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I am not old,
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I have not forgotten
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From NPR News, this is WEEKEND EDITION. I'm Liane Hansen. And joining us is puzzlemaster Will Shortz. Hi, Will.
Mr. WILL SHORTZ (Puzzle Master): Hi, Liane. Welcome back.
HANSEN: Thanks very much. I had a little vacation, but I think the most fun thing I did was go out to Hollywood and visit with my son and do totally tourist things and take a look at the Kodak Theatre before all the Oscar brouhaha and put my feet in Humphrey Bogart's cement footsteps.
SHORTZ: How did you fit?
HANSEN: I think his are a little smaller than mine, actually. But it was so fun. I'd never been there before and it was just fun to play tourist. I understand you're going somewhere next week.
SHORTZ: Yeah, I'm flying to Luca, Italy for the first World Sodoku Championship. There are more than 20 countries competing from around the world, and of course the U.S. will have a team.
HANSEN: Wow, I knew when last I spoke to you, you didn't think you were going to go, but changed your mind, huh?
SHORTZ: Couldn't keep me away.
HANSEN: Yeah, you betcha. All right. Well, you left us with a challenge last week to work on. Would you repeat it, please?
SHORTZ: Yes, I said take the phrase take bets on, rearrange these ten letters to name something to eat. What is it?
HANSEN: What is it?
SHORTZ: It's T-bone steak.
HANSEN: Wow, good one. Well, we had over 3,500 entries from people who tried to solve the puzzle and our winner randomly selected from the correct answers is Dakota Snow from Albany, Oregon. Hi, Dakota.
Mr. DAKOTA SNOW (Caller): Hi, there.
HANSEN: What do you do in Albany, Oregon?
Mr. SNOW: Well, right now I'm actually in Portland at a robotics competition.
HANSEN: So you're a student?
Mr. SNOW: Yes, I am a high school student right now.
HANSEN: Where do you go to school?
Mr. SNOW: West Albany High School.
HANSEN: All right. How long have you been playing the puzzle?
Mr. SNOW: I've been playing it for about three weeks now, actually.
HANSEN: Ah, how did you find out about it?
Mr. SNOW: My math teacher, Mr. White, puts the puzzle up on his white board every week. He's been playing for about 11 years and hasn't been selected.
HANSEN: How did he react when you told him that you're going to be the puzzle player?
Mr. SNOW: I haven't had a chance to talk to him. I'll see him Monday.
HANSEN: He'll hear on the air and get surprised, right? Well, are you ready to play?
Mr. SNOW: Yes, I am.
HANSEN: All right. Well, Will, please meet Dakota. Let's play.
SHORTZ: All right, Dakota and Liane. Today I brought a game of categories using the word space, s-p-a-c-e. I'm going to give you a series of categories. For each one, name something in the category starting with each of the letters s-p-a-c-e. For example, if the category were boys names, you might say Steven, Pedro, Andrew, Charles and Edward. Your first category is high school classes and you can do these in any order. Are you taking a foreign language in school?
Mr. SNOW: American sign language.
SHORTZ: Well, I'll take that for an A. Algebra, Art and American History will do.
Mr. SNOW: All right, Physics.
SHORTZ: Physics is a good P, yes. Are you taking a foreign language?
Mr. SNOW: Yeah, Spanish.
SHORTZ: There you go, there's your S. And now we need a C and an E.
Mr. SNOW: American History.
SHORTZ: Well, there's your A. What about an advanced math class?
Mr. SNOW: Calculus.
SHORTZ: Calculus, and E?
Mr. SNOW: E, electronics.
SHORTZ: Electronics.
HANSEN: I would say English, but...
SHORTZ: English or Economics, good. All right, Category No. 2 is cities in Oregon.
Mr. SNOW: Cities in Oregon. Let's see, Scio.
SHORTZ: Okay, you could've said Salem. Yes, your capital.
Mr. SNOW: Salem, yeah. Albany.
SHORTZ: Albany, yes. I thought you might say that. What's the biggest?
Mr. SNOW: Portland.
SHORTZ: Portland, yes. A C and an E.
Mr. SNOW: Coos Bay.
SHORTZ: Coos Bay or Corvallis, and an E?
Mr. SNOW: Eugene.
SHORTZ: Eugene, excellent. Your next category is punctuation marks.
Mr. SNOW: Punctuation, period.
SHORTZ: Yes.
Mr. SNOW: Apostrophe.
SHORTZ: Apostrophe.
Mr. SNOW: Comma.
SHORTZ: Yes.
HANSEN: How about semi-colon?
SHORTZ: Semi-colon, excellent.
Mr. SNOW: Semi-colon, thank you.
HANSEN: Sure. E.
SHORTZ: And just an E. And if you're saying something really important, what do you put at the end of the sentence?
Mr. SNOW: Exclamation point.
SHORTZ: Exclamation point, yes. And your last category is words containing a Q.
Mr. SNOW: A Q?
SHORTZ: Uh-huh. A Q can be anywhere in the word.
Mr. SNOW: I'm trying to think.
HANSEN: That's hard, isn't it?
SHORTZ: Well, first of all, for S how about a shape in Geometry?
Mr. SNOW: A square, right?
SHORTZ: Square, yes, good.
Mr. SNOW: E, I just had one. I'm trying to, I lost it.
HANSEN: How about equation?
SHORTZ: Equation, excellent. P, A and C. How about a game you play out on your lawn?
Mr. SNOW: There's so many I play on my lawn. I can't think of one.
SHORTZ: If it has mallets and wickets.
Mr. SNOW: I know the game. Gosh.
HANSEN: And it is so right out, huh? Croquet?
SHORTZ: Croquet, that's it. We're left with P and A. For A, how about an indoor place for fish?
Mr. SNOW: Aquarium.
SHORTZ: Aquarium, yes. And just the P. How about if you're really angry and it's in five letters and there's a q in the third spot.
HANSEN: Are you looking for someone who has a fit of pique?
SHORTZ: A fit of pique, that's it. Okay, you guys did it together.
Mr. SNOW: Yeah, thank you.
HANSEN: You're a team player. And for playing our puzzle today, you'll get a WEEKEND EDITION lapel pin, the 11th edition of Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, the Scrabble Deluxe Edition from Parker Brothers, the Puzzlemaster Presents from Random House, Volume 2, and a set of Sodoku puzzle books presented by Will Shortz from St. Martin's Press. Dakota, when you listen to Public Radio what station do you listen to?
Mr. SNOW: I get it offline, actually.
HANSEN: Oh, okay.
Mr. SNOW: And on the Internet.
HANSEN: Do you know your call letters of your station in Oregon?
Mr. SNOW: It is KWAX.
HANSEN: KWAX in Eugene.
Mr. SNOW: Yes.
HANSEN: All right. Well, Dakota Snow from Albany, Oregon, thanks a lot for playing the puzzle with us. Good luck telling your math teacher that you were actually on the puzzle and thanks a lot.
Mr. SNOW: All right. Thank you very much.
HANSEN: All right. Take care of yourself.
Mr. SNOW: All right.
HANSEN: All right. Now, Will, something for everyone to work on for the next week.
SHORTZ: Well, this week's challenge comes from listener Henry Hook of Brooklyn, New York, and Henry is one of the country's top crossword constructors. What eight-letter noun containing the letter B as in boy is pluralized by inserting an S immediately before the B. So again, what eight-letter noun containing the letter B is pluralized not by putting an S at the end, but by inserting an S immediately before the B?
HANSEN: When you have the answer, remember, we have a new way for you to send in your entry. We no longer accept email entries, but what you do is you go to our website, npr.org, and you click on the Submit Your Answer link on the Sunday puzzle page. Only one entry per person, please. Our deadline this week is Thursday, 3:00 p.m. Eastern time. Please include a phone number where we can reach you at about that time. We'll call you if you're the winner and you'll get to play the puzzle on the air with the puzzle editor of the New York Times and WEEKEND EDITION'S Puzzle Master, Will Shortz, who joined us from New York. Will, thanks a lot.
SHORTZ: Thanks, Liane.
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Scientists have known for years that there are certain foods that are good for your brain. There's now evidence that exercise, the companion of good eating, also has benefits for your brain. In particular, if children get active it can actually increase the size of their brains.
Good nutrition in pregnancy and in early life is vital for brain development in children. The new study was carried out in Spain on a group of overweight children. It showed that as children became fitter, there was an increase in the amount of grey matter. This happened particularly in the areas of the brain responsible for language and reading. These are the keys that unlock all other learning.
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Help your kids' brains (and bodies) by incorporating exercise into your out of school routine as much as you can. It can be walks, runs and cycle rides. It can also be a family swim or gym trip.
Importantly, set a good example and get your exercise too!
I'm disappointed that as an adult I can't make my brain grow, but it is good to know that exercise will hopefully help it last!
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Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana. Ion Izagirre wins final classification, Pello Bilbao is third, Astana is best team
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The build up to the country:
Mon - Treadmill 10.0km recovery run 36:27 (3:39's)
Tue am – 1.6km up, 10km treadmill threshold run 31:43 (3:10's), 1.0km down. All up 12.6km
Tue pm - Tuam AC easy run 11.5km
Wed - Claregalway 9.5km easy run 38:55 (4:06's)
Thu – 2.5km up, 4 x 30 secs, 8 x 2 mins off 60 secs, 2.5km down. All up 11.3km
Fri - Claregalway 11.1km recovery run 41:41 (3:45's)
Sat - Rest
Sun – National Inter-Counties 10km XC 14th in 39:20. All up 13.3kms
Total for week 79.3km
The conditions for the country were very sticky. A tough twisty 2km loop with one killer hill. All ground very soft except one section of about 400m where I felt I could actually run. The rest reminded me of my swimming – huge effort but going nowhere. Back to the race – a very poor turnout but a strong team from Galway so a good chance of some bling. The race started and I settled into my running. I didn't start slow – I think everyone else started too quick. The first lap I was picking off a few runners and my immediate thought was that I wasn't going to be in the scorers for Galway. After a lap or so I'd picked up several places and my focus was on catching a few Donegal runners up ahead.
My pace throughout was very consistent – within a few seconds each lap. The hill at the start of the lap was a real grind but once up the top and round the corner you had the section I mentioned where I could run a bit. Not much happening apart from plenty of support on the course which was much appreciated. I picked off one Donegal shirt but there was another one I had my eye on. But I didn't catch him until the last lap. By this time I just wanted it to be over. I managed a strong section and broke away from the Donegal runner and in second half of the lap I started closing in on Mike O'Connor. Another big effort and I went past him as we rounded the last corner for the run to the finish. I just managed to hold him off as you can see from the photo below.
I finished 14th overall and was 4th Galway scorer in a time of 39:20. Not my greatest work but it was a huge effort and I was close to a vomit at the finish. Galway won the team gold medal so a huge achievement for the county. My first ever senior medal! A few beers after and home in time to see Spurs beat Man City. All in all a great day.


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I love the whole hustle and bustle of the holiday season. This is truly a special time of the year, and as crazy as it can get, I look forward to it. For some reason, I am feeling a bit more rushed this year than usual. Between traveling for work, birthday parties, and making sure I get the gym a few times a week it seems like I am constantly on the go! Recently I learned about getting my groceries delivered right to my door from my favorite grocery store, and I have to tell you that this is a game changer!
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- 1/2 Diced Onion
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- 1/2 tsp Paprika
- Salt and Pepper
- 2 cups shredded cheese
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It's the last day for February's theme for the Tri Polish Challenge which is brown, pink and grey. I haven't been in love with the colours this month, so I am kinda happy this is the last post for this theme.. I'm hoping I can come up with some better designs next month :).
The three colours I used this week are Rimmel - Beige Babe, Loreal - You Are Worth It and Barry M - Dragonfruit.
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Our favorite ping-pong club SPiN has an uncanny knack for creating utterly unique spaces -- perhaps none quite so compelling as the Red Room in the new SPiN Philadelphia. "Meet me in the Red Room," its neon sign calls, an invitation to the alluring spot lit all in red, where ping-pong matches unfold in a crimson glow -- intimate, intriguing, and oh-so-Instagrammable.
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An historical account of Ball's Bluff describing first battle between Union and Cofederate troops.
It is often said that politics and soldiering do not mix. In the case of the Battle for Ball's Bluff this saying rang true with grim reality. Senator Edward D. Baker of Oregon had been a staunch supported of the Lincoln administration and he supported the war against the rebellious southern states. Through his connections he had managed to obtain a commission in the Union army while he retained his Senate seat. As we shall soon see, he would have faired better had he stuck to politics.
With his commission as a colonel in the Union army, he assumed command of a 1,700-man infantry brigade stationed along the Potomac on the Maryland side of the river. In October of 1861, he received orders to cross the Potomac into Virginia and attack the Confederate forces encamped at Leesburg.
The plans were amiss from the very beginning. As the brigade arrived at their embarkation point, they found only three small boats waiting to ferry them across the river. The three boats together could only accommodate 25 men per trip. Needless to say the crossing was very slow.
Baker had not scouted the territory he was about to advance into. He was unaware of the 100-foot cliff called "Ball's Bluff" that awaited his brigade on the Virginia side. Baker had no idea that the only viable route to the top of the bluff was a narrow cow path that etched its way into the cliff. Further, because of his lack of experience in military tactics, he made the ultimate blunder. He left his forces no way to withdraw from the conflict should it become necessary. Once onto the Virginia side of the river, the brigade's escape route was cut off. Nevertheless, he launched his campaign with confidence.
The brigade made its way to the top of the bluff and found they were confronting 4 regiments of Confederate soldiers who had hidden themselves on a wooded knoll above the bluff. As the Union troops began a seemingly unopposed advance across open ground, the Confederates opened fire on them with murderous accuracy. They continued to fire into the surprised and disorganized Union ranks. Just as the confident Baker realized the disaster he had created he was killed by a sharpshooter's bullet. At that instant the Rebel troops charged the disorganized Yankees. With their commander dead, the panic-stricken Union troops made a mad dash to escape the onslaught. The remnants of Baker's Brigade rolled, jumped, and tumbled over the cliff and onto the heads and bayonets of their comrades on the beach below. As the Rebels arrived at the edge of the cliff they took up positions and began firing into the panicked blue mob below.
The firing continued as the Union soldiers scrambled into the boats that brought them. Their panicked haste caused them to capsize the boats. Many of the soldiers drowned. The Confederates controlling the bluff picked off those soldiers that could swim. The rest either surrendered or tried to hide.
In the final analysis, the Union losses included: 200 killed or wounded and over 700 captured. Confederate loses were 7 wounded.
Edward D. Baker commanded an Illinois regiment in the Mexcican War, and came home with a reputation for courage and leadership in battle.
Baker was probably Lincoln's closest friend. The first child the Lincolns had was a son (who died in childhood) named Edward Baker Lincoln.


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Whether you're getting your feet wet for the first time or diving in deep, bino stargazing is wonderfully rewarding.
So you've learned your way around the night sky well enough to identify the bright planets and most of the constellations appearing on our star chart. Now you're poised to take the next step. You probably think that this means purchasing a telescope. And why not? Scopes are a lot of fun and offer a universe of amazing sights. But they can be a source of frustration if you're unfamiliar with how they work. That's why many experienced observers recommend an intermediate step: binoculars.
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Binoculars also appeal to those seeking observing challenges. If you enjoy working at the limits of your instrument's capabilities, you can experience the same thrills with 10×50 binoculars as you get with a big Dob—the only difference lies in the objects you seek. Think finding an obscure UGC galaxy with your 16-inch is tough? Try spotting M91 in those 10×50s! In my view (sorry, I couldn't resist), the thrill of the hunt and the pleasure of glimpsing a difficult target are the same in both cases.
In the January/February issue of SkyNews, we're finally taking the binocular bull by the horns (with apologies to Taurus) by introducing a new column: "The Binocular Sky" (page 26). We're also including a guide to help you choose binoculars for astronomy (page 12) and mini-reviews of several representative samples (page 34). We hope that you enjoy these articles and that they inspire you to give binocular astronomy a try.
Check out the January/February 2018 issue of SkyNews for an expanded version of Gary's Editor's Report.


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The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department's (OPRD) Scenic Bikeways Committee will meet from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, June 8 at the department's office in the North Mall Office Building, 725 Summer St. NE, room 124, in Salem. The meeting is open to the public. One of the action items on the agenda is the five-year review of the Old West Scenic Bikeway. Committee members want to gather information on the challenges and accomplishments of the program, share that information with other bikeways volunteer groups, and identify ways for OPRD, the committee, and program partners to build on those accomplishments. The Scenic Bikeways Committee is an advisory group for the management and designation of routes nominated by the public for state scenic bikeway designation. Its 11 members include citizen representatives, tourism organizations, local governments, and state agencies involved in bicycling recreation or transportation. The meeting site is accessible to people with disabilities. Special accommodations may be arranged up to 72 hours in advance by calling 503-986-0631.
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Provider and consumer peak bodies and people with a lived experience of aged care are among those being invited to prepare statements for the first witness hearings at the aged care royal commission.
In opening statements on Friday, aged care royal commissioners Richard Tracey and Lynelle Briggs said the forthcoming public hearings to be conducted in each capital city and some regional centres would be an important part of the commission's work.
The community engagement will also include open and invitation-only round table and informal discussions with a range of stakeholders in various locations, other opinion gathering exercises, such as surveys, and visiting some services, Ms Briggs told Friday's preliminary hearing in Adelaide.
A key feature of the commission's task is a focus on the future, and a world-class aged care system that Australia should have, Ms Briggs said.
"There has been a rising torrent of concern that the aged care system is faltering in certain areas of safety and quality and that it may not be fit for purpose. We need to ensure that all Australians have confidence that the system will deliver for them and their families," she said.
The first witness hearings, which commence in Adelaide on 11 February and continue into the following week, will provide a broad overview of the current system, the aged care royal commission heard on Friday.
Counsel assisting the commission is in charge of identifying individuals to give evidence before the commission and deciding the order they appear.
Counsel assisting Timothy McEvoy QC told said the first fortnight of hearings would hear evidence about the key features of the aged care quality, safety and complaints systems and how system works in practice at a general level.
"There will also be information about the challenges faced by the aged care system," Mr McEvoy told the hearing.
The hearings will include accounts from national peak bodies representing aged care providers, consumers and healthcare providers, and regulators, along with aged care consumers.
"The February hearing is not intended to be in anyway a comprehensive sample of the experience of those receiving care and people otherwise engaged with the aged care systems.
"But it is important to hear from those who have a direct lived experience of the aged care systems from the outset, if we can. The perspective of people receiving care is going to be central to this inquiry," Mr McEvoy said.
Peaks preparing witness statements
Aged & Community Services Australia CEO Pat Sparrow confirmed she would be providing a witness statement on behalf of ACSA at next month's hearings.
She said she was pleased that the national aged care bodies, along with all other stakeholders, were being engaged and given the opportunity to provide evidence from the outset.
"One of the good things about this is that it should be a balanced look with all of the relevant parties able to put forward their views," Ms Sparrow told Australian Ageing Agenda following Friday's preliminary hearing.
"But they did say their focus is really on the quality and safety of the care that is provided for older Australians. That is appropriate and we will support them in that endeavour."
COTA Australia chief executive Ian Yates also confirmed the consumer peak was also preparing a witness statement for the February hearings that would scope out its perspectives on the system and where it ought to go in the future.
"The commission has also asked us and other consumer organisations to come up with people who might be prepared to participate," Mr Yates told AAA after the Friday's hearing.
He said COTA was interested in consumers presenting both poor and positive instances of care and was particularly keen to understand how those providing the best care did that with the same subsidy and regulatory environment as the rest of the sector.
Mr Yates said the broad nature of the first witness hearings was a sensible approach to meet the challenge of covering the breadth and depth necessary within 16 months.
"The value of having a context-setting first two weeks is most people don't understand the complexity of aged care. It allows the whole nation to get up to speed because we need to understand both the horror stories and the good things and the challenges of getting those good things to be the norm," he said.
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Mr McEvoy said public hearings, roundtable and community consultations would be conducted throughout this year and into next year in each state and territory capital city, and in some regional centres.
"We hope that community roundtables will be held in even more disparate locations, and the royal commission will release details on these opportunities as soon as they can be organised," he said.
The regional centres where hearings will take place have not yet been named.
Most hearings will focus on particular themes relevant to the terms of reference, with those themes developing during the course of the inquiry with learnings from hearings, submissions, roundtable discussions, public meetings and research, the hearing heard.
The likely major themes to be addressed by the commission include:
- quality and safety
- access and inclusion
- young people with disability
- interface and transitions
- future challenges and opportunities
- how to deliver care in a sustainable way
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Today is January 25, 2020 -
On Sunday, December 10, 2017, 7:00 PM at Congregation Agudat Achim, Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York is hosting a community-wide Joint Society Event featuring Dr. Sharon Goldman of AIPAC. Sharon will present on "Challenges Facing American Zionists in 2017." In addition, the evening includes a dinner and dessert reception by As You Like It caterers.
Dr. Sharon Goldman is the Deputy Director for AIPAC's Northeast Region. She is responsible for managing AIPAC's political, development, and communication efforts advancing AIPAC's policy agenda in the tri-state area. Previously serving as its Northeast Regional Political Director, she managed AIPAC's legislative mobilizations, conducted educational briefings with candidates, and tracked and analyzed local races.
Sharon has a doctorate in political science from Yale University. Sharon was a National Science Foundation fellow. She was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ramapo College before AIPAC.
Sharon previously spoke at a community-wide Joint Society Event on the "Iran Nuclear Deal and the Future of the Middle East." She also spoke during our Mission to New York City and is back by popular demand.
The cost of this Joint Society Event is $30 per person, or $20 per person ages 20-40, and $40 per person if reserved after noon on Friday, December 8. Reservations for the event can be made on-line or by calling Federation at (518) 783-7800. Spouses and friends are encouraged to attend. The society event is open to the entire Jewish community.
This event is sponsored by the Brandeis Baruch Society for Jewish business, financial and legal professionals, the Chaim Weizmann Society for Jewish academic, government and technology professionals and the Maimonides Society for Jewish medical and health professionals. The societies are affinity groups of Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York. Event chairs representing the Brandeis Baruch Society are Lianne Pinchuk Wladis, Esq., Alan Lobel, and Randy Shapiro. Event chairs representing the Chaim Weizmann Society are Gary Ginsburg, Dr. Malcolm Sherman, and Eric Schwartz. Event chairs representing the Maimonides Society are Dr. Rachelle Brilliant, Dr. Michael Fuhrman, and Dr. Eric Moses.
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CORRALES – Juan Lopez spins the finest silver into Volkswagens, virgins and skulls.
This award-winning Spanish Market filigree artist lives and works in a 1965 40-foot trailer with a half-dozen goats and a mare named Goldie roaming the corral behind him.
He taught himself this intricate art form by researching books and examples in museums. He's been soldering, flattening and twisting silver wire for 18 years.
Wearing a blue denim apron, his magnifying glasses crowning his forehead, he warns visitors about the trailer's "questionable" floors that give way into desert sinkholes at random.
"Be careful where you step," he said. "All I did was spread carpet over the holes."
A half-dozen spider plants swarm the window in nest-like vines.
A refrigerator anchors the north end near a hot plate and a sink. An old metal desk sits at the southern end with a post and two upright logs doubling as tables. Lopez sleeps on a couch buttressing these cardinal directions. Ribbons and posters from past markets paper the paneled walls.
"It's livable," he declared.
Something new
Lopez is trying to teach himself repoussé, hammering out a copper horse head atop a bowl of hot wax.
In repoussé (the word is French for "pushed up"), the artist uses a malleable metal to shape it by hammering from the reverse side.
"Eventually, I hope to get to silver," he said.
Pressed, he finally locates a box filled with glittering treasures: necklaces as fine as hummingbird's nests, a doll-sized table and chair and a Santo Niño with a cape, shell and sandals spun of silver lacework. He carved the tiny face from moose antler; the hands and feet from elk. Some of the jewelry features semiprecious stones, such as amethysts or garnets. He's made cast skulls to add to bracelets.
In 2011, his filigree Virgen de Guadalupe snared a trio of blue ribbons at the Traditional Spanish Market, including the People's Choice, Archbishop's and Precious Metal awards. It took him five months.
When Lopez grew interested in filigree, there was no one in New Mexico left to teach him.
He'd been working in construction, and his body was telling him it was time for a career change. He made a concho belt of mission churches using the Hopi overlay technique. But there was no Spanish Market category for that.
Lopez drove to Santa Fe's Museum of International Folk Art to look at old filigree. He was hooked. At first, he melted a lot of silver he was forced to sell as scrap.
"People say I'm stubborn, and I am," he said.
It took him six months to learn the technique.
"I think he's an expert craftsman," said Robin Farwell Gavin, former curator at Santa Fe's Museum of Spanish Colonial Art. "He's really perfected the art of filigree, and he's not afraid to experiment with it. Filigree workers are a rare thing. You don't find many filigree works in the country because it is such precise, intricate work. And you need a really steady hand."
Not giving up
To demonstrate, Lopez slipped a hair-thin wire through his rolling machine until it flattened. Next he attached it to a hand vise and the end of a drill to twist the wire.
"The wire goes back to being round," he said, snipping off the results. He flattened it again, producing the ridges, then bent the results into the shape of a cross, flipping down his magnifiers.
"You need the cheaters," he said with a grin. "Otherwise, your eyes will go out in about an hour."
His career has been a master class woven of serendipity and inventiveness.
A few years ago, he'd been struggling mightily with soldering the hair-thin wires; too much heat would ruin the piece. He stumbled across a new tool at the expense of his poor puppy Chico, who had been walking with him in the bosque.
"Chico's running around in the bushes and I hear this yelp," Lopez said. "He's got his little ears laid back. He had some porcupine quills in his nose. I grab him, put him between my legs and I yank those porcupine quills from his nose and I drop the porcupine quills.
"I stopped and I went back and I picked up those porcupine quills," he added. "I didn't know why.
"I had tried toothpicks with the (soldering) paste. I had tried shaping pieces of metal. You just need a little bit of that solder. I grabbed (a quill) and put it on the piece and, oh, it worked.
"Now I've got enough porcupine quills to last two lifetimes."
In 2009, he created a delicate and sculptural Volkswagen Beetle from 145 feet of silver now sitting in the Museum of International Folk Art. Its doors open; the wheels turn.
"I still go to shows, and people say, 'Hey, where's the Volkswagen?' " he said.


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it might still be better than rigorously sticking to expense tracking and budgeting! One FT reader writes for advise from the Undercover Economist, she is not sure how correctly to track a lost glove:
My husband and I are following a tight budget, whereby he is using an Excel spreadsheet to plan our gas usage, spending of store card loyalty points, and so on. (I name just two of the 12 columns.) He has also plotted our petrol use on a graph. However, I became somewhat concerned when I lost a glove and its value was inputted into the "deficit" column – aptly titled column 13 – of the spreadsheet. I challenged this, as the glove was singular and therefore half the cost. It was also actually a gift – or two gifts. Are we down £15 (the approximate price of the pair of gloves), down £7.50, up £7.50, or quids in? This has become a sensitive issue in our marriage.
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Mother Nature's unpredictable ways have increased the importance of having geographic diversity in sourcing lemons.
Harold Edwards, president and CEO of Santa Paula, Calif.-based Limoneira said the company — founded in 1893 and publicly traded since 2010 — has invested in both domestic and foreign capacity to be meet customers needs.
While lemon shipping point prices for Southern California and Arizona fruit have declined from well over $50 per carton in August to the mid-$30 level in early December, Edwards said having a diverse source of supplies will pay off again.
With a marketing tagline of "One World of Citrus," Edwards said Limoneira serves customers in the U.S., Canada, Southeast Asia, Central and South America and all of Europe.
The company markets fruit from 15,000 acres in Arizona and California and recently invested in 3,000 acres of potential lemon ground in La Serena, Chile - 250 acres of that land is producing today. Limoneira also has a co-packing relationship with a Mexican packer of lemons and limes, has a strategic alliance with Argentina citrus exporter FGF Trapani, and markets summer citrus from South Africa.
"What these relationships and these investments have allowed us to do under this "One World of Citrus" model is to go to each of our customers that we serve around the world and assure them we have a 365 days supply chain," he said.
Limoneira's acquisition of Oxnard Lemon Company added about 1.5 million to 2 million cartons. For the fiscal year 2018, Limoneira expects to market about 3.3 million cartons of fresh lemons in California/Arizona, with 60% produced by Limoneira and 40% from outside growers.
"Next year, thanks to the outside growers and the Oxnard acquisition, we should see that grow to 5.5 million cartons," he said, noting that 60% will come from outside growers and 40% from Limoneira.
Over the next four years, Limoneira expects to see California production increase by a million cartons thanks to young plantings. Chilean production should increase by 600,000 cartons in that time frame.
Mexico will add another 1.5 million cartons, split equally between lemons and limes.
From Argentina, Limoneira sourced about 125,000 cartons this summer, about half of all imports from the country.
Market outlook
While lemon supply conditions may be slightly improved over the winter, Edwards said that Southern California supply in the summer of 2019 will likely be affected by the heat the region experienced this year.
"Because of some extreme weather that we experienced here on the California coast this past summer, we think the market will have increased opportunity for our southern hemisphere fruit complementing our California supply," Edwards said.
"With the upcoming summer months supply fluctuation, we are confident our One World of Citrus supply model will show our customers that they can count on Limoneira to provide the highest quality of service 52 weeks a year."
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In December 2014 we launched CyPosium - the book: a collection of material from the CyPosium itself as well as responses afterwards, edited by Helen Varley Jamieson (that's me) and Annie Abrahams. The contributors are Adriene Jenik, Alan Sondheim, Alberto Vazquez, Annie Abrahams, Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn, Cherry Truluck, Clara Gomes, Helen Varley Jamieson, James Cunningham, Joseph DeLappe, Liz Bryce, Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Maja Delak and Luka Prinčič, Miljana Perić, Rob Myers, Roger Mills, Ruth Catlow, Stephen A. Schrum and Suzon Fuks.
The CyPosium was an amazing event - 12 hours of intense discussion and presentations, with over 100 participants; and the book has taken us nearly two years of compiling, writing, editing, organising, negotiating, designing, laying out, uploading, downloading, chatting, emailing ... finally it's here! It's really great to have such good documentation of the event - as well as the book, there are recordings of all the presentations and discussions on the web site, plus chat logs and other material.
Cyberformance is the term I coined in 2000 to describe my experiments in live performance with remote performers coming together in real time via free internet chat applications. It came out of the need to find a word that avoided the polarisation of virtual and real, and the need for a new term (rather than "online performance" or "virtual theatre") for a new genre. My Masters thesis, Adventures in Cyberformance: experiments at the interface of theatre and the internet, outlines what cyberformance is and could be.
Much has changed since 2000; there are now many different artists experimenting in all kinds of forms of cyberformance and networked performance, and using the internet as a medium for live performances. And my own work continues to evolve. This site, infrequently updated, is an attempt to make more accessible the variety of work that could come under the cyberformance umbrella. It's very incomplete; please if something is missing.
Timelines did come up for discussion during the CyPosium and earlier in its organisation. Is it a useful exercise? People always want to know where they can find lists of relevant things, so here are some attempts, but they are incomplete and always out of date ...
Here's my (again, incomplete)networked/distributed/telematic cyberformance timeline. Feel free to if you know of something i've left out.
Francesco Buonaiuto's Performance online timeline.
Aether9's timeline of Communication Art.
The Walker Art Centre Telematics Timeline.
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Fast Market Research recommends "Bulgaria Telecommunications Report Q4 2012" from Business Monitor International, now available
Boston, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/13/2012 -- BMI View: Bulgaria's mobile market is close to saturation, with mobile growth slowing down to single digits during the last three years and mobile penetration reaching 161% by Q112, according to BMI data. We expect mobile network operators to increasingly focus on advanced data services to boost revenue growth amid intense price competition in the voice segment. Meanwhile, we expect consolidation in the mobile and fixed-line sectors to attract much needed capital for network investment and the roll-out of next generation access networks.
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- Mobile growth slowed in Q112 compared to the latter part of 2011 as the seasonal effects of on growth and promotional activities in Q311 and Q411 wore off.
- We revised up our fixed-line forecast to reflect new market data that show the market recorded positive growth in 2010 and 2011.
- Our broadband forecast increased after the country's mobile network operators reported strong take-up of mobile broadband services.
- Bulgaria's ARPU fell sharply in Q112 as operators reacted to slow subscriber growth with lower tariffs and promotional activities to boost subscriptions.
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Bulgaria remains in the 11th position on our Risk/Reward Ratings (RRR) table in this quarter's update, with no change to its aggregate score from the previous quarter or its ratings in any of our four ratings categories. Bulgaria scores below the regional average in all four of our ratings categories, while the country's aggregate score of 46.7 is 2.3pts below the overall regional average. Bulgaria's lowest rating is in the Industry Rewards category where a combination of declining subscriber growth and rapidly falling ARPU are among factors impacting on its ratings.
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Now or in Your Future?
Have you ever heard of "digital plastic surgery"? A recent article in the New York Times by Joanna Nikas beautifully described its effect on 2018's perception of beauty. She tells us what most of us already know, that fashion magazines consider it common practice to enhance the face and bodies of women in their pages. So what's new now? We are seeing it in social media!
Software programs and even apps have made the process of transforming faces so easy that my 8-year-old granddaughter can do it to perfection. You think not? Then take a look at a program called "Portrait Professional," where ordinary faces can become extraordinary in a matter of minutes! (See example on right.) It becomes so tempting for social media fans to enhance their face for Facebook, Instagram or other internet platforms.
Trending today is the desire for many people young and old to have plastic surgery procedures done to look more like their filter from Snapchat or Instagram. The filters allow you to improve features that may be more pronounced like a jaw or nose and accentuate others like your eyes. It even allows you to add makeup, remove scars or acne, and extend eyelashes. These filters are part of the software when you have certain apps like the ones mentioned above.
I can envision a woman eyeing a handsome man on a dating app or website and arranging to meet him at a public restaurant or bar. However, she isn't able to spot him when he arrives and, unfortunately, he has the exact same problem trying to recognize her face from her photos. You guessed it…they both digitally enhanced their images to the point where each was unrecognizable.
In the article "Online Dating Pictures-Who Said the Camera Never Lies?" (The Guardian, 12/6/14), Stella Grey discusses her real experiences with online dating and the dilemma of posting your best pictures. On one occasion, she was meeting up with a "worryingly handsome" man who had seen only "strategic photos" of her head and shoulders. When he saw her in person, "his face fell." After ignoring her to listen to the live band, he ended the evening by saying, "I don't think so, do you?" After that date, Grey admitted that she posted a full body picture so that men had a realistic impression of her.
The takeaway: when posting photos of yourself, use a variety of "looks." Be sure to post recent pictures that depict how you look today, not something from your high school days. Your selected pictures should reflect your lifestyle and what you enjoy. Consider the following suggestions:
• A full-length picture
• Limit the "selfies" to just one
• A group shot with friends
• A picture of yourself doing an activity or hobby you enjoy
• A picture with an interesting backdrop from a vacation or hike
Digital enhancement has crept into virtually all phases of our lives – and not always in legitimate ways. I recall one incident when my dental partner Dr. David Garber and I were editors of a leading dental magazine on esthetic dentistry. We would constantly receive well-illustrated articles and had a scientific committee to judge if the articles had sufficient merit to be included in our journal. One such article was rejected because the final result showed terribly diseased gum tissue, indicating possibly poor fit of the new porcelain crowns. Much to my surprise, I was shocked to see the exact same photos digitally enhanced to show "perfect" tissue when the article was published in another magazine. Dishonesty in a health professional magazine is certainly not the only abuse of digital technology; we have seen it utilized to advance the academic status of less qualified individuals.
The same analogy can be applied to falsifying looks to the public, especially in dating sites. Perhaps you have seen good-looking pictures of celebrities, writers and commentators but when seeing them in person (or even interviewed) they looked much older or not even close to their "public relations" photos.
When I asked Dr. Foad Nahai from Emory Aesthetic Center in Atlanta about this trend, he responded:
"Yes, we have all seen it. We are all aware of body dysmorphic disorder that must be taken into account when evaluating patients. The changes made by the app may not be appropriate or may not be realistic or attainable. We prefer more sophisticated technology that is available in most plastic surgeons' offices to realistically represent the results of procedures the individual is interested in. Together the patient and surgeon look at the proposed changes, and it is the surgeon's responsibility to point out whether the changes are appropriate or even attainable. Not all cosmetic procedures and operations are appropriate in teens. It is important to keep an open mind about the realities of what a plastic surgeon can accomplish for you and to not be stuck with an unobtainable image of yourself."
There's no harm in trying the quick digital makeover, and if you like the way your face looks in the "after" then the next step is to see a plastic surgeon, who also has facial enhancement software. Then and only then will you have an accurate visualization of how your face can be improved. Usually the doctor will make the enhancements with you, but the best thing is that they will be realistic changes.
Tinder: This international app was one of the pioneers in early "swipe" matchmaking. Upload your profile and swipe right if you like what you see and swipe left if you don't. When two people swipe right on each other, a match is made, and you both can communicate through text on the app and make plans to meet up.
Hinge: This app relies on your Facebook friends to make connections through your friends and your friends of friends. Unique questions are asked as part of the profile design, and potential "matches" can "like" your answers on your profile page.
Bumble: This app puts the power into the female's hands and she initiates the conversation. After a connection is made, the "matches" have 24 hours to communicate with each other, thus encouraging the users to get to know each other.
Love Again:For those looking for a friendship, love or support, this site caters to the 40+ age bracket and has a community feel. It also helps those who have lost a significant other find others going through the same thing.
Match.com:One of the original dating sites with over 23 years of matchmaking, this site is for people looking for a more serious relationship. Singles are recommended to you based on your answers to specific questions. It also gives you access to "Stir" which is Match.com's social site that fills you in on local events and helps bring users together in person based on interest.
Senior Match: Launched in 2003, this site is billed as the biggest and most active senior dating site for those over 50. Whether you're looking for dating and relationships, companionship, a travel mate or activity partner, this site covers it all.
eHarmony: With over 2 million monthly visitors, this site uses a compatibility matching system, with a lengthy questionnaire that narrows the field to fit your profile. It's designed for people looking for a relationship and marriage-minded singles. It also screens for sex offenders and monitors account activity.
With a lifelong interest in beauty, Dr. Ronald Goldstein conducts ongoing research on the physical attractiveness phenomenon and its role in the achievement of personal success. His dental practice was the first to move beyond the smile and focus on overall facial harmony. He writes extensively for both consumers and the dental profession on beauty, esthetic dentistry and related topics. Dr. Goldstein is the author of the 2-volume textbook, Esthetics In Dentistry and Change Your Smile (12 foreign translations), which now in its 4th edition is the top-selling consumer guide to cosmetic dentistry found in thousands of dentists' reception rooms around the world. He is on the advisory board of New Beauty magazine and writes for it as well. He is the founder of Tomorrow's Smiles, a national non-profit fund that helps deserving adolescents receive life-changing smiles through cosmetic dentistry. His multidisciplinary practice Goldstein, garber & salama is in Atlanta, Georgia.


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Common Reasons Septic Tanks Backup
When your septic tank is backed up, you're probably more focused on taking care of the problem and less worried about why it happened in the first place. To reduce your chances of experiencing the same issue again, do yourself a favor and get to know some of the most common reasons for a septic tank backup.
Garbage Disposal
No matter how great garbage disposals are, they aren't ideal in every home, especially those with a septic system. This is because debris that's only partially broken down can block the flow in the pipes. There's also the possibility of gunk collecting in the tank, which requires frequent pumping.
Tree Roots
Tree roots digging their way close to a septic tank can actually grow inside the tank and pipes. When that happens, debris flowing through the pipes can become stuck on the roots and trigger a backup. Find out where your septic tank is in relation to any trees growing on your property to see how likely it may be that the roots could dig their way into the tank or the drain field pipes, leading to a septic tank backup.
Heavy Loads
If you drive a hefty passenger vehicle or roll heavy equipment over your septic system, there's a chance you can press the earth over the tank and pipes down enough to cause damage. Should you decide to do any type of construction project on your property or anything else that requires heavy machinery, be sure to steer clear of the area over the septic tank and pipes.
"Flushable" and Non-Flushable Products
Even if a cleansing cloth, paper towel or baby wipe label says that it's flushable, it's best that you throw it into the trash anyway. Such products have proven hazardous to septic tanks, causing them to become backed up over time.
If you ever experience a septic tank backup or suspect your tank could be backed up, have a professional take care of the job. Additionally, be sure to ask about additional backup prevention tips.


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Towards a Cost-effective Healthcare
When it comes to the rest of the economies, the healthcare sector has grown exponentially. Reports suggest that the landscape grew by 818 percent during 1960-2010 while when it comes to the gross domestic product, it increased by 168 percent with a 16 percent increase in the wages. This has also given rise to the healthcare spend incurred in the US that has gone up by 18 percent of GDP, which according to experts is in a very high proportion. The entire world, not just the U.S., sees this growth in the healthcare space. The question that arises is—how can the healthcare sector be spared from the significant cost increase?
The answer is digitization. As digitization is all set to revolutionize the healthcare industry, it has the potential to reverse the ever-increasing costs and also have a positive impact on the industry in terms of bringing in innovations. But the predicament here is that the healthcare space is far behind the curve of digitization.
According to experts, the weight of the healthcare industry would be shifted significantly by the disruptive and innovative technology in the near future. There are two prominent factors today that holds back the digitization of the healthcare sector. The first one is that people don't really trust the novel technologies existing in the space and secondly, the existing rules and regulations of the healthcare system are not quick in order to accommodate the new technology. The only way to reduce the costs is that while novel technology improves the diagnosis and medical treatment of the existing diseases, technological innovation must be enhanced which will lead the way towards cost-effective healthcare.
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Hotel Campanile Saint Nazaire - Trignac
About the hotel
Your Campanile Hotel Restaurant Saint-Nazaire is 1 km from the TGV station and 10 minutes from the Montoir de Bretagne site where AIRBUS is located, in the heart of the shopping district and 10 minutes from the town centre known as "Le Paquebot" and the Ruban Bleu, where the shopping centre is being developed.
The Campanile Hotel Saint Nazaire is a 3 star hotel which is ideal for a family holiday, a weekend away or a business trip.
Your Campanile Hotel Saint Nazaire is the point of departure for a magnificent visit to the coast, where you can discover beaches on the "chemin des douaniers", which follows the coast for 7 km, overhanging creeks and cliffs. Take advantage of Saint Nazaire beach, which is almost below the windows of the port authority building, and Mr. Hulot's beach, which was made famous by the film "Les vacances de Mr Hulot".
Your hotel in Saint Nazaire is also situated around 15 minutes from Baule, Pouliguen , Pornichet and Guérande .
The restaurant of your Campanile hotel Saint Nazaire, which was recently renovated, welcomes you to enjoy our buffets, as well as our seasonal menu. With a capacity of 47 seated places, we can accommodate you for business lunches or dinner with family or friends. Weather permitting, you can enjoy our shaded terrace, with has a capacity for 24 seated places.
The hotel also has private and free parking.
Don't delay, make your reservation!
Are you looking for a hotel in Saint Nazaire on the Campanile website? Finding a reasonably priced hotel in Saint Nazaire is easy and we recommend the Campanile Hotel Saint Nazaire - Trignac.
Reserving with Campanile is a guarantee of having a comfortable room at the best price.
Visit the Campanile hotels website to take advantage of good ideas and current promotional offers!
Reserve online from your smartphone thanks to the HôtelForYou application for iPhone, Blackberry and Android. Find the most convenient hotel for you, discover all its facilities and check our room availability. See you very soon in our 3 star hotel in Saint Nazaire!
For your benefit, you can also enjoy our exclusive WiFi+ service: free broadband WiFi throughout the hotel to surf, chat and watch videos to your heart's content.
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The hotel has 47 spacious and comfortable rooms available, 2 of which are adapted for persons with reduced mobility. There are 23 twin rooms and 24 double rooms.
All our rooms are air-conditioned and equipped with a flat screen TV, a desk, a telephone, a bathroom, with bathtub, top of the range bed linen and a complimentary tray with a kettle, tea, coffee, milk and selection of cakes.
Early-Start Breakfast
Are you a morning person? The restaurant doors are open to you from 6.30.
A choice of hot drinks, pastries, dairy products, cereals, fruits and cold meat platter are available – and unlimited – so you can put your own breakfast together.
For lunch and dinner
The restaurant in your Campanile Hotel Saint Nazaire-Trignac invites you for a real gourmet break, which you can enjoy on the terrace during the summer.
Between 12.00 and 14.00 and 19.00 and 22.00 you can enjoy the variety of unlimited buffets featuring hors d'œuvres, cheeses and desserts.
You can also have a tray meal brought to your room until 22.00
Services and conditions
For your business trips or family holidays, your hotel in Saint-Nazaire offers you all the services to facilitate your stay:
- Facilities for guests with reduced mobility
- Free WIFI in all rooms
- Parking
- Complimentary tray with kettle, tea, coffee and selection of cakes
- Hairdryer and iron available at the reception
Starting from EUR 59
- WIFI free
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- Free parking in the hotel
- Air conditionned lobby
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