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Scenes from the "Hannaford Loves Local" Video Shoot
At Backyard Farms, we appreciate every supermarket chain, independent store, food service provider, and wholesaler that sells, serves, or distributes our tomatoes. We're especially grateful when our clients ask us to help them explain to their customers how we grow fresh tomatoes year-round and why we care so much about quality. A few weeks ago, our friends at Hannaford Supermarkets sent Jason and Ryan from Red Stallion Media to our greenhouse to capture some of the sights and sounds of daily life in our greenhouse that they turned into the fantastic video below:
It took six hours of shooting to create that two minute video and we wanted to honor the hardworking guys from Red Stallion Media by sharing some behind the scenes photos that capture all the effort, sweat and patience that went into this terrific piece of storytelling.
Here are Jason and Ryan from Red Stallion decked out in our regulation food safety gear. If you've ever wondered why we don't offer tours to the public, this photo really tells the tale. Every visitor to our greenhouse has to wear a sterile jumpsuit and booties that completely cover their shoes and extend just below the knee. As much as we'd like to show students around our greenhouse, can you imagine outfitting an entire classroom in this gear?
Jason and Ryan arrived on a beautiful, sunny day that provided perfect lighting for most of the greenhouse shots. The only problem with sunny days is that the temperature in the greenhouse goes up every hour which made for some increasingly more challenging conditions for Jason and Ryan to film in, especially in all that food safety gear. Fortunately for us, they took the rising temperatures in stride.
For the picking scene, Jason filmed employee Josh from all sorts of angles over the course of twenty minutes for what amounted to less than 10 seconds of finished video. That's a lot of hot, hard work for a few quick scenes!
Our Director of Marketing Jim Darroch and Assistant Grower Brady Sinclair had the two speaking roles in the video. This photo illustrates how Jason and Ryan had to adjust to the changing light conditions in the greenhouse by repositioning the white shade above Jim's head. Too much light and Jim's face would have been washed out, too little light and the scene would have been too dark. While the finished product came out extremely well, rest assured, Jim flubbed a few lines along the way. Thanks to the patience and talent of Red Stallion's editor, you'd never know but since Jim is all about "maintaining transparency," we figured he wouldn't mind us sharing that info with you!
When we said we were giving you a "behind-the-scenes" look at this video shoot, we meant it! Here you can see how close Jason got to our packing team along with a product supermarket customers never see. The brown boxes on the right labelec TOMATOES 25 LBS will be filled with #2 quality tomatoes and shipped to restaurants, schools, hospitals and cafeterias throughout the northeast. When sliced and served on sandwiches, quartered into salads or chopped into soups or sauces, these tomatoes are just as tasty as the ones you buy at your favorite store. The only difference is they are either too small, oddly shaped or have small blemishes that don't meet our super strict #1 quality standards.
Speaking of quality standards, did you notice the extra food safety protection we made Jason and Ryan wear in these last two photos?
In the photo above, you can see Ryan is now wearing a hair net and protective gloves. In the photo above that, look real close and check out the stylish beard net we made Jason put on his face. Everyone in the packhouse wears this extra protection to ensure we handle your tomatoes with utmost care and respect. The photo above also captures the final inspection of our tomatoes before they are placed on palets and shipped to your store. Each cluster receives a final visual inspection and is weighed to confirm that we are meeting our responsibilities to our customers. For the tomatoes on the vine that were the subject of this video, each packed case must weigh at least 11 pounds.
It's extremely difficult to sum up in two minutes all that happens in our 42-acre greenhouse and all the hard work, pride and dedication we put into growing, picking and packing our tomatoes. All of us at Backyard Farms are thrilled with how Red Stallion's video turned out and we're extremely grateful to our long-time partners at Hannaford for including us in their "We Love Local" project. If you'd like to learn more about Red Stallion Media and their capabilities, be sure to check out their website and tell them we sent you! Finally (and most importantly), we thank Hannaford again for giving us the opportunity to provide you with this behind the scenes look at how we do what we do here at Backyard Farms.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has declared that SMS is dangerous for two-factor authentication. One reason they give is that SMS is linked to a SIM, which can be compromised by manipulating carriers. Suitable alternatives would include hardware (dongles) or software (apps) solutions that generate unique keys.
The goal of a 2FA system is to help guarantee that the person logging in with your password is actually you rather than a hacker who has guessed or stolen your password, or recovered it by cracking the passwords in a password dump from a hacked web site. "Two factor" refers to the fact that the system uses more than one way of verifying your identity آ– the password is the first factor, and the SMS code is one way of providing a second factor. There are several problems with SMS-based systems that led NIST to decide that SMS-based systems are insecure.


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Huron and Eastern Railway
|Reporting mark
|Dates of operation
|Saginaw Valley, Central Michigan, CSX, Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway
|Track gauge
|4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
|394 miles (634 km)[1]
|Vassar, Michigan
Huron and Eastern Railway (reporting mark HESR) is a short line railroad operating 394 miles (634 km)[1][2] of track in The Thumb and Flint/Tri-Cities area of the lower peninsula of Michigan. It is currently owned by Genesee & Wyoming, Inc., who purchased it from Rail America in 2012.[1][3] Its headquarters is in the former Michigan Central Railroad depot in Vassar, Michigan.[4]
HESR began operations in 1986,[5] over 83 miles of former Chesapeake and Ohio track in Michigan's thumb area. This track served areas in Huron and Sanilac Counties, roughly between Bad Axe and Croswell, with a few spurs to outlying small towns. On December 22, 1988, HESR acquired CSX Transportation's Bad Axe Subdivision between Saginaw and Bad Axe.
On January 22, 1991, HESR again added more track to its system, acquiring a cluster of former Penn Central lines from the Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway. This new track crossed the current HESR track in Reese, and allowed the HESR to now serve Vassar and Caro, among other towns. On April 30, 1998, HESR purchased CSX's Port Huron Subdivision from Saginaw to Brown City. The line beyond Brown City is still in place to Avoca, but has been out of service since the HESR acquisition.
On January 26, 2004, HESR again increased in size with the acquisition of the Central Michigan Railroad,[6] allowing the HESR to reach Bay City and Midland, as well as interchange with Class I Canadian National in Durand. Furthermore, in May 2004, Rail America underwent an inter-corporate merger between the Saginaw Valley Railway and HESR. Saginaw Valley, who operated a line from Buena Vista to Denmark Junction. The result was another Huron and Eastern line extending west from Saginaw. Due to the merger, HESR is sometimes referred to as the Huron and Eastern Saginaw Valley Railroad.[7]
The former Saginaw Valley line west to Richville and was soon abandoned with the exception of a two-mile segment from Richville to Denmark Junction. HESR had three parallel lines into Saginaw from the east, and the line was in desperate need of repair. Other than the former Saginaw Valley line, Huron and Eastern has abandoned very little track.
Huron and Eastern's locomotive power is a mix of former Central Michigan, Saginaw Valley, and original HESR rolling stock.
The railway's main line extends northeast from Saginaw to Bad Axe, and then southeast to Croswell.
HESR's other line extends from Midland east to Bay City, and then south, through Saginaw to Durand. The line was former Central Michigan Railroad and Grand Trunk Western Railroad track.
HESR interchanges with Canadian National Railway and Great Lakes Central Railroad in Durand; and Lake State Railway in Saginaw and Bay City.[1]
The railroad's traffic comes largely from agricultural products, as well as industrial goods, such as cement, fly ash, and chemicals. The HESR hauled around 34,000 carloads in 2008.[5]
- ^ a b c d Huron & Eastern Railway Overview Genesee & Wyoming official site
- ^ RailAmerica: Huron and Eastern official site
- ^ "RailAmerica restarts its engines". Trains Magazine. Kalmbach Publishing. June 2010.
- ^ Huron & Eastern Facilities, Vassar, Michigan Michigan Railroads
- ^ a b "RailAmerica's Empire". Trains Magazine. Kalmbach Publishing. June 2010.
- ^ RailAmerica Completes Acquisition of Central Michigan Railway Company RailAmerica Press Release, January 26, 2004
- ^ Huron & Eastern Railway Company, Inc.-Corporate Family Merger Exemption-Saginaw Valley Railway Company, Inc. US Surface Transportation Board, May 14, 2003


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Since I happen to be playing the LP tonight. I've written this before, but it needs repeating:
Elvis knows how rancid these tunes are. Imagining he has the power to refuse stuff he thinks is "below" him is the mistake some observers make. He was not operating from a position of traditional pop-star command.
And, frankly, the on-the-cross live rendition of "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" belongs on every best-of.
"Are you lonesome tonight? I'm lonesome in a way nobody will ever begin to understand. Because I became Elvis before anyone else."


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Rothbury Festival will be held July 2-5 at Double JJ Ranch in Michigan. The String Cheese Incident will headline on July 3rd and will play on July 4th. Bob Dylan and His Band Willie Nelson and family will play July 5th.
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To be free is not merely to do what you like, or to break away from outward circumstances which bind you, but to understand the whole problem of dependence.
But there is a far deeper kind of dependence
Which one must understand before one can be free:
the dependence on another for one's happiness!
To be free we have to revolt against all inward dependence, and we cannot revolt if we don't understand why we aredependent Until we understand and really break away. from all inward dependence we can never be free; for only in that understanding canthere be freedom. But freedom is not a mere reaction. Do you know what a reaction is? If I say something that hurts you, if I call you an ugly name and you get angry with me, that is a reaction–a reaction born of dependence; and independence is a further reaction. But freedom is not a reaction, and until we understand reaction and go beyond it, we are never free.
Do you know what it means to love somebody?
Do you know what it means to love a tree, or a bird, or a pet animal, so that you take care of it, feed it, cherish it, though it may give you nothing in return, though it may not offer you shade, or follow you, or depend on you?
Most of us don't love in that way, we don't know what that means at all because our love is always hedged about with anxiety, jealousy, fear—which implies that we depend inwardly on another, we want to be ` loved.` We don't just love and leave it there, but we ask something In return; and in that very asking we become dependent.
So freedom and love go together.
Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a:thing too be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel tha you are giving something—and it is only such love that can know freedom. But, you see, you are not educated for this. You are educated in mathematics, in chemistry, geography, history, and there it ends, because your parents' only concern is to help you get a good job and be successful in life. If they have money they may send you abroad, but like the rest of the world their whole purpose is that you should be rich and have a respectable position in society; and the higher you the more misery you cause for others, because to get there you have to compete, be ruthless. "
"Now, you and I have to understand this whole problem of freedom. We must find out for ourselves what it means to love; because if we don't love we can never be thoughtful, attentive; we can never, be considerate.
Do you know what it means to be considerate?
When you see a sharp stone on a path trodden by many bare feet, you remove it, not because you have been asked, but because you feel for another- It does not matter who he is, you may never meet him.
To plant a tree and cherish it, to look at the river and enjoy the fullness of the earth, to observe a bird on the wing and see the beauty of its flight, to have sensitivity and be open to this extraordinary movement called life– for all this there must be freedom; and to be free you mast love.
Without love there is no freedom; without love, freedom is merely an idea which has no value at all.
So it is only for those who understand and break away from inner dependence, and who therefore know what love is, that there can be freedom; and it is they alone who will bring about a new civilization, a different world."
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You know, is it the influence of the Scientology culture in myself that has sometimes too often made me concerned with exchange before I help someone? When I helped someone even if it was a friend, I was always concerned with the exchange that they were going to offer me. And I always felt that this was the superior way to handle relations over what non-Scientologists were acquainted with and I felt that they needed to learn my superior way. Perhaps I should have thought more im terms of exchange in abundance from my part.
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An investment firm with offices in the US and UK is partnering with a research organization to raise a $150 million fund focused on Regenerative Medicine (RM). Within RM, 80% of the fund will be towards immunotherapies, cell and gene therapies while the remaining 20% of the fund will be towards enabling-technologies that move RM forward in commercialization and medicine. The firm is looking to build a portfolio of 10-15 early stage RM companies, investing up to $10 million per deal with an initial investment of $1-3 million. The firm prefers to lead investments, though is willing to co-invest. The partnership recently launched the building of cell manufacturing and process manufacturing facilities for GMP, process development, and vector manufacturing that will enable the optimized production of cell lines and tissues necessary for early clinical development of RM technologies. All companies the firm invests in will have the valuable opportunity and prioritized access to the facility in developing their technology. The firm invests globally in RM companies, particularly those RM companies open to leveraging the existing infrastructure local to the firm's partner organization.
The firm focuses exclusively on regenerative medicine, including stem cells, cell therapies, immunotherapies, and tissue engineering. The firm is interested in RM therapeutics, and is actively looking at several immunotherapies, such as those involving T-cells, dendritic cells, and/or checkpoint inhibitors. The firm is open to any indication in the therapeutic and medical device space, as long as the underlying RM technology is robust, and has demonstrated efficacy that is not incremental, but rather a dramatic change in the way the disease is currently treated. The firm invests in early projects, primarily from the pre-clinical stage through Phase II.
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Allegory of the "Wall"/
Our shrink calls it an "anger-release".
"Destruction is an infinity easier than creation!"
(theme of our life?)
Weeks later he rebuilt a wall. Hammering studs and a thumb, fitting drywall and smoothing putty. In fact, it took 3 days to smooth and mud the walls. Sanding, puttying, smoothing, drying, repeat. Frustrated with the lest than instant results he shared the Allegory of the "Wall" in our 12-step meeting.
Mr. Scabs, I'm starting to not only notice the changes but believe that they are genuine.
p.s. the wall looks great.
"I worked all day on that wall, from early morning till late night. And, when I stopped, it looked like I hadn't done anything! It looked only mildly different. Nothing the average observer would notice.
Working on that wall is like recovery. You work all day making the smallest changes and no one notices. The changes are almost undetectable. It's depressing. I want instant results. I want someone to notice!
But, I've got to wake up, strap on my tool belt, not get discouraged and work on it some more."
Mr. Scabs, I'm starting to not only notice the changes but believe that they are genuine.
p.s. the wall looks great.


text: Wood truly might be the most versatile weapon in a homebuilder's arsenal. Commonly used in everything from roof trusses to floors, we may soon see wood playing a larger role in insulation. In an effort to lower energy consumption, reduce the industry's carbon footprint, and minimize health risks to insulation workers, researchers in Finland and Germany are developing a wood-fibre based foam insulation (Science Daily, September 2014). The projects undertaken by the VTT Technical Research Centre, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research hope to see plastic insulation products that aren't easily recyclable replaced with a more natural alternative made from wood.


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The chalets are two storey with a large lounge, kitchen area and are well equipped for a family. There is a double bedroom upstairs and twin also two bed settees in the lounge. There is a shower over the bath and a seperate toilet. Parking is very near the chalets and the sandy beach is only a short walk away.


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Lying close to the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat, Dadra and Nagar Haveli is one of the most exotic weekend getaways for weary souls. The small and quaint union territory is exquisitely romantic for the newlyweds looking for solitude, tranquility and intimacy.
Intact from waggeries of hustling city lives; the pristine beauty and tranquil environment of Dadra and Nagar Haveli embalms the senses and soul of every traveler. Cascading waterfalls, surrounding succulence, beautiful lakes and wiggling Damanganga makes this small union territory an ideal headway. Dadra and Nagar Haveli indeed are one of the most exclusive ?places for honeymoon vacations in west India, an epitomic romantic land.
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5 Hairstyles that Take Less than 10 Minutes
A beautiful hairstyle can totally change your look and your mood. But, when you are in a hurry, it is so hard to find that perfect hairstyle that can be done in just a few minutes. Therefore, for every bad hair day you have, here there are five of those hairstyles that take less than 10 minutes to make.
Choosing the right hairstyle when you are in a hurry it's probably one of the hardest things you have to do. Regardless the event you need to attend to, you always deal with the same old problem of not knowing which hairstyle would be the most appropriate. Here are a few quick and easy-to-do hairstyles that might help you solve the dilemma.
Side French braids
The side French braid has so many stylish variations and it can be worn for every occasion. You can try braiding a section of hair near the forehead and keep the rest of your hair loose. You could also make two side French braids and then tie your hair into a bun. Another interesting version is making French braids on both sides and then combine the rest of your hair into a single French braid. The side french braid is probably harder to do. Start by separating your hair into two equal sections. Braid the two sections separately making the French braid, and stop when you have reached the nape. Finally, braid the hair into one plait and secure it with an elastic band.
Romantic braid
In order to realize this hairstyle you need patience, but the romantic and sweet effect you'll get deserves all the attention because you'll certainly not pass unnoticed. Start by making a loose ponytail, then divide it into two equal parts. Apply hair gel or mousse on hair length and then twist every part separately. Plait the braid in four, taking thin locks from the exterior towards the interior of the braid. Secure the braid using an elastic band. You can also make a simple braid and the romantic effect is the same.
Twisted bun
You can use numerous hairpins in order to make this slightly messy hairstyle. Start by applying hair gel on the hair on all its length. Try to not over exaggerate with the styling products. Fix your bangs in the center using hair pins. Twist all your hair into a loose ponytail, then twist the ponytail too so you can get a bun. Leave the ends free for a tousled look. Apply spray for a silky look
The half-up updo
This is an easy to do hairstyle, and it works for both straight and curly hair. The only condition is that your hair to be at least shoulder length. The half-up updo enhances the beauty of your eyes and cheekbones giving you a fresh look. Pull a front section of your hair up and back from the temples and forehead line. Take that section secure it with a bobby pin. You can even twist it and create a more messy look.
Hair accessories are a hot trend especially for summer. A headband is the perfect lifesaver when you have a bad hair day, and it only takes a few minutes to get ready. You can wear a headband in so many ways. Still, avoid wearing it right over the front as it totally covers the front of the hair and there is no volume around the crown. A scarf can be also a versatile hair accessory that can be worn over the crown, separating the bangs and the crown or covering the front of the hair. If you have short hair doesn't mean you can not change your look using hair accessories. You can choose cute hair clips, barrettes or jeweled combs.
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Old Habits, New Law
We've read a lot of articles recently about the types of community spirit that are often miraculously awakened in the shadows of intractable crisis. These may happen in clinics or churches or community centers, in coffee houses or donut shops, in libraries or schoolyards or vacant lots, between strangers or neighbors, and whether they are motivated by kindness or desperation or somebody's idea of God or good old fashioned economic synergies, the impulse, for me, is a source of inexhaustible optimism, a flickering beacon on every dark horizon, and a cause to embarrass myself with the littlest provocation. I have written in this space, perhaps excessively, about some of the felicitous little venues that get carved from our cities and suburbs and parklands and wastelands so that we may once in a while amount to more than the sum of our parts, to gather and share and declaim, trade labors and schemes, and occasionally overthrow a government or two.
The Internet works that way of course, but it's nice to get out and see a couple of warm bodies. Where I live, the talk is how restaurants are turning into offices – for freelancers and part-timers and the unemployed, everyone polishing their resumes and meeting and inventing deadlines and getting all bloodshot together – and I say Yeeeehaah! Get me another refill! Venti! Prego! Even Starbucks is handing out free Wifi these days. Way to go, Starbucks! What took you so frickin' long? All of us were just stealing it anyhow!
Excuse me, I need to use the bathroom for a second. Keep an eye on my laptop?
Whew, thanks. Where was I? Oh right: we're all in this together. Woo hoo! Most of us anyway. Maybe not that Spanish-looking dude in the corner there, with the pencil and the classified section – like I said, thanks for watching my hardware for me. Jeez, he's not even drinking a coffee.
Left unsaid in many (if not all) of the aforementioned articles is the very pressing and awfully uninspiring question of what some of us are circling the wagons against. Community spirit? Depends on where you draw the line.
According to recent nationwide polls, nearly seven in ten Americans approve of laws permitting the detainment of anyone unable to verify their legal status. Six in ten agree the police should be allowed to question anyone they think may be in country illegally – on, basically, a sneaking feeling. Five in ten think immigrants are stealing our jobs cleaning toilets and slaughterhouses. Okay, I made that last one up – in fact it's probably a little low. Whatever your opinion on these issues – and it's a great deal easier to imagine our economy is simply overcrowded than in need of a total reinvention - it illuminates nobody finally to pretend there aren't limits to our cozy mythologies.
Old Henry (by Joan Blos, with typically jaggedy illustrations from Stephen Gammell) will constitute few parents' idea of a heartwarming fable. Still, it's a story worth telling, if for no better reason than its ambivalence – human, recognizable. But instructive? Who the hell knows? At least you will not confuse it with all of the other happy endings out there which are presumed to be leeching the pessimism from future generations before they get polled.
Nobody's evil here, but nobody's blameless either. The weird old loner of the tile moves into a dilapidated house in the archetypical small town, refuses to fix the place up, keeps a parrot, and generally makes a spectacle of his eccentricity. Ignores the community's grumbling. Ignores their small courtesies. Says no to a Rockwellian pie. Gets ridden out on a rail. The house remains unoccupied, haunted looking. Everybody regrets. Old Henry writes a letter in the end trying to patch things up, but do we really think this can work?
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There are many things I love about 'Old Henry'—As a former actor turned teacher I'm sort of smitten by anything written in rhymed verse, I love the illustrations and I love the stubborn and uncompromising character of Old Henry. But I really dislike the ending. I dislike the ending so much that I feel it negates the beautiful verse and message of the first 2/3rds of the book.
You make a good case. I was totally freaked out by the ending here the first couple of times I read it, but I guess I came to appreciate the nerve of this writer and illustrator at not tidying things up. This book is sort of an anomaly that way, and I take them wherever I can find them. Thank you, sincerely, for feeling strongly.
3Posted by: Sarah on 10/22
I actually *did* think Blos tidied things up by having Old Henry write the letter. I didn't want Old Henry to compromise. (I say that as the 9 year old I was when I first read the book).
The grown-up in me agrees with you, completely. As a teacher, I spend the majority of my days talking about and focusing on the importance of compromise.
I adore children's literature. And every time I reread a book that I hadn't read since childhood I always struggle between my initial 'childhood' reactions (ie my first memories of reading the book or having read to me) and my 'grown up' reactions (those of a 30-something-year old teacher and avid reader).
I really love this blog. I admire you as a writer. I'm looking forward to reading more of your posts!
(and now, maybe it is time for me to read the archives)!
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Loewen, S., & Reinders, H. (2011). Key concepts in Second Language Acquisition. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0230230180, 256 pages, $23 US.
Key concepts in Second Language Acquisition is a user-friendly terminology guide which, according to the back cover, is the ideal quick reference text for students of linguistics and language teachers alike, and for researchers as well according to the authors themselves. The book is written by Shawn Loewen, an Associate Professor in the Second Language Studies program at Michigan State University, and Hayo Reinders, Head of Learner Development at Middlesex University. The book consists of a four-page introduction, a glossary holding 453 alphabetically-ordered entries accompanied with illustrations (i.e. tables & figures), cross-referencing of related entries when needed, and key references for each entry. The book finishes with an index of key references.
What does it mean to acquire a second language? How is a second language defined in a multilingual context? Key concepts in Second Language Acquisition raises these critical questions in an effort to consider them (not to answer them) throughout the book by providing concise definitions of key terms and concepts in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). In the introduction section of the book, in an effort to define SLA, the authors break down the term into its parameters (i.e. second, language, acquisition). The above critical questions are raised when the authors define the last two parameters (i.e. language, acquisition).
I believe the authors have been only partly successful in reaching the purpose of considering the above key questions in SLA. For instance, when defining the term language, the authors refer to different fields of study such as linguistics, pragmatics, and discourse, and to how each field views language use differently. While discussing these different views, relevant key terms and concepts are mentioned, all of which the reader expects to be included as separate entries in the glossary. However, a number of them such as lexis, pronunciation, dialects, language variation, and mutual intelligibility are missing, even though they are stated in the introduction section of the book. One might argue that although the term pronunciation is not defined, phonology is; or although the term lexis is not defined, lexicon is. Even if the terms are tapping roughly the same concepts, not including them as separate entries in the glossary shows inconsistency in the authors' selection, since other terms tapping roughly the same concepts such as vocabulary and lexicon are included as separated entries in the glossary (see p. xii). In other cases, key terms that are raised as points of concern in SLA such as standard vs. non-standard language, learning vs. acquisition, and development vs. acquisition are defined and relevant issues are explained in the glossary. Therefore, the authors have accomplished the stated objective of the book in these cases.
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Another strength of the book is its inclusion of list of key references to published works, not at the end of the book as bibliography, but proceeding right after each entry. This indicates that the authors understand the limitation of the book which aims to provide "only an introduction to the most important concepts in the field" (p. xiii), and therefore the need to refer the reader to other prominent sources on the topic. Keeping references close to each entry does not only make key influential sources, which are relevant to each concept, easily accessible, but also gives the reader exposure to authors and articles that have significantly shaped each of the key terms and concepts.
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Contesse, C. A. (2007). [Review of the book A Glossary of Applied Linguistics, by Davies, A.]. RESLA, 20, 217-220.
Davies, A. (2005). A Glossary of Applied Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
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So many people today have digital cameras, smart phones, or tablets that enable sharing photos with friends and family as simple as 1, 2, 3. It creates a bridge to welcome others into your lives to share in big life events or a beautiful sunset. As a librarian it becomes a way to share pictures from library events or a well done book display to share your idea with others. Flickr is a photo sharing program through yahoo which allows you to share the moments you capture with friends, family, and colleagues. In looking at the popular tags at the moment it strikes me that come this summer it is very possible in my personal and professional life, I will be using a lot of these words. Join me in this two part post as I explore flickr and share photos from the library where I share in the adventure of connecting with an amazing community.
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The Classical Oil Portrait
This course is designed to take you through the different stages of the classically painted portrait.With helpful demonstrations and one-to-one teaching, we will de-mystify the classical painting process,starting with a charcoal
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This will be transferred to a toned canvas where we will complete the underpainting in browns (Brunaille). Next, we will create a small color study (Bozzetto) in preparation for our final portrait. Limited palette colors will be covered, as well as basic head and facial anatomy. There will also be discussion about the subtleties of capturing facial expression. This
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Centreville, DE 19087
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Dates: March 7th-May 16th (No classes March 28th or April 18th) 9 week course
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Cost: ($400 + $125 model fee) Total Cost $525.
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Dr. Morad was born in Shrewsbury, MA in 1986 and has been practicing dentistry for almost 10 years. He graduated in 2008 from one of the top dental schools in Egypt and the entire Middle East. He then graduated in 2013 from the prestigious New York University College of Dentistry. After that, he moved back to Massachusetts to practice dentistry, to be near his family, and to get married.
Being raised by a pathologist doctor and a nurse, Dr. Morad is naturally passionate and respectful, treating all his patients with the highest level of ethics. He is a member of the Massachusetts Dental Society and the American Dental Association. He is certified to provide Invisalign® treatment as well as Nitrous Sedation. He is a very smiley person and all his patients feel very comfortable with him.
He loves photography, traveling and soccer, but now he spends most of his time with his little son, Yusuf.


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Alrighty everyone! Founder and Lead Artist of Ionic Comics, Annie Erskine here! We're officially back into the story! We have a couple of announcements so please take a moment to read this entire thing :)
Previously on "Variants: Stripes": Last we left off, Sam had just returned from a...less than successful attempt at convincing Colonel Donovan Grey to rescind his orders that would require her to come out of public retirement. After a pep talk and...some other things...from Noelle, Sam reluctantly agrees to do as ordered and start the search for our villain as her old hero persona, Stripes! Looks like she's off to a great start :|
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I was messing about on YouTube the other day, actually looking for crochet ideas, when I came across beaded pendants. I don't know about you, but I can spend hours of my life on YouTube… one thing always seems to lead to another and before I know it the day is gone and I'm looking at things I hadn't even thought of when I started my search.
In a happy turn of events, that day's massive YouTube session turned up this video tutorial by TheHeartBeading for this gorgeous Elda Pendant on here (part 1) and here (part 2) and had to try it out. It's my first attempt at a 'proper' beaded pendant and to be honest, I loved the result so much I made two!
These are stunning and not as difficult as they look. In fact, the hardest part for me was raiding my bead stash to find beads that were the right size and colour combo for these to work.
I used Wildfire to weave these, I prefer it to Fireline for making pendants. They seem to end up a little stiffer and more solid with Wildfire but each to their own. Every beader has their own favorite thread and I don't want to start a thread war here 🙂
I made a simple RAW necklace for the lighter, peachy, pendant and want to make something for the blue one too but I'm still messing about with necklace ideas to compliment it. I want something different to the RAW chain I already made, which I like, but variety is the spice of life! Or so they say… whomever they are.
Let me know if you have a go at these, would love to see how yours turn out!


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The 2018 Windsor Charity Polo Cup donated a total of $280,000 in proceeds between beneficiaries, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and the Alzheimer & Parkinson Association of Indian River County. Windsor is proud to announce that the 2018 Charity Polo Cup raised the highest amount of charitable dollars and had the largest attendance since the event's conception in 2012.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
As the world's largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson's research, The Michael J. Fox Foundation is dedicated to accelerating a cure for Parkinson's disease and improved therapies for those living with the condition today. The Foundation pursues its goals through an aggressively funded, highly targeted research program coupled with active global engagement of scientists, Parkinson's patients, business leaders, clinical trial participants, donors, and volunteers. In addition to funding more than $650 million in research to date, the Foundation has fundamentally altered the trajectory of progress toward a cure. Operating at the hub of worldwide Parkinson's research, the Foundation forges groundbreaking collaborations with industry leaders, academic scientists and government research funders; increases the flow of participants into Parkinson's disease clinical trials with its online tool, Fox Trial Finder; promotes Parkinson's awareness through high-profile advocacy, events and outreach; and coordinates the grassroots involvement of thousands of Team Fox members around the world. For more information, visit michaeljfox.org.
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Jonathan Barnbrook
Sue Coe
Dave Eggers
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Matt Groening
Sylvia Harris
John Hockenberry
Alfredo Jaar
Natalie Jeremijenko
Brenda Laurel
Golan Levin
James Nachtwey
Samina Quraeshi
Stefan Sagmeister
Shawn Wolfe
Golan Levin,
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Golan Levin is interested in creating artifacts and experiences that explore supple new modes of audiovisual expression. He received his masters degree from the MIT Media Laboratory, where he studied with John Maeda in the Aesthetics and Computation Group. Prior to MIT, he worked at Interval Research Corporation on the design of tools and toys for multimedia play and production. Levin now works with Alexander Gelman at Design Machine in New York City.
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The horizons of interactive form lie beyond the affordances of off-the-shelf tools, which only bottleneck and obscure the infinite plasticity of the computational medium. In increasing numbers, designers are turning to computer-programming techniques in order to expand the potential of the medium. In this audiovisual performance, computational designer Golan Levin presents a series of artworks developed in this way. Built around the metaphor of an "audiovisual substance," these systems allow people to create and perform abstract animation and soundsimultaneously and in real timein order to yield interesting and infinitely variable expressions in both the visual and aural domains.
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Last year, the image of two women beating each other in a shopping centre's entrance hit the headlines in the entire country. It seems that, one year later, everything is under control. This year's Black Friday has started with a surprising calm, including London's most centric streets.
The cause of this can be found on the Internet. It seems that customers have preferred not only to save money, but time as well. Sales online have registered their highest levels during the day, as discounts were available on the web as well. Some of them offered even more discounts than in stores.
Consequently, some websites have crashed due to a massive demand. Others have even experienced several delays in deliveries; there were some that had registered three-hour delays as many of the most demanded products had been sold out in minutes. Anyway, this is very good news for Black Friday 2015: another campaign that has resulted to be an absolute success.
However, as the day went by, the queues began in shops all around the country. Shopping malls have been extremely busy, and the streets ended up completely over-crowded during the afternoon. But still, everything seems to have gone quietly; as there haven't been episodes like last year's brutal fight.
Black Friday has resulted to be an excellent chance to get the best bargains. Due to its popularity, it has become a practice that has been applied to many foreign countries, some of them have even extended sales from Friday to Sunday, others even the whole week.


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This week I have found it in myself to search wide and far for music I have never heard of before. In this search I succeeded to find several noteworthy artists, new and old. Reading blogs, scouring Last.fm charts, and hypemachining till I drop, I have decided on these two albums as favorites for the week of July 11th, 2008. Enjoy!
The new album I am loving, which I only found yesterday, is the self titled debut from Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. Yeah, try remembering all four of those names without looking back. Anyways, this guy is pretty awesome. The music is hard to describe, but let's just put it this way: it combines folk qualities with Isaac Brock-esque vocals and Pavement-esque energy. There is some power, some subtlety, and most of the songs are fairly personal.
Here are some songs off the record, my favorite would have to be "Buriedfed". You just gotta hear it.
Key Tracks: "Buriedfed," "Debtor," and "Woodfriend"
The older album, or artist in general, that I am simply in love with is Jonathan Richman [and the Modern Lovers]. I heard this guy, and I honestly had no clue how I'd never come across him before. Apparently he did music for There's Something About Mary, but I didn't recognize it. It's quirky, fun, naive, folk music. His earlier stuff in the late 70s with the Modern Lovers is more electric rock. The albums I really love are Modern Lovers, Modern Lovers 88, and I, Jonathan. Jonathan Richman sees the world differently from most of us, and his music is evidence of it. Songs like "Ice Cream Man" and "I Have Come Out To Play" represent testiments to childhood from a man who never lost the freedom of being a child. If you have ever heard Jens Lekman, its safe to say that he took a lot from Jonathan. The music is just great.
Key Tracks: "I Have Come Out to Play"(Modern Lovers 88), "Dignified and Old" (Modern Lovers), and "I was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar" (I, Jonathan).


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from Philosophia VOL 6 No. 1.March 1976
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Mr. Hutton claims 1 that we cannot use Gödel's theorems to prove minds different from machines, because we are not entitled to assert our own consistency. Maybe not. But not for the reasons Mr. Hutton urges. They seem to me to have very little to do with the argument I originally put forward, although something to do with the logical analysis of our everyday concepts and the relation between formal and informal modes of reasoning.
Mr. Hutton's arguments are statistical. He seeks first to show that there is a non-zero probability of a mind's embracing mutually inconsistent propositions; secondly that such a possibility might actually be realised in the person of a gambling logician; thirdly he seems to argue that any claim to he consistent must be a claim to infallibility which is insensitive to counter-arguments to the point of irrationality. I do not deny that many people are inconsistent. In my original article I conceded that women and politicians wore popularly supposed to be, and allowed that male non-politicians might be too. If Mr, Hutton cares to cite gambling logicians as well, I shall not dispute with him. But I shall remain sceptical of his first argument, in which he considers an n-dimensional discrete mental life-space, consisting of n propositions (or later axioms) and their negations, and assigns probabilities to a mind's accepting a subset of this space, and calculates that the probability of a mind's accepting an inconsistent set of propositions is very high. Quite apart from the general artificiality of this model of the mind, it seems to have one decisive defect even from the technical point of view. Mr. Hutton assigns probabilities to a mind's accepting each proposition independently of what that mind has done hitherto, whereas most people are guided, in deciding whether to accept or reject a particular proposition, by what they have already taken to be true. The statistical considerations Mr. Hutton adduces have no bearing on the informal reasoning I was appealing to.
Mr. Hutton's third argument relies on Bayes' Theorem. I have [145] grave doubts about the use of Bayes' Theorem for singular propositions, such as my being consistent (C). If seems to me that Bayes' Theorem, and the underlying axiom of Conditional Probability, applies only to prepositional functions ranging over certain universes of discourse, and that when we are assessing singular propositions on the basis of arguments and counter-arguments, we need, if anything, some sort of Confirmation Theory rather than the classical Probability Calculus. 2 Not that the classical Probability Calculus is inconsistent, but rather that it is inapplicable. The axioms of classical Probability Calculus are consistent and apply very well to additive sets, and under suitable conditions can be used to calculate the probabilities of propositions. But not all conditions are suitable, and often we use the word 'probability' in a way which is not adequately rendered by Kolmogorov's axioms. More serious than doubts about Mr. Hutton's handling of probabilities - about which many different views are canvassed should be doubts about his assumption that a person who knows something cannot allow that he might be wrong. Locke held this 3 and later Ayer, but it led them to limit knowledge to immediate sense-experience and analytic truth. Normally, however, the word 'know' is used in a much wider sense. I can properly say that I know Mr. Hutton exists, although I have never seen him, and there would be no logical impossibility in doubting it, and I could be persuaded, say by a sufficiently authoritative statement by the editor, that he was merely the nom-de-plume of Professor BarHillel. Nevertheless, I can properly say not merely that I believe Mr. Hutton exists but that I know it. For in addition to actually holding that belief, I have good reasons for so doing: not incontrovertible reasons nor conclusive reasons, but, in the circumstances and in the context of my statement, adequate ones. To claim to know something is not to claim infallibility but only to have adequate backing for what is asserted. It is a responsible guarantee, but not a copper-bottomed one. If I use the formula 'I know that...' I utter a negotiable instrument in the republic of letters. You can pass it on to third parties on the strength of my warranty, and if you are challenged you can say 'I have Lucas's word for it'. Should he then have recourse to me, I am obliged to honour by bond, and give the reasons which backed it; and if my account turns out to be empty, or if I have only slight reasons, or if I have overlooked obvious objections, then you are entitled to hammer me for issuing promissory notes irresponsibly. But I am not required to have more than a reasonable certitude. If I claim to know the time of the next train, it is enough that I have looked it up in the timetable: I do not have to have considered the possibility of its having been derailed on the way to the station. Under some conditions, when there are wars or rumours [146] of wars, we may have to hedge all our bets, and rather than claim to know the time of the next meeting of the Knesset, express only a tentative belief that it may meet next month, provided the Syrians do not invade, nor any other comparable contingency occurs. But such conditions are exceptional. In normal times, although we could always add a Deo Volente when making any sort of prediction, we do not do so, nor are our claims to knowledge any the worse for the omission.
To assert one's own consistency is not exactly like predicting the time of the next train or next meeting of the Knesset. It is more like knowing that one is conscious, or knowing that other minds exist, or knowing that the future will be like the past. These are general presuppositions on which much of our thinking is based. They cannot be proved by deductive or inductive reasoning, and they can be argued against, and some philosophers have schooled themselves to regard them as open questions. But although they can be argued against, they can be argued for, and few people, except when they are being paid to as professional philosophers, seriously doubt them. In the case of the mind's consistency, I do not deny that there are arguments against my claim. In addition to counter-examples among our acquaintanceship, I cited naive set theory as a warning against too easy an assumption that what seemed all right intuitively was all right really. Nevertheless, the arguments on the other side are weightier still. One, which Mr. Hutton touches on but does not meet, is that simple consistency is, in the relevant systems, equivalent to absolute consistency, and it is highly implausible to make out that we are absolutely inconsistent. We say it occasionally as a reproach to a person "If you would say that, you would say anything", but it is not in general true of most people. If a. mind could be adequately represented by an inconsistent system, then it would be prepared to affirm every proposition. But most people will not do that. Therefore they cannot be represented by inconsistent systems.
Another argument, of a more Kantian flavour, is that we must assume our own consistency, if thought is to be possible at all .4 It is, perhaps like the uniformity of nature, not something to be established at the end of a careful chain of argument, but rather a necessary assumption we must make if we are to start on any thinking at all. 4 In a somewhat similar vein I suggested that it should be seen as an act of faith, a decision or a commitment, nor arbitrary although not admitting of formal proof. Some men similarly decide to treat other human beings as centres of consciousness and autonomous agents.
None of these arguments lends any colour to the contention Mr. Hutton wishes on me that I know that I am consistent in [147] some dogmatic way which precludes all possibility of further debate. He does not deal with the arguments I actually adduce, but quotes instead two other passages dealing with different topics (one about the infinite regress of consciousness, the other about Tarski's theorem) to impute to me a dogmatic assertiveness quite foreign to my argument. My only purpose was to counter an objection by a mechanist who claimed he had a model of the mind and sought to deny purchase to the Gödelian argument by claiming that his model either was not, or at least could not be taken to be, consistent. Against this I argue that an inconsistent system cannot be worthy of serious consideration as a model of the mind, and that unless the mechanist claims consistency for his model - in which case the Gödelian argument goes through - it is not a plausible candidate at all. Certainly, if once an inconsistency is spotted in a system, it cases to be of much interest to us; and if I could spot an inconsistency in the system which was claimed by the mechanist to represent my mind, I should at once point out that 2 + 2 = 5 was a theorem of the system but no theorem of mine.
No doubt mechanism is an implausible thesis on many other counts than those urged by me. My object was to take on the mechanist on his own ground, and show that, all other difficulties apart, there were serious logical difficulties in putting forward a mechanical model of the mind. The main thrust of the argument was against models that were at least consistent, but the possibility of inconsistent models had been canvassed; they were, however, implausible models of a rational mind, and, in spite of Mr. Hutton's arguments, seem to be so still.
NOTESTo return from footnote to text, click on footnote number 1. Anthony Hutton, "This Gödel is Killing Me", Philosophia, this issue.
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