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Directorate for Biological Sciences
Improvements to Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSML)
Update on Research Resources Solicitations
New solicitations to replace previous solicitations in the DBI Research Resources Cluster will be available after mid-year 2018. Programs affected include:
- Advances in Biological Informatics (ABI - NSF 15-582)
- Collections in Support of Biological Research (CSBR - NSF 15-577)
- Improvements in Facilities, Communications, and Equipment at Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSML - NSF 16-506)
- Instrument Development for Biological Research (IDBR - NSF 13-561)
For more information on the move to "no-deadline" please see the Dear Colleague Letter and the Frequently Asked Questions.
Note Guidance on Data Management Plans
BIO has posted revised Guidance on Data Management plans (updated 10/01/15). Please review before submitting a proposal to the Directorate for Biological Sciences.
Important Announcement
A revised solicitation for the Improvements in Facilities, Communications, and Equipment at Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSML) Program is forthcoming. The targeted submission deadline for FY2016 proposals is January 2016.
|Peter McCartney
|(703) 292-8470
|Kandace Binkley
|(703) 292-8583
|David Campbell
|(703) 292-5093
PROGRAM GUIDELINESSolicitation 16-506
Important Information for Proposers
ATTENTION: Proposers using the Collaborators and Other Affiliations template for more than 10 senior project personnel will encounter proposal print preview issues. Please see the Collaborators and Other Affiliations Information website for updated guidance.
A revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 18-1), is effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after January 29, 2018. Please be advised that, depending on the specified due date, the guidelines contained in NSF 18-1 may apply to proposals submitted in response to this funding opportunity.
Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSMLs) are off-campus facilities for research and education conducted in the natural habitats of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. FSMLs support environmental and basic biological research and education by preserving access to study areas and organisms, by providing facilities and equipment in close proximity to those study areas, and by fostering an atmosphere of mutual scientific interest and collaboration in research and education. To fulfill these roles, FSMLs must offer modern research and educational facilities, equipment, communications and data management for a broad array of users. In recognition of the importance of FSMLs in modern biology, NSF invites proposals that address these general goals of FSML improvement.
What Has Been Funded (Recent Awards Made Through This Program, with Abstracts)
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STOCKTON - John Morearty, the "peacenik carpenter" who led weekly anti-war rallies on Pacific Avenue and helped found the Peace and Justice Network of San Joaquin County, died at home Thursday morning.
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Morearty was ill with the advanced stages of blood cancer and had been physically weak for some time. Three months ago, supporters held a special peace vigil in his honor at the usual place, across from the malls near San Joaquin Delta College.
"It's very sad, but all things considered, he had a lot of love and support around him" when he died, said his son, Mike Morearty. "He hung in there a lot longer than we expected."
Long enough, in fact, to celebrate his 74th birthday last month. The family celebrated with him.
"I'm proud of him," Mike Morearty said. "I'm proud of the fact that he took these really, really difficult global issues and did his best to tackle them in ways that he could. ... I'm always proud to tell people about my dad, just because he's a very interesting man and he's done a lot of great stuff."
Born poor and Irish Catholic in Milwaukee, Morearty considered becoming a priest but instead came to Stockton to teach philosophy at University of the Pacific.
He became vigorously active in the peace movement and lost his job after picketing a campus visit by Caspar Weinberger, President Richard Nixon's secretary of health, education and welfare.
"Deep down, I'd known in opposing the war I was rolling the dice with my job, and I thought, so be it," Morearty wrote in his memoirs, "Walking to Omega: Tales of a Peacenik Carpenter."
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John Morearty is survived by his longtime wife, Ria de Groot; by twin sons, Mike and Brian; and by de Groot's son, Paul, among other family members.
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|San Diego, CA
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On Court: Joins Stags Tennis after a decorated
junior and high school career...ranked as high as #20 in Southern
California Boys 18s, and #112 nationally on
tennisrecruiting.net...played #1 singles for four years and was
team captain for three at Francis Parker HS, where he led his team
to one CIF title and three semifinals...also league individual CIF
champion 2008-2010 and All San Diego Section 1st Team
selection...as a freshman started strong at the
USTA / ITA West Regionals, defeating 7th seed and national ITA
Player To Watch Deven Nerenberg (Santa Cruz) and 15th
seed Sabel (Pomona-Pitzer), before losing in three sets to
defending champion Nick Ballou of Cal Lutheran in the
quarters...partnered fellow San Diegan freshman Cameron Bernhardt
in the doubles, where the unseeded duo defeated teams from Chapman,
Pomona-Pitzer, and Redlands to advance to the semis...finshed the
fall with singles rankings of #45 nationally and #12 in the west,
and a doubles ranking of #8 in the west...began the spring at #4
and #5 singles and #3 doubles (with Wei), winning his first three
singles duals and two of three doubles duals...sat out nearly five
weeks from Feb 25 to March 30 with Mono, then returned against #7
Middlebury...was the Stags' most consistent singles player, going
19-3 overall and 14-1 in duals...his three losses came at the hands
of NCAA singles finalist Nick Ballou (twice) and Lunghino of
Middlebury...partnered Wood at #1 and #2 doubles after starting the
spring with Wei, going 9-7 in duals and 14-9 overall...Marino's
19-3 singles mark is good for the 5th best singles season winning
percentage in Stags Tennis history...Marino also earned SCIAC
Athlete of the Week honors the week of May 7-13, for his role
in both of CMS' NCAA opening round victories...also named to
2nd Team All-SCIAC for his exceptional play at the #4
singles and #1 and #2 doubles positions during the regular
season...as a sophomore continued his consistently
strong play, moving up from #4 to #3 singles...reached the round of
16 at the USTA / ITA West Regionals after winning two singles
matches, eventually falling in three sets to Santa Cruz's
Halabi...lost in the first round of doubles with partner Mac
Cahill...started strong in the spring, playing #1 singles on
opening day and getting a straight set win against Arizona
Christian...went on to win his first eight duals, playing mostly at
the #3 spot...slower start on the doubles side, playing #2 doubles
with new partner Alex Lane...the pair lost two of their first three
duals before moving to #3 and then winning 18 of their next
19...Marino would prove to be one of the Stags most prolific
performers in both singles and doubles, going 23-4 in singles
duals, and 24-5 in doubles duals enroute to overall marks of 29-6
in singles and 26-7 in doubles...he also reached the Ojai singles
semis, losing to eventual champ Nick Ballou of Cal Lutheran...was
one of four Stags named to the All-SCIAC Team as a 2nd Team
honoree...also an ITA Player To Watch nominee from the
West Region...his outstanding play in both singles and doubles put
him back in the CMS Stags Tennis records for the second straight
year...his 35 singles matches played and 29 wins land him16th in
the matches played category and third in wins for a single
season...he now appears twice on the single season winning
percentage list, in seventh place for his 2012 record of 19-3, and
in tenth place for his 2013 record of 29-6...Marino and partner
Alex Lane place seventh in singles season wins as a team with their
24-6 mark...as a junior spent fall semester in
Copenhagen, Denmark as part of CMC's study abroad program...lost
opening dual match at #2 singles to start the spring, but then
reeled off ten straight wins at #2 and #3 without losing a
set...first dual match loss was to UCLA's Mackenzie MacDonald,
after Marino rolled an ankle at 4-all, thirty-all in the
first...finished the match losing 6-4, 6-2, but had to miss the
next 10 days...went on to win another nine singles dual matches
consecutively without losing a set, before falling in straight sets
in the NCAA team quarters to Hopkins' Tanner Brown...was 20-4 in
singles dual matches...equally brilliant in tournament play,
reaching the final of the D3 event at Ojai, where he defeated Cal
Lu's Cardenas in the quarters and Whittier's Konstantinov in the
semis, before losing to Wood in the championship...was one of four
Stags to qualify for the NCAA singles tourney, where he advanced to
the semis without the loss of more than four games in a set...fell
to eventual champion Joey Fritz in the semis...partnered senior
captain Pereverzin in doubles and played #2 and #3 all season,
where the duo went 18-4 in duals...earned 1st Team
All-SCIAC honors as well as ITA All-American singles
honors...named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District
Team...SCIAC Athlete of the Week for week of May
13...completed 2014 with overall records of 27-6 in singles and
18-5 in doubles and final rankings of #3 in the West and #7
nationally in singles, and #10 in the West with Perevezin in
doubles...his 75 career singles wins place him in the 12th position
all-time heading into his senior year...his singles records in his
first three years are each among the fourteen best in CMS Tennis
history in terms of winning percentage.
Tools: Babolat Pure Drive strung with Solinco Outlast at 55 lbs
Personal: One of three freshmen Stags from San Diego...multi-sport athlete who started tennis at age 5, but also played baseball, basketball and ran track...quit track in middle school after high jumping over protective mat and breaking collar bone, scapula, and two ribs...played soccer for eight years, including his freshman and sophomore years at Francis Parker...enjoys all genres of movies and hosts weekly movie night in his dorm room...earned ITA Scholar Athlete honors as a sophomore for attaining a GPA of 3.5 or better.
Favorite Stag: Tom Isaak (CMC '91 - golf)...first golfer in the CMS Hall of Fame, now a tennis coach at St. Augustine HS
Say What?: allergic to and afraid of bees


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NEW WORKS AND A NEW ERA FOR GRETTA SARFATY (Private View: 19 March 2013, 18:30 - 21:30)
The last show to take place in 'Sartorial Contemporary Art' space at King's Cross is a self-referential extravaganza about the Gretta Sarfaty's career.
The artist revolutionizes the idea of a retrospective exhibition, a fresh new ars poetica… The exhibition offers us a glance into the future experiencing the past. Gretta has directed her own Fellini's 8 and ½ finale. At the opening night joined by artist's friends she will exhibit artworks that reinterpret her memories.
The exhibition will take place at Gretta's former Sartorial Contemporary Art space in Kings Cross: 26A - 26 Argyle Square, London, WC1H 8AP.
19 March - 5 April by appointment only, to arrange a viewing please contact email@example.com
Gretta has earned international acclaim as a performance artist, in particular the body art movement, since the late 70's. Alongside her artistic practice she was the founder of the project-led space Sartorial Contemporary Art (2003 – 2010) and since 2010 has been running a family trust the Alegre Sarfaty Collection.
Familia Memorabilis 2013. Mixed media on canvas, 81 x 122cm
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Normally so good, so gritty, in the crucible of the third set, Maria Sharapova finally met her match against Victoria Azarenka.
Coming all the way back from a set and a break down, the top-seeded Azarenka prevailed in a stirring third, beating four-time Grand Slam champion Sharapova 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 on Friday to reach her first U.S. Open final.
"This one didn't go my way," Sharapova said. "Frustrating, but it's the game of tennis. A lot of swings in the match today. Certainly had the lead and the advantage."
Entering Friday, Sharapova was 12-0 in three-setters this year, and had won 78 consecutive matches in which she took the opening set, a streak dating to 2010. But Azarenka broke in the last game to push her own 2012 record to 12-0 in matches that went the distance.
"I didn't know that statistic," Azarenka said during an on-court interview. "It's pretty good."
Perfect, actually.
On Saturday, Australian Open champion Azarenka will play in her second major final of the season — and career — against 14-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams. Seeking a fourth title at Flushing Meadows, the fourth-seeded Williams wasted little time or energy while overwhelming 10th-seeded Sara Errani of Italy 6-1, 6-2.
Williams, trying to become the first 30-year-old woman to win the U.S. Open since Martina Navratilova in 1987, compiled a 38-6 edge in winners in her 64-minute semifinal against Errani.
Since a surprising exit at the French Open in late May, her only first-round loss in 49 appearances at major tournaments, Williams is 25-1, including a title at Wimbledon and gold medal at the London Olympics.
Williams owns a 9-1 career record against Azarenka.
"I've got to do something different, to be honest," Azarenka said.
Asked whether she would watch video of their past matches, Azarenka joked: "Well, I don't want to be depressed."
Then again, the way Azarenka dealt with Sharapova, she's probably feeling pretty good about herself, too. She sure looked pleased while doing a little jig, then chucking some tennis balls into the stands, after the fading Sharapova's forehand sailed long on the final point of their 2-hour, 42-minute quarterfinal.
"I was just not trying to focus on the score," Azarenka said. "Trying to give whatever it takes."
Given a chance to rest for a bit after the second set by a 10-minute break requested by Sharapova under the extreme heat rule, both women came out swinging away in the third. Azarenka emerged from the locker room before Sharapova and took the opportunity to practice groundstrokes and serves with ballkids.
The third set was filled with high-quality play, made all the more impressive considering the sun, the swirling wind and what was at stake. They hit the ball hard. They chased down shots with terrific defense. Sharapova even shifted her racket from her right to her left hand during a couple of lengthy exchanges.
One particularly intense and riveting game came with Sharapova serving while trailing 2-1. Azarenka accumulated three break points, but Sharapova saved each, the last with a cross-court backhand winner. After a fifth deuce, Sharapova eventually held with a 109 mph ace, one of her eight in the match.
But the third-seeded Sharapova also double-faulted 10 times, a recurring theme ever since she returned from surgery on her right shoulder in 2008.
"I gave her too many free points," Sharapova said.
This has been a resurgent year for the Russian, who completed a career Grand Slam by winning the French Open in June, was the runner-up at the Australian Open and the Olympics, and briefly returned to No. 1 in the rankings — a spot that now belongs to Azarenka.
"I'll take the results I had this year," Sharapova said.
She reached her first U.S. Open semifinal since winning the 2006 title thanks to overcoming deficits en route to three-set victories in the fourth round and quarterfinals.
But she didn't have one more late-match charge in her.
With a cloudless blue sky and the temperature approaching 90 degrees, Arthur Ashe Stadium was steamy when Sharapova and Azarenka got started, shrieking loudly with nearly every stroke.
Well, Sharapova was ready at the outset, anyway. Azarenka? Not so much.
Sharapova took 12 of the first 17 points, hitting deep, clean groundstrokes, while Azarenka needed 18 minutes to win a single game. When they met in the Australian Open final, Sharapova won a total of three games. She equaled that by the time she led 3-0 when Friday's semifinal was 11 minutes old.
Azarenka, who came in averaging 20 winners per match in the tournament, managed to produce merely one in the first set. She finished with 19, the same number as her unforced error count. It was Sharapova whose play determined the result on most points: She had 44 winners and 42 unforced errors.
When Sharapova broke Azarenka to go ahead 1-0 in the second set, she appeared to be in control. But that's when Azarenka really showed up, taking four consecutive games and six of the next seven.
"All heart," said Azarenka, a 23-year-old from Belarus.
"That's what I feel like we play for, we live for," Azarenka said, "to play on these big stages against such champions."
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Determination of lysine and its salts in fodder additives
The method is used for the determination of the mass fraction of free lysine and its salts (including lysine hydrochloride and lysine sulfate) in fodder additives.
Determination of anions in feedstuffs, compound feeds, and feed raw materials
The method is used for the determination of the mass fraction of water-soluble chloride, nitrate, phosphate, and total sulfate in all types of feedstuffs, compound feeds, fodders, premixes, fodder additives, and feed raw materials (of plant, animal, and mineral origin) by capillary electrophoresis.
Determination of caffeine and theobromine in tea, coffee, cocoa, and dietary supplements
The method is used for the determination of the mass fraction of caffeine and theobromine in tea and tea products, coffee and coffee products, cocoa and cocoa products, and dietary supplements.
Determination of proteinogenous amino acids in feedstuffs, compound feeds, and feed raw materials
The method is used for the determination of the mass fraction of total amino acids: arginine, lysine, tyrosine, phenylalanine, histidine, leucine and iso-leucine (as a sum), methionine, valine, proline, alanine, glycine, cystine, tryptophan, aspartic, and glutamic acids in feedstuffs, compound feeds, fodders, premixes, and all types of feed raw materials by capillary electrophoresis.
Soil moisture monitoring for researching
Cambridge based Delta-T Devices specialises in instruments for environmental science, in particular: agronomy, plant physiology, eco-physiology, data logging, meteorology, soil moisture, solar energy studies and environmental monitoring.
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Electrochemical solutions and water technologies for agriculture & livestock
We engineer and supply innovative technological solutions to improve fruit and vegetable cultivations and animal breeding. Our commitment is to a healthier, safer condition of all the actors involved in the agri-food chain (farmers, plants, animals, consumers) increasing the quantity and quality of food available, while at the same time reducing pesticide contaminations on products and in the environment.
By Industrie De Nora S.p.A. | De Nora Water Technologies based in Milan, ITALY.
Textile Solutions for the Livestock Industry
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Eclipse for PHP Dev: One Month In
As I previously mentioned I'm using Eclipse IDE for a good deal of my php development at the moment. At first, I was a little skeptical of how much Eclipse would improve my productivity. Initially, it was kind of painful but after changing my work flow to work better with Eclipse I do admit it's an improvement.
My initial "look" at Eclipse was Eclipse for PHP Developers; this was on my old laptop but sine I no longer had it I had to reinstall Eclipse again. This time I'm using Eclipse standard with the PHP Developer Tools (PDT) extensions added on instead. No real reason, "just 'cause".
First the good.
Right off, the most important and very coolest of the very cool features, is the built in function reference. I LOVE the ctrl+click feature! You can click on any function, class or method call and it will open the file containing that call. It's really, REALLY, helpful. This feature is incredible, and one I'm sure isn't unique to Eclipse. Still, after doing the alternative (see function, search for file with function, search for function in file and read) a feature like this is simply magical.
Hell, just hovering over an element will display the comment info if you used docblock style comments (you do write docblock comments right?).
Combining the above two features pretty much kills off a pretty signifigant portion of development; digging through code looking for something.
But wait! There's more:
There's also the integration with Subversion; it requires an add-on plugin to work but work it does. It's a little confusing to use at first, but after reading How to use Subversion with Eclipse article by IBM it started to make sense. I started working with Eclipse before I dug into the Subversion integration so the change to workflow was a little disruptive at first. If you're planning on using Subversion you should definately check out the Subversion integration before using Eclipse full time.
One last thing about the Subversion plugin; it's written by the same guys (CollabNet) who make TortoiseSVN and Subversion itself so you can still use Tortoise if you want to. I appreciate that.
One of my first "misconceptions" was that there wasn't any FTP or SFTP functionality. This is technically true but there is a plugin that handles this in a basic manner. There isn't any way to work directly on the server (by this I mean, upload on save type functionality) but you can download and upload files to a server using either FTP or SFTP.
Now the petty, petty, stuff
One gripe I have is that Eclipse doesn't syntax highlight Smarty tags; not even the HTML is syntax highlighted.
I was also hoping for some sort of customization on the syntax highlighting colors. Personally, I like the colors to be a little more vibrant than most IDEs default to. Small gripe to be sure but it would have been nice to have.
At this stage I haven't really dug into the build process but from what I've read it should be able to improve the deployment work. Since I do php work I'm hoping "deployment work" means automated replication and setup. I know there's ANT integration but having never used ANT before this is a whole other discussion.
Still, all and all Eclipse isn't bad. Not even close. I still use EditPlus for some development, especially since there isn't remote access, but more and more I'm finding myself open Eclipse for the real work.


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Saturday, April 14, 2012
TV stalemate
Not the owner of the team.
Not major league baseball.
Not the new TV network broadcasting your team's games, or the cable distributors haggling with the new TV network.
You're on your own. That's what the message is.
Want to watch the Padres on TV?
You're out of luck if you subscribe to two of the three big cable operators in San Diego County. Go to a restaurant or bar if you'd like to watch the game there, but you'll be spending money on top of your monthly cable bill.
You could subscribe to MLB's Web site, but if you live in San Diego County, the Padres games there will be blacked out.
You were told that the fistfight over TV dollars would be resolved by Opening Day, or soon after.
It hasn't been.
You were told that MLB would approve the Padres' $1.2 billion TV deal in March or the first week of the season.
It hasn't done so.
"Talk to the Padres," an MLB official told me this week when I asked why the $1.2 billion deal still hasn't been approved by the league.
"Talk to John Moores or the lawyers," a Padres official told me.
Moores, the team's owner, didn't respond to my interview requests. In a teleconference with reporters this week, Moores was vague when asked when Padres telecasts will be available to a larger share of San Diego County's cable households.
The Padres say it's not their fault that a deal hasn't been reached between Fox Sports San Diego, which is their new TV broadcast partner, and either Time Warner or AT&T U-verse, two distributors whose subscriber bases combined account for about 40 percent of the county's cable households.
MLB says the same, telling me that negotiations between cable providers are "hand to hand combat."
In other markets, however, rivals Fox and Time Warner have broken bread together.
By playing inept baseball since Opening Day, the Padres have weakened Fox's bargaining position.
As it was, Fox's rivals didn't have to consult Peter Gammons while hedging their bets. The Padres entered this season with the lowest payroll in the majors, one year after Forbes declared them the league's most profitable team for 2010 (a report the Padres said wasn't close to being accurate).
It didn't bode well for a fast start to this season when the team's front office found no takers for the team's overpaid middle infielders, Orlando Hudson and Jason Bartlett, during the offseason. Even so, the fancy farm system had no one exciting who could replace either Bartlett or Hudson, who, three series into the season, haven't shown signs of turning their careers around. "The Padres need to clean up their middle infield or it will be a dreadful, long season that is really hard on the eyes," a scout told me today.
The front office's $6 million gamble that slugger Carlos Quentin would stay healthy backfired one week into spring training, when a knee flared up. Quentin had surgery, pushing back his Padres debut until later this month if not May.
FS San Diego's bargaining position appears sticky, considering that the rights fee owed the Padres this year is nearly double what Cox paid last year. Should the regional network lower its price to Time Warner and AT&T U-verse? And if it does, would it then have to lower the price agreed to with Cox, which has been carrying Fox's telecasts since mid-March? Or, should Fox play a waiting game in anticipation of the Padres generating more interest?
Even if the Padres do perk up in, say, May, a month that has been kind to them many times in the past decade, one wonders how many fans will be paying attention. An industry that takes its customers for granted is asking to lose its customers.
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I'll be paying attention and will switch to Cox by the end of May regardless of the Padres performance. Which is ironic, because I feel like in the end, the Padres and MLB are probably in a position to resolve the issue most. I suspect their agreement with FSSD presumed all of San Diego would have access to the TV broadcast. Are they so cold-hearted that they would sacrifice the long term benefit of exposing games to the majority of San Diego subscribers (*proven* by the old Cox contract) for the massive cash reportedly involved in the FSSD deal? Rhetorical question, I guess. The answer appears to be yes; otherwise, I suspect they would lean on FSSD to settle deal with AT&T and Time Warner.ReplyDelete
evinmod, interesting comments. It appears Bud Selig doesn't view this stalemate worthy of invoking his "best interest of baseball" powers.ReplyDelete
Good stuff, The Padres are an owner of FFSD so it's all on them. They don't care, they are getting paid big.ReplyDelete
You left out the fact that they failed to sign 14 game winner Harang, an Aztec who is lightin it up now for the Dodgers. they had a 5 mil option on his contract and let him get away to the Dodgers for 4 mil. He has numbers equal to Ted Lilly at 14 mil. They spent 8 mil on Street to close What ? Quentin damaged goods and kotsay ?


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Advances in Interaction Studies
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Advances in Interaction Studies (AIS) provides a forum for researchers to present excellent scholarly work in a variety of disciplines relevant to the advancement of knowledge in the field of interaction studies. The book series accompanies the journal Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems.
The book series allows the presentation of research in the forms of monographs (that may be based on PhD thesis material) or edited collections of peer-reviewed material (that may be based on conferences relevant to the field), in English.
The series welcomes contributions that analyze social behaviour in humans and other animals, including the evolution of interaction and communication, as well as research into the design and synthesis of robotic, software, virtual and other artificial systems, including applications such as exploiting human-machine interactions for educational or therapeutic purposes. Fields of interest include but are not limited to: evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, human-robot interaction, human-computer interaction, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience, cognitive modeling, ethology, social and biological anthropology, palaeontology, animal behaviour, and linguistics.
Communication in Humans and Other Animals
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- Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal species. Human language is often thought of as a unique system, which separates humans from other animals. This textbook serves as a guide to different types of communication, and suggests that each is unique in its own way: human verbal and nonverbal communication, communication in nonhuman primates, in dogs and in birds. Research questions and findings from different perspectives are summarized and integrated to show students similarities and differences in the rich diversity of communicative behaviours.
A core topic is how young individuals proceed from not being able to communicate to reaching a state of competent communicators, and the role of adults in this developmental process. Evolutionary aspects are also taken into consideration, and ideas about the evolution of human language are examined. The cross-disciplinary nature of the book makes it useful for courses in linguistics, biology, sociology and psychology, but it is also valuable reading for anyone interested in understanding communicative behaviour.
Consciousness in Interaction
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- Consciousness in Interaction is an interdisciplinary collection with contributions from philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and historians of philosophy. It revolves around the idea that consciousness emerges from, and impacts on, our skilled interactions with the natural and social context. Section one discusses how phenomenal consciousness and subjective selfhood are grounded on natural and social interactions, and what role brain activity plays in these phenomena. Section two analyzes how interactions with external objects and other human beings shape our understanding of ourselves, and how consciousness changes social interaction, self-control and emotions. Section three provides historical depth to the volume, by tracing the roots of the contemporary notion of consciousness in early modern philosophy. The book offers interdisciplinary insight on a variety of key topics in consciousness research: as such, it is of particular interest for researchers from philosophy of mind, phenomenology, cognitive and social sciences, and humanities.
Experimental Semiotics
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- In the early twentieth century, Ferdinand de Saussure envisioned "a science which studies the role of signs as part of social life". About a century later, a science has emerged that is very much in the spirit of that envisioned by de Saussure. Researchers who are developing this science, which has been labeled Experimental Semiotics, conduct controlled studies in which human adults develop novel communication systems or impose novel structure on systems provided to them. This volume offers a primer to Experimental Semiotics and presents a set of studies conducted within this new discipline. The volume is an ideal text complement for an advanced graduate seminar and it will be of interest to anyone who wonders how humans assemble and develop new ways to communicate with one another.
Originally published in Interaction Studies 11:1 (2010).
Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution
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- The fascinating question of the origins and evolution of language has been drawing a lot of attention recently, not only from linguists, but also from anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, and brain scientists. This groundbreaking book explores the cultural side of language evolution. It proposes a new overarching framework based on linguistic selection and self-organization and explores it in depth through sophisticated computer simulations and robotic experiments. Each case study investigates how a particular type of language system can emerge in a population of language game playing agents and how it can continue to evolve in order to cope with changes in ecological conditions. Case studies cover on the one hand the emergence of concepts and words for proper names, color terms, names for bodily actions, spatial terms and multi-dimensional words. The second set of experiments focuses on the emergence of grammar, specifically case grammar for expressing argument structure, functional grammar for expressing different uses of spatial relations, internal agreement systems for marking constituent structure, morphological expression of aspect, and quantifiers expressed as articles. The book is ideally suited as study material for an advanced course on language evolution and it will be of interest to anyone who wonders how human languages may have originated.
Gaze in Human-Robot Communication
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- Gaze in Human-Robot Communication is a volume collecting recent research studying gaze behaviour in human-robot interaction (HRI). The selected articles draw inspiration from related research into gaze in human-human interaction in fields ranging from ethnography to neuroscience. The major themes of these articles include: the experimental investigation of human responses to robot gaze, the investigation of the impact of coordinating gaze acts with speech, and the development of hardware and software technologies for enabling robot gaze. This volume provides an excellent introduction to the depth and breadth of this growing research area in HRI. The highly interdisciplinary nature of the work presented should make it of interest both to robotics researchers and to researchers from other fields with an interest in the role of gaze in communication.
Originally published in Interaction Studies Vol. 14:3 (2013).
Hand Preference and Hand Ability
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- This volume adds new dimension and organization to the literature of touch and the hand, covering a diversity of topics surrounding the perception and cognition of touch in relation to the hand. No animal species compare to humans with regard to the haptic (or touch) sense, so unlike visual or auditory cognition, we know little about such haptic cognition. We do know that motor skills play a major role in haptics, but senses like vision do not determine hand preference or hand ability. It seems also that the potential ability to perform a task may be present in both hands and evidence indicates that the hand used to perform tactile tasks in blind or in sighted conditions is independent of one's hand preference. This book will be useful for those in education and robotics and can serve as a general text focusing on touch and developmental psychology.
Interacting with Objects
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- Objects are essential for how, together, people create and experience social life and relate to the physical environment around them. Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity presents studies which use video recordings of real-life settings to explore how objects feature in social interaction and activity. The studies consider many objects (e.g. paper documents, food, a camera, art, furniture, and even the human body), across various situations, such as shopping, visiting the doctor, interviews and meetings, surgery, and instruction in dance, craft, or cooking. Analyses reveal in precise detail how, as people interact, objects are seen, touched and handled, heard, created, transformed, planned, imagined, shared, discussed, or appreciated. With the companion collection Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking, the book advances understanding of the complex organisation and accomplishment of social interaction, especially the significance of embodiment, materiality, participation and temporality. By focussing on objects in and for actual occasions of human action, Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity will interest many researchers and practitioners in language and social interaction, communication and discourse, design, and also more widely within anthropology, sociology, psychology, and related disciplines.
Interaction Studies
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This international, peer-reviewed journal aims to advance knowledge in the growing and strongly interdisciplinary area of Interaction Studies in biological and artificial systems. Understanding social behaviour and communication in biological and artificial systems requires knowledge of evolutionary, developmental and neurobiological aspects of social behaviour and communication; the embodied nature of interactions; origins and characteristics of social and narrative intelligence; perception, action and communication in the context of dynamic and social environments; social learning, adaptation and imitation; social behaviour in human-machine interactions; the nature of empathic understanding, behaviour and intention reading; minimal requirements and systems exhibiting social behaviour; the role of cultural factors in shaping social behaviour and communication in biological or artificial societies.

The journal welcomes contributions that analyze social behaviour in humans and other animals as well as research into the design and synthesis of robotic, software, virtual and other artificial systems, including applications such as exploiting human-machine interactions for educational or therapeutic purposes. Fields of interest comprise evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience, cognitive modeling, ethology, social and biological anthropology, palaeontology, animal behaviour, linguistics.

 Interaction Studies publishes research articles, research reports, and book reviews.

Interaction Studies is a successor of Evolution of Communication. While IS significantly broadens the original aims and scope of EoC, we clearly continue to encourage researchers studying the origins of human language and the evolutionary continuum of communication in general to submit high quality manuscripts to Interaction Studies.

Moving Bodies in Interaction – Interacting Bodies in Motion
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This volume presents a new perspective on socially coordinated embodied activity. It brings together scholars from linguistics, interactional sociology, neuropsychology and brain research. It assembles empirical studies of the interaction in sports that draw on recent developments in ethnomethodological conversation analysis, the sociology of practice, interactional linguistics, and cognitive studies. Thinking beyond the individual body, the chapters investigate microscopically the materiality and reflexivity of skilled bodies in motion in different sports ranging from individuals jointly rock-climbing and distance-running to team sports such as rugby and basketball.
Combining theoretical elements from phenomenology and cognitive studies, the volume emphasizes the temporal extension and merging of bodies towards an acting plural body and the situated embeddedness of dynamically interacting bodies in an environment that encompasses organized spaces, objects or other bodies. It thus offers a number of case studies in advanced research in embodied interaction that coalesce in a comprehensive picture of the ways human bodies merge in joint action.
Multiactivity in Social Interaction
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- Doing more than one thing at the same time – a phenomenon that is often called 'multitasking' – is characteristic to many situations in everyday and professional life. Although we all experience it, its real time features remain understudied. Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking offers a fresh view to the phenomenon by presenting studies that explore how two or more activities can be related and made co-relevant as people interact with one another. The studies build on the basis that multiactivity is a social, verbal and embodied phenomenon. They investigate multiactivity by using video recordings of real-life interactions from a range of different contexts, such as medical settings, office workplaces and car driving. With the companion collection Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity, the book advances understanding of the complex organisation and accomplishment of social interaction, especially the significance of embodiment, materiality, participation and temporality. A close appreciation of how people use language and interact for and during multiactivity will not only interest researchers in language and social interaction, communication studies and discourse analysis, but will be very valuable for scholars in cognitive sciences, psychology and sociology.
New Frontiers in Human–Robot Interaction
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- Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) considers how people can interact with robots in order to enable robots to best interact with people. HRI presents many challenges with solutions requiring a unique combination of skills from many fields, including computer science, artificial intelligence, social sciences, ethology and engineering. We have specifically aimed this work to appeal to such a multi-disciplinary audience. This volume presents new and exciting material from HRI researchers who discuss research at the frontiers of HRI. The chapters address the human aspects of interaction, such as how a robot may understand, provide feedback and act as a social being in interaction with a human, to experimental studies and field implementations of human–robot collaboration ranging from joint action, robots practically and safely helping people in real world situations, robots helping people via rehabilitation and robots acquiring concepts from communication. This volume reflects current trends in this exciting research field.
Primate Communication and Human Language
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- After a long period where it has been conceived as iconoclastic and almost forbidden, the question of language origins is now at the centre of a rich debate, confronting acute proposals and original theories. Most importantly, the debate is nourished by a large set of experimental data from disciplines surrounding language. The editors of the present book have gathered researchers from various fields, with the common objective of taking as seriously as possible the search for continuities from non-human primate vocal and gestural communication systems to human speech and language, in a multidisciplinary perspective combining ethology, neuroscience, developmental psychology and linguistics, as well as computer science and robotics. New data and theoretical elaborations on the emergence of referential communication and language are debated here by some of the most creative scientists in the world.


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Press Releases
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Innovative cement helps DOE safeguard nuclear facilities
When Argonne materials scientists Arun Wagh and Dileep Singh initially developed Ceramicrete®, a novel phosphate cement that stabilizes radioactive waste streams, they did not immediately recognize that with one or two extra ingredients, the cement could solve another problem in the nuclear complex.
|April 25, 2008
Argonne's Crabtree elected to National Academy of Sciences
George W. Crabtree, a senior scientist and administrator at Argonne National Laboratory, was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences for his excellence in original scientific research.
|April 29, 2008
Shpyrko receives APS organization's Young Investigator Award
Advanced Photon Source Users Organization has named Oleg G. Shpyrko as the recipient of the 2008 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award.
|May 6, 2008
Newest GREET model updates environmental impacts of latest transportation fuels, vehicle technologies
The newest version of the Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions and Energy use in Transportation (GREET) model from Argonne will provide researchers with even more tools to evaluate and compare the environmental impacts of new transportation fuels and advanced vehicle technologies.
|May 8, 2008
Biochips can detect cancers before symptoms develop
In their fight against cancer, doctors have just gained an impressive new weapon to add to their arsenal. Researchers at Argonne have developed a chip that can save lives by diagnosing certain cancers even before patients become symptomatic.
|May 9, 2008
Argonne scientists use lasers to align molecules
Technique could revolutionize human protein imaging
|May 13, 2008
Argonne-SRNL agreement supports critical DOE, national priorities
Joint research efforts to focus on nuclear energy, environmental management
|May 15, 2008
Argonne Anti-Jet-Lag Diet helps summer travelers beat jet lag
ARGONNE, Ill. – As the summer travel season begins, many vacation and business travelers will beat jet lag with the Anti-Jet-Lag Diet developed at the U.S.
|May 16, 2008
Eric Isaacs appointed Argonne National Laboratory's Deputy Laboratory Director for Science Programs
ARGONNE, Ill. – Eric Isaacs, director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at the U.S.
|May 16, 2008
Scientists characterize protein structure of environmentally friendly bacteria
Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have determined the structure of a key protein domain in a bacterium that could help with bioremediation of uranium-contaminated land sites.
|May 19, 2008


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Tis the morning of the feast of St Thomas the Apostle, which usually closely coincides with the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year.
The December solstice will occur at 5:30AM on December 22, 2011. It is known as the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere and the Summer Solstice in the southern hemisphere due to the seasonal differences. Depending on the shift of the calendar, the winter solstice usually occurs on December 21 to 23 each yearFirst and foremost, run outside and hug a tree! Yes, you heard me, squeeze that tree with all your might if you're even thinking about having a fertile harvest next year:)
Hugging trees for good luck is just one of many traditions associated with St. Thomas' Day and the Winter Solstice. In fact, many myths and legends have been spun through antiquity.
In ancient times, the evening of the 21st of December highlightened Advent. The dusk of the longest night of the year was greeted with great ceremony. For the fasting of Advent was about to finish and Christmas finally to begin. The rural people would use this night for a blessing of their homestead, the boys would gather and carry song and dance from home to home, to greet the families wishing a Merry Christmas. At Thomas' Night, the halls of spinning were opened the last time this year. The girls met and were joined by the housewifes to spin and to sew their dowry in yarn and linen. The guys came in for match-and merrymaking with music, song and lore.St. Thomas' Day celebrates the Apostle Thomas, the doubter, who was the last to believe that Jesus had risen from the dead. In the German tradition, it is customary to bake "iced currant buns" much like the Hot Cross Buns served at Easter.
Within this night, the spinning for the old year had to be finished. It was said, that in the twelve nights to come, the Lady Holle would visit the homes, look after the housework and give her blessing. A find of fibres on the spinningwheel would anger her, nice strands of yarn and finished work be her delight. And so it came, that the night was long. The young and old folks joined together to hear the ancient stories, laugh and play, til all the flax was gone and dawn was near. The longest night had been spent. And finally, Christmastime was here. (source)
December 21st, the shortest day (longest night / Winter Solstice) of the year, is dubbed St. Thomas Day. In parts of the Sauerland, whoever wakes up late or arrives late to work on that day is issued the title "Thomas Donkey." They are given a cardboard donkey and are the subject of numerous jokes throughout the day. But this gentle abuse ends deliciously with round, iced currant buns called "Thomasplitzchen". In other parts of Germany it is called other names such as Durchspinn-Nacht or Durchsitz-Nacht. Traditionally lot of alcohol is consumed and the next day is often called Kotzmorgen (hangover morning). (source)I guess you could call me somewhat of a Thomas Donkey, else I would have posted this "emergency" recipe for Currant Cake with Rose Water a tad earlier.
If by chance you happen upon a Thomas Donkey in the near future, you may want to consider a dish of Straw and Hay or (Paglia e Fieno) as they say in Italian. I found this recipe also in the Frugal Gourmet Celebrates Christmas.
Please spare a penny for the old man's hat,
If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do,
If you haven't got a ha'penny, God bless you.
Up until the end of the 19th Century it was traditional in most parts of Britain for poorer people to go door to door collecting gifts of money or food on this day. One favourite food gift was a measure of corn for making Christmas puddings or bread. The women would carry two-handled vessels called gossiping pots or pads in which to get donations of wheat (which is what corn often means in England, it being the usual term for the principal cereal crop of the area). From this they would make furmenty or frumenty (a drink of hulled wheat boiled in milk and seasoned with cinnamon and sugar; its name comes from frumentum, the Latin for corn). Usually the local miller would grind this into flour without making a charge.There are many legends surrounding St. Thomas' Day. Don't be a "doubting Thomas" here are a few to bring you along.
St. Thomas' Day was often know as "Mumping", "Gooding" or "Doleing" Day and women and children would say that they were going "a-thomasing", "a-gooding", "a-mumping" or "a-curning". When the gifts were handed out the donors were rewarded with wishes of Happy Christmas and in some areas a sprig of holly or mistletoe. (source)
- In southern Germany, it is hoped that when a bowl of fruit, vegetables and nuts is placed on the table, a lack of them in the year to come will be prevented.
- If you ate well on St. Thomas Day, you could expect to do so all of the next year.
- In Austria, legend says that unmarried girls can see their future on St. Thomas Night, if they climb into bed over a stool and throw their shoes toward the door, the toes of the shoes pointing downward. If they sleep with their heads at the foot of the bead, the dreams will reveal visions of their future husbands.
- If a single woman on St. Thomas Day can pick out a young rooster from among a brood of sleeping chicks, she will soon obtain a husband, or see him in her dreams.
- In England students of past eras raced to school early on St. Thomas's Day. If they succeeded in arriving before the teacher, they were allowed to lock him out and so escape their lessons.
- Kletzenbrot, a moist dense bread, filled with nuts and dried pears, is traditionally baked on St. Thomas Day. The first piece of Kletzenbrot bread must be given to one's love to make sure that his or her love and affection may continue in the year to come. Another legend tells us if you cut into the bread before Christmas, you will grow Donkey's ears:)
- On St. Thomas Night (Dec. 20th) cut an apple in two and count the seeds in each half; if they are even, you will soon be married.
- It is unlucky to sift flour on St. Thomas Day
- If it freezes on the 21st of December, the price of grain will fall.
- Those born on St. Thomas' Day will have a bustling life...
And Christmas is a-most a-come,
Maidens arise And make your pies,
And save poor tailor Bobby one.
The Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle was traditionally celebrated on December 21. The feast has now been moved to July 3rd.
It doesn't appear that I will be blogging and visiting the rest of the year. There were some complications with the first medication I was using for my eye, (pre-patch:) and now, dear readers I am on a new regiment which seems to be helping. I detest wearing a patch and the limitations it encumbers but, I am trying to be a patient patient which I'm sure my doctors appreciate:) I am however, going to try and visit you all at least once in the next couple of days and hopefully, I will be back to normal (and not in big trouble with Marion for breaking the rules) real soon. A very Merry Christmas and a Joyous Season to you all. Louise
With pinching frost, and slabby rain and snow;
But let good rousing fires, and Christmas cheer,
Still mix'd with charity, conclude the year...
John Nathan Hutchins
Hutchins Family Almanac
1. Christmas @ History.com
2. Thomasnacht & Klötzenbacken
3. Old British Folk Tales and Festivals: From the Weird to the Wacky
4. British Traditions
5. St. Thomas' Day on the Winter Solstice
6. Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences [Volume 3] (1903)


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"BEST WESTERN PLUS has really taken off in North America and Asia, and we are on our way to replicating that same success here in Australia," said Best Western Australasia's CEO Rob Anderson
SYDNEY (PRWEB) July 17, 2014
Best Western has welcomed the 4-star BEST WESTERN PLUS Kalbarri Edge Resort in Western Australia (WA). Built in 2009, the 72-room BEST WESTERN PLUS Kalbarri Edge Resort is the 20th property in Australia to pass Best Western's Quality Assurance program to carry the brand's midscale BEST WESTERN PLUS hotel type.
"BEST WESTERN PLUS has really taken off in North America and Asia, and we're on our way to replicating the same success here because we're very selective about the properties we allow to qualify as a PLUS hotel," said Best Western Australasia's Chief Executive, Rob Anderson.
With over 4,000 hotels in 100 countries, Best Western International introduced the three hotel types in 2011 to help distinguish its midscale and upscale properties.
"Each time we add a new hotel we're welcoming only the highest quality accommodation to our group, with BEST WESTERN PLUS Kalbarri Edge Resort being the newest addition to 12 properties already linking WA's metropolitan and regional towns."
BEST WESTERN PLUS Kalbarri Edge Resort's 72 rooms range from fully self-contained two bedroom serviced apartments to spa suites and deluxe studios, with king beds, modern in-room facilities and upgraded bathroom amenities. Ideal for groups, guests can enjoy free Wi-Fi, large flat-screen TVs, free Foxtel channels, and a kitchenette or kitchen with a microwave in each room.
Property features include a solar-heated pool, gym, large balconies, outdoor dining and private barbecues. The fully licensed Edge Restaurant is open seven days for breakfast and dinner, with a separate room service menu available. Guests wishing to dine out can take a five minute walk to Kalbarri town centre.
The property is jointly owned by WA's hospitality industry operator and consultant, Chris Pye (CEO and Chairman of Hospitality Inns) and Jon Jessop of Edge Resorts.
"We've been with Best Western for decades and in our opinion, the quality accommodation offered by this Kalbarri resort will be well received by our Best Western clients travelling around WA," Mr Pye said.
Pye's portfolio includes four Best Western properties in regional WA – Carnarvon, Esperance, Geraldton and Kalgoorlie – and two Perth hotels with the midscale BEST WESTERN PLUS Ascot Serviced Apartments and 5-star boutique hotel, BEST WESTERN PREMIER Terrace Hotel in Perth's West End.
"Kalbarri provides a great link between our existing WA properties, so it made commercial sense for us to continue with Best Western. We like the BEST WESTERN PLUS brand – our BEST WESTERN PLUS Ascot Serviced Apartments near Perth's airport precinct operates at high occupancy – and we are riding happily on the back of the success Best Western has enjoyed after opening 14 hotels in 2013."
"We expect our Kalbarri resort will entice people to stay longer and see more of the beautiful natural landscapes in the area. The Murchison River gorges in Kalbarri National Park are half an hours' drive from town and great for photos."
A comfortable seven-hour drive or 600 kilometres north from Perth, Kalbarri is a seaside town sitting at the mouth of Murchison River and entrance to Kalbarri National Park. Popular for tailor fishing, the area also offers horse-riding and skydiving. Wagoe Beach, the Lucky Bay Beach sand dunes and Kalbarri Golf Club are popular attractions for families and tour groups all year round.
For more information on global development opportunities with Best Western International, please visit bestwesterndevelopers.com.
To learn more about a specific hotel or discover other Best Western hotels across the world, visit bestwestern.com.
About Best Western Australasia
Best Western Australasia is part of Best Western International, the World's Biggest Hotel Family, with over 4,000 hotels in 100 countries worldwide. There are 180 independently owned and managed Best Western hotels across Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. Every Best Western hotel undergoes a 200 point quality check as part of the global group's stringent global quality assurance program. There are three Best Western hotel types: BEST WESTERN, BEST WESTERN PLUS and BEST WESTERN PREMIER. Find out more at http://www.bestwestern.com.au/hotel-types.
Best Western International, Inc., headquartered in Phoenix, Ariz., is a privately held hotel brand made up of more than 4,000* BEST WESTERN®, BEST WESTERN PLUS® and BEST WESTERN PREMIER® hotels in more than 100* countries and territories worldwide. Now celebrating 68 years of hospitality, Best Western welcomes hundreds of thousands of guests nightly. Best Western provides its hoteliers with global operational, sales, marketing and promotional support, and online and mobile booking capabilities. More than 20 million travelers are members of the brand's award-winning loyalty program Best Western Rewards®, one of the few programs in which members earn points that never expire and can be redeemed at any Best Western hotel worldwide. The brand's partnerships with AAA/CAA and Harley-Davidson® provide travelers with exciting ways to interact with the brand. In 2013, Best Western earned our highest level of brand recognition, including our fifth AAA/CAA Hotel Partner of the Year award, second Compuware Best of the Web Gold award, fourth No. 1 ranking in Brand Keys Consumer Loyalty Engagement Index for midscale hotels and seventh TTG Asia Best Mid-range Hotel Brand. Forty-one percent of Best Western hotels worldwide won TripAdvisor Certificates of Excellence for customer satisfaction.
For more information or to make a reservation, please visit bestwestern.com.
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Olympic Gold Medalist Gymnasts Featured At TNCC Black History Month Celebration
Feb 13, 2013, 01:00 EST
HAMPTON, Va., Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Olympic gold medalist and motivational speaker Dominique Dawes will bring her message "ENVISION: Reaching your Full Potential" to Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC) as a part of a series of events celebrating Black History Month.
Free and open to the public, Dawes' presentation will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. at the Dr. Mary T. Christian Auditorium in Templin Hall at TNCC's Hampton campus. ENVISION is an acronym for the eight principles that helped Dawes become successful in and out of the athletic arena and is also the title of her motivational line of products.
"I am excited to be a part of the Thomas Nelson Community College's celebration of Black History Month," said Dawes. "The theme 'Empowerment through Fitness' is a message that is important to me and one that mirrors one of my philosophies."
The speaking engagement will be preceded by an "Empowerment through Fitness" reception featuring Dawes and Gabrielle "Gabby" Douglas, Olympic gold medalist at the 2012 London Games. Scheduled for 5-6:30 p.m. at Espada in Moore Hall, tickets are available for the reception for $25 at www.showtix4u.com or by going to TNCC's Templin Hall on the Hampton Campus on Feb. 15 from 5-8 p.m.
Three-time Olympian Dawes is the first African American gymnast to win a gold medal and only American gymnast to win team medals in three different Olympic Games. The University of Maryland graduate has served as a co-host for Yahoo! News' Weekend Edition and an Olympic correspondent for FOX Sports. She is currently co-chair of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition.
Douglas, a native of Virginia Beach, is the first African American to win a gold medal in the Olympic Individual All-Around in Women's Artistic Gymnastics. She also won a team gold medal, establishing herself as the first American gymnast to win both the all-around individual and team gold in the same Olympic games.
During the 7 p.m. event, Gabrielle Douglas' mother, Natalie Hawkins, will introduce Dawes and speak about the historical connection shared by the two gymnasts. Douglas will deliver closing remarks touching on a number of subjects, including her Olympic journey and feelings about seeing her gymnastics idol again for the first time since the London Games.
"It's such an honor to be counted among so many amazing African-American athletes who paved the way for my generation," said Douglas. "I am so grateful for the opportunity to have my accomplishments recognized by Thomas Nelson Community College, and I look forward to celebrating Black History Month with my hometown community."
The program will also include two local gymnasts who train at the Hampton, Va. facility, Gymnastics Inc. The high school senior and middle school student will reenact Dawes' floor routine and Douglas' balance beam routine featuring some of the Olympians' signature moves.
Jonathan Lester, an expert personal trainer and manager of Thomas Nelson Community College wellness centers in Hampton and Williamsburg, will serve as emcee for the event.
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My husband has returned back to his job, but I have two more wonderful weeks of vacation. We managed to get to Cambria, California where we spent a wonderful day having lunch, visiting the ocean (which is very windy) and reconnecting as a married couple again. It's amazing how busy we get when we are both working!
I took a lot of photographs of the gardens in Cambria... so many, that I need to edit and decide which ones I should share with all of you.
In the meantime, I'm finding my way back into my kitchen. Most of last week, we spent dining out-- which is highly unusual for us. We even played "tourist" in Cannery Row (though I bumped into someone I work with). We had a wonderful dinner at John Pisto's Whaling Station. (I didn't bring my camera, because my husband still can't get used to me photographing everything that we eat. )
I made this potato salad a few weeks ago. How many of you "forget" about a recipe you've made, and then you find it in your photo archives. Please say that you do!
I was inspired to make this salad, because I had chives that were growing like gangbusters. I also had chervil that grew to bigger proportions that I imagined it could, and I've also discovered that tarragon grows like weeds! I happen to love tarragon, though some people find it over-powering.
I've made this recipe before, but this time I made a few adjustments:
I adjusted the herbs to be tarragon, chives, and chervil. While I love scallions, I also used shallots-- because I had a lot of them, and I love them. For those of you with a keen eye, I used all Yukon Gold Potatoes-- because that's what was in my fridge. You can, of course, add fresh green beans-- blanched, because I like the crunchiness of them. I think this is a very versatile recipe, as most of Ina's recipes are.
I didn't have champagne vinegar, but I think I used white wine vinegar instead. It turned out just fine-- very refreshing and a lot less fattening than potato salad with mayo.
So, here's Ina's recipe that inspired me to make this long ago.
My girlfriend, who lives in Rhode Island, says that she is enjoying a brief appearance of sunshine. I feel so blessed, to have temps in the mid-70's. I am so loving and appreciating my staycation!
I'm off to visit my regular food blogs. I want to see what y'all have been up to!


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In 1967 David Cheever, a graduate student in horticulture at Colorado State University, wrote a term paper titled "Bogotá, Colombia as a Cut-Flower Exporter for World Markets." The paper suggested that the savanna near Colombia's capital was an ideal place to grow flowers to sell in the United States. The savanna is a high plain fanning out from the Andean foothills, about 8,700 feet above sea level and 320 miles north of the Equator, and close to both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Those circumstances, Cheever wrote, create a pleasant climate with little temperature variation and consistent light, about 12 hours per day year-round—ideal for a crop that must always be available. A former lakebed, the savanna also has dense, clay-rich soil and networks of wetlands, tributaries and waterfalls left after the lake receded 100,000 years ago. And, Cheever noted, Bogotá was just a three-hour flight from Miami—closer to East Coast customers than California, the center of the U.S. flower industry.
After graduating, Cheever put his theories into practice. He and three partners invested $25,000 apiece to start a business in Colombia called Floramérica, which applied assembly-line practices and modern shipping techniques at greenhouses close to Bogotá's El Dorado International Airport. The company started with carnations. "We did our first planting in October of 1969, for Mother's Day 1970, and we hit it right on the money," says Cheever, 72, who is retired and lives in Medellín, Colombia, and New Hampshire.
It's not often that a global industry springs from a school assignment, but Cheever's paper and business efforts started an economic revolution in Colombia. A few other growers had exported flowers to the United States, but Floramérica turned it into a big business. Within five years of Floramérica's debut at least ten more flower-growing companies were operating on the savanna, exporting some $16 million in cut flowers to the United States. By 1991, the World Bank reported, the industry was "a textbook story of how a market economy works." Today, the country is the world's second-largest exporter of cut flowers, after the Netherlands, shipping more than $1 billion in blooms. Colombia now commands about 70 percent of the U.S. market; if you buy a bouquet in a supermarket, big-box store or airport kiosk, it probably came from the Bogotá savanna.
This growth took place in a country ravaged by political violence for most of the 20th century and by the cocaine trade since the 1980s, and it came with significant help from the United States. To limit coca farming and expand job opportunities in Colombia, the U.S. government in 1991 suspended import duties on Colombian flowers. The results were dramatic, though disastrous for U.S. growers. In 1971, the United States produced 1.2 billion blooms of the major flowers (roses, carnations and chrysanthemums) and imported only 100 million. By 2003, the trade balance had reversed; the United States imported two billion major blooms and grew only 200 million.
In the 40 years since Cheever had his brainstorm, Colombian flowers have become another global industrial product, like food or electronics. That became apparent to me a few years ago as I stood in front of the flower display at my local supermarket before Mother's Day (the second-biggest fresh flower-buying occasion in the United States, after Valentine's Day). My market, in suburban Maryland, had an impressive display of hundreds of preassembled bouquets, as well as fresh, unbunched roses, gerbera daisies and alstroemeria lilies in five-gallon buckets. One $14.99 bouquet caught my eye: about 25 yellow and white gerbera daisies and a sprig of baby's breath arranged around a single purplish rose. A sticker on the wrapping indicated it had come from Colombia, some 2,400 miles away.
How could something so delicate and perishable (and once so exotic) have come so far and still be such a bargain? It's no secret that the inexpensive imported products Americans buy often exact a toll on the people who make them and on the environments where they are made. What was I buying into with my Mother's Day bouquet? My search for answers took me to a barrio about 25 miles northwest of Bogotá.
In cartagenita, the buses rumble over ruts and potholes, moving slowly up and down steep hillsides lined with cinder block houses. "Turismo" is painted in flowing aquamarine script on the buses, but they are no longer used for tours. They carry workers to the flower farms.
Cartagenita is a neighborhood in Facatativá, a city of about 120,000 people and one of Colombia's largest flower hubs. Only a few of Cartagenita's streets are paved, and the homes are connected like town houses but without any plan, so one sometimes stands taller or shorter than the next. The barrio ends abruptly after a few blocks at open pasture. Aidé Silva, a flower worker and union leader, moved there 20 years ago. "I've got a house here. My husband built it," she told me. "He worked at Floramérica, and in the afternoons and when Sunday came everybody worked building that little house." In the years since, she said, thousands more flower workers have bought cheap land and done the same. Cartagenita has the vitality of a working-class neighborhood. There's a buzz in the evenings as workers come home, some heading for their houses and apartments, some to hang out in the bars and open-air convenience stores.
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Margaret A. Bruns, 94
Margaret A. Bruns, 94, formerly of Egypt, died at 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, at Briarwood Village in Coldwater.
She was born on Sept. 11, 1917, in Maria Stein, to the Henry and Lena (Hoelscher) Rutschilling, and they preceded her in death.
On April 23, 1941, at St. John Catholic Church in Maria Stein, she married Clarence Bruns, and he preceded her in death on Dec. 17, 1959.
She is survived by her children, Jan and Jim Slankard of Somerton, Ariz., Lucy and Duane Barga of North Star, Ruth Bruns and Raymond McDonald of Dayton, Michael Bruns of Fort Loramie, Vicki and Bob Leimbach of Vermillion, Rita and Leon Hemmert of Botkins and Paul and Beck Bruns of Maria Stein; two sisters; a sister-in-law; 26 grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a daughter-in-law; four sisters and brothers; four in-laws.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Egypt, with the Rev. Rick Nieberding officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery in Egypt.
Friends may call from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday and from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Monday at the Hogenkamp Funeral Home in Minster.
The family requests memorial contributions be made to State of the Heart Hospice. Condolences may be made at Hogenkampfh.com.


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