bothers me more because it's SUPPOSED to bother me or if I really do mistrust the big boys of the health business to do right by me.
I decided to go with MedicAlert Gold. I have a fax line and a voice mail line for $10 a month, what it would have cost to have a fax number through efax or something like that.
I store all my medical records online and when I'm not so poor, I'll buy the software to sync it with a USB key. I'll have the ID card someone can call to reach an operator if needed and the USB key I can give to a doctor and say "here you go."
This is HUGE. I'm struggling so hard with this South Beach Diet, especially sitting in the nursing home and hospital with my uncle and visiting my Arkansas family. They don't make salads that are as good as hamburgers when you're stressed and sad. And when my cousin Karen makes a pie, there is no diet in the world worth missing it for.
It also lets me know that if I can find the correlation, I can stop it instead of adding statins or niacin.
That one little find there might be worth gold as far as having info I need about my health.
I have been having GI issues and over the last week, I was home, so I went to my family doctor. He knew me from the moment I was born. Not many people in their 30s can go to the doctor that delivered them.
I remember sitting outside his office one day, holding my file because I needed to do lab work, flipping through it and seeing my six-week-old check up. I was a little anemic, but overall, fine, it said. I was a college student and bowled over that this file literally had my medical life in this file folder.
Gathering up all these bread crumbs from all over the country is maybe my way of trying to recreate that. No one will keep the file on me. After so many years, it's destroyed. There isn't anyone to gather a whole file of my life any more. No one is that interested. My new rheumatologist only wanted records from the last few years.
I don't know why it's important that I hold on to these. But it is. It just is.
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My great uncle Ben passed away yesterday. Ben was 90 years old.
Ben had an unspecified developmental disability and / or a severe articulation disorder. He was born 90 years ago where disability wasn’t something talked about. I’m sure there were institutions ready and willing to take him, but instead he was cared for all of his life by his parents, brothers and sisters, and later on, his many nieces and nephews. Most importantly, I think, during the last 20 years of his life, he cared for himself, in his own apartment, until he was no longer able.
I spent today in a Kathie Snow presentation where she talked about building natural supports for people with disabilities. Ben lived most of his life with natural and generic supports, using services only as he got older. Ben had Meals on Wheels and the community’s subsidized housing. He later had a private duty nurse come check on him and his living was always earned through his social security checks, especially as he got older and could no longer make money mowing the lawn and doing odd jobs for people. Ben supposedly lived in the “dark ages” for people with disabilities, but he got along fine, even better, I think, than some of the people I care about who are completely entangled in the disability service delivery model.
Ben had several advantages that most people with disabilities don’t have. First of all, he was one of 11 children. That sort of large farm family practically guaranteed an abundant supply of housing and care options as his parents got older and passed away. By the time I was born, in the mid 70s, a few of his sisters and brothers and their spouses had passed away, but most were still in the small town, or had come back to the town.
That didn’t mean that the abundance of nieces and nephews were there, however. Most had left the town for good by the time I came around. As Ben’s siblings and their spouses got older, the care fell to the remaining nieces and nephews, with more and more reliance on supports.
“Community” is such a buzzword in the field of disability professionals. I can’t count how many times I’ve heard that word in reference to a child or adult who is, for all intents and purposes, institutionalized in the community. A bowling program and weekly trips out with other disabled adults isn’t living in the community. That community, however, is disappearing quickly for all of us, disabled or not.
Ben, however, lived in the community. He lived on the family farm most of his life, first with his parents, then with his sister, and then with my grandparents. When my grandparents moved away, he lived with us for a year. Then in his 60s, he wasn’t really happy in a home with three young loud children, so my mother found him an apartment in town.
He knew how to make himself a simple breakfast and supper and he had his meals delivered for lunch. My mom would pick up his laundry once a week and she or a cousin would clean his house. He learned how to work a VCR and eventually, cable and satellite TV with a special remote. He loved his tape player and his John Wayne movies. He learned to use a telephone with pictures of people on the speed dial buttons. He walked down to the post office every day for his mail, and more often than not, to the town’s restaurant for his supper. He could walk to visit many of his sisters and brothers who lived in town and most of the older people in town knew him. “How’s Benny?” they would ask. It seemed strange to me that to them, he was “Benny” – like a child, when he had always been an adult in my life.
When I got my first job in this field, working with a child with Angelman Syndrome who used gestures and vocalizations to communicate, they asked if I’d had any experience with disability. I said no. It wasn’t until years later that I thought of Ben. He wasn’t “experience” though. He was my uncle.
My grandparents and Uncle Ben lived next door to me until I was 8. Ben was a constant presence in my childhood, always quietly in the background of a family event. It seems to me that he came and went when he wanted to, preferring long walks on the farm, mowing the lawn or tinkering with the lawn mower, or being with his horse, Trigger, to the aftermath of a Sunday dinner, which inevitably meant some sort of loud squabble between my sisters and me.
Upstairs in the farmhouse was our own playhouse, except for Ben’s room. We were to respect Ben’s room and not run in and out of it. He had a T.V. in his room, which was something amazing in the 70s when T.V.s were mostly in large wooden consoles. On the shelves of his room sat his collectables – horses, mostly, ceramic and metal and plastic. There were also birdhouses made from craft sticks that my cousins, sisters, and I would make. On the walls were long paper scenes from colorforms – a toy where children would rub a print of a cartoon cartoon character onto a piece of a paper. I remember making a Scooby-Doo colorform for him and a pink-sunseted Bugs Bunny space scene. I don’t know if he did the remaining scenes or if they too were gifts from his great nieces and nephews.
What I loved most about visiting Ben’s room was his keychain collection – truly a wonder to behold. Ben had keychains from all over the U.S. He had cheap bank and Missouri Farmer’s Association keychains. He had fancy puzzle ones, like the little plastic ships in primary colors that would come apart. He had a few in the shape of tires and of bottle caps. He had large gaudy inspirational keychains. As an adult, I would gather keychains for Ben at every place I traveled to, becoming sad in later years when I knew that there was no place for this collection in his nursing home.
What do you do with all these keychains now? Individually, they have no value. There’s not a hidden gem in there that Antiques Roadshow will surprise us with. Much like his horses, or my aunt’s dolls, or any collectable, their value was that they were his, that they represented small acts of kindness made on his behalf by great nieces and nephews all over the country. And yes, they represent guilt. I know that more than once, in some airport, I would pass a keychain rack and feel a stab of regret for not visiting my uncle more. How was Ben? How long had it been? My last time in town I wanted to go see him, but, well, it can be awkward just stopping by like that. I didn’t have the time. The least I could do was pick up a keychain to let him know I hadn’t forgotten.
That happened too often. Ben loved babies and he was especially proud of his great-great nephew Benjamin. As I said before, we grew up with Ben in the background and thought nothing of it. But at a certain age, the awkwardness sets in. I began to worry about what would happen if Ben was talking to me and I couldn’t understand him. How would I know what to do? I wanted to clean his house only when my little sister was with me so that she could take him to the grocery store at the same time. (To be fair, though, that had less to do with awkwardness and more to do with trying to keep him off the wet kitchen floor in his slick cowboy boots). I wanted to see Ben, but only if someone was with me to help.
I try not to be hard on myself for that, remembering the tons of nieces and nephews who never stopped by at all. Still, I hope he forgives me for that.
Thankfully, I got over that phase and I think it was because of the work I did. I’d had experience with all sorts of people who communicated in all sorts of ways and it helped me stop feeling like Ben was an uncomfortable obligation and instead helped me sit back and enjoy Ben again. I loved it when I was mopping his floor and he sat in his favorite leather chair and sang “Home on the Range” to himself, rocking and thumping the leather with his fingers. That was his happy song.
In the last few years, Ben didn’t sing many happy songs. It started with falls, a few here, a few there. Mom had to take away his beloved cowboy boots and give him tennis shoes. We tried a life alert system. He had over 100 calls one month. By this time, the brothers and sisters were almost all gone and the nieces and nephews were spread even more thin – most the younger ones having flown and my mom’s generation caring for them as well as their own parents.
He began to have complications from his diabetes. My little sister would take him shopping and have to haggle him into diet coke and sugar-free ice cream when what he wanted was a real Coke and a Klondike Bar. We replaced most of the meals he made himself with meals from the restaurant in town. That worked for a while, but the headaches and dizziness began to plague him. I don’t think his headaches ever went away.
After the last, bad fall a few years ago, Ben went to a nursing home. We knew, as he did, that it was the beginning of the end. There he became “a behavior problem” in a way he’d never allowed himself to be, getting upset and agitated, not keeping his clothes on, yelling “hey” and clapping his hands together in frustration.
Worse, though, was when he was calm, sitting with his head on the table and not moving.
We brought his beloved John Wayne tapes and he stubbornly turned away from the TV. We brought his stereo; he turned it off. I decorated his window with Christmas lights, remembering all the times I decorated his apartment for Christmas as a child, but he wouldn’t appear to know the difference. Even his dancing Rudolph the Reindeer didn’t cause a stir.
Ben, at his late 80s, mourned the loss of his independence so fiercely that it was hard to bring him out of it. Still, there were a few moments where I could see the old Ben, especially when my grandmother and aunt were also at the same nursing home and teased him.
This isn’t all of Ben’s story – there are pages and pages to tell. But there aren’t very many left to tell it. I think of his last few years and how he was a shadow of himself there. But his life is not a sad story. Everyone of those 90 years could have very easily been spent in a place very much like the nursing home, a place he hated with all his heart. In 1928, I’m sure that was an option to his parents, perhaps the only option anyone thought they had.
Before the age of supports or inclusion, Ben had all of that. Before the IDEA, he went to the 1-room school house with his brothers and sisters. He had a long, happy life surrounded by friends and family. He leaves behind acres and acres of lawns mowed and hay rakes and baled, miles paced all over the farm on foot and by horse, and later in a worn path across his apartment carpet. He’s saved barn kittens from Tom cats and retrieved lost toys tossed over the side of the bridge into the creek. He was the recipient of thousands of coloring book, craft sticks, color-form and misc craft projects, which he always displayed with pride. He herded cows and preschoolers out of trouble.
In short, he was a valued and loved member of the family and the community. He will be missed.
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Visual schedules and tasks lists
When we say a student is having trouble with transitions, the first thing asked is "Have you tried a visual schedule?" We often use the phrase "visual schedule" to refer to true visual schedules, and also to task lists, which are sort of mini-schedules. One lets the student know the actual physical setting and the other lets the student know what is expected in that setting. One communicates "where am I supposed to be?" and the other communicates "what am I supposed to do?" Yet we use them interchangeably. No wonder students get confused.
There was a debate about what was needed for him. His regular classroom teacher wanted something to let him know the major transitions of the day, the big location changes like lunch, P.E. etc. His resource teacher wanted more of a task/reward system -- letting him know that he had to do worksheets while her her room, math and then science in his regular teacher's room, etc.
Finally, I came up with something that seemed to work. . The outside of the schedule was made with black paper, folded over twice to make a book. I used binder rings and a hole punch to bind it and wrote his name on the top. (which I'm covering in the picture. Apologies for pictures snapped with camera phone.)
Finally, I made lots of copies of the main tasks he was expected to complete in each setting for the teacher in that setting. That way, when he came into library. the teacher already could have her "listen to a story" "do a worksheet" and "check out books" cards handy and didn't have to sort through math and science cards to find them, nor rely on him having them in the envelope on his schedule. If he didn't bring his schedule, those cards could easily be set out on a table. |
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Terent, with legacy assets ranging from five to 10 years in age and a linear production decline curve, Peterson said.
"While Florida will likely never be a leading producer, it's an oil and gas opportunity," said Peterson.
"It's a good problem to have from the company's perspective, but from the MLP business model perspective, it creates a challenge in that the capital costs of developing this acreage are not well known, and could put them in the position where they can't develop the acreage themselves."
If the Utica play is successful, it could be the type of asset that would fit with an upstream MLP business strategy down the road. However, the development challenge is not compatible with an MLP-type structure, Peterson said.
Linn - which has acquired a number of U.S. onshore assets this year, including BP's Jonah field properties for approximately $1 billion - does exploration drilling where it makes sense. But with a $10 billion operation, drilling a few exploration wells where it fits in with their asset portfolio makes sense, Peterson said.
In addition to unconventional plays, growth potential exists for upstream MLPs in secondary recovery plays in conventional assets in California and the Permian Basin. Mid-Con Energy Partners, one of the 10 upstream MLPs that MLV began coverage on in May, is pursuing secondary and tertiary recovery. Some major companies have moved into this area to extract more value from their assets. Occidental has pursued this strategy with its Permian assets, Peterson noted.
The breakthroughs in exploration and production (E&P) technology has caused a renaissance of E&P activity in legacy fields such as the Permian Basin which has prompted a more broad-scale revisitation of secondary and tertiary recovery, Peterson said.
"The MLP for their export facility functions like a midstream pipeline," said Peterson. He suspects that a host of other upstream MLPs will line up in the queue if Cheniere gets approval for the facility, but it will likely be a handful of years before this occurs.
MLPs are a function of tax law and, to some degree, an extension of the traditional oil and gas royalty system and the long history of partnerships in the oil and gas industry, said Peterson.
"In general, there is no rainy day fund, which requires a much more conservative, longer-view approach," said Petersen, meaning that overinvestment in one quarter may mean not having enough cash in the next quarter, while underinvestment poses a challenge to growth.
While it remains unclear when the natural gas market will rebalance itself, "in the long term, having too much clean, domestic natural gas is a good problem," said Petersen. |
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en | N/A | N/A | Title: Security Measures: A Frail Defense (From Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century, P 202-218, 1997, Cindy C. Combs -- See NCJ- 170150)
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en | N/A | N/A | So yesterday, before all the excitement occurred about creating my new blog, I had to go to class. I knew that we were planning on making bio diesel in my energy science lab, but I had no idea it was going to be SO FUN.
One of my best friends is my lab partner. Her name is Liz. We started off doing normal lab-type things, but then we had to shake our cooking oil and chemical mixture. For ten minutes. And we started to notice the resemblance of the concoction to honey mustard. However I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to eat this stuff.
So our shaking process consisted of every "shaking" and "spinning" song that we could think of, and dancing around with bio diesel, until we almost broke the glass container it was in, and spilled bio diesel everywhere. Then we decided we should probably (try to) play it cool.
See we were having so much fun!
This is where I'm trying to be discreet. Look at how goofy my face is while I continue to shake the thing.
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I remember when I was a kid the bin men went to the picket lines. Now that was a rubbish strike.
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How does social media portray stereotypes and racial bias to the public?
Going into my study further, I would analyze content from other journals, documents, interviews, and literature on databases and other platforms to gather my answer. I feel as if conducting interviews with random people with questions pertaining on how they think society views them, would allow myself to dig deeper and help identify the different ways in which social media is portraying these stereotypes and racial biases. It is important to gather information and answers from all perspectives and point views because typically no answer would be right or wrong. I would ask questions along the lines of: Have you ever felt victim of a stereotype?Do stereotypes or racial bias negatively or positively influence your use of social media?Are you aware that you view discriminatory media almost every minute of every day?How do you respond to inaccurate generalizations about people and or do you fall guilty or creating false perceptions yourself? |
en | N/A | N/A | Remember the glorious, highly entertaining blog that the UK Invasion boys had?…No, me neither, but there was that attempt of one, that was full of comical errors and fook ups and had about 6 posts on it.
That was quickly closed to the public, after we ripped the sh*t out of it on here 🙂 But then we was promised a new one on the horizon remember.
Well this ones got to be good, or at least better organised than the original, so, hey, let’s take a look at all the hard work these guy’s have been putting in.
Oh noes, looks like they don’t want to provide us with laughs anymore. |
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en | N/A | N/A | Visiting Tula in 2020 / 2021 – the Toltec Capital
Posted by Thomas Dowson | Mexico | 0
About two hours north of Mexico City is the archaeological site of Tula, once the capital city of the Toltec Empire. Four basalt statues of Toltec warriors set on the top of a pyramid are the most striking feature for visitors. And there is so much more to see here, making Tula an enjoyable and highly rated day trip from Mexico City. Easy to achieve yourself, there are also a few options for taking an organised tour.
Visiting Tula Archaeological Zone
Public Transport to Tula
Day Trips to Tula
Day Trip to Tula and Teotihuacan
Day Trip to Tula and Tepotzotlán
Day Trip to Tula and Querétaro
Tips for Visiting Tula
Catedral de San José de Tula
Quetzalcóatl Historical Museum
What Tula lacks in size and grandeur, as at nearby Teotihuacán, it makes up for in charm and atmosphere. Although a relatively small archaeological site, it is situated on a hill overlooking theThe views of the archaeological sites and the surrounding area from the top of one of the pyramids, what was the Temple of Quetzalcóatl, are quite something.
There are other attractions in Tula de Allende, these are detailed below. But perhaps the best tip for visiting Tula is to combine it with another site. Either another pre-Hispanic site such as Teotihuacán, or some of the fascinating colonial towns between Mexico City and Tula de Allende. Tepotzotlán and Querétaro are two very obvious choices, with both towns listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Chronologically, Tula sits between the fall of Teotihuacán and the rise of Tenochtitlan. As Teotihuacán was starting to decline around 650 AD Tula was only just getting going. People had been living here since about 400 BC, but it was not until 650 AD that we see evidence for a small settlement, 5 km², with modest public buildings. This is what archaeologists have called Tula Chico, or Small Tula.
Visitors can see some remains of Tula Chico. Not much, however, as the remains of this earlier settlement are overlain by Tula Grande. This later settlement, remains of which are seen in the monumental public architecture, started to develop around 900 AD in the power vacuum left by the collapse of Teotihuacán.
Remnants of the earlier settlement at Tula, known as ‘Chico Tula’. Photograph © AlejandroLinaresGarcia/Wikipedia
Tula reached its peak around 1000 AD, becoming the capital of the Toltec Empire. The city supported a population of an estimated 60,000 people with a further 25,000 in the surrounding area. Tula was the dominant ceremonial centre for an area of at least 1000 km². It was in fact the biggest centre of its time, the city itself measuring some 14 km², but it never reached the size and scale of Teotihuacán.
The history of the site is not well understood, interest in Tula having been overshadowed by other more important and impressive settlements. Early 16th century missionaries found people living here, in a settlement that had already been heavily looted. From what little we do know it seems that Tula was all but abandoned by the mid 12th century. Archaeological evidence suggests the ceremonial centre was destroyed by fire in 1179 AD.
The central, ceremonial plaza as viewed from the top of Pyramid B. To the left of the plaza is the second pyramid, to the right one of the ballcourts. The building with the red roof and white walls is the orientation centre, and the city of Tula de Allende beyond. Photograph © AlejandroLinaresGarcia/Wikimedia
Today, visitors to the archaeological site get to see what was the ceremonial centre of Tula Grande, a smaller area of remains relating to the earlier settlement known as Tula Chico, a site museum and the Guadalupe Mastache Orientation Centre.
Visitors are free to wander about the site.
Tula Archaeological Zone is in the town of Tula de Allende, in Hidalgo State of Central Mexico. More specifically, the town is about 75km or 45 miles north of Mexico City. You can see the exact location marked on our interactive map of Mexico that shows the country’s archaeology and history sites and museums.
The site is open each day of the year: 09h00 – 17h00
Standard entry fee: 75 Mexican Pesos
Museum, Orientation Centre, Parking
Official Website for the Tula Archaeological Zone
For those who have a rental car, getting to Tula from Mexico City is an easy journey under two hours (of course depending on where you start in the capital): head north on Highway 57 until you reach the exit for Tula de Allende at the 77 km mark. From the highway the archaeological site is well signposted.
Taking public transport from Mexico City to Tula is straight forward. There are two regular bus services to Tula from Mexico Terminal Norte bus station. This major bus terminal is at the Autobuses del Norte metro stop on Metro Line 5, the yellow line on maps.
A direct, non-stop service runs every hour. The journey takes an hour and a half and costs about 150 Mexican pesos per person, one way.
For around 20 Mexican pesos less, you have the option of a bus ride that makes a number of stops and takes about 2 hours. This service is much more frequent, every 15 minutes or so.
Tickets for both services can be booked online at Ovnibus >>
From the bus station in Tula de Allende you can either walk, take a taxi or a bus to the archaeological site. A taxi will cost you about 40 pesos, a bus a lot cheaper – take a bus that goes in the direction of Actopan, Iturbe or Santa Ana. Walking to the site will only take about 25 minutes. Turn right out of the bus station on Avenida 16 de Septiembre, turn right at Avenida 5 de Mayo and walk north to the bridge crossing the Tula River. Cross the bridge, turn right (the site is signposted ‘Zone Arqueologica’) onto Avenida Xochiquetzal and continue uphill to the ticket office (also signposted – Acceso Peatonal, pedestrian access).
The following day trips can be booked online, in advance with Viator:
Two private tours add Teotihuacan. One includes entry tickets and is led by a professional guide more details & book online >>
A cheaper option with a driver not a guide and does not include entry fees to the sites more details & book online >>
Teotihuacan merits a full day. My choice is Tula and the former 16th century College of San Francisco Javier in Tepotzotlán. One of Mexico’s finest Baroque churches, the college now housen. More details & book online >>
Querétaro is one of the most striking colonial cities in Mexico, a UNESCO listed World Heritage site since 1996. The layout andboth Spanish settlers and the local indigenous population. More details & book online >>
DISCLAIMER: For some (not all) of the services.
There really is no need to worry about buying entry tickets in advance. But having enough cash to pay for your entry is advisable.
An earlier visit is advisable to avoid the heat of the midday sun. The site is situated on top of a hill, and there are few trees. Take water, sun block and a hat.
Tula de Allende has its origins in a Spanish monastery, established in the 16th century next to the ancient city. Although the modern day town has relied on the archaeological site for tourism, the area has developed significant industrial activities that make it one of Mexico’s fastest growing cities. Because of the pre-Hispanic and colonial history, visitors often choose to stay a night or two and there are a number of highly rated hotels to suit all budgets. Find a hotel in Tula on Booking.com >>
Most visitors start at the archaeological site of Tula. Once you are finished here, you can visit the ruins of Tula’s first church. At the ticket office you turned left up the hill to the Toltec site. Turning right along a dusty path leads you to ruins of the church. Back in town, the Old Railway Station is used to house a history museum. And in the rock shelters of a nearby hill there is a rock art site you can visit. These sites and museums are marked on the interactive map of Mexico.
Originally a convent set up by Franciscans during the Spanish conquest, making this one of the earliest in Mexico. I in 1961. Architecturally with its austere fortress-like appearance, the church is representative of 16th century monasteries in Mexico.
Across the road from the cathedral and opposite the town’s garden, a building with immense historical significance for locals was turned into a museum in 1998. The museum has both temporary and permanent displays of contemporary art, the archaeology of the Toltecs and local history.
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en | N/A | N/A | HH and the Boys: HH Wins Award....How Fun!
HH Wins Award....How Fun!
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