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"In wilderness is the preservation of the world"
-Henry David Thoreau
Trillium (Trillium ovatum) and wood violets (Viola sempervirens) bloom under a canopy of second-growth Douglas-fir. Nearby, three species of fern—sword (Polystichum munitum), bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), and maidenhair (Adiantum aleuticum)—cover the ground under a spreading bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum), its massive leaves, a foot across, blocking out the sun on this spring day. In the branches of the maple, near lichens and mosses and singing birds grows the epiphytic licorice fern (Polypodium glycyrrhiza). It often spends its whole life on a tree branch and is particularly fond of bigleaf maple. It is not a parasite, but lives on whatever water and nutrients can be captured from the air and whatever happens to land in the moss into which its roots grow. The common name comes from the licorice flavor of its roots, which were chewed by many native tribes. Ferns represent an early stage in the evolution of land plants. They have developed vascular tissue, allowing them to grow much taller than mosses, hornworts, and liverworts, yet they still reproduce via spores as ferns predated the evolution of flowering plants by around 200 million years. Aside from these ferns, much of the ground cover here is provided by dull-Oregon grape (Mahonia nervosa) with its holly-like leaves and racemes of yellow flowers turning to chalky-blue berries in summer. The closely related state flower of Oregon, Mahonia aquifolium, or tall-Oregon grape, is, well, taller. Around a bend in the trail, where a bit more light can penetrate, a tangle of thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus), a close relative of raspberry and blackberry, shows off its large white flower, a tempting reminder of the delicious fruit soon to come.
This scene can be found in many forests of the Pacific Northwest. It just so happens that this scene took place within the city limits of one of its largest cities, Portland, Oregon. Forest Park is over 5,100 acres and contains around 70 miles of hiking trails making it one of the largest, if not the largest, forested urban parks in the country. Additionally, hundreds of species of native plants, as well as a few notable non-native ones, fill this forest escape. Animals, including black-tailed deer, bobcats, bats, several owls, and woodpeckers are a few of the dozens of animals that inhabit the park, even including the large and wide-roaming Roosevelt elk. While it is an urban park, its size means it stretches to the outer edges of the city limits and it is easy to find yourself relatively alone in the woods while still within a moderately large city. The idea for Forest Park stretches back well over a hundred years. It was one of the central park proposals within the Olmsted Portland Park Plan, first proposed to the city in 1903 by the Olmsted Brothers architectural firm. The plan laid out numerous areas of the city that should be purchased and set aside as green spaces, including Forest Park, Mt Tabor Park, Sellwood Park, and Ross Island. The report also details the value inherent in setting aside public green space: "parks not only add to the beauty of a city and to the pleasure of living in it, but are exceedingly important factors in developing the healthfulness, morality, intelligence, and business prosperity of its residents." They even went as far as to say that, "a liberal provision of parks in a city is one of the surest manifestations of the intelligence, degree of civilization and progressiveness of its citizens." One cannot help but wonder what current city leaders, who seem more than happy to let every lot in Portland, vacant or otherwise, be filled with expensive, ultra-modern condominiums, would make of this report. If a liberal provision of parks denotes an intelligent and progressive population, what does a liberal provision of exclusionary condos say?
The Olmsted report also called for parks which showcased the natural beauty already present in the land, saying, "enormous advantages are gained by locating parks and parkways so as to take advantage of beautiful natural scenery." Located atop the northwest hills above downtown Portland, called the Tualatin Mountains by local American Indians, this is something Forest Park certainly has. Beautiful vistas provide views stretching across the city and beyond to the Cascade Mountains. In 1903, however, the city owned little of this land. It was necessary they purchased it quickly to avoid what had happened in many other cities in places that could create beautiful parks; as the Olmsteds described: "people built with the backs of their houses upon the rivers and lakes, thus not only excluding the public from continuous access to them but ruining their beauty." John C. Olmsted believed that where land that contained local beauty could "be fairly well spared from the commercial uses, public squares, parks, and parkways should be located," and so, seeing the slow pace at which Portland was buying up land, commented that 'Portland is not awake to her opportunities." Portland did, however, implement many of Olmstead's plans, including Forest Park, though it happened decades after the initial proposal. After acquiring the land piece by piece, the city finally dedicated 4,200 acres of land as Forest Park in 1948, and continued to expand it by another 1,000 acres or so to create today's park.
The value of natural urban parks to humans is obvious to those of us lucky enough to live in a city with access to these places. They represent a refuge of quiet and beauty in our backyards, an escape from the cars and buses. There are few treatments for stress or anxiety better than a walk in the woods. It is obvious urban parks provide an escape for humans, but an interesting question, is what do they do for wildlife? These spaces cannot be called wilderness, yet they do provide a home for many species who would otherwise be pushed out by development. The value of natural urban areas depends, for one, on the species. It is much easier for smaller species to find refuge, as well as animals able to safely travel through urban space to find the park. Thus, we find that for migratory birds and small mammals, these natural spaces can be very beneficial. This leads to another important factor: the size of the park. Forest Park is large enough to hold a decent population of deer, yet the elk seen there are only passing through. Elk herds need a very large space to roam and so cannot be contained in the park. Forest Park just happens to be near enough natural space, both public and private, that elk can travel through it. There are also animals that simply cannot live with large amounts of human disturbance. Northern spotted owls, those beautiful endangered birds who have done as much for Northwest forests as just about any human, need undisturbed forests to thrive. Disturbance levels in preserved lands are determined by edge effects, meaning that the edges of natural areas are more exposed to human activity such as roads and buildings and general development and thus uninhabitable for many of these sensitive species. Urban spaces, even those as large as Forest Park, are essentially all edge, at least for sensitive species such as spotted owls or mountain lions.
Where these urban natural areas truly show their value, however, is in giving people easy access to nature, including those who wouldn't necessarily be exposed to wild things. Anyone can hike and explore without having to invest time and money in traveling to a distant or remote preserve. Parents in Portland and Seattle and many other cities can take their kids into the woods without driving through hours of sprawl and farmland. They can walk or bike or ride the bus to the edge of these natural areas and find bright yellow banana slugs moving across the trail, watch a woodpecker search for insects under the bark of Douglas-fir, watch a bumblebee bouncing from flower to flower, collecting pollen as it goes. The love for nature can be discovered in our own backyards. Additionally, backpacking isn't for everyone, it often involves long drives and time off work or away from home and is physically demanding, but anyone can visit Forest Park, anyone can see native plants and animals and listen to the birds instead of the cars. To fight for nature, to stand up to those who would let it slip away in the name of profits or progress or apathetic procrastination, one must first experience nature. This is the greatest gift urban green spaces can give us. Not only are they important for "developing the healthfulness, morality, intelligence, and business prosperity of its residents," they are also important in developing a sense of the significance, scope, and beauty of the natural world and hopefully strengthening our will to protect it.
Conservation has a relatively long history in the United States. The first large-scale effort to protect lands was our National Forest system. Beginning in 1891, the Forest Reserve Act allowed Presidents to declare lands as forest reserves. This was done by several Presidents, but when Theodore Roosevelt became President in 1901, conservation reached new heights. Along with Gifford Pinchot, the first Chief of the United States Forest Service and close friend of Teddy, Roosevelt placed 230,000,000 acres of land into the hands of the federal government. Today, the Forest Service controls about 193,000,000 acres. An important question, however, is just how are those lands managed? It is true that these lands are far more protected under the federal government than they would be if they were left to the free-market, this is made obvious by the extreme resistance to the Forest Service by industrialists and the very wealthy of the time who stood to make a lot of money exploiting forest resources. However, these are not preserves in the strictest sense. Pinchot saw forest management as "the art of producing from the forest whatever it can yield for the service of man." (The Training of a Forester). To Pinchot and Roosevelt, conserving a forest was not the same as preserving it. Preservation meant setting it aside and sparing it from all destructive human practices, something Pinchot and Roosevelt had neither the will nor the ability to do. In fact, it was this idea which led to a rift between Pinchot and his wilderness mentor John Muir. Where Pinchot was practical, a wealthy politician well-versed in compromise, who believed the land should work for the people, Muir was idealistic and saw the land as sacred and best when left alone. This came to a head in Muir's beloved Yosemite National Park. San Francisco wanted to dam the Tuolumne River, flooding the beautiful Hetch Hetchy Valley, near the comparably beautiful Yosemite Valley, to provide more water for its growing population. Pinchot supported the plan while Muir vehemently opposed it. In 1923, after Muir's death, the dam was completed and the valley flooded, soon to be joined by Glen Canyon, over the protests of fellow conservation idealist Edward Abbey, on the list of beautiful canyons lost to the world under reservoirs. This aside, however, we as a nation owe Roosevelt and Pinchot a tremendous amount of gratitude for the lands they saved, something Muir himself realized before his death, as his Sierra Club dedicated a giant sequoia to Pinchot in the Muir redwoods. It is fair to say that the American populist conservation movement can be traced back to these men.
In addition to the National Forest Service, the National Park Service was established in 1916, formalizing the preservation of land as National Parks that had begun with Yellowstone National Park in 1872. While they do not control as much land as the Forest Service, National Parks are much more focused on preservation than National Forests, which still allow some logging and other industrial and agricultural practices. None of that is allowed in National Parks, though tourism certainly is. These parks receive millions of visitors each year, many of whom remain in their vehicles for most of their tour, watching vistas and animals framed through a car window, before returning to their cozy hotels at night. Edward Abbey took pity on these tourists: "They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while." National Parks contain some of the most extraordinary wilderness in the world, however, one cannot truly experience this from a car, a road, or a hotel. I spent two summers working in Yellowstone National Park, and the times I remember most dearly were not peering over tourists at Old Faithful or standing among crowds at the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, they were on a trail, away from the roads and the hum of cars, in wilderness, true and untamed. National Parks are an undoubtedly great idea and have introduced many, myself included, to nature. Yet they often fall short when it comes to sparking that love and reverence for the natural world that the conservation movement needs. There could be many ways to change this, but I'll let Edward Abbey give his proposal as only he can: "No more cars in national parks. Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs–anything–but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and the other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places. An increasingly pagan and hedonistic people (thank God!), we are learning finally that the forests and mountains and desert canyons are holier than our churches. Therefore let us behave accordingly." (Desert Solitaire).
A major step forward in American conservation was the Wilderness Act of 1964. Signed by President Lyndon Johnson, this monumental legislation created a mechanism for designating formal wilderness areas. Currently, nearly 110,000 acres of land are protected as wilderness. The Act defines "wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." Also, it must retain "its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions" It also declares that "there shall be no commercial enterprise and no permanent road within any wilderness area designated by this Act and except as necessary to meet minimum requirements for the administration of the area for the purpose of this Act (including measures required in emergencies involving the health and safety of persons within the area), there shall be no temporary road, no use of motor vehicles, motorized equipment or motorboats, no landing of aircraft, no other form of mechanical transport, and no structure or installation within any such area." This act gave us the true wilderness that was lacking from the Forest Service and National Park Service. Here we have lands truly wild and free, where we can enjoy them, and then leave them as they are for future generations to do the same. The best hikes I have ever taken were in these wonderful places, far from roads or cars or buildings, surrounded by nothing but nature. The primary mover and advocates of the Wilderness Act was the Wilderness Society, a group founded by some of our nation's greatest conservationists: Aldo Leopold, Benton MacKay (the "Father of the Appalachian Trail"), Bernard Frank, Robert Sterling Yard, Harvey Broome, and Bob Marshal, who was independently wealthy and thus funded the Society in its early years. Through political advocacy and public persuasion, the group was able to successfully promote wilderness as an essential American right, a place to escape from civilization and to be alone with nature. We owe these men, and many other advocates a great debt.
Well, there is part 1 of this long entry. In the second and final installment, we explore the politics of wilderness and what we as a society must do to ensure the protection of wilderness and our global environment. Stay tuned to find out!
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Finally, let me know what you think. How has wilderness affected your life? How do you see the the pros and cons of our various forms of federal land protection? What have you seen while exploring Forest Park?


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Representative Ann Kirkpatrick, the Democrat challenging McCain for his Senate seat, is out with a new video that not only ties McCain and his repeated endorsements of "the Republican nominee" to Trump's outlandish statements—including the recent "Second Amendment people" quasi-joke about maybe assassinating Hillary Clinton—but also to Trump's repeated insults of McCain himself.
We get some of Trump's greatest hits against the 2008 GOP nominee: "I just hate the way our veterans have been treated by John"; "I like people that weren't captured, okay?"; "…should be defeated in the primaries. Graduated last in his class at Annapolis—dummy!"
And lastly, we see McCain's choked efforts to justify giving Trump control of the nuclear arsenal.
The message here is twofold: McCain is wrong for supporting the nominee not only because Trump is dangerous, but because the former "maverick" has become yet another Republican submitting to the sheer humiliation of Trump. If voters buy such attacks, a lot of Republicans in Congress will lose their jobs in November.


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Gen Y Grows Up: Reaching the Millennial Mom
In talking about millennials, we often reference the high school and post-secondary students that make up a large percentage of the generation.
While it's true that Gen Y is young and made up largely of students, it's important to remember another critically influential segment of millennials – the millennial parent. More specifically, it's the millennial mom who shouldn't be ignored. Digiday recently reported that millennial moms in the United States have a spending power of over $2 billion, and that there are more than two billion millennial mothers worldwide – that's over $1.3 trillion dollars in spending power, and the numbers are climbing rapidly.
Gen Y moms are connecting online more than ever, and are the most technologically savvy group of parents in history. They love to share their children's milestones, research products, discuss parenting styles and share their joys and frustrations. Approximately 60% of millennial moms use social media every day, primarily Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Amazon and eBay, according to Digiday. These moms are collaborative, seek information from other parents and engage in online discussions with both brands and their peers. So how do you break through to the millennial mom? First, you listen to what they want – they're telling you, so take note. Secondly, meet their needs – they want the best for their families, and are asking around for recommendations before getting our their wallets. And finally, speak their language. Those quirky cartoons and parenting memes you see all over Facebook? They are being shared for a reason – make your brand connect with mom, and you're in.


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Sleep apnea is a serious medical condition that causes its sufferers to stop breathing up to 30 times in one hour.
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This fall has started out beautifully — wind rustling through fallen leaves (and trash) on these busy Brooklyn streets.
A few sweet and brave friends of mine are leaving the city and I held a little gathering in their honor in the park last weekend. I made a few caramel apples using Isa Chandra Moskovitz's recipe and a towering pile of pumpkin donuts. I've always loved donuts, and these pumpkin flaxseed rings are perfectly spicy and sweet.
What better way to ring in the season?
Vegan Pumpkin Flaxseed Donuts
- 2 tablespoons ground flaxseed
- 6 tablespoons hot water
- 1/2 cup soy milk
- 1/2 teaspoon apple cider vinagar
- 4 cups flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger
- 1 pinch cloves and nutmeg
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 tablespoons canola oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
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- In a small bowl, mix together the flaxseed and hot water. In another small bowl, mix together the almond milk and vinegar. Set these aside.
- In a large bowl, mix the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices).
- In another bowl (so many bowls!) whisk together the pumpkin, sugar, oil and vanilla. Mix in the almond milk and flaxseed mixtures.
- Stir the wet ingredients into the dry. Once ingredients are combined, transfer the bowl to the fridge for one hour.
- Roll the dough onto a floured counter top. You want the dough to be about 1/2 inch thick.
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- In a large, high-walled pot, heat 5 inches of canola oil to 370 degrees. Use a candy thermometer to monitor the oil's temperature, making sure to keep the oil between 360 and 375 degrees. Prepare a cooling rack by placing a rack over a baking tray. Carefully drop the donuts into the oil and watch them rise to the surface. Flip once, then transfer to the the rack to cool. Coat with cinnamon sugar and serve warm!


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There's so much I can say about this wedding. I remember the exact day Michelle called me about her wedding. It was March 13, 2015 and we were setting up for Mandy and John Albert's wedding. I knew from the first time we talked that it was going to be spectacular, and that is certainly what it was.
By now, it's no surprise I love an outdoor/tent wedding. And by love, I mean LOVE. We had to go to rain plan, and rain it did. The moment Fr. Sibley announced Michelle and Josh as Mr. and Mrs. the skies opened. And, they stayed opened until well after the reception ended.
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Australian SJWs demand the "incredibly disrespectful" photo below be taken offline and an apology issued.
The photo was posted to Instagram by Australia-themed restaurant Oz Arlington in Virginia. It is totally unacceptable that people on the other side of the planet are ignorant of the "cultural and spiritual" significance of a length of plastic pipe painted to resemble a didgeridoo. Fucking Yanks.


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Viruses changing at an alarming rate to evade traditional malware detection
Dubai, UAE – August 10, 2011– Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the publication
of its July 2011 Symantec Intelligence Report, now combining the best research and analysis from the
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The report shows that the malware is frequently contained inside an executable within the attached ZIP archive
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Further analysis also reveals that phishing attacks have been seeking various means to exploit vulnerable cell
phone users. According to Wood, "Two key areas in which we can see this trend are, firstly, the increase in
phishing against wireless application protocol (WAP) pages, which are lightweight Web pages designed for
smaller mobile devices such as cell phones; and secondly, the use of compromised domain names that have
been registered for mobile devices, for example, using the .mobi top-level domain."
Symantec has identified phishing sites spoofing such Web pages and has been monitoring the trend. In July,
social networking and information services brands were frequently observed in these phishing sites. The
primary motive of these attacks continues to be identity theft. Targeting cell phone users is just part of a new
strategy for achieving the same result.
Other report highlights:
Spam: While only producing 2.4% of global spam Saudi Arabia still remains the most spammed geography in
the World at 85.6%.
Phishing: In July, phishing email activity increased by 0.01 percentage points since June 2011; one in 319.3
emails (0.313 percent) comprised some form of phishing attack.
E-mail-borne Threats: The global ratio of email-borne viruses in email traffic was one in 280.9 emails (0.333
percent) in July, an increase of 0.01 percentage points since June 2011.
Web-based Malware Threats: In July, Symantec Intelligence identified an average of 6,797 Web sites each
day harboring malware and other potentially unwanted programs including spyware and adware; an increase of
25.5 percent since June 2011.
Endpoint Threats: The most frequently blocked malware for the last month was W32.Ramnit!html. This
is a generic detection for .HTML files infected by W32.Ramnit[2], a worm that spreads through removable
drives and by infecting executable files. The worm spreads by encrypting and then appending itself to files
with .DLL, .EXE and .HTM extensions. Variants of the Ramnit worm accounted for 17.3 percent of all
malicious software blocked by endpoint protection technology in July.
Geographical Trends:
• As the global spam level declined in July 2011, Saudi Arabia remained the most spammed geography,
with a spam rate of 85.6 percent Russia remained the second most-spammed.
• In the US, 78.0 percent of email was spam and 77.7 percent in Canada.
• The spam level in the UK was 78.2 percent.
• In The Netherlands, spam accounted for 78.8 percent of email traffic, 77.9 percent in Germany, 77.6
percent in Denmark and 75.8 percent in Australia.
• In Hong Kong, 76.8 percent of email was blocked as spam and 75.7 percent in Singapore, compared
with 74.7 percent in Japan.
• Spam accounted for 76.9 percent of email traffic in South Africa and 78.7 percent in Brazil.
• Phishing attacks in the UK increased to overtake South Africa and become the most targeted
geography for phishing emails in July, with one in 127.9 emails identified as phishing attacks.
Phishing in South Africa fell slightly to make it the second most targeted country, with one in 163.1
emails identified as phishing attacks.
• Phishing levels for the US were one in 1,237 and one in 192.6 for Canada.
• In Germany phishing levels were one in 798.3, one in 1,448 in Denmark and one in 526.9 in The
• In Australia, phishing activity accounted for one in 850.8 emails and one in 2,503 in Hong Kong; for
Japan it was one in 13,167 and one in 872.9 for Singapore.
• In Brazil, one in 382.4 emails were blocked as phishing attacks.
E-mail-borne threats
• Email-borne malware attacks rose in South Africa as the country became the geography with the
highest ratio of malicious emails in July, overtaking the UK as one in 125.2 emails was identified as
malicious in July; in the UK one in 127.0 emails was malicious.
• In the US, virus levels for email-borne malware were one in 634.8 and one in 255.9 for Canada.
• In Germany virus activity reached one in 482.1, one in 1,033 in Denmark and in The Netherlands one
in 451.3.
• In Australia, one in 654.8 emails were malicious and one in 748.7 in Hong Kong; for Japan it was one
in 2,093, compared with one in 761.8 in Singapore.
• In Brazil, one in 332.1 emails in contained malicious content.
Vertical Trends:
• In July, the Automotive industry sector remained the most spammed industry sector, with a spam rate
of 80.7 percent.
• Spam levels for the Education sector reached 80.3 percent and 77.9 percent for the Chemical &
Pharmaceutical sector; 77.8 percent for IT Services, 77.8 percent for Retail, 77.0 percent for Public
Sector and 77.0 percent for Finance.
• The Public Sector remained the most targeted by phishing activity in July, with one in 73.2 emails
comprising a phishing attack.
• Phishing levels for the Chemical & Pharmaceutical sector were one in 799.0 and one in 566.2 for the
IT Services sector; one in 482.3 for Retail, one in 87.8 for Education and one in 396.7 for Finance.
• With one in 62.1 emails being blocked as malicious, the Public Sector remained the most targeted
industry in July.
• Virus levels for the Chemical & Pharmaceutical sector were one in 438.9 and one in 390.0 for the IT
Services sector; one in 418.3 for Retail, one in 79.1 for Education and one in 443.5 for Finance.
The July 2011 Symantec Intelligence Report provides greater detail on all of the trends and figures noted
above, as well as more detailed geographical and vertical trends. The full report is available here.


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Foundry Materials the main materials and processes have a decisive impact on the Foundry Materials, because it forms the core functions of the product, such as tensile strength, microstructure, hardness, etc .; Similarly, the role of Foundry Materials auxiliary materials can not be ignored, because if Improper use will directly lead to scrap scrap, and even after the impact of the sale, the economic and credibility of the loss is even greater, the following on our experience to talk about some of the use of Foundry Materials materials on some experience.
In the choice of suppliers I agree with such a point of view, that is, with mature products, take the road ahead, According to the specification, before the use of materials, many companies have to material suppliers for quality system audit, process review, and then laboratory experiments, and then do the production of small batch test, before the formal application in mass production The Even if such a process all finished, there will be sudden quality problems, there are many companies at the beginning of the plant did not have the energy to visit all the auxiliary materials suppliers, even if the targeted study may also just go through , Because you can not completely understand the people of the main industry technology, the main process, supply manufacturers will not tell you the core. In my personal experience, it is the first to use the most well-known brands in the market a lot of use of the product, because the industry's other companies have made a choice, but also experienced a lot of practice test of mature products. Take the core support, for example, at present our company has been used to the two largest domestic car cylinder production company supply company's products, from 2009 so far using the core support millions, there has been no quality problems. There are many negative examples, one time I went to a Foundry Materials enterprise in Jiangsu to help deal with a very serious quality problems, the engine block in the user during the use of water jacket wall leakage, the reason is the cylinder of the foundry use of the core support Not very good with the Foundry Materials fusion, the company since that the core is a matter of indifferent little material, no one can manufacture, the production of core enterprises simply do not have any technical ability, the combination of the two caused the engine in the Major quality accidents in the aftermarket.
Another point of view is that the application of enterprises is not only in the purchase of materials, but also to learn a technology, get a service, especially technical services. In the high level of material suppliers who you can learn a lot of things, once a wholly foreign-owned enterprises to our factory services, see the individual sand core has loose and other quality problems, give us a detailed explanation of the amount of sand and The proportion of the area of the shot, the arrangement of the position of the shot and the position of the upper and lower cassettes, the process of forming the sand core during the sanding process, so that we have obtained the training of the system and greatly improved the quality of the sand core accelerate. Therefore, we not only want to buy materials, at the same time to learn technology, buy technical services, improve themselves, a high level of technical services also means that the level of business.
There is a point of view, is the use of reliable and stable Foundry Materials material is low cost, in a sense to buy a good material, expensive materials, enterprises in the purchase of a Foundry Materials material, must not simply to its price to decide, To be comprehensive and comprehensive measure. There is a business to buy ceramic filter than the market with the largest amount of the most reliable quality of the product a few cents cheaper, the use of such filters in the production process due to the filter through the rate is not enough, Foundry Materials the highest point of pouring Of the phenomenon, several batches of each batch, each time hundreds of pieces in the cylinder Foundry Materialss using the filter when there have been two times a small number of washed down the phenomenon, accounting for about 3% of the number of production. Here as long as you will be a little calculation to such a conclusion, if you buy a reliable, stable and slightly expensive dime of the filter use, the total cost will be much lower, the level of comprehensive cost to measure the cheap.


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In Store Event with A Voice 4 Paws at Park and Tilford
Meet some friendly furred people looking for new homes at Park and Tilford on Saturday July 15 2017.
A Voice 4 Paws will be visiting our Park and Tilford store with some of the animals looking for new homes. Come out to meet them and learn more about adoption possibilities.
Professional Dog Trainer Saro will be joining us to offer tips and tricks.
About A Voice 4 Paws Canine Rescue Society
A Voice4paws Canine Rescue Society is a not-for-profit all breed, no-kill rescue organization with foster homes located throughout the Lower Mainland, BC, Canada. Their aim is to find the best homes possible for dogs who have been neglected, abused, injured or surrendered for euthanization.
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Blasphemour Records Bands
- A Life of Torment
- Annulment
- Bearer, The
- Better Days
- Bleak
- Chaos Order
- Concrete
- Crossthread
- Deformity
- Departed
- Dying Wish
- Excessive Force
- Forty Days Rain
- Frost Giant
- Funerals
- Great Reversals
- Harvest
- Holding On To Nothing
- Hounds
- Juggernaut
- Liars Cult
- Longest War
- Losing Skin
- Serration
- Sovereign
- Unrestrained
- Vatican
- Wandersword
- Werewolf Congress
- WirgHata
- Buttons and Stickers
- Cassettes
- CDs
- Vinyl
Bearer, The - Fiction 7" (Splatter Vinyl)
Product Code: 7BR030
Blasphemour Records in conjunction with Coin Toss Records are proud to announce the new EP "Fiction" from The Bearer. "Fiction" will be available March 10th on all digital platforms (ITunes, Bandcamp, Spotify, etc), as well as 7" vinyl. Blasphemour Records and Coin Toss Records will each be offering a limited/numbered preorder edition with alternate artwork. This recording will eat faces and take you to outer spaces.
"Fiction" was recorded in Austin with Andrew Hernandez (The Sword, Mammoth Grinder) at Estuary Recording Facility. Digital master by Simon Sludge (Nightmarer, War From A Harlots Mouth), and vinyl master by Alan Douches of West West Side Music. The vinyl edition of "Fiction" will be pressed on transparent deep purple with royal blue and yellow splatter 7". Artwork done by Alexandre Goulet (Despised Icon, Meet the Mailman). This sophomore release from The Bearer features concept songs based on science fiction movies, books, TV shows and video games such as Dune, Blade Runner, The X-files, and Doom.
The Bearer is a Hardcore band based out of Austin, Texas, and is made up of seasoned musicians who play for the love of the music. They bring passion from their previous/other projects: Spitfire (Solid State), The Takeover (Stillborn Records), Vetter Kids (Texas Is Funny), UGLYTWIN, DSGNS (Pluto Records), Hundred Year Storm (Floodgate Records) and Love Begotten. Drawing also from their influences of Metal, Metalcore, and Hardcore; The Bearer puts on shows full of energy and zeal.
Some of you may remember The Bearer from their track Blood Mouth on the Blasphemour Records "Family and Friends Summer Sampler 2016" album.
For Fans Of: Cursed / Botch / Norma Jean / Old Wounds
You can now stream 4 out of the 5 tracks via New Noise Magazine, Idioteq, No Clean Singing and Scene Point Blank. Each publication has their own exclusive track.
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using FUSION MINERAL PAINT
I've been having fun at my shop playing with some really great colours! Fusion has created 32 little recipe cards that tell you how to mix some beautiful shades of paint.
I love this range of colours and they were so easy to mix! I have been anxious to paint with a lovely pink and this shade is almost yummy enough to eat. It reminds me of ice cream.
The first three colours shown below are the colours I used to paint these two little chairs and hat box. If you would like a few tips on mixing custom colours, you can read more on my blog.
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Issue 17 Digital: Mirth
Issue 17 Digital: Mirth
The Mirth issue is full of whimsy and cheer, a collection of essays, interviews, illustrations, and images to help you cultivate a joyful heart. We believe that laughter truly is the best medicine, and that a merry heart is as good as swallowing a magic pill. Do yourself a flavor and order a copy of this delightful issue.
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More than one in five workers on minimum wageBy TPN/Lusa, in News · 12-03-2018 09:37:00 · 0 Comments
There were 670,000 workers in Portugal on a minimum wage in December 2017, 9% more than 12 months earlier, the government said.
Some 20.4% of the country's work force was being paid the minimum possible by law in December.
This means that an extra 55,500 workers were being paid just €557 a month at that time.
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Alan was driven to create the idea of Eat For Power after being affected by his own health and discovering the impact of the fitness community on his life. Since then Alan has begun work with Nutrition Dynamic who believes in Reaching Ones Potential through Nutrition and Lifestyle Change; these views could not be more in line with Alan and Eat For Power. He is thrilled to be under such a wonderful organization.
From the moment you walk through the door it is you and me; every step of the way. I'll be there rooting for you and forever pushing to reach the new you.
Eat For Power is more than a fly-by slogan. It's a Belief, an Idea and a Way of Life providing the key to living a Long, Sustainable, Happy and Powerful Life.
Physical training can be a tough hurtle to conquer on your own. With the numerous styles and methodologies floating around it's hard to know what is right for you
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With the hundreds of diets advertised everywhere from social media to the nightly news, it is no wonder mass confusion has engulfed modern society.
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It has been proven time and time again in studies and practical application that physical activity and proper nutrition can improve the quality of life exponentially in any and all individuals.
All too often Physical Fitness and proper Nutrition are far over looked in our current society and particularly in the field of both internal and mental medicine.
Areas of Particular importance include Eating Disorders, Alcohol and Substance Abuse, PTSD in Service-Men and the General Public, Post Hospital Rehab and acute Mental illness including Depression, Anxiety and many other areas.
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Landfill Location Chester, PA
Chester is a relatively small city that is located in Delaware County in Pennsylvania. The city of Chester's Department of Public Works is partnered with Delaware County Solid Waste for its landfill related needs.
Delaware County Solid Waste
583 Longview Rd
Boyertown, PA
The Department of Public Works in the city of Chester also provides citizens with curbside trash pickup services. More information on this can be found here.
Most common household trash can be dropped off or collected curbside; however, there are quite a few items that are not collected. Some of the most common ones are:
- Electronic Devices
- Flammable material
- Automobile parts
- Freon Appliances
- Tires
- Light bulbs
- Infectious material
- Explosive material
- Batteries
- Wet or Oil based paints
- Bricks
- Cement
Few Other Facts About Chester
Chester sits upon the beautiful Delaware River with a population around 35,000 residents. Founded in 1682 with the first European settlers coming from Sweden. Some notable people from Chester include Marine General John M. Paxton Jr and composer Alex North, who wrote the film score for the movie"A Streetcar Named Desire"
Recycling in Chester
The Department of Public Works provides curbside recycling services that the citizens of Chester can make use of every Wednesday (barring major holidays). While having recyclables collected on scheduled pickup days is very convenient, residents can also utilize recycling drop of services as well. Residents that have questions and queries can direct these to:
Department of Public Works
Beverly Harris, Administrative Assistant
The Department of Public Works advises residents that certain recyclables should not be placed with regular household trash. These recyclables include:
- Newspaper
- Glass
- Aluminum/Metal cans
A list of drop-off locations for glass, plastic bottles, and aluminum/metal cans, can be found here.
Household Hazardous Waste
The City of Chester is directly privy to at least four HHW collection events that are held each year in Delaware County (where Chester is situated). In addition to this, Delaware County, Mongomery County, Chester County, Bucks County, and the City of Philadelphia, altogether provide well over 30 HHW collection events in any given year.
Yard Waste
Residents of the City of Chester don't have curbside pickup services for yard waste. However, there is a convenient yard waste drop-off site that they can make use of. This yard waste drop-off site is located in Chester Township:
Delaware County Compost Farm
2300 Concord Road/Incinerator Road
Feltonville, PA
How Rolloffs-Containers Are Priced
Most customers when deciding on purchasing a service would like to know what they are getting for the hard earned dollars. And we feel that is a legitimate concern that deserves to be addressed. We want our clients to feel comfortable and have all the information they need to be make an informed decision. So we are going to tell you what goes into our pricing model so you can better educated of the mechanics of how we determine our costs. Basically there are 4 components to our model. Landfill costs, Debris type, Debris weight, and the Rental period. We will explain below in more detail what comprises each category.
- Landfill Prices: Landfill costs are a factor that we have no control over. Each landfill throughout the country will have different tipping fees structure. And within each state there can be great variances in prices. Each county will charge fees based on many conditions including operating costs and other overhead. With this in mind, Easy Dumpster Rental will never add on to the landfills tipping fees, unless you go over the allowed weight. But this rarely happens because we can give you a pretty good estimate by employing our dumpster weight calculator.
- Debris Type: The type of materials you are getting rid of can influence the price. Disposal companies are mandated to send certain materials to specialized landfills. Some landfills only accept solid municipal waste, while others only will accept recycling materials. And please keep in mind Easy Dumpster Rental cannot transport hazardous waste, it is against the law.
- Debris Weight: What you put into the container will have an effect on the rental cost. If you have a project where you are going to be hauling away something heavy like rock it is going to cost more than hauling away tree leaves. In addition to that the size of a canister-bin will also have an influence on the cost. A 10-yard bin is not as large as a 30-yard a front load dumpster so it will be less expensive.
- Rental Time Frames: Typically a residential homeowner will rent a can for 15 or 30 days. However, arrangements are possible to keep a container-bin for as long as it is needed. We offer flexible rates on long term rentals and our sales staff will be happy to accommodate any request. We also offer same day service in Chester and surrounding areas. We understand that emergency situations do arise and we will go out of our way to help you get the job done.
We hope that this breakdown of our pricing structure has been helpful and informative. If you still have any questions, our sales team members will be happy to help you out. Please remember us for all of your hauling needs and we will be more than happy to to work hard to earn your trust and business.


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This article suggests that good API designs happen when designers think of objects as machines, classes and interfaces as blueprints for those machines, and client programmers as users.
Objects are invisible machines that programmers use as tools. When you design an object, you design a machine for programmers. I feel thinking of objects as machines is helpful, because it encourages you to focus not only on functionality when you design objects, but also on usability.
The two main qualities I look for in any machine are functionality and usability. If I buy a new cyclometer for my bicycle, for example, I want that cyclometer to work well—to reliably keep accurate time, distance, and speed records. But I also want it to be easy to use. I want services I request often, such as switching the display between distance, time of day, and speed, to be quick and easy to access. I don't mind if less-used services, such as setting my tire size or the current time, are more difficult to access. But in no case do I want to invest more than a few minutes of my time pressing buttons or consulting the instruction booklet to access any functionality offered by my cyclometer.
Similarly, if I instantiate a class in an API, I want the resulting object to work well. I want the object to do what it promises to do, in an efficient manner, every time I ask it. But I also want the object to be easy to use. I want its interface to allow me, with no more than a few minutes searching through the API documentation, to figure out how to make the object perform the desired service.
People build machines to provide services to other people. By machine, I mean any kind of tool made by people for other people to use. Pencils, hammers, chairs, stamp dispensers, televisions, bicycles, buildings, and space shuttles are all machines in this sense. So are software applications such as word processors and accounting programs. And so are objects. Objects provide services to people who happen to be programmers.
Given that machines are created to provide services to people, every machine has a means by which people can use it, its interface. A hammer's interface is its handle. A stamp dispenser's interface is its buttons, knobs, and displays. A word processor's interface is the menus, toolbars, and dialog boxes of its graphical user interface (GUI).
An object's interface consists of some combination of constructors, fields (usually constants), and methods. These are the buttons, knobs, and displays that allow people to use the object. In the case of objects, the users are a particular kind of people, programmers, who are trained in the use of constructors, fields, and methods.
A class is not a machine. A class is a blueprint for a machine. The object is the machine. To create an object, you feed a class, the blueprint, to a computer. The computer creates the object from the blueprint automatically. Because objects exist only inside computers, people never use objects directly. Instead, people use objects indirectly by writing code. This is why object users are always programmers—to use an object, you must write code. Your code uses the object directly on your behalf.
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Born in Essex in 1936, John Henry Batchelor has been one of the leading technical illustrators of hardware for five decades. Growing up in Leigh-on-Sea during the Second World War, he witnessed dogfights between British and German aircraft in the Essex skies and, even at the age of four, put pencil to paper to draw scenes of aerial combat. The Essex coastline was one of the expected invasion points in Hitler's planned attack on a Britain softened up by the Luftwaffe, and Batchelor's early years were spent surrounded by fascinating military hardware, from tanks to machine guns. By the age of seven he could strip and reassemble a .303 Lewis machine gun and draw its constituent parts.
He left home at 16, travelling for two years before performing his National Service with the R.A.F. Batchelor began drawing for the technical publications of Bristol Aircraft Co., Martin-Baker Aircraft Co. and Saunders-Roe Ltd. One of his last jobs for Saunders-Roe was on the plans for a nuclear-powered version of the (ultimately cancelled) ten-engined Princess flying-boat.
In the early 1960s he turned freelance, contributing to Model Maker and Model Cars. Some of his earliest drawings were cutaways for the Eagle comic; in all he produced 44 episodes (making him the joint fourth most prolific contributor). His illustrations also appeared in Ranger and Tell Me Why. He also worked for the far more prestigious markets, including Time-Life Books, which led to his involvement in one of the most ambitious projects in publishing history: Purnell's History of the Second World War. Launched in 1966 under the overall editorship of Sir Basil Liddell-Hart, this massive partwork--for which Batchelor producing a total of 1,163 illustrations--had sold 10 million copies by 1976. To celebrate this momentous achievement, Batchelor was presented, by Douglas Bader, a solid silver model of a British Saladin armoured car from his grateful publisher.
He continued his association with Purnell as they launched History of the First World War and Encyclopedia of Modern Weapons and Warfare, which added to a total of almost 20 million copies sold. Many of the illustrations were reprinted in book form during the 1970s (the bibliography below is likely to be incomplete) and has also illustrated a wide range of other books--and continues to do so. He has also drawn countless illustrations for the American magazine, Popular Science and has had his paintings exhibited around the world.
Since the mid-1980s, he has also produced artwork for postage stamps via the Crown Agency for 40 countries around the globe, including many for the British Commonwealth. In 2003 he launched his own company, Publishing Solutions, to reprint selections of his work.
Some of Batchelor's artwork can be found for sale here.
Tank. A history of the armoured fighting vehicle, with Kenneth Macksey. London, Macdonald & Co., 1970; revised, Macdonald, 1973.
Fighter. A history of fighter aircraft, with Bryan Cooper. London, Macdonald & Co., 1973.
Rail Gun, text by Ian Hogg. Broadstone, John Batchelor Ltd., 1973; New York, Scribner, 1973.
Fighting Aircraft of World War One and Two, compiled by Susan Joiner. London, Phoebus, 1976.
Fighting Ships of World War One and Two, compiled by Anne Maclean & Suzanne Poole, 1976.
Battleships, 1856-1977, text by Antony Preston. London, Phoebus, 1977.
Fighters, 1914-1945, text by Bill Gunston. London & New York, Hamlyn, 1978.
Air Power. A modern illustrated military history, text by Bill Gunston. London, Phoebus, 1979.
Airborne Warfare, 1918-1945, text by Barry Gregory. London, Phoebus, 1979.
Land Power. A modern illustrated military history. London, Phoebus, 1979.
Illustration in Action, with Geraldine Christy. Poole, Blandford, 1985.
Flight, with Christopher Chant. Limpsfield, Dragon's World, 1990.
Historic Sailing Ships Postcards; 24 full-colour paintings. London, Constable, 1992; New York, Dover, 1992.
North American Lighthouses. Colouring book. London, Constable, 1995; New York, Dover, 1995.
World War II Allied Aircraft Planes [trading cards], text by Philip Smith. London, Constable, 1995; Mineola, N.Y., Dover, 1995.
100 Historic Aircraft in Full Colour. Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications, 2000.
World War II Warships. Mineola, N.Y., Dover, 2006.
De Havilland Mosquito, text by Malcolm Lowe. Wimborne, Publishing Solutions in association with Minster Press, 2008.
B-17 Flying Fortress, text by Malcolm Lowe. Wimborne, Publishing Solutions in association with Minster Press, 2008.
Fairey Swordfish, text by Malcolm Lowe. Wimborne, Publishing Solutions in association with Minster Press, 2009.
Illustrated books
Aircraft by Kenneth Munson, illus. with others, 1971; adapted for easy reading by Louise M. Moyle, London, Macdonald & Co., 1975.
Ships by Brian Benson, illus. with others. London, Macdonald & Co., 1971; adapted for easy reading by Jim Rogerson, London, Macdonald & Co., 1975.
Arms and Armour by Frederick Wilkinson, illus. with Arthur Gay. London, Hamlyn, 1971.
Armoured Fighting Vehicles by John F. Milsom. London, Hamlyn, 1972.
Artillery by Ian Hogg. London, Macdonald & Co., 1972.
Spotlight on Soldiers by Frederick Wilkinson, illus. with others. Feltham, Hamlyn, 1973.
Richard's Bicycle Book by Richard Ballantine. New York, Ballantine Books, 1972; London, Pan Books, 1975; revised, Pan Books, 1976; new revised ed., Pan Books, 1977.
Sail Racer by Jack Knights. St. Albans, Coles, 1973.
A Historic Artillery by Ian V. Hogg. London, Hamlyn, 1974.
The Story of the Bomber by Bryan Cooper. London, Octopus Books, 1974.
Weapons and Armour by A. J. Barker, illus. with others. London, Hamlyn, 1974.
Armies of the American Revolution by Ian V. Hogg, edited by S. L. Mayer. London, Leo Cooper for Bison Books Ltd., 1975.
German Fighting Vehicles 1939-1945, with Peter Chamberlain & Chris Ellis.London, Phoebus, 1975.
German Tanks 1939-1945, with Chris Ellis & Peter Chamberlain. London, Phoebus, 1975.
Jet Fighters by David A. Anderton, ed. Bernard Fitzsimons. London, Phoebus, 1975.
The Navies of the American Revolution by Antony Preston & David Lyon, ed. S. J. Mayer. London, Leo Cooper for Bison Books Ltd., 1975; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1975.
Submarines. The history and evolution of underwater fighting vessels by Antony Preston. London, Octopus Books, 1975.
Weapons and Uniforms of the U.S.S.R. by Fred Stevens & Ian V. Hogg. London, Phoebus/BPC Pub., 1975.
German Tanks and Fighting Vehicles of World War II by Chris Ellis & Peter Chamberlain (contains German Fighting Vehicles 1939-1945 and German Tanks 1939-1945). London, Phoebus, 1976)
German & Allied Secret Weapons of World War II by Ian V. Hogg & J. B. King. London, Phoebus, 1976; Seacaucus, New Jersey, Chartwell Books in association with Phoebus, 1976.
Jet Fighters and Bombers by David A. Anderton, ed. Bernard Fitzsimons. London, Phoebus, 1976.
An Illustrated History of the Navies of World War II by Antony Preston, introduced & edited by S. L. Mayer. London, Hamlyn, 1976.
The Machine Gun, 1976; combined with The Submachine Gun as The Complete Machine Gun by Ian V. Hogg. London, Phoebus, 1979.
Weapons & War Machines by Andrew Kershaw & Ian Close. London, Phoebus, 1976.
Helicopters at War by Bill Gunston. New York & London, Hamlyn, 1977.
Naval Aircraft 1914-1939 by Louis S. Casey. London, Phoebus, 1977.
The Tank Story by Ian Hogg. London, Phoebus, 1977.
Naval Gun by Ian Hogg. Poole, Blandford Press, 1978.
The Complete Handgun: 1300 to the present by Ian V. Hogg. London, Phoebus, 1979.
The Submachine Gun, 1978; combined with The Machine Gun as The Complete Machine Gun by Ian V. Hogg. London, Phoebus, 1979.
Sea Power by Antony Preston & Louis S. Casey. London, Phoebus, 1979.
The Illustrated History of Seaplanes and Flying Boats by Louis S. Casey. London, Hamlyn, 1980.
The Airborne Soldier by John Weeks. Poole, Dorset, Blandford Press, 1982.
The Fighting Ship by Bernard Brett, illus. with Ivan Lapper. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1985.
Fighter by Chris Chant. Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1988.
Handgun by John Walter. Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1988.
Richard's New Bicycle Book by Richard Ballantine, illus. with Peter Williams. London, Pan Books, 1990.
Twentieth Century War Machines: Land by Christopher Chant. London, Chancellor Press, 1999.
A Century of Triumph. The history of aviation by Christopher Chant. New York & London, Free Press, 2002.
Soul of the Sword. An illustrated history of weaponry and warfare from prehistory to the present by Robert L. O'Connell. New York, Free Press, 2002.
(* Some background material has been derived from Batchelor own website here.)
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On November 8, 2016, a couple was walking through Central Park (in New York). In this place they have caught a very bright unidentified flying object not visibile to the naked eye.
Witness statement:
"My wife and I had walked through Central Park around dusk, the sky was cobalt blue and fading. We were up on the Cedar Hill area looking towards Fifth Avenue. I am a serious amateur photographer, and know about reflection of light etc. I used my flash to light up my wife, and balance the fading light. I noticed some dust illuminated...often orb-like but are pollens etc..I pointed my camera about 30 degrees UP towards the buildings to get a photo with the 1st Quarter Moon which was about 90 degrees up and just over the buildings. I normally use a telephoto lens, with specific settings to lower the shine of the moon, but I used a wide angle lens 24mm at F8 1/80th and wasn't too worried about it being overly bright. (I did use my flash, but the inverse square law would negate any issue as it drops off to 1/100 the power after only 10 feet). I took a few in the exact spot, and took a peek. I suddenly saw this BRIGHT light in the top left area! It was not there 1 second prior, nor after. (There were no airplanes or helicopters or drones, and even then, they flash a red warning beacon, not as bright as the moon. It was not a meteor as there would have been more in the photos. I cannot explain what this is! In the photo, you see a cloud and if you look close, 2 orb like reflections, and 1 small one near the Bright White light. I have included a photo I took to show the same area w/o the light."


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Approximately 300 artists came to participate in a three-day art event dubbed as 2011 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition last weekend. This year is its 50th Year celebration and artists showcased their best art pieces for art lovers to see, own and appreciate. Nathan Phillips was turned into an artsy fartsy rendevous of artists from all walks of life and who are using different kinds of media: from steels to barbed wires to mixed media to trash to ceramics. Name it and there's one medium for everyone–and one art piece that speaks to you.
"Through the act of imprisonment, one can create a place of refuge and security. Living a life of solitude can be consoling it can also become increasingly lonely to the point where one is completely disconnected from the rest of the world. In the end, it is the person who inflicts pain to outsiders that also causes harm to themselves." Jon Riosa / email@example.com
"My work is about noticing the beauty of discarded and everyday materials. What is regarded as "trash" is embedded in plaster and painted in oils to create bas (low) reliefs, sculptural objects which hang on the wall." Jane Derby (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Suggestion Box. "This structure is an indicatorof the possible – suggestive of a fence, gazebo, a room divider, a ceiling, door or window. This is filled with slices of steel pipe with cast glass–rough cut and mineral-like on one side, smooth and lens-like on the other." www.cruciblestudio.ca
Artist: Daniel Bombardier / www.denialart.com
Artist: Alex Anagnostou / www.alexananostou.com
Artist: Amanda McCavour / www.amandamccavour.com
Artist: CLINT GRIFFIN / email@example.com
All photos were taken with artist's permission.
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Midtown Raleigh News
Painter Katrina Schmidt-Rinke finds inspiration in new places
Wherever painter Katrina Schmidt-Rinke goes, she finds inspiration for her landscapes and cloudscapes.
Whether she's at home in North Carolina or traveling, there's something about each place that catches her eye.
"I love going to a new place and seeing the difference, taking in the clouds and weather," she said. "I pick up something everywhere I go."
An exhibit of Schmidt-Rinke's newest oversized oils and watercolors are on display at Gallery C at 540 N. Blount St. through March 26. An opening reception will be held during this week's First Friday.
Schmidt-Rinke was born in Montreal and later moved to Cincinnati and Asheville before heading to school at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she studied painting.
She's been creating art for as long as she can remember.
"I've always been doing art, since I could pick something up to make it," she said.
A deep respect and gratitude for nature also has been a constant in Schmidt-Rinke's life. She loves being outdoors and taking in the sights, smells and sounds that the natural world offers.
With her landscapes, Schmidt-Rinke paints what she sees but also interprets the scene by changing colors or abstracting forms. She hopes to invite viewers into the world she's created.
"My goal is really to create a peaceful, relaxing, therapeutic escape," she said. "When you look at them, they take you to another place."
Schmidt-Rinke said an event like First Friday gives her the chance to hear others' impressions of her work. She said it's nice to hear feedback directly but also to overhear conversations and learn what others are thinking.
Even when she hasn't painted a specific place, viewers see places familiar and meaningful to them. One person may see an Oklahoma prairie, while another sees the marshes of Maine.
No matter what people see, though, Schmidt-Rinke is glad to share the moment.
"If your painting can take someone somewhere else, I think that's really great," she said.
Examples of Schmidt-Rinke's work are available at galleryc.net.


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Kim Jones Screens 'A Place or Us' at Reel Sisters Film Festival
Recent 2016 graduate Kim Jones brought her film 'A Place for Us' to Brooklyn Heights for this year's Reel Sisters Film Festival, after recently screening her film in Newark.
"In fear of police brutality and the racism plaguing America, an African American family searches Africa or a safe place to raise their 10 year old son."
Kim was also interviewed by News 12 about her film. To watch her interview, please click here.
Congratulations Kim! Very proud of your successes!


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The Simultania Project is a video-based body of work in which outside participants produced the video content by recording their subjective experiences of reality during the same one minute moment in time on November 13, 2010, at precisely 16:00 UTC/GMT. In their videos, participants time-stamped to a single time-source to ensure perfect synchronization. The video artworks consist of these hundreds of simultaneous points of view playing back together and in perfect sync. The artworks include Simultania (2011), a 1-channel video, and Simultania Project (2014-2017), a multi-channel immersive video installation with audio.
simultania (all at once)
Simultania (all at once) is a photomontage grid composed of nearly 40,000 video-stills, as taken from the over 200 simultaneous videos submitted by Simultania participants. Each video comprises a column, while each row depicts a simultaneous moment in time across the various points of view. When viewed online, the photomontage is dynamic, meaning that viewers can zoom in and out of the image without losing image quality. Together, this collection of simultaneous moments offers the viewer a representation of totality across time and point of view.
Video-stills from the second movement of 16:00/13NOV/2010 (Simultania Project), 2014-2017, multi-channel video installation (renderings shown above)
Artist Statement: Simultania Project, Erin Cooney
The Simultania Project is a video-based body of work in which outside participants produced the video content by recording their subjective experiences of reality during the same one minute moment in time on November 13, 2010, at precisely 16:00 UTC (Universal Standard Time, which coincides with Greenwich Mean Time). In their videos, the more than 200 participants time-stamped to a single time-source to ensure perfect synchronization. The video artworks consist of these simultaneous points of view playing back together and in perfect sync.
I started work on the Simultania Project after experiencing the new technology of live webcams, which enable one to directly see phenomena occurring in places beyond one's customary sensory horizon in real time. The experience made me aware of the disconnect that exists between how consciousness feels from within versus what we rationally know about it. From within, consciousness entails having an experience of the world that seems total and complete in our experience of it. From within, it feels fantastical to imagine that phenomena happening beyond our own sensory horizon could be as real as that which we directly experience. And yet cognitively, we of course know this to be the case. We also know that every other conscious animal alive is having an experience of consciousness which feels just as all-encompassing and central to them as our own feels to ourselves. Yet from within, this seems absurd and impossible. This is the paradox of point of view. It is my intention with Simultania to enable the viewer to viscerally experience this paradox by demonstrating the proof of other peoples' simultaneous experiences of reality.
The artwork was in many ways run like a scientific experiment. The multi-channel installation itself is built on an algorithmic system in which each of the contributed 'point of view' videos is treated as a piece of data for use in this conceptual demonstration. In producing the videos, I asked participants to use the camera to stand in for their experience of consciousness during this single moment in time. After a process of manually setting each of the 213 video's start points to exactly 16:00 GMT (as per the time-stamp) and cutting each video to one minute in length, the videos were ready to be inserted into the algorithmic system, which itself consists of three methods of demonstration. The first method entails randomly placing videos into grids, so that multiple simultaneous perspectives play together and in perfect sync on each screen. The second system entails layering semi-transparent points of view atop one another, until 25 videos play together on a single picture plane, effectively forming a new abstract, aggregate point of view of the single moment in time. The third and last method entails cutting from one video to another in quick succession, effectively allowing the viewer to experience the single moment in time from a series of disparate perspectives and locations. In all three methods, the audio is limited to what was recorded by participants during the one minute moment.
The installation is in 1080HD and runs across multiple channels (depending on the space), which are set up in an immersive formation around the viewer. The looping installation has a duration of 120 minutes.
The Simultania Project is an exploration of consciousness, of how it feels from within versus what we discursively know of it. It's about transcending one's normal, singular sense of being in the world for a chance to experience the 'hyper-reality' that emerges out of a multi-layered perspective. It's meant to act as proof to an incredulous mind that reality is always occurring in places where we are not, and that other experiences of reality are taking place besides our own.


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March 2017
Rebel Case: A Greenhouse Concept for the Popular Café
By using wall murals from our collection Curious, the popular coffee shop and restaurant Viskan in Borås has managed to take its interior concept all the way. With a consistent indoor-outdoor feeling, a lovely, relaxed, and welcoming environment has been created for the guests.
Kids' Room Ideas: Decorate a Reading Nook for the Adventurer
We've created a cozy reading corner for children where a tipi, crowned with a pennant banner made out of wallpaper samples from our Storytime collection, creates the perfect starting ground for exploration.
New Collection – In Collaboration With Raimat Winery
For the exclusive collection The Senses of Raimat Vineyard we have produced six wallpaper murals inspired by the Raimat castle, situated in the heart of Catalonia and is a visual interpretation of the winery's pride – the red wine Anima de Raimat as it can be experienced through our senses.


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Season's Greetings from CTM
Seasons Greetings from CTM! Each year we try and pick a different unique location for our Holiday Card. This year's photo was taken at the entrance to The Evergreen State College. Thurston County is home to two outstanding four year institutions of higher learning, one public and one private. Saint Martin's University was founded in 1895 and has a current enrollment of 1,800 students. Founded in 1967, The Evergreen State College now enrolls 4,200 students. CTM boasts two graduates of The Evergreen State College and one of Saint Martin's. Our other attorneys attended undergraduate schools at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas; Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire; Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington; and the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware.
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Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, Germany said last month that – by studying a type of worm called C. elegans – they've made a breakthrough in understanding why humans age. They call the aging process a quirk of evolution. Their work involves identification of the genes belonging to a process called autophagy – from Greek words auto meaning self and phagy meaning devouring – a normal physiological process related to the destruction of damaged cells in the body, which, these researchers explained:
Read the rest of this fascinating study here: Penetrating the mystery of why we age | Human World | EarthSky


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There were times when I never thought this day would come. I know people say stuff like that all the time, but really, there were a lot of bad times when I never thought this day would come.
So much has happened since I started dental school back in 2006. Engaged, married, pregnant, Caroline's birth, my year off, separation, divorce. But my trainwreck of a personal life aside, I passed all those classes, took all those exams, cared for all those patients, finished all those requirements, passed all those boards.
I finished my requirements a few weeks ago, and last week I tied up all the loose ends, transferring my patients to third-year students and completing all my paperwork. I cleaned out my desk and brought home all the piles of dental stuff in my lockers. (It sat there in boxes on my living room floor for a few days... burs and fake teeth and impression material and spatulas and wax and drills and dental instruments... before I finally found the space to stash it all away.) I did my exit counseling for my loans (and man, was that ever depressing), squared up with the prosthetic lab and the bursar and the record room. Signed out, officially. No more responsibilities to the school. Ever.
It made me feel sadder than I expected it to. Don't get me wrong, that entire program was immensely stressful, and I am glad to finally have gotten through it. But I guess I'm a nostalgic kind of person and I will miss all the people that I will never see again. Of course I'm starting there as a resident at the end of June, so I'll be right back in the same space, but most of the people won't be there. I was originally pretty upset about switching classes, but I really, really like my "new" class, and I will miss them.
Regardless, I'm still so excited for Sunday that I could jump up and down and scream. I've been wearing my cap, gown, and hood around my apartment for the past entire week. (Which is normal.)
My degree. Doctor Julia, DMD. It is so close, I can taste it. It is something that no one will ever be able to take away from me.


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What happens on a Sunday?
On Sundays we have two services; 11am & 7pm. We try to cater for all ages
We apply the Bible to our daily lives be it with the younger toddler or primary school age children or older people.
There is a Creche and Sunday School during the morning service for all the children.
Additionally we now broadcast the church service to our neighbouring hall (Stanley Spence Hall) for people who need to take young children out, don't like crowds, are receiving treatment or any other reason. This allows you to both see and hear the service, without being in the sanctuary.
The Praise Band leads us in a mixture of modern Christian songs and traditional hymns and We do not have a dress code - come just as you are. Generally we are finished by 12:15. Do stay if you wish for refreshments or make use of some quiet space in the Prayer Room.
The evening service tends to be that bit more relaxed and informal and lasts about an hour.
Our premises are easily accessible for wheelchairs and have toilet facilities suitable for all. A hearing aid induction loop system is also installed. There are braille, large print format or standard hymn books. Many people sing from the big screens.
Come along and see what you think; you will get a warm welcome!