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The penny-farthing, also known as a high wheel, high wheeler and ordinary, is a type of bicycle with a large front wheel and a much smaller rear wheel. It was popular after the boneshaker until the development of the safety bicycle in the 1880s.[1] It was the first machine to be called a "bicycle".[2]
Although the name "penny-farthing" is now the most common, it was probably not used until the machines were nearly outdated; the first recorded print reference is from 1891 in Bicycling News.[3] It comes from the British penny and farthing coins, one much larger than the other, so that the side view resembles a penny leading a farthing.[4] For most of their reign, they were simply known as "bicycles". In the late 1890s, the name "ordinary" began to be used, to distinguish them from the emerging safety bicycles;[5] this term and "hi-wheel" (and variants) are preferred by many modern enthusiasts.[6][7]
In 1869, Eugène Meyer, a Frenchman, invented the High-Bicycle design and fashioned the wire-spoke tension wheel.[8] Around 1870, English inventor James Starley, described as the father of the bicycle industry, and others, began producing bicycles based on the French boneshaker but with front wheels of increasing size,[4] because larger front wheels, up to 1.5 m (60 in) in diameter, enabled higher speeds on bicycles limited to direct drive.[1][4][9][10][11] In 1878, Albert Pope began manufacturing the Columbia bicycle outside of Boston, starting their two-decade heyday in America.[4]
Although the trend was short-lived, the penny-farthing became a symbol of the late Victorian era. Its popularity also coincided with the birth of cycling as a sport.[4]
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Rotational and Translational Symmetry
People usually think about patterns as something that repeats itself on a regular basis, or at least for a certain number of times. The math can explain what the repetition is about and why some shapes look and feel more organized and structured than others. For these reasons, symmetry is an important part of patterns, forms and arts. Symmetry describes how things may look when someone rotates them or moves them, or is looking at their reflection.
Human perceptions, thoughts and intuition about symmetry can be very deceptive. Generally speaking, shape and form in the natural world around us do not come from symmetry. They come from breaking it into pieces, from the disintegration of something that is full.
For those interested in the connection between science and art, the question, therefore, becomes, why and how does the symmetry separate parts of the complete uniformity?
People have been imagining the universe as an ordered place since the beginning of time, especially when they were more vulnerable to the random acts and forces of nature. Some of the Greek philosophers, including Plato, imagined the Universe as a creation that is based on the ideas of harmony, unity, proportion and symmetry. This vision has been resonating with generations of people ever since.
The best way to understand symmetry and order is to think about them as properties of objects that allow the objects to change, yet in a way these objects remain the same as they were before. Think about a ball. You may rotate it for a while, yet the ball doesn't change. It works in a similar way with a grid of lines you can draw on paper. When you move up one line, the line looks just like the previous line.
Both of these cases describe symmetry, but at the same time, they are very different. The first one is rotational and the second one is translational.

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There's a primaeval atmosphere in John Clegg's new collection, Antler. His poems inhabit a land of bark canoes, whalebone, orchards and moss. It's definitely northern, even Arctic, and speaks of people living a precarious existence on the edge of history and myth. But those people are also recognisably us, and there are telescopes, escalators and skidoos between these pages.
Clegg's rhymes are subtly crafted but their consistent style throughout the collection extends the feeling that we are in a self-contained world.
The first half of the collection is entitled Leather, and here it is the ancient world that is predominant. The opening poem, which provides the collection's title, takes us straight into Clegg's mythology: 'This was the empire of antler, / walrus ivory, soapstone and marten furs'. Natural objects become totemic; there's something not quite ordinary about 'Moss' – it seems like a prehistoric analogy for money, something which the people cultivate obsessively while 'Our holy valley stayed unoccupied'. The moss speaks of our deep-set material cravings and their tendency to take us over. There's a strong element of the trickster in 'Piltdown' which describes how someone who has been defrauded over the fake 'missing link' then becomes a fraudster himself.
The language of the poems heightens the mystical atmosphere. In 'Spell for an Orchard' the word 'orchard' is repeated so many times as a perfect rhyme that it loses its common meaning and becomes an incantation. The orchard itself is a place where beliefs begin, it is a prototypic universe. In 'Nightgrass', the 'daygrass' – cereal crops that allowed the hunter-gatherers to settle down – is clearly delineated, but the nightgrass of the title is harder to harvest: it is 'waiting outside folklore', it's a weed, a malevolent presence, another Crow-like trickster. Even in 'Ramon Sije', a poem based on the elegiac poem of the same name by Spanish poet Miguel Hernandez, the mood and the vocabulary are maintained. The narrator rails against God, 'that witty gent / upstairs', for the death of his friend, threatening:
I'll eat his planet bite by bite I'll flense the mantle from the core I'll thresh the trees like they were wheat If you don't speak.
Clegg's rhymes are subtly crafted but their consistent style throughout the collection extends the feeling that we are in a self-contained world. In 'A Dead Racehorse' the stanzas are cleverly tied together with the sound of 'metal', 'bridle', 'kettle', 'middle', 'muscle' and 'fossil'. Perfect rhymes appear again in 'The Whole Hog' where they create an impression of inevitability in the story of the hog 'spit-roasted for writing sestinas'.
Lace is the second half of the book. Here the vibe is more contemporary, but the mythology equally pervasive. In 'Purgatorio', a truck driver in a northern wasteland recites urban myths:
I've heard truckstop stories of this route - the UFO, the hitcher beardless, weeks from anywhere –
There's a very funny account of 'Learning German' where the gender of 'knife', 'fork' and 'spoon' is explored. Clegg enjoys the confluence of the words' sounds and their meanings, and creates stories to make sense of it. An extended poem about the Finnish astronomer Yrjo Vaisala and his mysterious post-doctoral assistant, Sinuhe, who exerts her own magical influence, ends with an arch reference to the X-Files which brings us stumbling back into the present day.
The success of Antler lies in exactly this coalescence of ancient and modern, where a calving glacier is 'handing out / blank business cards'; where the mythical 'King of Herring' can be seen on 'sonar's phantom-sweep' and a 'shuttered coffee-shop / forgets to leave crop circles on the table'. In Clegg's world the old things have not passed away, the mythology, symbolism and superstition of our ancestors is visibly with us and is thriving. Clegg extends the line of poets who identify as shaman – there's a distinct debt to Hughes and Eliot in the weaving of modern exigencies with deep, non-rational human impulses. He's conducting a psycho-archaeology that tells us something fundamental about our 'primitive' nature which civilisation can't subsume. It's a complex and closely-woven collection which will bear frequent re-reading.


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A guilty pleasure you can't seem to quit?
Watching YouTube videos before bed. It's sometimes hard to fall asleep with all the thoughts from the day racing through my head. So I'll watch videos about the universe or something that makes me feel really small until I fall asleep, sometimes with my laptop still on top of me.
A song that makes your heart skip a beat?
Right now, Maroon 5's "Sugar." It instantly makes me happy. It's the perfect combination of sexy and sweet and fun.
How do you like your eggs in the morning?
4 eggs over medium with whole grain toast please!
Which flavour of ice cream best describes your personality and why?
Pistachio. Because everyone thinks it's weird until they actually give it a try.
If the world was coming to an end and you were allowed one last kiss, who would be lucky enough to land on your lips?
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Today is the first day of spring, the 24 hours when night and day are equal lengths as the world tilts towards the long days of summer. Time explains the origin of the word, equinox, as a combination of the Latin words for equal night. Both the spring equinox and the autumn equinox have a 12-hour day and a 12-hour night.
As the Boston Globe writes, for many people in the northern parts of the world, it's hard to remember what those long, hot days are like after months of winter. Blizzards, piles of snow, and cold weather still showing up in the forecast make even quintessential spring flowers like daffodils and bluebells seem improbable, but the spring equinox brings a promise of warmth.
The coming of the sun's light and heat is a magical time, celebrated with ritual and ceremony for millennia before science explained what the equinox was all about.
Wishing everyone a beautiful Spring Season filled with bright beginnings, peace & prosperity. #HappyNorooz #PersianNewYear #SpringEquinox ????
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For our shivering ancestors, it was enough to know that the days of huddling for warmth and watching winter food supplies dwindle would soon be over for another year. The spring equinox brought fervent and grateful worshippers out to religious ceremonies and relieved revelers to the afterparty.
Even today, druids lead the celebration of the spring equinox at standing stone sites in Great Britain. The most famous of the standing stones, Stonehenge, hosts several hundred druids and pagans to greet the sunrise at the ancient site as they perform their rituals in honor of new life, rebirth, and renewed powers.
Believers come from all over the world to chant, dance, play musical instruments, and purify with dandelion and burdock drinks in preparation for the spring equinox sunrise.
According to the Mirror, some of the worshippers at spring equinox gatherings wear shamrocks to symbolize "the regenerative powers of nature." The three leaves of the plant were famously used by St. Patrick to demonstrate the Christian Holy Trinity, but for long before Patrick arrived in Ireland, the shamrock was sacred to the Celtic triple goddess, the Morrigan.
The Morrigan was the goddess of death and guardian of the dead, but although the idea of a death goddess doesn't seem, to modern ears, to fit with the new life of the spring equinox, it made perfect sense to the ancients.
The spring equinox brings fertility, rebirth, renewal, reawakening of plants and animals, and a fresh start. Act upon this. ????☀
— aphrodite (@veganelff) March 20, 2017
The Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids describes how the ancient Celts saw death as part of the circle of life.
"She is the source of life giving, death and transformation, regeneration and renewing."
The theme of dying and rising again is common to many religions, both ancient and modern. The spread of Christianity throughout the world normalized the idea of a young god who rises from the dead in the western hemisphere, but like the shamrock, the story of a spring resurrection from the dead had ancient roots in prehistoric religions.
Today is the Spring Equinox, the perfect balance of light & dark. The first day of the cosmic new year. Renewal and rebirth are in the air.
— Audrey Kitching (@AudreyKitching) March 20, 2017
The Sun writes that many pagans today call their spring equinox festival Ostara, in honor of the "Anglo-Saxon goddess who represents dawn." Ostara, which is often thought to be the original Christian Easter, is associated with fertility, eggs, and budding plants, and celebrations includes dancing, hunting, and symbols of new life.
MARCH 21st~OSTARA
one of the eight Wiccan sabbats of the Wheel of the Year. Ostara is celebrated on the spring equinox.
— Krystal Storm (@krystal_raven) March 19, 2017
When children wait for the Easter bunny and hunt for Easter eggs, they are reenacting old ceremonies of fertility that have changed names, but never died out.
How do you plan to celebrate the first day of spring?
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Luckily for Ryoma none of his sempais knew where he lived, yet. Akutsu's mom had ordered (nicely) him to stay home for a few days and avoid straining activities, such as tennis (or sports in general) and just relax. Like that was easy.
So Ryoma sent his teacher a message, saying that he won't be coming to school for the rest of the week, three days to be exact. He guessed that his homeroom teacher had already told that to his classmates, thus letting Horio know. And if Horio knew then the whole tennis club (as well as the whole school, probably) knew that Ryoma had been in some sort of accident and won't be coming to school for a while. And, once again, knowing Horio, he would surely add something of his own to spice up the whole thing.
The first call the teen got around 4pm, just around the time that the tennis practice should start. Luckily it was just Oishi-sempai calling.
"Oh, Echizen, how are you doing? I heard from Horio that you had an accident and I was worried that something really serious might have happened to you." The third-year sounded relieved and worried at the same time. Only Oishi-sempai could do that.
Ryoma sat up in his bed and scratched his head, "Ahh…" he probably shouldn't tell that he was almost abducted by a couple of low-rank mafia guys because of Akutsu. And he also should keep that fact that Akutsu was his neighbor. Yeah. "No, I just slipped and hit my head; nothing to worry about sempai. It's nothing serious."
"Oh thank God. I, we were worried about you. And Eiji said that you live alone now…" Oishi's voice faded out, as if he wasn't sure what to say next.
Ryoma glared at nothing. It was a bad idea to tell that particular information to Kikumaru.
"Don't worry sempai, I am just fine. Nothing to worry about." The high-school student surpassed a sigh. He knew that his sempai was worried, but this wasn't anything that serious. The promised fighting lessons, given by none other than Akutsu though…
There was a relieved sigh on the other end and a few yells echoed from somewhere near Oishi, probably some of the first years were running around making a racket while Tezuka isn't there yet. He heard Oishi yell something about stopping and being careful before focusing on his kouhai again. "Well, since you are fine I will not have to worry anymore. Sleep and take care of yourself Echizen. If you need anything - just call."
With a sigh Ryoma hung-up and tossed the small device on his pillow. Bothersome.
I should probably eat something. He lazily thought to himself and yawned. That had been a good sleep, yep. But now he was hungry and the only food he had were a few instant ramens and something that used to be food, or so he hoped. So I have to go out to get something to eat… Annoying.
The teen mumbled a couple of curses under his breath and started to look for some decent clothes to wear for going out. This was yet another hot day, so he didn't really want to leave his air conditioned heaven, but alas – food. He should probably make something himself, not just live off instant food. Ryoma could cook (contrary to what others thought) and he cooked really good, he just didn't want to cook.
He wore a simple t-shirt with a lame text message printed on it and black shorts, his trusty old cap on his head (as well as to somewhat hide the bandages). The boy stepped out of his apartment, tch-ed, locked the door and climbed down the stairs. He made his way to and from the 24-7 store, coming back with the ingredients necessary for a simple meal for one stuffed in the plastic bag he was holding. After seeing what the store offered Ryoma decided on some salad and pasta with cheese. He also bought some extra ponta cans (there can never be too much ponta).
Just as Ryoma rounded the corner and managed to spot his apartment house in the not-so-far distance he was grabbed by his hand and pulled back behind that corner, a hand covering his mouth during the process of pulling him back. The teen was ready to attack, but then he heard Akutsu's voice near his ear, warm breath caressing his skin.
"Shut it and stay put." The delinquent issued an order that had no option of 'no'. It poked Ryoma the wrong way, but he chose to keep his mouth shut, for now.
He waited for approximately ten seconds (give or take, Ryoma's sense of time was questionable) and then removed Akutsu's hand from his mouth. "What is going on?"
The elder teen looked down on Ryoma (the latter made a pout that wasn't actually a pout. Because he didn't pout. Ever.) and sighed, sounding like a very tired mom that has to explain something for her child for the tenth time. "Shut it and stay put."
Ryoma opened his mouth to say something but then closed it. Instead, he jabbed Akutsu in the side with his elbow and, using the other's pained state, slipped out of his hold and out on the main street, quickly walking to the apartment building. Whatever the reason Akutsu had for hiding had nothing to do with Ryoma, obviously. Besides, he saw no one around, the street was pretty much empty, except for the cat that was bathing in the warm sunlight.
The cat-eyed boy had already placed one of his feet on the first step of the stairs when he heard his name being called out. Turning around he saw Akutsu's mom walking his way. She was smiling brightly, although, she was a bit out of breath.
She said her hellos and then asked: "Ryoma-kun, have you seen my boy? I have to go to another meeting with the principal and this time I have to bring Jin with me. He hasn't returned home since going out this morning." She sighed.
"Ahh…" now Ryoma understood, "I just saw him a second ago, but I don't know where he went." It was the truth, really. Akutsu might as well be hiding behind that corner, or he had already managed to run off somewhere.
"Is that so?" Yuuki's face lost its sunny smile for a second, but then it showed up again a second later, "Thank you, Ryoma-kun. I'll just go alone then." She said her goodbyes and turned to leave, still looking around in case Akutsu suddenly shows up.
Ryoma stood by the staircase until he could no longer see Yuuki and then resumed his walk to his apartment. "Shouldn't you go with your mom?" he didn't really care about the inside problems on the Akutsu family, but Akutsu's mom was feeding him from time to time, so he owed her.
"Fuck off. That old fart will only talk crap about me. Why should I care?" came the grumpy answer from behind Ryoma. Akutsu walked right behind the brat, the air around him smelling like cigarette smoke.
Ryoma chose not to comment, merely continued his way to his place, thinking about the half-assedly made food that he will soon have the pleasure to eat. Living alone could be a pain, but he didn't have to clean up and could walk around in only his underwear, so the pluses outnumbered the minuses. And he sometimes got food from the neighbors (just Akutsu's mom, actually).
"What do you do on Saturday?" Akutsu suddenly asked the younger, stopping and glaring at the brat's back, cigarette between his fingers.
Ryoma thought about it (or pretended to) and then hummed, turning slightly to look at the silver-haired delinquent. "Nothing. Why?" he had a general idea why Akutsu was suddenly interested about his life, but he chose not to say it. Let the so-called king of delinquents feel as awkward as possible (Ryoma even did his evil laugh inside his head).
"Tch." The brown-eyed teen took a breath of his cigarette and let out a whirl of white smoke, not looking away from the younger one, "First lesson." He barked and then quickly ascended to the next floor.
Ryoma was a bit dumbstruck. Wasn't all that talk about "teaching him how to fight" just a, you know, momentary idea that should soon be lost in the universe that is the human memory? Not to mention the fact that Akutsu doing anything for anyone was as rare as, for example, living dinosaurs or unicorns.
So he was serious about that? Ryoma tilted his head on the right side a little, Well.. I guess it's fine. As long as he doesn't come too early.
The teen rolled his eyes and got out his key – conditioned heaven that is his apartment was waiting for him already. And one must not make air-conditioned heavens wait, mainly for his own good.
A/N: All the flirting will happen in the next chapter; aren't I nice? But this is turning out to be cuter than I expected it to be. Uki, I hope you're happy about this.
Ayingott out.


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Happy Tuesday!
It's been another few crazy days here! I'm actually blogging from my parent's house tonight as I've got an EARLY doctor's appointment tomorrow. I'm seeing a sort of allergist lady to try and tell me if I've got a food intolerance/allergy. It's been something ongoing for over two years, but sometimes it seems that food triggers an extreme dizziness for me. I've NEVER been able to determine what types of food/times of day it happens, and it's definitely not a hydration issue. I'm sort of resorting to a last measure here but I know this lady can figure it out 🙂 We'll see what happens tomorrow 😉
Yesterday was quite a whirlwind day! I was completely planning on a noon spin class, but my boss had me pulled into a meeting for 2.5 hours OVER my lunch hour. By the time I got out of work, it was too late to hit up the evening spin class, so I just jumped on an elliptical for ~35 minutes to get the blood pumping (totals: ~358 cals, 36 minutes). Lame, but at least I got something done 🙂
Yesterday's eats:
Big Bowl of Cereal: Nature's Path Heritage Flakes, Kashi Go Lean Protein, Kashi Puffs, Kashi Cinnamon Harvest, Unsweetened Vanilla Almond milk, banana, chia seeds
Salad, Chobani Pineapple Greek Yogurt, Luna Cookies n Cream bar, sweet wheat alternative bagel, cheese stick, Orange
Packet of Peanut butter with two Brown Rice cakes
Today wasn't nearly as bad though. I woke up extra early so that I made SURE to get in good workout – aka… early morning spin class 😉 I had a half of a banana and a Honey Graham Clif Z bar beforehand.
Workout: 45 minute Endurance Ride
Totals: ~456 cals, 14.0 miles, 49 minutes
Not great because it was BUTT early (and I was still waking up…)… but at least I got up and moving before going to work ;). I got back to my desk and sat down with a toasted whole wheat English muffin and a packet of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter.
I'm just hoping the allergist does NOT take away ANY of these things:
· Apples
· Bananas
· Peanut Butter
· Bread
· Dairy (I eat Greek yogurt like candy… and.. well.. ice cream too!)
I don't know what I would do without melty peanut butter L
Lunch was a Kashi Chicken Florentine lunch, a Bob's Red Mill Cornbread muffin (made with applesauce instead of the recommended oil ;)), sugar snaps, and an orange. Amazing (for a frozen dinner!).
Chobani Strawberry Greek Yogurt (CANDY!) + Love Grown Foods Raisin Almond Crunch Granola
Nothing up for tonight except hanging out with my dad – my mom's out of town for a week 🙂


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Thanks for your answer Jeffrey. Another point: so can you imagine a scenario where ant 1.6.5 is used but with websphere tasks library(com.ibm.websphere.ant.tasks.*) included in its path? My problem is that i use ant for building java and non-java code, and was concerns only the fist part... Hind Lwahhabi. -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey E Care [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Tue 10/25/2005 7:03 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: webpshere application server 6 , ant and versions of ant > So my question will be rather simple: Are scripts written in > standard ant 1.6.5 compatible with the ant bundled with WAS 6?(i am > using <macrodef> and so on..) Well, as I said before I'm pretty sure that WAS 6.0 bundles Ant 1.5.4; you should be able to confirm that by running "ws_ant -version". Assuming that I'm correct then the answer would be no: Ant 1.5.4 can't run build files that are written to work with 1.6.5, thus the version of Ant bundled with WAS 6.0 can't either. -- Jeffrey E. Care (email@example.com) WebSphere v7 Release Engineer WebSphere Build Tooling Lead (Project Mantis) This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.
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I've debated whether or not to comment on this on the blog, but I thought I should put it out there. Over the last few months NSR has experienced theft and vandalism to members and team equipment in a number of separate incidences. In certain cases, I am sure people do not know that they […]CONTINUE READING
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I have been away, hence a delay in posting. Prior to leaving we had a search for a missing female hiker on Seymour. She was found quite quickly with the assistance of the RCMP and their dog. Tonight's training is medical evacuation training in a time compressed call. We will be using the SKED stretcher, […]CONTINUE READING
Last week we went on an orientation hike up Mt. Seymour. It was a beautiful night, and I was glad to get outside. We traveled along the main trail up the West side of Seymour to the Suicide Gully access points – where many skiiers, snowboarder, hikers, and snowshoers end up. It starts out very […]CONTINUE READING
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How confident are you that you know what's really on your employees' or customers' minds? If you have conducted surveys to find out, are you sure that the results are accurate, complete, and useful? My observation, which is based on my extensive experience in designing and implementing workplace surveys, is that employers often end up with results that range from slightly to totally misleading because their surveys are poorly planned, designed, and implemented by well-meaning individuals who do not have the necessary knowledge and skills.
Is it important to you that surveys provide meaningful, accurate, and useful information? If so, before you go to the time and expense of conducting a survey, you may want to consider a number of little-known "secrets" that collectively can make the difference between success and failure. These elements will go a long way toward making your surveys more effective by providing actionable information.
How can you boost the likelihood that your organization's surveys will be effective? First, ensure that the critical success factors are present. They include:
- Management buy-in and active support, not merely lip service
- Validated scales that measure the desired topics
- Management's promise (in advance) to act on the results
- Effective, on-going communication with the target sample or population
- Fulfillment of the promise to take action based on the survey results
Second, make certain that the people who design and implement your surveys have the necessary skills and experience. If you do not have those skills in-house, find a qualified outside person to conduct the survey - and have that person teach the skills to your employees.
Third, address the important yet little-known elements described below before crafting a single question.
Planning the Survey
Be sure you can answer each of these questions clearly before you begin designing the survey:
- Why are you conducting the survey - i.e., what is its purpose? For example, do you want to gather information for specific or general action, or obtain general "climate" information? The answer to this question will help you identify what specific types of information you need to obtain.
- Are the survey's purpose and process clear to everyone involved?
- What topics will be covered - and not covered? How are the included topics related to the survey's purpose?
- What is management willing and able to do with the results? If the answer is "nothing," STOP right there. Because conducting a survey creates expectations that something will happen, doing nothing results in negative consequences due to unmet expectations. It also sharply reduces management's credibility: the next time there is a survey, past participants will be reluctant to respond.
- What level of confidentiality or anonymity are you prepared to offer?
- Do you have the expertise in-house to conduct the survey or should you outsource it? If you use an outsider, make sure the organization's services are a good fit. For example, will the survey be customized for your specific needs or will it be generic?
Technical Aspects and Logistics
Those who are not trained in designing and implementing surveys often overlook important logistical elements, including the following:
- How to maintain the integrity of the process - e.g., promising and maintaining confidentiality, using the results, giving honest feedback to respondents
- Technical aspects - e.g., the survey's length, reading level, form of administration, accessibility (if administered on-line)
- Appropriate sample size - i.e., one that will allow you to obtain reliable results
- Methods for identifying the topics to be covered in the survey - e.g., focus groups, interviews, informal discussions, recent or upcoming changes, management's perceptions
- Timing issues - e.g., when to conduct surveys, how often to conduct them
- Length of survey
- Method of administration - e.g., paper and pencil, online, e-mail
- Importance of conducting a pilot test of the survey
- How to boost response rates
- Importance of having an expert (in-house or from the outside) analyze the data
Survey Items
The quality and reliability of the questions or items on a survey are critical to your ability to elicit useful and accurate information from the respondents. I cannot overemphasize the importance of effective questions. Here are some of the issues that should get your attention:
- The relevance of each item or scale to the survey's purpose - e.g., collect demographic data such as work location, tenure on the job, and job classification only if using them to analyze the results will provide actionable information
- The clarity of the questions from the respondents' point of view
- The precision of words and their unambiguous meanings
- The absence of acronyms and abbreviations, even when you think employees should know them
- The use of scales instead of single items, a practice that generally enables you to obtain much more accurate, useful, and actionable information
- The confidence that the scales you are using have been validated for your intended purpose; do not rely on an off-the-shelf scale whose instructions contain assurances that "This is a valid scale," as it may not be valid for your intended purpose
- The appropriateness of the items - i.e., because all questions are not alike, it is important to choose those that will help you obtain the information you need and avoid those that will confuse respondents
Communication and Action
Communication is a key success factor to an effective survey. Similarly, you must take action once people have taken the time to provide the feedback that you requested. Personally, I will not work with an organization whose managers refuse to commit to taking some kind of action because I don't want to be part of the resultant loss of management credibility. Here are important points related to communication and action:
- For best results, communicate with your target sample before, during, and after the survey
- Decide in advance who will receive the results, and in what format (e.g., highlights, detailed report)
- It's okay not to "fix" everything right now - i.e., management doesn't have to say "yes" to everything respondents want
- Saying "no" or "not now" is fine as long as you explain your reasons for those answers, which can be general rather than specific
- You must be honest
- Identify the appropriate actions based on the results
- Implement the actions
Now that the "secrets" of effective surveys are out, you may want to reconsider your answer to my question regarding the confidence you have that you really know what's on your employees' and customers' minds. Although careful planning of a survey and attention to detail are very time consuming, the payback in terms of accurate information far outweighs your investment. As long as you are going to the trouble of conducting a survey, why not ensure the results are as accurate, as complete, and as useful as possible?
Pat Lynch, Ph.D., is President of Business Alignment Strategies, Inc., a consulting firm that helps clients optimize business results by aligning people, programs, and processes with organizational goals. You may contact Pat or call (562) 985-0333.
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Fast Fashion, Fast Content - Finding The Middle Ground
Fashion Revolution Week called attention to massive changes needed within the industry and spurred global interest and conversation. It also got me thinking about our role in this process.
As the backlash against fast fashion becomes more apparent, we're seeing it explained in a way that's compared to something more digestible (no pun intended), like fast food. But what about fast content? In the past few days I've seen dozens of stories from top tier publishers who have contributed their voice to the cause. While I'm all for support around an important conversation like this, I can't help but think that we need to apply a version of the "slow" and thoughtful approach to our content, marketing, and storytelling strategies. So I thought it would be pertinent to share some ideas on how we can instill a sense of awareness and care in our content moving forward.
That's the premise CONNECT(ED)ITROIAL was built on after-all, and when we're talking about world conversations like ethics in fashion, there needs to be some consideration in how we present the information. For brands and publishers, my question is this: Is it impactful enough to just report the information? Is that going to lead to any action or tangible change when it comes to addressing those who are more removed? Aside from reiterating the facts, are there ways we can come up with creative tactics to tell stories around the cause or get the masses thinking about it new ways? Based on my experience and recent events here are a few things I'm considering:
Devleop a point of view:
It really goes beyond just tapping an influencer or celebrity endorsements - though they certainly help! When it comes to aligning creative industries with cause-driven initiatives, there really needs to be careful attention to how we disperse content and who it goes to. From my own experiences on The Style Line I've learned that you get a sense of what your audience wants over time, and I think for us in the last year we've really sharpened our approach in how we deal with these kinds of issues. For instance, I've never wanted to make it my point of view - our brand is really community driven which opens up a dialogue and offers varied perspective. The most recent example of this was our story covering Zady's Future of Fashion Summit where we shadowed a fashion journalist and blogger who we believed offered a middle ground and explored relevant themes/the issues through her point of view.
Find your edge:
It's sometimes as simple as taking the time to think about what you want you to say, but more importantly show. This can be applicable at any point in time, but for a specific cause take the opportunity to do some research to see what articles, editorials or campaigns have been done around that particular initiative and see if you/your brand are able to build upon them. We all have our go-to resources for certain information - but ask yourself why that it is. What is that particular brand's edge? For The Style Line our edge is creating exclusive and original content with a premise for community, so keeping those two factors in mind gives us a solid framework to work off of for special projects or sensitive stories.
Fight or flight:
Depending on your brand and values, employing content with longevity really comes by asking yourself, "Do we need to up the numbers or can we take the time to create compelling content and grow a community?" Oftentimes it's both, but with the overly saturated market the latter really needs to be considered more than ever. I've always believed in letting the idea lead. Immersive editorial content won't be forgotten after quickly scrolling through an Instagram feed. And yes, it can be an investment in more ways than one, but when it comes to addressing the big picture and the big conversations that go with it, I'd say it's energy, time, and money well-spent.


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Buying A House Guide
Mason Bee House Plans: Making a bee home is a simple woodworking challenge that takes just a few minutes to build, and making a bee home is a great venture for using a couple of pieces of salvaged lumber and scrap wooden. I wish a lot that your life were easier and that you had a safe little apartment with the rent all paid the place you and your family may stay. The point is, nevertheless, that in those same areas there might be dearer homes in pleasant, leafy lanes, with large gardens, garages and out-buildings, that will nonetheless price only a fraction of what it costs to purchase a small terraced home right here within the south-east.
The First House is ruled by Aries, and is the personality that we show to the world, the face or façade, and the bodily appearance. Built as a vaudeville film home by C.W. and George Rapp of Chicago, this theatre has components inspired from the Palace of Versailles in addition to the central rotunda inspired by the Pantheon in Italy. There is a full listing of promote your individual house web site hyperlinks at the bottom of this web page – and a separate one that lists these which use Rightmove to promote your home.
House Party sends you a equipment with enough gadgets for 10-15 company and then you throw a party and have some fun. My recommendation to younger couples starting out is to not compromise in your dream to reside in the home and placement that would be the most conducive for your physical, emotional and non secular well being. Her daughters Ada, Laura, Constance and Leila purchased some land and the home and contined to spent most of their grownup lives at Como. I can't run energy from my home to my dam (the gap is simply too great) so I use a generator to run it – but because we stay off the grid, we intend to set up a photo voltaic option to power it inside the subsequent yr. The house was purchased by B.F. Gantt in 1889 and remained in the household till 1963.
Some damp problems, like rising damp (the structural dampness contained in the partitions that indicates a breach in structure of a building, leading to rain intrusion from exterior or condensation from within) will want skilled recommendation, but real rising damp is rare. The dwelling areas have been upstairs and the areas beneath the home was used for storage and a storage. I lease an old damp home & ive began using a dehumidifier over the past month & its making a big difference, sucking up over a pint a day. Maybe you don't like having a roommate, and certainly you never imagined you would be stuck with a ghost roommate that isn't even serving to pay the hire. Any one of many objects on this record is grounds for dismissal, and all are common behaviors that house cleaners exhibit often. The house was inbuilt 1860 by Dr. Thomas Pickens for his bride, Miss Sue Maxwell.
I even had one istance where I sold a Property myself, as a result of the Agent could not finalise (close) the Sale. My mom has an older home (we just retailer our junk there) & about 3-5 years in the past she had a steel roof placed on by the Amish for $2500. We're delighted with the ease of use the house gives and the truth that this and pretty much all other points of the design are working very well. My new bee house is mounted on the south-facing wall of our garden shed and is ready to host the next era of mason bees. Nene divorced her husband, real property investor Gregg Leakes, but if season 5 is any indicator there may be a reconciliation within the works.


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Hiking the Ukrainian countryside
"I'd rather be a forest than a street, yes, I would, if I only could I surely would…"
Paul Simon
When you feel like getting away from it all, you don't necessarily have to think in terms of going to exotic islands, deserted by people and by God, or of hitchhiking across Europe, to feel the gentle touch of life, to escape from the air-polluted drabness of the city streets, all you've got to do is get out of town, walk off the road and strike across the fields to meet the eternity.
Romko Malko takes a several-days trip through rural Ukraine to the places that remember Taras Shevchenko, a pivotal figure in Ukrainian culture.
As a rule the eternity turns out to be close at hand. Once, when I applied for and failed to get the Schengen Visa and with my plan to go to Amsterdam thus falling through, I crammed whatever I thought might be needed on a walking tour into my backpack, walked out into the street, got to the thoroughfare leading south, and hitched a ride. Three hours and several cigarettes later, with the trees by the side of the road, villages, lonely figures of people, gardens and fields, low and tall hills flicking by, and my ears plugged with tiny headphones, we got to the town of Bohuslav.
It was not my destination but the motorist who gave me the ride did not go any further, and I got out. According to tradition, it was there, in that small town, standing on the red granite, that a Ukrainian girl, named Marusya Bohuslavka was born in the times of old; the Tartars captured Marusya during a raid and sold her to the harem of a Turkish bigwig. She contrived to get the keys from the prison where a lot of the Zaporizhian Cossacks — prisoners of war — were kept and released them. The Cossacks captured a ship in the harbour and sailed across the sea back to Ukraine. The kobzars (kobzar is a bard who recites dumas — epic poems — and accompanies himself on the multi-string bandura — tr.) sang dumas about Marusya which have ever since been performed in Ukraine. In addition to being Marusya's birthplace, Bohuslav boasts a fine, fast-flowing river, Ros, which foams through the narrow rocky defile. The rapids there are believed to be similar to the ones that once used to grace the mighty Dnipro river. Local kids — the most daring of them that is — squeeze into barrels and drift down the river and through the rapids doing the local "extreme sport."
Walking through Bohuslav, I found it to be rather a picturesque place — granite rocks, little houses surrounded by orchards, an old church by a big market place. The market place — "bazaar" — merits a separate mention. Geese, horses, hens, chickens; basketfuls of fruits, onions, potatoes; bagfuls of flour, sugar and grain; wagon wheels, scythes, spades and shovels; old women wearing traditional headscarves, some of them several, one on top of the other; jars of milk, mounds of eggs and piles of cheese; bearded old men; Gypsies; young girls weaving their way through the motley crowd and among all these wares and stands; quiet calves and bleating goats; ancient trucks; peasant wagons with colourful women of different ages ensconced in them — all these animals and people make an amazing variety of sounds, all of them at the top of their human, or animal voices — bargaining, barking, calling out wares, shouting, screaming. The din was of so many decibels that I felt my hat would be blown off my head any moment. I don't think any supermarket in Kyiv, even the biggest ones, can hold a candle to the selection of foods and things offered at the Bohuslav open-air market. Among the more unlikely iems you can find there ancient musical instruments, old photographs, faded decorative towels of the kind you see in the museums, plus so much more, all offered for a song since nobody knows how much these curios and antiques can actually fetch.
I go on
A small bus, a survivor of the era long gone, took me to a village sitting among the hills, and disappeared in a cloud of dust. The village is Stebliv, located at the junction of Kyiv and Chernihiv Oblasts. I decided I'd walk rather than hitchhike to the place where Taras Shevchenko, a Ukrainian Dante, or a Ukrainian Byron, or, without seeking any comparisons, arguably the greatest of Ukrainian poets, was born slightly less than two centuries ago. I figured it was not too long a walk to the village of Moryntsi, lost among the hills, gardens and groves.
It was so quiet, no cars in sight; several kids, squatting by a huge puddle, sailed small paper and wooden boats across the rippled expanse of the water. I walked but a short time before a car overtook me. The driver offered a lift. I climbed in and told him I was on a sort of pilgrimage to the birthplace of Shevchenko and to other places connected with him. The driver was definitely pleased to hear that. He turned out to be the head of a collective farm, on his way home from the market. He invited me to spend some time at his place, offering to "unwind, go fishing, and just enjoy yourself." He related to me all the latest local news, boasted of the farm achievements, pointing to the fields and explaining which crops were being raised there. In fact, anybody who turns up there and announces their intention to experience "Shevchenko's world" will be treated in such a hospitable manner. Several useful pieces of advice will also be thrown in — also for free.
One of my uplifting discoveries was that the people living there were very friendly, generous, and not spoiled by civilization, as a popular phrase goes. You will not be allowed to go starving, that's for sure — knock on the door of any house and ask for directions, or for water "to quench thirst," strike a conversation and almost without fail you'll be invited to share a meal. You'll not only be fed — you'll be provided with food "for the road." Neither do you have to worry about where to spend the night. There are no hotels in that area, but you will be a welcome guest practically in any peasant house. You'll be provided with a bed, clean sheets, and you'll be treated to so many stories, true and tall, that you'll be seeing exciting dreams in Technicolour all night long.
Your two legs are probably the best means of transportation there; the locals also use bicycles and horse-drawn wagons. There is some bus service, but it would be a mistake to rely on a bus arriving or leaving on time. Nobody seems to be in a hurry to get anywhere — and there seems to be no reason at all to be in a hurry at all.
The scenery is strikingly familiar from the old pictures — the low, thatched houses with the walls prettified by white clay; tall poplars, fences woven from willow branches; ponds; rushes and reeds by the river; cows everywhere, not necessarily at the pasture; chickens scampering at your approach; dirt roads, soft dust and paths winding through the weeds — the time seems to have been standing still since Shevchenko lived there. Not quite, though — after a while you begin to notice modern houses, asphalted roads and streets, new stores and other signs that the world has entered the third millennia, but the general tenor of life does not appear to have changed much since God knows which time.
There's hardly anything special about the village where Shevchenko was born — there are dozens of villages of the same kind to be found in the general vicinity. Moryntsi is a small place, with no particular landmarks, serene and picturesque. May be a little more "cultured" than the rest — probably because tourists come to Moryntsi from time to time, and even high-ranking officials deign to pay occasional visits. The peasant house in which Shevchenko was born still stands, though it's more of a replica than an actual thing. There was a fire which did a lot of damage, but now everything has been restored. The house is, of course, a museum, with no one living there. There's another house, an exact replica of the original one, standing close by. Here are no houses in the village that have been preserved from Shevchenko's time. A garden has been planted on the slope of a nearby hill in the honour of the poet. I saw goats nibbling grass there. My attempt to get into Shevchenko's house failed but I struck a conversation with a woman who saw me hanging around and came up to say hello. She told me that the people who had the key are in the fields working. The failure to see the museum had its compensations though — the kind woman who talked to me treated me to some milk — freshly milked by the way — and delicious home-made bread, and to stories about the way things go at Moryntsi. I thanked her and wandered about; my wanderings attracted attention of another person who offered to be my guide.
I visited the local cemetery which was the burial ground for those who died in the Great Famine of 1932–1933. There I saw several old Cossack stone crosses overgrown with ivy, and a great many little mounds over the mass graves, with no names on them; each of the graves contained the remains of hundreds upon hundreds of people who will always remain anonymous, with one big wooden cross standing among all these unmarked graves. One for all of the victims. The few survivors and the locals in general are reluctant to talk about those terrible times. In fact, they do not want to talk about the Soviet times at all. What's there to tell, really?
When I spotted an old peasant riding in a horse-drawn wagon, I asked him where he was bound for. Budyshch, he said. It is another village connected with Shevchenko. In his young years he was a serf and was actually owned by a landowner, Enhelhard. Among the simple jobs he did was shepherding, and as the sheep grazed, young Shevchenko would sit on the grass, leaning against an oak and writing his verses. The oak is still standing, though its age begins to tell. The local people do what they can to prolong its life. Those boughs that become too heavy for the oak to carry and are in danger of breaking off, are provided with supports. Enhelhard's mansion has also been preserved in Budyshch, but it is dilapidating and is in a bad need of restoration.
The road meandered through the woods and then among lakes. When I spotted a place I liked and fit to spend the night at, I asked the old peasant to stop. As I thanked him for a ride, he gave me some of his home-grown fragrant tobacco. I pitched my tent by one of the lakes and got down to making kulish. Kulish is an old Cossack dish made of millet and pig fat. By modern health standards it has too much cholesterol in it but it's so delicious!
It felt so good to be sitting by that lake — spring in full bloom; what a bliss — no one around, no industrial or traffic noise; the woods, lakes, hills in the distance; periwinkles wink at me from the grass, frogs croak in friendly greeting, nightingales warble their love songs; the air is warm, the sky is mysterious, the fragrances emanating from the grass and leaves are wondeful; the murmur and smell of the water in the lake is soothing — a little paradise on earth…
It's an old name of the village which has been renamed Shevchenkovo. As you approach the village, wind mills greet you. No one has been grinding flour in them for a long time and their sails are turning idly in the wind. They are like ghosts from the past who can still make some creaking noise. It was probably one of such windmills that Don Quixote once attacked — but they say he lived much too long time ago and very far away from the village of Kyrylivka.
There is a statue by the road — a bronze Shevchenko looking after his sheep. The peasant houses and their gardens and front yards in Kyrylivka are kept in good order and some reveal signs of some affluence. Curious children and women look out from above the fences and are glad to give directions. There is quite a good museum in Kyrylivka with all kinds of antique things displayed — old icons, old pictures, old rushnyky (decorative towels), an old cradle, old books, an old loom and yarn, yellowed documents, but there are no exhibits that are directly connected to Shevchenko who was taken by his master to St Petersburg when Shevchenko was quite young. The museum gives you a good idea of what the village looked like at the time when Shevchenko lived there. The museum house is surrounded by a garden full of flowers. Right opposite the museum stands an old, tumbledown house, leaning to one side, with small, blind little windows, with a rotting thatch roof — it must be several centuries old. Nobody bothers either to pull it down or repair, and it's just standing there, a neglected reminder — of what? There is a house that actually dates to Shevchenko's time in Kyrylivka — it was a sort of school then and he attended some classes there. It is probably the only house in the village which is over 200 years old and which is protected against ruin by a special structure that covers it on all sides to prevent the inclemency of weather from doing further damage.
There was no sense really to hang out longer in Kyrylivka and I boarded a bus that so conveniently pulled up to the stop right at the time when I thought I should move on. Incidentally, the bus comes to the village only once a day.
It was in Kaniv that Shevchenko wanted to be buried. His body was brought over from St Petersburg by his friends. Shevchenko's grave is located on the top of a tall hill some distance away from the town of Kaniv. When I stood on that hill I could see very far around. It was a quiet day, with indistinct sounds coming from afar. To get to the grave you have to climb a great many steps which in summer attract a lot of vipers which crawl away with dignity as you approach. There are kobzars sitting by the grave who sing and play — for the tourists who come in droves. A big and really very good museum is situated close by.
At the foot of the hill there used to be a monastery in which aged Cossacks lived out the rest of their life. Legend has it that the monastery with its church and adjacent graveyard one day sank into the ground and disappeared without trace.
Kaniv is a regional centre of Cherkasy Oblast. It stands on high hills facing the Dnipro River. Many tourists come from Kyiv in summer by boats. In fact, Kaniv attracts people of Ukrainian descent from many parts of the world — they make their pilgrimage to Shevchenko's grave. A great many Ukrainians want to come to Kaniv at least once in a lifetime to pay homage to the person whom they regard as the Prophet of the Ukrainian Nation.
In the small town itself you can always buy fresh fish, old-style embroidered shirts (and really antique ones too) and all kinds of souvenirs. The town boasts a big old church and nice sand beaches. Close to the town is situated a huge artificial lake which came into being thanks to a dam that was built across the Dnipro.
I spent the night in a pine forest close to the river bank. In the morning, I took a swim and then took pictures of beavers that were grooming themselves in the warm rays of the morning sun. I slowly walked along a road which I hoped would take me to the wharf. The small waves of the "Kaniv Sea" were lapping against the concrete waterfront, the sun was getting hotter by the minute, the crickets were chirping increasingly louder, and my pace kept slowing down. I could hardly move my legs. And then a small bus pulled up and a pretty, cheerful, dark-haired girl looked out of the window and offered a lift. I climbed in. There were several other girls in the bus, all wearing white overalls. They turned out to be quality inspectors checking the milk the local farmers sell to the dairy factory. As I settled down, the girls began to sing Ukrainian songs — evidently, not for my benefit, but just because they were in a mood for it. I thought to myself — You'd never experience a thing like this in Kyiv! It felt so good to be riding in that ancient bus, listening to the white-clad girls sing.
Later, I boarded a hydrofoil which would take me back to Kyiv. I stood at the stern, looking into the wake that was being left behind the boat moving at a great speed; a girl and a young man were standing at the railing and kissing, oblivious of everything around them; a boom box was playing music that was almost completely drowned by the noise of the engine and churning water; the sun was setting and the golden domes of the Lavra Monastery high on one of the hills of Kyiv, sparkled invitingly from afar…
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Is your lifestyle causing your acne? Certainly not. But the way you live affects your whole body, including its largest organ: the skin. The place you work, the hours you keep, the ways you play all of these can take a toll on the epidermis, especially in those who are prone to acne. Following are a few everyday acne triggers you might not be aware of, and a few things you can do to avoid them.
Comedones on the job. Since some part of your skin is always in contact with your environment, its important to pay attention to the substances with which you come into contact on a regular basis. You may be exposing yourself to comedogenic (pore-clogging) substances on the job without even knowing it; while these substances are not the cause of your acne, they can aggravate it. For example: the airborne grease in a fast-food restaurant can create an invisible film on your skin, clogging your pores. Most industrial oils the kinds used in cars, in factories, on bicycles are comedogenic as well.
Acne & Sleep - Sleep and your skin. The simplest good deed you can do for your skin may surprise you: sleep! Scientists and mothers around the world agree that a good nights sleep at least eight hours can do wonders for your complexion. How? A healthy, well-rested body has the resources to build a strong immune system. While a robust immune system wont prevent acne altogether, it can help fight infection so your lesions clear up more quickly. Luckily, your body isnt picky; uninterrupted sleep in the daytime is just as beneficial. So if you work late, sleep late and try to maintain a regular schedule.
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Acne & Stress - The stress connection. Not surprisingly, stress often has a starring role in the ongoing acne drama. Ninety percent of my patients complain about what stress does to their skin. It has a huge impact, and its becoming a bigger problem every day, says Katie Rodan, MD, a clinical professor of dermatology at Stanford University.
How can stress emotional anxiety caused by any number of factors in your life show up on your face? The connection is purely chemical. When you become tense, your adrenal glands go work, flooding your bloodstream with the hormone cortisol. This triggers the sweat glands in your face to produce more oil. When your sebaceous glands go into high gear, theres a higher probability that this excess oil will mix with dead skin cells and clog your pores, trapping bacteria inside. The result? More acne, primarily inflamed papules rather than blackheads or whiteheads.
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A breezy day at the onset and, finally, some fine weather too!!
A busy day calling at Scottish Natural Heritage, RSPB and elsewhere to talk about forthcoming surveys, goose counting and much else. Any birding was whilst being mobile in many senses! A decision to delay the Grey lag Goose count, so ( hopefully ) some more of the barley harvest could be retrieved , paid off with work in full swing . This will mean more geese are out on the stubbles and much easier to count!
By evening Outer Loch Indaal was quite calm but little had changed. Razorbill groups, a feature of the late "summer", a few Shag, and 15+ Arctic Tern were the only birds of note. Earlier a group of 13 Mistle Thrush was the first seen . The tide in the Inner Loch was quite high forcing waders off elsewhere, although a few Curlew perched stoically on odd wave washed rocks!
Details have emerged, relating to the Tree Sparrows, which possibly makes the breeding on the Oa reserve this summer even more significant. Malcolm Ogilvie had kindly extracted and summarized records held by the Islay Natural History Trust and had added further comment that suggests it may be forty years since the species bred. Indeed some doubt is held over the fact of whether they actually ever bred in the past. Occurences were often during the breeding season but there appears to be no firm evidence of actual breeding, certainly in recent decades as suggested in other sources. So, 2009 might well be the begining of something quite positive!!