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Exxon Valdez experts: Gulf oil spill response off to a bad start
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — With their futures dark and confused, desperate residents of the Gulf of Mexico are turning to veterans of Alaska's Exxon Valdez oil spill for clues about what they're facing. The word from Alaska, whether it's about cleaning up, economic recovery, despondency or lawsuits: Expect years of deep trouble, but there are ways to cope.
"Here's a life-changing and terrible event, and the less people know about it, the more concerned they get," said Stan Senner, who served as science coordinator for the federal-state agency that was set up to study and recover from the 1989 Alaska oil spill. "No one wants to hear bad news, but even worse is just simply not knowing the news."
Senner, now the director of conservation science for the nonprofit Ocean Conservancy, an environmental group, is among dozens of Exxon Valdez experts who've been trekking around the Gulf, attending community meetings, boating through marshes threatened by oil and lobbying officials to avoid mistakes made 21 years ago in Alaska. Other Alaskans who've remained home are taking phone calls by the dozens from the area.
Senner said that a key lesson learned from the Exxon Valdez was the need for "complete transparency on the part of the government in what they know and what they're doing to find out what they don't know."
The Gulf spill has gotten off to a bad start, he said. "There's an amazing lack of information about what is being done and what the government knows," he said.
For Rick Steiner, a retired University of Alaska marine science professor who spent years studying Prince William Sound, where the spill occurred, and advocating reduced reliance on petroleum, the battle was lost the moment oil got away.
"You can respond with thousands of people and thousands of boats and millions of feet of boom and skimmers, but you're not going to be very effective," said Steiner, reached by phone near Barataria Bay in Louisiana, where he's been working with environmental groups and volunteers.
"The damage will be done," said Steiner. "There's really no easy way to rehabilitate oiled wildlife, no easy way to restore an oil-injured ecosystem, and there's certainly no easy way to make lives whole that were turned upside down by these things. Those are lessons we learned the hard way in Alaska, and they're lessons that are being learned here, very poignantly."
In some cases, seeing the Gulf spill has rekindled the smoldering anger that many Alaskans still carry from the Exxon Valdez.
"We didn't learn much in 21 years," said John Devens, the mayor of Valdez when the Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef on March 24, 1989. "BP seems to be making exactly the same mistakes Exxon made."
Steiner, Senner and others note that there are substantial differences between the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the BP gusher in the Gulf. For starters, the Exxon Valdez held a defined volume of oil.
Even if the tanker had broken up before its undamaged tanks could be off-loaded, no more than 54 million gallons would spill into Prince William Sound. The latest estimates say the Gulf well has been gushing as much as 2 million gallons a day with no likely halt to the flow until relief wells are completed in August, though some is now being captured by a suction pipe.
Prince Williams Sound is a small, relatively closed body of water, and the oil quickly left on currents and spread to the Gulf of Alaska. In less than two months, it had traveled nearly 500 miles, oiling the Alaska Peninsula shoreline — roughly the distance from where the Deepwater Horizon exploded to Miami. The Gulf of Mexico is more confined, although the possibility remains that some of the oil could find its way to the Gulf Stream and up the Atlantic coast.
The BP spill is rising from 5,000 feet below the ocean surface, causing some amount of oil to disperse through the water column even without the use of chemical dispersants, which are also being applied.
The Exxon Valdez dumped its oil on the surface, where it globbed up in a mousse-like consistency and quickly came ashore on rocky beaches, tidal pools and salt marshes. The thick layer of oil lent itself to removal by skimmers, though there weren't enough, and the opportunity to pick up more oil was lost when storms struck Prince William Sound three days after the spill.
In sparsely populated Alaska, the main effects were felt in the fishing towns of Cordova, Valdez, Homer and Kodiak, and in tiny coastal Alaska Native villages that relied on subsistence gathering from the once pristine waters. The government presence consisted of Alaska and U.S. agencies.
The Gulf of Mexico involves four state governments, numerous counties or parishes, fishing communities of many different ethnic groups, a major tourism economy and a petroleum industry that had spilled before.
Still, Exxon Valdez veterans see far more similarities than differences.
Steve Picou, a sociology professor of the University of South Alabama in Mobile, was a regular visitor to Alaska following the Exxon Valdez spill, studying its long-term social costs, including increased rates of bankruptcy, substance abuse, divorce and suicide.
An expert in disasters, he now has a close-up view of an evolving one from his home in Orange Beach, Ala. He's been spending most of his time on the road, trying to educate communities and mental health professionals about what to expect.
"We're trying to explain to people this is going to be a long-term situation — the table is set just like in 1989. Everyone is very, very distracted, maximally disrupted, they're expressing anger," Picou said.
After the 1989 spill, Picou said, a second disastrous wave broke over the communities: 19 years of litigation and successful appeals by Exxon that ultimately reduced the damages paid to 32,000 fishermen and Native plaintiffs from the $5 billion a jury awarded to $507 million. The result was a loss of faith in the legal system, Picou said, and adding injury to injury.
Picou said he expects the BP spill to result in even more complex litigation, in part because the current spill might have 10 times more victims than there were in Alaska, and in part because BP, the drilling contractor and other companies involved in the blowout are pointing fingers at each other.
His advice for weathering the storm: Stick together, even if fate shines brighter on some than it does on others.
In Alaska, communities became deeply divided when some boat owners got lucrative cleanup contracts and other didn't, a situation he's already seeing now with BP. In Alaska, the contractors were snubbed as "spillionaires." That turned out to be the "first stake driven into these communities," Picou said.
"Hug people — hug your friends and hug relatives a lot," he added. "Be there. And realize that if this community can get through this catastrophe collectively, then you will be a successful survivor."
Denny Kelso was Alaska's commissioner of Environmental Conservation in 1989. On the day of the spill, he and then Gov. Steve Cowper motored out to the Exxon Valdez, climbed up a rope ladder and stood on the deck as oil continued to boil from her holds. At a later congressional hearing, he famously called the industry's spill cleanup plan "probably the biggest piece of maritime fiction since 'Moby Dick.'"
Today, Kelso is the executive vice president of the Ocean Conservancy and has been dividing his time between his home in California and the Gulf of Mexico, and he's among many Exxon Valdez veterans who criticize the use of dispersants that break down the oil. It makes the oil less visible but at least as toxic, he said, and oil treated with dispersants is more likely to get past booms protecting critical shoreline because it's not floating as a mass on the surface.
Kelso ridiculed the notion expressed by one BP official that the oil would be cleaned up within weeks of the blowout being capped. It will take years to remove the oil and decades to restore damaged resources, he said.
Charles Wohlforth, now an author of books on the environment, was a reporter who covered the Exxon Valdez spill using a boat purchased for the story by the Anchorage Daily News. Wohlforth said the boat was an essential tool to get the story independently of Exxon's and the federal government's public relations apparatus, which tried to hide the extent of the damage.
"It's been really disturbing to watch BP's behavior be so similar to what Exxon's was in terms of downplaying stuff and creating their own reality, saying there is no subsurface oil, trying to hide how much is leaking. All this stuff is amazingly similar to the Exxon Valdez playbook, and the government is playing right into it," Wohlforth said.
Even worse, said Wohlforth, like Senner, the former Exxon Valdez science coordinator, is the secrecy now being applied to research by federal scientists.
Wohlforth said that one of his best science sources from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration during the Exxon Valdez is now refusing to talk about BP out of concern about future litigation, he said.
Riki Ott, a biologist who was working for Cordova fishermen before and during the Exxon Valdez spill and has since written two books on the event, has set up a "base camp" in bayou country where she's been organizing community responses and trying to promote safety precautions among spill workers.
Her message? BP's pledge to make communities whole really means "We'll see you in court." The lesson from Cordova is don't wait for BP. "We wasted time waiting for Exxon to make us whole," she said.
"Here's the scary thing — who really learned the lesson? I think it was the oil industry, and what they learned was, take very aggressive measures to control the images," Ott said, referring to the difficulties that news media and environmental groups have had in getting to spill sites, including restrictions imposed by the Coast Guard and the FAA.
"No cameras, no evidence, no problem. They are like a house afire here, trying to capture one agency after another and use these agencies to shield themselves from liability, from the public, from the media. Exxon didn't have it down quite this good," Ott said.
(Mauer reports for the Anchorage Daily News.)
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There are, firstly, tourists whose main interest is to experience the Malaysian way of life. Thus, for instance, you find someone who works for a company like UPS in the USA, and who is therefore one of the Upers saving money for an entire year, in order to visit Malaysia for a week and experience the way of life there. The gentleman in question may actually be engaged in UPS tracking or in the various UPS parcel labeling sections — but he opts to save money tenaciously for an entire year, in order to visit Malaysia. Subsequently, it can be a huge disappointment for him to be taken through a 'tour' where he doesn't get a chance to experience the Malaysian way of life directly.
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As a reminder, we are meeting this coming weekend, June 1 for our monthly meeting. Please be there no later than 8:55 am
- Attached please find the sign-up sheet for go-bag donations we discussed in last month's meeting. These bags will be raffled at the July gun show in Waxahachie. There are still plenty of items needed. If you can help, please put your name next to the item(s) you will bring, save the document with your last name as the file name, and reply to me with the attachment. You will need to bring the items to this week's meeting.
- Uniform of the Day is BDU or TCD shirt–casual attire if you are new.
- Please bring a pen and something to write on. We will have another training class. Remember FEMA classes are required for membership and promotions so everybody needs to complete them and submit certificates to Mr. Thompson.
- As a reminder, if you joined before 2012, dues ($20) for 2013 are currently due. I have the short list of those who have already paid this year so if you need to verify, please reply to this email. If you joined anytime in 2012, you won't pay dues until 2014. Those joining in 2013 won't pay dues until 2015.
Thanks to those who already let me know they couldn't make it for the meeting.
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Urban Planner: March 28, 2011
Urban Planner is Torontoist's guide to what's on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you'd like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you've got any—to [email protected].
PhD Cultural Studies student (and photographer) Jeffrey Douglas's Anecdote of the Jugs is part of his exhibit, open to the public all day today, as part of the Literatures of Modernity Symposium at Ryerson University.
In today's Urban Planner, examine modernity through literature and art; have your arts-loving voice heard at City Hall; see the first ever reading of Keith Barker's new play, The Hours That Remain; and help raise funds for Red Cross efforts in Japan.
LITERATURE/ART: Ryerson University's grad students in the English and Cultural Studies program are playing host to an all-day Literatures of Modernity symposium, which is free to the public (though registration is encouraged). The accompanying artwork exhibit opens early, and events and meetings will take place throughout the day; highlights include a 1:15 p.m. keynote address by the Toronto Star's Christopher Hume, and a closing reception at 7:15 p.m. Heaslip House (297 Victoria Street), 8:30 a.m–6:30 p.m., closing reception at 7:15 p.m., FREE.
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: The City's first spate of public consultations about the to-be-revamped Culture Plan took place mostly in suburban areas of the city; the first of two downtown meetings gets underway tonight. Councillor and Economic Development Committee chair Michael Thompson (Ward 37, Scarborough Centre), and Creative Capital Initiative co-chair Robert Foster will both be in attendance to listen to your views on how the City can better support and promote the arts in Toronto. Toronto City Hall, Council Chambers (100 Queen St. West), 6–8:30 p.m., FREE.
THEATRE: Keith Barker, an actor who closed Native Earth & Red Diva's Tombs of the Vanishing Indian yesterday, has written a new play entitled The Hours That Remain, about a woman still haunted (perhaps more than figuratively) by the disappearance of her sister. Foundry Theatre's monthly workshop series is giving it its first public reading tonight. Detour Bar (193 Baldwin Street), 7 p.m., PWYC
BENEFIT: The weekly Hard Times at the Hard Luck comedy showcase is donating all funds raised this week to the Red Cross's efforts in Japan, which suits their improv troupe headliners, Big in Japan, to a T. other guests include Parker and Seville, several stand-ups, and a few surprises courtesy of the lottery slots. Hard Luck Bar (812 Dundas Street West), 9 p.m., PWYC.


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Awesome show can't wait til next week.
At least I have something to look forward to on Sundays.
Awesome show can't wait til next week.
At least I have something to look forward to on Sundays.
photo by my GF...http://www.flickr.com/photos/29247189@N05
I'm gonna have some spoilers so I'm changing my text to white, highlight if you care to read.
I was thuroghly impressed, I went into watching it expecting a lot of cheap scares by quiet tense moments and creepy music only to have the zombie lurch when you least expect.
There wasn't a lot of that, in fact this is one of the most human zombie tales I've ever seen. It was almost heart breaking watching the dude who played robert hawkings on jericho try to snipe his wife and the kid's horror at realizing earlier in the show that his zombie mom was outside waiting to snack on his liver was equally saddening but I think the moment of the show that really did it for me was watching rick walk up to the legless zombie who almost looked like it was pleading for help (or maybe just a snack) and saying "I'm sorry this happened to you" before going for the mercy kill.
It's for sure a different take on doing zombie flicks and I for one really really enjoyed it. I can't wait for the next episode, while we wait. Anyone want a horse sandwich?
I haven't read the funny books, though I do read them (make the Wednesday trek and everything). But I'm normally not a big Zombie guy. There's a new Vertigo zombie title out called I Zombie but I passed.
It was a really good show.
Impressive for a TV show you can tell they put a lot of effort into making a good TV show.
I'm a huge zombie fan as well so obviously I like this.
What sold me on it was the fact that it's old school zombies and none of this crappy running zombies.
Looks promising can't wait to see the rest of it.
Also why did they have to kill the horse? haha
I do agree though, while the slow lumbering zombies instill less fear in small numbers it makes for good action when you get a huge pack of them.
I really like how the zombies seem to somehow remember things about themselves, going back to places they've been before (like what's his faces wife and the house she died in and the cop and the police station or the little girl grabbing her doll as if somewhere deep down inside she still remembered it.)
Freyaka, I agree about the legless zombie.
That was a great scene at the end. For a moment, when that man was going to shoot his wife I thought that pershaps she had snuck into the house and as he was looking for her she would make an appearance.
I hope to see what happened to them in the next episode. He gave them that walky-talky and told him he would be on there every day at dawn (or was it dusk). So, hopefully he is a recurring character.
I think Zombies should be seen as more of a distraction when it comes to a good zombie movie , story , video game or whatever.
They are there in huge numbers and they have nothing to loose.
The people behind this site believe that a zombie outbreak is possible lol
On a seperate note how do you think the main characters going to react when he figures out his former partner is smoochin it up with his wife?
About to pop this on because of this thread..
just finished...good stuff. already can't wait for next week.


text: Hello I have a 13 y/o son who has always been a challenge. He started as a colicky infant and has always had trouble with empathy and understanding how other people feel. He is a straight A student and has friends that he gets along with. His behavior at school is excellent. He plays music at a very high level in a symphony orchestra and he likes to be active as well as playing video games etc. I would say that in most aspects of his life he is doing extremely well. The issue is his behavior at home especially when dad is not there. Son and mom do not get along well. He constantly questions her authority and wants everything done his way. If things do not go as he planned or he is inconvenienced he gets frustrated and begins acting out. If mom tries to reprimand him he will be defiant. This will include arguing, mimicking, or picking on his sisters. He is not violent but is very smart and can be manipulative. We are actively seeing a counselor but we are just getting into that. Punishments do not seem to have any effect. Mom is a psychologist and dad works swing shift in a lab. Both parents are very involved in all their kids activities and share responsibilities. Mom is a very empathetic person and dad has issues with understanding empathy like his son but dad has gotten better with this. Parents do not believe in violence so punishments typically are loss of privileges. Dad very often acts as a mediator between mom and son but often mediation happens after incident has occurred. Dad and mom have talked about possibly starting medications for son but struggle with this since son's behavior is fine at school. Mom and dad have thought son might be a borderline aspie child. Looking for help for our family. Dad


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A Morley campaigner who spent a lifetime giving back to his community, has passed away aged 77.
David Anthony Moorhouse, known to everyone as Tony, passed away suddenly on March 15 at Knowle Manor.
Born on October 12 1937, Tony and his family lived at Stump Cross Farm, Morley.
Coun Shirley Varley said: "Tony grew up to be an extremely hard working and independent young man throughout his life overcoming many challenges, which he dealt with bravely.
"He was always looking for any opportunity to improve his own life and also the lives of others.
"He had the support of his sister, Edna and family, but also made friends through his willingness to help everyone."
Tony moved to Knowle Manor in October 2003, just before his 66th birthday and spent many happy years there, having care and security, but he always wanted to give something back.
Coun Varley said: "His support and enthusiasm for the social activities was endless. The manager, David, says that since Tony died, not a day passes when his presence and involvement is not missed.
"Tony's support and petition for the residential home to gain a reprieve in the review in 2011 was tremendous. The assurance was that the home would remain functional and up to capacity until a site could be found to replace it.
When Tony moved into Knowle Manor he believed he had a home for life. For Tony that assurance was kept."
Tony's funeral was held at St Peter's Church on March 31. Donations were made to Epilepsy Research UK.


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It would probably be fair to describe the current crisis in social care as cataclysmic. Local authorities throughout the country are proposing unprecedented cuts to services, along with tightening of eligibility criteria and increasing charges. On top of this two separate commissions are due to report back this year with proposals for wholesale change to the social care system. These are the 'Dilnot' Commission, set up to recommend new ways of paying for adult social care system, and the Law Commission review of Adult Social Care Law.
At first sight the Law Commission would seem to be the least radical of these forces for change. Its brief is to consolidate existing legislation rather than to change it, and the consultation proposals published last year were mainly about retaining the existing rights of people who need care and support. The proposals do however involve significant changes in order to ensure that the legislative framework supports personalisation. They also include a substantial section on the role of local authorities in safeguarding adults who are at risk of abuse – something which has hitherto been left mainly to guidance.
The Dilnot Commission, in contrast, has been told to explore all options and to come up with radical proposals. The commission will however be constrained in how radical it can be by the need to comply with the present legal framework. The Government could, of course, sweep the entire body of current legislation away, but at the moment the Department of Health appears to be broadly supportive of the Law Commission's proposals.
So is the relationship between the two commissions one in which the radicalism of the Dilnot Commission will be limited by the Law Commission's dogged defence of something like the status quo? Well, I don't think so, for two reasons.
Firstly the problem facing the Dilnot commission is not that there is a shortage of possible options for funding social care. Whatever the commission comes up is likely to involve some combination of tax funded state provision, individuals and families taking care of their own needs, and the state promoting ways in which individuals can pool the risk of needing care in later life. This might be through compulsory or voluntary or even state backed insurance. There are plenty of alternatives. The problem is that whatever system is adopted, people have to trust it. If younger people are paying taxes to pay for the care of older people, they have to have confidence that state support will still be there for them if and when they need it. If people have to rely on insurance they need to be confident that companies will pay out. Unfortunately public confidence in either the state or in finance institutions such as banks and insurance companies is not currently at an all time high, to put it mildly.
Coming up with a long term funding settlement for social care in a climate where there is little confidence in any of the potential ways of pooling risk is a tall order. I'd go as far as to say it's impossible. So what the Dilnot Commission needs to be looking at is how we can build public confidence in the institutions that are essential to any form of risk sharing.
The issues involved in creating confidence in, and getting people to buy into, long term care insurance are complex, but as far as the role of the state is concerned, this is where the Law Commission can make a contribution. Clarifying the legal framework within which the state provides care should make the role of the state more transparent, so that people know what they can expect in the future. It also ensures that there is a framework for resolving – and equally important avoiding – disputes.
Legislation also sends a signal that, at least for the present, Parliament is committed to the state continuing to have a defined role in ensuring that people obtain long term care. If the Law Commission's proposed statute is based on continuity with the current system it suggests that there is a long term consensus in support of this system. By contrast if the Government decides to go down another route and to sweep away the entire body of post war legislation and substitute something else, there will be no reason to believe that the new settlement can be relied on any more than the old one.
The second reason that the Law Commission proposals could radically change the social care landscape is that, without actually changing the content of legislation, making it clearer and less confusing could make it easier to use and therefore a more powerful lever in influencing how the care and support system works in practice. So in this respect, even though the bill is only intended to consolidate existing rights and not to create new ones, it could still have a dramatic effect on how people behave.
My conclusion is that the work of the Dilnot Commission is not likely to secure a long term settlement unless the Commission can come up with ways to strengthen the social institutions that would make that settlement impossible – and by institutions I don't just mean structures such as regulatory bodies or legislation, but shared cultural assumptions and values. The legislation that the Law Commission proposes should be one of those institutions. Far from being a limitation on the work of the Dilnot Commision, the work of the Law Commission should be seen as one of the building blocks which might make a long term settlement possible.


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BBC Knowledge
|BBC Knowledge
|1 June 1999
|2 March 2002
|Owned by
|Picture format
|576i (16:9 SDTV)
|Replaced by
|BBC Four
|Sister channel(s)
|BBC One
BBC Two
BBC News 24
BBC Parliament
(at time of closure)
|ITV Digital
|Channel 13
|Sky Digital
|Channel 553
|Channel 12/127
|Channel 245
|UPC Poland
|Channel 393
BBC Knowledge was an early BBC digital television channel, available by cable, satellite, or terrestrial digital broadcasting, providing a programme of documentary, cultural and educational television.
The BBC had been wanting to expand into the digital television market for a number of years prior to BBC Knowledge's launch. Originally this was by their association with Flextech, which spawned the UKTV network. Both companies had different ideas on how the new channels would be run: the BBC wanted the channels branded as BBC channels, but Flextech wanted the channels to contain advertising. The BBC refused, stating that no domestic BBC channel should carry advertising, and in the end a compromise was made. Two of the channels would launch as BBC channels, the soon to be BBC Choice and the then called BBC Learning, with the remainder of the channels being launched as the UKTV network, intended to be BBC in all but name. Prior to the launch, the channel changed name from BBC Learning to BBC Knowledge.[1]
The channel launched on 1 June 1999,[2] broadcasting for six hours each day. The new channel had plans to be new, multimedia channel, operating across television, online and on interactive television, and showing educational and informative programming. The channel's original schedule style was initially a 'bright and breezy' approach to education, aimed at both adults and children, with viewers encouraged to get involved and contribute to the programming. Original programme included a GCSE survival guide based upon the popular BBC series "Bitesize", entitled "Bitesize Etc" and the technology series The Kit, aimed at children and getting them online and embracing digital.
A few years into the channel's existence, it was becoming clear that the channel's original format was not working in its aim of interacting with viewers and making learning fun. The channel was receiving consistently poor ratings, and the BBC decided to relaunch the channel. The relaunched channel was given a new visual identity, and became from 17 November 2001, a 24-hour channel, caused by the move of BBC Knowledge from the SDN to the BBC multiplex on the DTT service. In addition to this, the format was changed to a serious, documentary channel with scheduling arranged into 'zones' depending on topics.[3][4]
However, the real reason for the shift in programming was because the incumbent government delayed approving new BBC digital plans. BBC Three and Four were planned to have launched in 2001 but because of the plans being delayed, instead the BBC decided to relaunch the two channels in the meantime with the new programming. It had been planned since October 2000 that Knowledge would be replaced with BBC Four. Eventually the new digital plans were approved, and BBC Knowledge closed down on 2 March 2002 with the farewell announcement:
'That's it from us tonight - as you've heard, an exciting beginning for a brand new channel is just hours away. BBC4 starts this evening at 7:00. We look forward to what's to come, so from all of us here at BBC Knowledge, it's goodnight... and goodbye!"
BBC Knowledge from mid-2001 was essentially a test platform for the style of the new channel. BBC Four would be more heavily promoted with more new and original programming.
A few seconds after that, a caption appeared on the frequency advertising the launch of the new channel, BBC Four the following day. The new channel would not be 24 hour, like BBC Knowledge was until the month previously, but would broadcast from 7pm until 4am, with the 6am to 7pm slot filled by the new CBeebies channel.
Currently there are versions of BBC Knowledge in other countries.
Visual identity
The launch identity consisted of cartoon characters climbing 'ladders of learning' between clouds against an orange background. Illustrator Michael Sheehy designed the idents. A white, BBC logo with 'Knowledge' after it in capital letters was located at the bottom of the screen. The ident image would also be present in the background of the end promotions, channel menus advertising upcoming programmes, and in video links presented by members of the public. In addition to this, a DOG was used on the channel, located in the top left of the screen, which displayed the web address for the channel, linking in with the interactive learning element, however this was replaced with the BBC Knowledge logo before too long.
Later on, the idents changed to follow a strand layout, with different idents for each strand. These featured an object, before a fact about it related to the strand appears and ends on an image with the strand name shown clearly on screen, with a letter encircled at the centre of the screen. It is unclear whether these idents were replacements of the animated idents, or complimentory to them, however it appears they complemented them, with these idents being used in the stranded sections, with the animated idents used for general interest programming.
Following the relaunch in 2001, all different idents were dropped in favour of a single ident, featuring numerous circles made out of different structures reflecting the new strands.
- ↑ BBC unveils digital TV BBC News, 21 September 1998
- ↑ BBC launches digital learning channel BBC News, 30 May 1999
- ↑ BBC Knowledge 1999-2002 TV & Radio Bits
- ↑ BBC Knowledge Launch Schedule TV & Radio Bits


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Jiang W,Qiu Y,Ni Y,Su M,Jia W,Du X.An automated data analysis pipeline for GC-TOF-MS metabonomics studies. Also in partnership with UNC Greensboro. Department ofBioinformatics & Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Kannapolis, NC 28081, USA. JournalofProteomeResearch.2010 Nov 5;9(11):5974-81. Epub 2010 Sep 29.
Recent technological advances have made it possible to carry out high-throughput metabonomics studies using gas chromatography coupled with time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Large volumes of data are produced from these studies and there is a pressing need for algorithms that can efficiently process and analyze data in a high-throughput fashion as well. We present an Automated Data Analysis Pipeline (ADAP) that has been developed for this purpose. ADAP consists of peak detection, deconvolution, peak alignment, and library search. It allows data to flow seamlessly through the analysis steps without any human intervention and features two novel algorithms in the analysis. Specifically, clustering is successfully applied in deconvolution to resolve coeluting compounds that are very common in complex samples and a two-phase alignment process has been implemented to enhance alignment accuracy. ADAP is written in standard C++ and R and uses parallel computing via Message Passing Interface for fast peak detection and deconvolution. ADAP has been applied to analyze both mixed standards samples and serum samples and identified and quantified metabolites successfully. ADAP is available at http://www.du-lab.org .


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Skating to ChristmasDecember 20th, 2010 in member junk
pjjunker, member
I used my old hemming gauge as a stand for some old skates that I bought several years ago and painted on. Voila! Fireplace accent!
Pattern or design used: My own design - pjjunker
posted in: member junk, vintage, tabletop, metal, centerpiece, wood, eclectic, country, family room, picture holder, porch, living room, great room, game room
Comments (5)
CottageElements writes: Hi, PJ! Hope you're having a good Holiday Season. Love the skates! I actually have a vintage skate collection. Fun idea to put words on them. So much you can do with them.
Lani Posted: 8:40 am on December 22nd
Lani Posted: 8:40 am on December 22nd
oldnews writes: Beautiful old skates! It totally says winter, holidays, fun! Marie Posted: 12:11 am on December 22nd
pjjunker writes: I just used a fine point paint marker. My best friend...after duct tape and a glue gun! Posted: 7:24 am on December 21st
shabbychick writes: I agree - how clever to paint the words on the blades! And, old skates are great display pieces!!!
Kathy Posted: 6:33 am on December 21st
Kathy Posted: 6:33 am on December 21st
KMcG73 writes: I really like how you wrote the lyrics on the blades of the skates - your whole display is very creative! Posted: 6:00 am on December 21st
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Core muscles constitute one of the most important groups of muscles in your body. You can maintain the balance and erect posture due to the strong core. Because we encounter most of the stresses in our surroundings, our balance and the posture may get challenged. Therefore, it also leaves the negative impact on your core stability. Bird-Dog pose can fix the weak core's strength!!! With the help of the bird-Dog pose, you can prevent the chances of the faulty posture and low back pain in the future.
Not only, the Bird-Dog pose is designed for improving the functional capacity of the core muscles, in fact, it can also strengthen your upper back, neck and of course, lower back. Being the gravity-assisted position, the Bird-Dog pose will aid in boosting your overall strength.
Didn't try the Bird-Dog Pose yet? Well, then, you're missing the main staple of the efficient exercise regimen. Do try the basic Bird-Dog pose and if you want to add up some spice, then don't forget to try the modified versions of it.
Well, this pose is not complicated and complex one, in fact, few components are needed to perform the Bird-Dog pose in an appropriate way. So, do you want to know all of those important components? Don't waste your time anymore and start reading the below-listed-elements now!
- Get into the prone position
- Place your hands under shoulder with extended elbows. Your fingers should be pointed forward with palms rested on the floor.
- flex your knees and keep them under your hips
- Keep your spine straight enough. Don't arch up or down.
- Keep your abdominal muscles tucked in
- Lengthen the left leg and right arm simultaneously
- Make sure that you're not over-lifting the leg and arm. You should maintain the neutral stance.
- Lift your leg up to the hip's height.
- Make sure that your arm is lifted to the shoulder level
- Keep your shoulder parallel to the floor
- Look straight, so that, your neck can maintain the alignment in correspondence to the other parts of the body.
- Hold this upward phase for about 5 seconds and then come back to the starting position.
- Don't stop breathing. Inhale and exhale simultaneously.
- Repeat this exercise for about 10 times more on both sides.
Muscles involved
The back extensors, mainly, erector spinae are challenged through the Bird-Dog pose. Somehow, rectus abdominis (ab muscles) and glutes (butt muscles) work while performing the Bird-Dog Pose. However, deltoids (shoulder muscles), obliques and hamstrings act synergistically during this pose.
Overall, your large muscles of the body get some downward pull, thus, your muscles get stronger to the optimal level. So, while trying the Bird-Dog Pose, you should try to squeeze most of your muscles so that the results would be amplified
Common mistakes
Any exercise is effective when it is executed in a proper way. When the exercise is full of errors, then, all your efforts will be in vain. Similarly, the level of the effectiveness of the bird-dog pose can be raised, if you keep all the below-listed factors in your mind.
- Don't arch up or down excessively while performing this exercise. Your spine should be in neutral position, because, if your spine isn't in the standard position, it may cause pain in lower back rather than easing the pain or discomfort.
- Don't close your shoulder blades tightly against the ribcage. Due to the excessive internal rotation of the shoulders and the closure of the shoulder blades, the exercise may become very difficult to be performed. Keep yourself relaxed and keep your hands width apart, so that, your shoulders should lie against the ribcage smoothly.
- Don't excessively widen your knees. If you keep knees further away too much, it'll make the balance and stability harder. Also, the benefits of the bird-dog pose will be reduced as well.
- Don't extend your toes. Keep them in the flexion pose in such a way that the weight distribution should be equal and uninterrupted.
- Don't keep your neck in hyperextension or in hyperflexion. Because, inappropriate neck positioning during the exercise lead to the forward neck posture, it is vital to secure your neck's strength and function by keeping it in a neutral position.
- Neither over-lifts your butt toward the ceiling or even the floor. If you're doing this, you're transferring most of your weight on the knees, preventing the hip's main movement.
- Don't break the continuity of the breathing. Continuous breathing enhances the blood circulation throughout the body. Hence, it's important that you should breathe rhythmically.
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When to avoid bird-dog?
If you're experiencing the severe shoulder pain or scapular winging, then, you should not think about to perform the Bid-Dog pose. Because, the Bird-Dog pose needs the shoulder blade protraction, it can aggravate your pain intensity. However, if you've had a Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in the past, then, don't keep your wrist in over-extension for prolong period.
By performing the Bird-Dog exercise on a regular basis, your core muscles will be strengthened and you would get the toned and trimmed abs. Also, this exercise can also provide the shape to the shoulder muscles. However, if you haven't included this exercise in your leg's workout routine, include the Bird-Dog exercise to get the sexy and sculpted legs. Nevertheless, your endurance and exercise tolerance rank will also be increased through this pose. It offers the cardiovascular effect as well.
Bird-dog crunch
All you need to do is to attain the standard Bird-Dog Pose but, instead of coming back to the starting position, crunch your left leg with a right arm underneath your torso. If you have the tightened hip or lower back muscles, you may find this version very, very difficult to be performed. However, this version can improve the flexibility of the glutes and the lower back muscles, if done on a regular basis.
Bird-dog on exercise ball
Another very effective version of the Bird-Dog pose is one an exercise ball. You will need the exercise ball over here to perform this progression. Get onto the exercise ball and achieve the Bird-Dog pose, but extend your knees rather than curling them. Isn't it challenging? Don't forget to put your hips over the exercise ball. Make sure that your hands and feet are not close enough to the exercise ball, because, if you keep your hands and feet too close to the ball, it might increase the degree of difficulty and you may end up without performing this pose. Hence, you should maintain the neutral alignment by keeping your hands and feet away from the exercise ball.
Superman plank
To do the push up is one of the hardest exercises that you would have experienced to, but, when you blend the push up with the Bird-Dog pose, it increases your endurance. Achieve the standard Bird-Dog pose but keep your knees straightened. Afterward, lift your right arm and left leg in the air and just literally hold for a few seconds. Repeat the same procedure on the other side as well. Click here to read more about superman plank.
Single side
Though, it seems much easier version of the Bird-Dog pose than any other modification, but, actually, it's one of the most difficult variations that you could achieve. This version is extremely beneficial for strengthening the weak core muscles. All the steps of the standard Bird-Dog pose will remain same but, instead of lifting the opposite arm and leg, lift up the arm and leg of the same side. Of course, your balancing power will be enhanced when you complete this exercise. Just try to hold the pose for several seconds, so that the muscles get empowered ultimately.
On the toes
Another great variation to shake your core muscles is Bird-Dog on the toes. Start in the regular Bird-Dog position and lift your knees for a few inches off the floor. Now we're gonna extend your left arm forward and right leg backward at the same time. Hold for a couple sec and bring back to neutral position. Repeat for 30 seconds and change side. Keep your torso and hips stable while moving opposite arm, opposite leg.
So, the Bird-Dog Exercise is not only related to the certain group of muscles, in fact, your tiniest muscles get activated and involved when you're performing the Bird-Dog pose. Hence, whenever, you get onto the exercise mat, don't forget to perform the Bird-Dog pose.


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Don't miss tonight's Parent Info Session!
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who helped us make our first gala a big success! We will update soon when all baskets have been claimed with the total amount raised, but in the meantime, we want to thank all of our guests and generous donors for their support. Camp Casco wouldn't be possible without you!
Also, don't forget that tonight is our Parent Info Session, where any interested families are welcome to stop in and ask us anything and everything about Camp Casco! No RSVP required, and pastries will be generously provided by Green T Coffee Shop. Stop by anytime between 5:30 - 7:30 PM, in the Longwood Medical Area, Tosteson Medical Education Center, Room 209.
Hope to see you there!!


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Covenant University concluded a one-day conference on e-governance on Monday, June 9, 2014.
The conference featured two Keynote Speakers; the Vice-Chancellor of Covenant University, Professor Charles Korede Ayo, who is an expert in e-governance as well as a Professor of Computer and Information Science and an Associate Professor, and former Dean, Faculty of Communication Technology, Cross River State University of Technology, Calabar, Dr. Etim Anim. The theme, "E-governance in Nigeria: Prospects and Challenges for Civic Engagement and Participation."
The event, which was organized by the university's Department of Political Science and International Relations under the College of Development Studies, attracted participants from both public and private organizations.
In his welcome remarks during the conference, the Head of Department, Political Science and International Relations, Dr. Sheriff Folarin stated, "As an institution with a long list of internationally acclaimed awards for being ICT savvy, and with a Vice-Chancellor who is a Professor of Computer and Information Science, it is not therefore a coincidence that Covenant University is taking the lead in promoting e-Governance."
While delivering his lecture, the Vice-Chancellor of Covenant University who based his argument on the UN declaration made at the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) of 2003; noted that e-Governance is the application of ICT to transform the efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability of exchange of information and transaction.
The Vice-Chancellor further stated that the use of ICT in governance brings morality, reduced-paper-work, transparency, responsibility, accountability, and simplicity through electronic documentation, online submission, online service delivery, etc. Furthermore, he described e-Government as the use of ICT to run the business of Government in a nation.
Professor Ayo described e-Democracy as an element that would encourage e-Engagement, as e-Engagement is considered as the aspect of e-Democracy that offers possibilities for enhanced consultation and dialogue between government and citizens.
Making his presentation at the conference, the second Keynote Speaker, Professor Etim Anim, stated that e-Governance is an enhancer of globalization, while globalization is a competition between one country's democracy and another's. He however said that there is a need for quality bureaucracy to channel, govern and enhance the creative energies of a country in other to maximize development.
While defining Governance, he said, "Governance is the exercise of political, economic and administrative authority in the management of a country's affairs including citizen's articulation of their interests and exercise of their legal rights and obligations."
The conference was facilitated by Professor Patience Akpan-Ubong, from the School of Letters and Sciences, Arizona State University, USA; who is a visiting Professor to Covenant University.
Present at the event were the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, (Administration), Professor Taiwo Abioye, Dean, College of Development Studies, Professor Isaiah Olurinola, Deputy Dean, School of Social Science, Dr. Daniel Gberevbie, and senior members of Faculty in the College of Development Studies.


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3 books this week:
Release: April 15th 2006 by Simon Pulse
Summary: "Special Circumstances":
The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor -- frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally's never been ordinary.And now she's been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.The strength, the speed, and the clarity and focus of her thinking feel better than anything Tally can remember. Most of the time. One tiny corner of her heart still remembers something more.Still, it's easy to tune that out -- until Tally's offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she's programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the same.
Release: January 20th 2010 by iUniverseSummary: Shannon Mallory was a woman on the run….not from outside forces but from her own wounded heart. When she pulled up into the parking lot of The Last Resort Café, in the town of Sanctuary, little did she know she would find the one thing she never even knew she was searching for….true love.Seth Proudfoot wasn't looking for anything, except an end to his miserable existence. Accused of a crime he couldn't remember committing, he was ostracized by a town that, ironically, bore the name of the one thing he could never find….Sanctuary.When the two meet, neither can ignore the magnetic pull between them, but will Shannon allow her damaged spirit to trust a man…a man who may have murdered his own family?Though Shannon is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, it is her spirit that breaks down the iron-clad shield around his heart. Their desire burns hotter than the Arizona desert, threatening to melt the very mountains that loom like silent Gods above their heads. But can their love survive a betrayal that could very well cost them both their lives?
Release: February 4th 2010 by Hodder Children's BooksSummary: Elena: transformed, the golden girl has become what she once feared and desired.Stefan: tormented by losing Elena, he's determined to end his feud with Damon once and for all—whatever the cost. But slowly he begins to realize that his brother is not his only enemy.Damon: at last, he possesses Elena. But will his thirst for revenge against Stefan poison his triumph? Or can they come together to face one final battle?Collected here in one edition are the third and fourth volumes of The Vampire Diaries, a riveting conclusion to the tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them


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You know what? I have been putting off posting the second part of my dialogue (click here for earlier post) with freelance journalist Andrea Useem for two simple reasons: (1) I was out of town for a week, attempting to survive four days of traffic-challenged driving in greater Los Angeles and (2) we normally fill our 5Q+1 interviews with hyperlinks to all of the publications, schools, think tanks, etc., linked to the journalist's career and, in this case, Useem has just been too busy for me to look up all of those links.
Honest. I'm only going to do about half of them. Or less. So there. Try it yourself.
To flash back, Useem is the veteran religion-beat freelancer and researcher who is behind the ReligionWriter.com blog. There are all kinds of nice details in her personal biography -- read it all -- but here is the section that many will find the most interesting.
After reporting first-hand on the 1998 embassy bombing in Nairobi, Andrea became intrigued by Islam, a religion she knew little about. She studied informally with Muslim leaders in Kenya, Egypt and Sudan, and what started as a journalistic interest gradually became a personal conviction. Just before leaving Africa for good in the fall of 1999, she formally embraced Islam while in Zimbabwe.
Back in the United States, Andrea earned her Master's of Theological Studies at the Harvard Divinity School. She studied Arabic at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Middlebury's renowned summer language institute. She met and married an American convert to Islam in early 2001, before graduating from Harvard that spring. After long consideration, she decided against pursuing a Ph.D. in religious studies, largely because she preferred the fast pace and wide reach of journalism.
Did you follow all of that? As stated before, she has professional ties to all kinds of people, including Religion News Service, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, the Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chronicle of Higher Education, the Dallas Morning News, etc., etc. I met her when she called me up to talk, as part of research she is doing for some Religion Newswriters Association "webinars" on coverage of Islam. It looks like the dates for those are March 11 and April 22. Check it out.
So here come the standard question:
(1) Where do you get your news about religion?
I get the majority of my news, including religion news, via RSS feed on my Google desktop sidebar. Big breaking stories -- like the death of Gordon Hinckley, for example -- usually come to me first from major news outlets on my RSS, like Forbes, CNN, or the Guardian.
Blog-wise, I am trying to create an all-star religion RSS line-up. Currently some of my favorite national-audience religion RSS feeds are: GetReligion, Gary Stern's Blogging Religiously, Dan Gilgoff's God-o-Meter, the First Things blog, Reuter's FaithWorld, the Religion News Service blog, washingtonpost.com's On Faith, BlogRunner's religion category, and CBN's The Brody File, in addition to religion-specific RSS feeds from Slate, NPR and washingtonpost.com. I read ChristianityToday.com, CAIR, Altmuslim.com and the Pew Forum via email and browsing.
I also pay attention to the news feed on my Facebook page, and friends who mass-email on religious topics -- that gives me a sense of what stories have caught the attention of other people. Locally, I read blogs by religious folks in Northern Virginia, including that of Reston Community Church pastor Ben Arment, and consume local publications like The Muslim Link.
(2) What is the most important religion story right now that you think the mainstream media just do not get?
Here's an important story that simply hasn't been covered: The death of the Salafi movement in America. Maybe it hasn't been covered because a reporter would have to spend so long setting the context for why this neo-traditionalist Muslim movement is important (Answer: It significantly shaped the character of Islam in America for a decade or more, and this very conservative thinking often results in isolationist us-versus-the-West thinking; whether it is associated with violence is a separate question).
This story came to my attention via Northern Virginia Muslim blogger Tariq Nelson, a person I think religion reporters should include in their Rolodex/Blackberry/RSS (particularly if the question at hand is, "Where are the conservative Muslims who condemn violence?" or "What are the debates going on right now among American Muslims?") Tariq pointed me toward a seven-part series -- The rise and fall of the 'salafi dawa' in the US -- published last January by Umar Lee, an American Muslim who, like Tariq, spent time as a Salafi. Anyways, Umar's tale of Salafism is fascinating: It's a story that simply hasn't been told, at least as far as I'm aware, in the mainstream press.
(3) What is the story that you will be watching carefully in the next year or two?
Is the Christian legal movement paving a multicultural superhighway, on which the next generation of minority religions will ride? School prayer isn't a burning issue right now, but it's a perfect example of an issue conservative evangelicals have trumpeted without apparent thought to how non-Christian groups would use such legal precedents to champion their own rights. If there were any sort of state- or federally-mandated prayer in public school, it would open wide the door for, say, Muslim students to ask for time off during class, special foot-baths or other accommodations. The point is not that I'm against Muslims praying in school but that the very people pushing for these rights may be a bit shocked at the eventual results. Yet because the Christian legal movement frames its arguments in terms of religious liberty, which applies to all Americans, I do believe they are setting the stage for further battles over religion-in-the-public-square, as minority religions follow in the litigious footsteps of evangelicals.
(4) Why is it important for journalists to understand the role of religion in our world today?
Substitute the word "politics" or "economics" for the word "religion" in that question, and the answer is obvious: Religion is a large part of what makes the world go round. Remain ignorant at your own risk.
What we're seeing now in journalism, I believe, might be called a market correction, except that it's really an intellectual correction. Not to get too bookish, but members of the media, like a lot of secular elites, subscribed to the modernist assumption that as the world became more and more technologically advanced, religion would play a smaller and smaller role before finally being extinguished by the march of human progress. Of course, that's not at all how the story has played out, and the media, along with academia, government and business, has finally gotten the memo. For an excellent sociological peek into the special role evangelicals are playing in bringing religion to elite American institutions, I recommend D. Michael Lindsay's Faith in the Halls of Power.
(5) What is the funniest, most ironic twist that you have seen in a religion news story lately?
While reading Jacqui Salmon's Washington Post article on how the NFL forbid churches from broadcasting the Super Bowl on large screens, I almost laughed out loud when I read the Christian legal movement may yet weigh in on the issue:
John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, a Charlottesville civil liberties group that focuses on religious freedom issues, is threatening to sue the NFL on behalf of an Alabama church that wants to host a big-screen Super Bowl party. He is also seeking sponsors for federal legislation to exempt churches from the ban.
On the face of it, this is funny just because I think only evangelicals could conceive of Super Bowl parties as a religious freedom issue. It demonstrates how hard it is find the line sometimes between American culture and evangelical culture, both for outside observers and inside believers. This religion-culture overlap comes up in a number of debates, including: Is entertainment-style megachurch worship still worship? Has Joel Osteen blurred forever the line between faith and self-help? One person who I think is asking some thought-provoking questions on these issues is Skye Jethani, now managing editor of Christianity Today's Leadership Journal and author of the well-read 2006 piece, "All We Like Sheep," which speaks out against the consumerization of evangelical Christianity.
BONUS: Do you have anything else you want to tell us about religion coverage in the mainstream news media?
Yes, very much so. While I am as interested as the next religion reporter in questions about the-next-great-religion-story and how to improve religion coverage, I do worry that these discussions are like so many concertos on the Titanic foredeck. The mainstream media faces some very serious business problems, to which it has not yet discovered any simple answers -- so while we're honing our skills on the reporting side, the business side is deciding whether or not to throw us overboard.
What I would like to see much more of are discussions about, for example, how "denominational" bloggers are not only serving as important sources for the mainstream media, but are in some senses replacing the mainstream media. I think religion reporters could also benefit immensely from digital news-gathering strategies, like Jay Rosen's ideas about using social networks to assist in beat reporting. I find traditional print reporters are, for the most part, incredibly resistant to the changes going on. So I'd like to see the religion-in-the-media conversation be more new-media focused.


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Ironman Canada 2012
**Please note the wine shop will be closed Ironman Sunday August 26, 2012. We will re-open for regular business and wine tastings on Monday the 27th.**
Well, It's that time of year and Ironman week in Penticton has once again commenced, albeit this time for the last time as an official Ironman event. The race will live on under the Challenge Family branding and we're sure this area will continue to be a draw for endurance athletes looking to push themselves.
We have one of the best long distance triathlon courses in the world here in the South Okanagan, and it happens to go right through our town of OK Falls. We look forward to cheering on all of the athletes this year as they fight toward this huge athletic achievement!
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For the last five days we have been in Vegas at one of the biggest photography conventions – WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International). It was such a whirlwind but SO amazing! We met SO many of you and how fun was that??
A huge thanks to George, Arlene and Neeta with WPPI who helped make our speaking experience amazing here!!
Here is a little highlight of our time there, thanks to our lovely iphone photos :)
Sunday morning at 9AM was our platform class to a packed out room!
Thanks to David Molnar for this below photo!
This was our view from the stage :)
Then that afternoon we had our Sold-Out Get Engaged in Vegas workshop with some teaching and shoot. We started out in our in our hotel Suite.
Then headed out to for some shooting time!
Then that evening we had dinner with the amazing group from Showit including Jasmin Star and her hubby JD, David Jay, Promise and Brian Tangeman Kevin Sturm and hottie Toddy co-owner of Showit. :)
Zach and I had five speaking and teaching slots with the Showit group and two of those things was Zach and Cory Phillips sharing their coffee knowledge :)
This is Z in the lobby with his espresso maching getting ready to go in and set up. Yes, we transported our espresso machine in a pelican case.. ha ha
Cory showing & demonstrating the science to the pour-over method.
Us at the SanDisk booth hanging with the team, and behind is our image that was used for some promo!
Us at the Expo Imaging booth checking out our before and after shot from Blake and Andrea's wedding.
Every year, our favorite time at Vegas is Photographers Unite which is a time for all Christians to gather for worship and an awesome message. Love love LOVE.
Us with dear and amazing friends, Karen & Isaac Stott with Elizabeth Ann.
We wrapped up our time in Vegas with dinner with the super sweet couple, Brian & Me Ra Koh.
There are so many more memories and highlights to share and we met SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many of you and it was an absolute joy.
If you made it out this year, what was your favorite time in Vegas??