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Advice to My Teen Daughter on Finding Her Personal Style
"Personality begins where comparison ends." -Karl Lagerfeld
I wish I could stop talking about this, but I think about it all of the time and it crowds out the other thoughts in my head. My daughter, Cal, leaves for college in three short years, which makes me an empty nester at 36. Both of those truths alarm me in different ways. I feel so proud that we've gotten this far, but I feel a deep sense of loss already. Now that she's 14, I'm getting to know her as an independent young adult rather than a helpless child, and I like her. A lot. She is so different from me in every way. She teaches me about life because her fresh perspective makes me feel like I'm looking at everything for the first time.
I can't decide if I'm relieved that my daughter is different or if I'm just the tiniest bit perplexed. I mean, her body is essentially formed from my body, so we should be carbon copies of each other. Or is that not how biology works?
Our personal styles seem to be an outward manifestation of our inner distinctions. A few weeks ago, Cal made this very clear when we were discussing a trip to the mall to buy new summer clothes. I started to ask if she'd like to browse the stores that I frequent but changed my mind. My favorite stores were probably too boring because I consider my personal style to be modest and I rarely accessorize.
The most accurate description of her facial expression would be "horrified." "No, mommy, you don't dress conservatively," she said and then pointed at herself. "I dress conservatively. The only way you could be less conservative is by wearing a corset in public."
"Oh. Does Halloween count?"
Cal reminded me that the emails I receive from my favorite retailers include subject lines like "Show some skin" and "Calling all party girls." She claimed that my mostly black attire and delicate jewelry did not make me modest. Rather, her preference for crewnecks over low cut v-necks and her habit of buttoning all the way to the top when she wore polo shirts—those were the telltale signs of a conservative dresser.
Hmm. I see.
We assume certain things about ourselves to be true and then we never think twice about it afterwards. I don't know why I'm so nervous about my daughter living apart from us. If she can survive an entire childhood with me as her mother, the rest of her life should be a breeze.
Cal is excited about branching out and creating a more sophisticated personal style. Her attitude reminds me of the enthusiasm I had at her age when I stopped wearing animal-print sweaters and bought my first flannel shirt. Grunge was trendy, and I wanted to fit in. Later on, when clogs were the rage, I bought a pair even though I never mastered walking in them, and I still have several faint scars on my legs from tumbles off the curb or into brambles.
My style is still evolving (much to the relief of my daughter), but after spending years and many, many dollars on fashion that didn't suit me, the one belief I want to instill in Cal is that it's okay to be exactly who she is. No edits required. And because it's almost never our personality that people see first, I want her to feel comfortable about expressing the inner Cal. Her style should be effortless and a statement about who she is rather than who she thinks she has to be.
I have almost every picture from 1993 to 1997 safely tucked away in a corner. A very hard-to-reach corner. Those family albums chronicle a series of fashion no-nos. The younger me looks happy as I hold the same pose in almost every picture: hands on my hips, turned at a 45-degree angle, wide smile on my face. I apparently thought I looked extra fine in my paisley polyester rompers and velvet chokers with a dangly cross. As much as those pictures make me cringe, I'm grateful that I got a chance to explore every wrong choice because, by process of elimination, I finally understood what I liked and what actually flattered my form.
I look forward to watching Cal's personal style journey. If she doesn't remember anything else from my extremely long and rambly Mother-Daughter Talks when she sets off on her own, I hope that she at least remembers this: You can rock anything as long as you do it confidently. And I'm not just talking about fashion.

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The Chinese authorities have accused a British drugs company executive of ordering his staff to bribe hospital officials to use the firm's products.
UK-based GlaxoSmithKline has been at the centre of a slew of allegations in recent months, including from investigators in China, Iraq and Poland, after they alleged GSK reps paid doctors and hospital officials to prescribe its products ahead of others.
In a statement carried by China's official Xinhua News Agency, police in the central city of Changsha said GSK's Mark Reilly was accused of pressing his sales team to bribe doctors, hospital officials and health institutions.
It said that resulted in "illegal revenue" of billions of yuan - hundreds of millions of dollars.
The statement said Reilly and two Chinese executives also were accused of bribing government officials in Beijing and Shanghai.
Last month GSK whistleblower Jarek Wisniewiski told the BBC's Panorama programme that reps paid doctors to boost prescriptions in Poland.
Another former GSK drug rep, who did not want to be identified, said they paid doctors for lectures that never happened and this would result in a greater number of prescriptions.
Mr Wisniewiski said he had voiced his concerns with the drugs company but that this resulted in him being sidelined at work and eventually sacked.
The programme said a criminal investigation is under way, and 11 doctors and one GSK regional manager have been charged in connection with corruption.
If the new allegations are successfully prosecuted, then GSK may have violated both the UK's Bribery Act and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the programme said. In both countries it is illegal for companies based there to bribe government employees abroad.


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Last week the Israelites finally exodused and made it out of Egypt by crossing the Red Sea on dry ground. As the Egyptian army tried to pursue them through the Red Sea, the walls of water came down and completely wiped out Pharaoh's army. Not only were the Israelites safe on the other side of the Red Sea, there was no more Egyptian army so there was no fear of the Egyptians ever pursuing the Israelites again.
As the Israelites look around and realize what has taken place they break out into song. Perhaps that is a bit cheesy of a way to phrase it, but they do begin to sing a song about what God has done. This is commonly known as the song of Moses but Miriam also leads the women in singing a song as well.
And then they begin moving and things quickly go downhill. That's where we pick up in Exodus 15:22-24
22 Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water. 23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.) 24 So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "What are we to drink?"
The Israelites make it three days into their journey and they have no water. This is a significant problem. Water was not something that they would have traveled with much of. And even if they had a lot of water with them, it would quickly be used up between all of the people and the livestock.
The place where they stopped had water but they couldn't drink it because it was bitter. Bitter is probably a bad word to use here as the idea is that this water was undrinkable. If your options are drinking water that doesn't taste good or dying of dehydration, most people are going to choose the water. This water isn't fit for human consumption so they have a serious problem. We don't last long without water in good circumstances. In the desert it would be even less time.
Vs 25-27
25 Then Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became fit to drink.
There the LORD issued a ruling and instruction for them and put them to the test. 26 He said, "If you listen carefully to the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you."
27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.
The solution to the bitter water is a piece of wood. Tossing the wood into the water makes it fit to drink. This could be a natural or supernatural phenomenon. It is possible that the wood soaks up water is in the water that makes it unfit to drink. More likely though, one piece of wood would not clean enough water for all of the Israelites to drink.
This is opposite of what will take place in the end ends. According to Revelation 8:10-11, something will fall into the water and cause it to turn bitter.
10 The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— 11 the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
God makes the Israelites a promise as He cleans the waters of Marah. If the Israelites will hold to His decrees they will not face the diseases that were inflicted up the Egyptians. Some people will use this verse and similar verses as proof that God will heal sick people who have faith or that their lack of faith is the cause of their infirmities.
This notion is garbage though. This is actually more of a warning than it is a comfort. God says "if you keep all of my decrees." And that's the problem. None of us can keep all of God's decrees because none of us are perfect. So because we are unable to keep God's decrees, should we expect God to prevent and heal all of our infirmities? No.
The good news is that God still loves screw-ups like us. Even though we don't follow God's decrees perfectly, He still showers us with His love, just like He does the Israelites.
Exodus 16:1-3
1 The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. 2 In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 3 The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the LORD's hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death."
So the Israelites manage to make a couple of weeks before they start grumbling again. First it was the water. Now it's the food. They had it SO good as slaves, eating all of the food that they wanted. Such short term memories!
Vs 4-8
4 Then the LORD said to Moses, "I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. 5 On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days."
6 So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, "In the evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of Egypt, 7 and in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?" 8 Moses also said, "You will know that it was the LORD when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the LORD."
Although the Israelites have not received the actual command yet, the Sabbath is established with the giving of manna. It is not without purpose that this will be a forced Sabbath as we'll see. The Israelites are instructed to gather twice as much on the sixth day and it will last through the seventh day. I'll comment more on this shortly.
Moses notes the true direction of the grumbling. The people complain to Moses about all that is going on but it is God who has led Moses. When the people complain about where Moses has led, they complain about God.
Vs 9-16
9 Then Moses told Aaron, "Say to the entire Israelite community, 'Come before the LORD, for he has heard your grumbling.'"
10 While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the LORD appearing in the cloud.
11 The LORD said to Moses, 12 "I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, 'At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.'"
13 That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. 14 When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. 15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was.
Moses said to them, "It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat. 16 This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Each one is to gather as much as he needs. Take an omer for each person you have in your tent.'"
God provided quail to eat in the evening and in the morning the ground was covered in a strange flake like substance. The people asked "what is it" which is what manna means. This is a substance unlike anything that the Israelites had encountered and my guess is that there is nothing quite like it on earth. This is literal bread from heaven.
The Israelites were instructed to gather enough for each person each day. The amount given, an omer, is equal to about two quarts. This would provide enough food for each person in a day.
Vs 17-20
17 The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little. 18 And when they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little. Each one gathered as much as he needed.
19 Then Moses said to them, "No one is to keep any of it until morning."
20 However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.
The issue of gathering manna is not just a matter of obedience. God made the manna so that it would not keep. Gathering too much and storing it for later was useless and actually harmful. Many times God's instructions are meant to keep us from harm, but instead we look at them as an attempt to ruin our joy and take away our fun.
Harvesting the manna daily is an issue of trust. Each day the Israelites needed to trust that God would provide for them for the next day. If a person gathered more than the needed on any day, with the expectation of saving it for later, it was like saying that they didn't trust God to provide for them the following day.
In the Lord's Prayer we are taught to ask for our daily bread. In the time of Christ, the situation was a little different but the application was the same. A worker would be paid daily and on their way home they'd stop and buy what they needed for supper that night. If a person didn't work one day, it was unlikely that they would have enough to feed themselves or their family that day. They needed to trust that they'd be able to work in order to provide for their families.
Today we view things differently. Some people live paycheck to paycheck and that is viewed as a bad thing. We rely on insurance and our savings to help us through tough times. Most financial advisors will tell you to have enough money to live off of for several months in case the worst happens and you are unable to work for some reason.
I'm not going to say that it's a bad thing to have savings or insurance. These are good things and perhaps even necessities as insurance is required on your car. But when we are depending on our insurance to cover our expenses or we rely on the savings that we have built up to carry us through times, it does something to remove our dependence upon God. I'm not saying that savings and trust in God are incompatible, just that most people don't think about their need for God as long as they know they have enough to pay their bills for several months.
Vs 21-30
21 Each morning everyone gathered as much as he needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away. 22 On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much—two omers for each person—and the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses. 23 He said to them, "This is what the LORD commanded: 'Tomorrow is to be a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.'"
24 So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink or get maggots in it. 25 "Eat it today," Moses said, "because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. You will not find any of it on the ground today. 26 Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any."
27 Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none. 28 Then the LORD said to Moses, "How long will you refuse to keep my commands and my instructions? 29 Bear in mind that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where he is on the seventh day; no one is to go out." 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
Just like some didn't listen regarding how much was to be gathered, some people didn't listen about gathering and preparing twice as much on the sixth day. When they went out on the seventh day they didn't find anything. God is not pleased that some did not listen to the instructions.
The issue of the Sabbath is perhaps the most controversial of all of God's laws. Some say that Jesus abolished the Sabbath as He is Lord of the Sabbath and he healed on the Sabbath. Others hold that the Sabbath is to be kept just as it was at this time – no work was to be done.
I won't get into the whole issue of the Sabbath today. What I will share is from experience however. The body was not made to go without rest. We spend a third of our life sleeping. And on top of that, God instituted the Sabbath. Like so many of God's laws, I believe this is for our own good. If we keep working day after day we'll wear out. I have trouble with this because Sunday is not my day off. And once the work week starts again, it's hard to just take a day to relax. And if I do that for more than about two weeks, I burn out.
Let's save the debate on the Sabbath for another time. Just know that I strongly believe that if you don't rest, you will feel the effects of it. God gave us a day to rest because He knew we'd need it. God gave the Israelites everything they needed – food, water, and even a forced rest. The same is true today. God will provide for our needs. We need to be careful and make sure that we don't grumble like the Israelites.


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High School Sports
Football: Lower Richland at Fairfield Central
Site: E.K. McClendon Stadium. Time: 8 p.m.
Lower Richland notes: The Diamond Hornets (3-3, 1-0) scored a 19-3 win over A.C. Flora last week in their official Class 3A debut. The success was the first for LR in a region opener since 1998. Moreover, the Diamond Hornets are not in the red six games into the season for the first time since 1996 … LR rolled up 370 yards on the attack and the Falcons in it Region 4-3A debut. Quarterback Nicholas Smith connected on 13 of 19 passes for 153 yards and one touchdown, and the balanced running game produced 211 yards with a 6.2 yard-per-carry average. Mykell Jacobs was the nominal lead with 74 yards on eight carries. Brandon Wilkerson was the top receiver with six catches for 68 yards and one TD. On defense, Hayward Martin and Gary Castro led the way with 14 and nine tackles, respectively … It was the second time this season the LR defense did not allow a touchdown, but failed to post a shutout. LR's last shutout win was in 2002 … Keith Skerritt lead the Diamonds in rushing with 342 yards and three TDs on 51 carries. Smith is 47-for-81 passing for 613 yards and one score. Wilkerson leads the receiving corps with 23 catches for 261 yards and one TD. Hayward's 96 tackles tops the LR hit list, and Castro is next with 62 stops. In other stats of note on defense, Larry Hunter has 51 tackles and a team-high four sacks, and Devante Wright has four interceptions.
Fairfield Central notes: The Griffins (4-2, 0-1) fell 21-18 to host Chester last week in the Region 4-3A opener for both teams. The Cyclones surprised the Griffins by running the ball for a season-high 190 yards in the game, including a 14-play drive in the fourth that did not produce points, but one that stalled out at the FC 9-yards line with just 1:38 remaining in the game. By that time, the Griffins had no more times outs left … Danny Miller led a surge that drew FC pull within 21-18 with just under nine minutes remaining in the game after Chester expanded its led to 21-6 in the third quarter. Miller completed 11 of 15 passes for 119 yards in place of starter Justin Trapp, including a 10-yard scoring toss to McKendrix Thompson with 8:52 to go that proved to be the final points of the contest … Miller has been amazingly accurate to date, completing 37 of his 50 throws 425 yards and five touchdowns with just one interception … Greg Gadsden ran for 87 yards and two scores vs. Chester, and has 485 yards and six TDs to date on the books … Thompson had six receptions vs. Chester to up his season receiving totals to 25 catches for 448 yards and eight scores … Tavon Bouknight and Jordan Belton had 11 tackles apiece last week. Bouknight also chipped in one sack and one tackle for loss. Roman Broome had two sacks on the night.
Series history: The series resumes for the first time in 13 years, and pits former high school teammates on the opposite sidelines – LR's J.W. Montgomery and FC's Reggie Kennedy. The two helped East Clarendon bag the Class 1A state championship in 1985 under coach Mickey Moss. The Diamonds won six in a row between 1988 and 1993, but the Griffins scored wins in the last two contests in 1994 and 1995 under coach Buddy Pough.


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This synthesized siren is based on a seventh chord of 4 notes constructed using frequency ratios. The second note is 5/4 the pitch of the first note, the third note is 6/5 the pitch of the second note, and the fourth note is 5/4 the pitch of the third note.
Each note has a different pitch graph applied to it. The graphs are:
1st note: power of 2 (ie Square)
2nd note: cube root
3rd note: geometric sequence with common ratio of 0.5
4th note: square root
This sound has had a stereo effect applied, in that there is a left-channel delay of 0.025 seconds.
This sound has been created using the Kangas Sound Editor, an open-source/freeware program available from multiple download sites on the Internet.
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Hiding the Sidebar Widget HTML when There's no Widgets
With it you can check to see if there are widgets in a sidebar and if not, well, you can do something else. Like nothing for an example. Nothing, in this case, is really something.
With this, you hide the sidebar widget HTML (most likely empty tags) if you have no widgets set for it. I am currently looking for ways to hide the next/previous navigation HTML code when there's no next/previous post: similar problem, might have similar solution as well.


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The Volcano (British Columbia)
The Volcano, also known as Lava Fork volcano, is a small cinder cone in the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is located approximately 60 km (40 mi) northwest of the small community of Stewart near the head of Lava Fork. With a summit elevation of 1,656 m (5,433 ft) and a topographic prominence of 311 m (1,020 ft), it rises above the surrounding rugged landscape on a remote mountain ridge that represents the northern flank of a glaciated U-shaped valley.
|The Volcano
A photo of The Volcano with thick black scoria in the foreground
|Highest point
|1,656 m (5,433 ft)
|311 m (1,020 ft)
|56°25′23″N 130°51′01″W / 56.42306°N 130.85028°WCoordinates: 56°25′23″N 130°51′01″W / 56.42306°N 130.85028°W
|British Columbia, Canada
|Parent range
|Boundary Ranges (Coast Mountains)
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|Mountain type
|Cinder cone
|Volcanic arc/belt
|Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province
|Last eruption
|1800 (?)[1]
Lava Fork volcano is associated with a small group of related volcanoes called the Iskut-Unuk River Cones. This forms part of the much larger Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, which extends from the Alaska–Yukon border to near the port city of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Eruptive activity at The Volcano is relatively young compared to most other volcanoes in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province. Geologic studies have shown that The Volcano and its eruptive products were emplaced in the past 400 years; this is well after the last glacial period, which ended about 10,000 years ago.
The Volcano is the southernmost of 10 volcanoes comprising the Iskut-Unuk River Cones volcanic field, as well as the most recent to erupt.[1][2] Its structure is poorly formed and has been reduced by erosion from alpine glacial ice found at its elevation and latitude. It represents one of the few historically active volcanoes in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, with a base elevation estimated to be 100 m (330 ft).[3][4] Like most cinder cones, The Volcano consists of a pile of loose volcanic ash, lapilli-sized tephra and volcanic bombs. These were deposited during periods of lava fountain activity.[5] The vent area contains volcanic bombs up to 0.5 m (1.6 ft) long and small deposits of sulfur precipitated from volcanic gases.[4]
Like other Iskut-Unuk River Cones, The Volcano has its origins in continental rifting—a long rupture in the Earth's crust where the lithosphere is being pulled apart. This incipient rifting has formed as a result of the Pacific Plate sliding northward along the Queen Charlotte Fault, on its way to the Aleutian Trench.[6] As the continental crust stretches, the near surface rocks fracture along steeply dipping cracks parallel to the rift known as faults. Basaltic magma rises along these fractures to create effusive eruptions.[7] The rift zone has existed for at least 14.9 million years, and has created the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province.[5][8] Several dormant volcanoes in the province are potentially active, with The Volcano being one of the three having erupted in the last few hundred years.[8] Tseax Cone, which last erupted in the 18th century, is the southernmost volcano in the province, while Prindle Volcano in easternmost-central Alaska, which erupted more than 10,000 years ago, is generally considered the northernmost.[6]
Volcanic historyEdit
At least two phases of volcanic activity have been identified at The Volcano. Each event was followed by the eruption of lengthy basaltic lava flows that flowed down steep granitic flanks of the mountain ridge on which The Volcano lies.[2][5] After this took place, they travelled through the Lava Fork valley for 5 km (3 mi).[2] Here, the flows crossed the British Columbia border into the U.S. state of Alaska and blocked the Blue River, a tributary of the Unuk River, forming several lakes.[2][9] The lava flows in total are about 22 km (14 mi) long and still contain their original features from when they cooled, including pressure ridges and lava channels. A series of large trees were engulfed by the lava flows during eruption. The bases of the trees burned and the upper trunks and branches collapsed into the solidifying lava, leaving the trees embedded on the surface of the lava flows. After the flows solidified, tree molds and lava tubes collapsed to form volcanic pits.[4] At the southern end of one of the lava flows, it spreads into a broad terminal lobe on the flat alluvial plain of the Unuk River.[5] Volcanic ash and lava from The Volcano still linger on small glaciers near Mount Lewis Cass, a 2,094-metre-high (6,870 ft) mountain near the Alaska-British Columbia border.[10]
At least one lava flow from The Volcano was notified by a surveyor named Fremont Morse in 1905 during a survey for the International Boundary Commission. In 1906, Morse wrote that the most recently erupted lava flow had "probably occurred within less than fifty years".[10] Since Morse's report, tree ring and radiocarbon dating techniques have been used to establish the dates of The Volcano's two volcanic phases. The first is estimated to have occurred about 360 years ago and the latest possibly took place only 150 years ago.[4][5] This indicates that The Volcano is the youngest known volcanic mountain in Canada and that its volcanic activity is recent compared to many other volcanoes in British Columbia.[4] In several documents, the last eruption of The Volcano is written to have occurred in 1904.[11][12] However, according to the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program, this eruption is considered uncertain.[1]
Although The Volcano is estimated to have last erupted 150 years ago, it is one of the five volcanoes in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province that have recorded seismicity since 1985. Others include Castle Rock (two events), Hoodoo Mountain (eight events), Crow Lagoon (four events) and the Mount Edziza volcanic complex (eight events).[13] Seismic data suggest that these volcanoes still contain active magma chambers, indicating that some Northern Cordilleran volcanoes are probably active, with significant potential hazards.[13][14] The seismic activity corresponds both with some of Canada's recently formed volcanoes and with persistent volcanoes that have had major explosive activity throughout their history, such as Hoodoo Mountain and the Mount Edziza volcanic complex.[13]
Human historyEdit
Naming controversyEdit
The name of the peak was suggested by an explorer named Chris Dickinson during the Cambridge Coast Mountains Expedition in 1979. It was adopted on November 24, 1980, and has been its official name since then.[15] However, this name for the peak does not normally show up in any volcanological resources. Instead, it is informally referred to as Lava Fork or Lava Fork volcano due to its close association with the creek of the same name.[2][4][15] The reason for this controversy is because The Volcano is generic. In speech it may not be obvious whether The Volcano or the volcano is intended, leading to confusion. Similar named volcanoes in Canada include Volcano Vent in the Tuya volcanic field of northwestern British Columbia and Volcano Mountain in the Fort Selkirk volcanic field of central Yukon.[5][16] As of 2009, the unofficial terms for The Volcano continue to be used by Natural Resources Canada.[4]
Protection and monitoringEdit
The Volcano, its eruptive products and a large mineral spring are protected in Lava Forks Provincial Park. Founded in 2001 as a Class A provincial park, this highly remote park covers an area of 7,000 ha (17,000 acres). Lying within its boundaries are the Lava Lakes, two lakes dammed by lava flows erupted from The Volcano. Located in asserted traditional territory of the Tahltan First Nation, Lava Forks Provincial Park provides a location to study ecological processes associated with primary succession or the establishment of vegetation after a major disturbance. After 150 years of non-eruptive activity, vegetation has grown on the surface of the lava flows, including mosses and lichens. Western Hemlock, Mountain Hemlock and Alpine tundra biogeoclimatic subzones also occur in the area, which form part of the Boundary Ranges Ecosection.[11]
Like other Iskut-Unuk River Cones, The Volcano is not monitored closely enough by the Geological Survey of Canada to ascertain how active its magma system is. This is partly because it is located in a remote region and no major eruptions have occurred in Canada in the past few hundred years. As a result, volcano monitoring is less important than dealing with other natural processes, including tsunamis, earthquakes and landslides. However, with the existence of earthquakes, further volcanism is expected and would probably have effects on the surrounding landscape. Because of these concerns, significant support from Canadian university scientists have resulted in the construction of a baseline of knowledge on the state of volcanoes in Canada.[17]
Volcanic hazardsEdit
At least seven eruptions have occurred in the Iskut-Unuk River volcanic field in the past 10,000 years. Since around 1600 all eruptions have occurred at The Volcano.[1] Its total eruption volume is estimated to be 2.2 km3 (0.53 cu mi). Future eruptions from The Volcano will probably be similar in character to those that have occurred throughout its 360-year eruptive history.[4] There is a one in 200 chance per year of an eruption occurring in Canada and one in 220 chance per year of an effusive eruption.[18] An eruption in the foreseeable future is probably more likely along the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province than in an unrelated volcanic zone outside the province. This is because the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, which includes the Iskut-Unuk River Cones, is the most active volcanic zone in Canada.[3][4]
A small range of effects are expected from future eruptions at The Volcano. Its remote uninhabited location makes volcanic hazards less extreme and is therefore not very hazardous. Ash and rock fragments (tephra) ejected during lava fountain activity are unlikely to be high enough to disrupt regional air traffic. However, they could possibly endanger lower flying aircraft along the northern coastal corridor between Vancouver and Alaska.[4] The closest major air route is about 170 km (110 mi) to the east.[19] Volcanic ash reduces visibility and can cause jet engine failure, as well as damage to other aircraft systems.[20]
Lava flows emitted during future volcanic eruptions would likely be basaltic in nature based on the composition of its lavas produced during past volcanic activity.[4] Basaltic lava flows are low in silica content and can have speeds extending from 15 to 50 km/h (10 to 30 mph).[21] The last eruption at The Volcano 150 years ago had a large impact on fish, plant and animal inhabitants in the valley the lava flows travelled through to cross the Canada – United States border.[22] Because of these circumstances, future eruptions may again block the flow of local water courses if the volume of the erupted lavas are significant enough. This would again have disastrous consequences for fish habitats and spawning grounds.[4] However, there are neither records of any impacts on people during this eruption, nor evidence that it was even witnessed by people.[22] A repeat of wildfires in the Lava Fork valley is also a possibility due to the existence of vegetation on and around the erupted lavas.[11]
See alsoEdit
- ^ a b c d "Iskut-Unuk River Cones". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
- ^ a b c d e "Lava Fork, NW British Columbia/SE Alaska". Oregon State University. November 2000. Archived from the original on 2010-07-31. Retrieved 2010-06-19.
- ^ a b "Stikine volcanic belt". Catalogue of Canadian volcanoes. Natural Resources Canada. 2008-02-13. Archived from the original on June 15, 2008. Retrieved 2010-06-21.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Lava Fork". Catalogue of Canadian volcanoes. Natural Resources Canada. 2009-03-10. Archived from the original on June 15, 2008. Retrieved 2010-06-19.
- ^ a b c d e f Wood, Charles A.; Kienle, Jürgen (2001). Volcanoes of North America: United States and Canada. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. pp. 114, 118, 121, 129. ISBN 978-0-521-43811-7. OCLC 27910629.
- ^ a b "Map of Canadian volcanoes". Natural Resources Canada. 2008-02-13. Archived from the original on June 2, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-12.
- ^ "Diagram of the Continental Rift Zone". Natural Resources Canada. 2007-03-23. Archived from the original on 2012-10-06. Retrieved 2010-06-25.
- ^ a b "Canada Volcanoes and Volcanics". United States Geological Survey. 2006-11-09. Retrieved 2008-06-13.
- ^ "Blue River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
- ^ a b Carter, H. Adams (1997). The American Alpine Journal. The Mountaineers Books. p. 94. ISBN 0-930410-43-2.
- ^ a b c "Lava Forks Provincial Park". BC Parks. Retrieved 2010-06-20.
- ^ Byers, Andrew R.; Payette, Andrée; Humbert, Gilles; Wong, Susan; Eastman, Elizabeth; Harris, Eric; Fick, Steven; Simpson-Lewis, Wendy (2004). The Canadian Atlas: Our Nation, Environment and People. Vancouver and Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre. p. 22. ISBN 1-55365-082-4.
- ^ a b c Etkin, David; Haque, C.E.; Brooks, Gregory R. (2003-04-30). An Assessment of Natural Hazards and Disasters in Canada. Springer Netherlands. pp. 569, 582, 583. ISBN 978-1-4020-1179-5.
- ^ "Volcanology in the Geological Survey of Canada". Volcanoes of Canada. Natural Resources Canada. Archived from the original on May 13, 2008. Retrieved 2010-06-20.
- ^ a b "The Volcano". BC Geographical Names Information System. Government of British Columbia. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
- ^ Wetherell, K.; Edwards, B.; Simpson, K. (2005). "Preliminary results of field mapping, petrography, and GIS spatial analysis of the West Tuya lava field, northwestern British Columbia". Natural Resources Canada: 3. ISSN 1701-4387. Cite journal requires
- ^ "Monitoring volcanoes". Volcanoes of Canada. Natural Resources Canada. 2009-02-26. Archived from the original on May 7, 2008. Retrieved 2010-06-21.
- ^ Stasiuk, Mark V.; Hickson, Catherine J.; Mulder, Taimi (2003). "Natural Hazards". The Vulnerability of Canada to Volcanic Hazards. 28. Springer Netherlands: 563. ISSN 0921-030X. Cite journal requires
- ^ "Volcanic hazards". Volcanoes of Canada. Natural Resources Canada. 2009-04-02. Archived from the original on May 16, 2008. Retrieved 2010-06-20.
- ^ Neal, Christina A.; Casadevall, Thomas J.; Miller, Thomas P.; Hendley II, James W.; Stauffer, Peter H. (2004-10-14). "Volcanic Ash–Danger to Aircraft in the North Pacific". United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2010-06-19.
- ^ "Magma, Lava, Lava Flows, Lava Lakes, etc". United States Geological Survey. 2007-02-09. Retrieved 2010-06-20.
- ^ a b "Volcanoes". Natural Resources Canada. 2007-09-05. Archived from the original on 2009-02-17. Retrieved 2010-06-20.
External linksEdit
- "The Volcano". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
- "The Volcano". Bivouac.com.
- "The Volcano". Atlas of Canada. Natural Resources Canada.
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After trolling the blogs late last night I came across Rossie's process pledge and post on mutant quilting (don't skip the insightful comments while you are there), and was inspired to consider my place in this movement.
I made my first quilt in 1988 and started quilting professionally in the early 90's after being inspired by an exhibition of African-American improvisational quilts. Curated by Eli Lion, Who'd A Thought It, included the work of Rosie Lee Tompkins among others. These quilts had the same amazing aesthetics as the quilts out of Gee's bend, an overwhelming sense of presence and intelligence. Improvisational process and community have been the keys to my work as a quilt maker and an artist ever since. I guess you could say I am a mutant quilter, since improv is all about the process of mutation.
It seems to me that the term "modern" as applied to quilts is mostly about branding. It's a label for the latest revolution, not necessarily evolution (or is it?) in quilt making. Re-imagining the lost traditions of our elders to find a more direct, hands-on way of life is a cultural trend. Today people in urban areas are into gardening, canning, and raising chickens in their back lots. We wrap our babies in cloth diapers and lay out our dead on the dining room table once again. Whether it's urban homesteading, natural burial, or modern quilting, we are searching the pre-tech era with hopeful eyes, for slower, simpler, more caring forms of existence. (My dad told me that all he did on Sundays as a small child in rural Indiana was attend church with his parents in the morning and wakes in the afternoon.)
There's nothing wrong with revolving and turning the corner to find more sustainable and satisfying ways of living life. I'm for revolution AND evolution. Revolution is defined as the action by a body of orbiting around a center axis, like the moon, but it can also mean a sudden, radical, or complete change. Evolution is defined as a gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form, in other words, the process of development. Revolution and evolution are not opposites. They go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other.
I've been quilting for 22 years, but blogging for only a month. This blog is all about process, and I'm not talking about the design process. I'm blogging about craft as a life practice. I am very pleased to find this topic of conversation beginning to bud on the web, and I'm happy to be a part of it.
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Where do you place the modern quilt movement on the evolution/revolution scale? Or do you see it merely as a passing, pastime fad? How can we match revolutionary goals with evolutionary action? Any thoughts on the relationship between the two in your own process? Is it possible to evolve into LESS complex but better forms?... I hope to hear from you! Post photos: details from Godseye, 1996 by Sherri Lynn Wood


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Are you sure they're not deleting? The font manager in Windows 7 is notoriously bad at not refreshing! If they really are still there then try moving them to a non-system folder instead.
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HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, VA – The H-SC Lacrosse team had another successful season this year despite being rattled with significant injuries for the entirety of the year. The Tigers finished 9-7 overall and 5-2 in the ODAC to earn the #3 seed in the ODAC Tournament.
Hampden-Sydney played a difficult schedule this year, including four games against foes who were ranked in the top ten of the country during the season. The team posted big wins over Catholic, Colorado College, Washington & Lee, and Randolph-Macon. With the Tigers earning the #3 seed for the ODAC Tournament, H-SC earned the right to host a First-Round ODAC Tournament game before falling to Washington & Lee 9-8 in a thrilling contest.
One of the big highlights of the year was a trip to Dallas, Texas, for spring break where the Tigers defeated Colorado College 9-6 in Gerald Ford Stadium on the campus of Southern Methodist University. Following the game, there was a banquet on the SMU campus with parents, friends, and alumni along with a speech from retired NFL player Chad Hennings, the honorary captain for the game.
It proved to be a record-breaking year for Carter Mavromatis (Virginia Beach, VA/Cape Henry). Mavromatis finished his four-year career as one of the most prolific scoring players in school history. He shattered the record for career assists by 18 to finish with 108 and now ranks seventh in career points with 183, good for the second most of any midfielder ever at Hampden-Sydney. Additionally, he ranks fifth in all of NCAA Division III for career assists for active players and seventh in the NCAA when including all three divisions.
Five players earned All-ODAC honors, headlined by Mavromatis placing on the First Team. Earning Second-Team honors was Micah Keller (Richmond, VA/Christchurch), Nate Norbo (Waterford, VA/Loudon Valley), Andrew Pritzlaff (Denver, CO/Kent Denver), and Cameron Sheppard (Denver, CO/Kent Denver).
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I was still sleepy, so it took a while to figure that one out - I am slow in the morning. Which worries me a bit, because my brain should be up and running in less than half an hour - I have an appointment with an "Iraq expert" at the National Defence university.
When I get there, I need to show the guard a photo ID. I pull out my press pass, but he doesn't like it. He wants to see my passport, and we all know how much I hate that. He looks at it and says, "Oh, Airakian!". I worry that my brain is still not up to speed - I am just getting used to "Airaki" with the big Ai at the beginning, and this was another variation - you have to admit it is very creative. I am given directions and allowed to walk in unescorted which, surprised me a bit - it is the National Defence university, after all.
I feel like I have just stepped into a war movie set. This is the beginning, where they are still being trained. It is the scene where you get to see the main character amongst his colleagues who will be saved by the brave hero later in the movie. Red brick two storey buildings and big green squares with young officers marching in formation and joggers in white t-shirts saying "good morning" when they hop by. I am so out of place here: ET really needs to go home.
While waiting for Judith Yaphe to come down and sign me in, I see a quote in huge letters on the wall "We are concerned with the peace of the entire world, and the peace can only be maintained by the strong" - Gen George C Marshall. Oh dear - I don't know if I am going to like this. But the moment she shows up, I know we are going get along just fine - she looks exactly like my French teacher from middle school in Baghdad. She has the same comforting presence.
As a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the university, Japhe has been "doing Iraq for the last 30 years". And my guess is if you do someone for so long you must know them pretty well, especially when you were doing them for "the agency". We go up to her office, which is reassuringly chaotic. When I walk into an office that is too organised, I start panicking.
She is wearing a necklace holding a little pendant, which has "Allah" written in Arabic, and another one with Hebrew lettering. The cord holding her office badge had "Mission: Baghdad" printed on it, sending signals in all directions. I was offered a warm coke - the full sugar feast, not the wimpy diet thing.
She tells me that she has written her PhD thesis on the 1920 Iraqi revolt against the British occupiers at the time, and thinks there are some similarities between then and now - but does anyone want to learn? She doesn't think so. "Here is what the British did. And here are the mistakes. Why do you repeat them? You don't set up a false front democracy, you don't set up buildings and institutions and then deny them power. You can't engineer, stage-manage and hold phoney elections. And you are also writing their constitution? Oh, OK."
"The lack of knowledge about Iraq among the people making decisions here is appalling", she says. When it came to the time to go for war, the administration fully believed that it was going to be a short conflict, the Americans would be welcomed with flowers, and everything would be fine.
"If you believe that, and you want to do War-Lite, then you won't plan enough. Is that stupid? Yes, I would say it is stupid."
But there was another possibility; in a parallel universe where the Pentagon did not take over, Ahmad Chalabi didn't exist, and the Bush administration did listen to people like Yaphe, there might be an Iraq that managed to get out of the mess of war with less damage. But we will never know.
Back in this universe, "the greatest democracy on this earth" is holding elections in a couple of days. They are presidential elections which will have far wider consequences than just in the US - if you buy into Yaphe's worst case scenario and live in the Middle East, I suggest you start stocking up. "My worst case scenario is that Bush gets re-elected and the people that did Iraq come back and decide to continue with their mission, which is to do terrible things".
I still wanted to ask her what she thought of Iran, and about elections in Iraq, but our time is up. She asks me whether my real name is Salam, and when I tell her my last name, the name of the tribe, she recognises it. I am left thinking: "She knows - she really has been doing Iraq for 30 years"
Later ... I wait for five minutes outside the gates of the National Defence university, but not a single cab drives by. I decide to walk. Bad decision. Apparently, the university is located very close to what is probably Washington's Sadr City. I realise I have all the wrong instincts, I do not know what the bad or good signs are - it just looks very poor and, just like in Sadr City, lots of men who seem to have nothing to do stand at street corners.
I remember having an argument with a taxi driver in Baghdad some time ago. He was totally convinced that there is no such thing as a poor American - they were all rich. Come take a look at this, habibi. It gets worse, Allah decides to drain his swimming pool and it starts raining. I realise I have forgotten the piece of paper with the address for my next appointment. I pray David Kay is not the punctual type.
Kay agreed to meet me for lunch at a place of my choice. All I know is the bagel place near the hotel. I call a Guardian correspondent here in DC for help and she suggests I go to the Palm. "It is a place men like to go to." She has no idea how intimidating this sounds to me - what is a place men like to go to? And what if I don't like it - will my membership card to the male species be withdrawn?
The insecurities this sentence brought up: well, we don't want to go there. After a couple of ahhhs and ummms from me, she adds, "Salam, it is not a strip joint".
When I get back to the hotel to pick up the address, I still have some time to check the restaurant's website. "The spot for negotiating and deal-making over a juicy steak and an infamous Palm martini. It's not only politicians that make their way to the Washington Palm - Larry King and Tim Russert can be seen among the hordes of loyal Palm customers."
Yup. Not a strip joint. When I get there, I am led past the nice tables near the windows to a small table in the back. Obviously, I should have said that I am internet celebrity Salam Pax, and I want to sit near Larry King. The place is very noisy and the waiters wear white aprons, making them look like medical assistants in a dental clinic.
The first thing Dr David Kay says when he arrives is that this is the perfect place for an intimate conversation -- no one can ever hear what you are saying. We don't have the "infamous martinis" - he has an iced tea and I have a cola.
The first time Kay was in Baghdad was back in 1992, heading the Unscom's nuclear weapons inspection team. Most recently, he was sent to Baghdad as chief weapons inspector for the Iraq Survey Group, which was dispatched to Iraq by the US to clarify the whole question of whether there were WMD there.
He came back to Washington saying that he did not find "large stockpiles of newly produced weapons of mass destruction", blowing away the main argument that justified the war on Iraq: Saddam and his deadly arsenal of WMD.
Although Kay has been quite often to Baghdad, he never met Saddam or his (late) sons. But because he was the head of the UN inspection team, he was constantly escorted by 10 Iraqi minders - warm Iraqi hospitality, courtesy of Saddam. While Kay was in Baghdad for the ISG inspections, he got to meet Tariq Aziz, Iraq's ex-minister of foreign affairs, now in custody.
Aziz described a Saddam who was not as the rest of the world pictured him, but closer to the reality we Iraqis knew. "He was only interested in self enrichment and staying in power. [Aziz] talked about Saddam sending him manuscripts for novels he was writing."
Yes that sounds like the Saddam of the last couple of years, before this war. Reality came to him filtered through his aides. He was more interested in building palaces and monuments than fighting a war or planning terrorist attacks. I mean, one day the guy has a dream, and the next day he holds a meeting that's broadcast on TV in which he wants artists to interpret this dream as a sculpture to adorn one of the public squares in Baghdad. The dream? Dogs are running after him and he kills one of them. Seriously.
What Kay found was a corrupt system in which scientists would exaggerate about what they were doing to get loads of money from Saddam. The scientists bluffed Saddam, and Saddam bluffed the world.
So what does the man who started his statement to a US Senate committee with the words "it turns out we were all wrong" think about the war and the reasons it was fought?
"What I worry about is that, years from now, we will have an Iraqi historian who will say: 'The only reason the US and UK went to war was for oil, WMD and Israel. They never cared about what Saddam did to Iraqis.' That is what we should have done. It does not matter whether he had the weapons. Saddam was destroying society."
We talk for a long time about the changes in Iraq, about the green zone and soldiers having to police traffic in the chaotic streets of Baghdad. He tells me how he watched sentiments change in Baghdad by how the Iraqi children and US soldiers interacted.
We have coffee, and he asks what life is like these days in Baghdad, and what people think of our new prime minister, Ayad Allawi. I stopped taking notes some time ago - you can't have a conversation when you have to constantly write things down. But it is past three, and Dr Kay has to go.
I tell you, this trip has been creating more confusion than answers. I spend the rest of the afternoon in a place which is much easier to deal with - the alphabetised aisles of a record store (result: the Peter Malick Group featuring Norah Jones).


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"Rippled" is very different from most music videos. Created by Australian studio Oh Yeah Wow for All India Radio, it was shot entirely on a camera. Knit together frame by frame, the video uses long exposure light painting techniques to tell the story of a stray cat's journey through the city streets at night.
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How much does a Process Engineer III make in Florissant, MO? The average Process Engineer III salary in Florissant, MO is $94,995 as of October 30, 2019, but the range typically falls between $87,172 and $102,084. Salary ranges can vary widely depending on many important factors, including education, certifications, additional skills, the number of years you have spent in your profession. With more online, real-time compensation data than any other website, Salary.com helps you determine your exact pay target.
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Process Engineer III develops and optimizes continuous production and manufacturing processes to achieve the output, quality, and cost goals of the organization. Collects production data and applies standard scientific and statistical methods to analyze, document, and diagram production processes. Being a Process Engineer III identifies process bottlenecks and devises solutions to resolve. Recommends changes or upgrades to equipment, work methods, or other aspects of the process to improve efficiency and utilization of resources including labor, energy and raw materials. Additionally, Process Engineer III may act as a knowledge resource and guide for less experienced engineers. May work on processes for new or more complex products. Requires a bachelor's degree of engineering. Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department. The Process Engineer III contributes to moderately complex aspects of a project. Work is generally independent and collaborative in nature. To be a Process Engineer III typically requires 4 to 7 years of related experience. (Copyright 2019 Salary.com)
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Discussion of Lua and LuaWML support, development, and ideas.
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Is there any wesnoth.unit_types equivalent for terrains? I want to make dialog like here, but with terrains instead of units: https://wiki.wesnoth.org/LuaWML/Display ... how_dialog
Re: wesnoth.terrain_types?
afaik there isn't, whta you could do however is to first get all terrain code used in the curent map with wesnoth.get_terrain and wesnoth.get_map_size. end then get information about those ces with wesnoth.get_terrain_info
Scenario with Robots SP scenario (1.11/1.12), allows you to build your units with components, PYR No preperation turn 1.12 mp-mod that allows you to select your units immideately after the game begins.
Re: wesnoth.terrain_types?
If you don't need to include terrains from campaigns and/or add-ons but only need core terrains, then you could include the core terrain.cfg into some container, using [set_variables], which would then give you all the core terrain definitions as a simple WML array.
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