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Wildwings Real Estate
Located just five miles outside of Woodland, Wild Wings is an active community with a swimming pool and tennis court. It is adjacent to the Wild Wings Golf Club, (though not affiliated with the local homeowners association) and is an upscale neighborhood surrounded by scenic country landscapes.
The Wild Wings Golf Club touts itself as the longest and best nine-hole course in Northern California. A number of clinics and lessons are available for youth as well as adults, with special lessons available for community members. The Nest restaurant offers casual indoor and outdoor dining Wednesdays through Saturdays. The club also hosts many events throughout the year, including Community Fun Days and Art at the Nest.
Wild Wings is less than ten minutes away from Woodland shopping, and is minutes away from the Yolo Flier Club.
Woodland is located about 20 miles from Sacramento at the intersection of Interstate 5 and State Route 113, making it a convenient commute for professionals wishing to live outside, but still remain close to the hustle and bustle of urban life.
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Use a tool like "fiddler" or "firebug" to observe this behavior.
This problem could induce long render times for your portal. Users with poor bandwidth, no local edge caching and/or long latency back to the main Portal servers could see dramatically longer render times than users who are local to the portal servers with excellent broadband service.
The solution is to use IHS (Apache) and force these components to have cache-control headers via the httpd.conf IHS configuration file. Then, these theme elements are cached in the browser's cache for a period of time. Here is an portion of an IHS httpd.conf to use as an example to force cache-control headers for static theme elements:
### Force Caching of statics
<LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 20 days"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 20 days"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 20 days"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 20 days"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 20 days"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 20 days"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 20 days"
ExpiresByType image/bmp "access plus 20 days"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 20 days"
# The following will modify the Cache Control Header on the WAS content be have the Public attribute and to become stale in intermediate caches after 36001 seconds (10 hours)
# Further, it will force IE to check the server after 18002 seconds (5 hours) to see if an update is available.
# Also, note that if you are using HTTPS (SSL), only "public" content (content with the cache-control header public) is cachable on the browser.
<LocationMatch "\.(css|js|jp?g|gif|png|ico|bmp)$">
Header append Cache-Control "public, s-maxage=36001, post-check=18002"
As an aside, note that for some reason, WAS currently does not set the mime type correctly for .png files. To resolve this, add ".png" to the virtual host via the WAS Admin Console.
Note: Apache "Expires" will not overwrite an already existing Expires header. So, if you write a custom WebSphere "FileServingServlet", for example, that places an "Expires: 0" header on all the content, regardless of type, then Apache can't really help you. You should take care in WebSphere code to place an appropriate cache control header on your response to insure that content stays in the browser cache as long as appropriate. Setting a cache-control that will allow content to be refreshed from the browser cache will greatly improve overall system performance on highly utilized sites.

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AIA Seeks to Tap Asia's Middle Class
Coming off a highly profitable 2012, life insurer AIA says it is committed to growing in Asia. CEO Mark Tucker tells the WSJ's Deborah Kan why Europe isn't on the list for expansion.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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The beginnings of KOHLER engines can be traced back to 1920, when the KOHLER Automatic Power and Light 1500-watt Model "A" generator set was introduced. Designed to serve rural markets, it delivered 110-volt DC current and was powered by a KOHLER four-cylinder water-cooled cast iron gasoline engine.
In 1939 work began on the development of liquid-cooled diesel engines. A variety of models were planned - speed constant 1200-rpm engines for KOHLER generators; engines would range from single-cylinder 5 hp to four-cylinder 20 hp. Variable speed engines up to 2400-rpms from 10 to 60 hp. High speed diesels from 5 to 20 hp for the U.S. Navy.
In 1948, Kohler increased the company's focus on manufacturing engines by opening a small engines factory and introducing the first "stand alone" KOHLER engines for industrial applications. Just three years later, Kohler's K90 cast iron single-cylinder air-cooled engine went into production, followed by the K160 in 1952. Throughout the fifties, Kohler added to its K-Series engines and in 1959 introduced the first of the four "interchangeable" models with common mounting foot pattern and crank height. The decade closed with the groundbreaking for a new Engine and Electric Plant building east of Pottery. The building opened for business in 1960 and would be the first of many Kohler "firsts" during the sixties. In 1965, the company introduced Automatic Compression Release (ACR) for use on KOHLER engines. This new technology allowed for more effortless recoil starts.
The company reached yet another impressive milestone in 1966, when the one-millionth engine came off the assembly line. In 1968, two-cycle engine production for the snowmobile industry began. Just eight years later Kohler shipped its one-millionth international engine in 1976.
The company made huge strides again in 1983 when the "New Shape of KOHLER Power" brought newly designed products and a revitalized commitment to quality within the engine division. Twin-cylinder Series II models were launched featuring full-pressure lubrication, steel-backed sleeve bearings at both ends of the crankshaft, and a redesigned connecting rod to name a few. One year later Kohler introduced the first in a series of single- and twin-cylinder Magnum engines, the result of extensive engineering improvements and featuring a new, sleek restyling. These innovative engines included electronic ignition and superior air filtration for greatly improved reliability. In 1986 the first Magnum vertical-shaft twin-cylinder engines were introduced. The next year, Command engines were introduced with features including OHV design and hydraulic valve lifters for improved efficiency, longer life and quieter operation. In 1991, Command twin-cylinder horizontal shaft engines were first introduced followed by vertical shaft twin-cylinder engines for the commercial and consumer lawn and garden market.
1995 marked yet another category changing innovation from Kohler when overhead cam (OHC) engines were unveiled, a "first" in the industry. The company's relentless pursuit of quality and innovation was recognized in 1998 when Kohler received a prestigious award from the National Society of Professional Engineers for the innovative Overhead Cam (OHC) 18 hp engine. The award lauded the engine as the best new product of the thousands of new products introduced in 1998 by all major manufacturing companies. (In 1997, the same award went to Boeing Commercial Airplane Co. for its 777 jetliners.) That same year, the company began production at a new manufacturing facility in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
In 1999, the Command PRO series was launched introducing both single- and twin-cylinder models. These premium engines were specifically targeted to the commercial turf and consumer garden tractors. The first Kohler liquid-cooled Aegis engine was also introduced in 1999. This top of the line engine was the first to offer a 3-year warranty.
The Courage engine entered the market in 2002 with new features including an inverted crankcase for leak-proof operation, dual-camshaft for superior cooling, a ported power intake for better power and combustion, and a cross-flow cylinder head for greater air-flow and cooler operation. Most recently in September of 2004 Kohler announced higher horsepower offerings, up to 31 horsepower available on its liquid-cooled Aegis engines.
Kohler Engines unveiled its powerful 34-38 hp Command PRO engines line, in 2005. These high horsepower gasoline engines not only provide more power to accommodate larger and more sophisticated applications, but offer a new design that provides unmatched serviceability and extended maintenance intervals.
2007 brought two distinct opportunities for Kohler Engines to expand its product portfolio and international presence. First, Kohler-YinXiang Ltd., a joint-venture company between Kohler Engines and YinXiang Ltd. in Chongqing, China was formed. This joint venture was created to develop, manufacture, market, sell and distribute general-purpose gasoline engines. As part of this joint venture, Kohler Engines launched their first engine for the walk-behind lawnmower market in October 2007, with the XT-Series. This engine line would further develop, in the coming years, into engines that are used in lawn and garden, power generation, welding and recreation applications.
Later that year, Kohler Co. purchased Lombardini Srl, an 85 year-old engine manufacturer headquartered in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Kohler Co.'s acquisition of Lombardini allows each brand to serve the needs of commercial and consumer customers worldwide, with both gasoline and diesel engines.
In 2008, Kohler Engines announced its product offering would expand to include gasoline and diesel engines from 4 to 65 horsepower. Kohler also announced that all of its Command PRO and Aegis twin-cylinder engines would come standard with electronic fuel injection (EFI), for more fuel-efficiency and reduced emissions.


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Epicurean Eco Cutting Boards, Set of 3
Want to go green in the kitchen? These eco-friendly cutting boards are made entirely from recycled paper, helping to ensure efficient food prep while safeguarding our planet's precious resources. As handsome as they are functional, the sturdy, American-made boards can double as presentation pieces.
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Take chances when you're young so that you can tell stories when you look back in time. The Heritage Collection is an ode to the signature look of BOLTENSTERN. Developed by its founder Sven Boltenstern 60 years ago in Vienna, the fine hammered gold is both gracious and archaic.
For men and women.
Material: 925 Sterling Silver
Signed S.B. Designed and handmade in Vienna, Austria.
Upon special request we will do our best to accelerate the delivery time. We are very happy to help you with urgent matters like forgotten presents, spontaneous surprises or customization of our products!


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I love it when the Daring host challenges us with something I have never heard of. It is a little intimidating not having any idea what to expect, but also very exciting to try something new. The challenge this month was presented to us as a Filipino dessert. To my knowledge, I have not had anything Filipino so I was excited for this challenge!
Catherine of Munchie Musings was our November Daring Bakers' host and she challenged us to make a traditional Filipino dessert – the delicious Sans Rival cake! And for those of us who wanted to try an additional Filipino dessert, Catherine also gave us a bonus recipe for Bibingka which comes from her friend Jun of Jun-blog.
Sans Rival:
10 large egg whites, room temp
1 cup white granulated sugar
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
¼ cup Dutch processed cocoa (optional and not traditional)
2 cups chopped, toasted cashews
Note: You will need four layers which will mean that you might have to bake in two batches. Be sure to use fresh parchment paper and cooled pans for each batch.
1. Preheat oven to moderate 325°F/160°C/gas mark 3.
2. Line cake pan bottoms with parchment paper and butter and flour the sides really well.
3. In a large clean, dry glass or metal mixing bowl, beat egg whites on medium until foamy (2 mins.). Sprinkle with cream of tartar. Gradually add sugar, a couple of tablespoons at a time, continuing to beat now at high-speed until stiff shiny peaks form. (about 7-10 mins.) For some reason I forgot to take pictures of all this 😦
I added the cocoa powder when I had soft peaks
4. Fold in nuts, reserving enough to use for decoration.
(Note the more finely ground for folding into meringue. The coarsely ground for is decoration of finished cake.)
5. Divide meringue into four equal parts. Spread in pans, evenly to edges. If doing batches, use fresh parchment paper and cooled pans for each batch. **I wanted to make a different shape so I just piped my batter on parchment paper**
6. Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove the meringue from the baking pans while still hot; allow to cool slightly. Peel off the parchment paper while it is still warm, it is difficult to remove sometimes when they have completely cooled.
7. When cool, trim edges so that all 4 meringue layers are uniformly shaped. Set aside.
French Butter Cream
5 large egg yolks, room temperature
1 cup (240 ml) (225 gm) (8 oz) white granulated sugar
1/4 cup (60 ml) water
1¼ cup (300 ml) (2½ sticks) (285 gm) (10 oz) unsalted butter, room temperature
Optional Flavorings: 2 oz (55 gm) unsweetened chocolate, melted, or 1½ teaspoon (7 ½ ml) almond extract, or 1½ teaspoon (7 ½ ml) vanilla extract, or any flavor you like
1. Put the egg yolks in a mixing bowl. Beat at high-speed until the yolks have doubled in volume and are a lemon yellow.
2. Put the sugar and water in a heavy pan and cook over medium heat, stirring the sides down only until all the sugar is dissolved and the syrup reaches 235°F/112°C (or thread stage).
3. With the mixer on high, very slowly pour the syrup down the sides of the bowl, until all has been added. Be careful as the very hot syrup could burn you if it splashes from the beaters. Continue beating on high until the mixture is ROOM TEMPERATURE (about 15 mins). Still on high, beat in the soft, room temperature butter a tablespoon at a time. Add flavoring after you beat in the butter. Refrigerate the butter cream for at least an hour, and whip it smooth just before you use it.
I melted the chocolate in a double boiler and added it to the frosting. It seemed quite dull, not very chocolatly at all.
I ended up melting 4 more oz of chocolate and added it. Turned out much better
Set bottom meringue on cake board with a dab of butter cream to hold it in place. Spread a
thin layer of buttercream and then place another meringue on top. Repeat with a thin layer of
buttercream, meringue, thin layer of buttercream, meringue, and finally buttercream the top and
sides. Decorate with reserved nuts.
This desert was delicious! Everyone loved it! I have already had requests for a repeat! A few things went wrong, mine was not "crispy" it was fairly chewy, but I have to say I loved the chewy texture. Next time I would put it in the fridge before cutting because it does not look very nice, but to be quite honest we couldn't wait to try it. The texture of this cake was amazing. Mine was chewy, yet had the crunch from the chopped nuts. The frosting was to die for,so silky and buttery.
Thank you Catherine for such a wonderful challenge and introducing me to Sans Rival!


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How the Bush administration sold the war – and we bought it
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
How the Bush administration sold the war – and we bought it
The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers), February 27, 2013
Posted: 2013-03-05 09:17:20
It has been 10 long years since "Shock and Awe" – the opening bombardment of Baghdad – lit up the skies above the Tigris. Have we learned the lessons of that disastrous period? And what were those lessons? For nearly a year prior to the invasion, President Bush and his administration peppered the airwaves with serious accusations against Saddam Hussein. The intelligence supporting the claims was either not believed, or was highly disputed, by the experts. As a covert CIA operations officer working frantically in the months before the war to find and verify hard intelligence about Iraq's presumed WMD program, Valerie [Plame] was keenly interested in watching Secretary of State Colin Powell address the United Nations on 6 February 2003. As [she] watched the speech unfold on TV from CIA headquarters that morning, she experienced what can only be described as "cognitive dissonance". It became clear, as Powell laid out the case for war ... that his robust claims about the state of Iraqi WMD simply did not match the intelligence which she had worked on daily for months. Powell's claim from a discredited defector code-named "Curveball" on Iraq's biological weapons capability was particularly alarming. Valerie knew that "Curveball" had been deemed a "fabricator" by the agency, meaning that none of his intelligence could be believed. The implications suddenly become obvious: we were watching a kabuki play and the outcome was predetermined. The Bush administration was determined to go to war, however bad the intelligence, and not even Secretary of State Powell was going to stand in the way.
Note: For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on crimes committed in wars of aggression, click here.
Explore our index to revealing excerpts of key news articles on several dozen topics.
Don't miss amazing excerpts from the 20 most revealing news articles ever published.
Below is a sample of just three of those 20 articles.
U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
2001-05-01, ABC News
In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's ... Fidel Castro. America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation." The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years. The Joint Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false pretext for war with Cuba. Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, they wrote, "the objective is to provide irrevocable proof … that the fault lies with the Communists." The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years after.
Note: Why was ABC the only major news source to report on this highly revealing story? Read the shocking declassified documents on Operation Northwoods. Many military and political leaders look at the world as a grand chessboard. Sacrificing pawns (innocent civilians) is sometimes necessary to capture the queen. Explore revealing news articles on military corruption. Then check out eye-opening 9/11 news articles.
Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group
2005-09-29, BBC News
How much influence do private networks of the rich and powerful have on government policies and international relations? One group, the Bilderberg, has often attracted speculation that it forms a shadowy global government. Every year since 1954 [they have brought] together about 120 leading business people and politicians. At this year's meeting in Germany, the audience included the heads of the World Bank and European Central Bank, Chairmen or Chief Executives from Nokia, BP, Unilever, DaimlerChrysler and Pepsi ... editors from five major newspapers, members of parliament, ministers, European commissioners ... and the queen of the Netherlands. The chairman ... is 73-year-old Viscount Etienne Davignon. In an extremely rare interview, he played down the importance of Bilderberg. "I don't think (we are) a global ruling class because I don't think a global ruling class exists." Will Hutton ... who attended a Bilderberg meeting in 1997, says people take part in these networks in order to influence the way the world works, to create what he calls "the international common sense". And that "common sense" is one which supports the interests of Bilderberg's main participants. For Bilderberg's critics the fact that there is almost no publicity about the annual meetings is proof that they are up to no good. Bilderberg meetings often feature future political leaders shortly before they become household names. Bill Clinton went in 1991 while still governor of Arkansas, Tony Blair was there two years later while still an opposition MP. All the recent presidents of the European Commission attended Bilderberg meetings before they were appointed. Informal and private networks like Bilderberg have helped to oil the wheels of global politics and globalisation for the past half a century.
Note: Why is this meeting of top world leaders kept so secret? Why, until a few years ago, was there virtually no reporting on this influential group in the major media? Thankfully, the alternative media has had some good articles. And a Google search can be highly informative. Explore many other revealing major media news articles on powerful secret societies. And for those interested, check out reliable, eye-opening information covering the big picture of how and why these secret societies are using government-sponsored mind control programs to achieve their agenda.
[9/11] Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
2001-09-23, BBC News
Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the [9/11] suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well. The identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the attacks are now in doubt. Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said had deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre on 11 September. His photograph was released, and has since appeared in newspapers and on television around the world. He told journalists there that he had nothing to do with the attacks. He has contacted both the Saudi and American authorities. He acknowledges that he attended flight training school at Daytona Beach in the United States, and is indeed the same Waleed Al Shehri to whom the FBI has been referring. But, he says, he left the United States in September last year [and] became a pilot with Saudi Arabian airlines. Abdulaziz Al Omari, another of the Flight 11 hijack suspects ... says he is an engineer with Saudi Telecoms, and that he lost his passport while studying in Denver. Meanwhile ... a London-based Arabic daily says it has interviewed Saeed Alghamdi. He was listed by the FBI as a hijacker in the United flight that crashed in Pennsylvania. And there are suggestions that another suspect, Khalid Al Midhar, may also be alive. FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged on Thursday that the identity of several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt.
Note: The deceptions in the 9/11 official story are clearly shown in this key story. The FBI never revised its list of alleged hijackers. These four are all listed in the official 9/11 Commission report as the hijackers. Click here and scroll down a little over half way to see their photos in the official report. For more, see this webpage. Explore also concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles with evidence of a 9/11 cover-up from reliable major media sources. Then examine an abundance of reliable information suggesting a major 9/11 cover-up.
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Below is a sample of the three articles most recently posted to this website.
US judge: Terror watchlist violates constitutional rights
2019-09-04, ABC/Associated Press
The government's watchlist of more than 1 million people identified as "known or suspected terrorists" violates the constitutional rights of those placed on it, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga grants summary judgment to nearly two dozen Muslim U.S. citizens who had challenged the watchlist with the help of a Muslim civil-rights group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. But the judge is seeking additional legal briefs before deciding what remedy to impose. The watchlist is disseminated to a variety of governmental departments, foreign governments and police agencies. "There is no evidence, or contention, that any of these plaintiffs satisfy the definition of a 'known terrorist'," Trenga wrote. And the alternate standard for placement — that of a "suspected terrorist" — can easily be triggered by innocent conduct that is misconstrued, he said. The watchlist, also known as the Terrorist Screening Database, is maintained by the FBI and shared with a variety of federal agencies. Customs officers have access to the list to check people coming into the country at border crossings, and aviation officials use the database to help form the no-fly list, which is a much smaller subset of the broader watchlist. The watchlist has grown significantly over the years. As of June 2017, approximately 1.16 million people were included on the watchlist, according to government documents filed in the lawsuit. In 2013, the number was only 680,000.
Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on civil liberties from reliable major media sources.
Brain trauma suffered by U.S. diplomats abroad could be work of hostile foreign government
2019-09-01, CBS News
In 2016 and 2017, 25 Americans, including CIA agents, who worked in the U.S. Embassy in Cuba suffered serious brain injuries causing impaired vision and memory loss among other persistent problems. At least 15 American officials in China suffered unexplained brain trauma soon after. As we first reported in March, the FBI is now investigating whether these Americans were attacked by a mysterious weapon that leaves no trace. Mark Lenzi is a State Department security officer who worked in the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, China. He says that he and his wife began to suffer after hearing strange sounds in their apartment. Mark Lenzi believes he was targeted because of his work. He uses top secret equipment to analyze electronic threats to diplomatic missions. "It was a weapon," [said Lenzi]. "I believe it's RF, radio frequency energy, in the microwave range." A clue that supports that theory was revealed by the National Security Agency in 2014. This NSA statement describes such a weapon as a "high-powered microwave system weapon that may have the ability to weaken, intimidate, or kill an enemy over time without leaving evidence." The statement goes on to say "... this weapon is designed to bathe a target's living quarters in microwaves." The NSA disclosed this in a worker's compensation case filed by former NSA employee Mike Beck. In the 1990's Beck and an NSA co-worker were on assignment overseas. Years later, he says they developed Parkinson's Disease at the same time.
Note: Read more on the mysterious "sonic attacks" in Cuba. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on non-lethal weapons from reliable major media sources.
Is an invisible weapon targeting U.S. diplomats?
2019-09-01, CBS News
Commerce Department trade officer Catherine Werner used to promote American business from the U.S. consulate in Guangzhou, China. Today she says she suffers from bouts of nausea, dizziness, and headaches. Robyn Garfield, also a trade officer with the Commerce Department, was posted in Shanghai. Along with nausea, dizziness, and headaches, he says he has trouble remembering words. State Department security officer Mark Lenzi used to work in the consulate in Guangzhou. When he did, he said the splitting pain in his head was debilitating. The three are among at least 15 American officials in China who say they suffered unexplained brain trauma after being attacked by a mysterious weapon. Previously, 25 Americans who worked in the U.S. embassy in Cuba said they also experienced an attack and have similar symptoms. The government employees weren't the only ones targeted. Their spouses, children, and family pets also exhibited neurological symptoms after hearing strange sounds in their homes. In July, a University of Pennsylvania medical team published a study on the brains of U.S. government personnel who developed neurological symptoms in Cuba. The study used advanced brain imaging and found "significant differences in brain tissue and connectivity" in the diplomats' brains. It is the first scientific evidence showing the diplomats had physical damage to the structure of their brains.
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I just received my PGS results and have 1 mosaic embryo. It is up to me to transfer or not so I wanted to hear your thoughts. The other 2 tested embryos were abnormal. My past 2 cycles with PGS resulted in 1 no result embryo (out of 12 tested), which ended up being retested and normal and now I have a healthy baby girl.
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U.S. dispatches more troops to northern Iraq as Yazidi crisis grows
The crisis over who will be Iraq's next prime minister faded in Baghdad on Tuesday after Iran joined the United States in embracing the appointment of Haider al Abadi to replace Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki.
But it was quickly replaced by growing concern that the effort to rescue tens of thousands of Yazidi refugees in northern Iraq was failing and would require far more resources than President Barack Obama indicated in a nationally televised speech last week.
The Pentagon dispatched an additional 130 U.S. military personnel to northern Iraq to "develop additional humanitarian assistance options," the Obama administration announced late Tuesday, It was an indication that the current effort to drop fresh water and meals-ready-to-eat to the refugees, who at one time were thought to number 40,000, might soon grow larger.
It came as Great Britain announced it had sent aircraft, including Chinook helicopters, to the area and was engaged in "urgent planning" with the United States "to get those trapped on the mountainside to safety."
The precise number of refugees, most of whom fled into desolate mountains near the city of Sinjar Aug. 3 when militants from the Islamic State seized the city, has never been certain. U.S. officials, briefing reporters after Obama's speech Thursday, said they believed an estimate from the United Nations that 40,000 were stranded was high. But independent aid officials in Baghdad said there might have been as many as 100,000 trapped.
On Tuesday night, U.S. Central Command announced that two C-17s and two C-130s dropped 14,112 military meals-ready-to-eat and 7,608 gallons of water to refugees. That brought the number of meals dropped since last week to nearly 100,000, Central Command said, and the amount of drinking water to more than 27,000 gallons. In addition, the British government said, two British C-130s dropped an additional 4,200 gallons of water.
The new deployment to northern Iraq includes Marines and special operations forces, but the troops "will not be engaged in a combat role," the Pentagon said in a statement attributed to an unnamed senior defense official. "They will work closely with representatives from the U.S. Department of State and USAID to coordinate plans with international partners and non-government organizations committed to helping the Yazidi people," the statement said.
The announcement came after the United Nations issued a bleak report about the situation in the Sinjar mountains. At least 35,000 refugees have made it out the mountains in the last three days, the United Nations refugee agency said. But 20,000 to 30,000 remain there, "without food, water or shelter."
At a briefing for reporters in Geneva, the spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Adrian Edwards, said communities in northern Iraq had been inundated by tens of thousands of refugees from Sinjar and Zummar, another Yazidi city that was seized on Aug. 3 by the Islamic State. The mayor of the city of Zakho, a city of 350,000, told the U.N. that 100,000 Yazidi refugees were now sheltering in his town, Edwards said.
"The new arrivals are exhausted, dehydrated and many have suffered sun or heat stroke," Edwards said. Daytime temperatures in the mountains hover between 105 and 115 degrees Fahrenheit, Edwards said.
The desperation of the situation was underscored by the crash of an Iraqi military helicopter that had landed in the mountains Tuesday, carrying a Yazidi member of the Iraqi parliament and a reporter from the New York Times.
The helicopter was mobbed by refugees who crowded onto the craft, seeking a way off the mountain. Overloaded, it crashed. The parliamentarian, Vian Dakhil, who had made an emotional plea for assistance a week ago on the floor of Parliament, was injured, as was the reporter, Alissa Rubin, who suffered a concussion and broken wrists, her paper reported. The pilot of the aircraft, a member of the Iraqi army, was killed.
Assisting the Yazidi refugees was one of two missions Obama outlined for the U.S. military when he authorized U.S. operations inside Iraq for the first time since U.S. troops ended their presence there in 2011. The initial effort included air drops of water and food by U.S. cargo aircraft as well as air strikes on Islamic State positions thought to threaten the refugees or Kurdish militia attempting to reach them.
On Tuesday, a U.S. drone struck an Islamic State mortar position that reportedly was firing on Kurdish forces protecting Yazidi families. It was the 14th airstrike in northern Iraq reported by U.S. Central Command in the past five days.
The renewed urgency over aiding the Yazidis came as the fear of violence over the selection of a new prime minister receded in Baghad after Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni signaled that he backed the selection of Abadi to replace Maliki as prime minister.
Iran's support is crucial for any national Shiite Muslim leader in Iraq, and Iranian officials have stepped in previously to keep Maliki in office. A broad alliance of Shiite political parties chose Abadi as their leader, ignoring Maliki's quest to retain his office.
Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington noted that Iran's backing of Abadi left Maliki little room to maneuver to keep his job.
"Maliki cannot remain in the premiership in defiance of every other Shi'a party, militia and Iran," the analysts wrote.
On Monday, Maliki accused Abadi of a power grab and indicated he'd fight Abadi's nomination. But his tone changed significantly on Tuesday. He released a statement in which he told the military to "stay away from the political crisis," which eased fears that Maliki would use the armed forces to keep himself in power.
Abadi, meanwhile, moved to form a cabinet within a week. He released a statement praising Maliki's leadership and said that Maliki would have a continuing role in the government.
The statement did not say what kind of position Maliki would have.
On Tuesday, far fewer Iraqi soldiers and police were out patrolling the streets, and military and political leaders sensed that Maliki was preparing to step down.
Khameni's embrace of Abadi mirrored the American government's hopes for the prime minister-elect. President Barack Obama on Monday congratulated Abadi and praised Iraqi President Fouad Massoum for selecting him.
One senior Kurdish security official, whose forces have been battling the Islamic State along multiple fronts for nearly two weeks, welcomed the apparent decision to move forward without Maliki in selecting a new prime minister.
"Thank God, it looks like this Maliki nightmare is over," the official said, asking not to be quoted by name because he did not have permission to comment from Kurdish President Masoud Barzani's office.
"Moving forward will mean more assistance from the Americans, but it will also give new leadership and a sense to urgency to the Iraqi army," the official said. "Resolving the succession issue will allow the Iraqi army to get back to work."
The official said that as the crisis has unfolded, Iraqi army officers have appeared distracted and uncertain about how to proceed because of Maliki's tight control over the military and uncertainty about how unified the government would remain.
"These distractions particularly hurt us in Diyala province, where we coordinate more with the Iraqi army than we do in the north," he said, a reference to a region of eastern Iraq where on Monday the Islamic State captured the town of Jalawla. "Territory was lost along that front, I think, because the Iraqi army seemed unsure about its leadership situation."
Aymenn al Tamimi, an analyst of Iraqi jihadist groups and militias for the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum, noted that Iran's patience with Maliki had been wearing thin in recent months as Iraq's security forces suffered embarrassing defeats to the Islamic State.
"Iran certainly did not want to see a third of the country fall outside of government control and understands there needs to be some consensus in Baghdad to move forward," he said.


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Sexual reproduction is a biological process through which descendants are created by combining the parent's genetic material. Sexually reproduction involves two different adult sexes (male and female) that produce sex cells (sperm, ovum) through a special type of cell division called meiosis. These cells possess only half of the DNA of normal cells, and are genetically unique from all others in the body due to genetic recombination. Offspring are then produced following the fusion of the sex cells to form a zygote. After fertilization, the resulting zygote is in possession of DNA from both parents, and all the information required to build the adult organism.
There are 3 modes of gestation that occur in animals:
- Oviparous: The female lays eggs that develop over a period of a few months..
- Ovoviviparous: The eggs are hatched in the oviduct of the female. The embryos develop in the uterus until fully grown.
- Viviparous: The embryo is nourished inside of the female by a placenta.
- 1 Gametogenesis
- 2 Fertilization
- 3 Embryogenesis
- 4 Genetic Inheritance
- 5 Evolutionary Problems
- 6 References
- 7 Additional Information
- 8 See Also
- Main Article: Meiosis
Egg and sperm develop from primordial germ cells in the gonads. These primordial germ cells are diploid, meaning that they have all the normal chromosomes of the organism in pairs. In humans, this means that they have 22 pairs of autosomes, and one pair of sex chromosomes, or 46 total. Before the primordial cell is to become an ovum or sperm ready to combine with a gamete of the complementary type to produce a new organism (at first a zygote) containing the normal number of chromosomes, it must undergo a special type of cell division whereby each gamete acquires only half the diploid number.[1]
In humans, each mature ovum or sperm must include only 23 single (not paired) chromosomes. Mature ova or sperm cells are haploid, indicating that their 23 chromosomes in their nuclei are unpaired (and after they combine, then the resulting single cell the zygote is again diploid). The process whereby the diploid primordial germ cells develop into haploid gametes is called meiosis. Mitosis is part of the life cycle of any cell, but meiosis or meiotic division occurs only in the development of haploid ova and sperm from diploid primordial germ cells. The process itself appears as though the cell nucleus is undergoing two rounds of mitosis, but omits the step of replicating DNA on the second cycle. In the "first round," the differentiating primordial germ cell replicates its DNA, and then in the "second round" it divides again (without another replication). In the second division, the pairs of chromosomes separate, leaving each of the new cells with just one copy of each of the 22 (in humans) autosomes and just one sex chromosome.[1]
- Main Article: Fertilization
Fertilization is the union of an ovum and sperm cell. It comprises a sequence of events that begins with the contact of a sperm cell with an egg cell and ends with the fusion of their two pronuclei to form a new diploid cell, called a zygote.[1]
Sperm are equipped with flagellum that allows them to travel to the ovum. In cases of external fertilization, both ovum and sperm and frequently released into water and fertilization is not possible in drought conditions for the specific reason that motility requires an aqueous condition. During internal fertilization in humans, sperm must travel through the cervix, uterus, and then up the uterine tube. Smooth muscle contractions in the uterine tubes as well as ciliary activity (waving of hair-like structures) of the tube's lining both are important in the transport of sperm up, and of the ovum into and then down, the uterine tube.[1]
Frequently tens or even hundreds of millions of sperm are ejaculated, but only one fertilizes an ovum. Those sperm that do come into the vicinity of the ovum must get through the material covering the ovum (the corona radiata and the zona pellucida) and finally contact and bind to the ovum's membrane, by means of specialized structures in the head of the sperm cell. When a sperm does get into the ovum, then the ovum membrane changes so that other sperm cannot enter. Meanwhile, the sperm cell in the egg is also undergoing changes and its specialized structures fall away. Prior to nuclear union, the haploid nuclei of both the sperm and the egg are called male and female pronuclei. Both swell, as their densely packed DNA loosens up prior to replication, and they also migrate toward the center of the ovum. Then their nuclear membranes disintegrate and the paternally and maternally contributed chromosomes pair up, an event called syngamy. At this time, the chromosome number is restored, and a new complete genome comes into being. The result of syngamy is an entity with an individual genome. The fertilized egg is now called a zygote. It is at this point already entering the first stage of its first mitotic division, and beginning cleavage.[1]
- Main Article: Embryology
After fertilization, the zygote proceeds immediately to the first cleavage (cell division) and subsequent cell divisions follow rapidly. The zygote is a very large cell, but the first waves of rapid cell division occur without increase in cell volume. The result is a closely bound mass of cells each of more typical cell size. At this stage the cells are called blastomeres, and the organism as a whole is called a morula from the time it has 16 blastomeres to the next stage. As it is undergoing this very rapid cell division, the organism is also migrating down the uterine tube toward the uterus.[1]
Vertebrates, like humans, have bilateral symmetry and therefore polarity in three dimensions (head-tail, or back-front, and left-right). Establishing polarity is one of the most basic manifestations of emerging specialization. But the egg is roughly spherical, and it is not readily apparent how polarity is established. Although it had been shown long ago that the point of sperm entry determines the plane of first cleavage (and thus subsequent ones) in amphibian eggs, mammals were believed until recently to remain spherically symmetrical until later in development. Recent data on mammalian zygotes, however, suggests that the point of sperm entry may similarly determine the cleavage plane. Even the first two cells resulting from the first cleavage may have different propensities, which persist through the next divisions as the progeny of one cell tend to become the body of the offspring and progeny of the other cell become the embryo's contribution to the placenta and other supporting structures. The word "fate," however, might be too strong, because the cells of such very early embryos are resilient to perturbations—if one cell is removed, the remaining ones can compensate.[1]
Gastrulation begins when fluid starts to accumulate between the blastomeres of the morula. The fluid-filled spaces run together, forming a relatively large fluid-filled cavity. At the point when the cavity becomes recognizable, the organism is called a blastocyst. The outer cells of the blastocyst, especially those around the blastocyst cavity, assume a flattened shape. The flattened cells of the exterior blastocyst are the trophoblast. They become the embryo's contribution to the placenta and other supporting structures. On one side of the blastocyst is a group of cells that project inside into the blastocyst cavity; this is the inner cell mass, or embryoblast, and its progeny form the body of the new offspring.[1]
The cells of the inner cell mass can give rise to progeny differentiating into all the types of cells in the adult body, so they are called pluripotent. They have not usually been described as totipotent because, the inner cell mass having already differentiated from trophoblast, the cells of the inner cell mass were believed to be no longer able to give rise to the cells of the trophoblast. Recent work, however, describes culture conditions under which human embryonic stem cells can differentiate to trophoblast cells. Although the new offspring itself develops only from the inner call mass, the trophoblast is not just passive padding. Its progeny are the essential and specialized connection between the embryonic and maternal systems. Embryonic stem cells can be isolated from the inner cell mass.[1]
Genetic Inheritance
- Main Article: Genetics
In sexually reproducing organisms, each gene in an individual is represented by two copies, called alleles—one on each chromosome pair. There may be more than two alleles, or variants, for a given gene in a population, but only two alleles can be found in an individual. Therefore, the probability that a particular allele will be inherited is 50:50, that is, alleles randomly and independently segregate into daughter cells, although there are some exceptions to this rule.[2]
The term diploid describes a state in which a cell has two sets of homologous chromosomes, or two chromosomes that are the same. The maturation of germ line stem cells into gametes requires that the diploid number of each chromosome be reduced by half. Hence, gametes are said to be haploid—having only a single set of homologous chromosomes. This reduction is accomplished through a process called meiosis, where one chromosome in a diploid pair is sent to each daughter gamete. Human gametes, therefore, contain 23 chromosomes, half the number in somatic cells—all the other cells of the body.[2]
Because the chromosome in one pair separates independently of all other chromosomes, each new gamete has the potential for a totally new combination of chromosomes. In humans, the independent segregation of the 23 chromosomes can lead to as many as 16 to 17 million different combinations in one individual's gametes. Only one of these gametes will combine with one of the nearly 17 million possible combinations from the other parent, generating a staggering potential for individual variation. But this is only the beginning. Even more variation is possible from the recombination between sections of chromosomes during meiosis as well as the random mutation that can occur during DNA replication. With such a range of possibilities, it is amazing that siblings look so much alike![2]
Evolutionary Problems
Evolutionists seeking to explain the various challenges to the evolution of sexual reproduction have suggested several solutions, but none of these are adequate. An article from the BBC published in an October 12th, 2000 article relates in saying;
|Evolutionary biologists have long puzzled over why sex evolved at all.[3]
Origin of Sexual Reproduction
The evolutionary model clearly has enigmatic stops, so much so that a clear picture cannot be seen. There remains two presuppositions one holds when approaching the origin of sexual reproduction:
- The organism had to develop and maintain two unique reproductive systems simultaneously until sexual reproduction became dominant within an asexual population through many improbable mutations and lack of natural selection.
- Or, both or either biological abilities were designed into the organisms that required them.
Certainly any answer to either question dealing with this part of the past is not set in stone, so to know how sexual reproduction came into existence is a question of faith rather than scientific observation or fact. However given the lack of logic within the view of the evolutionist regarding survival of these systems and the scientific improbability dealing with the chance of such through mutation, design of these biological systems is clearly or equally logical and scientific.
Simultaneous Development
If sexual reproduction were to evolve in a step-wise fashion through mutational change within an established population of asexual organisms. This obviously would involve an enormous number of chance mutations, because sexual reproduction is a vastly complex biological mechanism. In order to do such, given the evolutionary framework it must bear some survival advantage in order to spread throughout the population. If each step of evolution from asexual reproduction to sexual reproduction did not have a survival advantage sufficient to spread the new trait, then it would be eliminated from the gene pool by genetic drift or natural selection.
So, one might ask, what survival advantage is the production of sperm without the production of an egg? Sperm are totally useless without an egg, just as an egg is totally useless without sperm. So neither sperm nor egg could have developed alone according to evolutionary theory. Until the capacity to produce both sperm and egg was fully developed, both were totally useless, thus having no survival advantage, and thus not being aided by the evolutionary mechanism of "millions of generations," or "deep time."
The benefit of asexual reproduction
- Main Article: Asexual reproduction
Scientists in the above BBC article explain that asexual reproduction is exceedingly more efficient than sexual reproduction, and were puzzled as to why the ruthless efficiency of evolution chose a less efficient method. They theorized that the reduction in mutations may have been the reason sexual evolution evolved.[1] [2]
However, researchers suggested there was no significant difference in the rate of mutations, and scientists dismissed the harmful mutations theory. [3] Other research has suggested that in human populations (sexual reproduction), detrimental mutations may be accumulating faster than they are being eliminated by selection. [4]
This would mean that sexual reproduction has yet another disadvantage over asexual reproduction. Yet taking classical evolutionary theory into account, negative or non beneficial mutations, those that were forming sexual reproduction over the more efficient asexual reproduction should not of been chosen to spread through the population.
Population genetic theory
Scientists initially proposed that population genetic theory explained the evolution of sexual reproduction, because linkage became an obstacle in asexual reproduction. However, research from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicated "linkage limits the rate and degree of adaptation even in recombining genomes," meaning the problem exists in either form.[5] Thus, the problem of why sexual reproduction evolved is still a mystery.
Meiotic recombination
Scientists have also suggested that meiotic recombination and sexual reproduction both cause shuffling of parental genomes, thus promoting genetic diversity, an asset to survival. However, researchers have already raised several objections to this claim.
The first is that sexual reproduction and recombination do not always increase genetic variation. When genetic variation is added, it is not clear why greater genetic variation should generally be adaptive. The same recombination is also a mechanism for destroying favorable combinations of mutations. [6]
From the journal Science:.
|Reproductive strategies such as sexual reproduction and recombination that involve the shuffling of parental genomes for the production of offspring are ubiquitous in nature. However, their evolutionary benefit remains unclear. [7]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Monitoring Stem Cell Research: Appendix A (Notes on Early Human Development) by The President's Council on Bioethics.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 What is a genome? by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institute of Health, March 31. 2004. Accessed August 21, 2008.
- ↑ Sex 'remains a mystery' BBC News, October, 12 2000
Additional Information
- Evolutionary Theories on Gender and Sexual Reproduction by Bert Thompson, Ph.D. and Brad Harrub, Ph.D.
- Argument: Evolution of sex by Jonathan Sarfati, with Michael Matthews
- A Critic Takes On the Logic of Female Orgasm Researcher claims female orgasm has no evolutionary purpose whatsoever.
- Sex, the Queen of Problems in Evolutionary Biology Evolution News and Views, July 13, 2011.
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- "Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C."
- —Strapline.[src]
Ollivanders Wand Shop in South Side, Diagon Alley, London, is owned by the Ollivander family and run by an older family member Garrick Ollivander, known only as Mr. Ollivander. Mr. Ollivander has been serving as the family shopkeeper at least since the 1930s, and remembers every wand he's ever sold. The Ollivander family are widely acknowledged to be the best wandmakers in Britain, and rank among the finest wandmakers in Europe. Wandmaking has been the family business since 382 B.C. Although there are other wandmakers in Britain, most new British wands are purchased from Ollivanders, including almost all first wands purchased by incoming Hogwarts students. There is also an Ollivanders Wand Shop in Hogsmeade.
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382 B.C.Edit
It is believed by Garrick Ollivander, a descendant of the original Ollivander, that the founder of Ollivanders Wand Shop arrived with the Romans, setting up a stall (which, in due course, evolved into a shop) to manufacture and sell wands to the ancient British wizards, whose wands were crudely-made and inferior in quality and performance.[1]
- Ollivander: "Curious...very curious..."
- Harry Potter: "Sorry, but what's curious?"
- Ollivander: "I remember every single wand I've ever sold, Mr. Potter. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather — just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother gave you that scar."
- — Ollivander on Harry Potter's wand[src]
In 1991, Harry Potter was taken to Ollivanders by Rubeus Hagrid in order to get Harry a wand for his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry tried dozens of wands before he was chosen by a wand of Holly and Phoenix Feather. Mr. Ollivander said that he had remembered every wand he had ever sold, and he found it curious that Harry should be destined for a wand that was brother to the one that had killed Harry's parents, and had almost killed him.
During the Christmas holidays, Ollivanders was closed with a small notice on the door, which read "Wandered out for a spell, will return later".[2]
1996 and 1997Edit
- "Oh no - not Ollivanders, everybody got their first wands from here."
- —Hermione Granger upon discovering Ollivanders shop abandoned.[src]
In 1996, Alexandra Walker attempted to rob the shop. This event made Daily Prophet headlines. When Harry Potter visited Diagon Alley in his sixth year, he found Ollivanders shop boarded up and its owner gone as he was kidnapped by Fenrir Greyback and a group of Death Eaters. He was tortured for an explanation why Voldemort's wand and Harry Potter's wand couldn't battle. Under the Cruciatus Curse, he told Voldemort that it was because of the twin cores, and that all Lord Voldemort needed to do was use another wand.
Ollivander was tortured and held in the cellar of Malfoy Manor until Dobby rescued him, Luna Lovegood and Dean Thomas. After recovering at Shell Cottage, He went to the Weasley children's great-aunt Muriel's place to be protected under the Fidelius Charm. Whilst there, he made a wand for Luna as a thank you gift for the comfort and care she had given him during the incarceration. His shop is most likely to have reopened after the Battle of Hogwarts.
Peeling gold letters over the door of the shop read: Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C.
The shop's display consisted of a solitary wand lying on a faded purple cushion in the dusty window. The shop was tiny, empty except for a single, spindly chair in the corner. Thousands of narrow boxes containing wands were piled right up to the ceiling of the tiny shop, and the whole place had a thin layer of dust about it.
There was a branch of Ollivanders Wand Shop in Hogsmeade. Located in High Street, this branch was very similar to its counterpart in Diagon Alley. It was run by an associate of Garrick Ollivander.
Behind the scenesEdit
- Despite Garrick Ollivander's claims that the original Ollivander arrived to Great Britain with the Romans, this individual started his wand-making business in 382 B.C. but the Roman conquest of Britain (Britannia) only began effectively 45 B.C.,under Roman dictator Julius Ceasar.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
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- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) (Seen on the Daily Prophet)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Book
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- ↑ Pottermore background information on Garrick Ollivander (transcription available here)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) - PS1 version


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Plantation on Bayou Lafourche, it is the site of the
largest, most intact remaining turn-of-the-century sugar
plantation complex in the southern United States. In the
village, the visitor will drive past rows of century-old
faded cypress tenant houses, the remains of the giant sugar
mill, the two-story boarding house for migrant workers, and
the one-room schoolhouse and more. Because the village
buildings have not yet been restored, visitors may view them
from outside only.
The museum/country store area offers
local crafts, and a museum of farm implements and other
relics. Outside, visitors may view an array of antique
tractors and also several train engines. A recent addition
to Laurel Valley is the boat builder's shop, where visitors
can watch craftsmen work on the construction of a cypress
Go to the American Sugar Cane League office on Hwy.
308 for the video presentation before you visit Laurel
Take the guided oi>Take the guided or self-guided
tour of the village. Notice the sugar cane fields on
either side of the road. Determine the stage of planting
or growth of the cane in the fields.
Purchase corn at the country store and feed the farm
Cross Bayou Lafourche at the first bridge northwest
(towards Thibodaux). Travel 1-2 miles up Hwy. 1 to
Nicholls State University. Park on the road shoulder
across from Nicholls (by the fountain) and picnic at
shady tables along the bayou. Bring extra bread to feed
the ducks
Jean Lafitte
National Historical Park & Preserve Wetlands Acadian
Cultural Center
The Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center offers
guided programs using age-appropried programs using
age-appropriate materials which are tied to the State
curriculum. Pre-visit and post-visit activities and
curriculum provide an introduction and a follow-up to your
visit. The theme of the program is the Acadian people and
the other diverse cultural groups that have settled in
Louisiana. Programs on other cultural topics such as:
transportation route evolution and how the South Louisiana
natural environment molded the culture of its inhabitants
may be requested. Rangers are willing to work with teachers
on a topic of their choice to create a meaningful program.
* Note: The more elaborate a program you want, the more
advance notice you need to give.
Occasionally, special events, such as Native American Day
are offered. This particular event includes demonstrations
of native American dance and crafts, with plenty of access
to native Americans for questions. To learn about these
events, call the center monthly. Your principal's office may
request that your school be on the mailing list to be
notified of upcoming events. Funds for mailing are limited,
so be sure that interest is sincere.
After the program, picnic on Bayou Lafourche at shady
tables across from Nicholls State University or lunch at
various restaurants and fast food stops.


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By Michael Hinshaw, managing director, MCorp Consulting
Organizations are losing control over their customer experiences, altering the landscape of customer experience forever—yet those that understand and embrace this today will be closer to their customers than any competitor will in the years to come.
Not that long ago, you advertised, and customers bought. Correspondence came by mail. Replies in a week were considered swift. But today, the rise of always-on Internet has changed the pace and velocity of interactions between companies and their customers forever.
From instant ordering and social media to your competitors, control of customer relationships has shifted into the hands of anyone with a connection. Negative word of mouth is only a mouse click away—and it can cost a business dearly.
Consider a recent Google search for a $10 billion bank—which yielded only three mentions of the bank on the first page of search results, including a consumer Yelp! review denigrating the bank as ".... Not even worthy of one star. [They] have obscene fees." A competitor's ad appeared above this bank's lone search result (a regional competitor had purchased the bank's brand name as a keyword), making these damaging online references available to anyone, including prospects, customers, investors, and the media.
Unfortunately, the bank is representative of many businesses today that have not yet recognized that no matter what product or service you provide, customers are more savvy and demanding than ever. Armed with an increasing ability to control what they see and hear, consumers are more informed and connected than ever.
Today, complexly interconnected touchpoints occur at every point of interaction between you and your customers, driving customer experience. Over the next five years, a lack of customer touchpoint awareness can leave the door wide open to brand erosion and smarter competition. And the velocity of this change is staggering.
The costs of ignoring customer experience are immense. In 2009, 86 percent of consumers said they'd stop doing business with an organization after a single bad customer experience, up 27 percent in just four years. Yet the cost of acquiring—and the danger of losing—customers is high. Acquiring a new customer can cost up to six to seven times more than retaining a current one. The price of poor experiences can be high enough to shutter your doors.
Fortunately, recognition of the critical nature of customer experience has been building. Recent research shows that 90 percent of executives in the U.S. feel customer experience is "very important" or "critical" to their firm's strategy in the coming years. Those organizations that track customer experience enjoy 40 percent better marketing performance than those that don't—and see 35 times moreleads in their sales pipeline that result in closed business.
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What can companies do to deliver a differentiated customer experience in a world where customer expectations are changing as fast as touchpoints are multiplying? It starts by accepting that customer experience is no longer within your complete control, but now is defined by how your organization is perceived by your customers.
Most companies don't have a complete picture of their existing interactions or touchpoints—even the ones they control. Your organization must evaluate how your brand touches, influences, and serves customers by identifying, measuring, and understanding the critical touchpoints that drive desired customer experiences and business results.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Hunger and Hope - Bloggers Unite
In a line they inch up to the kitchen, where they watch as the lunch lady serves a rubbery chicken patty on a yeasty bun, or runny macaroni and cheese. The food is dropped, hurriedly slopped, on to a Styrofoam tray, often with a plastic-gloved hand. Several kids will ask for "two" of whatever is being served. They'll take a milk carton as well, checking the date as I've taught them to do, and a piece of waxy, bruised fruit that is piled up in a plastic bin.
Once they prance over to their tables, my kids unwrap they're straws and drink their milk. Then, they contemplate the food before them. YOU would not serve this food to your children. It's a tray filled with carbs and low-grade food. One day, my kids were served tater-tots (potato rounds), bread, corn, and a cookie! But most of the kids eat, quickly, they're starving. For some kids in my school, it's supposedly "the best" they'll get all day.
Today, bloggers are writing about hunger and hope. I have to think about my students. Children here in our country are hungry. They deserve good, nutritious food, fresh fruit and vegetables. Why is it that, in our country, food aid programs consist of low-grade, sub-quality left-overs?
Children in my school are hungry; they deserve better.
4 comments:
- This Brazen Teacher said...
Government cheese cardboard er pizza... pb and j with more fat than a BK Double Cheese Burger...
indeed my school is not urban, and yet the food choices here are no better.
Check out this woman who totally re-vamped the Berkeley Unified School District... so amazing!
- April 29, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- John Spencer said...
I really enjoyed this post. You described the children at my school as well. Though they are in eighth grade, they are quick to eat the free grub, knowing full well that it's not the best we could offer them.
- April 29, 2009 at 11:21 AM
- teachin' said...
In my district, we have a superintendent's policy around food. Food is supposed to be good for kids; if we provide snacks, they're supposed to be healthy. If we use candy or something as a reward, we're supposed to also offer kids a choice of pencils or PBS rewards.
And I'm all for that, or at least I WAS, until I realized that my kids are served things like cinnamon buns the size of their heads that drip with frosting for breakfast. If our cafeteria doesn't give a shit about what kids should be eating, I'm sure as hell not going to feel bad about offering kids fruit snacks as a reward on occasion. At least my fruit snacks are fortified with vitamin C.
You're absolutely right. They do deserve better.
- April 29, 2009 at 11:38 PM
- Okibum said...
They do deserve better. I wish some of my students would read this before they complain about their carrot sticks and granny smith apples telling me they want fries and cookies.
- May 11, 2009 at 5:13 AM


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Every year I try to come up with something creative and fun. Some years we do a little extravagant, other years super simple. This year was right in the middle.
I used to work at Paper Source, which is a great little shop on the Plaza. I love this place. Perfect place to get your craft on. I remembered that they do birthday parties, and I thought this would be perfect for a bunch of little girls that love to do arts and crafts.
This is the girls taking a stroll through the plaza. The weather was great and the girls had a blast.
They were taught how to make a notebook with a spiral binder. Kate was the instructor. Love that girl! The kids were so creative. It made me happy to watch them in action. I found it so interesting to observe each of their little personalities. They are all so different.
I think Mike was the giddiest of all. Being the designer that he is, he LOVED watching all the techniques and fun things to make. He even made a little somethin somethin himself. Bless his heart. He told me that when we get a larger house he wants a room that looks like Paper Source where he can design and have fun. Ok, honey.
Too cute!
We ended our outing with a visit to Yogurtini. It was such a good time.
Happy Birthday, sweet girl!


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Every Fall one of our favorite things to do as a family is go to the apple orchard. If you live in a cooler climate, you most likely know what I mean… I love the smells of fresh cider, hot cinnamon donuts, and pumpkins. The colors are so rich and vibrant. The apples so crisp. Everything about Fall, from Halloween, to my birthday the day before, is just great. I'd love to see what you love most about Fall too. Photography? The colors? The smells? What do you love about it? Just upload your Fall photos to my Facebook Wall or to the comment section here to share. If you used any MCP Photoshop actions, please share which you used.
Here are a few snapshots I took quickly of Ellie and Jenna. I am sure I will be taking more soon. Note Jenna with the tie… It brings back memories of when I was in 7th grade and wore a tie for my class pictures. I guess girls wear ties is back in style only this time paired with Madonna-esque 80s style leggings … And Ellie… She just looks so grown up to me in these shots. Remember to take pictures of your kids. Don't be "that photographer" that just takes pictures of everyone else… Back to the photography side of things. These images were shot with my Canon 5D MKII with the 24-105L. I chose this lens because I did not want to carry a camera bag, and did not know what I'd want to shoot there – I just wanted versatility. I shot at 4.0, which is the widest this lens goes. The photos were all natural light, most at ISO 400 and 1/250, as it was actually bright yet cloudy. As for actions, I just used my Big Batch Action in Autoloader (mainly made of Color Burst from the Complete Workflow and a few things from the Bag of Tricks. Hope that info helps.
Oh and just searched my blog and found these pictures from 2 years ago in the fall. Yep, they are growing up.


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First! *Gets shot at by Legolas*
At least we know that "Link" is from one of the northern european cultures – my bet's on Scandinavia.
Also? For all those IQ points Laz seems to have, he REALLY needs a ounce or two in common sense. Seriously, who just walks up to an armed grave robber and shouts "Howdy"?
He's a 13 year old kid, what do you expect? 😛 Gotta love the Legolas line, though.
I'm pretty sure calling an elf Legolas is a solid way to get stabbed anyway.
i dont think Legolas is an insult… i mean, hes one of the coolest guys on lord of the ring, which makes him one of the coolest characters of the world.
he is not the guy a person would be offended to be called of.
Actually, he DOES look like Legolas, only he didn't seem to age quite as gracefully. Maybe he just needs a bit more sun, and a bit less on the dust and cobwebs?
Opinion, opinion. He may be the 'coolest guy in lord of the rings', that doesn't mean random Elf #24 in Mystical Domain #44.2466-5 knows who he is. 😛
or cares…
For all he knows, it's a racial insult.
LoL seems that Laz will never learn no matter how many times he has an arrow come at him.
Why is anyone surprised at this? Laz is the classic geek – high intelligence with mediocre-to-low charisma and a non-existent wisdom 🙂 Besides, at one level it did work – Legolas fired a warning shot (instead of shooting to kill if he thought Laz was sneaking around).
Wow, fantastic coloring job!
No wonder it took you like five weeks to post an update.
Seriously! Great art man! This comic is definitely on my watch list now.
I wonder if the Laz knows the arrow through the head party gag is usually fake. Or maybe he just likes that really close hair part right down the middle.
I wonder how much an arrow would hurt laz, I mean as a devil he must have some resistance to petty steel, as a demigod of the devil musint he some resistance to crude force?
Who's to say the arrows are tipped with steel? It could very well be some sort of thunderbolt iron (thank you TVTropes). Or it could be mythril. Who knows? The author, that's who. Also, marksmanship is pretty far from crude, however forceful it may be. It requires a lot of skill and training. And to be as good as (do you mind if I still call him this?) Gem, that would take years of training and a lot of natural skill. Pretty far from crude.
Well, that's really not so bad; obvious warning shot, no apparent serious fear, and an immediate conversational opening. More or less "I'm ready for you, you don't scare me, and so I feel quite confident enough to let you talk". Given the general level of danger and chaos we've seen so far, I'd say this is "warily friendly" on the local scale of greetings.
Gee, this place is getting cheerier by the second…..
Christian devil? How does one distinguish what religion a devil is from?
Because devils/demons are generally from the Christian, Muslim, and Judaic religions. We just called everyone else's big scary monsters that after the fact.
And the most popular of those religions, ATM, is Christianity, which has the dibs on the horns-and-red-tail stereotype.
Well how does on distinguish an Oni from a Christian Demon. They resemble the cultures they come from.
The Oni come in two colors; Red and Blue. Laz is pale, ergo he would be easily distinguished from the Hindu demons (Eshi's people) and the Japanese demons (The Red Oni typically carry large, iron maces/clubs and the Blue Oni carried swords). Plus…. he has a spade-tipped tail. Oni don't, not usually…
wow your drawing has improved a lot its amazing
p.s thanks for adding link as a character
I'm pretty certain that I've fallen in love with this page. The shading (my weak point when it comes to art) is amazing. And you're better at drawing shapes than I am. So… I hold you in awe.
Wooh, someone's upset.
actually, on the scale of how friendly people are when they meet laz, this guy is overjoyed
I have to say, I am absolutely loving your comic; I have, for many years, studied and theorized about the multiverse and the complexities and variations. Call me crazy if you want but I believe in the multiverse and have had proof enough for me, and others. I love your inclusion of Lilith, especially… and the overall story is simply fantastic. This is quickly becoming my favorite comic, and I'll now be looking forward to every update as they're ready; please take your time in making them, don't feel rushed about it, and it is my PERSONAL hope that we will eventually be seeing Anansi in the near future… and which version of him you use…. *Self-indulgent chuckle*
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