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When Charles Darwin observed the finches that eventually inherited his name, he began to articulate for the first time how evolution works.
Help save these historically and scientifically important birds by traveling to one of the world's most amazing places: the Galápagos Archipelago. Finches there have evolved to have a tight link between beak size and shape and the seeds they eat. But the abundance of human-introduced foods like rice seems to be eroding this link and creating a population of "lazy" birds—finches that don't have to work hard to find the right food for their beak size and shape. This may undermine the process of natural selection that keeps a species strong.
You'll study the finches that live in and around Puerto Ayora on the island of Santa Cruz, the biggest town in the islands, to help researchers find out more about how human foods and finch evolution are intertwined. You'll help catch birds, measure their beak size, head size, and body dimensions, and photograph them for later analysis. You'll also look at the other side of the equation by recording the types and abundance of finch foods available in different spots. With your help, these researchers can figure out the best ways to preserve the distinct species of finch that Darwin once found so illuminating.
To conserve the diversity of Darwin's finch species, we must understand how humans impact them.
This research will deepen our understanding of diversification—how species come to be different from each other.
Fourteen species of birds make up the group know as Darwin's finches. As Darwin once observed, while these species look very similar, they have adapted in an array of ways to be different from each other and perfectly suited to their particular habitat within the Galápagos. Many scientists believe these birds to be the fastest-evolving vertebrates, which make them fascinating to study. These researchers have already observed changes in beak shapes and sizes that seem linked to human food sources, and with your help, they can continue to track, essentially, evolution in action.
This study will have important long-term implications for the evolution and preservation of the wide variety within the Darwin's finch species.
This study will have important long-term implications for the evolution and preservation of the wide variety within the Darwin's finch species, and possibly for species around the world. It can provide guidelines for how to conserve Darwin's finches in face of increasing human disturbance. The research also helps raise awareness about the unexpected ways humans trigger the decay of biodiversity, even in one of the best-protected places in the world.
Darwin's finches can tell us much more about how we humans reshape the natural world. Your work on this research project will help conserve the distinctions that make these species, with their rich historical and biological significance, what they are.
The Galápagos Archipelago, part of Ecuador, is truly like no other place on Earth. These islands still have nearly all the species Darwin noted in the 1830s, in stark contrast to other isolated places where humans have settled (like Hawaii, Tahiti, and Australia) and decimated the fauna. You might spot Galápagos giant tortoises, terrestrial and water iguanas, sharks, rays, and any of 26 species of native birds—14 of which make up the group known as Darwin's finches.
You'll visit the town of Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island, which has a population of about 20,000 people and draws many visitors with its guided tours of active volcanic areas, forests, wildlife hotspots, and snorkeling and diving reefs. Other attractions include the tortoise program at the research station, where eggs, babies, and adults are reared and monitored, and trips to nearby islands where sea lion, frigate, and booby colonies thrive.
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Your days will start early (around 4:30 a.m.) so you can meet the finches when they're most active. After breakfast and a ride to the day's research site, you'll begin work at around 6:00 a.m. You'll help:
After your morning shift in the field, the team will head back to Puerto Ayora for lunch and some afternoon data entry. In the late afternoons and early evenings you'll head back out for more research. Then, after a stop back at the research station, the team will have a relaxing dinner and enlightening discussion about the research.
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Volunteers will set up mist-nets to catch and measure finches.
Dr. De Leon untangles a bird from a mist net in the Galapagos.
In the incredibly biodiverse Galápagos Islands, Dr. Luis Fernando De León studies the evolution of the iconic Darwin's finches.
Stay in Puerto Ayora, which overlooks beautiful Tortuga Bay on the island of Santa Cruz. Your team will live in a small local hotel with shared rooms. From the hotel, you can walk to shops, restaurants, and internet cafés. You will stay in simple, but comfortable rooms at hotel suites Suños Silvestres. Each room has two single beds. The field staff and scientists will stay at a nearby hotel. Each room has an adjoined bathroom with a conventional toilet and shower.
Some of your meals will be prepared by staff and the team, but you'll also get to visit local restaurants for a dinner or two. You'll sample regional dishes, which often contain rice, beans, and meat or seafood, and can also find typical American fare like hamburgers, pizza, and fries.
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In the United States it was the base that inspired Scott Adams to begin with his famous adventures. In Great Britain, Peter Austin, founder of Level 9, the most prestigious English adventure game company, confessed to be impelled by it from his beginnings as a game designer (one of his first adventures was a version of the Original Adventure). In Spain, there was a similar story, since the first Spanish company dedicated exclusively to text adventures (Aventuras AD), made its reputation based on a game curiously called "La Aventura Original" (yes, based on the legendary one), the fruit of 8 months of investigation and work.
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ALBANY — The legal struggle over the deadly 2005 capsizing of the Ethan Allen tour boat on Lake George ended Thursday when the state's highest court dismissed a lawsuit over the state's inspection of the boat.
The Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that because the state "owes no special duty" to the victims, their allegations that state inspectors failed to certify safe passenger capacity on the ship must be dismissed.
Twenty passengers died and others were injured when the Ethan Allen capsized on Oct. 2, 2005. The boat was carrying 47 tourists, mostly senior citizens, and one crew member on a leaf-peeping tour.
"What this means for New Yorkers is when the state is certifying with inspectors and doing inspections ... you have no protection," said James Hacker, the Latham-based attorney for the family members of the victims who sued the state.
"When the state is inspecting, it should be held accountable," Hacker said
An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board determined the boat's capacity should have been capped at 14 passengers. Federal investigators found the small tour vessel was grossly overloaded and unbalanced when it made a sharp turn and capsized. Tests determined the combined weight of the 48 adults aboard was more than four times the weight the boat could carry.
In 2006, federal investigators suggested the boat was an accident waiting to happen for decades.
Inspectors from the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation approved the vessel to carry up to 48 passengers regularly since 1979, basing their findings on the original 1977 certification by the U.S. Coast Guard. That did not take into account modifications made to the Ethan Allen in 1989 when a wooden canopy replaced the canvas canopy.
A State Parks spokesman said the agency would not comment on the decision.
The Court of Appeals noted inspectors' comments on relying on the Coast Guard's 26-year-old certification for capacity.
"For instance, one inspector agreed that the number was 'rubber stamped' based on the capacity from the prior certificate of inspection and another referred to the passenger capacity certified by the Coast Guard as 'gospel,' " the justices wrote.
The state argued it was not liable to be sued because the inspectors were performing a classic governmental function and, as such, were exempt due to "sovereign immunity." State workers are generally shielded from legal liability when working within their discretion.
The Court of Appeals also acknowledged the tragic outcome.
"Although the law is clear, the upshot is that, regardless of any negligence on the part of the state, the victims of this disastrous wreck are essentially left without an adequate remedy," the ruling stated.
The justices observed that a 2011 bill introduced in the state Assembly to require public vessels to carry marine protection and indemnity insurance "might have been able to provide a modicum of relief" for the Ethan Allen victims.
This case against the state was the last suit resulting from the fatal accidents. Lawsuits were settled against Shoreline Cruises, which owned the Ethan Allen; the boat's captain, Richard Paris; as well the Canadian tour company that organized the Lake George tour.
Shoreline and Paris pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of violating navigation law. Lawsuits against other defendants have either been settled or dismissed.
In September 2010, the families of the victims settled a lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging and the Lake George Steamboat Company The Mohican, owned by the steamboat company, caused a wake that tipped the Ethan Allen and sent the passengers into the water.
The final case against the state would have resolved questions that have gone unanswered about the Ethan Allen, Hacker said.
"That's the end of the line for this case," Hacker said. "We're not going to have a final closure."
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Local students to travel to Haiti
Three students are going with a group of 10 to Haiti on a medical mission. The group leaves Sunday, April 6 and returns Monday, April 14.
Lexi Crocker, 15, a sophomore at Moose Lake High School; Mitchell Weller, 16, a junior at Barnum High School; and Richie Parzy, 15, a sophomore at Barnum High School, will accompany their grandparents as they make their annual trek to Haiti on a medical mission.
"We have seen our grandmother going on medical missions since we were younger," said Richie. "We asked when we could go. She told us when we were 15 or 16."
Richie and Mitchell are grandsons of Joan Guite, one of the people who takes part in the medical mission trip each year. Lexi is the granddaughter of Marilyn and Charlie Cluka, who also have gone each year, although Charlie will not be going this year. Marilyn is the coordinator.
"They were 10 or 11 when I first started doing this," said Joan. "I saved up some money for them so they could go this time."
The kids also earned funds through fundraisers, such as selling sweet corn. Funds were also raised from selling ARCO coffee at pancake breakfasts and from donations.
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans matched the funds raised at the breakfasts, said Joan.
She also sold jam made from berries at her husband's berry farm.
"My grandparents have been going to Haiti since I was 5," said Lexi. "They went to Nicaragua first. They took a foster daughter. She just loved it."
Joan explained about the medical mission.
"We work out of a village called Little Guinea," she said. "This year we will be going to other villages, too. We will haul all of our medications and buy more down there to boost their economy. It costs more to bring an extra 50-pound bag so we are each bringing one. There will be little room for personal items."
Lexi explained they will share room in a suitcase for a small amount of clothing, and they will rinse out their clothes often.
"We have been trying to get the kids to think about what the food will be like when we are there," said Joan. "They will have a lot of rice and beans. If they get any meat, it will be a small piece of beef or chicken."
Space is also needed for snacks. Richie and Mitchell said snacks will be more important than clothing to them.
The medical mission will be signed off by a local doctor, and the group will work under the direction of a doctor in Haiti. Joan and Marilyn are both nurses. Joan is retired.
"We will have jobs in the pharmacy, and we will be checking people in," explained Richie. "We will weigh them, and check their blood pressures and temperatures."
"We will play with the kids and keep them busy," added Mitchell.
Lexi said they will also be counting out pills and packaging them for patients.
The students will also interact with Haitian students in their English classes one day while they are there.
The group will stay at Jacob's Well, a Christian youth camp run by missionaries.
"Pastor Valcin and his wife, Betty, are trying to make the camp self-sufficient," said Joan. "They have planted fruit trees, like pineapple, mango and bananas. They plan to sell the produce and help the village by hiring workers. The trees were planted fairly recently. I don't know how long it will be before they start bearing fruit."
The group will fly to Port au Prince, and then be flown to Cap-Haitien. From there they will be taken in an open truck to Little Guinea.
"A lot of people walk to the clinic," said Joan. "They really need our help."
The group doesn't carry narcotics. Most of the medications are common pain relievers.
"If we get someone with a broken arm or leg, we like to have something that we can give them," said Joan. "We always feel safe and secure. People are very cordial to us. We have developed friendships over the years."
Joan explained the students are not going on a vacation. They are going to work and learn about service and about giving back. They will also be speaking to the Haitian teens about resisting temptations that young people face.
Voodoo is still practiced in Haiti. The group will minister to the people about Christianity.
"There used to be 13 voodoo priests there," said Joan. "It is now down to one. Those who have turned to Christianity are young Christians. We hope that there will be interaction between them and the members of our group."
The students are pleased they are about to leave on their long-awaited trip.
"I think it will be a really good experience," said Richie. "We will get to see what the rest of the world is like. Instead of seeing it on the news, we will be there and see the way they do things down there.
"We will appreciate everything that we have here after we get back."
"This trip will teach us to put other people's needs before our own," said Lexi. "We will see what other people need to do to survive. I am looking forward to making an impact there and helping.
"When my grandpa went down there, it changed his life. He quit his job."
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance," said Mitchell. "We will get to do what many people don't get to do. Kudos to my grandma for paying for this trip."
Donations are still being accepted for the trip. People can deposit funds in an account at First National Bank in Moose Lake under Joan Guite – Haiti.


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Hey ho, y'all! Another day, and we're getting into the swing of the new school year. I hope all is well with you. I homeschool my youngest, and it's hard to fit anything in between lessons, but one thing I can work on is book design. Since I've been a little bit stressed out the last week or so, it has been a huge relief to work on something creative like cover design.
I'm going to be retiring some of the covers I've designed in the past that are still available and some will go on sale. You can click here to check out what there is at this moment. I'll announce when I've put stuff on sale. If you see a cover you want there, let me know and we maybe can work out a deal. Always keep in mind that I'm super flexible about the pre-made designs. We can adjust font and even some parts of the images!
Below are the newest additions to my pre-made designs. Don't let the author names or titles throw you off! They're only there for show purposes, to help you imagine what it might look like with your title and name.
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It's interesting – being a blogger and author and speaker and public person. It's fun to watch your book break the top five on the New York Times list. It's exciting to take on big projects and be recognized and hugged by strangers. It's an experience to field daily praise and criticism. It is all something. Really- just something.
The problem, as my wise new friend Lissa says, is that there's no THERE there.
You think there is, you really do. You start writing and you think- okay. If I just get a book deal – then I'll have arrived. I'll BE there. But then you get there. The finish line. And somebody moves it. Now the goal is to hit "The List." And so you get there- the finish line. But then somebody moves it. Now the goal is to stay on the list. And now it is to write another book that does better than the first.
And everything else is like that, too. The speaking. The blogging. The finish line keeps moving and moving. Any sort of celebration for any sort of "success" lasts three minutes and even those celebrations feel like pressure. Because over every celebration hangs the question,"so, what's next?" And so there is no satisfaction, no peace. It's never done. It's never good enough.
And this is why it is so important for us to take the time to define success for ourselves. Because if we let the world do it for us, the world will keep moving the finish line again and again and accidentally suck us dry. And we might do something awful like make ourselves sick or quit doing what we love to do. The world will NEVER say to us- "Enough, sweetheart. You did well. Relax and take care of yourself and your family and your friends and your dogs. Forever, if you'd like."
And that's okay, because it's not the world's job to say that to us –it's our job to say that to ourselves.
During the past year I've learned that there is no THERE for me in the world's idea of success. But thank God, I've also learned where the THERE IS in my life.
THERE are the things I do just to do them. There is no NEXT after these things. No THEN WHAT? No striving. No expectations. For me – THERE is on the beach at sunset. There is puttering around my house, straightening things – God I love that. There is writing. Not posting and waiting for responses, just writing. There is in yoga class- when my only job is to breathe. There is sitting in the pew at our church. There is smack dab in the middle of a philosophical talk with Chase, Tish's bedtime lullaby, or a tickle fest with Amma. Right now, THERE is at a marriage therapy session with Craig – practicing listening and really getting to know the man God gave me to love. THERE is on the floor listening to a few girlfriends talk. Just talk – not about anything important, necessarily. Just listening to real live women laugh and talk. THERE is feeling the weight of my puppies on my legs at night –grounding me while I fall asleep. All of that really sinks in. It makes me who I am.
Those things. I feel good enough in the midst of those things. I feel like all I have to do is be me. Nobody needs anything but the real me. And so there is a THERE, there.
I'm signing off of the internet for 40 days.
I feel something or someone calling me away. Calling me to rest and be still. Begging me to stop producing, stop striving, Reminding me that: what good is it to gain the whole world if you lose your soul, G?
This someone, God maybe, keeps reminding me that one of my favorite things about myself is that I'd give up a million whole worlds to keep my soul.
This morning I was prepping the kids' lunches and dancing in the kitchen to the Grateful Dead. I was happy. I am always happy when I'm about to take the kids to camp.
And I sang this part really loud: "first one's named sweet Anne Marie, she's my heart's delight." I love that line. Heart's Delight! Anne Marie! And I started thinking about what a precious name Anne Marie is and how much I just LOVE everyone in the whole world named Anne Marie. And then I said a prayer for all the Anne Maries in the world. That they'd have a few brilliant moments today in which they'd feel wildly and completely loved.
That whole Grateful Dead/Anne Marie thing took about five minutes. That five minutes made me so happy. There was a THERE there. Because that was my soul, there dancing and praying for all the Anne Marie's in the world. I love that wild, nonsensical part of me. I need some time to get back in touch with her- to invite her front and center again because I want HER to lead me through this life. I choose HER- even if she makes no sense to the world at all. She says to me- WHO FREAKING CARES ABOUT THAT THING YOU'RE DOING? COME DANCE! THE ANNE MARIES NEED SOME PRAYERS! DON"T ASK WHY- JUST DANCE AND PRAY!"
The internet, I think – is turning into a compulsion for me. I'm starting to look to it for my own worth. I'm looking to it for comfort and as a balm for loneliness. I'm using it to hide a little from real live people. And I'm using it to numb my feelings. To zone out. All of this scares me because these are all the things I used to use booze for. And these are the things I still use food for sometimes.
The internet is not bad any more than wine or food are bad. But we can use all three in ways that dull our spirits. If we're looking to find THERE in anything other than within – we will have no peace. We will be folks in a race in which the finish line just keeps moving till we die. There will be no time or energy left to dance or pray. What will the Anne Maries do?
Every once in a while, I need to silence all the thousands of voices coming at me through the internet so that I can hear God in me. That is the only voice, the ONLY voice, that I can trust will never lead me wrong. And that is the voice I hear in the quiet. It's time for some quiet for me. And then after the quiet it's time for some real conversations with the people I love. Sometimes with our access to so MANY people, we end up serving our outer circles instead of most inner ones. Sometimes we're so busy responding to strangers that we forget to respond to the people right in front of is. And we forget who we are a little. And instead of feeling grounded into our real lives we start feeling untethered, like satellites out in the cyberworld. As if we actually ARE our profiles and our worth actually COMES from how many "likes" we have. No. There is no THERE there. There's not and there is never, ever going to be.
The people I trust the most are the folks who feel and respect the rhythm of life. Nature tries to teach us how that works. Like the ocean waves – how they gather power and then roll in, and back out. In, and back out. And how the trees respect life's seasons. How they blossom and then go dormant. They know that creating beauty is not about pushing through. It's about respecting the seasons. I don't think the trees spend a whole lot of time worrying that if they rest – if they go dormant for a season like they were made to- that they'll become obsolete. They know life will go on without them for a while and that's okay with them. They will blossom again when it's time. Trees have faith.
But we don't. When our bodies tell us it's time to rest – we pop pills and chug more caffeine. We think something's WRONG with us. We push through. At a cost maybe.
In twenty minutes, I'm going to publish this essay and then I'm going to disable the internet on my phone and my computer. No blog, no Facebook, no Twitter, no Instagram, no email. I'm going to drop out of my online life so that I can drop fully back into my real life. It'll be hard at first. I'll get nervous and twitchy and I won't know what to do with myself for a while. That's okay- I've made it through withdrawal before. I know how to sit with the discomfort of being disconnected to the identity I've clung to so tightly for so long. And I know that sitting with the discomfort of releasing a false identity is the only way back to my real-est identity. Which is a child of God. And as a child of God- I don't have to produce a damn thing to be worthy. I just AM. I just have to remember that. That truth is uncomfortable at first – and then it turns into the only lasting comfort on Earth.
Like my new shero Pema Chodron says:
"So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior."
Carry On, Warriors. See you in 40 days.
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Guide to the Civil war papers, 1861-1912
Guide to the Civil war papers, 1861-1912
Collection number: M0284Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
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- Green Library
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Container List
Richard Reynolds Papers. Gift of Mrs Robert Young.
Item 1. 1861, July 9.Honorable discharge of Richard Reynolds, Private, from Indiana Volunteers State Service.
Item 2. 1865, July 7,Notice to R. Reynolds to report to mustering out from U.S. Service.
Item 3. 1865, August 2,Discharge of Richard Reynolds from Company J, 23rd Regiment of Indiana Volunteers.
Item 4. 1912, August 14,Honorable Discharge of Harold A. Reynolds from Kansas National Guard.
Item 5. 1879, September 1,Arrears of Pension notice for Richard Reynolds.
Item 6. 1878, September 3,Pension Office, Dept. of Interior notice of $2/month pension commencing 14 June 1877.
Item 7. 1879, January 23,Dept. of Interior Pension. Notice of Issue of Cert. #155180 to Richard Reynolds.
Item 8. 1885, July 27,Dept. of Interior Pension Office. Notice of Cert. #155180 for increase pension for Richard Reynolds.
Item 9. 1888, March 4 - June 4,Voucher to receive pension of Richard Reynolds.
Item 10. 1887, November 16,Dept. of Interior, Pension Office. Notice of increase pension.
Item 11. 1888, April 25,Voucher for Accrued Pension. Richard Reynolds widow Mary R. Reynolds applying.
Item 12. 1861, July 27,Appointment of Richard Reynolds to Sergeant in Company I, 23rd Regiment, Indiana Foot Volunteers.
Item 13. 1864, January 5,Official Promotion Papers of Richard Reynolds to Sergeant, Company II, 23rd Regiment of Ind. Veteran Volunteers. In red ink over printed certificate record of battles Reynolds engaged in. On verso recommendation for promotion for Duty performed inside Enemy lines
Item 14. 1863, December 31,Application for reimbursement for rations while James Gosgriff was on furlough 1 Dec. 1863 to 31 Dec. 1863. Unsigned, Undated.
Item 15. 1864, September 3,ALS Wm. B. C. Schlater (Col. A.D.C.) to Sgt. R. Reynolds.
Item 16. 1864, October 28,Special Orders No. 72 enabling Richard Reynolds, Sergeant, to proceed on furlough despite loss of proper papers due to robbery. Issued by Hdqtrs. 2d Brig., 3d Div., 15th A.C.
Item 17. 1864, October 28,Oath of Richard Reynolds affirming receipt of furlough and robbery of same.
Item 18. 1865, January 2,Loyalty Oath to U.S.A. by R. Reynolds. Witnessed by S.J. Mofinger.
Item 19. 1865, August 2,ALS Blake's Law & Military Claim Office. Indianapolis. Receipt of discharge with application for arrears of pay from Richard Reynolds.
Item 20. 1868, February 19,Receipt of $6.33 taxes from Richard Reynolds to Charleston, Clark City, Ind. Treasurer's Office.
Reply, Edward H. Memories/The capture and occupation of Richman of Apr. 3 1865typescript, 1885. Provenance unknown.
1864 Apr 14ALS to clear sister from John N. Manlove, describing Civil war battles. Bequest of Leila Glenn Saunders, 1980.
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In the head-to-head matches, St. Thomas senior Corey Begley earned his first two victories at 285 pounds; John Hume went 1-1 at 126 with one pin; Thomas Knizewski went 2-0 at 132; lbs.); Nick Arau won an exhibition at 170. For Oyster River, Brendon Ouellette won by pin at 152; Joshua Howard won at 160 and Caleb Cole fell at 170.
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NEWTON, Mass. — The Berwick Academy girls basketball team earned a 55-32 win at Newton Country Day School on Wednesday.
Torie St. Pierre led Berwick with 16 points, five assists and three steals; Rebecca Siegel scored 14 points and Brooke Downey added 10. Dominique St. Pierre made five rebounds and five steals.
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Sodierna needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Present Tense
I'm a 42 year old father of 3 (Noah- age 13, Jake- 11, Ruby- 5) who has been into boating since childhood. We also have a young black lab named Jetty who is a fun part of our boating experience. This project is 100% personal so I won't get into details about my work life. Boating for me is is a welcome respit from work life and also a good way to spend family time together (it's hard to have family time on a golf course). While I enjoy competitive long distance sailing, the boat we are working on here is a power boat (e.g. no sails) named Present Tense.
The name Present Tense was inspired by a Pearl Jam song of the same name from their No Code album released in 1996. Listening to music is a big part of what we do out on the water and it was important to me for the boat name to have a tie in to a song I felt strongly about. The fact that the song and the boat are from the same year is a nice bonus. Present Tense is a bit of a dark song, the main take-away message for me being the importance of letting go of the past and living in the present. For me, that's what boating is all about. We have such a short time on this earth and even a shorter time to enjoy being on the water. While on the water, the past and future really don't matter so much. It's a time to enjoy exactly what you have while you have it. A time to live in the present tense.
The audience is both the rest of the boating community who will see the logo on the tansom as well as non-boating family and friends who will see the name and/or receive hats, cubs, etc. with the logo. We very much enjoy taking guests out on Present Tense and we like to make the day a real experience, not just a boat ride. "Branding" helps complete and polish that experience and if we can leave our guests with a sense of renewal and reminder to live in their own present tense we feel we've done more than just entertain.
Our previous boat was a smaller one named "Dancing Barefoot" (inspired by Patti Smith song of same name). Same kind of meaning... freedom and joy of the present.
The project is to deliver a logo that will help "brand" the experience of spending time on "Present Tense". Specifically, the logo will be used on the transom of the vessel (roughly 6' x 3' landscape orientation). The tansom logo should include the name of our home port: "Mamaroneck, NY". The logo (without the home port) will also be used for various smaller items (e.g. hats, tee-shrits, polo shirts, drink glasses, etc.)
The boat is a 1996 Tiara 4000 Express propelled by twin 435 horse power Caterpillar diesel engines. She is 43.5 feet long and 14.5 feet wide at her beamiest. We primarily use her for cruising with family and friends (i.e. not fishing) in Long Island Sound and southern New England. Our favorite port of call is Block Island, RI.
I've attached various pictures of myself, family, and friends having fun in and around Present Tense (fka Grano de Oro).
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Since coming back to San Diego I have been knee-deep in mastering the art and craft of wet plate collodion imagery. Some of you probably know that this is the technique used to create Ambrotypes (on clear or black glass) and Tintypes (on metal - mostly aluminum is used today). The process was invented in 1850s and provides a uniquely beautiful photographic experience to both the artist and the model. Each image is created from scratch using some basic alchemy and work must me carried out at a rather rapid pace as the collodion must not dry out between coating and subsequent exposure and development. Even with all the care in the world, no two images will be alike and in that lays the crux of my attraction to this process.
I am eternally grateful to the people who have endured a sitting with me. Not having an assistant I am left to let them sit patiently by the camera while I am making the plate in the darkroom of The Photo Palace Bus. It takes about 4 minutes from the time that he subject is posed to the moment when I emerge from the bus and then I have to dive back into the darkroom within a minute. Now I understand very clearly why historically there was a need for a 'poser' - someone to situate the model and to keep them company while the photographer is 'in the dark'. Here are some of the images that I have recently created.
4x5 Tintype - Laurel and Flower
5x7 Tintype - Margo and Laurel
5x7 Ambrotype - Margo
4x5 Ambrotype - Jozlynn
5x7 Tintype - Jozlynn
Some of you may know that I am a big fan of vintage cameras. My collection is growing and I decided to immortalize some of the best and most classic examples by creating a tintype series of camera portraits. Here is the beginning of that series.
4x5 Tintype - Hassleblad 500CM
4x5 Tintype -Jumelle Belliene
4x5 Tintype -Retina IIIc
4x5 Tintype -Rolleiflex Wide
4x5 Tintype -Polaroid SX-70
4x5 Tintype - Voigtlander Bessa
4x5 Tintype - Zeiss Ikon
It's 1am and I should really get to bed. Today at 3pm I will be in West Hollywood doing a Magic Lantern Show. There is a big Russian expat community and I hope for a big turnout. Huge thanks to the City of West Hollywood Arts and Cultural Affairs office for sponsoring this event.
Monday I will be shooting more wet plate images in hopes of expanding my portfolio with some quality shots. Once I gain enough confidence in my skills I will offer portraits and then The Photo Palace Bus will become a true old-fashioned Photo Saloon (as they used to call traveling wet plate studios during 19th century).
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Dominican Republic
major macro economic indicators
|2018 (e)
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|GDP growth (%)
|Inflation (yearly average, %)
|Budget balance (% GDP)
|Current account balance (% GDP)
|Public debt (% GDP)
(e): Estimate. (f): Forecast.
- Leading Caribbean tourist destination
- Remittances from its diaspora
- Free-trade agreement with the United States (CAFTA-DR)
- Free zones (51% of exports in 2018)
- Political stability
- Dependent on US economy
- Dependent on gold prices
- Sporadic electricity shortages
- Deficiencies in education and health care systems
- High levels of poverty and inequality
- Drug traffic-related crime
- Widespread corruption
Risk assessment
Economic growth dependent on the US economy
Post-Hurricane Maria reconstruction efforts boosted the economy in 2018, but growth is expected to be slower in 2019, although still high. After being driven by the favourable economic situation in the United States in 2018, the country's growth may be affected as the US economy gradually cools. This may impact inflows of tourists, which should nevertheless remain high. Tourism revenues and strong growth in expatriate remittances will act as the drivers for household consumption, which is the main contributor to growth, accounting for 70% of GDP. Relatively healthy economic conditions in the United States should continue to boost exports, and hence sugar and gold production, despite uncertainties about the price of gold. Inward FDI, particularly from the USA, is set to continue thanks to the presence of free zones and strong performances of the construction and tourism sectors. The rising price of oil, of which the country is an importer, should put inflation in the central bank's target zone of 3-5%. Thanks to the country's comfortable foreign exchange reserves, the central bank is able to pursue a fairly accommodating monetary policy focused on supporting growth and controlling inflation.
Reverse trajectories for the twin deficits, which remain relatively low
The 2019 budget, which has been presented to and approved by Parliament, shows a slight decrease in the government deficit. The objective is to increase state revenues by 14%, notably via more efficient tax and customs collection and continued strong growth. This increase is expected to slightly exceed the 13% growth in public spending, more than two thirds of which is made up of current expenditures, chiefly in health and education. Capital expenditure (13% of total expenditure) and debt interest (17%) are the fastest growing areas (14% and 23% respectively), but their share remains significantly lower. The improvement in the budget balance could be much smaller than the one targeted by the government (deficit of 1.7% of GDP) because of possible additional current expenditures (weather-related risk, fight against trafficking) during the year.
The trade deficit, which stands at more than 11% of GDP, is set to widen further in 2019 on higher imported oil prices and a possible decline in gold prices. In addition, past depreciation of the local currency, although good for export competitiveness, is pushing up the price of imports. The balance of services (about 7% of GDP in 2017) will continue to improve and remain strongly positive thanks to tourism, which is expected to grow by almost 5% in annual terms, as will the balance of transfers (slightly above 7% of GDP in 2017), driven by remittances from the diaspora. Due to the many active FDI projects in the country, the income balance will remain very negative. All of this is expected to translate into a slight deterioration in the current account. The current account deficit is expected to be largely financed by FDI supported by the existence of numerous free zones. The latter are growing rapidly and account for nearly 60% of FDI in the Caribbean region.
Apparent political stability masks a fragile situation
The political landscape is largely dominated by President Danilo Medina's Partido de la Liberacion Dominica, which holds a majority in both houses of the national legislature. The President will end his second term in 2020. However, although he enjoys good ratings, popular protests are on the rise. Since 2017, Marcha Verde demonstrations have been organised, including one in August 2018 that was attended by nearly a million people, to denounce corruption and call for the conviction of 12 current or former political leaders accused of taking bribes from Odebrecht, a Brazilian company. Taxes on petroleum products coupled with the rise in the price of oil have also fuelled discontent. At the same time, at the end of 2018, the country launched a new border security plan with Haiti to combat arms and drug trafficking and illegal immigration by Haitians, who account for 87% of all immigrants. In addition, the country broke off diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 2018, a move that has led to the opening of a Chinese embassy in Santo Domingo and the development of trade relations, the effects of which should be felt as early as 2019. Chinese investments are expected to increase in a country where the business environment is ranked 102nd in the Doing Business 2019 ranking.
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Libyan leader escapes 'assassination bid'
TRIPOLI - Mohammed Megaryef, president of Libya's national assembly, has escaped an attack on his hotel in the southern oasis of Sabha in an incident his spokesman on Sunday called an assassination attempt.
"The hotel he was staying in was attacked for three hours. There was sniper fire. It seems to have been an assassination attempt," the assembly chief's spokesman, Rassmi Beruwien, said of the incident that happened on Thursday.
"Three people from military security were wounded but unfortunately nobody was caught. Attacking where the president is staying -- that is an assassination attempt," he added.
"It happened in the early hours of Thursday morning."
Megaryef, who was unhurt, spoke to state television about the incident in remarks spread on social networking sites.
"At around 2 am, there were explosions and sniper shots at the hotel where we were staying. The exchange of fire lasted about three hours," he said.
The incident underscores the challenge Libya's new authorities face in securing the south, a desert region rife will illegal trafficking and full of weapons left over from the 2011 conflict that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi.
Tribal clashes in the oil-rich south killed hundreds of people in 2012.
In December, Tripoli imposed martial law on the region and ordered that the land borders with Chad, Niger, Sudan and Algeria be closed.


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One on One's NFL Friday: Week 17 (Guest: Clark Judge CBSSPORTS.com)
On the final regular season episode of One on One's NFL Friday Nick and Chris discuss the possiblity of the Giants making the playoffs. They also analyze the decision by coach Rex Ryan to re-instate Mark Sanchez as the Jets starting quaterback due to injury. They also talk to senior NFL writer for cbssports.com Clark Judge about the diffrent playoff scenarios. Clark gives us his favorites for the NFC East crown and final wild card spot. He also tells you the best team playoff team with a rookie quarterback and his leader in the MVP race.


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99miles needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 220 designs submitted by 55 freelance designers.
We are a small startup developing software-as-a-service web applications.
I'm looking for a product logo for our appointment scheduling software 'Evergreen'.
The target market is small business. There is a slight tilt towards women, though the target is by no means all women. They all offer services to clients and hope to grow their client base. They could be anything from yoga teachers to massage therapists, to music teachers and tutors.
The feel:
The feel of the brand should be fun and a little playful, while being professional, punchy, and compelling. I don't want a corporate feel, but instead a feel of excitement and energy. And I want it to have some dimension and not be too flat. See the two example logos I link to below for what I mean about dimension. They are illustrations that really come to life.
I'm looking for a product logo for our appointment scheduling software 'Evergreen'. However, I'd prefer no references to appointments or scheduling. I would prefer a focus simply on the term 'Evergreen', it's meaning and metaphors -- growth, spreading, self-renewal.
For inspiration help, here are some quotes from Wikipedia:
"an evergreen plant is a plant that has leaves in all seasons. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose their foliage during the winter or dry season."
"the term 'evergreen' can refer metaphorically to something that is continuously renewed or is self-renewing."
I'd like to see a graphical logo that can stand well on it's own, but also incorporates well with your treatments to the text of the product name 'Evergreen' (see examples, below).
Some of the obvious elements might be a leaf (or leaves), tree, raindrop(s). By no means limit yourself to this, but one idea I'd love to see versions of is a raindrop showing the reflection of a leaf or leaves...
Logos that I love are:
Green should definitely be incorporated. Otherwise we'd prefer colors found in nature -- orange (sunsets), blue (sky), etc.
Thanks for your consideration, and I looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
This could likely lead to more branding work.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Google Mashup of EVDO network coverage, as reported by users in the field. Visitors can see where Sprint and Verizon EVDO coverage performs well, and where it does not.C&C Yacht Owners Worldwide
A respresentation of C&C Yacht Owners. Color coded icons to signify their boat length. Automatic zoom features to each owners individual profile and location.Central Park Birding Locations
An interesting outdoor urban mashup showing the locations of various types of birds in Central Park. Info balloons show pictures of the birds as well as referencing the page numbers from the book titled: "Birds of Central Park".
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Play world class golf on Scottsdale and Phoenix golf courses. Plan Arizona golf vacations!
This is demo map. It shows locations of some Google™ offices. To get the latest and exact list of Google offices visit this page.
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Charting Your Course Using the Google Maps API
This ongoing series regarding building location-based web sites using PHP and the Google Maps API has covered quite a bit of ground, no pun intended, showing you how to plot locations on maps, convert addresses into their corresponding coordinates using a variety of solutions, and even build your own geocoding web service for fun and profit.
This installment tackles another fascinating aspect you'll undoubtedly encounter when building location-based solutions, namely distance calculation. Whether you want to simply plot the distance separating two points on the map, or perform more complex operations involving measuring the total distance spanning a more complex route, understanding how to perform these sorts of calculations will prove invaluable time and again. Along the way, you'll also learn how to enhance the user-friendliness of your maps using Ajax and various compelling features of the Google Maps API .
Calculating the Distance Between Two Points
Figure 1. Determining the distance between two points
For starters, a way to plot the two points on the map is needed. To do so, the Google Maps API can be used to add a listener, which will constantly poll the status of the rendered map, waiting for a particular event to occur, such as a mouse click. Clicking the mouse on top of the map will cause the listener to execute another JavaScript method. This listener can be embedded within the load() function, which automatically executes thanks to the onload() event handler attached to the page's <body> tag. The load() JavaScript function and two variables that will be used throughout the script looks like this:
By now everything in this function should be familiar, except for the last line. The GEvent.addListener() method attaches a click listener to the map object, which will cause a function named addMarker() to execute should the user click on the map.
Next the addMarker() function will be created. This function is responsible for responding to the listener by placing a marker at the location where the user clicked the mouse, and append the new marker's coordinates to the coordinates array. If the user previously added another marker by way of this function, addMarker() will also draw a line between the new and old marker.
function addMarker(overlay, latlng) { // Create a new marker based on the coordinates var marker = new GMarker(latlng); // Add the new marker to the map map.addOverlay(marker); // Create the new array element coordinates_array_element = latlng.lat() + "," + latlng.lng(); // Add the new array element to the map coordinates.push(coordinates_array_element); // If more than one point on the map, connect the new point to the preceding point if (coordinates.length > 1) { // Draw a line between the current and previous marker coordinate_prev = coordinates[coordinates.length - 2]; var polyOptions = {geodesic:true}; var polyline = new GPolyline([ new GLatLng(latlng.lat(),latlng.lng()), new GLatLng(coordinate_prev.split(",")[0],coordinate_prev.split(",")[1]) ], "#ff0000", 3, 1, polyOptions); map.addOverlay(polyline); } }
Finally, a way is needed to calculate the distance between the two charted points. Because this is such a commonplace feature, the GoogleMapAPI PHP library used in previous articles offers a built-in method for calculating this distance. It can even do so using a variety of units, including miles (the default), kilometers, nautical miles, inches, and feet. Naturally, the calculation should be performed in a user-friendly fashion, which these days involves using a bit of Ajax to make the distance calculation a seamless process.
// Initiates the distance calculation process. function calculateDistance() { // Only two markers should be found on the map if (coordinates.length == 2) { // Join each element coordinates array with a vertical pipe var coords = coordinates.join("|"); // Perform the Ajax call. The coordinates are passed as a GET parameter. // When completed, the postResponse() function is called. var myAjax = new Ajax.Request('distance.php', {method: 'get', parameters: {coords: coords}, onComplete: postResponse}); } else { document.getElementById("distance").innerHTML = "Two points are required."; } } // Update the current web page with the value returned from the PHP script. // This value will be placed within the div identified by the distance id. function postResponse(transport) { if (transport.responseText != false) { document.getElementById("distance").innerHTML = "The distance is: " + transport.responseText + " miles."; } else { document.getElementById("distance").innerHTML = "Distance could not be calculated."; } }
In the calculateDistance() function you see the Ajax.Request() method is calling a script identified by distance.php. This script is displayed next:
<?php // Include the GoogleMapAPI library include("GoogleMapAPI.class.php"); // Instantiate the GoogleMapAPI class, and set the API key $this->map = new GoogleMapAPI('map'); $this->map->setAPIKey("YOUR_KEY_GOES_HERE"); // Retrieve the $coords variable which has been passed through the GET method, // and turn the data back into an array $coordinates = explode("|", $_GET['coords']); // Parse the array to retrieve each set of coordinates $coord1 = explode(",", $coordinates[0]); $coord2 = explode(",", $coordinates[1]); // Calculate the distance $distance = $this->map->geoGetDistance($coord1[0], $coord1[1], $coord2[0], $coord2[1]); // Return the calculated distance. Note we are not using return! The data must be echoed. echo $distance; ?>
A screenshot of the completed solution in-action is shown in Figure 2. You can interact with the completed solution at http://mapping.wjgilmore.com/.
Figure 2. Determining the distance between two points
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Applied Polymerics, Inc. and Marketing Associates, Inc. (API/MAI) manufacture, supply and install specialty construction products, including bridge expansion joints, concrete repair compounds, protective coatings and pavement preservation products. They are used to repair and rehabilitate roadways and bridges.
Headquarters: Mt. Airy, North Carolina Phone: (336) 789-6159 Website: www.appliedpolymerics.com and www.maiftl.com
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Alright you people, I'm back with another Resident Evil tutorial. This time it's the Licker, which has been pretty prominent in the series... or at least has made a few different appearances. This will be an intermediate level tutorial, but I hope you all enjoy.
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text: Zamanni collections highlight a freedom of style and promotes self-confidence. The collection reflects a mix of exceptional craftsmanship, luxury and a casual style taken from the design and fashion of the sixties. The sophisticated and vibrant prints for men were inspired after a trip to Cuba. The house's prestigious heritage illustrates the main theme for both genders. The collections have, as always, this sense of edgy colorful elegance. Women are simply sexy and men are daring. Changing season in Zamanni is like taking a new step towards a personal style defined by easy to get and mix pieces. Dare to be yourself, to feel and act young, and to evolve with the times. Effortless glamour lies in these dynamic silhouettes that reveal singular bodies and souls.


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The accessibility advantage
December 3, 2018
December 3, 2018
Businesses that will thrive in the economy of tomorrow recognize that meeting the needs of diverse populations is key to their business model today. But an often underrecognized group is those with disabilities. In fact, providing increased access to technologies that meet the needs of persons with disabilities lays the foundation for inclusive work cultures that enable these employees to thrive—presenting a tremendous opportunity.
Consider this: There are approximately 20 million individuals with disabilities in the United States, representing US$490 billion in disposable income. Globally, these figures jump to 1 billion individuals with disabilities with US$8 trillion in disposable income, making them the 3rd largest economic power in the world above Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
It pays to be inclusive. Leaders in disability employment and inclusion outperformed their peers in the following ways:
Persons with disabilities across Accenture provide invaluable insights for innovation. Here are a couple of stories about how individuals are bringing the Accessibility Advantage to life inside our team:
As a consultant working for Accenture Federal Services, Joaquin is deaf and takes advantage of real-time remote interpreting services for online and in-person meetings while designing accessible websites.
Lisa is a manager with our CIO practice. Her perspective as someone experiencing spinal muscular atrophy is critical to designing more accessible and usable internal Accenture sites.
Organizations that lead inclusive innovation inside of their own environments will set the tone for workplaces and cities of the future and are better positioned to have their technology and platforms emerge as industry standards.
Consider the following building blocks as you transform your organization's inclusivity practices.


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by Katie Parker, sports information graduate assistant
NEW ORLEANS - The Georgia College & State University's men's and women's cross country teams held their ground in the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association of America (USTFCCCA) week five Southeast Region rankings released yesterday, Oct. 13. The men remained in the No. 9 slot, while the women rested in the No. 10 position.
The Bobcat women defended their ranking position Saturday (Oct. 10) in the Southern Challenge hosted by Chattahoochee Tech. Georgia College took six of the top eight individual finishes and claimed the top-two team finishes. Splitting into GCSU A and GCSU B for the event, GCSU A had just 20 points while GCSU B collected 75, edging Clark Atlanta University by two. The 20 points by GCSU A is the third-lowest point total in Bobcat history.
For the men, Georgia College held the No. 9 spot after earning the runner-up slot at Southern Challenge Saturday. The Bobcats took the 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 17th slots, which was good enough for second place with 60 points.
Both teams are back in action Friday, Oct. 16 at the SMC Invitational, hosted by St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vt.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.