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By DAVID GREEN
The Fayette village council is moving closer toward hiring a new administrator, but following discussion at a closed session last week, the hiring process will be delayed.
At a special council meeting Jan. 11, mayor Ruth Marlatt said she discussed with committee members Diane Brubaker and David Borer the idea of advertising the position in three area daily newspapers. The ad would list a Feb. 3 deadline and then interviews would be scheduled.
Marlatt said the interview committee has typically included the mayor, the council president and the outgoing administrator. In this case, the current administrator is Tom Clemensen who was hired to serve as maintenance supervisor Sept. 14 and then appointed to the position of interim administrator when Amy Metz left a few weeks later.
An additional member of council could be added as well as a member of the public, but she recommended keeping an odd number of people.
At that point, councilor Rodney Kessler called for a closed session to discuss the administrator post.
After about 20 minutes, council returned and Marlatt announced that the Government Affairs committee would discuss the job description further at its Feb. 1 meeting.
ATTORNEY—Council voted to retain the services of attorney Tom Thompson of Bryan for general services and Mark Powers for service with court matters.
Brubaker introduced the topic by proposing to seek bids from other attorneys, but council member Julia Ruger suggested keeping Thompson since he's familiar with village issues.
Village financial officer Lisa Zuver said the village spent about $4,000 with Powers for help with police issues last year and $13,800 with Thompson. Thompson is hired to attend every council meeting. Zuvers said he also spent considerable time with the sewer separation project known as the long term control plan.
PRESIDENT—Borer was chosen council president to serve as mayor pro tempore in Marlatt's absence.
MEETINGS—Council will continue to schedule regular meetings at 6 p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of the month. A committee-of-the-whole will meet on the second Wednesday of the month.
Clemensen suggested returning to two meetings a month to hasten the process of putting ordinances into effect, but council chose instead to call for special meetings when needed.
CONTRACTS—An agenda item listed making Tom Rupp and Bob Seigneur contract vendors, but instead the issue will be discussed by the Government Affairs committee.


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- Individual points of interest along the route may charge admission fees.
Life still moves at an unhurried pace, neighbors wave at passing cars, and visitors are embraced with old-fashioned hospitality along this nationally designated route. The Minnesota River begins at Big Stone Lake and this drive follows it along a series of roads to Belle Plaine.
Several spots focus on Dakota Indian heritage and tell the tragic story of the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War. You can learn about this history at the Lower Sioux Agency, Fort Ridgely and Lac qui Parle Mission-all state historic sites, and at the Treaty Site History Center in St. Peter. New Ulm's German heritage is celebrated in its festivals, shops and restaurants.
Many of the downtown areas boast antique shops and mom-and-pop eateries. Or, bring a canoe to experience the sites by water, as the Minnesota River is one of the few canoe rivers in southwestern Minnesota. Mankato is the western access for the Sakatah Singing Hills Bike Trail.
For bird lovers, whether you're a fan of the majestic bald eagle or tiny yellow-throated warbler, the Minnesota River Valley offers numerous birding hotspots - particularly at wildlife refuges and state parks. There are many good birding areas, particularly at Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge, Lac qui Parle State Park and five other state parks along the river.
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- From Belle Plaine, MN take Mn Hwy 25 northwest ( across the MN River) to Sibley County Hwy 6. Turn left onto County Hwy 6 where the byway begins. Follow the byway signs and make sure to stop and pick up a byway guide for a detailed map.
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HDD Pictures of Japanese Bedroom: Traditional Timeless Look of Bedroom Design
Japanese Bedroom Inspirational DesignThere are two basic designs in Japanese bedroom. They are modern and traditional bedroom design. You can choose between two of them as the design for your bedroom. However, if you love to have something traditional and unique for your bedroom, you can choose traditional Japanese bedroom. This traditional bedroom design is very identical with tatami bed. Tatami bed becomes the most important element as well as the focal point in this design.
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Adding an Excel Chart to a Word 2007 Document
When you insert a chart in Word, Excel is automatically started, and the data that you chart is placed in an Excel workbook. However, that Excel workbook isn?t stored as a separate document. Instead, the chart and the datasheet workbook are stored within the Word document. The following procedure shows how to insert a chart on a Microsoft Word 2007 page.
1. Move the insertion point to the spot where you want the chart to appear.
2. Click the Insert tab and then click the Chart button in the Illustrations group.
The Create Chart dialog box is summoned.
3. Select the type of chart you want to create.
You can select any of the following chart types:
• Column: Data is displayed as vertical columns. The columns can be displayed side by side or stacked, and you can pick various shapes for the columns, including simple bars, 3-D blocks, cylinders, cones, and pyramids.
• Line: The data is shown as individual points linked by various types of lines.
• Pie: The data is displayed as slices in a circular pie.
• Bar: The same as a column chart, except the columns are laid out horizontally instead of vertically.
• Area: Similar to a line chart, except that the areas beneath the lines are shaded in.
• X Y (Scatter): Plots individual points using two values to represent the X, Y coordinates.
• Stock: Plots high/low/close values.
• Surface: Similar to a line chart but represents the data as a three-dimensional surface.
• Doughnut: Similar to a pie chart, but with a hole in the middle.
• Bubble: Similar to a scatter chart, but uses a third value to determine the size of the bubble.
• Radar: Plots data relative to a central point rather than X- and Y-axes.
4. Click OK.
Word whirs and grinds for a moment and then inserts the chart into the page. The reason for all the commotion is that in order to insert the chart, Word must find out whether Excel is already running. If not, Word launches Excel and rearranges your screen so that Word and Excel are displayed side by side.
If Excel happens to be running already when you insert the chart, it won't be tiled alongside Word. Instead, it will remain where it is — most likely maximized in its own full-screen window. You can press the Alt+Tab key combination to switch back and forth between Word and Excel.
5. Change the sample data to something more realistic.
The data for the chart is shown in Excel, tiled alongside Word. You need to change this worksheet to provide the data you want to chart. Notice that the chart itself changes to reflect the new data as soon as you return to Word (by clicking anywhere in the Word window).
6. Customize the chart any way you want.
Pasting a chart from Excel
If the data you want to chart already exists in an Excel workbook, the easiest way to chart it in Word is to first create the chart in Excel. Then copy the chart to the clipboard, switch over to Word, and paste the chart to the appropriate page. When you do so, the chart appears in Word exactly as it did in Excel.
When you paste an Excel chart into Word, a special smart tag icon appears next to the chart. You can click this smart tag to reveal a menu with the following choices:
- Paste as Picture: Converts the chart to a collection of Word shape objects, with no linkage to the original Excel chart or data.
- Excel Chart: This option creates a copy of the Excel data and stores it as a workbook object within your Word file. This effectively severs the chart in the Word document from the original workbook, so any changes you make to the data in the original workbook are not reflected in the Word chart (and vice versa).
- Link to Excel Chart: This option copies the chart into the Word document but creates a link to the data in the original Excel workbook. Any changes you make to the data in the original Excel workbook are reflected in the chart (and vice versa).
- Keep Source Formatting: This option keeps all of the formatting you applied in the original Excel chart. Thus, the Word chart looks exactly like the Excel chart.
- Use Destination Theme: This option reformats the chart according to the Document Theme used in the Word document. You get a chart that is formatted consistently with the rest of your document.
Changing the chart type
Word enables you to create 14 basic types of charts. Each type conveys information with a different emphasis. Sales data plotted in a column chart might emphasize the relative performance of different regions, for example, and the same data plotted as a line chart might emphasize an increase or decrease in sales over time. The type of chart that's best for your data depends on the nature of the data and which aspects of it that you want to emphasize.
Fortunately, Word doesn't force you to decide the final chart type up front. You can easily change the chart type at any time without changing the chart data. These steps show you how:
1. Click the chart to select it.
The Chart Tools Design tab appears on the Ribbon.
2. Click the Change Chart Type button in the Type group.
Word displays a gallery of chart types.
3. Click the chart type that you want.
4. Click OK, and you're done.


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Perdomo became the first Crimson sailor to earn the Griswold Trophy since Clay Johnson '08 did so in 2005 (photo courtesy Athletic Communications).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Juan Carlos Perdomo of the Harvard sailing coed team sailed to a runner-up performance at the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Singlehanded Championships to earn the Griswold Trophy. The No. 11 Crimson coeds competed at three regattas: 2nd Sister Ester Open, Hap Moore Trophy and the Mike Horn Trophy.
Perdomo was the first Harvard sailor to compete at the national championship in six years and the first freshman in Crimson history to claim second-place and first since Clay Johnson '08 did so in 2005. He secured second place after the first day of competition and never looked back over the next two days to post 74 points just 10 points behind first-place finisher Georgetown sophomore Greg Martinez. Perdomo won six races and finished in the top-10 of the 18 heats.
At the 2nd Sister Esther Open, 20 teams competed in 420s in two divisions on Breton Cove. Harvard tallied 162 overall points to claim fifth place. In the A division, sophomore skipper Marek Zaleski and freshman Emma Wheeler put on an impressive performance. The sophomore, freshman boat notched five victories and finished in the top-four nine times for 55 points and first place. Zaleski and Wheeler's 55 points was 18 points ahead of its competitors.
Rookies Matthew Mollerus and Olivia Kjorlien, skipper and crew, respectively, finished with 107 points in the B division boat. The rookies' ninth-place performance was highlighted by a win in the sixth race of competition and six single-digit finishes.
On the Thames River, Harvard raced to an 11-3 record in the four round robin regatta the featured 12 teams. The Crimson tied Roger Williams (11-3), but the Hawks won the breaker to be crowned the 2013 Hap Moore Trophy. Juniors Brian Drumm, Michael Drumm and Gram Slattery and sophomore Andrew Mollerus rounded out Harvard's four skippers. Senior Isabel Ruane, sophomores Jacob Bradt and Sydney Karnovksy and freshman Bennett Capozzi crewed the Crimson vessels.
Six teams gathered in Cambridge for the Mike Horn Trophy on Saturday. Three round robin races were raced in northwest breezes ranging in velocity from 6 to 15 knots. The Crimson sailors went 1-14 for sixth place.
The coeds fall season come to a close next weekend when Harvard sails at the Atlantic Coast Tournament at Connecticut College.


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After Junah, my hair went dark.
They say that can happen, you know. Shock or something. But not my whole head, just a streak. Like an inverted skunk of brown tailing its way through the top left part of my yellow head. Jersi, my stylist, said on most people it usually goes white.
Well fuck me for being the exception.
He sighed, brushed a small brown strand high above my head and held it there, the ends tightly wrapped around the bristles of his brush. The rest of my hair was wet, and my shoulders and chest were covered with a silver smock. I looked at my reflection and followed the lock of brown hair upwards towards the exposed bulbs running in a straight line across the top of the mirror. There were six of them and they cast a hyper-white glaze across my face so that my skin appeared translucent. You could actually see the veins pushing blood across my forehead. It was rich. It was much too much. I looked at my lap and said, Do what you can.
Jersi looked at me, or at least the mirror image of me, and said, I'm not going to pretend that it will be easy Cupcake, but I think, although the texture's changed, that I can bleach it out, maybe add a few psychological highlights.
That's when I started screaming. When I couldn't stop.
Losing Junah isn't something I like to talk about.
So I'm not going to.
What I will say is that sometimes I wonder, if Ricky wasn't on liquid time, if he didn't sleep only four and a half hours a night, if I would be able to stay awake and pretend not to go crazy, pretend not to know that it's impossible to only sleep four and a half hours a day, pretend not to care that if he isn't sleeping here he must be sleeping somewhere, right?
But where?
And with whom?
And if he slept, say, six or seven hours like most people, would I make it? Would I be able to lie beside him night after night and hate him? Night after night in some sleek and silly nightie with my arm almost touching his thigh, with my head almost touching his chest. (If I actually touch him, he says, Mags go on your own side. Like we're six and seven in the backseat of the station wagon and have drawn imaginary lines to mark territory. Pretend there is a chain saw running down this line, Junah would say, tracing the vinyl ribbing that ran the length of the upholstery, and if you cross it you will loose your arm. That's how it is with Ricky, only now it's a bed and we're twenty-nine and thirty-four.) For eighteen months I've lain here, almost insane, almost ready to leave, almost ready to scream: I'm not touching you! I'm not touching you! I'm not touching… But before I can finish, Ricky's alarm (set to New York time) sounds. If we were in New York it would be 7:30 am. But we're not in New York. We're in Los Angeles, or some Hollywood extension thereof. And in Los Angeles Ricky will shower and shave and dress himself up in gray slacks, a lavender shirt and paisley tie because it's the outfit I have laid out for him. On the back of his belt I have written i love you in Mauve-a-licious nail polish. He won't notice. It's been there for three months.
Should I say it again?
That he doesn't notice anything?
When he actually does notice he's liable to shout. Then I will have to go to Bloomies and buy him a replacement. It will be something to do. Something besides trying to peel the label off a bottle of gin in one fluid, untorn piece. Something besides imagining my hangover is morning sickness. Something besides seeing Junah die, over and over and over again in the backspaces of my mind.
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JOHN CONNOR is the Director of Integration Technology for the Buildings Business of Schneider Electric. John holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Penn State, and master's degrees in computer systems engineering from Northeastern University and software engineering from Brandeis University. John represents the Schneider Electric™ Building Business Management Systems (BMSs) on the EcoStruxure™ Architecture Committee.
Q: What are web services?
A: Web services are really a communication technology, which has developed as the Internet has grown and connected more systems together. Web service technology enables systems to easily connect with one another and share information and functionalities in a secure way that is readily embraced and understood by IT departments. A common example is making purchases online, when web services are used to exchange information between your bank or credit card company and the vendor you are making a purchase from.
Q: What role do web services play in EcoStruxure and its systems?
A: Although each EcoStruxure system already has its own real-time database of information, it has been a challenge to share that information with other systems that use older, industry-specific communication technologies such as LON, BACnet, and Modbus. EcoStruxure Web Services allows systems to share information using a common interface, making them easier to integrate and more powerful.
Q: So what are the benefits of EcoStruxure Web Services?
A: EcoStruxure Web Services take the complexity out of accessing and analyzing information from multiple systems by providing an easy-to-use interface. Additionally, since web service technology is already understood and trusted by IT departments, systems can be easily set up and maintained on an organization's network because administrators are already comfortable and familiar with the technology.
Q: How will EcoStruxure Web Services be rolled out?
A: The first to launch is the DataExchange service, which is available with the EcoStruxure™ Building Operation (formerly known as StruxureWare Building Operation) software. It will soon be supported on other software applications and will enable these to exchange real-time values, alarms, and historical data, while determining if information is available from other systems. Over time, other EcoStruxure Web Services will be released to support Schneider Electric Smart Grid and Analytics initiatives.


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Regional Council Keeps Same Electoral System
Environment Waikato has opted to retain its First Past the Post electoral system for the next local government elections.
Environment Waikato has opted to retain its First Past the Post electoral system for the next local government elections.
More nominations are needed for five local landowner and community representatives on Environment Waikato's new River and Catchment Liaison Subcommittees.
Environment Waikato is encouraging Transit NZ and Hauraki District Council to remove privet from roadsides and council land in a blitz on the plant pest.
Environment Waikato chairman Neil Clarke will join 65,000 community leaders and heads of state at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg next week.
Environment Waikato has ended its financial year $165,000 under spent in its operating budget.
Waikato landowners are to get a better service from Environment Waikato staff under a new system to integrate the Council's on-farm services.
Thames Coromandel District Council is aiming for 100 percent compliance with its wastewater treatment plants after several years of troubles.
Environment Waikato has authorised the taking of ground water for pasture irrigation in Tauhei.
Co-operation between Environment Waikato and power companies during July's flood substantially reduced flooding downstream in the lower Waikato River, this week's Environment Waikato Operations Committee heard.
Environment Waikato is gathering more information on the effects of marine farming on the coastal environment before a moratorium on new aquaculture activities expires next year.
The Waste Exchange has diverted more than six million litres of rubbish from landfills in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty over the past year.
The severe storms which hit the Waikato and Coromandel in June and July added more than half a million dollars in repair costs for the Region's flood schemes.
Floods on the Coromandel Peninsula this winter have highlighted the vulnerability of the area's communities to damage from rivers.
The Waikato's vanishing whitebait fishery could be revived and millions of whitebait returned to the environment using artificial pond breeding, according to a Raglan-based biological consultant.
Environment Waikato councillors will spend two days visiting Hauraki and the Coromandel later this month as part of a familiarisation tour of the Region.
Environment Waikato is to hear Contact Energy's application to take geothermal fluid from the Wairakei Field before hearing a rival application from Geotherm Group Ltd.
Environment Waikato has put its weight behind calls for tougher action on stock truck effluent spills in the Taupo area.
Environment Waikato has appointed a new harbourmaster for the Coromandel.
Boaties and other water users have an opportunity to voice their opinion on the reviewed Navigation Safety Bylaw covering navigation safety.
Landowners in the Awaroa/Whangape area of the north Waikato are seeing more native birds and healthier bush following a successful community possum control scheme over the past two years.


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There is nothing more sadly humorous than a someone trying to go by a self-conceived nickname. A nickname is something given to you by other people. With the dawning of the internet age a person can have a certain amount of control over what they are called, but someone can really do with an internet handle is narrow down the choices other people have.
For instance, when I first hit the BBS scene, pre-internet, I went by Wintermute, an ostentatious character name I had absolutely no reason to adopt, other than I thought it was cool.
Within a few months of getting involved in the local BBS scene, I was known as Wintermuffle, largely due to an incident with my first wife in a closet during a birthday party. Years later everyone just knows me as Fahey.
Or Big Dog.
For more sick and twisted video game comedy, follow the link to Dorkly.com.


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Kids love to incorporate their favorite television show into their birthday party, and Yo Gabba Gabba! is a popular favorite. Guest stylist Jesi Haack of Jesi Haack Design created a unique ambiance, inviting guests into a magical place filled with friendly toy monsters and musical references. Best of all, this party was designed to be easy as well as visually stimulating. Busy parents with limited time can actually recreate the elements of this birthday party with a minimum of work. From the party decorations to the three-step menu, this Yo Gabba Gabba!-themed event is as doable as it is dazzling.
Inspired by the bright hues of the Yo Gabba Gabba! theme, Jesi created a look that's colorful and upbeat. Kids can't help but smile when they see their favorite characters on hats, cups, and child-size chairs! A backdrop of character stand ups including Brobee, Plex, Foofa, Muno, Toodee, and DJ Lance Rock set the stage for the scene.
Jesi's take on the tablescape: Place settings that layer Yo Gabba Gabba! dinner plates with themed dessert plates and napkins (plus pairs of DJ Lance Rock's signature black-rimmed glasses on top). Brobee cups and party hats add a splash of green to the table, as do creative centerpieces (one of which is propped on an upside-down pail for height). Turquoise utensils and festive stretches of red pom-pom fringe pop against a burlap tablecloth, and Yo Gabba Gabba! character dolls wait patiently on child-size chairs for guests to arrive.
Creating centerpieces with upside-down Yo Gabba Gabba! trucker hats covering the planters of decorative succulents is just one of the unique design aspects Jesi incorporated.
Alternative place setting: Yo Gabba Gabba! activity place mats keep kids entertained and ensure a spill-safe zone. Solid-color dinner plates beneath Yo Gabba Gabba! dessert plates add charm while sports bottles and mini award medals wrapped around yellow napkins and utensils can double as favors.
Jesi dangled DIY tissue-paper pom poms over chairs to gussy up guest seating.
Earth tones and garden accents balance a super-colorful palette, creating a look that's fun yet relaxed.
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Shimmery fabric embellished with radio piñatas and Jesi's tissue-paper pom poms make an impressive backdrop to a food table that's surprisingly simple to pull off!
Take white bakery cupcakes up a notch with Yo Gabba Gabba! cupcake wrappers, cake toppers, and multicolored jimmies. A sprinkling of confetti on the cake stands adds a cheerful touch to the presentation.
A supervised sparkler is a clever alternative to a candle on a birthday cupcake.
These edible "DJ Lance Microphones" are deceptively easy to make using store-bought drumstick ice cream cones dipped in silver sanding sugar!
Fruit punch becomes "Muno Juice" when served in red cups with decorative eyes and stripey straws served on a white tray lined with polka dot gift wrap.
Need to add a healthful lunch option? Our "Brobee Roll Ups" go great with potato chips and fresh grapes, and empty favor pails are great for keeping everything together.
A yogurt bar is a colorful (and nutritious) option for a lunch side at a party. Just spoon your child's favorite flavor into a trifle bowl, top with granola, and set out bowls of fruit that guests can scoop onto their yogurt with spoons. We used blueberries, strawberries, and tangerine sections and labeled them "Lance Wedges" and "Todee Berries" with colorful printables you can download.
Snacks will round out the menu offerings and can contribute to the decor if you present them well! Our picks:
- Orange, yellow, and blue whirly pops — or in this case "Dance Pops" — decorated with lollipop stickers and inserted in a slab of foam wrapped in polka dot gift wrap.
- Fruit roll-ups arranged on the top of a toy drum. (We made our own by adding paint, foam cutouts, and stickers to a cardboard "paint can" purchased at a craft store.) Large marshmallows on lollipop sticks make great "drumsticks" for added decoration.
- Red Vines accented with candy eyes (we used dots of icing to make them stick) and placed in an apothecary jar lined with Sixlets candy.
Floor Puzzle Competition
The fun of putting a puzzle together is magnified by the size of a Yo Gabba Gabba! Brobee floor-puzzle activity. Divide the kids into two teams, give each team a puzzle to complete, then start the timer. The group that has more of the puzzle put together when the buzzer goes off wins.
Stick-the-Party on Brobee's Tummy
Kids will be thrilled with this fun take on the classic "Pin the Tail on the Donkey" game. Hang the party game on the wall, hand out the enclosed food decals, and have each child try to place their decal on game board while blindfolded. The child who "pins" their food closest to the star on Brobee's tummy wins!
Brobee cups and DJ Lance glasses can be used at the party and then go home with guests.
Yo Gabba Gabba! character dolls incorporated into the dining-table decor double as take-home favors.
We upgraded our basic Yo Gabba Gabba! invitation by attaching matching pieces of confetti to the colorful stripes with adhesive dots and sealing the envelope with a sticker. For extra fun, fill with loose confetti before sealing.
Prefer the convenience of an electronic invitation? Evite has plenty of Yo Gabba Gabba!-themed invitations for birthday parties, such as the Muno Guitar and the YGG Group Shot below.
View the entire line of Yo Gabba Gabba! products by clicking here.


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|Archived February 20, 2019
Remembering Asbury "Abby" Sallenger—Architect of the USGS Coastal Program
USGS scientist and renowned coastal-hazards expert Asbury "Abby" Sallenger, 63, died at home on the evening of February 5. He was a distinguished research scientist, a skilled communicator, and a mentor throughout his career. Seen as a leader in scientific response to coastal storms, Sallenger served as the voice of the USGS on hurricanes and coastal change since the USGS stood up its first scientific storm-response team in the mid-1990s.
"The untimely loss of any truly inspirational scientist is always a cause for mourning, but it is particularly difficult to lose this giant in coastal science just as he was advising on how to protect coastal communities in the post-Superstorm Sandy era," said USGS Director Marcia McNutt. "I can think of no better way to honor his legacy than to use science to build more resilient coastal communities in the face of changing climate."
Sallenger was a pioneer in recognizing the growing need for science to protect coastal communities from the hazards of coastal change. He envisioned a national coastal-research program that supported scientific excellence in response to societal needs.
"Abby's contributions to the USGS, to the Coastal and Marine Program, and to many of us personally cannot be briefly captured. He was the architect of our coastal program," said USGS scientist John Haines. "At the heart of our response to hurricanes, you'll find Abby's vision, Abby's science, and Abby's leadership. He insisted that science comes first," said Haines.
Sallenger built the USGS coastal program around these values, through a tireless dedication to research and a talent for explaining complex science and why it mattered. He garnered support among fellow scientists and leaders in the USGS, partners in research, administration officials, on Capitol Hill, and with the public. His work with extreme-storm impacts on coasts and his skill in explaining them made him a sought-after expert by many. He was regularly interviewed and quoted by national news-media outlets, such as the New York Times, CNN, and The Weather Channel.
He was one of the first to recognize the value of lidar (light detection and ranging) to quickly map coastlines (for example, see Hurricane Sandy-Pre-Storm and Post-Storm 3D Lidar Topography: Fire Island, NY). Baseline surveys of much of the U.S. coast were completed in large measure from Sallenger's efforts and his ability to establish effective partnerships to share resources with other science agencies. He developed an experimental product to forecast coastal change prior to hurricane landfall, to inform the evacuation of barrier islands, emergency response, recovery, and future land management (see Updated Assessment of Potential Coastal-Change Impacts).
Sallenger led the USGS National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards, which investigates how coasts change over the long term and during extreme storms. His recent research focused on Louisiana's barrier islands, where rapid land subsidence simulates the long-term sea-level rise that could impact the world's coasts in the next century. Last summer, Sallenger published research that the rate of sea-level rise has increased three or four times faster along much of the U.S. East Coast than globally (see Sea-Level Rise Accelerating on U.S. Atlantic Coast). He was recently named as a lead author on the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, publication expected in 2014.
Having written scientific papers for many years, Sallenger tried his hand at creative writing. His book, Island in a Storm, published in 2009, recounts the effects of a severe hurricane that destroyed one of Louisiana's barrier islands in the mid-1800s and tells the story of a young survivor.
Sallenger received many professional awards throughout his Federal career for his excellence in science, his communication skills, and his leadership.
in this issue:
Hurricane Sandy Disrupts Estuary Study, Provides Additional Research Opportunities
USGS Scientists Collaborate in Coastal Groundwater Study
South Korean Geoscientists Visit the USGS in California
Training to Use New Lidar Scanner
Remembering Asbury "Abby" Sallenger
Research Vessel Named for Retired USGS Scientist
A Passion for Educational OutreachProfile of Carol Reiss
|Archived February 20, 2019


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The Accounting Historians Journal Vol. 10, No. 1 Spring 1983
Michel W. E. Glautier
Abstract: The paper seeks to explore the origins of the paradigm on which mod-ern accounting rests. It suggests that explanations which look to the relative con-centration and dilution of the central political power may be relevant to discussing paradigms which were available in the past and may be available in the future.
The historical experience affords useful insights into current prob-lems in three significant ways. First, it reveals the uniqueness which characterizes man's efforts to solve the difficulties with which he is confronted. This uniqueness is a synthesis of complex behavioral elements uneasily constrained by closely reasoned judgment. Sec-ond, it illustrates the ephemeral nature of those human problems which stem from the insecurity attaching to life, from the shortages created by human needs and from the mismanagement often evi-denced in human affairs. Third, it identifies the accumulation of knowledge as the significant factor by which successive generations may be differentiated.
The historical experience is significant because it offers para-digms which are not only useful, but which enshrine fundamental convictions held by mankind. In this sense, it has particular impor-tance in enlarging the perception of the current crisis in account-ing. This crisis is not simply a prosaic inability to deal with a host of purely technical problems, such as inflation and valuation, but more fundamentally relates to the absence of a stable definition of accounting and a supportive theory of accounting.
The purpose of this paper is to explore the historical experience from which modern accounting has emerged, and to identify the central elements of the paradigm on which it is founded. It will be suggested that this analysis may be helpful in removing some mis-conceptions in the debate about current accounting developments.
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Inka's Rest
In Inka's Rest we work for the tourist, personalized service, for a pleasant stay, we solve all your needs, our service quality and low price, our staff gives the best deal to all tourists.
We have a travel agency with the best market prices, we serve the tourists.
We have 50 beds available:
- Double rooms with private bathroom, shared bathroom
- Twin rooms with private bathroom and shared bathroom
- Triple with private bathroom and shared bathroom
- 4 bed dormitory
- 6-bed dorm
- 8 bed dorm
- Laundry service
We have rooms on each floor, and TV in the common room.
Our room has a spacious kitchen with common supplies, for all tourists who want to prepare their own food.
We have a large dinner room with a buffet breakfast; you can eat whathever you want.
Our breakfast is designed for tourists who leave early in the morning from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
We have entertainment rooms as Pool table. We have a large terrace with a foosball table, hammocks, and a large barbecue, it is a hot area, and very relaxed.
at reception there is a safe backpacks area where you can leave your luggage and go to the tours that we offer to you.
Our home is safe, we are in the center in front of Merced church, in a passage where there is not noise of mobilities to have a pleasant rest, and we are at one block from the largest shopping center and puno market.
Inkas rest has security cameras in all hostel, for the many travelers can park their cars in front of the hostel, and the reception is open the 24 hours
The most important thing is that in our house you will find friendly service in a fresh atmosphere in our property. Something very important for us is that you remember us for our hospitality. That is our mission to serve.
We have a welcome coca tea and muña tea.
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Inka's Rest is located in the centre of town, opposite La Merced church and near the Central Market and Puno main train station. Most travelers come to Puno as a means of getting to Lake Titicaca and seeing nearby Inca ruins. Puno today is the capital of the altiplano region, a dusty, commercial border town across Lake Titicaca from Bolivia.


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The Lüneburg Heath Nature Park is situated in northern Germany in the triangle created by Hamburg, Bremen and Hannover,
and protects the largest single area of heathland in Central Europe. Although heaths used to be commonplace in Europe a few hundred years ago, they are much rarer today. Part of Lower Saxony, the nature park's landscape is a mixture of Scotch heather, common heather and juniper, herds of Heidschnucke sheep and old sheepfolds, and farm land and beekeeping huts. The view from the 169-metre Wilseder hill is worth the climb, and not just in August and September when the purple heather is in full bloom. This tranquil, open landscape, dotted with natural wonders great and small, can be enjoyed throughout the year. As well as the heath there are ancient woods and striking trees, mysterious moors and bubbling springs, and heathland streams and gullies. Whether on foot, by bike, on horseback or traditional horse-drawn carriage, you can explore the reserve on your own or in the company of a nature and landscape guide. The local restaurants and inns offer great food and drink made from locally sourced produce. And there's plenty to do for children, too, with a barefoot adventure park, high ropes courses and the Heide Park Resort theme park in Soltau. Or you could take a day trip to the town of Lüneburg on the edge of the reserve or the city of Hamburg just 40km away.
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Denver Santa Claus Shop collecting gifts for 2014 Christmas giveaway
"If it was not for you, my children would not have had Christmas this year."
"Thanks to everyone at the shop, my two boys will have a happy Christmas. This brings tears to my eyes knowing they'll wake up with big smiles that morning."
"I wasn't able to get my kids gift this year due to my layoff. I really appreciate it."
These thank-you notes sent after the 2013 gift giveaway are an indication of just how grateful thousands of metro-area families are for an organization called the Denver Santa Claus Shop.
The all-volunteer, nondenominational, 501(c)(3) nonprofit collected enough toys to make the holiday special for 16,000 children in 2013. The number — and the need for donations — is expected to increase this year.
Established 84 years ago, the Denver Santa Claus Shop provides toys to youngsters up to age 12 whose parents are referred by social service groups, schools, shelters and churches. It is believed to be the longest-running charity of its type in the United States and has served 1 million kids since its start.
Each parent receives a 100-point gift certificate for each child that they can use to select toys they know their children will like. The donated toys are "valued" on a point system, so parents can select, for example, one big-ticket item or several smaller ones.
The giveaway is conducted over a four-day period in donated space. The address is only given to volunteers and qualified parents.
The 2014 donation drive was launched with a reception held at the Four Seasons Hotel Denver. There, general manager Thierry Kennel joined Sherri Koelbel in welcoming donors and showing off the sleigh-shaped collection bin that will remain at the hotel until the four-day giveaway begins.
Donations also are accepted at Denver Mattress Company locations through Dec. 10.
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The Bickleigh key features:
Ground Floor
The Bickleigh opens into the spacious kitchen/dining room, ideal for entertaining with family and friends alike. The remaining rooms on this floor include; a practical downstairs cloakroom and a well pro-portioned living room.
First Floor
Upstairs, a hallway leads to two double bedrooms and the family bathroom that serves all three bedrooms in this home.
Second Floor
The final floor of The Bickleigh is home to the master bedroom.


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One of the most influential - and certainly most iconic - cultural revolutions in American history, the Harlem Renaissance offers a compelling repertoire for both seasoned and novice book collectors. We've put together a beautiful gallery of high points to help start your collection here.
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MS Office format: Excel,PPT,Word
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I/O Interface: 2 x Nano SIM Slot,Microphone,Speaker,Type-C,Type-C Audio Out Port
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The Phillies are finally able to win one in Wrigley Field, thanks mainly to Myers and the offense.
The Phillies finally get past the eighth inning as J.C. Romero comes in and squashed a Cubs' rally with three strikeouts, while Myers would pitch another seven strong innings as the Phillies defeated the Cubs, 5-2. The Cubs would score the game's first run, as, with two men on and one out, Geovany Soto would hit a RBI single, scoring Mark DeRosa, who has earlier singled and then went to second on Kosuke Fukudome's single, to give the Cubs a quick 1-0 lead, while sending Fukudome to third. Phillies' starter Brett Myers would then get out of the inning by striking out Cubs' starter Ted Lilly and then getting Alfonso Soriano to fly out. The game would then become a pitchers' duel in the third and fourth innings, with Lilly breezing through the Phillies' line-up, while Myers would get out of trouble in both the third (two on, one out-double play) and the fourth (two on, two out-ground out). Then in the top of the fifth, Jayson Werth, with one swing of the bat, would tie the ballgame with a solo home run, his nineteenth home run of the year. Then in the sixth, after the Phillies have loaded up the bases via two singles (Chase Utley and Ryan Howard) and a hit batter (Shane Victorino), with two men out, Werth would give the Phillies a 3-1 lead with a two-run single, scoring Utley, who has gone to third on Ryan's single, and Howard, who has gone to second when Victorino was hit by the pitch, with a slide that would keep him from being tagged by Cubs' catcher Soto. In the eighth, the Phillies would increase their lead as Howard hit a solo home run to deep center field, for his thirty-seventh home run of the year, making it 4-1 Phillies. Two batters later, Werth would hit his second solo home run of the game, his twentieth home run of the year, to give the Phillies a 5-1 lead. Which was a good thing, as the Cubs would try to come back in their half of the inning. Ryan Theriot, Derrick Lee and Aramis Ramirez would each single, with Ramirez scoring Theriot, who has gone to third on Lee's single, making it a 5-2 Phillies' lead, while sending Lee to second. That would be it for Myers, as Charlie Manuel would come out of the dugout and replace Myers with J.C. Romero. With two men on and no one out, Romero would proceed to strike out first pinch hitter Reed Johnson, and then pinch hitter Ronny Cedeno, using their youthful aggressiveness against them as they would both strike out swinging. The next batter, Fukudome, would then get a four-pitch walk to load up the bases. After being calmed down by Rich Dubee, since he didn't get a called strike on what would be ball number three, Romero would then bear down and strike out Soto looking to finally end the inning. Romero would then leave the mound, all enthusiastic. Hey, Charlie, I think you'd just found your eighth inning bridge to Brad Lidge. Speaking of Lidge, he would pitch a 1-2-3 ninth, recording his thirty-second save of the year.
Brett Myers would get the win as he pitches another seven strong innings, plus three batters, as he gives up only two earned runs on eleven hits, while striking out eight. His record is now 8-10, 5-1 since coming back from the minors, with a 4.40 ERA. J.C. Romero would pitch a scoreless inning, striking out three and walking one batter. Brad Lidge would also pitch a scoreless inning, as he records his thirty-second save in thirty-two tries, as he struck out two. Ted Lilly would take the lost as he goes six and two-thirds innings, giving up three earned runs on six hits. His record is now 13-8 with an ERA of 4.23. Neal Cotts would pitch an inning and a third, giving up two earned runs on two hits. Bob Howry would pitch a scoreless inning, giving up two hits.
The Phillies' bullpen would finally get past the eighth inning as J.C. Romero would come into the game, and strike out three of the four batters that he would face, getting two of them out by having the hitters swinging at strike three while the third batter would stand at the plate for a called third strike, and showing some enthusiasm after doing it. Myers would pitch himself out of trouble in the first four innings before getting three straight 1-2-3 innings, as he gives up only singles to the Cubbies. Meanwhile, the offense would get another ten hits, although they would not be as evenly spread out as they have been earlier in the week. Jayson Werth would lead the attack, going three for four, with two home runs and a single, knocking in four of the Phillies' runs. Jimmy Rollins would follow with four hits, three singles and a double, along with a stolen base. Chase Utley and Ryan Howard would both follow with two hits apiece, three singles and a home run (for Howard), as they would score the other three Phillies' run (Utley (1), Howard (2)). Now if they can just leave Chicago Sunday with a series split.
The Phillies (74-62) will conclude their four games series with the Cubs (85-51, 1st National League Central) this afternoon. The game will be played at Wrigley Field and will begin at 2:20 pm Eastern (1:20 pm Central). The Phillies will send to the mound the veteran pitcher Jamie Moyer (11-7, 3.81), who is coming off a recent bad outing against the Mets on August 26, as he is only able to go three innings, as he gets creamed for six earned runs on nine hits, in the Phillies' dramatic 8-7 win. He will be trying for his fifteenth good start in his last sixteen starts while trying for his twelfth win of the year. The Cubs' stater will be Carlos Zambrano (13-5, 3.53), who is coming off a no-decision against the Pirates on August 26, as he would pitch only four and a third innings, giving up six earned runs on eight hits, in the Cubs' 14-9 win. He will be trying to get his fourteenth win while trying to stop the Phillies' offense.
The Phillies are now trailing the Mets by a game while they are five games ahead of the Marlins, as the fish defeated the Mets last night. The Phillies will be trying to leave Chicago with a series split while hoping that they will be heading to Washington to meet the Nationals, tied for first place.


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Everett H. Wilson, son of Eastern Shore sharecroppers who was one of the first African-American students to enroll at St. John's College in Annapolis and later became a social worker, died Tuesday of pneumonia at Anne Arundel Medical Center.
The longtime Severna Park resident was 79.
"Everett was one of what we call 'The Magnificent Seven' who came to St. John's before Brown v. Board of Education," said Christopher B. Nelson, president of St. John's College. "He is one of the loveliest human beings who ever walked on the face of the earth. He was a friendly man who was courteous and generous with his time."
Everett Henry Wilson, the son of Richard and Etha Wilson, Eastern Shore sharecroppers, was born in Parsonsburg in Wicomico County and raised in Salisbury.
During his high school days at segregated Salisbury High School, Mr. Wilson earned the nickname of "Professor," family members said.
After graduating in 1952 from high school, where he was class valedictorian, he became the second African-American to enroll at St. John's College on a State Senatorial Scholarship.
"He earned it because a classmate dared him to the state merit test at the courthouse in Salisbury, on which he scored the highest of everyone taking the test, and he was the only African-American in the room," said his son, Anton Wilson of Severna Park.
While at St. John's, Mr. Wilson struck a blow for integration when he went to the nearby Little Campus tavern one evening in 1954, which earlier had denied service to student Martin A. Dyer, the first African-American to break the color barrier at St. John's in 1948.
"That was the same tavern that denied Martin," Mr. Wilson told The Baltimore Sun in a 2004 interview. "The owner said, 'Welcome.' I'll never forget it. That was the end of that."
Mr. Nelson said that Mr. Wilson joined the other African-Americans who had broken the color barrier at St. John's for a 50th reunion.
Reflecting on St. John's great books curriculum, Mr. Wilson told The Sun in 1993, "What the college teaches is timeless. Why should it change?"
After graduating from St. John's in 1956, Mr. Wilson became the first African-American intern at Jewish Family and Children's Services in Baltimore, and he also worked as a psychiatric social case worker at the old Crownsville State Hospital.
In 1964, he earned a master's degree in social work from the University of Maryland and did additional graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania.
He joined Omega Psi Phi in 1965, and became a charter member of NOMADS of Annapolis, a service organization that works with at-risk youths.
During the mid-1960s, Mr. Wilson was the first director of the Office of Economic Opportunity's anti-poverty program in Maryland, and in 1966 was appointed Anne Arundel County's anti-poverty director.
Then for 30 years until retiring in 2004, Mr. Wilson was deputy director of the state Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration.
The focus of Mr. Wilson's life centered on St. John's College.
"He never forgot the college and was always around and willing to help us," said Mr. Nelson. "I can see him now; he had a light bouncy way when he walked up to the college where he was always willing to spread the gospel of St. John's."
In 2006, Mr. Wilson was presented the college's Alumni Association Award of Merit.
Mr. Wilson was a lifelong active communicant of St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Annapolis, where he served as an usher and on numerous boards and committees.
"He loved his church and community, working in his yard and flower garden for relaxation until he was unable to do so," said his son.
As a young man, Mr. Wilson played the saxophone and retained a lifelong affection for jazz.
A memorial service for Mr. Wilson will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at his church, 730 Bestgate Road, Annapolis.
In addition to his son, Mr. Wilson is survived by his wife of 57 years, the former Elsie Mae Rider; a daughter, Mia Wilson of Atlanta; a sister, Barbara Cottman of Delmar; and many nieces and nephews.


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Braves shaping up like version of Big Red Machine?
Star-studded Atlanta lineup has the power, speed ingredients to be special group
ATLANTA -- It was one game. Still, as a disciple of Cincinnati's legendary Big Red Machine, I'm prepared to utter baseball heresy after the Atlanta Braves powered their way to a 7-5 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night at Turner Field.
I mean, forgive me Pete, Tony, Johnny, Joe and Sparky, but the Braves could become The Big Blue Machine. Justin Upton squinted a little. That was the reaction of the Braves' newly-acquired 25-year-old slugger after I wondered if he ever heard of the Big Red Machine.
"I've heard of them," Upton said, mostly trying to be polite.
About the Big Red Machine: With an outrageously potent offense for the ages, those Reds won more games than anybody in baseball during the 1970s. They featured Hall of Famers Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan and Tony Perez as players and Sparky Anderson as manager. Their leadoff hitter was Pete Rose, baseball's all-time hits leader.
In addition, those Reds had either perennial or occasional All-Stars at shortstop (Dave Concepcion), right field (Ken Griffey Sr.), center field (Cesar Geronimo) and left field (George Foster). They won the last of their consecutive World Series championships in 1976. That was eight years before B.J. Upton -- Justin's 28-year-old brother -- was born.
Not only that, B.J. joined Justin before this season as a member of The Big Blue Machine -- you know, in progress. As for the other members, you have Jason Heyward, Freddie Freeman, Dan Uggla and Brian McCann, all capable of slamming pitches beyond the farthest fence with the greatest of ease.
On Monday night, for instance, Freeman sent a two-run rocket into the home bullpen in right-center field in the first inning. Uggla's solo shot in the second wasted little time settling beyond left field. Then there was Justin Upton's missile over the wall in left-center field in the fifth.
"I think that if everybody does their job without worrying about that aspect of [trying to become an all-time great slugging team], it will happen by itself," Justin Upton said. "You don't have to force it."
Hitting is contagious, and it always has been. Consider, too, that the Braves led their National League peers during the Grapefruit League in home runs. So this long-ball thing for this bunch is more of a pattern than a fluke. Like the Big Red Machine.
"I remember coming up during those days and seeing the lineup of those Reds teams and thinking, 'Geez, talk about not being able to take a breath,'" said Dale Murphy, grinning.
He played the first of his 15 seasons in the Major Leagues with the Braves in 1976, along the way to two NL MVP Awards and 398 home runs. Still grinning, Murphy added, "One of those years, the Reds had Geronimo batting eighth, and he was hitting .300. That's the best team I ever played against, and we'll see about these guys."
Yes, indeed, and just like those Reds teams, the Braves' batting order looks impressive in a hurry.
Andrelton Simmons leads off following his .289-hitting rookie season of last year with a blistering spring. Then comes the scary likes -- well, for pitchers -- of Heyward, Justin Upton, Freeman, B.J. Upton and Uggla. They each could produce 25 homers or more. The same goes for McCann, who owns five Silver Slugger Awards as the Braves' starting catcher. He'll return in a few weeks after recovering from shoulder surgery.
Even without McCann, these Braves are at least comparable offensively to Murphy's Braves of the early 1980s. They captured the old NL West in 1982, and surrounding that season, they were a significant force courtesy of impressive hitters.
Brett Butler was the definitive leadoff guy. You couldn't find a scrappier No. 2 hitter than Glenn Hubbard, followed by mashers Claudell Washington, Murphy, Bob Horner and Chris Chambliss. The Nos. 7 and 8 hitters were Bruce Benedict and Rafael Ramirez, and they had their productive moments.
"The only way you can play this game is to have a relaxed aggression sort of thing, but you have to be more relaxed than anything, and that's what we did," Murphy said. "We sort of complemented each other, just knowing something good is going to happen today."
Which begs the question: How does Murphy compare his Braves to the 2013 Braves when it comes to slugging?
"Oh, they're better than we were, and I don't think there's any question about that," Murphy said quickly. "I know it was only Spring Training, but what I saw, they can go way past what we did in the '80s. It's not only the power thing, but they've got all of that speed.
"I just think the potential is there for them to be one of the most productive lineups ever."
As productive as Pete, Tony, Johnny and Joe?
"It would be a very special year if they [rank at the end] with the Big Red Machine," Murphy said truthfully.


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There's nothing like heading home with a sense of achievement. Climb Britain's highest mountain, ride its fastest zipline, sail across its deepest loch or stand inside its oldest buildings and you can return home feeling like you've starred in an action movie. These are some of Britain's most record-breaking sites:
Highest mountain – Ben Nevis
At 1344 metres high, Ben Nevis is Britain's highest mountain. Most walkers climb it using the reliable Mountain Track that leads up from Glen Nevis on its southern side, while there's much more rugged terrain on the north side for climbers and mountaineers (700ft high cliffs anyone?) The name, 'Ben Nevis,' come from the Gaelic, 'Beinn Nibheis,' which means 'malicious mountain'! While we don't think it harbours a grudge, remember that this is no stroll. The weather can change quickly here, so come prepared.
Deepest lake – Loch Morar
The deepest lake, or loch as they're called in Scotland, is Loch Morar in the Highlands. At an abysmal 310 metres deep, you could drop the Shard in and watch its full height vanish beneath the water, while St. Paul's Cathedral would sit on the bottom with a full 199 metres between its dome and the surface. Hire a boat and explore, go fishing, or explore the magnificent landscape that surrounds it.
Oldest building – Knap of Howar
The oldest building in Britain is the suitably Game of Thrones-esque-sounding Knap of Howar (not Hodor), which dates from about 3700BC. Located on Papa Westray in Orkney, it's a Neolithic farmstead that's withstood the test of time, and looks out over the North Sea. On the nearby Orkney Mainland, you'll also find Skara Brae, Europe's most complete Neolithic village.
Longest and fastest zipline - Zipworld
You've travelled to Wales and you're high among the mountains of Snowdonia, surveying the horizon and the valleys far below. Where better to hurtle at speeds of up to 100mph, 500ft above Snowdon's mountain lake and over some of Britain's most epic scenery? You can do just that at Zipworld, the fastest zipline in the world.
Don't worry – they don't expect you to hold on for dear life with your bare hands. You'll be strapped in to a sleeping-bag like harness before flying head-first through the sky like a human cannonball. It all adds to the thrill, if you ask me.
Tallest building – The Shard
Standing at a huge 306 metres, the Shard is the tallest building in Western Europe. It rises out of London like an extremely steep glass pyramid, and a ride to the top in its extremely fast lifts will afford you an incomparable view out over the city. You can actually look down on London's other huge buildings, from the Gherkin to the Walkie-Talkie, and get a very peaceful sense of detachment from London's bustle. If you liked this blog post, please leave us a comment! Learn more about sights and attractions in Britain over on the VisitBritain LoveWall


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Today, I'm going to inch my way, precariously, onto a thin arboreal tendril. I'm reaching for an intellectual fruit dangling so far out to the edge that, if I'm not careful, my support from behind (that's you) may completely falter and send me, unceremoniously, to the ground with all the other discarded bloggers of the Web.
Today, I intend to shed the cloak which has kept me safe and warm these past six plus years. Today, I'm not going to write about hope, nor dreams, nor desires, nor faith. Today, I'm posing a question that I'm not sure I want to answer and one whose answers many of you will not want to read.
Today, as I look back a century and a half to French Doctor Jean Martin Charcot, the man who first correlated post-mortem observation of brain lesions to clinical signs of multiple sclerosis, and I look forward to the next half a century I hope to be in this world; I'm wondering about the reality of a cure.
It was about a year and a half ago when we last talked of a cure for MS. When we spoke of "cures" then, it was to understand that cure means different things to different people.
Today, I want to know if you think (not feel, not hope, not believe) there will be a cure for MS in the next 50 years?
Now, I know that some of you will think that I'm just stirring an emotional pot for your reaction; quite the contrary. I'm not looking for your emotions at all; in fact, I'd rather you take a walk or something before responding to today's blog. I hope I'm stirring up an intellectual discussion that you may not permit yourself under normal situations.
Like our blog a couple of weeks ago about being tired of MS, I think it's healthy to have a place where we don't have to be "the strong ones" for a moment. Remember how refreshing it was to let out a deep breath and say, "Yeah, I'm tired of it too!?"
Well, we all know we're a smart; this is a well-informed lot. You know the research as well as I. You've done your homework, you query your healthcare team for the latest medical news; what do you think?
Will there be a "cure" for multiple sclerosis in the next 50 years?
I'll not muddy the waters with my thoughts quite yet. I'll post my thoughts on the subject in a week or so. Truth be told, I'm going to have to do some serious thinking on this one for myself.
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I have two goals as an investor. One is absolute. The other is relative. My absolute goal is to earn an acceptable rate of return. My relative goal is to beat the S&P 500. These are both long-term goals. There are years where I fail to meet them. This is one of those years.
Someone who reads my articles sent me this email:
"What is your objective when investing? Are you a ROI investor? Is your goal to produce enough cash flow to live comfortably? Is it a game where money is just a score?"
My goal is a lot like Ben Graham's goal. Graham ran what we'd call a hedge fund today. He didn't try to have the most assets. He tried to have the best return on the assets he had. In that sense, he was a return on investment (ROI) investor.
However, he had another goal. And this is what makes his approach a lot like other hedge funds. He wanted an acceptable rate of return regardless of what the market was doing. If the market went sideways for 10 years, he still wanted to do better than bonds. He still wanted to deliver for his fund's investors.
What's an acceptable rate of return? For me, it's 10%. If you tend to make 10% a year in stocks, you are compounding your wealth well. We can also aim a little bit higher. This is more a matter of relative returns. While folks will argue about what the market's average rate of return will be in the future – I can tell you this, it'll be less than 15%.
So if you can earn 15% a year over time, you will do better than the market. And 15% a year is obviously an acceptable return. So if your results are averaging out to 15% a year – you're doing fine on both counts.
Other investors have other goals. Those are mine. I want to beat the S&P 500. I want to earn 10%. And I think I can – when I avoid dumb mistakes – make 15% a year. So you could say that's my target. I want to make 15% a year over time.
How realistic is that? In today's market – not very. I'm not exactly bullish on today's stock prices. A return of 15% a year will likely be 2 to 3 times higher than what the S&P 500 does going forward. So it's a very tall order right now.
Offsetting this is my small portfolio size. It's much easier to earn 15% a year when you can buy micro caps in the U.S. and Japan and anywhere else you want. It's much harder when you can only buy companies big enough to be in the S&P 500.
Still, I have to admit that outside circumstances – today's stock prices – severely limit my chances of making 15% a year. And that's a problem. You want your investing goal to be something you can control. Not something the outside world controls. So, while I'd like to earn 15% a year – I'm not sure that with today's stock prices I can really say 15% a year is a goal. A goal should be a target you can aim for. Something you can control.
I invest my own money. I don't invest for other people. So I don't have to worry about year-to-year results. That is the big advantage individuals have over professionals. If you don't believe me – just look at Fairholme. The investors in a fund can force the manager to make choices he'd rather not make. They can make the fund smaller right when it would prefer to get bigger.
Focusing on long-term results is a good idea. But it can also be an excuse. I read a lot of value investing blogs. And I have to admit that reviews of past performance are hard to judge. An investor should stick with a good idea that just hasn't played out yet. But the belief that results only matter when they're long term can be a way to avoid facing a bad scorecard.
I look at one-year results. I even look at quarterly results. I have a spreadsheet with my portfolio's quarterly returns, the S&P 500's quarterly returns, and the returns of some funds I think are pretty good. I compare them.
Over time, you do see patterns. For example, I've never thought of myself as an investor who cares about volatility. I've always thought I'd own the stocks I liked best regardless of whether I thought they'd fluctuate a lot or not.
Well, my portfolio's quarterly results tell a different story. Even when I've done much better than the S&P 500, I've done it with less volatility. My results are always less volatile than the S&P 500. Down quarters are rarer. And in every period where the S&P 500 is down – I've tended to be down less. Or not at all.
In fact, looking back at my results – I have quarterly results for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 (first three quarters) in front of me – my entire outperformance of the market is explainable purely in terms of beating the S&P 500 when the S&P 500 was down. I have zero advantage over the market if you only count quarters when the S&P 500 was up.
Why mention this?
Because it's the reason to keep a record of your results. Just knowing whether you are beating the market or not isn't very useful. In fact, it could be harmful. But knowing how – and when – you have beat the market or lost to the market can help you separate your view of yourself from the reality of how you really invest.
For example, I can see that I hold a lot of cash. And that I did not own – with two exceptions – either financials or materials stocks. If you look at a quarter-by-quarter breakdown of the S&P 500 by sector this explains a lot.
The S&P 500 has been more volatile than my portfolio because the S&P 500 doesn't hold cash (obviously), is all U.S. stocks (I was 50% in Japanese net-nets at one point), and includes financial stocks and materials stocks.
Even though I talk as if I never buy financial stocks – I did buy two financial stocks over the last 5 years. I owned a micro cap insurer (now private) called Bancinsurance. And I owned Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B).
How should I judge my performance? This is the hard part for all of us. In a sense, any year when I beat the S&P 500 is a good year. By that measure, 2008 (in which my portfolio and the market were equally decimated) and 2012 – in which I'm badly underperforming the S&P 500 with just a 5% return – are bad years. I would agree with that. I did a bad job investing in 2008 and 2012. For different reasons. I owned too many borderline ideas in 2008 when I should've just held cash. And then I failed to find good ideas in 2012 – and have been 75% in cash for much of this year.
If we look at a purely relative scorecard the good years – which were only 60% of the time – were 2009, 2010, and 2011. My best absolute performance was in 2009. And it has been downhill every year since.
Should that worry me?
I think this is a key question. After the crash, I – like just about everybody else – had a terrific 2009. Then a slightly less good 2010. Then – unlike some investors – I had a perfectly fine 2011 (up 20%). And finally – unlike plenty of people – I've had a downright dull 2012. The year is almost done. And I'm looking at a 5% return. At that rate – I might as well own bonds.
The trend is ugly. But I doubt it has anything to do with my investing abilities. A rising tide lifts all boats. And almost all I see in the trend of my results from 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 is the tide. Most of the trend is explainable by what happened to the market – not what happened to my stock picking.
That's why you need to be careful about drawing conclusions year by year. It's easy to pat yourself on the back when you don't deserve it. I didn't do anything impressive in 2009. I also didn't do anything stupid. I did one smart thing. I made sure I was 100% invested 100% of the time. The result was a 41% return that year.
That sounds impressive. It's really not. I've done plenty of net-net buying in the past. And plenty of micro cap buying too. Micro caps and net-nets did well in 2009. And the truth is that I probably did worse buying big stocks – like IMS Health, Omnicom (NYSE:OMC), and Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)(NYSE:BRK.B) – than I would've done in the kinds of net-nets specifically and micro caps generally that I've favored in the past. In fact, that's exactly what back tests show. Those tiny stocks soared in 2009.
So no points for stock picking in that year. I only did one good thing in terms of stock selection. I bought a stock that was taken private.
Personally – and some folks may disagree with this – I think you should value the feedback from such buyouts more than you should the feedback from stocks you simply flipped. I think having somebody come in and pay almost twice what you did for your shares of the company is a good sign. I think a control buyer is often a better sign than a temporary uptick in the market.
If you own a stock for a year, it's hard to judge how well you chose that stock. I think a buyout is a good sign you chose well. When we look at stocks you held for more than a few years – I think earnings become more important.
I'll use George Risk (RSKIA) as an example. This is a stock I bought in 2010. It's been a good – not great – investment for the two years I've owned it. But the business performance has been solid. And to me that supports the idea I chose that stock well. Of course, it also supports the criticism that there was no catalyst.
How about a stock I did not choose well?
Here, again I think it's key to look past the numbers. Just like my absolute best year (2009) was nowhere near my best year in terms of stock picking – my biggest mistake was not a big loss in terms of what I actually realized. It was a huge loss in terms of the risks I ended up taking.
That big mistake was buying Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS). I bought this stock in 2010. Before the proxy vote between Burkle and Riggio. I didn't know if Riggio or Burkle would win the proxy vote. That wasn't my mistake – although Burkle did lose. My mistake was misjudging the risk of catastrophic loss in the stock.
The e-book market developed fast. And Barnes & Noble bet big on the Nook faster than I expected they would. This resulted in a much worse financial situation than I normally invest in. Later, there were two deals – with John Malone and Microsoft (MSFT) – that changed that situation a bit. But there was a period after Burkle lost the proxy fight where I owned a stock – in fact, a retailer facing a societal shift – that was super risky compared to what I normally invest in. This was a big mistake.
And when you find a big mistake like that in your past performance – you need to charge yourself for the full mistake. I lost a tiny amount (like 3%) on my investment in Barnes & Noble. But I exposed myself to a much, much bigger risk. It's important to fess up to those mistakes – even when the historical record would let you ignore them because of where the market happened to let you get out of the stock.
It's also important to look at how you failed to meet your investment goals in ways other than price performance. A good example of this for me is turnover. My turnover has been way too high over the last five years.
Why should I care?
My goal is to both beat the S&P 500 and earn an acceptable return at all times. Now, I would say "all times" should be defined as a period of say three-year returns or five-year returns – not one-year returns.
So, let's look at a stock I bought and sold – but could've just held. Let's talk about Omnicom. I bought Omnicom at just under $28 a share back in 2009. The stock is now at $47 a share. So it's hardly been a home run relative to the stock market. I did well in the stock only because I sold it after a short holding period (a little over one year).
I did well. So why was selling Omnicom a mistake?
You have to think about opportunity costs. And you have to think about your goal as an investor.
My goal is to do well enough all the time – even when the S&P 500 doesn't. After selling Omnicom, I would – in the next two years – go on to own Barnes & Noble and hold up to 75% of my portfolio in cash.
Obviously, that means there would've been no harm in holding a stock like Omnicom – that went sideways for two years – instead.
Yes, my average performance was better than what Omnicom would've done if I kept holding it. But my marginal performance was not. The things I replaced Omnicom with in later years – basically, Barnes & Noble first and cash later – didn't do any better than Omnicom. And Barnes & Noble was riskier.
So I created turnover for no reason. Omnicom is cheap today. If I had held it through 2010 and 2011 – I'm sure I would've held it right up to now. That would've meant lower turnover. And sticking for four years in a business I liked.
Selling Omnicom was a process error. It doesn't show up in my returns because the whims of the market rewarded me. I lucked out. I didn't actually lose much in Barnes & Noble – though I sure could've – and Omnicom went nowhere for two years. But it's cheap now. So we shouldn't confuse my good luck in having the multiple of the stock I sold contract with my skill in selling a stock that was overpriced or selling a stock where the business was getting worse. Omnicom wasn't overpriced. And the business got better, not worse.
That's why I want to warn you against reading too much into your results. A goal is a good thing. A process is a great thing. Past performance is a reality check. But the reality you care about is a subtle reality. The mistakes that matter and the mistakes that get measured aren't always the same.
I had some stock picking victories that I think both mattered and got measured – Bancinsurance and IMS Health. But I also had a big stock picking defeat – a huge error – that didn't get measured but definitely did matter. Investments like Barnes & Noble pose a risk to my process. And my long-term goals. This is especially true for me because I bet so big on each stock. Barnes & Noble was 25% of my portfolio.
It's a good idea to break your big goal into little goals. Performance is complex. I underperformed this year. But I'm not beating myself up about it. I didn't see a lot of stuff worth doing at the time. And looking back, I still don't. I'm still beating myself up about Barnes & Noble – and other things – I did in the second half of 2010. And that was actually a great year going by the numbers alone.
So don't just look at your headline results. Look at numbers inside the numbers. For me, the thing that stands out is turnover. My turnover is too high. And the more I look at when I sold stocks – the less I see a benefit to that selling. Even when I outperformed, it was not because I was smart enough to sell one stock and buy another. There is zero evidence of that in my past. So I should raise the bar even higher before selling in the future.
That's the kind of tweaking of your goals you can do. Looking at my past, I can try to change my future. For me, that change is about selling less often. Holding on to a stock longer even when I think I have a better idea. I haven't been a good judge of when a new idea is better than a stock I already own. So I should raise the burden of proof. I should make my process one where selling is something that's very hard to do.
That fits my goals. It wouldn't fit a pure relative return investor. If your only goal is to beat the S&P 500 – then selling less may not make sense. But if your goal is to make sure you do fine even when the market doesn't – then selling less might make sense.
It does for me. So my turnover is a number I'll be tracking carefully over the next five years.
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I have two goals as an investor. One is absolute. The other is relative. My absolute goal is to earn an acceptable rate of return. My relative goal is to beat the S&P 500. These are both long-term goals. There are years where I fail to meet them. This is one of those years.


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Kathy Bates Wanted to Dedicate Her 2014 Emmy to Robin Williams: 'He Was So Kind to Me'by Maggie Malach | PopCrush
The 2014 Emmys, which aired last night (Aug. 25), struck a somber note with Billy Crystal's touching speech that honored his good friend Robin Williams. As it turns out, Crystal wasn't the only star who wanted to pay tribute to Williams. Emmy-winner Kathy Bates admitted she wanted to dedicate her award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries to the late star.
After accepting her award, Bates spoke of Williams backstage, recalling his oft-remembered kindness.
"When I won my first major award for 'Misery' — a Golden Globe — they didn't have cell phones and I was waiting at a pay phone to call my mother afterward and I didn't have a quarter," she recalled (quotes via the Hollywood Reporter). "I turned around and asked, and Robin said, 'Here's a quarter to call your mother.' I never forgot that kindness."
Years later, the comedian reached out to Bates after she lost an Academy Award to Judi Dench. She recalls that Williams, who presented the Oscar, spoke with her during a commercial break.
"He came to me and said, 'I really wished I could have had your name in the envelope; are you OK? I know how hard it is to lose,'" Bates said. "He was so kind to me."
The actress admits she wanted to dedicate last night's Emmy win Williams, but at the last minute backed down, saying, "I almost wanted to say, 'Look, I own this time and this is for you,' but I was just so … nervous."
Williams died on Aug. 11 at age 63. His cause of death was later ruled as asphyxia due to hanging.
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Hello! Welcome to our blog. Green Leaf BBQ is a small business that wanted to take a fresh approach to the old ways of backyard cooking. Owned by Carrie Brunelle. Green Leaf BBQ it is a company built on thoughtful products, local inputs and new ideas. With east coast influences meeting west coast ideas, they come together to create a fusion of innovative products, new directions and a great way to look at barbecue.
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Hello, I'm Carrie. I grew up along the east coast living in several places from coastal Maine, Boston, to Providence Rhode Island. With a degree in product design, I'm always on the lookout for new ideas and can't stand "gimmicks" or anything that is not practical or thoughtfully designed. I love the outdoors and the idea of being sustainable. There is no better way to save money, eat thoughtfully, and reduce your impact on this planet then to maintain your own food source. Growing a garden, no matter the size, helps reduce packaging waste and trips to the market while encouraging you to be creative in the kitchen or your backyard. Green Leaf BBQ was established to bring the community together by hosting events with our neighbors, and creating awareness of fresh, local choices and great barbecue. Together, Tim and I will bring you new and unique recipes & tips on how to create a fresh barbecue meal with seasonal ingredients. At Green Leaf BBQ, you will find the tools to take your backyard cooking to a new level.
I'm Tim, I work for Green Leaf BBQ as the General Manager & BBQ Chef. I was raised on the central coast of California, the son of a Strawberry farming family. We were always outside either drinking the wines that came from the same surrounding area, or just plain working. We wear boots, jeans and hats – no white aprons or name tags & fancy titles. I guess probably not the Californians that many think us to be. I learned to barbecue over the coals, smoke and flames of the wood that our California Oak trees provided. I didn't even know there was a name for this unique style of barbecue back then. Now, we know this as Santa Maria Style BBQ, a style that is passed down within families generationally. To the central California locals, it is religious, in the same way that other significant barbecue cultures are to their followers. This is where I learned to barbecue.
I had the fortune of learning from two "Old School" pit masters of the Santa Maria Style BBQ. I learned that the fire was ready when a beer bottle melted in the coals. I learned that Garlic, Salt & Pepper were actually 'delivered by the Gods' for our use. I fed many people the famous Tri-Tip, Rib Eye Steaks or Rosemary Chicken. I learned that in order to achieve great barbecue, a pit boss must be detailed in every pursuit…"bark-it but don't burn it" was what I was told. Steak at 700-800 degrees is a magical experience not for the faint. Part of this is achieved in sweat, stinging eyes, singed arm hairs & long barbecue tools welded to the ends of old golf club shafts. This was my education. The lessons were often as rough and rugged as the surrounding landscape, taught by men who were tough and focused on absolute barbecue perfection.
From these roots, We move into other types of barbecue, pursuing other styles with equal dedication. We learned through traveling, that barbecue can create a powerful connection between people who have never met – we're not that different at all. This IS why Green Leaf BBQ exists. To bring people together around home, gardens, kitchens and barbecue grills.
Green Leaf BBQ supports healthy competition, exchange of ideas, supporting other quality products from the barbecue culture, pushing the accepted flavor and temperature boundaries, protecting our Earth's resources in our cooking methods and having a blast with new and old friends.