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Perrysburg Roofing: Article About Proper Shingle Care
This informal roofing term refers to shingles with a curl or bulge to their edges. Fish mouthing occurs with severe high winds and exacerbated by aging. Roofers must replace these shingles to prevent further moisture damage into the structure below.
Perrysburg roofers answer a FAQ: Can shingles last longer than their designated 20 or 30 years?Roofing manufacturers constantly work to improve their products, making three decades a long time for one material to last. If contractors are consistently inspecting and repairing a rooftop over the years, it's possible for shingles to last slightly longer than their advertised lifespan. However, homeowners shouldn't postpone a new roof installation because well kept materials can still fail.
If homeowners compare new shingle installations and aging rooftops, the difference is often astounding with fading, fish mouthing and dislodged materials visible from ground level. Shingle care is crucial for new installations to avoid accelerated weathering over the years. Ideally, shingles should last between 20 and 30 years. When Perrysburg roofing professionals contract services with a household, residents should understand their role in roof care.
There's never a solid reason to walk on the roof unless the person is a professional. Keep everyone off the roof, even if damage is suspected after a storm. Make two yearly professional visits a goal for the household instead. These roofers should walk on the shingles to ascertain any weathering problems. They can patch and replace materials as necessary to keep roof costs low over the years, for example. Contact professionals for any concerns even when it's not a scheduled preventive maintenance appointment. Damage shouldn't be postponed for months. Neglected roofs only worsen with time.
A critical way to preserve the roof on the homeowner's part is insulating the attic. The attic's temperature directly affects the roof's longevity. An attic that remains at a steady temperature with good ventilation year round allows the roof to do the same. A well insulated attic doesn't get too hot or cold, reducing stress on roofing materials significantly.
The roofers from Johnson Roofing of Perrysburg would be happy to answer any questions you have about roof repair or siding.
An insulated attic also benefits the interior with steady temperatures, so this addition is smart for the entire structure.
The exterior of a home should also be considered when determining roof longevity. Homeowners are normally proud of their landscape, especially when it includes large trees. Keep these trees pruned to reduce any debris falling on the roof. This debris can damage shingles and clog gutters simultaneously. Homeowners reduce their roof repair costs significantly when debris simply falls to the ground.
If homeowners are thinking about adding a skylight or other roof penetration, it's critical to hire reputable contractors for the work. Penetrations are literal holes in the roof, requiring experts to seal the edges for leak free construction. Novice installations can be fraught with leaks, damaging the structure. Contractors remove roofing materials and add extensive flashing around the penetration to control water flow. Follow up appointments to check for any leaks are also suggested after the penetration settles into its position.
For the best rooftop care, sign a contract with a trusted company. Contractors work diligently with residents to preserve the roof and property value over the years.


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House For Sale 65 Gundesen Drive Urraween this property has sold
65 Gundesen Drive Urraween, Qld
House Buy – $390,000
This inner suburban family oasis is private, solid and secure. Immaculate and beautifully presented in the highly sought after location of Urraween where you will enjoy the relaxed and calming atmosphere while being only minutes away from the Hervey Bay medical precinct, hospitals and CBD.
Over an intuitive and creative floor plan, enjoy the fusion of classic lines with modern finishes that really create something special there is definitely more than meets the eye with this home. One of the biggest Kitchens are on offer with nice cabinetry, a entertainer's wish, flowing from the kitchen is the massive living and dining area that is open planned and spacious by the use of glass sliding doors to the alfresco patio overlooking the sparkling pool.
This is the perfect house for entertaining and for modern family living the access to the reserve at rear and fabulous outdoor entertaining area perfect for those family BBQ's. There is an abundance of space to entertain with family and friends a real treat while you enjoy Hervey Bay's year round temperate climate.
– Elevated 851m2 allotment with nature reserve at rear
– Custom built brick & tile home completed in 2003
– 4 Bedrooms with built-in wardrobes & ceiling fans – 2 with A/C
– Main bedroom includes ensuite and air conditioning
– Main bathroom & separate toilet
– Central entertainers style kitchen with pantry
– Open plan dining and living area
– Lounge / media room
– Alfresco patio overlooking sparkling above ground pool
– Double garage with internal access
– Large single bay shed with power, workshop/craft room
The owners have already committed to another property and are calling for an immediate sale !
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Meet the Characters: The Engagement Arrangement
June 2, 2021
What do you do when you catch feelings for your fake fiancé?
Meet never-gonna-get-married-again Brenna Bellini, Irish cowboy Finn Nolan and others in this just posted character guide for The Engagement Arrangement, book 2 in Jaci's Boots and Bouquets series, due out on June 29.
Get ready for June! Read the excerpt where Finn and Brenna inwardly admit their attraction to one another, then pre-order your copy in your favorite format—digital, print or audio.
Is Jaci's new Boots and Bouquets series new to you? Check out the prequel, The Matchmaker's Mistletoe Mission, and book 1, The Best Man Plan.


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Blessed Lord God, we pray for the Honourable Terry Lake that he will be guided by You in this new year. We ask that You would grant him wisdom in decision making as he goes forward as Minister of Health. We thank You Lord for the continued commitment of Minister Lake as he endeavors to make a difference in our province. Make his time with his family extra special. In Jesus' name, we ask these things. Amen.
Terry Lake was re-elected as MLA for Kamloops-North Thompson on May 14, 2013. He was appointed Minister of Health on June 10, 2013.
Terry currently chairs the Cabinet Committee on Secure Tomorrow, serves as vice-chair of the Treasury Board, and is a member of the Cabinet Working Group on Core Review.
Previously, he served as Minister of Environment. He also enjoyed stints as Parliamentary Secretary for Health Promotion to the Minister of Health Services, and Parliamentary Secretary for the Ranching Task Force to the Minister of Agriculture and Lands.
Terry has also served on the Select Standing Committees for Aboriginal Affairs, Health, and Legislative Initiatives. He was also a member of the Early Childhood Education Innovations Committee.
Terry was the Mayor of Kamloops from 2005-2008, and a city councillor from 2002-2005. He is a former Vice-President of the Union of BC Municipalities, and a former member of the BC Transit Board of Directors.
He is a former President of the Coquitlam Rotary Club as well as the Kamloops Recreational Soccer League. One of his most rewarding experiences was travelling to Tangalle, Sri Lanka in 2008 to assist with tsunami relief.
A veterinarian by profession, Terry is a recipient of the BC Veterinary Medical Association Award of Merit for Service and is a former Vice-President of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association.
Terry and his wife Lisa have three daughters, a dog and a cat.


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Phytoplankton data for Danish marine monitoring (ODAM) from 1988 - 2016
Danish Centre for Environment and Energy (2019). Phytoplankton data for Danish marine monitoring (ODAM) from 1988 - 2016. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/5664
Rytter, David
Availability: This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Data is an assembly of plankton monitoring stations situated between 54° and 58° North along the Danish coasts and in estuaries. There are multiple phytoplankton stations and 15 of them are maintained by 2016, although the data set also contains data of several discontinued stations. Each phytoplankton station is visited 1 to 4 times per month over a period of 25 years for some of the stations (two times per month is the norm). Samples are analyzed to estimate phytoplankton composition and abundance. The cell volume is determined for a sub group of cell of each species encountered, thus estimating a cell volume that is applied to the entire sample
Biology > Plankton > Phytoplankton
Marine/Coastal, Brackish water, Time series, ANE, Belt Sea, ANE, Danish Exclusive Economic Zone, ANE, Kattegat, ANE, North Sea, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Chlorophyta, Chromista, Cryptophyta, Cyanophyceae, Dinoflagellata, Euglenoidea, Hexanauplia, Ochrophyta, Polychaeta, Zoomastigophora
Geographical coverage
ANE, Belt Sea [Marine Regions]
ANE, Danish Exclusive Economic Zone [Marine Regions]
ANE, Kattegat [Marine Regions]
ANE, North Sea [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 8,2243; MinLat: 54,6175 - MaxLong: 15,987; MaxLat: 57,6078 [WGS84]
Coordinates: MinLong: 8,2243; MinLat: 54,6175 - MaxLong: 15,987; MaxLat: 57,6078 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
1988 - 2016
Taxonomic coverage
Occurrence of biota
University of Aarhus; Danish Centre For Environment And Energy (DCE), data creator
Rytter, David
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
ODAM: Danish national database for marine data
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
Presence/Absence maps of phytoplankton in the Greater Baltic Sea
Previous version:
MADS - Marine phytoplankton
Based on this dataset
Lyngsgaard, M.M. et al. (2017). How well does chlorophyll explain the seasonal variation in phytoplankton activity? Est. Coast. 40(5): 1263-1275. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12237-017-0215-4
Jakobsen, H.H.; Markager, S. (2016). Carbon-to-chlorophyll ratio for phytoplankton in temperate coastal waters: Seasonal patterns and relationship to nutrients. Limnol. Oceanogr. 61(5): 1853-1868. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.10338
Jakobsen, H.H. et al. (2015). Estimating time series phytoplankton carbon biomass: Inter-lab comparison of species identification and comparison of volume-to-carbon scaling ratios. Est., Coast. and Shelf Sci. 162: 143-150. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2015.05.006
Henriksen, P. (2009). Long-term changes in phytoplankton in the Kattegat, the Belt Sea, the Sound and the western Baltic Sea. J. Sea Res. 61(1-2): 114-123. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2008.10.003
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2017-06-26
Information last updated: 2022-08-01


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I've noticed a very dangerous trend on network and cable TV news. Have you noticed that does the Beltway media never puts on an economist who disagrees with their deficit fetish? Do economists have to fill out a form that declares what side of the deficit debate they are on before they get invited to discuss the subject? The only time we get meaningful pushback against the deficit scolds is by Paul Krugman --and he's just one person. And to MSNBC, why does Fix The Debt shill Ed Rendell get much more air time than any economist when it comes to issues regarding America's economy?
I want answers and I want them now.
Bloggers like myself, Digby and Duncan (just to name a few) constantly write about this topic. That's how terms like "deficit scolds" came to be. The Beltway has always been infected by a swamp fever meme disease on any given political meme. Recently the fever came out over the fiscal cliff and under Bush, it was the Iraq War. Greg Sargent calls it the Beltway Deficit Feedback Loop. You can fill replace the second word of this title with any other topic and it will fit nicely into the equation.
That's true, but it's worth reflecting onwhy Scarborough believes Krugman's views are so marginal and isolated. It gets back to what I've called the "Beltway Deficit Feedback Loop." The relentless bipartisan focus on the deficit convinces voters to be worried about it, which in turn leads lawmakers to spend still more time talking about it and less time talking about the economy, a phenomenon that is self-reinforcing.
This is exacerbated by some commentators and news orgs, who continue to treat the deficit scolds with a great deal of deference, while marginalizing the opinion that we should prioritize boosting the economy and job creation as a means of getting the country's fiscal problems under control over time without savage spending cuts that will hurt a lot of people. Back in 2011one study actually confirmed that newspapers were spending far more time talking about the deficit than the economy — at a time when the recovery was in serious peril.
The Morning Joe crew's reaction to Krugman perfectly captures this phenomenon. They treated him as a pariah. According to Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski compared Krugman's "head in the sand" approach to that of climate deniers. You can almost picture Krugman sent on a lonely march through the Village square, head hanging in shame, with "DD" — Deficit Denier — printed on his back in big scarlet letters
I imagine Joe Scarborough actually believes that there are no real economists in the Western world world who would side with Krugman:
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman came on "Morning Joe" Monday to discuss his latest book and the state of affairs in Washington. Mr. Krugman's view is that Americans would be better off if its government ran deeper deficits and ignored its longterm debt. That, of course, runs counter to conventional wisdom across the Western world, which is exactly why the New York Times columnist believes Spain and Great Britain are suffering through endless recessions.
See, Paul is against the world, dammit! The very good Joe Weisenthal quickly lists at least eleven people, almost all are actual economists who would agree with Paul over the deficit scolds and lists them for Joe to see.
But actually there are plenty of economists and economically-literate minds who think that, to varying degrees, the deficit is not what we should be worrying about.
For Joe Scarborough's sake, here's a list of people. With each we've linked to comments they've made about their (lack of) worry about the deficit.
- Goldman chief economist Jan Hatzius
- Nomura economist Richard Koo
- Brad Delong
- Alan Blinder
- Martin Wolf
- Larry Summers
- James Galbraith
- Robert Reich
- Bruce Bartlett
- John Makin (a conservative AEI scholar with a new paper out today on the danger of overhyping deficit fears!)
- Rep. Jerry Nadler (not an economist, but as knowledgeable on economics as anyone up on Scarborough's list).
When will the Beltway media learn from past mistakes?
How much blood and treasure did the Iraq war cause America?
How much more blood and treasure will be squeezed out of the skins of every working class family if we don't get a true perspective on the economy of America?
Media bookers, please start contacting the names you see here or my friend Dean Baker, who just wrote this for the Guardian:
The UK's looming triple-dip recession should be austerity's death knell, but in the fevered brains of Washington analysts it lives on...read on
See? Not every single economist believes what Joe Scarborough believes.


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The police on Saturday arrested four women for suspected involvement in vice-related activities at a shop which offered facial services as a front.
The four, aged 27 to 33, were nabbed during a raid at the shop along Upper Serangoon Road. Transaction records and cash amounting to $1455 were also seized.
The shop's male owner was arrested as well. Another man was also arrested for possessing obscene material.
Preliminary investigations showed that illicit activities, which potential customers could book, were advertised in newspapers and online forums. Investigations are ongoing.
Anyone found guilty of knowingly living on the earnings made from another person's prostitution can be fined up to $10,000, jailed for up to five years, or both.
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The Peacock Pop Up Shop
We are delighted to present The Peacock Pop Up Shop. Open from 12 to 5pm – Thursday to Saturday – every week. Our new pop up space offers a huge range of limited edition prints all produced in our print studio. Alongside original prints we also have a wide selection of publications and postcards. We stock original prints by Frances Walker, Barbara Rae, John Byrne, Tom Huck, Claire Roberts, Kenny Hunter, Ralph Steadman plus many, many more. All sales are reinvested to continue making and showing art here in Aberdeen. Your continued support directly supports the arts. Everyone is welcome and we look forward to welcoming you.
As you will expect there are several terms of use and we ask all visitors and users to respect and adhere to the following:
• Numbers are strictly controlled with a maximum of 5 people in the shop at one time. Everyone in the building is expected to adhere to a strict 2 metre distance from others at all times.
• Facemasks are to be worn at all times when inside the building in accordance with Scottish Government guidelines. We expect customers to arrive with their own masks but we can provide from our limited stock if necessary.
• All visitors and users are asked to sanitise their hands on entry and to frequently wash their hands whilst in the premises. Sanitiser dispensers and handwash facilities are provided in the building.


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Warm weather means more motorcycle traffic out on the roads, and increased risk of motorcycle accidents.
Before heading out, motorcyclists need to understand the changes to Michigan's no-fault system and how these changes apply to them.
Attorney Tom Sinas explains what motorcyclists need to know in this segment of Know the Law.


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Large stained glass window made with colored glass slabs whose luminous depth is incomparable. The thickness of each slab varies from 3/4 to 1 inch. Each one is cut with a water saw and carefully adjusted with a sandblaster, according to a pre-established template. The next step is to break the contours of each glass slab with a hammer. This process is essential to give a spectacular effect in front of the light. A cement holds the whole solidly in place and gives an antique look to the whole. A sturdy steel structure was made by Robert Biron using Tig (argon) welding. We chose not to treat the steel structure. This will allow the rust to blend well with the warm colors of the glass slabs.
The technique of stained glass in slabs of glass was developed by the mosaic artist Jean Gaulin and the glassmaker Jules Albernati in 1929 and patented in 1933. The link is almost natural between the stained glass and the glass slab. Several famous artists have explored this technique including Fernand Léger and Marc Chagal.
The work can be installed outside. It will resist to bad weather as well as to frost. The steel structure will rust over time.
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McLaren in fantastic financial shape, Brown assures
McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown made it clear that the Formula 1 team is doing great, both financially and in terms of on-track success.
The onset of the global pandemic in early 2020 hit the wider McLaren Group hard, which announced a layoff of 25% of its workforce, while reports surfaced that the company were looking for loans to provide a cash injection, ultimately securing £150m from the National Bank of Bahrain.
A minority stake in McLaren's F1 team was also sold to US consortium MSP Sport Capital in a deal worth £185m.
In the following year the McLaren Technology Centre base was sold to Global Net Lease for £170million, with the facility then leased back to McLaren, while in the summer of that year Brown stated that £550m-worth of new investment had been secured.
That reportedly came mostly from a deal with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund [PIF], along with contributions from McLaren Group's majority owner Mumtalakat, and other investors.
Brown assured though that McLaren are now very much on a stable footing financially, with the F1 team benefiting greatly from its partnership with MSP, a collaboration that is now just over a year into existence.
As quoted by Motorsport-Total.com, he said: "We are in great financial shape.
"Our sales are growing rapidly. I think we have announced more commercial partners than any other Formula 1 team.
"MSP has given us the financial resources we need to become profitable.
"They were a very stabilising factor within the racing team both fiscally and emotionally. They are great partners. They are sports investors and want to win. They understand the sport because Formula 1 is a unique business. So we couldn't be happier after a year."
McLaren's on-track success has also played a huge part in boosting morale within the F1 team said Brown.
In 2020 the team secured P3 in the Constructors' Championship, and despite slipping a place in 2021, they returned to the top step of the podium as Daniel Ricciardo claimed victory at Monza, with Lando Norris making it a one-two for the team.
That was the first McLaren one-two in Formula 1 since Canada 2010.
"With the results on and off the track and the investment, the morale in the team has never been better," Brown stated.
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Brown reveals finance boost for McLaren
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On January 31, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn celebrated the success of Pennsylvania's Conservation Landscapes Program by releasing a new report on how this partnership-building approach is critical for meeting regional environmental challenges and economic challenges
The report– 2019 Pennsylvania Conservation Landscapes – Models for Successful Collaboration— shares the results of a recent evaluation and highlights individual landscape efforts and the best practices they are using to achieve conservation and revitalization goals. "We believe that the landscape-scale approach, now more than 15 years in practice, is well positioned to help Pennsylvania tackle the most challenging problems such as watershed protection, and our changing climate and its impacts on infrastructure, wildlife, and health," Dunn said at the annual meeting of the South Mountain Partnership at Liberty Mountain, Fairfield. "As we strive to accelerate the pace and scale of conservation efforts, a good understanding of what makes landscape efforts successful is critical," added Dunn.
"The South Mountain Partnership invests in building the capacity of its partners, and uses a collaborative approach to tackle large projects," said external lead Katie Hess of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. "That's led to significant wins for the landscape including the conservation of 850-acres of valuable forested land on South Mountain, the rebirth of the Craighead House as a cultural and educational asset, and a current focus on clean water efforts for local communities and the Chesapeake Bay."
The report provides an overview of key best practices in the Conservation Landscapes include: using partnerships to make large, complex projects a reality; investing in public lands and facilities to drive economic development in communities; cross-promotion of regional tourism assets; strategic land conservation to address water quality and climate change; and offering mini-grant programs to support small projects.
It also makes some recommendations to strengthen the program and position it to tackle landscape-scale conservation challenges.
Pennsylvania's Conservation Landscapes include: Laurel Highlands; Lehigh Valley Greenways; Pennsylvania Wilds; Pocono Forest and Waters; Schuylkill Highlands; South Mountain; Susquehanna Riverlands, and Kittatinny Ridge.
NATURE NUGGET: Pennsylvania has 6 major watersheds: the Ohio, the Genesee, the Susquehanna, the Delaware, the Erie, and the Potomac. Click on this fun link that features a map where you can learn more about your local landscape especially waterways and such! https://mapmaker2.millersville.edu/pamaps/Watersheds/ PS BTW, be sure to click on the gray shaded links peppering this posting. Fun!
"Porcupine Pat" McKinney is environmental education coordinator for the Schuylkill Conservation District and provides programming for people of all ages with an emphasis on schools, public programming and nature center development. "Porcupine Pat" hails from Marion, Ohio and has a BS with Distinction in Natural Resources – Environmental Interpretation from Ohio State. He is a recipient of the prestigious Sandy Cochran Award for Excellence in Natural Resources Education from the PA Forestry Association, the Schuylkill Pride Award, and the PAEE "Outstanding Environmental Educator Award."


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One of my favorite things is listening to people's stories. Not the ones we tell of funny things that happened, or impressive feats, or jokes at the expense of others -- not the ones that perform status or put on a show or somehow manipulate the levers of the social beast. But stories that are told in hushed tones, with long pauses and incoherent words; stories where voices drop, grow hoarse, and break. The ones told late at night, in empty rooms, or rooms that might as well be empty because the rest of the world has melted away until it's just the storyteller and the people that they trust to hold their space around the rim of a small, golden cup.
And it seems to me that wine -- a deep, red, tannic wine, perhaps shiraz -- is pouring out into that cup, and as the story deepens it comes shimmering up towards the rim. You hold it carefully, your side of that edge of that cup. You know you can't let go. They keep pouring their story in; sometimes it gushes, sometimes it trickles, sometimes it bleeds from them in visible pain -- sometimes it tumbles in a sparkling joy, but it's of a rich substance, and it's... their life, that you're helping to cradle, in your hands that breathe steadily to keep from trembling as the story sparkles like warm spiced liquid rubies.
It is rare, this privilege of sharing. And I treasure it, the privilege of listening. Sometimes the cup stays small, but sometimes -- on even rarer occasions -- wine will fill and curl up to the rim, and you continue holding that gold cup there on the other side, and then you feel the metal warm your fingers. And as the storyteller keeps telling their story, and you listen -- hold the edge with listening, with rapt attention and compassion, not trying to shake or fix or analyze the contents, but simply to witness -- they keep pouring, and the cup deepens, fills out into your hands; becomes too large to be a cup, becomes a bowl -- and the bowl grows, and grows, and it becomes a depth -- a massive chalice, and you peer inside and look at their reflection on the surface, marvelling.
And when you cradle it alongside multiple people -- which is rarer still -- you become aware of their breathing and their care and tenderness as well, and the shared strength and just... the privilege of holding up the rim of that great cup alongside them, right now, inside this moment, with the story of this one person pouring into it.
So they pour, and they pour, and you watch, and you wait, and you're present. Profoundly present. Not caretaking, not problem-solving, not fixing anything, just being there in witness.
And when they are done, you look at the full bowl trembling there between your fingers, vibrating with life -- and he or she who told the story gazes, and sometimes they can gaze a long, long time -- and then they start to lift, and you can feel the lift from the thin metal at your fingers, and your hands rise forth and help them lift as well.
And they drink. They drink their cup, they drink their wine, they drink the life that they have poured out in the space between you, in the sanctuary you've created with your careful breaths and trembling hands and poised and patient presence. That's why you've held; they need to pour it out, so they can drink -- because there was something inside them, and they're thirsty, but maybe they didn't realize it -- or maybe they didn't realize how deep it went -- that well within them, or that thirst.
They finish -- sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. Some cups are quaffed; some cups are bitter and need to be drank in sips, pauses, great gulps -- sometimes you need to speak softly to them, remind them: slowly. You can take your time. We will stay here.
You can't drink for them, and you shouldn't; it's their wine. You can't eyedropper out a sample and run it through spectral analyzers, figuring the content -- that's not what it's for. It's not for product or for profit or for parceling out into watered-down sippy cups for others who weren't there, so they can give you status for holding that edge, hurrah for you. The cup belongs to the person who has poured out the story. You are privileged to even be there, to even be allowed to hold a living portion of their life between your hands. It is a sacred trust.
It's not "data." It's not "for research." Sometimes it can be -- I'm a narrative researcher, and this great love of stories is probably why -- but I am very careful to put on that role with great deliberation, and I usually don't walk around the world that way. On the rare times I do put on that hat, it's something the narrator and I have discussed, and we know it's a cup of stories are going to be shared, and oftentimes because of that they do not run nearly as deep, or taste nearly as rich. A $7 bottle of convenience store zinfandel. And I am bothered by -- furious at -- researchers and counselors and listeners who do not know how to hold cups, who do not respect that wine, who call a tiny cup a huge bowl because they have never seen one bigger -- they can't steady their hands, the liquid can't reach the rim, they slosh -- who try to drink from wine that isn't theirs.
It's one of the best things I know, watching people pour our their stories in that hushed and sacred space. Watching them drink. And they drink, and... it's done. That was the cup. A story was poured out, and then it was poured in, and there: the world goes on.


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My youngest dances classical ballet and I'm going with her to her first ballet competition. She's very excited and I wouldn't miss this time with her for anything. And grateful I can share this with her.
The problem is we don't return until late Sunday night, so I miss Mother's Day with my other daughter. I just wish those folks who scheduled this stuff took into consideration that those of us who are mothers would have liked not having to make the choice. But hopefully I'll be home in time to kiss my other child good night.


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Layered Y Necklace Rose Gold
Double trouble. This station necklace features two Y shaped chains with delicate stations of round cut stones.
- 3 carat equivalent Cubic Zirconia
- Double layer Y necklace
- Shorter chain: 15.5" long
- Longer chain: 21" long
- Drop: 6.5"
- 2" extender
- Lobster clasp
- Features stations of round cut stones in a bezel setting
- Set in Rose Gold plated brass.


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Adding Architectural Interest to the Interior of Your Northern Virginia Home with Molding
Paint is always a great way to transform a room, but sometimes you want a little more than a fresh color to make your home feel new and exciting. If you're looking to update your Northern Virginia home in a way that adds beauty, dimensional interest, and increases its resale value, installing decorative molding is the perfect solution.
The Right Decorative Molding for Your Home
One of the most important considerations to make when selecting molding is making sure it fits the style of your home. For example, elaborate crown molding might look out of place in a contemporary rancher. That is not to say you can't have crown molding installed in a more contemporary style home, but you will want to be careful to choose something that fits the more restrained architecture.
Thankfully, molding is a varied as styles of homes, and with nearly endless options of molding combinations and ways to install, there are plenty of great options for your home.
Chair Rails
Most often seen in dining rooms, chair rails are as functional an addition to your walls as they are beautiful. Installed at the proper height they will save your walls from dents and scuffs when chairs are pushed back after a meal. Chair rails also create a great opportunity to use multiple paint colors on your walls or experiment with painting your trim a color other than white.
Wainscoting involves a combination of layered panels and molding to create some truly breathtaking architectural detail. You may think of wainscoting as being installed strictly in traditional homes due to some of the more elaborate possibilities, but it is actually highly adaptable. By leaving out extra molding or paneling for a pared down design it can look at home in cottages, country homes, or even contemporary living spaces. Of course, if you do live in a traditional or historic home, feel free to use wainscoting to add incredible drama and interest to any room of your house.
Crown Molding
Crown molding is an incredibly popular molding choice as it works in so many different styles of homes and creates an attractive transition from a room's walls to the ceiling. Just like with wainscoting, you'll want to be careful to match the intricacy of your crown molding with the architectural style of your home. But you will also need to consider the height of your ceilings when selecting crown molding as anything too large will look out of place.
Picture Frame Paneling
Whether you add this picture frame paneling to a single wall to flank a focal point like a fireplace as was done in the home above or install it in a repeating pattern over every wall in a room, this type of decorative molding adds instant elegance to a space. You can paint the molding to match the wall color for a subdued effect or highlight it by painting it a different color from the wall. Of course, picture frame paneling isn't only for the walls. Installed on the ceiling it can draw the eye up to highlight soaring ceilings or frame a beautiful light fixture.
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Dr Luca M. Ghiringhelli leads the group "Big-Data analytics for Materials Science" in the Novel Materials Discovery (NOMAD) Laboratory at Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, in Berlin. Formerly, he has led the group "Ab initio statistical mechanics of cluster catalysis and corrosion" in the theory group at the same institute. His background is in computational statistical mechanics and electronic structure methods, applied to the evaluation of thermodynamic and kinetic properties of bulk materials, surfaces, and nano-clusters. Within the NOMAD Lab, he leads the development and application of methods based on compressed sensing, symbolic regression, subgroup discovery, and deep learning to the modelling of big data in materials science. His focus is on methods that yield interpretable models and can cope with "small data" for training. He also co-led the development of the hierarchical and extensible metadata infrastructure for the NOMAD Lab. Since January 2018, he is co-leading the Psi-k working group on "High-throughput screening and data analytics".
Ontologies in Computational Materials Science: The NOMAD experience
With the tremendous increase in the amount of data in materials science, new ways to store and annotate data are necessary to fulfill the FAIR principles – and to do efficient, good, and new science. Consequently, ontologies have been of increased interest as they do not only allow storing and annotating but also semantically linking data even across domains. The Novel-Materials Discovery (NOMAD) Repository is the largest database in materials science and provides
a normalized, source-independent form of these data in the NOMAD Archive using the NOMAD Metainfo [L. M. Ghiringhelli et al., npj Comput. Mater. 3, 46 (2017)] as metadata schema. The NOMAD Metainfo includes a number of relations between concepts and therefore already goes beyond the simple metadata concept. We have converted it to an ontology and extended it to increase semantics based on the European Materials and Modeling Ontology (EMMO).
Furthermore, within the NOMAD ecosystem, we have created an ontology collection covering materials structures and properties in a more general semantic way. We demonstrate how this may enable connecting multiple sources of knowledge and allow for semantic searches.


text: Anna grew up around central Austin and can often be found hiking the Bull Creek Green belt with her beloved pup, Maya. After graduating with her bachelors in Human Resource Management, She happily stumbled upon her true love of caring for animals when she started working at a local doggy day care. Now working as a vet tech, she is excited to expand her knowledge and nurture her passion by working with the amazing animals and staff at the ATX Animal Clinic.


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I'm a new foster mom to fur babies in Birmingham—and you can be, too!
Hospitality is a cultural cornerstone in Alabama. However, that doesn't have to just mean human houseguests! Our furry friends need homes to welcome them in, too. I became a foster parent to some of our fluffier Birmingham citizens—here's why you should do it, too.
The How
There are several organizations you can foster through in the Birmingham area. I volunteer and foster through the Greater Birmingham Humane Society (GBHS). Being new to the state and new to "adulthood," it's been so fun to have precious little fur babies running around my apartment!
All sorts of animals need foster homes—puppies, kittens, dogs, cats, full litters, etc. Foster parents can spend anywhere from less than a week to a few months with their fur babies.
Even though each foster situation is unique, the goal is the same: to provide animals with the best care possible while they get ready for their furever homes!
Donating your time and space in your home is no small commitment, so that's all that is required. All you need is a small space and a lot of love—everything else is supplied!
Food, vet treatment, puppy pads, litter, and anything else is provided to foster parents.
The Why
Sweet cuddles and fluffy company are great perks. But the real reason we foster is that no matter how wonderful a shelter is, home environments usually make for more well-adjusted pets.
Animals can need a foster home for a variety of different reasons. Fully-grown rescues can need some time in a home to recover after surgeries or treatments. Younger fosters get to grow up in a peaceful home environment away from shelter stress.
New mamas are also prime candidates for fostering. Raising a litter of babies can be stressful enough, so it's nice to have a warm and quiet place to do so. Bonus for the humans: mamas take care of their fur babies themselves, so you have a lot less work to do!
Is Fostering Right for You?
GBHS provides a great list "before you foster" checklist. Here are a few of the yes/no questions they ask you to consider before becoming a foster parent!
- Are you able to devote adequate time daily to your foster animals? (Many foster parents have full-time jobs. That doesn't prevent you from participating!)
- Can you follow the protocols that are in place for making sure your foster stays as healthy as possible while in your care?
- Are all the people in your home on board with fostering animals? (Including your other pets?)
- Will you be able to say goodbye when your foster is ready to come back to the adoption floor?
- Are you okay with the fact that first-time fosters are not allowed to adopt their fosters?
- Do you have time to adequately socialize and train foster animals in your care to make them more adoptable?
If You Answered Yes…
You may be ready to foster! The next steps vary between organizations, so check out these websites to find out more about how to get started:
- Fostering with GBHS
- Foster with Shelby Humane
- Fostering with Two by Two Rescue
My first step was attending a volunteer orientation at GBHS and going through the foster track. The whole process took a little under 3 hours total. It was super helpful to learn tips about fostering and get connected to fellow foster parents who have given me great advice more than once!
There are plenty of wonderful animal advocacy organizations in Birmingham with which to get involved. If you're not ready to foster parent fur babies of your own just yet, you can volunteer in a ton of different ways.
What other foster opportunities did we miss? Let us know!


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This past week the Florida State Fair came to a close for the year 2017. We went just before the end of the fair run this year to enjoy some of the sites and for me, it's always a treat to get some night time photography in. It's fun to see all the rides and lights of all the vendors and things as we walked along. Our arrival was shortly before sunset. One of the first photographs of the evening, shooting across the pond as the sun dropped below the horizon. The sky had a wonderful golden glow making for a great silhouette of the ferris wheel and sky ride.
We waited until dark before we went over to the midway - I carried my tripod waiting for this moment. Here are several images of the 'giant ferris wheel' that took days to put together and was still being assembled after the fair opened. Now several days after the fair has ended, it still sits high in the sky waiting to be taken apart. Many people were out in the paddle boats on the 'lake' as seen here in the reflection of the giant ferris wheel.
The only ride I wanted to do was the sky ride - why? Because you get to see all the lights of the fair from a different viewpoint and watch all the people from above. Course, the funny thing here is, I am afraid of heights....so here I am with a friend riding the sky ride and we are both afraid of heights. I decided the best remedy for me was to take some photographs and avoid thinking about the fact that we were sitting in the air with our feet dangling. Jim rode on the chair behind us as he had all his toys and needed most of the seat to set them down.
So this ends another year of the fair - and now people can head on over to the strawberry festival if they didn't get enough of the rides and 'fair/carnival food'.
For more photographs of night time at the fair, go to http://www.vpshoots.com/statefair


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Emails have develop into an indispensable a part of our correspondence. They provide quick, low-cost, accessible, and environment friendly digital communications. To make it even simpler for us we now have electronic mail apps that give us entry to our emails with enhanced productiveness instruments. There are a number of completely different electronic mail apps and, on this article, we are going to overview a number of the finest electronic mail apps out there. You can too try some extra assets a couple of second cellphone quantity app, the right way to make a enterprise electronic mail or electronic mail signature examples.
Select the Finest Mail App for Your Enterprise
One of the best mail apps will enhance your productiveness by managing your electronic mail communications so that you're all the time on high of the most recent mail in your inbox. So, options to search for when purchasing for an electronic mail app ought to embody:
Supply: A superb electronic mail app must be dependable and assist stop that your emails attain your inbox with out getting misplaced within the spam folder.
Contact administration: your electronic mail app ought to show you how to to simply phase the emails of your contacts so that you can assist prioritize and retailer in depth quantities of knowledge about every contact together with identify, electronic mail, location, trade, age, gender, and others.
Suitable with all units: apart from your desktop, your electronic mail app must also have the option accessed in your cellphones and tablets thus supplying you with to be productive whereas cell.
Response Dealing with: Your electronic mail app ought to enable for automated responses that may show you how to handle campaigns, supply auto-replies and different options.
Finest E mail App for Android
If you're an Android gadget consumer the ba=est market to get electronic mail apps to your wants is the Google Play Retailer. With electronic mail android apps it is possible for you to to entry your electronic mail companies out of your cell Android gadget. beneath are a few of our picks of electronic mail apps which can be well-liked by most Android gadget customers.
1. Aqua Mail
Aqua Mail is an electronic mail app that comes with a cloud storage service that lets you again up your emails on the cloud. It comes with a seamless unified inbox administration system, help, and productiveness instruments. This customizable electronic mail app helps a number of electronic mail accounts that embody Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, FastMail, Apple, GMX, and AOL, and extra. A free model is obtainable the place you possibly can add any electronic mail supplier account; sync with contacts and calendar for trade; good folder possibility; capacity to save lots of emails as PDF; infinite customization and extra.
Value: The paid version comes with a $ 3.37 month-to-month subscription billed yearly the place you get the flexibility to handle limitless accounts; end-to-end encryption; precedence notifications; take away promo signature and adverts.
2. Ok-9 Mail
K-9 Mail is an open-source electronic mail utility for the Android working system. It comes with a unified inbox format and helps IMAP, POP3, and Change servers. Addition al options beneath its hood embody the flexibility to help a number of accounts; unified inbox; privacy-friendly; automated background synchronization or push notifications and extra.
Value: Free
3. Newton Mail
Newton Mail offers your electronic mail highly effective options like studying receipts, sending later, snoozing, and extra. Like many electronic mail apps, it really works with Gmail, Google Apps, Change, Outlook, and others whereas engaged on units akin to iOS, macOS, Android, and Home windows.
Value: Newton comes with an annual subscription of $ 49.99.
4. ProtonMail
ProtonMail is an open-source and safe electronic mail service provided by MIT scientists and CERN. It permits iPhone customers straightforward to make use of safe electronic mail service and has end-to-end encryption together with an encrypted calendar. You possibly can entry your mail on any gadget with out putting in the software program.
Value: Free
5. 9
Nine is among the higher android electronic mail apps on the market. It has help for Change ActiveSync and likewise comes with options that allow you choose which folders you need to sync; Put on OS help; calendar and contacts synchronization, Wealthy-Textual content Editor; International Deal with Record (GAL); hybrid electronic mail search, widgets, and extra.
Value: It comes with a $14.99 price ticket
Finest E mail App for iPhone
If you're an Ipad or iPhone consumer there are some nice selections for you by way of electronic mail apps, a few of them embody:
6. Airmail
Airmail is a strong electronic mail shopper that works on macOS and iOS. The mail app helps Gmail; EWS, IMAP, and POP3 techniques; helps organize messages based mostly on views, labels, and different filters. Airmail can also be appropriate with different doc supporting companies akin to OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox.
Value: Airmail begins with a month-to-month subscription of $ 2.99.
7. Spike
Spike is an iOS electronic mail app that Spike turns common enterprise electronic mail communications into easy conversations, so you possibly can work and collaborate seamlessly with purchasers and crew members. With it your paperwork and notes are all the time proper there and straightforward to seek out. You can too create complicated duties; and create to-do lists inside seconds.
Value: Spike has free for private accounts, whereas paid skilled tiers begin at a $ 7 month-to-month subscription.
8. Triage
Triage is an iPhone electronic mail app that lets you substitute your desktop electronic mail shopper. It really works with Gmail, iCloud, and IMAP and exhibits you your unread electronic mail as a stack of playing cards, permitting you to shortly archive electronic mail you don't must motion, write a brief reply, or maintain some electronic mail to course of later.
Value: Free
9. myMail
myMail helps customers to handle all their electronic mail accounts directly together with Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo, Edison, Outlook, iCloud, Thunderbird mail, Webmail, or Mail.ru. It helps all main suppliers and every other IMAP or POP3-enabled mailbox whereas on the similar time holding your mail securely in a single place.
Value: Free
10. Polymail
Polymail is an electronic mail app that lets you create and share personalized electronic mail templates. This iPhone app helps you set follow-up electronic mail reminders; present an in depth report of your crew's exercise because it integrates with messaging instruments like Slack and Salesforce, and clear up your inbox by unsubscribing from newsletters.
Value: A seven-day trial is obtainable for paid companies beginning at a month-to-month subscription of $10.
Finest E mail Apps for Android and iOS Units
Under are some well-liked electronic mail apps which can be appropriate with each iOS and Android units:
11. Yahoo Mail
Yahoo Mail is among the many hottest free electronic mail account companies. It comes with a easy interface is easy and simple and could be accessed from each desktops and cell units. This internet and cloud-based messaging answer can help you keep related to your electronic mail with one-tap entry to your inbox, a number of Yahoo account help, and on the spot electronic mail alerts from any gadget.
Value: Free
12. Outlook Mail App
Microsoft Outlook helps carry all of your electronic mail accounts and calendars in a single handy spot. Whether or not it's staying on high of your inbox or scheduling your subsequent electronic mail marketing campaign, syncing contacts and calendars this electronic mail app lets you maintain being productive, organized and related. the Microsoft Outlook cell app can also be out there for each iOS and Android units if you wish to check out the cell model.
Value: Microsoft Outlook comes free with a 15 GB storage if you're in search of extra storage capability free you should buy the sturdy model at $ 159.99.
13. Gmail Cell E mail App
Google's Gmail app could be a good addition to your assortment of Google companies akin to Google Doc, Google Sheets, and Google Hangout and likewise comes with a free cloud-based answer. When you personal an android cellphone it comes as a default in your gadget; it really works with non-Gmail addresses; you possibly can register totally free by a Gmail cell account; simply set up conversations into threads. The Gmail account additionally helps a number of accounts and notifications letting you seamlessly transition from your corporation and private accounts each Web Message Entry Protocol (IMAP) and Submit Workplace Protocol (POP) multi function place. You possibly can even set up your folders, tag emails, and star emails to prioritize conversations.
Value: The Gmail app could be downloaded onto iPhones from the App Retailer totally free in case you want additional storage place a paid tier can also be out there.
14. Edison Mail
Edison Mail is a third-party mail app that lets you kind incoming messages into teams, affords Phishing and rip-off safety; provides caller ID to cellphone calls and textual content messages based mostly on contact particulars in your inbox, and extra. Edison's app helps Gmail Yahoo!, Outlook, and extra.
Value: Free
15. Cleanfox
Cleanfox is a free mail app that lets you entry your electronic mail accounts whereas additionally serving to you to declutter your inbox by simply unsubscribing to these pesky newsletters. Obtainable in iOS and android the app comes with no adverts and restrictions.
Value: Free
16. Blue Mail
BlueMail is a free common electronic mail app that lets you handle a vast variety of mail accounts from varied suppliers. Obtainable for Home windows, macOS, and Android it additionally permits good push notifications and group emailing whereas enabling personalization throughout a number of electronic mail accounts whereas connecting on to your mail server.
Value: Free
What's the finest free electronic mail app?
The Gmail app is by far the perfect free electronic mail app with over 1.5 billion customers worldwide for each iOS and Android customers. It typically comes a default mail app on most Android units and syncs seamlessly with Google's productiveness companies together with Google Drive, Google Photograph, Google Sheets, and extra enabling you to entry these highly effective productiveness instruments with no fanfare.
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Figure 1. Astronaut David Scott experiences weightlessness in a C-135 aircraft. Image credit: NASA
It might sound rather Star Trek-esque, but the physics is real. Light can be described mathematically as a wave of electric and magnetic fields moving through space, and when a strong light source like a laser shines on an atom, the changing electric field interacts with the electric charges contained within the atom's protons and neutrons. If done just right, the resulting force can precisely cancel out that of gravity, allowing the atoms to levitate.
While a similar technique using the magnetic fields has been in use for several years, it had never been done with the more widely applicable electric field. The challenge is that the incoming light intensity must be proportional to the concentration of target atoms at any given point, which requires a finely sculpted—not to mention extremely powerful—laser beam, far beyond the limits of current technology.
Instead, the research team tried a different tactic. They showed theoretically that by carefully sweeping a smaller laser beam across a larger cloud of atoms, they could produce the same effect of a larger contoured beam. In fact, they subsequently used the technique to levitate a small cloud of 87-Rubidium atoms.
Unfortunately for us would-be wizards, there's a catch. "This technique is efficient when the energy in the system is small and gravity is dominant over other [forms of] energy," Shibata explains. As it happens, atoms in a room-temperature gas zip about almost without noticing gravity, just like a ball thrown with enough energy can travel against the pull of gravity—for a time at least. Even less-energetic solids and liquids contain enough kinetic energy that their constituent molecules vibrate too much for the optical painting technique to work. Instead, this method is limited to ultracold atoms, which are held at just a few tens of millionths of Kelvins.
Nonetheless, Shibata insists that this work was driven by practicality. Ultracold atoms are something of a sweetheart in physics research, featured in experiments that measure the gravitational constant and investigate the future of quantum computing. On Earth, though, gravity has an annoying tendency to distort the shape of ultracold atom clusters, forcing researchers to develop supports that interfere with their precision. Using this new levitation technique, Shibata sees a more cost-effective way to counteract gravity than performing experiments in space or in ballistic flight. So maybe it isn't as flashy as Captain Kirk's transport beam—but it's every bit as exciting!
"What's going on in this video? Our science teacher claims that the pain comes from a small electrical shock, but we believe that this is due to the absorption of light. Please help us resolve this dispute!"
(We've since updated this article to include the science behind vegan ice cream. To learn more about ice cream science, check out The Science of Ice Cream, Redux)
Over at Physics@Home there's an easy recipe for homemade ice cream. But what kind of milk should you use to make ice cream? And do you really need to chill the ice cream base before making it? Why do ice cream recipes always call for salt on ice?


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We're promised rain this week. I'll believe it when it's in the rain gauge. But if we get the 100% coverage they say, it must might be timed with the remaining daytime warmth, to become a mushroom-hunter's bonanza.
Most mushrooms (thought not all fungi) have a certain photographic appeal by their shapes, colors and "still life" aesthetics. Â No wonder they've had a magical appeal to so many for so long.
Some few fungi by some few brave or knowledgeable souls are edible, some even delicious, though I think they generally don't have such great nutritional value.
And some fungi are just plain weird–but expensive. Like truffles. Or yertsa gunbu. What? You don't know yertsa?
It is in a group of fungi in the genus Ophiocordyceps that use ants and other insects to do its work.  Yertsa uses a moth.
"The fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis is known for its parasitism on ants, in which it alters the behavior of the ants in such a way as to propagate itself more effectively.[6] The fungus attacks the brain of the ant, causing it to abandon its colony. The ant then bites into the fleshy part of a leaf and stays locked in that position until it dies. The fungus is then able to spread from the ant's body to the leaf in order to repeat the cycle." wikipedia Â
Yersta gunbu, on the other hand, is an Ophiocordyceps species that might use humans to do its work. [I'm kidding, but then, maybe I'm not.]
And it is making peasants on the Tibetan plateau stronger, more virulent, smarter (all these are purported), and some, much richer. Yersta is big, big mycological business.
I first learned about it in this National Geographic article. The fungus emerges from the head of certain caterpillars and is plucked from the high-elevation grassy balds by the hands of entire families for months at a time. And the international trade in yertsa is successfully spreading the fungus around the world.
Some fungi have shrewd and very effective business models.


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While the crib is a staple and focal point in the nursery, we are obsessed with the modern beauty and design of hanging cradles and bassinets. Not only are they amazingly stylish, but they also provide a tranquil, soothing, and comforting space for your baby to sleep and can entertain little ones while they are awake.
Suspended baby beds are great baby room furniture accessories to keep little ones comfortable, peaceful and safe, and can also enhance the fun, dreamy, and whimsical vibe of the nursery.


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Related Marriott Travel Packages posts:
- All About Marriott's Lucrative Miles+Nights Travel Packages; The Best Way To Spend Your Starpoints.
- Guesstimating Where Marriott Travel Packages Will Work In August; Take Advantage Of Marriott's Lucrative Miles+Nights Packages Now!
- Marriott Will Massively Devalue New Miles+Nights Travel Packages In August; Comparing The Value Of The Current Packages To The New Packages
- Another Guess At What Will Happen With Marriott's Miles+Nights Travel Packages And Which You Should Buy Now Before It's Too Late!
- Marriott Has No Plans On Letting Us Know What They Plan On Doing With Current Travel Packages, But Don't Let That Stop You From Taking Advantage Of Them!
- Exploring The Options For A Partial Points Refund Of The Marriott Travel Packages, Which Package Should You Buy Now?
The most exciting arbitrage opportunity in the Marriott/Starwood merger are the travel packages. We know that buying a travel package next month will be significantly more expensive than it is now. We know that Marriott is refusing to say what will happen with current packages. We can presume that they won't burn goodwill by continuing to sell current travel packages and then pulling a fast one on everyone holding a 7 night hotel certificate.
There are endless theories as to what will happen with these. I'm up to at least 5 as of my most recent post.
My gut feeling was that they would turn these into hotel certificates for the new program, but Starwood's representative on Flyertalk wrote that members should make every effort to attach certificates to a hotel before the programs merge in order to maximize their value or else they will be cancelled and refunded to "equivalent points" (Click to enlarge):
The base assumption of option 2 as is implied by Starwood Lurker is that if you don't have your certificates attached to a hotel reservation, you will receive a refund of all points except for 120K Marriott points and your hotel certificates will be cancelled. That's an amazing outcome, but it won't help you if your goal is to stay in a hotel going up in category.
Option 5 would allow for a refund based on the points that would be required by an equivalent hotel in the merged program, which could be even more lucrative.
But let's assume option 2 will win out. Let's say you want to spend your 7 nights in a hotel like a S. Regis in Aspen, Bal Harbour, Bali, Bora Bora, Florence, Kauai, Maldives, Mallorca, New York, Osaka, Puerto Rico, or Rome. Those hotels will cost just 60K per night or 48K points per night on a 5 night stay if you book them between August-January. (You can also book now and get the rate adjusted). If you spent 540K points for a Tier 4-5 certificate now you would get a refund of 420K points with option 2. That's more than the 360K points that it would cost for 6 nights in these hotels!
But if you want to book those stays starting next February they will cost between 70K-100K points per night. You can't use travel certificates now to book SPG hotels. But you can attach certificates now to a hotel, including hotels that are getting more expensive. That will save the certificates from being cancelled and refunded into points with the merger. What will happen to the certificate after that point? That's anyone's guess, but it may just retain the higher value.
Here are Marriott's top miles+nights travel packages for 7 nights in a hotel and United miles. With these you can get up to 132K miles and it's always worth getting the 132K miles package if you can afford it. Prices are in Marriott points (divide by 3 for the price in Starpoints):
Here is the current SPG chart (with pricing in Marriott points to make things comparable), the current Marriott chart, the new chart coming in August, and the new chart coming next February.
Previous Starwood Chart | Previous Previous Marriott Chart | August 2018 Combined Chart | February 2019 Combined Chart | |
Category 1 | 6,000 (Weekends) 9,000 (Weekdays) | 7,500 | 7,500 | 5,000 off-peak 7,500 standard 10,000 peak |
Category 2 | 9,000 (Weekends) 12,000 (Weekdays) | 10,000 | 12,500 | 10,000 off-peak 12,500 standard 15,000 peak |
Category 3 | 21,000 | 15,000 | 17,500 | 15,000 off-peak 17,500 standard 20,000 peak |
Category 4 | 30,000 | 20,000 | 25,000 | 20,000 off-peak 25,000 standard 30,000 peak |
Category 5 | 36,000 off-peak 48,000 peak | 25,000 | 35,000 | 30,000 off-peak 35,000 standard 40,000 peak |
Category 6 | 60,000 off-peak 75,000 peak | 30,000 | 50,000 | 40,000 off-peak 50,000 standard 60,000 peak |
Category 7 | 90,000 off-peak 105,000 peak | 35,000 | 60,000 | 50,000 off-peak 60,000 standard 70,000 peak |
Category 8 | - | 40,000 | - | 70,000 off-peak 85,000 standard 100,000 peak |
Category 9 | - | 45,000 | - | - |
Ritz Tier 1 | - | 30,000 | - | - |
Ritz Tier 2 | - | 40,000 | - | - |
Ritz Tier 3 | - | 50,000 | - | - |
Ritz Tier 4 | - | 60,000 | - | - |
Ritz Tier 5 | - | 70,000 | - | - |
Here are some hotel ideas to potentially maximize your certificates (View the full combined award chart here)
- If you have a category 1-5 certificate you could book the Calgary Airport Marriott. That hotel is currently a category 5 hotel costing 25K points and will be a category 5 in the new program costing 35K points. Other hotels like this include Eugenia de Montijo Autograph Collection, JW Marriott Hotel New Delhi Aerocity, Marriott's Villas at Doral, Paragraph Resort & Spa Shekvetili Autograph Collection, and the Residence Inn Temecula Murrieta
- If you have a category 6 certificate you could book the Marriott's Club Son Antem. That hotel is currently a category 6 hotel costing 30K points and will be a category 6 in the new program costing 50K points. No other Marriott category 6 hotel will remain a category 6 hotel.
- If you have a category 7 certificate you could downgrade to the category 6 option or book the Fairfield Inn & Suites Virgin Zion National Park. That hotel is currently a category 7 hotel costing 35K points and will be a category 6 in the new program costing 50K points. Other hotels like this include Marriott Vacation Club Pulse San Diego, Marriott's Cypress Harbour Villas, Marriott's Fairway Villas, Marriott's Imperial Palms Villas, Marriott's Marbella Beach Resort, Marriott's Royal Palms, Marriott's Sabal Palms, Marriott's St. Kitts Beach Club, and SpringHill Suites Springdale Zion National Park.
- If you have a category 8 certificate you could book the Marriott's Newport Coast Villas. That hotels is currently a category 8 hotel costing 40K points and will be a category 7 in the new program costing 60K points. Other hotels like this include Marriott's Kauai Lagoons, Marriott's Waiohai Beach Club, and Marriott's Waikoloa Ocean Club.
- If you have a category 9 certificate you could book the Domes of Elounda, Autograph Collection. That hotel is currently a category 9 hotel costing 45K points and will be a category 8 in the new program costing 60K points in August and 85K points in February. No other Marriott category 9 hotel will become a category 8 hotel.
- If you have a tier 1-3 certificate you could downgrade to the category 9 option or you could book The Ritz-Carlton, Toronto. That hotel is currently a tier 3 hotel costing 50K points and will be a category 7 in the new program costing 60K points. Other hotels like this include The Ritz-Carlton Ras Al Khaimah Al Hamra Beach UAE, The Ritz-Carlton Ras Al Khaimah Al Wadi Desert UAE, and the The Ritz-Carlton Osaka.
- If you have a tier 4-5 certificate you could downgrade to the category 9 option or you could book The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park. That hotel is currently a tier 5 hotel costing 70K points and will be a category 8 in the new program costing 60K points in August and 85K points in February. Other hotels like this include Miami Beach EDITION, The Ritz-Carlton Bal Harbour, The Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch, The Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman, The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong, The Ritz-Carlton Kyoto, The Ritz-Carlton Lake Tahoe, The Ritz-Carlton Naples, The Ritz-Carlton St. Thomas, and The Ritz-Carlton Tokyo.
Let's be realistic here. Just because you book a hotel that's getting more expensive doesn't mean that the certificate will retain the higher category. Maximizing the potential may very well be limited just for the hotel that you lock in. Then again we have no idea what will happen, so this is a decent strategy to try to maximize your certificate.
For example if you spend 540K Marriott points (180K SPG points) for a tier 4-5 certificate and 132K United miles, and Marriott decides to go with option 2, you would get a refund of 420K points. If you lock in a tier 5 hotel then you will keep that certificate. We have no idea what will happen if you detach the certificate from the hotel after the program merger is complete, but it's entirely plausible that the certificate will be valid at any hotel systemwide. Next February that would mean the hotel certificate could be worth 510K points (top-tier hotel on standard dates) or even 600K points (top-tier hotel on peak dates)!
It's yet another potential scenario to ponder in the Marriott travel package saga.
Short on Starpoints/Marriott points?
- You can still buy Starpoints here.
- Earn points on the new Chase Marriott Rewards® Premier Plus Credit Card.
- You must call Marriott at 800-321-7396 if you want to book a miles+nights travel package. They can't be booked online.
- The miles will post within a few days of the transfer, regardless of when or if you use the 7 night certificate. You may also be able to pay to expedite the mileage posting.
- The 7 night electronic hotel certificate expires in 1 year, though Marriott currently will extend them for 1 additional year if you contact them.
- You don't need to choose the hotel at the time of a nights+miles redemption.
- The certificate must be used at one property for 7 consecutive nights.
- You can have the certificate issued in anyone's name.
- You can currently upgrade your hotel certificate by paying the difference in points later on.
Will you buy a travel package before they are devalued next month?
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- Don't Wait: Book Hotel Awards Now Before The Starwood-Marriott Merger!
- Where Will You Be Able To Use Chase Marriott And Starwood Anniversary Nights?
- Another Guess At What Will Happen With Marriott's Miles+Nights Travel PackagesAnd Which You Should Buy Now Before It's Too Late!
- Breaking Down The New Marriott/Starwood Combined Cash+Points And PointSavers Award Charts
- Marriott Will Massively Devalue New Miles+Nights Travel Packages In August;Comparing The Value Of The Current Packages To The New Packages
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- 3 Starwood AMEX Cards In The New Marriott Program: A Comparison Chart Of The Good, The Bad, And The Horrific
- Comparison Chart: How Marriott's August 2018 And February 2019 Award Chart Compares With The Current SPG And Marriott Award Charts
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A recent paper published by two Princeton researchers sheds some light on privacy on web browsers. It is familiar territory that users are tracked when they navigate online. The paper was a major study into the tracking behavior of the top one million most popular websites.
It is hardly a surprise that users are tracked by websites. However, the scale of the privacy worries will likely shock some. The paper is particularly enlightening because it shows that trackers can keep tabs on users all the time. Even if you set preferences to block such tracking, it happens anyway.
To study the tracking capabilities of web browsers, the team created the OpenWPM tool. This tool has been used since June 2015 for the study, and now the findings have been released. Below are some of the key findings from the paper.
Fingerprinting has been used to identify a machine/user browsing the web. The practice takes a collage of browser information to identify a machine and/or user, even if there are cookies in place. Networks are able to track browser activity through fingerprinting even if the browser is in private mode. If there are other instances of usage, networks can track even on other devices.
"We show how the number of sites on which font fingerprinting is used and the number of third parties using canvas fingerprinting have both increased by considerably in the past few years. We also show how WebRTC's ability to discover local IPs without user permission or interaction is used almost exclusively to track users."
Types of Fingerprinting
Canvas – Two fingerprinting instances were found with the canvas tag with HTML5. The research found that this type of fingerprinting on 14,371 of the top 100 websites. This represented 1.6% of all the top 100. There was 3,500 URLs hosted on 400 domains.
AudioContext – The researchers found a number of fingerprinting scripts using AudioContext. The scripts show that tracking software are trying to access Audio API to fingerprint users.
The paper points out that users have little control over protecting their privacy from browser tracking. Firefox makers Mozilla has said that they will reduce the imprint of Flash on their browser in the wake of the research.


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65 John Burroughs Quotes For Success In Life
John Burroughs was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871. These John Burroughs quotes will motivate you.
Best John Burroughs Quotes
- "The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention." ~ John Burroughs
- "I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order." ~ John Burroughs
- "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." ~ John Burroughs
- "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." ~ John Burroughs
"We are made strong by what we overcome." ~ John Burroughs
- "Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don't despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center of the world." ~ John Burroughs
- "I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings." ~ John Burroughs
- "One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand to see that heaven lies about us here in this world." ~ John Burroughs
- "The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world." ~ John Burroughs
"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days." ~ John Burroughs
- "To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life." ~ John Burroughs
- "A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did." ~ John Burroughs
- "Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. There are no heretics in Nature's church; all are believers, all are communicants. The beauty of natural religion is that you have it all the time; you do not have to seek it afar off in myths and legends, in catacombs, in garbled texts, in miracles of dead saints or wine-bibbing friars. It is of today; it is now and here; it is everywhere." ~ John Burroughs
- "If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature." ~ John Burroughs
"If you want to see birds, you must have birds in your heart." ~ John Burroughs
- "For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service." ~ John Burroughs
- "Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare; I scent her fragrant garments, Her foot is on the stair." ~ John Burroughs
- "I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey." ~ John Burroughs
- "To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday." ~ John Burroughs
- "He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter." ~ John Burroughs
"Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion." ~ John Burroughs
- "In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity." ~ John Burroughs
- "It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it." ~ John Burroughs
- "Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws." ~ John Burroughs
"Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it." ~ John Burroughs
- "I want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are fictitious, like the constellations Orion, Cassiopeia's Chair, the Big Dipper; the only thing real in them is the stars, and the only thing real in the creeds is the soul's aspiration toward the Infinite." ~ John Burroughs Quotes
- "The poor old earth which has mothered us and nursed us we treat with scant respect. Our awe and veneration we reserve for the worlds we know not of. Our senses sell us out. The mud on our shoes disenchants us." ~ John Burroughs
- "Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it." ~ John Burroughs
- "A man's life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other." ~ John Burroughs
"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: 'To rise above little things'." ~ John Burroughs
- "Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live." ~ John Burroughs
- "Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are busy and not left to feed upon themselves. Blessed is the person who has some congenial work, some occupation in which to place one's heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces that are in him or her." ~ John Burroughs
- "When you bait your hook with your heart, the fish always bite." ~ John Burroughs
- "If you think you can do it, you can." ~ John Burroughs
"The secret of happiness is something to do." ~ John Burroughs
- "One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking" ~ John Burroughs
- "I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy." ~ John Burroughs
- "Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution." ~ John Burroughs
- "To the scientist, Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist, she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet, she is a storehouse of images, fancies, a source of inspiration; to the moralist she is a storehouse of precepts and parables; to all she may be a source of knowledge and joy." ~ John Burroughs
- "In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled." ~ John Burroughs
"The place to observe nature is where you are." ~ John Burroughs
- "Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world." ~ John Burroughs
- "The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time–the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird–are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet; but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all." ~ John Burroughs
- "The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees and the shadows. All his approaches are gentle and indirect. He times himself to the meandering, soliloquizing stream; he addresses himself to it as a lover to his mistress; he woos it and stays with it till he knows its hidden secrets. Where it deepens his purpose deepens; where it is shallow he is indifferent. He knows how to interpret its every glance and dimple; its beauty haunts him for days." ~ John Burroughs
- "Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral." ~ John Burroughs
"To see Earth fully we already need to love it" ~ John Burroughs
- "The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it is an order the secrets of which are well guarded." ~ John Burroughs
- "Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me." ~ John Burroughs Quotes
- "When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast." ~ John Burroughs
- "How many thorns of human nature – hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us – are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit; and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate." ~ John Burroughs
"Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact." ~ John Burroughs
- "The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these in the winds, the waves, the sun's heat, and so forth." ~ John Burroughs
- "I am not going to advocate … the abandoning of the improved modes of travel; but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany the man who goes afoot, while all the dark spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride." ~ John Burroughs
- "I am not going to advocate … the abandoning of the improved modes of travel; but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany the man who goes afoot, while all the dark spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride." ~ John Burroughs
- "What a severe yet master artist old Winter is… No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel." ~ John Burroughs
"We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry." ~ John Burroughs
- "[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of wildlife. He probably knew tenfold more natural history than all the presidents who had preceded him, and, I think one is safe in saying, more human history also." ~ John Burroughs Quotes
- "The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money, and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the universe at your very door. All that I ever had, and still have, maybe yours by stretching forth your hand and taking it." ~ John Burroughs
- "Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world." ~ John Burroughs
"The God of the Puritans…was a monster too horrible to contemplate." ~ John Burroughs
- "It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative." ~ John Burroughs
- "Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover – to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails her rivers, camps in her woods, and with no mercenary ends, accepts all." ~ John Burroughs
- "The Universe is a pretty big place… And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd say if it is just us, an awful lot of space is going to waste. The earth is not alone, it is not like a single apple on a tree; there are many apples on the tree, and there are many trees in the orchard." ~ John Burroughs
- "Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him." ~ John Burroughs
- "The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment." ~ John Burroughs


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As part of the selection process for the 2011 Curbed Atlanta Awards, we reached out to professionals and experts in the worlds of real estate development & investment, architecture, community development and preservation to solicit their well-informed opinions on projects and programs from 2011 that are worthy of a Curbed Award. Here now is one such award bestowed in collaboration with Friend of Curbed Cary Aiken, a long-time advocate for historical preservation and the Morningside neighborhood; he is also currently a Board Member for NPU-F.
The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation is a non-profit body devoted to preserving and revitalizing the state's heirlooms of place, both natural and built. The Places in Peril list is in its 7th year, and the program offers the public both information about places worth saving and ways for them to do it. The tireless efforts of the Georgia Trust often go unnoticed and can certainly be taken for granted. They are more than deserving of a Curbed Award.
· The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation [official site]


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