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Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar was seriously injured on Thursday after a clash here between his supporters and those of former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. He was taken to hospital where doctors said he is out of danger.
Several other workers were also injured in the clash near Bhairon Mandir, a meeting point ahead of Rahul Gandhi's rally at Jantar Mantar as the Congress Vice President reached the capital after his nearly-month-long Kisan Yatra across poll-bound Uttar Pradesh.
Tanwar was taken to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital for treatment.
"Tanwar was seriously injured and was vomiting. He has been shifted out of the ICU after initial treatment as he is out of danger," RML Hospital spokesperson V.K. Sinha told IANS.
Tanwar has been kept under observation and will not be discharged yet.
The 12-13 injured Congress workers were given first aid and discharged, Sinha said.
Senior Congress leaders including Gandhi, Kamal Nath and Deepender Singh Hooda visited Tanwar in hospital, but his supporters did not let the senior Hooda visit.
Delhi Police officials told IANS that the rival factions were separated from each other as soon as they began fighting, while no FIR was registered as no one came up with any formal complaint against anybody.
Meanwhile, Tanwar's supporters went to Congress headquarters around past 10 p.m. to tender their resignations in protest against the incident.
Their resignation was rejected by party leadership, while senior leaders like Kamal Nath, Digvijaya Singh, Motilal Vohra and Ghulam Nabi Azad assured them of action against the guilty as a meeting will be held on Friday to discuss the issue.
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Having previously attempted to replace its obligations under the Refugees Convention with a type of politician's carte blanche called the "national interest", Australia's minority Labor (yes, Labor) government has now thumbed its nose at the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to which, like almost all other civilised countries, we are a signatory. Article 15 of the ICCPR has two parts:
- No one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a criminal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time when the criminal offence was committed. If, subsequent to the commission of the offence, provision is made by law for the imposition of a lighter penalty, the offender shall benefit thereby.
- Nothing in this article shall prejudice the trial and punishment of any person for any act or omission which, at the time when it was committed, was criminal according to the general principles of law recognized by the community of nations.
On the evening of 1 November 2011 the House of Representatives passed a piece of legislation called the Deterring People Smuggling Bill 2011. (It has become fashionable to give legislation names that look like they were thought up by an advertising agency, but let that go). What this legislation does flies in the face of Article 15.
Since 1999, sections 233A to 233D of the Migration Act have imposed sentences of up to 20 years, with a mandatory minimum of 5 years (s 236B), for people involved in "people smuggling", defined as bringing to Australia someone who has "no lawful right" to come here. In a case currently before the Victorian Supreme Court, defence lawyers have argued that a genuine refugee seeking to invoke Australia's international and domestic legal obligations of protection cannot be said to have no lawful right to come here. Ordinarily the case would be determined by the Supreme Court by judicially interpreting the legislation, and would then in all probability have gone on to the High Court to make a final interpretation. If the defence case were to be upheld, it would mean that when the accused brought the refugees here they were not breaking the law at that time. The Bill passed yesterday, in under an hour with support from Labor and the Coalition, changes the definition of "no lawful right" to mean simply that the person didn't have a visa or was not exempt from having a visa, regardless of whether Australia may have protection obligations under the Convention and the person may have been come here to seek that protection. That would mean that what was not illegal (assuming the defence case is correct) when it was done, would be made illegal by the amendment.
It would be impossible to argue, nor did the government try to do so in presenting the Bill to Parliament, that bringing refugees to Australia would be "criminal according to the general principles of law recognized by the community of nations". Article 15.1 of the ICCPR therefore expressly prohibits this retrospective criminalisation.
In its brief defence of the Bill in Parliament, the government made no mention of the ICCPR. Its justification was simply, "to clarify an existing understanding of the laws, and to ensure convictions for people smuggling offences already made as well as prosecutions underway are not invalidated." This is no justification at all. There can be no "existing understanding" of what legislation means if that understanding is ruled incorrect by a superior court. Since the US Supreme Court judgment in Marbury v Madison in 1803, a case long accepted as axiomatic in Australian jurisprudence, courts have had the final say on the meaning of the law. Any "existing understanding" to the contrary would be, quite simply, a wrong understanding.
Besides breaching Article 15, the Bill also in its specific reference to the Refugees Convention further distances Australia from that international instrument and raises the question again of whether this country should be taken to have effectively resiled from it.
Neither the government nor the opposition in supporting the Bill let go the chance of referring to the issue of deaths at sea of asylum seekers trying to reach Australia. The ultimate fall-back position of both sides is that travelling to Australia on unseaworthy boats is dangerous. Neither side, however, noticed the fatal flaw in their argument. The purpose of the law is to "deter" people smugglers by making their actions illegal. But, according to its supporters, it has been the "existing understanding" since 1999, presumably even amongst people smugglers, that these actions were illegal. Yet the 300 or so people convicted since then obviously were not deterred. It hasn't worked for over a decade, why should it work now? The fact is the law has only ever punished the impoverished and illiterate fisherman conned or coerced into crewing the boats by the real people smugglers who stay warm and dry in port.
But people do die at sea on those leaky boats. I would not accuse either side of disingenuousness in pointing this out. The fact that it is the most seemingly humanitarian argument they have to support their conflicting Malaysia / Nauru solutions doesn't mean they don't genuinely care about the tragic loss of life, and it would be fatuous to pretend that it is not a legitimate issue in the debate.
The problem is, in humanitarian terms we are offering nothing as an alternative to taking the risk of getting into one of those boats. It is as if a group of people were gathered on the balcony of a burning building, with people below warning them not to jump because it was too high. If one does jump, and survives, do we throw them back into the fire to deter the others?
Sending asylum seekers back to Malaysia or Indonesia, or forcing them to stay there, is denying them their internationally recognised legal right to seek asylum in a country that is a signatory to the Refugees Convention. We cannot deny them that right. If it is dangerous for them to avail themselves of it, then we must do all we can to reduce that danger by arranging for meaningful avenues to reaching safety legally. At the very least we must ensure they are fully aware of the danger, which the evidence seems to suggest some of them may not be. Instead, it appears our shadowy "disruption programs" do little more than force desperate people into the hands of the most unscrupulous of the smugglers, working with the most corrupt of local officials. Compelling evidence of this sort of collusion has been available since the infamous Siev-X sinking.
As a footnote, it is worth remembering that Australia is also a signatory to the Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, which allows individuals who believe their rights have been breached to take a case to the United Nations Human Rights Commission for adjudication. Australia may yet have some explaining to do.

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I'm writing this to share my story about what happening to me.
I have always had health problems so nothing surprises my family any more. One morning a month ago I woke up and kept having spasms on the left side of my body. Full on spasms where I couldn't even use my hand when it happened. Mum thought at the time it was something to do with my essential tremor and brushed it off as not much. 3 days later I was still getting them and it was scary so I went to the dr and my dr asked why didn't you go to emergency?. So that afternoon we went to emergency the doctor that saw me referred to a neurologist and came back saying it wasn't urgent enough to actually see him but they wanted to send me away to get a mri another day and we'll go from there…… ok.
I booked the mri and a week later I had it done. The next day my dr rings my mother and I in a panic wanting us both to come in. She informed me I had a 41mm tumor on my brain and she sent us to the hospital right away. They admitted me and put me on the anti seizure medication turns out the spasms where actually seizures 😓. I was in hospital for 2 days while they got the medication right then I got another mri and was booked in for surgery to remove it. I cut my short to make it easier to manage while I recover.
ved the surgery before mine went long and I had to be there at 7am and I didn't go I till 2pm the operation it's self took 6 hours.
Afterward I woke up in recovery with a massive headache and 22 staples. Then I got taken up to the neurology ward where I had observations every hour for the first day.
The first time I stood up after my operation I felt really ill.
I got massive headaches after. I still get them my operation was on the 7th of November and I went back this week for my check up and was shocked to find out I have a grade 2 Oligodendroglioma tumor they got as much out as possible but if they took it all I would end up disabled:-(. So not I have to go to oncology and most probably have chemo I'll find out more next week.
how am I feeling about this ?? Scared shitless
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Hello everyone,
We hit some more milestones recently which I thought I would share with all of you....
First off, the forums officially (finally) had their 1000th thread - a post about travelling to Canada which can be found at: http://www.travellerspoint.com/forum.cfm?thread=1222
The forums went live about a year ago so on average that's a little less than three new threads per day. I think half of the threads were started in the last three months or so, so that says something about recent growth and activity in the forum area. We are VERY happy to see so many posters, and especially returnee posters who are helping out travellers on a daily basis more and more; THANKS everyone!
Secondly, January was another record month for Travellerspoint, both in new members as well as in visitors and page views. We had over 1200 new members join to boost membership to well over 7500! There are some 175 countries represented who altogether have travelled to 175 countries too making this a pretty international bunch (to say the least).
January also was the first month we had more than 1 million page views which basically means that a page like this one was opened one million times! To put that into perspective somewhat, that's more than double what it was six months ago....
All in all, it's beyond Pete and my wildest dreams.... as you might be able to imagine...
Thanks everyone!


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Student evaluations can be useful when they are divorced from tenure, retention and promotion evaluations
Student Evaluations Offer Bad Data That Leads to the Wrong Answer
Stuart Rojstaczer, a former professor of geology and civil engineering at Duke University, is the creator of of the Grade Inflation Web site. He is writing a book about undergraduate education in the U.S.
Updated September 18, 2012, 4:30 PM
Student evaluations are a poor indicator of professor performance. The good news is that college students often reward instructors who teach well. The bad news is that students often conflate good instruction with pleasant ambience and low expectations. As a result they also reward instructors who grade easily, require little work, are glib and chatty, wear nice clothes, and are physically attractive. It's generally impossible to separate all these factors in an evaluation. Plus, students will penalize demanding professors or professors who have given them a bad grade, regardless of the quality of instruction that a professor provides. In the end, deans and tenure committees are using bad data to evaluate professor performance, while professors feel pressure to grade easier and reduce workloads to receive higher evaluations.
Student evaluations can be useful when they are divorced from tenure, retention and promotion evaluations. If a professor asks students to anonymously provide information on what works and what doesn't in a classroom and come up with suggestions for improving the class, students can often provide valuable feedback. But this kind of information is essentially constructive criticism, an anonymous dialog between the professor and student. It shouldn't be transmitted to higher-ups in university administration.
Professors do, of course, need to be evaluated as to how well they teach. If student evaluations were abandoned, how would this be done? For lower-division classes, it's often possible to infer the quality of instruction by measuring how students perform, on average, on the next sequence in a study area (such as Spanish II or Calculus II). In upper-division courses, inferences can be made on instructor quality from the outcomes of graduates in the major area of study. One can examine whether a professor has inspired an unusual number (either large or small) of undergraduates students to choose careers in that professor's subject area. Such outcome-based measures would require extra work, but they would also tend to be fairer and ultimately more informative than the bubble sheets filled out by students today.
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All wrapped up in cute pink tissue paper
Business cards from the August contributors
Pretty Boho Box all ready to dive into!
From Karibou Crafts: Handmade needle felted ponytail holder and awesome all-natural Peppermint Lip Balm. (Can I just say that this lip balm ROCKS?! It's my new favorite, for sure.)
From Kharliebug Handmade: Two super adorable flower clips. Something I love about this is that they have a safety pin (so I can pin them to just about anything) AND a clip that would allow you to put them in your hair or a headband, etc.
From Anirtak Jewelry: Awesome key necklace. Who knew IGB would know that I am OBSESSED with keys??
From This Enchanted Pixie: Handmade lace bracelet. I put it on immediately and wore it all day. SO cute!
Keep an eye on Indie Gift Box's blog to get to know the September contributors and find out when the next release date is! If you're lucky, you may be able to get your hands on a box of your own!


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The big problem I have with my army is that it is still not legal, because I don't have two Troops choices yet. I do possess 7 half-painted Plaguebearers, but under the new Codex this isn't enough anymore, all Troops units have gone up to 10-strong as a minimum size.
So, what do I need? Three more Plaguebearers. Here they are.
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Believe it or not, I once was pope of a Gnostic church. I know that sounds like a mad person making an absolutely ludicrous statement, but unfortunately (and yet, as shall hopefully be show) fortunately, too, the statement is true (insofar as I am capable of approximating that elusive thing called Truth). There were precious few in our mail-order congregation, but most of us shared a deep, almost obsessive interest in forerunners and rivals of Christianity, and especially the Hindu and Buddhist tantrics and the Gnostic sects, both Judeo-Christian and antinomian, both pietistic and libertine. We were certain that one of our saints was Aleister Crowley, the man the Murdoch press of the era labeled "The Wickedest Man on Earth," since, having read much of his writings, we concluded he was, instead, "The Most Misunderstood Man on Earth." Smack dab in the middle of one of Crowley's "Masses" -- the one central to his praxis, and still performed in Thelemic temples the world over -- there was a passage devoted to the "Collects," in which he rattles off a concatenation of famous and obscure freethinkers, agnostics, atheists, sexual supermen, bad popes, occult writers, ceremonial magicians, alchemists, and assorted other anti-heroic characters from the history of progressive pioneers, people who swam against the flow, men such as Nietzsche and Francis Bacon, Paul Gauguin and Goethe. It was Crowley's Liber XV, the mass of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica.
To those who have no interest in knowing anything further about an ecclesiastic gnostic Catholic church, having head enough of holy masses after all, I hasten to add that no mass is any better or worse but thinking makes it so: those who think Crowley silly to mock the Roman Church in his ritual might do well to recall, or read, something of the history of Gnosticism in the ancient world (clue: the author of Acts only chastised Simon Magus because he was jealous of the latter's lovely, enchanting spiritual writings, works I have myself sampled thanks to small metaphysical publishers of such material). In my own investigations of Gnosticism I saw one abiding theological tenet: the Demiurgos. The guy who created this world was an asshole. Almost all Gnostics, including the Judeo-Christian sects, believed that the creator of the universe invented gross evil, which is to say, everything that makes up matter.
He was a demiurge and nothing more. Some sects, including my own, saw the God of Abraham and of Paul as Pure Evil, those made villains in both Old Testament and New being the actual heroes. That is, to Gnostics, Cain, Korah, and especially Judas. To Cainites, Abel is the quintessential worshipper of Jaldabaoth, the true name of the Abrahamaic deity. Because sex with one's spouse is the only kind acceptable to many Christians (and then in the missionary position), some Gnostic rituals included polymorphous perversity, the spouse being the least desirable partner; a filthy toothless hag the best. We actually published a Gospel of Judas months before the authentic one came out from Madison Avenue to great fanfare. Our ad for the monograph was rejected by Billy Graham's Christianity Today. I was proud.
Eventually, it dawned on me that I was drifting in a star current to the shores of a serious agnosticism when it came to the mainstream monotheistic faiths. The Gnostic view makes perfect sense if one can excuse the dualistic view of things, if only because the "left hand path" Gnostics viewed the God of Genesis, the God of the televangelists, the God of the Herd and its fearful, fatalistic, dark world where God is an inverted Daemon. Yaldabaoth (or, sometimes Ialdabaoth) rules this planet and rebellion from such faiths as believe in some form of him is almost one's moral duty. Being a follower of Crowley can be an uplifting experience if it is understood as a moral philosophy like that of Theravada Buddhism, or it can be, as in some Mahayana, peopled with the same old bugaboos as the Jews, Christians, and Islamists.
Many say that Crowley's "Do what thou wilt" was a mere excuse for excess. But I had to go through Crowleyan Gnosticism to arrive at the realization that all religions are cosmic jokes. They could not be anything else. More and more people are learning each day that Yahweh-Jehovah-Allah really is Yaldabaoth. Gnosticism is the last stop before the Mass of the Atheist. When getting into Gnosticism you realize that their scriptures are more appealing, literarily and spiritually, you should pardon the latter term. We are only now recognizing that the parts left out of the Bible might impart a far more helpful, less stern, more compassionate, less judgmental deity than the one seen in the O.T. and even the N.T. (that complete farbrication of the fevered mind of Saul/Paul of Tarsus, the arch misogynist and self-flagellating homosexual masochist). And yet you eventually understand that myth, superstition, and fear guided the authors of all religious works, and that this included the Gnostic Gospels.
My favorite is the Gospel of Thomas, which suggests that we are divided for love's sake, for the sake of union: "...when you make the inner into the outer...you shall enter the Kingdom," &c. There has to be a reason why the Gnostics were excluded, and it just might be that these folks were actually closer to the truth about the legendary person they mutually worship, whether fact or fiction, corporeal or fantastical, &c. The Gospel of Thomas suggests that androgyny is divine and that becoming androgynous is the key to eternal happiness, as the kingdom really is within. There is no god but Man. There is equivalence, of course, in the Secret Gospels of the Alchemists, the seekers after the Divine Androgyne. This is so "New Age" early Christians could not have appreciated such writings as they did not "fit" into the scheme of things "Christian," just as the son of a famous evangelist claimed recently that Mormons are not Christians. Pot calling kettle ecclesiastical purple. Once one finds out that the Bible was thus bowdlerized, one comes to it only to find titles for novels in Ecclesiastes, King James only, please.
The son also rises, and the sun also sets.....
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Though the Olympics have drawn to a close, its pageantry and spirit of global camaraderie lives on in me. At least it will until I manage to get through the 13 remaining hours of handball and rhythmic gymnastics footage clogging up my DVR. Sure, it will be a Herculean task to get through it all, but did Michael Phelps give up when he took the gold medal in the 200-Meter Butterfly? I mean, he didn't, right? I seriously have no idea. No, wait, don't tell me.
The point is, I've still got Best of the Best fever and the only prescription—is a best-of list. And possibly more cowbell. It's good with everything, really.
In order to fully appreciate my 10 Best San Diego Beers list, it's important to understand the criteria I imposed on my selections. First off, all collaboration brews were excused from judging. I won't have some filthy outlanders tainting the purity of my list. Further, all beers selected had to be available on a semi-regular basis. I'd like readers to be able to enjoy my selections without the benefit of a time machine or wagering their first born in online beer auctions.
1. Alesmith "Speedway Stout": This stout tumbles out of the bottle awash with creamy coffee and roasted marshmallow flavors that seem without equal. Until you try Speedway served on nitro and realize that it has finally reached its full potential. Until you sample it from a beer engine after some cask conditioning and realize that only now has it peaked. This beer is a wonder
in any incarnation.
2. Lost Abbey "Angel's Share": Even my rabid fandom for all things beer cannot completely squelch my miserly streak. Despite this beer inspiring a bit of sticker shock in me, it has never failed to produce an experience commensurate with its expense. Its complex blend of vanilla, oak, rum cake and raisins wins me over every time.
3. Green Flash "Silva Stout": This can be a little harder to come by than most, but when you consider the payoff is a Green Flash "Double Stout" imbued with sharp bourbon and cookie dough flavors, it's worth a bit of hunting.
4. Stone Brewing "Ruination IPA": You may recall some time ago I was lauding the benefits of brewing with restraint. I was so naïve back then. What makes the Ruination IPA great is how it assaults you with massive bursts of grapefruit, pine needles and just enough booze in the finish to remind you to cancel any immediate plans. Drinking it always reminds me of the welcoming hug of a dear friend, especially because, among my friends, the ceremonial hug isn't completed until you cram your mouth full of hops and exchange punches to the face.
5. Ballast Point "Sculpin IPA": This perennial favorite manages to be full of apricot tartness and lemony sour notes without resolving like an atomic hop bomb. It is a sticky West Coast IPA that shows a modicum of restraint in all the right ways.
6. Iron Fist "Velvet Glove": While I'd generally prefer Iron Fist's "Spice of Life" ale during these dog days of summer, I'm perpetually drawn to Velvet Glove's unmistakable chocolate and espresso notes and silky texture. I recommend serving it in a tapered brandy glass, preferably after smacking the edge of the bottle on my washing machine, dropping it, and spraying the majority on surrounding walls and flooring. I don't know if that particular serving technique actually enhances the flavor, but I'd like to pretend something good came of that comedy of errors.
7. Societe Brewing "The Widow": San Diego brewers never hesitate to muck around with Belgian-style yeasts, but precious few of them produce the more traditional Belgian styles. Societe, a surprise newcomer to this list, recently floored me with this nutty and slightly sweet dark Belgian ale.
8. Hess Brewing "Grazias Vienna Cream Ale": I've never particularly relished the term "mouthfeel" common in beer-writer parlance. To me, it's akin to a food writer expounding on the joys of chewing something, a process that most would not care to behold. That said, the mouthfeel on this velvety, smooth beer is an experience unto itself.
9. Alesmith "Wee Heavy": The peaty caramel notes in this robust Scotch Ale are potent enough to cause my chin to erupt with a fiery crop of red whiskers and have me speaking with a thick Scottish brogue (or as close to it as a schooling from repeat viewings of So I Married An Axe Murderer will get me).
10. Port Brewing "Old Viscosity": This stout is a paragon of truth in advertising. It pours like a bottle of spent 5-30W and tastes better to boot. If you're looking for chocolaty, roasty beer that will coat your gullet, there are few better.


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Time for more half-baked ideas. There's been a lot of discussion on Twitter about EOL, Linked Data (sometimes abbreviated LOD), and Wikipedia. Pete DeVries (@pjd) is keen on LOD, and has been asking why TDWG isn't playing in this space. I've been muttering dark thoughts about EOL, and singing the praises of Wikipedia. On so it goes on. So, here's one vision of where we could (?should) be going with this.
Let's imagine that we do indeed want to play in the Linked Data space. The concern that tends to raised the most is that biodiversity informatics uses LSIDs as the standard GUID, and this doesn't play nice with Linked Data. This is true, but not life threatening. There are various hacks (like this and this that deal with this).
But, the real concern (I think) is that we need a way to link our stuff to the rest of the Linked Data cloud. That is, wherever possible we need to reuse existing identifiers. In the LOD diagram below (for the latest version see here) DBpedia.org is key to linking much of this together, and major players (such as the BBC) are now using DBpedia.org to make connections.
DBpedia.org is based on Wikipedia, so I think you can see where this is going. There are some 120,000+ taxon pages in Wikipedia, so that's some 120,000+ identifiers in DBpedia.org that others interested in organisms can (and will) use to refer to taxa. Given the centrality of Wikipedia and DBpedia to LOD, why don't we adopt DBpedia.org URIs as the default GUID for our taxa? At present we have numerous, competing identifiers (e.g., NCBI tax ids, ITIS tsn's, Catalogue of Life LSIDs, uBio NameBankID's, plus LSIDs from various nomenclators). For users this is a mess -- which one do I use? Deciding requires dealing with issues (such as the difference between nomenclatural codes, and between taxonomic names and concepts, etc., that frankly, nobody outside our community cares about.
So, if we want to play with LOD, we need to make our identifiers play nice (straightforward), and we should think seriously about adopting DBpedia.org URIs as the default GUID for taxa.
Now, where does this leave EOL? Well, frankly, it should get out of the business of making web pages for taxa, because Wikipedia owns that space already. Their pages are fewer, but often much more detailed than the corresponding EOL page, and Wikipedia reacts faster to new discoveries. Wikipedia supports community editing, versioning, and quite sophisticated tools for handling biblographic references.
There's plenty of scope for userful tools and services for EOL to develop, but I think the real game is elsewhere. Now, Wikipedia is far from perfect. It's basically semi-structured text with a God-awful template language, and it would benefit greatly from more structure (e.g., as could be provided by Semantic Mediawiki), but I think we should think about building upon it. We could build our own (and my experiments over at itaxon.org explore this), but the big challenge is getting a community around a project, and if David Shorthouse's pronouncement that The Community is Dead is correct, then maybe we should get on board with the community that already exists. Perhaps what EOL should be doing is talking to Wikipedia, improving the existing templates for taxon pages, and creating bots to automatically populate Wikipedia with more taxon pages.


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October 31, 2013
We love dressing up for Halloween and we are digging these delightful paper play costumes by French company OMY Design and Play. Sweet and whimsical, the lion and panther are full of life, whether standing on their own or animated by a child. Other fun options include a sassy fashionista and a brash superhero.
And for the kid who wants something totally unique? Check out OMY's paper coloring costumes and let your child be the designer!
Happy Halloween from kinder MODERN! We hope your day is filled with treats, not tricks!


text: For those of you that love the anime, The Pokémon Company added the dubbed version of the last anime arc, Pokémon the Series: XY on iTunes. There's two volumes at the moment with the first 23 episodes (for the UK version there's only the first 16). Like for Pokémon Origins, even here there's 2 available definition to purchase: the HD and SD. A single episode cost $2.99/£2.49 in HD and $1.99/£1.89 in SD while the whole volume cost $21.99USD/£19.99 in HD and $19.99/£18.99 in SD. Description: Ash Ketchum's journey continues in Pokémon the Series: XY as he arrives in the Kalos region, a land bursting with beauty, full of new Pokémon to be discovered! Setting his sights on the Kalos League, Ash is ready to battle and catch as many new Pokémon as possible. But first he will have to face the formidable Gym Leaders of this region and discover some exciting developments in Pokémon Evolution. While he has new friends Serena, Clemont, and Bonnie at his side, there are also plenty of familiar faces and Pokémon along the way as Ash pursues his dream of becoming a Pokémon Master! NA Vol. 1: https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/pokemon-the-series-xy-vol.-1/id862... NA Vol. 2: https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/pokemon-the-series-xy-vol.-2/id862... UK Vol. 1: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/tv-season/pokemon-the-series-xy-vol.-1/id862... UK Vol. 2: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/tv-season/pokemon-the-series-xy-vol.-2/id862... Source: serebii


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Easy-peasy Organization with Petit Pehr...Jan 14, 2016 |
We see you, sweet Mama. You're sitting there, surrounded by the wreckage that was the hurricane of the holidays. You've only just miraculously managed to get the tree taken down. The wrapping paper may [still] be shoved under the couch, ("no one has to know", you tell yourself), and there are half a dozen pint-sized shoes strewn across the rooms of the house, none of which you can seem to find the mate to. To top it all off, your precious tornado of a tot has you doing a million things at once, but for some reason, you don't seem to be accomplishing anything. We know. We've been there too. Just so you know, you're doing a great job, and we're here to help.
We'd like to introduce to you Petit Pehr, a new lifestyle brand to Itty Bitty Bella that specializes in making organization as easy and fun as possible.
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ArduCAM team just released a 8MP Raspberry Pi compatible camera based on the same Sony IMX219 image sensor. It's capable of 3280 x 2464 pixel static images, and also supports 1080p30, 720p60 and 640x480p90 video. It attaches to Pi by the dedicated standard CSi interface.
It is the supplementary for Raspberry Pi offical camera in order to fulfill the demands for different lens mount, field of view (FOV) and depth of the field (DOF) as well as the motorized IR cut filter for both daylight and night vision.
It's OK for you to chosse different lens.
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Tenet Technetronics focuses on "Simplifying Technology for Life" and has been striving to deliver the same from the day of its inception since 2007. Founded by young set of graduates with guidance from ardent professionals and academicians the company focuses on delivering high quality products to its customers at the right cost considering the support and lifelong engagement with customers. "We don't believe in a sell and forget model "and concentrate and building relationships with customers that accelerates, enhances as well as provides excellence in their next exciting project.


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- 1 bag (20 oz) refrigerated shredded hash brown potatoes
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons Old El Paso™ original taco seasoning mix (from 1-oz package)
- 1 can (4.5 oz) Old El Paso™ chopped green chiles, drained and patted dry
- 1 cup shredded Mexican cheese blend (4 oz)
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1 green onion, thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro leaves
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Step 1: Heat oven to 400°F. Generously spray each of 12 regular-size muffin cups with cooking spray. In large bowl, mix potatoes, oil and taco seasoning mix. Divide evenly among cups; press lightly. Bake 55 to 65 minutes or until deep brown.
Step 2: Top each muffin cup with green chiles, then sprinkle with cheese. Bake 3 to 5 minutes longer or until cheese is melted.
Step 3: Run knife around edges, and remove from muffin cups. Top with sour cream. Sprinkle with green onion and cilantro.
Nutrition1 Serving: Calories 140 Calories from Fat 60; Total Fat 6g; Saturated Fat 2 1/2g; Trans Fat 0g; Cholesterol 10mg; Sodium 150mg; Potassium 280mg; Total Carbohydrate18g; Dietary Fiber 1g; Sugars 1g; Protein 3g; % Daily Value*: Vitamin A 4%, Vitamin C 8%, Calcium 8%, Iron 2% Exchanges: 1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 1/2 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat; *Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Like it hot? Serve with Sriracha or your favorite hot sauce.
For a pretty presentation, spoon sour cream into 1-quart resealable food-storage plastic bag, clip 1/4-inch from corner of bag, and pipe a zigzag of sour cream on each muffin.


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Ellie Laycock, who makes beautiful cushions from vintage scarves and linen, talks to us about hunting, stuffing and the challenges of combining making with being a single mother
1. Tell us about the name – Hunted and Stuffed. It conjures up visions of giant moose heads – but you make cushions!
I liked the cheekiness of the name – I didn't want anything too serious. It's quite appropriate: I hunt down vintage fabrics and buttons, turn them into cushions and stuff them!
2. Where do you source your vintage fabrics?
I scour eBay, car boot sales, Sunday markets. It can be hit and miss. Sometimes you don't see anything, but at one sale I went to on Wandsworth Road there was a pile of vintage silk scarves in one corner and a heap of old linen in another. The stuff I bought there kept me going for months! It's a bit trickier now with Malakai [her 10-month-old son], as I can't carry as much as I used to.
3. You're a professional photographer – why did you move across into making cushions?
I trained in sculpture, and I've been a professional photographer for 11 years. But when I had Malakai I was stuck at home and I wanted to do something creative. So I made some cushions from some vintage kimono material and showed them to a friend who is a stylist. She really rated them, so I went ahead and started making more of them.
4. What gave you the idea of using scarves and tea towels?
I kept coming across beautiful scarves, but I don't wear them myself. I'm more into accessorising a room than an outfit! And tea towels are the same size as a standard pillow. Other cushions made from tea towels usually fold the tea towel in half, so you lose the impact of the full design.
5. Which designs sell best?
The iconic graphic designs, such as Penguin classic covers or London Underground maps, are quite popular. I'm drawn to souvenirs of London or royalty, street maps and illustrations of Britain.
6. You already have online shops on Etsy and Folksy. What was the appeal of joining Makerhood?
I just think it's an excellent idea to promote local makers to local buyers. I also wanted to meet other people with something in common – not just craftspeople but people interested in buying locally.
7. How can I find out more?
My blog is at www.huntedandstuffed.blogspot.com, and you can see my photographic portfolio at www.ellielaycock.co.uk.
8. What do you like about living in Brixton?
I've lived here for 10 years. Before I lived here I kept coming here and then had to get home, so I decided I might as well move here! It has a centre of its own, and I found it welcoming and fun. It's the friendliest place I've lived in and it's got everything I need – I don't want to live anywhere else.
9. What's your top tip for a bit of "hidden Brixton"?
Go for a café latte at Café Tana on Brixton Hill. They're really friendly and do great coffee.
You can see Ellie's fabulous cushions at http://brixton.makerhood.com/hunted-and-stuffed.


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Made these cookies a few years ago to celebrate the birth of my nephew Carter. They are sugar cookies decorated with flood royal icing.
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Baby Cookies for Carter
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Kimberly Myers-SchuhApril 1, 2009 at 1:17 pm Permalink1
So gorgeous! I need some baby cookies made for this weekend…..
Julie BellMay 8, 2009 at 10:26 am Permalink2
They were super special, thanks so much Anutie Marian. Lots of Love Carter:-)
RamOctober 27, 2009 at 11:29 pm Permalink3
May I know how you achieve high flooding on your cookies. I mean they're not like other flat decorated cookies that I see around.
October 28, 2009 at 6:23 am Permalink4
Ram, the icing recipe and consistency of the recipe is important.
My icing recipe can be found under the tutorial section – Cookie Decorating Tutorial; General Tips & Butterfly Cookies:
Cookie Decorating Tutorial; General Tips & Butterfly Cookies.
The 10 second rule is important as well… It helps determine how thick/thin the icing should be. You can find that in the same tutorial.
Hope that helps!
Shirley WomackDecember 26, 2009 at 6:25 pm Permalink5
Your frosting has such a beautiful sheen. Is it just the recipe that you refer to in your cookie tutorial or did you do something else?
December 26, 2009 at 6:59 pm Permalink6
Thanks Shirley!
Yes, that's the recipe I use in my tutorial; nothing else.
SumeyraNovember 11, 2013 at 10:34 am Permalink8
cookies looks very nice, congratulations.
What brand using food coloring?


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The Rick Hansen Institute is fortunate to count among its many valued partners Dr. Dalton Wolfe, a Scientist at Parkwood Institute in London, Ontario and Assistant Professor at Western University. RHI recently sat down with Dr. Wolfe to talk about his current research.
His initiatives with RHI
Dr. Wolfe has two major initiatives currently underway with RHI. One is in conjunction with Dr. Susan Jaglal, professor and Vice-Chair of Research in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Toronto. He and Dr. Jaglal are developing a program of self-management that will be largely delivered online. It will provide people with SCI with the resources and skills they need and link them with peers and care providers to support their specific needs. In this way, people with a spinal cord injury will be empowered to prevent and better manage the complications and issues they face in dealing with their condition. Such a program is especially worthwhile to overcome the issues that people face after returning home following rehabilitation only to find that the specialized care and information needed is not readily available in the community. It is anticipated that this initiative will be ready for a pan-Canadian validation trial in 2017.
The other major initiative he is involved in is the Spinal Cord Injury Knowledge Mobilization Network (SCI KMN), a community of practice that brings together seven rehabilitation sites across Canada. "The network brings those sites together to develop their capacity in implementation science," explains Dr. Wolfe. "It will ensure that when a new practice comes along, that it's implemented successfully and that it stays implemented. That is the real trick -- making sure things are sustained in terms of practice and purpose." To date, the SCI KMN has provided improved pressure ulcer risk assessment, interprofessional care planning, and education for over 1900 SCI rehabilitation patients across Canada. The network has also initiated work in improving practices associated with pain management.
In addition to these major initiatives, Dr. Wolfe is also involved in the Rick Hansen Institute Spinal Cord Registry (RHISCR).
Dr. Wolfe is excited to be a part of RHI-initiated networks and he sees real benefit to bringing together a group of people who are focused on a common goal around SCI care and innovation in addition to the day-to-day operations of an organization. In fact, he says it's sometimes the priorities of organizations that may make it challenging to focus on the priorities of patient populations such as SCI. "By participating in a network where people are focused on common priorities around the patients we serve, we can keep focused on what's important, that is, improving things like quality of life, and care for persons with spinal cord injury. It's really that those networks enable us to stay focused on those key tasks."
His collaboration with Dr. Justine Baron
An exciting collaboration is underway between Dr. Wolfe and Dr. Justine Baron, a postdoctoral fellow in the Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and recent recipient of a joint scholarship with RHI and the University of Ottawa. Dr. Wolfe and Dr. Baron, along with her postdoctoral supervisor Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw -- a renowned leader in knowledge translation -- will be working together to examine the issue of spinal cord injury and pressure ulcers. "This will also intersect with our initiative that has to do with self-management," says Dr. Wolfe. "Dr. Baron is looking at finding out what the true barriers are to people maintaining good skin care and embedding that into planning for a self-management intervention to assist people in maintaining better skin health."
On translating evidence into practice
Collaborative research projects like this one with Dr. Jaglal are the starting point for what will eventually be used in providing treatment and care for people with SCI, but Dr. Wolfe knows firsthand the barriers to translating evidence into practice. The most significant barrier, he says, is the very nature of the health system. "It's a complex environment with lots of things happening and a lot of priorities on any given day. But there is very little time to take a systematic approach and step back to consider what the true barriers are. One of those issues is that, although we often do things typically with the best of intentions, we assume that just by providing training, that we will be successful in changing practice. But there are very few other things that are typically done." He notes that it is challenging to find the time to put all the critical components into place that are needed to make sustainable change. Some of those critical components might include establishing appropriate data management systems, effective clinical decision support and clear feedback and communication systems to ensure that leadership and front line clinicians are on the same page. "We have a long way to go, but by collaborating on projects such as the ones with Drs. Jaglal, Baron and SCI KMN, we are working to create change in this system." Initiatives like the SCI KMN and the development of a SCI-specific self-management program will go a long way to meeting these challenges.
His biggest motivator
Enabling collaborations between SCI consumers, front-line clinicians and researchers is a key motivator in Dr. Wolfe's work. The research initiatives that he and his teams have undertaken are focused on bringing together many perspectives that get to the heart of improving a person's care and quality of life. "What's most exciting is when you can see a need, work on a project, develop a solution, work to enact the solution, validate it, and put it into place."


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The Achievers.George and Margo Chapman
LifeStory 2
Oils on Linen 91.5 x 122 cms (36 x 48 ins) In a private collection.
George and Margo Chapman have earned highly respected prominence among the pioneers of international tourism in North Australia. The 'jewel in the crown' is the famous Skyrail - the world's longest cable chairlift - which allows visitors an unprecedented view of rainforest while leaving the delicate environment undisturbed. Other elements in the portrait refer to George's background as a surveyor, Margo's career as a teacher of Home Economics specializing in pattern drafting, and the romantic side of their life-long partnership.
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In 2011 Fabio Isman reminded us of the likely impact of the Becchina archive. Palladion Antike Kunst handled material now in collections in Japan. These include:
- Kamakura, Japanese collection. Attic black-figured amphora. Perhaps attributed to the Antimenes painter. Palladion (1976).
- Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum (no. 34). Attic red-figured cup attributed to Makron. Palladion (1976).


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Yesterday was my angel Colby's 10th birthday, no cake though. No birthday cake. Although he's not here to blow out the candles, I thought about getting a small cake to celebrate his birthday. Not exactly my idea of a birthday party, but I love cake and my baby so whatever. There was no birthday cake though.
Honestly, yesterday was somewhat of a disaster for me. I may have subconsciously planned a day of busyness to avoid dealing with the memory in my reality, but nothing went right. So the memory became my reality.
I decided to take my 3 year old on a play date. A day of fun. But, it was storming in Atlanta yesterday afternoon and the rain greeted us at every turn. It was a disaster! As I avoided having a mommy meltdown, my son giggled. We ran in the rain and he giggled. He was loving this play date. While buckling him into his car seat he yelled, "Mommy hurry! Get out the rain!!" So I ran and jumped in the driver's seat… he responded with a heart full of excitement, "YAY! Mommy you did it!!"
I did it!
In that moment, I exhaled – Yes, I DID IT.
But what exactly did I do to warrant this celebration?
I've often thought of motherhood as my adversary. It was once my pain point. A place of conflict. It's held horrible memories with severe scarring. On top of the obvious pain, my journey of healing after infant loss includes a myriad of health issues. Issues introduced at the onset of my becoming a mother.
My body has been in crisis mode since the emergency birth of my first son. An ongoing crisis. I lost all of my hair and I have excessive scarring of my uterus that leaves me in great pain on many days. My heart, my blood… they sometimes turn on me. My body is in a constant fight, against itself. A crisis. I often look in the mirror and wonder how I do it. But I smile back at the mirror, and somehow I do it.
I attribute my faith and my family as the core of my strength. I do it.
So yeah, there was no cake on yesterday. No birthday cake. It's my MOMiversary!
I sat on the sofa at the end of my day gone wrong. My 3 year old rainbow cuddled up next to me and I fell asleep. I had one of my best days of sleep. Suddenly my day was all right!
Yes, I did it!
I did it because I'm a mother. I do it because I'm a mother. Mommy magic is a real thing and I have it. God has given me an undeniable strength. I did it! 10 years ago I became a mother. It is my reason to celebrate.
No birthday cake. Happy MOMiversary to ME!


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Our FB friend – Joe Sour
Joe was on the Kaikoura Whale Watch Boat when the marriage proposal rang out over the intercom asking if BClaire would marry me. Like BClaire, he too slumped in his seat as 70 pairs of eyes all turned to BClaire pending an answer – he was sitting beside her!
A favourable response resulted in him witnessing our "we do" on a hillside at the Kaikoura Winery within the year, above the very ocean we shared with the whales on the boat. It's been thirteen years since.
Many a time has Joe rocked up and spent an evening sharing a meal or sleeping over. He inspires us with conversational nomadic persona and grounded perspective of doing what matters most – especially if there is a wave to be surfed or a mountain bike track to be ridden. Joe is also a master builder and with his apron strapped on, has provided numerous instances swinging his hammer to help our lack of expertise of home handyman-ship.
Once we visited Joe for Christmas when he resided on the Coromandel Peninsula. He assured us that everything was in order except when we arrived, it wasn't. He had relocated to a new abode and didn't tell the owner we were coming to stay. And on Christmas morning, we had to locate a dairy to purchase something to eat for Christmas lunch – he had the ham and that was all that he had. When the owner of the place arrived back unexpectedly during us eating Christmas lunch ham sandwiches, we found ourselves apologising for having made ourselves at home in his bedroom!
However, these moments make for brilliant reflective conversations when we see Joe on our turf. It goes hand in hand with the many times we have cycled the countryside, paddled the shores, or sailed the ocean. Catching up with him at his local coffee spot in Nelson recently, even the seagulls have been given pet names of 'ya little shit' and 'bugger off nuisance' as they scarpered in to steal the remnants of food from his Eggs Benedict not swallowed.
We missed connecting with his wife Kaye this FB visit who we believe deserves a medal. It's been a while since he started working on their house renovation that has been a drawn out work in progress.
We reckon we have easily surpassed the number of nails banged or screws turned with impromptu visits.


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7:00 AM | Showers and thunderstorms late in the weekend will signal the arrival of cooler air; potential tropical troubles in a week
Paul Dorian
6-Day Forecast
Mostly sunny, hot and humid, highs in the low 90's
Mostly clear, mild, muggy, lows in the lower 70's
Mostly sunny, hot and humid, an isolated shower or thunderstorm cannot be ruled out, near 90
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, humid and mild, an isolated shower or thunderstorm cannot be ruled out, near 70
Partly sunny, becoming breezy, chance for showers and thunderstorms late in the day or at night, warm and humid, low-to-mid 80's
Mostly cloudy, cooler, showers and thunderstorms likely, mid-to-upper 70's
Mostly sunny, pleasant, low 70's
Mostly sunny, pleasant, mid 70's
A Bermuda high pressure system will continue to pump hot and humid air into the Mid-Atlantic region through much of the weekend. Temperatures will approach or slightly surpass 90 degrees each of the next two days along with plenty of sunshine and summer-like humidity values. A cold front will close in on the east coast late in the weekend and this will increase our chances for showers and thunderstorms from late Sunday into Monday. Full clearing should take place by Tuesday and temperatures will be rather pleasant into mid-week. Looking ahead, next week begins the "official" hurricane season for the Atlantic Basin and there are signs for potential tropical troubles in the Gulf of Mexico region in about one week from now.


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Who We Are
The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner
In order for Mark to successfully carry out his duties he is supported by an Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC).
Mark's office is led by the Interim Chief Executive, Jayne Sykes, who is responsible for employing and managing the staff team as well as providing a monitoring role with regard to standards.
Katherine Johnson, the Treasurer, advises Mark on financial matters and the impact of any budget, spending and commissioning decisions, helping Mark to get best value for our communities in these tough times.
Isabel Owen, Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner, provides support and advice to Mark and leads on the external affairs of the office. Please click here to find out more information about senior staff.
Below are the names and job titles of the staff who work for the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner.
Staff employed solely to support the Police and Crime Commissioner:
|Jayne Sykes
|Interim Chief Executive
|Isabel Owen
|Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner
|Katherine Johnson
|Head of Policy and Delivery
|Head of Commissioning
|Dee Cowburn
|Head of Communications (Part Time)
|Stuart Piper
|Safeguarding Adviser *
|David Smith
|Victim and Witness Service Adviser *
|Kate Jowett
|Criminal Justice Adviser *
|Karen Grey
|Casework Manager
|Julie Reid
|Governance Manager
|Information Governance Officer
|Jo Colley
|Business Support Lead (Job Share)
|Carol Beanland
|Business Support Lead (Job Share)
|Delivery Manager
|Kelly Laycock
|Partnership Co-ordinator (Part Time)
|Wendy Stevens
|Research Manager
|Neil Flenley
|Research Officer
|Rebecca Hurlock
|National Anti-Trafficking and Modern Slavery Network Co-ordinator *
|Sarah Hopkins
|Senior Safeguarding Analyst *
|Sharon Waugh
|Engagement Manager
|Celeste Armitage
|Engagement Officer
|Paige Cowling
|Engagement Officer (Temporary)
|Jayne Davison
|Senior Contracts Officer
|David Iveson
|Digital Communications Officer
|Julie Dawes
|Executive Support Officer
|Claire Shelley
|Executive Support Officer (Part Time)
|Clare Briscoe
|Business Support Officer
|Business Support Officer
|Jane Owen
|Casework and Information Officer (Part Time)
|Business Support Assistant (Temporary)
|Lucy Teale
|Business Support Assistant
|* Externally funded
Staffing Structure
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Code of Conduct for Employees
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On Mother's Day, 2015, Lake Whitney Thousand Trails was hit by a tornado that damaged some buildings and did considerable tree damage throughout the park. Because of that storm the park had to be closed for several days, and, as a result we had to adjust our travel plans. When we arrived a tree trimming crew was hard at work clearing campsites so the park could be open over Memorial Day weekend.
See a later review of this campground here.
Since we arrived a day before the primary influx of campers for the holiday we were able to find a 50 amp site that suited us just fine. That wasn't before we tried another site that was simply too unlevel side to side for us to use. After 20 minutes or so of trying to get level we gave up and moved across the way to the other available 50 amp site. It wasn't perfect but it we much better and we settled in with no further problems.
The campground boasts two nice pools and two activity centers. The main pool and activity center is near the check-in booth. The adult pool is at the far western end of the campground, quite a ways from check in. There is also a nice workout room, library, and spa at the adult activity center.
It's more common than not for Thousand Trails to have roads in poor repair and that's true at Lake Whitney too. In fact, getting to Loops A & B which are closest to the adult sections of the park entails a drive of a few minutes over some of the worst roads in the place. Something I found interesting is that in spite of the place being called "Lake Whitney" there's no real access to the lake from the campground aside from parking in a parking lot at the western end of the road and then hiking a trail onto Corps of Engineers land to a finger of the lake. If a person came here expecting pleasant lake-side views or a place to launch a boat they would be disappointed.
We found the staff to be very friendly and helpful. Usually, they told us, there is very good WiFi in Loop D where we stayed. However, the tornado had taken all that out and it will have to be repaired. Our Verizon, though, worked pretty good and worked excellently when I used the Wilson Sleek booster. Also, there was what looked to be a nice mini-golf course. Sorry to say it was close to tornado ground zero and was buried underneath downed trees and limbs.
More on the trees: the campground is in a forest of cedar. If you have a problems with cedar you might want to think twice before coming during the time of the year when the trees are pollinating. This shouldn't have been a problem for us this late into the spring but I think the storms stirred things up and both of us began having sinus problems after a few days.
The nice town of Whitney is just down the road and there are plenty of fast food places, a grocery store, and an old downtown that is showing some life.
In addition to the tornado of Mother's Day this area has been pounded by big storms for several weeks now. We happily missed the tornado, but had two severe thunderstorm warnings during our one week stay. We understand that is not the fault of the campground but the potential of more severe weather pretty much deflated the camping experience here for us.
I was told by management that the tornado has spurred several big projects for the campground. In addition to insurance money, more money is coming in to upgrade much of the campground. I hope that some of that goes into leveling the campsites, fixing the roads, and upgrading the electric so there are more 50 amp sites. I'll look forward to making a return visit and seeing all that has been done – and, I certainly hope, enjoying the campground without having to keep such a close eye on the weather.
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I know it was a long time ago, I just hope you remember what you did to fix the problem. I'll paste the original message you had in this messag.
This may not be relevant here but I have a problem with email in outlook 2002 that is driving me mad and I can't find a fix :(
Sometimes, when I am composing an email, the font type and size takes on a mind of its own. It changes when I hit a CR and sometimes a previously entered sentence or paragraph in the email will change its font/size. As far as I can remember this happens most often when I have cut and pasted information from another email.
Help anyone?
I don't think this is the point. We should not have to do this. There is a long standing problem here that should be fixed.
There is nothing to fix. When you are cutting and pasting from other applications, particularly MS, you are also bringing with it the styling elements.
I will either paste into Notepad first or, after pasting from another application into Outlook, do a Ctrl + A, select Arial as the font, select 10pt as the size, then make the color default. That usually clears up most of the problems.
Now, if it is a email that you are forwarding, then you need to be sure that the parameters for your formatting on forwarded emails are set to your liking.
Emails are either received in HTML or plain text format.
My preference is writing in plain text....see above for changing to plain text. However, yes when copying and pasting it does pull in the character styles. So in the mail form, I go to the Format menu and change to HTML and then back to plain text.
That sorts out my formatting issue.
I know exactly what you are talking about too. I see it happen all the time. I have my methods of working around those challenges as mentioned above. There is nothing more you can do short of converting to text based email at which time all issues are resolved.
It is fixed. Office 2003 gives you the option of pasting without formatting.
Personally, I never minded pasting into Notepad, usually for me it either pasting text from the Web into Word, or from Word to my HTML editor.
It is really a quick thing. I keep a shortcut to Notepad anyway, so just a quick Ctrl V, Ctrl A, Ctrl C.


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"A lot of people thought we were crazy, didn't think we had a chance," said Denny Baxter, CFO of the West Michigan Whitecaps, of a "fantasy" he and Lew Chamberlin, co-owner and CFO of the Whitecaps had of bringing professional baseball to West Michigan. Fortunately for baseball fans, the two ignored the naysayers and pursued their vision.
Now some 400,000 baseball aficionados come out to Fifth Third Ballpark in Comstock Park every summer to enjoy a Whitecaps game. Not only did the team make history their first season in 1994 by being the first professional baseball team to play in the area in fifty years, they set the all-time Class A attendance record boasting 475,212 fans, and they then went on to break their own record the following two years. By the way, the Whitecaps beat the Burlington Bees 5-2 that first game.
In 1992, a 47-acre property at 4500 West River Drive along the Grand River became available, and Chamberlin and Baxter settled on the site as home to their dream. "We thought the location was a very good location for the scenic value, right by the river," said Chamberlin. "It's right at the crossroads of two major highways in Michigan, as good a regional spot as you could get," said Baxter, adding the space for ample lighted parking was attractive for the family oriented venue.
"They're (Whitecaps) a huge asset to Comstock Park and to the businesses…bringing people to the area," said Michael Bass, treasurer of the Comstock Park Downtown Development Authority. "They're great partners in Comstock Park with their facilities and programs they put on…it's added a huge stability…helped Comstock Park become a destination."
The organization was recognized as a class act from its beginning. In 1997 the Whitecaps was named Minor League Team of the Year, and in 1999 was named the Class A Minor League Franchise of the Decade by Baseball America. "I think when we were named organization of the decade right from the get-go when we hadn't even cleared a decade, it had such an impact," said Baxter. "It said we were a model franchise, showed the respect from the industry."
In the mid-1980's Chamberlin, who had practiced law, was working in his family's business when the business was sold. He began exploring his dream of minor league baseball in West Michigan. At the same time, Baxter, who was a CPA working in financial and managerial positions in West Michigan, was investigating the same idea.
Chamberlin saw a story in the Grand Rapids Press about Baxter's pursuit and contacted him. The two "hit it off immediately…our visions aligned," said Baxter of their synergy, adding that his accounting skills, and Chamberlin's legal and business background complemented each other. They formed West Michigan Baseball Development Inc., "the entity that lead the effort to bring baseball here, and is now the managing entity," Baxter said. Their ten-year collaboration led to the purchase of the Madison Muskies franchise in 1993. The team was named the Whitecaps through a Name the Team contest.
In 1993 work began on what was named Old Kent Park (for Old Kent Bank that bought the naming rights and was the first funding partner), a $10 million state-of-the art facility which now has a seating capacity of 10,000 including box seats, luxury suites, bleachers and lawn seating. The facility was renamed Fifth Third Ballpark in 2002 when Fifth Third Bank purchased Old Kent Bank. It is a source of pride for Chamberlin and Baxter that the Ballpark is one of the only privately-owned stadiums in the country to be constructed without taxpayer dollars. The independence of private ownership has given them the ability to make decisions and changes quickly and efficiently, said Chamberlin.
There's lots more than baseball happening at Fifth Third Ballpark. It is the site of concerts, annual events such as Taste of Grand Rapids, a winter beer festival, and a lighting display in the parking lot during the holidays. The Stadium Club, an indoor party area, is available year round for business meetings, family celebrations, and the like. Many charitable events and fundraisers are also held at the Ballpark. "We try to get as much use out of facility, derive as much revenue as we can," said Chamberlin. "The facilities at Fifth Third Ballpark have given us a wonderful opportunity to assist many non-profit organizations with their fundraising efforts by making the Ballpark available to them for special events on nongame days."
And oh the food. Besides the usual ballpark fare like the 150,000 hot dogs (that's more than 14 miles of hot dogs if placed end to end) served each season, there are specialty items such as The Fifth Third Burger – five one-third pound hamburger patties on a sesame seed bun made of one pound of dough all covered with five slices of American cheese, salsa, nacho cheese, Fritos, lettuce, tomato, and sour cream. That colossus was suggested by fans in a contest in 2009 and became a national hit, so the contest has continued.
There are 40 full time and 200 part-time and seasonal employees. "It's the greatest sort of first job experience there is," Chamberlin said of the seasonal jobs. "They kind of get their feet wet, learn about what it's like to have a job, and working at the ballpark is a lot of fun."
On January 3, 2014, a devastating fire destroyed the entire first base side of the ballpark. Both Chamberlin and Baxter said the entire organization was overwhelmed and gratified at the outpouring of community support.
"It helped us pick ourselves up…get on with the work that needed to be done," said Chamberlin. "I can't overstate what that did for us." "You work very hard to think you made a connection with the community, and that fire certainly reinforced that good, deep, emotional connection," said Baxter. "It's not our team, it's the community's team, and we're the stewards."
The demolition that took place after the fire became an opportunity to make changes like expanding the souvenir shop by almost fourfold, said Baxter.
Chamberlin and Baxter consider themselves a couple of lucky guys to own and run a baseball franchise. "What's not to love here," said Chamberlin. "You work in a baseball park, work with baseball players. "I get to watch these kids that play for us go on to star in the majors," he said. "And there's nothing I love better than watching mom and dad and their kids come out to the ballpark." "Make no mistake, for all the fun it is a business…a job…but if you handle the business there is a lot of enjoyment," said Baxter. "We truly are fans of the sport, and I think the fact that we are so enthusiastic helps us relate to our customers."
Chamberlin grew up in East Grand Rapids, graduating from East Grand Rapids High School. He attended Alleghany College, a small liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, and then the University of Toledo College of Law. He has two children and four step children, ages 29-14, and lives with his wife Anne in Cascade. Chamberlin serves on numerous community service boards including the Convention and Visitor Bureau, Convention/Arena Authority, and the First Steps Commission dedicated to early childhood support.
Baxter grew up in Muskegon, graduated from Muskegon Catholic Central High School, and attended Michigan State University where he earned a degree in accounting. He and his wife Cheryl live in Muskegon and have three grown children and a 15-month old grandson. Baxter is the President of Blue Cap Entertainment, a concert promotion business.
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Sirius XM Gets Compliance Word From NASDAQ
Sirius XM Radio announced today that they have obtained notice from NASDAQ that they are in compliance with all NASDAQ listing standards, including the minimum bid price requirement. Accordingly, the hearing, formerly scheduled for April 29, 2010, before a NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel to review the Company's compliance with the minimum bid price rule has been canceled.
In addition, NASDAQ has advised SIRIUS XM that it will remain listed on The NASDAQ Global Select Market.
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I'm attending Daytona for the first time this week. If you folks are traveling down the road on Thursday and see a Toyota Highlander pulling a trailer, well that's not me. Anyway, I need to purchase for my wife a good jacket and I've heard that there are numerous vendors in Daytona and that good deals can be had. I know there are probably tons of leather vendors but I'm specifically interested in the full length ballistic nylon jackets for women. Has anyone noticed vendors like Joe Rocket, Fieldsheer, or Firstgear, selling their products during bike week?
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Implementor - the instinctive way we handle space and tangibles.
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Events like VRLA Spring Expo are helping to shape the universe of VR for the dreamers of the future.
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." -Carl Sagan
In a world where both tech industry insiders and consumers seem to flip flop on VR as both the next big thing and just a fad, VRLA is a place that solidifies what VR is to me. VR is growth, VR is creative freedom, VR is the future. One can simply look at the growth of VRLA and see that the team behind this event will not just leave this new industry to chance but rather push it forward to the promises of the Sci-Fi novels that shaped our visions.
I started CatsAndVR.com last year in order to throw myself full force into the VR ecosystem. During the VRLA Summer Expo last year I was actually able to use my VR experience to get a job in VR. For me the VRLA events are a bit different than VR events in the Bay Area as there is a more dream like quality in presentation and outlook. For me VRLA is a refresher to remind me why exactly I want to be involved in this industry.
For me one of the best thing about VRLA events are the people and I recenlty got to chat with one of my favorite in the industry, Jonathan Krusell. Last year Jonathan helped me skip the line to check out Mindshow and this year I returned the favor and made sure I checked out some great stuff on Daydream from L.A. Devs.
"Whats amazing about VRLA and VR in L.A. is that there are so many amazing developers here in town. There are so many folks coming from different mediums converging in VR bringing their strengths and experiences."- Jonathan Krusell, Google Daydream
Cofounder of VRLA Cosmo Scharf killed it with his opening VRLA remarks showcasing an almost Steve Jobs level of charm in telling the tale of why VR is important to him.
The VRLA Saturday keynote by Justin Roiland of Squanchtendo and Rick And Morty fame was also riveting and added to the unique charm of the VRLA events not found elsewhere.
VRLA showcases that the future of VR is bright and its events like these as well as groups such as VRLA and Upload provide the pickaxes and shovels for the true seekers of VR Gold.
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Big City Lights: Frida Kahlo RetrospectiveMay 27, 2010
by Maya
"I paint self portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."
Last Saturday my fellow goddesses and I went to the Frida Kahlo Retrospective that is currently being shown in the Martin-Gropius-Bau museum in Berlin.
Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) was one of the most influential female artists and surrealists of the 20th century.
I have been interested in her work since my teens but have never had the chance to see an exhibition of her paintings. One piece of information that I didn't have before was the fact that her father was an immigrant from Germany. So somehow it makes sense to celebrate the 100th anniversary of her birth (she changed her birth year to 1910 to coincide with the year of the Mexican Revolution) with such a comprehensive exhibition in Berlin. Bringing together the over 150 paintings and drawings that are owned by private collectors all around the world was an extremely complicated and tedious process.
The most striking aspect of her work is its utter expressiveness and how unbelievably personal it is. Nearly half of her paintings are self portraits. It is evident that her art is a manifestation of her emotional turmoil and physical pain. Her work is extremely rich, full of metaphors and symbolism. Its complexity makes it so difficult to grasp all the facets at first glance. Kahlo's art makes you think. Her paintings are not just beautiful decorations. Actually some of them are the complete opposite of beautiful. They are highly disturbing and even painful.
If you are not familiar with Frida this exhibition will give you a great introduction to her art. The chronological display of her life and work helps to recognize her growth as an artist.
I was particularly fascinated by the many private photographs because they make her seem so real.
I can also recommend the movie "Frida" (2002) with Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina who plays her husband and famous muralist Diego Rivera. Of course this Hollywood-esque introduction to Kahlo does not compare to actually seeing her paintings in real life but Salma Hayek's performance is really impressive. I remember loving this movie.


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