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A long servig hospital volunteer from Rastrick who has served 10,000 cups of tea to patients has opened a new cancer ward.
Long-serving hospital volunteer Carol Armitage, snipped the ribbon at the opening of the new state-of-the-art outpatients centre for cancer patients at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.
Carol has been a volunteer on the unit since it first opened 20 years ago.
She said: "I wish to say on behalf of volunteers past and present how much it means to us to help you on this ward. Over the years I have met some wonderful people and it is a pleasure to do what we do for them. There been so many changes yet the care remains the same."
More than 150 patients a week will receive their chemotherapy treatments in the suite and all oncology outpatients appointments will be held on the unit.
The unit retains its original name the Greenlea Unit and was originally opened in 1996 by the then Chief medical Officer for England Sir Ken Calman.
It is the first major upgrade since it was opened 19 years ago supported by the Huddersfield Breast Cancer Appeal.
The chemotherapy area is more spacious and has room for more patients than the previous unit and has a mixture of spacious shared chemotherapy areas with privacy curtains for each patients and a number of side rooms for patients requiring bed facilities.
The oncology outpatient area has eight clinic rooms, a resource centre to offer advice and support to patients and their families, a light, airy waiting room with drink-making facilities and a Quiet Room.
The walls – painted in bold, modern colours, - are decorated with pictures of flowers and butterflies painted by children of the staff and there are also vast full-wall murals of flowers, goldfish and the countryside.
Chemotherapy Lead Nurse Jackie Swire, said: "We are delighted to be able to have this new facility for our patients. We have been wanting to improve it for a long time and are now really pleased that our patients, their friends and their families will have a new, improved environment as they go through assessment and then treatment for a wide range of cancers.
"Chemotherapy treatments can be long and frequent so anything which makes it more relaxing is so much better for patients who are going through difficult times. All the team is very proud to be able to offer them care on this new facility."
The chemotherapy suite has had two new scalp coolers donated from Paxman Coolers a local Huddersfield firm which makes the specialist headwear equipment which aims to minimise hair loss during chemotherapy.


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After the aforementioned childhood images, which could have been dreams – certainly they follow in part the logic and the tone of dreams, though I have never remembered them in that context – and the two very clear, upfront and personal sightings of things that were obviously there, obviously in the sky and, moreover, were obviously not planes or clouds or even the Goodyear blimp (yes, thank you, I do know the difference) it seemed as if for a long time nothing else of this sort happened. Yet my years as an undergraduate and as a young adult were perforated through by certain images and irruptions of the stuff of meaning, of the supramundane. My mind and my character were far from cohesive. I was dissolute. I drank heavily and accomplished little, descended into a pervasive lassitude and depression. As a result, though drinking like this kind of held me together at the time and made life bearable, I now regret just about every moment of my lifetime between 18 and 22 – though less for my behavior while drunk than for the way the intensity of need (only partially met by drink) and sheer, chronic horrible feeling caused me to act towards others who were, for a short time, close to me.
During this period, there were a couple of events that stood out as especially odd. Now that I think of it, they both happened at the same rooming house where I lived for most of a year between 1988 and 1989. The house seemed to be haunted by a resentful ghost. The landlord, a middle-aged woman whose father had died suddenly and violently while building the house, had inherited it some twenty years previous to my living there. The building, a dismal and dark spot within an apparently otherwise normal suburb, had never been properly finished, though it had been inhabited for all this time by a variety of marginal characters, some of us students, many quite shady, most all of us desperate in one way or another.
On one late morning in the autumn – more likely by then approaching early afternoon –I was simply too lazy to get out of bed. After some hours of lying awake, I both felt and heard something explode inside of my skull. It was like a small bomb physically in my head that literally exploded. That did get me up; that got me out of bed fast. I was scared, and I felt certain then that someone or something had intervened, had set this thing off in me, as if to say, enough is enough. God only knows to what purpose. But it was time to get up and do something, though to my perspective there seemed little point to the day, and nothing worth the effort.
The next event from this period happened some months later. I'd moved into another room in the house, above the cold garage, to the expansive but unheated, uninsulated attic room where I spent the worst and most difficult winter of my young life. The springtime would soon be full of bad drama surrounding a downstairs neighbor, but that, I think, hadn't happened yet. The room beneath mine was then still empty. The angry ghost would manifest at night, pounding on all four walls at once, or interrupting the power in measured intervals of three (the possibility that mischievous people might have been behind this certainly exists, but I couldn't see why they would bother with such coordinated effort, in such numbers as these pranks would on occasion require). The event that followed may very well have been little or nothing at all: it only seemed to be some kind of skywriting, seen through a window. To see it, I would have been lying on the floor, looking out at the sky, but that isn't so unusual. What was unusual was the oddly glyphic form of vapor arrangement that I saw. This was at least a decade before the issue of chemtrails became part of the public dialogue, and the utterly bizarre tic-tac-toe patters I've since seen photographed in the sky, as if daring those below to notice. This could have been a precursor to that particular form of jokesterism, whoever was behind it.
What I saw, made out of cloud, from my perspective, was a long horizontal line, out of which, attached at the base, was formed a small equilateral triangle, and in the very center of this was a single dot. These were very precise shapes, only starting to untangle and waft away, made out of, yes, clouds. I saw no aircraft make them, and I'd heard nothing – or at least hadn't noticed, though this design hung at fairly low altitude. It's hardly impossible that this wasn't the work of somebody in a small airplane just practicing their craft. It just seemed outright mental at that level. But what did seem meaningful was that there was a communication of something very strange going on – at least I felt it to be so – and this, like so much, remains at the level of an uncertain liminality between the mundane and transcendent, the banality of obvious, stupid fact and the mystery of possible, deep otherness. These things, too, may be expressed by people and their activities. Perhaps what I speak of is less an external event than it is my own frustration with the seeming limits of first, myself, and secondarily, normality. I felt that quality of otherness to be expressed in the fact of communication through these unlikely shapes, though they, like much else, could very well have found their source in my own longing that it be so.

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Schalke sack coach Tedesco after Man City mauling
March 14 (Reuters) - Schalke 04 fired coach Domenico Tedesco two days after they lost 7-0 to Manchester City in the Champions League last 16 second leg, the German club said on Thursday.
The mauling in Manchester, completing a 10-2 aggregate loss, was the fifth consecutive defeat for a side lying fifth-bottom of the Bundesliga.
"Head coach Domenico Tedesco and assistant coach Peter Perchtold have been relieved of their duties with immediate effect," Schalke said in a statement.
Interim coach Huub Stevens will take charge of the team for Saturday's league game against RB Leipzig.
"He (Tedesco) developed the side very well last season that ended with us finishing runners-up," sporting director Jochen Schneider said.
"However, we can't fail to recognise that the development this season has been negative."
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Sad news from the Arctic off Europe, killer whales set a new record for toxic chemicals in their bodies.
Toxic chemicals found at high levels included PCBs and chlorinated pesticides, in other words some nasty stuff. Levels were 6-20 times higher than in other high arctic marine mammals such as beluga whales.
We're killing them softly with our song of modern life.


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If your child is enrolled to attend Whangaparaoa College in 2017 we would like to advise that from Monday 26 September 2016 uniforms will be available to be purchased online via a specialised school uniform shop run by NZUniforms at www.nzuniforms.com
Uniform can also be purchased 6 days a week, weekdays 9am - 5pm and Saturday 9am - 1pm, from the NZUniform shop at 19 Orbit Drive Albany. All major credit cards and WINZ payments are accepted. NZUniforms also run a Uniform Club which is a great way to save for your uniform purchases if you wish to make regular payments.
To assist you with sizing for your child we will be opening the current uniform shop onsite at Whangaparaoa College in the upcoming school holidays on Monday 26 & Tuesday 27 September from 10am - 3pm. Limited stock will be available for purchase if you wish.
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Welcome to my blog, Genzano it story
and this post, More farm life, in my youth
More farm life
If one tries to compares the present way of life which we are living now to when I was young, I can assure you that life then was much harder and boring than today. I am saying this to you dear readers because you are living in this new and wonderful era of electronic devices, and you can choose to listen, watch or play with these electronic devices whenever you please; and in doing so you may be able to enjoy yourself, and at the same time if you happen to be in a situation like I was when I was young, you may be able to learn something useful from them, if you put your mind to it.
But can you imagine a world that has no man made electronics? A world with not even a single push button devise that you could amuse yourself with? Then ask yourself, how could one live in a very isolated environment where silence reigns supreme days after days. I suppose all this is hard to believe today, but that's how my farm-life was like when I was young, and this sort of life I had to endure in my long stay in the farm during my youth.
In the small farms of those days,
In the small family farms of those days there was no electricity, so we had no electrical devices of any sort not even a portable radio to listen to, because those devices had not come out yet on the market, and even if there had been a portable radio on the market we would not be able to afford one anyhow.
So, as I grew up and became a teenager, I started to realize that I was falling behind the rest of the normal town community; I mean here the way of knowing what was happening in the community and in the way of expressing my own self clearly. I wanted so badly to have a radio then, so that at least I could listen to a proper way of speech, and improve myself in that way, but it was not possible. Therefore I was stuck in that lonely world, where one is stuck for good with one's own company and thoughts day and night.
In the farms there are only a few people staying and working there, and they just go on about doing their duty. So they don't really care to talk to you if you are much younger than them. So, it is a very lonely place to be in such farms when one is young.
Those people which usually are staying in the farms don't talk very much, since in their isolation there is nothing much to talk about; so, they are used to be taciturn, and there were days when only a few necessary phrases were exchanged between us; so conversation was very low indeed. This way of life that I was living could only result about not being satisfactory for me at all, because I was very young my needs had to be, that I had to be in a more sociable place in order to learn a more sociable way of life, and in doing so I would have been able to overcome some of my personal shyness. So, this staying in the farm when I was young became later-on a great disadvantage for me, because it only made me grow more isolated, and in the end it made me feel even more isolated from the rest of the world; and in this isolation I had to grow. There were lots of times when I were alone and nobody would be near me to say a single word, and this was happening to me many days. So in my isolation I would start thinking and learning things all by myself in my own way, anything at all that came into my mind, or things that would happen in the farm, and when you are by yourself for a very long time and think by yourself for a great length of time, you don't need to express your thoughts in words to yourself, therefore anything that you learn may start being stored within your own mind in a different way, you still learn things, perhaps even more accurate than when you learn with words: The only drawback is that when you have to speak out, lots of times you would not know how to start and what to say; not because you don't know it, since in your mind there is a very clear picture of it; but because you find it hard finding the right words to express yourself. So this is one of the great disadvantages, which I and those youths who were unlucky like me, and which ended up working in their own families' farms at a very early age. I am sorry to say it, but they had to put up with the hard consequences which followed for the rest of their lives.
I would describe such a farm life thus:
Because in the farms there are not many people to talk to, and nothing of much of importance to talk about, so farmers' people are usually taciturn; and when you compare this way of life to the towns' people way of life you could feel at once the difference. Wherever you are in small towns people converse a lot with each other, but in the farms there seems to be a great silence of human voices, not only because there are not many people to talk to, but also because those people that are there are not interested in talking very much, unless what they have to say is necessary, since they are there to do their job and run the farm. So, we who happened to be living in the farms when we were young, we had to keep ourselves to ourselves, and this is how and why we became dull when we grew up.
So, whoever has happened to have lived in the farm as I did would have to become dull, particularly if one was as young as I was and the few people around me were much older than me, because as I said those people in the farms were there just to do their jobs, and therefore they could not and would not care about the young ones' developing social skills, because it had nothing to do with the running of the farm, and also because they didn't know any better anyhow.
Nowadays, this way of life that I had to live in the farm when I was young I hate so much, because it made me then a dull person, not only then but for most of my life, and perhaps I am still a dull person now; only because we usually were living isolated lives and we had to keep ourselves to ourselves.
Of my shortcomings I became aware when I had to leave my farming life behind, since I had to start a different way of life somewhere else. And since then, right through my entire life I have tried to catch up with the rest of the community, but it seems to me that I have never been able to catch up completely.
So, this is the reason why even today I hate still that way of life in the farms; it is because such a way of life as I had to live in the farm can only breed dull people; and so was I in the end; but not only I but also those youths which ended up like me had to become dull.
But this is not all because; there were times when we went into town, while we were there we could feel that some of the town's people would ridicule us for being what we were, and this would hurt us very much as it was not our fault for being what we were, as we were forced to be in this unfair situation.
Dear readers, at this point of time this is where I would like to stop with this post, there will be more farm life stories later on, but now let me break away for the time being, because in my next hub I am breaking away from my farm life, in my post that I would have liked to call, Crying out loud, because that is the way that I feel right now, instead I am going to call my post, 'Hello my world'.
Genzano it story
More farm life, in my youth
Next time with another chapter, Hello world!
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Grapevine nutrition may not be on the forefront of growers concerns as bud break approaches in the vineyard. However, the drought conditions that have persisted over the past two years in areas of Texas and California will likely effect root growth dynamics, total root area, and nutrient availability in the soil. A balanced ratio of root to canopy is essential to ripening a high quality crop, regardless of expected yield. In this article we will explore some of the factors to consider for managing mineral nutrition when irrigating during the drought.
In general, root growth and die-back follows a cyclical pattern. In the spring, early shoot growth is supported by reserve carbohydrates in the woody structures of vines, such as trunks, cordons, and larger perennial roots. As bud break commences, and under ideal soil moisture and temperatures, fine roots develop from larger, lignified roots. These "feeder" roots are important for increasing the surface area of the soil in which the vine can uptake water and sequester nutrients.
Roots develop most rapidly as vines approach bloom and can continue to branch and elongate into veraision. Root growth slows as vine resources are partitioned more toward ripening fruit. An additional flush of fine root growth may also occur after harvest, again provided that proper soil moisture and healthy leaf area are both in favor. Die-back of young roots will typically occur as vines transition into dormancy, when transpiration from leaves slows. Shrinkage and even die-back of feeder roots can also occur when vines are subject to dry soil conditions during any time of the growth cycle.
Understanding the cycle of fine root growth is important, as viticulturists often time fertilizer applications to coincide with greater root surface area to achieve better uptake efficiency of the applied nutrient. The first opportunity to collect leaf and petiole samples to determine the nutrient status of vines is around the time of bloom, which is a time when roots should be actively taking in water and nutrients. However, drought conditions at such time can reduce uptake of some nutrients that are typically made available to vines in the mass flow of water through soil.
Examples of nutrients that are mobile in soil water include nitrogen and calcium. During conditions of low soil moisture there are multiple factors affecting uptake of nutrients, including reduced root surface area and lower mobility of nutrients to root surfaces. Similarly, nutrients that are not mobile in the mass flow (i.e., phosphorous, potassium) will also be less available to roots, because roots must physically contact those nutrients through a process known as diffusion.
During extended drought, the active root zone in irrigated vineyards is most limited to the area of wetness provided by drip emitters. Furthermore, the active root area per vine may be influenced by a combination of factors including the emitter placement within a row, the wetting pattern of the soil, the length of the irrigation event, and depth of effective rooting. As discussed above, limitations in the area of wetted soil can limit root growth and nutrient uptake to a small area of soil. Let's consider the example of a typical season where normal winter rainfall will evenly fill the soil profile to field capacity. In this scenario, there is unlimited potential for both young feeder root development and improved nutrient uptake from the time of bud break and onward until the plant available water outside of the drip zone is lost through evapotranspiration.
The added root area and soil moisture outside of the drip zone can contribute to early season shoot growth and nutrient uptake leading into bloom. In the absence of uniform field capacity of soil moisture at bud break, the potential rooting area and uptake will be more limited. Some growers in California observed potassium deficiencies in vineyards in 2013, a possible result of reduced root area combined with a generous crop, which acts as a sink for potassium. There will be many lessons learned with these back to back drought years. Growers who take into account the cumulative effects of drought will be better prepared to adjust accordingly. Below are a few vineyard management considerations.
Irrigation & Nutrient Management Considerations for 2014
- Irrigate to develop a healthy root system early in the season. It is easier to avoid nutrient deficiencies by way of a sufficient and active root system than to correct them later.
- Reduce competition by cover crops and weeds. Even where cover crops were not planted (or did not sprout) in 2013 there is still the potential for competition from winter weeds underneath drip emitters. Those weed patches cover a small surface area and can deplete valuable nutrient and water resources right where vine roots will most readily draw from during the season.
- Monitor canopy size early. Roots must adsorb more water than is lost in transpiration to maintain cell expansion and enable plant growth. Develop the required canopy length to ripen the appropriate crop for each vineyard block prior to imposing deficit irrigation strategies (a deficit typically begins after fruit set). Keep in mind the desired canopy and crop may need to be smaller in a drought year.
- Apply nitrogen fertilizer judiciously. Nitrogen favors shoot growth over root growth, which could further increase the vine's susceptibility to drought should irrigation supply become limited later in the season.
- Monitor nutrients through plant tissue analysis. Transient nutritional deficiencies are more common during drought conditions, as P, K, Zn and other nutrients become more depleted in the irrigated root zone. Supplemental fertilization through irrigation and foliar applications can offer a temporary mineral source to get through the season, but building long term soil health should be an objective.
Vineyard management is a dynamic process, where both the past and future seasons must be considered when managing the current crop. If your vineyard has experienced prolonged drought in the past 2 seasons, 2014 will not be the year to go big on crop. Instead, the focus might more appropriately migrate towards quality and vine health moving forward. Growers who observed a decrease in canopy size in 2013 will be wise to prune back to fewer buds than in a normal year. A reduction in canopy size (and pruning weights) is an indication that the vine's capacity to produce canopy and fruit in the following season is reduced. The first opportunity to reduce potential crop occurs at dormant pruning. Additional crop thinning in the form of shoot thinning and direct cluster removal can be followed up as needed to balance the fruit to leaf area or crop load. The longer I work in the east and southeast, the more I accept that there really is not a "typical" growing season and hence our vineyard management practices will be far from routine.
Keller, M. 2010. The Science of Grapevines: Anatomy and Physiology. Elsevier Inc.
Christensen, P. and Smart, D. (eds.) 2004. Proceedings of the Soil Environment and Vine Mineral Nutrition Symposium. American Society for Enology and Viticulture. San Diego, CA.


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Indulge in a taste of England's rustic beauty at a cruise between Hampton Court and Henley on Thames on board the finest Magna Carta!
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- Cruise CodeMAGWAL0816
- Cabins4
- Max Passengers8
- Cruise HighlightsAccommodation Cabin accommodation (twin or double bed) with en-suite bathroomActivity Excursions and admittance fees as per the itinerary Drinks Open bar with alcoholic and non alcoholic drinksInclusion Sun deck with spa poolTransportation Vehicle for transfers and excursions Activity Use of bicyclesMeals Gourmet meals paired with wine and cheeseItinerary Cruise between Hampton Court and Henley-on-ThamesInclusion WiFi on board
Prepare for a gentle exploration of the stunning destinations between Hampton Court and Henley on Thames. This 6-night cruise a board Magna Carta allows you to discover breathtaking riverside towns and destinations such as Richmond Park, Windsor Great Park, Virginia Water Lake and the famous Henley Regatta Course. Enjoy a worthy stroll at the Playing Fields of Eton and admire the Windsor Castle! A wonderful vacation filled with fascination!
Note: Walking themed cruises are charter only.
Cruise Highlights
- Explore Henry VIII's Hampton Court Palace
- Walk along the Richmond Park
- Visit Windsor Great Park
- Stroll around Virginia Water Lake
- Walk the Runnymede Memorials and Playing Fields of Eton
- Discover Cookham Dean
- Explore the Henley Regatta Course
- Transfers between Central London and the hotel barge
- Luxury 6-night cruise
- All meals on board catered for by the on board Master Chef
- Open bar 24/7 with a large range of alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks
- All wines served throughout the cruise
- Excursions and admittance fees as per the itinerary
- Services of 4 crew
- Use of barge facilities including DVD players in each cabin, bicycles and a spa pool
Pick-Up & Drop-Off Points
Cabin Bookings
- Pick-up: The Stafford Hotel, London at 3:00 pm
- Drop-off: The Stafford Hotel, London by 11:00 am or Heathrow Airport between 10:00 to 11:00 am
Charter Bookings
- Pick-up: The Stafford Hotel, London at 3:00 pm OR one location of the groups choice in London at 4:00 pm
- Drop-off: One location of the groups choice in London OR Heathrow airport between 10:00 am and 11:00 am
Approximate transfer duration for Magna Carta is 1 or 1.5 hours, depending on the cruise direction.
Cruise Cuisine
Regional Specialities
Roasted Guinea Fowl with Wild Mushrooms; Rack of Lamb with a Herb Crust, Sweet Potatoes and Spinach; Breast of Duck with Port Sauce and Cherries
Wine Cellar
Les Damnée des Prieur, Sancerre; Domaine de la Croix Jacquelet, Faiveley Montagny; Les Pontilles, Sauvignon Blanc; Don Cayetano Merlot Baroncini Rosso di Montalcino
Cheese Board
Cropwell Bishop Organic Stilton, Dunsyre Blue Bath Soft Cheese; Applewood Smoked Cheddar; Oxford Isis; Sage Derby
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Hampton Court to Henley-on-Thames
Day 1, Sunday
Meet the Captain or a crewmember at the designated meeting point for afternoon English Cream Tea, before being transferred to the Magna Carta. On arrival enjoy a 'Champagne Welcome' by the Captain. Early evening cruise to Hampton Court Palace, former Tudor Palace of Henry VIII, where we moor for the night. Dinner aboard.
Day 2, Monday
This morning we walk in Richmond Park. Here at the top of Richmond Hill we find 2500 acres of undulating grassland and bracken, dotted with coppiced woodland and wilder than anything for miles around. Eight miles across at its widest point, it is famed for its red and fallow deer, which roam freely, and for its ancient oaks. For the most part untamed, the park does have a couple of deliberately landscaped plantations. In the afternoon enjoy a meandering cruise upstream following the course of the Thames to Shepperton. Dinner aboard.
Day 3, Tuesday
Morning cruise to Runnymede. We moor at Bell Weir Lock adjacent to a luxury spa hotel, where we have the opportunity to visit and use the pool and elaborate leisure facilities. After lunch we visit Windsor Great Park. Comprising about 4800 acres of wooded parkland and gardens, we walk around Virginia Water Lake, a large ornamental lake fringed by trees, paths and rides. This glorious walk perfectly reflects the changing seasons and never strays far from the water's edge. Virginia Water covers about 160 acres and was developed in the middle of the 18th century for the Duke of Cumberland after his victory at Culloden. Dinner aboard.
Day 4, Wednesday
Walk the Runnymede Memorials and the Playing Fields of Eton. After breakfast we take a short cruise to the Runnymede pleasure grounds and then stroll across the meadows to theMagna Carta memorial. This commemorates the place where in 1215, King John faced the powerful barons and was forced to seal the Magna Carta. We then start climbing towards the JFK Memorial and continue up Coopers Hill to the Commonwealth Airforces Memorial, a most fitting site to remember the 20,000 or so commonwealth airmen who have no known grave. We then continue back to the boat before a spectacular cruise to Windsor.
After lunch we walk the Playing Fields of Eton. Beginning with a worthy stroll along the Thames path we soon head for the famous playing fields where, according to Wellington, the battle of Waterloo was won. For the duration of this walk we are aware of Windsor Castle, its high defensive position dominating the view. After walking we take a late afternoon cruise to our private mooring. Dinner aboard.
Day 5, Thursday
Walk Cookham Dean and Winter Hill. Leaving Royal Windsor behind us we cruise past fabulous waterside homes through the spectacular Clivedon reach and the open English countryside. We moor in Cookham, once described as 'Heaven on Earth' by artist Stanley Spencer, one of England's greatest and most eccentric painters.
This afternoon we take you for a ramble up the old packhorse way to Cookham Dean, where Kenneth Graham lived and was inspired to write 'The Wind in the Willows'. Look out for muntjac deer and other wildlife in this beautiful setting, and then climb to Winter Hill for panoramic views over the surrounding countryside. Dinner aboard.
Day 6, Friday
Walk the Ridgeway, Kingston Lisle to Ashbury. A morning cruise to the village of Hurley where we have time to wander Peter Freebody's boatyard and watch in wonder at the traditional craftsmen at work.
Return to the barge for lunch before cruising to Henley on Thames, our final approach being along the famous Henley Regatta Course. This afternoon we finish with a truly magnificent walk along the Ridge. Between Kingston Lisle and Ashbury are the undisputed highlights of the entire Ridgeway. Iron Age Uffington 'Castle', the White Horse of Uffington and the Wayland's Smithy Long Barrow. The countryside surrounding the Ridgeway is rich in wild flowers and bird life, and traces of early man are everywhere. As if what we have done is not enough, our return walk is along footpaths linking three of the lovely settlements that lie at the foot of the downs: Ashbury, Compton Beauchamp and Woolstone. Captains Farewell Dinner aboard.
Day 7, Saturday
Following breakfast, disembark the barge for your transfer to the designated drop off point.
Barge Details
Magna Carta Deck Plan
- 117 feet long
- 8 passengers
- 4 crew
- 4 twin/double state rooms with en-suite facilities (200 sq ft)
- Air-conditioned
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- Sun deck with spa pool
- 8 touring bikes
- Air-conditioned minibus
- WiFi (Subject to reception)
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Departure Dates Suite per person Single Supplement June 30 4,750 Euros 1,450 Euros July 7, 14, 21, 28 4,750 Euros 1,450 Euros August 4, 11, 18, 25 4,750 Euros 1,450 Euros September 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 4,750 Euros 1,450 Euros October 6, 13, 20 3,950 Euros 1,300 Euros
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The first drawing was on a piece of scrap paper - an exercise in capturing a quickly passing sky out the studio door. Despite it's simplicity, the drawing captured me. As I studied it I was brought back to my childhood, when my father would bring home armloads of scrapped paper from his office for my brother and I to draw on. Being a petrophysicist, these would be print outs of geological logs and topographical maps of the area. I didn't know what these were at the time, but we adored them and would color them in and make them our own.
I began going through pictures of the sky I have taken over the years and drawing from them. Memories of the farm we lived on, and hikes by the lake and in the Flint Hills flooded me. These simple contour drawings of clouds and trees and water, became maps of my explorations. Each drawing was a meditation, and a deep reflection on a space I had passed through. And each became abstract - out of context it can be difficult to tell what they are exactly.
I have watched my youngest son color a few of these drawings in, just as my brother and I did as children. Watching my children grow and parents age, I am ever more aware of how fast the times passes. Our roles are quickly changing, and we are mapping new territory.
"Titled, "Celestial Cartography," we find contour line drawings that read like topographical maps without a legend for defining elevational changes, or direction. This forces the observer as Doveton states, to determine "which lines were clouds, which were water, and which were land." They are clean, elegant, and remind one of a printout from a seismograph, or the heartbeat line of an electrocardiogram, beautifully transcribing the transitions and transformations within nature, into unobstructed, zig-zagging lines." -Alex Anderson, KC Metropolis


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By Attorney Jonathan Emord
Source: NewsWithViews.com
Beginning January 1, 2014, the currently beleaguered system for the provision of medical care in America will become much worse. Within a decade we will witness the destruction of quality in every area of medical practice. Obamacare will kill medical innovation and exceptionalism, providing everyone with a one-size-fits-all set of options and leaving many to wait long periods or be denied access to needed care.
Medical practice depends on innovation, at the physician level and above. Disease has a peculiar way of morphing and new diseases have a peculiar way of cropping up year after year. To perform well in this changing landscape requires instantaneous adaptation and the tailoring of care. To the extent that care becomes more routine, void of exceptionalism and innovation by physicians, disease prevails and the quality of care diminishes.
For decades before the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Americans across the nation complained bitterly of the fact that health insurance plans denied them coverage for what they and their doctors deemed necessary treatments. The essential problem arose form insurance industry control over the practice of medicine, a system of distant second-guessing of the attending physician's judgment. To be reimbursed for care of the insured, physicians have had to toe the line with insurance agents and avoid providing any level, degree, or quality of care that the insurer deems exceptional or unnecessary. Insurers rely on profiling of patients and medical practices to come up with routine standards of care. When a physician deviates from a standard, he or she risks being audited and required to reimburse the insurance company for all monies paid by the company to the physician. That sometimes lethal threat to a medical practice keeps physicians in check and risk managers employed at an enormous cost. Physicians and hospitals would much rather avoid the extraordinary cost of defending themselves against a charge of improper billing by avoiding the provision of care insurers may deem exceptional or unnecessary (even if that means denying patients a level, degree, or quality of care they think most likely to result in cure or cessation of symptoms) than to risk an audit by providing exceptional care.
With Obamacare, that already bad, even horrific system becomes far worse. The present system of government sponsored medical care is Medicare. Under Medicare, participating physicians must live within bureaucratically defined limits to the provision of care. A physician must make sure that he chooses the right code to define the care he is giving a patient, and if a code does not exist for what he wants to do, he is best put at avoiding the provision of that care. Private insurance companies selected by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services are regional Medicare providers under contract with the federal government. They monitor physician billing and dole out payments. They also perform audits of physician practices and punish the wayward by demanding reimbursement.
Under this bureaucracy, physicians may only provide care that Medicare and its proxy the insurance company deem "medically reasonable and necessary." The insurance company performs complex evaluations (that are kept secret even against FOIA requests) of all physician billings in a particular service area. That yields graphs which show what typical billings look like. When a physician bills in an atypical way regardless of the justification for the billing, the insurance companies computers identify the physician as an outlier and an audit is recommended.
When a Medicare audit is performed, a physician is required to turn over a random sampling of patient charts for assessment. Those charts are then extrapolated to the entire universe of Medicare patients seen by the physician (making any errors found in the select sample applicable to the entire universe, thereby multiplying manifold the amounts of the reimbursement demand). The charts are then painstakingly reviewed. Any failure to provide what a reviewer subjectively deigns a full justification for a diagnosis and treatment yields a determination that the physician was unjustified in providing the required treatment (even if in fact he did provide it and even if in fact the treatment worked). The written record becomes the entire universe of proof. It is an adage among physicians that no amount of detail in a record can survive an audit because auditors exercise enormous subjective discretion. Insurance auditors can challenge a record for a discrete omission of fact. Physicians can be challenged for overbilling, for underbilling, for upcoding, for using the wrong code, and for the provision of care not deemed medically reasonable and necessary because it is more care than should have been provided, less care than should have been provided, or the wrong kind of care in the mind of the insurance examiners. There are so many hooks available to catch the physician that the mere casting of the line ensures no reasonable escape.
This system has an in terrorem effect on physicians and the risk managers that advise them. When a Medicare beneficiary is before them, they maintain an unspoken fear throughout. They follow a pat regimen to avoid second guessing by the insurer. They make sure that the kind of examination given fits within the profile and coding deemed typical by the insurer who they know will be second guessing their every move. Even if a physician thinks the patient would benefit from a particular kind of nutritional therapy, exercise regimen, alternative to drug regimen, etc., he or she knows that the insurance company will second guess that decision and deem the provision of the care improper unless strictly within historically accepted limits. So, the safest thing for physicians to do is to provide that kind of care which is routinely given. Moreover, because of the fee caps governing what they can charge, physicians try to spend as little time with their insured patients as possible. More patients means more in the way of fees. Indeed, survival in medicine depends on seeing the largest number of patients in a single day that can be accommodated without incurring too high a risk of malpractice.
That wretched system will now be writ large thanks to the President and Congress's decision to give the health insurance industry a monopoly over the provision of medical care. Under Obamacare, the Secretary of HHS will determine which health insurers qualify under the program to receive patients mandated for coverage. Those insurers will live within a Medicare-type regime, where only that care deemed medically reasonable and necessary will be reimbursable. Medicare, in effect, will reach not only those 65 and older but every American citizen.
For A perfect storm is heading to the medical community. There is an existing shortage of qualified physicians in most areas of practice. Bright young minds contemplating a career in medicine now realize that the kind of financial constraints that Medicare imposes on physicians will become universal with Obamacare. They will head for other, more lucrative professions that suffer far less constraint on the exercise of professional judgment. That will exacerbate the shortage of physicians. Physicians who choose to remain in the system rather than retire or look for other means of employment will be constrained in the exercise of their professional judgment as never before.
In the end, the quality of medical care in the United States will drop. There will be shortages of available care and there may be rationing of care. Medicine in the United States will become far less innovative. New discoveries may be found but translating them into practice will be far more difficult. Practitioners will experience the greatest disincentives. They cannot innovate or provide tailored patient specific care without risking attack from insurers and the federal government. They will become more and more like automatons, dispensing a one-size fits all standard of care that leaves those with unusual cases out of luck. Because disease is evolutionary, over time that will mean that a majority of patients will routinely receive substandard care.
© 2012 Jonathan W. Emord – All Rights Reserved
Jonathan W. Emord is an attorney who practices constitutional and administrative law before the federal courts and agencies. Congressman Ron Paul calls Jonathan "a hero of the health freedom revolution" and says "all freedom-loving Americans are in [his] debt . . . for his courtroom [victories] on behalf of health freedom." He has defeated the FDA in federal court a remarkable eight times, six on First Amendment grounds, and is the author of Amazon bestsellers The Rise of Tyranny, Global Censorship of Health Information, and Restore the Republic. He is also the American Justice columnist for U.S.A. Today Magazine.
Website: Emord.com E-Mail: email@example.com


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The Icy Dock MB662USEB-2-1 is a simple two-bay enclosure designed to be used in RAID0/1, JBOD or Concatenation modes with 3.5-inch hard drives. The enclosure offers a quad-interface, allowing users to connect via FireWire 800/400, USB 2.0 and eSATA. In the box Icy Dock includes everything you need to get rolling (except the drives); power adapter and cables for each interface are standard equipment.
The MB662USEB-2-1 is aimed at users who need either high transfer speeds or data redundancy through use of various RAID modes such as RAID0 and RAID1. By supplying either their own 3.5-inch desktop hard drives, users can customize the RAID array for their individual use. Those wanting a safe way to protect their data with a wide range of connections will enjoy the protection of RAID1 and the quad-interface compatibility. Those looking for high transfer speeds will like the RAID0 capabilities and the eSATA/FW-800 connections for fast data transfers.
Based around the Oxford 946 ARM chipset, the enclosure supports hardware RAID, which gives a big boost in speed or redundancy without impacting CPU usage on the host system. The MB662USEB-2-1 will be available starting December 7th for a suggested retail price of $185. It's worth noting that while many consumer-grade hard drives will work in this enclosure, Icy Dock recommends enterprise-grade drives, or drives that otherwise support TLER, which prevents the drives from falling out of a RAID array when they encounter an error....full review at Storage Reviews


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We'll be joined on the 12 March by choral director Aoife Hiney.
Hello Aoife, I really can't wait to sing with you again in a few weeks time. What are the things that you start thinking about in the run up to a workshop day like this?
Hi Helen, I'm really looking forward to catching up with you and I'm very excited about this workshop. At the moment, I'm concentrating on the repertoire, imagining how we'll approach it on the day, and it's also time to think about scheduling and sequencing so that the day runs smoothly.
How did you get into conducting?
The more I sang with choirs, the more I wanted the chance to conduct a choir. I felt that there must be something magical in having the chance to transform a written score into sound, to try to understand what the composer wanted to convey, and to communicate that to the performers through gesture.
I had conducting classes as part of the degree programme, and then I started signing up for the AOIC conducting courses. When I started working as a music teacher, I had my very own choir to conduct, and then I had the honour of being the assistant conductor of New Dublin Voices under Bernie Sherlock.
In Dublin, I had the chance to sing with inspirational female conductors such as Bernie Sherlock, Orla Flanagan, Ite O'Donovan and Blanaid Murphy, who demonstrated that what really matters is hard work and dedication. In my experience, choral conducting is not as male-dominated as orchestral conducting.
Will you tell us a bit about your background? Where are you from, how did you get into music?
I'm from Crossmolina, in County Mayo, Ireland. When I was 9, I started piano lessons with Nonie Leonard and by the time I was 11, I had already decided that I wanted to be a music teacher just like Nonie!
In secondary school, I had the chance to participate in musicals and the choir, and also started singing with the local church choir. Then I went on to complete a degree in Music Education in Dublin, which meant lots of opportunities to sing and to learn. In 2005, Bernie Sherlock invited me to join a new choir she was setting up, New Dublin Voices. I learned more from singing with Bernie than anyone could imagine – from historically informed performance practice to identifying compositional devices – it really was learning by doing!
Who are your musical role models?
There are many people I'd like to be like when I grow up! Bernie Sherlock is my hero, but I must also include António Vassalo Lourenço and Vasco Negreiros here in Portugal, and of course our own Brian MacKay. These conductors constantly surprise me with their innovative repertoire choices, with how they interpret repertoire in such a way that the music suddenly makes perfect sense and with how they manage to teach so much in rehearsal – almost without us singers realising!
Apart from their wonderful conducting and music-making, these conductors are generous – both with their time and their knowledge – and sincere, as you quickly understand that they are motivated by their love of the music, and that what they want most of all is for the singers and the audiences to love it too.
What is your favourite thing to sing? Are there any particular pieces which draw you back time and again?
Hmmm…good question! I love pretty much everything that Jaakko Mäntyjärvi has written, particularly Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae, and I'm a fan of contemporary composers like Michael Holohan, Ivan Moody, Eurico Carrapatoso… I enjoy singing early music, and I've had the chance to be part of first performances of recovered works here in Portugal. I also have a soft spot for the Swingle Swingers arrangements…
Tell us a bit about your choir in Portugal. What have you been working on with them recently?
I started my chamber choir, Voz Nua, in 2012 as part of my masters research, and when I finished my masters, I decided to keep going with the choir. I would always say that I am primarily a music teacher, and hence Voz Nua is an un-auditioned community choir, open to all who wish to sing, as I don't think anyone should be excluded just because they didn't have the opportunity to have music lessons. I teach musical literacy and vocal technique during rehearsals, and we have singers of all ages and various nationalities.
We have never charged admission to any of our concerts, as we want to share our music-making with anyone who would like to hear us. In keeping with the community philosophy, and welcoming all who wish to sing or to listen, we also try to promote the work of young composers – have a listen to 'Devir' by Voz Nua on youtube, a piece written by a young Brazilian composer.
We launched a Christmas CD, Nativitas, in December 2015, and we're about to start work on pieces that I commissioned for the choir, which I'm very excited about. One of the singers plays the laud, so I'm also planning a programme of early music so that we can share a concert with him.
What took you to Portugal? And you're a regular contributor to Zezerearts Choral Festival. How did that all come about?
To make a long story short, I decided that I needed to do a masters in choral conducting, and spent a year researching where to go. I wanted to go somewhere with a different culture, with a language that I thought myself capable of learning. I came across the masters programme at the University of Aveiro (UA), and really liked their philosophy of equally promoting theory and practice. So, I started to learn Portuguese and moved to Aveiro in 2010. I had intended to stay for a year…but I'm still here!
The more time I spent at UA, the more I liked it, and I decided to apply for the PhD programme. I work at the research centre INET-md – a hub of activity, between masterclasses, international conferences, guest lectures, with an impressive multi-disciplinary team of researchers.
A singer from the National Chamber Choir of Ireland recommended that I get in touch with Brian MacKay, a name I knew from my days on the committee of the Kodaly Society of Ireland. I gave him a call, and he invited me to the Zezerearts Choral Festival in 2013. I loved it, I learned a lot from Brian, and subsequently got increasingly more involved, including helping out with the logistics of running such a busy festival! I think that the Zezerearts Choral Festival provides an important space for choral singers to develop their skills in a different environment, to switch off from their regular work, and concentrate solely on singing (and perhaps a bit of sunbathing and sightseeing). It's great to see the festival going from strength to strength, to see familiar faces year after year, and to welcome and get to know new singers.
What are you most looking forward to about the workshop in East Grinstead?
Singing great music in a fantastic venue! I've always really enjoyed 'come and sing' events, so I'm looking forward to meeting the participants, and getting stuck into some fabulous repertoire…


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Is Mexico the New Land of Opportunity?
U.S. media coverage of Mexican migration themes focuses on the outflow of people from south of the border to north of the border. But for some, Mexico is viewed as a land of opportunity and a promising new home. Despite the well-publicized violence that slammed Mexico in recent years, the country continued to attract immigrants.
A new study released this month by the Organization of American States (OAS) reported that the documented, foreign-born population in the country increased 45 percent from 2005 to 2010, reaching 850,000 people. Focusing on documented migrants, the OAS study reported that 65,000 immigrants came to Mexico in 2010 alone.
In terms of the national origin breakdown of new immigrants in the three-year period from 2007 to 2010, the study found that most came from the U.S. (10,472), seconded by Colombia (5,563) and followed by Guatemala (5,563). Cuba placed fourth on the list (4,871), Argentina fifth (4,242), Venezuela (3,950) sixth and Honduras seventh (3,755). Smaller populations of between approximately 1200 and 2100 people each hailed from El Salvador, Peru, Canada, Brazil, Chile, and China.
Lately, new and relaxed Cuban travel policies have sparked commentary in the Mexican media about a possible influx of Cubans, especially a brain-drain of professionals, who would first come to Mexico as visitors but then stay on to work and live. But a pair of Cuban citizens interviewed outside the Mexican Consulate in Havana discounted such a possibility, saying that Cubans had long been accustomed to traveling to Mexico for different purposes.
"The majority come back," a man identified only as Rafael was quoted. "But there is always someone who likes it over there and stays a longer time working, or gets married and comes back only to visit. Others go to Mexico with a work contract and from there cross over to the United States because they prefer Miami. There is a bit of everything."
For Mexico's new immigrants, the OAS study found that work, family and retirement were the top reasons for moving to the country. In the case of Central Americans, the report''s authors speculated that changed conditions in the United States were altering the nature of migration from Mexico's southern neighbors.
"Some of these movements are made up of nationals from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, for whom Mexico, due to the difficult conditions in the north, has possibly been transformed into more of a destination than a transit country."
Looking at the immigration numbers of persons who go through the legal channels, the OAS report still falls short in calculating the overall number of immigrants currently residing in Mexico since it does not take into account the undocumented population.


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The Irishtown that used to be a Gold Rush settlement has vanished into history. The town that sat along what is now State Highway 88 nearby the community of Pine Grove was an important stop for emigrants on their way to southern mines.
At first glance, the white settlers labeled Irish Town, "The city of wigwams." Evidence suggests the area was a preferred settlement for the Miwok Indians. Hundreds of deep pockets are carved in area rocks, indicating heavy use by Native Americans. Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park is also nearby the former site of Irishtown.
Today, where Irishtown used to be, is part of the community of Pine Grove. Albert Leonard was Pine Grove's first postmaster after building his home and Inn in 1854. The Inn was located at the junction of Stage Roads that traveled to Jackson and Clinton.
The communities of Sutter Creek, Volcano, Drytown, Pioneer, Jackson, Ione and Plymouth are nearby. To extend your visit to these historic gold country towns, take a scenic drive through Amador County's celebrated wine country.
The historical marker is located on State Hwy 88 (P.M. 20.8) at Pine Grove Wieland Rd, 2.2 mi SW of Pine Grove.
Amador County was one of the most productive of the "Mother Lode" counties. The mine shafts were reported to be among the deepest in the world. Mining continues in select areas today. The eastern slope of Amador County begins at Kirkwood's historic stage stop known today as the Kirkwood Inn. The relatively narrow county is aligned between the Mokelumne and Cosumnes rivers and roughly follows an important emigrant trail route. Gold rush camps and boomtowns abound in the history of the area. Amador County is also recognized for its dozens of vineyards and wineries.


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Rated: PG-13
Running Time: 131 Minutes
Year: 2004
Boobs: Zero
One Sentence: I do not think the term Spanglish was used correctly.
I have some problems with the marketing of this movie. Spanglish as defined in dictionary.com is "Spanish spoken with a large admixture of English, esp. American, words and expressions." As in, Donde Esta Bathroom. (Where is the bathroom) See that two Spanish words and an English word. This movie should have been called Translation. Because there was no Spanglish in it at all. Also they bill these movies, that are about family, and are slightly depressing as comedies. THIS MOVIE IS NOT A FUCKING COMEDY! Just because a movie has a funny scene does not make it a comedy. Stop calling these movies comedies. Depressing is not funny. Depressing is sad. Now I am not saying this movie was completely depressing, but it was far more depressing than funny.
This movie, is not really for anyone that isn't a Mexican American female with a Mexican mother. Becky said she watches this movie all the time. I understand why. She could totally relate to this. Mother put into a tough situation and must fight to keep her daughter and roots where they should be. I however am met with depressing alcoholic white people who are at best miserable, and at worst assholes. Why am I supposed to enjoy this movie. If you broke up the movie into pieces, I could laugh at some of them and have a good time, if I wasn't supposed to care about the families involved, and treated it like SNL. However instead I am supposed to care, I am supposed to take into account the whole movie, and the people in it, and their lives, and their choices. The movie is no longer funny, it's fucked up.
Adam Sandler was fat, ugly and mumbling in the whole movie. I didn't understand anything he was saying and I didn't care. Paz Vega did a very good job, but she spoke Spanish most of the time and she's from Spain, not Mexico, and while I liked her, it wasn't enough to save the movie. Tea Leoni, OMG I HATE HER, and this movie is no break from her and her vileness. I am sorry, I just don't get these types of movies. I don't. They piss me off. Oh look were making a comedy, check it out, it's a family comedy, hahahaha, were funny, OH NO PUNCH IN THE BALLS! The movie is getting 3, because it was good enough to get a 3, but it is not a comedy. It's not as bad as Dancer in the Dark or anything that sad, but I would never call it a comedy.


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Emcee: Emma McManus
A lively interactive book swap meet in a speed dating format. Spend two minutes with each new partner and their book, try and persuade them why your dog-eared much-loved copy of Dune is the one they should take to bed with them tonight. Who knows, you might just discover your next favourite novel!


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Life Group is about doing life together because no person is an island. We can only flourish in community. God never intended for us to go through life alone. We were created for relationship. Sure, relationships can be messy and challenging at times. But what we get in return is priceless! When we experience life surrounded by others who share our love for God, we'll not only build lasting friendships, but we'll find that we belong to a family.
Every week, we begin our time together with a family-style potluck dinner. Sharing a meal together is at the heart of our desire to be a community where everyone is known and loved. Jesus is bringing complete strangers together around this table and making us into a family.
After dinner we move into a time of learning and growing together as a community. There is a short talk and a discussion on a topic that is designed to help us live life to the fullest. We end with worship and prayer time to help us connect with God.
Come and join us as we discover community, love others, and encounter God. Whatever your thoughts on church, whatever your beliefs about God, you are welcome here!
What are we studying in the Bible? The Sermon the Mount (Matthew 5-7)
The Sermon on the Mount has been called the greatest sermon ever preached. John Stott has noted that the Sermon on the Mount is "probably the best known part of the teachings of Jesus, though arguably it is the least understood, and certainly it is the least obeyed."
Maybe you have found this to be true in your own journey of trying to understand and live out these words of Jesus. They are beautiful words that seem to defy reality. They seem to be speaking of another world that is not quite like ours.
But what if these words are really for us today in Vancouver? What if this is exactly how we can participate in God's kingdom today? What if this is exactly how we become a Kingdom people who experience the "eternal kind of life" here and now?


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The past decade has marked a period of great progress in our quest to discover and characterize the properties of the planets outside of our own solar system. Observations of transiting systems, in which the planet periodically passes in front of and then behind its star as seen from the earth, have allowed us to study the properties of these distant worlds in unprecedented detail. Dr. Knutson will describe some of our initial measurements of the close-in, gas giant planets known as hot Jupiters, and discuss how these same techniques might be applied to smaller and more earth-like worlds.
From Hot Jupiters to Super-Earths: A Survey of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Wednesday, July 21 2010 - 12:00 pm, PDT
Heather Knutson
Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
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Although experiencing grief & loss is a universal experience, that doesn't mean our experience is just like that of others.
Yes, everyone experiences grief & loss at some point in their lives, however that doesn't mean we should minimize it's impact or just hope the feelings will diminish over time. Experiencing the death of someone who held an important role in your life can be devastating. Whether you lived with the person and they were integral in your daily life or if it was a strained relationship, but they were still "mom"... Whether you anticipated the death due to illness, it was completely unexpected, or if the person had an influence in their own death... Whether you're a child, adolescent, young adult, middle aged, or older... Grief is powerful.
You may be experiencing:
- Uncertainty about your future
- A changed outlook on the world
- Lack of energy/Loss of interest
- Anger or rage
- Extreme sadness or depression
- Numbness
- Spiritual strengthening or questioning
- Loss of other relationships/Isolation
- Physical illness or pain
- Inability to concentrate or focus
- Increased worries or anxiety
- Experimenting with substances to numb the pain
- Pretending you're "fine" and that this death has not impacted you
Many people think grief is just a feeling, however we know that in addition to affecting us emotionally, it impacts us mentally, physically, behaviorally, and spiritually.
We are here to support you in your unique experience as you find healing in this new world without that important person.


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Letter to October | Self-Reminders.
Dear October, unlike your fellow previous months, I have no desire in laying before you the products, articles and videos I liked and enjoyed throughout your days.
Instead, I'm more down for a heartfelt and honest discourse with you about everything you've offered me throughout the course of your weeks.
Not much if I'm honest, but it is often in times of calmness and monotony that one has the chance to reflect on one's role in and course of life.
So here are some Self-reminders I noted:
- It only takes 01:46 mins to call your grandmother and make her the happiest and proudest grandma' on earth so stop running out with the excuse that you don't know what to say and that you're introverted and God knows what else. Embrace the embarrassment :)
- School kills creativity and teaches us to study with the goal of passing tests, not failing a grade, making our parents proud and not getting detention for being "over-active" or being a "slow learner". Practice learning to learn and master no matter how much time it takes you!
- Don't loose focus of your core principles and purpose. Ask yourself daily: why am I doing what I am doing right now? Will it get me to where I want to go? Am I doing it in expense of something else that is more important -like work over family or socialising over taking care of yourself?
Am I choosing quantity over quantity and racing over mastering?
- Don't dwell on things you've done or things that have happened. Ask: What's next? Your neck will hurt from turning your head back every two seconds and the people who live in the past won't be there to give you a massage.
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- While watching Sherlock, you're scared, not hungry so stop snacking at midnight, that tummy ain't gonna get flat on its own.
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- it's easy to be smart and act clever when you're alone, the challenge is to do so when you're surrounded by those who bring the worst or weakest in you. Be kind, smartly.
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Ever wonder if there are supplements out there that you haven't heard of but should be taking? Yep, most of us serious bodybuilders know that the thought crosses our mind all too often. Those who want to be the best also want the best supplements. As I'm sure you know it takes serious time and commitment to stay on top of new products, evaluating their labels, estimating their effectiveness, calculating expected results and weighing out costs.
To help you out I've put together a list of supplements you may or may not be using, but absolutely should consider. There are some obvious entries on here, but you'd be surprised at how many people look for the "obscure" and "revolutionary" (untested) products with wild marketing and forget about the time-tested winners like creatine and beta-alanine.
The Bodybuilders Must-Have Supplement Collection
- Alpha GPC: One of my personal favorite supplements for sports nutrition. This product has not been marketed as a sports enhancing supplement (yet), but it works and it works the first time you use it. Alpha GPC enhances the mind-body connection by improving neural function in the brain. It allows your body to utilize more of your muscle fibers during exercise, typically prohibited by your brain's natural "safety mechanisms" to prevent injury. Alpha GPC allows you to slightly override this precaution, but still stay well within a safe parameter. I've taken Alpha GPC before and instantly added 5-10% more weight on all my lifts and much faster sprint times. It's amazing how it works the same the first time and every time after. Directions: Take 600mg first thing in the morning when you wake up before you workout and take 600mg 60-90 minutes before your next workout.
- Creatine Monohydrate: You are already familiar with creatine monohydrate, try and take 5-10 grams each time you workout. If you workout twice in one day, then take 10-20 grams total that day. Directions: Take 5-10 grams sometime before, during and after each of your workout.
- Beta-Alanine: A natural beta amino acid that will give you the "tingles" after taking it (flushing of the skin that feels like pins and needles, which is harmless and perfectly normal). Beta alanine has been observed to reduce lactic acid in muscles, enhancing endurance and improving strength. It is a very effective natural supplement and I recommend taking it everyday if you can. Directions: Take 2-4 grams immediately before all of your workouts and 2-4 grams immediately after.
- Coenzyme Q10: Studies have shown that 300mg per day of CoQ10 increases fast-twitch muscle fiber make-up in sedentary individuals. Imagine what it can do for athletes. I've experimented with high-doses of CoQ10 (over a gram a day) and added over 40 pounds to my bench press in 2 weeks. Unfortunately, CoQ10 is expensive if you're super-dosing it, but it definitely works and if you can afford it I'd say do it. Directions: take 100-400mg of CoQ10 with each meal each day.
- Phosphatidylserine (PS): A natural phospholipid that helps balance cortisol levels by reducing 11-beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-1 (called 11beta-HSD-1). I've evaluated multiple research studies that have shown 300-800mg of PS to be highly effective at reducing post-workout cortisol levels as well as discouraging muscle breakdown. Directions: Take 300-800mg post workout with a meal.
- Rhodiola Rosea: An herbal adaptogen that is all natural and helps boost focus, concentration and energy. Directions: Take 1-2 caps first thing in the morning with water.
- Digestive Enzymes: These consist of protease, amylase and lipase that break down protein, carbohydrates and fats into their component nutrient counterparts to aid your body's digestion system. There are also plant enzymes like papain and bromelain that help with protein utilization. Cooked foods are devoid of living enzymes, they are rendered useless after being heated over 105 degrees, which is why some people are fans of the "raw food diet" aka uncooked foods diet. I say, eat cooked foods but supplement with digestive enzymes. Now you get the best of both worlds: cooked foods like meats and steamed veggies with a replacement of the living enzymes your body needs to break them down. This saves your pancreas and digestive system from having to pump out digestive enzymes every time you eat cooked foods. Directions: Take 1-2 capsules with each food meal and protein shakes.
- Wobenzym N: Complex blend of systemic protease enzymes and citrus bioflavonoids that have been shown to improve flexibility, mobility and improve joint strength among many other factors. It is all natural and the enzymes are found in papaya, pineapple and some are also produced in your body's own pancreas. Directions: Take 3 capsules first thing in the morning on an empty stomach with water. Take 3 more capsules in the afternoon 45 minutes after a meal and 45 minutes before a meal (dead center in between meals). The reason for this is because if you take it with a meal the enzymes might be used to break down food instead of being absorbed into the body.
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We believe in Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son, conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, sinless in His life; making atonement for the sin of the world by His death on the cross. We believe in His bodily resurrection, His ascension into heaven, His high priestly intercession for His people, and His personal, visible return to the world according to His promise.
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What is your audio interface?
Pro Tools Ult 2019.6, HDX 3, MTRX/SPQ, HD Omni Mac Pro 5,1 - 3.06 GHz 12 core - macOS 10.13.6 RAM 64GB, SSD 4 x 2TB, GPU GTX 980 4GB
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Windows 10 will show floppy drives like the attached screenshot. Click the Disable button for each that show up. If none show up then its not the floppy drive issue and we'll think what else it can be.
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If the floppy is not it, one thing that may help is to get a Sandra report from your systems. Look for the Sandra information under the Windows General Troubleshooting link under "Help Us help you" up the top of this DUC web page.
Copy and paste the text output of the Sandra report (not a screenshot), it should look similar to the one here: http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=269583
BScout may have better ideas. I'm guessing he might have wanted to check you have an ASIO interface (you do, so great). But never assume Pro Tools has started up witt the correct interface. Open the Playback Engine dialog and check. Sometimes screwed up playback engines esp. ASIO4ALL drivers can cause weird hangs etc.
Just on that line of thought, and not that it should cause these problems, make sure Windows Sound and no other applications are trying to use the Apollo Twin, they should all be set to use the computers build-in audio.
You'll likely be removing all plugin files, trashing prefs again, checking Windows Event Viewer and other things if you still gave this behavior.
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PT always open up with the correct sound engine if i turn the interface on before launching PT , so that shouldn´t be an issue. I´m looking in to the Sandra thing.
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Here´s the computer overview made by SiSoftware Sandra
Host Name : JNSWRNHD
Workgroup : WORKGROUP
Model : HP Z420 Workstation 103C_53335X G=D
Serial Number : CZC34*****
Chassis : HP Mini Tower
Mainboard : HP 1589
Serial Number : CZC34*****
BIOS : HP J61 v03.50 08/15/2013
TPM - Trusted Platform Module : IFX 1.2 (PCR 24)
Intel vPro : 22.214.171.1246
Total Memory : 128GB ECC DIMM DDR3
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 0 @ 2.70GHz (8C 16T 3.2GHz/3.5GHz, 3.2GHz IMC, 8x 256kB L2, 20MB L3)
Socket/Slot : FC LGA1567
Memory Controller : HP Core (Sandy Bridge-E) DMI2 100MHz
Memory Controller : Intel Core (Sandy Bridge-E) Integrated Memory Controller Registers 100MHz, 4x 4GB ECC DIMM DDR3 1.6GHz 256-bit
Memory Module(s)
Memory Module : SanMax M393B2G70BH0-CK0 16GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-12800U DDR3-1600
Memory Module : SanMax M393B2G70DB0-CK0 16GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-12800U DDR3-1600
Memory Module : SanMax M393B2G70BH0-CK0 16GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-12800U DDR3-1600
Memory Module : SanMax M393B2G70BH0-CK0 16GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-12800U DDR3-1600
Memory Module : SanMax M393B2G70BH0-CK0 16GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-12800U DDR3-1600
Memory Module : SanMax M393B2G70BH0-CK0 16GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-12800U DDR3-1600
Memory Module : SanMax M393B2G70BH0-CK0 16GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-12800U DDR3-1600
Memory Module : SanMax M393B2G70BH0-CK0 16GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-12800U DDR3-1600
Video System
Monitor/Panel : BNQ BenQ GW2450H
(1920x1080, 24.0")
Monitor/Panel : Philips PHL 241S4
(1920x1080, 24.0")
Video Adapter : NVIDIA NVS 310 (1CU 48SP SM5.5 1GHz, 512MB 1.75GHz, PCIe 2.0 x16)
Video Adapter : NVIDIA NVS 310 (1CU 48SP SM5.5 1GHz, 512MB 1.75GHz, PCIe 2.0 x16)
Graphics Processor
OpenCL : NVIDIA NVS 310 (48SP 1C 523MHz, 512MB 1.75GHz)
D3D 11 : NVIDIA NVS 310 (48SP 1C 523MHz, 512MB 1.75GHz)
OpenGL : NVS 310/PCIe/SSE2 (512MB)
OpenGL : NVS 310/PCIe/SSE2 (512MB)
Storage Devices
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB (500.1GB, SATA600, 2.5", SSD, OPAL) : 466GB (C:)
Micron MTFDDAK256MAM-1K1 (256GB, SATA600, 2.5", SSD) : 238GB (G:)
TF CARD Storage (USB2/NVMe) : N/A (D:)
hp CDDVDW SH-216DB (SATA150, DVD+-RW, CD-RW) : N/A (E:)
Logical Storage Devices
Återställning : 499MB (NTFS, 4kB) @ Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB (500.1GB, SATA600, 2.5", SSD, OPAL)
Primär (C:) : 465GB (NTFS, 4kB) @ Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB (500.1GB, SATA600, 2.5", SSD, OPAL)
Återställning : 499MB (NTFS, 4kB) @ Micron MTFDDAK256MAM-1K1 (256GB, SATA600, 2.5", SSD)
Min Moosika (G:) : 238GB (NTFS, 4kB) @ Micron MTFDDAK256MAM-1K1 (256GB, SATA600, 2.5", SSD)
Hard Disk : 95MB (FAT32, 1kB) @ Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB (500.1GB, SATA600, 2.5", SSD, OPAL)
Hard Disk : 95MB (FAT32, 1kB) @ Micron MTFDDAK256MAM-1K1 (256GB, SATA600, 2.5", SSD)
Removable Drive (D:) : N/A @ TF CARD Storage (USB2/NVMe)
Optical Drive (E:) : N/A @ hp CDDVDW SH-216DB (SATA150, DVD+-RW, CD-RW)
LPC Hub Controller #1 : HP Patsburg LPC Controller
Audio Device : HP Patsburg High Definition Audio Controller
Audio Codec : Realtek Semi 262 High Definition Audio
Audio Device : HP HDMI Audio stub
Audio Codec : nVidia 001C
Serial Port(s) : 1
Disk Controller : HP Patsburg IDE-r Controller
Disk Controller : HP Patsburg SATA RAID Controller
Disk Controller : HP Patsburg 4-Port SATA Storage Control Unit
USB Controller #1 : HP Patsburg USB2 Enhanced Host Controller #2
USB Controller #2 : HP Patsburg USB2 Enhanced Host Controller #1
USB Controller #3 : HP TUSB73x0 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 xHCI Host Controller
FireWire/1394 Controller #1 : HP FW322/323 IEEE1394 OHCI FireWire Controller
SMBus/i2c Controller #1 : Intel ICH SMBus
SMBus/i2c Controller #2 : Intel MCP2-E(P) XMB Ch 0 SMBus
SMBus/i2c Controller #3 : Intel MCP2-E(P) XMB Ch 1 SMBus
Printers and Faxes
Printer : Microsoft XPS Document Writer v4 (600x600, Colour)
Printer : Microsoft Print To PDF (600x600, Colour)
Fax : Microsoft Shared Fax Driver (200x200)
Network Services
Network Adapter : Remote NDIS based Internet Sharing Device (Ethernet, 150Mbps)
Network Adapter : TAP-Windows Adapter V9 (Ethernet)
Network Adapter : Intel(R) 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (Ethernet)
Operating System
Windows System : Microsoft Windows 10 Professional 10.0.17763
Platform Compliance : x64
Thank you guys for helping me. I really appreciate it. / Jonas
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Can my problem be related to my plug-ins in any way? I run the program now and it seems to work just fine. It hasn´t stopped/frozen at loading tracks or shut down when changing value in GUI or even when just opening a plug-in. I´m asking about plug-ins because the PSP audioware nexcellence and Springbox are the one´s i´m often using when the issue with shut down when turning knobs in GUI. From PSPs side they only tell me to reinstall and i´ve done so plenty of times. Right now i´m trying nexcellence out and it work as it should.
Closed session and PT and tried launching a the same session again and it freezes/doesn´t answer at restoring track. It´s not even the same track it stops at when restoring, seems random. What could be the issue?
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You do not have any floppy drives. That would have been too easy. :-(
Thanks for the Sandra report, I do not see anything that looks like a problem.
Yes plugins can cause just about anything. You might also have a corrupted session. Or it could be other stuff. Lets test for plugins first
The quick test for plugins is to remove *all* .aaxplugin files from C:\Program Files\Common Files\Avid\Audio\Plug-Ins. Just move them out of there to anywhere else. The Unused Plugin folder is a handy place for that. Then trash prefs. Start Pro Tools and it will magically put back the default plugins. See now if any of your sessions, including the ones that behaved badly before. (this also specifically gets all your UAD plugins out of Pro Tools... you want to try that). Obviously the actual third party plugins will then be disabled, but this is still a very useful test. If you do not see problems you can move back some of your suspect third party plugins into that plugin folder, start Pro Tools, and see if the problem reappears. If you see problems with only the standard plugins installed then leave all the third party ones uninstalled and keep going....
If that is not it. Try making Pro Tools as easy to run as posible, in the playback engine settings set the playback buffer a large as you can, uncheck "ignore errors" (we want Pro Tools to tell you if it has problems), check "dynamic plugin processing" and set the disk cache to a nice number, say 8GB (you have so much memory...).
If that is not it I would next check the full optimization again. But I'd leave hyper-threading enabled. Turn off WiFi and bluetooth (if you have wired mice and keyboard), and all networking (if you are not relying on cloud iLok) I would also physically unplug every external device possible, control surfaces, USB hubs, Ethernet cables, etc., and just leave the keyboard, mouse, interface, iLok, and one monitor. And I would make sure no other applications are running, no web browsers, no desktop search/indexing software, and definitely no anti-virus software, fully disable all Antivirus software, including from Microsoft. If you are not sure how to disable it uninstall it.
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BTW with such a nice computer the only things I might upgrade in future is use a higher end-GPU than the NVS-310, especially to support more display resolution. And maybe use M.2 PCIe SSDs especially since you have PCIe 3 slots... but it takes a bit of care to get compatible NVMe drives/boot support. But none of that that is not going to cause things like you are seeing.
Last edited by Darryl Ramm; 05-25-2019 at 01:04 PM.
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Just wanna flag one thing here, PSP has been an issue here too with both Sierra and the following update to High Sierra.
We had bought a bunch of them and unknowkngly installed them and forgot a out them. I noticed this issue after a few weird things last year on one of our Trashcans here with 12cores and 64GB ram all SSD's which should be awesome but had some bad behavior.
I trashed all the PSP plugins and vóila! No more strangeness so follow Darryls steps and advice with moving them out of the AAX folder as they cause havoc by just beeing installed, not just when instantiatedz
And furthermore as Darryl pointed out turn off any cloud stuff as it seem like many have problems with dropped sessions and hanging of sessions etc when connected and using Cloud Collab unfortunately. Use the save function for the local drives only so you are 100% sure that internet is not interfering with your sessions.
NY1 want some PSP plugins we will never install them again. Not that great either so no loss ... except the monetary outlay but I value my time more !
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