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Ahead of even considering any HVAC training, it is really important which you have an understanding of the general duties of the HVAC technician.
HVAC Experts are the folks at the rear of the scenes that deliver the environmental comforts everybody enjoys of their homes, workplaces, and nearly any indoor framework. They have the schooling and know-how to setup and manage heat, ventilation and air conditioning methods that a lot of folks right now normally consider as a right Heating And Air Columbia Sc. A technician could well elect to specialise in certainly one of the subspecialties on the work.
HVAC Specialists carry out routine routine maintenance on heating techniques in the course of the summer season. In the course of this era, experts also assess which the cooling programs are executing proficiently, admirers are functioning correctly, refrigerants aren't leaking with the program, and compressors and evaporators are doing work competently.
Through the entire winter time, specialists identify difficulties with heating techniques, carryout plan cleaning to stay away from obstructions foremost to dangerous carbon monoxide levels. Additionally they assess for harm on thermocouples, change flame ranges, look at carbon monoxide concentrations, take a look at for gas leaks, and verify which the heating system is functioning at optimum performance
At any time there's a different building development, technicians deploy heating and cooling systems which include the pipes and ductwork. The positioning and configuration of your pipes and ductwork will require to get optimized for the exceptional heating and cooling output. The professionals will also be liable for checking the systems for fuel carbon monoxide emissions, refrigerant leaks, and gasoline leaks previous to completion with the setting up.
Value of HVAC Schooling
HVAC Experts company complicated heating and air-conditioning gear, are subjected to extreme warm and cold temperatures, and routinely manage refrigerants. Experts likely must operate in elevated sites and limited perform regions when responding into a provider call. Technicians persistently have to stay targeting the undertaking at hand. HVAC instruction is vital to prevent harm from electrical equipment and hazardous substances.
HVAC professionals undertake classroom and hands-on instruction to set up and repair these programs and also lower the risk associated with the work.
Potential customers as HVAC Educated Technician
Along with the various established of responsibilities experts carry out, they're able to perform for any wide range of companies. Bulk of technicians are hired by personal plumbing, heating, and air-conditioning contractors. Other professionals are utilized by refrigeration and air-conditioning services and mend stores, educational facilities, and retailers that distribute heating and air-conditioning units.
The expansion risk for an HVAC Technician is promising since they can go after various tracks for development. You can find technicians who are promoted to supervisors and repair managers, while some shift into a different office like gross sales or marketing and advertising. Other senior HVAC experts development to price tag estimators, program check and balance experts, or creating superintendents. HVAC experts who comprehensive sufficient coaching and certification also are in a position to show. There are HVAC experts who about time open up up their own contracting organization and develop into businesses themselves.


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28th Annual Gene Lentzner Human Relations Awards
Three distinguished honorees were recognized with The California Conference for Equality and Justice's 2016 Gene Lentzner Human Relations Award. These individuals were recognized for the significant contribution they have made in improving human relations at a grass roots level in Long Beach.
The always popular Awards Celebration began with entertainment by local saxophonist Brian Grace during cocktails and appetizers. The room was decorated in CCEJ's new colors- red, orange, purple and blue.
The evening opened with the Pledge of Allegiance by Stephanie Velasquez, one of CCEJ' s Interns.
Drew Gagner, CCEJ Board Chair, introduced its elected officers and welcomed all dignitaries in the room.
Dr. Sabrina Sanders, Director of Student Affairs Projects and Initiatives, CSULB Office of the Chancellor, inspired the audience with her speech about current data relating to equity and her personal story that led her to be a change agent. The 3 honorees were presented by Wende Nichols-Julien, Danielle Nava-Mijares, Margaret Madden and Francisco Rodriquez, with heart felt presentations for all 3 Human Relations honorees.
Gene Lentzner, Breakfast co-chair for CCEJ, closed the evening with his words of wisdom.
To watch this past year's honoree speeches please click here
Gene Lentzner, Breakfast co-chair for CCEJ, closed the evening with his words of wisdom.
About Gene Lentzner:
Gene has been involved in social service, education, civil rights and human relations for most of his life. With over 60 years of advocacy, promoting racial, religious and cultural understanding at a time when his efforts were often met with great resistance, he remained dedicated. His exceptional work in the area of human relations at a grass roots level was the impetus for the establishment of the Gene Lentzner Human Relations Award.

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Impressions of the event
Selected photos of the BIH Symposium can be found here.Impressions of the event
The second BIH Symposium "Exploring Systems Medicine" took place in Berlin on 16 + 17 March. Internationally renowned scientists spoke in four sessions on "The 3 Rs of Tissue Repair: Replace - Restore - Rejuvenate". The lectures were followed by a lively exchange of scientific ideas with researchers and clinicians. Also part of the event was the award ceremony for the BIH Excellence Award for Sex and Gender Aspects in Health Research.
Systems medicine has the potential to transform science and healthcare by accelerating discoveries and their application.Through integrating different disciplines and holistic approaches, systems medicine will provide insights into biological concepts and the complex nature of diseases. With this year's theme "The 3 Rs of Tissue Repair: Replace – Restore – Rejuvenate" the BIH has brought together scientists and clinicians from the Berlin scientific community with international researchers for an in-depth exchange of ideas on the biological mechanisms behind tissue damage and corresponding repair mechanisms. The scientific focus was on concepts and mechanisms that lead to cell reprogramming, gene silencing, and cell aging. The scientific findings show that health and illness are highly dependent on cellular repair mechanisms and, at the same time, provide the basis for the development of new treatment options.
Replace – Restore – Rejuvenate
The first session focused on genetic and cellular processes involved in the development of cancer, diabetes, and neurological disorders and on how to repair the resulting tissue damage. During the lunch break, participants continued the vivid discussions that arose in the sessions, before the focus shifted to the topic of neuronal cell reprogramming. In the third session, the speakers addressed the subject of gene silencing and the question of how genetic methods, such as CRISPR/Cas, can be used to develop possible therapeutic approaches. Other research work undertaken by early-career scientists was discussed in depth in a subsequent poster session. The fourth session focused on cell aging and approaches to protecting cells from aging in order to slow down or even prevent the development of diseases.
Information on the speakers is available here.
Do We Need a Cultural Change in Biomedical Research?
Following the scientific presentations, there was a panel discussion among invited speakers led by Clemens A. Schmitt, member of the BIH Scientific Committee and one of the main organizers of the event. The question was raised what conditions need to be created in order to apply high-quality basic research and the future of the scientific system was discussed. All panelists agreed that openness and curiosity are the key to success in accelerating progress in translational medicine. However, Maike Sander from the University of California San Diego, USA, also pointed out that within the current science system, the hurdles to apply ideas derived from basic research are too high for many scientists, in particular young researchers. Therefore, new infrastructures and frameworks are needed. Jan van Deursen from Mayo Clinic, USA, underlined her statement as follows: "For a true translation you need strong partners who bring in their diverse expertise." Kristin Baldwin from The Scripps Research Institute, USA, believes that the competitive science system must undergo cultural transformation so that biomedical scientists can cooperate more extensively, rather than strive to achieve their own work objectives and secure their next publication as a lead author.
Is Reproducibility the Key to Translation?
According to Clemens Schmitt, a solid foundation is necessary for putting basic research into practice. He further posed the question as to how this foundation can be ensured when there is no data reproducibility guaranteed. In the opinion of Marius Werning from Standford University, USA, it is not just about reproducibility, since most of the data are most likely correct. "Applications can only be developed if there is a common understanding with regard to the interpretation of the data," Werning said.
Another point of discussion was the role of model systems for clinical translation and the study designs currently in use. In conclusion, it became clear again that incentive systems will have to be created to provide researchers with a long-term perspective within the science system and to bring basic scientists together with physicians. In his view, this is the only way that translation can work. "This requires people having this vision and institutions like BIH," Mina J. Missell from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, said.
BIH Excellence Award for Sex and Gender Aspects in Health Research
The BIH Symposium 2018 was also the venue for the official presentation of the BIH Excellence Award for Sex and Gender Aspects in Health Research to the awardees, Louise Pilote and Rhonda Voskuhl. Both awardees emphasized the importance of integrating sex and gender differences in biomedical research to understand differences in disease development and to develop appropriate treatments. "BIH is one of the few institutes in the world that understands the importance of this topic and recognizes and supports our work in the field," Rhonda Voskuhl from the University of California, USA said.
In the course of the ensuing discussion on the subject of sex and gender in research, the two awardees made it clear that great importance must be placed on the differentiation of the terms: "Gender" does not only refer to the categories of "man" and "woman" – gender is also influenced by social and cultural differences. In her research in the field of cardiovascular diseases, Louise Pilote particularly considers social gender differences. So far, most of the approaches in this area of research have focused exclusively on biological sex, neglecting the effects of culturally influenced gender roles. Rhonda Voskuhl's research, however, stands out due to her study of sex differences in chronic degenerative diseases. She investigates molecular mechanisms in preclinical studies and uses them to develop gender-specific biomarkers for novel therapeutic approaches.
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Villa Sabater is a spacious 6 bedroom villa in a fantastic countryside setting, 5 minutes' drive from Pollensa Old Town. The town square and cobbled streets are filled with traditional restaurants, cafes and gift shops and has a great atmosphere. The house is spacious both inside and out, with accommodation spread over 3 levels, a large private swimming pool and lawned garden - ideal for large groups of friends or families holidaying together. WiFi and air conditioning/heating in the bedrooms are included.
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"I received free samples of Cabot Cheese mentioned in this post. By posting this recipe I am entering a recipe challenge sponsored by Cabot Creamery and am eligible to win prizes. I was not additionally compensated for my time."
Hey Friends! Sorry, no post yesterday the day just totally got away from me! By the time I got home at 9 I drank a protein shake and went to bed, super eventful and exciting I know! Today is another busy one, it's January at the gym and things are hoping!
Really quick I wanted to share with you this Spinach Con Queso can easily be made at home with NO PROCESSED CHEESE! Ever try to google spinach con queso? With a few exceptions it's always made with Velveeta which although it tastes good, it definitely doesn't offer the same nutritional benefits of real cheese.
Whenever I go to get-togethers are I always steer toward the most filling and delicious foods like veggies and dips, meats and cheeses etc. People always have the best dips at their parties, don't they?
Well, I wanted to join in so I created this recipe where Cabot Seriously Sharp Cheddar and Pepperjack come together to make a restaurant quality dip in your own home, NO VELVEETA.
I've got to run but let me know if you get a chance to try it!
Spinach Con Queso
- 1 T butter (I used Kerygold)
- 5 tsp flour (all purpose or tapioca or potato)
- 12 ounces 2% milk
- 4 ounces half and half
- 8 ounces cabot seriously sharp cheddar cheese shredded
- 4 ounces cabot pepperjack cheese shredded
- 1 T garlic powder
- 1/8 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic chopped
- 1 T avocado oil
- 1 can RO*TEL tomatoes and green chile
- 8 ounces frozen spinach thawed and squeezed dry
- Saute chopped onion and garlic in small pan for 2-3 minutes until translucent and golden on medium. Add in can of tomato/ green chile and let simmer on medium low.
- In a large non stick skillet melt 1T butter on medium low. Whisk 5 tsp starchy flour with 1/2 cup milk and add to pan. Slowly add in remainder of milk and half and half. Whisk constantly for 7-10 minutes until sauce thickens.
- Turn off heat and add in sour cream, garlic, pepper, and pepper jack cheese. Whisk to melt cheese and add in 1/4 cup of cheddar at a time whisking constantly to melt. Continue until all the cheese is added. Add in tomato/onion mix and spinach. Serve immediately or transfer to a fondue pot or crockpot until ready to serve.


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From 2 weeks to 40 years service, Gympie RSL love the same
FORTY years may separate the start of their Gympie RSL careers, but board members Jill O'Brien and Glen Lancaster's passion for hospitality started at the same place.
Starting with the RSL in 1978, Mrs O'Brien worked with them for 30 years, before moving into a role as a board member for another 10.
She moved to the region with her husband in in 1962 with an eye to taking over a Eumundi sawmill.
That fell through (taking with it their 200-pound deposit) but a new career opened up for them through the Kandanga Hotel.
They ran it for 16 years before Mrs O'Brien moved to the RSL as an employee for 30 years, then joined the club board in 2008.
She said watching the club grow over the years was "wonderful".
She said it was the close connections made with people that kept her in hospitality over the years.
It is a view shared by Mr Lancaster, for whom local clubs have been a lifelong passion.
Part of the membership team which opened Crushers Leagues Club in Brisbane in 1994, he has been involved with clubs around the state including at Beenleigh and Geebung.
He has come to Gympie after spending the past five years in managing the Charleville RSL.
"The first day I walked in here I found it very comfortable feeling," he said.
"Like all new jobs you start you don't know what to expect, but they made me feel very welcome.
"I've only been here two weeks; I feel like I've been here a lot longer."


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The ACRC is always looking for capable and articulate students who are comfortable assisting other students with computer science or computer-related assignments.
If you're interested, go to the ACRC for an application.
Review the job description, as well as the application requirements and the student employment forms CCSF requires.
Complete the List of Course Skills and the Hours of Availability and submit them as directed.
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Position Title:
• Tutor (of Computer-related subjects)
Rate and Hours:
• CCSF sets the student employee pay rate at $15.00 per hour.
• CCSF limits the hours for student employees to 15 hours per week .
Duties and Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
• tutoring students in a variety of computer-related subjects taught at CCSF
• enforcing the rules of CCSF and those of the ACRC during the hours of operation
• assisting the Faculty Monitors and the Technical Support Staff with everyday operations
• minimum enrollment in 6 credit units at CCSF in the semester of employment (3 credit units in Summer Session)
• a letter of recommendation from a CCSF Instructor of a computer-related course
The ACRC is looking for students with backgrounds in the computer
field who are willing to work in a team environment that requires
interaction with their student peers.
Students taking courses in Computer Science, Computer Networking and Information Technology, and Multimedia courses in Broadcast Electronic Media Arts, Cinema, Journalism, Photography, and/or Visual Media Design are encouraged to apply.


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[March] FT/PT 1:1 Adult Conversational / Biz English Teaching Positions (Gangnam/Jongro)Company Name: Union&EC | Language Cube
Job Details
|Job Type
|Job Function
|Adults Conversational Business English 1:1 FT PT
|Education Level
|Bachelor's Degree
|Career Level
|2.5 mil won - 3.5 mil won (FT)
|Starting Date
|Mar 2, 2020
|Feb 29, 2020
|Native Level
|Seoul-si > Gangnam-gu
Job Description
Language Cube
Language Cube is a prestigious private academy for adult students that focuses on specific needs of each individual learner. Korean and foreign teachers work as teams. Our branches are in Apgujeong, Jongro, Yeoksam, and Guro in Seoul. We are looking for professional, responsible, experienced English native teachers for the positions below. The teachers will teach adult students one on one in Gangnam and Jongro, Seoul.
1. Requirement
-MUST be English native speakers (Current E2 / F2 / F5 / F6 ONLY)
-MUST have a Bachelor's degree from a 4-year university in native English speaking countries (Business related majors preferred)
-MUST have more than 3 years of adult conversational / business English teaching experience in Korea
2. Positions and Conditions
A. Language Cube Yeoksam Full-Time Evening Block Shift
-# of Position: ONE (Current E2 / F2 / F5 / F6 ONLY)
-Starting date: March 2020 (A 3-day training is required before starting)
-Contract period: 1 year
-Location: Language Cube Yeoksam Branch in Gangnam, Seoul (Nearby Yeoksam Stn. Line no 2)
-Students and Class Types: Adults (various levels), One to One English conversational classes, business English, topics, job interview, etc
-Hours: Full-Time Evening Block Shift
Monday - Friday 12 pm - 9 pm (8 hrs) + two Saturdays a month 10:30 am - 6:30 pm (mandatory, paid)
-Pay: 2.5 mil won - 3.5 mil won
-# of foreign teachers: 9-10
-Housing: fully furnished single housing or housing allowance provided
-Benefit: 50% of national pension, medical insurance, and severance pay
B. Language Cube Jongro Evening Part-Time Position
-# of Position: ONE (Current F2 / F5 / F6 ONLY)
-Starting date: March 2020 (A 3-day training is required before starting)
-Contract period: 6 months or 1 year
-Location: Language Cube Jongro Branch in Jongro, Seoul (Nearby Jonggak stn. Line no 1 or Gwanghwamun stn. Line no 5)
-Students and Class Types: Adults (various levels), One to One English conversational classes, business English, topics, job interview, etc
-Hours: Evening Part-Time
Monday - Friday 6 pm - 10 pm (4 hrs a day, 5 days a week) + one Saturday a month 10 am - 6 pm (mandatory, paid)
-Pay: 1.4 - 1.5 mil won a month (fixed) + 150,000 won for a Saturday
Please send your resume and a recent photo to email@example.com with the information below.
-Position you are applying (A or B)
-Nationality, DOB, Visa Type
-Contact information and available time to contact
Only selected ones will be contacted.
Thank you.
Recruiting Manager
Union&EC | Language Cube
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Email: email@example.com
Contact Person: Recruiting Manager
Union&EC | Language Cube
We are looking for professional native teachers for various teaching positions.
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Wani, A.A.[Akhlaq A.]
Co Author Listing * Relationships of S-Band Radar Backscatter and Forest Aboveground Biomass in Different Forest Types
Wani, M.A.
Co Author Listing * Edge-Region-Based Segmentation of Range Images
Wani, S.P.[Suhas P.]
Co Author Listing * Incorporation of satellite remote sensing pan-sharpened imagery into digital soil prediction and mapping models to characterize soil property variability in small agricultural fields
Wania, A.
Co Author Listing * Comparison between two coevolutionary feature weighting algorithms in clustering
Wanielik, G.[Gerd]
Co Author Listing * Camera-Based Lane Marking Detection for ADAS and Autonomous Driving
* Comparing Visual Data Fusion Techniques Using FIR and Visible Light Sensors to Improve Pedestrian Detection
* Hough transformation based approach for road border detection in infrared images
* Multi Sensor Based Tracking of Pedestrians: A Survey of Suitable Movement Models
* new approach for tracking lanes by fusing image measurements with map data, A
* Situation Assessment for Automatic Lane-Change Maneuvers
Includes: Wanielik, G.[Gerd] Wanielik, G.
Wanik, D.W.[David W.]
Co Author Listing * Synergistic Use of Nighttime Satellite Data, Electric Utility Infrastructure, and Ambient Population to Improve Power Outage Detections in Urban Areas
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The word luxury doesn't necessarily translate into out of budget expense. It is possible to buy different types of luxury items at very affordable costs if you are prepared to spend time on research. For example if you want to buy luxury custom drapes for a reasonable cost you can opt to shop from custom curtains online stores. When you see how much you can save by shopping online you will be thanking me giving you this suggestion.
There is a problem buying luxury custom drapes from most curtain stores. And this is primarily because of the cost. If you want to save money on curtains you often end up buying cheap stuff with no customization. You could end up buying curtains that have been lying in a warehouse for years. The other side to this is very expensive curtains with some customization. The cost of such customized items is prohibitively expensive because expensive US labor is used in the manufacturing process. I don't need to tell you how expensive labor costs can be in the US. There are custom curtains online stores that sell these expensive custom made curtains that are bound to burn a hole in your pocket.
The money saving solution comes to you in the form of some very limited number of custom curtains online stores that sell luxury custom drapes at very affordable rates. They use international factories that create high quality curtains at much lower labor costs than the US. There is the obvious question of quality that immediately comes up and some of these stores are obsessed with it. This is why I mentioned right earlier that the number of such stores is very limited.
With these custom curtains online stores you get unlimited customization options. There are hundreds of options available in these stores and all you need to do is choose what you want. And since these stores are online you get a clear picture of the cost right in the beginning. The best of these stores are extremely transparent in the way they deal with their customers and hence you can rest assured that there will be no hidden costs built into the cost of your luxury custom drapes.
Many shoppers are worried about the look of their curtains. It often happens that curtains look something in the online catalogues and they turn out to be completely different in reality. These stores that we are talking about help you in this regard by only showing those curtains that have their photos shot. So what you see is what you get. However, there is one word of caution for you since you will be opting for customization – you should give them the correct measures because returning the curtains will not be easy later on. Of course, if you are not satisfied with the quality no one will question you but because you measured wrongly would be your problem.
Use these custom curtains online stores to buy luxury custom drapes and you are bound to be happy.
Looking to customize your luxury custom drapes? We have custom curtains online stores that don't limit your options.


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Help! he's fat, he's purple, he's goofier than Gomer Pyle, and he's eating our children! Well, he's gnawing away at their imaginations, anyway. Who is he? For those who are not parents of toddlers, he is Barney, a stuffed animal (ostensibly a dinosaur) who comes to life, delighting his little chums and threatening the sanity of adults.
"Barney and Friends," broadcast daily on most PBS stations, is a half-hour show that deals with issues like rain, sun, friendship and going to the beach. Barney, about six feet tall, with thunder thighs, chipmunk cheeks and overbright eyes, is all sweetness and fun. He leaps around the stage and leads a group of multicultural suburban children in song and dance -- well, in song and movement.
The production has a distinctly low-budget, amateur feel to it. But since it joined the PBS lineup about a year ago "Barney and Friends" has become a great success for its creators, a group of video neophytes known as the Lyons Group, with headquarters in Allen, Tex., outside Dallas. Connecticut Public Television helps produce the show and gets a small share of the profits. (Yes, Virginia, Barney is a for-profit dinosaur.) One indication of the show's popularity is that sales of Barney spinoff toys are expected to reach $200 million or more this year. Among the best-selling videos listed in Variety, Barney is always well represented.
There are, however, naysayers. Many parents were angered to learn that PBS stations were scheduling pledge-drive appeals during the show, prompting children to beg their parents to send money on Barney's behalf. There are also those who just plain hate Barney. That is the way it is always phrased: "I hate Barney." Barney does not inspire mere dislike or annoyance. As an anti-Barney parent myself, I can testify that he is capable of producing the sort of rage that surfaced in Michael Douglas in "Falling Down."
Fortunately, the Barneyphobes, by and large, do not own artillery. And of course, the genuine dinosaurs are long gone, so they're safe. But I do fear for the future of vertebrate paleontology, the discipline that brought us the real creatures whose thunder Barney has stolen. What if the public concludes that since Barney is what we get for studying dinosaurs, we should stick to quasars? By the way, it has been scientifically proved, time and again, that none of the real dinosaurs were half as dumb as Barney (and they were better dancers, too).
Actually, I'm not that upset about Barney as an insult to dinosaurs. It would be small-minded to complain about his resemblance to a talking eggplant. Barney is to dinosaurs as Mickey is to mice; anatomy is not the issue here. The issue is that, as they used to say, the child is father to the man; and as they say now, the television is parent to the person. In short, Barney is molding the future of our nation, and he's a bad influence.
Take, for example, his voice. He giggles and guffaws incessantly, beyond reason, beyond belief. His laugh alone is enough to make you want to harm him or yourself. I can't imagine the effect on the developing mind of long-term exposure to Barney's laugh. But one clear implication of Barney's persona is that friendliness and idiocy go together. A lesson for our times: Smart is bad. Dumb is good.
Barney's second problem is the crowd he hangs out with. They are soooo nice. They are world-class nice. Next to Barney and his friends, Sandy Duncan is a flesh-eating succubus. It's not that I want my children watching "Bram Stoker's 'Dracula.' " But there are age-appropriate villains who add a little spice to toddlers' entertainment. My 2-year-old son is comfortable with Oscar the Grouch from "Sesame Street," and with Oscar's colleague Bert, who is not all sweetness and light. My son is also fascinated by the wolf in the story of the three little pigs. He feels, if I may translate his comments, that the wolf adds an element of suspense and reflects the unarguable presence of danger in the world.
I don't blame the child actors who portray Barney's friends. I know that in real life they eat junk food and are sometimes impolite. But what can you do with dialogue like "I wish we had some sunscreen lotion to protect our skin." Right. And why didn't we get any homework over summer vacation?
It's as if the National Association for the Promotion of Blandness had created its dream show. One doesn't often find people who admit to being members of N.A.P.B., but evidence of their work is everywhere: the story of Hansel and Gretel has disappeared from the canon, Smurfs are a national menace, and the wolf doesn't even get to eat the first two lazy, no-account shoats in some versions of the three little pigs.
Even though they disguise themselves, I have some suspicions about who the culprits are. They are the people who believe you have to talk in a high, silly voice to young children. They are the folks who, when the pet fish dies, say it went to fishy heaven. They are people who have been justifiably offended by the speedy, cocaine-freak, stimulus overload of most television shows and movies. The problem is that the right antidote to amphetamines is not barbiturates. The right antidote to mayhem, slaughter and jump cuts is not unimaginative treacle.
To be fair, Barney by himself does not represent the downfall of civilization. And the show could be pretty easily fixed. There's no need to design a new, anatomically correct Barney. That would scare kids. I suggest the creators rename him Harvey, make him invisible and silent, and bring in George Carlin as his visible friend and translator. Failing that, just kill the laugh.


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Maher Says GOP Like Banks: "They Will Not Give A Black Man Credit"
HBO host Bill Maher said the GOP was like banks when it came to the death of Gaddafi. "They're like the banks, they will not give a black man credit!" he told his "Real Time" audience.
"I gotta tell you, these Republicans, they will not give credit. They, they talked about this yesterday. They gave credit to the rebels, and to the British, and to the French. They would not mention the president. It was like they were on a game show and the password was 'Obama.' They are like the banks. They will not give a black man credit."


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The Bradford County Commissioners on Wednesday vowed to continue their fight against addiction and the stigma that surrounds it, while giving full support to Keith Kinsman (above) and Robert Grolling (below), who will conduct Overdose Awareness Day at Elmer Park in Sayre on Thursday, Aug. 31.
Photos and Story by Rick Hiduk
When Keith Kinsman led Bradford County's first addiction awareness rally in May 2016 after losing his son, Ben, to an opioid overdose that February, he awakened the community to a crisis that had already reached epidemic proportions. He vowed to press on until he felt the support for those battling addiction and their loved ones reached adequate levels. Today in Towanda, Kinsman seemed to be getting closer to that goal.
"I told you I'd be back when there was something to report," Kinsman told media representatives at an Aug. 23 public meeting of the Bradford County Commissioners. He introduced Robert Rolling of the new CASA Trinity Center of Excellence, with whom Kinsman is now working after giving up a long-time job with Penelec – First Energy Corp.
The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services has earmarked $500,000 to Bradford County for the development of a "mobile case management program" that has already linked about 160 people with treatment programs and intake facilities. He feels that he and his growing staff of peer specialists are on track to help 300 people before the end of the year.
"We now have the resources in case management to keep people out of emergency rooms and out of jails. It's a less expensive form of care," Grolling stated. "There are better therapies now for addiction than there have been in the 37 years that I've been in this field."
Though there are 45 such centers in Pennsylvania, the Bradford County group grew out of New York state's southern tier. Recent statistics show that the rate of opioid overdoses in Pennsylvania is climbing at 37% per year, compared to a national rate that is still alarming at 19%.
"In Pennsylvania, rural areas especially are very effected by overdose deaths," Grolling explained, noting that the average demographic for an opioid abuser is an 18 to 59-year-old white, working class, rural male.
The mobile approach to the opioid crisis is proving effective in rural areas where people often do not know where to turn for assistance, he continued. "We've always expected people with addictions to come to us," Grolling remarked. "But their lives are in chaos. We will now come to them."
In Bradford and surrounding counties, people seeking help with addictions, including family members of those struggling can call 570-890-9044 and will reach Grolling personally in most cases. When the hot line is not technically in operation between 7:30 pm and 8 am, the calls go directly to his cell phone, providing a nearly 24/7 safety net.
"We dispatch someone immediately," said Grolling. "I surround them with a case manager and peer specialist and bring them into a recovery program that works for them." That could be a CASA Trinity program, ABT, or Trehab, he cited as examples. "We are trying to use the resources of the community collectively."
Peer specialists, he noted, are often people in recovery who have received special training. "It's not clinical care as much as it is sitting with them over a cup of coffee and talking about their lives."
As for the importance of events like Overdose Awareness Day, Grolling related, "There aren't a lot of communal resources for expressing loss and what it feels like to be left behind."
Overdose Awareness Day is cosponsored by Guthrie and Trinity CASA and will feature a candlelight vigil and memorial walk from 6:15 to 8 pm; oratories by medical professionals, the mother of an overdose victim, and a person in recovery; refreshments; and the release of bio-friendly memorial balloons.
Bradford County Commissioner Ed Bustin (top, right) will also speak at the event. He noted that there has been progress in some areas since Kinsman brought light to the situation through tragic circumstances, but one aspect in particular remains a great challenge.
"At the end of the day, there is awareness," said Bustin. "But the focus needs to be on the stigma. That's the problem. It needs to be treated and talked about as the medical situation it is. People are dying. We need to stop worrying about whether it's our fault or their fault."


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Plump blueberries are a highlight of summer produce.
Blueberries are not sold by variety in Australia. This sweet-tasting, marble-sized fruit is navy to blue-black in colour, with a smooth skin that is lightly covered in a fine powder (which is safe to eat).
Choose firm, plump and unblemished blueberries. Avoid any that are crushed, soft or wrinkled. Keep in mind, the darker the colour, the sweeter the taste.
Remove berries from their packaging and place on plate lined with a paper towel. Cover and store in the fridge for up to five days.
Rinse blueberries just before eating and blot dry. Eat them fresh for an antioxidant-enriched snack, or add to fruit salads, bake into muffins and pancakes, or add to smoothies.
Did you know? Blueberries frozen for up to six months contain as much of the antioxidant anthocyanin as fresh blueberries.


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This month has been a delightful one for me despite the many sleepless nights typical of April and college life in general. Why? You might ask. It was because wherever I went on campus, I would be greeted with signs of support for sexual assault victims or acceptance of people regardless of their gender.
Randolph College has done a pretty good job this year of spreading awareness on campus about the contentious issue of rape and sexual assault. The Clothesline Project adorned the college's hallways and corridors with colorful T-shirts decorated with creative, touching messages to victims, showing that there are people here in this community that do care and are willing to lend a helping hand or a listening ear for anyone in need. The Office of Sexual Misconduct Education and Advocacy also held a forum titled Randolph's Response to Sexual Violence to inform and take feedback from the student body about our current policy. To top it off, there were a screening of Can't Thread a Moving Needle and a domestic violence shelter supply drive to the Wal-mart on Old Forest. Last Friday, Sexual Assault Awareness Month ended with Denim Day when everyone wore denim to show support for victims of rape and sexual assault.
Bridges, the only LGBTQ+ club on campus, also contributed with their Queer Week events, including a screening of Patrick 1.5, a (quite marvelous) Drag Show, LGBTQ+ poetry reading, and a wonderfully colorful Drag Party. The Drag Show was indeed a huge success: Thoresen Theatre was almost packed and people got so excited that they clapped, sang, and danced along to all the performances.
Last, kudos to some secret society that has been putting up educational messages about consent and pro-gay marriage signs all over campus, if you read this blog, you all know that you are awesome!
Compared to last year, this year has been a better year for feminism behind the red brick wall. I feel like we have more events and the events get better participation (to be honest, I am not entirely sure if we had any events for Sexual Assault Awareness Month last year — or maybe we did and I just didn't pay attention then).
However, as April is coming to an end, I am greatly saddened at the realization that we only have a month to do all of these cool awareness-raising projects. I feel like these projects are the only way to bring the community together and get the chemistry going so that we as a group can make some small but progressive changes. It's hard to be a full-time activist for several reasons; but I can and would love to do it "part-time" to contribute somehow to social changes within my capability.
We should have more events like this and make every month of the year a Sexual Assault/ LGBTQ+ Awareness Month. It takes a lot of time and effort to plan and organize these events, so I am not saying that one single office or club should be in charge of this year-long project. But I would love to see the whole community participate in this ongoing discourse about feminist issues like these. Just as we do with Sustainability, I'd love to see the same support and attitude in our community towards feminism. Is this too hard to ask for? What can we do about it to make this place, where I hold dear to my heart, a better place?


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Comic Book Collection Value?
Comic Book Collection Value?
Tarzan 232, Superman Family 171, Man Thing 1-4, Amazing Spiderman 69 139 142 113 185 101, Brave and the Bold 112, 76, 109, 109, Metal Men 14, Superboy 145, Doctor Strange 171, Marvel Premiere 11, Hawkman 22, Fantastic Four 70, Action Comics 450, 465, Whitman Superman, Not Brand Echh 3, Teen Titans 6, The Flash 129.
Editor's reply: Hard to value a lot like this, but nothing special there really. Flash Comic #129 might be a decent one if it's high grade.
I would list them on eBay if I were you. Pref. one by one to get the most you can, if you have time. Most will struggle to sell for more than $5 a piece though. Good luck!
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Bumblebees are one of the fuzzier types of bees that are less of a threat than they may appear. Although they aren't aggressive, they will attack if they feel threatened or want to protect their colony. Unlike honey bees, which look very similar, the bumblebee will sting repeatedly, making them slightly more dangerous. Bumblebees tend to build their nests in small cavities inside walls or in abandoned mice burrows.
Bumblebee Habitat and Behaviors
Most people know that bees are important pollinators for plants and flowers, but did you know they play a vital role in one-third of all food production in the world? Saving the bees is important, but there's a difference between a few bees buzzing in your garden and a full-fledged colony on your doorstep. Bumblebees are large, slow fliers with fuzzy yellow bodies. They tend to stick close to flowers and their nests, which can be found in protected areas like under old sheds, underneath patio blocks, or under dense shrubbery. They are extremely docile and will not attack unless threatened.
What You Can Do
In most cases, it's best to avoid bees and wasps entirely, as they are normally not a danger to humans. However, when their nests are in close proximity to us, they are more likely to perceive a threat and defend their nest at all costs. Additionally, in the late summer months, some bees and wasps become more aggressive in seeking out food like sugar and fruit, which can bring them into contact with you and your family. If you decide to use pesticide or chemical sprays, keep in mind they can be extremely poisonous and should never be used indoors or near other people.
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Blaine Wiley, an 11-time junior college National Assistant Coach of the Year, is in his fourth season as an assistant coach with The University of Alabama track & field staff in 2019. Wiley coaches the long sprints (men's and women's 400 meters, 800 meters, 400-meter hurdles and relays) for the Crimson Tide.
The 2018 season saw Wiley's sprinters earn indoor and outdoor All-America honors in the 4x400-meter relay and run three of UA's 10 fastest times in the event during both the indoor and outdoor seasons. Senior Kaitlin Walker also set an indoor school record in the women's 600 meters and posted two other times that rank among the five-fastest ever run at Alabama.
In 2017 sprinter Jereem Richards turned in one of the greatest seasons in Alabama sprints history. The junior set school records in the indoor and outdoor 200 meters, running five of the 10 fastest indoor times and seven of the 10 fastest outdoor times in the event in school history, anchored UA's school record-setting indoor 4x400-meter relay, took home the 200 meter title at the SEC indoor championships and earned indoor and outdoor All-America honors 200 and the 4x400 relay. Richards capped his season under Wiley by winning a gold medal s a member of Trinidad & Tobago's 4x400-meter relay and a bronze in the 200 meters at the IAAF World Championships in London. Richards was one of 13 current and former Wiley-coached athletes to compete in London.
Wiley pupils Steven Gayle (indoor and outdoor), Alex Gholston (indoor), Takyera Roberson (outdoor) and Domonique Williams (outdoor) also earned All-America honors in the 400 meters and the men's and women's 4x400-meter relays earned All-America honors indoors and outdoors and established new outdoor school records. Williams went on to win the 400 meters at the Trinidad & Tobago national championships that summer and she and Gayle joined Richards at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London, representing Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica, respectively.
Wiley came to Alabama following 10 seasons at South Plains College, one of the nation's best junior college track & field programs. He has a proven record of success on the track and in the classroom, having coached on a staff that led South Plains to 28 NJCAA national team championships while sending more than 70 athletes on to full scholarships at elite NCAA Division I programs.
Wiley also has significant international and Olympic experience, having mentored eight Olympians and 12 IAAF World Championships participants, including three athletes who have won a total of six medals at Worlds.
Wiley was part of an impressive era of success at South Plains during his nine-season tenure (2006-2015). Following his arrival on the staff in 2006, the Texans won 28 NJCAA team national championships, set seven NJCAA national records, produced 107 NJCAA individual and relay national champions and produced seven NJCAA men's and women's National Athletes of the Year (indoor and outdoor). South Plains sent six athletes to compete for their native countries at the 2012 London Olympics, produced one Olympic finalist (Renny Quow, Trinidad & Tobago in the men's 400 meters at the 2008 Beijing Olympics) and eight IAAF World Championships qualifiers - Quow (2009-11-13, 400, 4x400), LaToy Williams (Bahamas, 2009-11-13, 400, 4x400), Rondell Bartholomew (Grenada, 2011, 400), Jura Levy (Jamaica 2011, 100, 4x100), Janelle Redhead (Grenada, 2011, 200), Shavez Hart (Bahamas, 2013, 100, 4x100), Trevorvano Mackey (Bahamas, 2013, 100, 200, 4x100) and Lestrod Roland (Saint Kitts and Nevis, 2013, 200, 4x100).
During Wiley's time in Levelland, South Plains produced two IAAF World Championships medalists - Quow (Bronze, 400, 2009) and Levy (Silver, 4x100-meter relay, 2011) and two Texans athletes ranked in the top four in the world in the 400 meters in 2009 - Quow (No. 2) and Williams (No. 4). South Plains' 2010 men's outdoor 4x400 relay ranked No. 7 among all colleges and universities in the US, the 2011 men's indoor 4x400 relay ranked No. 3 in the world, the 2012 men's indoor 4x400 (fourth) and South Plains' outdoor 4x400 (12th) ranked among the best in the world. The Texans' 2013 men's 4x100 ranked No. 9 among all colleges/universities in the U.S., the 2014 men's indoor 4x400 ranked No. 15 in the world and the 2014 men's sprint medley relay ranked No. 1 among all U.S. colleges/universities.
As an assistant coach at Texas State from 2002-06, Wiley coached 16 Southland Conference individual and relay champions for the Bobcats, including 112 All-Southland Conference athletes, 28 NCAA Midwest Regional qualifiers, two NCAA national qualifiers, one USATF national semifinalist and two USATF Junior Nationals qualifiers. Wiley coached Texas State athletes to 63 school all-time top 10 performances, eight Texas State school records and two Southland Conference records. Texas State produced seven Southland Conference championship teams over a span of four seasons, including a sweep of the 2004 men's and women's indoor and outdoor titles. Wiley helped lead the Bobcats to a Southland Conference outdoor record points total for the women's team in 2004 (195), coached the Southland Conference Athlete of the Year and Outstanding Track Performer in 2003 and 2004 (indoor and outdoor) and the Southland Conference High Point Athlete in 2003, 2004 and 2006.
Before joining the staff at Texas State, Wiley was a sprinter on the Bobcats' track team from 1997-2000, accomplishing career bests of 10.29 (wind-aided) in the outdoor 100 meters and 6.20 in the indoor 55-meter dash (a time that ranked in the world's top 20 in 2000). As a student-athlete, Wiley was a member of the 1998 and 2000 outdoor conference championship teams. A two-time team captain for the Bobcats, Wiley was also a member of the school-record sprint medley relay team.
Wiley, a native of Round Rock, Texas, graduated from Texas State in May 2000 with a degree in Business Administration and completed a Master's degree in Secondary Education in May 2008. Wiley and his wife, Julie, have two sons, Hayden Blaine Alan, and Landon James. Julie was a track & field letter winner at Texas State from 1996-2000.


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Dawkins's God
Robert Hart on a Famous Atheist Who (Almost) Sounds Like Augustine
If Richard Dawkins wants to refute what Christians believe, he should not declare his own belief in Divine Transcendence. Time magazine asked him and Francis Collins, a Christian who heads the Human Genome Project, what caused the universe to exist. The interviewer suggested that the answer could be God.
"There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding," Dawkins said. To this Collins responded, "That's God." Yes, said Dawkins,
but it could be any of a billion Gods . . . the chances of its being a particular God, Yahweh, the God of Jesus, is vanishingly small—at least the onus is on you to demonstrate why you think that's the case. . . . I don't see the Olympian Gods or Jesus coming down and dying on the cross as worthy of that grandeur. They strike me as parochial. If there's a God, it's going to be a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
A Fact to Consider
How is this an argument against the Christian faith? (By the way, what does Dawkins mean by "our present understanding"? Does he anticipate some future state of exaltation and glorification that will increase it?)
In the Bible we read of God who dwells in the darkness and of God hidden by the radiance of blinding light. St. Paul writes of "the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see" (1 Tim. 6:15–16).
In the first of his Soliloquies, St. Augustine writes of God as "incredibly grand." The entire tradition of apophatic theology is about God who is beyond our understanding. God is spoken of in negatives, because we cannot know the Nature that is wholly other than every created nature, infinite, without beginning or end.
Dawkins believes that "the chances of its [this incomprehensible God] being a particular God . . . is vanishingly small." Yet the Transcendent and incomprehensible God beyond our knowing, whose possible existence he concedes, is a particular God, and quite in keeping with the one element that he actually brings into question: Have we been given the complement of the divine mystery, namely, revelation? He thinks not, because God, if there is a God, is so infinitely distant from us.
Theology is, though many may find this astonishing, a science. It is based on statements of fact, including miracles. The Christian faith takes its stand on one thing above all, the eyewitness accounts of those who saw the resurrected Christ.
These are strengthened in their status as actual history by the martyrdom of the earliest witnesses. What stands as a unique event in history is not merely an empty tomb, and not the story of the Resurrection, but the deep conviction of the earliest Christians that Christ's post-resurrection appearances were events real enough to die for.
This provides for us a fact to consider, namely, the faith of the Church. Here the chance that we have, not only a particular God, but specific revelation, is the opposite of "vanishingly small." Instead, it is quite substantive on the basis of evidence.
In terms of this revelation, the post-resurrection appearances verify the teachings of Jesus, as recorded by eyewitness accounts, and lead to our central doctrine, the Incarnation. Dawkins fails in his attempt to criticize Christian teaching because he describes the very opposite of what we believe.
"I don't see the Olympian Gods or Jesus coming down and dying on a cross, as worthy of that grandeur," he tells the magazine. Here we can sympathize with him, because some theologians have made too much of St. Paul's use of the Greek word kenoo to mean that Jesus "emptied himself" into human nature.
Taken Up in Christ
Never has the Church taught it this way. Always, the revelation has been understood to be that Jesus Christ is God the Word (Logos), or God the Son, having taken finite human nature into his infinite being, time into eternity, mortality into life, created nature into uncreated Person, the known into the unknowable. "God was made man that man might become God," as St. Athanasius wrote in his On the Incarnation.
Dawkins is right to say that the idea of a knowable and definable god leaping down from Mt. Olympus is not worthy to be compared to this revelation. It is the very opposite. He is wrong to think of Jesus as an Olympian God. Jesus is the very opposite.
Although Dawkins means his estimation of the crucifixion of Christ as unworthy of divine grandeur to be a crushing criticism of Christianity, it is simply an echo of St. Paul's words. "For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men." (1 Cor. 1:22–25).
Unworthy of divine grandeur indeed; that was the point.
Robert Hart is rector of St. Benedict's Anglican Catholic Church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Anglican Catholic Church Original Province). He also contributes regularly to the blog The Continuum. He is a contributing editor of Touchstone.


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UPDATE January 2016: The link to the interactive timeline below has been updated.
The Kids Count Project of the Wyoming Children's Action Alliance, an NJJN member, is celebrating Youth Justice Awareness month with a new interactive timeline that covers the highlights in Wyoming's history of juvenile justice reform. The timeline spans over a century, starting with the creation of Wyoming's first juvenile court in July of 1899, and includes video clips, reports, resources and articles.
"Reviewing the interactive timeline," said Marc Homer, Kids Count Director at the Wyoming Children's Action Alliance, "it is striking to see two distinctive yet contradictory trends that have emerged. While there is a consistent record of highly reputable reports highlighting the need for evidenced based reform, paradoxically there is also a long history of elected officials who have rejected recommendations to implement the most critical reforms."
» Look for Youth Justice Awareness Month Events in Your State
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A very fast study.October 1st, 2008
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Saturday, July 21, 2007
I Got My Harry Potter
The most awaited book came out finally -- Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows. Fans all over the world started counting down the seconds, lined up outside their favorite bookstores either before midnight or early in the morning.
I started reading blogs about it upon waking up. And now it is my turn :-) I have a pre-ordered one from amazon.de since february this year, they have a special offer for only 18.90 euro (regular price 28.90 euro) and no postage cost!
Around 3 pm, my husband saw the postman's truck arriving and warned me, 'Harry Potter is coming.' The postwoman rang the bell. IC volunteered to open the door thus it was after a few minutes for her to reach it. The postwoman decided to push our tenants' bell, thinking we are not home. Then when she saw me opening the door she explained her decision 'I am sure this is a Harry Potter book and was thinking you might want to have your book now. Oh, I have already delivered a lot of Harry Potter books today.' I smiled and said thank you.
I yelled to my husband that I indeed, have the book. He simply laughed out loud. But first I need to take a photo of the book, before I blog about it. And a confession to make: I actually have the whole Harry Potter series but have stopped reading on the third book :-) I dont really know why!
Now I got to go back to my choiced reading now, Nighttime Is My Time by Mary Higgins Clark.
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i am amazed at how the source (like amazon) are able to have the book delivered, just in time, not ahead of schedule.
my monica was almost through reading hers a while ago, but she had a party to attend--she even brought the book with her.
- July 21, 2007 at 7:12 PM
HP fan ka din pala?
Btw, you're tagged!
- July 22, 2007 at 8:35 AM
- raqgold said...
sexymom -- i would think the post office and amazon are really a great team. i dont think i would be reading the 7th HP yet though. i plan to read again the first book then the second book, in that order.
mitch -- i am an all book fan, hehe! with all the hype about HP, i just needed to have them, too. i am finished with your tag!
- July 23, 2007 at 10:02 AM
Wow! Few blogs I visited this week are posting about HP. I have not read any of the HP books but I love the movies :) So what happens after the last book? The end na talaga?
- July 23, 2007 at 11:36 PM
- raqgold said...
i havent watched a movie for the last six years, hehe. i plan to re-read the whole series muna.
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The Macallan No. 6 in Lalique
Single Malt
The Macallan // Highlands, Scotland
The Macallan No. 6 in Lalique is the latest (early 2015) and last release in the 1824 Master Series. No. 6 is chosen as the name to represent the Six Pillars of the Macallan; these six components form the foundation to the success of the brand and include their curiously small stills and their exceptional oak casks among other things. It is the latter that is showcased in this bottling. The whisky is aged in first-fill Spanish sherry casks from one Jerez cooperage. The whisky is sold in a Lalique decanter and is only available in a select few luxury establishments in Las Vegas.
Single MaltDistilled in pot stills from 100% malted barley, produced at one distillery, aged in barrels; if Scotch or Irish, must be aged for at least three years.
Cask Typefirst-fill sherry
Tasting Notes
"Delicate floral notes and orange tea are some of the aromas found along with high notes of dried fruits like cherries, apples, and cranberries. Milk chocolate is another component along with vanilla bean. The flavor profile continues on this theme, but you almost don't want to drink as the aroma is so enticing. But of course you must succumb. The whisky is feminine and elegant on your palate with gentle barrel spices seeing you home. Should you find yourself in Vegas and if you have the means, we highly recommend picking one up."


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Once again we had a brilliant turn-out and some fine performances at Shotton on Wednesday; 17 men and 4 ladies. Obviously very disappointing that the race result had to be void. We will never know what would have happened. For info there is a set of results being prepared, based on the process of awarding 1 point to everyone who ran and penalty points to anyone who didn't (150 for ladies, 500 for men). That means the race will count as a race for those people who are counting up their BL races. But please see note at the bottom.
But we got some brilliant results:
Hayley picked up 4th SL - but if there was an improvers medal for ladies she would win it!
Jez and Simon picked up 2nd and 4th in MV40 (tough group that one with Lee Jones in it)
Dawn was 2nd in LV45
Dave Gilbert won the MV45 category, with Eddie in 3rd place, great to see newer members of the club getting the rewards for hard work
Lisa got 2nd in LV45 and
Jane got 3rd LV45 - good to see her back in the medals after a season of great effort
Ian was 3rd MV45
Les was 2nd MV60
John was 2nd MV65 and
Jack won the MV70 category
and the Vets were second€ overall.
I am trying to collate the results for the Buckley Runners competition within the Borders League. I have a copy of our results sheet from Race 7. They show the order that we finished. They appear to make sense, I think. I know that the majority of runners ran the two loops (instead of 1) running about 5.6 miles (almost exactly the same course as we used last year). A few runners ran three loops - they are easy to spot as those runners are 5-7 minutes and 100 places behind where they should be and I don't think any Buckley Runners were in this group. But a small number of runners ran a part loop before being turned back putting them a minute or two down on where they should be. Did an Buckley Runners do this? If you can let me know I can look at where you should have finished. If not I will collate results on the finish positions I have.
Thanks for your help on this.
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Introduction: Harry Potter Potion Set
I like Harry Potter, and the potions from it. So I made a potion kit with chemistry, from the famous slime experiment.
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Step 1: Ingredients and Items
You will Need:
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup clear glue
1/2 cup water
1/2 teaspoon borax
Food coloring
2 potion bottles with corks
Step 2: Instructions
1. Mix 1/4 cup water, glue, and food coloring of your choice.
2. Stir very well.
3. Mix 1/2 cup of water and borax.
4. Stir until dissolved.
5. Pour both solutions into separate bottles.
6. Put corks on and store until use.
I would use this project for parties.
Step 3: How to Use
How to use:
1. Add the borax solution to a cauldron or a container.
2. Mix the glue mix into the borax solution.
3. Stir well.
4. Reach in and knead the slime.
5. Move the slime into another container.
6. Store slime in a jar or bottle.
7. Add label that has a potion name on it. Example: Polyjuice Potion
I find it very fun to play with. It's perfect for parties. Have a potion class as a party activity. You could be the teacher and give instructions. I put some of my potion in a charm and made a necklace. If you use this project for any parties or if you use this for teaching in a classroom, send me some pictures at firstname.lastname@example.com. Have fun!
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Gold Graduation Frame for A4 Certificate and 8x10/8x10in Photo
This Graduation Frame comes with a contemporary 23mm wide distressed Gold wooden frame and is supplied with a complementary off white mount to hold one A4 portrait certificate and one 8x10inch portrait photo. Supplied with clear picture glass, MDF backing and hanging hardware (does not include wall fittings).
This distressed Gold Frame is perfect for showing off all your hard work and achievements presented on graduation day. Proudly display your A4 portrait Certificate with an 8x10inch photo photo in style.
- Distressed Gold Finish
- Wooden Frame
- Off White Mount
- Accommodates 1x A4 (210x297mm) certificate and 1x 10x8/8x10in portrait photo
- Approx. finished size is 406 x 551mm
- Comes with 2mm picture glass as standard
- Supplied ready to hang, all you need to supply is the fixing for the wall
Parcel size: Large
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The Flaming Lips are unique for a major label, chart-topping band. They don't compromise on their artistic vision, and they're not afraid to make flops, especially if they scratch the band's collective creative itch, or lead to something greater in the future.
Along the way during the group's 30-plus year career, core members Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd have developed a collaborative process that has delivered some remarkable highs — 1999's The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots from 2002 — as well as what at least casual fans would consider creative follies, like the Pink Floyd homage The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon from 2009 and the 2008 film Christmas On Mars.
Nowhere is the band's bold vision more evident than on its recent Greatest Hits, Volume 1 – in both standard and expanded, deluxe editions – as well as Seeing The Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings Of The Flaming Lips 1986-1990, from the band's DIY, psychedelic beginnings, and its most recent studio album, mischievously entitled Oczy Mlody, from last year. While each is wildly different, there's no doubting that the fresh, artistically adventurous moments outweigh the misses. Oczy Mlody, especially, retains enough of a creative connection to the Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi-era Lips music to make it immediately familiar and engaging.
Wayne Coyne sat down with Rock Cellar to discuss the band's legacy, its creative process, and why it pays to be creatively fearless.
Rock Cellar: You said before I started rolling that even while you're reaching for something you haven't done yet, or that is truly out there, that you do want to reach a lot of people. As any artist who's been around as long as you guys have, you still have to want to reach the biggest possible audience. So where's the balance for you and, with the music industry still relatively topsy-turvy in 2018, who are you trying to reach as the Flaming Lips? Is it your core audience, or do you still want to go beyond that?
Wayne Coyne: Well, I don't mean it that way. I would just mean our audience. I don't mean I'm trying to reach Beyonce's audience or anything. It's just that if I'm feeling like something we're working on is a really powerful, emotional song, I would hope that our audience would say, "You're right, it is." To me, that's what I mean. It wouldn't be to reach more people.
I want to reach people who know what we think we're saying, and what we think we're evoking. But I think that's where Steven and I really make the connection. We're trying to create in a subconscious way, and to let the tone and the shape of the melody sort of be what we're singing about. It's hard to do, but if you try to find what you think a melody is saying, and sing something like that, but at the same time give it character, then melodies can be so powerful and so emotional that you could almost sing anything to it and the audience would still be crushed by it.
And a lot of it is just our personalities, I think. You feel the music, and you feel what you're gonna say. But I do a lot of versions of lyrics. I'll do what I think is one really good verse and then I'll struggle to make the other two or three. Or you get one really great chorus and then you struggle… but everybody works like that. I don't think I'd want to just write a song off the top of my head every time, but sometimes I do and they're great. But sometimes something great happens.
That's why, if you're lucky like us, you can take a couple of years to put something together. And even to the last minute, to the very last song on the record, "We A Family" track that we did with Miley Cyrus. The song had been one way for a long time, but the very last thing we did for the record was to insert a new little bit into that song. And it was the oldest song we had, because her vocal that's on it I think is from 2013. So it's always a culmination.
You can just keep going back to things if you're truly making them better. At the very end of the mix for the Soft Bulletin record there is this little slapback that we had put on one of the songs on some of the drum parts. And then we started thinking we should do it to a couple more songs. So the very last thing I remember was that we went back to virtually every song on the Soft Bulletin and slightly remixed them with this little slapback ricochet on almost all the snare drums. When you're obsessed like we are, that's allowable. We started working on computers around 1997, so we were using automation.
Rock Cellar: So not totally insane to go back and do it…
Wayne Coyne: Well, it wouldn't have been even without the automation, but I'm not sure we would have noticed it if we weren't able to have the automation. Having automation allows you to rethink all these details.
But sometimes you can get easily lost in all the details and not understand what the power of the music is doing. It's always a slippery slope. Those little details allow it to really put across what I'm hoping to catch. I don't know if it really matters to anybody, but someone's gotta have the belief and the vision and the obsession. I definitely have that. I don't always know if it's necessarily for the better of mankind but I'm just doing my shit.
Even for this record, the oldest track also has the very last, newest part on it at the same time. It's the oldest one, but we added something at the very end and it was the last thing that we mixed. And it's the last thing you hear on the record. It was one of the first songs we thought was gonna be on the record, but then we were never satisfied with it. But now I fuckin' love it. I think the new part has really changed the whole scope of it.
Rock Cellar: At this point in your career you have a relatively large and meaningful legacy to a huge portion of your audience. Does that come into play for you artistically when you're in the studio? When you're creating new music, do you worry about that and does the nostalgia factor ever play into your choices?
Wayne Coyne: Well, we always kind of balance what we really want to do and our desire against whether we think people are going to get it. You always have to doubt yourself and your wild adventures a little bit. But Steven and I both agree to the exact same recipe: If we are in love with it and we want to do it, then that's what our audience would want us to do.
If we want to go off and fuckin' make the weirdest most unlistenable record ever, I'd like to think our audience would love for us to do that.
So I think with the Flaming Lips, the diversions that we take that people see as taking us away from the core emotional sound of the Flaming Lips, we don't see that way. To us, everything is a mystery. We don't really know what our core sound is. Besides, my voice is pretty limited. I sound like me. It'd be pretty difficult for me to change that. And I think that probably has some resonance in almost everything that we do. Like you said before, or anyone might say, something new we've done reminds me of this or that; I think that's a really great thing. It allows us utter freedom with this great handicap that we have at the same time.
It gives us a signature, Steven's emotional melodies and my voice. There's not very many groups that I've ever listened to that have that. He allows me the freedom to be utterly expressive in what I wanna say and sing and I want him to be very expressive in the way he builds these very emotional melodies. I think that's just probably something in our personalities that we just like.
And if you like the Flaming Lips, you probably like that. Cause that's what we are. And eventually, if you're a band in our position, with everything that our audience likes about us, and they don't go along for the ride, then oh well. Because if you're not gonna follow your own thing, I don't think you're worth following.
Rock Cellar: Oczy Mlody had a relatively long gestation period and I'm curious about the way you work. A lot of bands will say, "We've got six weeks booked between a tour and other commitments and family stuff." But it sounds as though this record grew organically over along period of time, from ideas that you started in the studio in 2015, around the time of your Miley Cyrus collaboration.
Wayne Coyne: I think we compartmentalized what stuff we thought would be for our next record. When I'm working on stuff, I always think, "Oh, it's great, let's put it out right now!" And then we'll keep working on it, and two weeks later I'll be like, "No, it's great now! Let's put it out." I'm always feeling that if something is really working we should put it right out. Luckily we were working on a bunch of things at the same time, always with 5 or 6 songs that we were kind of piecing together, all going in different directions, with one having gone well in one direction and another one sorta stalled out over there, and we're always playing shows, of course, and the Miley Cyrus record happened in between, so that allowed for some time and space to figure out where we wanted to really go.
You know, I wasn't forgetting, or putting things on the backburner, but you can only work on the things in the time that you have. But I think that really helps. I paint a lot and do videos and all kinds of stuff. And I'll have paintings around the house that I kind of feel at some point finished with. They'll sit there. And a year later I'll go, "Oh, fuck!" And I'll add something to it and I'll think, "Without that it wouldn't have worked." And I think we work the same way with our music. We don't have a specific, absolute time when it has to be out when we begin a project anyway.
Rock Cellar: And yet, even though it did take a while to make and you did make it in pieces and in and amongst other projects and other commitments and so forth, it does feel thematically of a piece. It does feel as though it has got an overarching message, and that holds true for Greatest Hits, Volume 1, too. There's a vibe and mindset to it that is consistent. So if you're making these pieces in fits and starts and fitting them together later, does that cohesiveness come from the mixing, or does that come from the gestation and they all kind of eventually find a home together? How does it come together for you to make it so… Flaming Lips-sounding?
Wayne Coyne: Well, people might think we recorded all at the same time at the same place with the same people. But that's not true. You know that; most musicians know that. And I think sometimes having a lot of time and too many options can ruin music as well. But right from the very first track on the record, called the "Oczy Mlody," which was just a little jam that we did, but right from the beginning we thought, "This could be a cool song." But we couldn't really turn it into a song, or we weren't satisfied or whatever, so it remained there as a couple minutes of this vibe. And then we'd be coming up with another song, and we'd think maybe we could make the song kinda like that song, cause it's got a cool vibe to it, too.
And it works that way a lot. It doesn't always work, but sometimes that one creation is kind of opening the door to the next one, and that's really a great thing. When that starts to happen on a record you kinda feel like it's beyond songwriting and production, because it's got its own personality. When we got to the end of making the Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots record at the end of 2001 I remember there was a feeling of, "Shit, what are we gonna do? We've got a lot of material here." And maybe it didn't feel like it was coming together, I guess. Then the last two or three things that we did started to really make it all feel as though we knew what to do. It guided the process. Sometimes it's just a subtle tweak on a mix that had been sitting around for a year or two years, almost three years. One little tweak can make it all fit together. Now that's just dumb luck. I wouldn't say that's something that you can predict. It's just lucky. And then you follow the luck. Cause there's plenty of bad, boring, nothing music that you make all the time, and you just go, "Oh well. Are we really bad and boring or are we just not really inspired in this moment?"
So this record tries to make it look like we are inspired moments all the time!
Rock Cellar: When you say that you guys are sitting around jamming, I don't imagine you guys like the Heartbreakers, sitting around playing '60s covers. I imagine it's a little more free form, and not like a band situation. What does jamming entail to you?
Wayne Coyne: Well, jamming would probably be… I'm doing something rhythmically, either on a drum machine or keyboard, so that we have like rhythms already sort of attached to it, and Steven (Drozd) is playing along with me. The dilemma with being not a very good musician, but also being the leader of the group, is that the good musicians have to be good enough to follow your weird rhythms and your weird quirks. That's Steven. I'll start playing something — the bass or the drum track and just picking what sounds cool — and he would sort of be picking sounds on various little computer keyboards, and then we'd have a moment where one of would go, "Wait a minute, that's something…"
But mostly it'd be Steven and me, because we can't get too many people involved with everybody searching at the same time, because it quickly turns into muck. But with Steven I'll lock onto something and that'll give him a variety of time to figure out what could work. But we don't jam very often. A lot of the time we're making things. It's not free-form. But I love the Heartbreakers; that's a good example of what jamming really is.
Rock Cellar: Well, when they used to go in and jam, Tom (Petty) would play a song on his acoustic and then they would go in and play it for a while so everybody could find their parts. So maybe they each have more defined roles in that jam.
Wayne Coyne: Right, they've settled into a sound. Whereas I think for good or bad Steven and I would just be bored. I mean, we're always hoping that some magical machine will do all the fucking work. And really, just the confrontation of people wanting to play together and deciding in that moment if something is good, doesn't work for me. I'd rather just relax and you can be listening instead of playing, and thinking "That's not my part, it's your part." We're just making music. But obviously they've made some absolutely great records.
Rock Cellar: And yet I hear shades of earlier records in Oczy Mlody. Yoshimi, Clouds Taste Metallic, and especially Soft Bulletin are all there, and loom large on the Greatest Hits package. They were clearly career-defining records for you. Oczy Mlody is not a retro record in any way, but I do feel there are a lot of moments that hark back to earlier records. Was that in your mind? Or is it just kind of the music you make? Were you aware of it?
Wayne Coyne: Well, we just did the entire Soft Bulletin record with an orchestra in Denver at the beginning of the summer. There was a big concert and we were outside and it was a cool thing. So there was probably a sense of us revisiting those sounds. But a lot of the stuff on the Soft Bulletin record we've never gotten away from anyway.
It's so connected to what we are and what we think everybody wants to hear and what people think we're about. And there was so much rehearsing for it, anyway. Everybody had to know what everybody was playing at every moment. But I don't know, I mean I was already 40 years old when we made the Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots record. I wasn't young. I think if I was a bit younger I'd probably want to get away from what I feel is my past. But something that came out in the year 2000 to me still feels like not very old. When you're older, time doesn't have the same meaning to you. So I never really think we need to get away from something we've done or not. In fact, I think we all feel very lucky that if we do have a sound and it is connected to various records and those songs, we would say that's good news. And sometimes when I hear our older music now I don't even remember how we wrote the songs or how we recorded them or anything. I just think, "Wow, that's fucking amazing!" Even though it's me!
Rock Cellar: I found the story of you reading the book written in Polish in between takes and during fallow periods in the sessions or moments you had during mixes fascinating. What did you get as a person, but also as an artist, from reading something that you truly have no understanding of? What did it fire in your creative mind?
Wayne Coyne: It probably acted like some of those tricks someone like a Brian Eno would suggest. It's like his Oblique Strategies cards. You're reading this stuff that really has no meaning to you, but little phrases would poke out and little things that you just wouldn't put together otherwise.
Rock Cellar: Because of the rhythm of them? What would it spur in you?
Wayne Coyne: Well, it's just these googly gloppy meaningless phrases, and they're hard to think of, otherwise. Everything that you purposely think of is connected to meaning in your mind. To stumble upon them and to give them your own meaning, even though it means something in Polish, creates a kind of magic. Steven and I will simply take those sorts of things and say, "Yeah, well we think it means this."
That would let us write a song, or let us think about what the characters in the song, or what the vibe of the song could do, because, again, we're just making it up. It would send us into this unknown thing. And I think everybody wants that. For any artist, you have to work at it all the time. And you hope there's those little breakthroughs that send you to another world, where it's not just you doing the same old thing, which we fear all the time. After making almost 25 records or so I never worry about it, I'm just glad I get to do it. I'm obsessed with it and I have a lot of fun doing it, but I do want it to work. I want the songs to penetrate and I want the listener to get it. All that, that's all hard to do.
And you can't really be making it and listening to it at the same time. But you want those moments of unknown. And that's where the Polish stuff comes through, because it just throws you into another world. And Steven and I will be on the same vibe, because it's rare that we're making a record and he's off doing one thing and I'm doing another. We're typically both feeding off of what each other are all about and honing in on some version of ourselves that we haven't found yet.
That's what I think we always try to do. We're trying to find some version of ourselves.


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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Growing pains happen when you least expect them.
Jordan comes home with a pimple on his chin.
Sofia looks at me and says, "Mom, I'm eight years old and you can't tell me what to do!"
When I was an adolescent, my mouth worked quicker than my mind. I never thought before I reacted, I would just react.
As an adult you don't do that.
As an adult, you have acquired the level of sensitivity and empathy that only one with a history of impulsivity can achieve.
There are phases, experiences, events that take you back to adolescent insecurities, though, and once again...the hand may be quicker than the brain.
You can quit smoking, but old habits die hard.
And some people...are quicker to leave than others.
Some people are more sensitive than others, and those are the very people that don't let you see that side too often...until it is too late.
So you keep the moments that made you smile, learn from the moments that caused you pain....keep loving and keep going
2 comments:
- tammy said...
it's funny, I'm reading a book right now on the adolescent brain, very interesting on the reasons why they're so impulsive and fearless. To think I have many more years ahead of this, scary.
LOVE your posts. They scream out to me, like I could write them myself.
So proud of you for quitting. It's not easy. One day at a time.
- October 15, 2011 at 8:31 AM
- Unknown said...
Unfortunately, the adolescent brain is highly common in the mature adult male species.
PS. LOL.........14 days without a cigarette.
- October 17, 2011 at 8:23 AM
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