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Ottawa County Parks paves way for 35-mile pathway from lakeshore to Grand Rapids
By Marla R. Miller
Thursday, February 01, 2018
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After decades of planning and buying property, Ottawa County Parks' Grand River Greenway is starting to gain real momentum. Though still several years from completion, backers can't wait for the day residents and visitors can explore this 35-mile pathway and many waterfront parks and destinations along the way.
Rich in ecological, cultural, and industrial history, the early Grand River transported Native Americans and fur traders, floated millions of fresh-cut logs downstream for milling, and in more recent years, has seen a resurgence as a recreational waterway for fishing, kayaking, and pleasure boating.
And while the Grand River has become the focus of redevelopment and recreation in Grand Rapids, it's also been on the radar of park officials in Ottawa County who have worked for the last two decades to buy property and establish riverfront parks in hopes of connecting them via a 35-mile multi-use trail.
The entire $41 million
Grand River Greenway
project involves buying and protecting thousands of acres of natural land for parks, watersheds, and wildlife habitat. Along with that, the greenway will increase river access with boardwalks and docks, hiking and biking trails, kayak and boat launches, and will connect communities along the river.
When the Ottawa County parks commission created a master plan in 1989, it included studying the Grand River corridor, along with the
Macatawa rivers and greenways
, to begin planning for the greenway, according to John Scholtz, director of Ottawa County Parks for the past 30 years. The project gained momentum with the passage of a millage in 1996, and Ottawa County Parks has since purchased over 2,400 acres and created 13 parks and natural areas along the river.
A key feature of the greenway is the development of a non-motorized ADA accessible trail, recently named the Idema Explorers Trail, that will run along the Grand River from Kent County's
Millennium Park
Grand Haven's pier
Officials say acquiring the necessary easements, construction, and connecting the Idema Explorers Trail could take another five years, but they are making progress and feel confident that the trail will be a reality.
"I want the trail to be as focused on the river as we possible we can," Scholtz says. "You can't be on the river everywhere, but it has to have a certain amount of river presence."
A historian doing research for the project uncovered a graphic from the late 1890s promoting bicycling from Grand Rapids to Grand Haven, so the idea is nothing new, Scholtz says.
"It was talking about taking a bike ride to Grand Haven and all the sites you'd see along the way," he says. "A lot of the sites they featured were parks that we have. It's so interesting that someone was talking about this in 1898."
To move the project along, Ottawa County Parks plans to acquire 700 acres of additional land and develop 27 miles of trail, including 13 miles along or near the river or other water features. The proposed Idema Explorers Trail will offer connections to regional trail systems and other destinations including both
Grand Valley State University
campuses, downtown Grand Rapids, and Bass River State Recreation Area.
One of the biggest hurdles, besides acquiring land, has been the price tag, with $21 million in funding so far coming from the park millage, state and MDOT grants, and other partnerships. The effort has involved assistance from local, regional, state, and federal agencies to secure over $10 million in public funding and establish the pathway route.
Ottawa County Parks Foundation
also launched the Grand River Greenway campaign to raise $7.2 million in philanthropic gifts, necessary to leverage another $10 million in public funding and match grants.
In recent months, the foundation has secured $5.5 million of the projected $7.2 million goal, in part thanks to a $2 million gift from the Bill and Bea Idema Foundation and another $860,000 in grants from
The Wege Foundation
Frey Foundation
"We're so appreciative of this grant support," Scholtz says. "It gives people the sense that we can really get this thing done and put this in the final stage of fundraising."
Longtime supporters of nature, education, and the environment, Bill and Bea Idema also provided financial support for
Grand Ravines Park
near Grand Valley's State University's Allendale campus and key features including $350,000 for a 275-foot suspension bridge, fully ADA accessible and believed to be the state's longest pedestrian suspension bridge, over one of the park's ravines.
There is also another bike trail being built from Grand Ravines to GVSU, and the park has a lodge, a restored barn and windmill, hiking trails, fishing access, an off-leash dog park, and scenic ravine and river overlooks.
"That's the center of the trail system," says Myron Aldrink, a Greenway Campaign committee member whose uncle used to own land that is now part of Grand Ravines Park. "It's in a beautiful natural setting with deep ravines and the river and creeks flowing in."
Along the Idema Explorers Trail, planners and funders plan to create a unique trail experience and sense of place through historical markers, interpretive displays, and possibly even sculpture and artwork. Upon completion, the pathway will help tell the story of the Grand River from pre-European settlement, through the logging era to the present.
A committee of volunteers and historians, along with environmental groups and representatives from local Native American tribes, are assisting with the research, design, and development of the interpretive displays. Supporters want to make sure the history, culture, and heritage is captured from the perspective of all the important parties, Aldrink says. Another component of the trail is the hope to restore wildlife and fish habitat, including the sturgeon, to promote a healthy ecosystem.
"What a great thing for the natural environment, saving the land, honoring the cultures and the heritage. It's really going to be something amazing for the area," says Aldrink.
The Idema Explorers Trail will run along the south side of the Grand River, eventually connecting 8,500 acres of public land to Grand Rapids, Grandville, Jenison, and the lakeshore in Grand Haven. MDOT added a separate multi-use lane for pedestrians and bicyclists over the M-231 bridge, which includes a nearby parking lot and scenic overlooks of marsh wetlands, to provide access north and south of the bridge, Scholtz says.
While there is a way to go to connect key linkages, Ottawa County Parks continues to make progress little by little. This spring, construction of the 3.9-mile paved segment in Robinson Township, along the north side of North Cedar Drive, will open and connect
Connor Bayou
Riverside Park
Bass River State Recreation Area
. It also serves as the southern connection to the new M-231 bridge non motorized trail crossing.
There are other trail sections being planned in Robinson Township that are set to open in 2018 or 2019, including a 42nd Avenue and Ravines connector segment, says Jessica VanGinhoven, Ottawa County Parks communications specialist.
Preliminary design work is underway and easement agreements are being finalized along the trail route. The roughly one-mile segment will be named the Versluis Path after Joyce Versluis, Bea Idema's niece and another avid supporter of Grand Ravines Park and the greenway.
Another two-mile section will run from the
Bend Area
, down 10th Avenue, which turns into Cottonwood Drive, into Jenison and end close to the Kent County border. The work is being completed along with a road commission project, and Bend Area park will be expanded through funds from the Greenway Campaign and the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund, VanGinhoven says.
The Idema Explorers pathway will integrate into West Michigan's larger regional trail network in Ottawa and Kent counties and beyond, with linkages to nine regional trails, offering a mix of short or long cycling trips for leisure or exercise.
Along the lakeshore, it will connect access to 100 miles of trails in the Grand Haven area, including the 20-mile
Lakeshore Trail
from Grand Haven to Holland and the 15-mile
Lakeside Trail
around Spring Lake with connections to the
North Bank Trail
Spoonville Trail
. Residents and vacationers will be able to ride the trail across the county or do smaller loops in their area, like a loop from Grand Haven to Spring Lake to Nunica and back along the Idema Explorers Trail.
Not limited to the land, the greenway also encourages visitors to enjoy the river via the
Grand River Heritage Water Trail
, which offers information on places to access the river, stops along the journey, and historical points of interest. Ottawa County Parks has added three universally accessible kayak launches at
Grand River Park
Eastmanville Bayou
, and
Connor Bayou
, which are each roughly a two-hour paddle apart, with plans for a fourth farther downstream, Scholtz says.
"We're one of the few places in the state that has a series of these handicap-accessible kayak launches," he says, noting the launches can be used by anyone to launch or load a kayak via rollers on a ramp that go into water.
Beyond the environmental and recreational impact, backers of the Grand River Greenway see it as boon for the entire region in the way of tourism, community pride, and an attractive amenity for those looking to relocate to the area.
"This is going to be a great connector and really pull together a lot of the valuable assets and really make West Michigan and Grand Rapids a destination place," Aldrink says.
Greenway Campaign committee members continue to seek additional partners to raise the remaining $1.7 million, including businesses and individuals, and hope the recent activity increases community awareness of the value of the greenway and other parks.
"The foundations have been wonderful and we will be reaching out to the corporations and individuals in the very near future because we do want everyone involved in this," Aldrink says.
Those who wish to donate can contact the
Ottawa County Parks Foundation
Marla R. Miller is an award-winning journalist and professional writer based in West Michigan. Learn more about her by visiting her
Images courtesy of Ottawa County Parks.
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Big Jim held the MZRC Southern Ireland rally back in the popular Ballacolla Farmhouse Hostel. Jim always organises a good bash and by the looks of it he was well rewarded with a fantastic turnout and great oversea's support. I was not there myself and do not have any written reports but the pictures do tell the story.
I had a very rare two color Lambretta 150 made in India, my father told me about the Jawa reputation, at this time I was 18 and the price for a Jawa 250 with 400 KM the same for the Lambretta sold. All my friends drive Japan bikes bur I like rare bikes, I put the bike on the road to make my first 800 KM trip to the Ocean!!!!, when I got back to the city the central bearings for the cranshaft was damaged, I used a week quantity of oil in the mix!!!! Somebody told me later this bike needed a richer mix because have a little problem to lubricate the central bearings on the cranshaft!!! I changed the bearings and runs again, but not like before.
After this problem I traded the bike for a Honda CG125 1979(you can do anything with this bike and you can't brake the engine)and my Jawa time was closed, but is one of two bike as usually dream to buy again. A friend at this time introduce me to the Russian bikes....it was a piece of junk with wheels, Mink's, Bosho's, Nieper's, Ural's,thanks to him, because a few years after discover also the British bikes and i,m starting to buy them and make a little restoration jobs,included the Russian bikes.
Lately i've started to work in a little Motorcycle shop and through my hands passed all kind of two wheels, for transportation I use a clasic Vespa px 150 from India,at this time in Argentina the Vespa's was imported new from India and a convenience price. Jawa's was not easy to find in good shape with low KM in those days because the import was closed for few years and no new models or parts were available. In 2001 i left the country and my dreams...For the moment i'm waiting for good economic situation to buy a old Jawa clasic,250 or 350 from the 80',those are the models i like. To close this mail i'm said sorry for my poor english, grammar is not my speciality, but i'm try!!!
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Members of this club are passionate, enthusiasts and owners of the rare Jawa bikes, here is a pack of rare bikes, whose production was discontinued in India in 1996. "The Jawa Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of July every year. This year we are riding out of the city to have a get-together in Shiva's Farm near Shivagange," said John Samuel, a co-founder of Bangalore Jawa Yezdi Motorcylce Club. Samuel owns two Jawa bikes - a 1975 model B and and 1980 classic. Over 80 rare bikes were present at the event, which started from St Mark's Road, outside Bowring Institute. "The best part of the bike is its roar.
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After many years biking with Mick I have only now discovered wine. Oh how healthy I would have been if I had listened earlier.
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August has cleared our events list. You can see the season pass with events disappearing off our list. So time for a last Hurrah. Calling all JAWAs. Sunday 16th September. Run to the Forge Restaurant outside Buncloudy, Co. Wexford. It is actually on the N81 between Tullow and Bunclody. To be there for Lunch at 12.30. Let this be our late JAWA day. You can meet us at the Spawell Leisure centre at 11 or at the restaurant. See events for details.
An interesting YouTube item that you might find suitable for your electronic mag.
This is a great story on the early days of RYNO Motors up to the end of 2011. See our latest creation pre-production show bike at our web-site at: www.rynomotors.com
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On purchasing a 6 pack of Goldstein I was looking forward to enjoying a pleasent evening sampling. Being a Pale lager I served it well chilled. It poured with a good continential head. Even though it has a long neck there would be to much gas to drink from the bottle.Yes I was licking my lips my taste buds watering in antisapation.
But alas the good news stops here. It has a sour, dare I say urine taste. It is dry but when you find yourself wondering should you finish the bottle let alone the 6 pack you know you have been the victim of packaging and curiosity.
So this is one I suggest you give a miss. It is negative advice but with so many lovely beers out there why assult your body with a beer which does not even satisfy the title of bland.
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As fuel prices once again start to rise I was wondering what solutions JAWA riders were trying. With JAWA having such a large footprint on the world it was likely that someone was trying something. It did not take long to find this.
This is not Mickey mouse, an accurate log is being kept. It goes over my head but Below is a sample of what is recorded.
Took 1st 24V test ride. Blew 100A breaker that is between 24V contactor and motor. Added another 100A breaker in parallel. Next test ride went very well. E-Jawa pulls 220 amps through all four gears and accelerates well at 24 Volts. Ran a couple of 1/8 mile runs out on the highway at my measured 1/8 mile. Shifts really nice. Contactors are holding up even though they are only rated for 120A make, 85A continuous and 65A break. May have to install bigger ones in the future. I really wanted to make the entire controller from local parts without ordering from all over the country. About $100 for two stage controller with parts from Radio Shack, Auto Parts and Hardware Store.
May 26th, got the first stage of my two stage contactor controller hooked up the original throttle and took another test run at 12 Volts. I can use the clutch to take off slowly or no clutch with a small jerk, but is very controllable at 12 Volts. The second stage of my controller will kick in 24 Volts to the motor with a little deeper twist of the original throttle grip.
To find out more and see footage of the working model follow the link.
Web link http://www.poormansev.com/index.html
Decided to change the oil seal that's located behind the final drive chain gear box sprocket / clutch spider after my rear tyre became quite oily after just a short trip out. Also a Quick update on the Jawa c.z. chassis project, Different seat e.t.c. I've attached this site as it explain's the application's and product's of Hylomar Blue sealent e.t.c.
An Exploration of Some Motorcyclists in 1920s Britain" -- http://ijms.nova.edu/Fall2010/IJMS_Artcl.Potter.html" A very good read. It's interesting to see how the "types" of ninety years ago are by and large still among us now, even if they're (we're?) more inclined to wave a credit card at a dealer than to produce a set of Whitworth spanners and field-strip a Sturmey-Archer gearbox.
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Because of political instability and a decade long conflict, Nepal achieved an adult literacy rate (15 years and above) of only 56.5 percent with huge variation between men (71.6 percent) and women (44.5 percent). There are noticeable differences in literacy rates based on gender, caste and ethnicity, location and income of people.
With adult literacy at only 51 percent (men 67 percent versus female 39 percent) the people living in rural areas are far behind their urban counterparts with literacy rates at 76 percent (men 87 percent versus women 66 percent). The most miserable situation prevails for the poorest 20 percent of population compared to the richest 20 percent of population with an enormous literacy gap of more than 40 percentage points.
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'Strengthening Local governance for inclusive quality Education' is being implemented in the five districts of Terai (Dhanusha, Mahottari, Saptari, Rautahat, and Parsa). The project focuses to build the capacity of the government at district and VDC/municipality level as well as the civil societies associated and accountable for ensuring inclusive quality education. It primarily aims to…Read More
Context: Teaching to Learn aims to improve learning outcomes for marginalized children in Nepal by developing teachers training and early grade literacy and numeracy of grades 1,2 and 3. The project is carried out in 16 schools of two districts Jumla and Jajarkot from March, 2014 till December, 2016 and is funded by European Union…Read More
It is widely recognized that improving access to, and quality of, girls' education brings about positive socio-economic outcomes, for example improving health, diversifying and sustaining livelihoods and promoting economic growth. 55% of Nepal's population are affected by 'extreme poverty', and girls and women, especially in rural areas, are disproportionately affected. The Government's School Sector Reform…Read More
On the completion of EFA program in 2009, the government launched the School Sector Reform Program (SSRP), aimed at achieving the EFA goals. It also adopted a new policy to extend the period of basic education from five to eight years, combining five years of primary education with three years of lower secondary education. The…Read More
The project "Improving the quality of primary education and training for youth in Nepal" is being implemented by Aasaman Nepal in Baglung and Saptari districts of Nepal in collaboration with Aide et Action; a French International Non-Governmental Organization. The project is targeted towards empowering the primary school children through quality education by improving their fundamental…Read More


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6.35am – Abu Dhabi
I watch the Abu Dhabi sunrise with a handsome boy, my laptop and a cup of hot tea. I think about life.
The spots of orange, coral and yellow peek out prominently from beyond the empty desert skyline.
The handsome boy is a mirage – he is my absent colleague who missed the flight, my laptop and myself are here for work, the tea is English Breakfast and I have nothing to say about life.
I see an Arabic man in full traditional headdress having a cup of Starbucks – I take a mental snapshot – there is so much culture here to remember. I also think about taking a real picture but it might have appeared rude and invasive. (Although I should just take the damn picture and then tell the offended Arabic man that, without my camera, I am actually already rude and invasive.)
I walk on.
"Where is gate 33?"
I politely smile and nod as I bother someone who looks like he works here. I shall call him Mr Beard. Mr Beard gestures to the end of the room – I make a mental note and a mental groan for it is a long way away.
I amble down the long walkway en route to gate 33.
Long. Walk. Way. Away.
I hope Mr Beard is not wrong and I spy with my little eye… The airport lounge is full of sleeping people, strewn all over the carpet floor like beach bums on a warm Singapore sunny day.
I grip my camera but my attention jerks to a tiny boy chasing a bouncing ball – he giggles and cuts in front of me. My bags fall and I almost fall over the barely 2-year old, but no harm is yet done and I pat his little head.
As I gather my various bags and items, I feel lonely and think about K, my colleague who missed this flight just hours ago. Somehow, his brilliant mind and usually organized demeanor had failed him and I distractingly recall us in the middle of the check-in lounge in Dublin airport, kneeling in front of his baggage as we executed a frantic search on every inch of his pockets and thumbed through every document in his bag.
We searched and searched like it was life and death, but we could not for the life of him find his passport.
After what felt like forever (and forever is a long time), he ran his frustrated fingers through his hair and announced to me that he had kept his passport somewhere safe… back in the apartment safe.
We look at his watch – the apartment was half an hour away, and the check-in was closing in 20 minutes. There was no one to "save" him now.
He uses my phone to make a number of calls as I pack up his needs and the clothes that he would be using tonight…
Time to go back to Dublin. Time and air ticket was lost, slipping through his finger tips.
You should have seen the way his face fell when he realized home was so close yet so far.
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OMG guys, it smells sooo good!!! I wish I could actually post the smell of it. It's amazing!! It gives me a feeling of relax and coziness. It kind of reminds me of a tea that I own and it's sooo good!!!
The smell kind of reminds me of fall-time. It gives me a warm feeling.
The texture of the product is slightly different from the black sugar mask wash-off. It's a little bit more watery.
This product contains also sugar pearls for its exfoliating properties, but it also has strawberry seeds inside, that makes it feel slightly softer.
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I got this product in a set with a small bottle of the Black Sugar Serum at the Skinfood store in Shinjuku.
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While a couple of suggestions in this "opinion" piece are valid, none of them help you diagnose the root-cause of your crappy network connection. None of them explain a sudden drop in speed in the manner that Stephen Fry experienced. Fry's connection was throttled; no amount of "have you tried turning it off and on again" would cure that. Frankly: reinstalling Windows is not going to increase your data cap.
First, credit where it's due. Let's look at the good options from the article:
- Fixing your home wiring is recommendation number one. Get rid of plug in splitters and do it properly. It's not hard to install a master filter yourself if you have some skills and the right tools, but it's probably safer to pay a specialist to do it. If you have a VoIP service (like Orcon Genius) with no dialtone, you can just do away with splitters altogether.
- Rebooting your router is a good suggestion, but if you're doing it more than once a month you need to buy a better router. You get what you pay for, and in many cases I'm betting you paid nothing for your router. Go figure.
- WiFi intereference is real, and finding a free channel is a good idea, but you're more likely to see drop-outs and inability to connect than a speed change from 7Mbps-ish to 64kbps.
- Modern viruses and malware often use your PC to send crap over the network, making it appear slow to other software. Use a decent, free antivirus program. A lot of people recommend Microsoft Security Essentials.
Perhaps a better approach overall is to do some diagnostics first using some freely available tools? Then you can at least determine if the problem is inside your house.
Your Router
Your router probably has an admin page. You can navigate to it by typing in the router's address in your browser. Something like http://192.168.0.1 or http://10.0.0.1 might work. You could also try looking for the "Default gateway" address in your PC's network settings and use that. If you haven't set a password for the router admin interface, it is almost certainly some combination of "root", "admin", blank, or just maybe serial number on your router.
Once you log in, look for a "status" page. This will tell you if the router is connected, at what speed, and perhaps even some log entries to show what happened recently (disconnections etc).
Speedtest.net is a simple first step. Nerds will tell you this is flawed due to caching and proxies and the like. This is true, but we can use Speedtest to do some coarse-grained diagnosis.
- Can you even reach Speedtest.net? If not, check your router again to see if it has a connection.
- What's the speed like to a nearby destination?
- What about an international destination (Australia, USA)?
- Try speed tests at different times of day to different locations. I can guarantee, for example, that you will see a huge change in speed to USA destinations between peak and off-peak times.
If you notice a continual, huge difference in speed between NZ locations and USA locations, talk to your ISP. Bear in mind that a 5x difference in speed is "normal" (10Mbps to NZ vs 2Mbps to USA), but if USA speed is crawling, it's probably Not Your Fault(TM).
Ping is a very simple command that sends packets to a destination, and tells you how long they took to respond (if at all). Think of it as sonar for the web. You can run it from a command prompt (run "Cmd" in Windows or "Terminal" on Mac). At right is an example of me "Pinging" Google.com:
You can see that the ping result times are roughly the same, and all below 100ms. If you see wild fluctuations in the response times, or a bunch of "Response timed out" results, this means something is going wrong between you and the destination. If you see ping times consistently above 500ms to a developed nation, you probably have an issue. To work out where the problem lies, try pinging progressively more distant locations:
- Ping your router address (e.g. 192.168.0.1 or 10.0.0.1). If this is unstable, then the problem is definitely inside your house.
- Ping an address on your ISP's network (e.g. their home page or DNS server).
- Ping a different NZ address (e.g. nzherald.co.nz) – but note that your ISP might even host some local sites!
- Ping an international address.
Most PCs will have some form of Traceroute function on them. Traceroute shows you the route your packets are taking from your PC to the destination address. On Windows you type "tracert" into a command prompt. On Mac/Linux I believe it is "traceroute". Try a well-known international destination. Im my case below I've typed "tracert www.google.com" to get this result:
I've blurred out the first few results to hide our internal network, but here's a few things to note from the trace:
- The left hand columns are the times it took to reach each point in the "route".
- Interestingly (based on the server names we can see listed), our packets never leave Australia. Google obviously has servers in Oz that are responding to our request.
- The results are loosely in two groups: those around the 1-10ms mark, and those that are higher. The 1-10ms results are on our internal network, the rest are outside.
- The results are (generally) increasing the further away they get. This is exactly as you'd expect, due to the laws of physics.
- There's no "anomalies" in the result. Sometimes you might see a sudden, explainable spike in the timings (e.g. between NZ and USA), other times a completely unexplainable spike. It's the unexplainable ones you want to look into.
The Full Story
So yeah, none of these tools will tell you the full story. They won't tell you for sure if there is a flakey piece of wire between the plug in your house and a server in Patagonia. They wouldn't even help Stephen Fry understand the way connection throttling works in New Zealand.
What this approach will do is help you understand how data gets from your keyboard to the rest of the world, and the myriad issues that can happen along the way. They'll help you see the results of congestion to your ISP and beyond, and they might tell you that your router or home network is stuffed – saving you from spending 30+ minutes on hold with your ISP.
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This is the race that I have wanted to do ever since I thought of running beyond 26.2 miles. I know it is going to be tough, but I plan on beating myself up over the next several months to be able to deal with the altitude that us flatlanders cannot train in everyday.
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Residents in the Valley brace up for Chillai-Kalan, the 40-day period of the harshest winter in the region as the mercury dipped by several degrees at most of the places in this part of Jammu and Kashmir.
Chillai-Kalan begins from December 21, and during this period the weather in Kashmir valley continues to remain dry and cold with minimum temperatures hovering below the freezing point.
As cold wave tightened its grip in Kashmir, Srinagar the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, recorded the minimum temperature of minus 3.2 degree Celsius, a decrease of over two degrees from the previous nights of minus 0.6 degrees Celsius, an official of the MET Department said.
The mercury in Qazigund, the gateway town to Kashmir valley, also went down by two notches from the previous nights low of minus 3.3 degrees Celsius, to settle at a low of minus 1.3 degrees Celsius, the official said.
He said the tourist resort of Pahalgam which serves as a base camp for the annual Amarnath Yatra in south Kashmir registered a low of minus 7.7 degrees Celsius, a decrease of five degrees from the previous nights minus 2.7 degrees Celsius.
The minimum temperature in Kupwara in north Kashmir also went down by over two degrees to settle at a low of minus 3.9 degrees Celsius compared to the previous nights minus 1.5 degrees Celsius, the official said.
He said Kokernag town in south Kashmir registered the minimum temperature of minus 2.9 degrees Celsius as against minus 1.9 degrees Celsius the previous night.
The famous ski-resort of Gulmarg recorded a low of minus 10.4 degrees Celsius. The resort had registered a low of minus 10.2 degrees Celsius the previous night, the official said.
Leh, in the frontier region of Ladakh, witnessed a slight decrease in the night temperature as the mercury there settled at minus 12.9 degrees Celsius compared to the previous nights of minus 12.6 degrees Celsius.
Leh was the coldest recorded place in the state, the official said.
However, the nearby Kargil town was the only recorded place in the state where the night temperature increased.
Kargil recorded a low of minus 7.4 degrees Celsius, an increase of nearly seven degrees from the previous nights minus 14.2 degrees Celsius, the official said.
The MET Department has said there are chances of isolated rains over two days from tomorrow. It said the weather is likely to remain mainly dry for a few days after Sunday.
The residents in the Valley are bracing up for a 40-day Chillai-Kalan which is considered the harshest period of the winter when the chances of snowfall are most frequent and maximum.
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Chillai-Kalan, which begins with winter solstice on December 21, ends on January 31 next year. The 40-day period is followed by a 20-day long Chillai-Khurd (small cold) and a 10-day long Chillai-Bachha (baby cold).


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An original captain's house located in Firostefani, near the Capital of Santorini (Fira), overlooking the famous Volcano and the Aegean Sea.
The 2 floor house comprises 4 bedrooms, 3 en suite bathrooms with showers, 1 built sofa bed with spacious living and dining areas, 1 fully equipped kitchen and a kitchenette at the upper floor, with an enormous private balconies in each floor.
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After reading the blurb, I expected this book to be a thrilling, strange retelling of Rebecca, with a strong focus on romance. This book did not live up to those expectations.
I had a really hard time connecting with the characters, and the chemistry between characters was horrible. There was no spark between Imogen and any of the male leads, just a weird forced-feeling obsession which felt more like a plot device than true attraction. The only characters I really enjoyed at all were Maisie and her mother. Monir did a great job making these characters multidimensional, so you can see the good and bad in both of them.
The plot itself was really pretty okay for the first half of the story. It had a nice mysterious, creepy feel to it as the blurb promised. Unfortunately, this feeling is completely lost in the second half of the story. The creepy mystery is replaced with a paranormal "Princess Diaries", except all the funny, cute anecdotes are missing. Events in this half of the novel feel very choppy and at times completely unrelated. The plot twists in the second half are really unexpected, which was nice, but the story surrounding the twists is so convoluted that it is difficult to appreciate and enjoy these hidden gems. The pace also slows significantly in the second half of the book, only to pick up slightly closer to the end of the story.
Overall, I think the expectations I set for this story were just too high. I went into this book hoping for a creepy thriller retelling of Rebecca, and what I got was a choppy paranormal novel with romance. I would recommend this book to fans of paranormal fiction involving elementals and witches, as well as fans of classic retellings.


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A few bits happening on the boat front at the moment. Apart from the varnishing side I've decided to rehash the wheelhouse doors. The big mistake I made with the first build was to measure the originals and use the same dimensions, but as you can see here the door is an inch shorter than the frame.
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What with this and making new shutters for the front windows at home there is a shortage of sapele so it looks like a trip to Market Harborough next week to get some more. Doing all this cutting the table saw blades seem to be running rather hot indicating they are losing their edge. Tried cleaning and a quick rub up with a hone but not a lot of difference. Rather than buy a new set I've ordered a machine specifically designed for sharpening circular saw blades. It'll be interesting to see if it is any good when it arrives.
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From Joi's blog, I learned that a regular on the #joiito IRC channel--Mike Lea, aka mazeone--had committed suicide this weekend.
Joi also linked to Mike's web site. The diary/weblog portion of the site broke my heart.
07/18/03-09:21:54 PM Friday -- touching the rocks and flying i will never be a writer, an artist, a musician, a programmer; i will never be an athlete, a monk, a dancer, a mechanic; i will never learn how to talk to people, meet strangers, make friends; i will never have a happy childhood, another chance to make the connections that i missed, another chance with friends i have lost. i will never be, i will never learn, i will never have.


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By Birk O'Halloran, Daniel Luke Holton
Explore the relationship among culinary suggestion and one of many world's oldest types of insurgent art!
From James Beard Award winners, Top Chef rivals, and nutrients community stars to prep chefs, interns, and sous cooks, few people are extra heavily linked to tattoos than cooks. expert kitchens have normally been an unseen haven for plenty of of society's misfits, yet lately they've been remodeled into phases because the world's obsession with nice meals and nice cooks keeps to develop. Knuckle tattoos that after excluded anyone from many careers became a badge of honor and the tattoos are actually a testomony to their dedication to their craft.
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Teaching with GoogleDocs
Welcome to another entry in our loosely-defined-yet-still-exciting teaching with technology series. This week: Teaching with GoogleDocs!
Stephanie Hedge is a graduate student in the Department of English at Ball State University. You can follow her on twitter at @slhedge.
Welcome to another entry in our loosely-defined-yet-still-exciting teaching with technology series. This week: Teaching with GoogleDocs!
Our previous entries in this series include my posts on Teaching with Tablets, Teaching with Twitter, and Teaching with Blogs, Carleen Carey's Teaching Tools for the Tech Savvy TA, Ashley Wiersma's 3 Ways to Hack your Class with Google+, and Andrea Zellner's I'm a Digital Grad in a Digital World.
One of the most important tools in my classroom pedagogy, regardless of the course I am teaching, is GoogleDocs. I am always looking for ways to encourage collaboration and group learning between my students, and GDocs is my favorite platform for creating that collaboration. This post will briefly explain GoogleDocs for the uninitiated and provide a few hacks for using this platform in your teaching.
What is GoogleDocs?
GoogleDocs (a part of GoogleDrive) is a set of cloud-based collaborative softwares, including a word processor, an image editor, spreadsheet and presentation software, and survey platform. I use the word processor (or document) in my class most often. The doc looks similar to the Microsoft Word interface, but it has several exciting other features. The most important feature of GoogleDocs for my classroom practice is the way students can all collaborate on the same document in real time. GoogleDocs has a feature for commenting on the text, as well as a chat window on the left of the screen. Documents can be created from scratch right in your browser, or can be uploaded from your computer. Finally, all work in the document is auto-saved to the cloud, so you can go back to the same document as often as you want without worrying about losing your work! Check out some amazing tutorials here and here for more information on how GDocs works.
Why Should I Use GoogleDocs?
There are a number of reasons why GoogleDocs are a useful part of your classroom toolkit:
- GoogleDocs are easy to use. Although there are lots of interesting hidden features, you and your students can start using the platform immediately with almost no learning curve.
- GoogleDocs are free, and students can access files without having to sign up for anything (you do need an account to create a doc though)
- GoogleDocs support all kinds of collaborative learning and writing practices. I am a huge proponent of having students work together on writing activities, and GoogleDocs supports synchronous collaboration and lets students work together in real time.
- GoogleDocs are ideal for class projects: students can work together outside of class and easily share their work.
- GoogleDocs are great for posting schedules: students sign up for presentation dates or conferences via the Doc.
- GoogleDocs are great for grading work: you can share documents easily, and the commenting feature means that I can leave comments for students as I read
- Having everyone use GoogleDocs means that you don't run into software compatibility concerns; everyone can open documents without a problem!
- Different security levels mean students can choose who they want to share their work with. Docs can make everything public, so that students can encounter real audiences, but they can also be private, so only the student can see their work.
- GoogleDocs can be shared beyond the classroom: other people in the field can comment on or contribute to Docs, expanding both the pool of knowledge and the audience for students. I also use Docs to allow students in different classes to effortlessly collaborate with each other.
Now What?
Now that you have a sense of why GoogleDocs are useful in the classroom, here are some ideas for how you can incorporate them into your classroom:
- Use Docs when you Peer Workshop. Have each student upload their work and share it with the class. Students can easily comment on each other's work, and the built in chat means that students can talk to each other while they comment. It's great for having students peer workshop outside of class, but is helpful even when they are sitting together at the same desk!
- Before class, have students create a set of questions about the reading in a shared document. Use those questions to generate class discussion, or have students answer each other's questions! This document will stay public, so students can refer to it as they prepare for exams or write essays.
- Create sign-up sheets for conferences and presentations in Docs.
- Use docs to create a set of helpful links, or a set of key terms. Docs can be added to easily, so this document can be evolving throughout the semester, as you and your students find more sites of interest. Start a doc on day one of the course and see where it ends up!
- Post some of your lecture slides or notes to Docs and invite students to take notes in the collaborative document. Students will have a collective and accessible record of the class by the end of the semester, which can be shared with future classes!
- Invite students to share materials with other sections of the same course, or students in different courses. What could students in a writing class learn from a biology class, for example?
- Have students post their thesis statements for group workshops: encourage students to comment on the statements, ask questions, and think through the ideas presented. Then, post the document on Twitter and solicit comments from your field. What do other people think?
- Use docs to create a huge annotated bibliography! Have each student contribute two or three sources, and by the time everyone has shared, the class will have a group document with dozens of annotated sources!
- Have students collaborate on group projects or essays in the doc. Students can all write at once in the body of the document, and can use the comment features or chat function to talk to each other and plan their ideas.
These are just some of the infinite number of ways you can include this platform into your teaching.
If you're new to GoogleDocs, I have set up a sample doc here. Go head and play around with the features: check out chat (the arrows on the right hand side of the screen), make comments, add links, and add your knowledge and questions to the document.
Do you use GoogleDocs in your class? What works for you? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
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Previous studies indicate that many factors influence the activity patterns of social animals. It has also been shown that the proportions of species-typical behavior of captive animals can be increased through enrichment programs, and that increases in species-typical behavior patterns influence the success of reintroduction efforts of endangered species. Captive research provides a unique opportunity to explore the influences of intrinsic and extrinsic variables on the behaviors of animals. A captive group of spider monkeys (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris) maintained in an indoor and an outdoor enclosure was studied to determine if significant differences in behavior patterns occur between the two environments. Comparisons were also made to patterns seen in wild populations. Significant differences in behavior patterns were shown among all groups, though the outdoor behaviors were more similar to those seen in the wild. This may be due to the structural differences in the enclosures, as well as the effects of temperature and novelty. However, the effects of sex and age must also be accounted for in order to more fully understand these influences. Additionally, suggestions of enrichment are made to promote the species-typical behavior of this critically endangered species.


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Anyone who has ever listened to music during their sweat sesh knows that finding the right pair of workout headphones can be tougher than shopping for jeans, more annoying than shopping for bras, and more frustrating than shopping for bikinis. That's because the checklist is long: They must do justice for your beats, must stay in or on your ears (jump squats be damned!), must be comfortable, must be user-friendly, must not procreate sweat, must be pretty (or at least, not ugly), must not weigh a ton, and must (okay, hopefully) not cost a fortune.
So we polled the staff—some of whom test new 'phones as part of their day job—for their top picks. These are the nine pairs that won us over. Find your match, and end your headphone-dating game forever.
BEST GYM HEADPHONES: Bose SoundSport Wireless Headphones
"The sound is incredible for earbuds and they stay in place no matter what I do. Obsessed with them." —Jacqueline Azria, creative director
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"Beats get a lot of hate, but one thing I love about them, especially in winter, is that they double as earmuffs. And when I'm at the gym, I like that the noise-cancellation feature helps block out the booms of the weights, so I can concentrate on my workout. Best part is, when they're dying, you can charge them for five minutes and you'll get, like, three more hours. The only bad thing is that they make my ears hot when I'm sweating, but you can just slip them off and wear them around your neck every now and then." —Trevor Williams, designer
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"Most headphones fall out of my ears, but these don't. And they block sound pretty well too, which I prefer for running (it helps me zone out). And they're pretty cute on top of it." —Brenda Armendariz, deputy photo editor
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KEID SMS provides online SMS solutions for businesses, organizations, and individuals. It is designed primarily to reach people in Nigeria, but also covers 650 networks in 210 countries. KEID SMS processes 1,500 SMS per second and offers real-time delivery reports. Transactional SMS is available for banks and other such institutions. Users get their SMS units back if the SMS does not deliver successfully.