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Traveling for the sake of adventure is one of the many gifts of life. However, going to a new place can sometimes be stressful or inconvenient. Many of these small stresses can be eliminated by gadgets and gizmos that do various things. Some might save you time, others might make your trip less stressful, and others will make your trip even more fun. All in all, they make your life easier. Whether it's a smart watch, waterproof bag, or smart luggage, we've scoped out the best travel gadgets to upgrade your experience on your next trip.
Even though people say they go on vacation to unplug, chances are they become more connected. Albums are created for Facebook, stories are shared on Instagram, live videos are taking from an epic hotel room balcony, tweets are sent.
Here are the best travel gadgets for adventurers that will be sure to make your trip more memorable.
Bluesmart One with GPS Tracking - Smart Luggage
First and foremost, let's start with smart luggage. While most of us aren't necessarily prone to losing our carry-ons, traveling with one that's loss proof does sound appealing. The Bluesmart One is a smart carry-on suitcase that can charge your devices and be tracked from your phone, should it go missing. The feature that sets it apart from the competition is the built-in GPS+3G tracker that lets you know where it is at all times. The Bluesmart One also features a smart-handle, which can weigh itself via the Bluesmart app.
Why It's A Great Buy
The front of this nifty little carry-on has a quick access laptop compartment perfect for quick removal in TSA lines. This pocket can accommodate any laptop up to 15 inches in size. It is approved at international carry-on sizes meaning that it can go anywhere, and its water-resistant exterior can withstand long trips. Consider this smart carry-on as its plethora of features makes it one of the best travel gadgets for adventurers.
DJI Mavic Air - 4K Video Drone
Bringing technologies that previously were only available at steep prices, DJI recently released a new drone catering to adventure photographers and videographers. Built to go wherever adventure takes you, you would never know what the DJI Mavic Air was capable of just by looking at it. Packing a 4K stabilized-by-gimbal camera, 21 minutes of flight time, slow-motion video at 120fps in 1080p, and a 42 mph top speed, this thing is a beast. The best part? It all folds down into a little device the size of a large smart-phone. For those who are looking to document and record their adventures in an utmost way, look no further than DJI's Mavic Air.
Kindle Voyage 6" E-Reader
There's nothing better than winding down a busy day of traveling with a book. Eliminating the need to carry a physical book, the Kindle Voyage is the perfect tablet device that lets you bring all your favorite titles anywhere. It sports a high-resolution 300ppi display and has an adaptive front light that will ensure the best reading experience, day or night. It's perfect for a long-haul flight. Blending glass with magnesium, the Kindle Voyage is sleek and its 6" size makes for ultra portability. With a battery that doesn't need recharging for weeks, you can rest assured that your books will be available at any time.
Apple Watch Series 3 - Cellular
When Apple released the original Apple Watch years ago, it was groundbreaking, yet lacked enough features to be worth the price. Today, that isn't the case with the Apple Watch Series 3 cellular edition. Although it may look the same as previous generations, this smartwatch can seriously help get things done. Whether it be storing a boarding pass or letting you make an international phone call, without your phone, Apple Watch can do it.
What's So Great About the Apple Watch Series 3?
The Series 3 has a built-in GPS, is fully waterproof, and even has a barometric altimeter for tracking altitude, not to mention its excellent fitness capabilities. It also has a built-in cellular connection that frees you from the need to carry your phone everywhere, making it one of the best travel gadgets ever. It also has a vastly improved battery life, perfect for making longer trips.
In my personal experience with the Series 3, I was able to go almost 3 days without completely running out of power. Talk about a smart watch. If you're looking for a great watch that will always keep you on your feet, the Apple Watch Series 3 is for you.
JBL Flip 4 Bluetooth Speaker
No trip would be complete without tunes, and what better way to play them on than a Bluetooth speaker. Possibly the best option for adventurers is the JBL Flip 4. Designed for those who love to get active outside, the JBL is an excellent speaker inside and out.
What We Love About the JBL Flip 4
You don't have to worry about it getting wet, as it's completely waterproof. The Flip 4 also packs an impressive 12 hours of playback time, so don't worry about running out of juice on a full day of adventures. One if its most striking features are its external passive radiators that vibrate as the bass booms. While this Bluetooth speaker expertly combines quality with price, it's just the perfect size to throw into a backpack. If you're looking for the best travel bluetooth speaker, the Flip 4 is for you or check out this helpful article for other solid outdoor bluetooth speaker options.
Tile Mate Key Finder
To be completely honest, we've all lost our keys and phones at one point or another. The Tile Mate is possibly the handiest of best travel gadgets for many reasons. This is one of the most innovative travel products that you didn't even know you needed, until now. Connecting to your mobile device via Bluetooth, this little device can attach to almost anything, ensuring that you won't lose your belongings anymore.
What Happens If You Lose Your Keys?
If you lose your keys, you can ring Tile from your phone, and if you lose your phone, you can ring it by pressing Tile's button twice. One of its coolest features is that if you loose something and Bluetooth isn't in range, a fellow member of the Tile community can report where it was lost. I misplace my phone on the daily but never stress about not being able to find it, as my Tile always comes to the rescue.
If you don't actually want to use it with keys, you can simply stuff it into a bag or suitcase. Perfect for travelers of any kind, you'll never have to worry about misplacing your things again with Tile Mate.
Fujifilm X-T1 Mirrorless Camera
We can't recommend a selfie stick to you in good conscience. Contrary to popular belief, you don't need a huge camera to take phenomenal photos. A new trend and technology are just now starting to make waves in the camera industry called mirrorless. In short, a mirrorless system takes the same image quality as a DSLR, if not better, but its imaging sensors work differently. The 16.3 megapixel Fujifilm X-T1 is one of the best travel gadgets when it comes to cameras.
High-Quality Camera With An Old-Film Feel
This is because it is the perfect option for those looking to acquire a high-quality camera with exceptional image quality. Resembling an old film camera, its manual functions give the user full control to capture what they see. The camera is small and light, therefore making it perfect for travel. The X-T1 can capture images at speeds up to 8 fps and can even record video at 30fps in 1080fps. Putting the cherry on top, the Fujifilm X-T1 is water, dust, and freeze resistant, along with most of Fujifilm's lenses as well.
Take It From A Fujifilm User
As a Fujifilm user myself, the company crafts cameras nowhere short of excellence and quality. I've taken mine around the world and back and it's never let me down. If you're out to find a great camera for a great price for your next adventure, check out the Fujifilm X-T1. You will not be disappointed.
Bose SoundLink II Wireless Headphones
With more and more companies creating Bluetooth headphones, Bose still holds the crown for the best sound quality in its class, putting thier headphones among the best travel gadgets. Listening to music through a Bluetooth speaker is awesome on so many levels.
Ah, the Relaxation
But there's nothing quite like putting on a comfortable pair of headphones and relaxing. The Bose SoundLink II wireless headphones are one of the best travel gadgets for many reasons. These headphones can playback high-fidelity sound for up to 15 hours. They can take HD calls with its advanced microphone system and offer matchless superior comfort. Check out the Bose SoundLink II headphones to experience unsurpassed sound on your next adventure.
GoPro Hero 5 Action Camera
Cameras on phones are getting better and better. Drones are becoming more readily available too. But there's nothing that beats a wide-angle lens shot from a GoPro. The company released the 6th generation late last year bumping the price of the 5 down significantly. Essentially the same camera, the Hero 5 packs a plethora of features. It can record 4K video up to 90 minutes and shoots 12-megapixel photos. Oh yeah. It can be also used underwater up to 33 feet. Its touchscreen back makes it easy to use. A wide range of accessories and mounts can be purchased separately to elevate your adventure photos and videos. It's no question as to why GoPro cameras are the number one choice of adventure enthusiasts all over the world.
Apple iPad with WiFi, 32 GB Gold (2017 Model)
Discover an amusing and sophisticated design of this 32 GB iPad. Powerful and amazing features capture your attention and its ergonomic design is perfect for on-the-go use. Finish that business proposal on the plane, comb through your emails, update your Facebook status. Do what you need to do.
Scrubba Wash Bag
There's nothing worse than entering your third week in a foreign country and being out of clean laundry. Laundromats are hard to find and can be pretty costly. Don't even get us started on the machine operating systems abroad. Whether you're backpacking, hostel hopping, on a road trip, you want to feel fresh and clean.
Getting clean clothes abroad can be a pain. But it doesn't have to. Enter the Scrubba wash bag, the world's smallest washing machine. You can now wash your laundry in just six simple steps. 1) fill bag, 2) roll and clip, 3) deflate, 4) rub, 5) rinse, and 6) dry. Benefits are listed below.
Anker PowerCore 10000 Portable Charger
Okay, this is one of the best travel gadgets yet. Nothing is more stressful than having your battery run out of juice while traveling. You're miles from your hostel. What do you do? Keep a portable power bank handy (and charged) and you'll never have to worry about that. It's basically a pocket charger - just a little larger. You can charge your phone via the USB ports. Just remember to bring your phone cord. You caneven charge your laptop anywhere and everywhere too. Even if you're trying to pack light, this is one of the travel accessories you just have to bring. We can't rave enough about it.
Nomander BPA Free Collapsible Sports Water Bottle
This reusable Nomander water bottle retains its sturdy feel for a comfortable drinking experience. made from thick and flexible BPA-free silicone. When you want it to, you can conveniently roll it up when space is tight. An attached multi-function strap secures the flask into a folded position. It's super easy to carry around when you're on-the-go. This is the perfect portable water bottle for travel. We've listed some added pros below.
Your Adventures Made Smarter With These Best Travel Gadgets
With our world constantly progressing in technology, more and more devices are being produced to make traveling easier and easier. These best travel gadgets will certainly boost your next adventure, and might just help create that perfect memory.
Is there a best travel gadget we don't have on this list? Let me know in the comments below!
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I had a rough weekend a few weeks back where I got MAJORLY depressed, listened to a lot of dodie, and watched a lot of Zoella until it passed. It's not a place I've never been before, but it's one that's never been SO quick to pass, so I'm really proud and happy about that. Yesterday was #BellLetsTalk so I quoted secret for the mad (dodie): I promise you, it'll all make sense again. ✴ been listening to a LOT of Niall's album lately, just quoted this with 'fire away' — its just a picture of my makeup post (coming out tomorrow) ✴ so it goes pt 2. not gonna lie I LOVE how I look in this picture, that song just gave me the right vibe
so it goes pt 1. the stance and look in this picture SCREAMS reputation and I was rlly feeling it ✴ I look rlly moody here so I quoted 'theres one thing on my mind' from on my own by Niall bc I love that taking it out of the context of the song makes it seem like im pining even tho im perfectly happy just me ✴ 'words only get through if they're sharp' – dodie, this was on the tail end of my depression spiral, self explanatory
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'grab a bag grab a bottle but leave the what if' – my motto for this year. we're doing things. we're making them happen ✴ just emoji quotes bc its a bunch of pictures from a ski trip! ✴ welcome to the new year – the first song I finished this year! doesn't seem like a quote bc I am a musical nobody so its like my little secret and thats cute and fun, right? right?
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I wasn't too sure where to take my Instagram at the start of the year. I really admire people who have really cohesive themes without just regurgitating the same content again, and again, and again. I decided to try to take some time to actually put some effort into my instagram and see if that makes me happier with the results. It's already taken a BIT of a backseat as I recently came down with a harsh case of bronchitis, and suddenly I don't want to even do the schoolwork I have to, let alone my Instagram. Give me inspiration!! Please! Who are your favourite Instagrammers?
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Have you had esthetic enhancements to your teeth or just naturally have great looking, perfect teeth? Here are some dentistry tips to maintain your picture perfect smile.
n order to maintain a healthy smile, you have to know what types of things are damaging to the teeth. Identifying and eliminating bad oral habits is the key to retaining a great smile for many years. Sometimes we are not aware that we are harming the health of our teeth. Do you:
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are in danger of causing a detrimental effect on your new perfect teeth and smile.
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There are many cosmetic dentistry situations which arise that lend themselves to treatment with dental veneers by your cosmetic dentist. One indication is for restoring teeth with discoloration that have been unaffected by the more conventional teeth bleaching approaches. Some examples of this are teeth that have severe tetracycline (an antibiotic) staining or discoloration from a previous injury to the tooth.
Another major indication is for teeth that require significant changes in their shape or contour. By placing dental veneers, small or misshapen teeth can be built up to regain a more natural appearance, spaces between teeth can be closed by making the teeth wider and teeth that are too short can be lengthened.
Porcelain dental veneers or composite veneers are a very popular dental care treatment option for a variety of reasons. They are one of the most conservative restorations that can be done by your cosmetic dentist. This means that the amount of tooth structure that must be removed is very small. Generally, only 0.3 to 0.7 mm needs to be removed from the surface of your tooth.
Dental veneers are then made and bonded to the teeth, incorporating the desired changes in shape and color. Since veneers are so thin and there is no metal in them, the esthetic potential is very high. Veneers can be made of two different materials, either composite or porcelain.
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One of the disadvantages of composite veneers is that they are not as strong as porcelain veneers and therefore are more prone to fracture. However, if a fracture does occur, they can be easily repaired because the same material that was used initially to make the veneers can be added in the same manner to fix it.
Another disadvantage is that the color, although stable, is not as stable as the same porcelain veneer restoration. This means that over time the veneers may get darker or turn yellow. Eventually, this change in color can warrant the replacement of the composite veneers.
Porcelain veneers require a longer treatment time. At the first appointment, your teeth are prepared and an impression is made of them. Temporary dental veneers are made out of plastic and placed on your teeth. They are used to protect your teeth while the real porcelain veneers are being fabricated. You can also use them to evaluate the look and feel of your teeth so that any changes you desire can be incorporated into your real veneers.
At the second appointment, the temporary veneers are removed and the porcelain veneers bonded to your teeth. Although they are thin, porcelain veneers are much stronger than composite veneers, so the risk of fracture compared to the composite veneers is much less. However, if a fracture does occur, repairing it is more difficult and may result in the veneers having to be remade.
In general, porcelain veneers can be used in a greater variety of situations with a higher level of predictability. Since they are made outside the mouth, the shape and color can be easier to control, thus enhancing the final result.
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The future of any online business greatly depends on the kind of e-commerce platform it uses. That is why most online investors in Australia will always go for a scalable platform. However, it is vital to note that running a successful online business takes more than a good platform. You should understand that you will be dealing with customers who have expectations from you and they include the following.
Quality with each product or service
Online shoppers would rather spend more money on quality than quantity. That is why; online businesses that always offer quality products or services are known to flourish with a short time to hit the global market. The moment your customers discover that your products and services are nothing close to what you advertise, they are most likely to leave you with a bad review which is a great threat. Apart from offering quality products and services, customers also expect quality customer care services. You should know that online business is very competitive and online shoppers are petty. The moment you show signs of having issues like your website breaking down during a flash sale, no customer will feel safe to shop from your site.
Current trends
Customers have different preferences, and these preferences are most likely to change depending on various things. One of the common reasons that can make customers shift from one product to the next is because the new product is trending in the market. The best way to retain your customers is to always have new and better things for them every time. A customer should find the trending products in the market on your website instead of asking customer care for it. That means that you should always be on the lookout for new things to sell. You should, however, make sure that you maintain your market niche unless you have a good strategy for introducing a different product on your website.
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Giving free consultation is another excellent way of providing good customer care for your customers. It builds trust, and even if a customer does not make an order, they are most likely to refer their friends to your website due to your good will.
When setting up your business online, you should always make sure you do it from the customers' perspective as well. You should know that online shoppers are sensitive and quick to leave a review whenever they feel it is necessary. You, therefore, want to be on their right side if more business is what you are looking for.


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Delightful Gathering at Home of Popular Biloxi Lady Saturday Afternoon
Biloxi Daily Herald December 2, 1912
Delightful Gathering at Home of Popular Biloxi Lady Saturday Afternoon
Biloxi, December 2
A surprise party in honor of her sixty-eighth birthday was tendered Mrs. Irene Harkness by her friends Saturday afternoon. They gathered at Mrs. W. T. Bolton's home and then proceeded in a body to the Harkness home Delaunay street. Mrs. Harkness was the recipient of many pretty presents.
The following program was carried out:
Song—Rock of Ages
Poem Reading, "Birthday Wishes", dedicated to Grandma Harkness by Mrs. J. E. Pendola, which is reproduced below.
Recitation, The Dumb Wife—Miss Irene Harkness
Recitation, Woman's Rights—Margaret Harkness
Piano Solo—Mrs. W. G. Wilkes
Recitation, The Great Battle—Willie Newell Harkness
Reading—Mrs. J. E. Pendola
Hymn, Showers of Blessings By the company
Scripture reading—Rev. W. L. Linfield
Prayer—Rev. J. L. Jordan
Misses Irene, Margaret and Althea Harkness served the guest with a dainty luncheon. The birthday cake was a very large and handsome one bearing sixty-eight candles.
Among those present were Mesdames H. Gorenflo, S. W. Rose, Mathia, Amy Dulion, C. Barnette, J. C. Tyler, E. L. Suter, Lyman Bradford, R. B. Dacey, J. Swetman, J. E. Pendola, W. G. Wilkes, Allen Watson, R. M. Davis, Giles Harkness, Louis Harkness; Misses Capitola Mathias, Laura White, Winnie Gorenflo. Stella and May Harkness, Kathryn Henley, Rev. J. L. Jordon, Rev. W. L. Linfield, and Edwin Morris, Herbie Pendola, Willie Newell Harkness and Jack Watson.
(Poem by Mrs. J. E. Pendola)
We are bringing a wish for your birthday,
A wish and a hope and a prayer;
A wish that the day may be joyous and gay,
Unclouded by sorrow or care.
A hope that the year that is coming
Will bring many friends tried and true,
And know that the truest among them
Will never be truer than you
We have known your sweet, loving ways,
And we wish you the best in our hearts
May the remaining years be
The best of your days
Sixty-eight years of a well-spent life
Such a comfort to all should be;
We hope you may long be spared to us
And we a comfort to thee.
Long may sunshine round thee hover
Bright as that about thee now;
Never may a cloud of sorrow
Cast a shadow on thy brow.
Edwin Morris = David Edmund "Ed" Morris
Mrs. W. T. Bolton = possibly Mrs. W. J. Holston


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Find a Better Job Using Pierson's Highly Effective Job Search Method
In 2006, I came across a book written by Orville Pierson: The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search (HEJS). Though I did not realize it at the time, reading this book would mark one of those ah-ha moments in my life.
At the time, I recall thinking that the length of my job search was increasing at an alarming rate. Early in my career, I would make a call to a contact and have a new job offer in a matter of weeks. It appeared that searching for a new job opportunity was requiring significantly more time, effort, and energy.
In 2001, I was stuck in a job search for well over a year. Fast forward to 2007: As I was soon to graduate with a freshly minted business degree, the time had come for me to scrap my current job search approach for something better.
That better approach is Pierson's Highly Effective Job Search method. Developed by Orville Pierson and made publicly available in 2006, Pierson's HEJS was a key job search tool provided to over one million private clients of Lee Hecht Harrison, a leading global career services firm.
It was October 2006, when I my first used the Pierson job search method. Eight weeks later, in the first week January 2007, I received and accepted a new job offer. Had I found the effective job search strategy that I was seeking?
Soon after beginning my new job, I shared Pierson's approach with a colleague who was struggling with a year-long job search. After applying what she had read in the first few chapters of the book, she landed an interview with a hiring manager and accepted a new position she had found using the Pierson method.
In 2018, The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search remains a best practice among professionals focused on career advancement and job search best practices. Coupled with Pierson's Team Up! and Highly Effective Networking practices, career professionals have a powerful platform by which they can executive highly effective and efficient job searches.
If you're engaged in executive or professional practice, Pierson's Highly Effective Job Search method may be the answer you've been looking for to launch a fast, efficient and effective job search strategy.
If you have questions or would like to know how to kick-start a job search using the Pierson Highly Effective Job Search method, please contact me for more information.
The Professional Objective: Getting Started Developing Your HEJS Plan. (Jim Intriglia's Education Blog, 2018)
The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search (Orville Pierson, Amazon, 2018)


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Here are a few of my favorite things.
-Chaos in Newtonian Gravity
The gravitational three-body problem has been around for a long time. Newton himself dabbled with it, albeit briefly. With hundreds of years of research behind it, one thing has become clear about the general three-body problem: it is an example of chaos in nature. Given the positions and velocities of all three particles at some initial time, it is not possible to derive a simple analytic formula to predict their positions and velocities at any subsequent time. It only gets worse if additional bodies are thrown in to the mix. My research aims to exploit the chaotic nature of the problem, to create models that predict the outcomes of a statistical ensemble of such small-number gravitational interactions. One such example includes applying a radioactive decay formalism to the disruption of small systems of stars (Leigh et al. 2016; Ibragimov, Leigh, et al. 2017). We find that such an approach can indeed accurately describe the physics. This should perhaps be expected, since both gravity and the strong nuclear force obey an inverse-squared force law, at least at short distances. You can find those papers here:
Ibragimov T. & Leigh N. W. C. (2017), in preparation.
I study combinatorics in chaotic Newtonian dynamics in various shapes and forms. In one collection of papers, we adopt finite-sized particles and focus on interactions that produce direct collisions between any two stars. Our long-term goal is to construct an equation that gives the probability of a given collision event occurring over the course of the interaction, as a function of the total encounter energy and angular momentum as well as the numbers and properties of the particles.
Why would this be such a useful model to have in our toolbox? Direct collisions during fewbody interactions have been studied in a variety of contexts and are thought to be crucial for a number of ubiquitous astrophysical processes, including stellar collisions and blue straggler formation in globular clusters (e.g. Leonard 1989; Fregeau et al. 2004; Leigh, Knigge & Sills 2007; Hypki & Giersz 2016, 2017) and even galactic nuclei (e.g. Shara & Shaviv 1974; Davies et al. 1998; Bailey & Davies 1999; Yu 2003; Dale et al. 2009; Leigh et al. 2016), the formation of runaway stars in O/B associations (e.g. Blaauw & Morgan 1954; Perets & Subr 2012; Oh et al. 2015; Ryu, Leigh & Perna 2017a,b,c), the formation of intermediate-mass and supermassive black holes via runaway stellar collisions (e.g. Portegies Zwart et al. 2004; Giersz et al. 2015; Stone, Kuepper & Ostriker 2017), the collisional growth of protoplanetary disks (e.g. Goldreich, Lithwick & Sari 2004; Lithwick & Chiang 2007), the formation of massive elliptical galaxies in galaxy groups and clusters (e.g. Binney & Tremaine 1987; Balland et al. 1998; Trinchieri et al. 2003), and the list goes on.
In our most recent paper, the third in the series, we expanded our method for application to the majority of the available phase space. In other words, we very seriously improved our model. After rigorous comparisons to N-body simulations, it performs its intended purpose at the order-of-magnitude level. We are one short paper away from adapting our model to the remaining parameter space, and fully testing it using numerical scattering simulations. You can find these papers here:
The chaotic four-body problem has also piqued my curiosity in recent years. Direct encounters between pairs of binaries in star clusters are the main mode of formation for stable triple star systems. In the point-particle limit, single-binary interactions can never form stable triples. At least four stars are needed to get the job done. We recently developed a statistical mechanics-based method to probabilistically predict the properties of any outcome of the chaotic four-body problem, for any initial total energy and angular momentum for the encounter. This includes the orbital separations and eccentricities of the inner and outer binaries of any resulting stable triples, as well as the distribution of angles between the inner and outer orbital planes. Our method can tell you, for any set of initial conditions, what fraction of objects produced in binary-binary interactions will produce stable triples in the active Lidov-Kozai regime! That's just a fancy term to describe a special triple configuration that allows for internal dynamical evolution. If the particles have finite sizes, as is the case for real stars, this can drive the inner binary pair to collide and merge.
What does all this mean? With the preceding tools, we can perform the simulations on pen and paper. No more computers. Any limitations of modern technology are overcome, using a clever analytic approach pioneered by J. J. Monaghan in 1976 (Monaghan 1976a,b). You can find my papers on these topics here:
Stone N. C. & Leigh N. W. C. (2017), in preparation.
The origins of galactic globular clusters and their contribution to black hole binary mergers
These behemoths weigh-in at up to a million times the mass of the Sun, and date back almost all the way to the beginning of the Universe. They are home to some of the highest stellar densities in the Universe, with central densities that can reach well over a million solar masses per cubic parsec. If you took the Sun and its closest neighbor Proxima Centauri, the distance between which defines a parsec (pc), and plopped them down right in the core of a dense globular cluster, well over a hundred stars would fall between the pair. Due to these high densities, single and binary stars regularly undergo direct gravitational interactions, carving out an intricate dance in time and space. This regularly serves to swap stellar-mass black holes in to binaries, so that they can later merge in a burst of gravitational waves. Globular clusters are factories for black hole binary mergers. But we are only able to observe these factories in operation now. In order to understand how they were built and the treasures they should be expected to produce, we must somehow rewind their evolution over billions of years to say something about the initial conditions. Only then will we be able to say something about how these beasts birth black hole binaries, and are contributing to the gravitational waves currently being observed by aLIGO.
We get a little tricky in some of the following papers, and develop new methods to constrain or estimate the initial cluster mass, the initial mass-radius relation, the initial stellar mass function, the initial binary fraction and the initial distributions of binary orbital parameters.
This paper also presents a method for calculating the initial total cluster mass for any given globular cluster, using only the observed present-day mass and the slope of its stellar mass function:
The take-away message is that, in order to operate, computers need a user. The user's ignorance thus becomes one of the many limitations inherent to modern computational machines. In the preceding papers, we have begun down the road of removing this user-based ignorance. The initial conditions we find using the present-day observational data can be used as input to simulations for star cluster evolution. This will ensure that your simulations produce clusters consistent with the observed properties of the Milky Way globular cluster population.
If what you really care about are the black holes lurking in globular clusters, and how the initial conditions might affect their merger rates, then check out these papers:
There's really no easy way to initiate a conversation about this next topic without sounding somewhat pedantic, and more than probably a little crazy. I'll just dive right in.
I take great interest in cosmology, particularly from the perspective of a collisional dynamicist. What do I mean by this? Modern cosmology is founded on Einstein's Field Equations with a Cosmological Constant. This immediately implies a field-based approach, applied over many many orders of magnitude in space and time. Now, in most gravitationally-interacting dynamical systems, the field approximation breaks down at very high densities at the inter-particle scale. This marks our entry in to the "collisional" (as opposed to "collisionless" or "field-like") regime, the point at which individual pairs of particles begin to interact strongly, inducing strong deflections to each other's trajectories. In this limit, the cosmological frame of reference must also enter a collisional regime since, after all, the observer is a part of the Universe. Arguably, modern cosmological theory makes no real attempt to self-consistently account for these issues. Instead, the observer approaches a space-time singularity (i.e., the Big Bang) at very early times.
One way to look at this is that the cosmological frame of reference in LambdaCDM is a reasonable approximation at late times only. But what about the very early Universe? Is it possible to self-consistently construct a frame of reference that obeys the laws of physics while simultaneously bridging orders upon orders of magnitude in time and space? And, if so, what might this be telling us?
Cosmology is at a crossroad. On the one hand, the field has a functional model to describe the large-scale structure of the Universe, its history and observations thereof. On the other hand, it points to the presence of both Dark Matter and Dark Energy without offering a reason or explanation for their existence, and leaves us practically defenseless in trying to understand their origins. One way to go about tackling this problem is to try to introduce new physically-motivated models that successfully reproduce all of the currently available observations and empirical data, while offering fresh insights and predictions that will lead us to new physics. But how exactly does one go about this?
One tried-and-true method is to first identify physical inconsistencies in the old model(s), in an attempt to create new models that correct them. As described above, the observer frame of reference in cosmological models is a key concept argued to suffer from inconsistencies.
What if we could turn the model inside-out, and reconstruct it in a non-inertial frame of reference influenced only by gravity? Such frames of reference have survived rigorous empirical scrutiny; they are known to exist in this Universe.
In "A Novel Mechanism for the Distance-Redshift Relation" (Leigh & Graur 2017), we explore one such model, and confront it with some of the available observational data, with a focus on reproducing the observed distance-redshift relation using our model. What we find is rather surprising: to construct the relevant model, one must first assume the existence of an effectively infinite sea of very very long-wavelength particles at very very low energy scales. But, as it turns out, this removes the need for a cosmological redshift in explaining the distance-redshift relation, and replaces it with the more familiar (arguably) gravitational redshift. Not to over-state the significance of our results, since our simple toy model leaves many questions unanswered, but the mechanism proposed here to account for the observed distance-redshift relation could, in principle, contribute to both Dark Energy and Dark Matter. You can find our paper here:
Triple Stars and other Stellar Molecules
Consider a cluster of stars, and compare it to a cloud of gas. Both are systems of interacting particles, and both obey the laws of thermodynamics. Both of these systems can be given a temperature, which quantifies the typical relative speeds between interacting particles or stars. In star clusters, a higher temperature is synonymous with a higher velocity dispersion. The basic idea is as follows: the hotter the system, the harder it is for particles to stick together. In the case of a gas, this means that hotter gases tend to have fewer molecules, relative to a colder gas. In star clusters, this means that clusters with higher velocity dispersions tend to have lower binary and triple fractions, relative to clusters with lower velocity dispersions. The fraction of objects that are binaries corresponds to the percentage of unresolved point sources in the cluster that are actually bound pairs. In a series of papers, my collaborator Aaron M. Geller and I showed that this leads to rich and interesting dynamics in even low-density open star clusters. This challenges the long-standing belief that only globular clusters are "dynamically active". Life now becomes a little more interesting, since most star clusters fall in the open cluster category, in our own Galaxy and abroad. One example of this phenomenon is that ongoing interactions involving binary stars are more likely to be directly interrupted by incoming objects before completion in clusters with lower temperatures (i.e., open clusters). You can check out these papers here:


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NURFREESBORO, TN -- A Tennessee teen says he was never a big fan of the personal assistant 'Siri' on his iPhone. That changed, he says, when the Apple feature saved his life last month.
Sam Ray, 18, of Nurfreesboro was working on his truck on July 2 in the driveway of his family's home, reports television station WKRN. While under the vehicle, which was up on jacks, he called his father to ask a question. Once they were done talking, Sam put his iPhone in his back pocket.
Then, as he tried to slide out from underneath the truck, it fell on top of him and trapped his arms.
"It was kind of the realization that, oh my God, what just happened and this could be the end," Sam said.
After unsuccessfully yelling for help, he heard Siri from his back pocket and got an idea.
"I thought, oh wow," said Sam. "This is kind of a useful thing."
Sam pushed up on his hip to activate the feature. Then after several times asking it to call 911, he heard a dispatcher's voice.
"The greatest thing he did was keep saying his address so we could get everybody there," said dispatcher Christina Lee.
Emergency responders were sent to Sam's house. They were able to get him out from under the truck and he was airlifted to the hospital.
Sam had several broken ribs and other internal injuries, but a month after that experience, he continues to recover. He gives credit to the reponsders who acted quickly, the power of prayer...and Siri.
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Dup and Sarah du Plessis took the brave step and moved their Café Dijon in Stellenbosch high street to Green Point in Cape Town recently. Dup's grandfather told him, "always have a business from which you can see Table Mountain!".
I enjoyed more than a couple of excellent meals at Café Dijon Stellenbosch so I was very pleased when Dup and Sarah invited me to come and have a look at their new home. It is on Napier Street tucked in under The Rockwell and opposite Cape Town Legend Anatoli. The interior is modern, design by In House Design, responsible for Cape Town restaurants like Carne and Burrata. There is a wall installation reflecting the names of the French Huguenot families which settled in the Cape in the 17th Century. And some very innovative and clever woodwork around supporting pillars.
Sarah is a Silwood trained Chef and the time she and Dup spent in France is reflected on the menu. Dup regards himself as somewhat of a meat expert and this is reflected in the Grills section of the menu where the forequarter cuts of Rib Eye and the Dijon Cut shine.
Toulouse Sausages, made in their kitchen, served with Dijon Mustard, mini hamburgers made from Angus Beef and some tiny tomato and mozzarella tartlets with caramelized onion all made for excellent starters, though some of the people at my table had some rather delicious fresh looking salads.
My main course of the Dijon Cut Steak was served with a bowl of rustly chips and crisp batter fried onion rings.
The dessert choices are simple French, Glazed Tarte au Citron, Crème Brulee and a baked apple tart. Should you go the cheese route, there is Tete de Moine on the platter, not often seen in a South African restaurant.
Excellent wines, the Springfield Whole Berry Cabernet and Thelema Sauvignon Blanc accompanied the meal.
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Thursday, 15 May 2014
Terri Jackson appointed membership secretary of Principia Scientific International
Terri Jackson founder of the energy and climate group at the Institute of Physics in London has been appointed membership secretary of Principia Scientific International(PSI). The President of PSI is John Sanderson the immediate past present of the Royal College of Science Associations. John O`Sullivan is the executive secretary. Principia Scientific International is a worldwide association of mainly climate scientists, physicists and engineers who totally reject that climate changes are due to human behaviour but rather climate change is natural and due to the changing sun(presently in rapid decline) and ocean cycles. Now over 300 strong and growing PSI includes twenty four professors and Nobel nominees in its ranks. The first President of Principia Scientific International was ProfessorTimothy Ball who was Professor of Climatology at the University of Winnipeg for thirty years. His latest book "The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science" available from Amazon Books on line is a revealing classic. If you are interested in joining PSI then contact either John O`Sullivan(email@example.com) or Terri Jackson (email@example.com) http://principia-scientific.org
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A Weekend in Puerto Rico, and Why You Should Support the Island/
by Sophia Walters
From San Juan to Rincon, post Maria Puerto Rico is booming with culture, love, and warmth, even after the worst natural disaster in its history.
Prior traveling to Puerto Rico, I wasn't sure what to expect. What I was determined to do was immerse myself with the local people, culture, and food to get a grasp on how the island is recovering from Hurricane Maria. I had three days to explore this magical place, and I hit the ground running as soon as I touched down.
The first stop was Old San Juan, where I would stay at the treasured Villa Herenica. It felt like a cross between an enchanted forest and a jungle tree house. With its overgrown plant life,and the sound of trickling water, I immediately escaped the outside world and was engulfed in this little piece of history. As I only had one night in OSJ, I didn't waste much time hitting the cobblestone streets. As I walked out, I was greeted by newlyweds celebrating their vows and lovers hand in hand, their skin glistening from the humidity. I made my way to the 2nd story of a corner building to The Mezzanine for tapas and cocktails. I sat on a balcony made for two, people watching, and enjoying conversation with my gracious waiter who indulged all my questions. After our conversation the game plan was set; I would bar hop a bit more through OSJ, hit La FactorÍa, and finish off the night at the infamous La Plactia. I said my good-byes, and was off to explore more of OSJ.
La Factoría, was exactly what I pictured when I thought of Puerto Rican nightlife. Humid and sexy, with multiple rooms of people majestically moving from salsa to merengue. The talent was incredible (So You Think You Can Dance Who?). After I finished another Bariilito on the rocks I jumped in an Uber and was off to La Plactia. It was unlike anything I had ever experienced before. Multiple bars, clubs, and restaurants occupied a large promenade with thousands of people chanting for fútbol, dancing, drinking, eating, and thoroughly enjoying life at midnight. After dancing for hours, eating more delectable Puerto Rican bites, and drinking too much rum, I called it a night, and made my way back to my serene home away from home.
I woke up to birds singing, and the warm sun beaming through my skylight. After a quick breakfast provided by my hotel hosts in their charming dinning room, I packed up my rental car and was headed to the west side of the island to Rincon. Taking in my last few moments in OSJ I drove through the narrow streets, admired the pastel buildings where generations of families lived, and paid my humble respects.
Rincon is the romantic solitude that we all need to remind ourselves of how much we are loved. A town painted in its own organic paradise, nestled on the west coast of the island, I instantly felt that I could stay here in gratitude for months. My accommodation of choice was at the Villas at the Horned Dorset. Here, the aftermath of Maria was more noticeable because of the hotel's low occupancy. The Horned Dorset Hotel, adjacent to the villas underwent much damage that is still noticeable, but what wasn't damaged, was the spirits of all that worked there. As my significant other and I were some of the only visitors, we defiantly felt like Jay-Z, and Beyoncé, as our every desire required no effort. We made friends with a local couple that was occupying the villa adjacent to ours and decided to indulge in their recommendations.
On our last full day in Rincon, we took the streets. Brunch at the La Rosa Inglesa, followed by beach exploration, and a meditative day at our private plunge pool was precisely what was needed to start winding down our get-a-way. Dinner at La Cambija, where the seafood tasted as if it had been caught to order, was proceeded by Villa Confessi to experience what the locals call the most magical sunset in the world.
The next morning, the time had come to pack our things, and head back to San Juan to catch our flight back home. I swam in the ocean one last time, and picked up coral that had washed up from Hurricane Maria. I thanked the majestic island for sharing her culture, showing me an abundance of love, and embracing me into her warm arms. I paid homage to her strength. and resilience for being able to overcome, and asked graciously for her to bless me with these same qualities.
Till we met again Queen Island!
***One of Puerto Rico's main sources of fiscal income is tourism. Don't wait to visit this glorious place; it will bless you 10-fold.


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The Handgun ban in DC has recently been overturned, and the law may make it up to the Supreme Court depending on the Appeals process. While the 2nd amendment crowd has been jumping cartwheels in the streets, NPR spoke with the DC Mayor about it. Anyway, it made for a very interesting read. Personally, I grew up in a "2nd amendment" household, have taken hunter safety and feel very comfortable about guns. That being said, many arguments of the diehard 2nd amendment crowd doesn't cut it with me. When you use false correlations to prove a point, I don't buy it. The emotional rhetoric–falls on my deaf ears. That being said, many of the arguments of the die-hard gun control crowd doesn't cut it with me either. Fenty comes off pretty weak in this. So, like many topics; I end up in the middle.
The article is after the jump:
D.C. Mayor Addresses Blow to Handgun Ban
A federal appeals court says Washington, D.C., can't keep people from having handguns in their homes. The case seems headed to the Supreme Court. Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty says the ban is one way to fight a disturbing murder rate.
After this ruling, you still can't walk around with a gun on Pennsylvania Ave. But you could keep one in your house. What's wrong with that?
The ruling is not in effect yet. It won't be in effect until our appeals process has run its course. And that should be [in] a year or two.
If we were unsuccessful, it would mean … [you could] buy a gun and bring it into your home. But nowhere else would they be legal.
What's wrong with having a gun in the home?
Acts of violence lead to death when you have handguns around, legal or illegal.
How has it affected the nation's capital to have had this gun ban in effect since 1976, more than 30 years?
I think what you've seen [is that] we've had a lot of homicides in the District of Columbia. But they have, steadily, been going down. And one of the reasons people think that they've been going down is [that] the only way you can get a handgun in the District of Columbia is illegally.
And making it tougher on people to get a handgun makes it tougher for them to kill somebody. We are trying to make it as tough as possible for bad guys to get handguns.
You've had the ban for more than a generation and it still is one of the more dangerous cities in America.
I think that's akin to saying that you have stop signs, but people are still running them and getting into accidents. I think the point is that if you had less stop signs, then there'd be more accidents.
You don't stop regulating something just because you haven't completely eliminated the problem.
When you do consider the crime rate, can you blame the six District residents who sued?
I think that would be blaming people who are not part of the problem. I think that there are some people who, probably for legitimate reasons, want to have a handgun.
But I think what most District residents feel is that that is overwhelmed by the number of people who would probably end up with handguns and use them for the wrong reasons.
How common are handguns in the District of Columbia?
What we know is that more than 80 percent of the homicides in the District of Columbia are committed with the use of an illegal handgun. As opposed to about 20 percent … that were, probably, originally legal.
So guns are still making their way into the District of Columbia. But you can see that most of them are illegal and are being sold on the black market.
Now there's a way to go after those handguns. We think that we need to do a better job closing down stores that are too easily selling illegal handguns to people.
But I think you can see from that statistic that that number of legal handguns that would probably be used for homicides would go up dramatically if there were more legal handguns around.
Have you ever owned a gun?
Have you ever thought it might be a good idea to own a gun?


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We Would See Jesus
A lot happens in John 12, but the bit I have been meditating on is 12:21b. The translation I have memorized is KJV: "Sir, we would see Jesus"—we wish, we want to see Jesus.
As I write this, I am hip-deep in Lent, a time of penitence and reflection, a time to fast.
I am amazed continually at the absolute muck being dredged up in my own life. Oh hey, thing I thought or did 15 years ago that I just realized needs to be repented of, how's it going? Hey, you skipped two meals, and you're a foul person to be around, this is great!
Nobody said sanctification was going to be fun. It's dreadful. At times it feels like parts of you are being tied off with dental floss and left to dully pulse themselves to death before they rot and shrivel and fall off. This is not what I have in mind when I think about sanctification. This is not the cross I would have chosen. And yet I want to see Jesus.
I love the Lord, for he heard my voice;
he heard my cry for mercy.
Because he turned his ear to me,
I will call on him as long as I live.
Just before Advent, I wrote about ways God is with us. It's still true.
But that was Advent, with light and birth and hope on the horizon. This is Lent, and so I think about the Man of Sorrows, about the death that has to come before the life, the pain that precedes the relief, the (sorry) brokenness that precedes restoration.
The cords of death entangled me,
the anguish of the grave came over me;
I was overcome by distress and sorrow.
Then I called on the name of the Lord:
"Lord, save me!"
I consider the fact that I was raised in the faith, and never left it, and STILL managed to wind up bargaining with God for how little I could get away with and still be a Christian, sort of.
I think about why no one wants to suffer. Why would we? IT HURTS. You look at suffering and say "no, thanks, I'm good." But we rarely get to choose how we suffer. The cross we end up bearing is not the one we think we'd be good at, the one we could deal with. My idea of what constitutes suffering has also shifted significantly over time and hopefully will continue to do so. I was raised to think about what I could "give up" for God—how I could identify myself publicly as a Christian by dressing, speaking, or acting differently than others, in a way that often brought ridicule. What I realize now was wrong about this approach was that it focused on our sacrifice rather than Christ's sacrifice. Does personal piety still matter? Of course. Is it to be focused on incessantly, to the point of driving us to despair? Nope.
The Lord is gracious and righteous;
our God is full of compassion.
The Lord protects the unwary;
when I was brought low, he saved me.
Return to your rest, my soul,
for the Lord has been good to you.
For you, Lord, have delivered me from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling,
that I may walk before the Lord
in the land of the living.
What I hadn't realized is that if you repeatedly reject suffering, in favor of a life of relatively uncomplicated ease, you are not going to see Jesus to the same extent. Will he still be present in word and sacrament? Obviously. Can you harden your heart and blind your eyes against conviction even while receiving word and sacrament? Yes. One of the questions I hear a lot, from believers and unbelievers alike, is "why does God allow suffering?"
I am beginning to think it is a mark of just how much he loves us because it is in this suffering we get to see him reveal himself.
Looking straight at the Christ revealed to us in Scripture can be difficult - my biggest issue with artistic portrayals of him is that none of them look like this.
Who has believed what he has heard from us?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his wounds we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
And they made his grave with the wicked
and with a rich man in his death,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief;
when his soul makes an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.
He suffered to a degree none of us ever will: sinless, made to bear the sins of all humanity, ripping holes in the very fabric of time and reality as we know it.
But having suffered this, having risen again in triumph over sin, separation, and death, there is nothing we can suffer that he hasn't, and in this, I have found a great deal of comfort.
Fix your eyes not on the suffering you are experiencing, but on the Man of Sorrows, who laid his life down for you.
Would you see Jesus? You may well have to walk through the valley of the shadow of death, but he is most certainly there with you. The day we will be able to see him with our own eyes and touch the hem of his garment with our own hands cannot come soon enough for me.


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Audra Mulkern is a 2019 James Beard nominee, writer, photographer and international speaker who is changing the way you look at farming and the food on your plate.
She is the founder of "The Female Farmer Project™" – a multi-platform documentary project that chronicles the rise of women working in agriculture around the world. From in-depth stories, personal essays, photographic portraits, a podcast, and in-development documentary film -- the project gives a powerful voice to the fastest growing demographic in agriculture-- the female farmer.
Audra is the Co-Executive Producer and host of the in-progress documentary film, Women's Work: The Untold Story of America's Female Farmers.
Audra and her storytelling partner, Debbie Weingarten are 2019 James Beard Award nominees for their investigative reporting work on discrimination practices against black farmers.
'It's not fair, not right': how America treats its black farmers
The Female Farmer Project™ has garnered international recognition, and has been featured and published in a number of outlets including The Guardian, The Today Show, Condé Nast, Huffington Post, PBS, The Seattle Times, and has been in exhibition at the United Nations in New York, the IFAD building in Rome, La Maison Rouge Gallery in Paris, FarmAid30, TEDxManhattan 2015 and is in permanent exhibition at the USDA in Washington DC.
Readers Digest Country Woman Magazine identified 45 "Amazing Women" in honor of their 45th Anniversary. Audra Mulkern was honored alongside Temple Grandin, Krysta Harden, Sandra Day O'Connor and many others who represent the movement in embracing and celebrating women and the country way of life.
Audra also won the Cascade Harvest Coalition Wendell Berry award for 2015, the PCC Farmland Trust Barn Raiser award in 2018 and the Tilth Alliance 'Advocate of the Year' award in 2018 for her work on passing legislation to help fund mental health resources at the state and federal levels.
Audra currently serves on the Refresh Food and Tech Working Group representing women in agriculture. The Refresh Working Group brings together farmers, small business owners, researchers, corporate partners, nonprofit leaders, educators, community organizers, and innovators working across the food system to explore—and hopefully finding consensus around—intersecting policy issues at the nexus of food and technology. The project is initially funded by Google and led by Swell Creative Group.
For event speaker inquiries, contact Audra here.
For video production and hosting services contact Audra here
Team FFP are volunteers to this project, I am endlessly grateful for their passion, talent and time.
Meet them below.
Debbie Weingarten is a Tucson-based writer and editor, who believes that food systems are stronger if the women working within them are connected with and empowered by each other. As a former vegetable farmer, she geeks out to USDA statistics, goat dynamics, and convening with other female farmer-mover-shakers. She is obsessed with storytelling and amplifying the voices in rural America. She is the co-founder of the Farmer Education & Resource Network, serves on the City of Tucson's Commission for Food Security, Heritage and Economy, and on the Leadership Council for the Pima County Food Alliance.
To contact Debbie for speaker or writing services, contact her here.
A history buff on the side, and a science geek for life – Greta Hardin has degrees in Biology and Education. She's taught AP Chemistry, led Elementary School Art-Programs and written a cookbook for beginners at the Farmers Market. She's currently delving into her family's forestry business, and slowly working towards a cookbook on Farmers Market proteins (beef heart Sauce Bolognese?). Such wide ranging interest and a passion for research and writing mean a chance to dig into the past and present roles of Women in growing, harvesting and producing our food is about as exciting as it gets.
To contact Greta for speaker or panels on women in forestry, contact her here.
Jo is a professional documentary and action photographer in Olympia, Washington. In 2011, her husband Greg, a veteran of the US navy special forces, took his own life after struggling for years with "moral injury," post traumatic stress and chronic pain. After Greg's death she experienced deep grief, guilt and bewilderment, particularly as she came to realize how little she understood about addressing veterans' health and well-being.
Shortly after Greg's death she left her career as a lawyer to dedicate herself to telling the stories of community-based organizations, particularly those serving veterans. Since that time she's continued to document and participate in veteran-led programs that work to prevent suicide and improve veterans' quality of life, including the Growing Veterans' farmsteads near Bellingham and a veterans' spiritual wilderness retreat with School of Lost Borders. She is also a community organizer with Forefront Suicide Prevention at the University of Washington School of Social Work.
Jo intends to further document the work of veteran farmers across Washington State, many of whom have joined together recently to establish the Washington State chapter of the Farmer Veteran Coalition.
To contact Jo for speaker or panels on veteran suicide issues, contact her here.
Melony Edwards is a first-generation farmer currently working as Farm Manager at Willowood Farm of Ebey's Prairie on Whidbey Island, north of Seattle. Bringing her unique perspective as a young, African American woman working on a small farm, Edwards started her food journey in the culinary and hospitality field. Driven by her personal love for food and insatiable curiosity, Edwards has worked in many different aspects of the culinary world, quickly climbing the industry ladder. Starting out as an intern in a four-star Seattle restaurant, Edwards has also worked on cruise ships, managed the ordering and event details for a division of Boeing's Eurest catering program, and worked at Whole Foods Market. Since starting at Willowood Farm in 2016, Edwards immediately immersed herself in the small farming community she now calls home. She quickly rose through the ranks at Willowood, starting out as a field crew grunt hand, which lead her to her current farm management role. Edwards has been involved in local efforts to relaunch the Whidbey Island Grown brand, helping to promote Whidbey as a unique culinary and agricultural destination. In addition, Edwards is currently working on a program in collaboration with Finnriver Farm and Cidery and Port Townsend Land Trust to bring more young African American students interested in farming to local Pacific Northwest farms so they can experience farming and get their hands dirty.
Edwards holds a degree in hospitality and restaurant management from Johnson & Wales University Miami as well as a degree in culinary arts from Le Cordon Bleu.
To contact Melony for speaker or panels on women of color in agriculture and food systems, contact her here.
Kate Doughty is a graduate of the University of Washington with a double degree in Environmental Studies and Comparative History of Ideas. Her studies have ranged from ecological aspects of agriculture to socio-cultural and community related aspects, allowing her to take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the food system. Kate was drawn to the Female Farmer Project because she believes that by empowering women and amplifying their voices through storytelling, the gendered barriers that face female farmers daily can be dismantled, and the invaluable service they provide can be supported as it deserves to be. In her work with the Female Farmer Project, she hopes to help capture and embody the complexities of the female farmer identity, and make a positive difference in the representation of women in the fields.
Lucia Wyss is a farmer, writer, and mediator who believes that resilient community and resilient ecology are inseparable. With her partner, she runs Hidden River Farm growing organic grain and pigs on land once inhabited by the Chehalis tribe. She is also the coordinator of the Washington Young Farmers Coalition doing social, political, and educational organizing to empower young and beginning farmers. Her degree is in Environmental Land Use and Community Development from the Evergreen State College.
To contact Lucia for speaker or panels on women in agriculture and young farmer issues, contact her here.
Our 2019 Intern
Sara Klausner is a student at Northeastern University where she majors in environmental studies and focuses on food systems and sustainability. So far, her classes have allowed her to look at the issues of climate change and social equity through the lens of agriculture. On weekends she loves to have her hands in the soil as a volunteer at Gaining Ground Farm. Here, she has learned about the importance of food as a tool for community empowerment. Sara hopes to leverage this knowledge to engage with marginalized stakeholders and spread the adoption of regenerative practices. She sees The Female Farmer Project as an authentic way to restructure our perception of the food system by honoring the foundational laborers behind it. Sara looks forward to further representing women and sustainability in the agricultural narrative, whether that be through policymaking, grassroots organizing, or storytelling. When Sara is not working to be a better environmental steward you can find her writing poetry, rock climbing, or making up a recipe as she goes (if you add an egg on top it's gourmet, right?).


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Solid Piece Dyeing:
4.0 Million / Month
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400K / Month
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Beneficiary of the project: Aynex Industrial and Trading Ltd
Title of the project: "Project of production expansion at Aynex Ltd
Id number of the project: VEKOP-1.2.1-16-2016-00097
Amount of the subsidy: 23 320 000 HUF
Extent of support: 40%
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Content of project: purchase of two plastic injection moulding machines. With the help of them new production technology can be introduced, energy can be saved and the percentage of waste product can be decreased in the future.


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Spring is an inherently optimistic time. As the temperatures rise and the winter blues dissipate for many, the future is celebrated both with weddings and with school graduations. As parents take photographs, young graduates anticipate the opportunities to come their way.
This historic time of buoyant anticipation is, however, witnessing a shift in outlook for many, caused by the daunting debt loads many new graduates are confronting before they even dawn their gowns. Those graduating from post-secondary programs this spring faced the harsh reality that student loan debt in the country has exceeded $15 billion. The Canadian Federation of Students has estimated that the average student debt currently sits at $28,000 and a recent poll has indicated that 21 per cent of students expect to have debts in excess of $40,000 upon graduating. Sadly, these statistics only speak to the student loan debt and do not incorporate the $5 to $8 billion these same students are also carrying on credit cards, lines of credit and other debt instruments.
While we want our bright young minds to enter the next phases of their lives and careers with unabashed optimism, one might understand why the graduation milestone is being met by some with less enthusiasm than days gone past. Building a future, let alone a financially stable one, can be a more challenging task when the road has obstacles from the get-go.
The valedictorian speech gives a concise review of how the graduation milestone has traditionally been viewed. The popular themes of these speeches have historically surrounded following dreams and making a mark in society. Will these goals become harder to achieve with mounting debt burdens that will increasingly place more limitations on our graduates' capacity to seize the day? Will dreams be stymied when finding ways to simply pay the bills places a broad shadow over pursuing ambitions?
To be clear, these thoughts are not intended to be a pessimistic counterweight to the ideals and optimisms that should be experienced at graduation. They are meant as merely an identification of how our current personal debt loads in Canada have far reaching consequences that are as much societal, as they are economic. When our financial leaders speak of Canada's current personal debt, they speak about monetary considerations like tightening mortgage rules and anticipated interest rate increases. Their comments and warnings are well received, as many need to 'hear' the message and deleverage before rates start to rise on all this debt. But we don't hear many comments about current debt loads from our leaders that go beyond the economics of the issue. What about the social changes that may be required to dealt with, or simply result from, all this debt?
The Certified General Accountants Association of Canada released a study in May that indicated one third of Canadians never, or almost never, have any money left over to save after they pay their bills each month. This is the reality many of those new graduates, with an average of $28,000 in debt, will be facing as they (hopefully) enter the work world, want to buy a car or home, or get married. Is there not the potential for some significant alterations to our current social culture that could stem from these household budget restraints?
Our financial leaders, like the Minister of Finance and the (former) Bank of Canada, have done a good job over the last two years at sounding the alarm bells over increasing personal debt loads. Likewise, the financial press have taken up the call and been vigilant in covering the story of our historic debt-to-income ratios and the implications these have on GDP and the national economy.
What we may need next is a more robust discussion surrounding the potential social changes that might result from our current debt levels. Perhaps this will frame the 'bigger picture' for those who have not connected with the issue, as it has been framed to date. Will new grads increasingly vote for educational reforms and post-secondary debt relief over other social programs? Will adult siblings and families living together, as a financial necessity, replace consumption values and alter cultural norms that have evolved in the last few decades? These discussions may move the debt story into a more tangible space for many.
Debt is a curious thing in the financial world, as it speaks equally to value systems, as much as economic cycles and monetary policies. The way in which we address our current debt, individually and communally, will certainly impact our society on more than a purely economic level. Here's hoping our new graduates retain their optimism and continue to seek to change the future for the better. May they seize the day, and their debt, with core values we can all share.


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Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations stored in Cornell Box can be edited by multiple people at the same time using Office Online apps. This addition puts together the friendly interface, large feature set, and easy usability of Box with the convenience of real-time coauthoring for the most commonly used types of Office files.
Editing isn't just confined to your computer, either. Box for iPad and iPhone make it possible to edit Office files stored in Box directly from Word, Excel, or PowerPoint apps on your Apple device. Start in your Box or Office app, create or open a file, and make changes on the fly that are automatically saved back to Box.