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Saturday May 20th, 2017 Morning Sessions - 9am-12pm
Session: "The Past in the Present: Mediating Cultural Heritage"
Session Organizers:
Ashlee Hart, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Hannah Quaintence, University at Buffalo, SUNY
ABSTRACT: Discussions regarding the world's cultural heritage - what it is, whom it represents, and where it belongs in the discipline – are becoming increasingly critical aspects of anthropological and archaeological work. The work of archaeologists, anthropologists, and museum professionals is beginning to include a more detailed focus on the ways that remnants of the past interact with the contemporary contexts in which they emerge. The ways in which cultural narratives and materials are excavated, interpreted, and presented are all processes of mediation. Archaeologists, heritage managers, and museum professionals often serve as intermediaries between what may have happened in the past and what is currently happening today. Being practiced in diverse regions and with concern for different time periods, such mediation often develops variation in methods of excavation/investigation, research team diversity, and museum storage and exhibit organization. All of these aspects of exposing the past are intimately connected to interpretation. This session proposes to look at the variety of ways that cultural heritage may be mediated by those who expose and study it. How, in their effort to reveal and represent the past, do researchers and heritage managers negotiate the social and political significance of tangible cultural heritage? How can and have social, economic, and political pressures influenced methods of excavation and presentation today and throughout the history of the discipline? Archaeologists, heritage and cultural resource management professionals, anthropologists, and museum specialists are encouraged to reflect critically on their role in dissemination to public audiences. How and by whom archaeological remains and anthropological narratives are excavated influences interpretations, requiring mediation as they are introduced to contemporary social and political climates. Those who study the past must acknowledge its power and work in partnership to reflect on its influence. (Papers will be 2,000-3,000 words, an oral presentation of 15 minutes with 5 minutes for discussion.
Individual papers:
The Trouble with Mudbrick
Heather Rosch, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
This paper will address the difficulties faced preserving and conveying the value of ancient mudbrick architecture. Mudbrick is notoriously problematic to excavate and conserve, as the material is fragile and very vulnerable to degradation. As is common with other ancient structures, the buildings are rarely complete, but are massive and immovable. For ancient mudbrick, finding space in modern narratives when so far removed from current populations proves as difficult as finding physical space for them.
Variability in the original buildings, structure location, and in modern financial resources necessitate the formation of equally varied approaches for heritage management related to ancient mudbrick. Often a vital step for heritage, education about its history and value is essential here as well. This can foster a desire for people to protect or maintain structures, aid a broader audience in feeling connected to them, and convey their significance as feats of skill and engineering. The original mudbrick can be maintained through careful monitoring and upkeep to prevent further degradation from the environment (with aid from shelters or by covering the mudbrick with geo-textiles). Reburial often proves the most cost effective way to conserve such structures for future generations, thus constructed replicas and digital models have allowed for the continued dissemination of knowledge about the structures after they have been covered. This also allows a broader audience to view and interact with them when they are portable or housed in museums. These ideas can also be applied to other ancient structures or to modern earthen architecture.
Monumentality and Heritage in the Maya Lowlands
Kaitlin Ahern, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Archaeologists play a key role in the mediation of cultural heritage. Their interpretations have a profound impact on the perception of archaeological sites and can encourage the development of public attractions. However, archaeological findings are subjected to cultural and individual selection that results in the manipulation of what archaeologists disseminate to the public. These selection pressures emerge from diverse factors such as archaeological approaches(paradigms), political and social influence, and project funding. These influences strongly impact and shape the presentation and interpretation of archaeological discoveries.
This occurrence is clearly presented in Maya archaeology, frequently resulting in the overemphasis of monumentality. It has also prioritized the characteristics of the Classic period in particular as being key components to an authentic Maya heritage. This perception has spatially and temporally hindered the public's understanding of the diversity and resilience among the
ancient Maya. Archaeologists' interpretations have a significant influence on the emergence of public attractions about the ancient Maya and what the public perceives as "authentic" Maya civilization. Therefore, archaeologists must be self-reflective in their presentation of archaeological remains.
Divergent Mohawk Histories and Identities in and of the Ancestral Homelands
Samuel W. Rose, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
This presentation draws from ethnographic and historical research to discuss the production of contemporary Mohawk identity as it is linked to divergent histories grounded in the use of three historic-era Mohawk village sites in their ancestral homelands in the Mohawk River valley. This draws from Jonathan Friedman's (1994) work on the relationship between history and the politics of identity in recognizing the specific socio-historical contexts in which cultural realities and identities are produced. As such, it is necessary also to account for the historical processes that have produced those contexts in order to understand the nature of both the practice of identity and the production of historical schemes. I briefly discuss the histories of the three Mohawk village archaeological sites and the histories of the three entities that now occupy those spaces: the Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community; the National Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine; and the National Shrine of the North American Martyrs. This is done by contextualizing the emergence of these entities and their particular constructed histories and identities within the material processes shaping Mohawk history within the Mohawk communities in the Saint Lawrence River valley during the twentieth century, and within the history of the Catholic Church during this same time. I therefore demonstrate the ways in which these three entities have produced identities and historical schemes in response to material processes and sociopolitical events in the twentieth century that draw on events of the past and the supposed authenticity of place to conceptualize and explain these particular responses.
The Mediation of Cultural Heritage in Post-Communist Bulgaria: Reimagining isolation and exoticism in Bulgarian archaeology
Ashlee Hart, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
The Republic of Bulgaria, in southeastern Europe, has a rich archaeological history containing the third most archaeological sites in Europe with intensive human activity from the Neolithic until modern times. Interest in archaeological heritage had been of great importance prior to World War II. However, in the aftermath of World War II, Bulgaria became a single party socialist state and became incorporated into the Soviet Eastern bloc, which had major effects on the practice, scope, and funding of archaeological research. In 1991, a democratic constitution was adopted and the country began to rebuild and recreate itself in a post-communist world. The aftermath of communism led to mixed feelings and understandings of the past. While some pieces of Bulgarian cultural heritage were emphasized and celebrated others were ignored and forgotten. The archaeological record plays an important role in the way individuals perceive the past and, in turn, individuals, governments, and external nations impact the way heritage is distributed. Due to the era of communism, Bulgaria has been typed as backwards, oriental, and exotic, which has led to isolation and a desire to fit into the western world. This presentation will examine the effects of communism on archaeological studies, the way outsiders have interpreted Bulgarian archaeology, and the current state of archaeology, which has a bright future.
Negotiating Interpretation: Curating Slavery at U.S. Plantation Museums
Francesca A. Calarco, University of Cambridge
While having ended over 150 years ago, the institution of slavery is still systemically rooted within the United States and remains a difficult topic for candid conversation. Regardless, in recent years there has been an increase in U.S. museums and historic sites that have begun to incorporate the interpretation of slavery into site narratives. Long-established museums have begun to re-evaluate their interpretive approaches, and new institutions have emerged implementing innovating strategies.
Perhaps some of the most provocative sites that interpret this darker chapter in America's history are plantation museums, which incorporate the very landscape and historic structures on which enslavement occurred. These emotionally charged environments contain great innate potential for curating compelling narratives and facilitating meaningful discussions. Still, the interpretive strategies utilized by these U.S. institutions vary in terms of region, time period, institutional history and present-day stakeholders.
To capture the varied nature of how these contexts can impact interpretative planning, two sites will be examined. Philipsburg Manor, an 18th century Dutch slave plantation in Sleepy Hollow, NY, has functioned as a museum for over 60 years and employs tactile experiences with "head and heart" strategies typical of institutions that interpret the colonial era. Conversely, having recently opened in 2014, the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, LA utilizes a contemporary social justice approach similar to self-proclaimed "sites of conscience," and has received abundant press coverage.
Ultimately, the greater institutional interpretive networks in which each of these sites are incorporated, serves as the framework upon which localized contexts are then placed. How these strategies are able to respond when confronted with current events and changing present-day race relations, will be examined.
Greeting Heritage: Museum-Migrant Interactions in Europe
Ariel Noffke, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Since 2011, Germany has received the largest amount of the roughly six million Syrian refugees entering the European Union. In response, museums throughout the EU implemented heritage programming that engages Syrian migrants with Syrian heritage items. Understanding the potential efficacy of these programs for all parties is not only crucial in reaching migrants but also in understanding a potential role of future heritage work, especially since little analysis has been possible in relation to the recent Syrian migration crisis. This paper aims to theoretically understand these programs and the heritage mediators involved in them by looking more deeply at precursors and established contemporaries in the European Union, particularly those of Berlin. It will explore the presentation and stated goals and practices of heritage mediators within the museum structure. The paper will analyze how heritage mediators associated with museums construct heritage, in line with Smith (2006), in relation to the experience of a given group of migrants and how these mediators choose what to include and what to exclude from such displays of heritage. Further, it will explore programming goals and the social and political factors that may affect it. Finally, the paper will contemplate the approaches and theoretical constructions involved in this programming and how it might affect that aimed at recent Syrian migrants. The paper aims to gain insight about how heritage can be excavated, conceptualized, regulated, and presented for the benefit of all, including displaced migrants.
Excavating Collections: Finding Meaning in Museum Storerooms
Hannah Quaintance, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Whether engaging with local publics at field sites or creating narratives about the past from abstract fragments and measurements, part of archaeologists' work is to act as a bridge between the past and the present. The analytical skills they employ to illuminate the mysteries of the buried past, however, can aid in the interpretation of another material record: that of the museum storeroom. Tucked away in museum storage spaces are accumulations of objects and materials, variously delivered by anthropologists, archaeologists, travelers, and other enthusiastic amateur collectors. Collections are, for many museums, the heart of the institution and the tools with which curators and museums staff communicate with the public. Still, many museums care for more materials than can be regularly displayed or adequately researched. Whether arriving from scholarly excavations, salvage projects associated with public works and development proposals, or as donated legacy collections, materials and objects from the past are accumulating faster than they can be studied.
This paper will discuss the value of research on existing, but perhaps poorly documented, anthropological collections as part of holistic collections care. In particular, it will focus on the role of the archaeologist or other museum professional in mediating the interpretation of a collection's acquisition narrative and its recontextualization through exhibition and/or community-based public programming. Donated collections present particularly interesting opportunities for research, often arriving varied amounts of documentation and bringing with them a range of narratives regarding the circulation/movement of objects from the past.
Producing, Consuming, and Living the Past – France's politicized heritage and archaeology's place
Mélanie Lacan, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Recently, populist political parties in France have monopolized discussions of heritage. Narratives of the past are especially employed to bolster anti-immigration, anti-globalization, and anti-European agendas of the far right and far left. Such identity politics draw on well-established national myths of resistance created from an imagined Celtic past and reinforced by popular culture icons. In spite of the archaeological record illustrating a much more complex picture than what is commonly presented in public discourse, archaeologists have been unable to correct some of these nationalist narratives. This presentation argues that they are instead entangled in these narratives, which shape both their individual perception of the material record, and their collective practice. Their inability to mediate between their object of study and the broader emotional heritage discourses is caused in part by the nature of archaeology and the enduring archaeological paradigm in France, which claim objectivity when this is not in fact the case. This presentation argues that recognizing that emotions and subjectivity are central to the creation and spread of archaeological knowledge, which will help bridge the gap between the community of researchers and other interest groups. More specifically, this includes a proposal to directly engage with the public in a more compassionate, humble, and reflective way, as is being done more and more frequently in North American archaeology.
Sonic Textures of Mission Santa Cruz: Historical Echoes of Materials, Tools, Labor
Casondra Sobieralski, University of California, Santa Cruz
Is archaeoacoustics a valuable pursuit in terms of yielding new epistemologies? If so, how can archaeologists inform the technological and intellectual processes of a digital media artist-researcher towards useful results? To facilitate such discussion, I would like to present an eleven-minute audio loop, "Sonic Textures of Mission Santa Cruz: Historical Echoes of Materials, Tools, Labor." Theoretically situating audio in relation to materiality, my sound piece reveals how the process of recording and editing generated questions for me about labor in a particular historic adobe. I have sixteen years of experience in digital heritage. I only discovered the emerging field of archaeoacoustics, however, when I started recording in the Santa Cruz Mission in September 2016. Archaeoacoustics investigates what the past might have sounded like. Archaeoacoustics seeks to do this by exploring what made noise in a given historical moment (musical instruments, tools, human activities) and how sounds might have resonated within their historic environments. Archaeoacoustics research comes out of post-processual archaeology methods. Theoretically grounded in structuralism, phenomenology, and Neo-Marxism, post-processualism recognizes subjectivity, multiple points of view, and multiple points of entry as gateways to examining the
past. In presenting this sound piece, I hope to gather feedback from archaeologists in order to better formulate a methodology for a larger project. Over the summer of 2017, I will be capturing audio in/around the ancient Egyptian copper mines and Hathor chapel at Timna Park, Israel. I am seeking to learn if the acoustics of the mines might have had any relationship to why Hathor, a goddess of music, was the sacred goddess of miners as opposed to, for example, Osiris god of the underworld. Having attended a Theoretical Archaeology Group conference at Stanford University, I know that this community of archaeologists will generate useful critique and debate.
Till, Rupert, "Sound Archaeology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective" in Archaeoacoustics: The Archaeology of Sound, Publication Proceedings from the 2014 Conference of Malta, ed. Linda C. Eneix (Myakka City, Florida: The OTS Foundation, 2014), 23-32.


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Let her know that you are okay, and that you are also taking care of yourself. You might also give her the confidence that there is a plan to handle anything that comes up... that there are ways to manage symptoms and side effects.
You are both part of something bigger than anything that can happen to the cells of your body. Best wishes to both of you.

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Stark drama tackles postwar Europe's Dirty Little Secret
1945 plays out as an inevitable march toward an unavoidable, dreadful confrontation. A bill is coming due, and there are a lot of people unwilling to pay up.
Inquiring minds want to know: What's your favorite burger in Burque? Weekly Alibi is hosting our first ever Burque Burger Week, which will showcase the city's favorite burgermeisters as nominated by you, our lovely readers. The winning restaurants will each craft a special burger that they'll only serve from June 20 to June 27. Nominations are open now, from May 23 to June 6. Flame on!
The incredible cover for v27 i18 was created by our resident graphic designer, Corey Yazzie. When asked what his creative process is, Corey explained, "I'm trying to join dream imagery with ordinary waking moments. I like to use something funny and unexpected to draw the viewer into a hidden world that lives everywhere all the time."


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Henry Abbey 1800 Vermont-family -Illinois-Kansas
Special thanks to Debby Morris:
Henry Abbey abt 1746 in Windham Co, Vermont,USA-father of
Nelson H. Abbey born 9 Aug 1811, Bellows Falls. Died
18 Jun 1875 at Wathena, Doniphan Co, Kn. Married (1)
abt 1831- Minerva de Wolf born abt 1813 to Peter Dewolf
and Mary - at Painted Post, Steuben Co., New York.
Children: Volney Abbey , 15 Sep 1833- 20 Jan 1915
married Emma Alberta Dinkle
James D. Abbey , 1836 - 28 Nov 1864. Married
1856,- Nancy McSparren.
Alberton Abbey 1841 - .
Nelson married (2) Emmaline Clark 2 May 1850. She was
born in Mason Co., Illinois abt 1816.
Issue:Enis Abbey, 1851 -(Missouri)
Any help appreciated to find Henry's wife and parents would be appreciated greatly.Also, anything about Nelson H. (Henry) Abbey whom was a plasterer.
Volney Abbey wrote for a New York Newspaper about the time of the US Army's going into the Mormon state of Deseret. He accompanied Johnson's Army into what is now Utah.


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This week, we're going to be making the most of our Google Reader - one of the many Google Apps we have available to us with our Google Apps account. Here is a simple video to explain RSS:
Task 1
Go to reader.google.com and sign up for an account using your Google Apps account. You need to put your full Google Apps email address as the username, and your regular Google Apps password as the password.
Task 2
Task 3
Organise your RSS reader into Folders to help you manage/view content.
Task 4
List posts are very popular types of blog posts. You will probably have seen a list post before, e.g. Top 100 YouTube Videos of All Time, or 10 Hottest iPad Apps, or 5 Things You Didn't Know About Linkin Park.
To link in with your English/Humanities unit on Poetry, I would like you to compose a blog post on the following topic:
10 Things I Know to Be True
Please take the time to think carefully about this list. Really craft it well. I look forward to reading them.
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Sunday, July 29, 2018
It Will Be Okay
When I think about some of the stupid stuff we got into in the day I have a very hard time getting upset when something goes amiss with my guys.
I'm not only proud of my kids and Cheryl and I, but I'm proud of all of you.
Sure there are the occasion setbacks here and there but overall, we've done pretty well.
Sunday, June 18, 2017
My Dad
That would be my dad.
I don't often mention special occasions and holidays here but felt that a huge Happy Father's Day to my dad was in order.
Thanks for everything Dad. Thanks for all of the amazing times and wonderful memories that I have locked in my mind for the rest of my days. Thanks for always being there when I needed something. Thanks for being the best sports coach anyone could ever have. Thanks for having the tolerance to go with my friends and I for a week every summer into the wilds of northern Ontario for a scout camp/week long party. Thanks for the coolest family road trips of places that most of the details are now lost, but the awesomeness of the moments are still fresh. Thanks for putting up with me when I wasn't making the best educational or career choices for myself that I should have, but had faith that I would bounce back and land on the right path. Eventually. Thanks for being so great that my sons recognize it in you too.
Most of all. Thanks for teaching me that being a good father isn't easy, but it's necessary. It doesn't pay well at the time, but the payoff in the end is priceless.
You've taught me that in order to build a massive clear bright future for our entire species, we have to take these little blocks that are right in front of us, plant them in the right place and hope that they take root as long as we nourish them properly.
I'm confident that most of what Hayley and I became in our adult lives is a credit to the way you raised us.
Without the guidance of our parents we likely would not have been as prepared as we were.
Happy Father's Day dad. I love you. Thanks for everything. xo
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Village of New Maryland Budget 2017
Your Worship, fellow Councillors and residents it is my privilege to present to you the 2017 General Operating, Utility and Capital Budgets for the Village of New Maryland.
In the 2017 General Operating Fund Non-Tax Revenue Budget we were able to generate a total Non-Tax Revenue of $317,083. Our tax base only increased at a rate of 0.0027%, resulting in a new tax base of $341,991,050. This represents an increase in revenue of only $113 from the base.
The 2017 General Operating and Capital Fund Expenditure Budget will be $4,536,859 which is an increase of $114,259 over the 2016 amount.
General Government Services will only increase by $967 to $889,094.
Protective Services expenditures will be $1,027,220, an increase of $15,695 over 2016, which includes the R.C.M.P. increase of $13,982, Emergency Measure, Building Inspection and Fire Department costs.
Transportation Services expenditures will be $594,941, an increase of $4,566, of which the snow removal contract was the main driver.
Environmental Health Services expenditures will be $256,500, a reduction of $1,900 for garbage collection tonnage.
Environmental Development Services expenditures will be $157,332, a reduction of $346.
Recreation and Cultural Services expenditures will be $619,949, a reduction of $15,592. The main drivers were personnel cost reductions and a reduction in grounds maintenance costs at the New Maryland Centre.
Fiscal Services expenditures for debts will be $396,910 a reduction of $1,904. This section includes Interest on Long Term Debt and Principal Instalments. This expenditure includes the capital costs for the Gravenstein culvert and the paving project in Castle Acres debentures being issued.
For 2017 the General Capital Fund will be $594,913, an increase of $112,773. Of the total Capital $198,580 has been allocated to Transportation projects, $76,000 has been allocated to Recreation projects, $130,000 has been allocated to the Fire Department and EMO, $7,500 has been allocated to General Government, $142,833 has been allocated for Infrastructure Replacement Reserve, $21,000 has been allocated to a Municipal Plan Review Reserve and Solar Panel project, and $19,000 has been allocated to a site restoration and Specification for Developers review.
In response to the infrastructure deficit, as made apparent through PSAB (Public Sector Accounting Board), Council has again stepped up to the plate in terms of continuing to address this deficit in order to protect the longevity and sustainability of the municipality by setting aside additional funding of $142,833 which equates to just over 4¢ on the rate. This funding will be placed into a reserve for future infrastructure replacement.
This being said, the overall General Operating Budget increased by a total of $1,486 or 0.04% while the General Capital Budget increased by $112,773 or 23.39%, which is reflective of the ever-increasing capital demands on the municipality.
At this juncture I would like to point out that since 2011 the Village has lost $194,966 in revenues through reductions in Unconditional Grant funding from the Province of New Brunswick. In fact, since 2011 the Village has lost $219,966 through reductions in the Unconditional Grant, Provincial and Federal Student funding, as well as Fine Sharing Revenue. This represents a significant reduction in the Village's revenue, one that neither staff nor Council have any control over. Each cent of the rate represents $34,199 of revenue for the Village. Therefore, the combined reductions since 2011 equates to 6.43¢ on the rate, and if you add in the negative impact of the base reduction for 2016 of $20,457 this equates to 7.03¢ on the rate that has been lost, a loss the Village has to contend with. Faced with this challenge, Council and staff have worked diligently to control costs and reduce where they could without impacting services. We will continue to vigorously review program costs and services throughout 2017 to identify various options available for consideration. In 2017, as a result of the comprehensive study on the Village's storm water system, we identified potential flood areas that could pose risks to people, property and public health and safety. As a result, residents will see increased capital spending earmarked for new or upgraded storm water infrastructure. With increased demands on the Village to deal with these deficiencies, we want to be transparent about the associated costs and where those funds will come from. Because of the nature and scope of such projects, each will involve substantial borrowing and the additional costs from this borrowing will need to be reflected in future tax rates as we cannot afford to expand or upgrade this infrastructure without doing so.
Over the past several months, staff and Council have worked diligently together in order to bring forward a budget that not only addresses the sustainability of the Village but also affordability for our residents and I believe that this budget has managed to do both.
Therefore, with a total expenditure of $4,536,859 less the Non-Tax Revenue of $317,083 and less the Unconditional Transfer of $6,163 and a Municipal Tax Base of $341,991,050 we are left with a Tax Rate for 2017 of $1.2321 per $100 of assessment. This represents an increase of 2.49¢ on the rate or a 2% increase. To put that into perspective, for every $100,000 of assessed value this increase would represent $24.90 for the year compared to 2016 assessments. On an average home value of $250,000, residents would see an annual increase of $62.25 in their property tax bill or an increase of $5.19 per month.
The Village of New Maryland's 2017 Utility Operating and Capital Expenditure Budget will be $1,191,585 which represents an increase of $35,302.
Water supply and Treatment costs will be $250,822 which represents an increase of $531 over the 2016 amount. This increase is due mainly to increases in power and pumping costs.
Sewage Collection and Treatment costs will be $319,527, which represents a reduction of $22,376 over the 2016 amount. This reduction is primarily due to decreases experienced in sewage treatment and disposal costs.
Fiscal Services costs equal $347,742, which is a reduction of $2,586 over the 2016 amount.
The following reserves will be made: $50,000 for future maintenance of the Waste Water Treatment Plant; $13,420 for replacement of water meters; and $20,000 for future maintenance of the Water Tower.
The Utility Capital requirements for 2017 are $189,474, representing an increase of $59,593 over the 2016 amount.
On the utility revenue side, under the heading Other Revenues from Own Sources results in a total of $126,771. This leaves a balance of $1,064,814 to generate from user fees. Water service will be charged at $1.38 per cubic meter (an increase of 4¢ per cubic meter), plus a flat fee of $37 (an increase of $1 per quarter) and a meter fee of $5 per quarter (no change). Sewerage service will increase to $512 per year which represents an increase of $16. This is the second increase to the user fees which were identified previously as part of the Village of New Maryland's 5 Year sustainability program. For the average household with both water and sewer services this will amount to an annual increase of $28.00 or $2.33 per month.
In conclusion I would like to acknowledge the hard work of our Treasurer (Scott Sparks) for being patient in helping to finalize the numbers on Council's behalf. I would also like to thank our Chief Administrative Officer (Cynthia Geldart), Department Heads, and my fellow Councillors and Mayor for their dedication in helping to prepare this budget.
Staff and Council have worked diligently for several months on this budget and it comes as a result of numerous meetings, debates and studies being completed. I believe this budget reflects recognition of the burden taxes and fees have on residents but at the same time, seeks to balance the need to ensure the long-term viability of the Village, the value of resident's property and the public health, safety and enjoyment of residents who live and work here.
It is an honour to submit the Village of New Maryland's 2017 Operating and Utility Budgets for your consideration and approval.
At this point I would like to introduce the motions to adopt the 2017 Budgets.
During the discussion prior to voting on the Budget motion, I provided the following comments:
Budget 2016
During the election campaign I told residents that I would work to keep our taxes as low as possible. To promise that we would not raise taxes would have been irresponsible in my opinion. I am satisfied that Council and Staff have worked very hard on this budget to ensure that we use Village tax dollars in a responsible manner and have sorted projects and expenses in a proper prioritized manner.
I acknowledge that the Village and its infrastructure are approaching a period that replacement and repairs are going to be necessary more frequently due to the rising age of Village assets. This is just a fact of life.
This certainly does not imply that poor workmanship or materials were originally involved by any means. On the contrary. I would say that we have been doing quite well to date and that the staff and Village engineers have done a great job of staying on top of monitoring Village assets. For this I congratulate them on a job well done.
One factor that cannot be ignored regarding our infrastructure is the change in weather events. The increase in severe weather events around the world and at home has resulted in our implementation of the Storm Water Management Plan – a document which details both the need to increase the capacity of our infrastructure as well as the significant costs involved. To ignore the need for financing of these costs would be detrimental to our community.
Costs and expenses for the operation of our services will also continue to rise. Accordingly, the sources of the needed income will need to keep up. This year's budget increases the tax rate of the Village for the first time in 4 years. All members of Council would prefer that the increase was not necessary. We are after all, Village residents as well. But we agreed that this increase is fiscally responsible and manageable.
I believe that the Councils of the past have worked very hard and diligently and this Council is continuing this tradition.
I would like to thank the staff and my fellow members of Council for the spirit of cooperation and making this process go smoothly.
Take care,
Saturday, November 12, 2016
It is what it is
I hate to be the one to say this but even though many are not happy with the US election results, this is the democratic process in action. The voters have spoken and like it or not it is what it is.
Protests and flag burning may make some people feel better for a short time but they won't change the results.
I may not agree with how some people cast their votes but many years ago an awful lot of people who we will never get to personally thank fought for our rights to vote as we please and I would challenge anyone who wants to take that right away.
The US Electoral College and election system is one of the wildest systems I have ever seen but it was created by a group of people much smarter than I am and has been in place for over 200 years.
What everyone CAN do is to become involved. Hold the elected representatives accountable and show them that you are watching and paying attention and they should stay on the proper course of decency and good.
Even better, do as I have done. Run for office and keep an eye on things from the inside.
Stay well,
Sunday, October 9, 2016
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Cat's in the Cradle
I was just driving home after dropping the boys off at a friend's house a few minutes ago.
I had the radio on and the song "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin came on.
As I listened the song made me feel sad as it always does.
This sadness is for a couple of reasons. The story of the song is a father who was too busy with things in his life that he didn't take the time to spend with his son as he was growing up.
Also, I always feel sad when I think how the world was robbed when Harry Chaplin died at only 38 years old.
However, my sadness is NOT from feelings that I missed out on the cool things in my boys' lives.
Sometimes the boys may tell you that Cheryl and I were there too much and right in the thick of things.
I confess that there were a few occasions during my first term on Village Council that I had to miss a hockey or baseball game or needed to have Cheryl take Tyler to his weekly piano lesson because I had to be somewhere.
When I decided not to reoffer in 2012, the main reason was that I would be available for everything that came up.
And I was.
When Braydon had a paper route for a couple of years, the two of us got up together bright and early and were ready when the papers arrived.
His route was in another neighbourhood a fair distance away so we needed to drive to get there.
We had that paper route down to an art. We both knew what houses got papers and where the they wanted them.
There were many times that we were driving through huge piles of snow that the plows hadn't had a chance to get to yet.
But we made sure that the papers got to the customers.
Many times the papers were delayed in reaching us and it drove us nuts.
Braydon took such pride in his commitment to that paper route.
Of course this made me very proud of him as well.
He and I still talk about the paper route days as quality time we spent together and miss them.
Just as Tyler and I remember the days of driving to piano his lessons every week and having dinner together afterwards.
These were some of the good times we've had so far.
I think I can say with confidence that many years from now our sons are not going to say "I wish that my mother/father/parents had been there more for us".
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Sheremetevo-2, the main international airport in Moscow, is one of my least favorite airports in the world. Usually I am trapped here for hours between Ulaanbaatar and Kiev, with nowhere to sit, nothing to eat, nothing to do, and in constant fear of airport staff.
Moscow could be a very convenient transit location, but they do everything possible to make non-Russians feel unwelcome. Take a basic airport activity: shopping. There are plenty of duty-free shops, but they all sell the exact same thing: booze and perfume. There isn't a single shop that caters to the general needs of travelers. Reading material is all in Russian. The salesgirls don't even speak English; not a problem for me but unheard of in an international airport.
To make things even harder, you can only use Russian rubles. This must be the only airport in the world where you can't use dollars or euros. It must be Putin's way to make his sorry-assed currency seem important. But getting rubles - which a transit passenger is not likely to have in his wallet - is an ordeal in itself.
There are no ATM machines or banks or currency exchange booths. Instead, there is a dodgy-looking machine that will change hard currency or suck cash out of your credit card. But I have never been able to make it work, and I'm afraid it will shoot my credit card details directly to Russian cyber criminals.
The transit process is painful and slow, with hundreds of people herded through a small space into a narrow corridor that leads to the security area. It consists of a single x-ray machine. There are no instructions on what you have to do. So of course you don't do things properly, which you realize when the hefty, snarling security ladies start barking at you in Russian. Since they still force you to take off your shoes (you have to run them through the x-ray machine in a green tray; heaven help you if you try to put them in the blue tray), the entire area becomes a chaotic choke-point. Then you find that other passengers (let's just call them less considerate passengers) will take advantage of your confusion and heap hundreds of bags in front of yours on the x-ray conveyor, leaving you waiting, cold and shoeless, in hopes that your stuff will finally come out.
But today it's OK here in Sheremetevo 2. The usual problems are still here, but now there's free WiFi, which is a fundamental human right of all transit passengers. Another big change is that it's not crowded, so it's not a problem to find a place to sit. The passengers who I'd normally compete with for precious chair space have been sucked into a new terminal. I hear it's vast and modern, but has absolutely nothing in it except bored and confused passengers. But at least they're not here. I have a seat, I have WiFi, and possibly, I will have a beer.
So my endless waits for the Kiev flight will not be so bad going forward. Life improves slowly, even in Russia.


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Cloak and dagger PR tactics should have no place in local planning application campaigns. 'Astroturfing' is unethical and brings PR into disrepute. After the UK's Department of Work and Pensions' fabricated case studies, a PR agency's anti-perspirant case study involving its own staff (#sweatygate), and my own minor example of an industry leaders' roundtable that …
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Aug 28 2015
Peddling false perceptions
Feb 26 2015
The State of (Solo) PR
The Chartered Institute of Public Relations published its annual State of the Profession report this week, and, ahead of tomorrow's CIPR tweetchat for independent practitioners, I have been reading the report and the detailed data tables to try and get a sense of the "State of the solo PR" sector. The report includes some observations …
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#SoloPR and UK PR freelances
After following a couple of US-based PR professionals on Twitter, I noticed them contributing to a tweetchat hashtagged #SoloPR (these take place on Wednesday lunchtimes in the US eastern seaboard, so early evening in the UK). As the tag suggests, it is a tweetchat run for sole practitioners in public relations (there is also a …


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Great looking film, seriously. It looks amazing. I loved every visual second of this phantasmagorical virtual shiny neon action science fiction apotheosis of computer programming.
It's true. I play a lot of video games, I've watched a lot of movies, and this is a pinnacle of visual entertainment.
Oh, wait a second, I have to qualify something a bit further. I loved every single centimetre of visual real estate that didn't involve humans or people talking.
Really, visually and aurally, thanks to an amazing soundtrack / score by Daft Punk, who have a curious cameo in full costume, so it could have been two Banksies instead for all I know, it's amazing. But when the humans intruded, what with their annoying heads and flapping gums. The problem is when they start talking. And continue talking.
Even worse, when people say deeply stupid shit like "now that's what I'm talking about" in a flick that probably cost a billion dollars to put together, it makes me wonder whether the studio is taking a diarrhoeic dump, wrapping it up in nanotechnological silk scarves and then singing "Happy Birthday" to me as it hands it over, expecting me to not only pay for it, but to be grateful about it as well.
The main character in this is truly terrible. I've never seen Garret Hedlund in anything before, and I'll probably avoid him in future, but I really don't have enough experience of him as a person or as an actor to know whether he's genuinely terrible, or as bad as the material forced him to be. Because, truth be told, no actor, including The Dude, comes out of this with anything other than what should be profound embarrassment.
The Dude, being Jeff Bridges, has two roles in this flick. Seriously, he plays two characters. It makes some sense that Jeff Bridges is here, since he was in the original Tron, and he reprises the role of Kevin Flynn, the earlier movie's human hero. The other role he plays is as the evil Clu, who, despite looking like he has a face full of putty and botox (digitally created), is more believable, better acted and has more believable motivations than the human character Jeff Bridges plays.
As this flick opens, ignoring anything that might have happened in the flick from 1982, Sam Flynn is a surly chap who owns most of the stock in the world's dominant Microsoft / IBM type company called Encom. He owns it because his father, Kevin, has been disappeared these many years, and Daddy started the company. A text message sent to an old friend of Kevin's, being Alan (Bruce Boxleitner), compels Sam to venture forth to an old video game arcade.
You know the ones, with the big boxy machines, sit down ones and uprights, flashing lights, 8-bit sound, ashtrays and Vietnamese dealers constantly asking you with their eyes and hand gestures whether you want drugs.
Good times, good times. But those days are gone, and so's Sam's daddy, and all he wants is some closure, or a hug, or some quarters to play video games, I'm not sure.
Then, in the grand tradition of stories dating back even further back in human history than 1982, even further back than Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass, Sam gets magically sucked into another realm. It is a wild and strange place. It's mostly all black with neon lines everywhere.
It is… The Matrix.
Sorry, no, it's called The Grid, but the principle is the same, no, wait, it's not the same principle since humanity hasn't been enslaved and tricked into thinking a virtual reality is actual reality. You know, like reality television tries and fails to convince people.
But, in the same way that obedient audiences don't care about the lack of reality, the denizens of this virtual reality don't care either. Everyone except Sam is a program. They're programs, but they look like people. Or people-ish.
Immediately, Sam is forced, much like Jeff Bridges was in the first flick, to battle other programs in a complex and perplexingly obtuse gladiatorial combat using suspended courts, flung disks and shattering glass structures. It's kind of like Wimbledon, just less dangerous.
His performance against these other programs brings him to the attention of a hooded figure whose clothes glow with an ominous orange colour. Surely, this can't be a good guy, could it? A talent scout, a fight promoter, a porn director or a highly competent CPA with mad finance skills to pay the bills?
Nah, it's, it's dear old dad, whose CGI putty face hasn't aged in 30 years. He greets Sam as only the villain in a sci-fi flick would, pretending to be who he is not, in the most thinly veiled threatening way possible.
This chap, who is called Clu, who rules this Grid realm with a digital fist, seeing as he is a copy of Kevin Flynn, knows everything that the real one does, it's just that he's turned his knowledge to evil rather than whatever passes for good in this virtual realm. Clu flings Sam to this realm's digital equivalent of the lions, which is light cycles, um, these made up things that go real fast.
I can't pretend that any of this makes sense even for seconds at a time. Anyone questing for knowledge or meaning in any of this is on a fucking fool's errand that will only end in a scrunched up face perpetually frozen in the expression of confusion.
But what it does, if you accept it, if you allow it, is carry on with great speed and amazing graphics, and music that's more interesting than the graphics, and delivers some pretty amazing action. The light cycle sequence from the first flick was pretty memorable at the time, and bled into pop culture for decades. Here they update it tremendously, with a sequence that is no less meaningless, but which looks utterly awe-inspiring. Improving on the flat arena of the original, here they operate, to think of something set on the X and Y axis dimensionally speaking, on the Z axis as well, taking full advantage of the advances in technology to deliver something amazing looking that does not and cannot have any emotional impact or intellectual engagement.
Could anyone possibly care if this great big galoot Sam gets knocked off his bike in some realm less real, less believable and less meaningful than Wonderland, or Disneyland, or Seaworld? No, but the speed and the staging of these 'battles' looks pretty amazing, and the way it's put together, from an action perspective, I can't argue with.
The inevitable next step from here is a last second rescue, and a meeting with his actual father, played by The Dude. I don't mean Jeff Bridges, I mean Jeff Bridges playing The Dude from The Big Lebowski transported to a realm where quoting hippie bullshit and Eastern Philosophy makes even less sense here than it did there. He and Sam disagree about what they're supposed to do, and whether Sam's haircut is goofy, and how they should beat Clu.
Usually, he spouts Zen crap and says 'Man' a lot, in a way that suggests he was either really bored, that the script was really bad, or that the director couldn't control him. It's bad, bad beyond cringing, but Jeff Bridges has earned the right to give shitty performances in expensive flicks. He's paid his dues. He's entitled.
Along for the ride, though I'm not sure who's supposed to be riding her, is a girl-looking program (Olivia Wilde) who is more than that supposedly , being some kind of unique digital organism. I can't begin to grasp what the fuck they were going for, but she's some kind of female digital messiah who's the last of her kind and who will save The Grid and humanity and some puppies from a sack in a river, too.
The funniest thing for me is that in scenes where she and Sam have to fight to protect themselves, she's a pretty crappy fighter, and Sam's just as bad, so they usually get their arses kicked. Of course, it's done from a story perspective because they want an excuse for last minute rescues and triggering the next action scene, but it ultimately means to me how pointless most of these characters are.
Speaking of pointless characters, one character that sticks out like the largest pair of digital dog's balls that have ever existed or been dreamt into creation, Michael Sheen, who has made a career out of playing serious characters in serious stuff and hack characters in crappy stuff, has finally found a way to top any overacting he's done in anything, whether it's a werewolf or the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
He plays some program called Castor or Castro, who actually masquerading as Zeus or Zuse, who is the one who's supposed to help Sam. The performance is so fucking ludicrously over the top that it actually makes the other performances look worse, mostly because it's so spirited and energised and camp and bizarrely insane. I get the feeling the director was telling people to do whatever the fuck popped into their heads. Whoever thought that Michael Sheen dressed as an even gayer Ziggy Stardust shooting white light out of his thin white duke walking stick was a good idea is either a genius or a stupid dirty homeless person they hired on a bet.
Or both, I guess, since they're not mutually exclusive possibilities.
I can't say that I was particularly enamoured with it, and I think it tells a stupid story in a pointless fashion, one which even though I understand as to what the makers say it means, I can't for the life of me see how it's meant to make any sense to anyone apart from schizophrenics, but I did enjoy watching it. I got something out of watching it, even as I decried it out loud for having the dumbest dialogue and script outside of an episode of Jersey Shore.
I mean, really, what's it supposed to mean when Clu's grand plan is revealed, and it's something that couldn't have made sense even to the people who wrote the screenplay? If we're willing to suspend disbelief enough to accept that, for the purposes of these movies, a person could become digitised and transported to a virtual realm, populated mostly by programs that look like people, and walk around and talk and such, are we also meant to accept that somehow, these funky programs that look like people, but are just the equivalent of iPhone apps, that they could come out of this virtual realm and have, um, bodies and such?
Honestly, that'd be too dumb an expectation even for a kid's movie aimed at really, really special kids. I mean mittens and special helmets on the special bus special.
Clearly I was completely unable to ignore the abject brainlessness of something that a lot of obvious intelligent people worked on enough to enjoy their pandering to the great unwashed masses. But I was still able to enjoy the visuals/aurals enough and the decent action sequences enough to ignore the screaming of the logic centres of my brain. Poor brain, you'll need a documentary or two to recover.
5 times plus ca change, plus c'est meme chose even with bleeding edge technology out of 10.
"You're messing with my Zen thing, man!" – Tron Legacy
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It is difficult to discuss food, nutrition and health without the topic of calories coming into play. Whilst I do not advocate the counting of calories as a long-term health strategy, I do believe we need to factor in calories, as well as metabolism, when it comes to losing weight.
What exactly is Metabolism?
This word "metabolism" is thrown around a lot these days. You know that if yours is too slow you might gain weight. But what exactly does this all mean?
Well technically "metabolism" is the word to describe all of the biochemical reactions in your body. It's how you take in nutrients and oxygen and use them to fuel everything you do.
Your body has an incredible ability to grow, heal, and generally stay alive. And without this amazing biochemistry you would not be possible.
Metabolism includes how the cells in your body:
- Allow activities you can control (e.g. physical activity etc.).
- Allow activities you can't control (e.g. heart beat, wound healing, processing of nutrients & toxins, etc.).
- Allow storage of excess energy for later.
So when you put all of these processes together into your metabolism you can imagine that these processes can work too quickly, too slowly, or just right.
Which brings us to the "metabolic rate".
Metabolic rate
This is how fast your metabolism works and is measured in calories (yup, this is where those calories I mentioned before come into it!).
The calories you eat can go to one of three places:
- Work (i.e. exercise and other activity).
- Heat (i.e. from all those biochemical reactions).
- Storage (i.e. extra leftover "unburned" calories stored as fat).
As you can imagine the more calories you burn as work or creating heat the easier it is to lose weight and keep it off because there will be fewer "leftover" calories to store for later.
There are a couple of different ways to measure metabolic rate. One is the "resting metabolic rate" (RMR) which is how much energy your body uses when you're not being physically active.
The other is the "total daily energy expenditure" (TDEE) which measures both the resting metabolic rate as well as the energy used for "work" (e.g. exercise) throughout a 24-hour period.
What affects your metabolic rate?
In a nutshell: a lot!
The first thing you may think of is your thyroid. This gland at the front of your throat releases hormones to tell your body to "speed up" your metabolism. Of course, the more thyroid hormone there is the faster things will work and the more calories you'll burn.
But that's not the only thing that affects your metabolic rate.
How big you are counts too!
Larger people have higher metabolic rates; but your body composition is crucial!
As you can imagine muscles that actively move and do work need more energy than fat does. So the more lean muscle mass you have the more energy your body will burn and the higher your metabolic rate will be. Even when you're not working out.
This is exactly why weight training is often recommended as a part of a weight loss program. Because you want muscles to be burning those calories for you.
The thing is, when people lose weight their metabolic rate often slows down which you don't want to happen. So you definitely want to offset that with more muscle mass.
Aerobic exercise also temporarily increases your metabolic rate. Your muscles are burning fuel to move so they're doing "work".
The type of food you eat also affects your metabolic rate!
Your body actually burns calories to absorb, digest, and metabolize your food. This is called the "thermic effect of food" (TEF).
You can use it to your advantage when you understand how your body metabolizes foods differently.
Fats, for example increase your TEF by 0-3%; carbs increase it by 5-10%, and protein increases it by 15-30%. By trading some of your fat or carbs for lean protein you can slightly increase your metabolic rate.
Another bonus of protein is that your muscles need it to grow. By working them out and feeding them what they need they will help you to lose weight and keep it off.
And don't forget the mind-body connection. There is plenty of research that shows the influence that things like stress and sleep have on the metabolic rate.
This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to calories, metabolism and losing weight and show you how so many different things can work to increase (or decrease) your metabolic rate.
Here's a recipe that is high protein and super healthy which would be great as a lunch or dinner, especially on a workout day.
Quinoa and Black Beans Salad
Ingredients (Makes 1 serving):
2-4 cups chopped romaine lettuce or leafy green of choice
1/2 cup quinoa, cooked and chilled
½ cup black beans
½ cup tinned corn
½ cup cucumber, sliced
1 small tomato, chopped or 5-6 baby tomatoes, halved
2 Tbsp red onion, diced
Optional: avocado, pumpkin seeds, hemp seeds or sunflower seeds
For the dressing (use as much as you like and save the rest for later!):
1/4 of a container of soft silken tofu, drained
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
1 tsp minced garlic
½ tsp mustard
½ tsp cider vinegar
1/4 cup finely chopped fresh cilantro
Coarse salt and ground pepper
Put all of the salad ingredients in a bowl and gently combine. Blend the dressing ingredients in a food processor, then use it to top the salad. Serve and enjoy!
I share heaps of useful information as well as tasty and healthy recipes in my new membership program The Healthy Living Lounge. Find out all about it here and join this month to get an exclusive early bird, lifetime discount on your membership!


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That questions seems to be on Xye's mind while he was trying to take off his father's sunglasses.
He sure was busy but after a while they sensed me taking some snaps so they looked at my way and smiled.
Good looking daddy and son! :) Visiting very late via Green Monday.ReplyDelete
it's so nice to see kids and their father bonding together.
thanks for sharing and hope to see you again at green monday meme


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WASHINGTON -- Ending months of intense debate within the administration, President Clinton will propose making it easier for states to deny additional benefits to women who have children while already on welfare, senior administration officials say.
The decision aligns Mr. Clinton with those inside and outside the administration who argue that government must intensify its efforts to discourage out-of-wedlock births, which now constitute roughly 30 percent of all births in America. "We think it is very important to discourage additional births on welfare," says one senior official. "We are saying that states that want to try this approach should be able to try it."
But the "family cap" policy inspires even more intense opposition among liberals than the proposed two-year time limit on welfare that is at the center of Mr. Clinton's plan, which is now expected to be introduced shortly after he returns from commemorating the 50th anniversary of D-Day in Europe next month.


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You must have a Bachelor's degree in an appropriate area (Engineering, Science, Mathematics, Technology) with GPA of 3.0 or higher.
Note: Acceptance into the Applied Heat Transfer Certificate program does NOT assure admission to the Graduate School of Purdue University to pursue an advanced degree.
How to Apply:
Complete the Purdue University Graduate School application form for studies at West Lafayette (Main Campus). In the Program Details you will select "Interdisciplinary Engineering" for the Graduate Major and "Applied Heat Transfer Graduate Certificate" for the Degree Objective. The Engineering Professional Education Graduate Office will process the application for admission into the Certificate Program. A worksheet will be created and made available to the student to keep track of the courses he/she takes and the grades earned.
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I am a faculty member in the Mathematics Department at the University of Oregon. My primary research area is number theory. My work is supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant DMS-1559609 and will soon be funded by NSF CAREER award DMS-1751281 on "Structure and Interpolation in Number Theory and Beyond."
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Courtesy of U.S. Cold Storage
The quality of commercially frozen foods is higher than foods at home for several reasons. A commercial freezer is capable of freezing foods in a matter of minutes. As a result, the food retains its taste, texture, and color, as well as its nutritional value. Also, commercial freezers are much colder than home freezers. In addition, some produce is grown especially for freezing. These vegetable and fruit varieties are chosen because they best retain their quality during the freezing process.
Quick-freezing processes currently in use include the following:
Multi-Station Plate Forster – Trays holding individual packages of food are placed on hollow metal shelves inside of the Forster cabinet. These metal shelves are then cooled to below-zero temperatures. This system has the ability to maintain close contact by squeezing the packages between the shelves under steady, slight pressure even while the produce expands as much as ten percent.
This method is used for many of the frozen foods available in 10-ounce packages and for boil-in-bag vegetables.
Air-Blast Freezing Tunnels – The packaged product is placed on trays which are pushed through a freezing tunnel. The belt may be arranged in a spiral while the cold air passes down through the belt. French fries and many IQF (individually quick frozen) products are frozen by this process.
Fluidized Bed Freezers – In these freezers, cold air is blown up with such force that individual pieces of the product (for example, lima beans, diced carrots, peas) are agitated and float in the stream of cold air.
Immersion Freezing – Unpackaged products, such as corn-on-the-cob and peas are quickly frozen by being immersed in a refrigerated bath of halocarbon, a liquid approved by the Food & Drug Administration for use in food processing.
Freeze Flo Process – This is a patented natural process that among other things prevents foods from freezing solid. Freeze Flo involves isolating and controlling the moisture of water content of a product by tightly binding it to natural substances, such as protein, sugar, salt or unsaturated vegetable oils, so that the product is no longer free to crystallize. This process is currently being used for juice concentrates, fruit pies, cream and fruit fillings, filled doughnuts, eclairs and a variety of other desserts.
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The Mongolian Altai, also known as Ektag Altai, in western Mongolia, is bounded by the Russian Altai in the north and the Gobi Altai in the sout-east. The highest summit in the range is the Hüiten Peak (4'374 m) at the Mongolian-China border.
Mongolia 1982, beaver at the lake Khar-Us-Nuur.
The Khar-Us-Nur is a huge freshwater lake and covers an area of 1'852 square kilometres. It is situated in the north of the Mongolian Altai in the Great Lakes Depression.
Mongolia 1982, falconer in the Mongolian Altai.
Mongolia 2010, Altan Khokhii (2'880 m).
The stamp was issued in the series "mountains".
Mongolia 2010, Sutai Khairkhan (4'220 m).
The Sutai Khairkhan stretches for about 60 kilometres over the Khovd and Govi-Altai provinces.
The stamp was issued in the series "mountains".
Mongolia 2015, Mongolian Bankhar and Yak.
The Sutai Khairkhan (4'220 m) in the background.
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There are many reasons as to why you may suck. You may have to consider spending some time alone and see how you live your life. I know. It has never been easy. Sometimes you think you you're fine yet everyone around you finds you a sucker. Now you need to think twice, how are you behaving and how is your character affecting you and your community? Who are you to your friends? Below are four things that could make you suck without you realizing that you actually do.
- You're a gossip.
Now talking has never really been a problem. Especially for me and those I meet. But truth be told, sometimes we are just too excited we do not even realize we are talking a lot. Sometimes we are with people we are comfortable with. Well that's okay. How about if you're kwon for your infamous involvement in cheap talk and back-biting nature? If you're a slanderer and it gets everywhere. You start being tagged as a liar, gossip, and who knows what may come out of it? My dear, better you reduce on your time of gossiping and start doing things that really matter.
2. You're always complaining
A person who complains a lot is hard to impress. Once in awhile we want to see you smiling and occupied in whatever it is without complaints. Positive people are nice to stay with. They are just too full of good vibe.
3. You don't know/ remember anybody's name
Have you met that one person who doesn't remember your name? All people recall her name but she doesn't call anyone by name. Why? She doesn't remember. Truth be told, find myself in these shoes on so many occasions. But best effort is trying to call you by name or recite it or relate it to another person or event so I don't forget. Great strategy.
4. You receive may favors but never return any.
Everyone knows at least one person like that. You know that one person who is always taking, taking, taking, but never returning? Or never giving? Now if you've not heard of this, this is the time. A borrower is a slave to the lender. So you should keep this at the back of your mind each time you go borrowing. Your lender becomes your master, you become his slave. It is just like the person who feeds you. Otherwise you would go hungry. But wise people try hard not to borrow. And if they do, they try their best to return/ pay. But there are those who will never pay. Once you lend them something, you will never see it again. Then, my dear borrower, truth be told, you suck!! Otherwise, return some favors and stop going to people only when you need them.


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Tales of the Tempest (テイルズ オブ ザ テンペスト Teiruzu obu za Tenpesuto?) was the ninth main mothership title of the Tales of series. It was the first of title of the series to be developed for handheld systems. The game was developed by the main Tales team, Tales Studio, which is now a Namco branch, with aid from studio, Dimps. The game was released on October 26, 2006 in Japan and received no western localisation for launch. Most probably due to critics and low reception and on ratings, it was taken out of of the mothership title series and started the birth of the escort title series, which now coincides with spin-off titles. The game's characteristic genre and theme translates to "RPG that Awakens the Soul" (魂を呼び覚ますRPG Tamashii wo yobisamasu RPG?). The theme song for the game is 「VS」 composed by misono.
Tales of the Tempest is set on the continent of Areula, where humans live alongside a half-beast race called the Reimon. The Reimon once dominated Areula, but they gained the ability to command a dangerous technology called Precepts, which was hoped would bring about coexistence between the races. Around the same time, hostile soul-eating spirits called Spots appeared, causing conflict. The experiment to bring about a unification of the races through the creation of the "Law of Life" entailed the forging of a gem called the Patient, which cost the lives of many Reimon. The Law of Life appeared in an imperfect form, killing most of the Reimon population and plunging the entire continent into chaos before the gateway was closed. In the aftermath, the formally-weak Humans rose up and took control. In later years, the human authorities would rewrite the history into an interracial conflict known as the Beast War, further soiling the Reimon's image. Tempest begins 100 years after the Beast War ends: humans are in dominance, and the Reimon are derogatorily called "Lycanths", and are shunned in human settlements or even hunted for rewards.
Caius Qualls (カイウス・クオールズ Kaiusu Kuōruzu?) - The leading main character. A boy living together with his foster father in a remote village in Areula. A grotesque creature called Spot attacked his village because he was entrusted with a crystal by a soldier of the Imperial Guard he saved by chance. When he fought with Spot and his foster father, the people of the village found out that his foster father was a Lycanth, and they were treated with a cold attitude. Caius is voiced by Motoki Takagi.
Rubia Natwick (ルビア・ナトウィック Rubia Natouikku?) - The female lead, heroine of the story, and a childhood friend of Caius Qualls who has lived in the same frontier village since they were children. Since her parents were both priests, she had planned on going to the capital city in order to study; however, her parents were killed by Lukius and his group, who had come to take Caius's father. She went on the journey with Caius to follow Lukius. Rubia is voiced by Mai Kadowaki.
Tilkis Barone (ティルキス・バローネ Tirukisu Barōne?) - He is a Prince who originates from a small country far from Areula. To investigate a mystery occurring in his country, he travels to the capital city of Areula. There, he meets with Caius and Rubia. He handles a large sword skillfully and is a very wise person. Tilkis is voiced by Takumi Yamazaki.
Forest Ledoyen (フォレスト・レドワウヤン Foresuto Redowauyan?) - He is Prince Tilkis's bodyguard, sent to protect him on his journey into the kingdom of Areula. Forest is a Lycanth that immigrated to a small country. He joins your party to save this country from trouble. He knows a lot about the geography of the world, so serves as a travelling guide. He may seem intimidating, but he is really a nice person overall. Forest is voiced by Kenji Nomura.
Arria Ekberg (アーリア・エクバーグ Āria Ekubāgu?) - Arria Ekberg is a priestess of the capital city, but does not support the killing of Lycanths, and instead joins the party to stop what the other priests are doing. She joins the group after thinking of killing Lycanth as a crime. She fights with a wand and is very proud of her abilities as a mage. Arria is voiced by Kae Araki.
Lukius Bridges (ルキウス・ブリッジス Rukiusu Burijjisu?) - He is a character who hunts for Lycanth, and wear a mask to hide his identity. When the main characters defeat Lukius in the desert, his mask comes off and his face is revealed for the first time. To everyone's amazement he looks almost exactly the same as Caius. This is because the two of them are actually brothers, separated at birth at sent to live with different parents. He is voiced by Mitsuki Saiga.
Albert Mueller (アルバート・ミュラー Arubāto Myurā?) - A blond-haired swordsman. Albert is the leader of the King's Black Knights. He hunts Caius's group relentlessly, yet nobody quite knows how he is able to track them down so easily. He is voiced by Tomohisa Asō.
Rommy (ロミー Romī?) - Rommy works for the church as a Priest-Soldier, and it is her job to round up Lycanth with her partner Lukius Bridges and to take them to the capital city of Janna. She is voiced by Ayumi Sena.
Battle System
Tales of the Tempest utilizes the 3-on-3 Linear Motion Battle System (3 on 3-LMBS). "3-on-3" refers to the fact that this is a 3D battle system based on the Tales of Rebirth "3 Line LMBS". Like the "3 Line" system, 3 on 3-LMBS places 3 combatants on a battlefield with 3 linear planes. Players can move between these three planes at will, and unlike in the "3 Line" system, they can attack enemies on other planes by adjusting their position. The game also features the "Beastman Transformation" system, where the Lycanth characters Caius and Forest are able to morph into their beast form during battle, which increases their strength and attack power but leaves them unable to use their artes.
Development and Release
The main concept behind Tales of the Tempest was to create a compact version of a standard Tales of game. In addition, the team wanted to create a Tales experience that people could play on the go. Later, it was stated that the compression of features for Tempest and the staff's inexperience with the Nintendo DS caused multiple problems, including technical issues. The title, "Tempest", was derived from the concept of chaotic events and feelings. Makoto Yoshizumi, the producer for Tales of the Abyss, came over to produce the game once Abyss was completed. Tempest was the first Tales of title to be developed for the Nintendo DS. It was developed by the main Tales of series game developers and their collaboration with Japanese game studio Dimps. In contrast to previous Tales games, which featured a sizable amount of voice acting, Tempest restricted voice work to the execution of abilities and the completion of cooking.
The characters were designed by Mutsumi Inomata and Daigo Okomura. Tempest was Inomata's fifth time designing for the series. As part of her design, she created the characters with the DS graphics in mind. Okomura, a minor designer for the title, was responsible for designing the characters Albert and Rommy. In contrast to previous titles, which had purely animated openings, the game's opening cutscene used a mixture of CGI sequences created using the in-game graphics and animated segments by Production I.G.. The scenario was written by Shino Taira, Riku Okimata and Makio Kurita. Okimata was brought into the writing process halfway through production. The overall theme of coexistence between different nations and peoples was carried over directly from Abyss and Tales of Rebirth. Its characteristic genre name, a recurring feature in the series, was Tamashii o yobisamasu RPG (魂を呼び覚ますRPG RPG that Awakens the Soul?). One of the main ambitions for the story was to make it comparable with one of the home console Tales of games despite the platform and development goals. The game's music was composed by Motoi Sakuraba, the main composer for theTales of series. As his first work for the DS, Sakuraba found composing the music a challenge. One of the main problems was the limited sound capacity of the platform. As a result, it used a high degree of pop music. The title's theme song, "VS", was performed by misono, a singer who had previously performed the theme song for Tales of Symphonia while she was still a member of Japanese band Day After Tomorrow.
The game was originally announced as Tales DS in October 2005, with 2006 as its projected year of release.The game's official title was announced in December 2005. The game's release date was originally set for April 13, 2006. It was later announced that the game would be delayed. Its release date was moved to June 8 of the same year. It was then delayed again, with the release date being set as "before the end of 2006". The state reason for the delays was that the team needed extra time to properly develop the gameplay functions, which were specially designed for the DS. Yoshizumi later claimed personal responsibility for the delays.
Several pieces of merchandise were created to either promote or supplement the game. As part of the promotion for the game, a 32-page booklet titled Tales of the Tempest Official Fan Book (テイルズ オブ ザ テンペスト オフィシャルファンブック?), was created, including an interview with Inomata and trivia concerning the game and series. Three different guides to the game were published between October 2006 and February 2007. A two-part novel based on the game was published by Super Dash Bunko: the two volumes were titled Arashi no Shō (嵐の章?, lit. Chapter of Storm) and Kagayaki no Shō (輝きの章?, lit. Chapter of Sparkle). They were released in January and March 2007. The novels were written by Ryunosuke Kingetsu and illustrated by Inomata. They included extra stories and character development not included in the original game. The game's soundtrack album, Tales of the Tempest Original Soundtrack (テイルズ オブ ザ テンペスト オリジナル・サウンドトラック?), was released on February 27, 2007. The album included an audio drama written by Okimata, portraying events between Caius and Rubia during the ending.
The game was originally described as a main entry in the Tales series. After the game's release, with the announcement of Tales of Innocence in July 2007, the series was divided between mainline "Mothership" titles and spin-off "Escort" titles. Tempest, described by Yoshizumi in 2007 as a precursor to Innocence, was officially reclassified as an Escort title at this point. It was speculated by Game Informer that the game's lack of critical and fan acclaim that caused the change, but this has not been confirmed. The game has yet to receive a western localization. Later, staff members of Innocence stated that Tempest was seen as a spin-off while still in development. After the release of the Vita port of Innocence, Innocence R, artwork found in that game caused speculation that Tempest might be remade. In 2014, it was revealed that Bandai Namco had been considering a remake of Tempest for some time, and that there was demand for both a remake by Japanese fans and a western release. So far, nothing has been announced.
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