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John Bradfield - Conservation & Environment, African Bushveld Conservation in South Africa
The beginning
I decided to choose Projects Abroad as I wanted to do something different for my gap year rather than just travel. I decided to volunteer in South Africa on the African Bushveld Conservation project as it was something I had never experienced and I have a great interest in wildlife.
Arriving to South Africa
After a flight to Johannesburg and then a short flight to Polokwane, I was met by the Projects Abroad staff, they were helpful and friendly and I was driven to the Botswana and South African border. The change was drastic as soon as we left the border and you become submerged in the bush whilst being driven to camp. On this journey you would get examples of the African wildlife which could be seen such as warthog and eland.
My time at the Conservation Project
It is slightly intimidating when you first go into camp. You don't know what to expect, however, the group was from a variety of different places and all of them are kind and friendly as you settle in. You soon get to know how things around the camp work. Along with talking and eating around the campfire you get to build friendships amongst the group. My first night there was a sleep out in one of the hides although we didn't see much; it was still an interesting experience getting to experience the sounds of the bush at night with an amazing night sky.
For most tasks we would be divided into two groups which would alternate the tasks done in the morning and afternoon. Some parts of the conservation work were hard work, like digging up a chewed water pipe and moving the logs of the trailer taking considerable effort. Despite some hard work it was worth it knowing that we had helped in the welfare of the animals in the area. This was highlighted when we managed to remove snares as well as a trap which had become stuck in the ground.
Another of the main activities we did was the bird and animal observations at the hides, most of the time it was well worth the wait often with elephants, zebras and wildebeest turning up. Elephants were a common sighting with large herds of over 20 or so. One of my most interesting experiences was watching a matriarch elephant charge at the bull elephant this was truly an invigorating experience and fascinating to watch. By removing the wire from old fences and snares we would try to help the animals in having a free and unhindered passage through the bush.
There was one case where we had to sit on a kopje or rocky outcrop as the elephants passed slowly beneath us so we couldn't remove the wire! We also did vegetation and baobab surveys to help us understand and estimate how much damage is done to the vegetation as well as the damage done to the baobab trees some of which are thousands of years old.
One of my favourite activities and by far one of the most interesting was predator tracking, this gave me a great understanding in how to track animals and tell the difference between the prints and scat they leave.
Day trips
Every so often at weekends we would have a day trip, this involved for my group going to Limpopo Lipadi game reserve. This was truly a unique experience in which we got to track a rhino and her baby and get close as possible to them. We also saw hippos, giraffes and ostriches which added to the trip greatly as well as the large variety of birds such as spoonbills.
Another trip we took was to Louis Trichardt this was a great opportunity to see South African culture in the region as well as learn some history of the area, this was a great break from the camp despite the local kids completely out performing us when we played football with them.
Unforgettable moments on the Conservation Project
At the new camp which we had helped to make, we would have sleepovers where there was a campfire and we'd keep a lookout for hyenas and possibly other animals. On my first sleepover at the camp whilst we were cooking we heard the unfamiliar call of a leopard and we decided to bundle in the car and watch out for the leopard in the bush. It gradually came closer to almost 15 metres away, it took particular interest in our tent and unfortunately we had left our bags and jumpers outside of which this particular male leopard decided to inspect and play with. After an hour of watching the male leopard steal and play with our jumpers and sleeping bags it was set to be a cold night!
Even though it took a long time for us to get our items back with one volunteer's sleeping bag being found in a tree and my jumper being torn to shreds it truly is a moment I will never forget. The new camp was a great a place to get close to hyenas as well. After having our own supper they would become attracted to the smell and come close to camp, in some cases within only a couple of metres this was another great sample of African wildlife at its best as we would watch them play around us.
On my way back to the airport it allowed me to reflect on my time in the bush and how despite my month there going quickly it had been a great learning experience and much of it I shall remember for life. With new people arriving at different times and a great relaxed atmosphere I would certainly go back there if I had the chance and recommend it to anyone who wants to do something worthwhile on their gap year.
John Bradfield
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ââ?¬Ë?Updateââ?¬â?¢ on search for new UVA President
According to University Rector John O. Wynne, the update is that there will be no updates, as "presidential searches can be effective only if candidates are assured of confidentiality. We also have been warned that a breach causes candidates to withdraw, threatening the viability of the search. We cannot take such a risk." As such, Wynne says no information on candidates will be released until a final decision is made. Oh, he also adds that there is "no firm deadline" for making the decision.
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This is consistent with the UVa ethos -- no non-good news must ever get aired, and anyone who doesn't get offered or take the job would be unavoidably besmirched with the stain of negativity. It's the same reason UVa frowns on football fans booing Al Groh's failure, and is not willing to admit any responsibility of it's no-re-entry rule for the disappearance of Morgan Harrington.
We wouldn't want anyone to google their candidates and find out something --would we.
Anybody who has ever participated in a search for an executive knows that this is standard. If happy happy happy were looking to switch from Micky Ds to BK they wouldn't want word to get out and lose working the drive through if it fails to come to fruition.
How hard is it to find someone who can figure out how to spend 55k per student per year to give a mediocre education? The only skill they really need is the ability to play smoke and mirrors so that people don't look at the amount of money being wasted. (of cousre the abilty to kiss some A$$ doesn't hurt either.)


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Wabash Second in Football Coaches Pollby Brent Harris • August 3, 2011 Share:
The Little Giants were picked to finish second in 2011 by the North Coast Athletic Conference football coaches in the league's annual preseason poll. Wittenberg edged Wabash by one point the poll to take the top spot.
Wabash and Wittenberg each received four of the nine first-place votes from the coaches. Wooster, the Little Giants' opening game opponent, garnered the other top pick. Wittenberg scored a total of 74 points, one more than Wabash's total of 73. The Fighting Scots were third with 66 points, followed by Allegheny (56), Denison (37), Ohio Wesleyan (34), Oberlin (32), Hiram (19), and Kenyon (14).
The Little Giants return 17 starters and 54 varsity letter winners from their 8-2 team in 2010. Three All-Americans — NCAC Defensive Player of the Year CJ Gum (left), offensive lineman Weston Kitley, and special teams star Jonathon Koop — are back on the Wabash roster, along with 2009 All-American return specialist and All-NCAC wide receiver Wes Chamblee. Chamblee missed nearly the entire 2010 season after suffering a knee injury in the opening contest against Wooster.
Quarterbacks Tyler Burke and Chase Belton are also back after splitting time at that position last season. The duo combined for 2,451 passing and 541 rushing yards. Jonathan Horn topped the receivers' list with 59 catches for 1,012 yards and eight TDs.
Wabash opens the 2011 campaign September 10 at Wooster, followed by the home opener September 17 against Ohio Wesleyan. Wittenberg and Wabash will meet on November 5 in Crawfordsville. The Tigers handed Wabash its only loss in conference play in 2010 with a 34-17 in Springfield.


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Recorded April 26 or 27, 1950
Track Time 5:08
Written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstien
Recorded in New York City
Louis Armstrong, trumpet; Jack Teagarden, trombone; Barney Bigard, clarinet; Earl Hines, piano; Arvell Shaw, bass; Cozy Cole, drums
Originally released on Decca
Currently available on CD: On the Hip-O box set, An American Icon
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Valentine's Day is here again and instead of choosing one of the very many love songs Pops recorded in his career--"Let's Fall In Love," "I Was Doing All Right," "I Married An Angel," "If I Could Be With You," "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby," "Fantastic, That's You" immediately spring to mind—I decided to revisit the same song I covered for my last five Valentine's Day entries, "That's For Me."
For me, "That's For Me" is one of Pops's all-time greatest records, treasured by those who know it, but unknown to most of the world. I couldn't believe when I just searched for it on Itunes and it only came up twice, once on a cheapie compilation and again on Louis Armstrong: An American Icon, a wonderful box set on the Hip-O label that is now out-of-print on C.D. (though it's available on Amazon). It was on the Mosaic collection of Armstrong's Decca recordings with the All Stars, but that's out-of-print, as well. (I insisted it be included on Universal's 10-disc "Ambassador of Jazz" box from 2011, but that's now out-of-print) But hopefully, by the end of this blog, you'll have a new appreciation for this neglected gem.
The song "That's For Me" was written by Rodgers and Hammerstein for the 1945 musical, State Fair. Dick Haymes sang it in the film and had a hit record of it, as did Jo Stafford. After listening to various versions of it on Itunes, it appears that it was originally conceived as a sort of snappy number, not fast and uptempo, but with a lilting beat that makes the singer sound pretty confidant that he knows what he likes and likes what he sees (substitute "she" if necessary).
I never understood how it got into Armstrong's hands, but I'm glad it did. Armstrong was performing it live for at least a few years before he recorded it; the Louis Armstrong House Museum holds an arrangement used by Armstrong's big band before it broke up in 1947. None of the big band versions survive, but there is an early version by the All Stars. Now, this is some pretty sad audio quality, but please, have a listen to this early version from a broadcast from Philadelphia's Click, August 7, 1949:
Again, the quality is atrocious (why does it sound like someone's beating time with a coke bottle?). One thing's for sure is that the band sounds like they have the routine down, meaning they had probably been performing it for some time. When I tackled this song back in 2008, I complained that the tempo was a little too fast for my taste until it was pointed out to me that, being an unmastered bootleg, it's pitched too high and thus, artificially fast...oops! Earl Hines sounds particularly good but the record obviously centers around Pops's heartfelt vocal, which showcases his range, especially his beautiful tenor register. The tempo's a shade too fast to allow him to feel completely at ease with the lyrics, but he does a beautiful job. Much like the later "Gypsy," the song has a built in space for applause after the vocal, as Earl Hines repeats the last few bars to allow Pops to get his chops in his horn. And it's a wonderfully poised trumpet solo, no high notes or real drama, just a lot of melodic flurries that stick with the listener long after the song has ended. Pops reprises his vocal at the bridge and continues on until the nice, slowed down ending. Even through the abysmal sound quality, Pops's warmth shines through.
I didn't want to spend too much time on the blow-by-blow of that version because the real main event comes with the Decca studio recording of 1950. Over two days in April of that year, the All Stars recorded ten of their finest concert numbers in a studio setting. Pops had already embarked on his string of pop records for Decca but for this occasion, producer Milt Gabler allowed Armstrong to record whatever they wanted from their live repertoire. Armstrong's picks are interesting because instead of just featuring himself all day, he gave each of his sidemen one feature of their own choice. Like most sidemen features, Armstrong doesn't exactly stay in the background, taking a series of stirring breaks on "Bugle Call Rag/Ole Miss," singing a chorus on "I Surrender Dear" and stealing the show from Jack Teagarden with his trumpet solo on "Baby Won't You Please Come Home." For the other five numbers, Armstrong chose one romp the band had been playing since their inception, "Panama," one stage set-piece, "New Orleans Function," one comedy number, "Twelfth Street Rag," and a lowdown blues song that was about to become a staple of almost every All Stars show, "My Bucket's Got a Hole In It."
For a tenth song, Armstrong could have chosen any of the All Stars's great numbers from the period: "I'm Confessin'," "Back O'Town Blues," "Struttin' With Some Barbecue," "Basin Street Blues," "King Porter Stomp," "That's A Plenty," anything. But instead he chose "That's For Me," which he really must have loved to perform. So without any further ado, let's listen to this classic, classic recording from April 1950.
Now, I'm sorry, but that's the most beautiful piece of music you're going to hear all day. The slow tempo strips Armstrong's vocal from any confidant leanings and instead makes it a charming, fragile ode from a man who truly cannot believe how lucky he is to be in love with the woman "that's for him." If you're reading this on Valentine's Day morning and still need an inscription for your card, you can't go wrong with this offering from Oscar Hammerstein:
I saw you standing in the sun
And you were something to see.
I know what I like, and I liked what I saw
And I said to myself "That's for me."
"A lovely morning," I remarked,
And you were quick to agree.
You wanted to walk,
And I nodded my head
As I breathlessly said "That's for me."
I left you standing under stars,
The days adventures are through.
There's nothing for me but the dream in my heart,
And the dream in my heart, that's for you.
Oh, my darling, that's for you.
Doesn't get much better than that. But listening to the record is a marvelous experience. The opening ensemble is perhaps the most tender one in All Stars history, clearly one that had been perfected on the bandstand. Bigard sticks to his low, chalameau register, playing the melody straight in the second half while Armstrong plays lead, opening with those gorgeous quarternotes, phrasing the melody where it feels best for him and sounds best for us. Teagarden plays quietly, but he later makes his presence felt with a lovely obbligato. Hines, maintaining the proper mood for a change, sets Armstrong's vocal up with a perfect interlude and then we're off to heaven.
Just listen to quality of Armstrong's voice, brilliantly captured by Decca's engineers. There's barely a trace of gravel and though you can hear him struggle to sing those high notes, that all adds up to the charm of the record. He clearly loves the melody, not even infusing it with a single scat syllable or a even a "mama." Tegarden's obbligato is a highlight of the record, as he quotes liberally from the Armstrong vocabulary, especially the phrase he plays at 2:17 in, a quote from the Drdla Souvenir that Pops loved to sing and play (thanks to reader Anthony Coleman who pointed that out to me, something I did not know a year ago!). Hines again sets the stage for Armstrong's lightly muted trumpet offering, which, repeats some of the phrases from the 1949 broadcast, but is much more effective at this gentle tempo. The double-timed opening phrase never fails to give me the chills as Bigard noodles around in the low register and the rhythm section begins swinging ever so lightly. The rhythms in this Armstrong solo are mind-boggling. Really, how many more times am I going to write this? I guess one more can't hurt…I would hate to transcribe a solo like this one! It's so flowing, so melodic, yet it's also so unpredictable and quite daring. Armstrong goes into the upper register to bridge the two halves of his solo, but otherwise, he's content to play circles around the melody, offering snippets of Rodgers's original notes here and there as points of reference. Please, listen to this one 10 or 11 more times. It never ceases to surprise and it never ceases to move.
After the solo, you can hear Armstrong quietly clear the rubble out as Hines and Teagarden play a Satchmo-fied phrase (shades of Django's "Nuages"?) Pops reenters with the "I left you standing under stars phrase," which sounds like a bridge, but the melody reverts right back to that of the first two A sections (this is an oddly structured song, but it works). Teagarden plays that Pops phrase in obbligato once again at the 4:10 mark. Finally, though he's made it this far, Armstrong sings a perfectly placed "Babe" before his final climb into the highest registers of his voices. I don't think there's a lovelier phrase in the history of Armstrong's recorded vocals than that "Oh my darling," leading to the sublime coda, with a little subdued scatting. You can hear Armstrong smiling as he hits the final "You," Hines's playing pretty descending runs behind him while Bigard and Teagarden harmonize. I couldn't imagine a more beautiful ending to a more beautiful record.
In my research, I've come across a concert review from, I believe, 1951 that mentions a live performance of "That's For Me," but it soon after disappeared from the All Stars's band book. That's not to say he forgot about it completely. In a 1968 interview for the BBC radio program "Be My Guest," Pops spoke about the inspiration for his recording that song: his fourth wife, Lucille. At that time, I didn't have my Mac so I was clueless about editing tracks but now I'm a whiz so here it is, a beautiful, short excerpt from the interview climaxed by the 67-year-old Armstrong singing "That's For Me" completely a capella:
"That was for Lucille." Ah, love. Pops had it for Lucille and it's safe to say, the world still has it for Pops. I hope you enjoyed "That's For Me" half as much as I did and I wish all of you a very Happy Valentine's Day!
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Hilaire Germain Edgar DegasBiography
After 1865, under the influence of the budding Impressionist movement, he gave up academic subjects to turn to contemporary themes. Although he participated in nearly all the Impressionist exhibitions, he detested the label Impressionist, rarely socialised with them and frequently caused disunity within the group. Generally classed with the Impressionists, he preferred to be called a Realist, and his training in classical draughting and his dislike of painting directly from nature really produced a style that represented an alternative to Impressionism. He produced images that were the result of much labour in the studio instead of being spontaneously created out-of-doors, and in this way Degas continued a long and vigorous dialogue with the past.
Like Renoir, Degas practised portraiture and believed in the importance of the figure in art, but Degas concentrated on people at work instead of at play. Also like his associates, Degas believed in contemporary subject matter - turning for example, to racetracks and circuses for his images. But for more than forty years, his over-riding interests were the dance and opera, and his portrayals of dancers in oil or pastels - frequently capturing a sense of the arduous work that preceded each public performance - are often regarded as his best paintings.
Adopting the arbitrary cropping afforded by photography, (which he soon took up) and inspired by the old masters, Degas attempted to cultivate complete objectivity. In his portraits as well as in his studies of dancers, milliners, and laundresses, he attempted to catch his subjects in poses as natural and spontaneous as those recorded in action photographs.
In the 1880s as his eyesight began to fail, Degas began increasingly to work in two new media that did not require intense visual acuity: sculpture and pastel. In his sculpture, as in his paintings, he attempted to catch action on the wing, and his ballet dancers and female nudes are depicted in poses that make no attempt to conceal their subject's physical exertions. His pastels are usually simple compositions containing only a few figures. He was obliged to depend on vibrant colours and meaningful gestures rather than on precise lines and careful detailing, but in spite of such limitations, these works are eloquent and expressive and have a simple grandeur unsurpassed by any of his other works.
Always introverted and shy, as Degas aged he became increasingly bitter and isolated. Degas' naturally prickly character irritated many, and his reactionary views on religion and education for the masses isolated him further from many contemporaries. The notorious Dreyfus case of the 1890s brought out Degas' anti-Semitism, causing a break with Pissarro and other artists. In addition, Degas' remarkably frank and brutal pastels of brothel life, could be seen as an attempt to, at worst, humiliate women, at best to strip them of any romantic ideals of untouchable beauty. Whatever his view of women, it is known that he was very close to Mary Cassatt - both as her mentor and as her friend. When Degas died she wrote that she had lost her closest friend.
Degas died in Paris on the 27th of September, in 1917.
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Welcome to the Rocket War website, which was created to show you a yearly spectacle that takes place on the island of Chios, Greece.
This website has been created specifically to document and capture this amazing event, in which over 60,000 rockets are fired from the residents of two opposing camps to each of the other's rival churches in the parishes of Saint Mark and Virgin Mary Erethianis.
The Rocketwar Event takes place in the village of Vrontados, between the two churches Agios Markos and Panagia Erithiani.
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Residents admit that it is not the most safety conscious ceremony, but every Easter Sunday on the small Greek island of Chios a fireworks war breaks out between two rival parishes. In a bizarre but long-cherished local tradition, two Orthodox churches in the town of Vrodandos fire rockets at each other's churches - while services are held inside them.
Vrontados, a small town on a calm Aegean Sea. However this town has a peculiar habit. Every year on the evening before Easter the night sky gets lid up by thousands of flashes. This is the Rocket War. In Vrontados there are 2 churches, Agios Markos and Panagia Erithiani. In a very folkloristic manner rockets are being fired at those churches by the two competing communities of the village.
During the Rocket War, we went up the hill inside a half-built house. From there we had a tremendous view on the valley: we could see both churches and almost all the spots from where they launched the rockets:
The goal of this war is for the teams to hit the opponent�s church, the bulls eye being Saint Markos bell's and Virgin Mary Erithianis� clock. The first being the North and the latter one the South side. Every person present must choose a side and support one of the shooting teams.


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*GARTNER named ai-one in Cool Vendors in Content Analytics, 2012. The report reviews five vendors from around the world that offer potentially disruptive innovations for analyzing data to find actionable insights. Unlike traditional business intelligence solutions, these vendors provide technologies that can understand multiple types of information — including both structured and unstructured data.
The core value of ai-one's technology is to make it easy for programmers to build intelligence into any application. Our APIs provide a way to mimic the way people detect patterns. "This is why we call it biologically inspired intelligence," says founder and CEO
Answering the Most Important Questions, Mr. Walter Diggelmann, "because it works just like the human brain."
These companies have received tremendous publicity. Both are funded by traditional Silicon Valley venture capital firms. No surprise that they strive to provide comprehensive machine learning solutions rather than a tool for the general programming public.
"We do something completely different! We provide a general purpose tool that you can combine with other technologies to solve a specific problem. We do not try to do everything. Rather we just do one thing: We find the answer to the question you didn't know to ask." says Diggelmann
The advantage of ai-one's approach to developers is that using the API is easy. The tool finds the inherent meaning of any data by detecting patterns. For example, feed it text and it will find every keyword and determine the association where to buy zoloft online words that give each keyword context. Together, keywords and associations provide a complete and accurate summary of a document. The API gives precise results almost instantly and does not require any specialized training to use. Moreover, it is autonomic — as it works without any human intervention.
ai-one follows a technology licensing model — much like Qualcomm. The company makes money when licensees embed the API into commercial applications. ai-one works closely with its OEM partners to ensure that their products are successful.
ai-one's technology enables programmers to build hybrid analytics solutions that integrate content from almost any digital source, in any language, regardless of its structure (or lack of structure). This capability has the potential to transform the way we think about business intelligence. "90% of the world's data is unstructured," says Diggelmann, "but 100% of the major business intelligence systems can't read or understand it. We provide a tool to bridge the gap."
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Castle Valley residents have historically used east Shafer Lane to access the Castleton Road as a shortcut to the mountains, fire station or other destinations along that road. And they've done so without thought as to who owned it. The developer of the Castle Valley River Ranchos didn't provide for another legal and convenient way out of the valley in case of emergencies, so Shafer Lane provided that egress – until people bought the two lots at the end of Shafer Lane. That essentially put the road on private property and blocked access to the Castleton Road.
In 1997, the Castle Valley Town Council created an ordinance "closing the fire station access road north of Shafer Lane to the La Sal Mountain Loop Road" and a gate was installed at the fire station to stop traffic. The Castle Valley Fire Department had sort of a verbal agreement with one of the property owners to use the road for training and emergencies, but when a gate at the end of Shafer was installed by the property owner it hampered access to the fire station and created some tension.
Richard and Janet Willoughby from Santa Rosa, Calif., bought one of the lots at the end of Shafer Lane and built a beautiful home to live in while in the area. Richard, who wanted to join the fire department once he moved here, passed away unexpectedly last year, but Janet continues to enjoy the beauty of her Castle Valley home and surroundings.
She recognized the need for a permanent access to the fire station and agreed to grant an easement along the edge of her property for a road that connects with the town's greenbelt lot. The fire department also purchased a road easement from the state School and Institution Trust Lands Administration (SITLA), which is also part of the road system to the fire station, and with an agreement with the town to share easements and rights-of-way, plans were then underway for the town to begin building the road on the new easement. The town also approved an amendment to the ordinance that opens the road for emergency use.
Eventually, the other owner at the end of Shafer Lane saw the impracticality of having two parallel roads going through their lots and agreed to the same understanding as the neighbor. That landowner signed an easement as well. That agreement basically put the road down through the property lines. Castle Valley Road Manager Greg Halliday and fellow employee Mark Roth graded the road and applied gravel to make it an all-season emergency access that goes through the private land easements, the town greenbelt land, SITLA land and land owned by the fire department to the Castleton Road. It will still be closed to the public, except for bicycles, horses and joggers, but will be open in the event of an emergency where the main road is not accessible.
A short ribbon-cutting ceremony was held last Thursday afternoon, Sept. 19, to officially open the road and name that section of the road "Willoughby Lane." Castle Valley Mayor Dave Erley spoke to the small group of friends and neighbors who assembled and he was followed by Castle Valley Fire Commissioner Ron Mengel and myself. Fire commissioners Bob Lippman and Dave Vaughn as well as Lesley Craig were mentioned for their work in bringing this epic event to fruition. Mengel presented her with a plaque commemorating the event and I, as fire chief, named her an honorary member of the fire department and presented her with an official t-shirt. An open house followed at the Willoughby home and drinks and snacks were furnished.
The ceremony was small and simple, but it represented a major service and aid to the citizens of Castle Valley, providing a legal and year-around alternate route in and out of the valley in the event of a natural disaster. It also represents months of volunteer work by those who made this happen and the cooperation of two landowners and their vision for the betterment of the community.
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The construction of the bicycle bridges along state Route 128 continues to progress, but the promised completion date of the end of summer looks like it will go well into the fall or winter. The patience of Castle Valley residents is beginning to wear thin as the project continues on, especially for one valley woman. She said that she left home at 10:30 a.m. last Wednesday and didn't get to her appointment in Moab until 1.5 hours later.
The frustrated woman got behind the 100-car procession of the Colorado Grand charity tour, which is designed to showcase sports and race cars built in 1960 or earlier. The cars were on their way to a stop at Rotary Park where they were to be treated for lunch. She sat through six traffic light cycles at each bridge while the masses of cars proceed through the lights before she was able to finally get out of the canyon and to her appointment.
There will be more nighttime road closures on SR 128 beginning Oct. 6 at 11:30 p.m., according to the latest information from Flatiron Construction. The road closure will be in effect from 11:30 p.m. until 5:30 a.m. each night. Anyone with a true medical emergency during the closure will have to call the Grand County Sheriff's Office at 911 and the dispatcher will have the road opened so you can proceed to the hospital.
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Mark Hedtke was sitting on Ocean Beach in June 2011, guzzling quarts of Coors beer after another seemingly endless night in a homeless shelter. He was smelling the salt air, hearing the crows and considering killing himself.
But he thought about something else, too - and that's why he is alive today at 57.
Hedtke thought about his time in the Air Force from 1975 to 1980.
He earned two commendation medals back then. He and his buddies depended on each other. It was home. Maybe, he thought, he could have a home like that again.
So instead of ending it all, Hedtke checked himself into an alcohol rehab program. And now, after 17 months of being sober for the longest stretch of his adult life, he is about to take the biggest leap toward stability he's taken since his honorable discharge - he's moving into a new supportive housing complex for homeless military veterans co-run by the nonprofit Swords to Plowshares.
It's about the best Veterans Day gift he could imagine, Hedtke cracked, noting that the holiday honoring all vets comes on Sunday.
"I just realized after all the years of homelessness, my life was getting worse quicker, and it was time to live or die," Hedtke said, standing the other day in the nearly completed Veterans Commons complex on Otis Street just south of Market Street.
He looked around, grinning at the sight of the new green and red paint on the walls and light streaming in through the spacious windows. Other homeless veterans ready to move in, all middle-aged like him or older, milled around with the same kinds of grins.
"All of us here, we all have some damage, we can all relate," Hedtke said. "We can have each other's backs again. We can have new lives."
Plenty of friends
Hedtke and 74 other vets will be taking up residence in Veterans Commons over the next week or so. It was developed over the past four years with $30 million in state, federal, city and donation funds.
The complex was constructed in the nine-story-high shell of what had been the first juvenile hall in San Francisco, a city landmark built in 1916 by famed architect Louis C. Mullgardt. Except for the arched doorway and finely crafted window facade, the building is utterly transformed.
The efficiency apartments are all move-in ready, with new furniture and kitchens full of new appliances. The third floor has a game room and a community room, and two community kitchens feature mess-hall style seating.
It's the first such housing to open in San Francisco since Swords' Veterans Academy opened in the Presidio in 2000.
"These are very frail veterans, with a lot of health issues and needs," said Leon Winston, chief operating officer of Swords, which developed the complex with the nonprofit Chinatown Community Development Center. "Having this housing here will help people stay out of hospitals and clinics, and that not only saves the health system millions of dollars in emergency care - it will give these men and women better lives."
Personal struggles
Each of the new residents struggles with disabilities of one form or another - physical injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder, mental difficulties, substance abuse - and the "supportive" part of the housing specifically addresses those concerns. The complex will be staffed by three social workers from the Veterans Administration and the city's Human Services Agency, and the VA and city Public Health workers will run an on-site health clinic.
The most important thing that binds the new residents is their time in the service and the unshakable sense of togetherness that instilled in them.
"Moving into a place like this takes these vets back to a time when they were OK and not just looking out for themselves, but for their brothers and sisters in the military," said Michael Blecker, Swords' executive director. "Being together gives them community.
"But it's not just about taking help - we require them to give back," he said. "Together, they can all move forward."
Fellowship and family
That message has already sunk in deep.
"I am alone in the world, and the military is really the only family I've got," said incoming resident Ron Jones, 53, who served in the Army from 1977 to 1983. "A whole lot has gone wrong in my life - crack, drinking, prison, living on the street, parents passed, you name it.
"But the fellowship I have from the military, vets understanding what vets go through - that is my family, man."
Word of Veterans Commons spread so fast that more than 400 vets applied for apartments - about a third of the city's estimated total homeless veteran population.
William Brown, 63, an Army veteran of Vietnam, was on that waiting list with his pal Jones, a fellow convert to sobriety at a veterans rehab program on Treasure Island. But this week he was told he didn't qualify because his combination of Social Security and veterans disability checks took him just above the impoverished income threshold.
He's now headed for a different veterans-oriented complex in San Bruno, using federal housing subsidies - but he plans to keep his bonds with his buddies at Veterans Commons. He knows now, better than ever after his first full two sober years since his honorable discharge in 1974, that the mutual support is crucial.
"I really wanted to move in there," he said. "I'm worried I might fall back into old bad habits if I'm not surrounded by friendly vets."
Paying 30% of income
For rent, residents of Veterans Commons will pay 30 percent of their income, which is usually government disability or subsidy checks.
Similar supportive housing programs have proved effective, according to studies by the U.S. Veterans Administration. With the help of on-site counseling, more than 85 percent of residents wind up successfully staying in their units for a year or more.
Hedtke is sure he'll hit that mark.
Growing up in Lafayette, he started drinking as a youth, so the problem is ancient for him. Though he kept his boozing under enough control to be a successful air traffic controller during his hitch in the Air Force, it all began to unravel after his service.
The drinking grew chronic, and he finally crashed in the mid-'90s. It had been episodic jobs and bottomless bottles since then - until that day on the dunes.
"I guess something turns when you get to your 50s," Hedtke said. "It hurts more. You finally wake up."
Open house
Veterans Commons will have an open house from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, Veterans Day.
Donations, such as small flat-screen televisions, gift cards or grooming products will be accepted. Large items such as furniture cannot be accepted.
The complex is at 150 Otis St. For more information go to: www.swords-to-plowshares.org/news-and-events/
San Francisco Chronicle photographer Brant Ward contributed to this report. Kevin Fagan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com


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(a) Applicability of overburden credit to determinations
For purposes of determining the minimum contribution requirement under section 1423 of this title (before the application of section 1423 (b)(2) or (d) of this title) the plan sponsor of a plan which is overburdened for the plan year shall apply an overburden credit against the plan's minimum contribution requirement for the plan year (determined without regard to section 1423 (b)(2) or (d) of this title and without regard to this section).
(b) Determination of overburden status of plan
A plan is overburdened for a plan year if—
(1) the average number of pay status participants under the plan in the base plan year exceeds the average of the number of active participants in the base plan year and the 2 plan years preceding the base plan year, and
(c) Amount of overburden credit
The amount of the overburden credit for a plan year is the product of—
The amount of the overburden credit for a plan year shall not exceed the amount of the minimum contribution requirement for such year (determined without regard to this section).
(d) Amount of overburden factor
For purposes of this section, the overburden factor of a plan for the plan year is an amount equal to—
(e) Definitions; determinative factors
For purposes of this section—
(1) The term "pay status participant" means, with respect to a plan, a participant receiving retirement benefits under the plan.
(2) The number of active participants for a plan year shall be the sum of—
(A) the number of active employees who are participants in the plan and on whose behalf contributions are required to be made during the plan year;
(B) the number of active employees who are not participants in the plan but who are in an employment unit covered by a collective bargaining agreement which requires the employees' employer to contribute to the plan, unless service in such employment unit was never covered under the plan or a predecessor thereof, and
(C) the total number of active employees attributed to employers who made payments to the plan for the plan year of withdrawal liability pursuant to part 1 of this subtitle, determined by dividing—
(ii) the amount equal to the total contributions received by the plan during the plan year divided by the average number of active employees who were participants in the plan during the plan year.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall by regulation provide alternative methods of determining active participants where (by reason of irregular employment, contributions on a unit basis, or otherwise) this paragraph does not yield a representative basis for determining the credit.
(3) The term "average number" means, with respect to pay status participants for a plan year, a number equal to one-half the sum of—
(4) The average guaranteed benefit paid is 12 times the average monthly pension payment guaranteed under section 1322a (c)(1) of this title determined under the provisions of the plan in effect at the beginning of the first plan year in which the plan is in reorganization and without regard to section 1322a (c)(2) [1] of this title.
(5) The first year in which the plan is in reorganization is the first of a period of 1 or more consecutive plan years in which the plan has been in reorganization not taking into account any plan years the plan was in reorganization prior to any period of 3 or more consecutive plan years in which the plan was not in reorganization.
(f) Eligibility of plan for overburden credit for plan year
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a plan is not eligible for an overburden credit for a plan year if the Secretary of the Treasury finds that the plan's current contribution base for the plan year was reduced, without a corresponding reduction in the plan's unfunded vested benefits attributable to pay status participants, as a result of a change in an agreement providing for employer contributions under the plan.
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), a complete or partial withdrawal of an employer (within the meaning of part 1 of this subtitle) does not impair a plan's eligibility for an overburden credit, unless the Secretary of the Treasury finds that a contribution base reduction described in paragraph (1) resulted from a transfer of liabilities to another plan in connection with the withdrawal.
(g) Overburden credit where 2 or more multiemployer plans merge
Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, if 2 or more multiemployer plans merge, the amount of the overburden credit which may be applied under this section with respect to the plan resulting from the merger for any of the 3 plan years ending after the effective date of the merger shall not exceed the sum of the used overburden credit for each of the merging plans for its last plan year ending before the effective date of the merger. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the used overburden credit is that portion of the credit which does not exceed the excess of the minimum contribution requirement (determined without regard to any overburden requirement under this section) over the employer contributions required under the plan.
[1] See References in Text note below.
Source(Pub. L. 93–406, title IV, § 4244, as added Pub. L. 96–364, title I, § 104(2),Sept. 26, 1980, 94 Stat. 1255.)
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Section 1322a (c)(2) of this title, referred to in subsec. (e)(4), was repealed and former section 1322a (c)(3) was redesignated section 1322a (c)(2) by Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(6) [title IX, § 951(a)(3)], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–586.
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Where you live
Where I live? State of denial.
i can't even imagine growing up in Indie Wannabeish times! the very thought amuses & confuses me!
I'm going to LIVE INSIDE YOU Open your stomach to me and I'll crawl inside, leeching nutrients from the food you eat.
It's ok cause you're Dave.
Boring through your mind your tummy and your anus, im not being weird hopefully Dave knows what i mean !
Human Centipede?
i still need to see part 2! FULL SEQUENCE! but i'm AFRAID! afraid it won't live up to my expectations!
Hahahahahahaha I do indeed, Clay PULL SEA DENSE It will live up to your expectations and then murder you. Then you'll murder me. They're all shit, trapped by their own ghosts.
the plan has not yet come to fruition
Aaaaahh jealousy runs through my veins reading about you guys talk about going to shows and meeting up and stuff. I'm from South Africa and I'm quite sure AnCo doesn't come here. I only know three people who listen to Collective, 1. The dude who introduced it to me who is one of my two best friends. 2. Me. 3. Some toss who bought Centipede Hz after I specifically told the store not to sell the only two albums they had IN THE COUNTRY! I've introduced collective to a few people and not all take it to it. The irritating chick I work with doesn't like them cos she knows nothing about music. My cousin liked Water Curses when I played it for him, but he likes rap and hip hoppy stuff but also a lil rock and alternative. Another friend of mine who didn't like collective. And my ex, who I'm good friends with who when she heard Collective said: this music is like so you! And so not like you at the same time. She won't listen to collective cos she into old school rock and metal, Deep Purple and Queen and stuff like that. I've been out of school for going four years now and I mention stuff to people I see at work and I normally get a blank look in return. It makes me very happy knowing that I am not into mainstream music like so many other people around me.
Where's the sense of exploration, right? That's the weirdest, most depressing thing. Why do you not analyze yourself, why do you not think about the reason Katy Perry is your favourite artists ever? Why is Lil Wayne the best rapper alive? Why do you not ask why? WHY WHY WHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHY [img]http://gonedigital.net/wp-content/uploads/bars601.jpeg[/img]
im from the province of skyrim, and animal collective has not been here since before the grey beards (wisconsin 2009) i have not seen them yet so don't feel bad.
in 2013 they'll play THE DELLS! grobot world! noah's bark! haha! slippin down slides riding on rides! THE DUCKS!
I eaat tourists for breakfast, favorite band or not
Originally from Wisconsin, Located now in Omaha Nebraska, Animal Collective is rather well-known in this area, though I have yet to catch them come anywhere relatively close, Fingers Crossed.
Southern Michigan, Its a great place Not too much anco here though. None of my friends like them, Although I was at a snowboaring thing the other day and the dj was playing my girls
haha im a little lost purp,
Wouldn't that mean he is, too?
I think we all are a little bit lost in some way or another
which is why the show was sucha hit! we're all LOST! (in LIFE!)
I'm not lost. I know exactly where I am. I just remembered the last five years of my life at dinner. Now I'm contemplating a swan dive off one of the many bridges here in Portland.
Lotta midwest meat here
Do you mean literal midwest meat? Like cows and friendly piggies and happy chickens?
thats not what he means...
Yeah and I didn't mean we're all lost. You're in his asshole, children!
I should've prefaced my post in the other thread with 'you know, I've learned something today.'
well then
Mitch I forgot we live in almost the same little corner of the mitten.
Purplebottle, do we really? whereabouts in michigan do you live?!
car pool. Ohhhhhhhhh who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SPONGEBOP SQUAREPANTS! Enormous and yellow and porous is he! SPONGEBOP SQUAREPANTS! IF NAUTICAL NONSENSE IS SOmTHING YOU WISH! SPONGEBOP SQUAREPANTS, THEN JUMP ON THE DECK AND FLOP LIKE A FISH! I don't have a cell phone right now so I'm using my cousins old phone, she only has pop country and shorty in the club songs as ringtones so Im forced to use her spongebop squarepants theme song as my alarm tone. Waking up to that is a pain in the ass, this morning I picked up the phone and threw it accross the room (how I lost my last phone). Luckilly it did not break but meh.
Portage..right by Kalamazoo, you? I didn't know Spongebob was originally supposed to be on Adult Swim but it didn't make it \ so they put it on Nickelodeon haha
NO. NO YOU DONT LIVE IN PORTAGE.....This cant be real.... I live in portage too.....
this is soooo weird!!!!!!
haha! Portage is only 47,000 people, that's ridiculous odds.
Yeah it is haha. I probably went to school with purp at some point too then.
[quote=winilula]I live in VERY RURAL Georgia[/quote] Don't know if you've changed locations in the past two years, but I live in Georgia to. I wouldn't call it rural, but I do live in Bulloch county which is very rural outside of it's county seat. I'm going to Georgia Southern in Statesboro, but I'm originally from Toccoa (of Band of brothers fame), which is in the blue ridge part of Georgia. Man do I miss me some mountains.
Omg Mitch...
Mitch and Pottle can meet and then the board will be complete! Cap'n, I live outside Athens.
As in Athens Michigan?
No, Mitch. Cap'n lives in Statesboro, Georgia. and I live in Pocataligo, Georgia. Basically...Greyhound Bus ride neighbors.
Ahh nice. How do you like it down yonder in Georgia? I've never been there.
how does this shit even happen
double postin like a champ
triple postin like a champ
I could remove those extra posts but they amuse me. Mitch, Georgia is pleasant if you prefer long summery to long wintery. Heat, white people, barbeque.
Yeah, I typed up like a whole fucking textbook, but I accidentally highlighted and overwrote it when I tried to edit the posts. South Georgia sucks, it has cool ecology (in what's left from when timber companies ravaged the state in the 1900s), but it's also flat and muggy in the summer. Also gnats, everywhere. I miss the mountains, I'm a big fan of Southern Appalachia, which is the part of Georgia I'm originally from. [quote=winilula]Georgia is pleasant if you prefer long summery to long wintery. Heat, white people, barbeque.[/quote] You forget to mention the humidity, the black people, the boiled peanuts, and the meth.
Win I'm guessing you're the admin again or mod whatever you want to call it. If you go on leave again cast my vote for G.O


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If you had a chance to claim thousands of dollars, would you? Well, if you are a business owner, the opportunity is staring you right in the face. But you have to seize the opportunity sooner rather than later.
Right now, there are around 3,000 federal, state and local credits and incentives valued at more than $50 billion available to your business. These opportunities are both statutory and negotiated and include hiring credits, investment credits, real and personal property incentives, utility rate reductions and infrastructure grants – just to name a few. Unfortunately, only a relatively small number of companies are taking advantage of these opportunities.
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So why aren't businesses seizing these opportunities for cash flow enhancement and return on investment? Sometimes companies don't know they exist, or they think that they are too complex to understand and the opportunities are not worth the effort. Wrong!
If you take the time to develop a credits and incentives plan, your company can capture a piece of the $50 billion pie. Here's how!
Key Elements of a Tax Credits and Incentives Plan
- Outline your key opportunity indicators. Key opportunity indicators are events that your team should come to know and understand that trigger the potential for credits and incentives. They typically revolve around your people and your investment in fixed assets. On the people side, opportunity indicators often involve increases or decreases in employment, turnover, relocations and employee training or retraining. On the fixed asset side, opportunity indicators include site selection and start-up, capital investment, leases and renewals, building acquisitions, facility upgrades and so on. Make a list of these indicators and train your team to spot them. Once an opportunity is spotted, investigate further and contact your CPA to see if it might benefit your business.
- Understand that timing is everything. To give your business the best chance of securing a credit or incentive, you must understand that timing is everything. To secure many credits and incentives, the process of securing the opportunity happens well in advance of hiring, training or purchasing fixed assets. In many instances, if your business has hired the employee, spent money on the training or purchased the fixed asset — it is too late. Once you've spent the money or announced your plans to the public, you've lost most if not all of your ability to negotiate. Understanding this and putting a plan in place to uncover the opportunity well in advance of the investment will put you in a position for maximum success. And outlining your key opportunity indicators is the first step to realizing the potential credits and incentives available to you.
- Get your entire team on board. Securing maximum credit and incentive opportunities isn't just the job of your owner, CFO or CPA. It should also be the job of your HR department, training coordinator and safety director. The more your entire team is able to understand the key opportunity indicators and that timing is everything, the greater chance of success you will have.
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Review by Nonjatta contributor - Serge Valentin
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"Yoichi 1991/2007 (62%, OB, cask #129493, Warehouse #15)
Colour: Amber.
Nose: Really straighter, more vivid and more 'mineral' peat smoke than the 1986. The driest and the most austere of all, but maybe that's because of the very high strength, so let's add water right away. With water: big fruits and big peat, an excellent combo, well above the 1986 and 1987s in my opinion. Superb waxiness and leafiness, notes of marzipan-filled dates, fresh putty, macadamia oil, limejuice… A great nose.
Mouth (neat): Big and very punchy Similar to its siblings. Maybe a tad grassier and bitterer but, once again, water is obligatory. With water: oh yes, the best so far, no doubt. Straight 'coastal' peat, fresh nuts (almonds, walnuts), lemon zests, coriander, cardamom, sage, green pepper, heart of palm… Totally excellent.
Finish: Long, a tad sweeter and rounder now. A little mild in the after taste. Comments: Goody-good! My favourite so far and by far. It seems that they increased the peat levels at Yoichi between 1987 and 1991 (but I may be way off the mark here). SGP:467 - 90 points." (Serge`s scoring system is explained on this page.)
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Here's a little quiz you can try out while I write up my review of Tuesday night's show.
Good Luck and Have Fun!
Oh yes, as an incentive to do well, the person with the lowest score gets to kiss old "Uncle Art"!!
1. What are the names of the two men who founded Centennial Park?
2. What are the last names of some prominent Centennial Park/polygamy families?
3. Of the family names you listed for questions 1 and 2, which names have been featured so far on Polygamy, USA?
4. In what state is Centennial Park located?
5. What is the name of the largest non-polygamist town that is popular with Centennial Park residents?
6. Why did Centennial Park break away from Colorado City/Hildale?
- a. Better job opportunities for women with better schools for children.
- b. Better housing conditions with missionaries building homes and doing trash pick ups.
- c. Power fight between one faction that favored one man rule and another that favored ruling by council.
d. All of the above.
8. Which of the polygamists featured on Polygamy, USA are employed at a school?
9. Which of the following houses belong to "Uncle Art"?
True or False
10. The Centennial Park charter school is called The Masai Academy.
11. Ezra's mother is young enough to be her husband's daughter.
12. Hyrum and Kelly will date for two months before their wedding.
13. In Centennial Park, marriage is based on love and boys can propose to girls as long as the Brethren allows it.
Essay Questions (haha!! just kidding!)
14. Why is Berry Knoll a significant place in Centennial Park?
15. How many years did Hyrum serve as a missionary?
Post your answers below...The person who gets the most correct answers will earn all of our admiration for a job well done and won't have to kiss Uncle Art!
I'll post the answers later in a comment below.
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I had my first wine spa massage today – it is the hottest new trend in the spa industry. Grapes, grape seeds and grape vines contain some of the nature's most powerful antioxidants. The French have known the rejuvenation properties of grapes for centuries, and recent studies are showing that the French suffer less heart disease due to a regular intake which confirms that wine not only tastes good - it's good for you on the inside, and now on the outside.
To start off the wine spa massage treatment you arrive 45 – 60 minutes before your appointment for your 'guided relaxation sequence': 10 minutes in the steam room or sauna relaxation; pressurized rain shower cooling-off and rinsing; 10 minute Jacuzzi immersion; cold plunge immersion for blood pressure stabilizing; 15 minutes in the relaxation lounge. The "La Vin" Massage is a personalized anti-stress massage using the unique therapy of Chardonnay oil containing antioxidant grape seed extract oil. The Merlot massage claims to treat sunburn and extreme dehydrated skin. After the wine spa massage I was escorted to the relaxation lounge where the Wine Spa Sommelier had designed the perfect pairing between "Haute Signature" canapés, and a perfect glass of wine from Valle de Guadalupe.
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Connecting the Conventions and Bringing You the Real Inside Scoop
This week I got the chance to go to the Democratic National Convention for Cisco's newsroom website, The Network. As Blair Christie announced last week in her blog The 2012 U.S. National Conventions: Compelling, Collaborative… Connected – Cisco is the official networking provider to both the RNC and DNC conventions.
Covering big events like this is something our team loves to do, many of us have a journalism background but now we don't necessarily look for stories about the event – now we look for stories about the technology that enables the event. Not just any technology but, of course, the networking technology that makes this national event possible. While my photographer and I walked around and got interviews with engineers, the CIO and the programming director for Cisco and the DNC – we watched as journalists and social media influencers walked the floor grabbing images and quotes from people and quickly turning everything around on their twitter accounts and sending the information back to get it on their websites. I have to admit we did get caught up with the rest of the media waiting for the first lady to come out on stage to greet everyone before the event even started, but come on – who wouldn't wait for that image.
It was one that was on every network and every publication within minutes and also the next morning. I did take other pictures and turn them around for Cisco's twitter page and my own but what sets us apart from the rest is we aren't trying to break news and compete with professional journalists – but we are breaking ground. We are trendsetters in an area not many are part of. It's called Brand Journalism and it's something that Cisco is doing well. The images I took were of Cisco phones that were placed in the control room where the event would come to life. I took pictures of switches that were powering the network that would allow thousands to connect with others outside the arena. Pictures of people sitting at the NOC (Network Operations Center) monitoring screens that showed charts and the flow of data coming through the large arena and of course pictures of everyone using their devices to get messages back to their own audience. To be sure, the RNC and DNC content was Cisco-specific, but most of our content is not. We employ seasoned journalists to write great stories about the technologies we care about (data center, video, collaboration, security, etc.) The overwhelming majority of these stories don't mention Cisco. What do we get out of it, you may ask? Our great journalists are telling stories about the impact technology has on people's lives – these are stories we feel aren't told enough, so we're telling them.
When I walked away from the arena that night – many reporters were still there waiting to do live shots – using the video of the first lady that we shot as well, but what they didn't know was the reason they were able to get their story back to their home base is because Cisco made it possible. All devices used during the convention were powered by the network and the amount of bandwith required to make an event like this possible has never been more important. Social media has brought on a new era of reporting, and connectivity is necessary any place at any time – those are the stories you will see coming up on The Network in a few days.
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The Corpse Reviver #2/
Do more classic cocktails, is my #1 resolution for the blog this year. As much as I love, and have no plans to cease, inventing original recipes, perhaps I should ease up on bedeviling you all with my illimitable tipple perspicacity (resolution #2: consult thesaurus more) for the sake of some insightful, happy hour convo-worthy history lessons on drinks that have stood the test of time, or haven't but deserve as much. Plus, discuss how to make said vintage drinks at their finest, a la The World's Greatest Cosmopolitan. (Resolution Trois: I am the greatest!)
Let's start with Corpse Revivers which, like their titular cadavers, are making a comeback. The phrase refers to a genus of hair-of-the-dog cocktails; Corpse Reviver #1 and Corpse Reviver #2 are the individual species you're likely to encounter. Strangely, they resemble each other not at all. Their generally-agreed-upon ingredients break down thusly:
Corpse Reviver#1: Cognac, Calvados, sweet vermouth
Corpse Reviver #2: Gin, triple sec, Lillet, absinthe, lemon juice
It is my understanding that both can be traced back to the Savoy Cocktail Book, authored by legendary barman/American expat Harry Craddock and published in 1930. However, when mentioned elsewhere, #2 is almost always credited as an expressly Craddock creation whereas #1's genealogy seems much muddier, or maybe just less interesting. Maybe #1 was, like, made by his rival but still good enough to be included in his book? Cocktail history really is crippled by the fact that people were probably drunk (i.e. forgetful and/or brazenly self-aggrandizing) when they wrote this shit down.
There are other Corpse Revivers as well. Depending on the source you consult, you may come across "Corpse Reviver No.2 #2" (not a typo), "Corpse Reviver #3 or" the "Savoy Corpse Reviver," which apparently stems back not to London's Hotel Savoy circa the 1930s but to some dude in the 1950s...? Repeat what I just said about crippled history.
Anyway, so how's it taste? Because I was too drunkenly forgetful to write that shit down, I'm relying on what the PhoBlograpHusband had to say about it: "The general base was the citrus from the triple sec and the lemon juice, with the herbaceousness of the gin sort of getting along nicely in there. But that absinthe note really came through, it's really pervasive. It was really nice and bracing. I can see how old-timey people would have had this in the morning."
The Corpse Reviver#2
3/4 ounce Bombay London Dry Gin
3/4 ounce triple sec
3/4 ounce Lillet blonde
3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 dash Pernod absinthe
Lemon twist, to garnish
Combine all ingredients in an ice-filled cocktail shaker and shake vigorously. Strain into chilled cocktail glass and garnish with lemon twist.
Tasting Notes
Many recipes, even those that go way back, will insist upon Cointreau rather than no-name triple sec. I just didn't have any around.
Likewise, there's nitpicking to be done as to whether Lillet or dry vermouth is the proper ingredient here. Some sources will even cite Swedish punsch (Not a Typo #2) as the proper ingredient... you know what? All this history stuff is hard. I may be rethinking Resolution #1.


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A love of music but a sad lack of talent led me into a career in the administrative side of the music industry, working in areas such as rights, repertoire and royalties. This has also given me an opportunity to travel extensively around the world. My interest in genealogy was inspired by my wife's cousin from New Zealand. He researched her family tree and eventually persuaded me to look at mine. Having reached a road block, I began a one-name study which looks at the history of the surname, worldwide. I am also Registrar of the Guild of One-Name Studies.
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Stephen, thanks for supporting Kiva and our team. Like you, I am a fan of LostCousins. For your One-Name Study, here are a few DAGLISH references from indexes to Australian sources:ReplyDelete
DAGLISH Anthony, age 69, born Newcastle on Tyne, admitted 19 Jun 1888, died 22 Jul 1888. (From an index to Dunwich Benevolent Asylum records. Original source at Queensland State Archives: A/52866 page 1849)
DAGLISH George, born 10 July 1835. (From an index to civil servants 1866-1867. Original source at Queensland State Archives: JUS/103)
DAGLISH George. (From an index to Queensland Supreme Court wills pre-1900. Original source at Queensland State Archives: SCT/P67, file no.2348)
DAGLISH John, age 78, died 16 May 1958. (From an index to Justice Department preliminary enquiries. Original source at Queensland State Archives: JUS/Y41 no.44)
DAGLISH Judith Leslie, age 17, witness at enquiry 7 May 1960. (From an index to Justice Department preliminary enquiries. Original source at Queensland State Archives: JUS/Y50 no.132)
Stephen, I forgot to say that to see a description of the register, bundle or whatever, you need to enter the reference (A/52866, JUS/103 etc) in the 'Previous System ID' field of 'Advanced Search' on www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/.ReplyDelete
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Dr. Aaron Best of the Hope College biology faculty has been appointed the first recipient of the college's new "Harrison C. and Mary L. Visscher Endowed Professorship in Genetics."
The professorship was established by Dr. Harrison C. Visscher and his first wife, the late Mary Visscher. It honors a distinguished member of the biology faculty who leads an active teaching and research program in the field of genetics and/or molecular biology and demonstrates in his or her professional and personal life a commitment to the mission of the college. Appointments are for a 10-year term.
Best's appointment to the professorship began on July 1. He will be honored during a formal investiture ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 27.
Retired from a career in medicine and a Hope graduate, Harrison Visscher noted that he valued the opportunity to support the college's role in genetic education and research.
"I have been interested in biological evolution ever since I took comparative anatomy as a Hope premed student from Prof. Oscar Thompson in 1948. And I believe the development of new knowledge in the field of biological evolutionary genetics is one of the most exciting areas of current scientific research," he said. "Recent genetic advances in the field of synthetic genomics present limitless applications that can revolutionize production of energy, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and enable carbon sequestration and environmental remediation. I want Hope College to play a part in these exciting genomic advances."
Visscher said that he further appreciates Hope's proven success in applying both faith and science when seeking understanding, putting the two together "in order to promote a comprehensive healthy holistic worldview" at a time when many reject one voice or the other.
"The two truths are compatible and can and do exist in harmony," he said. "I strongly identify with [the college's] goal of providing students with a comprehensive liberal arts education in the context of the Christian faith."
Harrison and Mary Visscher both graduated from Hope, in 1951 and 1952 respectively. They met at the college, and all four of their children subsequently attended Hope as well. In addition, so far three of their grandchildren have also graduated from Hope.
Harrison is a retired physician who spent the last 15 years of his career as director of education for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Washington, D.C. He lives in Holland with his second wife, Bette, who is a member of the college's Class of 1955.
Mary, who died on April 24, 2000, among other activities had taught elementary school and taught art history to visitors to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. She was a member of the college's Board of Trustees from 1978 to 1988, and had also served as president of the Women's League for Hope College.
Both Harrison and Mary received Distinguished Alumni Awards from the college in 1991.
Best has been a member of the Hope faculty since 2004. He teaches microbiology, and his primary research interest is in understanding the evolution of fundamental cellular systems and how microorganisms function at a systems level.
He involves students in his research program during both the summer and school year. One aspect of his research uses comparative genomics to investigate how a human parasite named Giardia lamblia turns its genes on and off, a process called transcription. With Dr. Matthew DeJongh of the college's computer science faculty he has also been involved in an initiative with Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago to develop "Model SEED," software used internationally to transform genomic data into working models of how organisms function at a fundamental level. With Hope biology colleague Dr. Jianhua Li he is coordinating Hope's acquisition of a new bench-top "next generation" sequencing platform, a project recently funded through a $171,877 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Best has also been a leader in integrating student experience with original research into coursework. With Hope biologist Dr. Joseph Stukey he implemented a year-long course sequence funded through the Phage Genomics Research Initiative of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The freshman-level course, which debuted at the college in the fall of 2008, involves the students in isolating and characterizing previously unknown bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria. The course is viewed as a model as the college investigates developing more research-based courses across the natural and applied sciences through a new award Hope received from HHMI in May.
Hope had previously honored Best by naming him a Towsley Research Scholar in January 2007. Funded through a grant to the college from the Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation of Midland, the recognition includes support for four years for a research project.
Best is a 1996 graduate of William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., where he majored in biology. He completed his M.S. and his doctorate in microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999 and 2001 respectively. He subsequently conducted post-doctoral work at the university before coming to Hope.
The Visscher professorship was initiated during the college's "Legacies: A Vision of Hope" comprehensive campaign, which concluded in 2005. Enhancing the college's endowment is also a major focus of the current $175-million "A Greater Hope" campaign, which was announced in October 2011. Components of "A Greater Hope" include $20 million in endowment to support outstanding members of the faculty in their teaching and research not only through endowed professorships but also departmental discretionary funds and faculty development funds. Thus far, the college has a total of 21 endowed professorships for faculty and three administrative positions.


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On May 24, 2011, at 10:46 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <email@example.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Brad Kemper <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >> On May 24, 2011, at 10:23 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <email@example.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Alan Gresley <email@example.com> wrote: >>>> On 25/05/2011 2:42 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >>>>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Brad Kemper<firstname.lastname@example.com> >>>>>> This is also a question about background size. Suppose that with >>>>>> that same 400 x 400 raster image I have { background-image: >>>>>> image('400x400.png' 10dpi); background-size: 1in 1in; }? What are >>>>>> the final sizes of the rendered image pixels? 1/10" or 1/400"? >>>>>> >>>>>> Perhaps in both cases, you are just adjusting a sort of "late >>>>>> intrinsic" resolution that is then overridden by width and height >>>>>> declarations? If so, I think you need to say so. (Apologies, if you >>>>>> do somewhere already, and I just missed it.) >>>>> >>>>> I don't think it's clearly stated how this works, so I should fix >>>>> that. The intent is that it affects the intrinsic size. >>>>> >>>>> So, in your first example (400x400 pixel image at 72dpi, sized to >>>>> 1in by 1in), you first apply the resolution. This gives you a >>>>> native image size of 533px (or 5.55in), which is then scaled down to >>>>> 1in by 1in. Your second example is similar, though more extreme >>>>> given the tiny dpi. >>>> >>>> What happens with a SVG background-image that has no intrinsic size or no >>>> dimension? >>>> >>>> background-image: image('basic.svg' 50dpi) >>> >>> For vector images, the "dot" in dpi is pixels in the outermost >>> coordinate space. So, that declaration simply means that the SVG's >>> initial coordinate space is such that 1px in it is equal to 1/50th of >>> an inch. >>> >>> In other words, if the SVG image had something like "<svg width='100' >>> height='100'>" as the root element, then it would be scaled to be a >>> 2in by 2in square. Without that resolution declaration, the image >>> would be just over 1in square instead. >> >> Are SVG lengths alway unitless numbers? If not, I would expect an SVG measured in inches to be pixelated if given a low enough resolution (which might occasionally be a useful effect). Forgive my ignorance of SVG, please. > > No, they can be given as actual lengths, like "1in". I'm not > immediately certain how that would interact with resolution changes, > though. I suspect that's far enough down the unspecified road that > it's up to the UA right now. That should be specified then, in your images module. Either SVG should be resolution-independant (using e resolution), or it can be locked down via a <resolution> value. I don't feel strongly one way or another, but it should be consistent. Probably 'filter()' would be a better way of pixelating as a special effect.Received on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 18:07:36 UTC
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In Vegetarian Cuisine we are learning so much about the different vegetarian diets and how to achieve meeting your requirements for carbohydrates, proteins, fats, etc. Two weeks about our class was all about legumes and protein alternatives.
Legumes are seeds in pods and include: beans (garbanzo, kidney, mung, soy, anasazi, and more) and Lentils. All of these are great gluten-free options as well as vegetarian and vegan. When looking at legumes you want to make sure that they are fresh looking, uniform in size, no holes (little bugs may have gotten in), brightly colored, and free of dust.
There is so much that can be done with legumes: soups, meat alternatives, breads, flours, you can use them in salads, and ice creams. If you are using fresh beans (beans not from a can) you want to soak them before cooking them. Beans should be soaked for at least four hours but no more than 8. To start you want to sort through the beans and look for the things listed above, discard any beans that fall into those categories. Rinse the beans, and soak them in 4 x the amount of water (1 up of beans = 4 cups water), rise them again and discard the soaking liquid, then cook as directed.
When you are cooking beans you do not want to add any salt or anything acidic to the water – they wont cook!! Salt or season the beans after they have been completely cooked. If you shy away from beans because you experience gas after eating them a few tricks to reduce this is – eat more of them! Over time your digestive system will adjust to the beans. Soaking the beans also helps – be sure to change the water at least 2 times during the soaking process, and also adding Kombu, fennel or cumin to the water while cooking helps to easily digest the beans.
Cooked beans can be stored in the refrigerator in a sealed container for about 3-4 days or frozen for up to one year.
I was assigned to make a beverage with using legumes. I thought for a minute and came up with a smoothie using tofu and garbanzo beans. I found some fresh mango in our kitchen and orange juice as well. I mixed all together and it tasted good but I felt it needed a little something extra…curry powder. I know this all sounds weird, but it is mighty delicious! The curry powered is not overwhelming at all, it is just a little hint at the end. This would be perfect in the summer on a hot day, nutritious and delicious.
Curry Mango Smoothie
Garbanzo beans, cooked 4 ounces
Silken Tofu 4 ounces
Mango, fresh or frozen 4 ounces
Orange juice 4 ounces
Honey 2 teaspoons
Curry powder ¼ teaspoon
Ice 8 ounces
Method of Preparation:
1. Gather all ingredients and equipment.
2. Cut mango (see Chef's Notes) and set aside.
3. In the pitcher of a blender add the garbanzo beans (if using canned, rinse and drain well), silken tofu, mango, orange juice, honey, and curry powder. Cover tightly with lid.
4. Blend on high-speed until smooth.
5. Taste and adjust seasoning as needed.
6. Add ice and blend until ice is well blended.
7. Serve immediately.
Chef's Notes: How to cut a mango: Place the mango on one of its flat sides on a cutting board. Slice the mango lengthwise around the seed. Turn the mango over and repeat on the other side. Set aside the seed and remaining mango flesh. Carefully with a paring knife cut the mango with a cross-hatch pattern. Be sure to not cut through the skin. Invert the mango half by placing your thumbs on each end, and your fingers underneath on the skin. Press upwards with your fingers and then with the paring knife, cut off the cross-hatch cubes of mangos. Repeat with other side. Discard the skin. Cut the remaining mango flesh from the seed. With a paring knife remove skin from the mango flesh and cut into cubes. Discard skin.


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