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Elie & Emilio Eid
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- $18,339 Raised
On Tuesday 21st March 2017, father and founder of Save Our Sons, Elie Eid, will begin a tough 300km walk around the Bay of Melbourne to help raise awareness and funding for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
The 2017 Walk To Save Our Sons, supported by National Partner Chemist Warehouse, will see Elie and his 12-year old son Emilio, who was diagnosed with Duchenne in 2006, joined by other Victorian families affected by Duchenne.
Duchenne is a severe muscle-wasting condition which affects one in 3,500 boys. It is the number one genetic killer of young boys worldwide, affects girls in rare cases and to-date has no cure.
Funds raised by the Walk to Save Our Sons will go towards:
The 300km walk around the bay, along with a gala event at Melbourne's Crown Palladium aims to raise up to $1.2 million. A specialist nurse is already funded for two years at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne with the aim of raising funds for a third year.
In the past 12 months, funds raised by Save Our Sons has seen the implementation of a specialised Duchenne nurse in Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital for 2 years. Funds raised through the 2017 Walk to Save Our Sons will expand this role for a third year, as well as placing a specialised Duchenne nurse in hospitals throughout Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia.
See our Walkers below or back your local Chemist Warehouse store and donate generously!
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A buttery rich Shortbread topped with Homemade Salted Caramel, Nuts and of course a Chocolate Drizzle too!
A while ago I posted my recipe for my Millionaires Shortbread and they were a big hit – all you guys seem to love that I don't stinge on my portion sizes, and the addition of Maltesers (so yummy!!) and I myself have made this several times since it has been posted on here – this however led me to recreate something I once had at where I work – a Salted Caramel Nut Slice. Holy SMOKES this tastes so good!
In my books, anything Salted Caramel is good – and the hybrid of this, my millionaires shortbread, and nuts is perfection. As the cakes are bought in at where I work, I don't 100% know how they're made or whats in them – so I wanted to create it where I know what the ingredients are, there are no preservatives – and so I can share this beauty with you all!
I know you all love Salted Caramel as my Salted Caramel Chocolate Tart recipe and my Salted Caramel Chocolate Cupcakes recipe are some of the most popular on the blog and I can understand why – they're so yummy!
I did change a couple of things for this recipe though – the shortbread is thinner in this recipe as I wanted to increase the caramel slightly and not overload on biscuit, the caramel & nuts are so important! I seriously hope you enjoy this recipe – let me know how you get on!
This makes 18 Triangles – a 9×9″ Square tray!
Shortbread Base
– 190g Butter, diced
– 85g Caster Sugar
– 250g Plain Flour
– 200g Butter
– 3 Tbsp Caster Sugar
– 4 Tbsp Golden Syrup
– 1x 397g Tin Condensed Milk
– 1-2 tsps Sea Salt
– 40g Chopped Hazelnuts
– 40g Chopped Pecans
– 75g Milk Chocolate, Melted
1) Preheat your oven to 180C/160C Fan, and line a 9×9″ Deep Square Tin with Parchment Paper.
2) Cream together the sugar and butter until smooth and mix in the flour until a dough is formed. It will be crumbly but the ingredients will be evenly dispersed! Firmly press the mixture into the bottom of tin and bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes until pale golden on top!
3) Once baked, remove from the oven and leave to the side. In a large saucepan pour the condensed milk, butter, sugar, and golden syrup and melt on a medium heat till the sugar has dissolved – stir frequently to stop anything from catching.
4) Once the sugar has dissolved, turn the heat up high and let the mixture come to boiling point and boil for 7-8 minutes stiring pretty much constantly so that the mixture doesn't catch. BE CAREFUL as the mixture is VERY hot and can burn you if it splashes back! The mixture will be ready when it has changed to a darker golden colour, and has thickened to a soft fudge texture!
5) Pour the caramel onto the shortbread base carefully – sprinkle with the sea salt – I make sure that all of the caramel is covered, but be sparing in specific areas so its not too concentrated! If using chunky salt crystals then you can use a bit more, but if using finely ground salt then be sparing as its a lot more concentrated! Sprinkle on the chopped nuts whilst the caramel is still hot as well so that they stick in and place the traybake into the fridge and refrigerate for 1 hour.
6) Drizzle over the melted chocolate whilst still in the tray and then refrigerate again for 2-3 hours so that its fully solidified. Remove the traybake from the tin and remove the parchment paper – cut into squares/triangles whatever – I cut mine into 9 squares, and them into triangles – perfect size!
Tips and Ideas
This will keep in an airtight container for 1 week – I store mine in the fridge as its summer, but if your house is fairly cool and you prefer your caramel a bit softer, then room temperature will do!
You can easily use Dark/White Chocolate on the top, or other nuts too decorate, but this is definitely my favourite combination! If you're using the finely ground salt then use LESS – this tends to be stronger as there is so much more of it on the spoon, as the sea salt pieces are larger!
Find my other Tray Bake Recipes on my Recipes Page!
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Ta` Monita Beats the IdyllsHome » Highlights » Ta` Monita Property Marsascala Beats the Idylls
Victor Calleja
Take a small village in Norfolk, one in Madeira and a beautifully-equipped large house in Sicily. All sound enticing, all sound perfect. Even the mere names make us want to go there. Then place Ta' Monita in perspective—competing against all the idyllic places mentioned above. Ta' Monita wins. Hands down!
This is not a developer's dream or a writer wined and dined enough to imagine or stretch the truth just a trifle beyond belief. This is reality as related to me by the Masons, a most charming couple who have just purchased an apartment at Ta' Monita and think that this place in Marsascala beats Madeira, Sicily, Portugal and has many more attributes than Norfolk. For the moment, the Masons will not be permanent residents at Ta' Monita but they hope to be there often before they retire there.
Jeremy and Nadia Mason are both academics with very scientific backgrounds. When they told me what they specialise in my heart missed more than a thousand beats. I thought professors in Molecular Biology would hardly be interesting. I imagined sitting in a room experiencing the equivalent of seeing the walls being painted then having to wait not only till the paint dried but till it flaked away. This was the imagined pain. The reality was a great surprise. These scientists are fun-loving and extremely good company.
Both worked at King's in London for many years and enjoyed life to the fullest. Or so they thought. 12 years ago they saw many of their, senior colleagues suffer debilitating illnesses or even dying. The Masons had, like many others, planned to retire at the conventional age and then enjoy life. Then one day they looked at each other and practically in unison stated that they should change their lifestyle before the accepted age for retirement.
Life in London was great, social life very hectic and theatre land and concerts within easy reach. But they felt this was too hectic and they hardly had time to enjoy relaxing and feeling fulfilled. They wanted a quiet place where gardening would be fun, hobbies like pottery could be followed and travelling the world a possibility often and at short notice.
They bought a house in Norfolk in a rustic beautiful village with a population of just a few hundreds. This was the start of their change in lifestyle. They started going there at weekends and enjoying the quiet and the lovely garden. Nadia started pottering about not just in the garden but also doing some actual pottery.
Then five years ago Nadia retired completely from academia and Jeremy semi-retired. And they realised that one big thing was missing in their life still—sun, glorious sunshine, life-giving light most days of the year. And the search was on from Spain to Morocco via Sicily.
Malta didn't figure in their searches as they had come here 20 years back and left rather disappointed. They saw places—away from our shores—that mesmerised them wherever they went until the gods intervened, as they are wont to do.
They were seriously considering Madeira for their idyllic home and attended an ex-pat fair which should have had Madeira as its main focus—however, there was no one to speak about it. Instead a marvellous man from Malta talked highly of the island, its new developments and its new look and they were intrigued enough to decide to venture over for another holiday: to check out the words of the estate agent from Malta.
They quickly established the truth of what he had told them. Malta now looked gorgeous and from hardly interested they became enthusiastic. The final part of the love affair with Malta was viewing an apartment at Ta' Monita. This clinched it all. All the rest of the idylls were forgotten. And that is how Malta and Ta' Monita won hands down. It was a tough tussle but Malta was the best place with its history, culture, hospitable and English-speaking people.
Nadia is the one who will be making the most use of the apartment for now as she misses the sunshine more than Jeremy—being Egyptian and having lived her youth there has made her very intolerant of wintry, dull, wet days.
So Norfolk will be fine for spring and summer when gardening and pottery will rule but for most of the year, for Nadia Ta' Monita beckons. Jeremy will continue working part-time in London for now and commute often. Travel to and from Malta is easy, not just to the UK but to most other places, and internet connectivity is great. It is vital that this works well for Jeremy as he does a lot of online work and cannot have bad connectivity.
Life at Ta' Monita is a real dream come true for the Masons. To them the views, the vistas of endless sea, the peace that reigns, the quality of the restaurants just round the corner, the abundant fish, the shops, are all bonuses to the quality of the development. They also look forward to many happy days when their children and grandchildren come to visit.
Life and its beauty and enjoyment can be missed in our madly hectic lives. To the Masons bliss came just when they planned. I left their idyll with them sitting on their terrace overlooking the limpid sea at Marsascala Bay. My reaction to their choice mirrored that of their friends: pure green jealousy.
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Hey Mark , You may not know this about me but i often travel back in forth in time. I have my drawing group so i will be late to the LR tonight. , so i travel briefly forward tonight and reaaly loved the new song you havent sung yet.I'll see you soon but i wont be around untill last wednesday, Peaces Larry
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Moths: Sand-verbena Moth (Copablepharon fuscum)
Profile prepared by Nicole Rosmarino (WildEarth Guardians) and Julia Janicki (The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation)
Sand-verbena Moth (Copablepharon fuscum) is a critically imperiled moth known to exist in only ten populations within a narrow range in the Strait of Georgia of British Columbia in Canada and the Puget Sound of Washington in the United States. Within its range, this moth depends on coastal habitat containing relatively large stands of its host plant, the yellow sand-verbena (Abronia latifolia). Yellow sand-verbena only grows near sea level, in sandy coastal areas that lack dense plant cover. Sand-verbena Moth depends on the yellow sand-verbena in all life stages except pupation. Adult moths feed on the nectar of the sand-verbena's trumpet-shaped flower; adults lay eggs in its flowers; and larvae feed on its leaves and flowers.
Xerces Red List Status: Critically Imperiled
Other Rankings:
Canada – Species at Risk Act: Endangered
Canada – provincial status: S1
Mexico: N/A
USA – Endangered Species Act: N/A
USA – state status: S1?; Species of Concern
NatureServe: Global Status G1G2; National Status N1N2
IUCN Red List: N/A
Sand-verbena Moth has a 35-40 mm (1.4-1.6 in) wingspan, is golden to dark brown, and has distinctive black and yellow lines parallel to the wing margins. Its wings have a predominantly gray underside. Overall coloring varies among individuals and southern populations may be darker than northern populations. Males and females have similar coloring, wing patterns, and size (Troubridge and Crabo 1995; COSEWIC 2003; British Columbia Invertebrates Recovery Team 2008).
Sand-verbena Moth was first described by J.T. Troubridge and L.G. Crabo in 1995, based on specimens collected near Sidney, British Columbia (BC), and on Whidbey Island, Washington (WA) (Troubridge and Crabo 1995).
Sand-verbena Moth is dependent on yellow sand-verbena, its only host plant. There is no evidence that it can use alternate host plants. Yellow sand-verbena grows exclusively in sandy coastal habitats along the Pacific Coast. Only large coastal sand features, such as dunes, beaches, and spits support this plant. Sand-verbena Moth requires the yellow sand-verbena in all life stages except pupation. Adult moths feed on the nectar of the sand-verbena, using their long proboscis to access the trumpet-shaped flowers. Adults lay eggs in the verbena's flowers, which hatch within approximately 2 weeks. Larvae feed on the verbena's leaves and flowers (COSEWIC 2003; British Columbia Invertebrates Recovery Team 2008;Raincoast Applied Ecology 2005).
Adult moths fly from mid-May to early July, with a lifespan of 7-21 days. The adults fly once per year, at dusk or early evening. The flight season and mating peaks in mid-June, which corresponds to the peak flowering period of the yellow sand-verbena. Adults deposit small groups of eggs or single eggs in the flowers of the yellow sand-verbena. Larvae feed nocturnally on sand-verbena's flowers and leaves during the summer and subsequently enter dormancy (diapause) and overwinter from early fall to early spring. Diapause ends in early spring, at which time larvae continue feeding until they enter pupation in late April and May. Pupation takes place below ground in the sand, underneath verbena patches (COSEWIC 2003; British Columbia Invertebrates Recovery Team 2008). After a pupation period of approximately 10 days, adults emerge (SARA Registry 2009).
Sand-verbena Moth is limited to the Salish Sea (the Georgia Basin-Puget Sound watershed) of BC and WA (British Columbia Invertebrates Recovery Team 2008). Additional surveys have been conducted in suitable habitats on the Long Beach peninsula in Washington and have not uncovered new populations of this species (pers. comm. with Lars Crabo, 2 February 2010). The global range of this species is less than 220 km long and 45 km wide (137 mi by 28 mi) (British Columbia Invertebrates Recovery Team 2008).
Sand-verbena Moth is in a precarious situation, as it is a habitat specialist tied to a habitat specialist host plant in a highly threatened habitat type. This specialization on one food plant (monophagy) alone makes Sand-verbena Moth vulnerable to extinction. Primary anthropogenic threats include: inundation of its coastal habitat as a result of rising sea levels and increased storm surges due to climate change; habitat loss from stabilization of its shifting dune habitat; displacement of yellow sand-verbena due to non-native vegetation; recreation, development, and military activities within its habitat; use of pesticides that kill all Lepidoptera, including Sand-verbena Moth; and other threats.
The main threats identified to have caused the imperilment of Sand-verbena Moth include the present or threatened destruction, modification, or curtailment of habitat or range; disease or predation; the inadequacy of existing regulatory mechanisms; and other natural or man-made factors affecting its continued existence including climate change and the use of insecticides and herbicides.
Several factors reduce and degrade Sand-verbena Moth habitat. These include any activities altering the sand dune vegetation or other conditions at extant locations. Examples are: vegetation stabilization, habitat conversion, military and recreational activities, coastal erosion, and stochastic events, such as extreme weather (British Columbia Invertebrates Recovery Team 2008).
Collection is not known to constitute a threat to Sand-verbena Moth. However, the rarity of the species may make it more attractive to lepidoptera collectors. Lepidoptera populations that are small and easily accessible are especially vulnerable to over-collection. However, much information may be gained about the life history and conservation status of this species through collecting.
Predation and disease may cause annual changes in Lepidoptera numbers of an order of magnitude or more. The limited extent of Sand-verbena Moth populations increases their vulnerability to extirpation due to natural fluctuations that may occur as a result of disease or predation pressures. Adult and larval moths are likely subject to predation by bats, birds, and small mammals (British Columbia Invertebrates Recovery Team 2008).
Finally, Sand-verbena Moth is not adequately protected by federal or state laws or policies to prevent its endangerment or extinction in the US. It is designated as Endangered under the Canadian Species at Risk Act.
Conservation needs
Necessary actions include protecting the habitat of known Sand-verbena Moth populations, with an emphasis on processes that influence the sand dune ecosystems and yellow sand-verbena populations; investigating the extent of collection and the potential consequences to the species during the course of a status review; further investigating disease as a threat in a status review for Sand-verbena Moth; and protecting the moth under federal or state laws by listing it as a threatened or endangered species.
Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC). 2003. COSEWIC assessment and status report on Sand-verbena Moth Copablepharon fuscum in Canada. Ottawa, ON. 39 pp. Online at: http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/species/speciesDetails_e.cfm?sid=789
NatureServe. 2010. NatureServe Explorer: an online encyclopedia of life. Species Account for Abronia latifolia. Online at: http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/
Species At Risk Act (SARA) Registry. 2009. Species Account for Sand Verbena Moth. Online at: http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/specie/speciesDetails_e.cfm?sid=789
Troubridge, J.T. and L.G. Crabo. 1995. A new species of Copablepharon (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from British Columbia and Washington. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia 92: 87-90. Online at: http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/facilities/strickland/cop.pdf
Petition to list the Sand-verbena moth as an endangered species under the US Endangered Species Act.


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Oddly enough, there really is not much of a backstory to this book. It sort of came out of nowhere. I'd been considering a post-apocalyptic novel - one which incorporates certain real-world realities. Climate Change was one of the ideas I'd incorporate into it, but it's pretty universally accepted that although it will be devastating (especially, as depicted in the book, a "worst case" scenario), it probably won't cause man's extinction. So, I came up with a "disease" caused by climate change which will cause mankind's extinction.
Prions are explained in the book (or you can look them up), and that's what they call the Shades, and why the book is so named. I was originally going to focus on the gal in the image, whose name is "Quiptie", but as I wrote it, it focused more on the guy in the book - James Kranz. The working title was "Quiptie", in fact, and that got changed for reasons anyone reading the book might understand.
Coincidentally, while I was writing this book, the World Health Organization came out with a new thing to be aware of - something they called "Disease X". Disease X isn't something anyone knows about at the moment. It's a designation for a illness that MIGHT happen, and probably will, given how diseases mutate and evolve. One of the things that's out there, which isn't a "disease", are prions. Most folks know them as Mad Cow Disease, but they can, and do, attack Humans. I thought it was rather odd that the WHO would put this out in the middle of my writing, and I incorporated that into the book as well.
Everything in the book is actually based on real-life technology. Even to the AI's and the integration of carbon-based technology with biology. Much of it is still in the experimental stages right now, but research seems to indicate that everything in the book can or will become a viable piece of hardware/software/tech in the not too distant future. Unfortunately, even the Prion disease - the Shades - is a real-life potential threat that's already out there. The only thing I put in the book that isn't potentially real is the cure. Not enough research is involved in that to say whether or not the method in the book will work in real life. At the moment, there's no known cure for prion diseases, and thus far, no therapies have been developed that successfully treat it.
So, I ended up with a horror story, along with a post-apocalyptic novel. Two things I've never done before.
In that respect, this is a major departure from the kinds of things I've written about in the past. It DOES tend to follow where I've been going with my writing for the last year or so - more reality-based science fiction. This one is very close to the Empathy Epidemic, but even MORE rooted in reality.
Welcome to the 24th century, where the world's population is less than two million, civilization is gone, the seas have risen, technology is all but dead and everyone is dead of the Shades by thirty five - except in one place where one young man discovers something that is decidedly odd...
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Would you like to help maintain these native gardens this summer? Ongoing watering, etc. will be needed. Check the Opportunities Page for details and contact info.
The Tolland County Master Gardener Class of 2010 took on a challenge from Robert Carter of Hebron Lions Agricultural Society. Could we transform an area of high visibility that needed titivation into an inviting "Welcome!" "Come In & Visit Awhile!!" showcase? AND…. (is there ever a gauntlet thrown down, that doesn't have an and…or a but…involved?) can you do it with Native Plants?
Well…. Never, ever dare our class…. We thrive on gardening challenges and 'could not resist'; besides, "Native Plants" evokes a very positive vibe for us.
Our task was to present an artistic living display, designed to highlight Native Plants. Click Here for details and pictures about Planting Day and maintenance activities.
Our gardens will be on display during the Hebron Harvest Fair September 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th 2010. We also have a booth where information on our new gardens, their providence for native wildlife, and the sustainability of a native garden will be highlighted. Will we see you there?
As the gardens mature, their attraction for people, as well as for native wildlife will increase as their self sustainability & low maintenance features become more evident. Although we won't have any attendant Master Gardeners at the Renaissance Faire throughout weekends in September and October, our gardens will be showing off their fall color, sustainability & presence.
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A band is releasing two new singles with help from a crowd sourcing campaign to fund the project.
Sinfiction is very popular on the local music scene and recently played at Haddenham Beer Festival.
Now, with help from their loyal following, the band members will launch their singles, Painted Memories and Ugly Baby, at The Harrow in Aylesbury on Saturday August 1.
Singer and electric guitar player David Thornton said: "We seem to have a good following and we want to say thank you to all the people that support us at live performances and with the funding for the singles. We are really gtrateful."
The band used Kickstarter, a funding platform for creative projects, to raise the £7,000 needed to fund the recording of the singles.Most people donated small amounts, and were rewarded with various different rewards.
The band recorded the singles at a top quality studio in London with a professional producer.
They write all their own material, mainly indie rock.
David said: "Ugly Baby is about someone who is messing up their life a bit and wants more from life. Painted Memories is about looking back at the fun stuff you have done with mates and looking forward at the same time."
The four members have been together for three years. Three of them work together at an IT company and the fourth, Danny Brook, is a longtime friend.They came up with the name Sinfiction after jotting down over 100 names and slowly crossing them all off.
Free CDs of the singles will be handed out at the launch night at The Harrow on August 1. Doors open 7.30pm, with Sinfiction taking the stage at 10pm. Thereafter the singles will be available to download from Spotify, iTunes and Google Play.


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Judging from history alone, it's hard to imagine that Green Party candidate Titus North will pose a threat to his opponent, Democrat Mike Doyle. Doyle has been representing the 14th Congressional District -- which includes Pittsburgh and more than 50 other Allegheny County municipalities -- for 14 years. And when the two men matched up in 2006, North took just 10 percent of the vote.
Thus far, there's little reason on paper to think things will be different this time around. North says he's raised just less than $1,000. Doyle, according to campaign finance records, has raised more than $680,000.
"There is absolutely no chance of me winning based on money," North concedes.
But voters are more worried about their own finances than those of the candidates. And North says the nation's current economic crisis means Doyle will have a harder time being re-elected this time around. That, he says, is because Doyle, of Forest Hills, voted for the controversial $700 billion bailout package this month, which has been decried by voters in western Pennsylvania and everywhere else. North, on the other hand, denounced Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's plan to revive the country's ailing economy as a bailout for giant financial corporations.
"Doyle did what the Congressional Democrats wanted him to do without regard for the 100-percent negative reaction from his constituents," says North, 46, sitting in the dining room of his Squirrel Hill home. As a result, "For the first time ... there is a chance of me winning that doesn't involve lightning."
North doesn't deny that Congress had to do something to avoid an economic catastrophe, but "the definition of 'something' is not limited to what Henry Paulson asked for," he argues, holding a copy of the bailout package in his hands. "There's more in the universe of 'something' than this."
North has followed the world economy for the last 20 years as a financial analyst and news translator for Reuters. (He also teaches political science at the University of Pittsburgh.) He says his alternative to the bailout would have required audits of all banks and insurance companies, whose fiscal recklessness many blame for the economic crisis.
Doyle acknowledges that his office received roughly 300 phone calls at the outset of the economic meltdown -- and that all of those were opposed to a bailout. But by the time people started realizing that a market collapse would affect everyone's wallet, Doyle says his constituents started to see the merit in backing some kind of rescue plan.
"Doing nothing would have resulted in the economy collapsing," he says. "This was the right vote."
Doyle says North's calls for audits is a worthy idea, but not something that could be done overnight. "When the tsunami's about to hit you, you don't have the time to do some of those things," he says. Although Congress would have welcomed the luxury of choosing from a long list of rescue plans, Doyle says, "We didn't have a choice. We had one [plan]. ... Titus North's plan wasn't on the floor."
Even if it was, Doyle doubts that it would have provided any insight that wasn't offered from the dozens of nationally renowned economy experts involved in discussions. "Titus is a voice, he has an opinion," says Doyle. "But I don't think that he has Warren Buffett's knowledge of what's going on." (Buffett, the billionaire who heads investment firm Berkshire Hathaway, was an outspoken supporter of the bailout.)
Some Congressional representatives facing tight election races voted against the bailout: The conventional wisdom is that they worried voting in favor of it would enrage voters and risk their re-election chances. North says, "Doyle certainly felt safe [voting for the bailout] because he thinks he doesn't have to worry about [his re-election] race. ... I don't think he feels me breathing down his neck.
"I know [my chances] aren't huge," he adds.
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BOLD Method for birth
What is the BOLD Method?
The BOLD Method is a childbirth empowerment method developed by Karen Brody, playwright of Birth and founder of BOLD, a global movement to make maternity care mother-friendly. It was designed to help pregnant women take action in their birth from a place of their own deep truth, and it is grounded in the belief that every woman has the capacity to define and communicate her own needs.
It's about empowerment.
The BOLD Method invites pregnant women to embrace their intuitive wisdom
and relax into the natural intelligence within their heart, body and spirit.
It's not a method toward achieving any specific type of birth. Given tools to access her deep knowing and to take action, the pregnant woman holds the keys to creating an experience that is reflective of her true nature.
Are you pregnant and interested in BOLD classes?
When you sign up for a BOLD Method childbirth class, you embark on a Body, Voice, Action journey.
The BOLD Method will help you connect with your body, find your voice- your place of internal power- and create an action plan that will put you at the center of your birth experience.
Why the center?
Because you matter.
Your voice matters.
Your choices matter.
Because you are constantly being asked to remove yourself from the central position.
Yet you are the one birthing.
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Pleasanton surprise
Great shopping in an unsung East Bay town
If you have no idea where Pleasanton even is, here's some newsfor you: The little town between Livermore and Hayward is a greatplace for holiday shopping. Its pedestrian-friendly streets arelined with independently owned boutiques as well as―getthis―a drive-in dairy. Grab a hot cocoa and listen tocarolers on November 18, when shops stay open late for the annualMagical Evening.
SHOP: Me & Emmi. WHAT: Splurge on a holiday party outfitat this women's clothing boutique, and accessorize with danglingearrings by Berkeley design duo Viv & Ingrid. WHEN: Open daily. WHERE: 549 Main St.; 925/600-9670.
Gourmet Works. WHAT: Indulge your sweet tooth with handmadechocolates and jams, perfect for stocking-stuffers. WHEN: Open daily. WHERE: 420 Main St.; 925/461-1110.
RUMA. WHAT: Browse this mother-daughter-owned shop sellingbed linens, dessert sets, and tea scented candles. WHEN: Open daily. WHERE: 310-B Main St.; 925/249-9200.
Meadowlark Drive-In Dairy. WHAT: If making cookies is onyour to-do list―or if you've just got to see what thedrive-in dairy concept is all about―place an order for milkand eggs here. WHEN: Open daily. WHERE: 57 W. Neal St.; 925/846-2261.
BRING KIDS: G.R. Doodlebug. WHAT: Get ready to make a list.Your bambino will scramble among shelves stacked with Spy Gear,Calico Critters, and other must-have toys. WHEN: Open daily. WHERE: 350-A Main St.; 925/600-1360.
GO: Magical Evening. WHAT: On Friday, November 18, downtownmerchants stay open late, with some offering in-store specials tokick off the holiday season. WHEN: 5-9. HOW MUCH: Free. WHERE: 925/484-2199.
EAT: TortaBella. WHAT: Start the day with an egg-and-baconcroissant sandwich and a white mocha. WHEN: Breakfast and lunch daily. HOW MUCH: $. WHERE: 349 Main St.; 925/426-1616.
Blue Agave Club. WHAT: Dig into the New York steak garnishedwith cotija cheese or warm up with a bowl of sopa de tortilla. WHEN: Lunch and dinner daily. HOW MUCH: $$$. WHERE: 625 Main St.; 925/417-1224. ―Michelle Lau
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This duck gets its name from the chestnut colored ring around the neck; however, it is visible only at close range and difficult to see in the field. Most diving ducks will send their ducklings into the water when they sense danger; however, the ring necked duck will try to hide their ducklings under vegetation. The ring necked duck is also known, in some areas, as the ring-bill.
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Luxury Villas Koh Samui : Benefiting from huge sliding windows and dream amenities, this holiday villa enjoys quiet picturesque setting overlooking the tropical garden. This house is a perfect blend of high-end design with traditional Thai style that provides a feeling of lightness and comfort. Through the main entrance you will get into an ample living area. This is open plan room with big sliding doors that make it very light and perfect for relaxation. Next to it there is a unique bench-style dining area with seating for six. It overlooks an outdoor wooden-decked space where you will see table and chairs. Surrounded by lush tropical trees this spot is perfect for dining or unwinding in the shade. On the same floor there is a totally-equipped kitchen, where you will find dishwasher, double sink, hob, oven and cooker hood. The villa has three tastefully decorated bedrooms each with en-suite bathroom. One, on the ground floor, is furnished with queen-size bed. Upstairs, there is a master bedroom with comfortable king-size bed, walk-in wardrobe and private balcony to enjoy stunning views. Next to it, there is one more bedroom equipped with to single beds. It also boast furnished balcony. Outside, there is the beautiful garden and the big pool with sun-decking and sun-loungers to enjoy the sun or shade. This property is a perfect place for family or group of friends to spend unforgettable vacation on Koh Samui. Additionaly, the retreat has a Clubhouse that features a wide range of amenities for fitness, relaxation and well-being, including spa & treatment center, gym, Children's Club and tennis court.
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We shed some tears with This is it
Michael Jackon's THIS IS IT shows the last couple of months before his demise. You get to see what he was planning to show all of us and what surprises he had stored for the fans. Besides fragments of his show, people whom he worked with are being interviewed as well.
So is this really it? Can we close the story that is Michael Jackson with this movie, or do we feel something is still missing and another chapter is still required?
THIS IS IT follows the cast & crew of the show with all their rehearsals and other technical features. You will get to see what kind of perfectionist Michael really is and how he keeps pushing himself beyond limits. If things aren't going the way he wants, he will say it and make everyone do it again.
But THIS IS IT also shows you his more gentle side (for those who did not know he had it). He respects everyone on the stage for what they are and will ask things politely. MJ is also treated as such by the producer and other people whom are working with him. The group together, working on this production just looks like a big family which will give you tears, knowing that such an artist isn't among us anymore.
In the press fan clubs have been saying that THIS IS IT does not capture the real Michael Jackson and the pain he has been going through, but I say they are wrong. If you look closely during this movie, you will see him grabbing his right wrists at times or his stomach when he has pain. Also other type of movements can been seen, which are associated with pain. People with similar pains will recognise those movements quite easily. So to simply say "the presentation of Michael is wrong" has been exaggerated.
However what the movie does show is, what kind of entertainer Michael truly is and how hard he works to bring the fans something new and special. Did you know that he reshot most of his music videos just for these concerts? They redid "They don't care about us" on the green screen so the couple dancers were multiplied times thousands. They even redid "Thriller" with 3D Technology. I can only assume that the audience would receive 3D Glasses, which of course would create the effect of the monsters coming out of the screen. Besides this 3D effect they created special ghosts which would fly through the stadium.
It is mindboggling to see the things he had planned. As some of you might know MJ always did something unique and with THIS IS IT he aimed for unique times two. What am I saying, unique times one hundred! Yes I am a fan and it is a shame he did not end his career how he planned it. I am aware that in recent times he hardly brought us anything new, but his legacy could be seen in many R&B artist today like Usher, Ne-Yo or Chris Brown. With his passing this legacy will only be enhanced and looking at THIS IS IT, I am quite sure it will inspire only more artists to be.


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Aquamarine Engagement Rings represent optimism, wellbeing, and faithfulness enshrined in a stunning Aquamarine gemstone. Not only is this gemstone a great conversation piece due to it's rarity amongst engagement rings, it is also the birthstone for March. The name aquamarine originates from the Latin "aqua" meaning water and "mare" meaning sea.
The aquamarine is aptly named because of the wide spectrum of blue colors that it comes in; from a pale blue to a deep sea blue-green. The deeper colors are more sought after, therefore more expensive. No matter what shade that you decide on for the stone for an engagement ring, the ring will is bound to be commented on.
Most aquamarine stones have been heat-treated to enhance the blue coloring. This treatment has no effect on the quality or the hardness of the stone. The aquamarine rates a 7.5 on the hardness scale, making it a perfect choice for daily wear.
The aquamarine is a virtually flawless stone, rarely if ever having inclusions that are sometimes common in other gemstones. This gemstone is great for being cut into any shape and faceting enhances the sparkle and beauty of the stone. Due to the beautiful blue coloring of the aquamarine, the most common settings are either platinum or white gold. However, the blue is equally as beautiful in yellow gold settings.
Caring for Aquamarine Engagement Rings is simple. Simple cleaning with soap and water brings back the beauty of the stone. Avoid using ultrasonic cleaners, rapid temperature changes, and contact with most household cleaners to prevent damaging the gemstone.
Finding aquamarine gemstone rings for engagement purposes should not be hard as most jewelers carry a variety of styles. But if you do have difficulties or cannot find a design that strikes you as the one you must have, you should look online and you will find many reputable jewelers. So if you are planning a wedding by the seaside or just want a ring that is special and unique, consider Aquamarine Engagement Rings for the engagement ring you present to your beloved.


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ASL Idioms
Idioms are phrases that have figurative rather than literal meanings. They may compare two dissimilar things to mean something else entirely. They commonly appear in most languages as peculiar and eccentric additions but may not be commonly understood by everyone.
Idioms occur plentifully in American Sign Language (ASL) as well, and they have some of the following features:
- They may or may not be deviations of idioms or words found in the English language.
- They are expressed with signs and facial expressions.
- They can contain single or compound signs as well as entire phrases.
Some Commonly Used ASL Idioms and Their Meanings
The word or phrase in bold is an ASL idiom followed by an English translation and a description of the sign.
1. Train-Gone/Train-Go-Sorry – You have missed the boat.
Hold your arms before you at slightly under chin level with the index fingers of both hands extended. Hold the left hand with the index finger and thumb pointing to the right with the other fingers curled close. Hold the right hand on top of the left hand with the right thumb resting on the extended left index finger and the right index finger pointing upwards. Move the right hand away bringing together the right index finger and right thumb in a pinching motion with the left hand kept in the same position.
2. Cigarette-Gone – You have missed the boat.
Same sign. Except you rest the right index finger and the right small finger on the left hand.
3. Finish-Touch – Been there. Done that.
Hold your hands before you with the palms facing upward and the fingers open wide. Turn your palms inwards towards each other and then facing away outward from you. This is the sign for Finish. Now you make the sign for Touch by by holding your left hand with the palm facing downward at chest level and then dropping the third finger of the right hand on top of it.
4. Mind-Frozen – Hard to think.
Touch your temple with your right index finger and hold the left hand fingers separated and facing downward held loosely before you. Move your right and left hands downward simultaneously with the fingers curled in a slightly claw-like position.
5. Think-Disappear – It slipped my mind.
Hold the right index finger up against your forehead and hold your left palm, fingers close together and palm downward, in front of it at the midpoint of the right index finger. Bring the right index finger down while keeping the left hand in the same position.
6. Angry-Me – I'm furious.
Curl the fingers of both hands into claws and, with hands held at the stomach, pull up in a ripping motion. You can also hold your right hand before your face and curl the fingers in clawing motion. In both cases, have a suitably angry expression.
7. I-I-I – A huge ego.
Make the 'I' sign three times. Extend your little finger and curl close the others fingers including the thumb. Repeat with both hands on the chest.
8. Laugh-Me-Finish – Stop making fun of me.
Smile. Hold both hands near the smile with the index fingers pointing to it. Move the fingers away and then near. Point to yourself and then make the sign for Finish as shown above.
9. Vomit – I find it repulsive.
Make a disgusted expression. Open your mouth, and move your extended right hand with open fingers from your mouth in the downward direction.
10. Funny-None – It's not in the least funny.
Wrinkle up your nose slightly. Hold the right index finger to the bridge of the nose and move it down to the nose tip and then down under mouth. Repeat. This is the sign for Funny. For None, hold both arms, bent at the elbows before you, with the hands held upward and the fingers curled to meet the thumbs in an O. Move hands up and down, shaking your head once.
11. Grab-Eyes – It's very fascinating.
Point to each eye and make a grabbing motion with both hands at chest level.
12. Cow-It – Slowpoke.
Hold your right hand with the little finger extended upwards, the thumb extended sideways, and the other fingers curled close. Rest the extended thumb against your temple, and twist your hand so the extended little finger points forward and then upward again. Tilt the head slightly. This is the sign for Cow. Now change the hand position to extend the index finger and curl closed all other fingers. Make a grimace.
13. Blood-Fill-Face – Left embarrassed.
Place the right index finger against nose tip and bring it down over the chin to the neck. Open the fingers facing inward to the neck. Bring up the left hand in same position. Move up both hands to the side of face at eyelevel.
14. Swallow-Fish – Gullible.
Hold the right hand before you at chin level palm facing to the left. Open your mouth and show your tongue. Move the palm forward and backward, opening and closing your mouth.
Vocabulary Download
For a printable download of the ASL vocabulary in this article, please see ASL Idioms and Their Meanings.


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Monday, 16 December 2013 - There are nine sleeps left 'til Christmas but just one sleep to go before Oz Lotto's $70 million jackpot draw tomorrow night!
Oz Lotto is offering a $70 million first division prize in Tuesday night's draw, and the country is buzzing with people asking one another that all important question, "What would you do if you won Oz Lotto?"
There are 70 million reasons to be in it to win it tomorrow night!
Spokesperson Elissa Lewis said players around Australia have been flocking to buy Oz Lotto tickets today for a chance to ring in the New Year as a multi-millionaire.
"Tomorrow night's $70 million Oz Lotto jackpot is the largest prize that has been offered in Australia this year, and the fifth largest advertised jackpot in Australia's lotto history," Ms Lewis said.
"The mammoth first division prize pool has piqued national interest in the draw, with millions of Australian adults purchasing entries in-store and online today.
"With Christmas just around the corner, our players are imagining how winning Oz Lotto's $70 million jackpot would change their lives and allow them to share their good fortune with those around them.
"The most common response we hear from division one lotto winners in Australia is that they plan on helping their friends and family with their prize money, and many of our winners choose to donate a portion of their prize money to charity," Ms Lewis added.
"Oz Lotto changes lives year-round, but winning the $70 million jackpot prize this festive season would be an extra special experience."
The mammoth $70 million Oz Lotto draw will take place tomorrow night, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 and it is anticipated that around one third of the Australian adult population will purchase an entry for the chance to share in $70 million.


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Peninsula residents perform random acts of kindness during snow storm
A man had to get to work at the post office (they're still delivering!) and resident Justin Wright stepped up and helped push the car. Wright has been helping random people get their cars out of the snow for 6 hours now. "It's my duty to pay it back."
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Many of you will prize this name from the 1960s TV show, "The Prisoner". Patrick McGoohan utilised the phrase to set forth his defeat at not individual aerated as an individual, and man unbroken in the tenebrious roughly what his superiors were up to in a highly perplexing environment. This experience is not distinct to what human resources face in best correction projects.
A cog in the machine
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This "mechanical" conceptualisation to rework can give workers consciousness anomic and devalued (much look-alike Patrick McGoohan).
As these conventional approaches have developed, much beat has been located on the "human" aspects. It is given that a regulation program cannot pursue lacking "employee buy-in". The part is generally tackled by moving many workshops where on earth consultants try to bring in the workers awareness part of the pack of the exercise, patch continued to use the selfsame old techniques to the business organization processes themselves.
From the employee's component of view, an surface authority has interviewed him for cardinal proceedings to deduce the job that he has been doing for 30 years, gone away and come rear near a new way of doing it. This comes crossed as condescending at finest. The counsellor afterwards rubs brackish into the wounds by moving workshops to try to win the employee ended so that he does not forestall the changes!Post ads:
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In this environment, addressing the "people issues" is all in the order of ensuring that the smooth of disenchantment is not so tremendous that the move task fails.
Processes vs People
These problems are created because the inherent manner to the enterprise processes is motionless to treat the arrangement as a electrical device that desires to be "re-engineered". The hitches created by this come up to are then doped as "people issues".
Processes and inhabitants cannot be detached like this. Even in this age of technology, the colossal figure of business organization processes are carried out by people - commonly informally.
It is what body do on a day-to-day starting place that makes a company tough grind. A humongous percent of the processes are not documented and are so byzantine that it would be nigh unrealistic to do so. Procedures manuals are a greatly conceptualised picture of business concern processes - if they could takeover everything, no-one would pay for education.
Once you hold this, it becomes to a certain extent distinct why record correction projects are foiled. A firm course of action is not an inanimate reason that can be "re-engineered" but a assemblage of human behaviours. The solitary populace gifted of dynamic the conglomerate processes are those carrying them out.
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Bernd Kupka is an associate professor of management for the Woodbury School of Business at Utah Valley University.
He earned a B.A. in Communication from the University of Hawaii at Hilo in 2001 and a Master's of Science from Radford University in Organizational and Professional communication in 2003. In 2008, he earned a Ph.D. in Management with a specialization in international human resource management from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Dr. Kupka's teaching interests include (international) human resource management, training & development, organizational behavior, and organizational communication. When possible, all his classes have a high component of experiential education and students work as external consultants for local organizations. In 2013 he received the Civically Engage Scholar Award.
Dr. Kupka's research interests focus on all issues related to expatriation, the practice of sending corporate representatives on short- and long-term business assignments abroad. More generally, he examines issues related to international human resource management and training & development.
Dr. Kupka is the advisor to the UVU student chapter of the Society of Human Resource Management.


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Yesterday morning Tahi and I took Liz (his granny) for a walk at Eastwoodhill arboretum. It's a beautiful park planted with an extensive range of exotic trees. There are various walks, easy to moderate, so we chose a reasonably easy one that was about an hour long, which took us around a good portion of the domain. It was great, the leaves on some trees are already turning red and yellow, Tahi couldn't believe his luck at the endless supply of sticks and loved running down the paths.
I love taking close up pictures of natural elements, like tree bark, because they look quite graphic. I also took a photo of the canopy seen from the ground. have you ever noticed the pattern that forms where the leaves from separate branches don't quite join?
There were some strange and beautiful "nature" sculpture made by a school, possibly put in place for the centennial they'd celebrated just a week earlier. I love the idea of art made with whatever is found on the spot and that fades away with time without leaving a trace.
This is one I made earlier this summer at our new river swimming spot.
I'd also made a really cool one in Samoa 4 or 5 years ago. Some friends and I spent a whole afternoon picking bits of polished glass from the beach we were staying at, then we sorted them and made a big turtle on the sand at the high tide mark. It took us a while and unfortunately by the time it was finished it was getting dark, so I only got a couple of photos and they were quite dark. What a great memory though. We sat on the beach until the sea reached our little art piece. We then had to pick all the little pieces, as the local owner of the fales (bungalows) didn't like the idea of all this glass going into the sea and onto his beach! It didn't matter to him that we'd found it there in the first place. I have to add that every morning someone would be sweeping the beach, yes, to make it look like those postcard photos.


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The Air Force celebrates its 66th birthday this month, but the workhorse C-130 is not far behind. Instrumental in supporting the military from Vietnam to Honduras to Panama, it's still setting records. A formation of 20 C-130J Hercules made history carrying thousands of 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers during the Army and Air Force's Joint Operational Access Exercise at Fort Bragg this summer. The older photo shows a group of C-130s at Pope Air Force Base in the 1980s.
Pope Field will honor past and present by holding its 2013 Air Force Ball in a hangar at 6 p.m. Sept. 20. The World War II airmen known as "Ken's Men" will be the guests of honor.
Source: Airman 1st Class Damon Kasberg and librarian Michelle Luther, Fayetteville Observer archives.


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August Exhibition is from Red Rock Art from Western Australia.
Five artists are represented in the Woods Street gallery and DEAF Space.
Nellie Gordon, Lloyd Kwilla, Claude Carter, Freddie Timms and Jimmy McKenzie.
Darwin Visual Arts Association Inc (DVAA) An Artist Run Initiative since 1983, a community based arts organisation dedicated to supporting the production, promotion and appreciation of visual art by local artists in all media, as well as increasing public awareness and audience participation in contemporary visual art in Darwin.


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"They got second place in the sack race. I asked Maybelle to accompany him. They're getting ready for the mass dance now."
That was my mother's SMS on February 17th. I had forgotten that CJ was in Marbel for the Kiddie Fest, a children's activity organized by the Department of Education, participated in by both public and private school children.
Reality poked me again: I am doing long-distance parenting right now and have to live with bits and pieces of this arrangement until we snag a better option. Fortunately I can be grateful and happy for the presence of loved ones in my son's life while I am not physically around.


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Scotto Family Cellars history in winemaking dates back to 1883. Today it is the "biggest California winery you've never heard of."
Family Tradition – Eye On The Future
I first became acquainted with Scotto Family Cellars during last year's Wine Bloggers Conference in Lodi, California. Scotto had collaborated on the Masthead project – a Sangiovese wine developed by a team of four wine bloggers. Well not only was the wine a winner, but we had an opportunity to visit the newly opened Scotto Cellars tasting room in downtown Lodi for a Masthead debut party. It was a great evening filled with fun and excellent wine.
Dominic Scotto's homemade red wine filled the family glasses in Ischia, Italy, in 1883. In 1903 he immigrated to New York. In the 1940's his sons sold jugs of their father's wine from a pushcart in Brooklyn. Dominic and his brother Sal created Villa Armando, one of the oldest wine brands in the US, which had filled more than 250 million glasses with traditional red wine.
The company is now run by the latest generation of Scottos – five siblings – who operate state-of-the-art wineries in Lodi, Napa Valley and Amador County. While Scotto Family Cellars has deep traditional roots – with 53 harvests in California – they also have an eye on the future.
Lodi Flavor And Value
One of the revelations during my trip to Lodi was the diverse winegrowing scene. Although know for superb Zinfandel, grape varieties from Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy and the Rhone Valley are also grown.
The agricultural abundance in Lodi, enables the region to be a leader in providing quality wine at a great price point. The wines are on target not only with rich flavors – but with outstanding value.
We sampled a pair of Scotto Family Cellars recent releases that checked both boxes. The 2016 Dry Sangiovese Rosé was opened on a warm evening. We were visiting friends and on their deck overlooking a small lake. We are fans of Sangiovese in any form and the lovely reddish-pink hue had us thirsting for the first sip.
The rosé is crisp with swirls of strawberry and sour cherry. The wine is fermented in stainless steel, so the flavors are pure and crisp. This is an ideal food wine and can pair with vegetarian dishes, appetizers or with mild or spicy entrees.
A few evenings later we were on the back patio around the fire pit. The 2013 Scotto Family Cellars Malbec was uncorked.
This is an unpretentious and satisfying wine. The body is light with ample fruit and smoky notes. Tannins are dialed back in this wine adding to the smooth finish. This was a perfect wine for unwinding around the fire.
Both wines are priced at $14.99 and are a hit at that figure. These are perfect for casual entertaining.
What Millennials Want
The wine industry has been wringing its hands for some time trying to figure out how to sell wine to Millennials. Contemporary lifestyles require some rethinking on the part of wineries.
Scotto Family Cellars has answered the call with some innovative packaging. The Heavyweight line, which has a boxing theme, is available not only in traditional glass bottles, but also in 187 ML pre-packaged plastic cups.
I sampled the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon. The wine was a varietally correct Cab. If someone had served this to me in a glass, I wouldn't have batted an eye. The traditional glass bottle sells for $11.99 and this tastes like what I would expect the wine from the bottle to be.
Assuming the same blend goes into the plastic cups, it includes Cabernet Sauvignon with lesser amounts of Barbera and Petit Verdot. For camping trips or on the boat, this could work very well. They would pop easily into a backpack for a hike, bike ride or picnic. Heavyweight in the convenient plastic container costs $3.99.
Anywhere Cellars is a 250 ML canned wine. This product is also priced at $3.99, although some states require that they be sold in four-packs. Unlike the Heavyweight, this isn't a vintage wine. I sampled the California Anywhere Red Wine. To me, the aluminum can was hard to ignore and didn't enable the typical sipping experience. Unlike the Heavyweight, the wine itself wasn't very good. I'm not sure if the can contributed to the somewhat bitter taste, or if it was strictly my brain manifesting its objection.
My verdict? If portable wine is a must, Heavyweight is your best option. These two products are in the process of rolling out nationwide.
Full disclosure: This wine was received as a marketing sample.


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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous butterflies of the subfamily Theclinae, having transverse streaks on the undersurface of the wings and fine, hairlike projections on the hind wings.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the small dark butterflies of the genus Thecla; a theclan: so called from the minute hair-like appendages of the hind wings. The green hairstreak is T. rubi; the black, T. pruni; there are many others.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A butterfly of the genus Thecla
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of many
butterflies, of the subfamily Theclinae, that have hairlike projections on the back wings.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small butterflies having striped markings under the wings
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The point was brought home to me last summer when I saw a purple hairstreak.
The purple hairstreak is a glorious but relatively small butterfly strongly associated with oaks.
The purple emperor may have eluded us, but this purple hairstreak is a rewarding compensation.
When Matthew Oates, the National Trust's roving butterfly expert, first described this affliction, it sounded quite pleasant: by August, butterfly lovers are so knackered, all they can do is sit in an armchair and wait for the last butterfly of summer, the brown hairstreak, to descend from an ash tree.
It seems extraordinary how I could have passed 30 years in the middle of purple hairstreak country having only seen a singleton.
Wetter areas are home to the silken surfaces of green-veined whites, while some heathlands host the dazzling green hairstreak.
Are butterflies the UK's most beautiful endangered species? | Dan Flenley
As if to confirm this, a green hairstreak butterfly appeared and its green-gold brilliance together with the cowslips seemed to fill the column of air above that place with a burst of light.
Two green hairstreak butterflies, gracefully viridescent, dance past on a soft wind that sifts through reeds, sets waving the tall golden flower stems of bog asphodel, and silky white plumes of cottongrass that has colonised the old peat-diggings.
Wildlife spotted in East SussexButterflies (13) meadow brown; hedge brown; speckled wood; essex skipper; small skipper; large skipper; comma; small tortoiseshell; large white; small white; green-veined white; purple hairstreak; white admiral
In the past three years two other species, the holly blue and purple hairstreak, have been spotted for the first time on National Trust properties in Scotland.
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Ethics and leadership both seem to be abstract and ambiguous—so imagine what happens when we discuss ethical leadership. Ethical leadership is not about how to lead to reach specific goals, but what ethical affects leadership has. Ethics aren't morals themselves but the meaning of moral ways and actions. Ethics don't decide, nor do they take decisions away. They serve as a means of guidance—to find answers, make decisions, and know how to justify them.
Leadership is about those who are in a position to make decisions; create opinions and attitudes. It is more then just managing. Because leaders have to lead by example, their words, actions, and values play a huge role in their success. Responsibility and credibility are two of the most important elements of leadership; each is deeply based on the interaction with others. Because every action, even the smallest, has an impact, ethics are always part of the decision-making process. Ethics are not a cookbook for great decisions. Leaders know that every decision has to be carried by responsibility and credibility. To be recognized as a leader requires exuding trust. Remember that for many the values and ethics of the leader have to match their own understanding of those.
If you look only at the mistakes others made without trying to understand why they happened, you will learn almost nothing. It may be hard to believe, but often those who behave unethically think of themselves as perfectly ethical and responsible. It's a matter of how they interpret values. They may be wrong, but remember that values do change over the years and sometimes people make errors of judgment out of ignorance rather than lack of conscience. It is a fine line to walk.
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From Tate Britain I walked to The National Portrait Gallery to see the David Bailey Stardust Exhibition, Bailey is a portrait photographer I admire greatly (along with Avedon) and he has shot some of my favorite people such as Cartier-Bresson and Keith Richards. A highlight of the exhibition was the room of Rolling Stones photographs as they are one of my favorite bands and he took photographs of them when they were in their most creative period and the end of the 1960's and early 70's. For me the best photograph of the exhibition was a colour photograph he took in 1968 of The Rolling Stones in a field walking towards the viewpoint. They all look to stylish with their colourful clothing and look very natural as if they are just having a quiet walk and don't even know Bailey is there. The photograph gives the impression that that period was a very free time for fashion and the arts which it was. Another photograph that stood out for me was Bailey's photograph of Cartier Bresson, the photograph was printed very large and contained Bresson in black and white with his Leica. I think the reasons these photographs were highlights for me was the fact they were of people I admire so you have a personal connection to the photograph. The show was very inspiring and it was great to see his work up close, there were also various personal objects and contact sheets that were a great insight to his life and his work.
The Rolling Stones (1968)
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In the cultural troposphere we frequently encounter great, conclusive quests: for the Grail, the End of History, Nirvana, Sunlit Uplands, a Grand Unifying Theory, the Final Reckoning, a Universal Acid, the Promised Land, a paradise of virgins, the Land of Milk and Honey, the Great Day of Judgement – the Singularity – as these if are things we should expect imminently, or at least one day hope to see.
Our collected values – these tales we retell ourselves compulsively – reinforce and hammer home the idea of an eventual conclusion to our labour: in literature the mythical archetype identified by Joseph Campbell is consciously and accidentally replicated in many of the stories we tell ourselves.
The unvarying narrative is linear progression goes, roughly, like so: imbalance, challenge, fortitude, reckoning and, at the very last, final victory and dominion. Even Campbell's "mono-myth" itself takes this form of unification: it is an uncomfortable shoe-horning of geographically and linguistically dispersed creation myths, that don't quite fit, into a single archetypal story.
Mythical stories, of course, tend not to ask "and then what?" The archetype refuses to consider these very consequences (naturally: it assumes there are no more consequences). This bleeds into our metaphysics. We are acculturated to yearn for "closure". It suits us to suppose we're headed somewhere, that whether or not we personally live to feast our eyes upon the promised land, at least our descendants will. (Are we fated, like Moses, to be denied at the last, our greatest pleasure to watch from a distance? And was this really a disappointment for him? Did Moses not go to heaven?)
We predicate our existence on that hope: While we, personally, may fall by the wayside our struggle will not have been in vain.
This Will to Closure is a religious idea. We know – well, we ought to, by now – that there is no cure for war; that solutions create problems, reward takes risk, supply creates demand, fulfilment creates expectation. The land of milk and honey is a terrifying idea (what would we do all day? Just eat? Would we apprehend a need for literature? Art? Discourse? Change? Why?), it is also an absurd one, because what we call milk and honey is precisely what be believe to be just somewhat out of our reach. Gold's intrinsic worth is its very scarcity.
So whatever Heaven might be, we know it can't be filled with only compliant virgins and winged granddads plucking on harps. That would be ghastly, and heaven isn't ghastly, Q.E.D. There will be strife, discord, bitterness and fury because on these things, despite ourselves, we thrive. Life is the very process of solving these problems, answering these questions.
"The land of milk and honey is a terrifying idea. What would we do all day? Just eat?"
The Will to Closure is an indulgence though; we truck with it only because, deep down, we know it to be misconceived. We can't have it, and we wouldn't want it if we could. Who wants a final solution?
So much for the religious Will to Closure. But there is a scientific analogue: the aspiration to grand theoretical unification: call it the Will to Reduction. This is the proposition that Science is a singular, proper noun, that it will accordingly eventually yield a single, coherent, closed system of rules; a complete operating manual for the universe.
This is no less religious an idea.
To be sure, the Will to Reduction is a noble quest, but its practical importance is in its aspiration and not its outcome. It generates useful practical tools as a by-product. The prospect that Science might actually reach a conclusion would be as catastrophic as the great day of judgement, were it not as equally absurd:
For what would we then do? Our lot would be as dismal as an entrant's to heaven. All knowledge, all fiction, all superfluity, all contingency would cancel out to a common factor, and a single, integrated über machine would be left; a super brain. What would remain would be no different from God, and in a final hot blast of logic we should redundantly shrivel and evaporate in His sight, the question WHY AM I HERE? having been answered, without irony or compassion, AS OF NOW, YOU'RE NOT.
Absurd, of course, because such an extrapolation isn't possible. Like our moral knowledge, or technological knowledge is path-dependent, contingent on the questions we want to ask. The contingency of knowledge is fundamental to its acquisition, and to its use.
It's a Dappled World, as Nancy Cartwright put it, and thank the Lord (if you'll excuse the expression) for that.


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Origin of Bioinformatics :
A decade before DNA sequencing became viable, computational biologists focused on the rapidly accumulating data from protein biochemistry. Without the benefits of supercomputers or computer networks, these scientists laid important conceptual and technical foundations for bioinformatics today.
Computational biologists had developed a diverse set of techniques for analyzing molecular structure, function and evolution. Although originally designed for studying proteins, many of these computing techniques could be adapted for studying nucleic acids. Some of these techniques survive today or have lineal descendants that are used in bioinformatics. In other cases, they stimulated the development of more refined techniques to correct deficiencies in the original methods. Although the nascent field was later revolutionized by the advent of genome projects, large-scale computer networks, immense, stusents databases, supercomputers and powerful desktop computers, today's bioinformatics also rests on the important intellectual and technical foundations laid by scientists at an earlier period in the computer era.
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The field of bioinformatics has experienced extraordinary growth over the past decade, in large part due to the vast amounts of complex data generated by the Human Genome Project and the concomitant need for sophisticated approaches to storage, retrieval, analysis and sharing of data. Bioinformatics remains one of the most active and powerful scientific areas nationally and internationally. Education and Research in Sciences are increasingly dependent on bioinformatics and advanced information technology infrastructures to develop, manage, interpret, and distribute extremely large data sets generated by high-throughput screening experimental approaches.
Bioinformatics, biological databases, and the worldwide use of computers have accelerated biological research in many fields, such as evolutionary biology. The science that relates to bioinformatics has many components. It usually relates to biological molecules and therefore requires knowledge in the fields of biochemistry, molecular biology, molecular evolution, thermodynamics, biophysics, molecular engineering, and statistical mechanics, to name a few. It requires the use of computer science, mathematical, and statistical principles. Bioinformatics is in the cross roads of experimental and theoretical science. Bioinformatics is not only about modeling or data 'mining', it is about understanding the molecular world that fuels life from evolutionary and mechanistic perspectives. It is truly inter-disciplinary and is changing. Much like biotechnology and genomics, bioinformatics is moving from applied to basic science, from developing tools to developing hypotheses.
In the last three decades, personal computers have become accessible not only across all disciplines of science, but they have also become valuable tools for science education. The easy access of students to computers, and recently the free access to biological databases, opens up new possibilities in the teaching of genetics, taxonomy, and evolutionary biology.
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Is it a bad omen to start a challenge (Kate's revival of the Short Story Challenge) with a book I am not really enthusiastic about? At any case, this long-due discovery of Mavis Gallant is quite a surprise. I knew that she wrote short stories about France and Paris, but somehow I'd thought she was writing about the 1930s bohemia, Montparnasse etc.. I'd pictured her a bit like a female Hemingway and Henry Miller perhaps. Prejudices…
I was not expecting at all her portrait of the French bourgeoisie of the 1960s, 1980s and even more recent (it's sometimes difficult to know precisely because her stories are timeless). And how well does she picture them! Conservative, stingy, cowards, stuck in their habits and blind to the society changes, because the most important thing is to remain "respectable"… Her characters are difficult to love, but strangely compelling and difficult to forget afterwards.
The title story is about Sylvie, a shy girl in the 1960s, whose parents have arranged a marriage to a relative and business partner, who rebels in a very meek and mild way, by getting infatuated in someone just as bland as her first fiancé. Thinking that things are serious, the mother throws the wedding invitations out into the Seine, but when she demands proofs that the other man has proposed to her daughter (as she has insinuated), there is none. The family loses face, scrambles to win back the first fiancé again, and the girl somehow concedes that she might start loving this man.
It's difficult for me to come to terms with this portrayal of French society. But I can't deny that it's (was) also true! I guess I'm having a "Pride and Prejudice" moment. I can't believe that a Canadian woman saw through the superficial aspects of the rancid Parisian bourgeoisie so well, a bit like Gide (Yes, Gallant has to be compared with big names!)
In another story, a petit-bourgeois woman writes to a Portuguese woman who had sublet a room in her flat more than ten years ago, shared the family life for a while, before she disappeared after an abortion and made it "big" as a TV actress. Of course, a classic story would have the Portuguese tenant as the main character, with her ambition, own secrets and tragedies. But the focus on the stingy landlady and how she consistently misunderstood the girl and projected her small life on her is revealing of this collection's voice. Gallant use sidelong glances into small worlds that she paints with delicate brushes.
There are also stories about Eastern Europeans intellectuals and refugees in Paris, living in memories of a faded world. It was quite delicate and moving, but the timeless context made it difficult for me to relate, especially as later on, I realized they were supposed to live in the post-1989 world!
The first few stories in the collection are linked and tell the story of 3 generations of a French Canadian family in Montreal. I loved the first one best, set in 1933, when the widowed mother instructs her 2 daughters never to tell that she had to work as a seamstress. They must instead say that their mother "was clever with her hands".
The last story, "The Fenton Child", also departs from the rest of the collection. The teenaged heroin, Nora Abott, has to take care of a new-born baby for a few hours while a hushed drama unfolds in the background. I'd have loved to see more of this tone, because Nora was a lot more bright and active than the rest of the characters.
All in all, after a bumpy start, I'd like to try other stories by Mavis Gallant, now that I better know what to expect. Have a nice weekend everyone!


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