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The sign at Kitchissippi Point on the Ottawa River seemed particularly apt early last spring.
The message is part of a permanent display to show how once, more than 10,000 years ago, the Ottawa Valley was completely under water. The thawing of the last Ice Age led to the formation of the massive Champlain Sea that formed an inlet for the Atlantic Ocean. The brackish water ran as much as 150 metres higher than the current levels of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers.
And now, on an early May day several millennia later, both rivers were rising dramatically - if not to those levels - as snowmelt and runoff combined with rain, rain, rain, rain ... The rain had fallen for most of a week. On May 1, alone, some areas along the Ottawa River had received 55 millimetres of downpour. Records stretching as far back as 1925 had nothing to compare to it. There was flooding throughout the watershed - cottage property sliding into the swollen Madawaska River at Combermere, basements flooded at Golden Lake, roads and streets closed in communities on both sides of the Ottawa River, two schools closed and a seniors residence evacuated in Maniwaki, far up the Gatineau River, states-of-emergency called in Saint-André-Avellin and Rigaud, homes flooded on Montreal's West Island, and Ile Mercier actually submerged - all with severe weather warnings continuing and another 55 millimetres of rain predicted for the coming weekend. By that point, the military had been called in to help the hardest-hit areas in Quebec. Farther east, along the Saint John River valley, more than 100 millimetres of rain fell over a two-day span. Water, water everywhere indeed.
Monday evening, with the rain still falling, I went to Shirley's Bay, a large, lake-like widening of the Ottawa River some 15 kilometres north of Parliament Hill. The waves were rolling in, slamming into large boulders placed as a semi-breakwater along the boat ramp. With the rainfall and fog, it was impossible to see across the wide bay to the Quebec shore. I felt like I was standing at the edge of an angry ocean rather than this usually placid river. The Champlain Sea returned.
It was a choice moment to reflect on the journeys of the past three years for The Globe and Mail: 16 Canadian rivers studied in detail for their history, people, issues and future, dozens more rivers touched upon in passing either by canoe, vehicle, air or library. A person could do this forever and never finish. Roderick Haig-Brown had it right when he said, "No book could possibly tell the whole story of Canada's rivers." There are more than 8,500 named rivers alone in the country. As a journalist interested in seeing as much as possible of the country I cover, and as a passionate canoeist endlessly intrigued by what lies around that next bend, I had to accept that reality: no book can tell the whole story, no person can journey them all. It was Mole in The Wind in the Willows who believed rivers held "the best stories in the world." True in author Kenneth Grahame's England, true in Canada, true throughout the world.
Standing on the shrinking shoreline of Shirley's Bay, I could only think about how much water there has to be in the atmosphere to permit such a prolonged rain, with even more in the forecasts. Hours away, the Toronto islands were now under threat of flooding.
One of the island ferries was at the ready should an evacuation be ordered. Water, water everywhere - and yet it is rapidly becoming a central issue of the 21st century.
Not because there is so much, because there may be too little.
We often hear that water is the new oil. George W. Bush has said "Water is more valuable than oil." The mayor of Dirt in the animated feature Rango says, "If you control water, you control everything." In Canada, no one has sounded the alarm louder or more consistently than Maude Barlow, chair of the Council of Canadians. She has argued for years that water is not, as so many believe, a totally renewable resource we can never run out of - even if last spring along the Ottawa River it certainly appeared so. If no action is taken on climate change, she and others say, the war refugees of today will seem minor compared to the water refugees of the future. By 2075, Barlow says in her most recent book, Boiling Point, "The water crisis could affect as many as seven-billion people," which is pretty much everybody on the planet.
As for Canada itself, we should not be so smug as to think our supply of renewable fresh water is endless. Canada does have more water than any other nation, but Canada also has multiple rivers - the Bow River and South Saskatchewan River in the Prairies being but two significant examples - under severe threat from over-extraction. Pollution remains a major concern, as well, whether in waters surrounding major cities or in remote areas. In the first six months of 2016, there were more than 130 drinking-water advisories issued in First Nations communities across the country. Data collected by Environment Canada says that in 2015 alone, more than 205 billion litres of raw sewage and untreated waste water was dumped into Canadian oceans and waterways.
Water is unlike oil in that it returns. Oil, once used, is gone forever, its molecular structure changed, its debatable traces gone to the atmosphere. Water, on the other hand, can be cleaned and restored and used again and again and again, whether it be to irrigate, power, drink, wash, flush. ... The water going down your toilet today might soon be going down someone's throat. Nothing is more recyclable than water.
This matter that sustains us, however, is not infinite. Nor, obviously, is it equally spread throughout this planet. Canada might have 20 per cent of earth's freshwater, but other countries are already suffering desperate shortages. Ironically, water has been part of the problem. The world's population soared in no small part because of hygiene and irrigation.
More food meant more people, and healthier humans lived longer. At the turn of the century, the world's population stood around six billion. By 2050, it is estimated that number could reach nine billion, a 50 per cent increase in barely half a century.
Potable water is a valuable commodity, obviously. But one has to wonder about values when Harrod's of London offers a bottle of Svalbardi water - harvested from 4,000-year-old icebergs off the coast of Norway - at £80 ($141.52) a bottle. Bottled water, unknown to previous generations, has today become a huge international industry, worth more than $200-billion a year and recently outstripping sales of soft drinks in North America.
Sadly, the vast majority of sales are to people living with drinking water available for pennies from their taps. Who saw water becoming a fashion accessory? It can be fairly said that Canadians are waking up to the importance of their freshwater blessings.
A 2017 survey by the Royal Bank of Canada found that 45 per cent of Canadians now consider water to be the country's most important natural resource. How this natural resource should be used is, increasingly, a growing issue.
There is a national awakening under way, and this awakening can be found in every part of the country. Earlier this year, Manitoba launched a public awareness campaign called "Spot the Stripes and Stop the Spread" that is intended to encourage the public to take up the fight against zebra mussels and other invasive species. In Ottawa, the member of Parliament for Ottawa South, David McGuinty rose in the House of Commons to introduce a private member's bill calling for the creation of an Ottawa River Watershed Council. The legislation calls for a major study on how the various levels of government could "take the management of the Ottawa River watershed to the next level," and is modelled on such initiatives as the Fraser Basin Council in British Columbia, as well as the Red River Basin Commission that includes both Canadian and American members.
Canadians need to "revamp our thinking when it comes to managing the way we do business and the way we relate to something as essential as a watershed," McGuinty told the Commons. "It is an incredible opportunity for Canada, not just in the context of the Ottawa River watershed but right across the country." McGuinty's cross-river colleague, Bill Amos, representing the Quebec federal riding of Pontiac, stood immediately to support the bill.
A few weeks after the Great Spring Flood of 2017, I took a drive along the Ottawa River to see what the situation was like now that the waters were receding. The damage was obvious - ruined carpets, furniture and appliances at the side of shoreline roads waiting for pickup, empty and filled sandbags piled to the sides of homes, some still guarding the water's edge, a few small places still jacked up in the hopes the owners could somehow escape the damage.
And yet, it wasn't all damage.
Where the river had backed away from property it had briefly claimed, daffodils and tulips were already up. Along the Deschenes and Remic rapids at the western edge of the city, some early kayakers already out dancing toward summer. At Chaudiere Falls close to Parliament Hill, you could not only see but you could feel the power of this amazing river that, within the span of a few weeks, managed to bring such destruction and then such new and welcome life to the region.
The Ottawa River - so important to First Nations, to exploration, to the fur and timber trades - was the closest and first river I wrote about.
The others (Saint John, St. Lawrence, Gatineau, Rideau, Dumoine, Muskoka, Don, Grand, Niagara, Red, North Saskatchewan, Bow, Columbia, Fraser and Mackenzie) showed me how deeply those who live along those rivers treasure them, and worry about what will become of them.
At the end of this long journey through so many, as well as so few, of Canada's rivers, I cannot help but think of Judith Flynn-Bedard who spends much of the year on her boat in the Ottawa River and dreams of a day when her grandchildren can swim in clean water that washes down from the capital.
I hope Wally Schaber gets his beloved Dumoine River declared a protected park so that it can remain that "beautiful, wild, freeflowing river" he so loves. May Floyd Roland see that "green" economy that will mean the communities along the mighty Mackenzie will thrive into the future. Let us all trust that Canada and the United States listen to Bob Sandford, who says that there is a great opportunity to "get this one right" in the renegotiation of the critical Columbia River Treaty. When Lynda Shneekloth, of the University of Buffalo, talks of the necessity of "Rethinking Niagara," it is a philosophy that could be applied to hundreds of rivers in North America that pass through urban and industrial areas.
When Michael Yee, the biologist with the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority, says that "people are more engaged, taking ownership" of their watersheds, he speaks of something needed across the land. Also needed are scientists like Matt Windle, of the St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences, who is helping the American eel up and down past the dams. And who ever imagined that the brown trout would one day return to the polluted Grand River in such numbers that Rob Heal could run a successful flyfishing and guiding operation?
When Kevin Van Tighem, once the superintendent of Banff National Park, devotes so much volunteer time to protecting the Bow River watershed, it underscores his belief that "the most important resource in the province, and the rarest, is water." It is a belief shared by people like Arlen Leeming, of the Don Valley Conservation Association, who speaks so surely of "hope" - and finds it in something as small as the return of mink to what was once the most abused and polluted river in Canada.
I think of all the inspirational young people I met - teens like the Gaspe de Beaubien cousins and their AquaHacking conventions, Kingston's Robyn Hamlyn and her campaign against bottled water - but also of older Canadians like Bill Purkis, of Bala, who says he will fight to the end to prevent another dam from rising on the Muskoka River. As Jacques Courcelles put it as he stood along the Red River where now five generations of his family have lived, "Sometimes you have to think beyond your lifetime."
I find that I agree with Gilbert Whiteduck, former chief of the Kitigan Zibi First Nation along Quebec's Gatineau River, that we must continue to fight "complacency." As another native leader, Sonny McHalie, of the Sto:lo First Nation along the Fraser River, put it, "We are the river and the river is us." And more than anything else, I take from the North Saskatchewan River the lessons of Okiysikaw Tyrone Tootoosis and Cree elder Emil Bell. "Water is life," Bell says. "No water, no life - it's that simple."
Excerpted from Original Highways: Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada by Roy MacGregor. Copyright © 2017 Roy MacGregor. Published by Random House Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the publisher. All rights reserved.
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The Ottawa River rages after passing the dam at the Chaudiere Falls in Ottawa in May, 2017, when the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers reached levels unseen in millenniums.
Patrice Pepin walks with his boat down Fournier Street in the flood zone along the Ottawa River in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Que., in May, 2017.
Roy MacGregor says that while Canada has more fresh water than any other country in the world, we can't take the valuable resource for granted.


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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - International concerns about Turkey's monetary policy were largely addressed during meetings with investors in London last week, Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said on Sunday.
"That is very clear. Hence, fund inflows have started," Simsek said in an interview broadcast on Kanal7 television.
The central bank hiked interest rates by 300 basis points to 16.50 percent in an emergency meeting last month to prop up Turkey's plummeting lira currency.
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Vegan Burger Flipper for a Morning
Last Friday a representative from Qrunch Foods contacted ATOB about doing a TV segment on "meatless dishes at summer barbecues." Sara was out of town for her birthday, which meant the task fell to me since we bloggers never pass up potential publicity opportunities.
From the wording, I thought they wanted me to show up and taste test some Qrunch veggie burgers. While I am not vegetarian, I love vegetarian dishes. In undergrad, I brought vegan black bean brownies to potlucks and made vegan oatmeal cookies for my roommates. I also occasionally buy vegetarian burgers at the grocery store, so I was excited to try Qrunch burgers.
Here came the twist:
They wanted me to talk about the veggie burgers on the news segment. As in, just me.
Uh, come again?
Then I envisioned myself, poised, a male Martha Stewart on Good Morning, Richmond! (a nonexistent TV show until I make it one) walking the anchors through how to prepare sizzling, juicy veggie burger for the grill at your next neighborhood barbecue. And then, in three months, touring America in a Qrunch Foods publicity van hailed as the "new Jared" – except minus the child molestation charges.
Me to representative: "Totally. I'll do it."
Thus began a crash course in Qrunch burgers. (My Snapchat followers got dragged along on the journey since I storied every step of the journey. My apologies. Not really.)
What sets Qrunch burgers apart from your regular veggie burger brands are that they're soy-free. They're also organic, gluten-free and vegan. But if you follow health at all, you know soy can be a suspicious substance. Now I enjoy soy milk in my iced coffee (I call it coy), but I do wonder if there are harmful hormones I'm ingesting. Always better to play it safe, right?
Enter the Qrunch burger.
The Qrunch burger's distinctive ingredient is quinoa, which is a supergrain celebrated for its high protein content and fiber. I was provided a packet of publicity info that further elucidated the quinoa craze: Quinoa contains a full amino acid profile, is a natural appetite suppressant, and can lower blood glucose levels in diabetics, and can relieve hypertension. Wouldn't I sound so intelligent citing all that on live TV?
Oh, I forgot that bit:
This segment would be live.
If I flubbed, it was to YouTube I was destined. And quinoa is a difficult word to pronounce. I always want to say "kwi-noah."
The makers of Qrunch burgers created the burger when they saw a need in the market for convenient, tasty gluten-free and soy-free products. I actually believe them on this because it is not easy in general finding convenient healthy foods.
Because of the short turnaround on this story – 36 hours from my acceptance to when we went live – it was on me to buy the Qrunch burgers and prepare them for the segment. If you're in Richmond like me, you can find Qrunch burgers at your local Kroger in the Natural Foods aisle. I made the mistake of going instinctively to the vegetarian aisle where I found all the competitors, but no Qrunch burgers. There was a brief panic where I texted Sara,
Except they sort of were. Qrunch Foods has five burger flavors. The Kroger I went to had one: Spicy Italian. Pity, because I wanted to try the Classic Curry for a stir-fry (doesn't that sound good?!). I suspect the Richmond foodies had stocked up on the other flavors. I bought some boxes and went home to try Qrunch burgers.
I put a slice of cheddar cheese on my Spicy Italian Qrunch burger and ate it just like that. It tasted, for lack of adjectives, good: Definitely fibrous, almost nutty (it contains millet), but there's definitely a flavor profile. Of course it doesn't taste like an actual burger, but I think vegetarian foods are at their best when they're not trying to mimic a meat product.
For the actual segment, I woke up at 6 am so I could prepare some dishes for the show. These included a Southwestern Qrunch burger, an egg McMuffin and then a stir-fry, which I concocted myself since that recipe is not on their website. I thought the stir-fry was fitting since technically the other two options were not completely vegan, but that stir-fry was. (I used sesame oil for cooking the vegetables, cut up the burger, and then dribbled some Lite Soy Sauce, Kroger Brand, on the vegetables and burger. Bon appétit!)
Of course you might not want to use Spicy Italian Qrunch burger for the meals above. However, I didn't mind it.
The TV segment went smooth. I was surprised how few people were in the studio even though it was the Sunday morning news. I asked the person who showed me in when the news started.
Woman: "8 AM."
Me: "Ah, okay. I don't watch the news."
Why the heck did I say that?
She walked away.
My interviewer and the anchor for the morning news, Darrielle Snipes, asked me if I was nervous.
Me: "Not really. (But yesterday I wanted to throw up all day.)"
Weatherman: "Don't be nervous. You're just having a two-minute conversation."
But live, sir. Live.
Then again, I guess every conversation is live.
Watch my TV appearance on WRIC's site. And have a Qrunch burger for every time I try to act casual, but I'm not sure where to look or put my hands.
After the show, I ate my vegan stir-fry and waited for Sara to eat more Qrunch burgers. When she finally came back from her birthday weekend, I whipped her up the Southwest burger for dinner. It was surprisingly well-received by someone who often doesn't truly appreciate the vegan options. She was so pleased, she even snapped this shot of dinner.


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I am a day late on posting my May Foodie Pen Pals reveal but I have a good reason! This week I am on call for my home care agency and I had to go out after work last night to do an extra case. I didn't get him until after 6 at which point Abby and Chris wanted to go bike riding so we headed out and stopped for dinner. We were home by 7:45ish and it was time for Abby to go to bed. While laying down with her I also fell asleep only to wake up at 9 pm with the realization I hadn't run for the #RWRunStreak 😯
I put on my running clothes, laced up my sneakers and headed out for a one mile run that I really didn't feel like doing but I didn't want to break the streak. This is a perfect reason why exercise is best to be done first thing in the morning.
After the run I showered and went back to sleep because I was so exhausted. I couldn't have written a word clearly so I put off my reveal until today.
This month my Foodie PenPal box was sent from Monica of Veggie Homes.
Included in my box:
- Cocoa Snaps: All natural crisp rice cereal made with real cocoa. A healthy version of cocoa pebbles that my 3 year old Abby has stolen and been eating since I got the package!
- Coconut Milk: Monica included a recipe for whipped cream.
- Truffle-Mushroom oil: A unique oil that I cannot wait to try on my salads.
- Sunflower seeds: Monica sent these for sprouting which I have not tried to do yet but I love sunflower seeds and sprouting sound interesting.
- Stretch Island Fruit Company Fruit strips: Delicious fruit strips that both Abby and I loved!!!


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The Art of Saving/
People kept telling me to play Dragon Age: Inquisition so I did the obvious thing and got the first game in the series, Dragon Age: Origins. It came out in 2009 so it wasn't too hard to get a handle on the interface. But with the last two games I've played through being Deus Ex: Revolution and Hitman: Absolution (wait a second, what's with every single game title being 'SERIES': ... -ion !? Many sequels trying desperately to bring back fans while standing apart from the series... OLD GAME: NEW GAME. Good games though.), I was lulled into mental dependence on the modern luxury of the autosave.
Nowadays it seems like every 10-15 minutes of play in most games is broken up by checkpoints to fall back on when you screw up and your throat gets shredded by a rusty chainsaw, or when you fail to intimidate some highwaymen and they rob you, or when your cat jumps on the keyboard and your newly erected civic monument is permanently demolished.
In the recent revival of indie roguelike games, the absence of checkpoint fail safes is a reaction against their ubiquity in mainstream game design. They reject the convention of a linear, piecemeal experience in order to give you a die hard, unique, unrepeatable experience each time you play. The idea of saving at all, is abhorred - there is never anything to come back to. Yet when playing Dragon Age I found myself in an awkward place between the two - the autosave and the antisave. Dragon Age seems to save at certain checkpoints, like entering a completely new region for the first time, but nowhere in between. Sometimes I'd spend forty minutes combing every square inch of a dungeon level, only to blunder a little too deep into the aggro radius of a camp around the corner and get TPK'd (if there's a way to retreat from fights I ain't found it yet) -- only to realize none of my giving wine to Alistair and rearranging my dog named Kyle's decorative furpaint and chest-looting was remembered by the game. There's something miserable about retracing your steps in an RPG, it becomes a ghost of your previous play. Anyway I kept "ghosting" dungeons and struggling -- so I had to develop the habit of intentionally saving again.
Unless the mechanic of the gameplay itself involves save points. Any 'From Software' game utilizes a similar save mechanic. Get to the lamp or fire without dying and as a reward you will be afforded the privilege of saving your progress and celebrating your tenacity (for like 5 seconds anyway.)
Bloodborne disguises its save points as lanterns littered throughout the sprawling multi-level nightmare labyrinths. Nixing any pausing or save menus. Which, psychologically, seems to alleviate any anxiety a player might have about how and where to save. Disguised as an effigy or a shrine, the cold blue glow of the lanterns never felt so warm or inviting. Auto saving in this game would totally ruin the experience, the game itself hinders on the sheer will of the player to complete the area and light the lantern - where your allowed, finally, to travel back to the hunters dream and level up your character, buy items and take some deep breaths. Bloodborne is the antithesis of autosaving. In a strange way this anti save type scenario works out very well for all those forgetful stoned gamers that wiff on saving their progress and direct frustrated heads up towards the spackled ceiling asking 'Why?'.
The modern day AAA titles have totally scrapped the idea of 'lives' for their characters. Replaced with one perma-life if you will. You play, you get shot, stabbed, eviscerated then you get another chance. This can be in the form of a recharging health bar or hiding behind something until you somehow recover from the 18 bullets you've just taken. Yeah its just a game, but those lives use to mean something. An ominous but unsaid contract between the game and the player. If you use up all the lives your dead and you had your chance. GAME OVER BRO. I love the idea of that. Nintendo understands this as well. They could simply replace the lives system with a perma-life system for their platformers but there is no cost to the player. They are left to simply continue playing until they succeed. With no consequence at all.
The genius of the itemized save system is that your constantly searching for the 'ink ribbon,' or 'tent.' In Resident Evil finding a type writer save point is just part of the act of saving. You also need an ink ribbon to use the typewriter which is brilliant. So, instinctively, the player learns to not rely on any kind of computerized auto-save but rely solely on the items in there inventory and there own good sense. Few games have utilized this method of discovering a save point and requiring a specific item to activate it. It creates a deeper immersion for the player during gameplay. Problem is every game is different so we have developed specific habits for specific games and it fucks us up big time.
What really needs to happen here is some kind of disclaimer before each game clearly stating how and when the game saves by itself or that the player is responsible for said saving points. Nobody wants to redo the same area 30 times over. Old habits don't die as easily as our digital heroes do. Fallout 4 has caused me many hours of pain so far. Amazingly I have not learned my lesson to 'quick save' fucking everywhere, all the God damn time. Turning any old corner in the wasteland can be extremely punishing. So you die. Then re-spawn a la Dragon Age. Waaaay the hell back where you really didn't want to be. 'Are you fucking serious,' or 'godamnsonofabitch' have been heard to be remarked. Finally, after many hours I've re learned the art of saving all over again. It tends to take me out of the moment and causes mild anxiety. Maybe that's a new kind of game mechanic done on purpose?
The take away here kids is to what?.....save as often as humanly possible, unless the game does not allow it or your in the very middle of a melee battle with a mutated bear. I feel with every game i'm attempting the classic 'trust test.' I'm standing on a chair with my arms crossed over my chest and my eyes closed, ready to fall back into the open arms of whatever copy of game i happened to be struggling with. Usually i imagine the literal game packaging with gangly arms and legs attached to it ready to catch my sorry ass. I fall, hoping for the best.


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There can be nothing more delightful than starting your business. However, one of the major hurdles that many people face when starting a business is financing the venture. Apart from selecting the type of loan that is easy on pocket and meets your need, you may also face a major hurdle- having the right credit score. A good credit score is the gateway to not only get the business loan approved but also get a lower rate of interest on the loans. If you are not aware of the important factors related to your credit score, we are here to help you out. The blog discusses some important points about your credit score.
Also read: How Your Lenders Will Overview Your Credit Profile?
How is your credit score calculated?
You credit score is calculated with the help of your credit report. The credit report is prepared after collecting the data and information submitted by various banks and other financial institutions. However, remember that the credit report is not your credit rating. The credit report mainly shows your credit history in order to assess your eligibility to get a loan for your business.
What does your Credit Report contain?
Your credit report contains all the necessary information that is required to determine your eligibility to get a loan. The credit report mainly consists of the following information:
• Name of the Company
• Nature of your Business
• Number of credit facilities you have
• Number of loans taken in the name of the company
• Guaranteed credit facilities
• Number of inquiries, if any, made in the name of the company
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What is the Ideal Credit Score?
Banks providing business loans look into your credit score to determine your eligibility to repay the loan that you have applied. As a result, the higher your credit, the better are the chances of loan approval. However, what should be the ideal credit score to get a loan without any hassles? Anyone with a credit score between 750 and 900 is considered the right candidate for getting loans. However, a score less than 750 will make it difficult for you to get a loan.
What Factors Do Lenders Check in your Credit Report?
The lenders get your credit report before approving the business loans for a number of reasons. The lenders check your repayment capacity, profit margin, receivables turnover, liquidity, collateral assets and capital available before making the final decision.
Those were some of the essential details that you need to know about your credit score and report. Collecting the information on a regular basis ensure that you take the right steps to improve your credit score to avoid hassles in future.


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Duke Divinity School has launched a new academic support program to help incoming students learn how to think and write theologically. The Refresher and Intensive for Scholarly Enrichment (RISE) program launched with a two-day pre-orientation workshop for new students this August.
According to Rev. Dr. Fatimah Salleh, assistant director of academic support, the program was conceived as a way to head off academic problems and further prepare incoming students for the academic rigor at Duke Divinity School.
Salleh, M.Div. '16, said that as someone who come into Duke Divinity School as a second-career student who already had a doctorate, she still encountered a steep learning curve in learning how to write theologically.
"I realized that just because I sat in the pews and had a strong belief in my call didn't mean I could write theologically," she said. "So part of the idea for the program came in trying to meet the need of students by offering a sort of crash course into what it is to analyze, think, and write theologically here."
Salleh, who worked closely with Judith Heyhoe, director of the Center for Theological Writing, and other staff on developing the program, said they initially hoped to enroll 25 students in the program and were surprised and encouraged to see 83 students registered.
RISE included lectures, panels, and workshops. Students received assigned reading in advance of their arrival, and throughout the program they worked on preparing, analyzing, and writing about the material. They also broke out into small group sessions with preceptors to discuss the process in depth. In addition, the program also discussed the difference between a student's call to serve the church and the academic work necessary to succeed at seminary.
"One of the first things we did in the introduction was to say that they should not conflate academic struggle and academic success with their call," Salleh said. "You could be divinely called and still struggle. So we wanted to have the students realize that the schoolwork and the academic rigor here was a skill set. And that skill set was achievable and learnable and that their call still existed."
Said student Arlene Hudson, M.Div. '20, "As someone returning back to school after 25 years, RISE was helpful in acclimating my mind and heart back into school. It gave you a good idea of what to expect in terms of course load and help organizing the course load. In addition, the writing sample was very helpful in giving me an idea of my strengths and weaknesses."
Academic support for first-year students will continue throughout the year, with preceptors in each of the core first-year classes setting up sessions and workshops open to all students on how to approach material for their writing assignments. In addition, Salleh, Heyhoe, Divinity School professors, and the preceptors stay in contact throughout the year about students who seem to be struggling, and they work together to develop a plan to help them.
"My key goal is to say that if you're admitted, you can do this, and we'll do everything we can to make sure you finish," Salleh said.


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Born in Norway in 1982 and now based in both Bergen and Berlin, Siren Elise Wilhelmsen is a graduate of Berlin's Universität der Künste, where she worked on a thesis exploring the relationship between products and numbers, culminating in her extraordinary 365 Knitting Clock, which tangibly marked the passage of time by chronomatically knitting a scarf over the course of a year.
Siren's innovative approach to conceptual design and her desire to stimulate discussion on everyday objects and rituals have earned her numerous awards, including 'Newcomer of the Year' from both the Foundation for Design and Architecture in Norway, Norsk Form, in 2012 and the German Design Council in 2013. Since starting her own practice in 2010, she has exhibited worldwide, with works appearing at the Milan Furniture Fair, London Design Week, the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, the National Museum in Beijing and more.
With a 600-year recorded history, the wooden hobby-horse is one of world's the oldest toys. By introducing other animals into the series, Siren's reinterpretation creates imaginative possibilities for other forms of transport ('Why ride when you could fly?). Designed as simple silhouettes, this range of stick animals is visually inspired by the way in which night turns three-dimensional shapes into black outlines against the darkening sky.
Named for the Norwegian word for 'evening', this lamp is inspired by the daily transition from light to darkness, reflected in the black-coated, silhouette-like exterior and the natural warmth of the interior's unadorned birch wood.
A double-weave woollen blanket with a hand-drawn black-and-white pattern with a single colour element, Ly was developed in the weave-lab at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design and woven by Innvik Sellgren.


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The latest issue of the Club Penguin Times, the official newspaper of Club Penguin, has been released. This week, it's full of news about the upcoming Earth Day Party. The party will run from April 22 through the 25th and this is the very first Earth Day Party on Club Penguin, so there's bound to be some new fun things to do.
The newspaper mentions several things about the party. One major piece of news is that a new room will open up as part of the event. It's going to be a recycling plant, and it will open up next to the Mine Shack. Also, the newspaper says that a new invention created by Gary the Gadget Guy will be showcased inside. It will transform certain items into more "useful" ones. We'll find out more when the party begins.
In the meantime, take a close look at the picture on the front of the newspaper. Is that really a pizza plant?
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SEATTLE — Derek Jeter played his first major league game just a few hundred yards outside the walls of Safeco Field, in the long since demolished Kingdome.
Since that first game — May 29, 1995 — nothing much has changed. As Jeter, the Yankee captain, plays his final season, he carries the same approach he had two decades ago. He takes responsibility, then and now.
"I've always felt that way," Jeter said before the Yankees' 3-2 victory against the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night. "I've always felt as though anytime you step onto the field you have to do a lot of the little things and a lot of little things is my job."
Jeter helped the Yankees get on the board early with a one-out single to center in the first off the Mariners right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma and scored two batters later on a double by Carlos Beltran. With the game tied in the eighth, Jeter drilled a one-out double deep to left and scored the decisive run on Jacoby Ellsbury's single.
"Those are winning players," Ellsbury said of Jeter. "They seem to do the right things when it matters most. That's why he is who he is, doing the little things that helps your team win. They don't always go in the stat sheet but they're crucial to the team's success."
Ellsbury's single was his first hit of the game, and extended his hitting streak to 14 games, the longest active streak in the majors and the longest by a Yankee since Jeter hit in 19 straight in 2012.
But Manager Joe Girardi said what Jeter did Tuesday was not small.
"Anytime you can start rallies, those are big things," Girardi said. "When you get yourself in scoring position with less than two outs, those are big things. He was able to do that."
The Yankees scored twice in the first with two outs. With Jeter on first, Mark Teixeira singled to center, with Jeter holding at second. Beltran then doubled to left, scoring Jeter, and Brian McCann followed with an infield single to deep short to bring in Teixeira.
That quickly ended a scoreless inning streak by Seattle pitchers at 19.
The Yankees were a modest 2-for-3 with runners in scoring position in the first and 3-for-5 for the game, quite an advancement given their recent struggles in such situations. Over the previous 10 games, they had gone 19 for 105 (.181) with runners in scoring position, including a 1-for-17 showing Sunday in a 2-1 loss to Kansas City.
The Yankees are now 18-11 in games decided by two runs or fewer.
The Mariners got a run back in the bottom of the first against the left-hander Vidal Nuno. After Robinson Cano's two-out double, Cole Gillespie drove him in with a single to center.
Each team would hold back the other over the next five-plus innings. Nuno, bumped back from his Monday start because of a rainout in Kansas City, needed a leaping catch by Ichiro Suzuki near the wall in right in the second inning that turned a potential extra-base hit by Kyle Seager into a long first out. He needed a crashing catch against the wall at the 401-foot mark by Ellsbury on a drive by Michael Saunders with two on and two out in the fourth. He needed Jeter to keep him out of trouble in the fifth by adroitly handling Brad Miller's hot one-hopper to his chest.
"Our defense played a big role today," Nuno said. "We've got some fast outfielders and they track balls down."
Nuno allowed four hits and one run over five and two-thirds innings, handing off to Dellin Betances. Betances (4-0) put himself in jeopardy in the seventh, hitting Mike Zunino with one out and allowing him to advance to second on a wild pitch.
Nuno struck out Saunders, but Dustin Ackley followed with a single inches over the glove of second baseman Brian Roberts. Zunino scored just ahead of Suzuki's throw to tie the score at 2-2.
Iwakuma (4-3), coming off a six-hit, seven-inning performance in a 2-0 victory over Atlanta on June 4, allowed only five base runners after the first inning and none past first base. But Jeter, who is 6-of-9 against Iwakuma in his career, got to him in the eighth with a ground-rule double that bounced over the left-center wall.
That was it for Iwakuma, who was replaced by Charlie Furbush. Ellsbury followed with a hard single — on an 0-2 pitch — to right field, scoring Jeter easily.
"This type of game has been eluding us a little bit," Ellsbury said. "Hopefully, if we can win these types of games we're going to be in great shape."
Coming in, the Yankees had lost seven of their previous 10 games but Girardi said after the win that he hoped that Ellsbury's single "was a huge hit that gets us on a roll here."
David Robertson worked a routine ninth to pick up his 15th save in 17 opportunities.


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A few days after social media giant Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, came out in open and accepted the mistakes, it has been found that Facebook will be needing 'a few years' to get back on track and fix all the problems which were uncovered after a series of revelations were made following millions of users' data leak. Defending Facebook's business model, Mark Zuckerberg also shot back at Apple CEO Tim Cook following his criticism last week. After the allegations were levelled, Facebook faced a massive jolt over its credibility as a number of known celebrities like Elon Musk and Playboy had brought down the official Facebook pages of their companies.
While talking to Vox, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that one of the problems faced by Facebook was that it was 'idealistic' and focused on aspects of connecting people. He said, "We didn't spend enough time investing in or thinking through, some of the downsides uses of the tools". He also highlighted that following the data leak, the users are now also thinking of risks and downsides. Talking to Vox, he said, "I think we will dig through this hole, but it will take a few years. I wish I could solve all these issues in three months or six months, but I just think the reality is that solving some of these questions is just going to take a longer period of time."
ALSO READ: Facebook needs a few years to fix problems concerning private user data: Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook CEO also defended the business model of his company which was questioned by Apple's CEO Tim Cook. Last week, Tim Cook has said that Facebook faced troubles because of it tried to monetise people's data. He said, "The reality here is that if you want to build a service that helps connect everyone in the world and then there are a lot of people who can't afford to pay. And therefore, as with a lot of media, having an advertising-supported model is the only rational model."
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Today someone queried my assertion that there is a lot of research confirming the detrimental effects of performance pay. The challenge seemed to be that volume of research does not equate to good research. That's a good point, and I think the person that made it is in a position to know it is true.
So, for anyone wanting to check out some of the research for themselves (which is always a good plan – you shouldn't take my word or anyone else's word for anything) here are some links to research and reports to start you off, along with some quotes to give you food for thought.
Eight brief points about "merit pay" for teachers, by Daniel Pinks
Government proposal for education needs to be based on evidence, says The New Zealand Psychological Society (NZPsS)
Credentials Versus Performance: Review of the Teacher Performance Pay Research, by Michael Podgursky, Department of Economics, University of Missouri–Columbia, and Matthew G. Springer, Department of Leadership Policy, and Organizations, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University (2007) – This research argues that performance pay may be a positive move, but the researchers state they have not outlined what that would look like or how it would work, and they suggest field trials and more research on this.
"We find that financial incentives may indeed reduce intrinsic motivation and diminish ethical or other reasons for complying with workplace social norms such as fairness. As a consequence, the provision of incentives can result in a negative impact on overall performance."
London School of Economics
New York City abandons merit pay for teachers
"…in light of a study that found the bonuses had no positive effect on either student performance or teachers' attitudes toward their jobs."
"We tested the most basic and foundational question related to performance incentives — "Does bonus pay alone improve student outcomes?" – and we found that it does not,"
Matthew Springer, executive director of the National Center on Performance Incentives.
Teacher performance pay alone does not raise student test scores
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Final Report: Experimental Evidence from the Project on Incentives in Teaching (POINT)
"Rewarding teachers with bonus pay, in the absence of any other support programs, does not raise student test scores"
National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University's Peabody
College of Education and Human Development in partnership with the RAND Corporation.
Performance-Related Pay – Wikipedia:
Academic evidence has increasingly mounted indicating that performance related pay leads to the opposite of the desired outcomes when it is applied to any work involving cognitive rather than physical skill. Research[2] funded by the Federal Reserve Bank undertaken at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with input from professors from the University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University repeatedly demonstrated that as long as the tasks being undertaken are purely mechanical performance related pay works as expected. However once rudimentary cognitive skills are required it actually leads to poorer performance. These experiments have since been repeated by a range of economists…
Pay-for-Performance (Federal Government) – Wikipedia
"…mixed findings underscore the challenge of designing a system of teachers' compensation that rewards quality in a fair and equitable manner"
(Note this research deemed success to be raised test scores in maths and English, which raises the question of whether merit pay led to teaching to the test or whether things really improved for the students' education as a whole)
"Financial incentives for teachers to increase student performance is an increasingly popular education policy around the world. This paper describes a school-based randomized trial in over two-hundred New York City public schools designed to better understand the impact of teacher incentives on student achievement. I find no evidence that teacher incentives increase student performance, attendance, or graduation, nor do I find any evidence that the incentives change student or teacher behavior. If anything, teacher incentives may decrease student achievement, especially in larger schools. The paper concludes with a speculative discussion of theories that may explain these stark results."
Again, feel free to add links to other research in the comments below, so we can read, ponder and learn more.
Thanks, Dianne


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What is a biosensor?
Biosensors are an ingenious range of gas detectors that call on the assistance of biological organisms, principally bacteria, to convert a chemical species from a form that is difficult to measure to a form that is easy to measure.
Biosensors consist of an electrochemical component and a biological component (Figure 1). The electrochemical component is usually a Clark-type microsensor that is embedded into the biological component but separated by a silicon membrane (Figure 2). The biological component, or biochamber, contains the chemical transforming bacteria. An ion-permeable membrane separates the biochamber from the external environment or sensor (Figure 2).
Figure 2. A diagram of a biosensor showing the biochamber (lower half) and Clark-type microsensor (upper half).
A target gas moves into the biochamber via diffusion and is chemically transformed to a specific chemical species by the bacteria. The new species then moves via diffusion to the Clark-type microsensor where an electrochemical reaction takes place. The voltage output of this reaction is recorded by a picoammeter and, via a calibration curve, converted to known partial pressure of the gas of interest.
Biosensors have been developed to measure oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, methane, nitrate/nitrite (NOx) and nitrite (NO2). However, only NOx and NO2 are currently available as measuring the other gases has proved challenging (see below for more details).
detailed information on biosensors
The following section has been adapted from the Unisense NOx Biosensor Manual and describes in detail how a biosensor measures NOx and NO2. The same measurement principle, although with different chemical and bacteria species, is applicable to other biosensors.
Figure 3. A Unisense NOx Biosensor.
Nitrate or nitrite diffuses into the NOx biosensor from the external environment through a selective membrane (Fig. 2). Bacteria situated in a reaction chamber behind this membrane reduce the nitrate or nitrite to nitrous oxide (N2O), which is detected by an electrochemical nitrous oxide transducer. The amount of N20 reduced on the cathode surface is proportional to the concentration of NOx in the external environment. The respiration of the bacteria oxidizes carbon (the energy source) to form CO2 and water and there is a simultaneous reduction of nitrate and nitrite to nitrous oxide.
The NOx biosensor is equipped with a reservoir containing the carbon source. This carbon compound diffuses into the reaction chamber (Fig. 2), where the bacteria are positioned in opposing gradients of the two substrates, carbon and NOx, required for their growth. Excess cells formed by the growth of the bacteria are pushed upwards into the reservoir, where there is no NOx present. As these cells are unable to respire, growth will cease, and the cells degenerate, releasing cell components, which are used as a carbon source for other living cells.
The bacteria are facultative aerobic microorganisms, meaning that they are able to use both oxygen and NOx for respiration. Respiration with oxygen results in the highest energy yield, and oxygen is therefore used preferentially over NOx. However, oxygen respiration by the bacteria does not affect the sensor's response to NOx.
The N2O transducer is a Clark-type sensor, in which N2O is reduced to nitrogen gas (N2) on the surface of a polarized cathode. As two electrons are used to reduce a N2O molecule, two electrons are taken from a silver/silver iodide reference electrode (the anode). A picoammeter measures the transport of electrons between the anode and cathode, and the measured current is proportional to the amount of N2O reduced on the cathode surface. The latter is again proportional to the concentration of NOx diffusing into the sensor from the external environment.
A silicone membrane in the tip of the N2O transducer electrically separates bacterial production and electrochemical detection of N2O. The silicone membrane allows the passage of gasses and small, uncharged molecules, while ions are unable to pass.
The bacteria performing the process inside the sensor is a pure culture and must not be contaminated with bacteria from an external source. Therefore the bacteria are separated from the external environment by an ion-permeable membrane, which only allows the passage of small ions, including NOx. Larger molecules and other bacterial cells cannot enter the sensor through this membrane.
advantages and limitations
- Chemical Species
Biosensors are currently limited to only a few different types of chemical species. A great advantage of biosensors is they can measure NOx and NO2 in-situ, continuously and online where otherwise these chemicals need to be tediously measured in the lab. Biosensors offer one of the only methods to measure some nitrogen based chemical species in the field that are critical for environmental scientists and wastewater managers. Some LIX based sensors can measure NO3, NO2 and NH4 in freshwater environments. However, high concentrations of interfering ions renders LIX sensors inaccurate in marine or saltwater environments.
- Temperature
As biosensors rely on living organisms of bacteria, temperature can have a significant effect on performance and measurement range. At low temperatures, bacteria are less active and transform less of the chemical species whereas at high temperatures the bacteria can becomes stressed and die. For the NOx/NO2 biosensors the measurement range at 10°C is 0 to 200 μM whereas at 20°C the measurement range is 0 to 1000 μM.
- Lifespan
Biosensors only have a limited lifespan of a few months (depending on level of usage). However, the design of the sensors mean that the biochambers can be replaced once the bacteria have expired.
- Continuous Online Monitoring
NOx and NO2 biosensors provide the opportunity for in-situ, continuous and online monitoring for periods up to 10 days. This feature is particularly advantageous for wastewater managers.


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It's been quite a while since Etiquetteer's offered a potpourri/grab bag/salmagundi kind of a column, but that's what the inbox is providing at the moment. Let's look at mourning clothes, group texts, and holiday cards:
Many of us noticed Hillary Clinton's black pantsuit with purple lapels when she gave her concession speech last week. Now everyone knows that in Western culture black is the color of mourning, but true connoisseurs of style and symbolism were quick to note Secretary Clinton's combination of it with purple. Purple, along with white and gray, take mourning from what was called "deep mourning" of all black to "half mourning," which includes those colors. An even greater bit of symbolism: the combination of black and purple represents "triumph over death," which Etiquetteer discovered when reading Infinite Variety, the biography of the outrageous Marchesa Luisa Casati (and which Etiquetteer has pointed out before). The famous portraitist Giovanni Boldini painted the Marchesa in a black dress with an infinitely long streamer of purple and a huge disk of purple violets, perfectly expressing the Marchesa's unshakeable belief in her own invincibility.
Dear Etiquetteer:
I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I was at a Remembrance Day Service at Battalion Park which is about 15 minutes from my place. It was an outdoor service. There was a few times during the Service that I took off my hat. I noticed that a woman next to me also took her hat off at the same times during the Service. I as a male took off my hat, but I thought women didn't have to do the same thing. I am not saying that women have a free pass for not taking hats off during services like this.
Dear Capped:
You're correct that the old-fashioned rule is that ladies keep their hats on, but gentlemen remove their hats. It isn't clear to Etiquetteer whether or not you removed your hat because of elements of the service, or because you were uncomfortable. For all Etiquetteer knows, this woman could have been following your lead of uncertainty of what to do.
For an outdoor memorial service in a place that offers no shade, Etiquetteer would bend the rules sufficiently to allow gentlemen to leave their hats on. There's no point in getting sunstroke and possibly providing another reason for a memorial service.
Dear Etiquetteer:
Sometimes I receive a group text and not all the phone numbers are in my contacts. They appear as phone numbers. Is it rude to ask for a name for a phone number? Should I offer mine, too? I think if I don't have theirs, they may not have mine. I was curious about how to handle this.
Dear Text Groupie:
By all means, identify yourself and ask others to identify themselves! In situations such as this, which are initiated by Someone You Know, everyone has the privilege of knowing exactly to whom they are communicating. But the situation you describe also sounds like a good reason to avoid group texts.
But then Etiquetteer admits to bias against them anyway. Etiquetteer endures a certain amount of good-natured teasing about continuing to use a flip phone; it's only three years old, but already an antique. Compared to smartphones, its limitations include a much smaller screen and actually having to flip it open to use it. Some time ago a New Acquaintance included Etiquetteer in a group text with who knows how many Total Strangers, leading to a good 20 minutes or so of a constantly vibrating flip phone with texts from random numbers filled with Meaningful Content like "LOL!" and "Yes!" Etiquetteer has not spoken to the New Acquaintance since.
The latter half of November has now begun, which prompts Etiquetteer to remind Thoughtful Readers to prepare for sending out their Holiday Cards. Aside from actually creating or purchasing cards, it's just as important to review your address list to correct mistakes, change addresses of anyone who's moved, and to add new friends. Cards for the Winter Holidays may be sent immediately after Thanksgiving (for those eager to Launch the Season) or even as late as Twelfth Night (the true Twelfth Day of Christmas).


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Since its introduction in 2006 Dante has become the most popular AoIP technology. To place it in the AoIP landscape it is proprietary, owned by Australian Company Audinate. It operates on Layer 3. It differs from AVB/TSN in that AVB/TSN operates on Layer 2 and is an open standard. It is similar to RAVENNA in that it operates on layer 3 but differs from RAVENNA in that RAVENNA is open rather than proprietary. Because it operates at layer 3, it works over standard switches, unlike AVB/TSN. Dante can use 100 meg networks (with QoS), though the channel count is restricted to 32 each way. On a modern Gigabit switch channel counts of up to 512 each way are supported as are sample rates of up to 192kHz.
Audinate Hardware
While Dante Via offers the possibility of software only Dante networks, to get the lowest latency performance Dante uses proprietary hardware. I think of this as being like graphics processing. You can do it on your computer's CPU but performance is much faster using dedicated hardware. Audinate don't make consumer hardware, the business of bringing Dante equipped hardware to market is done through partner brands developing products using one of Audinate's hardware modules - Audinate provide the bit which talks to the Dante network and partner brands build a product around it. The standardised network interface in all Dante equipped hardware is what gives the predictable performance. In terms of network performance Dante uses best-effort delivery using quality of service (QoS) to prioritise clock and audio data on mixed-use networks. It doesn't have the deterministic behaviour of AVB/TSN but Audinate argue that the reserved bandwidth for guaranteed delivery model of AVB/TSN is only necessary when traffic exceeds the available bandwidth on the network. If the network is properly designed its bandwidth will exceed the maximum demand it will have placed on it and if this isn't the case then the network isn't properly designed.
There are currently over 250 Dante licensed manufacturers. This is far more than the next most widely supported technology, probably because of the relative ease and speed with which manufacturers can incorporate Dante into existing products or design new ones knowing that because of the proprietary interface module supplied by Audinate, from the network's perspective all Dante hardware is one of four pieces of hardware. The current products supplied to manufacturers by Audinate are:
- Brooklyn (in rack gear) - 64/64 @48KHz, 32x32 @96KHz, 16/16 @192KHz - This hardware can support AES67 but this is dependent on the relevant manufacturer releasing the firmware. Not all have done so yet, including Focusrite.
- Ultimo (in the AM2 headphone amp and similar products) - 4x4 @48KHz, 2x2 @96KHz
- Dante HC (in high capacity hardware) - 512x512 @48KHz, 256x256 @96KHz, 128X128 @192KHz
- PCI-R cards (Focusrite and Yamaha) - 128x128 @48KHz, 64x64 @96KHz, 32x32 @192KHz
44.1KHz, 88.2KHz and 176.4KHz are all supported too but are omitted from the list.
The latency figures for Dante depend on how you are accessing the network. For low latency performance using hardware nodes round trip latency is around email@example.com however point to point latency from one device to another is as low as 150µs. For a computer running Dante Virtual Sound Card latency is much higher at around firstname.lastname@example.com. Dante Via has a similar network transmit latency of around 10ms but auxiliary signal paths such as USB audio devices will introduce further latency on top of this figure.
Difference Between RedNet And Dante
Focusrite were very wise to get into AoIP as long ago as they did and I'm sure many of us heard of RedNet before we heard of Dante. While RedNet is a Dante system, there are some minor differences between RedNet and Dante though none of them relate to the networking technology itself, I'll cover this in another article. The main thing to appreciate is that while RedNet is Dante, Dante is not RedNet (i.e. there are parts of RedNet which aren't common to other Dante peripherals but the converse isn't true).
I see this as Dante's key strength. Because a Dante network is a network of proprietary devices all produced by a single company, it just works. It's very similar to the compatibility advantages of using exclusively Apple hardware in that all hardware is a known quantity. All Dante equipment is produced by a single company because although clearly Dante equipment is produced by many, many companies, because all these partner brands use Audinate's hardware as the network interface in their various products, from the network's perspective all hardware is Audinate hardware but from the user's perspective there is a rich ecosystem of hardware with guaranteed interoperability.
Why Is Dante Doing So Well?
It certainly is doing well. The survey conducted by RH Consulting, which we recently invited Pro Tools Expert readers to participate in, shows clear evidence that Dante has assumed a dominant position in the market. It has overtaken the older generation of networked audio products and of the current generation, its proprietary, layer 3 model has meant it is deployable across currently installed networks and it is relatively straightforward and, crucially, quick to develop and bring products to market. That doesn't mean that Dante has is any way won the race to become the de facto standard for networked audio distribution, but being widely supported, simple to use and so well established so early is a great position to be in. RAVENNA has its native compatibility with AES67 as a big plus, though Dante equipment running Brooklyn hardware is capable of supporting AES67 too. AVB/TSN has always been held back by its requirement for compatible switches. The switches issue is going to be less and less of an issue in the future as Cisco have finally begun production of AVB/TSN compatible switches.
Audinate's approach to building market share is interesting because it illustrates a key difference in approach to the market. Dante is a product, not a standard like AVB/TSN. Because of this it is owned by a company who want it to do well, and offer support to manufacturers wanting to use their product. This support is part of the cost of implementing Dante but it supports manufacturers in supporting their customers and this offers direct access to live market feedback for product refinement and development. The difference between different AoIP technologies isn't just technical, sometimes, like the difference between MacOS and Linux it is more than technical - it's philosophical. The short term for Dante looks very positive as it offers ease of use and an excellent user experience. As for the long term - well who knows?


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Band Retreat Overview
Band Retreats at Kamp Kiwanis are a new experience being offered at Kamp Kiwanis. The program is designed for students in grade 7 - 12. Programs run from January - February.
The Band Retreat Program is a new offering at Kamp Kiwanis (as of 2016). We like to think of the Band Retreat Program as a hybrid rental-school program. The Band Retreat program is primarily run by each school with Kamp Kiwanis staff running one block (1.5 hours) a day, as a break to the band rehearsals (led by the school teachers). In addition to the 1.5 hours of programming everyday Kamp Kiwanis also provides accommodation and food.
Kamp Kiwanis offers a variety of outdoor recreation activities. When scheduling your Band Retreat Program, you can choose from a selection of activities to design a program that best matches your curriculum and the needs of your students. The following categories are intended to be a starting place for the discussion about the types of activities that can be offered as a part of your Band Retreat experience.
Environmental Literacy
Activities found in this category are designed to create an understanding and appreciation of processes and players in the natural world. Environmental Literacy activities focus on investigation, biodiversity, and environmental concepts.
Environmental Awareness
Activities found in this category are designed to inspire students' awareness of the natural world, and encourage them to forge lasting relationships with the environment. Environmental Awareness activities focus on observation, exploration, and nature immersion.
Environmental Action
Activities found in this category are designed to promote sustainable choices and actions that allow students to apply their knowledge at school and in their communities. Environmental choices are also highlighted during the week through programs such as recycling and food waste skits.
Outdoor Recreation
Activities found in this category are designed to get students outdoors with fun, active, and engaging activities. Outdoor Recreation activities often stress team building and leadership skill development.
How to book
Band retreats at Kamp Kiwanis are very popular and as a result it is recommended to contact us as soon as your school is interested in Band Retreat experience for the best chance of securing your preferred date.
For further information and to book an Band Retreat please contact Doreen Soderberg (Guest Services Director) via email - firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone - 403-242-9255.
We can't wait to start crafting the perfect learning experience for you and your school!


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Welcome To Sal's Pizza & Subs
Some chains have lowered the standard for good food. Sal's Pizza, however, has decided to keep the tradition, and has been offering fresh food at a fair price for over 40 years. Not just pizza, Sal's offers a wide variety of subs and sandwiches for customers to keep the variety alive.
Customers who live in the Hanover, PA area have a new choice in delicious food. Located at 1234 Baltimore Street, Sal's has been offering fresh pizza and subs for quite some time. Not just a new startup company, this is a place that has established a good reputation for some of the best New York style pizza available. Customer reviews on sites such as Yelp and Urbanspoon consistently rate it high.
Known for their pizzas, some of the offerings include menu items such as the thin round pizza – or the square thick pizza. They offer a wide range of toppings, from the traditional items such as pepperoni, sausage and beef, to more exotic offerings such as anchovies and pineapple. This pizza brings back memories of a small pizzeria that isn't easy to find any more with a perfect combination of sauce, cheese and toppings on their pizza.


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Martha Collison's Christmas fruit cake – how to decorate
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Makes: 20cm cake (20 slices)
See my recipe for Christmas fruit cake
3 Waitrose British Blacktail Large Free Range
Egg whites
700g icing sugar, sieved plus extra for dusting
1 tbsp glycerine
2 tbsp lemon juice
3 tbsp apricot jam, sieved
750g white or golden marzipan
Gold or silver lustre spray or Waitrose Christmas Edible Gold or Silver Stars
1. To make the royal icing for your fruit cake, pour the egg whites into a bowl and whisk using a handheld electric whisk until they look frothy, then add the sieved icing sugar a tablespoon at a time. Whisk well after each addition until all the sugar has been used. Add the glycerine and lemon juice, then whisk for a few minutes more until the icing is thick and holds stiff peaks.
2. Heat the sieved apricot jam in a small pan. Place the Christmas cake face down onto a large chopping board. Brush all over with a thin layer of jam, then roll out the marzipan on a surface dusted with icing sugar so it is large enough to completely cover the cake. Drape the rolled marzipan over the top of the cake and use your hands to press it to the shape of the outside. Trim off any excess and don't worry if it's not perfect as it will be covered by icing.
3. Spoon the royal icing onto the top of the marzipan-covered cake and use a palette knife to spread it over the whole surface, swirling it to create a choppy appearance. Sprinkle with a few edible gold or silver stars or a dusting of lustre spray, if liked, and leave to harden completely (around 2-3 days) before enjoying. The iced cake will keep for up to 2 weeks.
This recipe was first published in November 2017.


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Next to the Golden Gate Bridge and Pier 39, the gates of Chinatown are one of the most tourist visited (clogged) places in San Francisco. Thus, what better place to open a French themed bistro! No seriously, this placed opened 10 years ago just across the street to offer up "old world charm with modern flair." Of course I'm talking about Cafe de la Presse, a French bistro and bar trying to bring a little Europe to visitors and locals alike.
I'll admit right off the bat, I kind of like this place. With it's outdoor (umbrellas!) seating and small marble tables, metal work chairs and wall of French and European magazines, it really comes close to making you feel like you are eating a cafe in Europe. Though the lack of cigarette smoke and tourists in shorts and fleece tops they bought in Chinatown (because they didn't know it would be cold here!) can remind you exactly where you are. The trick to that is to just keep your sunglasses on and ignore everything else around you--just like a French person!
Anyway, beyond the feel of the place, my favorite reason for going here is brunch and more specifically to have that most unique of not quite breakfast dishes the croque madame.
As a bit of a backstory, there is a croque monsieur--the original grab and go sandwich from French cafes that consists of bake, fried or boiled ham with a variety of cheeses and sometimes a bechamel sauce on two slices of bread that is dipped in egg then baked or fried then covered in more melted cheese. (Mouth watering yet?) And the madame is the same thing topped with a fried egg. I've only been here for lunch/brunch and I always get this because it never varies and is always cheesy goodness.
There's just something about toasted buttered bread, melted cheese and salty ham with the yolk of a fried egg running over it to calm your mornings and ease you into the day--well, my day anyway. Yes, they have other things on their menu and I've been with folks who've gotten quiches or burgers and while they look perfectly fine and people seem to enjoy them, my heart and my stomach crave nothing more than croque madame in all her cheesy, creamy glory.
I will say the service here can be spotty as it can take time to place your order, receive food and get refills. But having traveled a bit I'll just chalk that up to adding more of a European flair to your dining experience. While restaurants in the US are concerned with turning tables and moving people in and out as fast as possible, European places tend to let you laze for a bit without being rushed and if you are having brunch on your day off why would you want to hurry? Thus Cafe de la Presse is one of the few places I'll give sometimes unreliable service a pass on since it does add to the atmosphere.
While they do have tablecloth covered places to sit and down at the back of the restaurant, I recommend trying to snag one of the cafe tables upfront near the window as it's more entertaining and more French like. Or, if it isn't too terribly windy a day, sit outside to get the full "I'm a tourist eating in a cafe" experience. You can also be entertained by the hordes trying to get a shot of themselves with the Chinatown gates without getting hit by the cars that zoom by on this active corner.
What else can I say, I find this place fun and enjoyable enough to recommend and I even take out of town friends here when they come to visit. Or if you are having a staycation and want to eat somewhere that doesn't feel (completely) like San Francisco, this place also works. Either way, if you go, you have to at least once try the croque madame--for the cheesy French lover in us all. Bon appetit monsieurs and madames!


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My sister is doing a project on indigenous herbs in Washington State. Although she has not yet nailed down a specific list of herbs to research, does any one know of any good sources of info? She is mainly interested in how they have been used over time: for medicinal purposes, ceremonial purposes or culinary purposes. thanks in advance, Wendy McCausland wm1k+ at andrew.cmu.edu


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Already sick and tired of disappointing elections? You need a quick shot of Wolfmania Late Night. That's right, the slightly-less-erratic, marginally-more-erotic older sister show of Wolfmania the Podcast makes a mucky return to the airwaves as Andrew and Tim make like Motley Crue and go Girl! Girl! Girl! crazy.
For those of you who like your late night content a little contentious, the boys shout at the devil in the least expected GOD chat this side of that Nicky Campbell show they have on Sunday morning that you think is going to be all about Grannies getting ripped off when they have their new PVC windows installed, but is actually a boring debate about whether or not we should give the terrorists the oxygen of publicity.
Then, after that, we talk about going to the toilet for twenty minutes.
Given tonight's impossibly hot topics, Wolfmania Late Night features strong language and flashing images from the start (actually, it would be more correct to say it features strong flashing and language issues from the start). You have been warned.
If you're still wondering whether Wolfmania Late Night is for you, consider that this episode features the punchlines: 'Sex Toy Story', 'Justin Toiletlake' and quite a chat about who the most famous person you've ever done a wee next to. That's what you want, right? You filthy animal, you. Yeah, you do. Normal service will be resumed next week.


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For years I struggled with my weight. I tried all kinds of diets, Weight Watchers, Herbalife, diet pills...and whether or not they worked, I never stuck with them.
Finally about a year ago I found a website where you could log your workouts and food, so I tried that. I did it off and on, but this past summer (when I was at my heaviest) I went back to logging and stuck to it...I even did my best to keep my phone charged and log while on a camping trip with my fiance's family. When I returned from the trip (before which I had also started back to the gym and also starred Zumba) I found I had lost around 5-6 lbs. I kept working out and logging and now since June 2012 I've lost around 30. Now the more I lose the more encouraged I am.
I need to lose about 64 lbs more to reach my "ideal" weight...but that isn't very daunting consisering I'm already 30 down.
So my long term action plan is to lose that 64 by July (or come damn close).
For a long term plan to work you need a short term plan: mine is to keep logging my workouts, and keep logging my food journal. Go to Zumba at least two-three times a week, go to the gym two-three times a week, and AM workouts at hone before work.


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Hello friends,
Stopping by ye olde website to let you know about my latest release: The Shovel & The Hare. This book was born out of a short fable I wrote which colorfully portrays the value of hard work. My publishers and I agreed that we should combine with this a collection of hand-picked favorites from my previously published book Skinny Dipping in Daylight and, as a major bonus, a decent amount from my Fall of 2014 release Everything You've Heard is True. This is a book I'm thrilled to let see the light of day, as it not only houses my latest writings of poetry and prose but also a small section dedicated to showcasing my personal photography over the years. Photography, I believe, speaks poetry transcendent of language.
Without further ado, the good news: You only have have to wait two weeks to recieve The Shovel & The Hare. And because of my obsession with the number 11, my publisher has agreed to humor me a little by allowing me to pre-release the book to you on the 11th of May at a cost of $11.11 plus shipping. Silly? Yes. Awesome? Also, yes. The Shovel & The Hare's street release date is May 20th, so you'll get the book at a discount and recieve it a week early. But wait — there's more ... I will also scribble my name in your copy if you order directly from Fog Ink Publishing by clicking this here link ---> click this link. And you may click it right this very second to pre-order. The magic of the internets. After the official release date, the 20th of May, the price will hold at $12.99 through Fog Ink Publishing.
That's all for now, more from me later. I've got to run to the studio to finish 14 paintings by this weekend. Wish me luck!


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Tuesday, 23 July 2013
A right royal fuss!
I deliberately added the word British, in case there are any foreign readers who haven't heard the news, though I very much doubt it. According to Spanish TV - who were hanging around outside St Mary's hospital before, during and after the happy event - there were press representatives from as far afield as Australia. However, just in case you haven't already heard the news: the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to a baby boy in St Mary's hospital in London yesterday. Splendid news!
I guess that I shouldn't have been surprised that Spanish TV cameras were there, after witnessing the reaction in Spain to the Royal Wedding. We had gone out for the day with some British friends, and we planned to have lunch near the coast. There was an unanimous vote to avoid any British bars, especially when we saw the boards outside them splattered with Royal Wedding deals. Don't get me wrong - I'm not an anti-monarchist, but neither am I a huge fan of the Royal Family. My friend Lesley and I agreed that we would quite like to see the dress (sorry, that should have read "THE Dress"!) but we didn't really want to watch the whole ceremony.
We sat down in a Spanish bar and ordered our meal before realising that the wedding was on Spanish TV too! A quick flick through the papers confirmed that every channel was providing coverage, so there was no escape. I just find it slightly bizarre that foreign media are so obsessed with royalty from a different country.
I thought that the fervour over the royal birth had died down today. The Pope's visit to Brazil was on the front page of ABC, the Spanish newspaper that we bought this morning. However closer inspection inside revealed that several pages were devoted to the "niño de Los Duques de Cambridge". Are Spanish people so interested in reading about this baby that they need five pages of information?
They say that good news doesn't sell newspapers, but in this case it obviously does. I admit that I'd far rather read about a new baby than some of the dreadful things happening in the world every day. I wish the parents well, of course, and I would like to congratulate William and Kate plus any other new parents out there. However excuse me if I say that I don't really care what name the third in line to the British throne is given. Why don't they just call him Prince?
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I don't typically watch the news or read papers, so I hadn't heard yet about the birth of the Royal Baby. I'm a little surprised now that I didn't see any mention of it on Facebook. I am with you though, I'm happy for William and Kate, but don't quite understand why it is such a big deal internationally. I guess people just view the Royals as if they are a real life Fairy Tale.ReplyDeleteReplies
Wow! Did you put things in perspective for me today! While I get bored of all of the "Royal" news, you said it very well when you pointed out that a Royal wedding or birth beats the heck out of a passel of bad news which usually graces our papers and news wires!Delete
Hi Melissa, I assume that you don't live in the UK? Many of my friends who live there were making comments on Facebook, including my niece who posted a picture of the Royal Baby, which I have to admit surprised me!Delete
Sheri, like you I get bored by too much "Royal" news, but it does make a pleasant change to read about happy events.
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I'm happy to hear less about the Trayvon Martin case and more about the Royal Baby. It was about time for that. I don't know how anyone living in this world doesn't watch the local and national news and yet pay attention to things on FaceBook! FaceBook does not replace the real world we live in. My husband just reads the paper (in his hands) on Sunday (for the local paper and then the big city news that is an hour away from us) and then he reads the daily local paper online.ReplyDelete
I think the one thing that had me intrigued this time is that Princess Di would have been the grandmother and because she was such a great mom to her two boys... I'm excited to see how they are growing and who they are becoming as they do! I really don't have an opinion on what they name him, I'm sure that as long as it isn't "East, West or South" I'll be quite content!Replies
It's interesting what you say about Facebook: I see Facebook as a means of keeping in touch with friends and family. I like to chat to my family via Skype, but we all lead such busy lives that it can be tricky to find a mutually convenient time. Emailing and posting on Facebook is the next best thing.Delete
We usually check the BBC website first thing in the morning for the latest news, so I actually found out about the Royal baby through Facebook comments!
I'm sure William is missing his mother at this particular moment - he seems very like her at times.
No doubt I will hear what name they choose via one of my Facebook friends!


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Today's Winnipeg Free Press carried an interesting piece on the ownership battle at Gluttons, one of our city's more feted restaurants. Piecing together the story from court documents, the reporter retold the story of co-owners fighting each other for control of a successful small business.
I won't rehash the dispute here, because what interested me was that all the parties wisely stayed away from the story. The reporter attempted to interview several of the key players, but none was available for comment.
The reporter managed to cite only the former chef, Makoto Ono, and "he couldn't shed any light on the management dispute.†I think it's more likely that Ono "wouldn'tâ€, because he "shouldn't.â€
When I give media training sessions – for small business owners, executives or whoever – I always counsel that they are not obliged to give interviews at all. Just because a reporter calls, doesn't mean you need to get into a tell-all discussion on the inner workings and personal conflicts at work in your business. Â
It's fine and good to foster a positive, collaborative relationship with the media, but when you give an interview, it's like inviting a reporter to your home for a visit. You will tidy up the place and maybe you will break out the nice china, but you're not likely going to show them the laundry room or the broom closet (even if they ask to see those places).
The media has a right to write a great many things. In this case, if the players keep quiet, the story (a short-term pain, no doubt) will likely just go away.