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Mixology 101
A primer for novices, and a refresher for veterans. Mixology 101 is the home mixologist's handbook.
To create and explore various types of bitters, you must first understand what bitters are and what they're composed of. Bitters are very potent flavors, added in small amounts to cocktails to create a unique taste. Starting with an Everclear® base, they are made by steeping ingredients with two main flavor profiles: bittering agents and flavor agents.
Bittering Agents:
Bittering agents usually account for less than half of the flavor profile and typically consist of leaves, roots and wood.
Flavoring Agents:
Flavor agents are much more expansive. Basically, any flavor you can think up. Fruits, nuts, spices, herbs and flowers can all be used to complement the bittering agent.
The seemingly endless combination of these two agents creates the final bitters product. They are steeped, filtered and stored.
There are various schools of thought on the steeping process. Some prefer to steep and filter all the ingredients together. Others prefer more control and will steep each ingredient separately and play with the ratios of flavor.
For starters, try our Aromatic Bitters recipe. It's a simple, yet versatile bitter that complements numerous cocktails, especially manhattans.


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Mini Oxford gives birth to 3-millionth car
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The three-millionth model was a Mini Cooper S five-door hatchback with a special Union Jack paint job. At about the same time, the factory hit its two-millionth exported Mini to leave there, as well. It was a standard Mini hatchback in Volcanic Orange heading for a buyer in Japan.
UK Transport Minister Baroness Kramer attended the ceremony and said: "I congratulate the workers at Mini Plant Oxford on reaching this remarkable milestone. The Mini is a British icon and is a major part of a thriving automotive industry spearheading the growing British economy."
Mini is hardly slowing down with its investment in UK manufacturing with an ongoing 750-million-pound ($1.2 billion) investment going into them. Oxford is receiving a new, 1,000-robot body shop, and the Plant Swindon is getting laser-welding machines for body manufacturing. The Hams Hall plant is also getting updates to build components for the latest generation of engines. True Mini geeks will also be thrilled to see a cool time-lapse video of a car being built at the Oxford facility.
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http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/health_sciences/medicine/units/surgery/home/10006.html Once you're on the page in the link, click on the globe/stethoscope on the right to join.
2. Dr. Amir Ravandi has received support for his research on blood analysis (looking at oxidized fats as markers to predict heart attach) from the Conrad & Evelyn Wyrzykowski Fund, through the St. Boniface Hospital Foundation. Congratulations, Dr. Ravandi, on this well-deserved recognition!
3. Welcome to Rikki-Lee Fletcher, who started work in the SBH Cardiac Catheterization Lab recently. She comes to us from the Critical Care Relief Team, and we're very happy to have her on board!
4. Farewell and good luck to Wade Morrison, Health Care Aide, who retired from the Pre- and Post-Procedure unit (Y2) at SBH on Friday, March 4, 2016. All the best in your well-deserved retirement!
5. A very warm welcome, as well, to MaryAnn Tucker who has joined the team of Cardiac Transcriptionists. MaryAnn has significant experience, having worked as a medical transcriptionist since 2006. We are very pleased to have her join our transcription team. MaryAnn's first day will be Monday March 14th.
6. Bring on the dance music as we celebrate with the SBH Cardiac Surgery Inpatient Unit on their achievement of obtaining excellent patient satisfaction results! For the June – September 2015 period, 100% of inpatients who responded to the regional patient satisfaction survey rated the overall quality of care and services to be excellent or very good! Congratulations to everyone on CSIU for setting an example in delivering excellent patient-centred care!
7. Welcome to all the students who will be starting placements at SBH on March 14th: Non-Invasive Cardiac Diagnostic area will be welcoming Cardiology Technology Students from Stenberg College, and Echocardiology will be welcoming its first student from the inaugural class of the Red River College Cardiac Sonographer Program. Let's all make them feel welcome!
8. The Accreditation visit is coming up; surveyors will be on-site at SBH on April 20 to review the Cardiac Sciences program…for information on what to expect, please see the attached newsletter. And please share this with others in your area!


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If you have ever wanted to straighten your smile without metal braces, Invisalign® might be just what you need. Invisalign® is a revolutionary way to straighten your teeth without worrying about the appearance and potential hassles of traditional metal braces.
The Invisalign® system works through a series of custom-made aligners. Because the Invisalign® aligners are made of smooth, transparent plastic, they are both comfortable and discreet. In fact, the aligners are nearly invisible!
This makes Invisalign® a wonderful option for any of our patients who would like to maintain a natural, aesthetic appearance during orthodontic treatment, such as adults interested in maintaining their professional appearance.
Invisalign® is effective for correcting many of the same orthodontic issues treated with traditional braces. Dr. Lee and Dr. Proctor may suggest Invisalign® for correcting gapped, crooked, or crowded teeth, as well as an overbite, crossbite, underbite, and open bite.
To learn more about this revolutionary alternative to traditional braces, call our Chandler, AZ, dental office today at (480) 732-7874 and schedule a consultation with one of the doctors.
Who is Invisalign® for?
The advent of Invisalign® treatment means that adults finally have an attractive option for the orthodontic work they need done. Drs. Lee and Proctor treat many adults with Invisalign®, including some who wore traditional braces as teens.
Invisalign® aligners work to repair many maladies, such as overbites, underbites, and crooked or rotated teeth. The aligners provide a solution for patients who have wide spaces between their teeth, even if other teeth have shifted and moved into those spaces.
Adults who suffer from malocclusion have found that Invisalign® works wonders for their smiles. Malocclusion occurs when the upper and lower teeth don't fit well together, resulting in speech problems, teeth grinding (bruxism), TMJ disorder, and frequent biting of the cheeks and tongue.
Invisalign® does not only benefit adult patients, though. In fact, the makers of Invisalign® developed a treatment program specifically for teenagers. Called Invisalign Teen®, the program offers all the benefits of the adult plan, with a few unique additions that help keep your child on track with his treatment plan.
The aligners that come with the Invisalign Teen® program have blue dots on them that fade as your child wears the aligner. If the blue dot remains when your teen finishes with that aligner, you will know he has not stayed compliant with his treatment plan.
The makers of Invisalign Teen® realize that teenagers have very busy lives and can easily forget things, so they have included six bonus aligners with the program for free. So if Jeffrey accidentally throws his aligner away in the cafeteria at lunch, or Heather loses hers at softball practice, you can call our office and we will order a replacement free of charge.
The Invisalign® Treatment Process
As with any dental procedure, the Invisalign® process starts with a consultation with one of our doctors. The doctor will take the time to discuss the Invisalign® process with you, answer any questions you have about the treatment, and find out what expectations you have for the treatment. When you both agree that Invisalign® offers the best solution for straightening your teeth, the doctor will schedule a second appointment for you.
At your second appointment, the excitement will really begin. The doctor will take digital images of your mouth, then feed them into the Invisalign® software. The software will process the images, using them to create a custom treatment plan tailored to your specific needs.
This treatment plan will outline how many sets of retainers you will need to wear, and how long your total treatment will last. For most patients, total treatment time lasts from 12 to 18 months, but treatment time varies from case to case. The doctor will forward your treatment plan to an offsite Invisalign® lab, where certified technicians will use it to create your aligners.
When your aligners arrive in our office a few weeks later, you will return for a third visit. At this visit, the doctor will give you your first few sets of aligners, along with instructions for how to use them and care for them.
Over the course of the treatment, you will wear 20 to 30 sets of aligners. You will wear each set for two weeks, keeping them in your mouth for 20 to 22 hours a day to remain in compliance with your treatment plan. You should only remove the aligners for eating and cleaning your teeth.
The effectiveness of your treatment plan will depend heavily upon your following these parameters. If you fail to wear the aligners for the required 20 to 22 hours each day, the doctor may need to extend the length of your treatment.
You will receive your first three sets of aligners to start with, and return to our office for another visit in six weeks. At that visit, the doctor will perform a quick checkup and you will receive your next few sets of aligners.
You will return every six weeks for these checkup visits, and to receive your next sets of aligners. When you have successfully completed your course of treatment, the doctor will provide you with a retainer to wear. This retainer will help keep your teeth in their new places, so your beautiful new smile will last.
Contact Us Today
We welcome you to call us at (480) 732-7874, or visit our Chandler, AZ, dental office today to learn more about the advantages of Invisalign® and to schedule your orthodontic consultation with one of our friendly dentists. We look forward to meeting with you soon!


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Notes on the Holocene 231Pa/230Th dataset
This Th and Pa data was collated as part of a continuing project to understand the water-column and sedimentary distribution of 230Th and 231Pa through the use of an ocean general circulation model. The goal of this work is to test and improve the use of these radionuclides as proxies for sediment accumulation, paleo-productivity, and past ocean-circulation.
If you have any comments or suggestions, please contact me at email@example.com
The dataset: latitudes and longitudes are decimal; north and east are positive; Th and Pa measurements are in dpm/g; xs ratios have generally been corrected for any age decay but this is somewhat reference specific; where several Holocene values are available for the same site, the value closest to core-top has been used.
References containing 231Pa/230Th ratios in Holocene sediment
- Yu E. F. (1994) Variations in the particulate flux of 230Th and 231Pa and paleoceanographic applications of the 231Pa/230Th ratio. Ph. D., WHOI/MIT.
- DeMaster D. J. (1979) The marine budgets of silica and 32Si. Ph. D., Yale.
- Bacon M. P. and Rosholt J. N. (1982) Accumulation rates of 230Th, 231Pa, and some trasition metals on the Bermuda Rise. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 46, 651-666.
- Mangini A. and Diester-Haas L. (1983) Excess Th-230 in sediments off NW Africa traces upwelling during the past 130,000 years. In Coastal upwelling: Its sedimentary records (ed. E. Suess and J. Thiede), pp. 455-470. Plenum.
- Kumar N. (1994) Trace metals and natural radionuclides as tracers of ocean productivity. Ph.D., Columbia.
- Yang H.-S., Nozaki Y., and Sakai H. (1986a) The distribution of 230Th and 231Pa in the deep-sea surface sediments of the Pacific Ocean. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 50, 81-89.
- Anderson R. F., Bacon M. P., and Brewer P. G. (1983) Removal of 230Th and 231Pa from the open ocean. Earth Planet. Sci. Letters 62, 7-23.
- Anderson R. F., Fleisher M. Q., Biscaye P. E., Kumar N., Dittrich B., Kubik P., and Suter M. (1994) Anomolous boundary scavenging in the Middle Atlantic Bight: evidence from 230Th, 231Pa, 10Be and 210Pb. Deep-Sea Res. 41(2/3), 537-561.
- Ku T.-L. (1966) Uranium series disequilibrium in deep sea sediments. Ph.D., Columbia.
- Ku T.-L., Bischoff J. L., and Boersma A. (1972) Age studies of Mid-Atlantic Ridge sediments near 42oN and 20oN. Earth Planet. Sci. Letters 19, 233-247.
- Frank M., Eckhardt J.-D., Eisenhauer A., Kubik P. W., Dittrich-Hannen B., Segl M., and Manginin A. (1994) Beryllium-10, thorium-230 and protactinium-231 in Galapagos microplate sediments: Implications of hydrothermal activity and paleoproductivity changes during the last 100,000 years. Paleoceanography 9(4), 559-578.
- Shimmield G. B., Murray J. W., Thomson J., Bacon M. P., Anderson R. F., and Price N. B. (1986) The distribution and behaviour of 230Th and 231Pa at an ocean margin, Baja California, Mexico. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 50, 2499-2507.
- Frank M. (1996) Reconstruction of Late Quaternary environmental conditions applying the natural radionuclides 230Th, 10Be, 231Pa and 238U: A study of deep-sea sediments from the eastern sector of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current System. Ph. D., Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
- Lao Y., Anderson R. F., Broecker W. S., Trumbore S. E., Hofmann H. J., and Wolfli W. (1992) Transport and burial rates of 10Be and 231Pa in the Pacific Ocean during the Holocene period. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 113, 173-189.
- Francois R., Bacon M. P., and Altabet M. A. (1993) Glacial/interglacial changes in sediment rain rate in the SW indian sector of subantarcitc waters as recorded by 230Th, 231Pa, U, and d15N. Paleoceanog. 8(5), 611-629.
- Anderson, R.F. personal correspondance.
- Anderson R. F., Lao Y., Broecker W. S., Trumbore S. E., Hofmann H. J., and Wolfli W. (1990) Boundary scavenging in the Pacific Ocean: A comparison of 10Be and 231Pa. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 96, 287-304.
- Mangini A. and Sonntag C. (1977) 231Pa dating of deep-sea cores via 227Th counting. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 37(2), 251-256.
- Schmitz W., Mangini A., Stoffers P., Glasby G. P., and Plueger W. L. (1986) Sediment accumulation rates in the southwestern Pacific Basin and Aitutaki Passage.
- Shimmield G. B. and Price N. B. (1988) The scavenging of U, 230Th, and 231Pa during pulsed hydrothermal activity at 20oS, East Pacific Rise. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 52, 669-677.
- Yang Y.-L., Elderfield H., Pedersen T. F., and Ivanovich M. (1995) Geochemical record of the Panama basin during the last glacial maximum carbon event shows that the glacial ocean was not suboxic. Geology 23(12), 1115-1118.
- Muller P. J. and Mangini A. (1980) Organic carbon decomposition rates in sediments of the Pacific manganese nodule belt dated by 230Th and 231Pa. Earth Planet. Sci. Letters 51, 94-114.
- Mangini A. and Kuehnel U. (1987) Depositional history in the Clarion-Clipperton zone during the last 250,000 years; 230Th and 231Pa methods. Geol. Jahrbuch 87, 105-121.
- Scholten J. C., Rutgers van der Loeff M. M., and Michel A. (1995) Distribution of 230Th and 231Pa in the water column in relation to the ventilation of the deep Arctic basins. Deep-Sea Res. 42(6), 1519-1531.
- Walter H. J., Rutgers van der Loeff M. M., and Hoeltzen H. (1997) Enhanced scavenging of 231Pa relative to 230Th in the South Atlantic south of the Polar front: Implications for the use of the 231Pa/230Th ratio as a paleoproductivity proxy. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 149, 85-100.


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Queenslanders are still waiting to find out who will form the next Government, and it doesn't look like we're much closer to having a decision. Katter's Australian Party MPs Robbie Katter and Shane Knuth say that it is still too early to announce who they will throw their support behind in order … [Read more...]
A Voice for Rural and Regional Queensland
Agriculture lobby group, Agforce, says it believes that the state election result whilst confused will bode well for Agriculture in the future. Agforce has voiced its many concerns throughout the Queensland state election regarding the lack of representation of the state's Agriculture … [Read more...]


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On Nov. 29, Scott Anderson, president and CEO of the online diamond jeweler Union Diamond, revealed the six finalists in his "My Perfect Union" contest, which will award the winner a $40,000 diamond and platinum engagement ring.
Union Diamond received thousands of visits to the contest's website. The contest garnered 240 nominees. Members of the military were encouraged to nominate themselves or be nominated by friends or family members through a video submission and/or essay. The contest was open to both active duty and retired members of all branches of the U.S. military.
"I've read each submission more than a few times. I just keep reminding myself of what I wanted to accomplish going in to this," says Anderson. "They are all so deserving. Every last one." Union Diamond's senior vice president Barbara Palumbo adds that every member of the staff read each entry, and "there hasn't been a day that's gone by without someone tearing up in the office."
The six finalists are:
Air Force Captain Shawntez Brooks
Brooks' daughter Selina Smith nominated him. She wrote that her dad "is now serving a remote so we don't get to see him anymore, but I am proud to tell people that my dad saves lives." Smith wants her father to win the contest because someone broke into the family's home last year and took her mother's engagement ring. She also wrote that her dad leads the family by example by running marathons for charity, volunteering at shelters, and assisting at food drives. "He always looks to the well being of his family and his nation first," she said.
Marine Corporal Jose Parra
One of Parra's former co-workers nominated him for the contest. Parra, who hails from New Mexico, has a positive attitude and great personality, Anthony Trunkhill wrote in the submission entry. He was unable to afford a ring when he married his wife, Tiffany, who is also a Marine. Parra volunteered to be deployed to Afghanistan soon after the wedding, but is slated to return home in two weeks. "You would not be giving the ring to just one person of our military, but TWO people of our military," Trunkhill wrote. "Tiffany and Jose are inspirations to me, and deserve this more than you can imagine."
Army Specialist Michael Brewer
Michael Brewer is an active duty Army Wounded Warrior/Purple Heart recipient. He was injured in Afghanistan when the convoy he was leading was ambushed by insurgents. Hit with an RPG, he sustained serious injuries. However, despite those injuries he managed to get his convoy to safety before seeking medical treatment. To date, Brewer has undergone 11 surgeries to his face and hands and has received the Purple Heart Medal, Combat Action Badge, and the Army Commendation Medal with Valor Device for being wounded in combat and heroic actions. Brewer praised his wife in his entry. "She has always been there for me and has never left my side," he wrote. "I will unfortunately never be able to afford the ring that she deserves, but I would like to be able to give her something that she has deserved since the very beginning."
Army E-4 Derek McConnell
During his deployment to Afghanistan, Derek was injured by an IED while on patrol. He lost both legs above the knee, suffered a TBI, pneumonia, pelvic fracture, broken jaw, and internal injuries. His girlfriend, Krystina, has not left his side, leaving her job and putting school on hold in order to support him. McConnell is trying to save up to buy a ring despite his injuries.
Retired Army Colonel Robert Sholly
Sholly's wife Peggy nominated him for the contest. He served two tours in Vietnam in the Army. He was seconded to the United Nations and shared a Nobel Peace Prize in 1983. He was awarded the Silver Star, three Bronze Stars, and a Defense Superior Service Medal and was inducted into the U.S. Army's Infantry OCS Hall of Fame. Peggy, who has been married to Sholly for eight years, wants him to win the contest because he is a "true patriot who has lived an exceptional life in service to his country and fellow men and women and is worthy of recognition for his meritoriously serving others."
Army E-4 Joshua Krumpelman
Krumpelman enlisted in the Army right after high school and was deployed to Afghanistan. During his months of deployment, he learned that a close friend from high school was pregnant and that her baby's father had abandoned her. He tried to give what comfort he could while being thousands of miles away. After the baby was born, he asked for photos every day and developed feelings for her. They will be married in April.


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Feed Seniors Now®
Comfort Keepers® addresses the challenges of hunger and under-nutrition among America's aging population through Feed Seniors Now®.
As part of the Nourish Senior Life® initiative, Comfort Keepers® supports local seniors with limited resources through the Feed Seniors Now® program.
Fight Malnutrition and Help Feed Seniors Now
Nourishing seniors is an important part of maintaining senior independence. Comfort Keepers wants to be a champion for senior nutrition in the community at-large through the Feed Seniors Now food drive, which helps with public relations and cause marketing at the local level.
Comfort Keepers offices around the country hold Feed Seniors Now food drives to benefit the Feeding America® network and/or applicable local food banks. Feeding America each year serves 25 million low-income people across the United States, including 3 million seniors. Most food drives are held during September, which is National Hunger Action Month.
By getting involved in your local community, you can help fight senior hunger
and under-nutrition. Contact one of the participating local Comfort Keepers® offices listed below to learn how you can help.
Click here for a list of suggested food donations for seniors.
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Route Planning for an RV Trip
RV trips can be enjoyed by everyone. By saying everyone, I am referring to people from all different age groups. Seniors can even enjoy going on an RV trip. Seniors who engage in various outdoor and travelling activities for seniors can be beneficial for their overall health, since outdoor and travelling activities for seniors will not only stimulate their mind to work, but it can also help in improving social interactions with other seniors or any other people. Social interactions plus doing something out from the usual engaged activities can really help a senior live a happier and healthier senior life.
RV Trips
RV trips can be done by the whole family or by seniors themselves. RV trips can be less costly when you want to travel across the country or just somewhere far from the city while enjoying the new sceneries. If planned and budgeted properly, RV trips will not cost people a lot of money. However, if RV trips are not planned sensibly, then it can really be expensive. When planning for an RV trip, it is very important to consider other people's opinions and suggestions for you to end up with the best plan for your fun and unforgettable RV trip.
Planning a Route for an RV trip
Routes to be taken or followed are the most important factor to consider when doing an RV trip. By being able to properly plan routes for the entire course of your RV trip, it can really help you in deciding how many supplies you will have to bring and how long is your RV trip duration. Here are some easy tips on how to properly plan the route for your RV trip:
- Before planning the exact route to take, you will have to fully decide on where will your exact starting point be and the exact stopping point for your RV trip. Knowing the exact starting point and stopping point will help in making the planning of your route easier.
- Find main highways and interstates that can lead you from your starting point to your stopping point. Taking the highways and interstates can be a lot easier and it can even save you a lot of money from gas. There are even several different campgrounds and other RV parking spots along interstates.
- Identify which area along the way of your route can you stop and spend the night with your RV. If you want to park your RV overnight for free, you can try parking at any Wal-Mart or Sam's Club parking spaces, since they do not charge RVs anything for parking overnight.
- Finding truck stops along your route should also be done before the trip for you to know how much gas will be sufficient for the entire course of your RV trip. Most truck stops even have family restaurants and showers for customers to use.


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Lauren Schieffer
Lauren Schieffer is a contemporary dance artist from Austin, Texas and currently based in the DFW area. She started dance training at the age of three and has experience in modern, contemporary, lyrical, ballet, tap, jazz, and hip-hop techniques. She was a Kilgore College Rangerette and Swingster, and has performed with the Texas State University Orchesis modern dance company and the Texas Woman's University Dance Lab. She holds a M.F.A. in Dance from Texas Woman's University and B.S. in Dance from Texas State University.
Lauren has performed at the McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade, the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic, American College Dance Festival, the Nasher Sculpture Center, Elation Carnival Cruise, and the Texas Dance Educator's Association Convention.
Lauren has taught a variety of ages and dance genres and has eleven years of experience in the dance studio context. Besides teaching at Legacy Dance Center, Lauren is a professor of dance at Richland College, and an adjudicator for Crowd Pleasers Dance. In 2014, she was a professor of dance at Texas Woman's University. Lauren has taught choreography and master classes for studios and drill teams in the Central and North Texas areas. Her choreography has won high scores, awards, and scholarships. She thoroughly enjoys teaching dance and is excited to be on staff at Legacy Dance Center for the 2nd Year.


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Project Description
FCOB – Environmental Risk Analysis
The First Coast Outer Beltway (FCOB) is a proposed 46.5-mile, four-lane, limited access toll facility extending from I-95 in St. Johns County, Florida, traversing the St. Johns River, and extending north to I-10. As the Florida Department of Transportation's (FDOT) lead environmental consultant, RS&H identified contamination risks, as well as potential remediation methods and costs and evaluated various construction and alignment alternatives necessary to construct the corridor.
The alignment of the FCOB corridor crossed the southern portion of the former Lee Field Naval Air Station in Green Cove Springs, a Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS) that was active during and after World War II. Environmental concerns included soil and groundwater impacts from an aircraft test fire and small arms range, incinerator operations, a former waste disposal trench, and a landfill.
RS&H performed geophysical surveys to define the limits of the disposal trench, as well as exploratory trenching and soil borings to define and characterize the soil impacts. The team installed monitoring wells to determine the levels and limits of groundwater contamination. Identifying these potential environmental roadblocks early in the design process was key to minimizing the potential environmental risks associated with the implementation of this major transportation project for the region.
Project Details
Assessment & Remediation
|Northeast Florida
|Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT)
Ben Chandler, PG, LEED AP


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The New York Yankees are falling faster than Kirstie Alley's weight during Dancing With the Stars. For their fans, their rapid descent invokes painful memories of 1965, a year in which the Bronx Bombers turned into duds.
But '65 was a dream compared to '66. They were ten games out by May 3rd this time. They finished 26 1/2 back. It was their worst year since 1925, the year of the Babe's bellyache.
Pepitone (35 homers) and Tresh (27) did all right but that was about it. Mantle went 23, 56, .288. Howard rebounded to just .256. Maris rose to 13 home runs and .233. The once mighty pitchers had seen better days. Ford was 2-5. Bouton was 3-8. Downing was 10-11 and poor Mel Stottlemyre, who had won 20 in '65 thanks to a whole bunch of double plays in '65, now lost 20.
By '94 they still hadn't improved, winning just 70. They recovered nicely from those painful seasons. And they certainly recovered in 1926. Maybe they'll do it again. But for now, the Yanks have won just six of their last eighteen games while Boston and Tampa Bay are absolutely tearing the league apart, these are indeed painful times. Just like the summer of '65.


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Pete Ridley: Global Warming Denialism's Benighted Black Knight
The scientific agencies of the U.S. government, the National Academies, the CIA, the Pentagon, the United Nations, and the Vatican all say that there is man-made global warming.
A global warming denialist blogger who calls himself Pete "the ferret" Ridley (his own appellation, see comment) is threatening to "ferret" me out and tell the world my real name because I criticize denialists behind a nom-de-plume. (Ferret means "little thief in Latin.)
The supremely overconfident Ridley reminds me just a bit of the Black Knight in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Pete "the ferret" Ridley has already claimed over at DeSmogBlog that Kent Clizbe (a self-proclaimed ex-CIA case officer who reportedly spams college professors and offers them a multi- million-dollar bounty from the federal government if they will denounce the climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann for fraud) can easily find out who I am with the help of his CIA contacts.
It is possible that Kent Clizbe really is a trained ex-CIA operative privateering as a political operative for some political entity or for a denialist politician such as Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli; but I doubt that Kent Clizbe has many contacts in the CIA, because he is off-message when it comes to global warming: the CIA isn't harrassing climate scientists; the CIA is giving climate scientists security clearances so they can help the CIA study the national security implications of climate change. The CIA official in charge of the CIA's Center on Climate Change and National Security is named Larry Kobayashi, not Kent Clizbe.
"Beavis" Ridley and "Butthead" Clizbe can easily "ferret me out" by asking Virgina's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to blow the lid off "Snapple." I email his deputy W. Russell all the time to complain about the persecution of our scientists, and I use my real name.
Since Virginia's Attorney General Cuccinelli can't seem to expose Dr. Mann, he might just have to settle for exposing old ladies who teach Catholic school. Perhaps Cuccinelli would also like to round up the Catholic Sisters who teach children about climate science, while he's at it. Catholic schools don't teach global warming denialism because it's not science and it's not Catholic.
Attorney General Cuccinelli cites the Kremlin's official press agency RIA Novosti in his suit against the EPA, but the Vatican says there is global warming. Choosing between the Vatican and the Kremlin is not exactly a tough pick, like Thin Mints versus Do Si Dos.
Cuccinelli home-schools his older children; but if I am outed, young Virginians who attend Catholic school might end up discussing science and religion on that Facebook and Twitter the young people use these days to foment revolution.
If Cuccinelli outs me to this "ferret" or to this apocryphal ex-CIA operative, Cuccinelli might actually make a lasting, if unintentional, contribution to climate science; he might even trigger a Facebook revolution against foreign tyranny in Virginia, all in one fell swoop! After all, Cuccinelli is always encouraging Virginians to remember their revolutionary roots, and I hear him loud and clear!
Pete Ridley says I am a coward not to use my real name on my obscure blog and that he has a "low regard for those who hide behind false names."
The low regard of benighted, hypocritcal ferrets who threaten me with apocryphal Clizbes does not especially trouble me. We are used to that in Soviet Studies. For example, the famous dissident samizdat publications Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania and the Chronicle of Current Events in the USSR were written by anonymous authors. That slowed down the political operatives of the Communist Party, the KGB.
While Pete Ridley may have a low regard for sharp-tongued, anonymous teachers, the not-very-sincere Ridley actually has a high regard for the anonymous hacker-criminals who stole the CRU emails and denounced the climate scientists anonymously. The criminal hackers are also big fat hypocrites who call themselves "honest men."
Perhaps the benighted Pete Ridley grew up in the USSR where accusations of disseminating the CIA or Vatican line could get you charged with anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda; but so far, spouting the CIA and the Vatican line is not a crime in Virginia.
If you are an aficionado of irony, check the ferret's droppings in the comments here and here.


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cboflooring avait besoin d'un nouveau design de logo et a lancé un concours sur 99designs.
Un gagnant a été sélectionné de 106 designs proposés par 44 designers freelance.
I am opening up a Flooring 4 U contest. Mostly I will be selling carpet. then comes the tile, and Hardwood. I need a nice Modern logo. I dont know if i want the roll of carpet coming out of the words. or have one of the letters be a roll of carpet, tile or, hardwood.
Flooring 4 U
Where A little Money covers Alot
Desired Color Scheme:
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And it is a Great Review!
A few weeks ago I ran a free promotion for Tombs! the book that is the compilation of the first 3 Tombs! stories and I always enjoy the feedback I get from people who download and read my books. Tombs is a crazy little chubby character, who just makes me smile. And today, on checking my author page on Amazon I noticed that Tombs! had received a review from Jacob and Jessica. Reviews for self publishers are tremendously important as without reviews we tend not to get noticed by a great many readers. It is also one of the reasons why we give away copies of our books, in the hope that someone, somewhere will say something nice.
I don't know who Jacob and Jessica are, but I am glad they enjoyed Tombs! here is what they said:
"Really enjoyed this with my daughter she is 7 and enjoyed reading it but equally good to read to a younger child. The stories are funny and well written and just long enough."
And one good turn deserves another, so, to say thank you to Jacob and Jessica for their lovely review I am going to make Tombs! The Seemingly Silly Shadow Standoff free to download from Amazon this weekend! Tombs! The Seemingly Silly Shadow Standoff is book 4 in the Tombs! adventures, so, if you have already downloaded and read Tombs! (the first three Tombs! stories) then this is the next one to read.
If you enjoy any of my books, then please help other people find and enjoy them too by leaving a review on Amazon.
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Post by Rebecca Story, Research Intern at ICSA
Whilst President-elect Donald Trump's plans for East Asia are still largely unknown, his lack of foreign-policy experience and intentions to renegotiate trade and defence deals have led some to suggest that his presidency may contribute to destabilisation across the region, and particularly on the Korean Peninsula. Negative consequences for the Republic of Korea's (ROK) economy, uncertainty over defence and heightened tensions with regards to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are all possible features of the ROK's post-Trump future.
During his election campaign, Trump asserted that he would decrease US defence spending in the ROK and demand a greater ROK contribution to the shared costs of defence against the DPRK threat. With the cost-sharing agreement between the ROK and the US up for renegotiation in 2017, these remarks raise concerns that a Trump presidency will lead to a weakening of the alliance between the two countries and exacerbate instability on the Korean Peninsula. Continue reading


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Local artist auctions art piece for charity
Local Blackrock based artist Adrienne M. Finnerty's Egg Art design is one of the 100 works of art on display at the CHQ building in the IFSC Dublin tomorrow, Wednesday March 20.
The display is part of the Big Egg Hunt, sponsored by Lily O'Brien's and in aid of the Jack & Jill Foundation.
Adrienne's egg art, which is entitled 'All As One, The Patchwork Egg' is for sale online at thebiggegghunt.ie.
Adrienne's egg art is in good company with big artist names including Guggi, Felim Egan, Rasher, John Rocha and Ireland's newest music sensation the Strypes, as well as household names like 2fm's Joe Duffy, Rick O'Shea and Cormac Battle.
All the eggs, which have been on display on the streets of Dublin in advance of Easter, are being auctioned to raise funds for the 300 severely disabled children in receipt of home nursing care from Jack & Jill. The hand crafted eggs are destined to become highly collectible and valuable works of art and anyone can buy them.
"This is an online auction that is open to everyone", explains Jonathan Irwin, CEO and Founder of the Jack & Jill Foundation.
"With just a few clicks of their computer, ordinary people are bidding for extraordinary pieces of art and all for a good cause and we very much appreciate it.
"While the egg hunt side of this very special project comes to an end, the online auction is just beginning with proceeds from these wonderful, colourful pieces of Egg Art going towards home nursing care for local Jack & Jill families.
"I want to encourage as many people as possible to jump on board and to get bidding in Ireland's biggest ever egg hunt which is now Ireland's biggest ever art auction on line.
"It's fun, it's accessible and there's great value to be had and all the artists have been so generous with their time".
The Jack and Jill Children's Foundation was founded by Jonathan Irwin and his wife Senator Mary Ann O'Brien based on their own experience caring for their son Jack at home until he passed away in December 1997. This experience became the blue print for the Jack and Jill model of home nursing care which supports 300 severely disabled children and their families in Ireland today and has helped over 1,600 families since 1997.
The service includes funding, home visits, advice, information, lobbying and bereavement support and up to 64 hours of home nursing care per month at a cost of w1,024 per family.
Jack and Jill requires w2.7 million per annum to operate this critical service and, with less than 20 per cent coming from the State, the Foundation raises the money it needs through public donations and very special fundraisers like this one.


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Charlotte has homework most weeknights. Usually it's a math worksheet, or sometimes writing or vocabulary words to work on. Last night's had two dot-to-dot pictures to help her work on sequencing numbers 1 to 20. She dutifully connected the dots (though she did get caught up in the pattern at the end instead of paying attention to the numbers).
Instead of putting her homework back into the red folder that all the kids use to carry papers back and forth to school, she left her worksheet on the kitchen table, next to her pencil. That's where Trystan found it. And decided to try his hand at dot-to-dots. Except he ignored the dots and just drew lines all over the paper.
My husband and I didn't catch it until this morning when we were rounding up backpacks and lunchboxes for school. There was no time (and no eraser in the house big enough) to clean it off and have her start it over. My husband wrote a note, and sent it along to school as it was--you could at least see Charlotte's work underneath Trystan's scribbles.
Charlotte wasn't concerned in the least about the problem, so I had to gently explain that it was her responsibility to make sure her homework went back into her red folder every night. Mommy and Daddy would help, but it was her job to ensure that Trystan didn't ruin her homework.
For good measure, I told Trystan not to color on his sister's homework. I'm not sure that message will sink in for another two or three years. He flashed me what I call his cherub smile at me--that innocent-looking, wide-eyed baby smile that gets him out of so much trouble. The one that means he understands exactly what I'm telling him and just how much mischief he's causing.


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Saskatchewan has some of the best riding in North America and Yorkton offers the best of the best in the province. Situated in the east-central part of our province, we offer some of the most unique riding opportunities in the country. Nearly 400 km of well marked groomed trails will take you through wide open fields and winding forest routes giving you access to some of natures' most scenic views.
With 9 warm up shelters located throughout the trail system you are never far from a place to stop and take a break, have a trail lunch or just meet and trade tales with fellow snowmobilers.
The Yorkton Sno-Riders were the first and are still one of the few clubs that have an agreement with a major city to allow access to the city limits. Designated marked trails give snowmobilers access to gas, food, hotels and dealers for all 4 of the major brands of snowmobiles. Yorkton is one of the few cities in the province that you can ride from your motel room door.
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BBC have recently put a huge smile on fans faces announcing a new Sherlock Holmes special (in fairness,with the whole Top Gear thing, BBC would need to be doing something to put smiles on faces).
Some time ago a image surfaced online of Cumberbatch and Freeman dressed up proper Sherlock style – Victorian London Style.
Fans did not know if this was part of Sherlock or if they were just teasing fans.
Sherlock's show creator Steven Moffat has spilled the beans and told us that Holmes & Watson will be returning for a stand-alone episode that won't have anything to do the series.. here is what he had to say …
"It's not part of the run of three episodes. So we had this to do it – as we could hardly conceal – it's Victorian."
"The special is its own thing. We wouldn't have done the story we're doing, and the way we're doing it, if we didn't have this special,"
No info released yet on when its going to be aired.. but I will make sure to fill you all in as soon as I find out.
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June 26, 2006 Issue
Cover Story
The Urban Etiquette Handbook
A guide to navigating a social landscape that presents more
opportunities to embarrass oneself every day. When are you allowed to talk on your cell phone? How do you respond to a racist joke at a dinner party?
When is it okay to hook up with a friend's ex?
Plus: David Cross on how to talk to celebrities, Amy Poehler on how to talk to white girls, waiters on how to talk to waiters, and more.
Last Seen On September 10th
A young doctor goes missing. No body, few clues. Her family believes she died a hero in the World Trade Center, but cops tell a very different story. The mystery of the 2,750th victim.
The Minutes of the Guantánamo Bay Bar Association
Manhattan corporate attorneys like Josh Colangelo-Bryan went to Gitmo to defend an abstract principle: due process. But what Colangelo-Bryan found were mensometimes innocent ones moving closer and closer to suicide.
The very latest developments in the world of buying, selling, and lusting after real estate, including an assessment of what went wrong at Astor Place, a peek at the cheapest apartment left in Manhattan, and a rundown of every single property for sale on Central Park West.
Hillary's Friendly Skies: Air Lockheed
Military-industrial complexities for senator.
Is This Love? Wailers Get Up, Stand Up
But actually it's not love.
Fire Island Reality Show Gets Beached
It's no Margaritaville.
Club Owners Fret Over Jay-Z Ban
Sippin' on Cristal forever?
Bloomberg's Red Glare
Fireworks squad invades Penn.
Gooooal Oriented
Some weeks, anything seems possible.
Luau in Tutus
Balletomanes get down with corps of their affection (and a dancing volcano!).
The Influencer
The No. 1 lobbyist in town on smoke-filled rooms, (non-)conflicts of interest, and our scandalous lack of public toilets.
Summery Judgment
Divorcing couples fight over who gets the beach house.
Free-Range Pups
Suit seeks to end the early-morning leashless lives of city dogs.
Best Bets
An adorable method for fighting aphids, a giant coloring book, and more.
Shop News
Lulu Castagnette openings this week.
Hippie Deluxe
How big is New York's appetite for pretty, bohemian things? As it turns out, enormous.
Bottle Service: A Brief History
Nowadays, no New York club opening is complete without it. Here's how we wound up paying $300 for a bottle of Stoli delivered to the table.
Look Book
An extravagantly mustachioed NYU student.
The Restaurant Review
The new Mr. Chow is about the same as the old one.
In Season
Sohui Kim's pork-and-chive dumplings.
Insatiable Critic
How can it be that for three months this offshoot of the Nantucket restaurant Sfoglia hasn't popped up on our foodie radar?
Restaurant Openings & Buzz
Week of June 19, 2006: Bondi Road and S'MAC. Plus, takeout at Sullivan Street Bakery.
Getting Iced
With iced-coffee season in full swing, it's refreshing to come across purveyors who make a bit more of an effort than pouring hot brew over stale ice cubes.
Dishing It Out
Bill Buford grills Mario Batali, his culinary mentor and the colorful subject of his new book, Heat.
Seventh-Inning Snacks
With a few homegrown vendors now on the roster, Yankee Stadium's food may be over its culinary slump.
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Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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If only Anne Hathaway had a dark, sordid personal life to reveal.
The Movie Review
An anti-war-on-terror doc from Michael Winterbottom that's artful but credulous; loving Keanu Reeves for who he is.
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Playing God has never been more popular. A look at four of the be-a-deity film offerings.
How Radiohead picks its set list.
Free Radical
Oskar Eustis on a genuinely free Public Theater.
Long Story Short
A once-banned play about oversexed teens gets a Duncan Sheik makeover.
A dark rethinking of MoMAby the architects who didn't get the commission for the museum's expansion.
The TV Review
The Blade vampire brand misses Wesley Snipes.
Cowpoke: Thomas Haden Church
The endearing actor (Wings and Sideways) discusses his role in the upcoming Western Broken Trail.
Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason
An actual conversation between intelligent adults, about serious subjects.
The Imperial City
The Observer's new sugar daddy (and mommy).
Remembering Sergeant Joe Velez, whose dreams came true at exactly the wrong time.
The Week
Dada Diversions
Gallery shows to round out the not-to-be-missed Dada survey at MoMA.
Gotta Get Away
Picks from the Caramoor International Music Festival, beginning this week in Westchester County.
The Top Five: Kids' Summer-Reading
Including Pirates by John Matthews and more.
Sounds Good, Eh?
Three indie acts from up North mark Canada Day! on June 25 at Central Park Summerstage.
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Twenty-eight people have vanished in Greenton in the last two days. Normally, John would just watch the news with the rest of the city. But he won't. Not with his mom being one of those twenty-eight missing persons.
But as John begins the search for her in a forest outside of Greenton, breaking laws and curfews, he discovers more than just missing people. John finds a classmate, possessed and covered in black smoke. Trying to escape from the possessed boy, John is attacked by a shadow person. He thinks he is done for, and as the shadow person's tentacles are about to plunge into John, mysterious ice creeps over the ground, killing the shadow person.
But the ice isn't there when John is in the car with his best friend, when another shadow person kills John.
John doesn't stay dead long. He is reborn as an ancient, magic-wielding Lighbound. The other Lightbound tell him the shadow people and the missing persons are connected. Possessions aren't uncommon. But this many? The leader of the Lightbound, Charles, tells John something big is happening, and if he wants to save his mom, he'll have to control his magic, find the missing people, and stop the darkness before it kills the missing persons, the town, and even the world.
Lightning's Rise (87,000) is a YA fantasy that incorporates elements of myth and legend (shadow people) and turns them into something unique and frighteningly real. Lightning's Rise is similar to Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising in that they share the supernatural elements in a real world setting and play with the themes of light and dark.
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John pressed his back into the tree, the bark burrowed into his back, but he didn't care about the painful itchiness. He stared straight ahead and waited. The ground rumbled as the National Guard trucks passed along the nearby stretch of highway. There were five trucks in total, filled with men and women who could stop in the nearby field, comb into the woods, and find John. And then what would he do? The rumbling grew louder. He imagined them, camouflaged uniforms, rifles slung around their backs, dozens of them pouring into the forest. His heart ticked faster. John told himself they were only here to help, only here to help find the missing people, but it didn't stop him from digging his fingernails into the tree, shoving bark bits under his fingernails.
But the trucks kept going, and John let out a sigh when the ground stilled. He slid down the tree, his thing sweatshirt riding up and letting some of the wood rub against his lower back. The leaves, a swirling array of orange and red and yellow, fanned in front of the blue skies, and John could almost forget there were twenty-eight people missing for two days. He could almost forget the lack of sleep. He could almost forget the hunger gnawing his stomach. He could almost forget the void he felt, the pure nothingness somewhere between terror and hopelessness he had had felt since the police came to his door and told him that his mom was one of the twenty-eight.


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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
We are creatures of habit. Drastically changing the settings does nothing to alter the internal milieu. But time has a way of becoming less fluid. The wrist watch is discraded and the awareness of date and day dissapear.
There is no beeper buzzing and vibrating on my belt loop. Fifteen minute appointments are replaced by meandering afternoons on lazy beach chairs. Nobody is looking for me.
Nobody is calling my name
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have a great vacation
- February 28, 2012 at 2:45 PM
- tracy said...
Please enjoy youself...you most definately deserve it!
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Information concerning Raindrop Treatment
"Concerns regarding Public Health: ARC believes that Raindrop Therapy poses risks to the public health. Raindrop Therapy techniques are typically practiced as a one-size-fits- all technique and may not be suitable for people with compromised liver or kidney function, those with heart disease, those on blood thinning medication, those with allergies to aspirin, and other disorders. Topical application of undiluted oils has a high risk of creating adverse skin reaction."
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Cinfa Biotech S.L., the biosimilars company of Infarco group, today announced that an abstract has been published at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) in San Diego, CA, from December 3-6, 2016. Abstract publication number 5079 titled: "Demonstration of Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Equivalence in Healthy Volunteers for B12019, a New Proposed Pegfilgrastim Biosimilar" reports further data from a clinical trial evaluating pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) equivalence of Cinfa Biotech's lead development candidate B12019, a biosimilar version of Neulasta® (pegfilgrastim) to treat chemotherapy-induced neutropenia.
The single-dose, randomized, double-blind, cross-over study enrolled 172 healthy volunteers in Germany. It primarily investigated PK and PD of B12019 compared to Neulasta®.
The study met all of its primary endpoints for pharmacokinetics (PK): Area Under the Curve for concentration (AUC0-last) and Cmax; plus pharmacodynamics (PD): Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) and Area Under the Effect Curve (AUEC). For all endpoints, the Confidence Intervals (CI) for the Geometric Mean Ratio (GMR) were well contained within the pre-specified margins of 80 to 125%.
The safety profile of B12019 did not show any clinically meaningful difference as compared to Neulasta®. Neither anti-G-CSF nor neutralising antibodies were detected for both, B12019 and Neulasta®.
The full abstract can be accessed at: www.bloodjournal.org/
A poster presentation with full data from the trial will be delivered at the European Cancer Congress (ECCO) in Amsterdam, on 29 January 2017. ECCO runs from 27th to 30th January, 2017.
Cinfa Biotech is headquartered in Pamplona, Spain, with offices in Munich, Germany. Founded in 2013 and supported by its parent company Infarco, the Company is creating a pipeline of biosimilar drugs for a range of indications to address the growing need for affordable therapies based on proven science, quality, safety and efficacy. A complete team of experts with decades of in-depth experience is conducting product development, clinical studies, manufacturing and quality control, according to the highest European standards. Cinfa Biotech's first product candidate in clinical development is B12019, a biosimilar version of Neulasta® (pegfilgrastim). The commercialisation models will be customised to the needs of partners and markets.
With 50 years' experience, Infarco today employs over 1,400 people and reinvests an average of 90% of its annual profits in its portfolio companies, thereby driving their development and innovation. Infarco's first subsidiary, Laboratorios Cinfa, has become a recognised leader in the Spanish pharmaceutical market. As part of the internationalization strategy, the company also serves in currently over 50 countries and is further expanding.
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Dan Wheldon died today in a tragic blaze of fire at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He was last year's Indy 500 winner. He was airlifted at 1:19 p.m. to University Medical Center (UMC) and pronounced dead two hours later. Wheldon was in the rear, behind a pack of other cars, as Wade Cunningham … [Read more...] about Dan Wheldon Dies at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
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Wiltshire Children and Young People's Health and Wellbeing Survey
All Wiltshire schools and colleges were invited to take part in the 2017 survey, which ran from January until March 2017.
Wiltshire Council will be offering all schools in Wiltshire the chance to take part in the Wiltshire Children and Young People's Health and Wellbeing Survey in early 2020. Schools will be asked to sign up in the autumn of 2019.
Data from the 2017 survey was made available to participating schools from September 2017, following a series of briefing sessions that helped schools to access and analyse the data.
Key findings were presented to a multiagency audience at County Hall during October and November.
This online survey has been developed by Foster and Brown (FAB) Research in partnership with Wiltshire Council.
Wiltshire surveys for primary, secondary and 16+ students, are offered to pupils in years 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 12, including all pupils in FE settings.
The survey provides a comprehensive picture of the needs of children and young people across the whole of Wiltshire providing important data showing behaviour change of children aged 8 through to 16+.
The data, provided at school and county level, will not only provide useful evidence for Ofsted but enable schools to more effectively develop their PSHE Education curriculum and effectively target and monitor their Healthy Schools work.
The information will also be used by Wiltshire Council to inform strategic planning across the County and by the School Nursing Service to ensure that it is targeting support where it is most needed.
During 2017 nearly 10 000 Wiltshire children and young people took part in the survey which provided a powerful pupil voice telling us about the lives they lead, their daily habits, their fears and aspirations.
Questions asked include school experience and engagement, sleep behaviour, sociability, stress, self harm, internet safety, drug use, sexual activity and future prospects for older pupils and students.
Overall findings from the survey are positive; pupils are generally happy, report that they can eat healthy food at home, they take part in over 4 hours of physical activity a week, schools are dealing quite well with bullying. Most children and young people have never smoked, drunk alcohol or taken drugs. However the data also highlights aspects of concern and outcomes are significantly poorer for vulnerable groups.
A series of summary reports are available from the 2017 survey.
2017 summary reports
- Overview report
- Emotional wellbeing
- Healthy lifestyles
- Community safety
- Risky behaviours
- School experience
- Vulnerable groups - executive summary and full report
During 2015 nearly 7 000 Wiltshire children and young people took part in the survey.
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If you were arrested as a juvenile, but not charged or charges were dismissed or you were found not guilty, then you can have your records sealed or destroyed at any time pursuant to Penal Code § 851.7.
If you were convicted of a crime as a juvenile then you can have your record sealed/destroyed after you turn 38. You can get the records sealed/destroyed if you have not been found guilty of a felony or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude as an adult, the court believes you have been rehabilitated and there is no civil action pending from your juvenile crimes. Unless, the crime of which you were convicted would be a serious or violent felony if you had been convicted as an adult. These are 'Three Strikes' crimes covered under Welfare and Institutions Code § 707.
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Movember, eh?
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This article is a much-needed dose of truth and sound advice in an area (the professional side of being an engineering professional) that gets drastically ignored in most of our educations. The author's observations match mine fairly well, and about the only thing I would add is a shorthand that I've myself had to learn in the past few years:
"When in doubt, remember that you are a professional craftsmen. Think, feel, act, and speak like one."
For much more practical, particular advice about the realities of being a professional engineer, I strongly suggest reading the whole article. If you don't, however, here's one incredibly important point that I think more people need to hear:
You are not defined by your chosen software stack: I recently asked via Twitter what young engineers wanted to know about careers. Many asked how to know what programming language or stack to study. It doesn't matter. There you go.
For years, I obsessed over whether I was learning the "right" languages and in doing so totally missed focusing on things that actually could have improved my professional prospects. (E.g. learning the rudiments of the businesses in which I worked, learning basic finance and economics, learning how to present myself and how to handle corporate environments and politics.) Time spent worrying about what languages you should know is just wasted cycles. Use the language that best suits the task, and, if you don't know it, then learn it. But I think you'll find that, for the vast majority of programming tasks, the best-suited language is "whichever one you already know."
From the wonderful Letters of Note blog comes this brilliant missive from H. L. Mencken. I idolize Mencken and think he was one of the best writers the English language has ever had. His lucidity and enchanting way with language far surpass any writer who has lived since.
This letter, sent to the abstract painter Charles Green Shaw, is a scattered list of seemingly haphazard observations. It bares reading in its entirety, but below is an excerpt from the transcription provided by Letters of Note:
10. I believe in marriage, and have whooped it up for years. It is the best solution, not only of the sex question, but also of the living question. I mean for the normal man. My own life has been too irregular for it: I have been to much engrossed in other things. But any plausible gal who really made up her mind to it could probably fetch me, even today. If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself. I'll regret it bitterly for about a month, and then settle down contentedly.
11. I believe in and advocate monogamy. Adultery is hitting below the belt. If I ever married the very fact that the woman was my wife would be sufficient to convince me that she was superior to all other women. My vanity is excessive. Wherever I sit is the head of the table. This fact makes me careless of ordinary politeness. I don't like to be made much of. Such things please only persons who are doubtful about their position. I was sure of mine, such as it is, at the age of 12.
12. Pilsner should be in Roman type, and begin with a capital.
13. I usually lie to women. They expect it, and it is pleasant to watch them trying to detect it. They seldom succeed. Women have a hard time in this world. Telling them the truth would be too cruel.
14. I am completely devoid of religious feeling. All religions seem ridiculous to me, and in bad taste. I do not believe in the immortality of the soul, nor in the soul. Ecclesiastics seem to me to be simply men who get their livings by false pretenses. Like all rogues, they are occasionally very amusing.
I strongly encourage you to read the whole thing. It is well worth your time and attention.
I've never kept secret the fact that I loath Perl. I think it's a horrid abomination of a language that should be burnt to the ground and have salt plowed into its smoldering ashes. I think Larry Wall should be tried in the Hague.
And now, I have some empirical evidence for my syntactical complaints.
We present here an empirical study comparing the accuracy rates of novices writing software in three programming languages: Quorum, Perl, and Randomo. The first language, Quorum, we call an evidence-based programming language, where the syntax, semantics, and API designs change in correspondence to the latest academic research and literature on programming language usability. Second, while Perl is well known, we call Randomo a Placebo-language, where some of the syntax was chosen with a random number generator and the ASCII table. We compared novices that were programming for the first time using each of these languages, testing how accurately they could write simple programs using common program constructs (e.g., loops, conditionals, functions, variables, parameters). Results showed that while Quorum users were afforded significantly greater accuracy compared to those using Perl and Randomo, Perl users were unable to write programs more accurately than those using a language designed by chance.
Per the linked blog post, the really interesting thing about the quoted paper (PDF) is that it does a great job of empirically testing differences between languages. This is the kind of study that computer science is in of, and yet so little of this research actually gets done. Language design is an extremely important field of study in computation, and one that doesn't get anywhere near enough love.
Remember friends, just because all languages are Turing equivalent, doesn't mean that all languages are equal.
Despite tepid reviews on Netflix, I had high hopes for this 1993 documentary on the life and work of Paul Erdős and I'm happy to say that I wasn't disappointed. The filmmakers give a concise, beautiful picture of the greatest mathematical mind of the 20th century. The film includes lots of footage of Erdős himself, as well as interviews with many of his friends and colleagues.
The film is a sweet and sympathetic portrayal of a truly strange and brilliant man. It does an excellent job of both conveying the gravity of his life and work, while also presenting, largely without comment, just how strange a man he truly was. It also manages to convey the scope and importance of his work, while also making it accessible to a general audience. The few proofs presented in the film (either by the filmmakers or by Erdős himself) are well-chosen and lucidly presented.
I particularly enjoyed the interviews with several of his collaborators, who were able to give amazing insights into his life, work, and personality. He's a fascinating character and hearing him described by the colleagues who knew him best is both fascinating and touching.
I highly recommend the film. It's well worth your time and attention.
Sorry for the light posting lately. I spent most of the past two weeks preparing for a job interview at work. (I'm applying for a more coding-heavy role.) The interview was a few days ago and I haven't heard back yet, but now I'm getting caught up on all the stuff I didn't do while I was plowing through pages and pages of practice questions.
In prepping for the interview, I picked up a couple of new texts to help me sharpen my skills. I wanted to say a few words about two of them.
The first is Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell. The book is a collection of 150 programming questions, with solutions provided. It also feature brief, high-level overviews of major areas of knowledge. The questions themselves are excellent, but the provided solutions can be hit or miss. Most include sample code which appears to be correct, but the descriptions of their solutions can sometimes be vague and hard to follow.
I was also unimpressed with the overview at the beginning of each chapter. They tend to be too shallow to be very useful, and I found a few technical mistakes in them. (E.g., the book asserts that a full and complete binary tree will have 2n nodes. This is wrong. A full and complete binary tree will have a number of nodes that is one less than a power of two. To be more specific, it will have 2h+1-1 nodes, where h is the height of the tree.)
All in all, if you're prepping for an interview, this will be a handy book to have for the list of excellent coding questions it provides. I would recommend looking around for a used copy at a reasonable price.
The second book I wanted to comment on is Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne. The Sedgewick and Wayne Algorithms book is one of The Texts in algorithms, and it largely lives up to its reputation. It's well organized, clearly written, and has excellent explanations and samples. It also has an excellent website that includes all the sample code from the book as well as notes and other resources.
Unfortunately, it too had some noticeable mistakes. The authors of this text, however, have taken the laudable step of making all the known errors available on the book's site. This allows you to double check code that doesn't appear correct or which doesn't behave correctly when you run it.
I highly recommend this book. It's a fantastic resource programmers of any level. For my purposes it served as a fantastic study text, but it would also be an invaluable reference resource or learning text as well.
One note: I got the Kindle edition of the book, and while the publisher did an awesome job with it, it's probably worth it to get a physical copy. If for no other reason than it lets you pencil in the corrections to the mistakes listed on the book's web site. That being said, I seriously doubt you'll regret getting the Kindle edition.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Ham Daquiri:
This is a Mexican beer, named after a region in the Czech Republic, which I purchased from the very nice Japanese family that owns the little grocery on the corner.


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Latest News
Tips from the Coupon Queen
Susan Samtur was armed with so many coupons Thursday morning that the Publix cashier had to keep hitting a button to make sure she got credit for it all.
To be exact, she racked up $143.66 in coupon savings.
Samtur, dubbed the Coupon Queen more than 30 years ago, was touring South Florida to share her savings secrets. On Thursday
- The Sunday newspapers.
- Samtur's free monthly magazine, Refundle Bundle.
- These websites: couponmom.com, coupons.smartsource.com and couponwinner.com.
morning, the New York native filled her cart at an Oakland Park Publix Super Market with fresh cantaloupe, orange juice, laundry detergent, bread, spaghetti sauce and mouthwash, doing the kind of shopping she might have when she was buying groceries for a family of six.
The original price of Thursday's shopping trip was $168.52. Samtur paid just $11.77 after combining dozens of coupons with sale prices.
Samtur's combination of experience, eyes that never miss a deal and organization has helped millions of people shave their food bills. She has shared her coupon techniques during countless television appearances and is a contributing editor for Family Circle magazine.
She knows her extreme savings may not be possible for every family, but especially now, she said even saving a fraction of what she does on shopping can really add up.
"People say 'What's 50 cents?' You know, if you have 10 50-cent coupons, that's $5. If you have 10 $1 coupons, that's $10. That's $500 a year,'' she said.
She watches for simple savings, such as coupons attached to products at the store, larger-sized products offered at the same price as a smaller-sized item, and store coupons that can be combined with manufacturers' coupons -- on top of sale prices. She also cruises food company websites for coupons for free new products and rebates on products she already buys, netting her $200 in cash a month -- but that's something she knows isn't for everyone because it can be time consuming.
Americans have become more comfortable with and in greater need of coupons, according to a survey by the Promotion Marketing Association Coupon Council. Its survey from last summer showed that 94 percent of people said they were using coupons for grocery, household and healthcare products compared to 89 percent the year before.
Samtur, 64, said that with more coupons in circulation than ever, there's no reason to not use them at least occasionally. When she started clipping coupons in the early '70s, she said there were about 23 million coupons offered each year. Now, there are are 300 billion, she said, while reaching for a cup of Dannon yogurt.
The yogurt was priced at 70 cents a cup. Samtur had two coupons that made the items free and two more coupons for 50 cents off. She paid a total of 40 cents for four cups of yogurt -- less than the cost of just one at the regular price.
Kendall mom Suzy Casanueva's husband's hours were cut sharply back in November, so the family had to find a way to save money.
"I actually look at the circulars now. I used to line my kitty litter boxes with them,'' said Casanueva, who has been dubbed the Coupon Girl by the manager at the Winn-Dixie where she shops.
Casanueva, who has a 6-year-old son, now spends about a half-hour planning her shopping, looking at the sales and printing and clipping coupons before she goes to the store. She has reduced a typical grocery bill of $120 to $40.
A recent coup: Kraft Barbecue Sauce was on sale -- buy one, get one free. The sauce cost 89 cents. Casanueva had a coupon for $1. The store actually gave her the 11-cent difference.
"For as easy as it is,'' she said, "a lot of people should be doing it.''


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Quick Arena will not pair up players into games again. I know this has been an ongoing problem for well over a year but I'm just bringing it to your attention.
Also, as someone else noted months ago, the site actually has a strange glitch when the Quick Arena feature IS working properly.....
When you select the option of Quick Arena, it will go into the mode of searching for an opponent. The glitch is that if you change your mind and attempt to cancel the search for the quick game, it won't actually execute that command and will continue searching for an opponent to pair you up with.
When the Quick Arena option is down (not working), then ironically, it will allow you to cancel your search for an opponent.
Really surprised that you all haven't discovered what causes this annoying and rather frequent problem.
Thank you.


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Xroad's G-Map GPS Navigation for the iPhone. Finally!
Yes, it is true proper GPS navigation is available for the iPhone. xRoad's G-Map is a navigation application for the iPhone that suffered from a very crappy v1.0 which received bad reviews and caused the application to slip away from the spotlight. Well, they have updated to 1.2 and it is awesome. I have been waiting for a solid GPS navigation application for my iPhone for sometime, and was starting to get worried that it might never come. As with every application, there are positives and negatives. I am going to address these after the jump.
The Positives
The largest positive for me with this application is how the maps are stored locally. I have found myself without cell service many times when I am trying to navigate with Google Maps, and it just doesn't work. With no cell service. you lose the ability to load data (a.k.a. Maps) with the Google Maps app. This is not a problem with G-Map, because the maps are locally stored on the hard drive.
The second major positive for me is how you can set the maps to rotate based on your heading. This is something so incredibly simple, but nobody has managed to do it until now. G-Map offers 3 different viewing modes, 2-D north is up, 2-D rotates based on heading, and 3-D rotates based on heading.
G-Map will also automatically recalculate routes when off route, offer's up multiple routing options, and allows you to search around you for gas, banks, police stations that are near you. The applications really is all that I have been hoping for, it has a few features that are not widely available, but will become more available soon.
The Negatives
Just like with any application there are some negatives with G-Map. G-Map does not offer voice directions. Yes, this sucks, but I can do without it until the company updates the app. I believe there is some sort of restriction on the Apple app store with voice turn directions.
Another negative for me, is that the menu system is a bit tricky to navigate. Typing in an address is very complex, there is no contact look up, nor is it easy to search for an address.
The final negative I have come across that bugged me is the lack of iPhone specific features. G-Map does not take advantage of multi-touch gestures. To zoom in, you have to use zoom buttons instead of the famous iPhone pinch.
Overall, this app is what I have been waiting for. It still has some flaws, but it is still early in development, I believe they will fix a good bit of these issues in upcoming updates. One other things, the app is divided in 2.; there is a east version and a west version. The 2 versions are due to size restrictions, these apps come in at about 700mb each due to the on board maps. Both versions run $19.99 in the app store.
Demo Videos:
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G-Map US East ($19.99): iTunes Link
G-Map US West(19.99): iTunes Link


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Amphibian species such as frogs, toads, and salamanders are commonly used in laboratory animal research settings, but there is no objective means to assess the presence and severity of pain in amphibians, especially since they do not exhibit any facial expression. However, research studies have shown that amphibians are able and motivated to learn to avoid noxious stimuli.
Some exotic animal clinicians use nonspecific clinical signs such as decrease in avoidance movement (e.g., when approached by a handler) or decrease in appetite as indicators of pain in these animals.


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Fruth Pharmacy Employee Fun Day 2010
This summer, we planned and celebrated a day of fun for all employees and their families on July 18, 2010. The fun started at 3:00 pm with games and fishing at Valley Park in Hurricane, WV. Families competed in games like the Suitcase Game, the Cornhole Tournament and Duck Pond for kids.
A cookout and picnic followed at 5:00 pm complete with fresh popcorn and soft served ice cream cones. More than 100 door prizes were given away to kids and adults. Everyone was thrilled with their prizes.
At 7:00 pm the group moved over to the Waves of Fun Water Park for two hours of fun in the water. Fruth employees and families enjoyed the wave pool, water slides, miniature golf and free cotton candy.
Over 400 people attended the Fruth Fun Day. All stores closed early to allow employees and families a chance to enjoy a day of fun. Special thanks to Lori and Brett Russell, Sandy and Jr. Keefer, Joan Fruth and Greg Sheets, and Cowana Brown for help in organizing the day. The day was a huge success as families spent the day enjoying time with each other and friends. We hope to make the day an annual event.


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Happy Canada Day!
June is now behind us, though so much happened it felt more like two or three months than just one. First of all, the Iliad. It was an incredible success. We sold out the show; 150 joined us in the epic journey to Troy. It was an amazing experience. All the tellers brought their A+++++ game. I thought about writing a full post about it but honestly, all my words are spent. But the directors, Marie and Tom were all much more eloquent than I on the matter, so I direct you to them.
Then after the Iliad I dove back into writing and editing mode. I edited and submitted my steampunk story in time for the deadline. I also finished drafting the dieselpunk tale and that is with the critiquing group now. So what does July bring? (aside from fireworks and a sea of red and white swarming the streets of O-town)
I am back into edits on the novel after not touching it for an entire year. It took a bit to get back into it. Not even thinking about it for a year will do that. Leaving off edits/rewrite in the middle will make it worse. And then to add to my confusion, I really screwed myself up. During the insane editing month last summer, my energy was waning at the end, so I skipped over a couple of new scenes I had to draft in order to keep editing existing scenes. I hadn't actually planned on leaving the novel on the backburner for a whole year, so I didn't make it totally clear for myself that's what I'd done. Also, jumping back in at the middle to draft new scenes is more challenging than editing. But things are underway.
I'm participating in CampNaNo for July. It's NaNo, in the summer, with the added bonus of getting to choose your goal. I've set a goal for myself of 25 hours of editing for the month. That will include both the novel and the dieselpunk short once the critique group has had their way with it. The dieselpunk deadline in August 1, so after critiquing I'll only have two weeks to whip it into shape. So July is all about the editing.
And in other news, though not related to my July goals, I will be telling at the Tea Party again in September with Marie Bilodeau. Our show is called Dangers of the Seas: Poseidon, Pirates and Merfolk – Oh My! 🙂


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|On November 14, 2017, Queen Letizia of Spain attended opening ceremony of the World Cancer Leaders Summit (WCLS) held at the Palace of Mining in Mexico City, as part of an official visit to Mexico. The Queen is the honorary president of Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer).
Queen Letizia attends WCLS Welcome Ceremony in Mexico
Author Helen Electra On November 14, 2017
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I don't like her outfit - she does not look good in sleeveless tops or dresses.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Elegante y hermosa reina. Su estado de forma es magnífico.ReplyDelete
Stunning as always.ReplyDelete
I just love how she seems actually genuinely focused on what she is doing. Not on her hair or outfits.ReplyDelete
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Creamy Tuna Noodle Casserole is an easy casserole to make that is so comforting and brings the familiar taste of home.
One of the first casseroles I ever learned how to cook was Tuna Noodle Casserole. This was the perfect recipe for Lent when we didn't eat meat on Fridays. This casserole can be quickly put together in under 30 minutes. This casserole can be made with whatever noodles or pasta you have on hand. You will then make a creamy sauce for the casserole made of a simple white sauce and a can of cream of mushroom soup. To this, you can add a variety of fresh vegetables to give this casserole some extra flavor.
This is a simple recipe that even a beginning cook can prepare. What I really love about this casserole is that it reheats very well. So this is the perfect dish to bring to work or to reheat later in the week. You can't ask for anything better than it tastes great the first day, and then the next day.
If you like you can use a variety of toppings for your casserole. You can use bread crumbs, cracker crumbs, Panko breadcrumbs, or if you like can even crush up potato chips and put those on top for a fun crust to this creamy tuna noodle casserole.
For this recipe, I use celery and leftoverhelp add flavor to the casserole. If you have some left over frozen or even canned peas and carrots those would also be great additions to this casserole.
Love Casseroles? Be sure to check out these casserole recipes
Beef Doritos Casserole
Seven Layer Casserole
Tamale Casserole
Creamy Tuna Noodle Casserole
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1 cup milk
- 1 can cream of mushroom soup
- 6 ounces canned tuna
- 1 cup noodles or pasta, cooked according to package directions
- 1/4 cup celery
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
- 1/2 cup bread crumbs
- 1 tablespoon butter
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a white sauce in a medium size pot by adding 1 tablespoon of butter and 1 tablespoon of flour over medium heat. Whisk together the butter and flour together for about 1 minute or until the roux becomes fragrant like pie crust. Add about 1/3 cup of milk and whisk this together, the mixture will become thick. When the sauce becomes thick add an additional cup 1/3 of milk, stir together until this becomes thick.
- Add the remaining milk stir until sauce is smooth. Add chopped onion, celery, drained tuna, and cream of mushroom soup. Add shredded cheese to the sauce. Stir until the sauce is smooth. Reduce heat to low. In a medium-sized bowl combine noodles, and sauce. Pour into a 2-quart casserole dish. Combine melted butter and bread crumbs together. Sprinkle the bread crumbs over the casserole. Heat casserole for 20 minutes in the oven before serving.


text: I recently posted a new album on Bandcamp.com. So very happy with how this project turned out. While at first listen it seems simple, a closer listen should reveal how indeed it is simple and deep. Deep in a way that only sound can reveal. Only your attention is needed to listen to Melancholy Aura at doughaire.bandcamp.com. Here is an introduction. Melancholy is ambivalent and contradictory. Although it seems at once a very familiar term, it is extraordinarily elusive and enigmatic. It is something found not only in humans – whether pathological, psychological, or a mere passing mood – but in landscapes, seasons, and sounds. They too can be melancholy. twilight, cities and minor chords are also melancholy, evoking poignancy and the passing of time. In this selection of 19 two minute pieces I have found the sublime, dark and beautiful presence of melancholy. Don't look for a definition of melancholy. Instead, listen for an undercurrent driven by our lives and the world we live in. What does melancholy sound like? That is the question I have asked. www.doughaire.bandcamp.com


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The Ten of Cups
The Lord of Satiety is a lovely card, indicating that we are full up with contentment and bliss. It is closely connected with the home environment, which is where we should expect a sense of repletion and joy.
When the card comes up, it indicates that life is ordered and fulfilling, that everything is in its proper place, and that things are unfolding as they should. There's a placid sense of happiness here, which should be enjoyed open-heartedly and with a great deal of gratitude.
At the higher spiritual level, this card will often come up to indicate a period of close harmony with the Higher Powers, often after a time of struggle and trial. When this occurs, you will find yourself feeling at one with the Universe, in touch with the energy which flows through it in an unending stream.
Unfortunately there's a word of warning (isn't there always?) - when you are experiencing the influence of the 10 of Cups, ensure that you engage deeply with the energies around you. Don't take them for granted, nor look for problems. Just make sure you enjoy what's happening, and allow your sense of fulfilment to radiate from you.
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Warm pots of stewed foods seem especially fitting for fall and the combination of leeks, pork and apples only enhances the fittingness for fall. I made this dish earlier in November, before the snow arrived in Montana and picked the apples from a tree in the yard, which seemed an appropriate way to spend time while the leaves were changing. Now a blanket of snow has replaced the colorful leaves, and a pork and beer stew seems even more appealing for the colder weather. Stewed pork may be served with many different dishes including brown rice fritters and chickpea flatbread.
Any variety of tart firm apple lends itself well to the pork and beer. I used new purple potatoes again because I love their color, but other new waxy potatoes are just as good. A light to medium beer is best, as dark beer tends to mask the flavors of the other ingredients.
1 lb pork chops, cut into 1 inch cubes
1 leek, trimmed and roughly chopped
2 c apples, trimmed and quartered or halved depending on size of apple
½ red pepper, trimmed and finely diced
1 medium carrot, peeled and finely diced
2 stalks of celery, trimmed and finely diced
2 c new potatoes, quartered
¼ c parsley, finely chopped
½ c water
2 tbsp olive oil
1 12 oz beer, light or medium
salt and pepper
2 c cooked sweet brown rice
1. Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in large heavy-bottomed pot over medium-high heat. Add pork and brown, stirring occasionally to prevent sticking. Remove pork from pot and set aside.
2. Reduce heat to medium and add 1 tbsp olive oil to pot. Add the potatoes and brown slightly, stirring occasionally to prevent sticking. Once potatoes have browned, add carrot, celery and apple and stir to combine.
3. Return pork to pot, add beer and bring to a simmer. Once simmering, add water, reduce heat to low, cover and simmer until potatoes are tender, stirring occasionally to prevent sticking. Add leek and red pepper, stir to combine and continue cooking until leek is soft, about 3-5 minutes. Remove from heat once all vegetables are tender and stir in parsley.
4. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve warm over brown rice.
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It's Thursday.
You know what that means. If you don't know what that means, I suggest you re-read the posts from last Thursday. And the Thursday before that.
It's time for another AsiaDate letter. Before we get to that you should know that it costs me $3.50 every time I respond to one of these computer-generated phishing expeditions. Moreover, when the "ladies" respond it costs me another couple of bucks to open up their letters.
To that end I've put some dough on my PayPal account and have started to dive deeper.
No one said "love is cheap."
This week's letter comes from Chengrong.


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Beyond Belief: Opinion ~ with special guest Denise Lawrence
Tuesday 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Being Beyond Belief Series
To 'believe' is also to say 'I don't know'. A belief is not necessarily a truth. So how are we to realize and know our own truth? How do you know that you know? What is the difference between belief and truth? In this series of Being Beyond Belief, we will examine how certain beliefs get in the way of the truth.
Beyond Belief: Opinion
You have probably learned to believe that it's good to have your own opinion. But is it? It seems to imply that if you don't you must be weak or lack conviction. Few realize that to have an opinion about anything is almost a cast iron guarantee that suffering must accompany its expression. Why? Well if you have an opinion about having opinions you may find this workshop somewhat challenging. Come and see for yourself.
Facilitator: Denise Lawrence has a deep understanding of spiritual knowledge and practice drawn from 40 years of studying and teaching Raja Yoga meditation. She coordinates the International Communications Centre at the Brahma Kumaris headquarters in Mount Abu, India, helping to create a series of television programs on topics such as spiritual virtues, the meeting of science and spirituality, and environmental issues. Denise also travels widely sharing her knowledge and experience bringing the work of the Brahma Kumaris to a worldwide audience.
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Bayer has launched a $62bn bid for the US base Monsanto group, hoping to form the world's largest seed and crop Chemicals Company. Bayer has valued Monsanto at some odd $128 per share. However, in market Monsanto's shares have been trading at $ 102.67 at the time of making this video.
This deal may raise multiple Anti-trust (Competition) issue both in USA and EU. Further, this deal is also likely to raise concerns in other jurisdictions such as China and Brazil.
EU's competition commission is likely to assess the deal independent of other market dynamics, on a first come first serve basis. Hence, merger of Dow-DuPont and ChemChina-Syngenta are least likely to affect their decision. Further, commission has also stated that political variables are least likely to affect the decision. However, the commission is worried about the seed price hike in EU due to the mergers.
In US when several deals arise simultaneously, the justice department normally looks "holistically" at the market consequences. If approving all would reduce competition, then staffers consider alternative scenarios involving one or more rejections or required spin-offs.
Farmers in the US are already starting to worry about the impact of reduced competition and choice. Crop prices have more than halved over the past three years, putting pressure on farm incomes, so they are particularly vulnerable to higher prices for inputs such as seeds. Reduced innovation is another major concerns for the US watch Dog. Prices of seeds are also likely to rise due to reduced competition in the market. Other mergers within the market are further cause of concerns!


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