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Local Capital Summit
As banks fail and lending tightens, there is actually less money in circulation. This is not just an issue of consumer confidence; people can't spend money that they don't have. At the same time, we taxpayers are writing trillion dollar checks to huge corporations and irresponsible banks.
While massive corporate profits left our towns and fell into the hands of a few, small businesses have created 80% of the new jobs in the past 10 years. These businesses, which give our communities their unique character, are hit the hardest. We are seeing too many close their doors.
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Just the other week I received a shock as a parent that I should have known was coming. My 5-year old daughter, who started school this year, came home distraught. She's normally quite chipper, so I asked her what was wrong. "Johnny said I have a square head," she replied. Now while it is a universal truth that kids are mean to one another, for some reason I never expected them to be mean to my child. Never mind that the insult was inherently ridiculous; it was hurtful to my innocent little girl who has no idea there are far worse things to be called in this world. I spent the next 5 minutes trying to convince her that her head was actually shaped like a peach and not a nasty square.
The story above illustrates why I love the VeggieTales folks. As a young parent with kids who consume way more television I should probably let them consume, it's really nice to have programming that actually teaches them good lessons. A lot of shows pretend to do this, but few really do. There have been a number of times when I've had serious conversations with my daughter, and in order to get a difficult point across, I inevitably end up saying, "Remember in that VeggieTales episode when…." Sure, television (even really GOOD television) is no substitute for good ole' fashioned parenting. But it can help at times.
The new VeggieTales flick, "Robin Good and His Not-So-Merry Men," would have been helpful in my your-head-isn't-square-shaped conversation with my daughter. It deals with hurt and betrayal and forgiveness, as Robin Good's friends turn their back on him (they're 'not-so-merry,' after all). The show tries to teach kids how to forgive others, even when they don't deserve it. That's a hard enough lesson for me to learn myself, let alone teach my child.
Check out the trailer below for a sneak peek of the new episode! If you'll excuse me, I have to go console my little girl; her friends have moved up from square-based insults to trapezoid-based ones.


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Today was pretty discouraging. We got up early to take Emmanuel to the lawyer's. He is missing his son Precious, from whom he has been separated for the last two years. In order to get Precious here from Nigeria, he must have asylum in Italy and a valid permesso di soggiorno. He is not there yet. I love the lawyer from Caritas. She is from the south of Italy and she adopted her son. I believe he was born in Vietnam or Cambodia. She truly cares about people, but when she is at work she is hard as nails, so sometimes I can't read her. Today, after we found out that they are relocating the immigration part of the police station in Pistoia, and that Emmanuel's case is too complicated for the simple renewal procedures where you fill out a kit, and that we have to wait until next week to ask for an appointment at the new location; I decided to use the rest of the allotted time asking the lawyer questions about what she thought of the way Emmanuel and his family have to survive here. I asked her what she thought when we first presented our group to her last year and why she thought this group of immigrants is forced to live as outlaws because they had the misfortune to arrive before the advent of SPRAR which is the normal network for processing refugee arrivals in Italy. She had no idea or recollection of the situation; and, what was more dismaying, she didn't see any legal issues with what is going on. She classified it as a political problem, and she qualified it by saying that she has seen much worse.
I sent letters to various refugee organizations throughout Italy and I am awaiting replies. Those that I have received so far either say that they only help refugees in their provinces, or list other organizations that I can try.
On the way home, Jennifer called me to ask me to pay for her son's medicine. I had to pass someone begging who lives in Tina and Job's house when I passed by the bakery, and he just shook his head at me. Then he said that he didn't have words for the messed up situation they have at the house. I wanted to say that I was also afraid. The other day I got a letter in the mail from the Court of Appeals in Florence and I didn't know whether to think that the owners of his house were trying to frame me for the fact they haven't paid their rent in eleven months or if it was an official statement saying that they planned to deport Emmanuel for having lost his case. I called the lawyer tearful and too afraid to open the envelope. It turned out to be a letter saying that I have to testify before a judge because that fancy gym that I used to work at has some tax problems and they are calling me in for questioning about their practices, not mine. I hope. I told the lawyer when I called that she had to promise me she would not let me become the next Amanda Knox.
Tina's sister called me to say that her father's "body is alive" thanks to me. So that is some money that went to good use, anyway.
At Christmas, I am going to make what some would say was a huge error in social working, but I invited Tina, Job, Emmanuel, and Peace over to watch Queen of Katwe and have some peanut soup and spicy rice at my house.
Peace expressed what I feel today perfectly:
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Kasia's White & Bright Home in Brooklyn
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- Brooklyn, NY
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- What I Love About My Small Home:
- The light in our apartment is spectacular, bright for the majority of the day and warm. The sunlight allows us to keep our walls white without it feeling cold, a great backdrop for art and photography. Pops of color and pattern in objects, art and linens bring character and warmth to the apartment. The ceilings are high and it is quite open so it feels fluid and spacious. We really like the original doors, sinks and bath and have stripped them down or left them unfinished intentionally, exposing natural details and imperfections. Under 10 layers of linoleum we discovered these beautiful natural wood floors, after re-finishing, they soon became one of our favorite features.
- Three of My Best Tips and Tricks for Creating a Successful Small Space::
- Avoid clutter and only keep things you really like.
Great lighting is really important. White or light colored walls bounce natural light and open up the space during the day. Art adds color and can be used to divide or section off a large wall. In the evening I avoid overhead lighting and use lamps to create a more intimate feeling. As a lamp designer I think lamps are also interesting objects that can add color, texture and pattern to any space.
In the kitchen use a small fridge under the counter, it makes a big difference.


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Our dear friend and customer, Georgia Cloutier
passed yesterday, September 28th.
Several of us were able to visit her last Sunday
and her sweet smile still lit up the room.
Georgia loved Cynthia Ashby, the designer from Chicago.
Every time a shipment would arrive, Georgia would arrive
shortly after, visiting both stores.
We loved Georgia's sweetness, generosity, graciousness
and the elegance with which her style came through.
She was beautiful inside and out.
Georgia loved flowers, music, chocolate,
Cynthia Ashby and a party...we're having one.
In honor of our good friend,
Possibilities, in conjunction with Cynthia Ashby,
is offering 20% off all Cynthia Ashby in stock
now though Sunday, October 4th.
And, we will be raffling off a Cynthia piece.
The donation is $1.00.
Wear your Cynthia in good spirit this week,
remembering Georgia. May it bring you joy.
Possibilities will be donating a portion of our
sales on Saturday, October 3rd to
"Making Strides Against Breast Cancer".
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It's on the Map – But Does it Exist? - 26/11/2012
In a reversal of the centuries-old tradition of explorers undertaking ocean voyages of discovery with the hope of finding new land, a scientific party from the University of Sydney, Australia, has done the complete opposite. They have solved a mystery regarding the existence of a supposed island in the Southwest Pacific. The Australian Hydrographic Service has added a further explanation of the phenomenon.
The detective work took place on the RV Southern Surveyor, Australia's Marine National Facility research vessel, during a research voyage aimed at understanding the tectonic evolution of the eastern Coral Sea.
Chief scientist Dr Maria Seton from the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney said the team became suspicious when the navigation charts used by the ship showed a depth of 1,400 metres in an area where scientific maps and Google Earth (image) showed the existence of a large island.
The maps that the scientists were using are based on a combination of the CIA World Data Bank and the World Vector Shoreline Database. Even Google Earth shows a black blob in the area of the mythical island. The rogue island has regularly appeared in scientific publications since at least the year 2000.
The team found that the navigational charts were accurate and there was no island in the area, so global maps including Google Earth need to be corrected. Dr Steven Micklethwaite from the University of Western Australia said to have started compiling information about the seafloor, which will be sent to the relevant authorities so that we can change the world map.
As well as mythbusting the existence of islands, the team have been collecting submarine data and rock samples from a little-explored part of the eastern Coral Sea. After 25 days at sea, they have collected 197 different rock samples, collected over 6,800 kilometres of marine geophysical data and mapped over 14,000 square kilometres of the ocean floor.
They uncovered rocks which were formed around 100 million years ago as Australia, Antarctica and New Zealand broke apart, as well as extensive limestone samples at 3,000 metres below the waves, revealing a massive drowning of the region over time.
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AHS Chart of the Region AUS04602.
The AHS has an explanation for the rather old phenomenon. The 'phantom' island was reported to the officers of HMS Barracouta as an unconfirmed sighting of 'a line of sandy islands' by the Master of the whaling ship Velocity in 1876. It was shown on charts with the legend 'reported 1876' beside the feature, the inference being that it may not exist. The report included an approximate extent for the line but no shape or size of individual features, though by 1888 it was charted as a single unconfirmed shoal with a similar extent to the modern World Vector Shoreline and subsequent Google Maps version. The reported position is also likely to have been highly approximate by modern standards as a result of the navigation systems in use at the time it was reported. As an example of a similar feature, the current edition of INT602 produced by the Australian Hydrographic Service (AHS) shows another doubtful shoal further east with 'ED' beside it – by modern international convention this stands for 'existence doubtful' (see bigger version of the chart at the left, right of the red circle).
The phantom island recently 'undiscovered' was removed from the Australian produced International charts on 22 March 1985 following a deliberate and controlled search by the AHS. This search specifically proved it did not exist, along with other similar features elsewhere in the region, and was undertaken as part of a larger survey elsewhere in the South Pacific. This information was promulgated to both mariners and all other national hydrographic organisations reproducing INT 602 via Notice to Mariners 161 of 1985.
The 1985 survey found evidence of a submarine volcano at a depth of around 1,500 metres and noted areas of floating pumice. Based upon this, it is now strongly suspected it may have been an area of floating pumice which was sighted in 1876, though the extent of individual patches was probably much smaller than the Google Earth image infers, and would have been quite temporal, lasting no more than a few months at most. Cruising sailors have photographed similar features elsewhere in the South Pacific – the effect looks very convincing.
While it was removed from US charts several decades ago, the AHS is aware that the US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) had reason as recently as two years ago to advise Google when they went live with their oceans dataset that the island as shown in their data was erroneous. The image on Google Earth has been clearly altered, by either accident or design, but bears none of the characteristics of any other reef, shoal or island that can be seen nearby. While many aspects of Google Earth are most impressive, by trying to provide a global view, they (and similar organisations providing global datasets) appear to have a limited capability to note conflicts between datasets that are only apparent at a detailed level. In this instance, even without relying on the advice from NGA, the mismatch between their 'surface' map showing the island and the 'seabed' imagery around it should have been sufficient to flag doubt and prompt a search of more authoritative and up to date sources
The AHS, in conjunction with GeoscienceAustralia, publishes the national gridded bathymetric dataset. The AHS holds original data or authorised copies of surveys upon which it is based. Data which has passed through the AHS has all been verified by qualified hydrographic surveyors, though not all data held by GA has had the same rigour applied. While the AHS has six survey ships and one aircraft collecting bathymetric data in support of charting, it also receives a vast amount of information from research cruises such as has sparked this recent media interest. These all undergo a quality assurance process before being added to the national hydrographic database, with a subset of this dataset being used for nautical charting. Dr Maria Seton, who headed the scientific cruise, will be rendering a copy of the data to the AHS in early 2013. Once the dataset has undergone an assessment process it will be added to the national hydrographic database and used to update affected nautical charts in the Coral Sea.Last updated: 25/05/2019


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When our bathroom installation team install new ceiling panels, they will usually need to install a wooden frame first, in order to support the new panels. Although this frame reduces the overall room height by around 85mm, it also provides a cavity in which to hide the electrical cable for the downlights.
These types of bathroom ceiling panels have become extremely popular recently and a comprehensive range of colours and textures are currently available to compliment most tiled walls. Presently you can chose from 11 different colours including Pastel Grey, White Sparkle High Gloss and even Red for the more adventurous individual and once installed you never need to paint your bathroom ceiling again.


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Nike's self-lacing Air Mags may be the world's most coveted sneakers. Extra Mustard hit the streets of New York to find a pair.
If you used the internet or watched television at any point on Wednesday then you are likely aware that it was finally Back to the Future Day, the day in which Doc Brown and Marty McFly landed in the second installment of the Back to the Future series.
While for many it was a day to make jokes about the Cubs World Series chances and hoverboards, for sneakerheads it held a greater importance: The arrival of the self-lacing Air Mags.
Michael J. Fox slapped on a pair of auto-lacing future Nikes in the film, and shoe fanatics have long awaited on Nike to deliver the real deal. On Wednesday morning the shoe behemoth announced it would.
.@realmikefox see you tomorrow.— Nike (@Nike) October 21, 2015
The first pair of self-lacing Nike Mag shoes is in New York City.— Heidi Burgett (@heidiburgett) October 21, 2015
The info sent the sneaker collecting world into a panic, and sent me to the streets of New York to search out the coveted kicks.
The logical first stop was the Nike Store, where I immediately encountered some BTTF2-level advertising, which was encouraging.
The store had shoes everywhere, but each pair required you to tie the laces yourself, like some kind of non-future chump, and no one I talked to in the store seemed to have any info if the Air Mags would be showing up.
Unlike BTTF2's villain Biff Tannen, the real 2015 doesn't have a casino-owning megalomaniac putting his name all over everything.
Undaunted, I moved my quest on to greener pastures, deciding that the only place to safely land a nuclear-powered DeLorean was probably Central Park. Once I got there I realized wandering around a park for several hours was probably not going to net me any leads. I did see one guy with a dope pair of shoes though.
As I left I met Emile, a 65-year-old whose trade is selling carrots and flags near Central Park. He did not have any info on the Air Mags but he was pretty proud of his new pair of shoes, which he insisted I get in the picture after I carried several bags of carrots up some stairs for him.
My next stop was the Nike Lab 21 Mercer store. If Nike wants to release something awesome, the Lab stores are where they do it, so it was as good a lead as any. I arrived and found some people loitering outside in cool sneakers. Always a good sign.
Inside was the standard array of limited-release Nikes. Cool stuff, and some of it very futuristic, but no sign of the Air Mag. One staffer said the shop had been getting a lot of calls about the shoes, but added that they are pretty much always getting a lot of calls about shoes.
Outside I talked with some of the hopeful future Air Mag owners, (from left)Jason, L and Aaron, who said they were willing to wait outside as long as it took to get the shoes. Aaron swore that not only would he never sell the Mags if he got a pair, but also he would disown any of his future children if they ever tried to cash in on them.
Sometimes when people can't find something they are told to look in the last place they would expect, which is how I wandered into Shoeco.
In Shoeco I met Jimmy, who explained that they only carried women's shoes and no Nike products, so I decided to show him the Air Mags to see what he thought. His professional opinion was this: "Those are ugly. I would not wear those." Jimmy declined to be photographed, but did say he enjoyed Back to the Future II.
This is the part of the story where I get insanely lucky. I began wandering, looking for places Nike may be hiding the Air Mags, when I stumbled across a sneaker resale store I had never seen before, called Stadium Goods. I quickly learned that the reason I had never heard of it was that it opened last week, but they had Air Mags.
Now these are the 2011 Air Mags, which light up like in the movie but do not have power laces like the new model. It is still as close as I was going to get.
Store co-owner Andrew said the price on the Air Mags was $9,000, although he expected it to go down when the power-lacing version hits the market. Andrew was kind enough to let me hold and take pictures with the shoes and to let me gawk at the rest of the store's collection of highly covetable footwear.
I still wanted a look at the real deal, so I hit the pavement and headed back uptown. On my way I was reminded that even though BTTF did not perfectly predict 2015, it did accurately guess it would be weird as hell.
I stopped in pretty much every footwear chain I passed but was growing less hopeful with each passing Foot Locker and Michael K.
At the House of Hoops store near Madison Square Garden, I happened across a knowledgeable pair in Brittanie and Anton. Brittanie told me the store had gotten lots of calls that day, and though she knew nothing about the shoes' location, she heard a constant refrain of "I know you know" from those on the other end.
The letter I received from Tinker today. Thanks @Nike pic.twitter.com/UIolXrkUVC— Michael J. Fox (@realmikefox) October 21, 2015
Anton was the first person to show me the new ad that Nike planned to release the show via auction, as announced in a letter sent from from Nike designer Tinker Hatfield to Michael J. Fox. Anton was still dedicated to grabbing a pair, and told me he had already set $5,000 aside to bid on a set, and hopes to have around $8,000 on hand when the bidding starts in spring 2016.
I decided to head to Times Square in a last ditch effort, hoping that the mecca of marketing stunts had something planned for the big day. All I found was a Back to The Future-themed Toyota display. Because a pick-up truck is definitely the car we all associate with the BTTF franchise.
Eventually the world did get a look at the shoes, both in a short Twitter video of Fox lacing them up, and later when he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live in Brooklyn. I tried to get tickets but it was sold out, which makes sense, as everyone had 26 years to plan ahead.
While my Back to the Future Day was not a success, I did get an up close look at some Air Mags. Now all I need is get my hands on the shoes is several thousand dollars, or a flux capacitor.


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Credit Karma acquires mortgage platform Approved
Credit Karma, the service best known for providing free credit score monitoring and other financial advice (mostly to millennials), is getting into the mortgage business. The company today announced that it has acquired Approved, a mortgage platform that brings modern technology to a process that even today often still involves faxing documents back and forth. The companies did not disclose the financial details of the transaction. At first glance, this may seem like a bit of an odd acquisition, given that Approved is mostly a service for banks […]Read more


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Traditional old houses for renovation in Crete (09.05.2016)
If you have found a charming old Cretan house and you wish to renovate it you need to know the following:
1) You need to define what you want. Before you buy an old house to renovate you need to know if what you have in your mind can be done. This sometimes it is not possible as there are many structural manners but also many laws that protect the architecture of the old villages or towns.
2) You need to be flexible with the time schedule of the renovation. It is logical to expect our house to be ready a specific period in order to plan our moving, electric appliances furniture etc. This it is not so easy in an old house that needs renovation. There are many construction delays that you will face during the renovation and that cannot be known before.
3) Plan to spend more than you thought. On an average people spend 20% more on their renovation than originally planned. Of course you can have a building contract that will describe a fixed cost for the work but this sometimes cannot be followed when you face a new feature in the house that you have to deal with it.
4) Check about your contractor's references when hiring someone you don't know. Most of us find contractors through recommendations. A good contractor pays attention to details, such as placing drop cloths and cleaning the site each day, is courteous of your time, follows up with your questions and bills on a regular basis.
5) Be open to new ideas and changes from the original plan. You may think everything is well thought out and planned but inevitably, changes will need to be made. A good contractor will offer solutions to small problems and use his experience from past jobs to recommend what works best. Stone built construction a unique method of building in Crete. This type of constructions takes you back to the Cretan origin of architecture and building. Stone built houses have a special atmosphere, with arches, fireplaces, wooden beams and they always adapt to the Cretan landscape. Crete is a perfect place for a stone built traditional house and at the end you will be rewarded for your decision.


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Emily's Run
by David Holmes
Emily Parkhurst is running to save her and her daughter's life. Roger, her unstable ex-husband, is on a murderous rampage to eliminate his family as witnesses to the despicable things he has done. His carnage and outrageous acts bring devastation to the North Shore of Lake Superior in his quest to remove anyone who gets in his way ‒ or who can implicate him.
Emily's story has been out since September, 2010, and is gathering attention from more and more people. The overwhelming comment I get is: "I couldn't put it down" and, "I found a part of myself in it."
Before it was published I sent a copy of the manuscript to Judy Pearson, director of the Pearl Crisis Center. She read it and loved it enough to offer an endorsement. Judy and I have worked on fund raisers for Pearl putting the story in front of people with the message, "The abuse needs to stop." Because of my interest in women's rights and the elimination of abuse, I am now sitting on the Board of Directors for Pearl.
I put a request on Reporter Connection asking for stories from women who were victims of abuse to put into a real-life story. I received comments from all over the country and some from abroad. However, an overwhelming number of women asked that their story not be put into print. They were afraid of recrimination and some just couldn't bear to see it all over again. Respecting those wishes, I put Emily's story into a fictional format. It is a compilation of many different events, but hidden behind the fictional shield.
In my marketing and signing tours, one event took place that I will never forget. I was signing books when a woman came to the table and literally froze in place. She looked at the cover, put her hands to her face, and burst out in tears before running away. She was a victim that was living in pain. I pray that I will meet her again someday and at least talk to her.
Emily's story doesn't delve into the actual physical abuse. People know what happened to them and don't need to go into it again. Instead, I have tailored the story to follow Emily while she is running and what she needs to do to protect her daughter. She develops relationships while running; some are good, and some are bad. The story has a positive ending and I am proud to say that the effect will stay with you. The message of the book is clear, and if it bothers anyone—it probably should.
The last pages of the book show the National Hotline numbers for abused, run- aways, and victims of crimes. It also pays homage to Jacob Wetterling, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Elizabeth Smart, and others.
One note I am compelled to add is that my son, Jeff Holmes, did the amazing cover art. The picture alone is a story narrative.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Emily's Run - by David Holmes
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Fuel spill in English Bay
Just before 6:00am this morning we were alerted to a bunker oil spill from a ship in English Bay which occurred yesterday evening.
Fuel toxic: do not touch
The fuel is toxic. Boaters and watercraft operators should stay away. Do not to go to the beaches to offer assistance as there are potential health risks.
If you see any of the fuel wash up on shore, do not touch it. Instead, call the Coast Guard at 1-800-889-8852.
Get updates on Twitter
Our Vancouver Emergency list on Twitter provides the most up-to-date information.
Coordinated response
We are actively working to support a coordinated response with partners, including:
- Port Metro Vancouver
- Vancouver Police Department
- Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services
- Vancouver Coastal Health
- Canadian Coast Guard
- West Coast Marine Rescue Center
We have also activated the Emergency Operations Centre and is tightly monitoring the issue. Staff have also been sent to the Coast Guard operations centre.
Management of a spill is the responsibility of the Federal Government through Coast Guard, the Port, and their contracted agency for cleanup.
However, City staff, including park rangers, are in place to monitor our shoreline and have advised other municipalities that share the foreshore of Burrard Inlet.
Biologists and wildlife experts are also on site to assist in assessing impacts of the spill on shoreline and wildlife.


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Objective; To create a Hull City kit that is both innovative and respectful of club traditions and recognisable visual identity.
Club kit history;
Though Hull City played their first few games in 1904 wearing white shirts with black shorts and socks, the plan had always been to play in amber and black; one of the club's founding fathers had told the Hull Daily Mail that the new side would wear striped jerseys and that man was previously involved in Hull Town, a precursor club who also wore amber and black.
When the club made the switch to striped jerseys, a Hull Daily Mail journalist noted the colours made the players resemble tigers, and the nickname stuck. Amber and black striped jerseys (occasionally paired with white shorts) were used from 1904 until 1935 when the club experimented with ultramarine blue, a colour that was manufactured locally (the Reckitts company were the largest producer of the azzurro ultramarino pigment in the world at that time).
The Tigers returned to amber and black until the league was halted by World War 2. When the league resumed in 1946, Hull City were under new ownership, and local construction magnate Harold Needler planned a total rebrand; He planned to rename the club Kingston Upon Hull AFC, have them play in orange shirts, white shorts and blue socks and play in a new stadium. Only the new stadium build went to plan, the unweildy name was dropped, the board of trade wouldn't sell orange dye citing cost after wartime rationing.
Instead City went back to blue, wearing pale blue shirts with white shorts for one season, but fans hankered for amber and black to come back and Needler relented, but the Tigers had lost their stripes, playing in plain amber shirts from 1947 until 1960.
The free scoring side of the mid sixties wore plain amber shirts and for fans of a certain generation, that style kit is what Hull City should wear, though many feel stripes is the true visual identity of the club, it's the basis of the beloved nickname, and is readily associated with Hull City whereas many teams play in plain shirts that are either yellow, orange or in between, a case in point was when Yorkshire TV included several clips of Wolves games when editing a montage of Hull City highlights. .
In the Seventies and early Eighties, the club fluctuated between plain shirts and amber and black stripes...
In 1982, club chairman Don Robinson added red to the club's palette, stating it represented the blood players were willing to shed for the cause, though the addition was not popular at the time, a spell of prolonged, relative success after years of decline leads many people to regard City kits with red in thome with some nostalgic affection.
Red was removed in 1990 as stripes returned, but in 1992 the club adopted a whole new look that has lived in kit infamy since then...
The tiger striped shirts often top Worst Ever Kit polls, but for Tiger Nationals, the unique kits proved to be a rare uplifting happening in a time of financial and sporting misery for Hull City.
More sober kits were used from 1996 and since then the club has rotated through plain shirts and amber and black stripes, never settling on a confirmed visual style, though sequences of kits with striped shirts have edged runs of plain shirts.
The Tigers wore plain shirts when they made their first appearance at Wembley Stadium, beating Bristol City in the Championship play off final...
The win elevated Hull City to the Premier League, the first time The Tigers had graced the top division in 104 years of distinction. For 2008/09 City wore striped shirts, and that kit became lodged in the public's consciousness when City pulled off improbable wins at Arsenal and Tottenham, drew even with Chelsea and Liverpool, and gave Manchester United a run for their money in a pulsating 4-3 game at Old Trafford, as the heavily tipped for relegation Tigers survived their first top flight season.
City couldn't repeat the feat in 2009/10 though, and found themselves back in the Football League.
This season however, a return to the Premier League is firmly in The Tigers grasp, as Steve Bruce's City lie in 2nd place with just 3 games remaining, making another promotion in plain amber shirts a near certainty.
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I'm drawn to seeing how distinct periods where the club went against the just black and amber norm can be married to a conventional and instantly recognisable look. In the 1920s and 1930s we went with white shorts a few times, a look we tried again in the mid 1970s. The shirt is the traditional piece, as it is amber and black stripes, a shirt style that in England is almost exclusively associated with The Tigers. Wolves had striped shirts in 1911 when they won the FA Cup, and Barnet and Boston have both tried stripes occasionally, but neither club is known for wearing stripes, and Hull City are a more widely known club than either of those two.
When red accents were added in the 1980s, City never used striped shirts, and some kits from that era were positively Watfordesque, so, can red accents be used on a strip that is still undeniably recognisable as a Hull City kit?
Throwback choice
The choice of which era(s) to go with boils down to the answer to one question...Which one tells a story?
The white shorted look was used intermittently in the 1920s and 1930s, and then recycled in the mid 1970s when striped shirts made a return after a decade of plain amber shirts, but there isn't any overarching tale to the switch. White has always been the de facto third colour for Hull City, it's the traditional away shirt tone and used as contrast trim to make text and numbers visible on an amber and black background. There's nothing new, fresh or notable about its use, so we'll go with red as third colour instead.
Red trim, now there is a story about that, as it was introduced by Don Robinson when he arrived in 1982 and disappeared as soon as his association with the club ended. The end of the 1970s and the start of the 1980s was a bleak time for Hull City, the club dropped two divisions, crowds dwindled, and the financial situation was so dire that with no money to rebuild a crumbling stand in the stadium, a section of parking space was sold off and a supermarket built on it, leaving only some unwelcoming steps behind it for away supporters to shiver on.
In early 1982 the club became the first club in Britain to enter receivership, the club was broke and struggling to continue as a going concern. The entire playing squad was transfer listed and doubts that the club could not fulfil its fixtures for the remainder of the season surfaced. Enter Don Robinson, self made millionaire and consumnate showman, to daub a splash of vivid colour across a previously bleak and joyless landscape. The former rugby player and wrestler (who grappled under the moniker Dr. Death) had made his money in theme parks and zoos, and now set his sights on reviving a club that had previously challenged for top flight football and established an impressive fanbase in the 1960s.
Robinson was a colourful figure, when the Tampa Bay Rowdies came to Boothferry Park, he rode around the pitch on a white horse dressed as a cowboy, he invited Soviet giants Dynamo Kiev to play in Hull and had a dancing bear totter around the stadium. He introduced Tiger Cola, and profit from the soft drink sold locally benefitted the team.
The introduction of red to the playing kit was said by Robinson to symbolise the blood the players were willing to shed in the club's cause, and it gave The Tigers a fresh start visually. The club's fortunes were transformed, they were promoted in 1982-83 and again in 1984-85 to rejoin the second tier of the professional football pyramid after a significant absence.
Don Robinson had taken a battered and beaten club and breathed new life into it, and he was loved for it. Prone to the odd slightly bonkers and grandiose statement, he once proclaimed Hull City would be the first club to play on the Moon if he had some say in it, and that statement summed up his 'reach for the stars while climbing from the gutter' sentiment.
What is the new kit's story?
The new kit, to be used in cup competitions, will honour Don Robinson and his ressurection of the club. It will feature the red tone that he introduced at the start of his tenure but seek to present it in a way that allows the kit to still be readily identifiable as a Hull City kit.
There is a wallchart on display at the National Football Museum in Manchester, an advertisement for team sets used in the Subbuteo table football game. The chart shows all of the teams available to buy, though many sets represented multiple professional teams, for example the Juventus set, painted with black and white striped shirts, black shorts and socks, also served as Newcastle United, St. Mirren, Notts County and a slew of other teams that played in that design of kit.
The team in plain amber shirts and black shorts are listed as Hull City, but also Wolves, Barnet, Newport, Cambridge, Alloa and a host of other clubs, However when Hull City play in amber and black stripes, they share a Subbuteo identity with just one team; Berwick Rangers.
Amber and black stripes are what Hull City are known for, it is their strongest visual identity, the reason they had The Tigers bestowed upon them as a nickname. That identity should be preserved, and not changed every few years, so the kit created here will have a striped shirt. The shirts used during the period red was in the kit were never striped, so a key objective in this project is to create a kit that is honorific to Don Robinson and include the red he had put in the kits, but also make it a readily identifiable Hull City shirt, ie. striped.
Playing with the 'first team on the Moon' remark could be fun, it was a very Don Robinson thing to say, so could further flavour a kit using red in reference to a specific era visually.
Feature ideas
Throwback crest - The tiger head used on Hull City shirts from 1979 is now encased in an escutcheon, with banners displaying the club name and nickname. A retro shirt should use the same crest, the tiger head encircled by club name/nickname text, as was used in the 1980s.
Lunar imagery - A visual reference to the first team on the Moon idea. Maybe use a hem tag to explain the references.
Reference elements of 1980s shirts - Perhaps use the collar and cuff detail of the 80s shirts, like Reebok did when they referenced the late 80s adidas overlapped round collar for the 2002-04 Liverpool home kit. Use a late 80s number font.
Feature concepts
Retro tiger head crest atop a stitched on panel featuring the Moon. Panel to contain retroreflective material so it glows under floodlights (similar to how Manchester United's did on the 1997-2000 Champions League shirts).
Hem tag that states the famed Robinson quote with dates of his chairmanship tenure.
Lunar surface design on white numbers tipped with red, which are of a font used by adidas between 1996-1990. Are retroreflective numbers permitted? If so, have them glow under floodlights like the crest.
How much red? In what style?
I've played with some adidas templates from recent years, dropping in red following the three styles tried in the 1980s; Yoke panel, sleeve patch and pinstripes...
Yoke panel
Sleeve panel
The red parts of the yoke panel and sleeve panel versions stand out too much I feel, the red in the kit should complement the amber and black, not overpower it. From afar the pinstriped shirt is just amber and black stripes, recognisably Hull City, up close you see how the pinstripes fit in subtly. For that reason I feel the red pinstripes clinging to amber and black stripes works best. Furthermore the two kits that City wore when promoted under Don Robinson were pinstriped.
Final design
I can't illustrate for shit, so I'm hoping John Devlin doesn't mind me cannibalising a few of his excellent Devlustrations (as we call them at Hull City Kits)...


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Diabetes is currently one of the most widespread diseases, and its prevalence is rapidly growing around the world. It is a common life-long condition and the number of children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes is increasing. For many, this means living with daily insulin injections and the possibility of long-term health damage.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that results from T cell autoimmunity mediated destruction of the vast majority of insulin-producing pancreatic β-cells.
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Adipose tissue derived mesenchymal stem cells have been shown in many studies as potential cure for T1DM, which could not only address the need for β-cell replacement but also the regulation of the autoimmune response to cells which produce insulin. Mesenchymal stem cells are able to control T cell autoimmunity.
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One of the biggest problems faced by islet transplantation is the lack of donors. Instead of using donor cells, own stem cells can be used in diabetes therapy, bypassing all the complications, rejections and side effects.
The research showed that stem cells present in the patient's pancreas are able to make new beta cells. Beta cell progenitors have been found in the pancreas of both rodents and humans; progenitor cells have some stem cell properties and can self-renew (copy themselves) indefinitely. The stem cells from the patient's own adipose tissue or bone marrow can 're-educate' the immune system so that it no longer attacks the beta cells. The new beta cells are able to sense blood sugar levels and react accordingly.
Clinical trials inserting mesenchymal stem cells into type 1 diabetes patients take advantage of two assets these cells possess. Firstly, they have the regenerative potential to repair beta cells, and secondly they can modulate the immune system by inhibiting the responses that lead to the autoimmune attack on pancreatic beta cells.
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For our thru hikes we pick foods that are organic, calorie-dense, nutritious, vegetarian, and of course, tasty. Sometimes we purchase ingredients in bulk and combine them. In other cases we choose pre-made meals. Below is a list of our favorite meal and snack choices.
Breakfast: Morning is our favorite time of day to hike because our legs are fresh and the light is beautiful. We like to get up and go so we prefer foods that are easy to munch on while hiking.
- Bars (see list in the Snacks section below)
- Toaster pastries
Snacks: The key to sustained energy on a thru hike is constant eating. About half our calories come from snacks.
- BumbleBar organic sesame bars
- Raw Revolution organic live food bars
- Two Moms in the Raw organic bars
- Variety of other snack bars
- Homemade trail mix: Milk chocolate chips, peanuts, raisins
- Homemade trail mix: Dark chocolate chips, pistachios, sesame sticks, dried mango
- Homemade trail mix: Milk chocolate chips, peanuts, crunchy cereal, banana chips
- Homemade trail mix: Dark chocolate chips, cashews, almonds, dried cranberries, dried fig sticks
- A few unusual store bought trail mixes
- Dried fruit
- Fig bars
- Candy bars
- Gummy candies
- Caramels
- Chocolate
- Cookies
Lunch: By midday our bodies want to rest, so we take a longer break, get out the stove, and cook up a hearty lunch. This is our main meal for the day. Sometimes we add olive oil for additional calories.
- Outdoor Herbivore dehydrated organic backpacking meals
- Pasta, dried pesto, Parmesan cheese, vegan jerky
- Macaroni and cheese with vegan jerky
- Instant soups (split pea, curry lentil, or black bean)
- Instant mashed potatoes, occasionally with freeze dried vegetables
- Oatmeal
- Instant stuffing
- Couscous, dehydrated black or pinto beans, hot sauce, salt and pepper packets
- Ramen noodles
Drink Mixes: These are a fun treat and encourage hydration.
- Electrolytes
- Hot chocolate
- Apple cider
Dinners: We opt for dinner items which are easy to prepare without cooking. Variety from the rest of the day's food is also a plus.
- Peanut butter and/or chocolate hazelnut butter with tortillas
- Granola (many varieties) and powdered milk
- Dehydrated hummus with crackers
- Cheese and tortillas
For more information, check out these food-related posts.
After finishing our 2660-mile Pacific Crest Trail thru hike, we published a book. It's a spectacular photographic journey along the entire trail. Visit our book page to learn more, view sample pages, and purchase the book.
Anna and Chris,
Your website is outstanding – and quite helpful. I really like the formatting/presentation in addition to the content. The photography is excellent – Chris, what camera did you decide upon? I am a Nikon loyalist and will be leaving my beloved SLR behind. I crossed over to the dark side for this trip and purchased a Canon G12. We will see…
Hope to have the opportunity to meet you on the trail.
I will be heading north after the Kick Off.
Gman, age 58. – Higganum Ct.February 13, 2012
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Anna & Chris, Of course I had to take a look at the Food page. Are you planning to eat off the earth as well? We have an abundance of ramps (wild onions) at the moment in the Midwest. They may be eaten raw as well as cooked. Let me know if you are not familiar & I will provide a primer. Of course your Aunt Jan is the expert on mushrooms. Best wishes!! KathyApril 25, 2012
Kathy Merrill #
Good to hear from you. I took a quick look to see if wild onions grow in the west. I found this web site: http://americanpreppersnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?f=235&t=9216 which lists lots of edible plants in the area you are in. The ramp I am familiar with grows mostly on the east side of the country. There must be a similar plant in the west but probably not in the desert. One way to see if it is an onion is to tear off a bit of the leafy green & if it smells like an onion it probably is. Ramps that grow here have a broad leaf, almost like a limp tulip leaf, the same shape as a trout lily but solid green. But wild onion can also look like chives or scallions – they are part of the lily family. I'll keep looking for you to see if I find anything more descriptive. Safe travels!!April 28, 2012
The Beekeeper (aka Jan aka roaming angel in bright pink hat) #
Regarding the dehydrated hummus, are you making your own? if so, what recipe. If not, what brand? I've tried a couple that weren't so good.March 7, 2013
Congrats on starting your AT trail!
By the way, I had a couple of food questions. I noticed you included wedges of parmesan cheese in your PCT resupply boxes. Did you have any problems with the cheese sitting in a box for up to 6 months unrefrigerated before you finally received it along the trail, or did you have your box sender keep it in the fridge until it was time to send off the box? Did you use a food vacuum sealer at all?
Also, did you send yourself olive oil or just buy it along the way?
Well, good luck with your trip. You must be so excited to be under way. Sorry about the knee issue. That's always my biggest worry for myself. Wishing you a speedy recovery and success along the trail.
TracyMarch 24, 2013
laura #
you guys are awesome..i only pray someday i find a partner i can do with what you are doing..i love your life!!! i have a silly question…???how do you pack your peanut butter???meaning what kind of container?? thanks guysJune 19, 2013
sam #
Bit late now, but empty lip balm pots would work too btwJanuary 16, 2016
Karen Parle #
I live in California and do most of my packing here and it gets hot on the trail. I use M&M's instead of choc. Chips because the chips melt and make a nasty mess.February 26, 2014
I've found Lipsmaking Backpacking (book) to be an excellent resource on this topic.December 22, 2014
Geoff #
When you take this amount of food weight can be a problem!July 29, 2016
Colleen #
Try sealing your cheeses in cheese wax. The wax makes them shelf stable.August 6, 2016
Amanda Jones #
So how much food per day do you pack? My husband and I are very new to this.August 28, 2016


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Mayor Harpole Asks Amarillo Residents To Wash Clothes By Hand
Due to the extreme drought conditions and blistering heat, the City Of Amarillo is pushing a water conservation marketing campaign directed at getting residents to use less water.
There are short commercial segments that are being ran to help residents conserve water by using tips and tricks to save water. One with Mayor Harpole asking residents to wash their clothes by hand and another with Jarrett Atkinson 'City Manager' saying to collect our rainwater to water our lawns.
1st. I'm not going to wash my clothes by hand. It is 2011 and I bought a washing machine for a reason.
2nd. Collecting rain water requires that it does rain, and collecting rain water from a storm that occurs 2 times in 6 months doesn't make a lot of sense. What about the other 178 days?
I agree with the goal behind this and I think the people should absolutely make it a point to cut back (and I think the AISD should do the same - read here), but here are a couple of the commercials that have been run that just don't make a whole lot of sense.
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Boogie woogies make this claim constantly when they are confronted about their future. They make plenty of money with their form of three r's (robbin', rapin', and riotin'.)
Tyrone addressing the school principal: "Hey moefoe! I don't like school. Don't need no booklearnin'."
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A lovely footnote from a current research project.
I was looking up genealogical records for the Birnie family of Broomhill, to try and figure out the provenance of Smith College Mortimer Rare Book Room MS 274, which has the names of both Mr. Robert Birnie, Minister of Lanark, and John Birnie of Broomhill. (Robert (1608-1691) was relatively easy, since there weren't many Roberts in the family; every generation had at least one John, though, but my bet is on John (1643-1716), Robert's only son.) I was using a funny little genealogical volume, Account of the Families of Birnie and Hamilton of Broomhill, by another John Birnie (the son of John son of Robert), edited and printed in 1838 by W.B.D.D. Turnbull.
It's a nice little volume, available on archive.org, that has the Account following an account by W.B.D.D. Turnbull on a particular dispute involving many members of the Birnie and Hamilton families, regarding church interment. Mr. Turnbull had previously (1833) reprinted a copy of William Birnie's (1563-1619) treatise against the practice of church burials, and prints this volume of genealogy and documents relating to the later dispute as additional material.
At the end of the analysis of the dispute, which is a section labeled "Prefatory Remarks, we find a description of the heraldic bookplate that apparently appears in several books that Mr. Turnbull has before him. They do not, evidently, impress Mr. Turnbull, who remarks in a footnote that "Heraldry was never properly studied as a science in Scotland. The present officials of that elegantly organized establishment are about the most ignorant reptiles that ever crawled between earth and heaven" (xviii).
The object of Turnbull's scorn? The Birnies of Broomhill, in creating their crest, did not follow the rules, resulting in what Turnbull refers to as "a heraldic freak" (xviii): "They have given to their shield as supporters, two parsons precant, sable, in reading-desks–all proper!! La voila!" (xviii-xix).
As substitutes for the usual zoological complement of lions, unicorns, and gryphons, it must be said that the parsons, even when referred to with the French-influenced language of heraldry as "precant, sable," seem a little odd.
Birnie, John, Esq. Account of the Families of Birnie and Hamilton of Broomhill. Ed. W.B.D.D. Turnbull, Esq. Edinburgh: Printed for Private Distribution (Edinburgh Printing Company), 1838.
Genealogical material possibly taken from BL Add. Ms. 28850, but the BL dates the genealogical part of that manuscript to 1730, and the printed volume includes deaths up to 1733.


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Yesterday I flew to Edinburgh for the day….. as I normally don't do but this was a bit special.
I was there to attend the first public showing of Red Dwarf XI episode one.
It was organised by the lovely folks at UKTV who run the DAVE channel that Red Dwarf will be shown on in the UK.
I sat in the packed auditorium of the Filmhouse on the Lothian Road in the middle of Edinburgh next to Craig Charles and Doug Naylor. Chris Barrie was sadly unable to attend and Danny John Jules was in Guadeloupe making another series of 'Death in Paradise.'
(I've still never had the chance to be murdered in that show, I have begged and pleaded but they just don't want to kill me.)
Anyway, we watched the new Red Dwarf episode on a huge cinema screen with a great sound system and it was, and I know this is going to sound weird, but it was brilliant.
It is so dense, so packed with ideas, crazy concepts, bizarre characters, uncanny but instantly recognizable settings and truly brilliant model shots.
I could easily have watched the episode again immediately afterwards.
Even though I was there when we made it I still felt I missed a dozen lines, gags, concepts and theories that are fired out of Doug Naylor's Gatling gun mind at a terrifying rate.
I've been asked hundreds of times why I think Red Dwarf survives after 27 years, it's an impossible question to answer but I think it must have something to do with density.
It's not a sit-com with few gags thrown together in a vague storyline, it's a massively super dense intergalactic body with its own gravitational pull.
I was literally sucked in while we watched it, occasionally part of my mind would recall the hours we spent shooting a particular scene, how all the special effects worked in rehearsal and then failed spectacularly during the shoot. All normal stuff on the small rouge one.
But it went far beyond that, I was utterly engrossed by the story, the interaction of main cast and guest artists, the rapid fire dialogue and the mad but plausible logic of it all.
You have to work hard to watch Red Dwarf, it's complicated, it's challenging and there are many layers to each scene.
As Doug has often pointed out when I wax lyrical about the series long running success being dependent on his writing, while this is largely true he always says it's because of us lot. It's because of the chemistry between the cast, without that he says he couldn't write Red Dwarf.
That chemistry was very much on display in TWENTICA, 4 performers who have such a long history working together and such an incredible spirit of support between us it's very hard to describe.
All of the rest of the cast of Red Dwarf make me laugh, all the bloody time. It's exhausting just being in the room with them, but while I have known many comics over the years who make me laugh, I have noticed a kind of desperate competition to be 'the funniest' when they gather together.
Not so with the Red Dwarf cast. I think it maybe to do with age, but we simply can't be bothered, no one tries to be funny as we work on the show, they just are bloody funny.
Craig and I hadn't seen the finished TWENTICA episode, (Doug had seen it 500 times in the edit) obviously we knew what happened, but we made it in November last year so there were loads of beats, scenes and lines of dialogue we'd forgotten all about.
When the episode ended we took part in a Q&A session and of course Craig was very funny, as he always is, I said something, can't remember what, and Doug had to answer all the questions we get asked but never know how to answer.
Will Kochanski come back, will Holly be in the new series, will there be a series XIII, etc.
As I flew back south that night I mused on how lucky I've been since I performed in my odd little play in Edinburgh in 1988 and was first made aware that I might get to join the crew. I nearly said no, Kryten could have been played by a proper actor. I might not have spent thousands of hours covered in rubber.
I'm so privileged to be involved, I still feel I don't deserve it, it's such a brilliant series and none of us, not even in our wildest dreams would have thought we'd still be doing it now.
Red Dwarf starts on Dave in the UK on Thursday 22nd September, you can watch it online on UKTV play from 15th September.
Overseas releases? I've got no idea, I'm sorry.
DVD/Blu-ray release. I've got even less idea. Sometime after.
Netflix? Global release? I wish I knew. I'm sure it'll get out eventually.
Well dodgy Russian illegal video download site with porn pop-ups and built in hacking code that invades your 'puter and steals everything to sell to the NSA?
About 10 minutes after it's finished being broadcast.
I hope you enjoy the new series, I know I will.


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Today we went to have brunch with Santa over at Red Stone, formerly LA Roberts. Santa, as always, was played by my brother-in-law's father, Howard. Uncle Howard is a fantastic Santa. He really interacts well with the kids, has a real beard and a great Santa outfit. What we were wondering this year, would Eva recognize him or would Christmas Magic make her continue to believe.
We went to early morning Mass and then spent time at Mem and Grandfather's. I helped Dad with the Christmas tree and also the annual Christmas letter. It seems that this is coming together a lot earlier this year. I'm in charge of the photos for the insert but Dad writes the letter. He summed up the year pretty well too. Eva helped Dad put the Angel on the tree.
Brunch was good. A pretty standard brunch fare. Santa came out and around to the tables. Eva stopped eating and watched everything that he did. She did not indicate that she knew that Santa was really Uncle Howard. Santa went from table to table. he stopped at our table and talked to each of us. I think that Eva was fascinated because Santa knew about Andrew and Eva's family. She took everything in.
We had our meal and then kids were going up to meet Santa. Eva went up as well and we took the photos of Eva and Andrew with Santa, Eva alone with Santa and Andrew alone with Santa. I think that Andrew is already skeptical of Santa.
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A Chamber of Commerce is a type of business network. The goal of this network is to further the interest of local businesses. Being part of a chamber is a great way to get your business connected with other businesses in Windsor-Essex County.
In Windsor-Essex we have 4 different Chambers of Commerce. The links below will give you more information so you can learn more about them, see what events they are hosting and get involved in what they are doing.


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Transgenic legumes
Generation of transgenic Medicago truncatula roots
Agrobacterium rhizogenes is capable of inducing hairy roots on Medicago truncatula hypocotyls by transferring the TL-DNA of its Ri (root-inducing) plasmid. The TL-DNA encodes gene products involved either in plant hormone (auxin) biosynthesis or in the release of auxin from inactive precursors. As a result, the auxin/cytokinin ratio increases, that way inducing root development. Due to the production of endogenous hormones, hairy roots are able to grow independently, e.g. in root cultures. We are exploiting this natural gene transfer system to co-transfer reporter gene fusions into the hairy roots. After nodulation with Sinorhizobium meliloti or mycorrhization with Glomus fungi, the activity of reporter gene fusions in root endosymbioses can be studied histochemically.
Several protocols for the generation of hairy roots on Medicago truncatula exist in the literature. Since these usually require sterile conditions, we developed a protocol to generate hairy roots in open pots. The composite plants can directly be mycorrhized and nodulated in soil, vermiculite/sand or clay granules, allowing to study gene expression under more physiological conditions.
Similar to the expression of reporter gene fusions, RNAi fusions can be transferred to study the effect of downregulating or abolishing the expression of a particular gene on the formation or efficiency of root endosymbioses.
Geneneration of transgenic Medicago spec. plants
Several protocols for the generation of transgenic Medicago truncatula plants have been developed in different laboratories over the past years.
To generate transgenic plants expressing antisense or RNAi fusions, we have used the somatic embryogenesis protocol developed for Medicago truncatula cv. R108 at the ISV, CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette. Under our conditions, this protocol allowed the generation of transgenic plants of the T0 generation in appr. 6-8 months, followed by subsequent selfings to generate stable homozygous lines of the T1 and T2 generation.
A variant of this protocol can be used to transform the closely related forage legume Medicago sativa. Since Medicago sativa is allogamous, transgenic lines have to be maintained as cuttings.


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Friday, April 25, 2014
Dunes and Clouds
Dunes and Clouds - Sony RX10, ~120mm equiv., f/5.6, 1/1000s, ISO 250
On the last morning in the Sossusvlei area, I took a helicopter with the doors removed all the way to the coast for aerial photography. When we got to the coast we found it covered in low laying fog which is a visual treat. More images from that ride to come :)
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Hedding United Methodist Church
Sunday, May 19, 2019
Worship . Welcome . Love . Serve . Disciple
Sharing the Grace
Sharing the Grace: Annual Operating and Capital Improvement Campaign
UPDATE August 2016: Work on the Steeple is complete! We've completed the dining room walls and installed new porch steps at the parsonage. Our expanded food shelf Bread of Life is open. Soon, we'll be installing an accessible rest room and shower on the lower level of the church building. Come and see all that is happening through your generosity!
We're close to our goal! We've raised over $115,000 of our $125,000 goal for our capital improvement campaign! Let us know if you'd like to help.
Each year, members and friends of Hedding United Methodist Church make a commitment to support our ministries through our gifts of time, talent, and financial resources. This year, we have a special opportunity to repair our steeple and enhance our ministries by installing an accessible restroom and expanding our food shelf through a three-year capital campaign.
Please view our powerpoint presentation to learn more about these opportunities to support our ministries.
To make a gift, please visit our support our ministries page. Thank you!


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As its gangplank rose dramatically, the tanker's public address system blared symphonic pomp. The music, rousing to the point of desperation, sounded at turns like a knockoff of the theme from Star Wars, then Superman, as if John Williams had been forced at gunpoint to produce an anthem in a single sitting. From beneath this rose the sound of vigorous clattering from a core of traditional Chinese drummers assembled on the dock. Clouds of confetti descended onto the expectant crowd, a few hundred journalists, local government officials, ordinary onlookers, and one curious American philosopher. As the massive ship pulled away from the Shanghai port, a fleet of sleek hostesses in red silk gowns and a pack of schoolchildren in imperial yellow tracksuits waved goodbye to the crew.
Those on board were not celebrities on a luxury cruise or military officers deploying for a foreign campaign. They were scientists. Their vessel was the Xue Long, Snow Dragon, and it was bound for the South Pole on the twenty-fifth Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition.
When the Xue Long set off in October 2008, I was in Shanghai visiting with leaders of the municipal branch of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology. After several weeks of working in cramped offices in gloomy Beijing, I enjoyed the time in Shanghai, where I found the air somewhat freer and the espresso easier to come by. I was there on behalf of the Center for Inquiry, seeking to interest a division of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST) in conducting the Worldviews of Scientists study.
Pioneered by the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, the Worldviews series is an international sociological survey of the religious, ethical, and social opinions of working scientists. Above all, I was curious about the extent to which the scientific community in China exemplified the critical rationalist spirit in their public lives. One might expect scientists to be occupationally committed to anti-authoritarianism and freedom of inquiry, intellectual honesty and pluralism. It was probably no accident that an astrophysicist, Fang Lizhi, had such an important part in inspiring the student unrest that led to Tiananmen Square. Scientists are a disharmonious bunch. How willing could they be to sing in tune to the Party's official march?
Big Science
At the most recent national congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October 2007, President Hu Jintao trumpeted "scientific development" and the Harmonious Society, directing the government to
thoroughly apply the Scientific Outlook on Development, continue to emancipate the mind, persist in reform and opening up, pursue development in a scientific way, promote social harmony, and strive for new victories in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. . . . Emancipating the mind is a magic instrument for developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, reform and opening up provide a strong driving force for developing it, and scientific development and social harmony are basic requirements for developing it.1
Soon after I arrived in Beijing, my colleagues made it clear to me that for official purposes, building the Harmonious Society would mean tapping into scientific methods, but it also would mean placing limits on the scope of scientific values. With the utmost congeniality and reasonableness, they explained that survey questions about religion would be deemed too divisive and sensitive, and questions about politics could be considered seditious. Further, the term "skepticism" was to be avoided because what remained of the Party's ideologues might consider it a threat to Marxist-Leninist doctrine.
This should not have been surprising. After all, CAST is a part of the bureaucracy, not an independent, non-governmental professional association (genuinely independent civil society organizations are still almost unheard of in China). On Wednesday afternoons the entire office—spare two junior female researchers—emptied out to attend the meetings of the Party. For those who seek professional positions of privilege, it is of course the only thing going.
On December 10, 2008—the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—over three hundred Chinese dissidents released Charter 08, an open letter calling for human rights, civil liberties, private property, and a democratic, federated republic. The letter was organized by Liu Xiaobo, a literary critic, and the list of signatories included more lawyers and entrepreneurs than professional scientists. One prominent scientist signatory was Jian Qisheng, who was arrested following his involvement in Tiananmen and subsequently spent four years in prison after commemorating the massacre in 1999. Jian studied philosophy and worked as a physicist. But, perhaps significantly, he is now identified as a former physicist.2
Scientist-Reformers of the 1980s
There was a moment in recent Chinese politics when elite scientists were in the vanguard of dissent. Ironically, this was not the result of the CCP's antipathy towards science but rather its embrace of science in the post-Mao era. Central to Deng Xiaoping's reform efforts, begun in 1978, was a new policy on science and technology. Mao was faulted for his utopianism, for becoming unhinged from empirical reality. While carrying on the traditional Marxist rhetoric of the "science" of dialectical materialism, Mao had little but suspicion and hostility for the scientific establishment. The Cultural Revolution made scientists targets in the class struggle, branding the Chinese Academy of Sciences a "bourgeois headquarters."
Once in power, Deng rallied for a return to scientific rationality. He recruited scientists and technologists as essential partners in effective policymaking and governance in a modern China. By the early 80s, leading specialists were being incorporated into the bureaucracy as the staff and directors of permanent consultative bodies. But in some cases, this close association ended up blowing back on the government. The period is described by Alice L. Miller, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, in her excellent study Science and Dissent in Post-Mao China: The Politics of Knowledge:
Especially among those in the "basic" sciences—those pursuing scientific knowledge for its own sake—a conflict of professional mission and identity with the regime's utilitarian goals for science emerged. Among some, the reforms were seen not as alleviating problems in the scientific community but as making things worse. By the late 1980s many scientists were deeply frustrated with the reforms, anxious over their jobs and futures, and alarmed at their declining standing in a rapidly changing society. A few, at least, felt a deepening alienation from a regime that they had previously supported, spurring them onto the path of political dissent.3
Miller argues that the public political dissent of leading figures in the scientific community—Fang Lizhi and others, such as Xu Liangying, Jin Guantao, and Li Xingmin—was inspired by the powerful anti-authoritarian norms and Enlightenment values of science itself:
For scientists such as Fang and Xu, the anti-authoritarian norms of science translated easily into a classically liberal politics. The message these scientists carried into the larger political arena defended above all the sanctity and worth of individual autonomy and conscience above the claims of state and society. . . . the emergence of a renewed liberal voice in China's political arena in the 1980s was in significant part a natural extension of what some scientists believed to be the norms of healthy science into politics.4
What became of this scientific dissent in the intervening years? Was it suppressed by the force of the post-Tienanmen crackdown, or were there other dynamics at work?
A Musical Interlude
One afternoon my colleagues held a lunchtime party in honor of my visit. We all drove over to a local karaoke lounge for a buffet-style meal followed by what turned out to be several convivial hours of drink, chat, and of course, singing. Everyone took turns at his or her favorites, often with wild abandon.
Someone had brought along an acoustic guitar, so when my turn came around (after first agreeing to sing karaoke on John Denver's "Country Roads," which somehow everyone knew by heart), I taught the group the chorus to "Free Falling," the wonderful rock 'n' roll anthem by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. As we belted out "Now I'm free . . . free falling!" it felt like the right song for the hour, putting us in the shoes of a skydiver who thrills to the rush of the leap even though he cannot control the direction in which he spirals. It was now late afternoon, the workday was ending, and we could linger no longer. We left the lounge and headed back into the drone of Beijing.
- President Hu's speech, presumably translated by the Chinese Embassy, can be found at http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/zt/768675/t375502.htm.
- See http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/3343/prmID/172
- H. Lyman Miller, Science and dissent in post-Mao China: The politics of knowledge (Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press, 1996), 69.
- —. Science and dissent in post-Mao China: The politics of knowledge (Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press, 1996), 4.


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Hello there! I am a late 20-something gal from the southeast U.S. who created this blog for one reason: ACCOUNTABILITY! I have found that keeping a personal journal of my food intake (and "offsetting" exercise) has been one great source of accountability, but I think committing to blogging daily about the food I eat will make me even more determined.
A little more about me: I am a vegetarian with vegan tendencies. I love group fitness classes, particularly Les Mills classes. I am a PhD student and college instructor. I am married to the most handsome, kind, hilarious, and loving man. (awwwww) I'm into celebrity gossip and TV–hey, it's my escape. I also really like reading pop culture fiction. I'll choose dessert over an entree any day, the more "carb-a-licious", the better! I cook sparingly, but am working on it. Maintaining/losing weight is not easy for me. It takes work. I cannot eat whatever I want, whenever I want, and stay thin. I struggle daily, too. Believe me!
A little more about my blog: I. love. food. Don't we all? I love reading what people eat on a day-to-day basis, learning quick snack ideas, trying out new recipes, and experiencing new foods. So, I'll share with you my eats every day. I will also weigh in and record my weight on a daily basis, strictly to keep myself accountable. While I do strive to eat mindfully and healthily day in and day out, there are definitely days where I fall off the wagon. So, this is NOT a health food blog, but rather a "food log" blog. 🙂
Considering I will be posting my weight daily, I'm not quiiiiiite ready to reveal my identity :), but maybe that will come with time. I appreciate your support along the way. Happy eating!


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Well. Yes, I have been rather quiet for the last couple of months. There is so much to tell you that I don't even want to start... but as I am writing this, I am unlocking my iPhone, and the things that the iPhone community has created in the last days (if not hours) is not only amazing, it makes me proud of my profession. YOU GUYS ROCK (you know who you are).
Last night I installed Installer.app, the BSD subsystem, ssh and a ton of other stuff. It is more fun than you can imagine - to see how fast things move. I have had the Nokia N80 for the last year or so, and to say that I am very disappointed by it is a politically correct statement. I have been waiting to throw if off the Empire State Building ever since I got it (the N80, that is ;-)). I am nearly at that point now (15 more minutes...). I have waited to get any decent information or apps on the Nokia. Not that it would have been usable ... but there simply was nothing happening at all. I still have the same thing that I bought.
I have had my iPhone for three weeks now, and in the urban jungle of NYC (where you spend half of your life in cabs or waiting for a seat in a restaurant) it has become a life saver, even though I only had the default set of applications on it. But now, I can already install dozens of native apps, seamlessly, wireless. Select, touch, done.
And now this: I can now use my iPhone in the USA and in Switzerland. No more N80. Boy are they gonna sell the iPhone. Can we say another million in the next month? You bet.
By the way, if you would like to buy a really nice N80, send me a mail.


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Last week I argued that the concerns over shrinking self-employed earnings may be a little exaggerated. Coincidentally, at the same time the blogger Flip Chart Rick convincingly proposed the opposite: that we aren't half as worried as we should be.
Clearly the jury is still out. So while we're in the debating mood it might be worth adding another layer to the debate – that of wealth and asset ownership.
As part of our new project with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we've been looking at the data on earnings, wealth and debt. And while some of the findings are unsurprising, there are a few curveballs in there too.
Here are a few initial observations to chew over:
#1 – The full-time self-employed earn around 20 per cent less than their employed counterparts, and their income has fallen by 10 per cent in real terms since 2000
#2 – Households with only self-employed workers are twice as likely than average to be in poverty, but households with a mix of employed and self-employed are no more likely to be at risk
#3 – Households where all workers are self-employed are the group most likely to own their own property outright (remember: this is also the cohort where a third are officially below the poverty line)
#4 – Households with self-employed workers have a great deal more financial wealth than those without
These findings present an odd picture. While the self-employed clearly earn less than the employed (though we may disagree about the extent), they appear to be better off when it comes to the amount of wealth they own – whether that is property, savings, stocks or shares.
The question is: does the nature of self-employed work encourage and enable people to save and stow away cash, or are the already wealthy simply more willing and able to work for themselves (and to survive on low incomes)?


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No matter where you go, the majority of facial treatments you try will feel great, however what about when you go home—do they really give you the result they promise? At Urban Edge Beauté I believe that to achieve the best possible skin result for you, we need to be using the highest quality, professional products. Makes sense, doesn't it? That's why I choose to use emerginC, O Cosmedics and Mineral Pro for all facial treatments. In addition, I also specialise in Microdermabrasion and Dermapen.
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GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. — The second level of zip lines over some of Alabama's prettiest views is in the works in Marshall County. This is the second part of the zip lines course at Lake Guntersville State Park.
"There's going to be upwards of maybe eight new zip lines, that's going to be offering extreme zip lines that is high-speed, and somewhere between 1,700 and upwards of 2,600 foot," said Park Superintendent Michael Jeffreys. "The folks with American Adventure Park Systems do a wonderful job."
The first level is more of an entry-level course. Level two will be more advanced. "Level two will be across a large gorge between one ridge line to the other with views that are out of this world," Jeffreys explained.
The first level opened earlier this year. "The public has responded, showing that they want an outdoor, eco-friendly adventure that they can bring their kids and their families, and something exciting in the area that we don't offer," Jeffreys said.
The course is expected to open early next year. "I really think the public is going to respond when we get this caliber of zip lines locally, in Alabama," Jeffreys said.
The price details and specifics on the new level aren't available yet. Here is information on the first level of zip lines, including a link to make reservations.
Source: http://whnt.com/2016/12/12/second-level-of-zip-lines-at-lake-guntersville-state-park-in-the-works/


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Sheet Music: Score
Piece for E.L. / Jennifer Fowler.
by Jennifer Fowler (1981)
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Piece for E. L. for piano solo, was written in 1981 for the 75th birthday celebrations of the composer Elizabeth Lutyens. Since Elizabeth Lutyens is, sadly, no longer with us, I offer this piece as a small tribute to this British composer, who pursued her own vision courageously and relentlessly; uncompromising, always an outsider.
Pages: 1 score (6p. -- Non-standard page size)
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 3 min.
First performance by Michael Finnissy — 6 Mar 81. British Music Information Centre, London, UK
Copyright held by Jennifer Fowler.
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The Benefice Choir Notice Board
Thank you all for your wonderful singing for the Christmas Carol Service at Sherborne! We will have a few weeks off until the end of January, when we will start singing some wonderful new pieces of music!
Gloria Section
Here is the YouTube recording of the Locus Iste being sung by the Sixteen...
...and a video of a performance ofThe Nightingale by a very talented children's choir!


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ozone depletion
Ozone depletion describes two distinct but related phenomena observed since the late 1970s: a steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of ozone in Earth'sstratosphere (the ozone layer), and a much larger springtime decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth's polar regions. The latter phenomenon is referred to as the ozone hole. In addition to these well-known stratospheric phenomena, there are also springtime polar tropospheric ozone depletion events. The details of polar ozone hole formation differ from that of mid-latitude thinning, but the most important process in both is catalytic destruction of ozone by atomic halogens.[1] The main source of these halogen atoms in the stratosphere is photodissociation of man-made halocarbon refrigerants (CFCs, freons, halons). These compounds are transported into the stratosphere after being emitted at the surface.[2] Both types of ozone depletion were observed to increase as emissions of halo-carbons increased. CFCs and other contributory substances are referred to as ozone-depleting substances (ODS). Since the ozone layer prevents most harmful UVB wavelengths (280–315 nm) ofultraviolet light (UV light) from passing through the Earth's atmosphere, observed and projected decreases in ozone have generated worldwide concern leading to adoption of theMontreal Protocol that bans the production of CFCs, halons, and other ozone-depleting chemicals such as carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethane. It is suspected that a variety of biological consequences such as increases in skin cancer, cataracts,[3] damage to plants, and reduction of plankton populations in the ocean's photic zone may result from the increased UV exposure due to ozone depletion.
Ozone cycle overview
Three forms (or allotropes) of oxygen are involved in the ozone-oxygen cycle: oxygen atoms (O or atomic oxygen), oxygen gas (O 2 or diatomic oxygen), and ozone gas (O
3 or triatomic oxygen). Ozone is formed in the stratosphere when oxygen molecules photodissociate after absorbing an ultraviolet photon whose wavelength is shorter than 240 nm. This converts a singleO 2 into two atomic oxygen radicals. The atomic oxygen radicals then combine with separate O 2 molecules to create two O
3 molecules. These ozone molecules absorb UV light between 310 and 200 nm, following which ozone splits into a molecule of O 2 and an oxygen atom. The oxygen atom then joins up with an oxygen molecule to regenerate ozone. This is a continuing process that terminates when an oxygen atom "recombines" with an ozone molecule to make two O 2 molecules.
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The overall amount of ozone in the stratosphere is determined by a balance between photochemical production and recombination. Ozone can be destroyed by a number of free radical catalysts, the most important of which are the hydroxyl radical (OH·), the nitric oxide radical (NO·), atomic chlorine ion (Cl·) and atomicbromine ion (Br·). The dot is a common notation to indicate that all of these species have an unpaired electron and are thus extremely reactive. All of these have both natural and man-made sources; at the present time, most of the OH· and NO· in the stratosphere is of natural origin, but human activity has dramatically increased the levels of chlorine and bromine. These elements are found in certain stable organic compounds, especially chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which may find their way to the stratosphere without being destroyed in the troposphere due to their low reactivity. Once in the stratosphere, the Cl and Br atoms are liberated from the parent compounds by the action of ultraviolet light, e.g. CFCl
3 + electromagnetic radiation → CFCl
2 + Cl
The Cl and Br atoms can then destroy ozone molecules through a variety of catalytic cycles. In the simplest example of such a cycle,[4] a chlorine atom reacts with an ozone molecule, taking an oxygen atom with it (forming ClO) and leaving a normal oxygen molecule. The...
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