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Water Damage Restoration Companies in Pflugerville – What Do You Need To Know about Water Damage Repair ?
Water damage
Water damage describes a large number of possible losses caused by water intruding where it will enable attack of a material or system by destructive processes such as rotting of wood, growth, rusting of steel, de-laminating of materials such as plywood, and many others.
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Who are the Water Damage Repair Pflugerville water damage restoration professionals to turn to for flood clean up, removal, and repair?
There are only a few true fire and water restoration companies that Water Damage Repair in Pflugerville Texas that can provide the full line of flood clean up, fire rebuilding and mold remediation services. These companies have been in business in the Pflugerville area for decades and have full time, trained technicians who are available to do emergency water extraction 24/7. They have industrial strength equipment and professional gear that they use daily on just such water damage emergencies.
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And then there are the other guys….
These competitors are divided into three types of restoration service providers:
Water Damage Internet marketing firms
Most of the restoration companies you will find on the web are marketing companies that later sell your cleanup and rebuilding job to subcontractors they never met. When there is a big demand for restoration clean up services in Pflugerville, such as frozen and burst pipes, burst water heaters or rain and flood damage, these marketing companies call everyone who says that they can do water removal, clean up and repair to get your job. However, if they cannot find any subcontractors, your job will be abandoned.
Water Damage Restoration National Franchises
The other type of water removal and repair competitors are large corporate franchise restoration companies with very little connection to Pflugerville. They do not have full line fire, water and restoration services in Pflugerville and usually have staff that is new to the home restoration business. Very often, the true fire and water remediation companies are asked to complete repair jobs that were started by restoration franchisees.
Carpet Cleaning Companies
There are hundreds of carpet cleaning companies in Pflugerville that claim to be water damage restoration companies. These so called remediation experts have no water removal experience, flood damage clean up training or dehumidification equipment to complete water and flood damage repair projects. They also have no education or much experience in the science of water extraction, drying and clean up. There is very little chance that your property would be completely restored through their services.
In fact, since these companies do not have any water removal, fire restoration or mold remediation experience or content restoration facilities to handle personal belongings or furniture, their so called services only delay your home's restoration work. Meanwhile, there is further structural damage to your dry walls, ceilings, carpets, and floors, possibly resulting in mold damage.
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For most home owners, water damage is a more likely event than a fire disaster. Flood damage may be caused by multiple reasons, some of which are natural rain storms or hurricanes and others stemming from household accidents, such as leaking, frozen or burst pipes, flooded basements, overflowing toilets, bathtubs or sinks, crawlspace seepage, damaged water heaters, and others. Whatever the flood damage causes are, do be aware of your and your family's safety and make sure to follow the tips below.
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Three researchers have come up with a technique they claim will allow laptop and smartphone batteries to be recharged in two minutes. Huigang Zhang, Xindi Yu and Paul Braun of the University of Illinois created a new battery cathode - the negatively charged one - formed "from a self-assembled three-dimensional bicontinuous …
How easy would it be to increase the capacity of the batteries to the point where they would be useable in EVs?
The biggest stepping stone with vehicles seems to be the amount of time it takes to charge vs filling a liquid fuel tank. if these batteries charge to 90% in a couple of minutes, take that to EV level and you'd be able to fully charge your car while parked up for an hour doing the shopping...
While this super fast charging might work on small scale batteries it could get a bit tricky when you start getting into the massive batteries used in electric vehicles. To "fill" a battery for an electric vihicle in a time comparable to filling a gas tank would likely require that the electricity be flowing at thousands of amps.
"Nickel Hydrogen cells don't tend to explode; they mearly vent hydrogen gas at ~200°C. Of course if you light it when it comes out, that is your own problem."
I think you'll find Hydrogen at +200c venting into the air on Earth won't *need* an ignition source.
Should make a really nice "afterburner" effect to add to you EV though.
while I agree that this would be dangerous if just left to a simple twin+earth plug, with proper safety precautions kept in mind I don't see how this is any worse than we do now.
Perhaps a locking mechanism which won't allow the "pump" to be powered on until the plug is locked in place, and won't allow the plug to be removed until the pump is powered down again, similar to the Gas pumps used for LPG, at no point will anyone be at risk from electrocution.
Alternatively the batteries could be charged in parrallel. Instead of a single cable charging at thousands of amps, several cables could be used each charging at hundreds of amps. The more cables, the less amperage required down each one.
It's no worse than a hose-ful of highly flammable liquid/gas - if done well it could even be safer!
I'm sure someone more intelligent than I will work out a way of making money putting this tech into cars!
High current line, batteries in parallel when charging. Could charge each cell at the same time and be done in a few minutes.
The Tesla uses the equivalent of laptop batteries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster#Battery_system) so connecting the sheets in parallel when charging should do the trick. You wouldn't want to stick your tongue on the end of the charging socket though....
What I don't understand, if the charge time is such an issue with EVs, is why car manufacturers don't build cars with removable rechargeable batteries. Get the the petrol(?) station, remove your battery and swap it for a fully charged one, and drive off. Your previous battery gets recharged gradually after your gone and sold to another driver the next day.
I assume manufacturers must have thought about this (it's an obvious idea) so what are the pitfalls? I realise petrol stations would have to factor in the cost of taking batteries out of circulation once they've reached the end of their life and might need some mechanical apparatus to aid removal, lifting and reinsertion of batteries due to their weight but I can't think of any show stoppers.
Anyone know why this hasn't been tried?
actually battery recharge time is only the obvious immediate problem, using hydrogen for power storage is one way to get around that problem (as well as the problem that there aren't the resources to build the batteries that would be required, but at the cost of reduced efficiency)
the real problem is you still need to produce (and distribute) the huge amounts of electricity that would be needed in the first place - a few thousand demo cars isn't the same as placing our entire transport demands on the national grid, we don't have the ability to produce anywhere near enough electricity for that, and afaik there aren't any plans to change that
The big problem being, just how green would it be if they tried to scale production to the level required to make electric cars viable.
Much of the materials used in making electric vehicles are extremel complex to extract, and not by particulary environmentally friendly processes. Until we solve this secondary problem, electric vehicles will remain a novelty item.
I'm not knocking the EV - just pointing out it isn't as simple as solving the charge time
Yes, that is true what you say however:
The cable to carry all that power whould be rather huge. Also the power drawn would be so much that Sainsbury's would need their own power-station to power all of their charging stations. Of course with that power station not doing anything when you weren't there charging, the cost of the electricity would be pretty high (You can't just bung 100MW onto the grid randomly depending on how many cars are charging)
A much better idea would be for you to plug in your car when it is not running (probably 20 hours a day) and charge it slowly. The added bonus is that you don't stress the power supply network, the charging electronics or the battery, so they can all be cheaper and last longer. Oh, and the charger would be a HELL of a lot cheaper to make too!
Of course for taxis and buses it's a different situation, and there the best current option is a system where the empty battery is switched out and changed for a charged one.
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A decent EV battery is 50-100 KWh in capacity. In order to charge that in 5 minutes (comparable to filling with petrol) you need to push between 600KW and 1.2MW into the car. Unless you have a very high voltage (and the associated problems that that brings) this will need a lot of current.
EV users charge their cars every night, so only need to charge away from home if doing a daily journey in excess of the car's range. The comparison with filling a legacy car with liquid fuel isn't really valid.
...but any word on the energy storage density per unit volume and/or mass? In other words, can they make one that fits into the back of my HTC and lasts more than 16h, or one that can store enough energy to propel a car a few hundred miles without adding several tons to the mass?
...the old "self-assembled three-dimensional bicontinuous nanoarchitecture consisting of an electrolytically active material sandwiched between rapid ion and electron transport pathways" trick!
I always knew that would work. Honest. I told my mate Derek about that down the pub, you can ask him yourself! Or was that my auto-inflating glow-in-the-dark Bulgarian airbag idea? One or the other...
...so I've read.
Me thinks there will be a market for 'small' (LOL, ~300MW) nuclear plants to be buried beneath the stations' forecourts. Not to mention superconducting cables, plugs and sockets.
Also, someone may wish to compute V=IR, P=V*I, T~P, and PV=nRT.
I was wondering what to do with some self-assembled three-dimensional bicontinuous nanoarchitectures consisting of an electrolytically active material sandwiched between rapid ion and electron transport pathways just the other day!
This is actually dead cool and if its charge cycle life can be increased and the battery can be scaled for EV tech, then we have a serious breakthrough.
Ok, 'C' in this context doesn't appear to mean coulombs. Having now read the article, the following is the relevant phrase:
"the C-rate−1 is the time in hours required to fully charge or discharge an electrode or battery; an nC-rate indicates that the current chosen will discharge the system in 1/n h"
The percentages quoted is the capacity of the battery at a higher charge/discharge rate as a proportion of the 1C rate.
This explains most of it:
"At 305C, the NiOOH cathode delivers 90% of its 1C capacity, and when the discharge rate increases to the unprecedented value of 1,017C (291 A g−1), the electrode delivers 75% of its 1C capacity in ~2.7 s. In comparison, commercial NiMH cathodes, which consist of a large-pore-size (~50 µm to 1 mm) nickel foam coated with a thick layer of NiOOH, usually retain ~1–2% of their capacity at C-rates exceeding 35C"
"In any case, today's batteries lose capacity over time. So does the trio's battery, but they found it to maintain its capacity for at least 100 charge/discharge cycles." - at least a hundred? If this is more expensive than your standard rechargeable battery - and it will be, even just looking at materials - you're going to b spending a lot of money on replacing it. If an EV is getting a charge every night, you'll be replacing your batteries twice a year, just to keep that full charge. Ouch.
Awesome tech, but it needs work before it's mainstream. Let's try for 100 *thousand* cycles, shall we?
You going to need a BRICK of a PSU.
14V 4000mAH approx = 1hr @ 56W (about 90% of a 4400mAH pack), and er, 4 amps
same charge in 20 seconds is 180x, = 10kW! at 720A on the 14VDC, (about 45A, or more than three plug sockets!)
So ... maybe very small phone batteries. But not big laptop packs.
Do I smell burning motherboard?
I am inclined to agree with previous posters. If this could scale to run electric vehicles, even if the range wasn't up to much, if it only took 10-15 minutes to recharge, you'd be on to a winner.
Even a half hour break every 200 miles would be acceptable in my books for a full charge, allowing shorter stops to deliver less charge as demonstrated, 5 minutes for a quarter of a tank maybe?
Scaled up to EV sized batteries this would be a step change and with re-charging points as common as filling stations (in principle *more* common given its basically a socket + metering and billing hardware) and people *could* become quite comfortable with EV's.
Ironically the question might be now can it be built to discharge *slowly* enough not to fry the motors.
Obviously this is a *long* way from production and is certainly not the first battery tech that looked incredible in the lab but has not set the world on fire (unlike some of the successful ones, which on occasion have).
Thumbs up and I will wish them *every* success but this is just the start of the end of the beginning. IE about v0.1.
But if they make it to 1.0 I'll be cheering.
Use an array of the new batteries at the charging station to dump the power into the new batteries in the cars. The station batteries can charge relatively slowly using the existing grid, spreading the current draw across many hours, while still providing the ability to charge a car in a short period of time.
Battery chargers with built-in thermionic diode based coolers.
Peltiers it seems are very inefficient but using these in combination with silicone thermal pads increases the efficiency of the charging process as well as the longevity of the cells.
Result is that the cells last 2000 cycles with no capacity loss.
It also occurs to me that making each cell with a void in the centre where liquid coolant flows and polarised hollow magnetic contacts at each end could also allow a higher capacity cell which would be compatible with conventional chargers and allow for rapid assembly of custom packs with the ease of Lego.

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Feb. 19, 2010) - After a week layoff the 60th-ranked ETSU men's tennis team returns to action this weekend with a 12 p.m., contest Saturday at No. 16 Wake Forest. The Bucs and Demon Deacons will square off inside the Wake Forest Indoor Tennis Center in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Saturday's contest will be the first for ETSU (2-4) since the Bucs completed their longest road trip in school history early this month in Seattle, Washington. ETSU dropped both its matches out in the Great Northwest Shootout, as the Bucs fell to No.58 Mississippi State 5-2 and host and No. 25 Washington, 4-3.
Despite its two losses on the Pacific coast ETSU has played one of the toughest schedules in the country this season. The Bucs have faced five ranked opponents - all on the road - including matches at No.11 Louisville and No. 2 Tennessee.
Individually, junior Grega Teraz (Mojstrana, Slovenia) leads the Bucs with a 5-3 record in singles. Teraz - who was ranked 82nd in the country before this week - has won back-to-back singles contests at the No. 1 position.
Overall, ETSU looks to continue its trend of having a great individual performance against the Demon Deacons. This month ETSU leads the Atlantic Sun Conference with two "Player of the Week" award winners. Sophomore Robin Akser (Ornskoldsvik, Sweden) won the first February 3, while Teraz picked up the second a week later, February 10.
Wake Forest (3-1) welcomes the Bucs after winning two straight road contests against William and Mary and VCU. The Demon Deacons also had a victory against No. 31 Minnesota early this spring.
Individually, freshman Tripper Carleton and junior Iain Atkinson lead the way for Wake. Carleton currently is ranked 74th by the ITA in singles, while Atkinson sits at 117th.
Saturday's match will be the second time that ETSU has Wake Forest has met in men's tennis. Wake defeated the Bucs in a thrilling 4-3 contest in Myrtle Beach, S.C. last season. In that match, ETSU had a chance to win with three-straight match points; however the Demon Deacons rallied late in the third-set tiebreaker for the comeback win.
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Biking The Country Roads of Watauga
Biking The Country Roads of Watauga with Ole Gade and Roni Ellis • From the charming village of Valle Crucis to the banks of the Wild and Scenic New River, enjoy the sights and beautiful landscapes of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. This is the ideal guide for the leisure cyclist and the automotive sightseer to explore Watauga County.
You will find routes that are perfect for your ability and interests. Detailed descriptions of carefully planned bike rides and topographical maps showing elevation profiles, total gain and mileage will entice you to soak up the local historical culture and bask in our diverse High Country ecosystem. Relax with our book, turn the pages, savor the exquisite photographs and then make your plans to experience the Country Roads of Watauga.
Special thanks to these contributors for sharing their talents and expertise
• Shaw Brown, Boone Bike and Touring ~ "Essentials of the Bike"
• Ane Gade ~ "Local Resources"
• Anne Hardin ~ Cover Art
• Sara Mayhew ~ "Flora and Fauna of the Blue Ridge"
• Karen Gade-Pulido, M.D. ~ "Health Issues"
• And To Our Spin teacher Gwen Honeycutt, who pushes us to pedal the "extra mile".
"Biking The Country Roads of Watauga with Ole Gade and Roni Ellis was published thanks to funding by The Mast Farm Inn of Valle Crucis, North Carolina. The Inn provided all the funds required to publish & print the first edition."
Do you want to know about the wealth of leisure biking experiences possible within the County of Watauga in the North Carolina High Country? We, the authors of this book, are convinced that bikers of the "boomer" generation and beyond, plus biking families will appreciate these opportunities, not only for their recreational and leisure biking in very attractive rural environments, but also for an introduction to the rich tapestries of cultural history of this mountain county. Obviously all of these routes are equally enjoyable for automotive sightseeing. Further, we are cognizant of this County?s interest in diversification of its current tourism and open space recreational offerings. Our response to meet these combined private needs and public interests is this volume, which defines some 250+ miles of rural back roads in some twenty plus vehicular routes.
We have divided the County into five regions, each supported by a general location map showing individual routes, and a comprehensive introduction intended to ease you into a mountain setting. A one to two page spread is provided for each route. These vary from seven to 20 miles with elevation gains from negligible to just over 2,000 feet. Route pages include color photos and descriptions of conditions along the way, notes on road aspects, view prospects as well as the best time of day/week/season to venture out, given expected automotive traffic and weather. There are references to historic venues (churches, farm complexes, homes, oddities, etc.) and other pertinent information. Each route shows the elevation profile and total gain and mileage, and carries a suggested challenge rating.
Introductory sections include climate and weather conditions on a seasonal basis in the Blue Ridge of North Carolina. It includes comments on flora and fauna; notes on topography, landscape settlement history and economic development. In addition, there are expert opinions on the practical aspects of legalities of the road for bikers, appropriate bike equipment and repair, and personal health conditions. An appendix includes a listing of relevant High Country literature and web pages focusing on bike services and lodging facilities.
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Article • Watauga Leisure Biking Club County's Most Active Group of Cyclists
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Our office hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Duty personnel are available 24 hours per day.
These hours may vary during Holidays and official College breaks.
Office: 618.664.7118
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Our members enjoy climbing from almost-beginner level to international competition standard. We have an active diary which includes Wednesday evenings throughout the year, indoor and out, weekend meets are also scheduled across the year.
Throughout the winter we have regular slide shows on the Wednesday evenings after the wall session. We've had a variety of speakers in the past from Hazel Findlay to Andy Cave.
Becoming a member gives you access to a large variety of discount schemes both locally and regionally. With an average of 10% off, you will quickly recoup your membership cost.
A thriving, active and diverse membership with weekly meets, day meets and weekend meets throughout the year as well as many informal trips arranged by members
Membership of the NMC is open to anyone who wants to climb. We can't take absolute beginners, but if you've been on a basic course and can tie into a harness and can belay safely then you're welcome to come along. There are great indoor walls locally where you can learn the climbing basics.
Full membership requires that you have attended 3 NMC meets, and that you have a proposer and seconder for your application from current NMC members. You do not need to be a prospective member to apply for full membership if you meet these requirements.
Prospective members can upgrade to full membership at any time, provided they meet the full membership requirements.
The upgrade fee is required if upgrading during the 6 months, or if upgrading after the 6 months has expired.
Our membership application form is available online and will be sent to the Membership Secretary along with payment. You can now pay online via direct debit using Go Cardless which is fast, convenient, efficient and most importantly safe.
Full membership requires that you have attended 3 NMC meets, and that you have a proposer and seconder for your application from current NMC members.
Being under 18 it doesn't mean you can't climb with the club, we welcome everyone! We only need you to be accompanied by a parent or guardian who is a full member of the club.
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Ayman Al Zawahiri has just sent a video message to the new leader of the revolution in Egypt Hazem Salah Abu Ismail !!
Complete the revolution , fight the corrupted , liberate Egypt from American Israeli fellowship and stand for Sharia along your followers through incitement !!!
Ironically Ayman Al Zawahiri considers the current rulers are corrupted and he does not mention Morsi at all as if he is insignificant person !!!
I do not know if it is a game or what !? You know Abu Ismail trashes the current regime online so the current Islamist regime appears moderate for the West !!
I know the theological and political difference between Al Qaeda and MB . Still I cannot forget the fact Al Zawahiri's uncle was a leading member in the MB and Ayman Al Zawahiri's future went upside down when he was arrested in 1960s and brutally tortured in Nasser's jails for the suspicion of being a Muslim brotherhood member. It is also worth to mention that Abu Ismail was a member in the Muslim brotherhood but left the group because he had a great ambition as you can tell.


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Brad Paisley Reacts to Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi's Death
Brad Paisley has a few ideas of what should become of recently killed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. The active tweeter posted two thoughts on the topic, and indicated the dictator would not be in his thoughts and prayers moving forward.
"I hope they find a suitable piece of ground to bury Gadhafi, so he can finally do some good in this world…like fertilization," Paisley tweeted Friday morning. That came just hours after he joked, "Probably won't be putting Gadhafi's photo in the "When I get Where I'm Going" live video content this tour. Just sayin'."
Gadhafi was killed on Thursday, Oct. 20, after a long battle with rebels.
Paisley's tour with Scotty McCreery and the Band Perry begins in January, and the superstar is known to include recently deceased celebrities in a montage during the duet with Dolly Parton. On Wednesday, he announced almost two months worth of dates for the Camabunga! Tour. So far, 20 dates have been announced.


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Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Screenshots Show Hunters Becoming The Hunted
Are you itching to fight huge, majestic creatures, harvest their parts to make your armor, and then use their bones to take on even bigger, more impressive monsters?
You won't have to wait much longer, because Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate will be out next month for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U! The touch screens available for both systems should make managing your hunt a whole lot easier, so you can focus on the Rathalos that wants to welcome you as a part of its three-course meal, instead of jumbling around to access all of your items.
Below are some screenshots that show off the multiplayer portion of the game, because hunting alone can get boring, and monsters typically like to eat more than one thing at a time. We've also got shots of the retail boxes, so you'll know what to hunt down when the game is released on March 19th, 2013.
Let us know what you think of the game and, if you're getting it, what system you'll be buying it for and why!


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In accordance with the Governor's Executive Order 04-182, this memorandum authorizes State agencies the option of paying employees a portion of their earned salary on a more frequent basis. This option is intended to provide temporary relief to state employees impacted by the Hurricane Charley disaster or involved with the recovery efforts. It will be up to each agency head to decide whether his or her agency will participate in this option. The procedures to pay biweekly employees on a weekly basis and to pay monthly employees on a semi-monthly basis are as follows:
1. Identify the affected employees and create a list with Name, SSN, Pay period and net amount being paid.
2. Use their most recent paycheck to determine an amount to pay an employee on the weekly or semi-monthly payroll period (i.e., about ½ of net, rounded to the nearest whole dollar amount). This will be the Friday after payday for Biweekly employees and around the 15th of the month for Monthly employees. Enter this amount on the list referred to above. Once determined, this amount should remain the same unless there is a change in the number of hours the employee is to be paid, or something else occurs that would affect their normal net pay.
3. Affected employees must be added to your departmental vendor file if they are not already in the file. To ensure that those with EFT do not receive a warrant, the name and SSN in the vendor file must be exactly the same as the W-4 file.
4. Input vouchers in Departmental FLAIR through the expense system, payable to the affected employees. Use object code 1100 and their normal salary account code. The deadline for inputting the voucher is three days prior to the desired payday (e.g., Tuesday for a Friday payday).
5. Write "Disaster Relief" on the face of the voucher(s) and hand deliver to the Bureau of Auditing for posting. Attach a copy of the list for backup purposes. This must be done no later than 10 a.m. two days prior to the desired payday (e.g., Wednesday at 10:00a.m. for a payday of Friday).
6. Send a copy of the employee list to Cindy Langley, Bureau of State Payrolls, email@example.com for reconciliation purposes.
7. Go into the employee's payroll record (COPES, People First etc.) and input deduction code 0494 for the amount of the voucher payment. This deduction should remain on the employee's record until it is determined that the employee will no longer receive relief payments. Note: The warrant created for this deduction code must be deposited back into the appropriate salary account in a timely manner.
8. These deductions will be on the "DETAIL LIST AND TOTALS OF CONSOLIDATED REPORTING TRANSACTIONS" report, RDS Form ID Q**4.
This temporary pay relief for employees impacted by the Hurricane Charley disaster will remain in effect until further notice. If you should have additional questions, the contact for Bureau of State Payrolls is Cindy Langley at (850) 410-9423, SC 210-9423, email@example.com.


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Using Padlet in and out of the Library
Okay fellow bloggers, help me out here. I happened upon this gem called Padlet, formally known as wallwisher. What is that you ask?
I love that not only can you post ideas, but also you can post documents, slide shows, and videos! I was able to get an account with my Google account - so it took a mere 4 seconds to sign in. Then, I was given an option for an icon and backgrounds. See below....
You are able to choose between a streaming list of responses or a free form list of responses.
Padlet allows you to easily embed your wall within seconds. I am thrilled to see this new updated version and I hope you will take the time to add to the wall below. I see numerous ways that this can be used in the library and within subject areas like ELA, Science and Humanities. So go ahead and share your ideas with us all!


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Jewish World Review May 3, 2013/ 23 Iyar, 5773
Muslims Versus Islamists
By Mona Charen
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | The Obama administration is quite worried about stereotyping Muslims as violence-prone terrorists. They fear that any acknowledgment that some Muslims commit acts of terror because they are religiously motivated (however twisted the terrorists' interpretation of Islam may be) is to encourage a backlash of intolerance (at best) and violence (at worst) against Muslim Americans.
It's not crazy to worry about anti-Muslim violence. There have been vicious attacks on innocent Muslims. Last November, a Queens, N.Y., man was stabbed six times as he stood outside his mosque by an attacker who shouted "F——— Muslim, I'll kill you." In the wake of the Boston bombing, a drunk Northern Virginia man reportedly attacked and broke the jaw of a cab driver (an Army reservist who served in Iraq and at Guantanamo) after snarling "If you're a Muslim, you're a (expletive) jihadist. You are just as bad as the rest of them."
The worst instance of what was probably intended as anti-Muslim violence was the August 2012 attack on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. Sikhs, who wear turbans, are frequently mistaken for Muslims. Wade Michael Page opened fire in the temple, killing six and wounding four (including a police officer) before turning the gun on himself. Page reportedly had links to white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups.
Anti-Muslim bigotry clearly exists, as does bias against every other group or conceivable group in American society. Such bias is obviously misguided and counterproductive. It's also fairly uncommon.
According to the FBI's compilation of hate crime statistics, there were 1,480 incidents of religiously motived crimes in America in 2011. Of these, 63.2 percent were directed at Jews, 12.5 percent at Muslims and little over 9 percent at Catholics and Protestants. The rest were all over the map. This hardly constitutes a wave of anti-Muslim violence.
As Andrew McCarthy, who prosecuted the first World Trade Center bombers, has said regarding Muslims who serve their country: "Without them, we could not have infiltrated jihadist cells in New York and stopped terrorists from killing thousands of people. Without them, we could not have translated, understood and processed our evidence so it could be presented to a jury as a compelling narrative. Pro-American Muslims serve honorably in government, in our military, in our intelligence services and in our major institutions."
It's quite possible, likely in fact, that most Americans are aware of the distinction between the majority of Muslims who are law-abiding, patriotic and indispensible in the fight against Muslim extremism, and the small minority of Muslims who are Islamists. Doubtless most Americans, who are fair-minded, non-prejudiced people, vehemently condemn acts of bias or violence against Muslim Americans.
Can the Obama administration likewise acknowledge that exaggerated efforts to avoid the appearance of prejudice can lead to problems of its own? Can it now see that failing to take Maj. Nidal Hasan's progressively more radical religious views seriously as a security threat was a disaster? Does the administration recognize that its subsequent official description of the Fort Hood attack as "workplace violence" was a bad joke? Can it now admit that losing track of Tamerlane Tsarnaev, even after repeated warnings from the Russians and the Saudis and abundant evidence of his conversion to radical Islam, was a politically correct blunder?
This administration's efforts to deny that Islamism has anything to do terror have led it into embarrassing circumlocutions and denials. CIA Director John Brennan testified before Congress, "Our enemy is not 'terror' because terror is a state of mind, and as Americans we refuse to live in fear. Nor do we describe our enemy as 'jihadists' or 'Islamists' because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam." Brennan also expressed the hope that the Obama administration could "build up" the "more moderate elements within Hezbollah." If Hezbollah, an Iranian creation and dedicated terrorist Islamist organization is considered to contain moderates, it's no wonder that James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, described the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt as "largely secular."
It's fine for Americans to "refuse to live in fear." It's not fine for Obama administration to insist that we live in denial.
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Service of Installation for Dr. Harden
September 12, 2012
We are excited to announce a Service of Installation for Dr. Mark Harden, Dean of the Boston Campus and Associate Professor of Community Development and Outreach at Gordon-Conwell. Dr. Harden began his new role in January of 2012, bringing more than 20 years of combined leadership experience in community service, ministry and graduate theological education, as well as international and cross-cultural experience in Croatia and South Africa. The service will take place at Twelfth Baptist Church in Boston on Thursday, October 11, 2012. For more information, please contact Mary Riso at email@example.com.


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Obama, Congressional Leaders to Meet
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will meet with bipartisan congressional leaders at the White House Monday afternoon.
The leaders scheduled to attend are Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Vice President Joe Biden is also scheduled to attend.
The last meeting between Obama and the congressional leaders was Oct. 2.
The White House says Obama will reiterate his desire for Congress to pass bills to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling. The White House also says he will make clear that he "will not pay ransom" for lawmakers taking those steps.


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My massage therapy business is a new business located near a trendy shopping district in Kansas City. Our emphasis is on the environment and we take that very seriously. The concept of imagine wholeness, is to imagine a life that is whole, physically, spiritually and mentally. The colors I outlined are suggestions, and I do not have any particular colors in mind. I like the use of color, but they need to be used in a way that reflects peacefulness. Too many massage logos use a hand, so I don't want that. Perhaps light emerging, but I really want some creative input. Awaken your inner wisdom is our tag line, and I think that is what we want to express to our clients through the logo. I am fine with the word(s) massage or massage therapy used in the logo. In fact, unless the logo is able to reflect what we do, I think the words have to be in the logo. Demographics are mostly female and 35-55 years old. Mostly higher education, people with an interest in health.
I received feedback from a designer that I am not being clear enough, so let me add some more detail:
I want the design to reflect a connection with the divine. That might be sun, light, tree, or even a dragonfly. Spiritual images are a good thing to incorporate, even a yoga or meditation pose would be good. I don't know what I want in a font, or design, and that is why I am asking for help. I will give very quick feedback so designers can continue to enhance the images. I will guarantee the prize as soon as I see a design that is workable. I have every intention of picking a design. Please email me if you need more clarity, or direction and I will do my best to answer any question as clearly as possible. I am not a designer, so I am counting on the designers to get creative and give me something to review. Thank you for your time.
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pocketpit wrote:Glad to hear the Pony is feeling a little better. That incision site looks awsome, hardly any discoloration at all and not too swollen.This cracks me up! Every client seems to overly concerned with pooping and I can't for the life of me figure out why.Oh, and the highlight of my day was when he pooped.
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So I thought I should provide a little more information, because I seem to have terrified the pants off of some of you. And then you mailed me your pants, just to prove how literal you were. You are a bunch of odd ducks, aren't you?
Anyway, Henry has long been prone to high fevers, and 104-105 has become more or less standard for when he's really, truly sick. Which is why I did not rush him to the ER when his fever reached that number. Also, once he gets a little ibuprofen or acetaminophen in him, his temperature lowers within minutes, so even though his fever was 106 in the middle of the night, I knew it wouldn't last.
The other reason his sickness was not more worrying is that he was chipper and well-tempered. Prone to falling asleep on tables, sure, but otherwise relatively normal. This was in stark contrast to the last time his fever reached elevated levels, when he insisted that my face was covered in sparkly stickers and then tried to remove my chin with his pointy little fingernails.
And finally, I do not think his temperature was actually 111. Our last ear thermometer was so inaccurate that we purchased a high-end swiping-across-the-forehead model that promised stunning accuracy ; so far it's been as flighty and inconsistent as the last one. The advantage to this kind is that it takes a temperature within two seconds, and I don't have to wake him. The disadvantage is that it's all over the place and scares the crap out of me. So his temperature was probably a few degrees lower than 111, but still, I think we can all agree that that's awfully high.
The ER staff instructed me to buy an oral thermometer, which I did, and it read his temperature as 97.3 when he clearly still had a high fever, so I'm at a loss. Anyone have a foolproof thermometer to recommend?


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Rita Ora Jets Off After Made in America Festival!
Rita Ora keeps cozy in a white tank top and sweatpants for her departing flight from LAX Airport on Monday afternoon (September 1) in Los Angeles.
The 23-year-old British singer was jumping on a flight to London where she'll be having an in-store Adidas appearance on Thursday (September 4).
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Mailvox: awareness in Germany
I live in the most left (and green) town I know and can conceive of in Germany. In this town there's a district that's known nationwide for how "green" it is. Everyone votes green or far left. That's where I and my family have been living since the nineties.The Alt-Right is inevitable because it is the only political philosophy based in reality. This is simply one more example of the process in action.
My parents were practically communists just 5 years ago and when you talk to them about taxes or guns you might still get the impression that they are. For about 2 years they've been hitting a very different note when it comes to foreigners, though. Cologne might have had a big part in waking them up.
After that, my sister had a job application rejected because she isn't like the rest of the staff, Turkish. They all got upset about that for half a week and I had to listen to my sister beginning her sentences with "I mean... You know I'm not a racist, but..." for that time.
Now a very close family friend (even more crazy, total hippie, believes in auras etc) has legal trouble with her Lebanese ex-boyfriend and they all talked about it at the dinner table when she was visiting for a night. All three of them are horrified the judge might rule against her because he's a foreigner.
He kicked her out of her own house.
She went to the police, they asked him about it, he told them it's his house, they left without asking for proof.
Among my friends, I'd wager 90% now spew out sentences that would have triggered themselves into fits of "RACIS RACIS RAAAAAACIS!" just 5 years ago and the other 10% are crazy SJW's who no longer talk to me because of my Twitter account.
That's a quotient, in a city of SJW's to begin with, that I am very hopeful about.
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Mockingbird Flies on Wabash Wings
April 13, 2011
A stage adaptation of Harper Lee's best-selling book
To Kill a Mockingbird
opens Friday at the Vanity Theater in downtown Crawfordsville, and the play features significant Wabash connections.
The Sugar Creek Players' production of
To Kill a Mockingbird
opens Friday, April 15 and runs for consecutive weekends. Performances are scheduled for 8 p.m. April 15-16 and April 21-23 and there is a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday, April 17. Tickets can be reserved by phone at 765-362-7077.
The play, performed for the first time in Montgomery County, is directed by Jim Amidon '87, Wabash Director of Public Affairs, and is co-produced by Jerry Bowie '04, who coordinates activities for the Center for Academic Enrichment.
Wabash's Sports Information Director, Brent Harris, designed the lighting for the production; Harris has a long history with the Sugar Creek Players.
"It has been a real joy to work with familiar Wabash colleagues in this new adventure," said Amidon. "Jerry and I worked together as producers for last year's successful production of
The Women
at the Vanity, and it's been even more fun this time around. And, of course, I've known Brent Harris for nearly 25 years and have worked very closely with him throughout that time. But I had never seen this 'other' side of Brent until I saw him do his magic in the lighting booth."
To Kill a Mockingbir
d is the story of Atticus Finch, a small town lawyer in Maycomb, Alabama. The year is 1935, and Finch is defending Tom Robinson, who has been accused of raping a white woman. The story is told by Finch's daughter, Jean Louise, who reflects back on the people and events that shaped her life when she was a young girl known as 'Scout.'
"It's a classic story that so many people remember reading in junior high or high school," Amidon said. "But we've tried hard to produce something different. Our goal has been to move beyond nostalgic memories and to inspire conversation on the story's powerful themes, especially 'walking around in another man's skin' and seeing things from someone else's perspective."
Four Wabash students, a professor, the pre-health advisor, Bowie, and the children of Wabash faculty and staff star in the play,
Sophomore DeVan Taylor and freshman Larry Savoy share the role of Tom Robinson, the poor Black sharecropper on trial for a crime he did not commit. (Taylor stars the first weekend and Savoy has the role in the second weekend.)
History Professor Stephen Morillo nails the role of Bob Ewell, the bigoted, angry antagonist who beats his daughter, Mayella (Alli Aldrich), and falsely accuses Robinson of raping her.
Jill Rogers, the College's Pre-Health Advisor, plays the gossipy Miss Stephanie Crawford; Bowie is Reverend Sykes, the minister of the "Negro Church;" freshman Clayton Mikesell plays Boo Radley; and junior Reggie Steele plays a citizen of Maycomb.
Steele, Bowie, Taylor, and Savoy also sing spirituals throughout the play.
Sammie Amidon, the director's daughter, plays Scout Finch, while Trey Rogers plays Dill, the Finch's childhood friend. Trey is the son Jill Rogers and Spanish Professor Dan Rogers.
Steve Charles H'70, the editor of
Wabash Magazine
, has photographed the production. Pam Sacco's son, Kyle, is part of the stage crew. Henry Swift, son of Archivist Beth Swift, is the light board operator.
"The Wabash connections are terrific," Amidon said. "We started something last year with
The Women
, which was directed by Beth Swift, that brought together a lot of Wabash people and a number of Vanity Theater veterans. That was a groundbreaking production on many levels, and it's one of the reasons I decided to direct
. I was looking to bring town and gown together again — for an important play that deals with serious issues like racism, sexism, and class differences."
James Gross and Andrea Bear from the Wabash Theater Department have also consulted with designers and worked on the production.
Damon Lincourt, a Northwestern University theater graduate, stars as Atticus Finch, while Niki Hutson plays the adult Jean Louise Finch, who narrates the play. Both are experienced actors with numerous Vanity and other theater credits.
"The thing I'm most proud of with our production is how well the cast has bonded over the last two months," added Amidon. "We have these two 19-year-old Wabash guys, both African American, and night after night at rehearsals, they have people calling them 'nigger' in the historical context. While it might be easy to suggest that actors can go through that kind of thing easily, the reality is different. We've spent a generation purging that word from our lexicon. Had we not bonded the way we have, I suspect this would have been a bitter experience for many members of our cast."
Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for children 12 and under. The box office is located at 122 South Washington Street and is open daily from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and one hour before each performance. Tickets can be reserved by phone at 765-362-7077.
For more information,
see the play's blog site
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InstForPolicyStudies necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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The Institute for Policy Studies has a Program on Inequality and the Common Good. We've focused on the dangers of concentrated wealth and power and how they undermine our democracy, economy and civic life.
You can get a flavor for our work by looking at our program activities at http://www.ips-dc.org/inequality and viewing our online newsletter at http://www.toomuchonline.org.
http://www.inequality.org will be a new portal for research data on inequality, commentary, analysis, and a gateway to our various programs, projects and partner organizations.
Researchers and journalists
Activists and Organizers
General Public
Constituents connected to our other web sites/projects
Layered PSD file of the main home page
This will be a WordPress site and we would like to adapt from the default WordPress 3.0.1 theme Twenty Ten. So we would prefer if the edges of the theme were 980px wide.
Be creative but we aren't necessarily looking for anything too extreme. A simple stylized text header may well do. This should be a resource portal that looks trustworthy and authoritative on the issue of inequality. It should also be clean, intuitive, and easy to use.
We are interested in a design that doesn't include iconic or stereotypical images of inequality: dollar signs, poor people, canyons, money, fancy cars, mansions, shacks, unbalanced scales, etc.
We need an attractive site that will showcase the problem of inequality in our society. This will also serve as a portal to many non-profit and community projects that are trying to tackle the big problem of inequality in our society.
At the top we would highlight a Too Much newsletter signup form.
We envision a site with perhaps 3 columns.
The left most column will include image links to different projects of ours including:
Below that would be links to other partner organizations
The middle column we imagine will be a listing of featured items that highlight some of the latest research around inequality. This may include charts and graphs.
The right column will include a chart pack at the top which people can go to a page and download the main charts, statistics, and talking points on inequality in our society.
Under that will be a space for 3 different columnists with a preview of their latest article.
The page should also include social media buttons and the Facebook and Tiwitter widgets like you see on http://republicorp.us/
A menu will include links to home, about, data/analysis, commentary, partners, contact us, donate.
The site will eventually replace http://extremeinequality.org/ and act as a portal for other sites on inequality.


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Jan Specke (d. 1537)
Jan (Johan, Janne, Jannes) Specke (or Johan Speckart, apparently identical with Hans Speck), a former Dominican monk of Groningen in the Netherlands, who about 1534 joined the Anabaptists and soon became a leader of the Batenburgers in the Netherlands (followers of the revolutionary Anabaptist Jan van Batenburg). Specke often stayed at Strasbourg in Alsace and was active in Groningen and Deventer. In 1537 he was apprehended at Antwerp, Belgium, and burned at the stake there in 1537, probably on 24 May.
Génard, Petrus. Antwerpsch archievenblad. Antwerpen, Belgium: Stadsarchief te Antwerpen: VII, 434; XIV, 14 f., No. 162.
Mellink, Albert F. De Wederdopers in de noordelijke Nederlanden 1531-1544. Groningen: J.B. Wolters, 1954: 133, 264, 266, 286, 396.
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Family Ties – Newest Royals Fan Arrives
It's been awhile since we last posted here on Royals Then, Now & Forever – but we're finally back. The main reason was a most happy ocassion for me last week – the arrival of one Nicklaus George Nelson – born to my lovely sister-in-law Susan and my brother Erik (the most ardent Royals fan who happens to live in St. Louis). We're not sure yet if he is a lefty or righty, but we thought we might have seen some southpaw potential.
Nicklaus will be raised a Royals fan through and through and he already has the gear to get started. Welcome to the world Nicklaus – can't wait to see you here at Kauffman Stadium for your first major league game!


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Due to how design systems are composed, changes have to be tracked to see how they affect the system — changing a color reference might affect dozens of components. Each component must be redrawn to respect line-height and spacing. Niceties, such as converting colors for display in different formats, annotating specs, and calculating color contrast ratios for accessibility, all increase the potential for errors and inconsistencies. Graphics-based design tools are notoriously bad at version control. All these moving parts left us frequently uncertain about the state of the system. Questions, such as "What's the font size for titles on mobile," "Is this still what this component looks like," or How does this component work on different screen sizes," were all too common around the office.
These problems compound as organizations grow. What is fixable instantly when a freelancer designs and codes everything alone is a frustration for a three-person design team. Likewise, the inefficiencies that a medium team can roll with are catastrophically wasteful to a team of our size. Pruning human touch points from DLS is foundational to ensuring we can grow into an even more effective team in the next few years.
I'm obsessed with the tooling principle of just using the thing itself. A designer's workflow in Sketch is actually pretty similar to using React components: she picks a component, and puts data in it. In Sketch, we use symbols and overrides , in React we use components and properties . The concepts are so similar that it seemed silly not to unify them.
We also wanted to minimize sources of truth. Why keep a separate library of components drawn by hand in Sketch once we have them implemented as the real thing used every day by millions of people?
The fewer sources of truth we have for a design system, the more efficient we are.
"Many hard problems are best solved when they are addressed backward." — Charlie Munger, Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
Design tools that seek to produce production-ready code are as old as the internet. As the industry has coalesced around Sketch, people have sought to generate code from Sketch. This is exciting, but for our challenges we wanted to do the exact opposite — to keep DLS in sync we have to generate Sketch files from code.
Having built several internal tools on top of Sketch in 2016, we knew the potential of scripting it to manipulate files as we wanted. However, its programming language, CocoaScript, isn't the most familiar to most developers, and we wanted to be able to fully embrace the power of modern JavaScript to quickly and intuitively create documents.
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Thursday, December 1st and Friday, December 2nd 2016, from 4 to 8 p.m.Istituto Tecnico Agrario Pantanelli-Monnet di Ostuni
Next Thursday will begin an olive oil sensory course to introduce olive growers to the analysis of the different qualities and features of the olive oil. The educational activity is arranged by the Regional Natural Park Dune Costiere from Torre Canne to Torre San Leonardo in collaboration with the Consorzio Salentino Olivicoltori. The course will last two days, Thursday and Friday, the first two days of December, from 4 to 8 p.m. to the Istituto Tecnico Agrario 'Pantanelli Monnet' of Ostuni.
Two experts, dr. Alfredo Marasciulo and the professor Francesco Prudentino, will support us to value the oil made by the participants, in order to make a sensory analysis (with the smell and the taste in particular) and after examine the organoleptic characteristics and the presence of potencial problems that will be resolved with a correct management of the olive grove and the different phases of the olive transformation into the olive-press.
The aim of that educational activity is to improve the sustainable management of the centuries-old olive groves of the Park, which is occupied by remarkable agricultural areas, especially with ancient olive groves.
Sunday, November 27, 2016 - 9:30 am
According to tradition, this year too an overview of events and walks throughout the wetland of the Parco delle dune Costiere has beginning, for the purpose of promote and give value to this delicate ecosystems and allow a sustainable fruition of the natural environment, the rural landscape and the knowledge of the traditional products of the territory of the protected area.
The trekking of this Sunday wants to make known and appreciate the fish species that naturally live in the pond of the wetland of 'Fiume Morelli' and to make you discover through the tales of the local fishermen the traditional methods of fishing.
The initiative has been organised in collaboration with the Park Dune Costiere and the center of environmental education "il ginepro" in Ostuni, that is always actively involved in the promotion and the spread of the environmental education and the naturalistic fruition of the territory.
The Meeting is at 9.30 at the Car Park of Lido Morelli in Ostuni.
The walk is suitable to all the ages. It is suggested to wear comfortable clothes, trekking shoes or similar, cap and to bring with a little bottle of water.
The reservation is necessary and places are limited and the same itinerary can be made by bike contacting the cooperative Maderabike at 327.5785185 or [email protected]
With the creation of the "Fédération des Plus Beaux Villages de la Terre", constituted by «the Most Beautiful Villages» Clubs of France, Belgium, Canada, Italy and Japan - the international network which preserves and promotes villages and small towns, so far cut out from the routes of international tourism but rich in history, architecture and art - the foundations have been laid to start the project to set up an international network of the national networks of the most beautiful villages of countries overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in which the thousand-year-old cultural heritage of Mediterranean peoples has settled.
"" Club has decided to entrust the town of Cisternino the task of coordinating the project because it is situated in the Apulia Region, which is the only Region that has officially instituted a Mediterranean authority department.
The objective of the project is to promote in the Mediterranean Area the creation of networks similar to those already existing in Italy (""), in Spain ("and in France so that the new national networks in countries such as Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Malta, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Algeria, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Palestine can become members of the .
The project aims at building in each country a network of coastal villages and small towns (located at a maximum distance of two-hour-journey from the coast) , that have a historical, artistic and architectural heritage certifiable through a quality paper validated by the Federation of Les Plus Beaux Villages de la Terre, and that are willing to subscribe a :
1) Preservation and improvement of the historic centre of old towns, enhancement of the original settlement and of monuments of high value;
2) Protection of the environment and fight against unauthorised building and the consumption of land;
3) Safeguard of local agroindustrial products and agricultural or fishing planning;
4) Preservation of material culture (festivals, traditions, special events etc…);
5) Efficient and sufficient public services to guarantee a good life-style to residents;
6) Best practices exchange and problem sharing with associated villages.
Furthermore, we like to notice that the promotion of a network of the most beautiful villages in the Mediterranean area is very important both for geopolitical reasons and for economic development, because
a. the Mediterranean Area is the most important touristic area in the world;
b. there is a special need to promote the collaboration between Northern and Southern, Eastern and Western countries overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, which, in our opinion, is of vital importance to maintaining good relationships between States and to share with poorer countries the Know-how to run autonomously the architectural, environmental and landscape heritage and the touristic potential.
The project has already gained some important achievements:
October 26, 2013 - 1st International Conference in Cisternino.
6 to 8 June 2014 - Working in Crete with the presence of mayors from Turkey, Palestine, Cyprus, as well as from Crete and Italy.
June 25, 2014 - Signing of a memorandum of understanding agreement between the municipality of Cisternino, the Association of "The Most Beautiful Villages of Italy" and the Region of Puglia - the Mediterranean, with the aim of developing international cooperation in the cultural sector for the promotion of the territories in the countries of the Mediterranean basin.
17 October 2014 - 2 International Conference in Cisternino with the presence of representatives from Crete, Croatia, Greece, Israel, Italy, Malta, Palestine and Turkey.
2014 - establishment of the network of "The most beautiful villages" of Palestine.
16 to 19 October 2015 – 3 International Conference in Cisternino with the presence of representatives from Croatia, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Palestine, Slovenia and Turkey.
The International Conference of Cisternino, because of its importance and relevance, in recent years has received the award of the Medal of the President of the Italian Republic, under the patronage of the Prime Minister´s Office and the Ministry of Economic Development, as well as the membership of various National and Regional organizations and represented an important step for the realization of the project, thanks to the work carried out in synergy between various and numerous institutions.
The project is working now for planned, as in the past, jointly by the town of Cisternino, the Club of "The Most Beautiful Villages of Italy" and Puglia Region. The 4 International Conference is going to take place on 28 – 29 – 30 October 2016 in Cisternino, Puglia, Italy (please see attached program), where the following aspects will be enhanced:
· examination of the project related to the construction of National networks for "The Most Beautiful Villages" in the Mediterranean Basin
· The Routes of peace of the Mediterranean basin: the role of the villages as instruments for social integration;
· The Beauty Economies and touristic hosting the Routes and the EuroVelo Cycle Routes in the Euro-Mediterranean basin, marketing tools to promote the area and eco-friendly tourism;
· Co-design best practice for the urban exploitation of the villages;
· Creation of a new strategic partnership with selected international countries, regions and villages in areas of mutual interest.
Also this year we decided to allow our guests to spend several opportunities for educational tours of the Apulian territory in order give them a good knowledge of some of the most characteristic villages of Puglia.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further information or clarification:
Organizational Office: [email protected]
· Giovanni Punzi (Italian) 0039 - 080 - 4448537 - mail st[email protected]
· Luca Palazzo (English) 0039 - 347 - 1611296 - mail [email protected]
· Maria Ancona (Inglese) 0039 - 388 - 0485105 - mail [email protected]
Winter is coming and the little inhabitants of the gardens seek shelter in caves and crevices offered by ground, by dry-stone walls and vegetation. In order to not to make them depart much from our green island, we can build for them a "Bug Mansion"!
On Sunday, October 23, The Association Polyxena and the Park Dune will wait for you at the former Fontevecchia station, to free your imagination and build with us a top luxury hotel for insects!
This "hotel for insects" will allow bees, bumblebees, butterflies, ladybugs and many other useful insects that live in gardens and countryside, to find a refuge beside us.
Let's have a day between nature and culture, in collaboration with the cooperatives Madera Bike and Gaia, where you can build your own bug mansion, that you will take with you and place on the balcony or garden. So, with the first warm days of spring, they will be ready to cheer again our garden and provide their basic support for biological control and in pollination.
Reservation is required. The activity will start at 10:00 am; the term of activities is scheduled for 12:30 am. The participation fee is € 5. For children younger than 6, participation is free. Discounts for families and small groups.
For more information and reservations please call 392 2525812.
To reach the former station you must, by S.S. 16, take the exit "Montalbano" - SP10 and follow the directions to "Casa del Parco – Ex stazione ferroviaria di Fontevecchia" (GPS coordinates: 40 ° 46´52.23N 17 ° 30´57.26 E).
A fantastic journey in the Mediterranean Sea.
For the project "Theatre and nature", sponsored by the Teatro delle Forche and Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, under the "Regional program of live performances for the enhancement of cultural and environmental resources of Puglia - 2016", Sunday, October 2, at 6 pm , in the Regional Natural Park Dune Costiere from Torre Canne to Torre San Leonardo Fiume Morelli – Pilone, Ostuni, the company Onirica Poetica Teatrale of Bari will stage the children´s theater performance " Il delfino e il pescatore" (the dolphin and the fisherman) – PERFORMANCE IN ITALIAN LANGUAGE
The event is organized in collaboration with the cooperative "Serapia".
The performance adheres to international cross-border project IPA Adriatico Net-Cet (Cetacean Network) aimed at the protection and conservation of sea turtles, cetaceans and biodiversity of the Adriatic Sea from the main human threats: intensive fishing (bottom trawls and longline fishing), bycacht, abandonment of waste and sewage spills, coastal erosion, coast concreting and beache disfigurement, destruction of sea turtles nesting sites, collisions between vessels and cetaceans.
An idea by Giuseppe De Matteis. Scenic writing by Vito Latorre, Francesco Lamacchia and Antonio Repole. Performed by David De Marco, Francesco Lamacchia, Vito Latorre, Silvana Pignataro, Antonio Repole. Directed by Vito Latorre. Masks, costumes and set design by David Sciascia.
The show was produced by Onirica Teatro in collaboration with the Environmental Education Cooperative WWF Seges, Vernole (LE).
The diver named Giuseppe, in search of the dolphin Simone, dives in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Here he'll meet the funny inhabitants of the sea: the athletic Bluefin tuna Rocky, the eternal traveler, turtle Caretta, the pregnant Seahorse Hippo and the hungry but elegant Starfish Asteroidea, the attractive and sensual jellyfish Narba, the eccentric dr. Pine Posidonia and finally the extravagant singer of the sea, Simone the dolphin.
In this fantastic journey, with exciting stories between myth and science, funny and music, Giuseppe will become aware of the harmful effects of the anthropization of marine habitat and of coastal ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea.
The show is recommended for 4 y.o. and up children, but suitable for all ages.
The ticket price is 8 Euros. Reservations is required: by telephone at the numbers: 3497291060/3286474719; by mail at: [email protected]; www.cooperativaserapia.it on site.
In all embryonic preparations, lpm, pdm, and dgm were silent in control saline when the neuromodulatory inputs were removed (data not shown). In CabTRP, the mean fundamental frequencies of activity in pdm (0. 23 ± 0.08 Hz, n = 7) and lpm (0.23 ± 0.07 Hz, n = 7) were not statistically different (unpaired t test, p = 0.15, n = 7) ( Fig. 8 B ). We did not calculate the fundamental frequency for embryonic dgm because activity in dgm was highly irregular (1–4 bursts in 5–10 min recordings). CabTRP-activated motor patterns were not changed when the muscles were hyperpolarized, and the waveforms of these events were typical of embryonic EJPs.
The CabTRP-activated motor patterns in embryos and adults were different. In CabTRP, lpm was activated in the embryo but the LP neuron was not activated in the adult. The embryonic dgm was either silent or produced very slow, infrequent activity, but in the adult, DG fired together with the PD neuron. There were no statistical differences between the mean fundamental frequencies of activity in adult PD neurons and embryonic pdm [unpaired t test, p = 0.95, n = 6 (adult), n = 7 (embryo)].
Comparing the phase relationships of the CabTRP-activated motor patterns between embryos and adults, adult PD and DG neurons fired together (DG phase at ∼0 in the PD phase; mean coherence magnitude, 0.92 ± 0.09) ( Fig. 8 C ), whereas embryonic lpm and pdm fired in alternation (lpm phase at ∼0.5 in the pdm phase; mean coherence magnitude, 0.71 ± 0.12) ( Fig. 8 D ).
We also wanted to examine the maturity of the embryonic STG response to a modulator whose expression in the embryonic inputs is mature. Red pigment concentrating hormone (RPCH) is a peptide that modulates adult pyloric neurons and has a very similar expression pattern in the adult and embryonic STNS (
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A , B ). In embryos, RPCH also activated all three neurons, resulting in motor pattern in which lpm and pdm were active at approximately the same frequency, which was faster than dgm ( Fig. 9 C , D ).
RPCH effects on an isolated adult and embryonic STG. , Adult, Simultaneous intracellular recordings from PD, LP, and DG somata, neuromodulatory inputs removed, in control saline. , Same preparation as in in 10 m RPCH. , Embryo, Simultaneous intracellular recordings from pdm, lpm, and dgm, neuromodulatory inputs removed, in control saline. , Same preparation as in in 10 m RPCH.
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. The spectrograms of the output from the adult DG neuron (fundamental frequency, 0.04 Hz) and the embryonic dgm (fundamental frequency, 0.04 Hz) are similar ( Fig. 10 A , B , last panels). The adult LP and embryonic lpm spectrograms also look similar (most activity occurred less than ∼0.04 Hz) but, the fundamental frequency of activity in this adult LP neuron (0.13 Hz) was faster than that in embryonic lpm (0.08 Hz) ( Fig. 10 A , B , center panels). Activity in the spectrogram of the adult PD neuron (fundamental frequency = 0.09 Hz) was faster than that in embryonic pdm (0.05 Hz) ( Fig. 10 A , B , first panels).
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LOGAN, Utah—A tired but grateful Danny Berger called it a "miracle" that he was back to watch his Utah State teammates play days after collapsing on the court and being revived by an assistant trainer.
Berger was released from a Salt Lake City area hospital Saturday and back in Logan, flanked by the trainer credited with saving his life and a father who thought the worst upon receiving word of Tuesday's life-threatening incident while driving in the middle of the Nevada desert.
"I immediately thought Hank Gathers because I'm from there," Berger's father, Brian, said about the Loyola Marymount star who collapsed and died at age 23 in 1990 during a West Coast Conference Tournament game because of a heart-muscle disorder.
"I didn't know what to think."
He quipped that Nevada state troopers let him get away with driving 110 mph as he made his way through the desert toward Utah, where he was headed for the Aggies' game Wednesday night against Brigham Young. The game was postponed but has since been rescheduled for Feb. 19.
Brian Berger also was grateful for Mike Williams, who is in his 14th year as an assistant athletic trainer at Utah State.
Williams was across the court Tuesday when Berger collapsed during a routine practice.
The 43-year-old Williams had been on site in 2007 when rodeo rider Tag Elliott nearly died after being hit in the head with a bull horn. He was among those who helped stabilize Elliott. But until Tuesday, Williams had only taught CPR, and never performed it.
If Tuesday's scene was chaotic, Williams said he didn't have time to notice. He yelled for the manager to call 911 and get the automatic defibrillator (AED).
"I remember looking down and starting CPR, mouth to mouth, the compressions and then hooking the AED up," Williams said. "That's the worst part because it takes 15 seconds to analyze and you're just sitting there waiting."
The machine finally said "shock advised" and Williams administered the shock, then went back to CPR. On the third set, he heard Berger gurgle a bit then blew another really hard breath into him.
"As I pulled up, I actually saw the pulse in his carotid artery before I felt it," Williams said.
Only afterward, when he tried to call the head trainer, did he realize how traumatic the situation was.
The phone was ringing and ringing but no one answered. Williams finally realized he had dialed 10 random digits and that his hands were shaking.
"Afterward the adrenaline got there, but fortunately that was afterward," Williams said.
Berger still doesn't remember any of that, only practicing defense in preparation for the rivalry game, then feeling dizzy as if he had stood up too fast.
"One of my teammates made a shot in my face when I was guarding him and I was kind of upset about it," he recalled Saturday.
Four days later, he looked forward to a reunion with the rest of his teammates, who will be wearing "12" patches on the jerseys. First, he wanted a nap.
"I can't explain everything. It's just a miracle," said Danny Berger, his left arm in a sling to protect the miniature defibrillator installed so doctors can monitor his heart remotely should there be any further problems.
Doctors cannot fully explain what caused the 22-year-old to collapse, but said he was born with a tendency for this to happen because of his heart having two to three extra beats, according to Dr. Jared Brunch of the Intermountain Medical Center where he was transported Tuesday via medical helicopter.
The elder Berger said Brunch told him Brunch is much more likely to have a heart attack than Danny, and that Danny is less likely to have a problem than anybody on the team because of the defibrillator.
The starting forward remains hopeful he will play again but is taking it day by day. Six weeks is the earliest he can get back out on the court.
"I just have to trust the experts," Brian Berger said.
Of course, Danny's mom is a little less enthusiastic.
"She just wants me to be in the library for the rest of my life," Danny joked.
All were grateful to be in Logan, getting ready to watch a basketball game with their son.
"There's literally dozens of people who have played a role in this whole process just in these last four days," Brian Berger said. "And every single person has done the exact right thing that they needed to do, starting with Mike. … If it hadn't been for Mike and the quick response … I've got nothing but gratitude.
"Four days ago we didn't know what was going to happen and (Friday) Danny was walking on the treadmill. When you have something like this happen, it's that time period where it's either fatal or not, or brain damage or not."
Danny, though he doesn't remember Williams at his side Tuesday, was glad to have him there Saturday during a press conference before the game against Western Oregon.
"I tried to tell the doctor that I want (Williams) to be my personal defibrillator but they didn't buy it, they had to put one in there," Danny Berger said. "I owe Mike a lot. I can't ever pay him back. He's one of the smartest guys I know, and a lifelong friend."


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The concept seems fraught with potential missteps: Large puppets perform stories written collectively by nursing home residents with dementia or Alzheimer's disease. The puppets play characters with those conditions: Florence, Mary, Rose, Henry, Elwood.
It sounds dark and depressing and runs the risk of tastelessness. But Eric Bass of Vermont's Sandglass Theater assures that "D-Generation: An Exaltation of Larks," which comes to Charlestown Working Theater Friday and Saturday, is serious and respectful, beautiful and sometimes funny.
"Dementia is frightening to us because it can happen, will happen, to many of us," Bass says. But puppets, he suggests, offer audiences a safer emotional distance from a difficult topic than human performers do: They "can embody our fears but free us from having to turn away from them."
Bass and his wife, Ines Zeller Bass, are cofounding artistic directors of puppet-centric Sandglass, which they started in her native Germany in 1982 and moved to Putney, Vt., a few years later. In "D-Generation," both appear onstage with troupe member Kirk Murphy and the puppets. The show also includes original music from a live quartet, video, and a puppet show within the show.
The process that led to the piece began far from the stage.
Sandglass was approached in 2008 by PHI Inc., a New York-based national nonprofit that trains and advocates for long-term care providers.
Renya Larson of PHI asked if the troupe would like to make a theater piece based on a storytelling technique called TimeSlips, which is designed to engage the imaginations of people with Alzheimer's and dementia.
"What they were interested in was a piece that could take these nonlinear stories written by groups of people with late-stage dementia and put them on the stage," says Eric Bass.
"I'm from the Brattleboro area, and so I grew up with Sandglass," Larson explains. "There's sort of a double nature with TimeSlips stories. You have the experience of the facilitator with the participants who are creating the stories, and there's this other reality, the make-believe reality of the stories themselves. And because Sandglass works with puppets, there's this lovely opportunity to have multiple layers of reality functioning at the same time."
Sandglass didn't know anything about PHI or TimeSlips, but the project seemed a good fit with the company's highly visual, also nonlinear method. The economic crash slowed the process, but eventually the Basses and others worked in 10 weekly sessions with residents at two nursing homes in Brattleboro, one in 2009 and the other in 2011.
To start, "there's always an image, usually a kind of surrealistic photograph, that's shown to everybody in the group," says Eric Bass. "We ask leading questions to which there are no wrong answers. The idea is that when people have dementia, they're very often asked the kind of questions which require them to remember something that they can't remember. And over time they can feel very defeated and withdraw into themselves, and their quality of life gets very poor." But with the TimeSlips approach, "everything that's answered, intentional or not, gets accepted and goes straight into the story," he says. "And the people come out of themselves much more over the 10 weeks."
Staff and family members joined the dozen or so residents in each group, providing a nearly one-to-one ratio of caregivers to participants, so even those who had trouble communicating were eventually heard, the Basses say.
The groups came up with two stories that appear in the show, one based on a photo of a man on a ladder who appears to be painting the clouds, the other based on a photo of a couple in evening clothes dancing on a rooftop. "For one of the residents it's not a rooftop, it's a railroad track, and that's what becomes so interesting," Eric Bass says. "The stories come from what they see."
The process is often playful, and the Basses say that's reflected in the final product.
"Since the subject is a rather heavy subject, we don't want to have the feeling when people go out of the theater [that] they're saying, 'Oh God, what am I going to do now, shoot myself?' " Ines Bass says. "We try to stress certain aspects that are really there [in the experience of
Alzheimer's and dementia]. We just have to really discover them, one of which is joy, which can be there if you really look, and if you change your attitude."
Perhaps not surprisingly, the process of making "D-Generation" — and yes, the title is a pun — was transformative for the Basses. He's 65 and she's 66, so the potential debilities of old age are not a distant matter.
"For many of us in this society, knowing we might live longer," Eric Bass says, "the chances of any of us having dementia at some point is greater than it used to be. So there's the presence of a fear, not just within us personally but within our culture, of what might be in store for us."
"On a very personal level," says Ines Bass, "it gave me an opportunity to really talk to my children about it, to tell them, 'Listen, if we get that far, please.' For me that was very important. 'Please don't mourn me. Just look at me the way I am in that moment, and go for the ride.' "Joel Brown can be reached at


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Helen Kutsher
Helen Kutsher of Monticello, owner of the famous Catskill resort, Kutsher's Country Club, died of natural causes Tuesday, March 19, 2013 in Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Kutsher was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and was introduced to the Catskills following her mother's death, when she was 10 years old. Family friends took her and her brother, Joe Wasser, to Kutsher's to get them out of the city for the summer. As Mrs. Kutsher would say, "Rebecca fell in love with me" and young Helen brought her widowed father, Sam, and Rebecca Kutsher together. Their marriage changed her life forever. She grew up at Kutsher's, graduated from Monticello High School and, what is now SUNY Delhi, with a business degree.
Eleanor Reich
Eleanor Reich, 91, a longtime Monticello, NY resident, passed away in Baldwinsville, NY on March 12, 2013.
George O. Wagner Sr., 72
George O. Wagner Sr. of Silver Springs, Florida died peacefully at home on March 12, 2013. He was 72.
Eugene Ganz
Eugene Ganz of Divine Corners, NY, passed away at Catskill Regional Medical Center on March 20, 2013. He was 85.
Wayne Henry Johnson
Wayne Henry Johnson, 56, of Smallwood, NY died Friday, March 15, 2013 after a long battle with cancer.
Charles Curtis Bendle
Charles Curtis Bendle of Jeffersonville, NY, the owner of Charlie's Auto Works and a lifetime resident of the area, died Tuesday, March 19, 2013 after a brief illness in Florida. He was 64.
Carol Fehsal
Carol Vera Fehsal, 89, went to see Jesus on March 11, 2013. She was at home with her grandchildren Karen and John, family, and friends by her side in Midway, KY.
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