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I pointed out in earlier posts that Adam and Eve were not cursed by God (cf. Gen3:14,17). That divine pronouncement was given to the arch-instigator of mankind's downfall represented by the serpent (the devil) and later at an individual level to Cain. Fortunately for humanity, Adam is man's federal head, not Cain, nevertheless all his offspring were condemned to a life of arduous toil, aging, decay and death, for the SOIL was cursed for man's sake (Gen3:17-19), whilst woman-kind would additionally endure male domination and great pain in childbirth, for in Paul's assessment it was Eve who had been deceived and so bore the weight of guilt (1Tim2:14,15 cf. Gen3:13). Through Satan's victory, he was granted control of the world order (Greek: archon tou kosmou Jn12:31), yet as we shall see it was all for the greater good. Amidst the apparent debacle, a ray of hope appears: God tells the snake (representing the Evil One): "I shall put enmity between you and the woman, and between YOUR OFFSPRING and hers; it (or He) will bruise your head and you will strike its heel" (Gen3:15).
So as early as Genesis chapter three we have a shadowy glimpse of the Good News concerning a coming Messiah (the woman's offspring), for our omniscient God had already envisaged His plan of salvation for humankind, the central event of which would be the sending of His Son to be the Saviour of the world (1John4:14). Satan would strike the Christ's heal through his apparent victory at Calvary, but the death and resurrection of Jesus would prove to be the bruising of the snake's head; assuring Satan's ultimate defeat. It is not just Satan but HIS OFFSPRING who are to be at enmity with the woman's offspring; nor is the latter referring exclusively to Jesus (Rom16:20). Satan's seed pertains both to the outcome of Gen6:1-2 (considered shortly) and also the human seed adopted by Satan, who following their own free choice to amortize the innate light and Law of Christ we experience through the faculty of conscience (cf. Jn1:9KJV; Rom 2:15; 1Tim4:2) is permitted to gain their mastery (cf. Gen4:7 Hebrew Masoretic). This could only be by divine decree; it is a providential arrangement with, not any obligation to Satan, being a corrupted creature not a rival god. As such he could have no inherent rights over God's property (i.e. everything). Such arrangements on a smaller scale are indicated elsewhere in Scripture (e.g. Job1:6-12; 2Cor12:7). It is an ingenious contrivance on the Creator's part (for He is sovereign) but one will not discern any positivity to it until one has understood the mystery of evil and the purpose of suffering within God's wondrous plan for humanity, covered in the final two chapters of The Fellowship of the Secret.
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Islip and Noke
(Cherwell District)
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Islip is a village of narrow streets and attractive stone cottages near the confluence of the Rivers Ray and Cherwell.
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On the south side of the village a bridge crosses the River Ray. Although the present bridge was only built in 1878 an earlier bridge apparently played a part in the Civil War in the Battle of Islip Bridge, Islip being of strategic importance during the Civil War due to its proximity to the river Cherwell.
The parish church in the village is the Church of St. Nicholas. Although a church has existed here since at least 1065, the earliest part of the present building is the arcade between the nave and north aisle, which was built in about 1200. The chancel was rebuilt in 1780 and was remodelled in 1861, when the rest of the church was restored.
Islip is proud to have been the birthplace of Edward the Confessor in around 1005. In 2005, 1,000 years after Edward's birth, the village was visited by the Time Team TV programme which carried out a search for a possible Saxon royal palace. Another TV programme which included parts of Islip was an episode of Midsomer Murders, in which Islip bridge and The Swan Inn were featured.
The tiny village of Noke is one of the Seven Towns Of Otmoor, the other "towns" being Beckley, Oddington, Charlton-on-Otmoor, Horton-cum-Studley, Murcott and Fencott. Before Enclosure in the early 1800s any cottager who lived in one of the 'Seven Towns' had right of grazing for their cattle, sheep and geese on the moor.
Noke has an attractive little parish church, the 13th century Church of St. Giles. The B4027 road between Islip and Noke provides fine views over the whole of Otmoor and beyond.
Islip is about 2 miles east of Kidlington on the B4027 between Bletchingdon and Beckley.
Noke is about a mile and a half south-east of Islip.
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Mitzi Ziegner serves as an instructor on continuing appointment teaching and developing both face to face and online courses and is regarded by Texas Tech Worldwide eLearning as one of the university's top online instructors. She holds a Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade lifetime Texas teaching certification with reading and early childhood education endorsements and is a former Texas public school teacher with both Head Start and primary classroom teaching experience, five years of which were concurrent with serving as a part time instructor of courses in the Texas Tech University Colleges of Human Sciences and Education. Since 2010, Mitzi has served as a full time instructor in the department of Human Development and Family Studies teaching courses that include Child and Adolescent Guidance, Introduction to Early Childhood Education, Development during Childhood, Prenatal and Infant Development, Lifespan Human Development, Managing and Administering Early Childhood Programs, Preparing Environments for Teaching Young Children and the Capstone Course for Early Childhood and Elementary Education. In addition, Mitzi serves as program director and faculty member for the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance's Early Care and Education for a Mobile Society online undergraduate degree program, provided by Texas Tech in collaboration with six other universities.
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- Developmentally appropriate learning environments
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Bringing forth from yourself
Taking us back to our Roots
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Let your rain be long upon us
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When paying for college, my recent posts have covered scholarships and college savings accounts. Now let's turn to the last resort, college loans. After you have selected an affordable college; been awarded grants, scholarships, and work study; paid what you can from savings to get the tax credits; and used part of your education savings accounts – you are left to fill the gap with college loans. Since most grants go to lower income families, most middle class families should expect to pay for college primarily with private scholarships, family savings, current income, and loans for the rest. You do have choices of loans: student or parent borrowing, public or private college loans.
Federal College Loans
In fact, most college financial aid packages will include public loans for the student. Public loans thru the government are usually preferable with lower, fixed interest rates, more flexible repayment options, forgiveness for service options, and no requirement for parent's to co-sign. There are several kinds of federal college loans: subsidized loans for undergraduates based upon need, unsubsidized loans for any student, and subsidized loans for parents. With "subsidized" loans, you don't have to pay interest until after graduation. The most common college loans for students are called "Stafford" loans and are limited to $5500 for freshmen in 2015 and higher amounts for upperclassmen. These loan limits increase periodically. "Perkin" loans are for students with exceptional needs and are managed by the school. Parents can get public coolge loans called "Plus Loans" that require minimal credit checks, have a relatively low fixed rate, don't require repayment until six months after graduation, have more flexible repayment terms, and can be forgiven if the student dies or parent becomes permanently disabled. Some federal loans can be forgiven after periods of public service. Get more details and the latest information about federal student loans at the agency's website that manages them: http://studentaid.ed.gov/types/loans/
Private college loans
Some federal loans limit the amount you can borrow, so your next resort to fill the gap is with loans from some colleges, Sallie Mae, or private lenders like banks and credit unions. Sometimes advertisements for very low rates on private student loans look tempting, but it's still preferable to review all your public loan options before exploring private loans. The lowest rates only go to borrowers with high credit scores and are usually variable rates that will increase in future years. Private loans usually have higher rates, less flexible repayment options, and require a co-signer. If the student misses payments, even if unemployed, the co-signer is expected to make those payments and their credit score will be damaged. Unlike credit card debt, it is rare for student college loans to be forgiven by declaring bankruptcy. Still, if you have a high credit score, you sometimes can get a good rate even better than the federal PLUS rate. Don't forget to check your credit union when shopping for private or consolidation student loans. Several websites help you shop for student loans including:
Other college loans
Other sources of college loans may be your state, non-profits, or charities. Some states offer their own student loans with nice rates. Examples of non-profits that provide zero interest student loans include the Military Officers Association of America, Abe and Annie Seibel Foundation, and International Association of Hebrew Free Loans. Search for more under "0 interest student loans".
Parents may also wish to consider borrowing from home equity lines of credit (which do not count against your financial aid as regular home equity loans do), or existing whole life insurance – but do NOT buy whole life insurance as a means to save for college which is much more profitable to the insurance agent or so-called "college financial advisor" than it is to you.
How much college loans can you afford
College loans are your last resort, but most students do need them. The average debt for a 2015 graduate was more than $28,000, so you need to keep student loans under control. Student loans should not exceed the student's expected starting salary. Parent loans should be able to be repaid within ten years or prior to retirement – whichever comes first. Another measure is to keep the student's monthly repayment amount to 10-15% of their expected first year's salary. Use the FinAid.org calculator to enter your major and other data to see how much your maximum, monthly payments could safely be: http://www.finaid.org/calculators/scripts/sloanadvisor.cgi.
Every time you get a new college loan, know what your total debt repayment amount will be. Even as they grow, loan amounts may seem so huge and far away as to seem rather abstract. But once you convert that abstract loan amount to an amount you will have to repay every month for years and years, they may seem more real. Then you can calculate just how easily college loans could be paid – along with all your other expected expenses. Getting student loans means the ludicrous situation of borrowing money without actually knowing that you can make the monthly payments. Nevertheless, don't get any loan without knowing how much your monthly payments will be and that it will fit within your likely monthly budget based upon your expected job.
http://www.finaid.org/calculators/ – Finaid has a couple of dozen different types of student loan calculators for every imaginable situation.
The first step in getting a federal loan and aid from a college is to complete the online form, "Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)" which is used by all colleges as the first step in evaluating potential aid. Read more at https://www.creditloan.com/student-loans/fafsa-guide/


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Based on their desire to help those in need, Subaru donated $250 to the customer's choice of 5 national charities for every new Subaru vehicle sold or leased during the 2011 "Subaru Share The Love Event" - including the National Park Foundation.
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Here is what my package of trees looks like. There are 21 in the bag, and I paid $12.99 for them. They will be in the section of the craft/home decor type places where the small stuff for train layouts are.
This is the first bleach soak. I used hot water and 1/4 of a 24 ounce bottle of Clorox bleach.
Some trees still required rubbing in the bleach. Do yourself a favor and use rubber gloves! (I had had to superglue some of cuticles which split after doing this since I don't own rubber gloves. Stupid of me.)
Now you have bleached trees. Rinse the bleach off them well.
To get the multicolored effect you are going to have to overdye the trees. Dip the tree first in the yellow, leaving the top portion of the tree in it's natural, undyed state. You will be dying the bottom 2/3's of the tree.
Once the yellow is your desired shade, move to the orange dye and dip the bottom 1/3 of the tree. You will be dying the orange OVER the yellow on the bottom of the tree.
The overdying gives you the candy corn effect.
Then dye the bottom 1/3 of the tree by holding that portion of the tree in the black dye.
Let them dry overnight.
A few more hints: the very small trees did not take very well to the black/orange method. The top of those trees does not hold the black dye well for some reason.
Paint the white stands black with simple black acrylic paint.
When adding your embellishments, use hot glue! It holds the objects in the bristles the best.
If you have problems or it seems like something is missing, let me know. Happy creating!
If anyone makes these, be sure to post them at the Keeping room, so we can keep them here to see later too!
There is a candy corn colored Boo tree;there are trees with eyes (I would have preferred a different kind of eye, but I couldn't seem to find what I wanted and didn't want to spend yet more time making them, but maybe later I will);there are ghosts hiding behind trees;here are glittery spiders and spider webs;there are my FAVORITE, flying bats!one with my only vintage Halloween cupcake topper on top;and a big candy corn tree with vintage glass beads on it.
All of the decorations (aside from the glass beads and the cupcake topper) are things you can scavenge up from big box stores, party stores, etc. The bats, ghosts, witch hats and BOO are cut from Halloween garlands. The spiders are spider rings that I glittered with Martha glitter. The spider webs are those packaged things you string on your porch.
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When you are creating your perfect home decor, the furniture is only part of the overall look. Although they may be small in size by comparison, it's also essential to pick the right light fittings and light shades, too. No matter what home decor you are buying, opting to buy vintage means you'll find more distinctive designs which are original and characterful. Light shades are no exception. Vintage light shades provide the ideal way to finish off your decor in a style that you won't find anywhere else. Here at Vinterior, we don't just specialise in big ticket furniture, we've also got a great range of antique and retro accessories too. We have lots of vintage light shades in a variety of colours and sizes, so take a look at our online catalogue today to get inspired.
Matching your light shade to your decorBefore you find a light shade on Vinterior that you fall in love with, it's worth double checking the fixtures you have and the dimensions you need. There are many different styles of light fitting and not every light shade will work with them all.
Some light fittings are tightly recessed into the ceiling so a low-hanging shade wouldn't fit. Similarly, if your light hangs low, a shade which hugs the ceiling tightly will look odd and out of place.
A light shade is one accessory that every room needs to look complete, regardless of whether you've opted for a rustic-style decor or a more polished finish. Light shades come in a wide variety of styles and can help to pull together your overall theme when chosen well. It doesn't have to match the same colour as your furniture but should complement it in some way.
Vintage light shades: finding your styleVintage light shades are available in a range of different materials, as each design era had its own particular preferences. From metal to fabric, and everything in between, there's a great selection here at Vinterior.
Which type of material should you choose for your light shade though? Here are a few considerations to take into account:
Glass is extremely popular with vintage light shades because of the enormous options it provides. From clear, subtle designs to brightly coloured, bold lights, glass is both decorative and functional.
Not the most obvious choice but metal light shades can work well in shabby chic and industrial desing settings. Striking in their simplicity, metal doesn't usually complement highly ornate styles quite so well.
Choosing fabric for your light shade can allow you to be flexible in the ambience you wish to create. This makes it perfect for both bedrooms and living areas alike. However, make sure you consider the colour of the fabric as this will affect the light it throws out. If you have a relatively quiet and neutral décor, you can use a fabric light shade to add an accent colour.
Chandeliers are the obvious choice for crystals but they are used in a whole host of other types of lighting too. Offering a greater reflectiveness than glass, the overall effect can be stunning whether used in a simple pendant light or a larger, statement piece. The only drawback is that if your room is quite small or the decor quite detailed, crystal can look fussy.


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The Beaufort, NC to Beaufort, SC idea has caught my attention to the point that I'm thinking of adjust ing the spring cruise down from a two week trip to a nine day trip, saving those days for a fall trip down the coast. The schedule at the office is in flux these days, I won't be able to make a more decision until things settle down a bit.
I have started doing a little research for the trip. Amazon offers the chart book above for a little over $50. It appears to have all the charts I would need, but my guess is that it is at that price it is probably not waterproof. Paper charts are useable, but waterproof charts are a plus on an open boat.
Amazon also lists a couple of waterway guides, above and below, that offer a lot of detailed information about anchorages, navigation, marinas, etc. Useful information, but probably designed for bigger boats and a different sort of cruising lifestyle.
The photograph at the top of this post and the one above are from the low country of South Carolina, stolen from by friend Barry's blog. In the search box at the top of his site I typed in "Beaufort" and found a little treasure trove of information about the area. My favorite entry is called Salt Marsh Prairie and talks about the huge expanse of salt marshes along the South Carolina coast. I'll quote two paragraphs below (if I'm stealing photographs, I might as well steal words too).
Seemingly endless expanses of salt grass stretch from horizon to horizon, dotted with distant hummocks - small islets of pine, live oak and palmetto. These spartina marshes range all along the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Florida, but there are more here than anywhere else - covering 600 square miles in South Carolina along.
You can wind through the creeks for hours at a time here, and never see a single other person. The marsh is full of life, and its very monotony is beautiful in ways that are almost surreal. In the summer, armies of fiddler crabs clatter across the mud through the reeds, making a sound like rain. Oysters, clams and worms snap shut with a squirt, making little fountains as you pass. Dolphins wander up the creeks in small pods, driving schools of fish up onto the mud, sliding up the banks after them. Shrimp and blue crabs, catfish, dogfish and sting rays. Mullet jump sometimes completely over the boat.
-Barry Long
It sounds as if the low country was made for me, or maybe I was made for for the low country.
Barry, who has visited the area years and has family living in the area, has offered guidance and hospitality for the trip. And my friend Chip, of Charleston, who has sailed his Welsford-designed Pilgrim in the area, has also offered assistance. Thanks guys, you'll be hearing from me as plans evolve.


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When it comes to Walmart, big data meets big retail in an impressive way. Not only is Walmart an industry leader in global ecommerce and brick-and-mortar retail, they're also a leader in the use of Hadoop-based technologies to implement their new data-driven approach to business. Since writing the short O'Reilly book Real World Hadoopearlier this year, I've been interested in going beyond the idea of what advantages Hadoop and NoSQL theoretically offer to looking out how these technologies play out in real world settings. Walmart's approach is a great example of Hadoop-based technologies used successfully in production.
There's naturally a high level of interest in how they're doing this – and that interest was readily apparent in the way an audience over-packed the room for a Walmart presentation at Strata + Hadoop World in New York on October 1, 2015. Like so many others, I was curious to hear how they are extracting value from big data. I was fortunate to be inside the room; I heard there were people crowded outside as well. Walmart global ecommerce chief technology officer and senior vice president, Jeremy King, described "how they make data work" through a transformation that began in 2012 with their first Hadoop cluster. Now they work with tens of petabytes of detailed, highly valuable transactional data for their 245 million customers who shop online or in thousands of stores. @Walmart Labs, an accelerator in Silicon Valley, spearheaded this effort.
Jeremy King of @WalmartLabs presenting a talk at Strata + Hadoop World (image © E. Friedman)
The overall goal is to optimize the shopping experience of Walmart customers while in the store, browsing a website or through mobile devices when they are in motion. The solution has involved redesigning global websites and building innovative applications that personalize customer experience while increasing the efficiency of logistics. What is needed to do this is a large scale system that gives internal customers real time access to data collected from a wide range of sources and centralized for more effective use. That's where Hadoop and NoSQL technologies come in.
Developers for Walmart have built a variety of innovative applications, including personalized search and targeted recommendations. One useful application is a savings catcher that lets customers scan receipts to see whether they have the best price – if not, an adjustment is made in order to meet the Walmart promise. Another push has been to "mobilize the store". Each store has its own layout that requires up-to-date information about every item in terms of availability and location. The aim is to bring all this to mobile applications, making shopping easier for Walmart customers.
How is this accomplished? King did not name any vendor, but he emphasized two key aspects of the approach Walmart has taken: provide widespread data access that allows data democracy and build a big data system that never shuts down.
The idea behind data democracy is to get rid of unnecessary bureaucracy that can block development. By giving broad data access, developers can take advantage of one of the strengths of big data approaches – the powerful benefit of combining data from multiple sources. Point of sales data, information about inventory & logistics, competitive intelligence, trends revealed through social media and transactional details for individual customers are all part of the rich collection of data resources. Fragmented data sets are pulled together to a centralized organization. In addition, developers can test their applications at scale, a very important characteristic in a well-designed workflow.
|Big Data Democracy: give developers access to a full data set at scale. This shortens the pipeline between valuable innovation and effective implementation.
Bypassing a cumbersome approval process for access by internal developers really paid off in the case of development of an application known as Walmart exchange. Two engineers from the internal team realized that they could marry advertising data with customer transactional data, and in just a few hours they built a rough version of an application that lets third party advertisers really see which ads are working. Without this data access, development might have taken months.
Another important decision in data democracy is to introduce developers to each other so that resources are used effectively. By watching for situations in which queries may overlap, it's often possible for different developers to work together in some aspect of what they are doing, thus avoiding wasted work.
Of course, in order to safely provide widespread access, King pointed out that it's first necessary to cleanse data of personally identifiable information (PII). A specially firewalled Hadoop cluster houses data with PII, but most people don't need to see this outside of customer support and billing. For the data set made widely available to developers, data is carefully tokenized or summarized. Take the example of a full history of transactional data for a particular customer. Developers generally just need to know that these transactions belong to one individual – they don't need to know the person's name, email address, phone number or billing information. King also advised that if tokenization is to be undertaken, it is much easier to do so from the start.
I also found the other key point that King emphasized – the need for the Hadoop platform to run reliably on a 24/7 basis – to be of particular interest. It illustrates the need for a realistic fit between technology and SLAs on a project-by-project basis. This strong emphasis on reliability and availability for Walmart reminded me of a very different use case that I discussed in the Real World Hadoop book, India's society-changing Aadhaar project. Aadhaar provides a unique identification for every person in India, and authentication of this ID requires sub-second response times and access from anywhere in India, at anytime. For the authentication phase, Aadhaar moved to a NoSQL technology integrated into the Hadoop distribution, in this case MapR Database, because this technology showed that it could meet the extreme requirement for 24/7 availability and reliability.
I think the lesson in both cases is to think of effective performance as more than a sprint. It's not just about how fast a particular query can run, for instance, but also about how much work gets done at the end of weeks and months. Reliability, availability and your own project's tolerance for any down time are issues to consider as you build a big data system that is a good match for your needs.
|Extreme Availability: For the projects addressed by @WalmartLabs, the big data technologies involved must be able to meet the requirement to never shut down.
King closed his Strata presentation by reminding the audience that once you've appropriately cleansed data of PII and built a reliable system that avoids bureaucracy and provides developers with widespread access, you should just "…hire smart people and let them run."
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Artistic minimalism - Country house in Zhukovka
Architect – Piter Yushin, Nina Prudnikova Studio
Your attention please, – the project implemented by talented Russian architect Peter Yushin – house in Zhukovka, with furniture and lighting by Christian Liaigre, completed by Fifth Avenue!
In interior design calm muted colorsand natural materials were used, with a specific attention paid to the artifacts brought from exotic countries or purchased in antique shops. Despite their origin, these things have no clear reference to a particular style, that creats a sense of integrity.
"Many people think that long winters in Russia can be brightened with light colors. However, dark colors look much greater in contrast. For example, black and graphite facades are particularly expressive in contrast with green leaves and white snow. Such tones are bright, more colorful, and at the same time, they are not disturbing due to being a part of the natural color range." – says the project's author Peter Yushin.
The internal space is laconic, reserved and based on the game of natural textures with muted and soft color tones creating a calm and relaxed atmosphere.
The living room is Central soft band from sofas and armchairs with a coffee table by Christian Liaigre, as well as individual accents decorative tables and table lamps from the famous French house. Key decision Cabinet is the furniture and the light from Christian Liagre that specifies minimalistic but very artistic style of this room.


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How to make you Sunday memorable
Sunday is a day when you have a holiday. So it's like a day in which you want to experience complete relaxation or do activities which refresh you up and make you feel happy. Every person likes to do a different type of activities. So given below is the list of those which you should go along with your loved ones which will make your Sunday a memorable one.
- Do cooking
Sunday is definitely a day when you should do cooking with your partner and make some lovely meal and enjoy having it together.
- Watch TV, relax
This is another activity which you can opt. Just relax and watch TV whole day while oozing in your Pajamas. Order food from outside and have a super lazy Sunday.
- Go for movie and shopping
The best activity to do is watch a movie. Go to some mall, enjoy watching a movie and then go shopping too. By this, you can whole day roam around and enjoy. If you are not married then make a scene for the same with friends.
- Plan coffee dates and long drives
Going for a coffee date is quite a good idea where you can sip a cup of coffee with your favorite doughnut. This will be a great activity as by this you can visit the cafes of your town and enjoy the Sunday by having a quality chit-chat session with your pals at the coffee house.
- Spend a Me time
Another option which you can choose is spending a day by yourself where you can read a book, listen to your favorite kind of music and do what makes you happy.
Thus these are some of the activities which you can choose to make your Sunday a happy and memorable one.


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A Victorian woman who ran away from an ill-fated family road trip was reportedly found "catatonic" in the back of a man's ute in regional NSW.
Riana Tromp, 29, is in Goulburn Hospital after being found in the back of Keith Whittaker's Ford F250 at Lake George on Tuesday, according to the Goulburn Post.
Mr Whittaker told the paper he had filled his car with fuel at a Goulburn service station about 11am on Tuesday and then began driving to Canberra for a doctor's appointment.
When he got to Lake George, he felt a kick on the back of his seat, turned, and found Riana laying on the floor, so he pulled over.
He said after about 20 minutes, the young woman sat up and stared straight ahead.
"I asked her who she was and if she was all right? She did not know her name and had no idea where she was," Mr Whittaker said.
"I asked her if she needed any water or anything or was in any way injured and she said no.
"Then I called the police. Until the police arrived, she mostly sat and stared straight ahead as if she was catatonic."
Mr Whittaker said Riana was well-dressed and offered $50 for his trouble, which he declined.
AAP has attempted to contact Mr Whittaker.
Riana has since been reunited with her mother, who was transferred from Yass Hospital to Goulburn on Friday.
Jacoba Tromp, 53, was found at Yass Hospital on Thursday, two days after being reported missing from the Jenolan Caves with her husband Mark, who is still missing.
Police on Thursday said Mrs Tromp's mental health and wellbeing was "not at a good standard".
There have been numerous unconfirmed sightings of Mr Tromp circulating around the media.
Police would not confirm to AAP if they were investigating any sightings in NSW.
The last confirmed sighting of Mr Tromp was him running from the family's grey Peugeot and into a park in the Victorian town of Wangaratta on Wednesday night.
Owners at Miller Cottage Motel in the area said they found a room's door ajar on Friday morning.
Police are dusting the room for prints, News Corp reports.
Stress over everyday life, family and financial issues led the Tromps to abandon their home, phones and credit cards on Monday and drive away, police say.
Two more adult children, Mitchell and Ella, have returned to Melbourne.
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"Good ideas glow in the dark." That's the title and inspiration for the clever annual reports book created for the investment company Adris. As a metaphor for the company's knack at making good investments, their annual reports book is blank in normal light and can only be discovered by thinking outside the box and searching in the darkness.
Two Croatian designers, Bruketa & Žinić executed the design which was displayed theatrically at a media festival where the lights were turned on and off in short intervals. In darkness, the words on the cover and spine of the book glow steadily, helping one to discern the object among the many other books in the library.
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British Commonwealth Gallantry, Meritorious and Distinguished Service Awards - The Air Force Cross
About this award
The Air Force Cross (AFC) was instituted in 1918. It was awarded to junior officers and senior non commissioned officers of the three Armed Services for courage and devotion to duty while flying on operations not in contact with an enemy. Since 1993 the AFC has been made available to all ranks in the United Kingdom.
In 1999 the AFC was replaced in New Zealand by the New Zealand Gallantry Decoration (for acts of gallantry) and by the New Zealand Bravery Decoration (for acts of bravery).
Royal Warrant
Many British awards have a considerable history and the Royal Warrants which instituted them have been subject to significant amendment during their currency. More information on the Royal Warrants and criteria for the British Gallantry, Meritorious and Distinguished Service Awards can be found in the publications listed in the Bibliography. A publication titled 'British Gallantry Awards' by P.E. Abbott and J.M.E. Tamplin is particularly recommended.
Most Gallantry, Meritorious and Distinguished Service Awards do not have separate Regulations. Instructions for their administration are usually included in the Royal Warrant.
Clasps and Bars
Bars are awarded for subsequent courageous acts.
Order of Wear
The position of this award in the Wearing of Medals in New Zealand Table can be viewed here.


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Kate Moss gets fiance for her 36th birthday. Jamie Hince, 40, flew out to to the Caribbean to meet Moss last week while she was working in Mustique and proposed on Saturday. Daily Mail
Project red carpet. Meryl Streep wore a dress designed by Chris March, Project Runway's season four alum to the Golden Globes. Stylenews
"Most of the dresses last night offered little more than a paper-doll variation on styles of the past few years. A preponderance of blush pink or one-shouldered styles doesn't point to a trend so much as reveal an ongoing problem with mediocre design. Maybe the best designers now prefer to stay away from the awards shows, and the actresses, worried about bad publicity, don't know the difference anymore. They don't know what it means in fashion to be playful and truly relaxed. So the dresses keep wearing them." --Cathy Horyn on the Golden Globes. Fashionista


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This administration is so crooked. This is a misuse of taxpayer dollars. These taxpayer dollars are supposed to be used to educate Americans about health care and grow health care enrollment.
The Trump administration has spent taxpayer money meant to encourage enrollment in the Affordable Care Act on a public relations campaign aimed at methodically strangling it.
The effort, which involves a multi-pronged social media push as well as video testimonials designed at damaging public opinion of President Obama's health care law, is far more robust and sustained than has been publicly revealed or realized.
The strategy has caught the eye of legal experts and Democrats in Congress, who have asked government agencies to investigate whether the administration has misused funds and engaged in covert propaganda in its efforts to damage and overturn the seven-year-old health care law. It's also roiled Obama administration veterans, who argue that the current White House is not only abdicating its responsibilities to administer the law but sabotaging it in an effort to facilitate its undoing by Congress.
"I'm on a daily basis horrified by leaders at the Department of Health and Human Services who seem intent on taking healthcare away from the constituents they are supposed to serve," former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in an interview with The Daily Beast. "We always believed that delivering health and human services was the mission of the department. That seems to not be the mission of the current leadership." Funding for those videos would come from the Department's "consumer information and outreach" budget, which was previously used for the purposes of advertising the ACA and encouraging enrollment.


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Calling all K-12 schools and students! Do you have what it takes to be "Freezin' for a Reason"? Be a part of the most popular winter event for high school, middle school and even elementary school students. Grab your friends, classmates, teammates, and bandmates and form a team. Your team can be two best buddies or 200 of your closest friends – the size is up to you!
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- All money raised directly benefits nearly 9,000 Special Olympics Wisconsin athletes. Special Olympics gives every person the opportunity to be a champion and show the world that there are millions of different abilities but no disabilities!
- Experiencing the Polar Plunge with friends makes awesome memories to last a lifetime!
- It's a fun and rewarding way to give back to the community and possibly earn volunteer service hours. (Individual school restrictions apply)
- If your school is a Unified Champion School, 25% of the money your team raises will come right back to your club to promote inclusion in your school!
How do you raise money?
- There are so many ways to raise money to take the Plunge. Here are some helpful tips we've put together on how to get started.
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A complete video walkthrough for Skylanders: Trap Team.
Posted By Kurtis Simpson | On 10th, Oct. 2014 Under Walkthrough | Follow This Author @DanteandSpardaX
Complete Skylanders: Trap Team with the help of this HD video walkthrough and game guide.
Game Overview:
Skylanders: Trap Team is an action-adventure video game based in the Skylanders universe. The game takes place following the events of the previous game, Skylanders: Swap Force. The game is being developed by Toys for Bob and is being published by Activision.
The game is set for release on the 5th October 2014, and will be releasing on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PS4, Xbox One, Wii, Wii-U, Nintendo 3DS, and mobile platforms.
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How to Paint Sunsets with Steve Strode
When I think of the colour orange, I think of warm light and sunsets, and that golden glow in the sky at the end of the day. Exploring sunsets by artists such as Turner or Monet, and their atmospheric interpretations in beautiful colours and tones, can often inspire me to create my own. So why not join me and see how I tackle the basics of painting a sunset in acrylic before you set off and try one for yourself?
Both of the paintings shown in this article (First Light, acrylic on paper, (28x33cm), left, and St Just, acrylic on paper, (29x29cm), below) came about from using various resources, including colour studies, photographs, written notes and drawings gathered at the scene. No two skies are the same, and while there is no steadfast formula for mixing the colours and working quickly from life, here are guidelines to point you in the right direction.
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Duxbury Spring Antique Show
March 28, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
March 29, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Join Us for the 39th Annual Duxbury Spring Antique Show! Sponsored by the Duxbury Boosters Club to benefit DHS Athletic programs!
High Quality Antique Dealers from all over New England are featured each year at the Duxbury Spring Antique Show, offering an exciting selection of fine and affordable American and European Antiques.
Expert appraisals of artwork and antiques will be offered. Please check back closer to the 2020 Spring Antique Show for more details!
Lunch & Bake Table
Delicious soups, salads, and homemade goodies will also be available for purchase. Beautifully packaged handmade desserts will also be available to bring home to your family.
2019 Dealers
Matt King
Wanita Paolino, Johnston RI
WATERHOUSE, Hingham MA
Charles Wibel Antiques, Eastham MA
New England Seasons, Rehoboth, MA
Hatfield House Antiques, Bridgewater MA
Raven's Way Antiques, North Kingstown RI
Nicole Coughlin of Fabulous Finds
Michael Weinstein Artifacts Binghamton, NY
Richard Lawrence Greene, Providence RI
Gary and Linda Jennings, Rehoboth, MA
The Chair Man And The Tea Lady, Abington, MA
Pasquales, Hull MA
Donna Kmetz, Douglas, MA
Jim Gahan, Falmouth MA
Knollwood Antiques, Village of Thorndike, MA
Marvin Wies Folk Art and Antiques
3rd Cliff Vintage and Seaside Scituate MA
The Crate Cottage, Taunton, MA
William Nickerson Antiques, Orleans MA
Nancy Pereto Weymouth, MA & Wendy Wilfand, Cohasset, MA
Edythe & Co., Osterville MA
Windy Hill Antiques, Topsfield MA
Allbeadazzled, Needham MA
P.D. Murphy Antiques, Bath, ME
Chimney Corner Antiques, Newburyport MA
Bayberry Antiques, Rockland MA
Antique Threads Boston MA
Echo Lake Antiques, Scituate MA
Bent Nail Farm Antiques, Marshfield Hills, MA
Rennie Cullman Antiques Bridgewater, MA
BJ Hutton, Plymouth MA
Brian Ferguson, Swansea, MA
The Pumpkin Patch Main Street Antiques, Plymouth MA
Keepers of the Past Antiques, Cape Cod
When Pigs Fly Antiques, Rehoboth MA
Abroms Antiques & Jewelry Medway MA
Nauset Antiques, North Eastham, MA
Oriental Rug Bargains Medway MA
Mansbach Antiques, Marshfield MA
Capedux Antiques, Duxbury MA
Whaling Days Antiques, New Bedford MA
S B Adams Antiques, Salem MA
Stephen Renda, Lynn MA
Barbara Schleyer, Mashpee MA
Taylor Antiques, Mashpee, MA
David Smernoff, Smernoff.com
The Antique Show is the Boosters Club's largest fundraiser and requires many volunteers to make it work. Please check back here as the event gets closer for more information if you can help.
Duxbury High School
71 Alden Street Duxbury MA 02332
- Route 3 – Exit #11 – head east on Route 14
- Intersection of Routes 14 & 3A is St. George Street – proceed one mile on St. George Street, school is on the right.


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Party Favor Beret & Pin Set
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I love it when synchronicities happen that confirm something I sense or am in the process of doing. This one is simple but direct. Several months ago, I woke from a dream about aliens and thought, Wow, this would make … Continue reading
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From this to that. A handful of hemlock cords with some found 2x4s. Add in an ikea bed frame, some shotgun shells, hot wheels cars, pallets, sea shells, sweat, and soul. That is how you make a good bridge. Let it take you where it takes you. #maxbard #maxbard911 #timberframe #timberbridges
Timber bridge & Big bird house
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Emerging NGSS Resources
Since the transition to the NGSS began, school districts and colleges from around the country began writing curriculum to provide instructional resources for teachers and students. At first, there was very little to be found online to serve as examples and many groups began aligning lessons and activities to the NGSS. I did this with the science teachers that I worked with as we looked for good resources online and tried to NGSSify it.
However, there is a big difference between aligning instructional materials to the NGSS and designing instructional materials for the NGSS. As a Peer Review Science Panelist for Achieve, we have been trained to use the EQuIP rubric to find examples of High Quality NGSS Designed lessons and units. We are definitely finding that science education is shifting as more high quality examples are emerging that realize the vision presented in the NRC Framework for K-12 Science Teaching, which preceded the writing of the standards.
Recently, the middle school unit, "Understanding White Sharks" received the highest honor of the NGSS Design Badge and provides an excellent example of how to engage students in three-dimensional learning that enables them to explain the phenomenon of recent increased shark encounters in the United States.
Two more middle school units, Investigating Life on the Third Rock and MySci Module 5 Waves, received the rating of Example of High Quality NGSS Design if Improved. The rubrics are also provided for you to understand the areas in which the reviewers see room for improvement. However, in order to get the Example of High Quality NGSS Design if Improved rating, there must be strong evidence of three-dimensional learning that allows students to "figure out" a phenomenon. It means, the authors were very close!
Huge Contributions from the University Systems
A great deal time and effort has been dedicated to helping shift teachers and students to the NGSS at the University level. For example, The MySci Unit above was written by a team from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The valuable resources found on the STEM Teaching Tools Website comes out of the University of Washington in collaboration with partners form the Research + Practice Collaboratory.
Emerging from the curriculum writing efforts are new models to help others develop their own lessons and units. Next Generation Science Storylines has several tools found here that help to create a coherent series of lessons using a phenomenon routine. This comes out of the Reiser Lab at Northwestern University.
Recently, the UCLA Science Project shared their Curriculum Planning Wheel shown below that is used with both novice and experienced science educators to facilitate a deep understanding of science content material and a large repertoire of highly-effective, research-based teaching strategies that can be used in the science classroom.
As these models and instructional materials are emerging, educators from around the country are beginning to develop a better understanding of the vision presented in the NRC Framework for K-12 Science Teaching. However, there is still a very large gap between understanding the NGSS and putting the NGSS into practice.
Below is a slide presented by Achieve when The Board on Science Education (BOSE) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) and Achieve all convened in a meeting to explore the needs of districts implementing the Next Generation Science Standards and similar standards based on A Framework for K-12 Science Education.
Our Transition to the MS NGSS
Notice that this website is called "Our Transition to the MS NGSS". This was purposeful in that we are all finding our way with the new standards and shifts in instructional practices required for the NGSS. Each day, we all continue to grow in our understanding and there is not one chosen path to take. We have made great strides since the release of these new standards, but the journey is far from over and we will continue to work hard to help develop a generation of students who will not only be literate in science and engineering, but will be effective contributors to society. The good news is that more and more resources and examples of high-quality, NGSS-designed work is being published each and every day to help us all continue to learn and grow.
November 2019
Cari Williams has been developing her understanding of The Framework for K-12 Science Teaching and the NGSS through the development of curriculum, collaborative learning experiences with NSTA 3D Learning Cadre Members and as a Science Peer Review Panelist for Achieve. To learn more, please go to


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Our latest cultural experience was had today at the train station.
Lena and I went to purchase train tickets for our upcoming trip to Kiev. We stood in two separate lines to see which one would move faster. As we were standing in line I was thinking of how best to phrase the question I needed to ask. The sentences in my head were long. I was thinking things like "Excuse me, can you tell me if you have tickets from Krasnodar to Kiev on the 31st of August?". Just as I had figured this all out in my head Lena said to me ...just say "menyeh Kiev". Literally that means "me Kiev". She told me what questions I would be asked and how to answer them. I got up to the front and repeated the phrase. When I asked for the date we needed her answer was "nyet" NO!
How could she tell me no? Tom is teaching in Kiev starting on the 4th of September. We have to get there! Lena stepped in and asked for several different dates... no. no. no! We left and were about to walk over to the bus station. Suddenly, Lena remembered that she heard on the news that sometimes you will be told no when they actually do have tickets. So we turned and went back in. Only this time we went upstairs to a different cashier. She had two upper berths available on the 31st and nothing else until the 7th. We left again. There is no bus to Kiev so that was out. We went to my house and Lena called a ticket agency.
Spencer and I got out the Atlas and were trying to figure out if we could take the bus half way and then the train the rest of the way. Tom, Spencer and I were brainstorming different options while Lena was working the phone. About four or five phone calls later Lena discovered there were 4 places available on the 31st in a compartment but, I had to go today! I gathered up our passports and went downtown. I told the woman that my friend had called and she remembered the conversation and started right to work on my tickets. Thank goodness we were finally able to solve our dilemna with only two trips around the city and a few phone calls.


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The Color of Love
I wrap up in the color of you,
pure and translucent,
hazel eyes gleam in the moonlight.
Hidden hues hide
behind shadowed branches,
moss, and ivy
encircling our spot.
In the universe we stand
under the night sky,
your hand in mine,
walking in summer's warmth
left over
from the day we frolicked
through blades of grass.
We climbed the rocks,
admired the daisies,
spotted and few, but enough
to share in their purity,
not unlike your heart
that beats
against my chest.
When you cling to my side
golden locks lace the evening breeze,
tossing us back,
onto the blanket,
pink from your little girl room.
The place I never want you
far away, without stars to paint
your hands — ivory porcelain,
a pitcher never empty of giving.
Your arms, an eagle's wings
to fly home if ever
you are lost.
Your legs, sturdy as tall trunks
to hold up the sky…
And only because I love you
will I share you with the earth.
Willows and Cherry
Little boy chatters on about a willow and a cherry tree,
his head turns and takes in the view around.
Must be the sunny weather after a long rainy season,
stirring something deep in his imagination.
He rattles on about these trees in his yard, and I remember
two willows and a pie cherry tree in my own backyard
as a little girl. I never liked pie, though mom baked plenty.
Now, far away from that backyard, I crave a heaping plate.
Cherry pie thoughts behind my eyes, still minding this clever boy;
he has no idea the memories he's unbound,
when he looks at me, his stargaze like the willows I remember,
"I think the trees had a conversation."
"Of course they did." I believe him with all my heart.
A chorus from my childhood begins to play,
swaying willows rock me in comfort, their boughs shade regret,
and the cherry tree dots with robins, drunk in excess.
Slow years of youth race before my eyes, lift in the breeze,
the same wind blows little boy's sandy hair; reverie swirls away.
Time lost in the moment, he runs off to play in the sun…
leaving me grateful I slowed down to listen.
Love is a Long Time
It's stitched by hand with spectacles that see past faults;
sore fingers that smooth wrinkles
cursed by years.
It's warmth on a cold day, wrapped around regret;
covering unspoken truths
soon to be forgotten.
It's shaded in sunsets to hide humiliation where it can't hurt;
bound at the seams, water tight
against sorrow.
It's soft as flower petals, fenced in from tromping feet, yet brave;
billowing strongly around shame and lightly
on forgiveness.
It's an old quilt forgotten in that dusty box from the attic;
an heirloom handed down when all else
was lost…
Love is a long time.
Celaine Charles is a published poet who lives in the Pacific Northwest where she teaches, writes poetry and fiction, and blogs about her writing journey, http://www.stepsinbetween.com. Her poetry series, "Colours" can be found, https://channillo.com/series/colors/. She has published in various presses and was a poetry finalist in PNWA's Literary Contest, 2017.


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Golf ball,tee,pencil,score card and paper currency portraying a golf wager
so that you could make distinctions between net-based individual computer playing and gambling via mobile phones and interactive tv, the playing fee in the U.K. Put together a record that was the first in a sequence. One of the most key objectives, according to the fee, is to measure participation to get a more correct view of playing in Britain. https://australiacasinoonline.com/
The fee lists these objects among key findings of the January 2009 survey:
o 9.7 percentage of eight,000 adults surveyed in the U.Okay. Mentioned they had participated in one of the most types of faraway playing in 2008. This compares to 7.2 percentage in 2006 and eight.Eight percentage in 2007.o The folks surely to take part in far off playing: males between 18 and forty four years of ageo lots of the persons who participated in far flung playing used a personal computer – virtually 3 times more than cell cell or interactive tv
it's fascinating to notice that the constant increase in participation in the U.K. Is above all due to far flung entry for Britain's national Lottery. When these lottery players are separated from the opposite survey respondents, the numbers indicate that 5.2 percent of the humans surveyed took phase in some form of remote playing. The backside line is that, within the U.K., greater than 90 percentage of the individuals don't gamble on-line or via any other faraway way.
The record additionally separates respondents based on the form of gambling. For example, only 2.4 percent mentioned they bet on horse racing of some variety. Just 1.1 percent performed bingo from a far off place. Roulette and blackjack were performed by way of 1 percentage of the people surveyed.
The fee has also released identical gambling data through June 2009. This file shows a number of moderate variations from the January data.
o 10.2 percent of eight,000 adults surveyed stated they participated in some form of remote gambling in the prior montho far flung gambling on a individual pc endured to be essentially the most general method (eight.6 percent)o records for quite a lot of types of games failed to exhibit any significant changes, as 1.1 percent played blackjack or roulette from a faraway area.
not like the low number of men and women who interact in on-line, mobile or interactive television gambling, reviews on all gambling for 2007 and 2008 show that sixty eight percent of the populace has tried some form of gambling. This translates to greater than 30 million residents. It sounds as if the countrywide Lottery, live casinos, betting parlors and other varieties of in-man or woman playing are very widespread with U.Ok. Residents.
When the be taught took out the people who only bought countrywide Lottery tickets, results still exhibit that close to half of adults have tried gambling of some type (48 percentage). Amongst those millions of folks, 17 percent wager on horse racing and 14 percentage played the slots.
o £84.2 billion dedicated to gambling annuallyo approximately four,000 licensed operators in the gambling industry
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I was really blown away when I got this inquiry. I had actually contacted Jasmine's sister about her interior decorating business and helping her with images for her website and social media. A few days after that initial conversation and Jasmine gave me a shout about doing engagement photos for her and her fiance, JC. […]
December 20, 2018
I'm often terrified when an engagement client asks to do a themed shoot. It's either going to be amazing or not with no middle ground. The trick with themed photo shoots of any kind is that you have to NAIL IT for it to look anywhere close to good. After being told their idea, I nearly jumped out of my chair screaming, "YES! Let's do it!"
July 29, 2018
I've known Alyssa since middle school. When I heard that Blake had finally popped the question and Alyssa had finished filling me in on the story – I immediately offered to do their engagement session. When they asked for an artsy, urban look – I knew the perfect location.
February 21, 2018
I love shooting Southeast Asian Weddings and Engagement sessions because there's so much color! Sangita and Tushar's engagement party definitely fulfilled that crush of mine.
August 28, 2017
10 quick and easy tips for how to dress for your engagement or portrait session
April 5, 2017
This may be one of my favorite engagement sessions I've done to date. I loved working with Savannah and Craig!
March 3, 2016
Wow, this engagement session was a whirlwind! From Sandy Springs to Georgia Tech to Piedmont Park, we were all over the place!
February 3, 2016
Sorry gang! This feature is currently under construction. Check back in a few weeks and it should be up and running!


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I still don't get it. If you follow the meteorological community or weather enthusiasts on Twitter, there is a level of hyperventilation (and vitriol) at times when it comes to the debate about what weather model is better: European "Euro" or American. It is well documented that the European model (run by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts or ECMWF) has historically performed better than the American model, Global Forecast System (GFS), run by NOAA. In 2013, Jason Samenow wrote this in the Washington Post after Hurricane Sandy:
Last year, criticism began to emerge concerning the inferior accuracy of the NWS's Global Forecast System (GFS) model – run on earlier versions of the supercomputers – compared to the model run at the European Centre for Medium Range Forecasting (ECMWF) based in the United Kingdom. The GFS and ECMWF models are, by far, the most heavily relied on by meteorologists around the world for forecasting.
Backlash from Sandy heightened the urgency of U.S. policymakers to improve U.S. model capabilities. Supplemental funding from Congress and continued model development by NOAA has delivered the "new" American model called FV3-GFS. This week, NOAA announced that the new model, FV3-GFS, is scheduled to be operational on March 20th. The "operational date" was actually delayed by the recent government shutdown. What does this the new operational GFS model mean for U.S. weather prediction and the "debate"?
The debate will rage on for certain. The weather community, particularly its most vocal components, loves to debate. I wrote a piece several years ago in Forbes comparing the performance of the European and American models. The reality is that all models have their strengths and weaknesses in certain situations. It is borderline comical to watch the banter about weather models. I often wonder when I missed the invitation to join a model fan club. People call out the misses of one but go silent on the other.
I take a more objective view of "the model wars" because I understand that the best forecasters consider all of the available models and are not locked in a "Numerical Weather Predication Arms Race." While President of the American Meteorological Society, I had dinner with the Director of ECMWF while visiting Reading, U.K. He literally chuckled at how animated the debate in the U.S. is concerning the "Euro" vs "GFS." He even pointed out that the GFS beats the European model often.
The European model has an different way of integrating data into its model. That integration very much depends upon U.S. and other weather-climate satellite assets. I discuss their methodology at this link and why the Euro model has generally performed better. The more relevant point that I am trying to make is that there is collaboration, not animosity, between the modeling centers.
So what's the deal with the new American GFS model going operational in March? In a previous NOAA press release, National Weather Service Director Louis Uccelini pointed out,
The new dynamic core, Finite-Volume on a Cubed-Sphere (FV3), was developed by NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey. The FV3 core brings a new level of accuracy and numeric efficiency to the model's representation of atmospheric processes such as air motions. This makes possible simulations of clouds and storms, at resolutions not yet used in an operational global model.
Just like a phone camera with more Megapixels resolves a picture with better clarity, higher resolution in a model can resolve more weather processes that may have been missed or poorly sampled. A good overview of the new model can be found here.
Even though the model is going operational in March, NOAA has actually been running the "old" and "new" models for the past year or so. Eric Berger wrote this in ArsTechnica last November:
The top-line finding is that yes, the FV3 core generally performs a bit better than the GFS model..... it is nice to see some modest improvement from the FV3, but it still is not the best in the world. For the entire globe, the FV3 model would still rank behind the best-in-class European model (0.910) and the United Kingdom Met Office (0.887).
Berger pointed out that the upgrade brings the U.S. from fourth to third place. Improvements were observed in how GFS intensifies tropical cyclones and represents track within the first five days, according to Berger. I highly recommend Berger's article because he provides details on the metrics used in the comparison. He also highlights weaknesses in the "new GFS" such as a dry bias for high-impact precipitation events and a tendency to be too cold with nocturnal temperatures.
I look forward to seeing where the new GFS model goes. I also like that unlike the Euro model, it will remain freely available to the public rather than behind paywalls. Some will whine that third place is not good enough. Frankly, pushback (without the snark factor) from the scientific and user community is valuable because it keeps the pressure on everybody to improve the models. Emerging model capabilities from private companies like IBM and Panasonic will also keep the pressure on.
As an optimist, I see the "American model" trending in the right direction. Is it perfect right now? No, but I am willing to see how it further evolves. NOAA also has other weather models like the HRRR and RAP that are used daily so the concept of a "singular" American model is flawed. At the end of the day, if all of the models get better, the public wins.