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Michael Pollan is Starting to Stink of Composted Berkeley Paternalism
I agree with many of the points in Michael Pollan's article in the July 29, 2009, New York Times Magazine. Julia Child was awesome. Americans are too fat. Americans eat too much processed food. Americans should cook more. Junky, high-fat foods that are hard to make are now easy to buy and hence, to their detriment, Americans eat them more often than they would otherwise. Americans are spending less time cooking and more time eating junky food. The Food Network is the root of all food evil. And so are canned tomatoes. What? Whoa Mikey! After a page or two, I started to envision myself cast on a Maury Povitch show as the fallen "Woman who Cooks with Frozen Vegetables."
The ideas in Pollan's books, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto and The Omnivore's Dilemma really resonated with me (okay, the ones in the book reviews did). The Omnivore's Dilemma especially presented a fresh look at sustainable eating, farming, and food production; it gave structure and form to a lot of my thinking about food. For example, although I don't care to eat much beef, pork, poultry, or fish myself, I don't think that it's immoral for humans to do so, but I do think meat and fish eaters should do so responsibly and sustainably. Since I can't afford to fork over eight dollars for a can of eco-friendly tuna, I mostly eat vegetarian and so do my husband and our children. We also compost, cook, limit processed and prepared foods, shop at our local farmer's market, join CSA's, have vegetable and herb gardens of our own when possible, and in general try to spend our food dollars wisely and responsibly and to eat as healthfully as possible.
I agree with Pollan's recent tribute to Julia Child. She was an admirable woman who did great things for American cuisine, and apparently for Michael Pollan's diet, but didn't she also cook with a great deal of animal fats and beef? And I don't think she was purchasing them at the cruelty-free organic butchers, either. What was really off in the article, however, is how much Michael Pollan has it in for the Food Network for not filling the gap Julia Child left. But the problem isn't the Food Network. The problem is the quality of television in general and that Americans watch way too much of it (and it sounds like Pollan's son watches quite a bit himself--what is that family doing with cable anyway?) Most of the shows on television are crappy, sappy, predict-o-dramas or reality shows replete with gimmicks, stunts, and over-sized personalities. Does Pollan really expect the Food Network to be like P.B.S? And, not showing Martha Stewart sweat has more to do with American culture's perfection-fetish and discomfort with the human body than it does with a conspiracy by the Food Network to make us eat processed foods and keep us out of our kitchens. That's like blaming soap operas for a rise in divorce. If I want quality television, I don't seek it out on the Food Network.
Even so, there are some decent programs there. That's where seven years ago, Jamie Oliver inspired my husband and me to grow herbs at home and to shop at local farmer's markets. Okay, so he is really cute and has that charming British accent, but he isn't just some celebrity chef boy toy. And, I do watch, ahem, Iron Chef. And I do learn something from it. I use ingredients or kitchen tools I wouldn't have known to otherwise. Anyway, not all of us are looking for recipes a la Julia Child--some of us just want ideas and inspiration. I know plenty of people who organize cooking parties and gatherings around the main ingredient of that week's show. And yes, I am (Heavens to Betsey!) actually entertained by watching people armed with cool cooking toys scurry around, mince, baste, encrust, garnish, and create. Sue me!
The food industry certainly contributes to our not cooking and increasingly sells us deceptively unhealthy food, but in his article Pollan glorifies the era of Julia Child as some sort of golden age in cooking which a) it wasn't and b) even if it was, he fails to take into account major societal shifts: real wages have declined, benefit packages have shrunk, and it's become more difficult for families to have one parent stay at home. We do an abysmal job of supporting parents who stay home with their children. Most of those mothers and fathers are not abandoning their kitchens to sit on their butts and watch the Food Network-- they're working! Pollan dismisses this by saying that even parents who stay home don't cook as much, but I wonder if most of the parents that Pollan describes are more affluent and would outsource their cooking and household chores anyway.
I am a home cook and when I am not failing to make a living as a writer, I am mostly taking care of my children. I cook a lot. My mom cooked a lot. I grew up in a house where an all-natural fruit leather was a big treat. My parents shopped at the Eastern Market and New Morning Farm's farm truck. But my mom also used canned tomatoes and frozen vegetables and so do I. Besides jump-starting my home herb garden, Jamie Oliver sold me on the idea that it's okay to take some short cuts--use canned tomatoes or frozen pie crusts, for example. In his article, Michael Pollan makes no distinction between cooking with thse items and "cooking" microwave pizza. Does he really mean to equate using canned tomatoes in the winter to make my vegetarian chili to eating at McDonald's? The decline of home cooking is a serious problem, but does he really want me to stew my own tomatoes, bake my own graham crackers, and boil my own bagels? Is he anti-technology? Isn't there something to be said both in terms of the number of people that can be fed and being sustainable for capitalizing on the advantages of efficiencies of scale and technology? I don't want salmonella; I want someone with canning machinery who knows what they're doing to can and stew my tomatoes. Isn't it more energy efficient if some people do that on a mass scale rather than most of us on a small scale? If I buy some prepared foods in my neighborhood, say a quiche from Homemades by Suzannes or bread from MacShack Acres at the Ashland Farmers Market, is that really the same as "letting corporations do my cooking for me"? How about if I'm supporting small or local companies and restaurants that purchase locally and treat their employees responsibly and fairly? That cook healthfully and sustainable? Is that so wrong?
Ultimately, I felt that Michael Pollan was exhibiting ivory-tower paternalism at its worst. Yes, Americans need to exercise more, to eat healthier, more responsibly and sustainably, and that means cooking more. And we need to find more sustainable and efficient ways of producing food. But we're not going to encourage Americans to cook more if we skewer them for cooking with frozen vegetables (and tell them they're not really cooking when they do so) just like teaching teenagers that abstaining from sex until marriage, rather than teaching them to have sex responsibly, is a good way to ensure that they throw the baby out with the bathwater. Michael Pollan has done so much to start a conversation about food, health, and sustainability and to get people to think in different ways about all of the above. I would hate for snarkiness, arrogance, and reductive generalizing to destroy all of that. On that note I suppose I should get my ass out of my home office chair and into the kitchen. Sorry Michael Pollan, I have no more time to get offended--I have to cook.
For further exploration of some of the topics brought up in Pollan's article and books, please read:
1) The Omnivore's Delusion: Against the Agri-Intellectual, by Missouri farmer Blake Hurst, counters critics of industrial farming and shows that big-business industrial corporate farms are not necessarily thoughtless, inhumane, corporate, or non-family entities. The piece is well written, skillfully reasoned, and valid. Some of the language and information is a bit over my non-farmer's head and I'm a bit sheepish about advertising anything that comes out of the American Enterprise Institute, but I got the gist of what he was saying and I think this guy and the people he represents deserve to have their say in these matters. If we're going to consider the ideas of people like Michael Pollan, we should also consider what actual farmers have to say. The reality is that no matter how we do it, food and livestock production and consumption are eco-destructive processes.
2) In the March/April 2009 edition of Mother Jones, Paul Roberts describes the complexity and difficulties of doing sustainable farming on a large scale and shows why shopping at farmer's markets and buying locally aren't necessarily as eco-friendly as one might think. The article also explores some of the sustainable farming methods in the pipeline.
3) Michael Spector's article in the February 25, 2008 edition of The New Yorker is a bit longer but is also worth reading if you want to know more about the complexity of calculating your carbon footprint in terms of the food you eat, a.k.a., food miles.
4) Elizabeth Kolbert, my favorite environmental journalist, wrote a review of four books in the July 20, 2009, edition of The New Yorker about obesity in the United. The piece is well-balanced, well-written, reasonable, and mostly objective.
5) San Francisco chef Chris Cosentino of Incanto Restaurant and his business partner, Mark Pastore, wrote Shock & Foie, a thoughtful, thorough, and rational response to well-intentioned but misguided anti-foie gras protesters.
6) This recent New York Times op-ed piece by restautant chef Dan Barber demonstrates the potential eco-disasters that may await us when we all start our own vegetable gardens.
Oh, bagel, why do you forsake me?
I'm not sure how to describe the qualities of a good bagel; I just know one when I taste it. As with a bottle of wine, I can tell when one is bad and I know what varieties I don't like—banana nut and strawberry are not for me just as I rarely drink white zinfandel and chardonnay. Growing up with a Jewish father from Brooklyn and a Protestant mother from the mid-west with gourmet tastes, bagels were a regular part of my D.C. family's food repertoire way before bagel mania swept the nation in the 1990's. We didn't have a lot (okay, any) of the foods teenagers crave, but my friends were always excited for our bagels.
My paternal grandparents, who retired to Hallandale, Florida, always had bagels on hand for our visits, usually from Pumpernicks or from Sage Deli. Otherwise, Lender's frozen bagels, which helped to spread the bagel concept nationwide, were a fixture in our and my grandparents' freezers. For special occasions, my father would go to Posin's on Georgia Avenue and get bagels with all of the fixings: lox, herring, and whitefish salad. We always had cream cheese, although in my father's family, lox was accompanied by butter, not cream cheese. Then Chesapeake Bagel Bakery came to the D.C. area and we replaced the Lender's with their day-old bagels. Once Posin's closed, what was Toojay's and then Krupin's and then K's New York Deli and now Morty's, was our Jewish deli of destination, but I'm certain that if Posin's were still around we'd still go there.
My father always purchased a variety of the traditional flavors—plain, sesame, poppy, onion, pumpernickel. The other kinds pretty much offended him, but gradually he accepted the cinnamon raisin ones and more recently, blueberry and will eat them when available, although he claims never to have purchased them. Chocolate chip remains an outrageous perversion of the bagel, although I don't really understand the difference between chocolate chip and blueberry.
When I first got to college in the fall of 1991, I was shocked that although the school was supposed to be one-third Jewish, the bagels in the dining hall were terrible: bread in the shape of bagels. Enough people must have complained because sometime between the end of my frosh year (they don't use the term "freshman" at Wesleyan and unless you don't mind a righteous lecture, you're better off not saying it either) and the beginning of my sophomore year, they got good bagels at MoCon, the main dining hall (which has since been torn down—R.I.P.) The best were the spinach ones, or maybe they were herb. Either way, MoCon was where I discovered bagels with cream cheese and tomatoes (thanks to one of my gentile hallmates), although my husband Cedar, another D.C. native and gentile, and his family used to get them atSo's Your Mom in Adams Morgan.
My junior year of college, which I spent in France, was bagel free although I was told I could find them in certain parts of Paris, but I was in Southern France, in Aix-en-Provence, for most of the year where my sister had also spent a year two years before me and I remembered her recounting the horror that the French people looked at her with when she explained what I bagel was. "Boiled bread? That's disgusting! And You miss this? How can this be?" So I didn't bother to explain the beauty of the bagel while I was there. The French, while followers of a delicious and healthy cuisine, can be very rigid about their food. I won't get started on their reaction to the coffee my roommate and I offered at a dessert party we hosted in our little apartment.
Posh Bakery bagels on Piedmont Avenue are also alright. A Jewish bakery, the Grand Avenue Bakery, is one of my favorite food places in all of Oakland—even if the dead-head-meets-observant-Jew proprietor vacillated between hitting on me and growling at me (in his defense, I did ask him if he made a pumpkin challah for the fall, although if you ask me, he's sitting on a gold mine)--but they don't make bagels. The GSB does make the best challah I have ever tasted (although I highly recommend heating at 200 degrees for fifteen minutes or so first before eating it), and sells an assortment of other baked goods, treats, and prepared foods. Another friend recommended the bagels at the Oakland Whole Foods, which she said were imported from you guessed it, Berkeley, but the idea of going specially to Whole Paycheck for my bagels didn't seem right.
After some years in D.C., I joined Cedar in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he was doing his graduate studies. There is actually a fabulous bagel place there, with three branches (yes, Charlottesville aficionados, the Corner locale finally opened) called Bodo's Bagels. Besides bagels, the menu features soups, salads, sandwiches, and frozen yogurt. The place is cheap, informal, and has very good bagels; it's a great place to go with kids. I heard that each of the stores is now independently owned—sold to managers by the owner--and I wonder if the quality and consistency of the food will change because of this. Though I didn't notice a change when we were there recently for a visit.
When Cedar finished his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia and got a job at Mills College in Oakland, I was expecting to be back in bagel heaven, or at least a satellite heaven. After all, the Bay Area and the East Bay in particular has a large Jewish population and is known for its high-quality food. The dining service at Mills, where we lived in faculty housing, while superior in many ways to most college dining food I've had, had the same bread-in-the-shape-of-bagels bagels I had in college. I incredulously asked around and was told that of course, there were good bagels in Oakland—hadn't I been to Berkeley? Berkeley? That's not Oakland. I live in a west coast city of 400,000 with at least three synagogues and I'm supposed to travel to a nearby city just to get a decent bagel? I tried Noah's Bagels and I wasn't impressed at first, but they grew on me.
Now, we live in Ashland, Virginia. There are decent bagels in Ashland Coffee & Tea but it's not like I can go in and get a dozen. At the Science Museum of Richmond's Café Portico, where I recently spent a morning while my boys were in camp, I inquired hopefully "Hey, where do you get your bagels?" The sulky teenager behind the counter shrugged her shoulders and said "I don't know. Maybe Cysco." Ouch. It tasted like it, too.
So now I am on a mission for bagels in the Richmond metropolitan area. Some Northerners might wonder how I could find any decent bagels in the South, in the neighborhood of the former capital of the confederacy, but as my sixth grade Hebrew school teacher from Kentucky proved, there is a sizable and long-established Jewish population in the south, and Central Virginia is full of surprises, as Bodo's showed me. And I know bagels are not as popular as they were fifteen years ago due to carbo-phobia, but that's not enough to deter me--I don't snack on them. As a fellow Jewish friend explained to a non-Jewish friend in high school, "You don't understand, for a Jewish person, a bagel is like a meal."
I hope I find my meal soon and having a bit of my father in me, I hope it's not oozing with Asiago cheese.


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When you walk into our school the first thing you'll notice, after the teepee, is the large open learning spaces, the purpose-built furniture, the easy flow between rooms and best of all the way the children are interacting with each other and their surroundings. The learning spaces have been intentionally designed for the children to make the most of their learning opportunities. They are flexible, open, modern, practical and more importantly a reflection of the real world. There are no desks in rows, chalk boards on walls or teachers standing in front of classes. The teachers play an active role as guides, mentors and experts working with the children. At The Anglican School Googong, the children discover for themselves and make meaning of the world around them every single day.
The Environment
The classroom building has been designed to be a free flowing space where the furniture is portable, allowing it to be manipulated into caves and corners, platforms or stages to emulate the learning that is occurring. There are outdoor learning areas where children can create, watch or participate in hands-on activities regardless of the weather. The Kitchen Garden opens up a vast array of opportunities for learning and innovation, inviting the very youngest of our children through to the oldest to be thinking scientifically and mathematically. There are windows everywhere, looking out to the world so the children get a sense that they are part of something bigger than just their school, they are global citizens.
Empowered Learners
As the children make meaning for themselves they will begin to understand how they learn and through this they will become more confident learners. Through wide reading, purposeful play, self-discovery, connections with community members, trips to places of interest, and the relationships with teachers we are creating a sense of purpose for our learning. It is not isolated, rather integrated and relevant. In addition to this the children learn in real time and will interact with the latest technology and have access to view and create on digital platforms.
The Anglican School Googong is a place where children know and discover, understand and dream and grow in faith.


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Fruits of biotechnology struggle to emerge
Cover: To learn more about citrus floral development genes, UC Riverside scientists are inserting them into tomato plants (inset), whcih express them rapidly. The goal is to improve citrus breeding by producing early-flowering citrus seedings, which normally do not flower for 5 to 13 years.Photo by Martha Orozco-Cardenas.
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Development and introduction of energy-saving technologies!
The research and production company "INERA" was founded in 2007.
The company is engaged in development and introduction of energy-saving technologies. It has a high scientific potential in the sphere of physics and heat power engineering and makes use of innovative industrial solutions.
ZAO «NPK «INERA» provides the Russian market with import substitutional competitive products.The company is a developer and producer of induction heaters of the new generation SAV.
SAV – are quality and reliable professional instruments for finding solutions in organization of effective heat power supply and hot water supply in houses, offices, apartments, industrial buildings, production technologic processes.


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If I had any choice, I'd likely pick Epcot plus Magic Kingdom. I don't think you can ever go wrong picking MK, because I'm a traditionalist, and I think you almost have to go to MK anytime you're in WDW – but I know that's not the case for everyone. Definitely go to Epcot – the lines for some attractions may be long, but with the recent improvements to Soarin', plus other attractions including Frozen Ever After and others, I just don't think you can go wrong. And if you don't want MK, I'd likely pick Animal Kingdom. It's not my favorite, and Avatar isn't set to be open by your visit, but Hollywood Studios just has too much renovation going on right now to be enjoyable. With just a handful of true rides available, I'd likely bypass Hollywood Studios for now and go straight to AK.
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Applying for free school meals
You can get in touch and find out if your child is eligible for free schools meals by contacting Oxforshire County Council's food team here.
Phone: 0808 156 6659
Write: Food & More, Cuffas Lea House, 3500 John Smith Drive, Oxford, OX4 2WB
Your child might be able to get free school meals if you get any of the following:
- Income Support
- income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
- income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- the guaranteed element of Pension Credit
- Child Tax Credit (provided you're not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
- Working Tax Credit run-on - paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
- Universal Credit
Children who get paid these benefits directly, instead of through a parent or guardian, can also get free school meals.
Your child might also get free school meals if you get any of these benefits and your child is both:
- younger than the compulsory age for starting school
- in full-time education
Infant free school meals in England
Your child will be able to get free school meals if they're in:
- reception class
- year 1
- year 2
Tell your Oxfordshire County Council if you also get any of the above benefits. Your child's school can get extra funding if you do.


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New report on the airline industry calls for customer-centric response to irregular operations
A major independent global study released today appeals to the airline industry to take a fresh look at the age-old frustration of delayed or cancelled flights, in order to drive loyalty and reduce the impact of irregular operations on its customers, both now and in the future.
Passengers first: Re-thinking irregular operations', written by Norm Rose of travel industry research authority PhoCusWright, and commissioned by Amadeus, a leading technology partner for the global travel industry, aims to provide airlines with practical strategies to improve responses to irregular operations, urging airlines to place a greater focus on the impact of disruptions on each passenger's trip experience as part of operational decision-making during times of disruption.
The report argues that a customer-centric approach to handling irregular operations may overcome some of the disparities between how airlines and passengers can sometimes perceive delays. For instance, providing greater alternative travel choices for travellers that take into account their individual reasons for travelling, which in turn could positively affect future booking behaviour. At the same time, the processes used to manage delays and cancellations today, including scheduling, customer communications and re-accommodation, often tend to be flight-centric, rather than customer-centric; something which the report argues must change.
The study, which is based on interviews with leading academics, industry trade organizations and global airlines, also includes a survey of 2,800 travellers from Australia, Brazil, China, the UK, and the US, showing that delayed or cancelled flights meant that nearly one in five (18%) of all passengers surveyed could not fulfil the purpose of a trip booked in the past year (rising to a third in China). Furthermore, among passengers' most common frustrations was insufficient communication, something which may impact a traveller's loyalty to a particular airline in the future.
Global airline passengers' most common frustrations
1. There was insufficient communication about what was happening
2. I was not offered any compensation
3. There was conflicting communication about what was happening
4. I was not able to fully achieve the original purpose of my trip due to the flight issue
5. I had to pay additional costs for alternative arrangements
Key findings from the report:
• Deliver a standard service approach to disruptions: Airlines should consider incorporating a standard service approach to deal with passenger itinerary changes. When severe events occur, airlines with such an approach in place merely extend their processes to a larger number of travellers rather than attempt to implement a new, reactive process.
• Offer 'intelligent re-accommodation': Automated re-accommodation technology may provide efficiencies for the operational staff, but it does not always solve the underlying passenger itinerary disruptions. Airlines may want to implement an intelligent one-click solution that empowers passengers to choose alternatives most relevant to their needs. Airlines should also consider investing in systems to gain a greater understanding of each passenger's preferences and reasons for travelling, including passengers who book through indirect channels.
• Provide transparent communication: In every market surveyed, except China, insufficient communication was cited as passengers' top frustration with irregular operations management. Introducing an integrated, cross-departmental approach to customer service will enable airlines to provide authoritative, personalised, proactive communication – and lessen the need for travellers to rely on third-party sources.
• Moderate delays hurt the industry more than big ticket disruption: One of the greatest challenges facing airlines is not major weather or force majure events, such as the volcanic ash cloud that disrupted travel across Europe in 2011, but rather the far more regular moderate delays of 1-4 hours that matter most to customers. In all markets at least 50% of travellers have experienced a moderate delay on one or more flights in the past 12 months, with this figure highest in China (74%) and Brazil (67%). Instances of significant delay are far less common.
• Travellers are increasingly venting frustration via social media: Globally, around one third of travellers surveyed said they had posted comments about delays to their friends on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, with higher numbers sharing experiences amongst their immediate family or friendship groups using other means. The study calls on airlines to shift social media strategies from promotional activities alone, and to embrace analytical tools that help them to understand the impact of social comments made in relation to disruption. By following this analytical approach, airlines can practice social mapping to better understand the impact of disruption on their brand as well as the sentiment of their customers.
Norm Rose, Senior Technology and Corporate Market Analyst, PhoCusWright, commented: "Many airlines around the world have challenges in measuring the true cost of irregular operations on customer sentiment. Whilst carriers are aware of the direct costs associated with delays and cancellations – U.S airlines alone lost $7.2 billion as a result of disruption in 2012 – those figures do not tell the whole story. When travellers post negative messages on Twitter or decide never to book with a particular carrier again after being kept waiting for several hours at the airport, this results in an indirect loss of revenue for airlines which is often difficult to measure. A passenger-centric approach requires a re-evaluation of irregular operations management, to enable airlines to better serve customers and protect revenues".
Patricia Simillon, Head of Airlines Operations Strategy, Airline IT, Amadeus IT Group, commented: "This report tells us that at times of disruption, perhaps the first question an airline might ask is not how it can shift travellers from a cancelled flight to another, but rather how the delay impacts that person and their unique reason for travelling. To this end, there is a strong argument that passenger insight and choice should be integrated into the irregular operations process. We will continue to work hand-in-hand with our global airline partners in order to help them to refine, refocus and maximise their irregular operations procedures."
To download the report please visit: www.amadeus.com/passengerfirst


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Civil Rights/Discrimination
MHB attorneys who practice in this area:
Katie Chamberlain
Timothy K. Ford
Katrin E. Frank
Leslie J. Hagin
Joe Shaeffer
Jeffrey Taren
David Whedbee
Jesse Wing
MacDonald Hoague & Bayless has been a leader in civil rights litigation for more than 60 years and we are recognized nationally for our work in this field. We represented college professors in loyalty oath cases in the fifties, civil rights workers and conscientious objectors in the sixties, delegates seeking equal votes in presidential nominating conventions in the seventies, female athletes seeking equal opportunity in college sports programs in the eighties, women prisoners challenging body searches by male guards and female employees challenging sexual harassment and retaliation in employment in the nineties, and individuals challenging racial profiling by government officials and discrimination by insurance companies and housing providers based on disability, family status, and race in the 2000s. Our lawyers have represented victims of police misconduct, inmates on death row, Central American refugees, and prisoners challenging unconstitutional prison practices and conditions.
We have past and current Presidents of the ACLU of Washington, and have served as cooperating attorneys for the ACLU and for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
Our civil rights practice includes:
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Day 16. 26th June 2015 El Questro to! Not Manning Gorge.
Tina and Boab Home ValleyTina and Boab Home Valley After a disturbed night from the Wedding mob's next site. We had a 5 am rise this morning as we needed to be on the road early. We left the backup crew packing everything away after breakfast and headed out at 8 am. The plan was to head for Manning Gorge, but not far down the Gibb River Road Jamie got a call on the satellite phone (all that works in this area) from Bruno. They had just pulled out of El Questro when the axle on the trailer broke, leaving them stranded with all our camping gear etc... There was some consternation on board, although at least we had our personal luggage in the trailer being towed by the coach. It was decided by the management that we should haul into Home Valley Station for an early morning tea break, as this was the nearest watering hole on the Gibb River Road to us and a good place to stop while things were sorted out.
Old Saddles Home ValleyOld Saddles Home Valley restaurant. Word came through that we should head for Mount Hart station, missing Manning. We left the GR Road late in the afternoon at the Mount Hart sign. It turned out that there was still quite a long way to go on this very basic road with lots of creek crossings and one quite large dry river bed. It turned into a long day, not least for Jamie, our driver, but he got us safely to our destination at sundown and everything had been prepared for us.
River CrossingRiver Crossing Mt Hart Rd
Tina and I were allocated a luxurious tent with en-suite and massive double bed and, after a very welcome shower, we discovered the very welcome sight of a bar and restaurant dining room. Refreshed inside and out we caught up on the plans for the next few days. Tomorrow we were going to Bell River Gorge, to make up for missing Manning, and then back to our schedule with Windjana Gorge on the following day and from there to Fitzroy Crossing. All the camping gear and staff, including the boss Colin, were on the way in the stations fire engine truck and would be with us again.
Sundown Mt Hart RoadSundown Mt Hart Road
Given the disruption, we were all very pleased with the way the thing had been managed.
All for now - Peter
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What an adventure! And such beautiful photos to add to the excitement of your blog.
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Thanks again Peter for the last 2 posts. Nothing can be taken for granted in the remote areas of our big country!!!!
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Today we're encouraging everyone to go give Azure Functions' Application Insights integration a try. You can find full instructions and notes on how it works at https://aka.ms/func-ai. Now it takes (nearly) zero effort to add Application Insights to your Azure Functions and immediately unlock a powerful tool for monitoring your applications.
Application Insights is now available for all Functions users on "~1". If you're on "beta" now, please switch back to "~1" which has the latest version. If you stay on "beta", it's very likely you'll be broken by something at some point.
Getting Started
It's fairly simple to get started – there is just two steps.
- Create an Application Insights instance.
- Application type should be set to General
- Grab the instrumentation key
- Update your Function App's settings
- Add App Setting –
{Instrumentation Key}
- Add App Setting –
Once you've done this, your App should start automatically sending information on your Function App to Application Insights, without any code changes.
Using Application Insights to the fullest
Now that your Function Apps are hooked up to Application Insights, let's take a quick look at some of the key things you'll want to try.
Live Stream
If you open your Application Insights resource in the portal, you should see the option for "Live Metrics Stream" in the menu. Click on it and you'll see a near-live view of what's coming from your Function App. For executions, it has info on #/second, average duration, and failures/second. It also has information on resource consumption. You can pivot all of these by the "instance" your functions are on; providing you insight on whether a specific instance might be having an issue or all of your Functions.
The analytics portal provides you the ability to write custom queries against your data. This is one of the most powerful tools in your tool box. Currently, the following tables are full of data from the Functions runtime:
- Requests – one of these is logged for each execution
- Exceptions – tracks any exceptions thrown by the runtime
- Traces – any traces written to context.log or ILogger show up here
- PerformanceMetrics – Auto collected info about the performance of the servers the functions are running on
- CustomEvents – Custom events from your functions and anything that the host sees that may or may not be tied to a specific request
- CustomMetrics – Custom metrics from your functions and general performance and throughput info on your Functions. This is very helpful for high throughput scenarios where you might not capture every request message to save costs, but you still want a full picture of your throughput/etc. as the host will attempt to aggregate these client side, before sending to Application Insights
The other tables are from availability tests and client/browser telemetry, which you can also add. The only thing that's currently missing is dependencies. There is also more metrics/events we'll add over the course of the preview (based off your generous feedback on what you need to see).
This will show us the median, p95, and p99 over the last 30 minutes graphed in a timeplot.
While you can copy+paste this query, I'd recommend trying to type it out yourself to get a sense of the amazing intellisense features that the editor has. You can learn about all the language features with some amazing examples from the Analytics reference page.
You can also pin these graphs to your dashboard, which makes for a really powerful tool for having a way to know how your application is behaving at a glance.
While it's great that I can see what's happening and what happened, what's even better is being told what's happening. That's where alerts come into play. From the main Application Insights blade, you can click on the alerts section and define alerts based on a variety of metrics. For example, you could have an alert fire when you've had more than 5 errors in 5 minutes, which sends you an email. You can then create another one which detects more than 50 errors in 5 minutes, and triggers a Logic App to send you a text message or PagerDuty alert.
Next steps
Application Insights is now GA'd and ready for production workloads. We're also listening for any feedback you have. Please file it on our GitHub. We'll be adding some new features like better sampling controls and automatic dependency tracking soon. We hope you'll give it a try and start to gain more insight into how your Functions are behaving. You can read more about how it works at docs.microsoft.com


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In addition to Discovery and Foundations of the Rock, we offer a variety of courses and training opportunities to help you on your spiritual journey.
Biblical Training
Church of the Rock regularly offers solid, biblical and relevant training that will help to equip individuals for service in ministry and the workplace, as well as to provide personal enrichment. Our mission is to prepare men and women of integrity – rooted and grounded in the Word of God and empowered through the Holy Spirit – who will influence their world by living out their faith. Classes are offered in the evenings and are taught by our pastoral team, staff leaders and gifted volunteer leaders.
We offer Biblical Training courses throughout the year, most running from 5-12 weeks on a weekday evening or Sunday morning. Nominal class fees may apply.
Other Courses
Life in the Spirit – In this 4-session class we will learn to live in and walk in God's Spirit. Any time God's people invite the Holy Spirit to take leadership of their lives we see the Church revived. We pray more powerfully, live more victoriously and touch our world with His grace like never before.
Water Baptism Class – explains the biblical meaning and practice of water baptism and prepares you for taking this important step in your Christian journey.
Life Skills Workshops provide practical skills for everyday life needs. They are designed to teach and assist people to be efficient and effective with the use of their time and resources. Small teaching workshops are conducted in a setting in which people may learn and apply practical life skills. Workshop topics may include: Time Management, Stress Management, Will Preparation, Small Business Start-up, Healthy Living, Biblical Financial Management, Cooking Classes and Maximized Living. The workshops are often held Saturday mornings or weekday evenings and will run 2 to 3 hours, depending on the nature of the workshop.
Marriage Enrichment Courses – Please visit our Marriage Ministry page for details.
Parenting Teens – you can sign up to receive our online segments or visit our blog.
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Tue, Dec 01 2015
I recently heard a speech by Jill Margo, accomplished author and men's health columnist for the Australian Financial Review, at the Sydney Institute.
Talking about her latest book, Frank Lowy: A Second Life, Margo highlighted Frank Lowy's ability to ask the most basic questions, which often reframed a business issue or economic development, and referred to this as bringing the discussion back to 'first principles.'
Jill observed that this ability served him particularly well during his tenure as a Director of the Reserve Bank of Australia between 1995 and 2005, where he was able to cut through theoretical economic discussions and bring the focus back to the real-world impact of monetary policy decisions.
As communicators, the ability to bring a discussion back to first principles is essential – by asking questions such as: who do we want to reach with this message, why do we want to reach them and what changes do we want them to make? It's by asking these types of questions that, as communicators, we ensure our work is not only effective, but delivers a tangible business result and provides our clients with a significant return on their investment.
Unfortunately for our former Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey, this is a principle all too often ignored by our nation's leaders when communicating the need for change.
Prime Minister Turnbull and Treasurer Morrison would do themselves, and the country, a great service by bringing their community engagement around reform back to first principles, and by doing this, would inevitably come to the conclusion that their customers (the Australian community) need to be at the centre of this dialogue to ensure a sustainable momentum is created.
Not only would it be compelling television to see Scott Morrison appear solo on a future episode of Q&A, but it would present an incredible opportunity to prosecute the case for reform. Or why not mount a series of televised community hall discussions around the country, or drop in for the morning to spend some quality time on the couch with Kochie?
Or what about the return of 'community cabinets', which, although an ALP concept, would fit in perfectly with Turnbull's pitch as the leader of a government "that is thoroughly consultative."
Whatever the approach Turnbull and Morrison take to creating community engagement around reform, if they stick to their first principles, they should have a better chance of success.
Author: Sefiani Communications, original blog found here: http://www.sefiani.com.au/blog/bringing-it-back-to-first-principles/
© Copyright 2018 Public Relations Institute of Australia (ACN 85066451732). All rights reserved.


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A team of female scuba diving instructors from Bingham are challenging 100 women to take the plunge and sign up to a mass charity dive to boost women's participation in the sport.
The scuba dive and snorkel taster event, which is being organised by British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC) branch clubs from across the East Midlands, is part of the This Girl Can Campaign – a national Sport England initiative designed to encourage more women into sport.
Women and girls aged 12 and over from across the region are being invited to test the water with one of the world's most adventurous sports while also raising money for Breast Cancer Care.
The event, which is being hosted by Bingham Sub Aqua Club (SAC) in South Nottinghamshire, on Sunday, November 27, follows last year's successful first event in Derby which saw scores of women sampling diving for the very first time.
Rachel Quinn, event instructor and former Bingham SAC chairman, of Keyworth, said scuba diving was a positive way for women to keep healthy and increase their self-confidence while also learning new skills.
"Scuba diving obviously builds confidence because it's quite a technical sport," said the 45-year-old charity CEO, who learnt to scuba dive at the age of 13 back in 1985 with Bingham SAC.
"It's not just about diving; it's about equipment maintenance, navigation, boat handling, chart work, and first aid. The breadth of activity we undertake is massive.
"From a physical point of view, scuba diving is strength building and great for breathing as it involves a lot of cardiac activity.
"From the social point of view, it's really good for team-working. My two daughters learnt to dive and it encouraged them to work with other people and instructors and developed their co-responsibility. They take responsibility for their own development and the wellbeing of the person they are diving with."
The event, which is being held at Bingham Leisure Centre, where the club trains once a week, will involve a series of 30-minute introductory sessions led by female-only instructors.
BSAC clubs from across the region have come together to support the event and organisers hope to raise at least £500 from the £5 participant donation fee which will be presented to Breast Cancer Care.
As the governing body for scuba and snorkelling in the UK, BSAC represents more than 30,000 divers and 1,000 plus family friendly and sociable clubs, run by volunteers, up and down the country and abroad.
Mary Tetley, BSAC Chief Executive, said: "The beauty of scuba diving is that it can be enjoyed by a wide range of people, of all different backgrounds and ages, and we are always keen to look at ways of boosting the numbers of women in the sport.
"It's important to us that BSAC is as diverse an organisation as possible. We have women from grassroots right up to senior positions on our committee and the contribution they give is invaluable.
"We wish Bingham Sub Aqua Club every success with their upcoming charity event and look forward to welcoming some more women into our ranks. It is set to be a great event which will show new female members just what a fantastic sport scuba diving is."
Andrea Riley, who lives in Keyworth and is Membership Secretary for Bingham SAC, said participating clubs were hoping to recruit new club members from the taster dives.
"We usually convert a high number of people who take part in our club try dives into members, probably as much as 50 per cent," she said.
"This is a very different event but it is obviously one of the primary aims. This is how we sustain the club system; the more members we have moving through the ranks the better. It creates sustainability for the future and it's also important that we develop a good gender mix.
"At Bingham SAC, we have members aged 12 right up to those in their 70s who are still actively diving. There's a good gender mix and it's getting better.
Susan Shipley is another longstanding Bingham SAC member who will be at the event. She said: "When I first started, there were just three or four female members. We have many more than that now and we're also seeing more female instructors; some of our female members are on the national and regional coaching teams, and are participating in this event."
"Scuba diving has taken me to places that I would never have seen. I would encourage all women out there who want to challenge themselves and develop their fitness to try it out."
The club has previously organised its own projects to enhance women's experience of scuba diving. Rachel and Susan previously organised an all-women diving expedition to St Abbs in Scotland where participants were tasked with overseeing all aspects of diving including boat handling.
"There's a tendency for girls to sometimes stand back and let the guys manage the boat," Rachel said.
"I wanted to create an opportunity where they had to do it and feel confident about it."
For more information about the taster session and to book a place on Sunday November 27th, please email: email@example.com. Information is also available at Bingham SAC's Facebook and Twitter account.


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Regions Bank has ambitious growth goals for the wealth management business.
The bank projects that fee income from its trust, insurance and brokerage operations will continue to grow in the range of 10% to 12% from 2016 to 2018, John Owen, head of the bank's Regional Banking Group, said at an Investor Day Conference in New York on Thursday.
Assets under management are expected to grow in the 5% to 7% range, he said.
Owen emphasized the progress the bank has made in building out its brokerage unit, which launched in 2013 to cater to customers with $500,000 or less to invest. The unit now has $2 billion in assets and is projected to generate $30.6 million in revenue this year, almost four times the $7.7 million it generated in 2013 and a 60% jump from $19.3 million in 2014.
The unit has hired and trained 225 financial consultants and will now "pause at that number and see what the performance is," Owen said.
He anticipates continued double-digit growth in fee income from the brokerage unit, predicting that revenue will hit $38 million by the end of 2016. "We're going to try to get more performance out of the group," he said.
Regions has also seen steady revenue growth from investments in the insurance unit, which last year produced $124 million in revenue and is projected to bring in $141 million this year and $165 million in 2016, according to Owen.
The insurance unit grew both organically as well as through what he called "lift-outs" and one acquisition. He noted that Regions will continue to invest in insurance lift-outs and acquisitions.
Overall, the wealth management business is projected to bring in $411 million in income this year, up from $367 million in 2014. The goal for 2016 is to hit $458 million, Owen said.
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It is often the case in revolutions that many who take a lead role in shaping the new society are not those who instigated revolution in the first place. James Madison and Alexander Hamilton were both too young to be revolutionary instigators (they were just 14 and 10 respectively when the Stamp Act was passed) but by the 1780s they had risen to prominent positions within the new nation. Both would contribute to the Revolutionary War, Madison as a state assemblyman and Hamilton as a soldier, and both would earn selection to the 1787 Philadelphia convention. Each would play a lead role in determining the political make-up of the new nation: Madison as a political philosopher and architect of the Constitution; Hamilton as a forceful advocate for centralised political and economic power. Both were nationalists, envisaging the great potential for the future United States; both were at the forefront of the Federalist movement.
James Madison was physically an unremarkable figure, barely 158 centimetres tall, pale-skinned and sickly looking, with a high-pitched voice that was often inaudible in public meetings and assemblies. He was quite anti-social, disliking company and crowds, though those with whom he did mix described him as an erudite conversationalist. Madison had entered the Virginia assembly in 1776 and proved something of a junior Thomas Jefferson. There his hard work and attention to detail earned him considerable respect, despite his young age. Like many of this colleagues he was alarmed at the social disorder permitted by the watery Articles of Confederation, so he eagerly accepted a nomination to attend Philadelphia. There he tabled his famous 'Virginia Plan' for a three-branch federal political system, combining existing ideas (such as the British political system and the separation of powers theorised by Montesquieu) with his own innovations, guided by his keen knowledge of political philosophy and his precise attention to detail. Though his model was subsequently amended by the convention, Madison would later earn the epithet 'father of the Constitution', though it was a title he spurned. And while he opposed the inclusion of specific individual rights into the Constitution, when this concession was made to the anti-Federalists Madison alone drafted the Bill of Rights. Madison later went on to become fourth president of the United States between 1809-17.
Ralph Ketcham, historian
Alexander Hamilton, unlike his fellow politicians, had no allegiance to any colony or state – he had been born illegitimately in the West Indies and didn't arrive in America until 1772. As a young man he supported the revolution and wrote lengthy tracts criticising British policy, however he condemned all acts of mob violence and disorder. Hamilton joined the Continental Army, rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and for a time served as Washington's aide-de-camp. He resigned his commission and was elected to the Confederation Congress in 1782, however he hated this time in service, finding Congress too slow to reach decisions and too reliant on state funding (around this time he famously wrote "I hate Congress; I hate the Army; I hate the world"). Hamilton craved a strong central government that could lead the states rather than follow them; and a national bank to enable financial and currency regulation. He encouraged and perhaps dealt secretly with the Newburgh conspirators, believing that their actions might force a strengthening of Congress' power. He left Congress in 1783 after calling for revision of the Articles of Confederation, returning to his state legislature in New York, however he returned to serve at the Constitutional Convention. It was here he suggested that the president sit for life, and although this was rejected, Hamilton became a fervent supporter of the Constitution and one of the leading Federalist writers. Hamilton served as Washington's Secretary of the Treasury until 1795.
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The government of Mauritania has given consent to a Gender Violence bill that entails punishing husbands who insults their wives with two year imprisonment and also hand a death penalty to married men guilty of rape, according to a report by Morocco World News.
The bill that has since been passed by Mauritania's House of Senates has stagnated at the General Assembly after the Committee for Islamic Affairs objected to items contradicting the Sharia Law.
"Whoever insults his wife using degrading words that can affect the dignity or honor." will face 10 days to two years in prison according to the Bill. Unmarried rapists will be punished with hard labor, prison and lashes but married rapists will face death.
The Bill further states that People found guilty of sexual harassment will face up to 12 months in prison and a fine of up tp 560 dollar or jail rime of upto 3years.
Organization of Mauritanian Scholars released a communiqué on Thursday 5 condemning the drafted law and calling on the Mauritanian president to intervene.


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Wow! - T-Shirt Blankets for $74.99
What a bargain! But, before you spend your $74.99 for 16 of your favorite t-shirts made into a blanket, (read this about difference between a quilt and blanket) think about this. How important are these t-shirts to you? Are you willing to throw those tee shirts away, and get a crappy blanket to preserve your memories?
At Shadywood Quilts and T-Shirt Quilts of Texas, we have literally made thousands of T-Shirt Quilts over the last eleven years. Suffice it to say, that we have a bit of experience in making a successful T-Shirt Quilt.
While we are busy making T-Shirt Quilts for hundreds of folks every year, we have several people that bring us the T-Shirt Quilt TOP for us to finish. We love taking care of you, but sometimes we cringe when we see the top that the customer wants us to work a miracle on.
Here are some suggestions to make a successful tshirt quilt top, and what you should demand your quilt-maker include when creating your quilt.
Looking for a T-shirt Quilt Maker?
Several times this past week, I've heard the comment "oh, I'm so glad you are local, I wouldn't want to put my tshirts in the mail". While, we are fortunate to live outside of a huge metro area (Houston), I cringe a bit on the inside when hearing that. There are actually two issues here. Trusting the Post Office and not knowing anything about the t-shirt quilt maker.
A Finished Quilt is A Good Thing
We are more than happy to create a custom T-Shirt or Memory quilt for you, but for any number of reasons you need some help getting yours completed.
We might ask you to tell us the story behind the quilt, but we won't judge. Some quilts just need a border or squaring up to get the edges straight. It is amazing how some professional machine quilting will turn a crumpled mess into a beautiful keepsake you will treasure for many many years.
Reasons to Have Us Finish Your Quilt
- You already cut the tshirts (see Oops, I Already Cut My T-Shirts)
- You have completed the top, but don't know what to do next
- You put the blocks together, but something does not look right
- Your 'friend' asked you to make this quilt because you have a sewing machine
- You have a deadline (i.e. graduation, birthday or other holiday)
I Have Too Many T-Shirts
How Many T-Shirts Do I Need?
The hardest decision in getting a t-shirt quilt made is deciding how large to make it. In other words, how many t-shirts do I need? If you have a huge collection of tee shirts, you might think that you need a king sized quilt. Just because you have a lot t-shirts, you might want a huge quilt. Determine what the best use for your quilt will be; something to relax under on the couch, or as an actual bed quilt. If making Memory quilts, we suggest that you make the Generous Throw sized quilt.


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Microsoft has announced that start shipping its next version of its Windows operating system in 2006. However to meet the new tight deadline a number of technical innovations will have to be dropped from the OS. Currently called Longhorn, Microsoft has been forced into the decision for the need to get the next version out.
The most notable omission that will be missing from the newly scheduled release is the intelligent data-storage system called WinFS. The system has been touted as being able to intelligently find any kind of information in text, music or video files not only on the PC in question but even on the web.
"One of the major things that Microsoft was touting as part of the Longhorn vision is being left out," said David M. Smith, an analyst at Gartner Inc.
Two major elements of Longhorn - the 3-D graphics user interface, code-named Avalon; and the machine-to-machine Web services communication technology, code-named Indigo - will be included in the 2006 Windows desktop operating system they will also be made available to Windows XP users to increase the number of computers available to run the software making the system a more attractive offering for end users.


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Harrysong begins 2017 with this potential smash hit single featuring Timaya on the dancehall/Galala-tinged number entitled 'Samankwe' "Still basking in the euphoria of his numerous smash hits, Alterplates Harrison Tare Okiri famously known as Harrysong or Mrsongz as the case may be, has delivered the official visual to his monster hit, titled Samankwe featuring Dem Mama crooner, Timaya. Directed by Adasa Cookey The video also had cameo appearances by popular comedian, Bovi, Orezi, Alterplate talented artiste, Dezign and friends. Harrysong is simply imprinting his brand on the sand of time and there is no stopping him."
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The patented 270° six-way valve and actuator replaces up to four valves and four actuators – minimizing the number of valves and actuators in an installation while reducing operating costs.
With three times the operating range of comparable solutions, the 270° six-way valve and actuator delivers continuous flow control over a rotational range of 270°, which provides more precise accuracy in terminal equipment. Improved energy efficiency and occupant comfort are the result of superior flow rate and a wider control angle, offered through this innovative design.


text: Question: I'm doing my own backups and was told to use brickblocker to take out the nintendo system updates from the iso. How does this work? I'm not talking about the program/walkthrough. how does it take the updates out of the iso? what does it put in it's place? when i launch the game from backuploader gamma will it still try to load an update? is this the best route? thanks


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Around noon on Tuesday, September 13th, I received a call to come to Firetower Road about 1/4 mile south of Moffett Road (Hwy 98). The call was from Ms. Susan Jarvis, the owner of some properties on Firetower Road. Ms. Jarvis said that City Of Semmes employees were cutting down Camellias on property owned by her family.
Upon arriving at Firetower Road I could see several Mobile County Sheriff's vehicles and several personal vehicles. Ms. Jarvis, Council Member Lawrence Webb, the City Of Semmes Code Enforcement Officer, public works supervisor Jason Franklin and two Sheriff's Deputies were conversing on the east side of Firetower Road. The work crew left after calling the deputies as instructed and all crews had left before I arrived on the scene.
As told to me by Ms. Jarvis, she had received a phone call earlier that city workers were cutting shrubbery and camellias on her property with heavy machinery so she went to the property and was told by the city code enforcement officer that Mayor Hale had issued a work order directing the public works employees to clear the right-of-way adjoining her property. When Ms. Jarvis requested that the City Workers stop, she encountered resistance from the city workers so she called City Councilman Lawrence Webb for assistance. Upon arrival Mr. Webb questioned public works supervisor Jason Franklin and the code enforcement officer as to why the crew was working on this particular piece of property. The code enforcement officer said Mayor Judy Hale had given the order.
When I questioned about the possible intrusion onto private property, Mr. Franklin stated that the workers were required by law to keep the 80 foot right-of-way clear and they were going by the Mobile County GIS records. Ms. Jarvis and Mr. Webb pointed out that the crew was working well outside the 80 foot right-of-way. The photo below is a view from the right-of-way limit on the east side of Firetower Road looking South. A tape measurement showed that the work crew was 12 or more feet into Ms. Jarvis' property. Mr. Franklin took full responsibility for the incident and the mayor denied any knowledge of the work order even though Ms. Jarvis had been told earlier by the code enforcement officer that the mayor had issued the work order. Even after all city representatives had acknowledged that a mistake had occurred resulting in seventy-five year old ornamental camellias being destroyed, there were no apologies made to Ms. Jarvis regarding such an egregious error.
Recognizing that the intrusion might have been a legitimate mistake, I was reluctant to publish yet another negative article about the city and Mayor Judy Hale but Ms. Jarvis said she felt that this incident was wrongful and was designed to purposely target her because she had supported Mr. David Baker for Mayor during the election. Ms. Jarvis pointed out that the adjacent property North of her property was untouched and questioned why the city crew had picked her property and had not started at one end or the other of Firetower Road if the intent was to clean the right-of-way along Firetower Road. Further, she stated, "It's pretty obvious to me that this particular piece of property was the intended target."
Mayor Hale arrived and the following recorded conversation took place:
I purposely let this story set for a while hoping that the incident was indeed just an error on the part of city workers. That was until…
At roughly 7:00 a.m. this morning, Wednesday, September 14th, I received another call from Ms. Jarvis saying that the city workers were again on her property. When the City workers were questioned by Ms. Jarvis about why they had returned knowing that such an upsetting incident had taken place the previous day, the workers acknowledged that Mayor Judy Hale had instructed them the previous day to return to the site to finish the job.
By the time I arrived there was no one at the property but I began to think a second occurance of this being an error was looking less likely.
I placed a call to the Mobile County Engineering office and wound up talking with the Mobile County Surveyor and ultimately the Mobile County GIS department. According to the GIS department, Ms. Jarvis' property is not in the City Of Semmes and the supposed right-of-way which the city crew was clearing was not the responsiblity of the City Of Semmes – it is county maintained. According to the GIS department, the county right of way is well marked with signs – one 1,020 feet from the beginning of Firetower Road at Moffett Road, and another 1, 425 feet from the same beginning. Ms. Jarvis' property is situated within the bounds of the signs and therefore the right-of-way is to be maintained by Mobile County. Ms. Jarvis has also informed me this evening that the actual parcels of property owned by her family were never annexed by the City of Semmes, therefore the City of Semmes should have never trespassed on their property in the first place….
This evening Ms. Jarvis is still awaiting an apology from Mayor Hale, acknowledging the City's error.
Editor: This story does not end here. City Council members have informed me that they intend to take immediate action to address this issue. Additional information will be published when available.
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THYROXINE SUPPRESSION THERAPY IN NODULAR THYROID DISEASE. Rhonda Carter, MD Resident Grand Rounds December 15,1998. CASE PRESENTATION.
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Resident Grand Rounds
December 15,1998
HPI: 32 y.o. Indian-American female w/o sig. PMH presented with a complaint of a "lump in her neck" that had been slowly enlarging for one year. Denied history of thyroid disease, dyspnea or dysphagia but was concerned about cosmetic appearance. Denied any hair/skin changes, heat/cold intolerance, weight changes, palpitations or menstrual irregularities. She did have occasional constipation.
PMH: None Meds: None NKDA
Soc: No Etoh/tob FH: asthma, DM ROS: N/C
Gen: WDWN Indian female, NAD
VS: Wt. 138lbs, HR 68, BP 96/60, T98.5, RR 16
HEENT: no exopthalmos or lid lag
Neck: diffuse nontender goiter, smooth, approx. twice normal size, no nodules/thrills/bruits
Lungs: CTA
Heart: RRR w/o MRG
Abd: BS+, soft, NTND
Ext: no edema
Neuro: DTRs 2+ throughout
Skin: warm, dry
Total thyroxine 7.4 (5.5-11.8) ug/dl
Thyroid uptake 24.8 (24-34) %
Free thyroxine index 6.1 (4.8-10.3)
TSH 2.19 (0.40-5.5) mcu/ml
Kuma et al., 1994
Mazzaferri, 1987
Sawin et al., 1994
Ching et al., 1996 compared:
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No studies have shown an increase rate of bone fractures among patients on thyroxine therapy.
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National Healthcare Corporation
Flatt selected as new CEOAugust 17, 2016
Stephen F. Flatt, Ph.D., is the new CEO at Tennessee-based National HealthCare Corporation, the nation's oldest publicly traded senior healthcare company.
Partnership announced for Saint Thomas HealthAugust 02, 2016
National HealthCare Corporation and Saint Thomas Health embarked on a partnership Monday geared around care coordination.
Settlement in National Health Investors case will liquidate nonprofit operators, pump $40 million to Tennessee charitiesApril 29, 2013
A real estate investment trust that allegedly engaged in questionable sales transactions with nonprofit operators recently settled with the state of Tennessee, which will lead to a $40 million payday for charities in the state.


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I've been on generess fe for about a year and a half then last month my doctor changed my birth control to minastrin 24. I never had a break between the two. When I would have started my next pack of generess I started the minastrin. The first week and possibly into the second week of my first pack of the minastrin I was on ampicillin 500mg for a uti. I had my period then I started my second pack of the minastrin November 15th. I had intercourse the following Tuesday the 17th but it was with a condom. Say for instance the condom broke, would my birth control have been effective at that point after taking the ampicillin?
Was I protected from pregnancy?
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This little bag would be so cute with a few Hershey's Kisses in it.
Here's what you will need to create it:
1 sheet White Daisy card stock
Paper Dimensions
- ½" × 1¼" White Daisy Cardstock (cut 2)
- Cut Ivy Lane B&T paper bag shapes A and B using the Cricut® Artiste cartridge:
- Ivy Lane floral B&T paper shape A: 2" 3D Object
(p. 64)
- Ivy Lane green flower B&T paper shape B: 2" Shift + 3D Object
(p. 64) (cut 2)
- Ivy Lane floral B&T paper shape A: 2" 3D Object
Helpful Hints
To create the card as shown, follow the helpful hints as outlined.
- Run the edges of Ivy Lane B&T shape A and B on Blush ink pad
- Dovetail one end of each ½" × 1 ¼" White Daisy cardstock strip
- Second generation stamp doodle background using Pear ink on White Daisy cardstock strips
- Stamp "Thanks" sentiment in Blush ink on one White Daisy cardstock strip
- Assemble bag according to instructions in Artiste assembly booklet
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Dudley's World is a Vague Visages column by Jordan Brooks.
As the throbbing music fades in Sebastian Schipper's Victoria, a night spent inside an underground European nightclub comes to an end while weaving seamlessly into the beginning of something wholly unexpected. Built entirely on impulse, the morning of our protagonist proceeds like a lucid dream influenced by a made-for-tv drama emanating from a television somewhere in the background. Victoria (Laia Costa) lives her life in the moment, and she unflinchingly braves a Berlin clouded in darkness and crawling with drunken locals. Her unabashed curiosity for life (and for living) is echoed by Schipper's "one take" direction, and as the two intertwine in their narrative dance, a complex set of emotions begins to appear.
Victoria unfolds in such a way that tension must be built and released without ever leaving a given scene; Schipper cannot rely on cutting or escape to calm his audience, and in so doing, the director inexorably bonds them to the mindset of the characters. An ever-watchful eye, we feel a sense of attachment to the seemingly helpless Victoria and begin to feel connected with her wellbeing. Shining with innocence, her solo-romp in the nightclub endears us to this isolated foreigner, unsure of her place in the world, but craving some sort of revelation in self-discovery. Observing as she links up with a group of "Real Berliners" (East Berliners), we cannot help but feel nervous at the thought of a young woman cavorting with a foursome of drunken men hiding dubious morals. Schipper prays on societal fears of rape and sexual assault in order to lend gravity to each moment Victoria spends with these loudmouthed Germans; the language barrier only heightening the possibility of deceit. (Victoria, a native Spaniard, must communicate via broken English.)
As the film wears on, the absence of cutting assuages possible fears of outlandish side-plotting and abnormal behavior. Knowing that Schipper will never cut, fade to black or jump in time, there simply isn't room for deviation. If Sonne (Frederick Lau) and his "brothers" attack Victoria, the story would not be able to continue. As harrowing or emotionally shattering as this line of thought might have been, an hour spent traumatized inside of a hospital is a quick way to kill any narrative interest. Although it is rarely flashy, being aware of the unbroken shot invariably sticks in the back of a viewer's mind, and its mere existence is enough to comfort us during moments of stress.
With Victoria's relative safety almost guaranteed (Schipper might be as visually daring as Hitchcock, but this is not the type film that kills off a leading lady less than halfway in), the audience is free to coexist alongside her and the band of German revelers. Interesting situations crop up not because they make sense, but because they have to in order for the film to survive — a Rube Goldberg device with only one function is as pointless as it is boring. The cumulative effect of Schipper's film is that of the ultimate one-night-stand. With empathy as its only guide, Victoria goes out for a debaucherous night at the club and winds up finding far more than it intended. A two-hour and eighteen minute emotional arc, the audience witnesses the lifespan of a complex and varied romance condensed into a fiery and passionate pre-dawn affair. Unable to corrupt time or location, Victoria manages to pulse with lasting energy, displaying just how incredible, devastating, thrilling and painful even two hours of life, spent really living, can be.
Jordan Brooks (@viewtoaqueue) is an increasingly-snobby cinefile based out of London, England. As a contributor to several online publications, including his own blog, he has succeeded in fulfilling his life long dream of imposing strong opinions on others.


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