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Ask any local Taiwanese what their favourite place in Taiwan is, and many will give you the same answer – Hualien.
Hualien is a three hours drive or two and a half hours train ride from Taipei, and is one of those must-visit places if you have a few days to spare – It is so far removed from Taipei’s city life and absolutely scenic and gorgeous.
As I was so privileged to be in Taiwan for a FANCL press event last month, I took the opportunity to extend my time in Taiwan and decided I HAD to see Hualien!
From beautiful cliffs and gorges at Taroko National Park to the maginificent sea view along the East Coast, I spent an unforgettable two days in Hualien together with my guide and driver Ivan who brought me off the beaten path as we traversed “Do Not Enter” signs and climbed down unmarked paths to seek out the most beautiful and isolated spots around Hualien!
It was an unforgettable experience and made all the more memorable with the enthusiasiam and great hospitality of my guide, Ivan!
I only had two days to spend in Hualien – which is the minimum number of days I would recommend for Hualien. Even with two entire days in Hualien, you’d barely touch the tip of the ice berg because Hualien has so much to offer!
Getting A Local Guide/Driver
First of all, I highly recommend visiting Hualien with a local guide. Hualien is huge and you definitely need a mode of transport when travelling in Hualien. Some people choose to just hire a “driver”, who will ferry you around from place to place, but thanks to Elaine’s great recommendation, I decided to go with Ivan, who’ll show you around and bring you places, not just drive you from location to location!
It was probably the best decision that I made for Hualien, I gotta say. Ivan was great fun to be with, and his vicacity and love for Hualien most certainly rubbed off me!
I know that many of you will ask for Ivan’s contact so here it is!
His website is here at: http://www.amazingtaiwantour.com
You can WhatsApp Ivan at the above number to enquire about available dates and rates 🙂 Oh, Ivan also speaks English well so if you’re not proficient in Chinese, it won’t be a problem.
Tell Ivan exactly what kind of experience you’d like, and he’ll customise the best kind of tour/experience for you!! If you’re more of an adventure seeker and willing to go off the beaten path, let Ivan know and he’ll be much more adventurous – The experience is very worth-while!
His rates are very reasonable and the service and experience I got well-merited the amount that I paid. Would I do it again? Yes, all over in a heartbeat!
Accommodation in Hualien
I booked a B&B – 一九九九民俗 (1999 B&B) from Booking.com – This minsu was located in Hualien City and met all my requirements for a great accommodation – clean, nicely furnished and comfortable at an affordable price.
Of course, if you’re looking for a more scenic view, there are B&Bs with sea views or even smack in the middle of lush greenery, those are a little more out of the way but very lovely. I was just looking for something nice and convenient, so I chose to stay in Hualien City.
This BnB is relatively new from what I know and it was a very pleasant place to stay for two nights! The staff were friendly and helpful, and I really enjoyed my stay. It isn’t located too far away from the train station or the local night market, all within walking distance! 🙂
Loved the aestheically-pleasing London-inspired interior decor!
My room was huge and came with a bath tub too 😀 Lovely! Everything was clean and well-maintained, and they even had some complimentary drinks and snacks available. Breakfast was prepared for us at the minsu for the two mornings that we were there as well!
From Taipei to Hualien
One of the trickiest bits about Hualien is actually getting to Hualien from Taipei City.
The most popular mode of transport is via the Taiwan High Speed Rail, which brings you from Taipei City to Hualien in just 2.5 hours! However, the train tickets are SUPER popular and hard to get, and I’ve heard of many people camping for the tickets (they only go on sale two days before your travel date) and not being able to get them.
I was very fortunate to have the help of my guide – The tickets were booked for me and all I had to do was to log in online with the booking number to make payment online with no hassle or fuss! I then redeemed my tickets from a machine at 7-11, it was as simple as that.
If you’ll be hiring a local guide/booking with local tour companies, do check with them to see what they can do to assist you with getting the tickets from Taipei City to Hualien.
If not, you can also consider the following alternatives:
1. Combo ticket – utilising shuttle bus and train (The combo ticket can only be purchased in person at Taipei City Hall Bus Station. You can’t get it online nor can you book it in advance but it is always available and won’t get sold out unlike the HSR direct train ticket)
2. Domestic flight – via domestic carrier UniAir (Flights in between Taipei City and Hualien take about 50 minutes. The website is completely in chinese though which might be a problem for some)
Woke up bright and early to get on the 7.08AM train from Taipei Main Station!
There are reserved seating on the train, so you don’t have to worry about not getting a seat once you have your tickets.
The train journey took around 2.5 hours, and I arrived at Xincheng Train Station before 10am to the loveliest blue skies and beautiful weather!
If you’re wondering why I alighted at Xincheng Train Station instead of Hualien Train Station, it is because Xincheng Train Station is much closer to Taroko Gorge, where my guide would be bringing me on my first day in Hualien!
Ivan picked me up straight away from Xincheng Train Station, and off we began on our Hualien adventure!
Day 1 – Taroko National Park
On the way to Taroko National Park!
Our first adventure begain along the highway – Ivan parked right outside the highway tunnel and we started walking through the tunnel, much to my trepidation and also the bemusement of the many cars that whizzed past us as I followed Ivan’s nimble footsteps along the narrow pavement along the tunnel.
It took us ten minutes of walking before we exited the tunnel along an old forgotten side entrance no longer in use, and the view truly took my breath away!
This path apparently used to be the old highway – It was much narrower and nearer to the edge of the cliffs as compared to the current highway in operation. Check out the natural marble rock cliffs, aren’t they amazing?
Qingshui Cliff (清水断崖) is famous for its blue blue waters that changes every day depending on the weather. Due to the water currents and difference in water temperatures, you can see the sea ranging in several shades of blue in a surreal fashion.
The sea was so crazy blue that it looked almost unreal!
Another stop we made along the drive was to this hidden spot right above a railway track! We actually had to climb past the road barrier and then down through some undergrowth to reach this view where the train tracks ran right along the sea – It was such a picturesque sight!
Also spotted a huge spider in its enormous web above us as we made our way back up to the road! Yikes..
Drove past this interesting painting on a house, and Ivan stopped to briefly explain the rich history of the Taiwanese aboriginals. Tattoos used to be a highly regarded mark of status – Only women who were well-versed in weaving would be allowed to go through the procedure of having their cheeks tattooed, for men, headhunters and hunters were honoured the prestige of forehead and chin tattoos!
|Cheek tattoos to signify the status of a skilled weaver in the Taiwanese aboriginals|
The practice died out after the Japanese occupation around 1920-1935 as the Japanese outlawed it, and there are only a few aboriginals in the whole of Taiwan now with these incredible tattoos!
Finally within the heart of Taroko National Park!
Taroko Gorge might be one of the most majestic places of nature in the whole of Taiwan. It was created by the continual rising of the mountains combined with the erosive power of the Liwu River, Taroko Gorge with its tall, almost flat walls are a true marvel to view.
Besides the gorge, other attractions include aboriginal settlements, temples, museums, and numerous hiking trails for visitors to experience the true beauty of mountainous Hualien County and eastern Taiwan.
Making our way through thick undergrowth and a precarious unmarked path..
To get to this amazing little secluded spot that had the most pristine blue waters!
The water was so delightfully cold and refreshing that I really wanted to hop right in! I could only make do with dipping my feet into the clear water – What a lovely way to beat the heat.
One of the iconic sights in Taroko National Park is the striking crimson Cimu Bridge.
Cimu in Chinese means “motherly devotion”. Legend says that in this area known as Heliu (合流) where the two rivers meet, a child was near to the river edge and swept away by a large current. Every day, the child’s mother would go to the river to wish for her child’s safe and quick return to her.
This rock formation next to Cimu Bridge is famously known as The Frog Prince! Do you see the side profile of a frog with a crown on its head?
The pavilion was constructed to become the crown for the “frog” in memory of President Chiang Ching-kuo’s mother.
We also climbed up a short distance to the 鐘樓 (Bell Tower) above Eternal Springs Shrine where you get a really gorgeous view of Taroko National Park!
We took a break for lunch at a restaurant inside Taroko National Park just as it started to rain. Thank goodness the rain only lasted less than two hours and didn’t spoil our plans that much!
Zhu tung fan (glutinous rice steamed in bamboo) is a local aboriginal specialty and it was surprisingly tasty!
Ivan also ordered this Taiwanese local produce – Stir-fried Bird’s Nest Fern (炒山蘇). It had a strangely crunchy yet smooth texture and was really good!
One of the most memorable parts of exploring Taroko National Park for me was most definitely the visit to Wenshan Hot Spring (文山溫泉).
Wenshan Hot Spring used to be one of the most famous natural attractions in Taroko Gorge ever since the hot springs were discovered in 1914, but a rockslide above Wenshan Hot Spring resulted in one death and seven injuries in the year of 2005.
In summer of the same year, the Hualian region was lashed by four powerful typhoons, resulting in further destruction of Wenshan Hot Spring.
Considering that landslides tend to happen in succession, the national park administration decided to close off the hot springs to the public due to the threat of more landslides.
|What Wenshan Hot Spring looked like before 2005 – Image source|
The entire area is now cordoned off by metal grilles, but I was game for an adventure with Ivan!
It took a 15-20 minutes walk from the highway where we were parked to reach the prohibited area from which a steep flight of stairs led down to Wenshan Hot Spring.
|Stairs leading down to Wenshan Hot Spring before 2005|
This is the same flight of stairs that we climbed – Except that the stairs were almost completely destroyed, from the railings to the steps, leaving behind worn out ledges of rock that we climbed down cautiously, worried that we would miss our footing on the slippery rock.
We finally made it down unscathed to what remained of Wenshan Hot Spring! To our surprise, there were some other visitors as well who had managed to seek out this now forgotten spot and had even brought along their swim wear for a soak in the river side.
The surrounding view of Dasha River Valley was truly spectacular!
Look at those natural marble ravines that have been created by the incredible force of the river over the course of the years.
Isn’t it beautiful?
There are two small riverside pools (partially destroyed) where you could still soak in, but just go around the corner to discover a tiny cave where the hot springs have formed a pool that is piping hot at 48 degrees celsius!
This pool was so hot that I could barely handle soaking my feet into the water! There was a middle-aged Taiwanese uncle soaking his entire body in the pool and I have no idea how he managed to withstand the crazy hot water.
Wenshan Hot Spring was one of my favourite parts of the day at Taroko National Park, and extremely unforgettable!
However, do bear in mind that there is a reason the hot springs are not recommended for visiting as landslides are possible at anytime. Visit at your own risk, and don’t go during or after heavy rains.
One other popular spot we visited was Swallow’s Grotto – 燕子口步道. This trail gives you a great view of the river, canyon and gorge.
After Swallow’s Grotto, it was time to drive to Hualien City and check into my accommodation! Ivan had a little surprise up his sleeve along the way though.. A specialty snack of Hualien – 炸蛋蔥油餅!
Check out the insane crowds of people queuing!!
Address: No. 102, Fuxing Street, Hualien City, Hualien County, Taiwan 970
For this snack that was completely utterly out-of-this-world. 炸蛋蔥油餅 – Literally translated to Egg Bomb Scallion Pancake!
I can’t begin to describe HOW GOOD this was.
Messy, glorious and delicious – This 炸弹葱油饼 is literally DA BOMB!!! It was so good that I requested Ivan to drive us down again on Day 2 so that I could have it again haha!
I have no idea what secret ingredients they put in this thing but it was soooo delicious especially eaten piping hot! The thin crisp fried pancake is made from glutinous rice flour which gives it a nice chewy texture, while sandwiched in it is a sinfully deep-fried egg made perfect with runny yolk in the middle…. The entire thing is then liberally dusted with some magical powder seasoning that makes it addictively tasty! OMG. You must try this when you come to Hualien!
I didn’t actually get to explore Hualien City that much – I did visit the night market (花蓮東大門觀光夜市) but it isn’t very impressive, especially if you’ve already been to a few night markets in Taipei itself. My favourite night market is still Ning Xia Night Market!
This blog entry is getting lengthy so I’ll talk about Hualien Day 2 in the next post – We went jade picking and drove along the crazy beautiful East Coast! Read more here! 🙂
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2 DAYS IN HUALIEN: THE INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL EAST COAST OF TAIWAN (DAY 2)
TAIPEI JAN’15: 十分放天灯! RELEASING SKY LANTERNS AT SHIFEN
TAIPEI JAN’15: 寧夏夜市! FOOD TRAIL AT NINGXIA NIGHT MARKET
TAIPEI JAN’15: STAYING AT W TAIPEI
TAIPEI JAN’15: JIN FENG, BEST BRAISED PORK RICE IN TAIWAN! 金峰, 台北最好吃的卤肉饭!
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Few transitions are seamless, and we encountered some technical challenges sending out the first issue of the new Zenspirations® “Live Zenspired” Newsletter. Please accept my apologies if you didn’t get a copy– or if you received more than one. I’m hoping that the second issue, and this accompanying blog, will reach everyone in a timely manner. If you are a regular blog subscriber (which means you’ve been getting an email with a link to the blog every Tuesday morning), I’d appreciate your letting me know if you don’t get this week’s email on Tuesday morning. I made the piece below for to thank regular blog reader Patricia Bruneau, who was the first person to let me know that she hadn’t received hers last week– which is when I realized we had a deliverability problem. Patricia kindly let me know when she received her newsletter, which gave me hope that everyone would soon get their copy.
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WORD OF THE YEAR
2019 is almost here, which means its time to start thinking about our individual and Zenspirations communal words for the new year. This is a group project we started doing in 2016. Everyone in the Zenspirations community is welcome to share the word(s) they are considering for the year ahead, and then we vote on a guiding word (or series of words) for the group. We also encourage one another to think through what word really calls to our souls.
One year (not sure which!) I lettered all the words which were suggested by members of the Zenspirations Create, Color, Pattern, Play FB Group in one of my morning journals:
In 2016 I narrowed my personal Word of the Year options down to words which began with the letter “C”: caring, community, cultivate, clarity, connectivity and compassion. I ultimately chose CLARITY as my word for 2016.
The words suggested by the Zenspirations community for 2017 which made it to the ‘finals’ really resonated with me: aspire, grow, reach, renew, transform, believe, heal, pray, sanctify, sparkle, connect, give, love, share, create, discover, imagine and hope– The image below was my way of sharing that HOPE got the most votes.
Last year I included as many Word of the Year possibilities as I could into my Prayer for the New Year:
This has been a challenging year for many of us, myself included, and some of the words I’m considering for next year come from the depths of my desire to promote hope and healing, and to personally grow in AWARENESS, ACCEPTANCE & APPRECIATION. When I start my Word of the Year selection process, I usually do it alphabetically by writing down all the positive, uplifting words that I can think of which begin with the same letter. Here’s an example:
Some of the words on my ‘short list’ for 2019 are understanding, delight, discipline, love, persistence, pleasure, practice, stillness, sanctification, and trust. What’s on your list? Leave a comment with the word(s) you are considering for 2019– I will pick three people randomly, and letter their 2019 Word of the Year in their favorite style!
I know a lot of people really like my Dangle Monograms, and if you are a Newsletter subscriber you won’t want to miss the December special– 25% off the Dangle Monogram Alphabet in the ZenspirationsDesigns Etsy Shop! You’ll find the discount code in the second issue of the Newsletter.
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One of the most exciting parts of the new newsletter format is that I get to shine a spotlight on some of the many talented ‘Color & Creativity Enthusiasts’ in our group. Our first Creativity Spotlight features Elizabeth Motyka and her awesome hand-crafted cards.
This is one of Elizabeth’s many beautiful creations.
Elizabeth put together a step-by-step tutorial for making a beautiful stamped and die-cut Christmas ornament. You’ll find the tutorial, and more info on Elizabeth in this week’s Live Zenspired Newsletter.
Before closing tonight I want to share a ‘sneak peek’ at the Christmas Collaboration Mojis which should be available in the App store any day now. Thank you to the following Color & Creativity Enthusiasts for submitting designs for this collaboration: Aliyah Zeitler, Debbie Anderson, Elizabeth Motyka, Ha Nah, Jill Abernathy, Jill Hatcher, Kyle Yanezawa, Leitha Hunt, Terri Burket Brown, Toni Popkin, Wanda Smith Radler and Wendy Leech. I will let you know as soon as they launch.
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I’ve recently posted about the iOS 4.2 change of the Orientation Lock hardware button on the iPad into a (redundant and half-assed) mute switch, and how many users are not happy at all with the change.
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Hip-Hop’s Run The Jewels, comprised of Killer Mike and El-P, are making entrepreneurial moves as a duo with their new craft beer.
The group is currently collaborating with over 20 breweries from all over the world to create their quality beer. Their first ale “Stay Gold” started their track record off at a solid ranking as it was voted 2017’s “IPA of the Year” by Draft Magazine.
According to Pitchfork, each beer — “Never Look Back,” “All Due Respect” and “Blockbuster Night Pt.1” — are named after Run The Jewels’ songs.
Plus, partial proceeds from “Never Look Back” will go to Beer Kulture — a nonprofit working to increase diversity, equity and inclusion in the craft beer industry. In addition, partial proceeds from “All Due Respect” will go toward Blacktoberfest, where Black-owned establishments gather for the event. It’s also the location for the beer’s release. Half of the revenue from “Blockbuster Night Pt.1” is set for local Pittsburgh charities.
“Blockbuster Night Pt.1” will be released at the Barrel and Flow Fest — the nation’s first Black beer festival — on Sept. 10, and Tavour.com as part of DigiFlow, the virtual coverage of the festival.
According to Pitchfork, Run The Jewels has a cold brew coffee, in collaboration with Chicago’s Dark Matter, in the works that will also be added to their beverages as well.
To learn more about Run The Jewels’ craft beer, check out their website here.
This Black-owned breweries collaboration isn’t anything new for Killer Mike who has been actively pursuing ventures that champion Black-owned businesses as a whole. As AfroTech previously reported, last year the rapper was one of the power players behind the launch of Greenwood — a Black-owned digital bank — which aims to help Black entrepreneurs and Black-owned small businesses. | <urn:uuid:05797e12-8805-4e35-a2f1-cd7c23fa07d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://afrotech.com/killer-mike-run-the-jewels-black-owned-breweries-craft-beer | 2022-01-20T13:26:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301863.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120130236-20220120160236-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.954196 | 435 |
Italic is a new e-commerce venture that works directly with the same manufacturers as the world's best luxury label without torching you with markups and tacky logos. And their latest release is about to make your fall and winter a whole lot cozier: cashmere sweatpants.
Crafted from 100% Mongolian cashmere and made from the same manufacturer that produces cashmere goods for Sandro and Maje, the jogger-style bottoms feature a modern, flattering fit with a sleek silhouette courtesy the tapered ribbed ankle cuffs. The drawstring waistband delivers plenty of comfort and the three convenient pockets give you room for your gear when on the go.
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11 Excuses For Not Training & Solutions
4. You feel intimidated around other "fit" bodies in the gym.Solution: You have three choices:
5. You can't afford a gym membership.Solution: Shop around and find a gym that has monthly trial rates instead of an annual membership. Some gyms may even have special promotions at certain times of the year, during which they offer the first month free or perhaps a two- or three-month trial membership to new members. This way, you're not putting up all your money for a one-year membership, and you have the option of canceling if you are unhappy with the staff, equipment or conditions (overcrowding, waiting for machines, etc.).
Another cost-saver might be to invest in a home gym that has a finance plan — paying monthly installments with zero interest as advertised on many infomercials. The home gym is a one-time expense with no annual membership renewal fees attached as in health clubs. Owning a home gym is like owning a house. Joining a gym and paying annual or monthly membership fees is akin to renting an apartment. Decide which works best for you financially.
However, if you do choose to join a gym, scout around and don't be immediately attracted to state-of-the-art machines and trendy equipment in a fancy gym; it is probably much more expensive than the old gym or Y around the corner that only has simple free weights and basic equipment. Your muscles will grow whether you're using the latest resistance machine or ordinary dumbbells and barbells.
6. You feel out of place in a gym.Solution: Whether you're unfamiliar with the equipment or have no set routine, when you join a gym, you should have a personal trainer or floor trainer devise an initial customized workout suiting your particular goals. Have the staff show you exercise techniques, how each machine operates and which muscle groups are exercised on each machine. Many gyms offer some free personal training sessions so the new member is familiar with the equipment and comfortable with a routine.
7. The gym is too far away.Solution: Find a closer one or, again, invest in a home gym so you can train at your leisure any time. Even better, perhaps your office has a corporate gym so you can train before or after work, or during your lunch hour.
8. Your friends and family don't give you positive reinforcement.Solution: If they discourage you from training and joining a gym with such statements like "It'll never work" or "Don't waste your time," then they're probably jealous or uncomfortable with their present fitness level. Or maybe they're legitimately worried that you'll become obsessed with training and shut them out of your life. Either way, be sensible with training and make time for family and friends; your new physique might inspire them to start working out!
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Wedding Catering company
20 years catering to venues in Kent
Hi Diane and Mark Now all the chaos of the weekend has settled, we just wanted to say thank you again so much for Saturday. The day wasEmily 19th May 2018
Morning Diane and Mark, We just wanted to say a massive thank you to you both and your team for everything you did for us on Friday! ISam & Ryan 15th June 2018
Hello Diane, Just a quick thank you for you and your team providing the catering for Matthew and Rosie's wedding. The quality of the food was excellent, thanks to theGeoff Quine 1st June 2018
Wedding Catering Kent
recommended by Kent's top venues
Over 20 years ago, a man with culinary flair and a passion for food created Azra Catering, a catering company focused in wedding catering Kent. Mark Pierson is a first class chef with the drive to reach the top of Kent wedding catering companies. He has instilled this skill and professionalism into his team of chefs and catering staff, each of whom have over 10 years service with Azra.
The company specialises in wedding catering, corporate and private catering services. Mark's delicious dishes and planning expertise make each event unique. He also sources produce from local suppliers as much as possible as he values the real Kentish influence this brings to his cuisine.
Mark has excellent relationships with some of Kent's top wedding venues, including The Orangery Maidstone and the Commissioner's House at The Historic Dockyard Chatham contract catering for corporate, private and wedding catering at The Kent Event Centre at Detling Showground.
Choose Azra wedding catering to experience exquisite food in majestic surroundings. We promise you an unforgettable day whatever the occasion.
Only the very best will do on your wedding day
Azra Catering's wedding service is second to none. We prepare the most wonderful food you can imagine in the venue of your dreams.
Our chefs use only the best ingredients to craft their creative delights with you in mind. Azra number one priority is you on your special day. We offer a tasting service for you to try our dishes.
Mark and his team seamlessly manage venue, service and food and have nurtured strong relationships with the best wedding venues in Kent. We have two decades in the business working with Kent wedding venues and they trust us to create high quality, delicious menus. When it comes to event locations, prepare to be impressed.
Whatever wedding catering Kent day you desire we conjure up the perfect plan to meet your needs. If you decide to go for an outdoor do we can provide marquees - on a fine summer's evening nothing's better.
Corporate Catering Kent
Corporate events can go on all day. Keeping everyone fed and watered at a venue keeps them alert – and productive.
Azra Catering's chefs create unique cuisine from quality ingredients that set the tone for team building or sharpen minds for difficult negotiations.
Our team guarantees you that you will eat the best food in the finest locations for your corporate catering Kent event. Each venue has luxurious kitchen and dining facilities which our chefs and service staff utilise to make your people productive.
We plan and organise boardroom dinners, CEO lunches, Christmas parties or any other office catering event. Azra Catering is the number one corporate catering company in Kent.
Private catering Kent
Azra Catering company not only designs menus and creates delicious food for wedding catering kent. We plan and organise a private catering events from start to finish.
Mark's team design bespoke menus for sports dinners, birthdays, anniversaries and even funerals. Our team have the knowledge, experience and professionalism to make sure each occasion is special.
The company has excellent partnerships with the most prestigious catering, be sure to visit our venues in Kent section for more information.
If you prefer the party or function at your home or office, we can come to you.
Wedding catering Kent
Azra Catering Kent serves its fine food at some of the most beautiful venues in Kent including The Orangery Maidstone, Commissioners House at Chatham Dockyard, Kent Event Centre at Detling Hill and Wadhurst Castle in the Sussex countryside. They have breath taking buildings and fantastic settings for any wedding catering or corporate event.
We provide the bar and catering services at Poult Wood Golf Club where you can hold your wedding catering reception, corporate catering or any other special event. There is a traditional Sunday roast for club members and visitors.
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Second guessing at every turn.
I guess it’s that time of year.
I guess it’s that time of life.
I guess it’s just me, doing that thing I do.
Doo doo doo wop de doo.
I think I have this vision of my life now, what I would like to be. Maybe.
Exactly half of the time I want it to be an authentic life, that’s not about writing. I want it to be about going to the beach, and noticing things, and enjoying art, and social activism.
The other half the time I want to be writing.
But which of those halves brings in the money to support the other half? Which of them is a half-time job?
I now have two internships for the summer, at TV shows. This semester I’ve had one class with a TV emphasis, and in the course of that time, I’ve gotten high on the idea of TV–thinking, “yeah, that could be the thing for me.” And then tumbling off that high. “I can’t do this, and I don’t really want to.”
So what to do? Take the internships because they could be different from what I think and the world is full of endless surprises? Go with my gut, that production work is seldom full of surprises. Use the money I have left to stay home and write write write while I still can? Get a job, so I can have that warm secure feeling of having money and the social status of being employed?
I can barely order off a menu at restaurant, I can’t imagine the taste of food in my mouth until it’s there. And even then, I can’t predict how it will make me feel afterwards. How can I pick a direction for my life?
Even as I write this however, it helps make things more clear.
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You’re going to be a published author.
Lots of people have supported you to that moment. You’ve talked with other writers, commiserated over copious amounts of coffee and far too many slices of cake. Your friends told you that you could do it. Your mom said you’ll be the next big thing.
The process moves forward. You regale others with the steps, conversations, and you let loose with the jargon because you know the words now and you’re going to bandy them about like you’re a cowboy at the author rodeo.
And then the next big day arrives: the book is in your hand. With your name on it, even. That long ago ex who once told you that you’d never be more than a mediocre writer? She can suck it. You’ve got a real book in hand. Your own.
But then this weird thing starts to happen, and because you’re not prepared for it, you don’t see it right away. Slowly, though, that strange understanding seeps in… for all the support, for all the you-can-do-its and well-dones… few of your family, and even fewer of your friends, actually read it.
But…but… this wasn’t supposed to be the way of it. Everyone who has ever known you would read it, right? Especially your bestie and your brother. Right?
Turns out, not so. But you can’t badger. You can’t even bring it up more than once without sounding needy (and like you’re badgering). You know they haven’t read it. Worse, you’re pretty sure one or two folks might have, and they’ve simply refrained from saying anything.
When you’re the thin-skinned type, this grand little bit of reality is a lot like getting on water skis for the first time. Behind a speedboat with a jet engine. It’s not pretty, and when your bathing suit comes off, you’re both exposed and out of control, but hanging on anyway with both sets of cheeks flapping in the wind.
Eventually, you lay back and accept you’re out on open water, mostly with people you’ve never met. Some of them are reading that thing you sweated over. Some of them are naked, too. (And you haven’t had time to read their books…) For the moment, that’s enough. Maybe it’s better if the people closest to you don’t read it. That way, you can stay friends (or family). And they’ll never know they’ve appeared on stage in your next book… | <urn:uuid:5a6e4430-da45-4757-ad2e-3f21870a469b> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://breywillows.com/2017/11/15/water-skiing-naked/ | 2022-01-20T14:35:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301863.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120130236-20220120160236-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.952848 | 589 |
I should preface this short essay by saying that I wrote it two years ago and have just stumbled across it again whilst browsing through my drafted posts. It is all as true now as it was then, so I’ve decided to share it with you all:
Being a mum is my first and most important job; but my career is teaching in a primary school, which I now do part-time. Teaching and baking were my twin passions before little man came into my life and took priority over everything (mums, you know what it’s like!). In an effort to share the love I have of baking (and cooking too), this year I have volunteered to run our school’s first cookery club!
It’s mad really that we didn’t have one already up and running. We have a great dedicated cookery room with lots of space and facilities for a whole class full of children (up to 30) to get involved in producing some delicious grub. Up until now it has been used for small groups and occasionally whole class cookery. As teacher’s, we try to incorporate cookery and baking into our curriculum planning as much as we can, as it engages the children, deepens their learning through allowing them to be active and hands-on, and adds a cultural dimension to whichever subject it is a part of. For example, I made Harvest Loaves with my class as part of our study of Christianity in R.E. (Religious Education); and recently we did lots of cooking as part of our school’s ‘Spanish Day’. However, my vision is that this club will allow cooking and baking to become the main focus of the children’s learning, giving them the opportunity to master a comprehensive range of skills, as well as expanding their repertoire of recipes.
This enterprise got me thinking about why cooking and baking is so good for children? I have compiled a list below of the main reasons I think all children can benefit from learning in the kitchen. I have divided it into 6 overarching headings to show the broad-reaching positive effects of involving children in cookery:
- Personal: Learning any skill and being able to apply it will give a person a sense of satisfaction, pride and self-worth. The many skills and techniques we master whilst cooking and baking are no different. Producing something nutritious that they have thought about and crafted will increase a children’s self-esteem and confidence and give them something to be proud of. As well as benefiting them on an emotional level, cookery is an important life skill. Learning how to produce a healthy, balanced meal, which tastes good is a skill a child can use throughout their life to sustain him/herself and later his family and friends.
- Social and Emotional: One of the first things I had to consider as a teacher responsible for children in the kitchen, and indeed as a mother cooking with my own child, was safety and hygiene. More often than not, it is paramount that children are under close supervision in the kitchen. What better excuse to spend quality time with your child than in producing healthy, delicious food together? As well as being a fantastic learning experience, the fact that cooking and baking are often shared activities between mother (or father, grandma, and so on…) and child, teacher and pupil, or amongst peers means that it has huge potential for helping to build bonds between people both socially, as will be the case among the children in my cookery club, and also emotionally, as is the case when I show my son how important he is to me by setting aside regular times when we can bake and have fun together.
- Fun and Enjoyment: Which leads me onto to another, more obvious reason why cookery is great for children – it’s fun! Children love to get messy, be put in charge of things, have a go themselves, learn new skills, watch things change (like cakes rising in the oven), and be involved in a process from beginning to end – cooking offers all of this, and more!
- Sharing and Community: You will have heard the adage – ‘cooking brings people together’ many a time; but for children this is an important aspect of making food. Many children see their parents cooking everyday, producing meals which are so central to family life; sustaining, nourishing, and gathering everyone around the table. To feel as if they are a part of this process is to give a child an important role within the family and this adds to the self-esteem boosting quality of cookery for children. At school, we often ask the children if they would like to share what they have made with children in other classes; their response is almost always ‘yes please!’ Sharing the fruits of their labour and receiving positive feedback is another way in which cooking and baking can raise children’s confidence.
- Cultural links: As I mentioned in my introduction, cooking at school can be linked closely to our studies of other countries, cultures and traditions (e.g. Spanish Day, Harvest Festival, etc.) I will never forget my wonderful Granny Bunzl inviting me round to show me how to make ‘vanilla kipferl’ from her closely guarded, family recipe. Every year at Christmas time, each branch of the family receives an old biscuit tin filled to bursting with these light, buttery, vanilla crescents; caked in a good few millimetres of icing sugar! We all love them and they have come to remind us all of Christmas itself. For a child, being entrusted with and taught recipes which have been handed down through generations; recipes which mean something to them and to their families; gives them a sense of belonging, of long-standing tradition and hints at the important concept of how cooking and baking evolves and continues but remains a fundamental part of our lives. These aspects of cooking are not only brought out through the handing down of family recipes but also through the sharing and teaching of religious and cultural traditions. I read an article recently in Delicious. magazine (September 2013 issue), about the importance of making Challah bread to one Jewish family, and how this weekly tradition had inspired their son to take up a career in baking. This shows how these types of cultural experiences resonate deeply within families and can help shape people’s lives.
- Physical development: Finally, the physical act of cooking; of stirring, chopping, beating, whisking, kneading, rolling, pressing, folding, pulling, pounding, grinding (…the list is endless!) is no small feat of learning in itself. The physical benefits of cooking and baking for a child, especially for young children (from pre-2 to 6), are often overlooked or forgotten; but all of these actions promote and require the development of both fine and gross motor skills. The more practice children get at these activities, the better they will become and these new skills will help them master other activities too. For example, the dexterity involved in rolling and shaping individual biscuits may lead to increased dexterity in other activities such as holding a pencil for writing or putting together small building bricks.
The above by no means represents an exhaustive list of all the benefits of cooking with children. However, I believe it does show a wide range of ways in which children’s lives can be enriched by cooking and baking. Surely this in itself is the most important reason why we should make time to cook with our children? | <urn:uuid:ddf1826e-e621-492c-9e71-c0c75800b339> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://bunzmakes.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/on-the-importance-of-cooking-and-baking-with-children-2/ | 2022-01-20T14:23:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301863.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120130236-20220120160236-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.97593 | 1,533 |
Here are the first leaked images of the upcoming Panasonic Lumix S 24mm f/1.8 Lens, which will be officially announced very soon.
Panasonic Lumix S 24mm f/1.8 Lens Specifications
- 12 elements in 11 groups (3 aspherical lenses, 1 UED lens, 3 ED lenses)
- Minimum shooting distance: 0.24m
- Maximum shooting magnification 0.15x
- Filter diameter. 67mm
- Dimensions: 73.6×82.0mm
- Weight is 310g
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Eric Cook is the CEO of the Research and Productivity Council (RPC) located in New Brunswick, Canada. They’ve been on the cutting edge of cannabis research since the very beginning, and they’ve learned from the young industry’s ups and downs. Listen as Eric talks about some of the exciting projects they’re working on with licensed cannabis producers, and where he sees the cannabis sector going next.
My Conversation with Eric Cook, CEO of the Research and Productivity Council
When I talked to Eric, I was reminded of what Thomas Edison once said, “Most people miss opportunity because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” That quote came to mind because RPC, years before legalization, was already researching some aspects of the plant. They developed methods to test cannabis for Cannabinoids (THC, THCA, CBD, CBDA, CBG, CBGA, CBC, CBN), Aflatoxins, pesticides, etc. (full list here).
At the time, the revenues from that market were marginal compared to developing and validating methods, but they pursued it anyway because they recognized the long-term opportunity. Today, years later, that investment has paid off. RPC now serves a large portion of the cannabis analytical and testing market in Canada. In other words, they saw past the overalls. Now that the market has opened up, the fight to remain competitive is on.
Good opportunities often take time to develop. The road is bumpy and sometimes seems to end before smoothing out again. RPC has not been immune to the challenges of the changing policies and regulations leading up to legalization but has found a niche in a growing sector.
I asked Eric to elaborate on some of the costs the challenges posed, and my running point, which I hope is clear to all, is that there are challenges across every level of the sector supply chain. How we collectively deal with them is essential.
As my last podcast guest, Rod Wilson, spelled out in his now published white paper (link here), the solution to the challenges may very well most effectively be solved collectively.
Make sure to follow us on social and if you have any questions, please fill out the form on our Homepage or reach out to me directly at [email protected] | <urn:uuid:1cd02688-d9a9-4bcf-8da8-58d91972c6ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://cannabis-coordinator.com/2020/11/11/stories-from-the-cutting-edge-of-cannabis-research-eric-cook-of-rpc/ | 2022-01-20T14:11:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301863.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120130236-20220120160236-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.972092 | 477 |
Luminous, award-winning actor Ann Dowd joins us once again to share Kyo Maclear’s Story Boat, an imaginative and lyrical picture book about the migrant experience through a child’s eyes with illustrations by Sendak Fellowship recipient Rashin Kheiriyeh.
By Kyo Maclear
Illustrated by Rashin Kheiriyeh
Published by Tundra Books
When a little girl and her younger brother are forced along with their family to flee the home they’ve always known, they must learn to make a new home for themselves — wherever they are. And sometimes the smallest things — a cup, a blanket, a lamp, a flower, a story — can become a port of hope in a terrible storm. As the refugees travel onward toward an uncertain future, they are buoyed up by their hopes, dreams and the stories they tell — a story that will carry them perpetually forward.
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Herbs, flowers, and mushrooms come to mind when most people think about herbal medicine. However, the medicine trees that surround us may also provide us with potent herbal medication!
Knowing how to employ the therapeutic properties of the trees that grow around you all year is an important health and survival skill.
We usually investigate the therapeutic characteristics of the trees surrounding me before heading to the drugstore. Many of these can be used to treat common diseases. Here’s how to do it:
- 22 Medicine Trees You Need To Know
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22 Medicine Trees You Need To Know
Many trees native to North America and portions of Europe have therapeutic properties.
Most medicinal trees may provide roots, twigs, and bark for the treatment of a variety of common diseases during the fall and winter months.
Never remove the bark of a live tree’s trunk to protect the tree’s survival. Ring barking or girdling the medicinal tree is also not recommended.
Completely removing a layer of bark from all across the girth of a trunk or limb can degrade wood cells and lead to death.
Let’s look at how to utilize trees for medicine in greater detail, but first, let’s look at 22 of the most common medicinal trees:
Wounds can be cleaned with alder tea. It’s astringent, so it’ll help draw a wound’s edge together.
Tonsillitis and fever can be treated with tea brewed from the leaves and bark.
Poultices made from the leaves are used to dry up breast milk.
To ease itching, apply fresh alder sap to any location.
Fever is treated using the bark of apple tree roots. Vitamins like Vitamin C, B, B2, potassium, iron, and magnesium, are all abundant in apples.
They cure diarrhea when peeled. Apples, peeled and stewed, are a laxative.
Regularly eating apples improves comfortable sleep.
Sore throats and fevers can be treated with a heated poultice made from baked apples.
In this day of medications, which damage the gut flora, apple cider is essential.
After a round of antibiotics, raw, unpasteurized apple cider will help to return the proper bacteria to the intestines.
Apple aid in cleansing the liver and lowering stomach acidity.
To cleanse the skin, mix apple cider with garlic and horseradish. Externally, use the combination as a wash, and internally, drink it.
Ash is a large evergreen tree with 5 to 9 or 7 to 11 leaflets on its compound leaves.
It has fluttered, canoe-paddle-shaped pods that dangle in a bunch until they change color and break off in the autumn, and its bark is furrowed very firmly and frequently.
A laxative tea produced from the delicate new spring development of the twig tips and leaves can help with gout, rheumatism, and jaundice.
The bark of beech trees has a unique, smooth grey that resembles elephant skin.
Lung ailments, such as TB, are treated using a tea made from the bark.
It is, however, blood purifying, yet pregnant women must avoid it.
Poison ivy can be treated with beech bark tea.
Poultices made from beech leaves are used to treat burns and frostbite.
Birch trees own a delicate, crinkly bark that peels readily — so easily that birds use it to build nests.
Chalky-white, yellowish-brown, golden-grey, and yellow are some of the hues available.
Sweet-birch and yellow-birch trees have a lovely flavor which makes it one of the outstanding medicine trees for making its medicine.
Mouth ulcers, renal and bladder sedimentation, and gout can all be helped with birch leaf or twig tea.
For eczema, psoriasis, and other wet skin rashes, make a potent stew of the twigs, barks, and leaves and add it to the bath.
The anti-tumor benefits of betulinic acid, which is found in birch sap, have lately been verified by modern medicine.
The northern white cedar is a conical-shaped evergreen with flat scale-like leaves and a branching stem. It has a reddish-brown bark that is shredded into hairs.
The leaves and twigs are used to make a tea that is high in Vitamin C.
It is regarded as a holy tree by the Algonquin, and they will not execute a ritual without it.
Its branches are used as sweat-lodge flooring, and it is dried and smoked as incense to balance feelings and ready one for prayer.
Tea prepared from stems and leaves is boiled in a pot until the water becomes brownish.
Then it’s used to treat fevers.
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In the spring, they feature clusters of white blooms, and in the fall, they yield black or deep purple berries.
They prefer wet, moist environments.
Preserves, pies, and wine are all made from elderberries.
The berries are beneficial to the lungs and replenish the blood when consumed as tea, either fresh or dried.
Elderberry Nectar has indeed been demonstrated to assist in the prevention and shortening of cough and cold illnesses.
For step-by-step directions on how to produce your elderberry syrup, see my post.
As disputed by the story and mythology of elder trees, which alludes to their relevance in human society, elder trees played an essential part in traditional medicine.
Root bark tea helps to reduce congestion, relieve headaches, and is used in mastitis poultices.
For generations, the slippery elm (Ulmus fulva) has been utilized as an herbal treatment in North America.
Native Americans utilized slippery elm to reduce inflammation, blisters, ulcers, burns, and skin irritation with therapeutic salves.
Illness like Coughs, diarrhea, sore throats, diarrhea, as well as any other stomach issues was also cured by taking it orally.
Slippery Elm Tree
The slippery elm is a moderate tree with grey bark that grows beside streams.
Its top does not droop like the American elm.
It has bigger leaves with coarsely serrated edges than the American elm.
The slippery elm’s inner bark, which is sticky and aromatic when young, is used as a medicine.
Herbalists sell slippery elm bark in both dry and powdered forms.
It’s formed into a paste with water and used as a poultice on flesh-and-bone injuries, gunshot wounds, ulcers, tumors, swellings, chilblains, and the belly to bring out a fever.
The bark of the slippery elm tree is high in calcium, and it may be consumed as a pudding or tea to aid bone mending.
When the powdered bark is mixed with water, it forms a jelly that relieves bowel and bladder issues, as well as sore throats and diarrhea.
Hawthorn is a little tree with thorns and tasty red fruits that is small, wide, spherical, and thick.
The berries in the fall and the young leaves and blooms in the spring generate a cardiac tonic that is beneficial to almost all heart problems.
However, be mindful that extended usage might cause blood pressure to decline.
To avoid a sharp drop in blood pressure, use it for a few weeks and then take a week off.
To avoid a dramatic reduction in blood pressure, use caution when mixing this herb with other cardiac drugs.
While on a hawthorn diet, eat fresh raw garlic for optimum benefit.
Mountain-Holly is a tiny tree with enormous orange berries and oval, finely saw-toothed leaves.
Herbalists in the area used the buds in extracts and as an exterior wash to treat ulcers, herpes outbreaks, jaundice, temperature, and diarrhea.
The leaves might be used to create tea on their own.
The English holly, often known as European holly, is a popular Christmas ornament.
It features elliptical, spiky leaves and bright red berries.
Coughs, colds, and flu can be treated using infusions made from the leaves.
Be warned that all holly cultivars have significant purgative properties.
Linden And Basswood Tree
Linden is a huge tree that grows among other hardwoods in wet, rich soils.
It has serrated borders on heart-shaped leaves.
The fruit is nut-like, downy, and pea-sized, while the bark is dark grey.
It blooms in the spring with clusters of yellowish-white scented flowers.
Basswood, often known as American linden, is a close cousin.
Linden flower tea is used in Europe to cure anxious migraines, gastrointestinal disturbances, hysterics, nervous sickness, and irregular heartbeat.
To relax the nerves, linden flower tea can be added to baths.
Linden blossom honey is highly appreciated for its therapeutic properties.
Native-American traditional healers employed the root and branches of basswood to cure burns, while the flower tea was used to treat seizures, migraines, spasms, muscle spasms, coughing, and overall discomfort.
Famine food was made from the buds, and the bark was crushed and used in soups.
Maple trees have big leaves that are strongly lobed and serrated.
The peel of younger trees is grey and smooth, whereas the bark of older trees has ridges and cracks.
Maple seeds have two winged wings and dangle in a cluster.
The inner bark of red maple was decorated by the Ojibwa and Cherokee to be used as a wash for sore eyes.
Sore breasts were poultice with striped maple leaves.
Diarrhea was treated with a sugar maple inner bark ornamentation.
Striped maple bark was used in poultices for swollen limbs and as a drink for kidney problems, coughing, common cold, and bronchitis by Native Americans.
Young maple leaves can be used to make a pleasant massage lotion for tired muscles.
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Oaks are big trees with lobed leaflets and nuts with bowl-shaped heads at the apex.
White oak is the best oak for interior usage, while all oaks are good as exterior washes.
Oak bark and leaves contain tannins, which assist to bring the margins of a wound together and are antibacterial and antiviral.
Persistent diarrhea, chronic mucous discharges, and piles are treated with white oak bark tea.
It’s a good gargle for sore throats and a good wash for skin issues including poison ivy, burns, and sores.
Women can use the tea made from the bark’s leaves as a douche to treat virginities.
Use caution while consuming oak for an extended period.
Pines are all evergreens with soft, flexible needles that grow in bunches.
Pine trees are known for their therapeutic properties throughout the world.
Pine, as well as other evergreens like spruce, larch, and cedar, have antibacterial characteristics that may be used as a wound wash.
The white pine is the most pleasant pine for indoor usage.
Its needles and twigs are boiled to make a vitamin C-rich tea.
Sore throat, coughing, and colds are treated with this tea.
Because of the rich resins present in the knot of the wood, Chinese herbalists boil it.
Pine showers can help with renal problems, increase circulation, and calm aching muscles.
Pine has a calming effect on the nerves and lungs.
Pine tea is a fantastic foot soak.
The drooping catkins and spherical leaves with pointy points characterize poplars.
Native American herbalists utilized balsam poplar to treat toothaches and swellings by scoring the bark and applying the resinous gum.
The sticky spring blooms were picked in May and used in salves to treat skin disorders, sprains, aching muscles, wounds, headaches, tumors, eczema, bruises, gout, and coughs.
Internally, the buds were decocted and utilized for phlegm, kidney and bladder problems, coughs, scurvy, and rheumatic aches.
To control early bleeding in pregnancy, the root was mixed with the root of white poplar in a decoction.
White poplar juice was warmed and poured into painful ears.
Silicon-rich poplar barks can be used to treat severe wounds, gangrene, eczema, cancer, burns, and strong body odor.
Rowan, Or Mountain Ash Tree
Mountain ash from the United States and European mountain ash have the same applications.
The former bears orange berries that resemble miniature apples, while the latter has red berries.
Both trees are tiny and strong, with complex leaves that have nine to seventeen leaflets.
In the spring, they produce clusters of white blooms with five petals each.
The berries of the rowan tree are bitter, astringent, and rich in Vitamin C.
When their color has intensified after the first frost, they should be plucked.
The berries’ fresh juice is used in sore throat gargles, while the berries’ jelly is used to cure diarrhea in both adults and children.
Ales and cordials include rowan berries.
Rowan berries, apples, and honey were used to make cough and cold syrup in ancient Scotland.
Walnut trees have complex, alternate leaflets and are tall.
When sliced open with a knife, their spring blooms are drooping green catkins that grow into enormous, spherical nuts coated in green, spongy husks that stain the hands brown.
The husks of walnuts have therapeutic properties. They have antifungal properties and are high in manganese, a skin-healing mineral.
When they’re still fresh, gather them and massage them straight on the ringworm.
The hull tea can be used as a douche to treat virginities.
Apply the dried, powdered leaf to obstinate old sores, then poultice with new green leaves.
Do this every day for roughly twenty days.
Circulation, digestion, and vitality are all improved by drinking leaf tea.
Fresh bark can be applied to the temples for headache relief or to the teeth for pain relief.
To decrease swelling and accelerate healing, apply dried and powdered bark or pounded fresh bark to wounds.
Willows are water-loving, productive trees. Willows blossom with golden catkins in early spring, which develop into little seed capsules in late summer.
Salicylic acid, a biological version of aspirin, is found in all willow barks.
Collect the bark off branches with a diameter of 1-3 inches in the spring, just as the leaf buds begin to develop.
Muscle discomfort and irritation, diarrhea, fever, arthritic pain, and headache are all treated with willow bark tea.
It may be used as a wash for wounds, ulcers, and poison ivy.
Willow oil was utilized by the ancient Greeks to soak their rheumatic joints.
The Cherokee employed willow bark juice as an anti-diarrhea remedy.
Witch Hazel Tree
Witch hazel, a tree native to the Eastern United States, is a good place to start foraging.
Witch hazel produces beautiful yellow, stringy flowers in November when all the other deciduous trees have lost their leaves.
The grayish-brown bark and hazel-like oval-shaped, scalloped leaves of witch hazel may be identified in the spring and summer.
The bark of young branches is used, as well as leaves gathered in the fall.
Witch hazel is a tonic, antibacterial, vasopressin, and anti-inflammatory.
Internally, it treats hemorrhoids, varicose veins, bruises, and sprains, among other things, and topically, it treats hemorrhoids, varicose veins, bruises, and sprains, among other things.
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Sassafras is a kind of tree. Medicine is made from the root bark.
Sassafras is used for urinary tract issues, swelling in the respiratory tract, syphilis, pneumonia, hypertension in the elderly, gout, arthritis, skin problems, and cancer, despite major safety concerns.
Safrole, a chemical recently prohibited by the FDA owing to its carcinogenic properties, is found in both sassafras and sarsaparilla.
Because safrole and sassafras or sarsaparilla-containing products were discovered to cause liver cancer in rats when administered in large amounts, they were outlawed.
Ginkgo-biloba is a tree that is used to cure altitude sickness, confusion, dizziness or vertigo, periodic claudication, macular-degranulation, memory problems, premenstrual syndrome, SSRI-induced sexual problems, and vasodilatations.
What kind of tree bark is utilized for medicinal purposes?
The bark of these trees consists of a large number of active-compounds. Quinine-bark, oak-bark, pepper bark, and willow bark are examples of bark used for therapeutic purposes.
Bulb: A bulb is a fleshy structure made up of many layers of leaf bases, which are referred to as bulb scales.
What tree-based treatments are available?
Willow bark, commonly known as “nature’s aspirin,” includes a precursor to aspirin, which has similar effects to the pill.
Aspirin was first developed by boiling the bark of the white willow tree.
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There are plenty more, and as I discover further about medicinal plants, I’ll try to add to this list. Trees with therapeutic fruit, such as apples, are also available.
The fruit and vegetables can aid with constipation, and apple cider vinegar is used as a medication.
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By Roger Phillips, Owner and Operator of Fight Focused Concepts
As an Instructor that made a name for himself by focusing on the advancement of the art, inside of the reality of the reactive gun fight, I find that I am often misunderstood or misquoted about what I believe to be the ultimate goal inside of a gun fight. Due to the fact that I teach people what to do in the very worse of situations, what I am truly teaching is often marginalized or straight out ignored.
In every reactive gun fighting course that I teach, I emphasis this one aspect of the fight with these statements.
“If I am fighting for my life with a firearm, there is nothing more that I would like to see than a perfect sight alignment on a perfect sight picture. Always get the maximum visual input on the gun that the situation will allow, but realize that you can not always get to your sights. Therefore, we must have other tools to fall back on. But, if you can get to your sights……GET TO YOUR SIGHTS!”
The ultimate goal inside of a gun fight is to stay calm, to get to your training, and to get to the most efficient and effective tool for the job. Hands down, the most efficient and effective way to aim your gun is with a high quality sighted fire skills.
There are no hard rules to gun fighting, but there are some very important general guidelines.
- The more (or finer) visual input that I can get on the handgun, the more accurate I can be.
- The higher I bring the handgun to line of sight, the more accurate I can be.
- The further I extend the handgun out, the more accurate I can be.
Each of the statements above do have some cons, but that is not the focus of this article. The statements above are all about getting to your most optimal accuracy positions and if the situation allows you to get to these optimal positions, then EVERY effort needs to be made to get there.
“Staying calm” of course is not as easy as it sounds. The encounter not being truly reactive will help facilitate you remaining calm. Quality training and education will help facilitate you remaining calm. Experience in violent encounters will help facilitate you remaining calm. It is the experience and the stress inoculation that comes from it that will have the most dramatic effect on your ability to remain calm. But, most people who carry a gun, as a way of life, do not have the experience and the stress inoculation to remain calm and that is a reality that we have to face, without ego and arrogance getting in the way.
The reality is that we may not be able to remain calm in a truly reactive situation. But, that does not mean the we should not strive to calm down. The ultimate goal of staying calm/calming down, in order to get to our training allows us to get to the most optimal tools for the job at hand. Even if you are attacked out of the blue, totally blind sided, and way behind in the reactionary curve the goal is to take back that lost initiative, as needed, then to calm down and get to the most efficient and effective way to stop the threat, which is to get to your high level sighted fire skills, if the situation will allow it.
I know there are going to be some people who read this and think that I have changed my mind about the skills that I have been teaching for the reactive gun fight and that would be incorrect. I have always preached this! We should always strive to use the most optimal skills that the situation will allow. But the reality is that extremely sub-optimal situations may not allow us to get to our most optimal skills, until we have made the situation more optimal.
Every fight should be both physical and mental. The mental aspect should always be about accessing that inner voice telling you exactly what to do……telling you one of two things.
Stay calm and get to those sights.
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Rose Hanbury is a famous British woman who Prince William allegedly had an affair with back when Kate Middleton was pregnant with thier third child, Prince Louis.
Rose Hanbury age, height, birthplace, parents, siblings, college, profession
Rose Hanbury was born on March 15, 1984 but her place of birth is not available to the public.
Her parents are Timothy Hanbury and Emma Hanbury. Rose has three siblings; Marina Hanbury, and David Mark James Hanbury.
Rose Hanbury was educated at Stowe School and was a former model.
Is Rose Hanbury dating Prince William? How long have they been dating?
Rose Hanbury and Prince William have been rumored to be dating but none of them have comfirmed or denied the reports. The dating reports started in 2019.
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When you're multiplying fractions by an integer (or a whole number) you multiply the numerator of the fraction by the whole number, whilst the denominator of the fraction stays the same Multiplying fractions with integers Once these definitions have been revised, it will be much easier to understand the operation known as Fraction and Integer Multiplication, and that as the name that calls it indicates, it is an operation by which a product is sought to obtain between a fractional number, expressed as a fraction, and an integer This is Year 6 - Week 4 - Lesson 1 - Multiply fractions by integers by White Rose Maths on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people wh
This is Aut6.11.3 - Multiply fractions by integers by White Rose Maths on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them May 9, 2012. 1-minute read. You can multiply a fraction by an integer simply by multiplying the numerator of the fraction by the integer, and then dividing this number by the denominator of the fraction. For example, 7 x 2/15 = (7 x 2) / 15 = 14/15. For more, see How To Multiply Fractions
Multiply Fractions Calculator. Step 1: Enter the fraction you want to simplify. The multiply fractions calculator will multiply fractions and reduce the fraction to its simplest form. Step 2: Click the blue arrow to submit MathShed Teaching Slides. Stage 5. Spring Term. Block 2 - Fractions. Lesson 17 - To be able to multiply fractions by integers Home Learning. Home Learning - Spring 2020. Year 6 - Starfish. White Rose Multiplying and Dividing Fractions by Integers Resources 11.5.20. Lesson-1-Answers-Multiply-fractions-by-integers-2019.pdf. Lesson-1-Multiply-fractions-by-integers-2019.pdf Whoops! There was a problem previewing Lesson 1 - Multiply unit and non-unit fractions by integers.pdf. Retrying
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Year 5 Multiply Unit and Non-Unit Fractions by Integers Worksheet - Independent Recap (Week 6 Fractions) Multiply unit and non-unit fractions by integers worksheet for Year 5 fractions topic. This time-saving worksheet is designed to be used alongside White Rose Maths home learning activities for the summer term 2020 There are 3 simple steps to multiply fractions: 1. Multiply the top numbers (the numerators), 2. Multiply the bottom numbers (the denominators), 3. Simplify the fraction if needed Multiplying Fractions Worksheets. Swing into action with this myriad collection of printable multiplying fractions worksheets offering instant preparation for students in grade 4, grade 5, grade 6, and grade 7. Understand multiplication of fractions visually using area models and arrays, practice multiplying fractions and mixed numbers by whole.
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Multiplying Integers. Multiply the integers to find the product. A total of 48 problems are given in these integer worksheets for practice. Conceptualize the fundamentals of multiplying integers with this bath of interesting 2x2 squares. Multiply the integers in the rows and columns and write the products in the squares Multiplying Fractions. Page 1 of 3. What's ? Well, that's of 6. Think about it: You have 6 pizzas... and you get to eat of them. This is like splitting up the pizza between 3 people: So of 6 is 2 How to Multiply Fractions by Integers. Step 1: When multiplying an integer by a fraction, you need to multiply the integer by the numerator of the fraction. Once you've done that, write the result as the numerator in the answer. Step 2: The denominator stays the same. So, whichever number is the denominator of the original fraction, you write. Solution: Given 2/7 x 3. We rewrite 3 as 3/1. Now we multiply 2/7 x 3/1 = 2×3/7×1 = 6/7. Multiplying Mixed Fractions with Whole Numbers. In multiplication of fractions, fraction is multiply by another fraction, multiplying a fraction by a mixed number, multiplying a fraction by a whole number, multiplication of mixed fractions with a whole number
Multiply. 1. 1 5 ×4 5 = 4 25 2. 1 3 ×1 3 = 1 9 3. Fractions Keywords. .pdf from SP 32 at Liverpool John Moores University. Lesson 22 - Pupil pack KS2 maths Multiply Fractions by Integers Learnin
In this lesson, you will learn how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide integers. 3. How to Build and Reduce Fractions. Fractions are a fundamental part of everyday life. Fractions represent a. fraction, represented visually, including tenths and hundredths Differentiation: Questions 1, 4 and 7 (Reasoning) Developing Identify and explain errors when multiplying unit fractions by a single-digit integer. Images provided for support. Expected Identify and explain errors when multiplying unit fractions by integers. Answers eithe Converting from Scientific Notation. Reciprocals of Fractions. Dividing Fractions. Division. Division by Integers. Divide Mixed Numbers. Multiplying Fractions. Multiplication. Multiplication by Integers
fraction, represented visually, including tenths and hundredths Differentiation: Questions 1, 4 and 7 (Reasoning) Developing Identify the odd one out and explain why when multiplying non-unit fractions by integers. Answers are within 1. Expected Identify the odd one out and explain why when multiplying non-unit fractions by integers when the numerator is bigger than the denominator the fraction is called , which property can be used for subtracting and divided integers , name the properties for fractions , what is the meaning of fraction Mixed Numbers Calculator (also referred to as Mixed Fractions): This online calculator handles simple operations on whole numbers, integers, mixed numbers, fractions and improper fractions by adding, subtracting, dividing or multiplying. The answer is provided in a reduced fraction and a mixed number if it exists Multiplying integers is the same thing as adding a number a certain number of times. 5 X 3 = 5 + 5 + 5 = 15 Once numbers get large, we can use multiplication tables and column multiplication to.
Community Answer. 1. Convert the whole number and fraction to an improper fraction by multiplying the whole number by the bottom number in the fraction, and adding it to the top number. For example, 3 1/2 = 7/2 2. Multiply the fractions like usual, top numbers together, and bottom numbers together. 7/2 x 1/3 = 7/6 Multiply fractions. Simplify your answer. Power up your snowmobile and win first place. Snow Sprint Fractions - Learning Connections Essential Skills Mental Math - multiply fractions Problem Solving - identify equivalent fractions. Common Core Connection for Grades 4 and Spring Block 1 Answers. Year 2. Spring Block 1 Answers. Year 3. Spring Block 1 Answers. Year 4. Spring Block 1 Answers. Year 5. Spring Block 1 Answers Multiplying and Dividing Integers Two negative numbers multiplied (or divided) together will result in a positive product. When multiplying (or dividing) a negative number times a positive number, the result is negative
Algorithms - Part 1. Multi-Digit Addition. Multi-Digit Subtraction. Multi-Digit Multiplication Pt. 1. Multi-Digit Multiplication Pt. 2 Word problem worksheets: Multiplying fractions. Below are three versions of our grade 5 math worksheet with word problems involving the multiplication of common fractions by other fractions or whole numbers. Some problems ask students between what numbers does the answer lie? Answers are simplified where possible. These worksheets are pdf files Going along with the multiplying integers task cards, there's a matching set of task cards for practicing dividing integers. Students get the opportunity to practice dividing integers with the division sign as well as in a fraction form. Also, they get to answer questions about when answers of division problems will be fractions or integers This lesson teaches children the relationship between repeated addition of fractions and multiplying. There is a teaching presentation and a worksheet with varied fluency and problem solving tasks available. Hi! Multiplying unit fractions by integers - Lesson 16. Year 5 Fractions - Multiplying unit fractions by integers - Lesson 16
Fractions in a Box. Age 7 to 11. Challenge Level. We have a game which has a number of discs in seven different colours. These are kept in a flat square box with a square hole for each disc. There are holes in each row and in each column. So, there would be discs altogether, except that there is a square booklet which is kept in a corner of the. . (AKA - the bottom number of a fraction), This type of number is part of a whole., True or False: Fractions are integers
The Egyptian method of multiplication of integers and fractions, documented in the Ahmes Papyrus, was by successive additions and doubling.For instance, to find the product of 13 and 21 one had to double 21 three times, obtaining 2 × 21 = 42, 4 × 21 = 2 × 42 = 84, 8 × 21 = 2 × 84 = 168.The full product could then be found by adding the appropriate terms found in the doubling sequence This integers activity bundle includes task cards, tarsia puzzles. maze & pennants. Integer Task Card BundleThis set of 96 task cards covers adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing integers. It is also a great enrichment activity for 6th graders and a review for 8th graders. Also, includ Multiplying fractions by integers. Monday 30 November 2020 Today will be our first lesson multiplying fractions by integers. Don't worry if you are not familiar with that fancy word 'integer', it just means a whole number. Please watch the video carefully before you attempt to complete the worksheet. A little tip for you is to remember. 2436 and 1624 are integers, not fractions. And, as integers, they are unequal.2436 and 1624 are integers, not fractions. And, as integers, they are unequal.2436 and 1624 are integers, not fractions
Multiplying fractions and integers. This is an account of a particularly successful topic from Y5 on multiplying fractions and integers. It's fast becoming one of my favourite concepts to teach. In this example, it was important to make four lots of two thirds first before rearranging the coloured cubes: later when they draw it on a number. . so 7 whole cartons need to be ordered. 2a. Cassie has used the incorrect denominator. The calculation should be . 3a. hours x 4 weeks = 9 hours. hours x 5 weeks = hours. Libby needs to practise for 5 weeks. Expected 4a. so 17 full can Multiplying a Fraction by a Whole Number. To multiply a fraction by a whole number, remember that multiplication is repeated addition. Multiply 1 7 ⋅ 3 . Write the multiplication as an addition. Add 1 7 three times. Now we just need to add fractions with like denominators. Keep the denominators the same, and add the numerators
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This is a pretty straightforward fractions calculator, and you should be able to figure out how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions, integers and mixed fractions without much trouble. It really is as simple as typing the numbers you want to calculate into each of the boxes and then clicking Calculator Multiply and Divide Integers. Multiplying and dividing integers works exactly the same as you're used to with positive numbers. The only thing you have to watch out for is the polarity of the answer. The rules are the same for multiplication and division. If you multiply a positive number and a positive number, the answer is a positive number Math worksheets: Multiplying fractions by whole numbers. Below are six versions of our grade 5 math worksheet where students are asked to find the product of whole numbers and proper fractions. These worksheets are pdf files. Open PDF. Worksheet #1 Worksheet #2 Worksheet #3 Worksheet #4 Worksheet #5 Worksheet #6. Similar Kids are required to multiply proper fractions and improper fractions by whole numbers in the word problems here. Multiplying Fractions by Cross Cancelling Word Problems Grade 4, grade 5, and grade 7 kids will gain an advantage over their peers by solving this exclusive multiplying fractions word problems worksheet accurately
Tim and Moby show you how to multiply and divide fractions in this BrainPOP movie! Dividing can actually make a number bigger? Welcome to The Multiplying 2 Proper Fractions (No Simplifying) (A) Math Worksheet from the Fractions Worksheets Page at Math-Drills.com. This math worksheet was created on 2021-04-13 and has been viewed 310 times this week and 1,631 times this month. It may be printed, downloaded or saved and used in your classroom, home school, or other educational environment to help someone learn math
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Artist’s block is common and it can strike anytime. The fine side is that there are some things that you can complete to get drawing ideas. Here are some of the things that you can do:
You could be lacking drawing ideas but in a genuine sense the ideas might be just there before your eyes. If you are sitting in a room, you solitary craving to see with reference to the room and you will find something that you want to draw.
Some of the things that you can find in your room can be a table, chair, television or anything that might get your fancy.
As an performer you probably know that the shades and textures that you put on the paper are the ones that determine the quality of your drawing and not the objects that you have drawn; therefore, it doesn’t business what you have drawn as long as your drawing is of high quality.
It has been shown that portraits tend to give you quick inspiration and drawing ideas. One of the easiest portraits that you draw is yours. Here you and no-one else habit to find a mirror and magnetism your portrait.
The fine side following drawing your portrait is that you are always present similar to drawing; therefore, you are always straightforward as the subject. If you are as soon as a friend, you can ask him/her to let you charm a portrait of him/her.
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Staying in one area for a long time is usually allied next lack of ideas. If you locate that you are executive out of drawing ideas, it’s recommended that you undertake a mosey or just sit outside for some time.
When external you should be careful of all that you can see. This can be light, sounds, smells, colors, temperature, trees, buildings, people, and all else. By usefully observing what nature has to offer, you will most likely find something that you might be excited in drawing.
Once you find something that gets your fancy you should start drawing hastily – this is to ensure that you don’t forget what you were supposed to draw.
Take a see at what other artists have done
Looking at what extra artists have ended is bound to pay for you some ideas. Here you habit to visit your local gallery or art museum. You can in addition to go to the library and peruse the various art books. with the lump of technology, you can next locate many resources online.
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New local INAC store – Indigenous Nations Apparel Company has seen stable sales since opening in Polo Park in June.
“It’s a little shocking sometimes, you know, how many people are still going there,” owner Michelle Cameron told 680 CJOB.
“It was going to be a temporary store, like a seven month term just to smell it and see how things were going. But we’ve since met the Polo Park Cadillac Fairview, and we’re going to sign a long-term lease solely based on the success we’ve had so far.
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Whether you are designing a YouTube thumbnail, an Instagram post or a cool poster, a great looking font is key for successful design. In place of using default system fonts, you need one-of-a-kind, attention-grabbing fonts that will give your designs a unique personality.
In this article, we bring to you an incredible collection of free cool fonts to download and create beautiful text. With these fonts, you can add a sense of style to any type of design and make it really stand out.
This collection includes a variety of fonts including beautiful script fonts, elegant serif fonts, sans-serifs, decorative fonts, retro fonts and much more to match any and all kinds of your design work. All these amazing and super cool fonts are free to download, read on and start downloading the ones you like!
Batuphat Script Free Font
A lovely bold script font, Batuphat Script comes in two styles – Regular and Extrude and is perfect for creating layered style typography. Free for personal and commercial use, this cool font by Debut Studio is a great choice for posters, art prints, apparel and t-shirt designs, Instagram posts and much more. Available for free download in OTF format.
The Night Watch Free Font
The Night Watch by Obys design agency is a beautiful free serif font with a unique design. Inspired and named after ‘The Night Watch’ (1642) painting by Rembrandt van Rijn, this font will help you create a luxurious and powerful typographic composition. An uppercase font, this font is ideal for headlines, short length text, branding and logotypes. Free download includes TTF font file.
Lansdowne Decorative Font
Lansdowne draws inspiration from old advertisement typography. It is a versatile decorative typeface that blends vintage and classic touch with a clean feel. Designed by Twicolabs Fontdation, this free font comes in two styles – Regular and Slanted and in both TTF and OTF formats.
Lettown Hills Cool Display Font
Lettown Hills is a funky free font featuring a set of swirly letters. Cool alphabet fonts like this one are great for branding, advertising, or creative headers. Designed by Senzana, the font is provided for free download in OTF format.
Alégra Minimal Sans Serif
Alégra is a free modern and minimalistic Sans Serif font with flowing curves. Created by Black Font Labs, this unique font has a stylish but formal futuristic look. On downloading, you get both TTF and OTF font files.
Misto Font – Free (Cyrillic and Latin)
Misto font is a free reverse-contrast display typeface designed by Katerina Korolevtseva. Its unique structured letterforms make it an eye-catching fit for headlines, brand identities, websites, packaging and posters. Download includes the font in TTF, OTF, Web Font formats. Misto supports both Cyrillic and Latin.
Little Bird Free Vintage Script Font
Little Birds features a modern-vintage letter design with beautiful ligatures that will make your design stand out. Released for free download by Senzana, this vintage script font is available in OTF, TTF, EOT, and WOFF formats.
Rokurou Free Display Font
Rokurou Display by Damelev Studio is an elegant serif font with contrasting letterforms that give out an impression of elegance and luxury. This font will fit any creative project. Available for free download in OTF and TTF formats.
Fungis by Milena Leimig is a free modern Sans Serif font family in 3 styles – Regular, Bold and Heavy. Its curves and cut bowls in some of the letterforms give it a unique look. Free for commercial and personal use, the font comes in TTF, OTF, WOFF and WOFF2 formats.
Jangkuy Free Display Font
Jangkuy is a great font you can use to design cool titles for posters, social media graphics, video thumbnails, and banners. It features bold, wide letterforms. The font is free to use in your personal and commercial projects. Created by Atas Project, Jangkuy comes in 3 styles – Regular, Bold and Black and is available for free download in OTF format.
Pikolo Free Cool Font
Pikolo Block Alt is a display font with characters made of slightly rounded lines giving it a unique playful feel. It draws inspiration from vintage woodblock printing. Perfect for headings, titles and logos, this cool font by graphic design studio Ideabuk can be downloaded for free in OTF format.
Silverfake Slab Serif Free Font
A contemporary slab serif font, Silverlake by Alexey Frolov features wide letterforms that will make your headlines stand out. The font is capital only but includes some alternate characters. Available for free download in TTF and OTF formats.
Senilità Free Retro Display Font
Featuring a stylish geometric design, Senilità takes inspiration from retro styles of the mid century and art deco typography. With this font, you can create impactful headings and titles. Designed by Pietro Filippeschi, the font is free to download in OTF format.
You may also like: Best Retro and Vintage Fonts
Messenger free font by Alex Joganic is suited for all your vintage themed projects especially branding, t-shirt graphics and packaging design. The font comes in 3 styles – Regular, Rough and Textured, perfect to add a vintage touch to your design. Font format: OTF.
Moalang Display Font
Moalang is a stylish display font featuring artistic curves and decorative elements. The font will look great on book covers, posters, flyers, logos, and more. Designed by Swistblnk Studio, the font is available for free download in TTF format.
Luam Free Font
Luam is a beautiful and simple sans-serif font in 3 styles – Light, Regular and Bold. It comes with a complete set of characters, numbers and symbols. This free for commercial use font by Patricia Castro Vazquez is perfect for branding and title designs. Font format: TTF and OTF.
Quantum Free Futuristic Font
Quantum is a free bold gaming inspired font with a futuristic vibe. It’s a great choice for any design related to gaming, space and sci-fi such as thumbnails for gaming YouTube videos, futuristic social media graphics and branding. Cool fonts like Quantum will help you create high-impact typography. Designed by Greg ‘Sesohq’ Ortiz, Quantum is free to download in OTF format.
Also see: Best Sci-Fi and Techno Fonts
RedSky Free Signature Font
RedSky is a stunning signature script font that will add elegance to invitations, headers, logos, social media posts and greeting cards. You can pair it with a serif or a sans serif font to create interesting designs. Created by Masanis Studio, this luxury script font is free to download in OTF, TTF and Web Font formats.
Bogam Free Bold Typeface
A free display font by Bagerich Type Foundry, Bogam takes inspiration from urban lifestyle, music and fashion needs. When you need to design stand-out text for a logo or headline, bold font like Bogam is all you need. Free download includes TTF and OTF font files.
Tablón Free Geometric Typeface
For creating Tablon, designer Cristian Tournier took inspiration from old club signs in his neighborhood. It is a typeface family in 3 weights – Regular, Medium and Black and a rounded style for the Black weight. This free geometric typeface will add personality to any text such as titles, magazine highlights, books, posters, advertising and branding. Available for free download in TTF format.
Gossamer Free Outline Font
Gossamer is an outline serif font that you can pair with filled lettering, images and shapes for creating eye-catching banners, headlines, ads, business cards, book covers, web design as well as print design. It is available for free download in OTF format from our site. Font Designer: Master Bundles.
Odachi Free Brush Font
Odachi is an elegant free brush font with a rough eroded character set. Created by Mehmet Reha Tuğcu, it’s completely free to use in your commercial projects. Download includes OTF and webfont files.
Holtzberg Free Textured Font
Holtzberg, by Jeremy Vessey, is another free vintage font that is great for vintage logos, restaurants, barbershops, bars, coffee shops, etc. The font features letterpress texture that adds to its bold aesthetic. This assertive typeface will make a strong statement in any design project it is used in. Available for free download in OTF format.
Lil Stuart Fonts Collection
Create artistic designs with this free pair of a handwriting script and a strict sans serif display font. Perfect to add typographic contrast and diversity in your projects. Designed by Alphabeta and free to download in OTF and TTF formats.
Cunia Free Bold Sans Serif Font
Cunia is a bold sans serif font with slightly rounded corners that’ll give your text a subtle softness. An uppercase font, Cunia is designed for headlines and titles. Courtesy of Alejo Bergmann, the font is available for free download in OTF format.
Bourbon Grotesque Free Font
Bourbon Grotesque is a creative display font that comes with a bold design for crafting attention-seeking headlines, titles, logos, and posters. Free to use and available in OTF format, designed by Jeremy Vessey.
Wild World Free Title Font
Wild World is another great free headline and title font. Created by Abdullah Mosad, it features wide, bold letterforms and can be downloaded for free as OTF font file.
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During our summer California holiday (“visiting the grandparents”) we got the chance to drive around in the new 2014 Kia Sorento SX crossover vehicle. Since we were on vacation naturally we had to check out all the sites! The Kia Sorento was the perfect vehicle to safely and comfortably get our family from place to place, let me show why….
Hanging Out in the Kia
Since this was a “family” vacation, we had the grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins all joining us on our various outings. The Kia Sorento can actually fit 7 people comfortably in the vehicle! It has a 50/50 split folding third row seat. The 3rd row definitely came in handy for some of our family outings.
We were safely and easily able to have three kids (buckled in car seats) sitting in the 2nd row. Since the Kia Sorento has three “child seat anchors (latches)”, putting the car seats in and out of the car was a breeze.
Driving in the Kia with the whole family piled in the car was tons of fun and it also saved us money on parking costs, bridge tolls, and gas.
Honestly the 3rd row was really nice. It has it’s own cup holders, adjustable air conditioner vents and an auxiliary jack to charge your phone.moms were still close enough to the kids to pass snacks and check on them, but also very comfortable hanging out in the back.
Getting from Place to Place
With the Kia’s “navigation system” finding even the most remote locations was easy. Not only did the navigation system enable us to get from place to place, it gave us real-time traffic data and even informed us when we were low on gas. I was pleasantly surprised with the warning “Low Fuel – Would you like to search for a gas station?” appeared on the screen. When you pressed on the “yes” button a list of the nearby gas stations appeared. It’s nice to know that even if we were in the middle of nowhere, at least the Kia would be able to get the family back home safely (and even help us find food and gas on the way).
Easy to Drive & Easy to Park
Normally big cars scare me. I am only 4’11” (149.86cms) – very short & petite. Although the Kia Sorento comfortably seats up to 7 people it did not feel like a massive beast! The driver’s seat is adjustable ( “8 way power adjustable seat“) with a lumbar support. When it actually came to driving the car I found it very smooth to handle and easy to park. Even though I have mastered the art of reverse parking in Singapore, I still can’t parallel park that well. The Kia made it really easy to do both; you can actually see your car backing into the parking spot with the “rear view camera display“. It also has a bunch of sensors that go off if you are about to hit something.
Our “Stuff” in the Kia
Anyone that travels with kids knows that even a simple day trip requires some careful planning and lots of stuff. You have strollers, snacks, diapers, entertainment, change of clothes. Not to mention if you are actually going on an outdoor adventure – then you need the scooters, balls, picnic blankets, beach buckets, etc. The trunk space in the Kia Sorento is massive. There was plenty of room for the stroller and many other things. Even when the 3rd row is up, there was still enough room to put a double umbrella stroller in the back. FYI – the 2nd row also folds down! This means that you have huge open space to transport large items if needed (no need to pay extra delivery charges).
Getting In & Out of the Kia
The Kia Sorento comes with a “Smart Key”. Now this is one of those features that at first I was like – “who needs this”? But honestly it was pretty cool. To get into my car in Singapore I usually have to dig around in my massive purse that holds snacks, water bottles, diapers, toys (and everything else) just to find my keys, all while trying to make sure my kids don’t run crazy in the parking lot. With the “Smart Key” I just got to the car door and pushed the button and viola the car was open – no searching for keys required. This was really handy when I was carrying my tired 2 year old and needed to open the car door.
The Kia Sorento also has “push button start”, i.e. you press a button and the car starts (as long as the key is in the car and your foot is on the brake). This took me a while to get used to – I kept forgetting to turn off the car when I got out – whoops!
Site-Seeing in the Kia
The Kia Sorento comes with a full “panoramic sun roof”, so even if we were stuck in traffic, we were still able to catch all the sights while sitting in the car – both from window and the sun roof. This was really great for some of those long car rides!
If it got too sunny for the kids in the 2nd row, we were able to put up the “sunshade screen” and they were still able to see the amazing California views.
Other Cool Kia Features
There are so many cool features in the Kia Sorento – like the multiple cup holders, blind spot detection mirrors, dual zone automatic temperature control, auxiliary/USB audio input jacks, sunglasses holder, illuminated vanity mirror, surround sound audio system and many more. The Kia Sorento SX really did have it all. I can’t think of one feature that I wanted that wasn’t in the car already. It even had my favorite feature – “seat warmers” (something that is unnecessary in Singapore, but great for those cold California nights).
Too Much Fun in the Kia
The Kia Sorento really made it easier for us to get around and our vacation a bit more stress-free! The boys definitely had tons of fun on their summer holiday!
SuperMommy’s Overall Opinion of the 2014 Kia Sorento SX
We all absolutely loved this crossover SUV! The Kia Sorento SX definitely drives and looks like a luxury vehicle. Both my husband and I thought the navigation system in the Kia was much better than both our cars at home – in fact it was one of the best we have experienced! The Kia was also very spacious and perfect for long drives. The car had so many great features and many little extras. What I liked the best was the fact that the whole family could all fit into one car for outings – it made all of our trips much more enjoyable. Everyone (especially the kids) were very sad when we had to give the Kia back – it really is an awesome vehicle!!
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I have this amazing friend in Lincoln.
She’s cool. She’s trendy. She watches home reno shows with me… and she reads this blog. 🙂
What I’m telling you here – is this lady is super fly.
And this lady makes some MEAN Super Bowl Party food.
So this year, being 550 miles away from her, I asked her if I could steal her recipe from her for these incredible things called Sausage Stars.
And now I’m sharing with you.
Whoops. Hope it wasn’t a secret…
- 1 pound hot sausage (don’t get mild, you’ll regret it)
- 2 cups shredded Monterey jack cheese
- 2 cups shredded sharp cheddar
- 1 can small olives
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup mayo (don’t use miracle whip – you will absolutely hate yourself later)
- 2 tablespoons Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing mix
- 1 package wontons
Brown sausage and drain.
Mix milk and mayo and mix. Then add the rest. (You may think that it’s not all going to stir in. It will!)
Brown wontons @ 350 for 6 minutes.
Fill with mixture and bake at 375 until bubbly (took approx ten minutes).
You guys. These are amazing. Perfect for a group.
And they are just delightfully snack like.
Oh – and they are SUPER easy.
I accidentally thought I could pull off miracle whip instead of mayo. But you know that tangy taste of miracle whip? Yup. You tasted that for sure.
And it was gross. So don’t do that!
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Deschutes Brewery Collabs with Dovetail Workwear to Support Women in Beverage Industry
(Portland, OR) – Deschutes Brewery announced today a unique collaboration with Dovetail Workwear, a women’s workwear company based in Portland whose mission is to encourage women to enter and succeed in non-traditional occupations. Inviting women from across industries to participate in every aspect of this project in celebration, Deschutes crafted Move Maker, a Cold India Pale Ale with all proceeds benefitting Pink Boots Society who “assist, inspire and encourage women fermented/alcoholic beverage industry professionals to advance their careers through education.”
“Move Maker is a beer inspired by your favorite denim: a reliable, feel good, go-to beer that’s refreshing after a hard day of work,” said Veronica Vega, Director of Product Development at Deschutes. “This collaboration with our friends at Dovetail, a women owned and operated company, is a salute to all of the talented, hardworking women in non-traditional occupations, like brewing.”
“We are very fortunate to produce clothes for move-making women in trades and other tough jobs,” said Kate Day, Co-founder and Brand Director of Dovetail Workwear. “To be involved with a beer inspired by hardworking women? Cheers to that!”
Move Maker is a Cold IPA, a style that combines the attributes of a light crushable lager with the hop aromas of an IPA. Utilizing the Pink Boots 2020 hop blend, Move Maker has a delicate and crisp drinking experience at 6% ABV with elevated tropical fruit hop aromatics and minimal bitterness at 35 IBUs.
This small batch beer will launch in 4 pack 16-ounce cans and on draft on October 1 at Deschutes Brewery’s owned and operated establishments in Bend and Portland, Oregon, and Roanoke, Virginia.
Learn more about this unique collaboration from Deschutes Brewery Product Development Director, Veronica Vega’s blogpost here https://www.deschutesbrewery.com/news-media/2021-09-27/dovetail-x-deschutes.html. Join Veronica and Dovetail Workwear’s Product Development Director, Sara DeLuca, in an in-depth interview here https://dovetailworkwear.com/blogs/news/beer-at-work.
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About Dovetail Workwear
By women, for women, and with women, Dovetail Workwear is both a young company and the largest exclusively women’s workwear company in the northern hemisphere. Based in Portland, OR, Dovetail Workwear makes all-season, all-reason utility apparel that stands up to the job. Use our store locator to search for us in 300 stores, across 47 states. Get dirty with Dovetail at www.dovetailworkwear.com.
About Deschutes Brewery
Deschutes Brewery, an independent craft brewer in Bend, Oregon family and employee owned since 1988, is one of the quintessential beers of the Pacific Northwest. Founded on the guiding principles of true craftsmanship and ultimate quality, Deschutes is known as a leader in hops, dark beer, innovative India Pale Ales, and small-batch experimental and barrel-aged beers. Deschutes Brewery is crafted for community, committed to sustainable business practices and support of charitable organizations across our distribution footprint. Visit Deschutes Brewery’s beer finder to find a Deschutes beer near you in 36 states across the country. www.deschutesbrewery.com. | <urn:uuid:812d7271-ac40-4c24-b83c-edcfff30e631> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://thefullpint.com/beer-news/deschutes-brewery-collabs-with-dovetail-workwear-to-support-women-in-beverage-industry/ | 2022-01-20T14:10:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301863.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120130236-20220120160236-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.922451 | 753 |
Jerry Bridges, Vice President of the Navigators, explained how Jack taught him what it means to “preach the gospel to yourself.”
After encountering Jack, Bridges’s teaching and writing began to change significantly from his classic The Pursuit of Holiness published in 1978 to The Discipline of Grace: God’s Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness published in 1994. Bridges explained the change:
“I also owe a debt of gratitude to my friend Dr. Jack Miller, from whom I acquired the expression “Preach the gospel to yourself every day.” I had been doing that, somewhat out of necessity for several years, but Dr. Miller helped bring that concept into sharper focus and more conscious application for me.”1
Jerry Bridges passed away on March 6, 2016. Bridges served on the board of World Harvest Mission in 1996. In an email exchange with the author a year before his death, Bridges explained further his use and adaptation of “preach the gospel to yourself.” He writes, “I had been practicing ‘preaching the gospel’ to myself before I heard of Jack Miller, but I had never put a name to it. A PCA pastor I met at a men’s retreat told me about Jack Miller, so I sent away for the Sonship cassettes and listened to them. That is where I heard him use the expression, ‘preach the gospel to yourself.’ I was impressed by his message and managed to meet him and spend a couple of hours…. I had more questions to ask him, but he died before I had an opportunity to see him again.” In a follow-up email, Bridges’s said, “Today I think that phrase has become a bit shop worn, so I have changed to ‘live by the gospel every day.’ I say in my messages on living by the gospel that the gospel is the mainspring of the Christian life, and like the mainspring of the old wind-up watches, it has to be wound every day. Another analogy I use is the manna in the wilderness. It had to be gathered every day. Another illustration I use is living by the gospel is like rowing upstream in the river of performance. The moment you take your oars out of the water by taking your eyes off of the gospel, you start drifting into a performance relationship with God.”2
Jack recorded his recollection of the hours spent with Bridges. He writes, “Jerry Bridges, well-known author and Navigator leader, recently summed up the issue in a message that he gave to a gathering of leaders in Dallas, Texas. He said that if one drew a time line marked at one end with birth and at the other end with one’s own death, the most important point on the line is the day of conversion. Then he said that before conversion “the gospel was what one needs most,” but after conversion “what one needs most is discipleship.” Therefore, the word he would write on the line before conversion was “gospel,” and after this event he would write “discipleship.” His hearers seemed to agree that this defined things well. But he explained that he now saw this as a deficient view of grace. Today, he believes that the gospel is as much needed after conversion as it is before. Bridges concluded, ‘Discipleship and the gospel belong together, because the gospel must provide a grace foundation for discipleship.’”3
1. Jerry Bridges, The Discipline of Grace: God’s Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2016), Kindle edition, 8.
2. See Jerry Bridges, “Email Exchange with Jerry Bridges concerning the Influence of Jack Miller,” C. John Miller Oral History Interview Collection, Archives and Special Collections at the Library at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC, email dated 24–24 April 2015.
3. See C. John Miller, “Grace Meditation: The Constant Foundation for Christian Action.” The C. John Miller Manuscript Collection, PCA Historical Center, St. Louis, MO (1995).
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ENIGMAS Puzzle Hunt (Blue) Playing Cards
ENIGMAS Puzzle Hunt Playing Cards are a uniquely designed deck that includes four very special cards, each with its own puzzle for you to solve. Solving all four puzzles will unlock an incredible, multilayered, eight-step puzzle hunt. Combine answers from every puzzle you've solved along the way and you will reveal the final, meta-puzzle answer. A true puzzler's paradise!
In addition to the four puzzle cards, there are also codes hidden in various design element throughout the back artwork. Enigmas were printed by The US Playing Card Company. The blue edition tuck boxes are printed on Rhino Grey vellum paper stock with Pantone inks and spot UV. | <urn:uuid:322e3e4d-b4a9-4204-bfa8-e3bffd6471d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://themagicapple.com/all-magic/2043/520/all-magic/P-enigmas-puzzle-hunt-blue-playing-cards | 2022-01-20T15:04:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301863.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120130236-20220120160236-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.951168 | 152 |
Yogi E-Liquids Nicotine E-Juice - 60ml - Original Granola Bar
Original Granola Bar by Yogi E-Liquid is a rich granola combined with a hint of honey on the exhale and adds a touch of extra sweetness to make a delightfully invigorating elixir.
Available nicotine strength: 0mg, 3mg, & 6mg
Available size: 60ml
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EU Industry Days 2021
EU Industry Days is Europe’s flagship annual event on industry. It serves as the main platform to discuss industrial challenges and co-develop opportunities and policy responses in an inclusive dialogue with a wide range of partners. It also helps to ensure that our policies at European, national, regional and local levels work together to enable European industry to deliver jobs, growth and innovation in Europe.
The 2021 edition of EU Industry Days focuses on opportunities. Amid accelerated transformation and the changing global competitive landscape, European industrial strategy builds a business case for greener, more digital and resilient industry. It provides tools to support our industrial ecosystems in this transformation and reinforce their global competitiveness. At the same time, it replies to Europe’s societal call to create new quality jobs while respecting planetary boundaries.
Since the first edition in 2017, EU Industry Days established itself as the European Commission’s main platform for an open stakeholder dialogue and discussion on industry.
In 2021 we go fully digital – and bigger, as this edition will encompass even more views and opinions in panel discussions, keynote speeches, networking opportunities, digital exhibitions, podcasts and many exciting announcements on various opportunities offered by the industrial transition.
EU Industry Days 2021 will take place in a special context. We want the next 10 years to be Europe’s digital decade, and the new 2030 target for emission reduction of at least 55% to bring significant opportunities for our companies. | <urn:uuid:5796f719-842b-442f-af06-277fec113fd9> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.2zeroemission.eu/event/eu-industry-days-2021/ | 2022-01-20T13:49:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301863.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120130236-20220120160236-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.897758 | 297 |
PENNSYLVANIA (WHTM) — Republicans across Pennsylvania continue to complain about newly redrawn state House seats that they say are gerrymandered to favor Democrats. Local officials, who have no role in the process, are also voicing their displeasure.
East Pennsboro Township in Cumberland County has a lovely view of Harrisburg and is just across the river. But to elected officials, they are worlds apart. The newly drawn state house map would lump East Pennsboro, Camp Hill, Lemoyne, and Wormleysburg into the same district as the capital city.
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“There are differences between the two communities,” East Pennsboro Board of Commissioners President George Tyson said. “There’s absolutely no way that this is a good idea.”
Tyson and fellow East Penn Commissioners passed a resolution strongly objecting to the new district and noted this is one of the fastest-growing regions in the state. “Our representation in Cumberland County should be growing. It should not be declining,” Tyson said.
House Republicans across the state are crying foul. “It’s important that it’s fair, legal, and transparent, and this process this year has been anything but,” State Rep Rob Mercuri (R) said.
Mercuri represents the Pittsburgh suburbs and also says there are too many splits to the Steel City and too much love for the Democrats by Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission Chairman Mark Nordenberg.
“The Nordenburg map is a drastic set of changes that again slices up come communities that previously were represented by one representative in one district,” Mercuri said.
“There is no such thing as a perfect map which means that, almost by definition, not everyone will end up being 100% satisfied with the final product,” Nordenberg said.
The commission is logging public comments — more than 1,500 so far — which may lead to tweaks in district boundaries. “It would stun me if there were not changes made to the preliminary maps before we make them final,” Noredenberg said.
Noredenberg couldn’t resist saying to the GOP, which is accusing him of map-making for Democrats, “They lean Republican, just not as Republican as they once did.”
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Fall is a time for cooler temperatures, spooky décor, and trips to the pumpkin patch. But did you know it’s also the perfect time to improve your dental care regimen? After all, October is National Dental Hygiene Month! So, if your previous routine was erased during quarantine or a few too many pieces of candy have left your teeth with some new stains, there is no time like the present to implement the below best practices from a dentist in Friendship Heights.
#1. Always Brush Your Teeth Before Bed
When the nights get colder, it can be oh-so-tempting to read your favorite book or catch up on the latest binge-worthy series under your covers. However, if you accidentally doze off in the process, the bacteria in your mouth are left to multiply throughout the night. Since this can leave you vulnerable to a number of dental concerns, like cavities and gum disease, it is crucial to brush your teeth thoroughly before turning in for the evening.
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Outraged heritage worker writes open letter to vandals who keep damaging Norfolk church
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A furious officer from a conservation trust has hit out at vandals targeting a historic church in an open letter aimed at the perpetrators.
Rachel Morley, estates officer for the Churches Conservation Trust, said serious damage is caused to St George's Church, Shimpling, near Diss, on a monthly basis and added she felt 'sick' of the incidents.
Parts of the 'redundant church', which is no longer used for regular services, date back to the 12th century.
Nigel Frankland, chairman of Burston and Shimpling Parich Council echoed Miss Morley's comments and condemned the vandals.
The acts of vandalism, which began around March, include breaking down the door to the tower, hacking at a donation safe embedded in the church wall, stealing a 19th century Bible, and - earlier this week - breaking the glass of ten of the 12 windows.
In her letter to the vandals, published on her blog, Miss Morley wrote: 'I do not understand you. This place may mean nothing to you, but it means a lot to others.
'It has meant a lot to others for hundreds of years.
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'Churches were, for the most part, built by local people for local people.
'They are the places, where for centuries, ordinary people went to pour out their faith, pitch their hopes, whisper their fears, share their happiest and saddest moments. You are stealing from these people too.
'Churches have a hard enough time as it is. There is no money to repair them and the majority of the population are not interested in them.
'You are driving it to dereliction. And for what?'
Speaking to this newspaper afterwards she said: 'Churches like St George's are historical landmarks. I am really frustrated by the situation.
'Churches are incredibly valuable to some people.'
Miss Morley will meet a crime prevention officer and maintenance staff to discuss how to protect the church from similar incidents in the future. Alternatives include installing CCTV and/or an alarm system.
It comes shortly after long-term church-warden Maurice Philpot stopped helping at the church because of the vandalism.
Mr Frankland said services are still held annually in the church on St George's Day and in the build-up to Christmas, and condemned the vandalism.
He added: 'The parish council joins wholeheartedly in saying that these are terrible things to happen.'
Miss Morley also said vandals had targeted St Margaret's Church in nearby Hales, where windows had been smashed.
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HDFC Bank and Axis Bank reminded their customers for New rule on ATM Fee of cash withdrawal from ATMs from January 1 again
At present, the first 5 financial transactions in a month are free for both financial and non-financial transactions from the bank’s ATM or cash recycler machine. After this, a charge of Rs 20 per financial transaction will be levied.
GST is not included in this transaction charge
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ATM Transaction Fee Hike:
Withdrawal of cash from ATM or cash recycler machine (Cash ATM Transaction) is going to be costly from the new year i.e. from 1st January. From January 1, customers will have to pay more charges than now after crossing the limit of non-cash ATM transactions.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had given permission to increase the fee on this in the month of June 2021. HDFC Bank and Axis Bank have once again reminded their customers about this new rule.
Let us inform you that at present, the first 5 financial transactions in a month are free for financial and non-financial transactions from the bank’s ATM or cash recycler machine. After this amendment, a charge of Rs 20 per financial transaction will be levied. From January 1, 2022, onwards it will be Rs 21 per financial transaction. 3 transactions from other banks’ ATMs in metro cities and 5 transactions from other banks’ ATMs in non-metro cities will continue to be available free of cost.
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There are a lot of household products we buy pretty consistently to keep everything running smoothly and cleanly. From deodorant to dish soap, a lot of these things are items we think we can’t live without. But these surprising DIY alternatives work just as well as the store brands, and can save you a lot of money!
We all want to keep our teeth white and our breath smelling fresh, right? Unfortunately, many big-brand bottles of mouthwash can cost a lot of money — sometimes up to $10 a bottle! Luckily for us, there’s a cheaper solution. You can make your own salt water rinse that works just as well. Just mix a bit of salt with warm water, rinse, and spit. All done, and a super cheap alternative!
There are a lot of products out there to help us get rid of makeup at the end of the day, from washes to creams, pads, cloths, and other unnecessary items. But we can make our own makeup remover in a jiffy! It turns out that olive and coconut oil are great for removing makeup. They’re cheap, and most of us probably already have them in our house.
These are some pretty essential household items to keep our house looking clean, right? They can also get pretty expensive pretty quickly. We can easily substitute them, however, with pieces of old tee-shirts or other pieces of fabric that we won’t use anywhere else. Easy, cheap, and perfect for using around the house!
This is a product that definitely eats up a sizeable chunk of any budget. There are a couple of cheap solutions, though, to save us some money the next time we swing by the grocery store. Conditioner works really well as a shaving cream substitute (perfect for those of us with a half-empty bottle sitting in our shower)—and so does simple bar soap.
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TREAT your mum like a queen for Mother’s Day by taking her to a floral extravaganza at Hampton Court Palace.
This year’s Florimania will see more than 40 flower displays inspired by arrangements from centuries past, including species such as delphiniums, lilies, roses, sunflowers and tulips alongside exotic plants from around the world.
Displays will be arranged by members of the National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies, interspersed with craftwork exhibits and stories of famous plant hunters such as Joseph Banks.
Queen Mary’s apartments will dazzle with a fragrant array of displays inspired by different eras and cultures from around the world and by her love of exotic plants and tulips.
Meanwhile, outside there are 65 acres of gardens to enjoy — such as King William III’s Privy Garden, the famous labyrinthine maze and The Wilderness, with its carpet of spring daffodils and crocuses.
The 10th annual Florimania runs from February 29 to March 3.
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While Bigg Boss OTT contestants kept audience glued to the show, makers had planned to launch the TV version of the show on television in October. Now, as the time is approaching, a lot of names are being speculated who can be a part of the show.
From recent past years, we have even seen several Punjabi artists being a part of the show from Sara Gurpal to Shehnaaz Gill, Himanshi Khurrana to Mahira Sharma.This year, popular Punjabi singer Afsana Khan was also one of the names rumoured to be in the show but now the news is confirmed! Also Read : Punjabi Singer Aish Dhanda Arrested In Drugs Case!
As per the recent reports, ‘Dhakka’ girl was approached for the reality show and she has finally given a nod. Also Read : Sidharth Shukla ‘Alive In Memories’ As Shehnaaz Gill’s Brother Shehbaz Gets His Face Tattooed!
Well, that’s a great news for all the Afsana Khan fans out there! Afsana has won millions of hearts with her voice and superhit songs like, ‘Titliyyan’, ‘Bazaar’ and many more. Now, it will be even more interesting to see if she will be able to create the same magic on the controversial reality show as well. Also Read : Sarkari Gunday: New Punjabi Movie Announced To Be Directed By Ravi Punj
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Thursday, February 10
Hal Seed is founding and lead pastor of New Song Community Church in Oceanside, California. The church has seen more than 20,000 people come to Christ since 1992 when it began. Seed is also author of The Bible Questions, Future History: Understanding the Book of Daniel and End Times Prophecy, and Jonah: Responding to God in all the Right Ways. | <urn:uuid:f6fb5797-f8b8-4833-a786-f17ac73b7e67> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.gs.edu/event/4724828-2022-02-10-leadership-lunch-hal-seed/ | 2022-01-20T14:44:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301863.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120130236-20220120160236-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.948349 | 119 |
Total Kooling Solutions is a proud, family owned and operated business based in Rockingham and boasting owners with more than 60 years combined experience. Matthew, Gary & Miranda provide a wealth of knowledge on air conditioning design, installation, operation & maintenance.
If you’re looking for quality and affordable air conditioning services in Rockingham, Kwinana, Baldivis, Cockburn, Mandurah & surrounds, Total Kooling Solutions has what you need. From quotation to installation, warranty and after-sales servicing of your new air conditioner, we offer a complete, in-house personalised service.
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Friends, Nate and I have been bit by the lake bug. I’ve said it about a billion and a half times, but I’ll say it again: we LOVE water. We love being around it, being on it, being in it, and teaching our boys to do the same. There have been studies done showing that exposure to blue space (bodies of water) over green space can boost mental health, and y’all? I can attest to that. I love green space – hiking, running, rolling in the grass, gardening – but there really is no relaxation like the kind you get from being near water.
Two weekends ago we went to Branson, Missouri and spent some time on Table Rock Lake. After that we just couldn’t stay away, and since we live in a gorgeous state with a lot of beautiful bodies of water we decided to venture out to a place that Nate grew up going to – Lake Ouachita (pronounced WOSH-I-TAH). When we first started dating he would talk about this lake that he learned to water ski on and it sounded so beautiful. I had only ever really been around a handful of other lakes when we first met, so I couldn’t imagine how pretty it really was, but this past weekend I finally found out.
Y’ALL. It is absolutely gorgeous!!!
We loaded up early Saturday morning and packed a cooler with snacks to take on the boat. I made sure to throw in my favorite FLYJOY bar flavors (I’m looking at you peanut butter cacao and coconut macaroon!) because there’s really no such thing as sitting down to eat as a mom. They are so perfect for being on-the-go in general, but especially when corralling two crazy boys on the deck of a ski boat. We had tons of FLYJOY bars, yogurt, and homemade muffins to snack on and water to drink while we ventured through the coves and marinas, which kept us fueled the whole time.
There’s so much to explore in the Hot Springs area of Arkansas, and Lake Ouachita is only one of the beautiful places to see. While we were on the water we just talked about how much we love showing these boys adventure, even at such young ages, so that they have a thirst for exploring the world we live in. Seeing the way their eyes light up when we head out in the car for an adventure is so sweet, and just makes me so thankful we have a beautiful place to learn more about! | <urn:uuid:97362ee9-9db6-4284-a682-2e0d20f1dbd1> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.heatherdisarro.com/an-adventure-to-lake-ouachita/ | 2022-01-20T15:05:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301863.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120130236-20220120160236-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.971634 | 533 |
2022 Chevrolet Colorado for Sale in Easley, SC, Near Greenville
Why should you buy a 2022 Chevrolet Colorado in Easley, SC, Near Greenville, SC?
The 2022 Chevrolet Colorado for sale at Mike Hovart Chevrolet in Easley, SC, near Greenville, SC, is the midsize pickup with full-size strength and capability.
The 2022 Chevrolet Colorado: What We Like
This pickup understands that you work hard, and it does the same. It’s powered by a 2.5L 4-cylinder engine, or you can opt for the available 3.6L DOHC V6 engine, which generates 308 hp/275 lb.-ft. of torque. The standard 3,500-pounds max towing capacity1 gives you the strength to tow the boat or camper to the lake, and with the max fuel range of 19 city/25 highway mpg,2 you can go the extra mile without breaking the bank.
Your time at the worksite will be a breeze thanks to this pickup. Its cornerstep rear bumper makes it easy to get in and out of the truck bed, and the cab-mounted cargo area lamps will light your work area long after sundown. There are 17 tie-downs, so your tools and gear are secure even on the roughest roads, and the 17-inch Ultra Silver painted steel wheels will navigate uncharted terrain with ease.
Why Buy a 2022 Chevrolet Colorado NOW from Mike Hovart Chevrolet?
Right now is the best time to buy a 2022 Chevrolet Colorado from Mike Hovart Chevrolet because new Chevrolet auto loan rates are at an all-time low. Our entire new Chevrolet inventory is online, so take a look at our selection ASAP and contact us when you want to take a test drive!
1 Maximum trailering ratings are intended for comparison purposes only. Before you buy a vehicle or use it for trailering, carefully review the trailering section of the Owner’s Manual. The trailering capacity of your specific vehicle may vary. The weight of passengers, cargo and options or accessories may reduce the amount you can trailer.
2 EPA-estimated 19 MPG city/25 highway for Colorado 2WD with available 2.5L I-4 engine
Wireless Is More.
The 2022 Colorado has available wireless charging* and available Wi-Fi HotSpot.
Safety For Your Excursions.
With a high-strength steel frame, multiple airbags** and available advanced safety features, Colorado helps you stay safe when you’re on- and off-road.
Choice of jet black leather-appointed or jet black cloth/leatherette seats.
Turn Heads Wherever The Day Takes You.
No matter where you’re going, you’ll look good getting there. On top of its bold aesthetics, this truck offers a durable, fully boxed frame and a load of purposeful features that help you work smarter and play harder.
*The system wirelessly charges one mobile device. Some devices require an adaptor or back cover. To check for phone or other device compatibility, visit my.chevrolet.com/learn for details.
**Always use seat belts and child restraints. Children are safer when properly secured in a rear seat in the appropriate child restraint. See the Owner’s Manual for more information. | <urn:uuid:05b88d77-c7ef-47e5-970a-391040f537b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.hovartchevrolet.com/2022-chevrolet-colorado-for-sale-easley-sc/ | 2022-01-20T14:05:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301863.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120130236-20220120160236-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.867661 | 712 |
SANS Institute, the global leader in cyber security training, has announced that it is holding its next renowned immersion-style Cyber Security Training program in Dubai to address the region’s growing cyber security skills shortage. SANS Dubai 2019, which will be held at the Hilton Dubai Jumeirah Beach from January 26-30, 2019, will feature three of SANS’ best-performing cyber security classes to help participants develop the required skills to defend their organisations against security breaches and prevent future attacks.
As the pace of digital transformation accelerates in the Middle East, business leaders have stressed that digitising is the only way to remain competitive in the new marketplace. According to Gartner, skills challenges continue to plague organisations that undergo digitisation, with digital security staffing shortages considered a top inhibitor to innovation. Reports state that the worldwide workforce is heading for a shortfall of 1.8m cybersecurity workers by 2022 and the industry is not attracting newcomers to fill the gap. This is exacerbated in the Middle East, where organisations typically have smaller IT teams and therefore struggle to keep on top of new threats and technologies.
“Organisations in the region continue to experience a shortage of cyber security professionals, which is creating overwhelming pressure on their inadequately staffed cyber security teams. The shortage of cyber security professionals around the globe has never been more acute. In fact, a recent Gartner survey reveals that only 65% of organisations globally have cyber security experts. It, thus, becomes even more important to invest in developing cyber security skills of the future, today,” said Ned Baltagi, Managing Director, Middle East & Africa at SANS Institute.
With cyber criminals adopting new methods to leverage big data and web-scale techniques to stage attacks and steal data, it has now become imperative for organisations, government and individuals alike, to develop the skills and capabilities required to manage cyber security risks. The UAE government has already doubled down on its efforts to ensure cyber safety and digital security. H. H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai launched the Dubai Cyber Security Strategy to further the country’s objectives to create a cyber-smart nation.
SANS Dubai 2019 will offer participants the opportunity to learn directly from the world’s top cyber security practitioners. Attendees will have a chance to choose from three of SANS’ best performing cyber security classes and accelerate their career with hands-on, immersion-style training. Cyber security experts, Tim Medin, Dave Shackleford and Erik Van Buggenhout will conduct training sessions on SEC460: Enterprise Threat and Vulnerability Assessment, SEC545: Cloud Security Architecture and Operations and SEC599: Defeating Advanced Adversaries – Purple Team Tactics & Kill Chain Defenses respectively.
New to Dubai, in SEC599, Erik van Buggenhout shows delegates how to bring together red and blue teams for maximum effect. Recognising that a prevent-only strategy is not sufficient, the course focuses on current attack strategies and how they can be effectively mitigated and detected using a Kill Chain structure.
According to Mr. Baltagi, a big advantage of such training initiatives is the creation of new recruitment and training avenues. “Organisations need to transform their security strategy and build resilience across the enterprise and this can only be done by having properly trained professionals that can take the right approach to security. Our mission at SANS is to deliver cutting-edge information security knowledge and skills to all students in order to protect people and assets. At the heart of everything we do is the SANS promise that students will be able to use the new skills they have learned as soon as they return to work. That promise can be seen in action at SANS Dubai January 2019,” Mr. Baltagi concluded.
For more information on SANS Dubai 2019, please visit https://www.sans.org/event/dubai-january-2019.
SANS will also be holding its first ever Middle East Cyber Security Summit in Abu Dhabi in April 2019. The 2019 Summit will be held on the 4th of April at the Fairmont Bab Al Bahr hotel, Abu Dhabi and will be the first in a series of SANS Summits to be held in the Middle East. | <urn:uuid:f29fe687-0d29-41f6-88bf-cb763ee005d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.insight-world.co/sans-dubai-2019-helping-to-develop-strong-talent-to-address-regions-cyber-security-skills-shortage/ | 2022-01-20T13:48:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301863.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120130236-20220120160236-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.935668 | 876 |
Board of Regents Announces Fourth Finalist for University of Iowa Presidency
The Board of Regents has announced the fourth finalist in the search for the next president of the University of Iowa.
Daniel Clay, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Education at the University of Iowa, will visit campus on April 22-23 to meet with faculty, staff, students, and other members of the campus community. Clay’s curriculum vitae and full interview schedule are available on the UI presidential search website and the Board of Regents website.
Clay will participate in a public forum at 3:30 p.m. on April 22. Due to COVID-19 social distancing requirements, a limited number of people will be allowed to attend in person. However, the forum will be live streamed on the UI presidential search website and the Board’s website.
Additional information about the public forum, including how to obtain a ticket and how to ask a question during the forum, can be found on the UI presidential search website. The campus community also is invited to provide feedback on each candidate after their visit via a Qualtrics survey, which will be available on the UI presidential search website.
Clay is one of four finalists invited to participate in on-campus interviews.
After completion of the campus visits, the Board of Regents plans to meet on April 29-30 at the University of Iowa to hear from the search committee and interview the finalists, with a selection of the next UI president made on April 30. | <urn:uuid:a72a1cff-af96-4327-9ee8-090f2b14f767> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.iowaregents.edu/news/board-news/board-of-regents-announces-fourth-finalist-for-university-of-iowa-presidency | 2022-01-20T14:59:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301863.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120130236-20220120160236-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.951242 | 312 |
Cute Minions Party Ideas! Celebrate with these homemade crafts and fun food ideas for a Minions or Despicable Me Minion Themed Birthday Party.
Enjoy these cute and easy DIY Minions Party Ideas!
With the new Minions movie, now is the perfect time to host a Minion Themed Birthday Party or a backyard celebration with a few friends! As you have probably noticed those banana loving Minions are everywhere. To celebrate the movie, I’ve partnered with Universal Pictures to bring you some adorable Minions Party Ideas.
We always have a lot of fun planning my daughter’s birthday parties. Ever since we went to Universal Orlando last summer, she has absolutely LOVED the Minions! Meeting one in real life was magical, especially when they are practically your same size and ultra goofy!
As you can probably guess, Siena’s birthday party theme is Minions this year! I’m excited to share some ideas for a simple Minions themed party that anyone can do in no time!
I’ve got an easy DIY Minions homemade craft that is perfect for party decor or a summer activity with kids, along with fun party food ideas and activities.
We hope you love these Minions Party Ideas! We’ll be counting down the days until the movie comes out!
Simple & Cute Minions Party Ideas
Decorating for a party can be simple and easy with a few party supplies! I like to start by choosing two color schemes and in the case of the Minions, using yellow and blue is a no brainer. Instead of navy, I chose a brighter turquoise blue which was easy to find in stores with all of the cute summer party supplies out right now.
Be sure to scroll down to get the full list of items I used for this party.
Cute Minion Cupcakes & Party Food
Instead of a cake, we did bright yellow cupcakes. These are about the simplest cupcakes you can do, plus each child gets a fun Minion party favor! How adorable are these little Minions from the movie?
In the movie, Minions begin at the dawn of time. Starting as single-celled yellow organisms, they evolve through the ages, serving the most despicable of masters.
These cute little cupcake toppers are Mega Bloks figurines. To create height on the table, I placed the plate of cupcakes on a Minion box that I found at Michaels.
My kids had a blast building the Minion Mega Bloks so I could use them for party decor.
You could do all kinds of Minion themed treats! Since we were going swimming and this was a small backyard bash, I just served bananas (because they are the Minion’s favorite!) cookies, juice and popcorn.
Easy Homemade Minions Craft
I made this cute Minion out of felt for the backdrop of our dessert table. It is a quick and easy DIY idea and would also be adorable for a party craft activity!
What you need:
- Giant Googly Eye
- 9 x 12 Sheet of Yellow Felt
- White Dessert Paper Plate (you can also get Silver Dessert Plates)
- Silver or Gray Marker
- Black Pipe Cleaners
- Hot Glue Gun or Fabric Glue
Minion Craft Directions:
- Use scissors to cut curved edges on the top of each side of the felt to create your Minion body shape.
- Color the edges of a paper plate with a gray marker for the Minion’s glasses. You can skip the coloring by using a gray or silver paper plate.
- Glue the googly eye to the plate.
- Take 2 pipe cleaners and make a circle slightly smaller than the plate. Cut another pipe cleaner in half and attach one to each side of the circle to make the glasses. Then hot glue the plate to the circle part of the pipe cleaner.
- Attach the Minion eye glasses to the felt with more glue and gently wrap the pipe cleaners around the side of the felt.
- Make a smile from a pipe cleaner and attach the mouth with glue.
- Cut a few pieces of pipe cleaner and attach to the top of the felt piece for the hair. Get creative on this! You could do all kinds of cute Minions hairstyles.
That’s it! Hang one or many around for party decor.
Minion Party Favors and Activities
The Minions Play-Doh Disguise Lab is adorable to have out for a party activity – especially to keep the kids busy until the party fun begins! We also love the Color Wonder Minions Puzzle. That has kept my daughter entertained for several days this summer!
We hope you enjoyed these Minions Party Ideas! Have fun at the movie this weekend!!
Party Supplies & Links:
- Banners, Popcorn bags, Minions Box and Paper Supplies from Michaels.
- Minions Cupcake toppers: Mega Bloks figurines
- Party Activities: Minions Play-Doh Disguise Lab, Color Wonder Minions Puzzle.
- Minions Havaianas
- Minions Tote Bags
- Minions beach towels
- Minion Party Supplies
- Minons Sunscreen
You might also like these cute Minons Party Ideas:
This is a sponsored post by Universal Pictures. All opinions are my own.
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04 February 2016
We’re delighted to announce that we’re expanding LOC’s online community with our newly updated Twitter feed!
Those of you who are part of our LOCband Facebook community know that this is a great way to connect with other LOC patients, followers and families and keep up to date with the latest developments in all of our treatment areas. We’ll be sharing plenty of new information, updates, success stories, support and guidance, so get involved and help us to spread the word about what best practice orthotics can do to relieve pain and change lives.
Just follow us at https://twitter.com/LOC_Orthotics
Yes - All babies that have completed their course of treatment with us have achieved a measurable improvement in head shape. However, you don’t have to take our word for it.
Recent independent research conducted by a University Hospital in Germany has endorsed the treatment for babies with moderate or severe plagiocephaly.
A larger, retrospective study has just been published that found complete correction was achieved in 94.4% of babies treated with helmet therapy.
The results were conclusive: repositioning achieved acceptable correction in 77.1% of cases, but 15.8% were moved onto helmet therapy because re-positioning was not working. Meanwhile, 94.4% of the infants who started in the helmet-treated group achieved full correction, as did 96.1% of those who were transferred from the repositioning group into the helmet-treated group.
Further information can be found on our Plagiocephaly Research page.
The optimum age for treatment is between four and seven months.
This is because the skull is most malleable at this age and improvements to head shape tend to take less time and are more dramatic. That is not to say that helmet therapy should be ruled out if the baby is older than seven months. Routinely, babies up to the age of 16 months can be treated very successfully.
The cut off age is around 18 months when the fontanelles (soft spots on the head) are no longer malleable. As babies grow and develop at different rates, it is always worth checking if you are not sure. There have been cases where a baby’s fontanelles have not fused yet by the age of 18 months, who have achieved successful, but less-marked results with cranial remoulding therapy.
Torticollis is a condition in which a tight or shortened muscle in one side of the neck causes the head to tilt or turn to one side, resulting in the infant resting its head in the same position. In 2013, we analysed the data from all first appointments in our Kingston clinic and found that 20% of the babies examined had some kind of neck condition that was causing head immobility.
The LOCband is non-invasive and works by applying gentle, constant pressure over the areas of the baby’s skull that are most prominent while allowing unrestricted growth over the flattened areas. The band consists of a soft foam layer inside a thermoplastic shell. As the baby grows, the band will be adjusted frequently to gently guide the skull into a more symmetrical shape.
Right from the beginning, we got the answers that we were looking for and left the clinic knowing what we were going to do. Everything just felt really simple every time we went for an appointment. I would definitely recommend LOC to other parents, and if anyone is in doubt about whether they should go for treatment, I’d say take advantage of the free consultation, because it was so worth it to go and get confirmation. I’m so happy I did it.
Thank you again for taking care of Amrit's flat head. We are very pleased with the results. Attached are some pics of our visits to the clinic which we thought you may want to keep and use to show others the painless process for the baby.
From the very start, everyone at LOC was professional and friendly. Every step of the way was well-explained and measuring and fitting was quick. It only took Magnus one day to get used to the band and after that, he wasn’t bothered by it at all. And, most importantly, it worked! His head now looks completely normal. I would 100% get a LOCband again if we were to face the same situation again.
At the start of the treatment, Saeed told us that we could expect the cephalic ratio to reduce by nine or ten points at most. In fact, it has reduced by 109 to 94. That’s a reduction of 15 points which is more than any of us hoped for. And his asymmetry has reduced from 10mm to just 1mm. We were so happy with the results that we felt it was a natural breakpoint for him and we were advised that the treatment is less effective the older a child is.
LOC’s video vector technology measures exactly where Austin’s weight is being distributed, how his hips are moving and how his legs are moving. It’s those insights that have made his new AFOs so effective. Even within a few days, LOC’s splints have had more impact on his independence of movement than anything else we have done. | <urn:uuid:15357a38-c600-4709-b9b6-526a6a7d8ecb> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.londonorthotics.co.uk/loc-blog/2016/feb/loc-on-twitter/ | 2022-01-20T14:51:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301863.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120130236-20220120160236-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.979527 | 1,095 |
Florida Driver Handbook: Expressway DrivingOrder now
5. Driving Safety
- 5.1. Distracted Drivers
- 5.2. Getting Ready to Drive
- 5.3. Defensive Driving
- 5.4. Driving Safety for Mature Drivers - Tips to Help You Drive Safer .... Longer
- 5.5. When You Back Up
- 5.6. Avoiding Rear-end Collisions
- 5.7. Emotions
- 5.8. Basic Driver Improvement
- 5.9. Safety Belts
- 5.10. Protecting Children
- 5.11. Speed Limits
- 5.12. Following Officer's and Fireman's Instructions
- 5.13. Crossing Intersections
- 5.14. Right-of-Way
- 5.15. Stop Signs
- 5.16. Open Intersections
- 5.17. Roundabouts
- 5.18. Driveways
- 5.19. Emergency Vehicles
- 5.20. Making Turns
- 5.21. Turnabout (Three-Point Turn)
- 5.22. Turn Signals and Emergency Signals
- 5.23. Traffic Lanes
- 5.24. Blind Spots
- 5.25. Passing
- 5.26. Minimum Safe Following Distances
- 5.27. Parking
- 5.28. Expressway Driving
- 5.29. Night Driving
- 5.30. Animals
- 5.31. Reduced Visibility
- 5.32. Handling Emergencies
- 5.33. First Aid
Expressways - also called interstate highways, freeways, and turnpikes are multiple-lane roads with no stop signs, traffic lights, or railroad crossings. For these reasons, expressways can give you a fast, safe way to get where you need to go.
Pedestrians, hitchhikers, bicycles, animal-drawn vehicles or motor-driven cycles and motor scooters with 150 cubic centimeter displacement or less are not allowed on expressways.
5.28.1 - Entering and Leaving Expressways
Vehicles can enter and leave expressways only at certain points. Because expressway traffic is usually moving at or close to the maximum speed allowed, you need to know how to enter and exit safely.
All expressway entrances have three basic parts: an entrance ramp, an acceleration lane, and a merging area. Follow these guidelines to enter an expressway safely:
- On the entrance ramp, begin checking for an opening in traffic. Signal for your turn.
- As the ramp straightens into the acceleration lane, speed up. Try to adjust your speed so that you can move into the traffic when you reach the end of the acceleration lane.
- Merge into traffic when you can do so safely. You must yield the right-of-way to traffic on the expressway. You cannot always count on other drivers moving over to give you room to enter, but do not stop on an acceleration lane unless traffic is too heavy and there is no space for you to enter safely.
When leaving an expressway:
- Get into the exit lane. Posted signs will tell you which one. Most expressway exits are from the right lane.
- Signal your intention to leave the expressway by using your turn signal.
- Slow down as soon as you are off the expressway. Check the posted safe speed for the exit ramp.
- Do not make last-minute turns into an exit. If you go past your exit, you must go to the next one.
5.28.2 - Expressway Safety Reminders
- Plan your trip. Know just where you will get on and get off.
- Drive in the right lane and pass on the left. If there are three lanes, use the right lane for lower speed driving, the left for passing. If you stay in the right lane, watch for cars entering the expressway. Adjust your speed or move into the center lane so they can enter safely.
- Never stop on the pavement, shoulder, or connecting ramp of an expressway except in an emergency. If your vehicle breaks down, it may be parked on the side of the expressway (completely off the pavement) or no more than six hours. Raise your hood and tie a white cloth to your antenna or left door handle to show you need help.
- Never back up on an expressway entrance ramp or exit ramp. The only exception to this would be if you are trying to enter an expressway through an exit. In this case, you would see a "WRONG WAY" or "DO NOT ENTER" sign. Then you must back up or turn around.
- Do not cross, drive on or park on the median strip.
- Do not follow too closely. Rear end collisions are the greatest danger on expressways. Always leave room for emergency stops.
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Molyet's Farm Market
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Beautiful Letter “R” Pendant in 14k White Gold and Diamonds
Elegant vintage Initial “R” Diamond Pendant. The pendant is made in solid 14k white gold and is set with 16 diamonds approx .03 ct each.
The R can represent your child, a loved one, yourself or anything that is significant to you.
Metal: 14 gold acid tested
Diamonds: 15 Round Brilliant Diamonds – .03ct each + ( 1 x .01ct single cut diamond)
Approximate total carat weight is .50 Ct.
Quality – SI1 and Better
Condition: very good vintage condition
Length – 7/8” with bail
Width – 6/8’’
Weight: approx. 3.4 grams
Circa : 1990
Excellent original condition
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If you have ever had a loved one arrested for a crime, you understand how disconcerting the experience can be. The best thing you can do is prepare for what’s coming, and that means learning what you can about the bail system and how bail bonds work, especially if you cannot afford to pay the entire bail amount yourself. This is what you should know about bail bonds before you call a bondsman.
The Bail Process
After suspects are arrested, they are placed directly in jail. For some cases, the jail has a bail schedule, but other individuals need to attend bail hearings. Hearings typically occur during business hours, but if the jail has a schedule, you may need to pay bail in the middle of the night. Therefore, you may search for a local bondsman who is open during these times, e.g., “24 hour bail bonds Allentown PA.” As long as the defendant shows up to court and adheres to all court orders, you will receive your bail back.
The Bond Process
Your first task should be getting information from the jail. You need the defendant’s full name, booking number and crime, as well as the name of the facility they are in. The jail may require additional information, so call ahead. You will give this information to the bail bondsman
Bail bonds are loans. A bail bonding agency will help you post bail for a nominal fee, typically 10-15% depending on the state. This fee is nonrefundable. The bail bondsman may also require that you put up collateral to cover the rest of the bond. Examples of collateral include real estate, vehicles, jewelry, art, bank or financial accounts, stocks and bonds.
Get the Defendant to Court
If you post the bail or secure the bond, you are responsible for getting the defendant to court and ensuring that this individual adheres to all court orders. For example, the courts typically require suspects to obey the law and stay away from weapons. Courts may also order therapy or courses the defendant needs to complete.
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Baptist North Mississippi one of five hospitals in state to receive “A” safety rating
Published 1:36 pm Monday, November 16, 2015
Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi has been awarded an “A” patient safety rating in the Fall 2015 Hospital Safety Score by a national patient safety watchdog group.
The latest “A” rating is an improvement from the previous “B” rating, placing the hospital in the top five percent of hospitals graded across the United States.
The Leapfrog Group grades more than 2,500 hospitals across the United States for safety twice each year. Hospitals are given a letter grade of “A” through “D” and “F”. Of the 33 hospitals in Mississippi submitting data for the fall reporting period, only five received an “A” rating.
The safety score reflects how well the hospital protects patients from preventable medical errors, injuries and infections within the hospital and is calculated based on several core measures, including safe practice measures, surgical care improvement project measures and patient safety indicators.
“One of our top priorities is patient safety, and I’m extremely proud of each and every one of our employees, physicians, and clinicians who continue to uphold this as a very high standard throughout our facility,” said Bill Henning, CEO and Administrator of Baptist North Mississippi.
Baptist North Mississippi is a 217-bed hospital that offers a variety of services, including cardiovascular surgery, neurosurgery, the Baptist Cancer Center and a 24-hour emergency room. Since the hospital became affiliated with Baptist Memorial Health Care in 1989, Baptist has invested more than $140 million into the facility. In 2012, Baptist announced plans for building a new hospital for Baptist North Mississippi.
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Selling your diamond ring is common at the end of a relationship, when you’ve inherited heirloom jewellery, or simply want to change up your style. If you’re wondering, “Where can I sell my diamond ring?”, you’re in luck. Many cash for gold and jewellery buyers specialize in buying diamond rings for top dollar.
Because diamonds are one of the most precious and desirable gemstones in the world, gold and jewellery buyers are increasingly purchasing diamond rings for cash. Fortunately, the price of diamonds does not fluctuate nearly as much as silver or gold, so it is always a good time to sell your diamond ring.
Before selling your diamond ring, it’s important to collect as much information as you can about your jewellery. This includes any certificates that came with your ring, which will provide details such as cut, clarity, carat weight and the colour of your diamond.
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When thinking about selling a diamond ring, many of us consider turning to a local jeweller. However, your options are limited when choosing to sell to a jewellery store, as there are very few out there who will actually buy jewellery, and in many cases, the price you’ll be offered will be below market value.
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There is a certain amount of trepidation at Chez Reading Reality this weekend. The bathroom remodelers are supposed to be here Monday morning to start a job that we signed up for SIX months ago. The supply chain snafu snafus everything. We are looking forward to getting the work done, because we haven’t been able to use the master bathroom shower for six months. BUT this project has been on hold for so long neither of us is going to believe it until we see them arrive.
The thing we’re not looking forward to is several mornings of “All Star Cat Wrangling”. We have a room we can keep them in all day that will have food, water, litter boxes, a big cat tree and a great window for watching the birds and the squirrels. The trick – probably at least a trick and a half – will be getting them all into it. Not that they don’t all spend plenty of time in a room we honestly refer to as “the cats’ room”. But they’re cats. If that’s where we WANT them to be it will be the last place they’ll be interesting in going!
A- Review: Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas
Super Stocking Stuffer Giveaway Hop
B+ Review: The Powerbroker by Anna Hackett
A Review: Band of Sisters by Lauren Willig
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The Cartographer’s Secret by Tea Cooper (blog tour review)
In All Things Give Thanks Giveaway Hop
Noor by Nnedi Okorafor (review)
A Secret Never Told by Shelly Noble (blog tour review)
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Details of some of the talks and research papers we have given follow.
2013: Reading in common: everyday reading in Sheffield (1920-1960) by Mary Grover. Mary presented this paper at ‘Everydayness and the Event’ (August 29 – September 1) the fifteenth annual Modernist Studies Association conference held at Sussex University, UK.
2016: ‘Even Edgar may be discovered’: The fiction policy of an English public library in the 1930s Val Hewson presented this paper at The Auden Generation and After conference, Sheffield Hallam University, 17 June 2016.
‘Quite honest…and most carefully done’ – A survey of children’s reading in Sheffield (1937-38) Val presented this paper at the Femorabilia Study Day and Symposium, Liverpool John Moores University, 22 October 2016
2018: The Magic Story Book and The Tuesday Club Letter Val researched the productio n of the Christmas play, The Magic Story Book, by Sheffield library staff Kath (Hunt) Kay and Olive Phillips, in Walkley Library in 1949 and Woodhouse Library in 1950. Kath also ran the Tuesday Club in Upperthorpe Library in the 1980s and 1990s.
Running Up Eyre Street: Sheffield Reading and the Second World War On 21 September 2018, Reading Sheffield’s chair, Mary Grover, gave a paper by her and Val Hewson at The Leeds Library’s conference to celebrate its 250th anniversary.
Sheffield Reading History: Unitarians, Book Societies and some Extraordinary Women Reading Sheffield members Sue Roe and Loveday Herridge gave a talk on 9 September as part of the Heritage Open Days (HODs) Festival 2018 about Sheffield’s first community libraries which flourished in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
2020: Charles Dickens in Thirties Sheffield. In October 2020, Mary Grover gave a talk to the University Women’s Group about Sheffield readers and the novels of Charles Dickens.
2021: Recipe Books: easily overlooked heritage. In September 2021 Val Hewson gave a paper at Inheriting the Family’s ‘The Books That Bring Us Together’ seminar series. Here is a link to watch the seminar.
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There's a rule of thumb in marriage law: marriages are valid when and where performed. In other words, if you married in Nebraska on December 31, 2013 and if your marriage was legal in Nebraska on that date, your marriage is, and will be, valid. It has to be that way. Otherwise, no marriage would be safe.
What's more, the stay and the validity of the marriages already performed have nothing to do with each other: Just because the Supreme Court granted the stay does not mean Governor Herbert has grounds to invalidate the marriages.
Stays are granted to maintain the status quo because doing otherwise would cause irreparable damage. That is the most important requirement and, more often than not, is the sole legal basis on which stays are considered. Stays also require a likelihood of success on the merits, meaning that the party seeking to delay an adverse ruling has to show that they are more than likely to win the underlying case. Finally, stays are granted when, on balance, the benefits of holding everything in abeyance outweigh the harms.
As you and I both know, sometimes, there is more politics than law in these decisions. More controversial cases tend to get more stays than noncontroversial cases; high profile cases get more stays than those that fly under the radar.
But even if a stay gets granted for improper reasons, none of those reasons change the validity of the underlying marriages. Supposed irreparable damage refers to the continuation of the activity to be stayed, not to the ones already done. The balance of the harms also says nothing about the propriety of recognizing the already-performed marriages.
The last element is likelihood of success. Likelihood of success is, first and foremost, a probability function. But scholars are already debating whether the success of Utah's appeal speaks to the validity of the underlying marriages. Judge Shelby's decision declaring Utah's ban on same-sex marriage is being appealed to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. If the Tenth Circuit reverses, i.e., agrees with Utah, it is not entirely clear what happens to the 1300-plus marriages performed over the last three weeks. Utah wants them invalidated, and that could happen.
There is precious little precedent on this. In 2004, New Mexico's Sandoval County married about 60 same-sex couples after the county clerk found that there really wasn't any New Mexico law against gay couples marrying. She was right; there wasn't. The attorney general stopped the county clerk from issuing any more licenses to gay couples and subsequent clerks refused to recognize the validity of the ones granted licenses. But just last year, the new attorney general of the state said only a court of law could deny the marriages' validity. That took us to a unanimous state supreme court decision on marriage equality.
California also gives us a clue as to what could happen. Now-Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, who was then the mayor of San Francisco, starting marrying gay couples in 2004. He gave out about 4,000 licenses, all of which were invalidated by the state supreme court. Among those whose marriages were invalidated were Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis (right) who, along with many other equal rights pioneered, filed a state lawsuit seeking the right to marry. Those cases – In re Marriage Cases — brought us marriage equality in California before Prop 8.
If anything, the progress of marriage equality litigation shows a low likelihood of success, but our precedent is less clear on what happens to marriages already performed. It may take some time before we know the answer, and that is not just frustrating, it is manifestly unjust. The stay was unjust, the appeal is unjust, the discrimination is unjust for this very reason.
The state may not want to recognize the marriages performed in Judge Shelby's equality window, but the federal government should. The federal government, according to instructions from agencies like the IRS and the Office of Personnel Management, will recognize marriages performed in the states as long as those marriages were performed in a state that recognized those marriages. That is the "state of celebration" rule. Utah recognized the validity of same-sex marriages when the 1300 marriages were performed. And nothing has changed. The stay granted by the Supreme Court did not invalidate those marriages. Nor did it undo Judge Shelby's decision, despite what some commentators have suggested. Governor Herbert's decision to put the marriages "on hold" does not deny their validity, either. Everything is just on hold. And that doesn't change the fact that the marriages were valid in Utah when they were performed. That's the end of the story.
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The concept of “making it” in showbiz is perhaps made up itself. There is no defining body of who makes it and who doesn’t, and sometimes your big wins will look small in retrospect, just like your minor wins could fill you with the most amount of pride eventually. That being said, it’s also not hard to understand how it could affect someone if they started seeing many of the people they came up with in comedy on Saturday Night Live, starring on network sitcoms, and winning Oscars. That’s where Nobodies, a comedy on TV Land that is based on the industry experiences of Rachel Ramras, Larry Dorf, and Hugh Davidson, gets its authentic reality of the comedians who sometimes get left behind.
The longtime writing trio all met at The Groundlings, coming up in comedy world alongside the likes of Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jim Rash, and many more. They didn’t book SNL. They didn’t land that big part in Bridesmaids. They didn’t co-write a film with Alexander Payne. But their friends did.
After writing on animated shows such as Mike Tyson Mysteries and The Looney Tunes Show, Rachel, Larry, and Hugh finally discovered that the best idea for their own series would be one that was centered on their own experiences as people who know a lot of “successful people” but could never get a break of their own. They pitched the show to Melissa and Ben Falcone, who serve as executive producers, and with TV Land already ordering a season 2 they aren’t quite the “nobodies” that they used to be.
In the pilot, you approach Ben Falcone about getting his real-life wife Melissa McCarthy to star in a movie you wrote called Mr. First Lady. It was interesting to find out later that Nobodies came to be after you approached Ben to ask him about Melissa’s availability for a movie idea you had called Mr. First Lady.
Larry Dorf: Unlike the show, we didn’t even have a script yet, we just had an idea for a movie. We thought it would be really easy to get Ben to convince Melissa to be in it and then we’d just get a sack full of money. That didn’t happen. They were sorta lukewarm on it and Melissa was booked up for the next two years doing movies and was on Mike & Molly at the time. So we went and we pitched it anyway without them. It was very much like the meeting in the pilot where they’d sort of be into the idea, and they’d ask, “Well, what are you working on?” and we’d say we were writing on a kid’s cartoon and then it was like the meeting was over. Rachel and I would over-compensate and just say, “We know Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy and Jim Rash and Cheryl Hines, so if you like them, you’ll like us!” And then there was that Oscars where all of our friends were nominated for Bridesmaids, and Jim Rash and Nat Faxon won for The Descendents, and we were really like “Oh we were left behind.” And that’s when we thought this would be a good idea for a show. We pitched that to Ben and he had written with us for awhile on The Looney Tunes Show before he got Bridesmaids and left us behind. So it resonated with him and he pitched to Melissa and it seemed like an organic thing, our story to tell.
What was it like to keep all those same details, the same movie pitch, the same people, for Nobodies? How did the decision to keep it the same rather than analogous come to be?
Rachel Ramras: Any time you can be authentic and pull from reality, your odds of having funnier content are better. We certainly had no qualms about making fun of ourselves and using ourselves as the butt of the joke. The reality of this business is you do come up with ideas a lot of the time, and for some reason if no one cares about you or someone else is doing a competing project, these ideas fall by the wayside. We wanted to lend some truth to our show, so a couple of the ideas that we talked about, whether it’s Mr. First Lady or later on the season I have a pitch for a new movie, it was sort of a way to keep those projects alive even if they didn’t have success in the real world. We just find that pulling from reality is the funniest material.
How many of those details do you think were pulled from real life?
Hugh Davidson: We never had an executive go crazy, and we never bald-faced lied and said Melissa was participating in the movie, those were creative things just for the show. Having said that, it’s the way in which we go into those meetings, the nervousness, the way we function as a group and our dynamic, is all so real that those things don’t feel very fictional. When we shot the scene with the two fake executives, we had never met those actors, we didn’t know them, they’re some of the few people in the show who weren’t from The Groundlings, and it absolutely felt as sweaty and awful as going into a pitch meeting. We’re on the older side of it to be unknown, and it’s like time is running out, and we’re probably going to sabotage ourselves anyway, so all that just feels very real in the show.
Larry, your character on the show is often doing things that do sabotage or hurt certain opportunities early on. Do you think you have been that guy in the past?
Larry: Yeah, I think we’re all very honest with each other and with ourselves. Hugh might be “the angry guy” and let’s use that. I might be “the desperate guy.” Cause of the three of us, I’m the only one who bought a house, and so I have those pressures on me – that I heightened for the show – just by nature. I always kind of feel like I need more balls in the air than Hugh and Rachel. I just feel that most of them are not gonna pan out so I need to have stuff going on. So I think there is a desperation there that lent itself to a lot of good storylines.
Hugh and Rachel, you’re married in real life. How was it to have an on-screen relationship? Was it weird or did it feel natural?
Rachel: It’s all weird because we’ve never acted on anything, for the most part. It was comfortable though because we’ve been performing at Groundlings for all these years. I’m married to Hugh, Larry’s our best friend, and Mike MacDonald, our showrunner and director, we’ve known forever. So there is a comfort factor. And TV Land is really encouraging of exploring the relationships on the show and not just have Hollywood as the drive of the show. I think that ended up being the part of the show we loved the most, the Hugh-Rachel relationship, and later on in the season Leslie Bibb comes in and creates some pressure there when she starts dating Hugh, and then Larry and his wife. We started having a lot of fun exploring all the dynamics of all of those people. There’s nothing more comfortable than getting to do all of this. If you’re going to do it for the first time and be lucky enough to experience it, the fact that we’re all together and getting to do it with our closest friends – hopefully it has set us up to succeed.
Hugh: The thing that was odd is that we’re dipping a little bit into our own past where we feel, I don’t know, like it’s ourselves five or six years ago. And so there’s a push and pull of things like, “Wait, where do we stand with each other right now?” Because we act out all these parts on the show that are potentially divisive. But the fact that Rachel, Larry, and I are doing this together, it’s like we’ve won the lottery. I also think that if our show is in any way competent, it’s because we got to be together and feel safe.
In Nobodies you are playing “the ones who got left behind” as it were, but in real life, you’ve built a very successful career writing on animated shows like Mike Tyson Mysteries and Looney Tunes. So was your mindset more about your friends who were doing “bigger” things or also acknowledging that you had pretty cool jobs yourselves?
Rachel: I think that the overall lesson or theme, if there is one, is that if people would stop comparing themselves to people and really sort of take a look at where you are in your life and appreciate it, we’d all be so much happier. We got the opportunity to write about 52 episodes of The Looney Tunes Show with very little input from the network or the producers, and we basically learned how to write a sitcom and we learned how to find our voice as writers. And Mike Tyson Mysteries is one of the most fun gigs in the world. It’s so fabulous. So the real Hugh, Larry and Rachel do know how lucky we are and were to have those jobs, but the characters haven’t discovered that yet. I think that’s relatable for people outside of Hollywood as well.
How was it to write for The Looney Tunes Show and for iconic characters like that?
Hugh: At first it was a bit of a challenge. When we first started they said, “Let’s bring back the characters but they can’t hit each other and Elmer Fudd can’t have a gun, and if he has a gun it has to be a paint gun.” All these insane rules that seemed to me at the start of it, “This is gonna be the biggest disaster on the planet.” And we ended up putting the characters in more of a sitcom setting. I still think Daffy Duck is one of the funniest characters in the world and we loved writing for him in that show.
Rachel: We broke down the characters, took away all of their typical aspects. Bugs was a great straight man because he’s super smart and confident, Daffy is desperate and insecure, and then we brought in Porky as the hanger-on friend, and we found some characters that really hadn’t been developed like Lola Bunny, or I guess the way she was developed was as a tough basketball player – I don’t know what that was – we were lucky enough to call up Kristen Wiig and ask if she would voice this character. I think that’s one of the funniest animated characters on TV, what she did with it.
You serve as writers of Mike Tyson Mysteries and Rachel has a regular role as Yung Hee Tyson. What’s been your favorite moment while working on that show?
Hugh: I think one of the best things in the world is getting to watch Norm Macdonald, Jim Rash, and Rachel do voice records together. I think just the voice record sessions have been worth everything. To be around Norm Macdonald is just amazing. And I do genuinely love Mike Tyson, he’s great.
Rachel: And he’s funny. He’s really not trying to do anything except read the lines, and when he does them, he is so heartfelt, he tries hard, and he has a great work ethic. There’s such a sweetness. When people ask me to describe him, the first word that comes to mind is “sweet” which is just so strange. And Norm is just a genius, it is thrilling. We pinch ourselves every time we are around him.
When was the first time in your career that you felt “I’ve made it”?
Hugh: For me, when we got our Looney Tunes job and I got car insurance. I had never had auto insurance, I was driving illegally in California forever, and I’m now legal. So that felt pretty good.
Rachel: I was very fortunate early on, maybe 15-some years ago, I landed a Writers Guild job on the Cedric the Entertainer Presents variety show. And I kinda felt like “Hollywood’s easy!” And then I realized that those jobs are few and far between, and since then I’ve written on some less-glamorous shows. I think I had a taste of it early on and then it sort of all went away.
Larry: I’ve never felt that.
When was the first time that you saw one of your comedy friends get something huge that blew your mind?
Rachel: Melissa got on Gilmore Girls and that seemed huge. I remember when Maya Rudolph got on SNL; something about SNL, people getting on that, seems the biggest. I think her first episode she did Beyoncé and it was just so weird to see someone that maybe a few weeks before you had performed on the same stage with them and now they’re on the biggest live stage there is.
Larry: I remember I was in The Groundlings with Kristen Wiig and Kent Sublette, who’s now the head writer at SNL, and then both of them had to end the show because suddenly they were going to New York for SNL. I remember Kristen did this scene where she was a flight attendant and the LA Times came to review the show. I thought her scene was the funniest in the show, and LA Times reviewed it and they loved the show but singled that sketch out as the worst one. It’s weird to get called out when everybody else thought it was a great sketch. Then a couple weeks later she’s doing that same sketch and it’s a huge hit and I don’t know who that reviewer was. I also remember Melissa, ever since I’ve known her, she’s been on TV. But I went to North Carolina when they were shooting Tammy and we went to this small town, and driving in there were all these signs, people saying “Welcome, Melissa” and “God bless you, Melissa.” The crowds of people that were there, it was like being with The Beatles.
How did you get your first agent?
Larry: There used to be this thing called Backstage West, I don’t know if it’s still around, where you’d have a list of agents who were looking for certain types of actors. I did a mass mailing. Someone told me you had to make your envelope “stand out” so use like a different colored envelope. I got this guy, his name was Jack Scagnetti, and he was like a 98-year-old man and had in his office just so much paper everywhere. He said, “I wanna be your agent” and I thought that was great because if you have an agent you’re gonna get jobs. That was the hard part and now it’s gonna be easy. That was about 20 years ago, that was the easy part.
Rachel: I was in the Sunday company at The Groundlings and it was a friend of a woman Julie Conway who was in the Sunday company with us. She had a friend who was a travel agent and then decided to become a talent agent because most of the letters are the same. She was looking for new clients and I jumped on that ship. She didn’t think I should go out for commercials because I was “too ethnic looking.” So I didn’t go out for any commercials. It was a short-lived agent-client relationship.
Have you had any of those “this is Hollywood” moments? Parties that seemed ridiculously cool or awards?
Hugh: I was writing for Robot Chicken and we got nominated for an Emmy. I went to the Emmy awards in my pickup truck, by myself, and joined the Robot Chicken crew. Somehow we won an Emmy for a special that we did. But the whole time sitting in the Emmys theater, there was like a candy wrapper that was on my seat and it was like wadded up and nobody had really cleaned the seat. That’s when I thought, there’s no real great thing out here. Even when you make it to the big awards show there’s still gonna be a used candy wrapper in your seat.
What do you want everyone to know about Nobodies?
Larry: We start out and it seems like the show’s about these people who want to be as successful as their more successful friends. And yeah, that’s what gets us into the show, but what I want people to know is that the show opens up so much from there and really gets into our lives and there are real moments. I think we’ve made kind of a good world and it’s not like a Three Stooges kind of thing.
Rachel: I’d also say that Hugh, Larry, and I are very discerning with what we like and what we find funny. There’s not a ton of stuff on TV that we love to watch, if I’m being perfectly honest, and I think there are probably people out there like us who like comedy, like to laugh, but maybe some of the sitcoms on TV are too broad. Maybe some of the indie things are too inside or too cool for school. Maybe this can bridge the gap somewhere for people who have a similar sensibility to ours. It’s somewhere in the middle. Certainly you won’t see three people who look like me, Hugh, and Larry starring in many shows. Not that we’re trolls but we’re not on the cover of Vogue.
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A group of vandals in North East, Maryland tagged the town’s downtown park early Saturday morning in apparent support of Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump.
North East Police said the political sign reading Go Trump Bro marked in black spray paint in the Light House Pavilion was one of several acts of vandalism done early Saturday morning.
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Lt. James Just said a group of four juveniles and one adult, ranging in age from 14 to 20, tagged the train trestle, the ‘Welcome to North East’ sign and several cars along Main Street before marking the Trump sign in the park.
Just said the group was caught on surveillance video from a downtown business.
Many of the vandals were wearing Halloween style ghoul masks. But police made clear the group was not wearing clown masks, nor do they believe this was part of the ‘creepy clown’ craze.
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We both really enjoyed our first holidays to celebrate being parents! How full and rich our lives are now that we have little Jessica in our lives. She brings so much happiness and a very sweet spirit into our home. Mother's Day weekend was filled going to buy plants and flowers for our garden and flower beds and getting them planted into the ground (my favorite part of Spring/Summer). Our yard is really starting to look beautiful after all the hard work we've put in since last year! Soon I'll have to do a post about the yard and new veggies we are experimenting with growing.
Father's Day weekend was an adventure as we took Jessica on her very first hike! I can say that she has started hiking way younger than I ever did. I think I was a teenager at Girls' Camp by the time that happened for me, so she's definitely ahead of the curve! She was such a trooper as she looked around and made funny "ooh" and "ahh" sounds along with blowing some pretty cute raspberries when she was really excited. Then, she fell asleep for a good portion of the hike back out of the canyon.
Michael was also able to get a bike ride in AND Jessica and I got him some much loved and needed presents. They included a 12 inch cast iron skillet and a BBQ/Camping tool set for all his outdoor cooking, plus a little device from ThinkGeek that makes creepy sounds so he can play pranks on his coworkers while at the office. He's already used that little "EvilTron" (as it's called) to joke around with some of his friends at work!
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A sampling of what you will enjoy with this tool:
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Household help — they don’t send a person, but all of these resources can help everything run more smoothly. This also gives you a place and format to compile essential information. They help you organize chores, medical information, schedules, menus, gardening, pets, parties, and budgets. Over 60 pages of these useful tools.
Each of the forms is made to either print and write on, or type right onto and print out filled in, whatever you prefer. You can save your changes for further modification, or to build on, or print and save the hard copy.
The only downside I have found is that if you want to keep more than one computer based copy of one of the forms, you would need to save the whole planner more than once on your computer. Since I plan on storing hard copies of the record sheets, this did not diminish its usefulness for me, but it was something I had to consider when printing out the various copies for each of my kids. However, if you own a copy of Adobe Acrobat (not Acrobat Reader, the free download, but a rather expensive software), it has the capability of saving individual pages in modified format.
I have big plans for organizing this summer and pulling together all the information and strategies that I need for the year ahead. This wonderful planner has given me the framework and tools to make it all a reality. I had already started before receiving the planner, but the 2009 Schoolhouse Planner has done a lot of the work for me, and now I don’t need to go searching all over the internet to get it done, making my precious planning time even more efficient.
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Every August, as the anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki approach, comments resume about American decisions at the end of World War II. Despite the passage of 65 years, heated opinions are repeated as fact and myths become immortalized as truths. Beyond distorting the historical record, wishful thinking about it leads us to repeat past mistakes in new ways against new enemies.
Exposing the Myths
Among the inaccuracies are these:
1) Japan was ready to fight to the end.
Facts: In an intercepted cable of July 12, 1945, Emperor Hirohito revealed his decision to intervene to end the war. In Truman’s journal he characterized the message as “telegram from Jap Emperor asking for peace.” Tokyo was prepared to surrender unconditionally if the monarchy would be retained, the very position the Allies accepted after Hiroshima.
Five days later Truman predicted that Stalin would “be in the Jap war by August 15. Fini Japs when that comes about.” Nevertheless, he ordered the bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6. The U.S.S.R. entered the war on Aug. 8. Truman ordered the bombing of Nagasaki anyway.
2) Dropping the bomb was necessary to prevent an American invasion.
Facts: In 1946, a U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey report based on intelligence available to the White House concluded: “certainly prior to Dec. 31, 1945 and in all probability prior to Nov. 1, 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russian had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.”
3) Dropping the bomb saved lives.
Facts: Stanford historian Barton Bernstein’s study of declassified documents found that the worst-case scenario by military planners was 46,000 deaths if the U.S. invaded both Kyushu and Honshu islands.
Since Hiroshima, these estimates have grown exponentially as if to justify using the bomb. In notes, Truman cites 250,000 casualties (dead, wounded, missing). His published memoir raises the number to 500,000 dead. Still later, he referred to saving a million lives. In 1991, President H.W. Bush claimed that the bomb saved “millions.” Since both presidents, among countless others, ignored the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey conclusion that an invasion was unnecessary, it is no wonder average Americans do the same. All of these morbid calculations ignore the stark fact that more than 187,000 humans died at Hiroshima.
4) At the time, military and civilian leaders agreed the bomb was necessary.
Fact: Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower told Secretary of War Stimson, “Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary.” Fleet Admiral William Leahy, Chief of Staff to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, wrote in his memoirs, “the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender.” Among the few civilians who knew about the bomb, 155 Manhattan Project scientists signed petitions raising moral concerns about bombing Japanese cities. The report issued by Nobel physicist James Franck in June 1945 recommended a demonstration bombing on a deserted island and also anticipated creating a dangerous arms race.
5) Japanese citizens were warned in advance.
Fact: They were not.
Americans properly disparage countries that manipulate their own histories, whether it is Stalinist revisionism or Japanese amnesia about the forced prostitution of “comfort women.” Yet, powerful belief in American ideals and in the nobility of our motives, leads us to do the same. The result, as with Hiroshima, is a chasm between public perception and historical truth, between ideals and reality.
If we had not used the bomb to end a war that was already won, we might not have had to negotiate with one “evil empire” (N. Korea) to stop developing nuclear weapons, or be anxious that another “evil empire” (Iran) is secretly developing them, while all the while supporting an unstable ally (Pakistan) that possesses them already. Φ
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The ben sorer u’moreh, wayward and rebellious son, is an anomaly within the parameters of halachah. The Torah punishes only when one actively sins. The Torah does not mete out punishment just because the individual is destined to sin. Yet, the ben sorer is executed al shem sofo, because of what he will ultimately do in the end, later in life, when he cannot get what he wants. He will murder to satisfy his desires. Kill him now, before he takes an innocent life. Truly an anomaly.
Ramban posits that the ben sorer warrants two punishments: one for degrading and rebelling against his parents; one for being a drunkard and a glutton, which transgresses the commandment of Kedoshim tehiyu, “You shall be holy” (Vayikra 19:2). One’s life must be focused on strengthening his relationship with Hashem. A man who is a drunk and a glutton is focused on satisfying his immediate physical desires. Perhaps this ben sorer is undeserving of public accolade, such that he will not receive honor, but death? Just because he cannot control himself?
Horav Moshe Reis, Shlita, explains that the Torah is not focusing on the punishment of death, but rather, on the z’chus, merit, one has to live. Life is sacrosanct. It is Hashem’s ultimate gift which He bequeaths to us for a reason, a purpose. We all have a mission to accomplish. Some have greater missions than others; thus, some are blessed with greater physical, spiritual, material wherewithal, so that they can practically and effectively complete their Heavenly-designated mission. No one has a mission to be a glutton and a drunkard. That, by its very nature, is the antithesis of life.
Zachreinu l’chaim, Melech chafeitz ba’chaim… l’maancha Elokim chaim; “Remember us for life, the King Who wants life… for Your sake, the G-d of life.” We do not simply ask for life because we want to live. We ask for life because we want to live a life of meaning, a life of value, a life for G-d’s sake! Chizkiyahu HaMelech asked Hashem to remember his z’chusim, merits. He indicated that he had performed a great service for Klal Yisrael by concealing from them the Sefer HaRefuos, Book of Cures. This volume, authored either by Adam HaRishon or Shlomo HaMelech, contained within it a cure for every single ailment. Rashi (Pesachim 56b) explains that Chizkiyahu saw that people stopped praying to Hashem when they became ill. They no longer beseeched His mercy. They had the “fix-all,” the Book of Cures, that circumvented the need to pray. Thus, the book did more harm than good, because illness is Divinely ordained in order to compel people to turn to the Almighty in prayer. This strengthens and enhances their relationship with the Divine.
Horav Mordechai Gifter, zl, wonders why the halachah of pikuach nefesh, saving a life, which overrides the entire Torah, was not relevant. If the Sefer HaRefuos could save lives, how could Chizkiyah dare hide it, thus endangering countless Jewish lives? The Rosh Yeshivah explains that Chizkiyahu’s intrepid action, ratified both by Hashem and the Sages, teaches us that a life devoid of sincere, heartfelt prayer, a life that is empty, unblessed with a relationship with Hashem, is not worth living. Life is meaningful and sacred when it is a medium to cling to the Source of life: Hashem. When man places his trust in himself, in books of wondrous cures or in the practitioners who expound them, his life has lost direction and purpose. Our merit for life is, l’Maancha, for Your sake. Nothing else matters. One who is prepared to live l’Maancha has a right to petition zachreinu l’chaim.
Chazal teach that a case of ben sorer u’moreh has never existed because of all the many criteria necessary to qualify this boy for premature execution. The Bais Yisrael adds a caveat of his own. A person can be judged only based upon his own personal wrongs. If the blame is singularly upon him – then he is deserving of punishment. The ben sorer u’moreh is certainly not blameless, but can we contend that the full weight of his sins are upon him? Can we say that he had no mitigating circumstances in his life that caused him to turn out this way? What about his father, the one who married the yafes toar, beautiful captive? He was the one for whom the Torah made a yetzer hora dispensation, because, otherwise, he might have allowed for his physical passions to get the better of him. We must remember that the apple does not fall far from the tree. I might also add that once the apple “falls” from the tree, it probably becomes a little smashed and soiled. It is no longer the same apple. When one takes all this into consideration, it is not surprising that the ben sorer did not happen. Too many factors had to contribute to enable that outcome to occur.
The Torah writes that the ben sorer einenu shomea does not listen to the voice of his father or the voice of his mother. Chazal (Sanhedrin 71a) derive from there that, if either parent is deaf, the boy does not become a ben sorer. The Imrei Emes wonders how Chazal derive from the boy’s inability to listen that, if either parent is deaf, the boy does not become a ben sorer. (If the parents claim that he does not hear them, it means that they hear each other, or they are aware that he does not listen to them. This indicates that neither is deaf.) How does a parent’s inability to hear ameliorate his/her son’s rebellion (not listening to them)? The Imrei Emes explains that, if one of the parents does not hear, it is no wonder that the son does not hear. We learn by example, even if the example that one projects is not his/her fault. At the end of the day, the boy sees that not hearing can become not listening and regress to ignoring and ultimately eschewing what the parent asks of him.
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I must begin by acknowledging my debt, both personal and intellectual, to Francisco Varela.
I met Francisco for the first time in 1991--at the very first European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL). As co-organiser of the conference he was, of course, rather busy, so I was quite diffident in approaching him. Yet he was immediately welcoming, and happy to take the time to sit and discuss with me my initial tentative exploration of the concept of autopoiesis.
Subsequently we corresponded at some length, and in 1992 he accepted an invitation to Dublin to participate in the workshop Autopoiesis and Perception, which I co-organised with my colleague Noel Murphy . We continued to correspond and meet at intervals over the following years. I particularly remember a discussion over dinner one evening during the third ECAL (Grenada, Spain, in 1995), where he dazzled me not only with his ability to maintain three simultaneous conversations with different people, but to do so in three (or more?) different languages, switching continuously between them!
In any case, that particular conversation laid the basis for a more intense correspondence over the following two years that culminated in an exhaustive (and exhausting?) re-examination of the original, computational model of autopoiesis . This will be discussed in more detail below; for now it is enough to note that it ultimately resolved a number of difficult questions regarding the earlier work--but that this resolution was possible only because of Francisco's unfailing patience with my questions, and cheerful willingness to dredge both his memory and his files to locate critical contemporary records of the work.
Francisco Varela was a brilliant and original scientist. But my enduring memory is of Francisco the man: his enthusiasm, his infectious good humour, his idealism, and his sheer appetite for life. He is sorely missed.
What does it mean for something to be alive? Why are some things alive, and some not? Is there only one way of being alive, or many different and distinct ways?
These are the most fundamental questions which should define biology--and thus, in turn, Artificial Life--as a distinct field of enquiry. Yet the answers are not straightforward, and certainly not the subject of clear consensus. With the demise of vitalism, it was recognised that living systems are made of the same kinds of things as the non-living. It follows that the distinctiveness of living systems must arise from the particular manner or modes of organisation which they embody. But it has proved surprisingly difficult to articulate what this mode (or these modes) of living organisation consist in.
The project of autopoiesis was motivated inter alia by the attempt to answer just such questions. It proposes that, at some level, and in some way, all living things share a common organisation; and that this is characterised by two intimately entwined closure properties:
The central claim of autopoietic theory is that autopoietic organisation is necessary (though hardly sufficient) for the emergence of living phenomenology. If that claim is taken seriously, it naturally defines a particular programme within Artificial Life: namely the attempt to realise autopoietic organisation in artificial, especially computational, media. Indeed, the attempt to do just this has been an integral part of work on autopoiesis from its very inception. Accordingly, we will turn now to the historical setting and context for the formulation of autopoietic theory, and its seminal casting in a specifically computational context.
... the simulation rapidly provided the results our intuition had led us to expect: the spontaneous emergence in this artificial bi-dimensional world of units which self-distinguished by means of the formation of a `membrane', and which showed a capacity of self-repair. ... It is important to mention this article here because it was the first publication on the idea of autopoiesis in English for an international public, which led the international community to take charge of the idea. In addition it anticipated what twenty years later would become the explosive field now called artificial life and cellular automata.
--Varela [45, p. 414]
As recounted by Varela, the concrete idea of autopoiesis arose only slowly, and in particular circumstances of time and place. The development seems to have originated around 1967 . Varela was then a student (or ``apprentice'') under Humberto Maturana in the Department of Sciences at the University of Chile. Maturana was already well known, with an international reputation for his work on the neurophysiology of vision [see e.g., 13]; but he had started to develop a basic dissatisfaction with the idea of ``information'' as being key to understanding brain and cognition.
The problems here are profound, and are still by no means resolved. Nervous systems somehow contrive to imbue mere ``information'' with meaning and significance. Despite the continuing dominance of the ``information processing'' paradigm of cognition, such signification cannot be intrinsic to the raw information. Indeed, the very basis of the Shannon ``information theory'' is, precisely, to separate information from meaning. So signification is something that is somehow generated through the autonomous, self-referring, dynamics of a nervous system, constrained by its embedding in, and coupling with, the world it comes to know.
These ideas of autonomous circular organisation in nervous systems were developed by Maturana over the following several years. While Varela's personal trajectory took him to the USA at this time, the two continued to meet and collaborate together, and with Heinz von Foerster, in discussing these ideas. This culminated in the publication of Maturana's paper Neurophysiology of Cognition . Varela retrospectively identified this as a critical step (to which, as Maturana acknowledged, both Varela and von Foerster had contributed)--``... the indisputable beginning of a turn in a new direction'' [45, p. 412]. In particular, it made the first connection between these issues of self-reference in nervous systems and corresponding, but even more basic, problems regarding the molecular constitution of the biological cell--which is to say, of life itself.
Varela returned to Chile in 1970, now as a colleague of Maturana in the Biology Department at the University of Chile. They deliberately focussed on exploring the nature of the organization of the living organism. At this point the problem was becoming clear as that of understanding or characterising the demarcation between living and non-living systems--but to do so in a way which was abstracted away from the specific biochemical contingencies of any particular form of life. So we see already here exactly the distinction between ``life as it is'' and ``life as it could be'' that eventually provided the intellectual foundation for the field of Artificial Life .
By mid-1971, the word itself, autopoiesis, had been coined, and Varela and Maturana had outlined a minimal model or exemplar. By this was meant an imaginary, abstract, chemical world, incorporating just those species and reactions that would suffice to allow the constitution of a minimal autopoietic system. This would therefore serve to isolate, in a very precise and concrete way, just what was, and was not, being pointed at by the new concept.
Thus, the minimal model served an important expository purpose--to give concrete form to what is otherwise a rather difficult and unfamiliar idea; but to do so in a way that strips away the many complex distractions that any real bio-chemical system would additionally present. Moreover, then, as now, no real living cell is yet described in sufficient detail to be able to definitively identify its constitution as autopoietic in any case.
Yet, the minimal model also served another, potentially much more important purpose: as a test of what had now become, not just a concept, but a theory of autopoiesis. Maturana and Varela conjectured that autopoietic organisation was capable of giving rise to characteristically biological phenomenology--in particular, to that most primitive cellular phenomenon of ``self-repair'', of the conservation of composite, macroscopic, cellular organisation even as the microscopic constituents of the cell are continuously turned over.
Ideally, of course, such a test case might have been implemented in ``real'', ``wet'', chemistry. But this is both technically challenging and, in any case, runs the risk of re-introducing many distracting complications that are not relevant to the restricted question being asked. So, instead, they hit on the idea of using a computer simulation; and, in particular, the idea of a low-level, fine-grained (``individual-'' or ``agent-based'') simulation.
This methodological idea was undoubtedly already ``in the air''. Varela himself described it as an ``obvious step'' [45, p. 414]. It drew explicitly on the pioneering work of John von Neumann--work carried out in the early 1950's, but which had been properly published only a few years prior to Varela and Maturana's work [47,29]; and on the seminal development of the Game of Life by Conway et. al., reported just as Varela and Maturana were already working along these lines .
On the other hand, some distinctive and highly original innovations were also required. The basic idea of a discrete, two-dimensional, space, with local interactions, clearly derives from von Neumann. However, Varela and Maturana introduced the concept of directly implementing (quasi-)stable ``particles'' which can move across the lattice, rather than relying on the relatively complex and fragile emergence of patterns of underlying node-states with this property (e.g., in the manner of gliders in the Game of Life). They also incorporated a deliberately stochastic dynamics, and inter-particle transformations or reactions--essential to anything motivated by the idea of realising an abstract ``chemistry'' (as opposed to an abstract ``physics''). From a contemporary perspective, writing in the pages of the Artificial Life Journal, these are now essentially standard techniques; but it is important to recognise the originality and insight that they represented in that much earlier era.
In any case, the assistance of Ricardo Uribe of the School of Engineering at the University of Chile was enlisted, and, as reported in the opening quote of this section, a computer simulation of the minimal model was created which ``rapidly'' confirmed the qualitative expectations of Varela and Maturana.
By the end of 1971 then, the theory of autopoiesis in its most basic form--as a theory of the molecular organisation of living cells--had been quite fully articulated, and tested in the form of a highly simplified (and therefore highly demanding) computer simulation. Two texts had been written: a comprehensive technical account, and a draft of a shorter summary article (including the simulation results).
Publication proved difficult. The extended version was rejected by at least five publishers and journals; the short paper was submitted to several journals, including Science and Nature, with similar results. However, following a visit to Chile by Heinz von Foerster in mid-1973, the paper was further revised and submitted to BioSystems (for which von Foerster was a member of the editorial board), and eventually published in mid-1974 . Much more comprehensive publications have, of course, followed [24,23,44]; but as the first English language publication of the theory of autopoiesis to an international audience, the 1974 BioSystems paper remains a key reference, which continues to be widely read and cited. Further, as the first application of agent-based computer modelling to demarcating the living from the non-living state, it occupies a seminal position in the pre-history of what we now call Artificial Life.
The original computational model of autopoiesis was presented in the form of a detailed, natural language, algorithm [46, Appendix]. This algorithm is reviewed and critiqued, in detail, in . I will return to that critique in due course, but first it is important to have a general, qualitative, view of the model, and the phenomenology it is intended to exhibit.
The chemistry takes places in a discrete, two dimensional, space. Each position in the space is either empty or occupied by a single particle. Particles generally move in random walks in the space. There are three distinct particle types, engaging in three distinct reactions (see Figure 1):
Chains of L particles are permeable to S particles but impermeable to K and L particles. Thus a closed chain, or membrane, which encloses K or L particles effectively traps such particles.
The basic autopoietic phenomenon predicted for this system is the possibility of realising dynamic cell-like structures which, on an ongoing basis, produce the conditions for their own maintenance. Such a system would consist of a closed chain (membrane) of L particles enclosing one or more K particles. Because S particles can permeate through the membrane, there can be ongoing production of L particles. Since these cannot escape from the membrane, this will result in the build up of a relatively high concentration of L particles. On an ongoing basis, the membrane will rupture as a result of disintegration of component L particles. Because of the high concentration of L particles inside the membrane, there should be a high probability that one of these will drift to the rupture site and effect a repair, before the K particle(s) escape, thus re-establishing precisely the conditions allowing the build up and maintenance of that high concentration of L particles.
A secondary phenomenon which may arise is the spontaneous establishment of an autopoietic system from a randomised initial arrangement of the particles.
Both these phenomena were reported and illustrated in the original paper.
One specific weakness of this original model deserves mention here. This is that the K component is not itself produced by any reaction in the putatively autopoietic system. Prima facie this appears to violate the demand for closure in the processes of production. The paper itself is somewhat confusing on this point. A ``six-point key'' is provided for determining whether any given entity is autopoietic. Point 6 of this first appears to require that all components should, indeed, be produced by interactions among the components; but immediately equivocates by allowing some exceptions to this if the relevant components ``participate as necessary permanent constitutive components in the production of other components'' [46, p. 193]. This does appear somewhat clumsy. On the other hand, there must surely be some exceptions allowed (specifically, covering the case of the S particles which are simply harvested from the environment). In any case, as will be discussed later, more recent elaborations of this original model have specifically allowed for production of the K particles , so there is no fundamental difficulty here.
Autopoiesis grew and developed in many different directions after 1974. The computational approach was specifically pursued by Milan Zeleny, in a series of publications between 1975 and 1978 [49,54,53,48].
Zeleny first re-implemented the original model in the programming language APL, and then explored a number of different elaborations of this. In particular, he reported such phenomena as growth, change in shape, oscillation in chemical activity, and self-reproduction of autopoietic entities [49,48].
Prima facie these represent important demonstrations of progressively richer, life-like, phenomena within the framework of computational autopoiesis. However, there are some serious difficulties in assessing the significance of these results. The papers cited above do not detail the exact modifications of the original algorithm that gave rise to the new phenomena; but the qualitative descriptions suggest that, in at least some cases, the original constraints of local interaction, random motion of particles, and time-independent particle dynamics, may have been rather arbitrarily relaxed. If that were so, the interest of these results would be seriously diminished--in the sense that the more complex ``macroscopic'' phenomena may have been, in effect, implicitly programmed into individual microscopic particles.
The ideal way to address these questions would be, of course, to directly examine the software responsible. Indeed, this software was made available for use by interested researchers at the time [50, Note 11], although it is not entirely clear whether this was in a form that allowed access to inspect the source code. In any case, and unfortunately, it appears that no copies of this software have survived.1It is therefore now impossible to come to any more definitive conclusions. However, this very impasse clearly suggests an implicit lesson for the methodology of scientific research where the phenomena under investigation have their primary realization in the form of computers executing specific programmes. I will return to this important methodological question below.
Maturana and Varela themselves continued to explore the general paradigm of autopoiesis, of course. Milestones included the publication of Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living in 1980 , and the more popular or accessible account, The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding in 1987 . Also significant was the appearance, in the early 1980's, of two collections of papers by diverse authors, both edited by Milan Zeleny [52,51]. These demonstrated a broadening interest in autopoiesis from researchers in a range of fields.
In the late 1980's there was also a return to the question of a minimal model of (molecular) autopoiesis--but this time not via computation but through real, ``wet'', chemistry. This direction of research was initially introduced in 1988, in a collaboration between Varela and Luisi , and quite quickly led to the exhibition of concrete chemical models .
Over that same period, from about 1988 to 1992, a strong philosophical interest, and critique, of autopoietic ideas emerged in the literature of general systems theory. This was particularly associated with the work of Fleischaker [4,5,6]. A special issue of the Journal of General Systems, edited by Fleischaker in 1992 , provided a forum for a robust debate, from a variety of specialists, over the scope, and, indeed, precise meaning, of autopoiesis.
For my purposes here, the most significant aspect of this discussion is the question of possible ``spaces'', or ``domains'', in which autopoiesis can be realised--and especially the status of purely computational implementations. Fleischaker has the merit of taking a very clear position on this: she holds that, as least insofar as autopoiesis is taken to be definitional or criterial of ``life'', then it must be interpreted as restricted ``entirely to the physical domain'' [5, p. 43]. In turn I take her to mean that computational models of autopoiesis must be regarded only as ``simulations'', and not ``realisations'' of life.
I am not fully persuaded by this position. In particular, it seems to me that we should distinguish between a purely formal description of a computation (e.g., the original ``algorithm'' of Varela et al. , or even a specific programme implementing this algorithm) and a concrete, physical, computer which is actually executing such an algorithm. The latter is clearly a very different kind of system from a conventional chemical, or molecular one; but, equally, it is certainly still a physical one. If it hosts autopoietic entities--albeit removed by a significant number of ``levels'' from the underlying ``hardware''--then those entities are surely also still physical. Thus, I would find it hard to categorise such an entity as ``not-living'' solely on a putative basis of its being ``not-physical''.
On the other hand, I am also unconvinced that debate on this issue will be particularly fruitful in any case. I would argue that--within the field of Artificial Life at least--the substantive issue at the current time is not whether a computationally-based autopoietic entity is ``really'' alive, but rather whether we can exhibit computationally-based autopoietic entities with substantially richer, more life-like, phenomenology. The early work of Zeleny was arguably developing in this direction; but, as we have seen, the concrete implementations of that work are not longer available, and it is now very difficult to critically appraise its substance.
I will therefore now return to consider a second phase of (attempted) elaboration of the phenomenology of computational autopoiesis.
As far as I am aware, following Zeleny's initial explorations, little further substantive development of computational autopoiesis was published between c. 1980 and the early 1990's.
As recounted in the preamble, my personal interest began around 1991. I was then completing a detailed re-evaluation of von Neumann's original work on ``self-reproducing'' automata. My conclusion from that study was that this could be best understood as focussed not on self-reproduction per se, but on self-reproduction as a mechanism for the evolutionary growth of complexity . Indeed, von Neumann had demonstrated how the architecture of a relatively passive genetic ``description tape'' coupled with a general purpose, programmable, ``constructor'', would give rise to a dense network of mutational pathways connecting relatively simple automata to arbitrarily complex ones. This is a very significant result; but it does not, in itself, suffice to realise the open-ended evolutionary growth of complexity in artificial systems.
The critical obstacle (one recognised clearly by von Neumann himself) is that his automata are extremely fragile. While they are logically capable of self-reproduction, they can do so only in a completely empty environment, with no disturbance to their operation. In practice, of course, Darwinian evolution could only happen within ecosystems where automata interact both with each other and with a more or less complex environment. Thus, to have a serious prospect of open-ended evolutionary growth of complexity, one requires automata which both have a von Neumann style genetic architecture and are also capable of surviving--maintaining and repairing themselves--in the face of environmental perturbation. Indeed, they should do this even while being open to turnover of their components (the latter being necessary to harvest materials for self-reproduction, if for no other reason).
Now von Neumann had exhibited--in detail--how to realize automata with his genetic architecture within a comparatively simple, two dimensional, discrete space. Similarly, Varela et. al. had exhibited how to realize automata capable of basic self-repair and turnover of components in a similar space (or, at least, one explicitly inspired by von Neumann's). The question therefore arises whether one can engineer a single artificial universe, hopefully of not much greater inherent complexity, in which these two kinds of automaton can be unified.
This then was the problem which I started to discuss with Francisco Varela in the early 1990's . My starting point was the original computational model of autopoiesis. The research programme was, initially at least, rather simple: re-implement that model, demonstrating the original, minimal, autopoietic phenomenology; and then explore elaborations (more particle types, more reactions, etc.) in the general direction of trying to unite the autopoietic functionality with something like a von Neumann genetic system.
However, this programme failed at the very first hurdle: i.e., re-creating the original, minimal, autopoietic phenomenology. It took some time, and several different attempts (which became intermittent, over a number of years), but it gradually became clear that the difficulties were more than superficial.
Eventually, in the Autumn of 1996 I had the opportunity (with support from Chris Langton at the Santa Fe Institute) to make a concentrated study of the problem. This resulted in a detailed analysis of a number of anomalies in the original BioSystems paper . These encompassed both difficulties in interpreting the algorithm, and apparent inconsistencies between the algorithm and the presented experimental results.
While a significant number of detailed issues with the early computational model were uncovered in this process, the great majority of these were relatively minor, and could have been ignored or easily corrected. However, there was one particular phenomenon which was more serious, and which was responsible for the fundamental difficulty in re-creating the original autopoietic phenomena. This is the problem of premature bonding of the L particles. According to the original algorithm, once L particles form they can spontaneously bond together; and, further, once bonded, they become immobile. But this is a fatal flaw for the supposed autopoietic closure of the reaction network: the free L particles are effectively sequestered by the side-reaction of spontaneous bonding. This both makes them essentially unavailable for membrane repair, and also clogs up the interior of the cell, eventually blocking further production.
Figures 1 and 2 show an experimental example of this. Figure 1 shows the initial configuration of an externally created cell. Figure 2 shows the state of the cell after 110 time steps. The membrane has not yet suffered any decay. However, the interior of the membrane is now completely clogged with bonded--and thus immobile--L particles. Only two open positions remain inside the membrane, one occupied by the K particle. Since the production reaction requires two S particles adjacent to each other and to the K particle, there is no longer any available site for further production within the membrane, and further production of L particles is impossible. It follows that, whenever the membrane does eventually rupture, there will be no mobile L particles available to effect a repair.
This is a very robust failure. It is not sensitive to any precise details of the implementation. Indeed, the same problem was retrospectively identified in two other, independent, attempts at re-implementation [15,34]; and may well have been present in the Zeleny work also (but superficially masked there through the introduction of non-local interactions etc.).
This then provided the basis for a more extended and detailed discussion with Francisco Varela. But, of course, there had been a long lapse of time since the original experimental work had been carried out, c. 1971. Further, it should be remembered that the work had taken place against a backdrop of great turbulence in Chile. Varela had been a prominent supporter of the Allende government. Following the coup d'etat and the coming to power of Pinochet in September 1973, Varela, like many others, was effectively forced into exile . These events co-incided directly with the development of the BioSystems paper. Circumstances had therefore combined to make it very difficult to recall or reconstruct technical details of that work, some 25 years later.
This was the situation of the discussion in late 1996, when chance intervened. Varela was now based in Paris, and he there happened to receive a shipment of papers and files, apparently belonging to him, which had just been located back at the University of Chile. Among these papers, he identified several contemporary, albeit fragmentary, records of the early computational exploration of autopoiesis. Critically, these included an early discursive description of the model and a listing of a version of the actual computer code (in FORTRAN IV).
With the help of these documents it was finally possible to identify, with reasonable confidence, exactly the causes of the discrepancies which had been identified in the BioSystems paper.2 In particular, an explanation was found for the control of premature bonding in the original model. It transpired that the model had actually included an additional, undocumented, interaction: chain-based bond inhibition. The effect of this was that free L particles in the immediate vicinity of the membrane (or, indeed, any chain of L particles) were inhibited from spontaneously forming bonds with each other. Provided the cell is not very big, this is sufficient to prevent premature bonding and ensure a continuing supply of free, mobile, L particles to repair membrane ruptures as and when they arise. Once this interaction was re-introduced, the original autopoietic phenomenology of ongoing self-repair, as reported in , was easily realised again. Detailed experiments documenting and demonstrating this were presented at ECAL 1997 .
The implicit limitation of the chain-based bond inhibition mechanism to comparatively small cells should be carefully noted: it reveals, in particular, that this original form of autopoietic cell will not easily support growth, or, more particularly, cell reproduction by fission. This is obviously rather important for any projected extension to realising Darwinian evolution of such cells. We will return to this limitation below.
While this eventual re-creation of the original autopoietic phenomenology ultimately hinged on a rather mundane technical refinement, I would argue that it was still a useful, if modest, contribution, for two distinct reasons:
It should be admitted that, in contrast to the other interactions in this model, chain-based bond inhibition has a distinctly ad hoc flavour. That being the case, it can reasonably be asked why this interaction should be considered as being ``acceptable''--that is, as not detracting from the significance of the reported phenomena. This is particularly moot, because certain other (conjectured) interactions in the later models of Zeleny were treated more critically above (section 4). However, it seems to me that a distinction should be drawn here between interactions that are ad hoc simply in the sense of ``unfamiliar'' or ``unphysical'', and interactions that are non-local (in some relevant ``space'') or that have pre-programmed time-variation. As already noted, the latter have the clear potential to allow both aggregate and time-structured phenomena to be effectively ``programmed in'' (either in single agents, or in the environment as a whole). For example, apparently macroscopic ``cellular'' organisation might, in effect, be an artefact constructed and co-ordinated by a single ``central control'' agent; in which case, its ``emergence'' would presumably be of little interest.
By contrast, chain-based bond inhibition is still a perfectly local, and time-independent, interaction, occurring on a smaller scale than, and un-influenced by, macroscopic cellular organisation. It is for this reason that, in my view, the identification of this additional interaction does not undermine the significance of the dynamic, macroscopic, cellular organisation originally reported for this model.
Of course, the question at stake here--of choosing appropriate abstractions or ``axiomatizations'' of primitive agents--is a difficult one, which has been at the heart of the field of Artificial Life right since its inception. Indeed, in a lecture originally dating from 1949, von Neumann captured this tension explicitly and succinctly:
... one may define parts in such numbers, and each of them so large and involved, that one has defined the whole problem away. If you choose to define as elementary objects things which are analogous to whole living organisms, then you obviously have killed the problem, because you would have to attribute to these parts just those functions of the living organism which you would like to describe or to understand. So, by choosing the parts too large, by attributing too many and too complex functions to them, you lose the problem at the moment of defining it. [47, p. 76]
This continues to be a matter of debate in the field, and I do not suggest that the particular demarcation I have suggested above--based specifically on ``locality'' and ``time-independence''--offers anything more than a very rough, heuristic, guide. Particular models, and their associated phenomenology, must still be critically evaluated on their individual merits.
In closing this discussion of the clarification of the original model of computational autopoiesis it is, perhaps, equally important to comment on something that this work did not demonstrate: namely, it certainly did not show that there was, or is, any obstacle of principle in realising autopoietic organisation in an artificial, computational, medium. This must be stated clearly, as precisely an opposite interpretation has recently been attributed to this work:
... The non-computability of Autopoietic systems, as advanced here, apparently collides with the simulation results involving tessellation automatas (sic) . But new versions of this simulation show that the original report of computational autopoiesis was flawed, as it used a non-documented feature involving chain-based bond inhibition . Thus the closure exhibited by tessellation automatas is not a consequence of the ``network'' of simulated processes, but rather an artifact of coding procedures .
--Letelier et al. [18, p. 270]
For context, the over-arching conjecture being advanced by Letelier et al. is that autopoiesis is, in some fundamental sense, a ``non-computable'' process. By this they mean that while it can (obviously?) be realised in real physico-chemical form, there is some essential aspect of this process that cannot, even in principle, be realised in a strictly computational system. It amounts to a specific denial of the Church-Turing thesis (regarding the ultimate computability of the entire physical universe). But clearly there is a logical conflict between such a conjecture and the original illustration of the very concept of autopoiesis via a perfectly computational model. The quotation above is an attempt to resolve this conflict.
However, this is a most peculiar analysis.
It is true, of course, that the original report of computational autopoiesis was ``flawed'', and, indeed, that this was primarily because ``it used a non-documented feature involving chain-based bond inhibition''. However, the citation for the last sentence in this quotation is simply wrong: there is no reference whatsoever in to any distinction between ``simulated processes'' and ``coding procedures''. Nor can I conceive, even now, in retrospect, of any basis for assigning a different status to ``chain-based bond inhibition'' compared to any other interaction in that particular artificial chemistry (production, bonding, absorption, etc.).
Thus, there is no basis whatever for supposing that this clarification of the ``original report'' undermines the essential result. The only flaw was in enumerating the processes or interactions underlying them: one necessary interaction was omitted from this description. The phenomena originally reported were accurate, and ultimately reproducible in perfectly ``computable'' form. If it is accepted that the phenomena reported in the original paper constituted ``autopoiesis''--as it apparently is by Letelier et al.--then they still constitute autopoiesis. This was stated most explicitly in the conclusion of :
It should be emphasised that the substantive point of this paper is to correct the historical record. ... However, this correction does not add to, or modify, the original conceptual foundation of autopoiesis in any significant way.
I conclude that the overall thesis of Letelier et al.--of the ``non-computability'' of autopoietic systems--should be taken as refuted, rather than corroborated, by the results of .
I have critically reviewed two distinct bodies of work in computational autopoiesis above--the original model of Varela et. al., and the developments of that by Zeleny. These are certain similarities in my comments. In both cases I have identified anomalies or difficulties of interpretation of the published results. However, the final conclusions are quite different. In the case of the original model, it proved possible to locate the source code (or, at least, a close relative) on which the results were based; as a result, the substantive difficulties were fully resolved. For Zeleny's work, unfortunately, the source code is apparently lost; definitive resolution of questions relating to it, at this stage, is therefore extremely difficult, if not impossible.
I should emphasize that these differing outcomes are largely due to chance--the fortuitous re-discovery of the Varela documents--rather than design. However, regardless of that, they suggest a methodological lesson worth digesting. At the time of the original publications considered above, the technological facilities were not generally available to support easy distribution or access to accompanying code--but this is no longer the case. I would suggest therefore that as a general principle, published reports on computer models of ALife should be accompanied by access to the program code for the models on the World Wide Web; and indeed, that practice has now been followed in the cases of the surviving documents from Varela et. al. and the successful modern re-implementation [28,33].
As already explained, a natural research programme in computational autopoiesis is to attempt to realise Darwinian evolution among lineages of autopoietic cells. This requires--among other things--the realisation of cells that are at least capable of self-reproduction through simple growth and fission.
In pursuing this programme, an initial problem which arises then is individuation.
My own exploration of this problem begins with a conceptual comparison of autopoiesis and Stuart Kauffman's idea of a ``collectively autocatalytic set'' . I conclude that there is a critical distinction between these precisely in that autopoiesis requires self-generated ``individuation''. This is classically captured by stating that the autopoietic network of processes must give rise to a boundary; however, it turns out that it is not entirely clear what should qualify, in general, as a ``boundary''. In I suggest a heuristic test for this, which essentially asks whether two putatively individual cells, in direct contact with each other, can reliably maintain their separate identities.
This test is, of course, motivated directly by the issue of self-reproduction. In the situation of self-reproduction of an autopoietic cell by growth and fission, then the parent and offspring will clearly initially be in direct proximity to each other. If they fail to maintain their separate identities--if they can as easily merge back into one cell--this would hardly qualify as ``self-reproduction'' in the functional sense required for evolution, as such merging would undermine the very Malthusian population growth required for Darwinian selection.3 This then is precisely the acid test for individuation: whether an entity can maintain its self-identity when it interacts with another entity of exactly the same material components and organisation.
The test was first applied to a variety of ``classical'' artificial life systems: the -universes , Alchemy [8,9], and Tierra . In these cases, the conclusion was as expected: it served to make more precise the a priori judgement that none of these should be considered as realising computational autopoiesis.
The surprise came when the test was applied to the original (re-implemented) model of computational autopoiesis [46,33]. Though experimental results were not presented in detail, it appears that the chain-based bond inhibition reaction, while essential to the self-repair of a single isolated cell, also has the unintended side effect of inhibiting maintenance of the bounding membrane when two membranes are adjacent to each other. This means that, if anything, adjacent agents tend positively to merge rather than to maintain their individuality. In turn, if the proposed heuristic test is accepted as an operational test for autopoietic individuation, we are forced to the somewhat controversial conclusion that the original minimal model, which was intended precisely to be an exemplar of the concept, is not in fact properly autopoietic.
However, to pre-empt mis-interpretation, I would emphasise that this result still does not argue for any obstacle in principle to computational autopoiesis. It merely demonstrates that robust autopoietic organisation is not easy or trivial to achieve.
Two direct elaborations of the original model of computational autopoiesis have been published more recently.
Breyer et al. first relaxed the original restrictions on the motion of bound L particles to allow the formation of flexible chains and, indeed, membranes. Allowing multiple, doubly-bonded, L particles to occupy a single lattice site further enhanced membrane motion. Adopting more sophisticated ``bond re-arrangement'' interactions then allows chain fragments formed within the cell to be dynamically integrated into the membrane. These mechanisms together obviate the need for the chain-based bond inhibition mechanisms--since now, even if L particles spontaneously bond in the interior of the cells, the oligomers so formed remain mobile, and through bond rearrangement, can still successfully function to repair membrane ruptures. In this way, the model is reported as successfully supporting cell growth.
The authors separately consider mechanisms for production of further K particles within a cell. As previously noted, this possibility was absent in the original model, but is, of course, a necessary condition for any development toward self-reproduction. However, the full achievement of self-reproduction is not reported.
Rather similar developments were independently reported by McMullin and Groß . Again, bound L particles were allowed to move, facilitating flexible membranes; a somewhat more complex bond re-arrangement interaction was introduced to facilitate cell growth; and the chain-based bond inhibition interaction was discarded. In this case, however, instead of simply permitting spontaneous L bonding within the cell (and then relying on mobility of these fragments to sustain repair), chain initiation (i.e., bonding between two free L particles) was disabled. This meant that the interior of the cell could still sustain a relatively large concentration of highly mobile free L particles. Other refinements included ``smart'' repair of the membrane (where membrane particles were replaced as soon as they started to decay--even before the membrane was actually ruptured) and ``membrane affinity'' of free L particles. The latter meant that the membrane tended to take a bi-layer form; the outer layer particles being bonded, and the inner layer providing a stock of free L particles to effect very efficient repair.
These modifications together permitted the establishment of autopoietic cells with much greater dynamic stability (longer lifetimes) and/or cells capable of sustained growth. However, it should be noted that, with chain initiation disabled, this particular model would not be capable of exhibiting spontaneous cell generation de novo. Again, this paper identifies the enriched phenomenology as potential steps toward the realisation of self-reproduction of autopoietic cells, through growth and fission; but does not report the achievement of that.
A significantly different approach to computational autopoiesis, termed Lattice Artificial Chemistry (LAC) has been recently pioneered in a series of studies by Ono and Ikegami.
LAC differs from the original model of Varela et al. (and its direct descendants above) in adopting a coarse grained approach. In the original model, each lattice site can generally be occupied by at most one particle: it is fine-grained to the single molecule level. In LAC, by contrast, each single lattice site is permitted to host many particles, of many distinct molecular species.
Using this approach Ono and Ikegami have progressively reported:
Because LAC uses the coarse grained approach, direct comparisons with the fine-grained models are difficult. For example, when multiple cells are present in the same space, they normally share membranes, so that a population of cells exhibits a ``honeycomb'' structure. It is difficult to assess the degree of ``individuation'' on the part of single cells in this case (as multiple cells contribute to the maintenance of any given boundary).
The exhibition of selection at the cell level seems particularly significant . At this point, this is still limited to selection among a pre-designed variety of cell strains--there is nothing like a von Neumann style genetic architecture, or programmable constructor. Nonetheless, the LAC methodology clearly presents a very fruitful avenue of research.
While this paper has concentrated on the development of computational autopoiesis, per se, this is clearly related to several other, parallel, developments.
The Chemoton of Tibor Gánti , though apparently developed quite independently, is clearly related to cellular autopoiesis; indeed, this first (English) report on the chemoton concept appeared in the same journal, BioSystems, as the first presentation of Autopoiesis , but in the following year (1975). These parallels--and links to a wide variety of much earlier work--have been more recently reviewed by Gánti .
The chemoton is again a proposal for an abstract, ``minimal'' cell, consisting of a collectively autocatalytic network of reactions which is enclosed within a membrane, which is also generated and maintained by the reaction network. It differs from the minimal autopoiesis model in explicitly including a ``genetic subsystem''. It is also rather more detailed in its analysis of the required chemical dynamics (kinetics etc.), and aims at supporting self-reproduction by growth and fission even in the minimal version.
While the provision of a genetic system is significant, it should be emphasised that, in the basic chemoton, this is limited to replication of varieties of ``polymers'' which then have direct chemical effects. The polymers do not participate in a translation process; thus, this subsystem is again relatively limited in scope compared to a von Neumann style genetic architecture, or programmable constructor.
The chemoton has been subject to various computer simulation studies, particularly by Csendes . However, these were based essentially on an Ordinary Differential Equation approach, rather than being molecular or agent-based. This means that, in particular, the distributed, spatial, dynamics of membrane growth, fission, and individuation, were not substantively modelled.
Other computational systems with some connection or similarity to autopoiesis include Alchemy [8,9], the -universes , Coreworld and Tierra . However, as already mentioned, while these do involve closed, self-sustaining, reaction networks, they do not have mechanisms for the self-generation of spatial boundaries.
Another very interesting line of work involves much more physico-chemically realistic computer models of minimal cellular structures. Rasmussen and colleagues, in particular, have recently exhibited spontaneous emergence of such hierarchical levels of organisation . This line of attack poses some scaling difficulties, as the computational demands of physico-chemical realism rise very rapidly. On the other hand, the cost of computation continues to fall, so this may well be a very fruitful domain of further research in the immediate future.
Finally, we should note that there are clear conceptual connections between the idea of autopoiesis and Robert Rosen's metabolism-repair systems and ``closure under efficient causation'' . This connection has recently been made explicit by Letelier et al. , with the concrete suggestion that Rosen's work may provide an appropriate formal framework for the understanding of autopoiesis. A similar conjecture has also been recently presented by Nomura .
This approach immediately encounters the difficulty that Rosen explicitly argued that his form of closure could not, even in principle, be embedded within a purely computational system. By contrast, computer realisation has been an explicit exemplar of autopoietic closure from the very start. As already discussed, Letelier et al. have attempted to resolve this by interpreting as showing that computational autopoiesis was fundamentally flawed from the beginning; but this is not an interpretation I can share. Accordingly, at this point, while I would agree that Rosen's work presents an interesting avenue for further exploration and contrast with autopoiesis, it is certainly not yet demonstrated than it can contribute a substantive, formal, theory to underpin it.
The idea of autopoiesis, and especially its computational realisation, has proved very fruitful in its development and elaboration over the last thirty years. As we have seen, it represents a core thread in the history of what we now call Artificial Life, linking back directly to von Neumann's founding work in evolutionary automata.
We now have a comparatively clear formulation of several key open problems. One very general challenge is to articulate the relationship between the ``fine-grained'' and ``coarse-grained'' models of computational autopoiesis, and the relationship between both of these and work in ``wet'' artificial life. More specific, concrete challenges revolve around the exhibition of substantive Darwinian evolutionary phenomena among lineages of artificial (computational) autopoietic individuals. Phenomena of particular interest would include the evolution of individuality itself , the exhibition of a molecular-agent computational model of the Chemoton , and the evolution of von Neumann-style genetic architecture based on a programmable constructor .
Francisco Varela was a pivotal figure in the development of our field to this point. His influence and intellectual legacy provides a strong foundation to tackle these difficult and profound problems that we still face in properly understanding the organisation of the living, its origin and its evolution.
Financial support for the work has been provided by the Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering (RINCE) at Dublin City University.
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Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment, but it is vital to develop non-invasive methods to evaluate and predict the effectiveness of therapy for individual patients. The advanced imaging techniques that we are developing are very promising for this purpose, but there is much more work to be done. In the next few years, by combining our expertise in molecular biology, chemical biology and immunology, we hope to advance this field.
Furthermore, we aim to better understand the underlying mechanisms of how the tumor microenvironment is shaped and is changed in response to cancer immunotherapies. The lab is focused to develop new and improved diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic tools to detect, diagnose, treat, and prevent cancer.
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4. Woodham AW, Zeigler SH, Zeyang EL, Kolifrath SC, Cheloha RW, Rashidian M, Chaparro RJ, Seidel RD, Garforth SJ, Dearling JL, Mesyngier M, Duddempudi PK, Packard AB, Almo SC, Ploegh HL. In vivo detection of antigen-specific CD8+ T cells by immuno-positron emission tomography. Nat Methods. 2020 10; 17(10):1025-1032.
5. Mahmoudi H, Tavakolpour S, Nili A, Salehi Farid A, Daneshpazhooh M, Rashidian M. Treatment of pemphigus patients in the COVID-19 era: A specific focus on rituximab. Dermatol Ther. 2020 11; 33(6):e14188. | <urn:uuid:c50db3a8-a92c-4d60-9f17-e6aff42a2547> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://chembiophd.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/mohammad-rashidian | 2022-01-22T00:32:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303717.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220121222643-20220122012643-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.660857 | 842 |
From the left: Leo Abigail Mason, Leo advisor Lion Linda Robinson and Leo Kayla Gillard are shown at the entrance to the Giant Tiger in Morrisburg during the annual Valentine’s Day food drive. Thompson Goddard photo
MORRISBURG – Members of the Morrisburg & District Leo Club, accompanied by their Leo advisors, were busy on Sat., Feb. 15 collecting food and donations for Community Food Share at Laura’s ValueMart and Giant Tiger in Morrisburg.
Leo advisor Lion Linda Robinson from the Morrisburg & District Lions Club explained the Leo Club is designed for people between the ages of 12 and 18. The M&D Leo Club will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in the coming months. Robinson said her reward for working with the youth “is to see them blossom and gain confidence.”
Leo Abigail Mason commented that she is enjoying her time as a Leo, saying it is a lot of fun and “we get to help our community.” Leo Kayla Gillard, who recently joined the group, echoed Mason’s comments that it is rewarding to help the people in the community. Mason noted that Gillard frequently volunteers and has amassed approximately 600 hours of volunteer time. | <urn:uuid:7a67ec1f-94d5-49c5-8613-70c0a7ab18c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://chestervillerecord.com/2020/02/26/valentines-food-drive/ | 2022-01-21T22:50:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303717.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220121222643-20220122012643-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.964151 | 257 |
“… And on the third day He rose again, according to the scriptures.”
At last we come to the heart of the Christian gospels, the resurrection. Basically, we know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God because of the resurrection. If Christ had not risen from the dead he would just have been one more of history’s religious teachers.
For example, Buddha was born in the 5th-6th century in what is now Nepal. After years of meditation he believed that he had achieved enlightenment. Based on this, he began to teach the path to enlightenment. He gained many followers who sought enlightenment and so Buddhism was born. However, whatever good points he had he did not rise from the dead.
It is the same for Mohammed. He was born around 570 AD and he convinced many people that he was God’s final prophet. However, once again he did not rise from the dead.
Much the same could be said of other religious founders. Whatever their virtues, they live and died as ordinary human beings. It is the resurrection that makes Jesus Christ unique.
As St. Paul writes in his first letter to the Corinthians (I Cor 15: 12-19):
“Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied.”
Incidentally, one will sometimes hear or read someone saying that the story of Christ’s resurrection is only a myth that was believed many years after the life of Jesus.
However, the letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians was written at 55 AD, within 25 years of the life of Christ, in other words, when many witnesses were still alive. This letter shows that the resurrection was believed by all the early Christians, many of whom had been witnesses to the life and death of Jesus Christ and the apostolic preaching of the resurrection.
When we read the accounts of Christ’s resurrection appearances we see that His resurrection body was similar to his earthly body, but it was changed also. He could appear and disappear at will. Closed doors were no barrier to Him. Sometimes when he appeared he was not immediately recognized, even by his closest associates. For example, in Luke 24: 13-31 we see two of Jesus disciples walking on the road to Emmaus after Christ’s death. At first, they do not recognize Him as He walked and talked with them. They only recognized Him when he ‘broke the bread.’ (This points toward the Holy Eucharist. When we receive Communion we will see Christ in the breaking of the bread). See also John 20:19 when Christ appears through closed doors.
“On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
We should remember that in addition to Christ’s resurrection there are other people in the Gospels who were returned to life. For example, the raising of the son of the widow of Nain (Luke 7:11),
“Soon afterward he went to a city called Na’in, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a large crowd from the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” And he came and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still.
And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” And the dead man sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.” or the raising of Jairus’ daughter (Mark 5:35-42).
“While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler’s house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?” But ignoring what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.” And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. When they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, he saw a tumult, and people weeping and wailing loudly. And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why do you make a tumult and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside, and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was. Taking her by the hand he said to her, “Tal’itha cu’mi”; which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.” And immediately the girl got up and walked (she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.”
Finally we have the story of the raising of Lazarus found in John 11:1-46. However, there is a major difference between the return to life of these people and Jesus’ resurrection. Lazarus, Jairus’ daughter and the son of the widow of Nain all rose to a normal, human life and all died a natural death later. When Christ rose, he rose for eternity. When we rise when Christ comes again we too will rise for eternity, never to die again.
So we see that Christ’s resurrection is the heart of our faith. Of course, we commemorate Christ’s resurrection on Pascha, but every Sunday is a commemoration of the resurrection. We can understand why St. Seraphim of Sarov greeted people through the year with the phrase “Christ is risen, my beloved.” | <urn:uuid:29f6597f-5c03-4b28-8d0a-933599d55991> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://churchofourladyofkazan.org/the-creed-part-15d/ | 2022-01-21T23:07:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303717.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220121222643-20220122012643-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.98569 | 1,393 |
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