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The Summer Scholars Program takes place on Clemson University's campus, in beautiful Upstate South Carolina.
Frequently Asked Questions
Please view the course specific web pages for course schedules, course descriptions, program dates, and corresponding costs. The cost includes room (double occupancy), board, staffing, educational materials, field trips, recreational expenses, insurance and health service coverage.
- Location
- Arrival and Departure
Arrival is 3:00-4:00 PM on Sunday at the residence hall. Please do not arrive before check in time on the first day of camp as staff will be preparing for camp and will be unable to supervise scholars. Departure on Saturday will be from 8:00-10:00 AM from the student's assigned dorm. Please note that breakfast will not be served prior to check out on Sunday.
- Airport Shuttle
The Summer Scholars program can provide van transportation to and from the Greenville/Spartanburg International Airport (GSP) for program participants who will be using air transportation to and from our program. There is a $200.00 charge for this service ($100 each way). We request that flights be arranged proximate to the designated check in and check out times of the program. If students are unable to secure flights within those times, you must contact the program Administrative Assistant at (864) 656-5535. Additionally, all flight itineraries must be provided no later than 3-weeks prior to arrival. These must be emailed to email@example.com
- Program Activities
Summer counselors plan many evening activities for the scholars to participate in throughout the week. Activities may include: field Olympics, bowling, gymnasium activities, movie night, swimming in the Aquatics Center, karaoke, trivia night, etc. Scholars can expect light activity during these times and plenty of walking throughout the week (make sure to bring comfortable walking shoes).
Free time is also scheduled into the day and will include time at the dorm, Starbucks and ice cream runs, visits to the library, playing Frisbee on Bowman Field, etc. During free time, students may also have the opportunity to meet with representatives from the Office of Admissions and Clemson ROTC, and/or take a guided tour of the famed Death Valley football stadium. Free time activities are dependent on group interests and are subject to change depending on weather, staff availability or acts of third parties beyond our control.
- Course of Study
Scholars will attend their courses Monday – Friday for 2 ½ hours each morning and 2 ½ hours each afternoon (9:00 am – 11:30 am and 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm). Additional academic course time may be required for out of classroom activities and/or field trips.
- Field Trips
Scholars will leave campus for a variety of activities. Some courses plan field trips to local establishments that reinforce what they are learning in class. Social time field trips vary from year to year but have included trips to see a local baseball game (Greenville Drive – Boston Red Sox minor league), area parks, and other recreational and cultural attractions. The expenses for the trips are included in the cost of the program and students will only need money for personal expenses.
- Facilities
Summer Scholars reside in a single-gender residence hall. The residence halls are air-conditioned. Refrigerators are not provided in individual dorm rooms unless deemed medically necessary. Scholars access their room by using a key. Each hall and/or outer door is card access protected, which each counselor will have access to. Scholars are asked to lock their door when leaving the room and when sleeping. Clemson University and Summer Scholars do not assume responsibility for any items lost or stolen. Scholars and parents/guardians will be asked to read and sign the "Housing Release of Liability" form before arriving. Scholars will enjoy most meals on campus at the Dining Hall. During field trips, students enjoy boxed lunches from the dining hall or catered meals off campus. Students are encouraged to eat three meals a day, as they will be kept very busy. All special requests that address dietary concerns should be noted on the application.
- Residence Hall Group Assignments
Residence hall groups are assigned according to gender and age. If you have someone with which you want to room, please make this request on the Online Enrollment Form, but please know roommates are not guaranteed.
- Expectations of Scholars
The Summer Scholars program is recommended for responsible middle and high school students that want to learn more about life in a college setting. While we recognize that this age student is not a college freshman, we do expect students to exhibit self-control and portray excellent character. The scholar and parent/guardian will be required to read and sign the "Code of Conduct" and the "Discipline" policy forms (which outline behavior standards) before arriving on campus. Scholars who continue to display problem behavior will be asked to withdraw from the program without a refund. No student will be allowed to leave the campus without the permission of their parent/guardian and the Director of Summer Scholars. Visitation by parents and friends is discouraged. Scholars may drive a car to campus but will not be allowed use of their personal vehicle until end-of-camp departure.
- Staff
The nighttime residence hall ratio of scholars to counselor staff is 10 to 1. Summer Scholars strives to afford participants small group time with staff and fellow scholars. Counselors have been chosen for their dedication and their ability to work with young people. They are Clemson University students and some were Summer Scholars themselves! They are chosen on the basis of a thorough interview process, background checks, reference checks, and outstanding character. They undergo extensive pre-camp training prior to the beginning of the summer. Counselors supervise scholars 24 hours a day, live in the residence halls and are dedicated to the program. They accompany the scholars to class, on field trips, and to social events. Counselors are assigned residence hall groups during the evening and nighttime. They are responsible for ensuring that students are aware of and comply with the expectations set before them
- What to Bring
Packing Advice - What should I bring? What should I leave home?
Course-specific packing lists will be sent in the course-specific email. To see when you should receive this email, please check the Important Dates page.
Recommended items are listed below. Please pack light. You do not have to bring everything in your closet or room! We recommend that campers bring only one suitcase and one bedroll. If possible, mark clothes with your name, as we will not be responsible for lost clothing or other personal items. You should be prepared to carry or wheel your luggage, and should not bring more than you can carry. If you are flying to Greenville, be sure to check the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) guidelines. Since most airlines are charging for extra bags, you will have to pack wisely!
Students need to bring their own linen
- Twin XL sheets/blanket or sleeping bag (extra long single bed sheets to fit the residence hall mattresses)
- Pillow
- Towels/washcloths
Clothing List
- 2 pairs of comfortable shoes (One should be tennis shoes! - We walk A LOT) **Please view program-specific packing list in case closed toed shoes or other forms of footwear are required for your child's course.**
- Flip flops or sandals
- Undergarments
- Sleeping clothes/pajamas
- 1 long sleeve shirt
- 3 – 4 short sleeve tops or t-shirts
- One pair of pants/nice jeans **Please view program-specific packing list in case long pants are required for your child's course**
- 3 pair of shorts/skirts
- Socks
- Modest swimsuit and beach towel (The Fike Recreation Center on campus has a pool!)
Non-clothing items
- Sunscreen and lip gloss/lip balm
- Personal Toiletries (if flying, be sure these are 3 oz. or less in clear plastic bag)
- Bug Spray/Lotion
- Notebook and pens/pencils for class
- Wallet/spending money
- Glasses/contact lenses (Be sure to bring contact solution too!)
- Sunglasses
- Watch
- Cell phone and charger
- Prescription medicine and absolutely necessary over the counter pills & supplies (Only bring medications and medical supplies listed on your medical form)
- Water Bottle
- Alarm clock
Optional Items
- Camera – small, inexpensive (Please do not bring expensive equipment!)
- Earplugs (If you are a light sleeper.)
- Paperback books for leisure reading
- Work out clothes
- Playing cards
- Personal fan for your room (while rooms are air conditioned, you might want a fan.)
- Laundry
Washers and dryers are available in the residence hall. Students must provide detergent, dryer sheets, etc. There is no cost to use the machines.
- Mobile Phones
Although we do not forbid cell phones at camp, we do limit use. If a camper needs to bring his or her cell phone to camp, we will ask that they refrain from using it during all organized program activities unless required in the course. They will be allowed to use it during unstructured free time for "checking in" with parents or emergencies.
- Electronics
Electronic devices of any kind (other than cameras) may be used only during unstructured free time, rest periods, and/or before bed. They may not leave the dorm unless required in the course. Students will have access to Clemson University's WIFI throughout the week. Please view program-specific packing list in case specific electronics are required for your child's course.
- Additional Money
Many students enjoy purchasing Clemson University souvenirs, buying pizza together before bedtime, etc. It is at your discretion on the exact amount to send with them, however, a good suggestion would be around $20-$30 (excluding souvenirs).
- Sending Snacks
You are able to send nonperishable snacks for your scholars, however, they will solely be responsible for them and refrigeration is not guaranteed. Vending machines are available in the residence halls. Please note that breakfast will not be served the morning of check out so it may be a good idea to send a morning snack with your camper.
- Health Care
Staff certified in First Aid and CPR will be present at camp 24 hours each day. The on-campus Redfern Health Center is available during weekday business hours, with Urgent Care in Clemson available through late evening. A full-service hospital is available within a 15-minute drive of campus.
All medications must be given to the health officer upon arrival at camp. The health officer will be responsible for properly administering the medicine on a daily basis as directed by a physician or parent. All prescription and non-prescription drugs are kept under lock and key. (Exceptions may be made for inhalers or Epi-pens.) The health officer will have commonly used non-prescription medications such as Ibuprofen and acetaminophen available. Please refrain from packing such medications if possible. All campers are screened upon arrival at camp for good health prior to admission. We ask that no camper come to camp ill or with any contagious condition. We reserve the right to send your camper home if they become ill, develop any contagious condition (such as pink eye, or head lice) or if they are unable to participate in the major activities of camp. If your camper cannot remain at camp due to health reasons you will NOT receive a refund of camp fees. Each camp has limited medical insurance on every camper for accidents and illnesses that occur at camp. Pre-existing illness and eyeglass/contact replacement are not covered. Camp is not responsible for eyeglasses or contacts that are lost or broken at camp.
- Weather and Physical Conditions
The weather in Clemson is very warm (sometimes very hot!) in the summer. Daily temperatures will be between 80 – 90 degrees and humid. Nights can also be very humid with temperatures in the 70s. Scholars should bring appropriate clothing for warm weather. Scholars will be given a refillable water bottle at check-in.
- Sending Mail to Your Scholar
Please feel free to write your child. Parents often mail letters and packages the week prior to check-in, so mail will reach the camp before they leave that week.
The mailing address is:(Scholar's Name)
2045 Barre Hall
Clemson, SC 29634-0108
- Homesickness
Parents can help their student adjust to camp by letting them know that they expect them to have fun, meet new friends, and learn many new things. Our staff works hard to help campers adjust to camp by making sure they are involved in teambuilding and fun activities. If an emergency situation arises at home, we ask that you contact the camp director.
- How to Contact Director
For emergencies M-F 8a-4:30p, call: 864-656-5535. Outside of those hours, please call the number of the Camp Coordinator provided to you at check-in. Scholars are not allowed to use mobile phones during organized program activities so as to assist them in making the most of their campus experience. Should your scholar need to contact you during the week for special circumstances, the camp staff will assist them accordingly.


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Summit Rinjani 2 days
Start from Sembalun, end at Sembalun Village
Arrival Lombok WE will picks you up by private car , then transfer to senaru Hotel is the place you can meet with your trekking guide and porters then will briefing and explain the trekking procedure and prepare for your trips.
This route appeals to those short of time, climbing to Mt. Rinjani's Summit 3726M in Gunung Rinjani National Park. Starting and ending in Sembalun Lawang, it provides spectacular views of the Lake Segara Anak within the volcano's crater and Best Sunrise over the summit. This trek program is not suitable for beginners it requires level of fitness and strong walks. Tour can leave any days except weather condition does not permitted.
Type of tour:
Fully organized (combination of adventure, leisure and experienced English Speaking mountain guide) , Green Rinjani Trekking Top Program Green Rinjani Lombok, trekking trip and planting a tree on the mount Rinjani with eco friendly solutions for tomorrow's environment. Doing planting the trees not only useful for improving the quality of our environment. planting also can decrease the risk bush of fire. NOTE: Individual or group departures are available upon request. Rinjani Trek requires you to have a good level of fitness and ability to walk long distance. Person with mountain sickness or height phobia are not allowed to join this tour. We can customize any date based on request: There are two type of service to choose, Deluxe service or Standard service only
Trekking Itinerary
Day 01:Senaru Village- Sembalun Village (1.150.m) – Sembalun Crater Rim(2.639.m)
Wake up at 6.00am and get breakfast at 6.30-40 and our special mountain car will ready to bring us to Sembalun village for 45 minute /1 hour, arrive here approx 8.00am then Registration in Rinjani Information Center (RIC) 1051 m and start the trek to Pos 1 (Pemantauan) 1300 m, walking time is about 2 hours. We take a rest for 5/10 minute at Pos 1 ( Pemantauan,) and then continue to Pos 2 (Tengengean) 1500 m walking time about 1 hour. We take short break here for 5 to 10 minutes at Pos 2 ( Tengengean ), and then we continue our journey to Pos 3 (Pada Balong ) 1800 m, walking time is approx 1 hour. We rest for 2 hours at Pos 3, then your guide and porters prepare for lunch, and a hot drink (tea, coffee, hot chocolate or lemon tea). After lunch and a rest, we continue to heading Sembalun Crater Rim (Pelawangan Sembalun) 2639M, walking time 3 hours including a prolonged steep climb. We will camp the night at Sembalun Crater Rim, then from here we can enjoy the awesome views. As the sun sets, and sunrise for the next morning , Segara Anak lake, Sembalun village, the summit of mount Rinjani half of north Lombok can be seen from here.
Day 02: Sembalun Crater Rim(2.639m) – Summit/Top 3.726m – Sembalun
Village 1.150m ) Senggigi or Mataram
We wake up at 02:30 am and have some light breakfast then leave at 03:00 am we start the trek to heading Rinjani Summit (3726 m). Walking time approximately 3 hours and 20 minutes. The first stage is a moderate climb for 120 minutes, while the second stage is a fairly easy but long trek. The last hour is very steep and difficult. (There are many loose stones, and as you take two steps forward you will slip one step back). From the Summit, you can see all of Lombok island, Bali, Sumbawa and Segara Anak Lake. After sunrise we will go down to the Sembalun crater rim and have a hot breakfast. After breakfast and a rest, we will then return back down to Sembalun village then will have some lunch on the way down at pos 3 or 2 walking time about 5 hours to get Sembalun village we here our car waiting for bring everybody to Senaru to pick up rest of the luggage then our specific transfers to your next destination (– Senggigi – Mataram or anywhere In Lombok island ) end of service.
For inquiry or further information please feel free to text us via email or reservation form, whatsup and phone +6281916030327 MR ARIEE OWNER . Click here for Mount Rinjani photo gallery, frequently asked question.
Price including:
• Pick up and transfers
• A night accommodation in Senaru/ Senggigi before the trek,
• Trekking guide Porters
• One small tree
• Foods and drinking,
• Tent, toilet tent, sleeping bags, and mattress
• Entrance fee for the national park idr.150.000/trekker
• first aid kit
Price excluding:
• Head lamp /hand torch
• Small bagpack/daily pack
• Trekking shoes
• Trekking jacket
• Ticket airplane
• Extra porter for own luggage ( 22$ /day)
• Long pants/trousers
• Tips for guide and porters
Before trekking you should prepare Day pack, as Personal day pack :
– Torch or Flashlight
– 1pair champ shoes/trek shoes are good
– Toiletries
– Sun block/lotion, hat/cap, sun glasses
– Spray for muscle/balm
– Insect repellent
– Camera, Handy cam (Manual or Digital)
– Small towel
– 2/3 paces of T-Shirts
– Long trek pants/wind proof
– Windproof Jacket
– 2 paces of shorts
– Trekking poles (optional)
– Sandals (optional)
– Swimming Suite (optional)
– Binocular (optional)
– Fishing Gear (optional)
– Garbage Plastic can (optional)

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Nothing makes an English Tea break quite like these delicious Scones. Try to handle the dough as little as possible, to make them as light as possible.
To make 8
150g Strawberries
50g Caster Sugar
225g Self-Raising Flour
1/4tsp Salt
50g Butter
100ml Buttermilk (mix a little Lemon Juice with milk if you cannot find any)
3tbsp Whole Milk
Clotted Cream
1. Preheat the oven to 220 C/Gas mark 7, and line a baking tray with some baking paper.
2. Sift the Self-Raising Flour and Salt into a large bowl, before cutting the Butter into small pieces, before rubbing it in using fingertips, until it resembles small flakes. Add the 50g of Caster Sugar, and mix in.
3. In a different bowl or jug, mix the Buttermilk with the Whole Milk. Pour it into the dry mix all at once, and use a round-bladed knife to mix together. Combine evenly to make a soft dough mixture.
4. Lightly flour your hands and a work surface, before gathering all of the dough together, and pat it out until 2cm thick – try to touch it as little as possible, to make sure it's as light as possible.
5. Using a 5cm pastry cutter, cut as many rounds as possible, and put each onto a baking tray, leaving a small gap between each one. Once you've got as many out as possible, roll the dough back together, pat it out again, and cut out more scones.
6. Bake for ten to twelve minutes, before removing and leaving the Scones to cool on a wire rack
7. Slice in half, and lay some Strawberry Jam and Clotted cream, as well as some Sliced Strawberries inside.
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On The Fourth Day Of Chalica 2013 I Demand A Free & Responsible Search For The Truth & Meaning Of Shameful UUA Legal Bullying. . .
i.e. This initial cease and desist demand letter and this follow-up legal letter.
To email@example.com, email@example.com, email@example.com
Today at 4:23 PM
Thor's Day December 5, 2013
aka 4th Day of Chalica 2013
Dear Maitre Coulombe,
It is now exactly 18 months since you sent me this arrogant and aggressive response to my "electronic communication" aka email which reasonably politely informed you that I was quite unable to find any The Emerson Avenger blog posts that contained any "unfounded and vicious allegation to the effect that ministers of the (Unitarian Universalist) Association engage in such despicable crimes as pedophilia and rape." Besides being the 18th "monthiversary" (as it were) of your arrogant refusal to responsibly identify those blog posts that you and your "less than honest" client the UUA allege to contain "unfounded and vicious" allegations to the effect that "certain Unitarian Universalist ministers" aka UUA clergy "engage in such despicable crimes as pedophilia and rape", it happens to be the 4th Day of Chalica which is a week long Unitarian Universalist holiday dedicated to celebrating the 7 Principles of Unitarian Universalism.
Most ironically, and I believe quite appropriately in terms of today's task at hand. . . the 4th Principle of Unitarian Universalism calls upon ALL U*Us to engage in "a free and responsible search for truth and meaning".
See - http://www.uua.org/beliefs/principles/282073.shtml
I realize that you are probably not a member in The U*U Movement yourself, but in that you are representing a client that ostensibly claims that,
"As a faith tradition, Unitarian Universalism makes sacred the right and responsibility to engage in this free and responsible quest as an act of religious devotion."
you should have engaged in a free and responsible for the Truth and meaning of my blog posts before more than a little bit questionably formally alleging that I have not only published blog posts containing "unfounded and vicious allegation to the effect that ministers of the Association engage in such despicable crimes as pedophilia and rape", but these as yet unidentified blog posts are "defamatory to an extent such that they constitute blasphemous libel which is prohibited under section 296 of the Criminal Code" yadda, yadda, yadda. . .
Notwithstanding the fact that I remain completely unaware of ANY The Emerson Avenger blog posts that might actually contain "unfounded and vicious" allegations to the effect that certain Unitarian Universalist ministers "engage in such despicable crimes as pedophilia and rape" I none-the-less engaged in a free and responsible for the Truth and meaning of Canada's blasphemy law aka section 296 of the Criminal Code soon after you made that dubious accusation against me and long ago came to the conclusion that, even if I actually was guilty of making "unfounded and vicious allegation to the effect that ministers of the Association engage in such despicable crimes as pedophilia and rape", such ordinary libel of UU clergy would almost certainly not amount to the archaic and rarely prosecuted crime of blasphemous libel, as you so brazenly alleged in your initial cease and desist demand letter.
So just who are these "certain Unitarian Universalist ministers" that you and your "less than Truthful" client the UUA are (falsely) accusing me of falsely, to say nothing of viciously, alleging to have committed rape, child molestation, and unspecified "other sexual perversions"?
Convicted rapist Rev. Mack W. Mitchell perhaps?
How about your client Rev. Dr. Victoria Weinstein's former parishioner at First Parish Norwell Unitarian Universalist Church, Richard Buell who, besides actually being convicted of the forcible rape of preteen girls including "a female family member" and "a neighbor's daughter", was not to my knowledge a Unitarian Universalist minister?
Which Unitarian Universalist minister have I falsely and viciously accused of "child molestation" Maitre Coulombe?
Who are these "certain Unitarian Universalist ministers" who you allege that I have made false and vicious accusations of engaging in what you rather vaguely describe as "other sexual perversions", without even clearly defining what "other sexual perversions" you are talking about? I mean let's face it Maitre Coulombe, "other sexual perversions" covers a LOT of territory. How am I supposed to guess which "certain Unitarian Universalist ministers" and what "other sexual perversions" you are talking about?
I cannot help but notice that you signed your second arrogant and aggressive legal letter to me with the salutation "Your's Truly" Maitre Coulombe. Forgive me for saying so, but I see very little that is True in the highly misleading, and even outright false, accusations that you and your "less than Truthful" clients have brought against me. As far as I am concerned it is your own dubious assertions, and those of your own "less than honest" U*U clients that are "not credible" Maitre Coulombe. Not my claims, most of which are supported by plenty of evidence. Where is your evidence supporting your accusations Maitre Coulombe? I have yet to see any, inspite of my repeated demands that you produce your evidence by properly identifying those blog posts that your accusations arise from.
I *could* go on, but hopefully I have made my point. . .
In the spirit of Chalica, and Unitarian Universalism's 1st, 2nd & 4th Principles, I hereby call upon you and your various Unitarian Universalist clients, including the (thankfully) inimitable Rev. Dr. Victoria Weinstein, to engage in a free and genuinely *responsible* search for the Truth and meaning of the highly questionable accusations that you have conspired to bring against me, to freely and responsibly withdraw every single false and-or frivolous accusation that you have made, and publicly apologize to me for bringing these false accusations against me in the first place.
Your's TRULY,
Robin Edgar
Labels: Blasphemous Libel, Kay Montgomery, Marc-André Coulombe, Rev. Dr. Victoria Weinstein, Stikeman Elliott LLP, U*U clergy sexual misconduct, UUA Board of Trustees, UUA legal bullying, UUA Moderator Jim Key


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The Biophysical Society is delighted to announce its 2012 Society Fellows. Fellows are chosen based on their demonstrated excellence in science, contributions to the expansion of the field of biophysics, and support of the Biophysical Society. The Fellows will be honored at the Awards Ceremony during the Biophysical Society's 56th Annual Meeting on Monday February 27, 2012 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. The Fellows are:
Toshio Yanagida, Osaka University, for his critical research on molecular motors using TIRF microscopy to study dynamics of single molecule fluorescence.
Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for his groundbreaking effort to develop computational molecular biology as an important tool to solve problems in biophysics.
Carlos Bustamante, University of California, Berkeley, for his impact on the field of single molecule biology through the use of atomic force microscopy and the development of magnetic tweezers and optical tweezers, which has provided a unique insight into protein and RNA folding and the operation of molecular motors.
Frances Separovic, University of Melbourne, for her pioneering research using solid-state NMR techniques to study the structure and dynamics of membrane-associated polypeptides.
Tamar Schlick, New York University, for her research developing and applying novel multidisciplinary computational and modeling techniques to relate the structure of macromolecules with their cellular functions.
José Onuchic, Rice University, for developing the widely recognized and highly regarded theory of energy landscapes and funnels that directs protein folding.
Gregory Voth, University of Chicago, for his transformative advances in the field of biophysics from the development and application of new physically-based computational methods.
The Biophysical Society, founded in 1956, is a professional, scientific Society established to encourage development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics. The Society promotes growth in this expanding field through its annual meeting, monthly journal, and committee and outreach activities. Its 9000 members are located throughout the U.S. and the world, where they teach and conduct research in colleges, universities, laboratories, government agencies, and industry. For more information on these awards, the Society, or the 2012 Annual Meeting, visit www.biophysics.org.


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The programme consists of over twenty projects and team of over thirty artists, designers and makers forming one of the largest art in healthcare programmes in the UK. The emphasis is on the integration and enhancement of the patient experience within arrival, waiting, treatment and ward spaces. To balance the architecture and design led commissions a series of artist fellowships and residencies have been commissioned running through 2017 and into Spring 2018. Fellows and artists will explore ways in which creative practice can help build a wider understanding both specialist subject areas and ways to actively engage with the wider campus and city community.
An Art and Therapeutic design group has been established consisting of the NHS project team, key staff users representation and the two main charities, the Edinburgh and Lothians Health Foundation and the Sick Kids Friends Foundation. This group has worked proactively to agree the main prioritised project strands for enhancement.
The majority of the design development has now been completed and project teams are now working with specialist art fabricators to construct and install their work in time for the hospital opening in Spring 2018.


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You don't say and so you she did like coerced he drove her car shows obviously this isn't gonna work. But the issue like scorers in your life callers just like our sun and tell us a little bit about where you were to what you did our Amanda be in the body shop. I'm only export line. Do what was it where we're do you worry in BMW. We'll get as a single thought I heard it does get in there somewhere Debbie I was not aware there was a. Hear me. YA within IBM. That is going to be daddy didn't love it but it's the thinks she works a correlated job and it's cool thing. Well there's more to it the man until you're not at work. I mean technically your usual right here I mean your your artist. Are drawn so this. I don't think that's a bit that you don't sell just more correlated jobs needed. But owner Tom off your time together you guys do let me go to caller functions a mile or put on the showed some army just as they here I'll just just feels like the DN mall. If she takes care should make sure why we all have some screen and water stuff I mean this and you could you not denial park. A new apple give you edible oil Madeleine Ralph about it. What what watches I have a question for Jessica Jessica where all want to movie tonight it's going to be dirty dancing or making graffiti. But I think mom to death but no it. OJ that Patrick Swayze gets me do something you know look at it this way or. Yeah but you know I'll let me Chris Farley in the same dance to a Patrick Swayze. Really yeah now to have pro war the most romantic Chick Flicks or were you war fails subject here any good Chris Morley and they beat him. Let's give an ounce of utility. I think it would just give you know how old to play old old boy love connection you know see how compatible you to war. All right so this is what we'll do it again Robert I get are brought Omar right I've got just go low left. All right so this you'll do I want to ask you three questions. McKenna about just who were under a in this well fortunately there won't ask you three questions about Robert. Or are drawn Jessica. All right. Because there are. Don't rush to host. And on road and so. What's Jessica's favorite flavor of onscreen. And the clock stood in. An easy dream. All right it's. Just is he correct. It works no we don't know it was your favorite flavor. I don't have a favorites or anything chocolate related. All of technicality. All right Robert. Hot rod. In my name right. What's so as ringing that does just the way at nine. Yeah bingo Dane you got one right. All right question number three my. What size shoe. Does just aware under on nine. Yes Dane. Bailed you got it McGahee did OK you got two and a all right OK Jessica this is about our drug. What year is his station wagon. Anyone. Her facto effect. All right what size shoe does our road where thirteen per facto. You know this thing lamb big shoes he has some big Sox do. So I am. Scared I. Don't touch me. All right last question. Newton. What's his favorite color. Blues coach richt. All right she got a purpose Gordon into and out I guess you got a battle on their no new court mourners say the army but hey you guys must do summer a couple of all right Gaza. But I won't days of the guess we've got a really really great show planned for today is to stick around would play a little little matchmaker here in the Nixon that was a preview of what you don't see nexus drivers just a preview clip matchmaker in the mix it with our seven drugs and hard streets. I loved beloved pets and what doesn't carry very special caller yes. Fresh air and also very. Legend the legend Olympic. Hey do you listen hot rods at the 0106. Our lives and on demand. The podcast blinked at 1063 WORG dot com. Miles to the gallon and La. And every minute of it this is hot rods at happy hour withdrawn and dog brought on 1063. WORD. Welcome back to hot dogs and heart strings. Route I think that's happy hour. No it's nursery schools where the caller people danger the same league guys that's right we're talking about a social media. How resin or strings would bring to core people together and we picked out our look he can tell us it's ironic that we have we have mr. John deeds and mr. Johnny turner. Johnny turner. Johnny a table wouldn't sorrow when you first. We gonna ask you a few questions. About Joba and we will see what your interest or. Josh in the pubs in your mind. Jenny Willis yet premiere. All right sorry answering questions for you whenever you're ready. I had. I first of all what is the color of Johns challenger. Pat Guerrero perfect perfect perfect. Our next question what was John's first car anywhere guys bear. Very ginger do you see Larry dom John we know these answers is very good our next question what is one event. One car Schulman John never misses. Art or well except that answer he said you might say that will accept that. So as perfect Alley you did great W all three does great work we'll see if John knows all three questions about you this is what it's gonna be interesting as. All right John it's your turn up next we got three questions for your rapid fire rob you want to you know what I've got them John. If you had to pick joining stream caller what would be. And all. Lower and a half. I got up. Right and Susan good start Dylan. I know. Hill kit challenger okay squishy and too. Does Johnny loves Gordon every caller shoot. Generously there isn't a question number three wood Johnny resident who shopping for car parts. Or go to the mall shopping. All of well you know one out of the region. It's. It's. Yeah that's not a and you know what this is our dating show and we know it's hard though for gaz cargoes to find your car girl's Weasley John it's good people so you know what I think about it a lot. I've learned a rat. By the way you see just have this the American knowledge yeah perjury cars international scout. Yeah I'll tell you something you need you need to learn these things. And and she says she doesn't doing on every car show that she does which nothing's a lot on the Stallone. Sales I was thinking of the real hot days will you how old's your college. Interstate I don't like every Clark should be decided he didn't agreed calmly hit a lot of. Few times I've been granted a lot of women of color use my alive and I met one yeah it was like going over every one level. If you Nader you we need to find her sister because I'd love to meet. All right John outlaws thank you and Johnny for playing along with a slow game. As our gifts from inner come from our odds and happy hour we got a fifty dollar gift certificate to bonefish grill in Greenville. All right so we know we're on the road a lot new in Johnny's little busy lives this way you guys lost the battle date night on us. All right John John thanks for playing long guys. We'll see is that in. My. But it's gotta fund the outgoing middle of connections and I feel like we did our little ritual and Hillary Hillary Kindle the fire. Well I mean you know once and I looked too hot rod love birds she really you know good food and I ask speaking of low numbers. Where's yours. Multiple times coming up next but it won't say something. I wouldn't be a couple hints Glenn moment. Let's see. Me. In nature today. Kind let's let's ones yes no this limited this is classy lady Mac today you'll it about a three time top fuel world champion. Well lest I am forced girls so that rules that well known moves the source girls brought to go older SA little old school right there we'll see. When she made a movie that movie about her life who. I don't know in Israel there really do. Let's say you are warned saying you would surely charts show more than his or colon gets Nixon is going to be exciting does. This lady has lived a life like no other. Yes she's been through during her I love Devlin says pieces and all a few times and the hall home. She's just she's a standard for dry race. Well I mean she's alleged and bear in every sense of the word is lady came up through the ranks you gotta think about it. Without surely modality they would never be any of the force girls there would be an Erica Anders there wouldn't be anybody. Because all she paved the way for these people. Appreciate the idea I mean. Yahoo! and in an interview we got coming up does you're. You do not want to miss this I mean we had also many things in this probably will it cools interviews we've ever done. She is a plethora of knowledge in sharpest attack and my first crush grown up grown up at a drag racing family. I remember sure Wimbledon eleven and she was before renewed Rome McDonald was all the kids. You know I think is no way around from man and who wrongly dome was before Charlotte well they won't say anything but since you did drugs and the anyway but I mean does the thing about it I mean this this lady. Is a living legend and she still helping people to this day how you might. Where she's got her foundation surely skits and they're doing lots of great things people she's a touch on the way here in just a little bit. But. Let's just talk about some accomplishments. The surely modality. She actually quit races she retired in 2003. She got her top fuel. In a jury license in 1970. Three when I was 1973. She got her top fuel buses and an insurance. That's very impressive actually four years later she was the world champion and top fuel just thought you know how serious issue us. Yeah I mean that's that's the thing like there's people that have been in top fuel for decades. There was never a champion for years she came in and dominated. SA is interesting visit the NH RA actually didn't want to learn began -- no way did and then we're really touched on this in an interview because she can tell you better than anybody. They interesting story of this lady is live the life like no other. I mean this is all she's ever done since she was sixteen years old she's been racing in one form or another. You know and then you know through the crash bounce back Comanche and a major crash 94 yet warning came under rubble in Montreal. Oh she actually broke both her legs both pay its tore thumb ball. Broker pelvis she was it physical difference for eighteen months and had six surgeries. Literally an eighteen miles she was back at the winter nationals in 1986 racing again and one. Bush set a record. Winning really winning but I don't Thelma likes fresh out the trailer that car. She said read I mean that's the thing about this lady Amaechi is. I mean it's just it's crazy do you look at the movie. This is what the movie will. I mean it's it's. You got a few things is there and we'll all be no movie magic in there but overall it's pretty detailed out about how things went out. Those are great we limit in that movie gets so much for NH RA and they've brought a lot of people to drivers and they're really knew much about it. Yeah man and the movie is a legend their movie is a great movie is in his classic corridor movie exactly is some definitely worth a watch. But Willis surely talk more about list is I mean she's like he said as applause or knowledge and I say is absolute honor for someone my age to get to speak to someone of her rage and who has been through life that she is meant there. Bombed subway a fourth of that that's coming up next. I tell you what you'll you'll stay tuned. 01063 WO or. Is to Grambling went 63 W. Verizon. He's on. This drop its I'll drive yes sir I did you watch you know us that we had a special calling gas concern can you know what I have not lived drone yet. Ladies and gentlemen let me introduce you to this is surely mold down. Hey did you pronouncing it right let's let's. I hear Malarkey belong to my hearing here at all I can be chipper it's. I would of heard that name several times throughout my life and how citi's at all times. He had a nice change when I remarried I didn't change my name I bought my dad would I got divorced like glad that was my choice yeah. Keep it pretty and they need to change. Like I was joking or owls without broad mobility has to do this show we're we're talking about it I knew you were before and who Ronald McDonald was. I mean does that thing led group happy you know you're not shy. Let me draw over the drag Grayson family like this and I mean just. The paint the pink top fuel cars and college majors in my hit a C at all you know and Harlan who I have little VHS tape I mean that's. Yeah that's. Considered an RR a classic in Hollywood still. Well I mean the thing is though drag Grayson has never gotten. The respect in the. Oh lead on camera a NASCAR robbed this big kick out of pockets. So pet and can't tell it's still it's still galls me to this day because you have about not. Of them but a lot of the IRY jets at why didn't snippet wouldn't. Crybaby cabinet and they just in addition women. Didn't go and they eat they just don't have any respect I didn't show some respect added that strap but in my adult funny Paris. Egypt we're typically the. But that's the thing with though I mean NASCAR the go against your you have to be so major the major channels every week. NH RA oh at the last few years I mean militia you just head and on cable TV you didn't see it. Well yeah but there's simply sit at a racetrack somewhere in the United States every single weekend we see we be trucked out to the West Coast you know hadn't yet. We are belong trailer with a top fuel car and the and the support people doing. And I had and hit a you know not stopped what they appreciate it and we would god be heading into the West Coast I mean you'd see him come and eat. Like you don't want to treat for trains. It's actual trying to sell I miss I miss the match racing naturally made a real money. And any cherry get away with all that AT and even maturation gay. They consider that. Testing and X course toward making money but testing is so is not a not the question should do addition thank you happy my kids favorite yeah. That's that's that's that's crazy everybody calls me this a very expensive sport I mean. Drag racer especially today I mean. Well this idiot idiots cannot tell you what they've done. They've turned it into a gigantic not kept and I ITT conspiring iHome. During a break you don't want to be racers pain over the guardrail or the fact if you will act hand obviously. They wanna do so bad that he had the chance of getting your foot in the door. I mean it had hype during did better and lottery tickets at. Some early access sport that has made millionaires and moderately wealthy. Many of them says its way to make a small fortune it's just a little. Yeah exactly employer don't put your the pork out so. That they met that basically drove me back to the cost to get. And I you know I drove the fuel cartridge 33 years and they elicit China may aryan oh. To do that 2000 step right up till well I would say 1995. To 2003 when I'm retired. It was so I would eat only nitro fuel racer can't account or court appeal. I was the only one in this more. Not sponsored. That made a living at. I didn't have a you know what I do you know what a fleet of 747. Or. You know hope Bob big battery charger. Didn't factory. Or you know did. I felt they would they do this it's a tax write off. Oh yeah well I mean you mean you have to be a millionaire to even. Is this hobby. Ly remember when tiger I would look at tour this sport to millions and altering. The ticket take me back out there. I am. Million my eight get me up to starting nine. Today I'm talking about a I'm really great Shrek he can't just via. I am I in the show up top fuel car and that's because Perry has to be race ready which it has to be setup for a popular car. And now you need because they had the TV. Nothing you can see it on you even media types. But now the EU would need eight to ten guy told Tommy. To maintain the car and get it to the starting line between Brown's court they don't dropped a light on you because you're there at fifteen seconds late. Oh yeah well I mean this is so that I mean like when you go to a big race here of course were right in South Carolina so if you went to see Max if you want to drag away. What do these tracks you see like John force and he's got four followers they're lawless act billions of dollars. LSU that's what that's what hurt system I think that hurts to explore much like Jack I have nothing against got a dog eat a good to great guy great driver. All of that. But I each got to depict your daughters out there that I eat hot type it I should open to actually or a Brittany or Courtney are there aren't any why so. Quad shrapnel I could say look get tiring harder eagle. Holiday calendar. Or not we're the Chrysler having I guarantee you she couldn't she could not spelt that out. That's old school round they're there and. He doesn't happen to know that okay cap but they don't really know they just don't know what's happening to. With a car they get cat the basics down that safety candidates pretty good these people that build and maintain the cars that you know they. The war continent and send those girls in the starting line which there really. Really good. They are really good at what they do and I give these not a credit Anthony when they were that. Anyone in particular but the way the sport used to be. A lot about what Tibet's. Stupid and they woke up a really Smart one days deck that component. Are now that they via a little bit longevity and they may live a lot longer than that it. It's too much safer sport. It's so I think to the extent motor sports. Spectator sport various. Much better than you know lobby and he had to beat Mitt didn't putt. That's cart races. I'm pretty excited tool they they went by an inch and a but I've got you know I short track like a Bristol or something like that are. It puts you. Sound like some machines didn't get congress and it does not sit well I'm spoilt. There's nothing other than it sounds better than a nitro car when it and I don't think. Didn't I wholeheartedly agree with you. It's just it's it's just cool wonderful. I could stand there and listen to that all update. And so again like I taught I think I'm spoilt idea. I get a chance to go you. Know. You like. And so now or whatever where you know armed. Apple Belgrade Serb who I was hit Watkins Glen couple years ago they were giving me. I just you know a little sightseeing tour Chris Iannetta. A yacht on assignment too close to the racetrack nothing to do with it but. I think it didn't interest me you know leads to halt look at these comments with your current they're sort of have to. Real okay. He wouldn't eat that I'm yet I'll put up. It's just again. I'm spoiled. Once you get a case stability nitro currents. Eat it eat a rebel. I AM in I have never met. One person in my career dedicated. Surely. School one. WORD. The gallon and loved every minute of the day. Verizon has. No longer. Why. All right everybody welcome back to hot resin that be our. Almonte are out alongside with Robb Pitts and we're talking the surely mall down in Charlotte while others are around here talking. Tom I just want say I'm I'm 27 year old and what an honor it is actually build top tier. I just have one question you know the Bakken and when you got started in drag race and you know you read around men and women were very welcomed in drag racing at that time and you pave the way. Would it make you say hey I want strap myself into one of these cars get on the track. What play you know if we are thrilled that real simple how it happened tonight is. I live downtown night incirlik at street kid didn't. Live did not yield big old tenement apartment house and you don't have a lot of direction my poor mother worked and laundry and my father was doing something. Hike up. But. I started down a little bit. Lack of anything else better to do I hated school what I started diabetic diet may include Jack pulled out. I took a liking to him and he used to give me a ride home from the her cup restaurant I work and I'd rather work in a car hot kitchen of a car copper extraction to go to school I'll pay attention in school. So that's I've met Jack we used to street race and that's how it all began he taught me how to derive. And a year and a half so either got married. I was married and I was sub. On sixteen and a half years old. You're a half later. My son John was born and and we would take our street car. Which is a 68 Chevrolet we would take a street car to car I drove to work and we would take it down to find a New York. And rotted out Wednesday night. On not eight mile. Would take its course but it would stay out to the center. A road that would put Perot on Saturday night for that have been around a stop Paris. She went down to this character in half mile oval that's what I did from 58 to sixty side. It Jack called Downey. Gaffes well did not really our camp it is no such thing that will I can't I he gets welded it maybe a little began strikes stick. And that I got device since Sydney the other rest is history everybody tell us about the flight I had was NH RA and all of that. And V and I wish just see how confident they did warn not gonna hear that. And yeah it how I just stood my ground. How only take Wally parks like stir singing your tune. When he's in house lawyer told him you can't do that. If this discrimination. So let's say he just totally changed the way he was. He's guilty and eat eat and really couldn't he couldn't get away with it because. I was just I was so proud I stood my ground and I stop my feet and I mean I licensed gun not to get I was gonna do anything I could and I want likely. At that same time hobby is going through all that I happen to work for a newspaper. I would say anything you can. To brag about I would reception at a site answered the call and display advertising and app but it I didn't tell wallet parks sat. I told my work for a newspaper. And they've picked up on this you know what sanctioning body. That was discriminating against me and today Italy and would it. If so at HRA gave him. Reinstated license. That they have in their division director at issued to me. And but didn't tell me that I wasn't going to be let into a national event for another three years. What went on between 65 and 68 that another hall story altogether and but I didn't go to the US nationals in 1970 with the dual engine. I tapped NASCAR. To share it won't supercharged injected belonged. Chevrolet. Engine coupled together. B at double trouble with the name of the car and I need what an oil back that they would give you bought and I could not rotting it's hard diatribe on gasoline I could not school east 209 now are that car and it just didn't haven't an. I grabbed a 19897. To put it have much I didn't. I mixed up at the cot and these by 21 hundredths of a second half but Wally parks saw that I could drive. Did I will insist that I mean it sold a lot of tickets. And they are backed up you know he way to kind of bad. And that way it should be getting. A nice relationship and it would be NH RA. I think. We compete now what we did not warrant shouldn't and then to have it gone back and forth over. You hope that it kept the gear ratio go into things like that that day they'd change rules and the minute we are just drive the car stopped. But. I got a lot wit and carried it could see that I was a crowd pleaser. And I always sit. Treated the press. Leave that to respect that they deserved. And IE but Ali see you said that dealing public is very ER television viewing I can't sudden Kerry and chip making sure that they you know they get to see a good show but I. My main concern PayPal would spend the paying public the people that page that communicates. That's what I paid attention to an actor I let's get me Terry I couldn't afford to run for that many hunger. I would not have the road and I match raced and I made it in 91. To 2000 tree show. And I made more money in notion years. Doing invitational. And I made my entire career. Do you remember a drag sure consult your local Spartanburg drag would. I remember of a belief I still have the record explaining ivory and I ran that. First 200 there I think can't but I am got its share of bad day what Spartanburg. That chocolate so narrow. Can't get what we have to start mine at night nine due course you know when you put the power to wish you chief flag to clinch. Issued a comedy. The senator's Spanish. Track which so now. That would we have that oh Iran. My right bank in his left bank clutched. The album body Bennett too who has competition pots. It's against Hillary or joke. He has got a picture of it. But I still have I still have the the record at that track it's still stands. That's funny. We'll certainly is an absolute honor talk in TV crew flew formula GO. Yeah I ask you a little bit about surely she is and what you do with a. The thank you thank you how collaboration I eat a bench racing I felt like I get a late term and more importantly a more important things but I sure these kids. I was unlucky not to get introduced a great group of people down in Houston. And they all know who paid tortilla. Mexican restaurant at the best Mexican food. Are not anywhere. And they wanted to. To start a foundation. They wanted to do something before this the pants and it either of actually exceeded its way. To drag racing. Pocket and op what happened once they eat they formed a 501 C three. Charity. And they named after me helped. How could repeat what I reviewed cop I prayed and I can't give up because most of my all of my charity abolished and you know what they call I can look. That doesn't support leg and I am not giving you any money he would also step up at bucked up. I I took them up I. And we had it last year with the first year if we had a marvelous. This year. And mr. holt stamp hole. Who all received regular restaurants if you charity I'm lucky enough to have my name on it but stamp hole is. The person that deserves all the credit. What are we don't have a better face to have a maturity of them. Thank you so much I think he's just such a generous man. And we do we know we try to keep the CD the end result after the Britney kid and the races. Shot would get that big get. Operation supplements starry night observed that guy driver introductions before a first round should be in the age of the kids get to meet led the hot setup drivers. And then at the end of the introductions we bring up onstage and reintroduce into the crowd and I. To a little kid she and I talked. Lo and behold. And we turn around and can't hold key enhancement cheque for 5000 dollars. So that's what that's what's so we can we're able to do this way to help from. Some of the sponsors. Are Idonije got a motive they've they've helped. I mean. Crisis helped us a little bit of ash and in Texas this guy Shell Oil helped us how there's quite a few people that have dropped. And as would ID can up their cars. How hollow and I can't allow let's take me I guess I could chase have known about it I get a little tired of that. But John force he's and the trade delicate. He you date they have they run handicap. And Erica Anderson she runs Peggy came out. So a lot you know way that you know we're cool we're where we are just start this will be our second tier. And we have a little hope little. Like coming to Charlotte that's been my first outing. At this even trains he had this little voice coming all the way from Detroit down here has no idea. What's in store for which he has cystic fibrosis at night. I'm pretty sure that he's. He's kinda limited. So we have to deal with that and it's it you know it hurts. What you don't go well. Who want to help a sick kids that you know soul I committed to it's it's good to come to note that the drag. Sea life. At the IEA IE urged anybody that and Katrina lied drag race to get to do yourself a favor. I can't genetic Terry national band and then you can see each what happens with cherished kids. And it's not if he can do that that you could go and on the Internet to Shirley kids dot org. And you can read up on it and people you know the good that we did diversity and I holt did last year and now we're we're going to share. So it's I'm I'm pretty excited it gives me a chance to get something back. It could be you know to be I get part of the sport. And do some good and you know. It is the only thing I know that's the only thing I've ever done my entire life this amateur racer. And you made a good lie and doing it. I love it it's it's everything in the world to me. Gregory I think. We'll surely is an absolute apps under a commute I hope you have a very happy Valentine's Day and thank you so much from in partnership. Walt thank you very very much about ten staying at favorite day of my I married about dining steak. I'm bound and say yeah yeah yeah. Well I'll say this about those days if you ever date you know my number. Well I'll OK well I'll do what you can do for me dal or group for that. Mack truck car yeah. Because she didn't apples are so I have not to be at least that drivers not guilty by association I unite like Ron Capps. But this crew chief do not root for that car if you wanna do me a stay. And you make that promise not to squeeze. Hey guys use it's you gentlemen may I I will expand upon thank you so much do you look what I. All right guys thank you for listen hunter wasn't happy hour on Valentine's they say good Valentine's Day edition will miss Shirley modem do those opinion he was more us. All right guys like to see you smile. 16 through WORD. 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Late Sunday--sunset.
Ha Ha Ha! Boy did I fuck up! I'm just past the Stueben-Millbridge line. I completely forgot how far East I am. A look at the map reminds me I'm only forty miles from New Brunswick! I'm at least six hours drive from Portland! Oh well. Dum de dum dum.
When I get back, I'll have to calculate the total distance I walked. It could've been sixty miles.
So far.
9/30 Westfield Hotel, Portland (fleabag).
10/1 Crocker House, Hancock Point.
10/2 Schoodic Bog.
10/3 Barrens I, Cherryfield.
10/4,5 Barrens II, Cherryfield.
10/6 Route 1 pond overlook, Steuben.
So now I'm back to everyday life wearing clothing and using abstractions like time instead of watching the sun. I'm back on paved and numbered roads.
It's a days hitch to Portland. At least, now, I'm at a jump off consisting of a five or ten yard walk to the highway at dawn. Hopefully, someone with business in Portland will get me there in one ride. Whatever. I'll be back tomorrow. Still on map 25. Over and out.
Monday: Yay. I'm at the bus stop, waiting on a 4:00 southbound. As far as I'm concerned, I'm ahead at this point, Steuben to Portland in about six hours, give or take a few minutes.
Ms Sparrow, of Lubec enroute to Bangor, led the charitable with a stated fondness for folkies and other coffee house strummers. Jim Lynch, Hood Sails rep enroute to Thomaston, pointed out his favorite features of Penobscot Bay. Donny Houchin, Cherokee folk singer with war wounds from Khe San, got me to Damariscotta.
The leg from Damariscotta to Wiscassett was covered by a huge comical ironworker headed to Augusta for a vote on a weak contract with Bath Iron Works. "If it's a tie vote and it's up to me, we ain't workin' tomorrow".
A small business consultant who enjoyed classical music got me to Bath. A silent fellow got me to Falmouth and a coupla' cokehead hot shits brought me to the Congress St. exit ramp.
Jim Lynch makes a good living from little boats; yachts and such always need sails. He's built a few of his own and was building a house. He told me a lot about emerging entertainment needs as more people who don't need to be near a city move to Bar Harbor and environs. They want to return to land less stifled by encroaching mechanism choke. He mentioned an auditorium and an imaginative jazz club in Bangor.
I was invited to visit several homes, Charlie Hutchins place in Cherryfield, Jim's at Bluefields and Donny's place in Damariscotta.
Donny needs a hand. He wants to die cause his back is a wreck thanks to a combat stint in Vietnam with the Marine Corps. His mother was one of the remnant Cherokees missed by Jackson's agents during the death march called the Trail of Tears. They lived in their cove cabin home over the years to watch their ancestors grave land drown beneath rising waters from Howard Baker's pork tub Tellico Dam. She died cursing the Euroids and I say, "Good for her!"
He wanted to die. Three discs removed and now they want to take out another. With inspired stinginess, the service only allows him partial disability status even though he can't lift more than twenty pounds. Before the war, he could make a forty-yard dash in 4.7 seconds. He even tried out for the Redskins.
He's played guitar for 21 years but now he can't stand to sing or play. His life's flame is at a low glow. I tried to encourage him to fight the Beast. Why make it easier for them by dying? I urged him to sue the Corps for full disability.
What the fuck! I know useless slobs who have chiseled five to six figure insurance fraud incomes over far more dubious mishaps. I told him about Harvard's Native American Law Project and about the encouraging number of humane Vietnam Era veterans now entering Congress.
I offered to introduce him to Gordon and Rounder in order to provide more reasons. I suggested he look up the history of the Five Civilized Nations. His response brought the house down. "I tried but it's so sad while the history of the invaders is so bright and upbeat, I couldn't stand to read anymore".
Oh well. I told him how the five nations and the northern nations refrained from significant warfare with the Continentals while the issue was in doubt. This was one of General Washington's main fears. I told him about the Mohawk Longhouse Council and how it gave Benjamin Franklin useful ideas for framing the Constitution.
This seemed to encourage him. I can hope so anyway. He gave me a feather work as an honor token and resolved to spend the day looking for turquoise to work for its healing properties. I told him about Nyah Nyah finding more reasons to write it. It'll be a fat heap of bile and spleen to climb by the time I begin, maybe in the coming year.
The steelworker and the consultant both had stories about shipbuilding.
The steelworker complained about management's attempt to introduce a two-tier wage system, reduce health coverage and cut wages by ten percent. The first two items were the worst. Tiered wages erode a union's unity and insurance coverage is vital in a calling as hazard prone as shipbuilding.
The consultant told me most federal contracts at Bath are now met on time and at cost as a result of accounting and award procedure improvements such as commissioning several ships at once, instead of one. He thought Bath was weakest at landing commercial design and building contracts.
The average commercial contract is for three ships a year and Bath is lucky to finish 2.7. This is exacerbated by fairly primitive drafting requirements. They rarely use more than six blueprints and about a three inch keel thickness overall, (that's commercial, not federal). Pretty amazing when you consider the truckload of blueprints it takes to specify an F-16.
The consultant also cared about music and had an avid interest in my description of funding programs in Massachusetts like "New Works" and "Heritage". The components for a vivacious life are certainly there.
Maine will always be one of my favorite places. If I don't abandon America, I'll try to be a geezer in a small house on some Downeast neck near the Heath. That will cover my need for contact with the world beyond shopping malls. There, "outside" is a term endowed with meaning. Even the cities are a break from stupid Boston and drab New York. People are kinder, more distinct and tend to be more in tune with the essentials.
I'd also rather wander here than merely visit another country. It's as foreign as I need a place to be without the nuisance of a passport. It's as close as New England gets to frontier with a visible, if low profile, Native American population.
And, of the outdoors... everyone should try just once to forget Time and live by sun cycles. Walk naked in thick bog underbrush for a while and you'll understand why animals are 'graceful'. One needs grace to move easily through thickets without getting scratched and cut. Clothes were on of our earliest abstractions to numb our touch of the actual world. Knowledge of woodcraft sharpens perception, especially senses of sound and smell, which become guides instead of mere entertainers.


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'Cliff's Hanger' is a beautiful, log cabin home located 4000' high in the Great Smoky Mountains near Cashiers, North Carolina. Three miles from Lake Glenville and Trillium Golf Course, this luxurious home is in a private community convenient to Nantahala National Forest, waterfalls, hiking and horseback riding, or shopping in nearby Highlands or Cashiers, NC. Other nearby attractions: Tubing down the Tuckaseegee River, visiting Cherokee Indian Reservation; outdoor play 'Unto These Hills' ; Harrah's Casino; riding the Smokey Mountain Expressway, a visit to the Biltmore Estate; Boat on Lake Glenville 10 minutes away.. In the winter we are 45 minute drive from Cataloochee Ski Resort.
Amenities: Fully equipped kitchen including dishwasher, microwave, toaster, coffee maker, refrigerator icemaker and all dishes, pots, pans and utensils, 1satellite TV with VCRs, ceiling fans, telephones, washer/dryer, gas grill, stone gas fireplace, large porch with swing and rockers. queen beds in bedrooms, Plenty of quilts and blankets for those wonderful cool nights!!
Activities: The cabin is located 3 miles from Lake Glenville and is close to Trillium golf course, Tuckaseegee River, a local 'Swimming Hole' off Hwy 64, Cherokee and all its attractions and shopping in Sylva, Highlands or Cashiers!
It is close to horseback riding, shopping (especially if you like antiques and crafts), white water rafting, tubing down the Tuckaseegee River.


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Brief History of the SSU Research and Extension Office:
The Research and Development Office was established in 1982 during the conversion of the school into state college. It was then headed by Dr. Pedro D. Destura, followed by Prof. Alejandro Cananua, Dr. Tersito Aliposa, Dr. Cosette Oliva, Dr. Marilyn D. Cardoso, Dr. Felisa E. Gomba and recently by Dr. Ronald L. Orale. On the other hand, the Extension Services was established in 1987 and was headed by Dr. Rizalina M. Urbiztondo. After the appointment of Dr. urbiztondo as Dean of Graduate Studies, the Extension services was headed by Mr. Benito A. Gabiana, which was followed by Dr. Manuel Llego. From 1982 to 1999, the research and development services focused on R&D capability building, while the extension services focused on skills training and capability building in the serviced area of SSPC.
Shortly after the institution was converted from SSPC into SSU, the Office of the Vice-President for Planning, Research and Extension was established in January 2005. Dr. Felisa E. Gomba was designated as the first Vice-President for Planning, Research and Extension (VP-PRE). When the third SSU president was elected, a new set of officials were installed and Dr. Ronald L. Orale was appointed as the VP for PRE and the former was appointed as the new VP of Academic Affairs.
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UPDATE: Nominations for the Top 100 Language Lovers competition are closed!
After the great success of the last five editions of our Top 100 Language Blogs competition (results for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012), the bab.la language portal and the Lexiophiles language blog are announcing the start of this year's contest with the passion for languages being the protagonist: the Top 100 Language Lovers 2013 competition.
As always, we need your help to find the best of the best for the following categories:
1. Language Learning Blogs: blogs about the language learning process, both from the learners and teachers perspective.
2. Language Professionals Blogs: blogs by people using languages in their profession, such as translators or interpreters.
3. Language Facebook Pages: Facebook Pages related to language topics, such as dictionaries, translation tools, language lovers' communities and more.
4. Language Twitter accounts: Twitterers who share content about languages.
The nominations for the Top 100 Language Lovers 2013 competition are open until May 20th, 23:59 pm German time. Nominate your favorite blogs, Facebook Pages and Twitter accounts by filling out our nomination form here:
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There are no strict boundaries for your nominations: as long as passion for languages is involved, the blog, Facebook page or Twitter account you have in mind fits into our competition! Just to give you an idea, main topics may include tips on how to learn a language, language teaching, commenting on translations, strategies for interpreters, etc.
Hurry up, the deadline to nominate your favorites is Monday, May 20th! After the nomination phase you will be able to give your vote to the most promising participants of each category. The final ranking will be based half on your votes and half on our internal ranking. Results will be made public on June 12th. If you need more information about the ranking criteria and the competition in general you can find it in the article about how the competition works. If you have any further questions, just ask Emilie: emilie (at) bab (dot) la.
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It's easy to think of North Korea as nothing more than a joke, but I remember how the world laughed about Idi Amin and his claims to be the Last King of Scotland, and then, the world found out that the Ugandan dictator was responsible for the deaths of up to half a million of his own people. Kim Jong-un, the current supreme leader of North Korea, cuts a similarly comical figure, with his odd haircut and wild rhetoric about the evils of the West.
This comical leader, though, heads up the third largest army in the world and, quite probably, will soon have access to viable nuclear weapons. So, while we wait with bated breath to see if the latest spat between North Korea and South Korea develops into something more serious, here are ten, almost unbelievable, facts about North Korea.
1. The North Korean government dictate their citizen's hairstyles
Perhaps one of the weirdest facts about North Korea is that the government of North Korea control pretty much every aspect of a North Korean's life and that even goes as far as to what hairstyles the people are allowed to have. Apparently, there is an official list of permissible hairstyles; the men can choose from ten possible cuts, and the women have a choice of eighteen styles to select from.
Ryugyong Hotel – Still Empty
Source: By Joseph Ferris III, via Wikimedia Commons
2. North Korea has the tallest empty hotel in the world
Up until 2009, the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea was the tallest hotel in the world, but, it has never had any guests. The hotel is 1080 feet high, has 105 floors and has over 7000 guest rooms. The only problem is that the interior of the hotel has never been completed and not one single guest has ever stayed there.
3. Marijuana is legal in North Korea
Even though everything else is strictly controlled by the government of North Korea, smoking weed is not only legal, it's socially acceptable. They have very strict control over hard drugs, including the death penalty, but marijuana is freely available and smoked openly in public.
4. They have a different calendar in North Korea
Whilst they are still following the Gregorian calendar for their months, in 1997, the North Korean government changed their counting of their years to what is known as the Juche calendar, which is based on the number of years since the birth of Kim Il-sung in 1912. So, in 2016, North Korea is in the year 105.
Arirang Mass Games 2012 - 1st of May Stadium
Source: By Nicor (Own work), via Wikimedia Commons
5. North Korea has the largest stadium in the world
North Korea may not be the biggest player in the world of international sport, but they do have the biggest stadium in the world. The Rungrado 1st of May Stadium, which seats 150,000 people, is used mainly for football matches and the occasional athletics event. It is also home to the Arirang Festival, which is a massive a gymnastics and artistic festival that is held every year.
6. North Korea is not a communist country
It's a fact about North Korea they so like to go it alone and they have even abandoned any official recognition that their country is a communist state. The government removed all references to communist ideology in their constitution in 2009 replacing it with "Juche", which is the ideology that was created by Kim Il-sung that states that the "Korean masses are the masters of their country".
7. Wearing blue jeans is a crime in North Korea
One of the stranger facts about North Korea and its hatred of all things American is that it is actually a crime to be seen wearing blue Jeans in the country because they are seen as being a symbol of US imperialism.
Kim Jong-il - Never needed a toilet
Source: By babeltravel (Flickr: Kim Jong-il, Pyongyang),
via Wikimedia Commons
8. Kim Jong-Il didn't use a toilet
Kim Jong-Il, the father of the current supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, didn't need to use a toilet because he never defecated, at least, that was according to his official biography. Mind you, he also claimed to have invented the hamburger, was born under a double rainbow, and he could control the weather. He also once kidnapped South Korea's most famous actress and her husband and put them to work remaking the movie "Godzilla".
9. In North Korea, you are a tomato, an apple, or a grape!
The citizens of North Korea are given a status, which determines the types of jobs they are allocated and even the amount of food they are allowed. The system, which is called Songbun, allocates people to one of about fifty subcategories, within three major categories, based upon their political and social background. This fact about North Korea means that every citizen is put into one of three main categories of classification, and described as "Tomatoes", being a 100% regime people who are red the core, "Apples", being people who are red on the outside only and need a bit more ideological improvement, or "Grapes", who are people who are considered to be hostile to the regime.
North Korean teachers –Accordion playing was compulsory
10. In the 1990s, all North Korean teachers had to learn the accordion
To finish on a really odd fact about North Korea, during the 1990s, all teachers had to learn how to play the accordion. The accordion was seen as an instrument of the people and, one of the songs that the teachers had to sing their pupils was called "We Have Nothing to Envy in the World". Sadly, they probably don't envy the rest of the world because they never get to see it. The internet is strictly controlled by that state, as is the TV and all other media.
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Saturday, 11 July 2009
15 comments:
- Vicki W said...
Great new presents and what a deal on those bookshelves!
- 11 July 2009 at 12:14
- Teresa said...
I am so happy you like the gift and hope you will enjoy the scissors for many years to come. The bookshelves look great and what nice exchange for the delivery of them. Your hexagons look so neat and precise - good job. And I must admit, that's a cute fellow under that cap!
- 11 July 2009 at 14:19
- loulee said...
Good luck with that! I recently managed to make a hole in my stash, so maybe you will too.
- 11 July 2009 at 14:46
- Mrs Quilty said...
I really like your organization. Looks great! And interesting! I love the hexagons! Want to try that sometime! My stash is definitely out of control!!
- 11 July 2009 at 16:19
- Sheila said...
What great gifts you received and those bookshelves are perfect. I love to see how people have organised their stitching areas or rooms :)
- 12 July 2009 at 01:27
- *karendianne. said...
I've come to the conclusion Blogreading is harmful to my pocketbook. I can see how a couple good bookcases would do LeeHaven much good.
Gosh isn't a certain young man growing up and so very handsome, too. I luv those hexagons. That's definitely inspiring. Distracting. I must not look.
By the way, I enjoyed reading how the help for the bookcases all came together!
- 12 July 2009 at 03:51
- ~Bren~ said...
Biased or not, that is one handsome kid!
Love the shelves...organized is good! The owl border fabric on your star quilt is wonderful. I love it!!!
- 12 July 2009 at 05:31
- Guðrún said...
The cap is great and your boy is soooo handsome. Everything is so organized in the shelves and beautifully displayed.
- 12 July 2009 at 05:34
- Barbara said...
Cute young man, nice smile, tell him the hat looks great on him.
NOW down to business, grin, could you show a photo of the complete pattern on that hexagon block? I have been wanting to make one, and I like yours.
- 12 July 2009 at 07:59
- meggie said...
Great bookcases. Great new project.
BUT best of all -how handsome is your son!!?? Gorgeous!
- 13 July 2009 at 01:33
- Floss said...
Great shelf, storage ca make all the difference, and I sure the neighbors enjoyed their meal with out the little one.
- 13 July 2009 at 16:08
- Doina said...
I like the things you have made and show on your blog!
- 16 July 2009 at 14:18
- sewkalico said...
So pleased the hat has found a home on that cute head!!!
I am envious of your shelves - oh to be organised *sigh*
I hate reading your blog LOL, I fancy those mini hex's myself :-)
- 18 July 2009 at 00:29
- Sarah said...
What a good-looking young man you have Andrea! And that cap looks great 8)
x Sarah
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Much of Smith's work has since been trying to figure out both why and how the lamprey seems to make about 20% of its genome disappear during the development of all but its gametes.