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People Travel Hundreds of Miles for Free Medical Care in Appalachia. But There Are Never Enough Doctors and Dentists to Meet the Need.
Wise, Virginia, is not a place that's easy to get to. It's 50 miles from the nearest interstate and almost 70 miles from the nearest commercial airport. And regardless of where you start from on your way to Wise—a town of 3,000 people in the Southern Appalachians—you'll have to negotiate a winding mountain road.
Yet over a long weekend in late July, thousands of people make a pilgrimage to the Wise County Fairgrounds to get medical, vision and dental care they can't afford closer to home—dental care especially.
Remote Area Medical, a nonprofit organization that operates free clinics around the world, has been coming to Wise County for 19 years. As word of mouth has spread, the Wise County "expedition," as RAM calls it, has become one of the largest clinics it stages every year. And every year without fail, more people travel to Wise more for dental care than for any other medical need.
Stan Brock, who founded RAM in 1985 to fly American doctors and dentists to treat people in some of the world's poorest and most remote areas, told me during an interview under one of the many M.A.S.H.-like tents on the fairgrounds site that the urgent need for dental care is not specific to Wise. Regardless of the location of RAM's U.S. clinics—most of the organization's expeditions are now held on U.S. soil because of this country's large and growing number of uninsured and underinsured people—60 percent or more come first and foremost for dental care.
This year's Wise clinic, held July 20-22, was no exception. Volunteer dentists, some traveling from as far away as Buffalo, New York, treated 454 patients, with extractions being the most common service provided. Although the dentists also perform cleanings and fillings, by the time most patients get there, their teeth have become too diseased to save.
People needing dental care often travel the farthest to get to Wise. RAM staff told me that this year, patients traveled from as far north as Michigan and New Jersey and as far south as Florida for care. Many of them arrived days before the start of the clinic and camped out in the fairgrounds parking lot—or slept in their cars—to increase the odds of being treated. Often the need is so great that some patients are turned away.
Many dental patients go to great lengths to get to a RAM clinic. One young woman told RAM staff earlier this year that she had ridden a bus from Columbus, Ohio, to Knoxville, Tennessee, where RAM holds an annual five-day clinic in late January and early February. She said she stayed in a homeless shelter when she got to Knoxville and walked four miles from the shelter to the clinic site—in 20-degree weather.
During this year's Wise clinic, RAM posted a story on its Facebook page about a man named Larry who walked 30 miles to get to the clinic:
He began walking yesterday (July 20) to ensure he received a ticket for dental services today. Unable to find a job for almost two years, Larry can't afford to get the dental services he needs. "I've been in pain for a while," says Larry. "I've had abscessed teeth, and an extraction costs at least $100 per tooth."
The high cost of dental care—and the lack of insurance to cover even a part of it—is often not the only reason so many people come to Wise County for care. Many live in the more than 5,000 "dental deserts" in the United States, areas, both rural and urban, where few if any dentists practice.
As noted earlier, the lack of access to dental care is such a critical and growing problem in the United States that the demand often is greater than RAM's volunteer dental professionals can meet. At the end of my interview with Brock, an experience at Wise County from a few years ago came to mind. His voice cracked with emotion as he told it.
On the last day of the clinic, a Sunday, after all the dentists had packed up and left for home, a couple with two young children drove up to the fairgrounds parking lot. They would have gotten there earlier, the father told Brock, but "church ran late."
Brock said the little girls—"probably about eight and seven maybe"—where hanging on to their parents' legs. "We've come to see the dentist," he said the father told him.
"'I'm very sorry, everything's packed up,'" Brock said he told him. "And they turned around and got into the pickup truck and drove off."
Brock paused, and I could see tears welling up in his eyes.
"What I should have said is, 'Where do you live, man? We'll do a house call.' But I didn't."
Those were among the last words that one of the most compassionate people I've ever known, a man who has brought health care to millions of people around the world, said to me. With all he had done, he regretted that he had not done even more.
"And so you can't see everybody," he told me. "That's unfortunately the reality."
Editor's note: Stan Brock died August 29, 2019. He was 82.
This story was originally published by Tarbell.
Coal Comeback? Coal At New Low After Two Years Under Trump
It's been two years since President Donald Trump took office and began rolling back environmental regulations on the coal industry.
At a November rally in Huntington, West Virginia, the president took credit for a coal comeback in front of a cheering crowd.
"We've ended the war on beautiful, clean coal and we're putting our coal miners back to work," he said. "That you know better than anybody."
But federal data about the industry tell a different story.
Mine operators and independent contractors are required to report regular employment information to the Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration, or MSHA. Preliminary figures for 2018 show 80,778 people were employed by mine operators and contractors. That's a record low, and about a thousand fewer than were employed by coal in the last year of the Obama administration.
Nationwide, coal plant retirements neared a record high, and overall coal production dropped to the lowest level in nearly 40 years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, a non-partisan government agency that tracks energy trends.
In the Ohio Valley, things looked much the same. In 2018 two prominent Ohio Valley utilities announced a spate of coal power plant closures, federal data show the region lost 150 industry jobs, and Westmoreland Coal, which has a substantial presence in Ohio, declared bankruptcy.
However strong exports of one type of coal continued to support jobs for those who provide metallurgical coal, which is used to make steel. That boosted employment in West Virginia, where the president's supporters say he is keeping his promise to revive the industry. Elsewhere, others aren't convinced and are looking for ways to fill the void left by coal's decline.
Environmental Rollbacks
The Trump administration has leaned heavily on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to try to boost the region's coal industry. In March, 2017, Trump signed an executive order that kicked off an in-depth review of a series of environmental regulations. Since then, the administration has proposed a series of regulatory rollbacks aimed at helping struggling coal plants and operators.
In August, the EPA proposed a replacement for the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era regulation that aimed to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants by one-third over the coming decades in an effort to stem the effects of climate change.
The Trump EPA has also moved to roll back existing regulations that govern the storage of toxic coal ash. In December, the agency proposed a rule revision that would allow coal plants to emit more carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour of electricity generated by scrapping a requirement that plant operators install expensive technology that reduces emissions. The agency in December also proposed weakening a regulation that limits mercury and other toxic emissions from coal power plants.
The Trump administration last year was also embroiled in an ongoing attempt to bail out struggling coal-fired power plants, which has since stalled.
But many industry analysts believe Trump's looser environmental rules have not helped the industry.
"So we had some pretty significant regulatory rollbacks in 2018," said Trevor Houser, a coal analyst at the independent research company Rhodium Group. "And yet, 2018 was a record year in terms of coal plant retirements." [Story continues below map]
Houser said there is also little indication any utility in the country is planning on building a new coal-fired power plant, even under the current, more relaxed regulatory environment.
Last month, S&P Global Market Intelligence reported Longview Power LLC, which operates one of the newest and most efficient coal-fired power plants in the U.S. just outside of Morgantown, West Virginia, is seeking investment to shift some generation from coal to natural gas and solar. Energy Secretary Rick Perry visited the power plant in the summer of 2017 to tout the benefits of coal in a competitive energy market.
Across the Ohio Valley, utilities announced more coal power plant closures in 2018. After Ohio-based FirstEnergy Solutions declared bankruptcy, it announced it would close two coal-fired power plants, one in Pennsylvania and one in Ohio. Another of its plants in West Virginia will close by 2022. Another major utility, American Electric Power, announced it was moving up the closure date for some units in its Conesville plant in Ohio to 2019.
A report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, an energy think tank, found cost is the biggest force in coal's decline. Renewables and gas-fired generation continue to provide a cheaper and more flexible alternative.
The Met Demand
With more power plant closing there are fewer places to sell thermal coal, which is burned to make electricity, and that has a major impacts coal producers in the region.
"If you look at the share of where the coal was headed, the domestic utility market for West Virginia coal continues to decline," said Jason Bostic with the West Virginia Coal Association. "And that's extremely concerning."
Nationwide and as well as in the Ohio Valley the amount of coal mined dropped to the lowest level in nearly 40 years. Coal exports, however, were up, driven largely by international demand for metallurgical, or met coal, by Asian countries.
"There's the kind of continual disconnect between the poor fate of the thermal coal market and a little bit more resilient met coal market," Houser said.
To meet higher met coal demand, some mines in West Virginia and Virginia have reopened. Federal data from MSHA show West Virginia mines added a little over 500 jobs in 2018.
Tom McLoughlin trains coal miners in southwestern Virginia, where some met coal mines have ramped up production. He said he's been busy since Trump took office.
"As soon as Trump got elected It was like somebody taking the finger out of the dam," he said. "There was all kinds of activity including especially the training, and it's held up fairly well since."
But even in West Virginia, where things have looked slightly better for the industry, there were also some high-profile mine closures. A mine in Wyoming County shut its doors in October, putting about 400 miners out of work.
There are a lot of indications that the international demand for met coal, especially by China, is cooling off.
"In 2019 we have some pretty troubling signs about the outlook for the Chinese economy this coming year and that could take the wind out of the sails of the metallurgical coal market pretty quickly," said Houser with the Rhodium Group.
Temporary Bump?
It's possible that West Virginia's bounce in production could be a brief one. Elsewhere around the Ohio Valley coal employment has been stagnant, at best. Ohio mines added just 16 jobs last year, and Kentucky lost almost 400 jobs, according to MSHA data.
Retired Kentucky miner Larry Miller said it's not surprising the data show the industry has not bounced back. He added that he didn't have a lot of faith in Trump's ability to revive the industry in the first place.
"I don't think it's sustainable," he said. "The EPA relaxing of the rules might help some, but I don't think it's the main driver for the job loss."
Miller worked for more than two decades underground and said he made a good living. In his own backyard he said he's seeing first-hand that coal is often no longer an economic source for electricity. For example, near his slice of western Kentucky a group of utilities is installing an 800-acre solar farm, further evidence, he said, of coal's declining importance.
"It's not going to be gone but it's not going to be the economic engine that it once was," Miller said. "And I made a good living in coal for a long time and I liked it, so I don't take pleasure in saying that."
Recently, the EIA adjusted downward its coal forecast. It says coal production is expected to hit a record low in 2019. Appalachia will see its overall coal production drop from 201.5 million tons in 2018 to 170.1 million tons in 2020, according to the EIA forecast.
Limited Retraining
That doesn't bode well for miners. Houser, with the Rhodium Group, said while the Trump administration doubled down to boost coal, it has not offered any additional aid for job retraining.
"The past few budget proposals from the Trump administration have actually reduced the amount of support for retraining and economic diversification and coal retraining in coal country," he said.
Clemmy Allen has been retraining coal miners for more than 30 years for the United Mine Workers of America.
Since 2012, the UMWA's Career Training Centers in Appalachia has relied on a Department of Labor grant, which provides $5000 in tuition assistance and a $20 daily stipend to West Virginia miners who have been laid off or lost their jobs. He said thousands of miners have taken advantage of the program, but acknowledged it's also limited.
"It's very, very difficult for for a person just to … just shut down and go into training and not have money to, you know, meet their monthly obligations," he said.
Allen said in previous years the center had more federal grants to retrain miners in other states, and he says there are thousands of miners who have lost their jobs over the years who have since found work, but would like to be retrained to do something else.
"We never have enough resources, never," he added.
This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource.
Rural's Connection to Environment Means Bigger Climate-Change Impact
Mainstays of rural American culture and economy – such as timber, agriculture, tourism, ranching, hunting, fishing, winter sports – could see major disruptions from climate change. The impact will be big enough to disrupt the national economy, a federal report says.
Rural communities face clear economic and environmental risks from a changing climate, according to the 2018 National Climate Assessment.
The report documents changes in the timing of seasons, temperature fluctuations, increased incidence of extreme weather and change in rainfall – all patterns with the potential disrupt rural economic activities.
Climate change in rural communities poses an outsized risk to the national economy, the report says.
"Rural America's importance to the country's economic and social well-being is disproportionate to its population, as rural areas provide natural resources that much of the rest of the United States depends on for food, energy, water, forests, recreation, national character, and quality of life," the report stated.
While not all regions face the same impacts due to increased greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, the assessment explains how increased volumes of carbon, methane and other greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere will lead to changing climatic patterns. The report's authors predict that changes will likely increase volatility in agricultural commodity markets, shift plant and animal ranges, increase the number and intensity of droughts and floods, and increase the number and size of wildfires throughout the rural landscape.
For portions of rural America with an economy based on agriculture, climate scientists are most worried about shifting geographic suitability of particular crops and abnormal timing for planting and harvest. These changes may result in additional use of herbicides and pesticides, which could create additional health risks from chemical applications. Crop and pasture yields and profitability could also be affected by changes in rainfall, temperature and extreme weather events. Increased flooding could increase soil erosion and water pollution from agricultural runoff, according to the report.
Rural communities with an economy based on recreation and tourism also face significant challenges due to climate change, according to the report. Rising seas could damage rural Florida's multi-billion dollar recreational fishing sector and cause further ecological damage to the Everglades region.
Coastal erosion and rising oceans throughout the nation could affect wildlife habitat, disrupting hunting, fishing, bird watching, and other wildlife-related activities.
Rural places with significant winter recreation activities could face risks as snow-pack is expected to decrease.
Forest-dependent rural communities are likely to face significant change as well. Forest geographies and species composition are likely to shift as the climate changes. The number of pests and disease will increase. These factors could decrease timber and pulp harvests in some places. Forest fires are also expected to continue to increase in number, intensity and cost.
The report identifies certain demographic trends in rural communities that make climate change adaptation more difficult.
"Modern rural populations are generally older, less affluent, and less educated than their urban counterparts. Rural areas are characterized by higher unemployment, more dependence on government transfer payments, less diversified economies, and fewer social and economic resources needed for resilience in the face of major changes," the report states. That combination of an aging population with higher poverty rates increases vulnerability of rural people and places to changes in climate.
"Emergency management, energy use and distribution systems, transportation and infrastructure planning, and public health will all be affected," the study states. State, regional, local and tribal governments in rural communities tend to be under-funded and rely heavily on volunteers.
"Even in communities where there is increasing awareness of climate change and interest in comprehensive adaptation planning, lack of funding, human resources, access to information, training, and expertise provide significant barriers for many rural communities," the report concludes.
This report is the fourth National Climate Assessment, and summarizes the impacts of climate change on the United States. The report process was established by the Global Change Research Act of 1990 and mandates that the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) deliver a report to Congress and the president no less than every four years.
A team of more than 300 experts guided by a 60-member Federal Advisory Committee developed the report. Scientists and researchers from federal, state and local governments, tribes and Indigenous communities, national laboratories, universities, and the private sector volunteered their time to produce the assessment. Information was gathered through a series of regional engagement workshops that reached more than 1,000 individuals in over 40 cities. Listening sessions, webinars and public comment periods also provided valuable input.
This article was originally published by Daily Yonder.
When Losing 14 to 1 is a Win — Sort Of
The how isn't quite as important as they why, I think, but in brief: exactly two weeks before the election, I announced on Facebook my intention to mount a write-in campaign for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, disgusted that for the fourth time in seven elections, the local incumbent — Brad Roae — faced literally no competition. Nobody squared off against him in the Republican primary and nobody ran on the Democratic ticket. In fact, only twice in his tenure has he faced opposition from Democrats, each of them throttled to the tune of 60-40 or thereabouts in the general election.
As an even sorrier indication of the state of political engagement in the rural part of Northwestern Pennsylvania where I live, only once has a Republican ever challenged him in a primary. It's smooth sailing every two years, which leads to a tepid, basic and uninspiring legislative track record. Taxes are bad, he says. And, oh, let's have some laws to weaken environmental protections for gas well drilling. He has made public media posts that appear to equate school boards to Hitler, and he has argued that state funding shouldn't support students who major in "poetry or some other pre-Walmart major."
Yeah, that's who I lost to, my 900 votes or so to his 13,000. And that's the guy who has gone to Harrisburg for more than a decade representing my home. Among the many things that gall me about his incumbency is the way that, outside of Appalachia, a lot of people would probably nod their heads and say, yup. Brad Roae is the kind of representative people think Appalachia embraces, is the kind of person so many non-Appalachians see as purely representative of who we are and what we stand for.
But here's the thing. I'm finding hope in my two weeks as a candidate, and in the sudden flurry of interest and support. I ran because there had to be some opposition for democracy to have any chance at all, and when I did so I hoped I'd get 1 or 2 percent, not embarrass myself, shoot for the bar of 300 votes. That would be the same number of votes I would have needed as signatures to get on the ballot had I, say, planned ahead.
Then a funny thing happened. I started making videos introducing myself and my ideas, and put together a platform paper, and people started sharing these materials on Facebook, and I had to work through the anti-Russian Bot regulations the social media site now has so I could finally "boost" two of those posts on the morning of the election, and even before all that the organic sharing of an electorate dying for something, anything, that pushed against Appalachian political stereotypes meant 9,000 people had seen my stuff. Then, even though people had to first know I was running and then actually bother typing my name in, I fared okay. I earned about 65 votes for each day of my campaign. And I spent $50 on stickers, $20 on my Facebook ads.
Official county returns compiled right before Thanksgiving gave me 851 votes. The Monday following, I reviewed the official computations and found another 60+, if I include misspellings like Matt Terrance and, Michael Ferrence, and Matthew Fetterman (for a voter who maybe confused me with our Democratic Lt. Governor candidate John Fetterman), and That Guy Whose Name Starts With F, as well as The Guy on Facebook Ask (name redacted), as well as a litany of close-but-no-cigar last names coupled with Matt or Matthew: Ferrer, Ferraro, Fetter, Farreah, Ferrenc, Ferrous, Ferris, Ferentz, Ferrick, and DeFerence. I got 14 votes in neighboring state districts, and four votes for the U.S. House Race. Among other write-ins, I beat a slew of names that received a single vote or a handful, tough competitors like Brad Roae (who a few people wrote in, even though he was on the ballot), Stephen Colbert, Anyone But Him, Anyone Else, Jesus, God, and Red Breasted Nuthatch.
Look, my day job is writing and teaching. I'm a professor at a small liberal arts college, chair of the Department of English, writer and teacher of creative nonfiction. I was born in southwestern Pennsylvania, among the played out coal fields and strip mines an hour east of Pittsburgh. I earned a Ph.D. at West Virginia University, where I specialized in Appalachian literature. I wrote a memoir about my brain tumor, and the geology of the Allegheny Plateau, and the curious exile of inhabiting the weird position of Northern Appalachian, which means you're not quite normal American and not quite Appalachian. None of that adds up to politician, but all of it adds up to frustration. I've spent most of my life, other than brief adult stints in Arizona and France, living in a region that skews way right, even as that right continues to exploit and degrade the people and place. All Appalachia ever has been allowed to be is exploited. That's it. And that's all the rhetoric of the GOP offers, when you boil it down. Let's Make America Great Again, like when black lung wrecked lives on the regular and, newsflash, is now roaring back to life since the unions have been busted, and the economy of the region stayed busted, so the people crawled down into mines without the protections hard fought with blood and love by the striking workers of Blair Mountain, and the striking workers of Pittsburgh steel, and the striking auto workers of the Rust Belt.
Public historian Elizabeth Catte gets it right (she's the author of "What You're Getting Wrong about Appalachia") when she argues that Appalachians have been socialists all along. They just don't know it. They gathered together. They fought the power of industrial dominion. They powered America with their coal, yes, but they also fueled the national movement for respect and dignity for labor. Then the GOP figured out how to weaponize hatred and fear, and there you go. You get Joe Manchin, alleged Democrat. And you get a region that votes more than 2/3 for Trump and Trump-esque troglodytes like Pennsylvania's GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Wagner, who claims that global warming is probably just accumulated body heat from a larger human population or happens because the earth is getting closer to the sun, and campaigns by saying he'll dance on the governor's face while wearing golf spikes.
It boils down to this: I am so tired of waking up on November Wednesdays in Appalachia, seeing election results and, worse, national punditry that says this is all we are and all we'll ever be. The election map of my state is bright red, other than around a few urban centers, just like most of Appalachia. That seems to translate to the same conclusion we get over and over and over again: dumb hillbillies voting for the worst. That conclusion seems to be supported by the simple math of our state politics, where more than half of state legislators run unopposed in their general elections, and our incumbency rate is about 90 percent. Few candidates ever put up a fight to change that.
So what's an Appalachian creative writing professor to do? You run a last-ditch campaign. You tilt against the windmills in a manner that is both impotent (because you get crushed at the polls) and, at least for me, hopeful. Because having a choice, any choice, other than the incumbent mattered to the 2,000 people who either voted for me or tossed in a symbolic protest write-in. Because people stopped me when I walked by, and messaged me on Facebook, and were angry when they learned about the campaign only after they voted because, damn it, they couldn't vote for the incumbent, and leaving it blank is just what the GOP has wanted for so long. The story of Appalachian politics has been about that blankness, a cultivation of the sense — and you can read this in almost every national outlet at some point in the last two years, usually with a quote from that faux-Appalachian pseudo-pundit J.D. Vance — that there's nothing but right-wing fools in these hills and hollers. Appalachia is given up for dead again, this time just as a tarnished example of the hatred and backwardness of politics in this strange, strange land.
That's just not how it is. That's not the Appalachia I know nor the one I saw in my brief campaign. Heck, I ran this mini-campaign focused specifically on lefty sustainability, as in ecology and tree-hugging, as well as economies that stop repeating the boom-bust cycles of our past, and I drew a mighty good swipe of votes all at once, in the end. There are a lot of people in my county who believe in the value of the environment, and the necessity of fine educations, and the rightness of universal healthcare, and the imperative of social justice, and the glory of love in all its forms. There are progressives in these hills, you know. And a lot of them, but also a lot who hear those same old stories and worry about what the neighbors will think, so they don't vote, or accept the inevitability of political monoculture. Thus the slam happens again. And again. And again. Unopposed Republican. Platforms of no taxes. Tacit acceptance of the Confederate Battle Flags that flutter on too many once-Union farmhouses.
Yeah, I got creamed. But I think we also won something that night. And we'll keep coming back for more, riding a blue wave tinged with green, fighting for a change in the rural center of America that so many figure is lost forever. You know the joke, about Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and a lot of Alabama in between. Well, Alabama has a Democratic Senator, and so does Pennsylvania. We can do more, do better, push against the dogged stupidity of a right-wing cultural war that makes us all weaker and worse off. We can step into these races, and we can square off and say, hit me, and we can get hit, and eventually we can win. I know I'll give it another shot – with my name printed on the ballot next time. I'll need at least a couple of months next time, to get enough votes to be competitive, if history holds. But I'll vow, and I hope others will too, that no one gets to run unopposed anymore. No one gets to spit out tired political bullshit and not get called out. This is our Appalachia too.
This article was originally published by the Daily Yonder.
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text: Back to Results Listed Building The only legal part of the listing is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. 14-24 CASTLE STREET (EVEN NUMBERS)LB26122 Status: Designated Jump To: Documents Summary Description Statement References About Images Documents There are no additional online documents for this record. Summary CategoryA Group Category Details100000019 - See Notes Date Added11/07/1961 Local AuthorityDumfries And Galloway Planning AuthorityDumfries And Galloway BurghDumfries NGRNX 97100 76299 Coordinates297100, 576299 Description Probably Robert Burn. Built between 1806 (date ofat 1st floor cill level; cornice; blocking course; 2 cantedlay-out) and 1819 (date of Wood's map). Terrace, 2storeys with attics and cast-iron-railed basements.Fainted droved ashlar with pilastered doorpieces,round-arched doorways, and recessed panelled doors withfanlights (original decorative fanlights at Nos 16 and22). Houses each 3 bays with door left, except No 24(5 bays with door central; aproned 1st floor windows).Sash windows throughout, few retaining original 12-paneglazing pattern. Band courses between floors; stringdormers; straight skews; end stacks; slate roof.Some good interior work survives; cornice plasterwork;chimney pieces; cantilevered stairs with decorativebalustrades.Iron railings partly replaced; good overthrow at no 24. Statement of Special Interest A group with items 45-47 and 49. References Bibliography See notes and references to 25-37 Castle Street. About Listed Buildings Listing is the way that a building or structure of special architectural or historic interest is recognised by law through the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997. We list buildings of special architectural or historic interest using the criteria published in the Historic Environment Scotland Policy Statement. The information in the listed building record gives an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building(s). It is not a definitive historical account or a complete description of the building(s). The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded. The only legal part of the listing is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing and if a number or name is missing from a listing address it may still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing can also cover structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage of the building, such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. The planning authority is responsible for advising on what is covered by the listing including the curtilage of a listed building. Since 1 October 2015 we have been able to exclude items from a listing. If part of a building is not listed, it will say that it is excluded in the statutory address and in the statement of special interest in the listed building record. The statement will use the word 'excluding' and quote the relevant section of the Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect current legislation. If you want to alter, extend or demolish a listed building you need to contact your planning authority to see if you need listed building consent. The planning authority advises on the need for listed building consent and they also decide what a listing covers. The planning authority is the main point of contact for all applications for listed building consent. Find out more about listing and our other designations at www.historicenvironment.scot/advice-and-support. You can contact us on 0131 668 8716 or at email@example.com. Images There are no images available for this record, you may want to check Canmore for images relating to 14-24 CASTLE STREET (EVEN NUMBERS) There are no images available for this record. Search Canmore Printed: 16/02/2019 17:16


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Water, Food, Land and Health Justice = > Greener Schools
April 5, 2012
Below are links to various resources on health and food justice, food security and food sovereignty. Under each heading, resources are listed by publication date (most recent at the top), if available, or date of posting.
Resources on Health and the Environment
Resources on Food and Food Justice
Resources on Land Rights, Agriculture and Farmers
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MULTICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL ARTS & SCIENCES (MEAS) LABS provide environmental justice education in the classroom through hands-on lessons covering subjects including biodiversity, air quality, water quality, food security, cooking, and Sharing Nature with Children. We currently have two labs at Palmer Park Preparatory Academy and Nsoroma Institute where students investigate local environmental issues, grow their own vegetables, sell plants to parents and teachers, and create nature themed or recycled art projects. We work closely with teachers in order to supplement their core subjects and align our lessons to Grade Level Curriculum Expectations.
THE UGLIEST SCHOOLYARD COMPETITION provides a way for Detroit public and charter schools to create their own natural environments and outdoor classrooms at their school. Winning schools receive a $10,000 grant from the Kellogg Foundation for their outdoor classroom. A University of Michigan Landscape Designer teachers an introductory course in landscape design and the students themselves participate in the design and construction their own natural spaces in their schoolyards. Projects and designs have included a meditation path, a pond, a native plant habitat, and an interactive showcase for green technology.
GARDENING ANGELS: program is a partnership with the Luella Hannan Foundation through the Community Foundation's Senior Engagement Program. Gardening Angels brings youth and seniors together in partnership to work for environmental justice and healthy, sustainable communities. Through a process of sharing and learning, youth and elders explore environmental justice and food security issues; they work together in school garden projects; and young people document the histories of their elders to learn about their lives and the communities that shaped them. Activities include Learning Circles, Oral History trainings and recordings, gardening exchanges, and food justice lessons.


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Opened in October 2013, the Georgetown Art Center is an anchor arts & culture institution in Georgetown in our community.
The year of 2016 was another banner year at the Art Center. We offered ten exhibits, with their companion artist talks and receptions, all free to the public. The exhibits included solo shows of bronze sculptures by Ho Baron and a custom installation by David Chapman Lindsay, precious metal jewelry by Ana M Lopez & enameled vessels by Harlan Butt who are both premier contemporary metalsmiths, and a United States debut of brand new works inspired by Paris from the internationally acclaimed Carlos Estévez. We continued partnering with local art & historic organizations to sponsor our twice annual Plein Aire Paint Out events, and for the ninth year, hosted the highly competitive Art Hop, featuring five categories of over 160 art works from Texas artists. Another partnership with the City of Georgetown allowed us to offer children's scholarships for our very successful Summer Art Camps, which are planned for the coming year.
The Art Center is dependent on the participation of our volunteers, our members' dues and donor support in order to fulfill our commitment to providing the Georgetown community with memorable art experiences; experiences that are accessible and significant to all through Exhibits, Education, Events, and Engagement; experiences that bring art and people together for enjoyment, discovery, and learning.
Georgetown Art Works
Georgetown Art Works is the Texas nonprofit organization selected by the City of Georgetown to manage the Art Center. While striving to further the mission of the Georgetown Art Center, GAW also seeks to represent the visual arts within the larger arts and culture community of Georgetown. In collaborating with the Georgetown arts and culture community, GAW strives to promote Georgetown as an arts destination and a Texas Cultural District, so designated by the Texas Commission on the Arts.
- Mari Ramirez, President
- Stuart Wallace, Vice President
- MaLea Cannon, Treasurer
- Alexha Bonner, Secretary
- Micki Avery, At-Large
- Susie Flatau, At-Large
- Bree McCleskey, At-Large
- Rachael Jonrowe
Advisory Board: Eric P. Lashley
"The Georgetown Art Center elevates and enriches the visual arts landscape for the cultural and educational benefit of our diverse audiences. Through innovative, intelligent exhibits and programs, we engage and challenge the greater community through the visual arts."


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Rebecca Willison presented to the committee a report on the District of Muskoka's Lakes System Health Monitoring program. In 2015 84 sites on 70 lakes across the district were tested for chemicals, 17 of those sites were located on 13 lakes in the Township of Muskoka Lakes. During 2016 they will monitor 85 sites on 68 lakes across the district with 27 sites on 17 lakes in the Township of Muskoka Lakes. The program also monitors lakes for shoreline surveys, benthic, and terrestrial, as well as running a "Love Your Lake" program. Please click Monitoring Muskoka's Lakes to read the entire report
Director of Planning, David Pink, explained to the committee that Bill 73, which has changes to the Development Charges Act and the Planning Act, passed at the Ontario legislature and has been given royal assent. Although the changes have not - to date - taken effect once they do there will be some significant changes.
For a more details please see Smart Growth for the report.
With the change in Township policy, completed Planning applications go directly to Council and are no longer reviewed by the Planning Committee. As a result there is little to report on.
As reported in the February Township Watch, senior staff were charged with reviewing the budget to find savings of $200,000.00. CAO, Steve McDonald explained to the committee that senior staff reviewed their budgets looking for "need to have" items versus "nice to have" items. As well as taking community benefits into account - the committee was presented with a list of items ( Item List) that totaled $304,800.00. Following a brief discussion the "purchase of lands" for $100,000.00 and the paving of the Walkers Point Community Centre parking lot for $35,000.00 were put back into the budget.
Treasurer, Shannon Johnson explained to the committee that the majority of these savings were coming from Park Reserves. The savings to the discretionary reserves was $86,000.00 or less than 1 %.
As reported in the January Township Watch (Township Watch - January) the committee of the whole voted to allow ATV's on Township roads. Although approved in principal, the committee requested to see the by-law before it was ratified by council. Deputy Fire Chief Baranik presented the draft by-law to committee who questioned its wording. Councillors wanted to know:
It was explained to the committee that the by-law was drafted according to the Highway Traffic Act and had been submitted to the OPP. All roads in the municipality are closed to ATV traffic until the municipality opens them, therefore it is up to the Township to decide which roads are acceptable for use and which are not. Prior to the by-law being ratified, it was requested that Inspector Medved come and speak to the committee.
Deputy Fire Chief Baranik provided a verbal report to committee on the "pre-freshet". According to information provided by the MNRF all indications are that the watershed is currently normal, although with the early spring the watershed is one month ahead of where is usually would be. It is anticipated that there should be no flooding in the area with the freshet this year.
Committee passed a resolution permitting the Port Carling Farmers' Market to use Hanna's Park for their farmers market again in 2016. The market will run between 7 AM to 3 PM on Thursdays from June 23rd to September 1st.
The budget returned to council on Friday for adoption. Treasurer Shannon Johnson explained that with the changes from the day before, the Park Reserves were being drawn down by $1,028,996.00. Capital expenses were drawing down the reserves by $4,390,777.00. This will leave the discretionary reserves at 45.5% while in 2014 the Provincial average was 47.9%.
The 2016 Township budget was passed with a levy of 4.02% or an increase of $1.80 per $100,000.00 of property assessment. Please click Approved Budget for a copy of the final budget.
A rezoning application was before Council for the parcel of land on which the Bala Farmers' Market was held in 2015. While the applicant and volunteer manager of the market spoke in favour of the application, one business owner spoke against it. As well there were several written submissions against it. After a long discussion which included parking and safety concerns, not only were the lands not rezoned by a unanimous vote, Council also would not extend the temporary use of the lands as a Farmers' Market.
Councillor Harding reported that a consultant has been hired by the District of Muskoka to review safety aspects of Peninsula Road. It is anticipated that revised speed limits will be posted along the road with speeds being both increased and decreased in places.
Resolutions from closed session stated that the Township solicitor was to enter into minutes of settlements with three of the appellants. Of the 18 initial appeals, three were withdrawn and minutes of settlement have been agreed to on a total of six more, leaving nine outstanding appeals.
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In the last week and a half I watched all of these films and musicals.
This is weird for me. I'm not a movie person at all.
1. Evita : We all know "Don't cry for me Argentina" but I am so shocked that I had still never seen this. When I saw that it was available on Netflix, I went for it! Madonna was amazing and so so beautiful. I loved this look into Buenos Aires politics.
2. My Fair Lady : Another classic that I had yet to see. It was also my first experience with Audrey Hepburn's amazing acting & singing. I think Roman Holiday may be next for me. And let's be honest I'm a sucker for anything based in London.
3. One Day : which leads me to my next movie; another London based film. Anne Hathaway rocks. While it was absolutely depressing, I loved the sweet ending.
4. Under The Tuscan Sun : I've been sick for most of the weekend with a cold and this was the perfect remedy for a lazy Saturday afternoon. It was definitely the prequel to Eat, Pray, Love in the best way. SO early 2000's.
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Yorkshire Bank Bike Libraries have an ambition to give every child in Yorkshire access to a bike. In order to do that, we need your help!
The Yorkshire Bank Bike Libraries Enterprise Fund was developed to fund new Bike Libraries, as well as to help develop existing Bike Libraries and similar social enterprises. The Enterprise Fund offers financial and marketing assistance to not-for-profit agencies that want to run community projects (new or existing) via a network of Bike Libraries and community engagement activities. If you're interested in becoming a Bike Library, click HERE to find out how to apply for funding, and other ways to be involved in the scheme.
If you would like to get involved but are not able to set up a Bike Library, you could consider becoming a Donation Station instead. Donation Stations are essentially allocated drop-off points where members of the public can donate their old or unused bikes. Anyone can become a Donation Station, you just need:
• Space to securely store donated bikes
• A regular time-slot for people to drop off their bikes (this will be advertised on the website)
We will provide you with branding (a banner, postcards etc.) and you will also be publicised through the website bikelibraries.co.uk
Once you have reached capacity, you can contact the Bike Library team who will arrange collection of the bikes for distribution across the network.
For many it is a lifetime activity. There will always be new skills, new experiences and new feelings of satisfaction. It will help develop you as a person and provide an opportunity to make friends, try new activities and increase your confidence in the knowledge that you are helping others to reach their sporting potential. Volunteering often leads to other things. The experiences, contacts, knowledge, skill and confidence gained from volunteering are the qualities that potential employers look for.
The sustainability of Yorkshire Bank Bike Libraries is reliant on volunteers. If you would like to register your interest in volunteering at a Bike Library, please complete this short form.


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We are sad to say that at the end of this term the lovely Mrs Johnston will be leaving Riverdale School. We will all miss her smiling face in the office and wish her the very best.
We used our fingerprints to create a beautiful picture to give Mrs Johnston to remember us by. Amon, Riley and Oliver H presented it to her at the office today!


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An employee of a well known distribution centre was reported to have contracted Weil's disease (also known as Leptospirosis) at his workplace.
The father-of-two was rushed to the hospital after he complained of debilitating flu-like symptoms. The doctors were at first puzzled by the cause of his illnesses when they discovered that he was suffering from severe kidney and liver failure.
It took them more than a week before he was finally diagnosed with the potentially life-threatening Leptospirosis.
The victim believed that he was infected with Leptospira bacteria when he was working as a distribution lorry driver. He also claimed that the distribution centre has consistently attracted a high number of rats due to improper food waste disposal.
In businesses, particularly the Industrial & Manufacturing and F&B Manufacturing sectors, it is crucial that food wastes are managed properly in order to prevent rat infestations.
Besides spreading lethal diseases, other health and safety risk associated with rat infestations are damages to the electrical wiring, pillars, walls, and furniture as they tend to gnaw on hard materials to wear its incisors. Potential risk with rat infestations to the entire supply chain are significant product loss, damage of business reputation and audit failures.
At Rentokil Pest Control, we believe in minimising pest infestation through strong partnership, proper education, exclusion and sanitation under our Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programme. Together with our online reporting system, we ensure that your pest management and audit needs are fully supported.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Onward from Discover-y
So now to the future.
My hats off to all the bloggers out there who can post 3 or 4 times a week. I think I may be a crusty old-timer in this new medium so I will be posting here a couple of times a week on themes from the book as well as a broader set of topics which run ashore of the human search for the True and the Real. These will include:
Science and Religion - the Good, the Bad and the Future
Science and the Human Prospect - how to best deploy science in the service of a just and sustainable culture.
Topics in Cosmology (woopie!)
Cool new stuff in astrobiology, planet and star formation
Stuff on the Foundations of Science (physics in particular but hey biology can be pretty weird too)
Topics in the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics - the endless debate about what QM really tells us.
The study of Consciousness (I got pulled deep into this via my bloggingheads debate and am now lost in how cool the topic is)
So thare you go. Hopefully the mucking around will be useful. So many wonderful topics, so many other day-to-day urgencies that get in the way (sigh).
Tomorrow's topic: Francisco Varela and Phenomenal Promise
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- AnonymousApril 15, 2009 at 4:16 AM
Adam, I like your list of topics. To add to your list may I suggestReplyDelete
1) Emergentism and explanatory gaps
2) Evolution and the human animal - we are somewhere in the middle of evolution, not the end-point and it is no longer just biological.
Good choices. Emergentism is something I have been encountering again after first reading some papers in graduate school. Human evolution and origins are both topics I covered a little in the book and now have a serious jones for. Of particular interest is the relation between physical and cultural evolution. For example how the development of physical characteristics for speech led to more brain development which led to the development of more sophisticated social strutures which looped back to more speech etc. etc.ReplyDelete
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AUTHOR - VOLUNTEER'S CREED, Chicken Soup for Volunteer's Soul
People Count - People Matter. You Count - You Matter.
Tom's motivational presentation, YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE, has inspired thousands of volunteers nationwide.
At a recent International Leadership Conference in Columbus, Ohio, over 3,000 Lion's Club members gathered from around the world to listen to Tom Krause speak. The results?
"This man is absolutely the BEST speaker I have ever heard!"
"It is the first time I have ever felt moved to get out of my chair and actually make a difference for my organization."
Comments like these are why so many people are requesting Tom for their volunteer forums.
"Tom Krause is rightfully labeled one of the most requested inspiring speakers. Artfully combining stories and analogies to illustrate his main messages, Tom Krause will have attendees laughing one minute and crying the next. From the beginning of his presentations through the ending, those in attendance realize Tom communicates with passion, enthusiasm and commitment. You would do yourself a favor by attending a Tom Krause presentation then understanding why previous audiences always leave by saying, 'WOW!'"
- Mick Burris, Past international Director, International Association of Lion's Clubs
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Though my troubles and my worries
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life is not only about me.
Other souls are also hurting
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In January 2015, Blackbird Caye Resort hosted Alejandro Ruiz for an upcoming feature on "Love Nature", a Canadian channel that broadcasts nature-themed programming on a wide variety of topics from animals to landscapes to outer space. "Love Nature" was established in 2006.
Blackbird Caye Resort was approached late last year and is thrilled to be a part of this program. Blackbird Caye Resort will be featured in a one-hour episode highlighting the best dives spots in Belize later in 2015 (exact dates will be announced!!).
Alejandro spent several days at Blackbird Caye Resort filming underwater and gathering footage for this exciting show that emphasizes an appreciation of nature and all its beauty. Alejandro also spent time with our dive-masters, staff and captured incredible details that we cannot wait to see in in 4K – a new video resolution that is 4 times higher than HD.
"Love Nature" is owned by Blue Ant Media, a Canadian-based media company that was founded in 2011.
Stay tuned for more details to come!


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Nice rental home rented for $650.00 to long term tenants. Owner has 3 other homes for sale at 1624 Waverly, 1648 Waverly and 1659 Waverly. Homes have a view of the city making these homes worth the current return on investment and future development. owner has connections to the LLC that owns property.
- Area Hamilton-W05
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3 beds, 2 baths, $35,000
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We have been really busy this weekend. We went to the pumpkin patch at a local church and we went to the Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival. But more on those two events in another post.
Let's just cut to the chase, shall we? This peanut butter pie is literally the easiest thing I have ever made and it is REALLY good. And it's 4 ingredients. That's it.
I used a graham cracker crust because our store was out of the Oreo ones. But I'm sure it would be just as good or even better with an Oreo crust.
1 pie crust, graham cracker or Oreo
1 tub of Cool Whip, thawed
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 tub of Philadelphia Indulgence Milk Chocolate, room temp
Spread the whole tub of chocolate cream cheese in an even layer in the bottom of the pie crust. Gently fold the peanut butter into the cool whip. When mixed, spread over the cream cheese. Cover and chill in the refrigerator for at least 1-2 hours. Top with Chocolate syrup or Reese's peanut butter cups.


text: Herpes Simplex Virus and Pregnancy: A Review of the Management of Antenatal and Peripartum Herpes InfectionsWesthoff, Gina L. MD*; Little, Sarah E. MD‡; Caughey, Aaron B. MD, PhD†Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey: October 2011 - Volume 66 - Issue 10 - p 629-638 doi: 10.1097/OGX.0b013e31823983ec CME Program: CME REVIEW ARTICLE 28 Abstract Author InformationAuthors Article MetricsMetrics Genital herpes is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections, affecting 1 in 6 people in the United States. Women are twice as likely to be infected as men and infections in women of reproductive age carry the additional risk of vertical transmission to the neonate at the time of delivery. Neonatal herpes infections can be devastating with up to 50% mortality for disseminated herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections in the newborn. Rates of transmission are affected by the viral type of HSV infection and whether the infection around delivery is primary or recurrent. Current management approaches decrease rates of active lesions at the time of delivery and thereby cesarean deliveries, but have not been shown to decrease the incidence of neonatal herpes infections. More research is needed to better elucidate the risk factors for transmission to the neonate and to improve our current management methodology to further decrease vertical transmission. In this review, we will discuss management of antenatal and peripartum herpes infections, considerations for mode of delivery, and the course of neonatal HSV infections. Target Audience: Obstetricians & Gynecologists and Family Physicians Learning Objectives: After the completing the CME activity, physicians should be better able to diagnose and manage genital herpes in the pregnant population, counsel patients appropriately regarding risk for vertical transmission based on viral subtype and type of infection and categorize the severity of neonatal herpes infections. *Resident Physician, †Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR; and ‡Physician, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA Unless otherwise noted below, the authors, faculty and staff in a position to control the content of this CME activity and their spouses/life partners (if any) have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with, or financial interest in, any commercial organizations pertaining to this educational activity. Correspondence requests to: Gina L. Westhoff, MD, Resident Physician, PGY 4, Department of Ob/Gyn, OHSU, Mail Code L466, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239. E-mail: email@example.com. © 2011 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.


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This is a belated father's day post and rant.
I couldn't help but think when I read this New York Times blog post posted last father's day.....
Sometimes I resent Bil's parents (my in laws) so very much because they just don't want to LET GO.
My father in law claimed he had "everything all prepared" for Bil. When my father in law died, we found out he had done: nothing. Absolutely nothing. Never got him on Medicaid, although we found out later Bil was the ONLY PERSON in his sheltered workshop not on Medicaid. (Why does that matter? Because you can't get service coordination, most services without Medicaid eligibility.). By the time this happened, budget cuts had started and we really had to struggle to get him onto Medicaid.
Left Bil's mother holding the bag.
He hadn't seen a dentist in years and had bad breath that could knock you over.
Didn't they ever smell it? I couldn't even hardly ride in a car with him without gagging.
She did what she could after her husband died (and yes, Bil did finally see a dentist) but now she is in her 80's, has increasing health issues, and is more and more frail. Yet she won't let go. We (Bil's brothers and sisters) have to be responsible for Bil once she is dead but she just assumes this is going to happen by some kind of osmosis.
But then, I get to thinking some more....
We are fortunate in a way though that Bil's Mom still wants to care for Bil with all her heart and soul. Because that's the way "the system" is set up. Never mind people in their 80's....I have read about people in their 90's caring for their children with autism!! It has to be so very hard, with failing eyesight, failing ability to walk, failing hearing....and they have this burden, which state governments are more than happy to let them do WITHOUT ANY HELP. Although said parents are saving the state millions.
Should the state help? I guess that is the basic question here.
You know the saying that "it takes a village to raise a child?" It also takes that village when people can no longer shoulder a burden. They deserve that help.
They deserve to be able to put that burden down.
And, to flip this again, parents also need to help their non-disabled children ease into their burdens. Don't just assume it will happen by osmosis.
Sometimes all of this just makes me want to scream.
The conspiracy of silence. The elephant in the room. I am so sick of it.


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Hi guys,
I recently joined LA Fitness in Ewell/Banstead and I have to say there are sone fit guys there, the gym itself is very nice and facilities are great.
The reason for the post is the sauna, I have been in there a few times in the last 2 weeks and got 2 numbers so far, thought I'd let everyone know that this gym seems to have a good selection of gay and fit bi guys!
Would live it if more started to join and have a nice local place to meet more guys.
Hope to get some response and hopefully some nice new guys in the sauna


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We spend a lot of time in the house these past few day's
Baking bread inspired by this easy recipe!
New vintage typewriters in the shop (soon also online)
I love winter but today I miss our garden and the sun.....
In een woord PRACHTIG zijn je foto's! De kleuren en materialen...wauw!
Oh en mag ik vragen waar je die mooie klavertjes gekocht hebt? Alvast bedankt!
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A September wedding is being planned by Catherine Varnum and Jason Policicchio, both of Jacksonville, Fla.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Doug and Mary Varnum of Kirkville, N.Y. Parents of the prospective bridegroom are Armand and Judy Policicchio of Butler.
The future bride is a 2001 graduate of East Syracuse Minoa High School. She graduated in 2005 from Ithaca College with a bachelor's degree in journalism.
She is a reporter and anchor for CBS/FOX in Jacksonville.
Her fiance graduated in 2003 from Butler High School. He graduated from Slippery Rock University in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in communications.
He is a producer at WJXT Television in Jacksonville.


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Ticonderoga will have a youth recreation program this summer. The program, which served about 200 children each year, was victim of budget cuts a year ago. The 2013 program will be self-sufficient, according to Dave Iuliano, Ti trustee. It will not cost local taxpayers.
Ticonderoga will have a youth recreation program this summer.
The program, which served about 200 children each year, was victim of budget cuts a year ago. The 2013 program will be self-sufficient, according to Dave Iuliano, Ti trustee. It will not cost local taxpayers.
The cost of the program, which is due at registration, is $10 a day for each child. Children who are entering kindergarten through age 13 can attend up to five days a week 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. July 8 through Aug. 2 at Ticonderoga Elementary-Middle School. Scholarships are available to low-income families.
The town needs $20,000 to operate the summer program — that's 100 children at $50 a week ($10 a day).
"We've had a healthy number of pre-registrations and strong success raising money for a scholarship fund," said John Bartlett of the Ti Kiwanis, who are assisting with the program. "The program is going forward."
Registration will continue until Monday, July 1. Parents can register children at the town clerk's office. There will also be a registration night Monday, June 24, 5 to 7 p.m. at the Armory. People can also register by mailing payment to the Ti town clerk at PO Box 471, Ticonderoga 12883.
Scholarships are limited and will be awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis. Scholarship information is available at the town clerk's office.
For information call the town clerk's office at 585-6677.
The summer program is crucial, Iuliano said, because by holding organized recreational and educational activities the town becomes eligible for the federal USDA breakfast and lunch program.
That program provides free breakfast, lunch and snack to all children age 18 and younger in the community. The breakfast and lunch program is not limited to children attending the rec program and there are no income limitations.
Breakfast will be served 7:15 to 8:15 a.m. with lunch 11:15 a.m. to noon.
The recreation program will offer swimming, sports, arts and crafts, games, bowling, Arts Trek and more, according to Angie MacAlpine, the program director. It will be certified by the state.
"It'll be similar to the program we've had in past years," she said. "I think it's a real bargain for parents. Babysitting, supervised activities, breakfast and lunch for $10 a day."
The key is the free breakfast, lunch and snack program, Iuliano said.
"The food program is a big part this," he said. "It's so important to make certain children have access to food."
Childhood hunger and poverty has become an issue in Ticonderoga. Nearly half the local school population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunches and almost 20 percent of Ticonderoga children live in poverty, according to the U.S. Census.
"The summer program is great," Bartlett said, " but the driving force here is getting the food service available to our children. It's really a great program that can really help struggling families."
Iuliano has been working with Bartlett on the Kiwanis' "BackPack" program. That effort works closely with Ticonderoga Central Schools to send needy children from Ticonderoga Elementary School home for the weekends with backpacks filled with nutritious, shelf-stable and easily prepared foods.
"This is a way to address a serious problem in the community," Bartlett said of the USDA free summer breakfast and lunch program. "The food program is free, but we must have a recreation program to qualify."
Bartlett suggested local civic groups, churches and individuals may like to sponsor a child in the program. If so, they can contact the town clerk's office at 585-6677.


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Do you remember what it felt like going to school for the very first time? The scary feeling of being away from your parents and the excitement of walking into a classroom? If you do, great! If not, then take note of this idea for your own kids.
Adrianna, a kindergartner in St. Louis, Missouri, had a GoPro camera strapped to her chest on the first day of school. The resulting video is wonderful to watch. You get to see Adrianna getting ready in the morning before heading out and boarding the school bus for the first time.
The adorable kindergartner goes to Craig Elementary in the Parkway school district. Her day continues with a warm welcome after arriving at the school. We get to watch and (maybe) remember our own feelings on the first day of school, many, many years ago.
Image via YouTube
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Java Script:
what is the differene between java and java script...?
Java Script is object based language it is used for front end validations
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java is object oriented language object oriented language supports OOP's Object based not suppoted inheritence.
What are JavaScript types?
Number, String, Boolean, Function, Object, Null, Undefined.
How do you convert numbers between different bases in JavaScript?
Use the parseInt() function, that takes a string as the first parameter, and the base as a second parameter. So to convert hexadecimal 3F to decimal, use parseInt ("3F", 16);
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Hi my name is Kayla Takacs, I am 12 and I live in Ohio( Eastern Time Zone)
I would like to be Mod because I love helping anyone that needs help with stuff like mining, finding a place to build or even just exploring. I love to spend my day building and talking with the other players on ClownerCraft. I would love to protect the server from griefers and hackers. I have been banned before for X-ray but I have never did it since. I know the staff has been watching my every move and they know that I don't use it anymore. For my dumb decision for hacks I wanna stop people like I was when I was new to minecraft.
I would be a good Mod because I love to build and help people with opinions about what to build, and features they should add. I love the ClownerCraft team and hope to be part of it one day. I'm not sure how to work the plug-in's but I am open to learn how to use them anytime. I also think the server needs more younger staff to share their ideas.
I have had some experiance I was a server builder before then the owner moved me to mod rank but it wasn't really "mod" all you got to do was fly. I want to be a real mod to actually do something useful other than to fly.
I've played on ClownerCraft for a long time about 8 months or more.
I can be on the server anytime if needed. I can download teamspeak if thats needed for talking to other staff.
I really hope that I can help the server with any problems it has and be on the ClownerCraft team because I have many ideas to share with the staff and the other players.
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Sunday, 8 April 2012
Eat your heart out Robin Gibb
As far as I know, Ben Zander's cameraman was not involved in the making of this video.
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|Because I get to share moments like this.
Mural by Joshua Abram Howard
|I first thought this would be easy. It was but ONLY
if you pick paper with no border. Cutting this
12 by 12 into 7 by 9 and making the pattern MATCH
was hard. But the final results were great.
|Dave and The Lolster admire Chris Soria's mural.
|First time I let you slide down by yourself. 2/22/12
|Not THE LOOK.


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This review provides information regarding the assessment and treatment of dysphagia.
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In this review, rehabilitative therapies of upper extremity complications are summarized, the current literature articles are described and scored, and recommendations are made based on the most up to date evidence.
Evidence Review
This review contrasts the compensatory and restorative approaches to lower extremity rehabilitation. Literature pertaining to specific treatments is summarized and recommendations are made based on levels of evidence.


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Keeping the water in your pool clean, and preventing algae from forming are both essential for any pool owner, and maintaining your D.E. pool filter is vital. A backwash hose allows you to regularly backwash your D.E. filter, which will help to keep it functioning efficiently. Backwashing can help to remove any debris or loose objects that may have become stuck in the soft, sedentary rock that the filter uses as a filtering device, ensuring optimum performance.
Step One
Disconnect the power supply to your filter before you securely attach the backwash hose. Turn the multiport valve to the backwash position which will ensure that particles in the filter are dislodged due to water moving in the other direction.
Step Two
Turn the power switch on your pool filter back on. The filter now has water running through it which will help to loose and dislodge any soil, dirt and debris. The particles will then be pushed out through the backwash hose.
Step Three
The backwash hose has a clear viewing window fitted to it, allowing you to observe the quality of the water coming through, and you should keep the hose running until the filter is clear. The first step is complete, once you are satisfied that the water appears clear.
Step Four
Water should be passed through both sides at least several times, to ensure that your water is as clear as possible. After you have run the hose in the filter position for at least a few minutes, turn the filter off, then back on and run it in the backwash position for several minutes. Alternating between these two settings will ensure that as much debris as possible is removed and once you are finished and the backwash valve is back in the filter position, you can turn your filter on again.
Step Five
You will then need to add some more D.E. to your pool skimmer, once the filter is running again and you may need to replace the water if a lot was removed from the pool during the cleaning process. You can also repeat the backwash process a couple more times if necessary, especially if the water still appears to be green or cloudy.
Backwashing Tips
When the pressure gauge on your swimming pool has a reading of over 20psi, it is probably time to backwash your pool filter. The filter can easily become damaged or can simply wear out if this is not done soon after you notice the reading. In addition to your routine water testing and pool cleaning, it is recommended to add this procedure to your pool checklist so you do not forget.
The backwash filter will also be removing a large volume of water from your pool, and you need to determine where you want that excess water to go. Too much water on your lawn can cause damage, and you also do not want water going into your neighbor's yard.
A pool can be enjoyed by your family and friends for many years, and regular and thorough maintenance and leaning will ensure that the water is both healthy and inviting.
About the Author Greg works for Blue Haven Pools & Spas—a manufacturer of swimming pools Oklahoma City residents trust. They are specialists in building and servicing all types of pools and spas.


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KitchenAid KUIC15NLXS Architect Series II 15" Built-In Ice Maker With Filter
- 6 ft. power cord for easy installation
- Ice scoops makes serving simple
- Left hand door swing matches cabinetry hinges
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Make sure everyone's drinks stay cool with the KitchenAid KUIC15NLXS Architect Series II 15" built-in ice maker. This compact unit will fit nicely under the counter with a 15 inch cutout width. The left hand door swing allows the unit to open the same as the cabinetry.
50 Lbs. Of Ice A Day!
Built to withstand even the largest parties, this ice maker will be a welcome addition to any home with frequent entertainment needs. It can produce up to 50 pounds of ice in 24 hours.
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The KitchenAid KUIC15NLXS Architect Series II home ice maker doesn't just make a lot of ice, it makes quality ice. An included filter creates the freshest tasting ice cubes around.
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With an automatic shutoff, there is no need to worry about energy consumption. KitchenAid KUIC15NLXS Architect Series II built in ice makers only make ice when it's needed.
- Model: KUIC15NLXS
- Product Type: Built-in Ice Maker
- Product Dimensions: L: 24.00" x W: 15.00" x H: 34.38"
- Product Weight: 150.00 lbs.
- Product Color: Stainless Steel
- Application: Great for homes that enjoy entertaining
- Warranty: 3 year limited
- Voltage: 120 volts
- Amps: 7 amps
- Type: Built-In Ice Maker
- Daily Ice Making Capacity: 50 pounds
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I love to use this pattern for my necklaces. You can use any kind of chain you desire, or crochet a simple single crochet chain and attach the jump rings and lobster clasp (for closing the necklace)
- Size 10 crochet thread in desired color
- Size 7 (1.65 mm) steel crochet hook
- Sewing thread to match crochet thread
- 10 small pearls or beads
- Beading needle
- At least 16-inch length of chain
- Jump rings
- Lobster clasp (for closing the necklace)
- Glass button (optional)
- Straight-nosed pliers and wire cutters
(Note: This pattern uses standard crochet abbreviations For an explanation of "bdc" [beaded double crochet], see the photo in the next step.)
Ch 4, join with a sl st to form ring.
Round 1 (RS): Ch 2, 10 hdc in ring, join with a sl st to first hdc—10 hdc.
Round 2: Ch 2, 2 hdc in each hdc around, join with a sl st to first hdc—20 hdc.
Round 3: Ch 6 (counts as dc, ch 3), *sk next hdc, (dc, ch 3) in next dc; rep from * around, join with a sl st to 3rd ch of beginning chain, TURN—10 dc, 10 ch-3 sps.
Round 4 (WS): Sl st to ch-3 sp, (ch 2, bdc, ch 2, sl st) in same ch-3 sp, (sl st, ch 2, bdc, ch 2, sl st) in each ch-3 sp around; join with a sl st in first ch-2—10 "petals."
Weave in the ends. Sew an antique glass or pearl button to the center, if desired.
For Standard Abbreviations see http://jgcrochetcreations.blogspot.com/2011/04/crochet-thread-information.html located at the bottom of the page.
Thank you, If you have any questions please feel free to ask me.


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Well I can tell you that it's WINTER here on the East Coast... BRRRR.... Great weather to be sitting inside with a cup of hot chocolate and some pattern papers.
We have a great reveal with sketch 140 today and our guest is Daniela Dobson.
Enjoy our reveal today!!!
I really enjoy challenges and strive to be innovative. I love recording every day moments, especially now, with my son. I am a night owl and I stay up way too late creating. I love patterned paper and I am a collector of things, stamps in particular, they are everywhere.
To win a prize from our January sponsor Scraptures you need to complete at least one layout from sketches 137-138-139-140 and upload it using our Mr. Linky at the bottom of our reveals.
The deadline to submit your CS layout(s) is January 31st at midnight!
Happy Scrappin!


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Although some days before, the leadership of Zenit St. Petersburg publicly declared that there is no interest to engage the former Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti, the media in Russia and Italy continue to write for the interest of the Russian Grand.
According to the press, quoted from the press of the Apennines, Zenit tempts Italian tactician with an annual salary of 16 million euros. Ancelotti is currently a free agent and is not rushing into finding a new job as he wants to enjoy the time away from football.
However, he repeatedly announced that he would return to club according sport predictions football at the beginning of the season 2016/2017 and looking for a team which would make possible a new triumph in the Champions League.
According to the press, Ancelotti and the Grand from St. Petersburg have already discussed the terms of a possible deal, but so far the specialist has not given his response.


text: Located in Marrakech, the Dellarosa Hotel & Suites enjoy a central location within the city, close to the shopping area and just a few minutes¿ walk from some of the city¿s impressive sights such as the ancient walls and the famous Djemaa El Fna square full of local crafts, story-tellers and entertainment.This modern and luxurious hotel offers a peaceful setting in the heart of the city, creating a comfortable and welcoming atmosphere for guests with great selection of 80 comfortable rooms and suites as well as an excellent selection of facilities to help you enjoy your stay. Some of the most notable facilities at the hotel includes its wonderful spa and wellness facilities, which include a hammam steam bath, jacuzzi, sauna and a range of massage and beauty treatments if you wish to truly pamper yourself; alternatively there is also a well-equipped gym to help keep you fit. In addition to its leisure facilities the hotel can also cater for business guests with several small meeting rooms and a business centre for all your needs; also all guests can benefit from the free Wi-Fi provided throughout the hotel. There are also great places to relax with lounge areas and a solarium or you can grab a bite to eat in the café and for any additional assistance there is a 24-hour reception/front desk that can arrange useful services including car hire, currency exchange and laundry/dry cleaning.**Please note:** All resort taxes are payable locally.