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text: Science, Tech, Math › Social Sciences Pea (Pisum sativum L.) Domestication - The History of Peas and Humans What Science Has Learned of the History and Origins of the Pea Share Flipboard Email Print Pea (Pisum satifum) by Giglioli E., 0th Century Ink and Watercolor on Paper. Electa / Hulton Fine Art Collection / Getty Images Social Sciences Archaeology Domestication Basics & History Ancient Civilizations Excavations Psychology Sociology Economics Environment Ergonomics Maritime by K. Kris Hirst K. Kris Hirst is an archaeologist with 30 years of field experience. She is the author of The Archaeologist's Book of Quotations and her work has appeared in Science and Archaeology. Updated September 13, 2017 Pea (Pisum sativum L.) is a cool season legume, a diploid species belonging to the Leguminosae family (aka Fabaceae). Domesticated about 11,000 years ago or so, peas are an important human and animal food crop cultivated throughout the world. Since 2003, global cultivation has ranged between 1.6 to 2.2 million planted hectares (4-5.4 million acres) producing 12-17.4 million tons per year. Peas are a rich source of protein (23-25%), essential amino acids, complex carbohydrates, and mineral content like iron, calcium and potassium. They are naturally low in sodium and fat. Today peas are used in soups, breakfast cereals, processed meat, health foods, pastas, and purees; they are processed into pea flour, starch and protein. More to our point, they are one of the eight so-called "founder crops": among the earliest domesticated crops on our planet. Peas and Pea Species Three species of peas are known today: Pisum sativum L. extends from Iran and Turkmenistan through anterior Asia, northern Africa and southern Europe P. fulvum is found in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Israel P. abyssinicum is found from Yemen to Ethiopia The latest research (Smykal et al. 2010), suggests that both P. sativum and P. fulvum were domesticated in the Near East about 11,000 years ago from a now-extinct ancestor of Pisum; and P. abyssinian was developed from P. sativum independently in Old Kingdom or Middle Kingdom Egypt about 4000-5000 years ago. Subsequent breeding and improvements have resulted in the production of thousands of pea varieties today. The oldest possible evidence for people eating peas is that of starch grains founded embedded in the calculus (plaque) on Neanderthal teeth at Shanidar Cave and dated about 46,000 years ago. Those are tentative identifications to date: the starch grains are not necessarily those of P. sativum (see Henry et al.). The earliest evidence for the purposeful cultivation of peas is from the Near East at the site of Jerf el Ahmar, Syria about 9300 calendar years BC [cal BC] (11,300 years ago). Pea Domestication Archaeological and genetic research indicates that the pea was domesticated by people purposefully selecting for peas that had a softer shell and ripened during the wet season. Unlike grains, which ripen all at once and stand up straight with their grains on predictably sized spikes, wild peas put out seeds all over their flexible plant stems, and they have a hard, water-impermeable shell that allows them to ripen over a very long period of time. A long producing season may sound like a great idea, but harvesting such a plant at any one time is not terrifically productive: you have to return time and time again to collect enough to make a garden worthwhile. And because they grow low to the ground and seeds arise all over the plant, harvesting isn't easy. What a softer shell on the seeds does is allow the seeds to germinate in the wet season, thereby allowing more peas to ripen at the same, predictable time. Other traits developed in domeseticated peas include pods that don't shatter on maturity--wild peapods shatter, scattering their seeds out to reproduce; we would prefer that they wait until we get there. Wild peas have smaller seeds, too: wild pea seed weights range between .09 to .11 grams and domesticated ones are larger, ranging between .12 to .3 grams. Studying Peas Peas were one of the first plants studied by geneticists, starting with Thomas Andrew Knight in the 1790s, not to mention the famous studies by Gregor Mendel in the 1860s. But, interestingly enough, mapping the pea genome has lagged behind other crops because it has such a large and complex genome. There are important collections of pea germplasm with 1,000 or more pea varieties located in 15 different countries. Several different research teams (Jain, Kwon, Sindhu, Smýkal) have begun the process of studying pea genetics based on those collections. Shahal Abbo and colleagues (2008, 2011, 2013) built wild pea nurseries in several gardens in Israel and compared the grain yield patterns to those of domesticated pea. Those studies are the ones that provided evidence for the fact that you can't really grow peas successfully unless you find a way around the hard seed coat and long-term production. Sources This article is a part of the About.com guide to the Plant Domestication, and the Dictionary of Archaeology. Abbo S, Pinhasi van-Oss R, Gopher A, Saranga Y, Ofner I, and Peleg Z. 2014. Plant domestication versus crop evolution: a conceptual framework for cereals and grain legumes. Trends in Plant Science 19(6):351-360. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2013.12.002 Abbo S, Rachamim E, Zehavi Y, Zezak I, Lev-Yadun S, and Gopher A. 2011. Experimental growing of wild pea in Israel and its bearing on Near Eastern plant domestication. Annals of Botany 107(8):1399-1404. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcr081 Abbo S, Zezak I, Schwartz E, Lev-Yadun S, and Gopher A. 2008. Experimental harvesting of wild peas in Israel: implications for the origins of Near East farming. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(4):922-929. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2007.06.016 Abbo S, Zezak I, Zehavi Y, Schwartz E, Lev-Yadun S, and Gopher A. 2013. Six seasons of wild pea harvest in Israel: bearing on Near Eastern plant domestication. Journal of Archaeological Science 40(4):2095-2100. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.12.024 Fuller DQ, Willcox G, and Allaby RG. 2012. Early agricultural pathways: moving outside the 'core area' hypothesis in Southwest Asia. Journal of Experimental Botany 63(2):617-633. doi: 10.1093/jxb/err307 Hagenblad J, Boström E, Nygårds L, and Leino M. 2014. Genetic diversity in local cultivars of garden pea (Pisum sativum L.) conserved 'on farm' and in historical collections. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 61(2):413-422. doi: 10.1007/s10722-013-0046-5 Henry AG, Brooks AS, and Piperno DR. 2011. Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets (Shanidar III, Iraq; Spy I and II, Belgium). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(2):486-491. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1016868108 Jain S, Kumar A, Mamidi S, and McPhee K. 2014. Genetic Diversity and Population Structure Among Pea (Pisum sativum L.) Cultivars as Revealed by Simple Sequence Repeat and Novel Genic Markers. Molecular Biotechnology 56(10):925-938. doi: 10.1007/s12033-014-9772-y Kwon S-J, Brown A, Hu J, McGee R, Watt C, Kisha T, Timmerman-Vaughan G, Grusak M, McPhee K, and Coyne C. 2012. Genetic diversity, population structure and genome-wide marker-trait association analysis emphasizing seed nutrients of the USDA pea (Pisum sativum L.) core collection. Genes & Genomics 34(3):305-320. doi: 10.1007/s13258-011-0213-z Mikic A, Medovic A, Jovanovic Ž, and Stanisavljevic N. 2014. Integrating archaeobotany, paleogenetics and historical linguistics may cast more light onto crop domestication: the case of pea (Pisum sativum). Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 61(5):887-892. doi: 10.1007/s10722-014-0102-9 Sharma S, Singh N, Virdi AS, and Rana JC. 2015. Quality traits analysis and protein profiling of field pea (Pisum sativum) germplasm from Himalayan region. Food Chemistry 172(0):528-536. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2014.09.108 Sindhu A, Ramsay L, Sanderson L-A, Stonehouse R, Li R, Condie J, Shunmugam AK, Liu Y, Jha A, Diapari M et al. 2014. Gene-based SNP discovery and genetic mapping in pea. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 127(10):2225-2241. dio: 10.1007/s00122-014-2375-y Smýkal P, Aubert G, Burstin J, Coyne CJ, Ellis NTH, Flavell AJ, Ford R, Hýbl M, Macas J, Neumann P et al. 2012. Pea (Pisum sativum L.) in the Genomic Era. Agronomy 2(2):74-115. doi: 10.3390/agronomy2020074 Smýkal P, Kenicer G, Flavell AJ, Corander J, Kosterin O, Redden RJ, Ford R, Coyne CJ, Maxted N, Ambrose MJ et al. 2011. Phylogeny, phylogeography and genetic diversity of the Pisum genus. Plant Genetic Resources 9(1):4-18. doi: doi:10.1017/S147926211000033X Continue Reading

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Written & published by Fred Patten on the LASFS Rex Rotary, November 26, 1964. Intended for Apa L, 6th Distribution, LASFS meeting #1424, November 26, 1964. Address: 1825 Greenfield Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90025. Phone: GR 3-6321.
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I'm finally moved in at 1825 Greenfield Avenue. The big move took place last Saturday, when Al came on down to my old place in his Econoline. We loaded in my bed, chest of drawers, a chair, a large chest, and my clothes; and that was it in the way of my immediate housekeeping. Two hours later, I was all unpacked and ready to go in my new abode. I'll still be bringing out items from my old address over the next few weeks, but everything I need is already here at the new place. I figure I might as well wait until I've built the floor-to-ceiling bookcase I'm planning for my room before I pack my collection of books and bring them over. My paintings are all out here; the Rogers (cover for de Camp's "The Stolen Dormouse"; ASF, April 1941) and the Bergeron are already hanging in the living room, and the Emsh (cover for The Incomplete Enchanter) and my UCLA Master's diploma will go up in my room as soon as I get some more hooks. I'm still going to have to frame and find places for my others -- one of the disadvantages to floor-to-ceiling bookcases is that they leave less wall space in which to hang pictures.
So far, no disadvantages have turned up in living here. It takes me about ten minutes longer to get to work in the morning, and fifteen to twenty minutes longer to get home. This is not intolerable, and I understand the rest of the Santa Monica freeway will be opened the beginning of next year, which should solve things neatly. In the way of household chores, Al does the cooking and I wash the dishes -- anything else in the homemaking routine hasn't been planned out yet. I just discovered another blessed advantage this morning: being Thanksgiving, without any need to arise early, I didn't set my alarm clock. When I did wake up, I discovered it was ten minutes of noon, and Al had been playing loud records all morning. But my bedroom is so well insulated from the rest of the house that I hadn't heard a thing. The Chesley Ave. house is so constructed that a noise almost anyplace in the house can be heard all through it, so it was almost impossible to sleep late in the morning even when you wanted to. I haven't found any trouble getting a parking space yet; though the curbs are usually pretty well filled by the time I get home from the library, there's always been a space within a house or two of this one. (Our garage is filled with the LASFS mimeo & equipment, of course.)
The existence of 1825 Greenfield Avenue as a center of fannish activity is being well manifested. On Saturday, just after I finished unpacking, John & Bĵo Trimble, Dave Hulan, Steve & Virginia Schultheis, and Thelma Evans came over. Dave was just here to run off LOKI on the LASFS Rex; John & Bĵo came to do some work on the WesterCon first progress report; and the Schultheis' and Thelma were visiting in LA after a fairly lengthy absence. With the exception of Dave, we all went out to dinner together, and spent the evening in conversation, fannish & political. Sunday was the day I went to Forry Ackerman's Thanksgiving-Birthday Party; after spending the afternoon there pleasantly, I went with the Trimbles and Stan Woolston to dinner; then we all came over here and spent about a half hour talking. An hour or so after they left, the Pelzes dropped in briefly. Monday was fannishly quiet. Tuesday, both Harlan Ellison and Bill Donaho phoned Al over the LonCon "Hugo" affair; now that Ron is gone, Al is acting as a general go-between on the matter. Wednesday, Bill phoned again; and later in the evening, Al & I went over to Dwayne Avery's home to see some of the movies he's been filming. Ted & Lin Johnstone and Owen Hannifen were there also, and that didn't break up until after midnight. This morning, as I said, I slept until noon, and just after I got up the Pelzes came by with the distressing news that H. Beam Piper has committed suicide. And this evening is the LASFS meeting, of course. And the N'APAzines are beginning to arrive for the December Mailing. What with all this activity, I'm behind on my correspondence & other fanac again.
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The Committee to See About the Possibility of Arranging a LASFS Theater Party to Go and See "The World of Ray Bradbury" has some vague progress to report. At least, I've managed to get the enclosed brochures. Well, now: a "theater party" consists of 30 to 250 people. This is okay; I've already gotten the names of 15 people who want to go, and I'm sure we can get at least 15 more without any problem by show time. The booking agent (Mrs. Tippi Kelley, OL 7-2931) has agreed to reserve 50 seats for us with the understanding that we can reduce this to the minimum of 30 if we can't get any more people. The rates for a theater party at a Sunday performance are $1.88 each for any seats, up to & including the $4.75 ones. The date is presenting the only problem so far. The LASFS authorized me last week to book a reservation for Sun., Feb. 14th. It seems that the show's license is only being renewed on a month-to-month basis, so they won't know until mid-December whether they'll still be running through February or not. Therefore, I reserved Sunday, January 17th, with the understanding that this would not be final until I cleared it through the club, and that we could still change it to the February date if we want to once they are sure they will be performing through Feb. And Al told me last night that Mrs. Kelley had phoned to say that there was some conflict about dates over the Jan. 17th reservation, and I'm supposed to phone tomorrow to clear this up. I have a contract to sign & return as soon as possible, with a $14.00 deposit (I assume the LASFS Treasury will advance this); the remainder of the admission due 3 days before the performance. This is all I've found out so far; further progress will be reported. If you are interested in going to see "The World of Ray Bradbury", make sure you give me your name as soon as possible so I'll know definitely how many seats to ask for. I suggest you restrain from voting on the "Hugo" for "Best Dramatic Production" (assuming this category to the "Hugo" ballot) until you've seen this show.
Dian Pelz -- Things are getting pretty bad when we don't have either a cover or a table of contents. The cover situation can be remedied; I suggest that you get a number of cover-sized illustrations from various fanartists (yourself, Jack, Bĵo, Ed Baker, Luise, etc.), labeled "Apa L". and bring one to LASFS every week to use in case Don Fitch doesn't show up with a printed cover. If you can get the Labyrinth's rubber-stamp kit, you can add the number of the Distribution to it on the spot, too. Also in the line of assembling the Distributions, may I suggest that you don't staple them in so far from the left-hand margin in the future? Of course, it would help if other people would leave as wide a left-hand margin on their Apa L zines as you usually do. As it is, though, the text on that side has been disappearing past the staples in the last couple of Distributions which is highly annoying. ## Does your "Hulan for Director" message have anything to do with the GOONEY BIRD cover it's accompanying? Glad to see GB back in the Distribution, by the way.
Bill Blackbeard -- I'm suggesting a writein campaign to try to get London to restore the "Best Dramatic Production" category to the "Hugo" lineup. I have already written to both Ella and Ethel, and I hope others do likewise. I did not demand that they do anything, or state that it was their "duty to fandom" to restore the award; I merely said that I wanted such an award and to my knowledge, most other fans wanted such an award, so that if London dropped the category because they believed that fandom no longer wants a Drama award, I believe that they're mistaken, and I hoped that they would restore the award to the ballot. I also cited several of the contenders for the award this year -- "The World of Ray Bradbury", "Dr. Strangelove", "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao", "The Brass Bottle", "Robinson Crusoe on Mars", "Mary Poppins" -- to prove that material for the Drama "Hugo" does exist, so that there won't be another vote of "No Award" this year. I think this is the proper approach to take; demands will get us noplace, but if enough fans write in requesting the restoration of the award, citing specific productions so that London can see that we really do want the award (rather than that we're just fighting for a fannish principle), they may restore it. Failing this, I would favor circulating a questionnaire throughout fandom, and, assuming that fandom does want the award restored and London still refuses to restore, I agree that a separate "Hugo" for the "Best Dramatic Production" presented by the Westercon would probably be the best way to handle the matter. ## Your dubbing of Stine as our "Man from U.N.C.O.O.L." was the best line in the Distribution; congrats.
Ed Baker -- Keep your beard, by all means, so that the LASFS will stop getting the two of us confused with each other. We may get you confused now with Fred Lerner, but that won't be my problem, thank Roscoe!
Don Fitch -- Do our answers to the f/r's you put through Apa L count as Cultac for us? If so, you may copy down this d.c. to f/r #153.3908 as my activity for FR #155 and republish it in same. ## As I don't know who this is that was "vaguely suggesting legal Action", I can't say to what extent "Freedom of Expression" and "Open Communication" may be limited in fandom. I do know that I have a little list of people in fandom (I won't say fans) to whom I won't knowingly send any material mentioning themselves for fear they might take it as a personal attack, no matter how it was actually presented. Fortunately, this list is very small, and those fans can be cut out of my personal fanac without leaving any wide "plague areas" to avoid. So I shouldn't imagine that you'd have to limit your Freedom of Expression to any fan or fannish groups that really count to play safe.
John & Bĵo Trimble -- I am going to have to get some sort of name for 1825 Greenfield, though. It's too awkward to keep saying "1825 Greenfield" every time I want to refer to it, and I'm still so close (emotionally) to Chesley Avenue that when I say "my home", I could mean either place. Time will probably cure that, but it will continue to be troublesome for awhile. ## I haven't yet seen "The Man from UNCLE", but I enjoy "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" mostly because it is so bad. Actually, I'm not interested in the plots or acting; it just cracks me up to look at that silly submarine with its plate-glass windows, tail fins & taillights, spacious cabins, etc. On their latest show, for a U-2 being exploded over an unnamed Arabian country, they used shots of a Sabre jet doing barrel rolls over the Grand Canyon. Their disreputable Arabs were about the nicest group of clean-cut Americans I've seen in a long time. ## Tom and I didn't leave the Anniversary Meeting until we'd finished the food we'd paid for, and until I'd made sure that the speeches would be taped and published later (especially Fritz's). As for the rest of it, we already knew who'd be getting the various awards and trophies, and, having been sitting for the past hour and a half anyway, I for one didn't feel like sitting there for another two hours while all was said & done. And, considering how the Apa L Distributions have been running short, there was a danger that we'd have missed out on that week's if we hadn't gone to get it. I'd do it again.
Due to lack of time, this is being cut short. More may be said at LASFS this evening, since we're meeting at the Labyrinth and Hannifen's mimeo will supposedly be available for an Apa L one-shot. Otherwise, see you next week.


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Viewport coordinate system is normalized and relative to the camera, so the bottom-left point is (0,0), the top-right is (1,1). The z position is in world units from the camera.
Finally UI coordinate system is top-down: the y coordinate varies from zero at the top edge of the window to a maximum at the bottom edge of the window. The upper-left point is (0,0); the bottom-right is (1,1)
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It's quite amusing how difficult even the smallest decisions are to make right now, at this junction in time. Or it would be, of course, if it was happening to someone else. I bought a lovely notebook on Granville Island – I was struggling between this CA7.50 one or the set of two slender Moleskine notebooks for CA15 – and I have scribbled pages and pages of winding thoughts and unfocused, day-dreamy future plans all the past three weeks.
God, has it already been a month since I've been back? Today's work meeting was horrific. My days are peppered with realizations, major and minor, contradictory and rational, fleeting and insidious. I try to jot them all down before they retreat under the cover of weariness.
These days I enforce insomnia on myself, for reasons I do not fully comprehend. The night seems protective enough; there is dread of the new day with all its attendant expectations and the myriad of ways I could fail mine. The presence of my cell phone and the perpetual availability it traps me in irks me to no end.
As for my work, I seem stuck in a rut – maybe discipline and commitment are just not my fortes (and perhaps I shouldn't post that too publicly for future employers' edification), which is something that genuinely worries me at times. Persistence and constancy are things I have learnt to value, all the more so because I find their lack in myself. But I am too young to while my days away, I tell myself that. That part is easy. The difficult part is in figuring out which paths are the idle ones.
A surprisingly range of people have brought joy to my life recently. I don't consciously miss the omnipresence of people around me, but I think the unfelt effects of their absence are cumulative. I was so glad when my mom came back from Beijing last night. The lunches and dinners with friends here have been extraordinarily pleasant, and some even inspiring. It is a lovely thing, to come back and see people in a new, thoroughly enjoyable light. In the same way people travel to discover foreign countries, in a sense – the analogy is imperfect – I am rediscovering my old friends like islands, cataloguing endemic species of interests, the changed topography of their personalities, the shallows of their seas. Being more comfortable now in my solitude, I view (some) friendship as an adventure, I suppose. It is so very exciting to consider the prospect of most everyone leaving, and to wonder how they would turn out, and how much they would change.
And so very sad, of course. That is a given. More than anything, more than anything – and maybe I am simply being silly and dramatic – this is as big and as amorphous an end as I have ever gone through. These days I catch myself gazing at huddled couples or giggling teens on public transport and wondering how thin and sweet and mild the stability in their relationships must be, without the threat of imminent departure or geographical separation or cultural conflict or any of those things, how on another moral scale they are inadvertently and with the best of intentions lying every time their mouths shape the words i love you. I still walk through super markets (the dwarf counterparts of those Canadian behemoths) and catch the slightest edge of dissonance, those movie-like shimmer in the fabric of reality in the distance, as though any second now a poorly glued piece of wallpaper will peel away to reveal the gaping white aisles of Superstore.
My emotions do frustrate me sometimes, seeing as they like to run amok (akin to my thoughts). But if there's anything I should seek some solace in, it's that there is no reason to feel this trapped. There are opportunities all around me, there really are.
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The First of the Three Spirits
One o'clock tolled, Scrooge stirred from his sleep
And heard, by his bed, a sound slowly creep
His bed-curtains moved and then swept open fast
Scrooge looked in the face of his Christmas Past
The spirit was old, but small like a child
His face was wrinkled, with a smile that beguiled
His long hair and dress were both a pure white
And he glowed and he flickered in the darkness of night
"I am the first ghost," it said with some pride
He grabbed hold of the bedsheets and pulled them aside
With a light but firm hold, he grabbed Scrooge's arm
And made for the window, to Scrooge's alarm
"I am but mortal. I can't fly you know!"
"Just hold on, don't scream, now Geronimo!"
For just a brief second they plummeted down
Towards the cold streets of old London town
Scrooge opened his eyes, as soon as they'd stopped
To find that it wasn't in London they'd dropped
Instead he was stood on a small country road
With white specks on the ground where it recently snowed
And all of a sudden, a smile sprang on his face
"I know where we are, I was raised in this place!"
They got to the town, which Scrooge recalled well
The familiar sights and those market town smells
"So," said the Ghost, "you remember your past?
"Can you even remember when you were here last?
"I must say, for them we are quite unseen.
"These people are shadows of things that have been."
Scrooge's old heart was filled with much joy
As they walked past people he knew as a boy
And for the first time in many a year
Scrooge briefly remembered what was Christmas cheer
But then they arrived at a small darkened school
With only one boy, sat alone on a stool
And in a split second, the old man's heart sank
He stared through the window, his expression quite blank
He saw himself, young, in the school all alone
Watching him Scrooge sighed and gave a brief moan
As he watched this sad scene, he heard in his ear:
"Now let us go forward in time a few years"
And they saw the same scene; Scrooge had aged a bit
He sat on his own in the room badly lit
When a small girl came in, his young sister Fan
And said that their father was now a changed man
Young Scrooge was ecstatic; with joy he did shake
Knowing he'd be home over Christmas break
They left the dark school, and as they did so
The memory faded, and started to slow
"Dear sister," Scrooge cried, "you now rest with the dead"
And he thought back to earlier, when he shunned nephew Fred
But he couldn't mourn long as soon they had moved
At another part of the life of old Scrooge
In seconds he knew it – and why wouldn't he
The place he apprenticed at age twenty-three
The merchant they worked for, had closed for the day
They were packing away books and old dossiers
When his boss walked in – a man massively big
Scrooge instantly recognised old Fezziwig
"Ebeneezer, and Dick!" he called out to them
"Remember our party starts at eight p.m.!
"I've spared no expense for the company ball!"
He showed them tables of food lining the walls
And then the guests came and all had such fun
To his workers Fezziwig's generosity won
Scrooge looked back on his days as apprentice as great
And wondered what happened to Dick Wilkins of late
But he'd no time to think, for he was soon whisked away
To another part of lifetime replay
In this scene he saw himself and a girl
As cute as a button, as pale as a pearl
She was his old flame, a beauty called Belle
How they were in love, to be married as well
But 'cos of his greed, though, she broke it off
And left Scrooge to marry some other rich toff
The sight of the woman left Scrooge in great pain
"Please no more or God, I swear I'll go insane!"
His face was all pale, his features aghast
"Only one more" said the Ghost of his Past.
They still were with Belle, but many years on
In a house filled with joy, in the south of London
Her husband came home, with presents in arm
He was happy but showed in his face some alarm
"Scrooge is quite lonesome," he said rather grim
"With the death of his partner, his life is quite dim
"It's been years since he laughed, or I've seen him grin
"I fear he'll be like that till life does him in."
And then, in a flash, Scrooge was back in bed
No sign of the ghost with the candle-flame head
The visions of pasts played back in his mind
Like seeing again after years of being blind
Shaken from it, he felt rather stunned
He didn't pay notice to the clock striking one


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Have Multiple Time Machine Backup Disks 0
Time Machine is one of the best backup utilities available for your Mac. It should be the first thing you set up when you get a first Mac. One of the more advance features is the ability to use more than one disk. This is very useful if you have a small backup disk, or want to split backups between multiple disk in case of disk failures. It is very easy to do. Its one of the latest features found within Mountain Lion. It only takes a minute to set up.
Having Multiple Backup Disks
This setup assumes you have already formatted the disks to work with Time Machine. Open up the Time Machine preferences found within System Preferences. Hit the big button that says 'Select Disk'. From the drop down menu select the secondary disk you wish to use.
Secondary disks can be any USB or network disk, plus any Time Capsule.
When you select the disk you will be given an option to replace the disk or use both. Select use both to join it to your current backup disk.
It is quite simple to use multiple back up disks. If you have a lot of data or a dodgy disk this may be a way to mitigate the problem.
Time Machine will rotate between the backup drives, applying the latest backup to the disk with the oldest backup on it. This ensures one of the disks will have relatively new backup.


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The teacher and coaches resource booklet is an 88 page booklet comprising of 7 sections:
The session plans in the teacher and coaches resource booklet provide six-week development plans for each age group. Each age group has a specific focus:
The session plans are colour coded using a traffic light system to help coaches and teachers to identify which level of activity they should be delivering.
The year group/age suggested provides a general guide, but deliverers should mix and match content as necessary to suit their group. For example, with groups who are playing hockey for the first time in Year 8 (U13), a red session plan may be used to introduce the game/skill before progressing onto amber session plans when appropriate then further progressing onto green sessions. The session plans suggest the use of specific delivery cards to help set up challenges, develop specific skills and achieve key outcomes. Sessions are designed to be approximately 60-90 minutes long, but can easily be adapted to fit any time slot. If necessary, one or two of the challenges could be by-passed, or the plan can be adapted to suit a specific groups' needs and only relevant delivery cards need to be used. Some coaches or teachers may also use the delivery cards as a spark to develop alternative drills and games to get the most out of their group of players.
An example of a session plan is available to download on the right hand side.
For more information on prices and to order click on the link on the right.
The core resource also includes a series of 48 In2Hockey delivery cards. These delivery cards are designed to be easy to use, and assist teachers, coaches and young people with delivery. All of the cards are based around challenges, and there are three different types:
Delivery cards are also colour coded using a traffic light system to help coaches and teachers select cards that are appropriate to the group that they are working with.
Some cards will be suitable for two or more levels of ability as they may include basic skills which can be made easier or harder using the STEP framework.
All of the In2Hockey delivery cards follow a similar format to the Quicksticks challenge cards. The front of the card includes:
The back of the card includes:
An example of each type of delivery card is available to download on the right hand side.
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Lot 73
Indian Police Medal, G.V.R., for Distinguished Conduct (Gyan Chand, Lance Naik, A. & N. Islands Police.) nearly very fine and scarce £260-320
Sold for £200
Lot 74
Indian Police Medal, G.V.R., for Distinguished Conduct (Abdul Ghafur, Constable, Punjab Police.) nearly very fine £200-260
Sold for £170
Lot 75
Indian Police Medal, post 1947 issue, for Gallantry (Maluk Singh, Constable No. 2783, P.A.C. Punjab.) with original gallantry riband and investiture pin brooch, very fine and rare £500-600
Sold for £400
Lot 76
A Great War Medal of the Order of the British Empire awarded to Mr. Andrew Brown Medal of the Order of the British Empire, (Civil) (Andrew Brown. 1918.), in John Pinches, London, case of issue, extremely fine £260-300
Sold for £380
Lot 77
A Great War Medal of the Order of the British Empire attributed to Superintendent E. Smalley, Oswaldtwistle Fire Brigade Medal of the Order of the British Empire, (Civil), unnamed as issued, in John Pinches, London, case of issue, extremely fine £260-300
Sold for £480
Lot 78
A Second War 1941 'Bristol Blitz' B.E.M. group of four awarded to Driver G. O'Connell, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Bristol, late Royal Flying Corps British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (George O'Connell); British War and Victory Medals (107901. 2.A.M. G. Connell. R.F.C.); Defence Medal, minor edge bruise to BEM, nearly extremely fine (4) £600-800
Sold for £600
Lot 79
A Second War B.E.M. group of four awarded to Flight Sergeant D. M. Wolochow, Royal Canadian Air Force British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (R86999 Fl. Sgt. David M. Wolochow. R.C.A.F.); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal 1992, all Rhodium-plated, mounted as worn, minor edge nicks, good very fine Confederation...
Sold for £220
Lot 80
A scarce B.E.M. for Gallantry awarded to Factory Labourer Neville Morgan for rescuing a man trapped under water after the collapse of a canal bridge British Empire Medal (Civil) E.II.R., with gallantry emblem (Neville Morgan.) nearly extremely fine £300-400
Sold for £550
Lot 81
The extremely rare Abbas Hilmi Bravery Medal group of three awarded to Nafar Natum, Equatorial Battalion, Egyptian Army Egypt, Khedivate, Abbas Hilmi Bravery Medal, silver, unnamed; Khedive's Sudan 1910-21, 1st issue, bronze, no clasp, unnamed as issued; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, East Africa 1918 (7198 Nafar Natum Equatorial Bn. E.A.) mounted for display, generally good very fine (3) £2400-2800
Sold for £2,000
Lot 82
The Companion of the Bath badge awarded to Colonel Thomas Rawlings Mould, Commanding Royal Engineers during the Maori Wars of 1860-61 and 1863-64 The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion's breast badge, 22 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1859, maker's mark 'WN' for William Neale, complete with gold swivel-ring bar suspension but lacking ribbon buckle; together with original Warrant of award, signed by...
Sold for £1,800
Lot 83
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer's 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, in Royal Mint case of issue, nearly extremely fine £70-90
Sold for £110
Lot 84
The M.B.E. attributed to Mrs. Fanny MacPherson, Women's Voluntary Services, Western Area, Scotland The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member's 2nd type lady's shoulder badge, silver, on lady's bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; together with two related miniature awards, good very fine £70-90
Sold for £140
Lot 85
The Imperial Service Order, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, silver, gold and enamels, by Elkington & Co., hallmarks for Birmingham 1949, the reverse centre inscribed 'A. H. Thieme 7th June 1951', small chip to ermine band of crown, otherwise good very fine £180-220
Sold for £240
Lot 86
The Imperial Service Order, E.II.R., silver, gold and enamels, by Elkington & Co., hallmarks for Birmingham 1964, extremely fine £200-240
Sold for £240
Lot 87
Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., the reverse hallmarked London 1917, unnamed, mounted on investiture pin, good very fine £400-500
Sold for £650
Lot 88
Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated 1945, hallmarks for London 1948, good very fine £600-700
Sold for £600
Lot 89
Distinguished Service Cross, E.II.R., struck by Spink & Son, hallmarks for London 1953, and the reverse dated 1954, extremely fine £400-500
Sold for £950
Lot 90
Distinguished Flying Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued, with original horizontal riband, mounted on original investiture pin, very fine £1200-1400
Sold for £2,400
Lot 91
Kaisar-I-Hind, E.VII.R., 2nd class, silver, complete with top suspension brooch, extremely fine £300-360
Sold for £340
Lot 92
Kaisar-I-Hind, G.V.R., 1st class, 2nd type, gold, complete with top suspension brooch, extremely fine £1000-1200
Sold for £1,500
Lot 93
Kaisar-I-Hind, G.VI.R., 3rd class, bronze, complete with top suspension brooch, extremely fine £80-100
Sold for £120
Lot 94
British Empire Medal, (Civil) E.II.R. (William Evans.) with Military division ribbon, minor edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £160-200
Sold for £160
Lot 95
King's Medal for Service in the Cause of Freedom, unnamed as issued, on lady's bow riband, traces of lacquer, good very fine £180-220
Sold for £180
Lot 96
Pair: Sergeant Benjamin Bertenshaw, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, who served at Corunna, on the Walcheren Expedition, and at Waterloo where he was wounded Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Corunna (B. Bertenshaw, Serjt. 1st Foot Gds.); Waterloo 1815 (Corp. Ben. Bartenshaw, 3rd Batt. Grenad. Guards.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, lightly toned, the first with light edge bruising, very fine, the second wi...
Sold for £3,400


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SOURCE: GameStop Corporation
November 03, 2016 11:46 ET
GameStop reports that Mario and Luigi win president and vice president of video games
GRAPEVINE, TX--(Marketwired - November 03, 2016) - With less than a week left before the 2016 presidential election, many voters are still undecided while polls show the candidates running neck and neck. In October, GameStop, a family of specialty retail brands that makes the most popular technologies affordable and simple, conducted a presidential poll of its own; one of its PowerUp Rewards™ members, with "fun" as the main platform, to find out how video game characters would fare if they were running for president and vice president of the United States.
GameStop surveyed more than 500 men and women ages 18-44. The survey revealed those voting would elect Mario and Luigi as president and vice president, as well as other fun information about video games and our current candidates. GameStop wasn't surprised that Mario and Luigi won the election as they are famous for their 'bro-based moves' that help them remove major obstacles, jump wide gaps and crush any bricks that get in the way.
The GameStop election survey results show:
With the GameStop election survey, the company hopes to add a lighter, more humorous tone to the current campaign environment.
About GameStop
GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME), a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Grapevine, Texas, is a global, multichannel video game, consumer electronics and wireless services retailer. GameStop operates more than 7,500 stores across 14 countries. The company's consumer product network also includes www.gamestop.com; www.Kongregate.com, a leading browser-based game site; Game Informer® magazine, the world's leading print and digital video game publication; and ThinkGeek, www.thinkgeek.com, the premier retailer for the global geek community featuring exclusive and unique video game and pop culture products. In addition, our Technology Brands segment includes Simply Mac and Spring Mobile stores. Simply Mac, www.simplymac.com, operates 72 stores, selling the full line of Apple products, including laptops, tablets, and smartphones and offering Apple certified warranty and repair services. Spring Mobile, www.springmobile.com, sells all of AT&T's products and services, including DIRECTV through its 1,424 AT&T branded stores and offers pre-paid wireless services, devices and related accessories through its 70 Cricket branded stores in select markets in the U.S.
General information about GameStop Corp. can be obtained at the company's corporate website. Follow @GameStop on Twitter and find GameStop on Facebook at www.facebook.com/GameStop.
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A new report from planning and development consultancy Lichfields has revealed that almost £12bn was invested to secure land to deliver new homes.
- Planning Inspectorate bids to do more to meet customer expectations
- Industry reacts to Oliver Letwin's housebuilding review
- LGA says definition of affordable housing must include homes for social rent
The report showed that last year the housebuilding industry:
- supported 698,000 jobs, including 239,000 direct (18% of UK construction industry)
- generated £2.7bn in tax revenues (via SDLT, corporation tax, NI, PAYE etc)
- provided £841m towards infrastructure (including £122m for new/improved schools)
- spent £11.7bn with suppliers (90% of which stays in the UK)
- invested £12bn in land for new homes
- agreed 50,000 affordable houses through s106 agreements worth over £4bn
Stewart Baseley, executive chairman at the Home Builders Federation (pictured above), said that the housebuilding industry was a massive driver of the UK economy and made a huge contribution to communities across the country.
"While delivering much-needed new homes of all tenures, housebuilders are quietly creating and sustaining jobs, generating receipts for the exchequer and boosting investment in infrastructure and amenities in villages, towns and cities.
"As well as becoming ever more reliant on private builders to deliver affordable housing through planning agreements, vast sums are ploughed into new roads, schools and community facilities every year."


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The BF45W-365 is a 72 watt purple led flood light and is waterproof. This rechargeable black light uses AC100-265V powering the intense UV LED lamps. There are a lot of reasons why you want to use our UV LED technology. Money saving and Earth friendliness rank this technology a planet saver. Risk Reactor Inc.'s UV LEDs have a higher energy efficiency, longer lifetime, lower operating temperature than conventional UV lamps which create an intense amount of heat. Having the lower temperatures requires less energy for large exhaust fans and is environmental friendly. Risk Reactor Inc. UV LED curing units eliminates the need for ways to remove ozone. This helps you free up space and saving money on other equipment which also save on electricity costs. Our black lights made with our UV LED curing unit does not have a long warm up or a long cool down time. That alone is a huge safety factor. Frequent on and off cycling will not affect the lifetime of a UV LED curing unit unlike fluorescent tube type lighting. Risk Reactor Inc.'s UV LED curing units do not generate ozone and do not contain mercury or other harmful components like the HID and other older technology.
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Ashley Rae, fitness, foodie, goals, healthy, healthylifestyle, life, moderation, theashleyraebrand, weightloss, workout
Earlier this year I decided to make a comment to myself to lose some weight! It was a struggle indeed, but my results were worth it! I began going to the gym 5 days a week! Sometimes 4 days depending on the situation. I ended up losing around 25lbs! I was ecstatic, because it had been a long time since I made that commitment to myself and stuck to it!
Guess what happened? LIFE! The month of June was a busy time for me. My bestfriend got married, my business began to pick up, along with my 9-5! Not to mention the weather was amazing, and I just wanted to be free of restrictions! In that one month I gained 12lbs back. I was a little devastated, but hey I did it to myself. Now I'm back on my journey and trying to reach an even lower weight. I have a specific number in mind.
I have begun hitting the gym again regularly because after all exercise is important! Especially for people like myself who sit down all day at work. I sit at work, I sit when working for my small business, and I sit while blogging and writing in general. You have to find a way to get your body moving just for the sake of good health if nothing else!
My next challenge area is limiting my sweet consumption. I am not ashamed to admit that I am a foodie and I love sweets. I'm talking about pound cake, any cake, cookies, cupcakes, brownies, candy, and pies (salivates a little)! I get excited just talking about them. Realistically I know that self-control is a must in this area for me. My goal is to limit my sweets consumption to once a week. On that one day they must be consumed in moderation.
I decided to blog about my journey of weightloss because it's ugly and it's real. It's more than posting cute pictures of yourself in the gym. It's hard work, discipline, and dedication. I know that there are others who want to get on the bandwagon of healthy living as well! After all this is a lifestyle change. Set an immediate obtainable goal for yourself, stick to it, and increase your goals from there!
The picture for this blog is from last nights workout on the stairclimber. If I can do it so can you!
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"... they made a circle around my bed and as they held hands they thanked God for my life and prayed for my health. I remember then being lifted from the bed. It was like I had wings beneath me and as they flapped they reflected a silver light with a white glow. I felt the air flowing under me as I rose. ..."
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Some PADI® courses require first aid and CPR training within the past 24 months. You know that Emergency First Response® Primary and Secondary Care courses meet the requirements.
How do you determine what other courses qualify when a diver presents you with first aid and CPR qualifications from another organization?
Follow these steps:
- Verify that the CPR and first aid training included student skill practice and demonstration of CPR and first aid techniques in person with a qualified instructor. A course that lacks this does not qualify, such as online only courses or self-study programs via any other media.
- Check that the training taken meets current international emergency care guidelines as defined by the various resuscitation councils. For further information on layperson CPR and first aid training, visit the following ILCOR (International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation) Association websites:
Australian Resuscitation Council
European Resuscitation Council
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A few days ago Robert and I wanted to check out a park near his house that neither of us has been to. From the outside it seemed like a cute little park, but when we actually got inside, it turned out to be so much more! I mean, this place has a hiking trail, a huge pond, ducks and geese and greenery everywhere, and even a cute little outdoor cafe.
Needless to say, I was in love. We had an amazing breakfast at the cafe and wandered around the park a bit before heading back home. I hadn't had some good pancakes and maple syrup in a long time, and that breakfast definitely hit the spot.
A few days passed, and I had to have something maple-flavored again, hence the maple pecan muffins. They're deliciously moist with a soft, tender crumb and a little crunch from the pecans. The almond paste also gives the cake a subtle nutty sweetness, almost like marzipan. Just one muffin makes for a filling breakfast, although I may not have the self control to stop at one…
As for the park, it was so gorgeous that we may just have to come back there to to have our engagement photos taken. Or, you know, if we want another amazing pancake breakfast.
[Vegan] Maple Pecan Muffins
makes 9 muffins
77 g vegetable oil
90 g brown sugar
10 g maple sugar, plus more for sprinkling
80 g almond paste
160 g soy milk
150 g cake flour
12 g baking powder
1 g salt
1 g cinnamon
45 g crushed pecans
Preheat oven to 350F, and line a muffin tin with 9 muffin papers.
In a medium bowl, whisk together cake flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Set aside.
In a bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, paddle together oil, brown sugar, maple sugar, and almond paste until there are no more lumps. With mixer running, stream in soy milk into mixture. Scrape bottom of bowl with a rubber spatula, and let mix until mixture is smooth.
Add flour mixture to batter, and mix on medium low speed just until everything is combined. Divide batter among the muffin papers, filling each about halfway up. Sprinkle crushed pecans on top of each muffin, about 5 grams on each, then lightly sprinkle maple sugar on tops of muffins. Bake about 22 minutes at 350F, until tops are golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool completely before eating.