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Rêves de Moutons translates roughly to "the dreams of the sheep" or "sheep dreams", which sounds a lot like sweet dreams, which becomes reality when you find you can stay on a sheep farm in the heart of Paso Robles wine country!
Meet Evan and Kristy Bishop - a lovely young couple who opened their Inn, farm, and fromagerie in 2014, following their own dream to create a place where they might ultimately retire, but while still young could enjoy a region of their choice and be productive participants in the landscape and community.
Evan and Kristy raise sheep and goats for milk, cheese, meat, and wool. They are working to become a certified dairy (hopefully by spring), and then will be able to sell their cheese to their lucky guests.
Evan spent summers at the family dairy in Maine and is a photographer by trade; Kristy was in the health industry until the couple settled down to make their way on the farm.
Best of all, rather than keep their beautiful farm to themselves, they decided to open an inn for guests! Here you can stay in luxury retro style campers with plush queen sized beds and fully equipped kitchens, as well as an intimate community courtyard for hosting a group retreat or meeting the other guests. If you prefer, there are two rooms in the farm house shared with the Bishops.
Daily farm tours and meet and greets with the flock of sheep and goats allows guest to get the farm experience without having to muck out the pens! Or, if guests want the full hands-on experience, that can happen too. Evan is happy for the help with the feeding and the milking, and Kristy will hand you an extra muck rake if you are willing.
Pricing starts at $149 per night in the glamping trailers, identified as Bliss, Harmony, and Joy. Or rent all three for a family reunion or holiday with friends for $349. The two rooms in the farm house are available on Airbnb (search for Rêves de Moutons) for $129 per night, and these include breakfast.
The lodging is bordered by a vineyard on one side and the farm's livestock on the other. Use the farm as a base camp for all there is to do and see in the area. It's a quiet retreat from the hustle and bustle of life and you might just find that you don't go anywhere but fall into the gentle rhythm of the countryside with a glass of wine and a good book!
For more information, check out the Rêves de Moutons listing here at Farm Stay U.S., or visit them on their website, Facebook, or Instagram (a must follow, for more of these gorgeous photos)!
All photos courtesy Rêves de Moutons.
Don't miss our previous list of farm stays to follow on Instagram!It can be difficult to say goodbye to your new "farm family" when vacation is over. You want to hang on to that feeling - the connection and quietude.
Farmers are sharing their daily lives with increasing frequency via social media, and one of our favorite ways to see what they're up to is to follow on Instagram. Here, in no particular order, are six more farms or ranches (with farm stays) to follow on Instagram right now!1. ABC Acres in Hamilton, Montana
ABC Acres uses their Instagram feed to show off their gorgeous land, from endless skies and mountain vistas, right down to the earthworms in the pasture and everything between the two.
See their profile on Farm Stay U.S.: ABC Acres
2. Blind Buck Valley Farmstead in Salem, New York
Blind Buck Valley Farmstead provides lots of little glimpses into life on their farm, like their beautiful location, the 18th century farmhouse accommodations, chickens and eggs, and happy kids (human and goat).
See their profile on Farm Stay U.S.: Blind Buck Valley Farmstead
3. Hillside Homestead in Suttons Bay, Michigan
Food historian Susan Odom has created something unique at Hillside Homestead. Follow along on Instagram for photos of farm animals, woodstove cooking (and bread baking!), and projects around the farm.
See their profile on Farm Stay U.S.: Hillside Homestead
4. Dogwood Hills Guest Farm in Harriet, Arkansas
Here's a farm that's proud of their state - check out one of the hashtags they use, #wonderfularkansas. Dogwood Hills shares a mix of photos from around the farm and various activites relating to agritourism.
See their profile on Farm Stay U.S.: Dogwood Hills Guest Farm
5. The Inn at East Hill Farm in Troy, New Hampshire
East Hill Farm has a long and fascinating history in New Hampshire. Of all the farm stays listed here at Farm Stay U.S., they can accommodate the most guests (140) and their inn has been a destination for families since cottages were built after World War II. Their photos provide a glimpse of activities and inquisitive animals.
See their profile on Farm Stay U.S.: The Inn at East Hill Farm
6. Serenity Sheep Farm Stay in Belgrade, Montana
Another one from #bigskycountry! We love the photos of the covered wagon guest accommodations, but all the shots of animals and wool-related activities are equally enjoyable.
See their profile on Farm Stay U.S.: Serenity Sheep Farm Stay
Hope you've discovered some new favorites here! Also, be sure to follow Farm Stay U.S. on Instagram. We mostly re-gram from our farm stay members, so it's a great way to find new places to add to your must-visit list.
Recently, Farm Stay U.S. members Ruth Pepler and her daughter Grace from Dogwood Hills were guests on a podcast called The Urban Farm Podcast with Greg Peterson. (Link to listen at the bottom of this post.)
That led us to learning more about The Urban Farm - a wonderful website devoted to promoting sustainable gardening and permaculture design.
At Urban Farm U we provide the inspiration, knowledge, and tools that promote and encourage healthy lives and environments so you can pursue your goals and dreams of a healthier life with a community of people who care.
At Urban Farm U we provide the inspiration, knowledge, and tools that promote and encourage healthy lives and environments so you can pursue your goals and dreams of a healthier life with a community of people who care.
We especially like all the information to be found on their blog and via their podcast! If you're not a farmer already and would like to get started growing food in your own urban space, or if you're a gardener who wants to discover more about permaculture theories and techniques, give them a look.
After Greg heard about Farm Stay U.S. from Ruth and Grace, our founder and Executive Director, Scottie Jones, also had a chance to be a guest on the podcast. You can listen to both episodes below.
Your hosts at Rancho Dos Amantes, located in Paso Robles, California truly do it all. There are the TWO farm gardens, goats and chickens, and cooking experiences in their Red Barn Kitchen. Wedding parties can rent out the entire 40-acre ranch (also available to family reunions, corporate retreats, group getaways and so on), and, last but not least, there is the Farm Stay B&B!
Guests at Rancho Dos Amantes can choose to stay in one of the two casitas or in a private 2nd floor studio apartment with full kitchen inside the barn. The barn also houses a professional kitchen downstairs, which is not only used for cooking experiences and private events, but is available to all guests renting casitas.
With access to the large guest garden and this kitchen, you might never want to leave! The guest garden features fruit and olive trees, raised beds and in-ground crops, flowers, and a two-tiered patio for relaxing and socializing.
Tucked between Lake San Antonio and Lake Nacimiento, Rancho Dos Amantes is part of a vibrant community in and around Paso Robles. With over 200 local wineries plus shopping, breweries, farmers' markets (two!), dining, and entertainment, guests will never be short of something to do -- if they can tear themselves away from the farm, that is. Day trippers can head to the coast and tour the famous Hearst Castle or visit the beach towns of Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria, and San Simeon.
Finally, we must mention the weddings. What a backdrop for a wedding! Just take a look at the farm's photo galleries: Venue Gallery and Wedding Gallery (both links will take you to their website). By renting out the entire ranch to the wedding party, guests are assured a private and comfortable celebration in a beautiful setting.
To learn more about Rancho Dos Amantes, visit their listing here on Farm Stay U.S., and then head to their website to start planning your California getaway!Photos provided by Rancho Dos Amantes
Red barn in the snow; by janylee at morguefile
You may not know that the Farm Stay U.S. HQ farm is located in the pacific northwest, in a part of Oregon that is generally pretty mild, weather-wise. We get a lot of rain (the farm stay host here says spring is lambing season, and fall/winter is mud season), but only occasional snow.Like right now!
Bandita; by Kate Rivera
Not even enough to hide all the grass underneath.Of course, farmers still have a job to do, even in the coldest, snowiest weather. Water troughs freeze, livestock needs to be fed, fencing may need repair, branches may have come down and need clearing... but that doesn't mean a FUN farm vacation in the winter time is out of the question! We headed to our search page and came up with a few ideas for your cold-weather getaway. Click each link to see which farms and ranches can be "home base" for some snowy adventures:1. Ice Skating
2. Dog Sledding
3. Maple Sugaring
4. Snowmobiling and Snowshoeing
5. X-Country Skiing
P.S. Maybe you'd rather go to Hawaii or Southern California and just forget about the snow!
Meet LaVonne Stuckey, shepherdess and farm stay host at Serenity Sheep Farm Stay."The farms are dying. They're going away, and that's when I realized I needed to share my history and my heritage and my husband's heritage."Check out LaVonne's "little piece of sanctuary" in the video below!
Dyed In the Wool, Shepherdess LaVonne Stucky from Outlaw Partners on Vimeo.
Want a fun and rustic getaway that's like visiting grandma on her farm? Check out Willow Creek Ranch Farm Stay in Mountain Ranch, California!
Located halfway between Modesto and Sacramento near the Stanislaus National Forest, Willow Creek Ranch offers a nostalgic trip back in time to grandma's working farm. Guests can get their hands dirty and pitch in with various chores, like gathering eggs, working in the garden, or pitching hay to cows, or they can opt to just sit back and relax with a book, or go for a swim in the small above-ground pool.
Hosts Cathie and John Orr truly love to share their lifestyle with guests and teach a few things along the way. The farm raises milk cows, so when there's fresh milk available, there are also opportunities to milk a cow and feed a calf, make butter, and learn how to make your own mozzarella cheese. When there's produce in the garden, you can learn how to preserve food either by canning or freezing. Every seaon brings unique activities!
The two bedroom cabin accommodates up to eight guests, and John and Cathie also allow camping on their property if you want to bring your own tent. The cabin also features a kitchenette with the necessary dishes and kitchen utensils, so you can choose to cook on your own, or add breakfast and/or dinner to your farm stay experience and enjoy Cathie's home cooking.The farm has also recently added a 20x20 foot tent to accommodate large parties!
You can see more of Willow Creek Ranch on America's Heartland! Click here to watch episode 1109, streaming on the America's Heartland website.
To learn more about Willow Creek Ranch Farm Stay, visit their listing here on Farm Stay U.S., then head over to their website to book next year's vacation!
Welcome signs painted by guests ofWillow Creek Ranch Farm Stay
It can be difficult to say goodbye to your new "farm family" when vacation is over. You want to hang on to that feeling - the connection and quietude.
Farmers are sharing their daily lives with increasing frequency via social media, and one of our favorite ways to see what they're up to is to follow on Instagram. Here, in no particular order, are six farms (with farm stays) to follow on Instagram right now!1. Toddy Pond Farm in Monroe, MaineSharing a mix of photos from animals, to farm projects, to products available for sale (dying to try their yogurt!), Toddy Pond Farm gives you a great glimpse into their diversified family farm and micro dairy.
See their listing on Farm Stay U.S.: Toddy Pond Farm
2. Rancho Dos Amantes in Paso Robles, California
This one is - so far - for all the wedding daydreamers out there. The Instagrammers at this beautiful central California wine country farm have focused their lenses on the happy couples and pastoral ambiance of farm stay weddings.
See their listing on Farm Stay U.S.: Rancho Dos Amantes
3. Stillwaters Farm in Henderson, Tennessee
Follow along with farm stay host Valeria as she furnishes an Airstream glamping trailer, builds and furnishes a bath house for guests, or makes soap for her on-farm shop. Also making appearances are the livestock guardian dogs (LGDs) and the gorgeous Tennessee farm scenery.
See their listing on Farm Stay U.S.: Stillwaters Farm
4. The Inn at Crippen Creek Farm in Skamokawa, Washington
The photos posted on this Instagram account are alllllll about the food. Hosts Don and Kitty Speranza are professional chefs who now operate a 15 acre working farm. Holy cannoli!
See their Farm Stay U.S. listing: The Inn at Crippen Creek Farm
5. Inn at Valley Farms in Walpole, New Hampshire
The Inn at Valley Farms posts a little bit of everything. Weddings, farm animals, scenery, mushrooms. You'll easily experience every season on this working organic farm via Instagram.
See their Farm Stay U.S. listing: Inn at Valley Farms
6. Stony Creek Farmstead in Walton, New York
"Let your family free range" is the hashtag you'll find on many of the photos from Stony Creek Farmstead. The animals aren't the only ones who get to free-range! Here you'll find farm stay guests helping out with the chores, photos of the "plush-rustic" platform tents, farm hands, barn kitties, and more.
See their Farm Stay U.S. listing: Stony Creek Farmstead
This is a start, but by no means the only farm stays on Instagram. We'll definitely have another post coming up soon, with even more accounts to follow! Meanwhile, make sure you also follow Farm Stay U.S. on Instagram! We mostly re-gram from our farm stay members, so it's a great way to find new places to add to your must-visit lists.
My husband and I bought our Oregon farm 14 years ago. We were Phoenix urbanites looking for water and a change of pace. That's about as far as we delved into what exactly being a farmer entailed. Our farm came with a mixture of smaller livestock, some rusty equipment, a century-old apple orchard, and a peacock. It seemed like an idyllic life choice with beautiful scenery and the requisite historic barn. We thought, "How hard could farming be?"
In hindsight, a business plan might have squelched that naiveté, but idealizing farming isn't new nor are we the only ones to have gone down that path, even marketing the myth (Does Pepperidge Farm really exist?) Regardless, this is actually a great reason to visit a farm. After all, this is where the food in your fridge starts out - be it livestock or produce, even something simple like eggs (Fair warning: egg-laying chickens are well known as a "gateway livestock"!) Farming is physically demanding; it requires skill and education, and even a bit of luck. It's a risky business. It's also a 7-day-a-week job that some will joke is a lifestyle, not a living. But it also brings clarity to pricing at your local farmers' market. Exactly how much time and labor does it take on the part of the farmer to get those eggs to your fridge?
Most small farms ($100K or less in sales) require off-farm jobs to support the family. We were no different. Which leads me to the creative thinking required to make a living on a farm, also known as 'value-added' (thanks USDA). That would be the jam, goat cheese, wool, or soap you'll find on Etsy, at the farmers' market, or at the roadside farm stand. For us, it was the addition of a 'farm stay' to our operations. Farm stays – overnight lodging provided on the farm for a fee – are as varied as the farms offering them. You might find yourself in a tent on the back-40, a cabin, a yurt, even a room in the farm house; and, often your stay includes a farm-fresh breakfast and a rooster alarm clock.
Yup, we farmers are looking at diversification strategies (wow, we sounds like hedge fund managers) that include the hospitality business and inviting strangers to experience our lifestyle. It helps pay for tractor maintenance, but it also allows us to share our vistas as well as our challenges with urbanites and travelers, often disconnected from the natural world in ways that would have our grandparents shaking their collective heads. We know. We were those urbanites - until we weren't.
And, it's not dirty and boring the way you might think. Okay, well the lodging isn't dirty, although helping around the farm might involve some dirt. Boring never factors in because… farms aren't boring. Maybe you'll help collect eggs, brush the donkey, even hold a baby lamb. Maybe you'll sit on the farm house porch and read a good book, drink the local brew, unwind and unplug. You'll be our guest for a weekend or a week and you never had to buy the farm!
This is why you would want to stay on a farm. It's a bridge to the country. It's a boon to the farm (it saved ours). It's fun and unexpected, and your friends will think you are crazy, until you return home with tales of feeding a baby goat, and then they will want to go too. You'll be protecting small-farm America that at one point built this country. You're a patriot! Okay, bit of a stretch, but at least you have found a unique, relaxing vacation spot… and are now contemplating chickens for the back yard!
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Neurondev brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 236 Designs von 71 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Design a unique, eye-catching logo to be used for an ecommerce website selling toys in the robot, educational kits, and electronic kits categories.
Please read the brief below for lots of details.
UPDATE: [Edited: Jan 24, 2009]
Robot Toy Box
I need a logo for a Magento based ecommerce store selling robot toys, kits, educational toys and products to kids (mainly boys 8 and older) and parents (29+) predominantly female.
The logo will be used on the website, business cards, marketing materials. The logo must fit into the theme (see Magento Modern theme). For this reason I prefer a simple logo with only one or two bright/dominant colors. I will be modifying the theme's color palette to match the logo.
I want a logo that projects *some or all* of the following concepts: technology, engineering, modern/digital, excitement, fun, robotics, learning
Logos I Like
- http://www.redrobot.com
- http://www.thinkgeek.comLogos I Dislike
- http://www.robotshop.ca
- http://www.lullabot.comFeel free to ask questions, i will be glad to answer them.
- The design must be acceptable for a site targeting a teen to middle-aged demographic.
- Easy to recognize (unique)
- Warm, bright, cheerful colors
- Prefer simple drawings made up of shapes/lines next to some text
- Prefer simple logos that print well on letterheads, business cards.
- If you throw in a robot as a part of the design it must not be a overbearing for example: RobotShop.ca In this case the robot depiction is very large compared to the header.
- Fits in well with the Magento Modern theme. (One dominant bright color, and use black, gray, white for typography/emphasis.
- You don't have to use red/orange color as seen in the theme! I will change the colors there to match.
- horizontal logo (ie, the logo is wider than it is tall)
- logo in EPS, or SVG vector graphic formats
- A logo that has a very childish feel to it. (Bubble letters etc...)
- Prefer that the color yellow, pink, or green NOT be used as a major color or in a dominant way
- Do not want a complex logo
- Wall-E look-alike for a mascot
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We had a pretty good post the other night on the Mets' prospects. A lot of good exchanges. Then the smack started flying and it wasn't pretty. I'm no prude, but when I get emails from people complaining about the tone of conversations going on then I have to say something.
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Tucked away on the New King's Road in Fulham, west London, there is a delicatessen called Bayley & Sage. It's the stuff of foodie fantasy: heaps of purple artichokes spill over piles of grooved and polished heritage tomatoes the colour of a newly painted post box. It suits the neighbourhood, with its infestation of four-by-four baby buggies, macchiato-sipping au pairs and tree-lined streets of neatly appointed red brick villas. This is not a place of want. Surely nobody here can be in need?
Then again, this is 21st-century Britain, and here plenty and hunger sit far too comfortably side by side. Just a few minutes' walk away on Studdridge Street is Christ Church. To aficionados of the decorative arts it is famous for its glorious stained glass windows by Edward Burne-Jones; to those with hungry mouths to feed, it is better known for the food bank that operates here on Friday afternoons. The tomatoes they hand out won't be heritage but canned.
"The area does look affluent," agrees Daphine Aikens, who has run the operation for three years and is just one of the thousands of volunteers in this country now helping to operate food banks. "But we're surrounded by social housing and people come to us from all over the borough." This food bank is one of 350 run nationwide by the church-based charity the Trussell Trust, which is opening them at the rate of three a week. It operates on a voucher system. To get a parcel of three days' free food, applicants must first be referred by a recognised agency: the local jobcentre, for example, the Citizens Advice Bureau or their GP, which hands out the vouchers. Under the trust's rules, nobody can have more than three vouchers in a row. The charity says it wants to provide breathing space for those in acute need, rather than become a solution to a chronic problem.
Aikens is seeing many more people coming to her door with those vouchers. In the second quarter of this year, she says, they saw a 250% increase compared to the same period last year. Her own experience is backed up by nationwide research. A report, co-written by Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty, that was released in May found that 500,000 people in Britain had resorted to food banks to feed themselves this year, three times more than in the previous 12 months. Campaigners are certain they know why it's happening. The complex calculus of modern living and expenditure is no longer adding up.
Between 2000 and 2011, food prices rose by 43%, while general prices rose by 28% and incomes stagnated or even fell. If you're on a low income, food price rises have simply been amplified. On top of that have come draconian changes to the benefits rules, combined with infuriating administrative incompetency.
"The government shies away from the truth of just how much trouble a bureaucratic welfare system can cause," says Chris Mould, chief executive of the Trussell Trust. He says his charity is meant to provide a safety net, "but it's hard to hold that line as an organisation working in support of the state, rather than becoming a substitute for it". He is unapologetic about the trust's Christian motives. "We are motivated by the challenge Jesus gave to his followers," he says. "We do this because we should, and not in a trade-off with the state." Sadly, the state doesn't appear to be listening. As far as they're concerned, it's fine for churches to fill in the yawning gaps.
Chris Johns, director of Oxfam's UK Poverty Programme, is even more explicit. The need for food banks is being caused not just by changing benefits provision, but also by the way government agencies temporarily remove benefits for perceived misdemeanours: a failure to sign the right paperwork, or apply for the right training scheme. Then, having stopped their benefits so they can't buy food, the same agency gives claimants a food bank voucher. "They are being given the vouchers by the people who are sanctioning them. It's almost beyond description," Johns says. "Food banks are clearly fitting into a hole left by the welfare state."
Not that the government will acknowledge this. Last month, the work and pensions minister Lord Freud, a former investment banker, said that it was not possible to make a connection between changes to benefits rules and a rise in demand for food banks. "Food banks are absolutely not part of the welfare system that we run," he said. "We have other systems to support people." The real issue, he said, is the provision of free stuff. "Clearly food from a food bank is by definition free and there's almost infinite demand." And all this despite the fact that it is agencies run by the DWP – jobcentres – which are recognising the need by handing out the vouchers.
Challenged on this, a spokesperson for the DWP pointed out that "referrals from jobcentres only make up a very small proportion of overall numbers".
The stream of people arriving at Christ Church with a voucher just need food. A week ago this food bank staged a collection outside a major local supermarket and amassed three tonnes of the stuff. Supermarket customers buy the food they donate; the supermarket then gives the charity a shopping voucher of their own, equivalent to a third of the food's value, so they are not profiting from the donations. As a result the shelves, in a back room dominated by the famed stained glass windows, are full. There is no refrigeration, so along with tinned food there are bags of pasta and jars of sauces, and other basics such as shampoo, and nappies for those with kids.
Aikens admits that coming to a place like this is not easy for many. "People are reticent," she says. "We give the food freely but they have to be prepared to walk over the threshold and say I need help." Does she ever despair at the problems people get themselves into? "I constantly say that we mustn't be judgmental. I think a place like this is about the basic imperative of caring. A civilised society cares about its most vulnerable members."
Waiting quietly at a table in the reception area is Debra Lonergan, mother of three teenage boys, who is also her husband's full-time carer. The benefits agency has told her that they have just noticed she was overpaid £600 back in 2009 so they are stopping her money for a month. "I've been telling them I'd know if I'd received an extra £600," she says, desperately. "I don't owe them anything." She is working to get the problem sorted, but for now she has a practical issue. There's not enough food in the house to keep the kids fed. Her GP gave her the Trussell Trust voucher. "This is my first time at a food bank. It's daunting. I didn't know what to expect. I had the image of queuing up Russian style, but it wasn't like that." Instead, each applicant sits down with a volunteer who offers them a cup of tea and goes through that list of exactly what they need. Debra tells me she wants to work, is desperate to, but that home circumstances just make it impossible.
Jacquie Bunce says the same. She has been signed off as unfit to work because of serious depression. Her benefits were stopped after she failed to turn up for a medical she says she was too unwell to attend. "I need to work," she says. "I want to work." But she just can't find employment. "Everyone's embarrassed about coming here," she says, looking around the room. "I'm not happy to be here. And if I was working and could give to the food bank I would." Instead she finds herself needing to take. "The government are happy to let it happen. They're not in touch with the real world." Jacquie is well dressed, wears her jewellery with pride. She acknowledges this. "Of course some people cheat the system. There are always people like that. But don't look down on someone because they've got a big telly. They may have had all that before they found themselves out of work."
Aikens agrees. People are quick to make assumptions. She has given talks in fee-paying schools and recognised kids in the assemblies, whose family have sought help from the food bank. "Maybe the kids have a scholarship for the fees but there's no money at home for food," she says. "We have a number of people who come here who are in full-time work but they just don't have enough."
I travel north from the manicured streets of Fulham to a light industrial estate on the outskirts of Hull, and the warehouses that are home to the non-denominational charity Real Aid. It started here in 2001 with a focus on development work in places like Sierra Leone, but in 2007 the floods in Hull made them realise there was need closer to home. "We were seeing people in our own community living in poverty," says the charity's director, Lindsay Killick. So now, as well as working abroad, they run an operation gathering in food, and distributing it to other organisations in East Yorkshire and Humberside.
They also run a food bank in nearby Bridlington aimed specifically at working families. "Working families find it harder to come and ask for help," Killick says. "Generally, they've not been in this situation before." The solution: they charge a small fee for the food. "Charging £1.50 can make it easier." For that they may get upwards of £15 worth of food, but it feels less like charity and more like an equitable exchange. It gives the lie to Lord Freud's claim of a "something for nothing" culture.
Killick shows me round the warehouse, stacked with pallets of food liberated from supermarkets and producers. They have a local farmer who sends them half a tonne of potatoes every week, a donation worth £250. Other stuff comes from Asda's national distribution centre in Wakefield. In all they shift around 400 tonnes of food a year. Not that getting hold of it is always easy. Big players like the Trussell Trust or the waste food charity FareShare have access to some of the biggest supplies. It seems the food bank world is becoming crowded. "It's not so much competition as protectionism. We'll approach a company for donations and they'll say they're already giving to another organisation." He tells me that a supermarket where they once did a collection received a complaint from a much larger charity which thought that was their pitch.
What about demand? "We have a waiting list for groups and community centres wanting to join the schemes." And that demand is only increasing. In April, responsibility for crisis loan funds moved from the DWP to local authorities. The local authority in their area then drew up a list of "partners" to whom people in need could be referred, if they didn't qualify for a loan. "We're now on that list," Killick says. "We weren't asked to be on that list. We just get people turning up saying the council told me to come down here."
I travel with the Real Aid delivery van to Unity in the Community, a bustling centre in Orchard Park, a district of Hull which has seen better days. Low-rise social housing is punctuated by 60s tower blocks marked for demolition. This area is one of the most deprived in Britain. Volunteers help unload bags of fruit and vegetables, catering tins of tuna and ravioli and beans, and separate them out into equal parcels.
"We don't use vouchers here," says Dennis Woods, who runs the centre. "We don't want personal information. We don't want to put them in a difficult position." They just have to hand over £1.50. And if they don't have it? He takes a deep breath. "We sort them out." Nobody in need leaves empty-handed. The centre also provides training in skills such as IT to help people get back to work, advice on benefit entitlements and many other things. As in Fulham, the growth area here is the working poor.
I meet grandmother Ann Jones, a tidy, self-contained woman, who is waiting patiently in the reception area for her bags, which she will unload into a shopping trolley. "I come here for my daughter. She works full-time as a carer. She went to university, worked hard. But with rent at £550 and school dinners costing £80 it's just hard to make ends meet." Ann says she doesn't like doing this, says it's an embarrassment. "I've worked hard all my life. You're 65 years old and coming in for a bag of food. I was ashamed. But at the end of the day we all need a bit of help." Her bags have arrived and she takes me through what she's been given. There's a huge can of tuna. "You can do a lot with that. Tuna pasta, fishcakes, tuna bake. Sometimes there's flour so I make cakes with that." Is the cost of meat a problem? "Of course it bloody is. Everything's a problem."
There are pensioners here, who have worked all their lives and now can't manage on what income they have. "My state pension only pays the rent," says Ann Fleming. "This is a really useful service because it's basic and healthy things. And I don't feel so bad about taking it because you're paying £1.50." Alan Martin has been using the service since it opened. "In this world we should not have to rely on things like this but we do."
It takes a couple of hours, but soon the 35 or so parcels of food are gone. There is, of course, a familiar rhetoric that surrounds all this: a narrative in which a robust welfare state merely gets people addicted to benefits and handouts, and that a food bank is just handouts in protein and carbs. We can argue about the validity of that argument, and politicians and experts from all parts of the spectrum often do. But anyone travelling across the landscape of food banks in Britain today, as I have, will quickly come to the same conclusion. This isn't just about problems with a broken benefits system, however acute they may be. It's also about working people who have tried their best to make ends meet. It is about people who believe in paying their way but who are now so unable to do so they need free food.


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WTF Is Kanye West Wearing on His Head in Paris?
Much of the U.S. is experiencing a deep chill and it must be just as brrrrr-inducing in Paris. Rapper, fashion designer and soon-to-be-baby-daddy Kanye West stepped out in Paris in a white suite topped with a black jacket...and a red ski mask. You know, the kind kids wear on snow days.
West looked like he was ready to engage in a snowball fight -- perhaps with his Watch the Throne partner Jay-Z or his baby mama Kim Kardashian's husband Kris Humphries? (Yes, she is still married, which we love mentioning.)
West protected his face with a DIY tomato-red ski mask so that only his eyes peep through. His mouth, cheeks and forehead are totally covered and protected from the cold. It's certainly a bit of an intimidating look for the rapper, as well. Yeezy is usually infinitely stylish, but here, he looks like he could be a bank robber or about to engage in some sort of behavior where he wants his identity concealed.
Yeezy has been sporting strange headpieces as of late. He wore a variety of weird toppers at his Atlantic City Revel gigs last month.
Take a peek. If you didn't know that was 'Ye, could you tell it was him just from his eyes?
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August 6, 2008, 2:12 pm
Clooney skips Denver – but still helps out Obama
So George Clooney can't make it the DNC? So let the mountain go to the Alps.
CNN reports that Barack Obama will go to Geneva, Switzerland on Sept. 2 (during the Republican National Convention) for a Clooney-hosted funder.
Tix for a reception are $1,000 — followed by dinner at the home of Dem big Charles Adams at $10,000-a-plate. The dinner is limitted to the first 75 who cut checks.
Come on. Doesn't this smell kinda funnny to you?.
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text: Recent reports of a Texas state court order requiring a divorced custodial mother's cohabiting female partner to stay away between 9 pm and 7 am while the children were in the home brings to mind the continued discrimination against same-sex couples and same-sex couples with children through custody law, despite major strides on the marriage access front. In my 2012 article The Neutered Parent, I explore the ways in which custody law has historically been used to enforce norms of sexuality against women and sexual minorities, particularly to discipline sexuality into a marital framework. The problem with this judicial action, of course, is that same-sex couples may not marry in Texas. The wider availability of marriage, however, would not necessarily diminish the assumption inherent in such "morality clauses," that parental sexuality is best pursued in a marital context. Broader access to marriage/marriage rights, including as conferred by the federal government following Windsor, should prompt us to consider with greater attention the rights of parents outside of the marital sphere. Analysis of the latest Census data highlights the class-based disparities in who gets married and who doesn't. Nonmarital parents constitute a significant and growing percentage of parents. These reports raise the question of how custody law should address such realities of contemporary family life. Is the answer to bring more parents into the marital fold? The Texas case suggests continued reliance on heterosexual, marriage-based norms of parental sexuality. As I discuss in The Neutered Parent, the ALI's 2002 amendments to custody provisions pertaining to parental sexuality fail to foreclose the types of thinking that animate discriminatory custody decisions. While the ALI suggests focusing on parental "conduct," rather than relying on biased assumptions about how parental sexuality and nonmarital sexuality pertain to children's best interests, the ALI might provide more explicit criteria for what qualifies as relevant conduct. Without such clarification, actions that might not read as "sexual conduct" in a marital setting, like a parent's private consumption of pornographic material, might look like evidence of relevant conduct in a nonmarital setting. This is because of what I describe in The Neutered Parent as the perceived "sexual salience" of nonmarital parents in judicial determinations of custody. Greater clarity regarding relevant parent conduct can better serve sexual liberty interests as promised by Lawrence v. Texas.


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Roads to Memphis
Season 30 Episode 5 | 53m 7s
On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot and killed Dr. Martin Luther King. This is the fateful narrative of the killer and his prey, set against the seething, turbulent forces in American society.
Aired: 04/03/18
Expires: 04/02/21Video has closed captioning.


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Items where Mentor is "Peer, doc. dr. Peter"
Juš Lozej (2018) Iris recognition using deep learning. MSc thesis.
Peter Rot (2018) DEEP LEARNING METHODS FOR BIOMETRIC RECOGNITION BASED ON EYE INFORMATION. MSc thesis.
Peter Rot (2018) Deep learning methods for biometric recognition based on eye information. Prešeren awards for students.
Jan Hrovat (2018) Abuse of combination of reverse engineering, obfuscation, exploits and security vulnerability. EngD thesis.
Aljoša Omejc (2018) Daydream platform based game. EngD thesis.
Miha Bizjak (2018) Generative deep models for ear images. EngD thesis.
Tadej Vatovani (2018) Song based generated game. EngD thesis.
Rok Košir (2017) Influence of virtual reality on human perception. EngD thesis.
Žiga Pintar (2017) Simulation of car driving in drunken state with virtual reality glasses. EngD thesis.
Tim Oblak (2017) Context-aware ear detection. EngD thesis.
Christian Ponikvar (2017) Digital interactive map for fantasy board games. EngD thesis.
Matej Milošević (2016) Virtual space equipment rendered using Oculus Rift glasses. EngD thesis.
Metod Ribič (2016) Influence of alignment on ear recognition. EngD thesis.
Nejc Škerjanc (2016) Real-time augmented reality of user motion on mobile device using depth sensor. MSc thesis.
Dejan Jusufović (2016) Scene graphs in games. EngD thesis.
Šandor Feldi (2016) Interactive visualization of architecture. EngD thesis.
Luka Lan Gabriel (2016) Ear detection with convolutional neural networks. EngD thesis.
Jaka Konda (2016) Recognising people's age from face images with convolutional neural networks. EngD thesis.
Aljaž Fajmut (2016) Development of the affiliate system based on modern development methodologies. EngD thesis.
Blaž Meden (2016) Tracking system of known objects in unstable lightning conditions on stage using IR and visible spectrum video inputs. MSc thesis.
Tadej Vodopivec (2016) Hand Segmentation for Augmented Reality. MSc thesis.
Tadej Podlesnik (2016) Virtual reality system for interaction with molecular structures based on Oculus Rift and depth sensors. EngD thesis.
Nejc Sušin (2015) Interactive reading of rainfall graphs. EngD thesis.
Matej Vitek (2015) Simulating human-like behaviour in games using intelligent agents. EngD thesis.
Žiga Emeršič (2015) Human recognition based on ear biometric data. MSc thesis.
Matic Jesenovec (2015) Development of educational web application based on lean startup methodology. EngD thesis.
Rok Irt (2014) Augmented reality system based on face detection. EngD thesis.
Jure Kovač (2014) Vision Based Techniques for Human Gait Analysis and Their use in Biometrics. PhD thesis.
Boštjan Buh (2014) Augmented reality system for simulating human vision diseases based on Oculus Rift glasses. EngD thesis.
Matic Kunaver (2014) Automatic recognition of facial expressions on iOS platform. EngD thesis.
Anže Pečar (2014) Automatic detection of pronation and supination of runners using computer vision. EngD thesis.
Boštjan Krajnc (2014) REAL TIME DATA IMPORT FROM WEB POKER CLIENT. EngD thesis.
Benjamin Polovič (2014) Light Meter for iOS devices. EngD thesis.
Tomaž Treven (2014) WEB TOOL FOR GAME DEVELOMPENT. EngD thesis.
Robert Žagar (2013) Use of Microsoft XNA Framework from view of an indie game developer. EngD thesis.
Tomaž Zupan (2013) Monetization possibilities of browser game developed in flash. EngD thesis.
Đorđe Kesić (2013) Cloud-based web application for attendance monitoring based on fingerprints. EngD thesis.
Andrej Ikica (2013) Text detection methods in images of natural scenes. PhD thesis.
Uroš Jenko (2013) Cross-platform development of mobile application with cloud support. EngD thesis.
Žiga Emeršič (2013) Multimodal biometric fusion based on fingerprints and faces. EngD thesis.
Declan Stewart Mcpartlin (2013) Asynchronous multiplayer mode for playing mobile game over the Internet. EngD thesis.
Tadej Vodopivec (2013) Identification of persons entering through the door from the accelerometers data. EngD thesis.
Jaka Pohar (2013) Ridge-based fingerprint matching. EngD thesis.
Bernarda Pust (2013) Mobile application for clothing image acquisition and outfit style composition. EngD thesis.
Matevž Celarc (2013) Automation of the swimming pool thermal control. EngD thesis.
Tjaž Hrovat (2013) Interactive simulation and deformation of terrain in computer games. EngD thesis.
Janja Petauer (2013) Process automatization in system administration. EngD thesis.
Edi Medvešček (2013) Time limiting of access to the Internet. EngD thesis.
Erik Ferfolja (2012) Mobilna aplikacija za opozarjanje kolesarjev na nevarnosti v prometu. EngD thesis.
Nejc Gašper (2012) Kiosk with visual communication at a distance with classic telemarketing. EngD thesis.
Miha Jernejčič (2012) Biometric verification in the cloud. EngD thesis.
Jakob Marovt (2012) Gamification of Software Applications. EngD thesis.
Tomaž Kunst (2012) Application for analysis of promotions based on computer vision. EngD thesis.
Rok Petek (2012) Optical character recognition in images of natural scenes. EngD thesis.
Matej Jakop (2012) System for automation of billboard management. EngD thesis.
Gašper Cvenkel (2012) Use of new components in ios5. EngD thesis.
Rok Kreslin (2012) Color constancy using color subspaces. EngD thesis.
Aleksander Gregorka (2012) Platform named Trafika in HTML5. EngD thesis.
Tadej Jagodnik (2012) Detection of passengers in a car. EngD thesis.
Andrej Hočevar (2012) Interactive advertising system based on face detection. EngD thesis.
Anže Sršen (2012) High resolution image viewer for mobile devices. EngD thesis.
Matej Zimic (2012) Cross-platform development of mobile applications. EngD thesis.
Vojko Drev (2012) Portable meter of car lights lighting properties. EngD thesis.
Luka Žabkar (2011) Development of a contemporary service-based website for diet and activity tracking. EngD thesis.
Sašo Pajntar (2011) Thwarting reverse engineering of machine code. EngD thesis.
Jani Brezavšček (2011) Network multiplayer game development. EngD thesis.
Aljaž Pintar (2011) Selection and use of open source game engine for development of game. EngD thesis.
Matej Jan (2011) Game development framework for iOS. EngD thesis.
Andrej Šmuc (2011) Program module for control of production processes with use of digital camera. EngD thesis.
Mitja Balažic (2011) Student stock exchange application development on Android mobile platform. EngD thesis.
Jernej Janežič (2011) Development of iOS application for photographs editing and ordering. EngD thesis.
Miha Kastelic (2011) Proposal to establish a service desk based on the ITIL V3 Framework and Six Sigma. MSc thesis.
Gregor Žerovnik (2010) Image Database of Texts in Natural Scenes. EngD thesis.
Mitja Dreu (2010) Space Pong game development for iPhone OS. EngD thesis.
Uroš Klopčič (2009) Finger-print based human verification system. EngD thesis.
Gašper Derganc (2009) Computer reading of rainfall graphs. EngD thesis.
Boris Simončič (2009) 3D reconstruction based on one camera applied to a rehabilitation of a human hand. EngD thesis.
Gorazd Vrček (2008) Iris-based human verification system. EngD thesis.
Roman Avsec (2008) Modern web search engines and web sites optimisation for efficient search. EngD thesis.
Tomaž Vinko (2008) Vehicles tracking visualization system based on GPS technology. EngD thesis.
Antal Nemeš (2007) . EngD thesis.


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Who's responsible? Blame Anonymous, according to a new report released Monday by security vendor Radware.
"Their major campaign, Operation Payback, during the WikiLeaks saga in December 2010--against those supporting the U.S. government--was the turning point that shaped the security scene in 2011," according to the report. In short, by distributing easy-to-use DDoS tools, such as low-orbit ion cannon, Anonymous popularized DDoS attacks.
[ So you've been hacked. Learn 9 Ways To Minimize Data Breach Fallout. ]
But are DDoS attacks something that businesses and government agencies must simply endure, or, can they be more actively resisted? In fact, organizations can take a number of steps to at least mitigate the effect that DDoS attacks have on their websites, servers, databases, and other essential infrastructure.
1. Know you're vulnerable.
One lesson from the use of DDoS by Anonymous--as well as its sister hacktivist group LulzSec--is that any site is at risk. That's not meant to sound alarmist, but rather simply to acknowledge that the hacktivist agenda can seem random, at best. Indeed, after Anonymous came along, "the financial sector, which had not really considered itself as a prime target, was hit and urgently forced to confront threatening situations," according to the Radware report. "Government sites had been targeted before, but 2011 saw a dramatic increase in frequency, and neutral governments that felt themselves exempt, like New Zealand, were attacked."
2. DDoS attacks are cheap to launch, tough to stop.
As the recent Anonymous retaliation for the Megaupload takedown shows, hacktivists can quickly crowdsource "5,600 DDoS zealots blasting at once," as Anonymous boasted on Twitter, to take down the websites of everyone from the FBI and the Justice Department to the Motion Picture Association of America and Recording Industry Association of America. "DDoS is to the Internet what the billy club is to gang warfare: simple, cheap, unsophisticated, and effective," said Rob Rachwald, director of security strategy of Imperva, via email.
3. Plan ahead.
Stopping DDoS attacks requires preparation. If attacked, "folks that don't take active measures to ensure the resilience of their networks are going to get knocked over," said Roland Dobbins, Asia-Pacific solutions architect for Arbor Networks, via phone. "They need to do everything they can to increase resiliency and availability." Accordingly, he recommends implementing "all of the industry best and current practices for their network infrastructure, as well as applications, critical supporting services, including DNS."


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Rockstar today released the full list of achievements for upcoming third-person shooter Max Payne 3, which will be out May 15.
You'll get trophies for pulling off headshots, ingesting painkillers, collecting Golden Guns, dangling from chains, and killing your friends, among other gory acts. Check out the full list on Rockstar's website.
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Jerrod Niemann Shares Secrets of Miranda Lambert Tour, Duet With Colbie Caillat + the Special Girl in His 'Shinin' on Me' Video
Two years ago, Jerrod Niemann was floating on a cloud, having just released his debut album on July 13, 2010, a few days before performing with Brad Paisley for 100K boaters at Aquapalooza on Lake Travis in Texas. Then, he sat down and wrote a new song -- the one that would go on to become the lead single from his sophomore project called 'Free the Music,' available Oct. 2, 2012. Yup, this country music thing seemed pretty easy for the 'Shinin' on Me' singer.
And unlike other road-to-success stories, it hasn't gotten much harder for Niemann. The 32-year-old from Kansas notched three Top 20 hits from 'Judge Jerrod & the Hung Jury,' but perhaps more importantly, he invented a style he can call his own. The singer mixes layers and textures in ways many artists don't dream of. As a result his music always sounds uniquely... well, uniquely Jerrod Niemann.
The 'Lover, Lover' hitmaker hung out with Taste of Country Nights radio and host Jeremy Robinson on Monday night (July 9) to talk about the new album and the women in his life. There's this girl named Miranda -- you might know her -- and another named Colbie, and then there are all the beautiful women in the music video for 'Shinin' on Me.'
Jeremy Robinson: Do you personally find the hot ladies for your videos?
Jerrod Niemann: You know my girlfriend is in that video, so I found one personally. The rest of the girls I can't vouch for but I say my buddy Chris Hicky who directed the video did a great job.
JR: What! This is news. When did this happen? Who is she?
JN: Oh it's one of those six-year -- a late night conversation for you and I, Jeremy, to really get into it [laughter] No, she's a great girl. She's too smart for me. The only girl that I've dated that I have to have a dictionary in one had and a thesaurus in the other to win an argument.
JR: What can we look forward to on this new album?
JN: It was so much fun to go in and record this record because for the first time in my life you think, 'Wow, people actually care.' So you have this new inspiration to go in and try to be better. And since my label is kind enough to let me and the guys go in and kind of do my thing, I feel it's my duty to try to be my best and to try to outdo myself.
JR: I love that we're gonna hear a lot of horns on this album, is that right?
JN: What people don't realize is that the steel guitar was invented in 1948 … and so 25 years before that, in country music history we had horns and fiddles and many other things. It's cool to go back to the '20s and adopt some of the layers they used back then, too.
JR: We hear you're teaming up with Colbie Caillat.
JN: It was a song that I wrote with a buddy and we recorded it and I thought, 'Man, we oughta really see if we can find someone -- maybe outside of what we do -- to sing on this to kind of highlight the jazz. George Strait did a lot of the old slow jazz type songs, and Garth did a couple. So it kind of has that vibe. They said, 'If you could have anybody sing on it, who would it be?' I said, 'Colbie, but I'm sure she won't do it, because I don't really know her.' And they just reached out to her and asked her and she was so awesome ... It really, really, really makes it. I have her turned up way louder than me.
JR: So it's going to be a sultry song?
JN: Yeah, I wrote it with Richie Brown. He's the guy I kind of got into the scene, we wrote 'Good Ride Cowboy' together with Garth (Brooks), and it was just … one of my favorites. It's a ballad and she just really, really, really does a fantastic job.
JR: Is this right, that recently you did something for 10 hours straight, without stopping?
JN: That's right. I chugged a beer [laughter]. We were at a fan club party, me and Lee Brice teamed up and said, 'Hey let's just make one fan club party and hopefully twice the fun.' So we maxed out the building at 500. We just hung out, sort of like a meet-and-greet for 10 hours. We started out in the bar, and it went on so long that they kicked us out, so we went to my bus.
JR: What is like to be on tour with Miranda Lambert?
JN: Do not upset her. No, I'm sort of going to sort of let the cat out of the bag, that once you really get to know her and you can peel back the layer of guns and knives and cuss words, there is such a good human being. Her and Blake (Shelton), they're just salt of the earth and you see why the whole world loves them. She's probably the most accommodating headliner that I've ever seen. And she's the most accessible. She wants to hang out with me and Chris Young pretty much every day and you know, someone like Brad (Paisley) he's involved in every detail of his career. He has little time to himself to probably even go use the restroom let along hang out as much. So, I just wanna say I made a great… buddy out on the road and I was just really thankful that she let us hang out with her for six months.


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White House Down
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Capitol Policeman John Cale (Channing Tatum) has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx). Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, during which the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country. Co-starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Richard Jenkins and James Woods.
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iamgq needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 14 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
Find a House Sitter
Find a House Sitter (http://www.findahousesitter.com.au) is a new internet startup connecting house sitters and home owners in Australia. We use a unique approach to help house owners find their best house sitters. House sitters can create their account and they can either accept a job offer directly or they can bid on the job they like. It will help home owners to save money and time. They no longer need to scroll through pages of house sitters. This approach is similar to how 99Designs works :)
Anyone can become house sitters to make extra money. Even you are a freelancer, you can make extra cash by house-sitting while you continue your freelance work :)
So our target audience is quite wide. A lot of students house sit to earn extra cash.
We will launch our site soon. In the mean time, we have put our pre-registration page up to increase our exposure and initial sign up.
We have some solid response which is good but we want to increase the take up rate by improving the look of the pre-register page.
It is a very simple page. We will to keep all the text for SEO purpose.
What we require is an improved page with complete HTML code, graphics and css. Keep it clean, clear, and bold.
Winner of this contest may be assigned to work on our home page shortly.
That's it! It's a simple project.


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Scott Travis stepped delicately around the ruins of Cliff Palace, his eyes deftly scanning the sandstone bricks, the carefully carved windows and the well-worn wooden beams of at one of Mesa Verde National Parks most extensive cliff dwellings. Below him, hundreds of voices in a harmony of different languages filtered up through the air as tourist groups streamed through the ruins.
As he walked, Travis, the parks chief archaeologist, pointed out cracks in the stone walls and misshapen kivas, the traditional buildings used by the ruins architects for gatherings and ceremonies.
But the stability and preservation of Cliff Palace, one of the parks most iconic structures, is one of increasing concern for park officials. Of all the parks ruins, the palace is unique in the scale of the problems going on there, Travis said.
Ultimately, weve got a lot of localized things and a lot of broadscale (issues), as well, that were starting to see the effects of in a fairly dramatic way, he said.
Cracks in the Palace
The structures of Mesa Verde, including 600 cliff dwellings, were built by the ancestral Pueblo people who lived there from A.D. 550 to A.D. 1300. Cliff Palace is an intricate mix of towers, multistory stone rooms and kivas built into a soaring alcove in the canyon wall.
Officials estimate that 160,000 people visit this interpretive centerpiece of the park every year.
But many of the structures within the palace are exhibiting signs of destabilization and deformation that park officials call alarming.
A fault line running parallel to the back of Cliff Palace is threatening the southern half of the ruin and Kiva F, one of the key stops on guided tours. The structures are slowly sliding toward the lip of the alcove because the ground beneath them is loose material. Park officials have been forced to close Kiva F to tours to avoid further damage.
The walls of other kivas also are sagging or disfigured and large cracks run down the walls of the buildings. Precipitation at the opening of the alcove and water seepage near the back have speeded the degradation of many structures.
The slow destruction is the result of many factors, including water seepage and precipitation, natural geological aging and impacts from rodents, birds and insects, Travis said. Visitation alone also presents a huge challenge, he said. And while more preservation work has been done to Cliff Palace than any other place in the park, such work added outdated modifications and materials that preservationists now have to work with.
Its a complex equation, putting it all together, Travis said.
Park officials also are in the dark about how fast the sliding, cracking and deformation is occurring in many of the structures, he said.
While not a scientific measure, park rangers who give tours around the park are in a unique position to see the parks condition evolve day after day.
Paul Bostrom, an interpretive ranger who has worked at the park for 12 years, said he watched while visitors footsteps slowly wore away scrape marks where native people used to sharpen stones.
The vast majority of visitors know and abide by the rules of the park and only walk where they are supposed to, but even those repeated footsteps on the soft sandstone cause a certain amount of wear over time, Bostrom said.
Repairing the ruins
At Cliff Palace, Travis and his staff have conducted a detailed analysis of the southern half of the ruins. Next, they will assess the condition and structural integrity of the northern portion of Cliff Palace and finish a culvert system that directs water from the parking lot above the alcove to drainage areas away from the ruins.
Park officials are considering several options to stabilize structures that are sliding or buckling. Potential strategies include backfilling beneath the ruins to solidify the foundation, installing buttresses or creating a more permanent set of braces to hold up walls. A new retaining wall near the ledge of the alcove also would help support the entire foundation and prevent the downward slide.
Travis said the entire project will take at least two years.
The nonprofit Mesa Verde Foundation helps support the park financially and has rallied around the Cliff Palace stabilization work.
The foundation and the National Parks Foundation are working on an agreement to partner in an effort to raise $150,000 to support those efforts, said Ben Duke, the foundations executive director.
Cliff Palace is such an iconic American treasure, it is pretty hard to ignore that something is happening to it, Duke said. This (project) captured the imagination of everybody.
A new age of preservation work
The preservation work happening at Cliff Palace represents a huge change in archaeological work that involves a more proactive strategy that gets at the bigger problems, Travis said. Archaeologists now combine geology, hydrology, geography and historical knowledge with sophisticated techniques like three-dimensional laser scanning and ground-penetrating radar mapping.
It has become a very technical science to manage and understand these resources, Travis said.
The park has numerous partnerships with institutions and individuals around the world that use the park as a learning laboratory. A new summer seminar at the University of Pennsylvania allows graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to learn from the work going on at Mesa Verde.
While the deterioration of Cliff Palace and many other ruins is increasing, archaeologists are able to attack the issue with a new level of sophistication, Travis said. Their goal is to re-create history.
The key in all of this, of course, is trying to preserve the original fabric, the character, the nature and the materials that constitute Cliff Palace, he said.


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The CEDIA Expo is right around the corner, which means a flood of AV goodies are on the way. Good news has started to trickle in, though, and the latest comes from Digital Projection International (DPI).
The company just announced its new dVision Scope 1080p, a native 2:35:1 precision DLP projector. The hook here, however, is that the 2560 x 1080 dVision Scope delivers a true 1080p solution for 2:35 aspect content, without the need for optical stretching or an anamorphic lens.
Promising about 2.75 million pixels of detail, the single-chip dVision Scope 1080p is one of the only anamorphic lens-free, full resolution, constant height projectors available today.
Also, even though it doesn't use that added anamorphic lens, it can still move easily between 1.78:1 and 2.35:1 aspect ratio content. At 1.78, that content is displayed at a native 1080p resolution. When a wider aspect ratio is needed, the image is resized horizontally (up to 2560 pixels), while maintaining that vertical height. The projector can also detect the presence of "letterbox" black bars, and automatically resize the image to fill the height of the DMD (1080p).
Designed for home use with medium to large screen sizes, the Scope 1080p boasts a flexible installation, with throw ratios as short as .8:1 and as long as 4.5:1. Projector lumens and black levels can be tweaked based on room conditions. Also, the projector's quick-change motorized lens provides a broad range of horizontal and vertical lens shift.
DPI will be showing off the dVision Scope 1080p at next month's CEDIA Expo. The show runs from September 8-10, 2011, in Indianapolis, Indiana.


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Been awhile since I have done a "just" grow journal. Hello Every One ! I am a old ass grower that does things a bit old school, a lot of K.I.S.S. and pretty much different from what most forums describe.
My garden is perpetual, and located in my basement, it is a wide open space in a 500 sq ft room, there is no "intake" or "exhaust" I have never owned a carbon scrubber because my plants never stink unless there is something wrong.
I live in Colorado, so enjoyin the freedom of growing legally, I am a hobby breeder, I mostly grow my own strains and cross them (I have made a lot of strains in the last 5 years) I just recently mixed my stuff with G13 Pineapple Express to breed in their genetics and my next project will be to breed in original Neville's Haze. My strains usually test from 20 to 25 % THC and 5 to 6 % CBD they are all Sat Dom Hybrids and several of them make the coveted early amber.
I use nothing but T5's for veg & flower I have an 8 bulb 400 watt light for veg and and an 18 bulb 1000 watt set up for flower. The veg light uses 6500K bulbs, The flower lights use GE 4100K bulbs with 2 ATI True Actinic bulbs for UVB. My flower light is stationary, so I grow the plants to "fit" in the garden and try to maintain a minimum of 2 feet between the canopy and the lights. I have had a couple of plants that did not cooperate LOL
I grow in peat, a mixture of sunshine mix #4 with Hydro tron (clay balls) the mix is 50/50 I reuse the peat and am now on grow #36 with it. With each use I add dolomite lime to it. I have never had any problems doing this.
For nutes, I use Jack's Classic Citrus FeeD 20-10-20 all the way thru and the only thing I supplement is sulfur and DynaGro ProtK (for added silica)
Please feel free to ask questions as I know the way I do things is way different. I hardly ever have problems but when I do I deal with it, am very good at reading the plants, been doing this a long time.
To kick this grow off I will post pics of my current garden which is my Wonderland (left) and my Colorado Thunderfuck (right) that were just flipped 1 week ago, there is also a re-vegged Pineapple Express in the back makin seeds (on the homer bucket) it is almost done.
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In May 2010, Campbell Lake in Jackson overflowed and flooded Will Clark's family home during his senior year of high school. Clark and his parents were asleep as the water began to rise inside the house. Clark awoke to his father's voice calling for him to leave the house. In a rush, the Clark family gathered, picked up their two cats, and swam to higher ground.
Once they made it through the water, they realized that their neighbor was still at home. They swam back out into the flood and helped their neighbor and her dog to safety. The Clark family and their next door neighbor are members of Lambuth Memorial United Methodist Church in Jackson, and as soon as they received word of the flood's damage, the church moved its Sunday service to the Clark home, where they helped recover whatever undamaged possessions they could find. Clark said that approximately 90 percent of their belongings were lost in the flood and that their home would require extensive repair.
The summer before Clark moved to Martin, his family began the reconstruction of their house. He spent the first semester of his freshman year driving back and forth to Jackson to help his family rebuild their home.
Clark said of his realization the day after the flood, "Now, whenever I see pictures of Katrina, I'm like, "Those people couldn't go [home] the next day." We went in the next day. So, we saved some stuff. They couldn't. That's one of the things I know attracted me to the Chaplain Corps because if I'm ever deployed for disaster relief, I know what these people are going through. That's the best part of the job. It's taking care of people."
"My grandfather served in WWII. He was a tail gunner on a B-24 and a B-17. He was part of the reason why I wanted to do the military," Clark said.
Clark decided to follow the path toward becoming an army chaplain thanks to the influence of his church's youth director. "When I was in middle school and high school, I had a good youth director for a good four years of my time in youth." He continued, "He pulled out of me the desire to serve and see a church that is active instead of just sitting on its hands. The call to ministry just comes out of that and it's something I felt good about."
In order to become a chaplain, Clark signed up for ROTC at UT Martin his freshman year and enlisted in the Tennessee Army National Guard after his first semester. Now a senior, Clark has completed his Advanced Individual Training as a chaplain assistant, an enlisted soldier in the Chaplain Corps.
This summer, Clark completed the Leadership Development and Assessment Course and is set to commission as a 2nd Lieutenant. Clark feels that his time in ROTC has driven him to be a better person and greatly enhanced his leadership skills.
While at UT Martin, Clark has also been actively involved with the former Interfaith Student Center and new Wesley Foundation while also attending Martin First United Methodist Church.
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Don't think I've posted pictures of Loki in a while...he's getting really big. He's actually taller/longer then Clover and Zeke now. Not as heavy yet. Also I have a lot of respect for those of you who can take pictures of your 5 dogs all sitting nicely next to each other to take pictures...cause it's hard just with 2 or 3 lol. Every time they were sitting nicely together one would move or look away.
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Vitamins 'blocking cancer treatment'
Nick Collins, London
LATE-stage cancer patients could be thwarting their own treatment by taking multi-vitamin pills containing antioxidants, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson has warned.
The benefits of supplements containing antioxidants such as vitamins A, C and E are the subject of fierce debate.
While some studies suggest that they could offer moderate protection against cancer, Professor Watson, who with Francis Crick discovered the ''double helix'' structure of DNA in 1953, argues that the pills could be doing more harm than good.
In a new paper, he claims that the reason late-stage cancers often become untreatable is that they produce high levels of antioxidants which stop treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy from working.
In healthy people, antioxidants can be helpful because they attack molecules known as ''free radicals'' which can damage DNA. But many cancer treatments use free radicals to kill tumour cells, meaning antioxidants could prevent them doing their job.
Professor Watson said studies should be carried out to test his theory, which he described as ''among my most important work since the double helix''.
Writing in the Royal Society's Open Biology journal, he said: ''For as long as I have been focused on the understanding and curing [of] cancer, well-intentioned individuals have been consuming antioxidative nutritional supplements as cancer preventatives if not actual therapies.
''In light of the recent data strongly hinting that much of late-stage cancer's untreatability may arise from its possession of too many antioxidants, the time has come to seriously ask whether antioxidant use much more likely causes, than prevents, cancer.
''Blueberries [which are high in antioxidants] had best be eaten because they taste good, not because their consumption will lead to less cancer.''
Professor Nic Jones, Cancer Research UK's chief scientist, said: ''We know from many large studies that, far from being potent cancer-fighters, antioxidant supplements seem to be ineffective for cancer prevention in healthy people, and some can even slightly increase the risk of cancer. This should give people good reason to think twice about relying on them.''
Steve Williamson, cancer spokesman for Britain's Royal Pharmaceutical Society, added: ''I always advise patients not to take antioxidants while they are having chemotherapy in case it counteracts it.''
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/vitamins-blocking-cancer-treatment-20130109-2cfjs.html#ixzz2HVXH6pn8
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HILTON HEAD, S.C. – For the second-straight season, the Georgia College Department of Athletics was recognized with the Make-A-Wish Most Improved award by the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) office.
The Bobcats, led by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) under the guidance of Assistant Athletic Director Ginger Chaffinch, have had an amazing turnaround in raising funds for the NCAA Division II partnership philanthropy.
In the 2010-11 season, the Bobcats raised $500 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, boosting that number up to $2,434 the following year to take Most Improved honors the first time. The Bobcats did it again this year, raising $4,237 during the 2012-13 school year.
Led by president Shanteona Keys (Roswell, Ga.) from women's basketball, and vice presidents Allison Lones (Kathleen, Ga.) of women's cross country and Wictor Andersson (Karlskoga, Sweden) of men's tennis, the Georgia College SAAC raised funds through multiple events, including a year-long raffle, the first Student-Athlete Semi-Formal, the Milledgeville Open Tennis Tournament and others.
The Bobcats finished third overall this season in Make-A-Wish funds, behind only the University of North Georgia and Young Harris College.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/GCBobcats and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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I use the books from the public school. This is our first full year of homeschooling. My daughter left the third grade after november of 05. I want to supplement the texts, can anyone suggest a cheap way to do this? The workbooks werent in yet, so I have just been reviewing from last year. It has been a real slow start, but I don't think public school has accomplished as much as we have so far. My daughter no longer wants to read aloud. I read somewhere that this is a goal, to read silently is a good step, but how can I be sure she is actually comprehending the material? I guess I am too new at this. Having doubts. But I am sure we are doing the right thing!
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Stop by Tootsies Ice Cream & More to "Support Your Local Heroes!"
Friday, October 13th thru Sunday, October 15th
10% of our sales will go to the North Benton Ambulance Service from the Vinton location.
Stop by Tootsies Ice Cream & More to "Support Your Local Heroes!"
Friday, October 20th thru Sunday, October 22nd
our sales will go to the Vinton Fire Department from the Vinton location.
When you buy locally in Urbana, IA, directly from Urbana area markets and farms, you help support your local Urbana economy. In return, you will get the freshest, best-tasting food available and help reduce the production of greenhouse gasses.
Visit the Urbana Farmer's Markets at the Urbana Community Center on the second Saturday of every month!
Blairstown – Benton County Veterans Affairs Commission is hosting a Veterans Appreciation Dinner and Educational Seminar Nov. 4, 2017, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Blairstown Legion Hall. The dinner is open to all veterans and their immediate families. It is a complimentary dinner where veterans can gather to reminisce about their times in the service and also learn about veterans benefits that may have been currently missed.
Shellsburg Presbyterian Church 160th anniversary. Morning Worship 9:30 a.m. Special Praise Service 3:30 p.m. Annual soup supper 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Belle Plaine – St. Michael's annual fall dinner. 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Turkey, ham, dressing, real potatoes and gravy, corn, sauerkraut, salads, pies, cakes, kolaches and more. Raffle prizes. Country store. Bingo. Local delivery orders, call (319) 444-3106. Pickup carryouts available 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
St. Andrews Soup Supper from 5 to 7 p.m. at Fellowship Hall
Veterans Day Program at high school at 9:30 a.m. Soup luncheon at community center to follow
The Atkins Family Medical Clinic will host a fund-raising event called "Holidays & Health Fair," 4 to 8 p.m., after clinic hours, as part of the Virginia Gay Hospital Health Care Foundation Tree of Lights Annual Campaign with all vendor registration fees going to the VGH Atkins Family Clinic Tree of Lights. Money raised will be used for the purchase of needed equipment for the VGH Atkins Family Medical Clinic.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The MIT softball team won against Brandeis University for the first time since the 2005 season on Wednesday afternoon, taking the first game with a score of 2-1 and the second in 10-2. Sophomore Sarah Van Belleghem (Los Gatos, Calif.) led the Engineers with five runs throughout the day, going 4-for-6 with two RBIs. She scored MIT's only two runs in the first game. The Cardinal and Gray are now 19-13 for the season, while the Judges dipped to 23-17.
With the second win, MIT tied the institute record for most wins in a season. The last time the Engineers won this many games was in 1984.
In the first game, the score remained tied at 0-0 until the bottom of the third, when Van Belleghem scored off a single by freshman Tori Jensen (Holliston, Mass.). At the top of the fourth, Brandeis scored its only run of the game, tying the score at 1-1. Van Belleghem was back at it again at the bottom of the fifth inning, scoring off a single by senior Anna Christensen (Vernon Hills, Ill.). In the final two innings, the Engineers only allowed two hits.
Van Belleghem went 2-for-3 with two runs and freshman Alexandra Marshall (Glen Head, N.Y.) went 1-for-1. Sophomore Ellie Fodor (Trenton, Mich.) earned the win in seven innings, allowing seven hits and only one run, while striking out eight batters. She is now 11-6 for the season.
Senior Leah Alpert (Needham, Mass.) got MIT on the board at the bottom of the second inning of the second game when she scored the first run of the game. At the bottom of the third, Van Belleghem scored off a Jensen single and Christensen followed soon after when sophomore Kelly Wang (La Canada, Calif.) doubled. Brandeis' Cori Coleman scored at the top of the next inning, still preserving an Engineer lead of 3-1.
Off a single by Van Belleghem in the fourth, both freshman Alex Burgess (Chelmsford, Mass.) and sophomore K.K. Wopat (Edwardsville, Ill.) were able to make it home, and Marshall made it home soon after with her first run of the day off a single by Jensen. At the top of the fifth, Amanda Genovese scored the Judges' second run of the game off an error by the first baseman. In the fifth and final inning, off a double by Christensen, both Burgess and Van Belleghem made it home, ending the game with a score of 10-2.
Van Belleghem went 2-for-3 with three runs and 2 RBIs, while Burgess went 2-for-3 for two runs and Marshall went 1-for-1 with one run and one RBI. Marshall was at the mound for all four innings, earning her seventh win for her first collegiate season, allowing seven hits and one run and striking out five batters.
MIT will return to Springfield College for the second weekend in a row this Saturday, May 4 for game six of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) against Wheaton College at 12:00 p.m.


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Apollo stores its source code in a SVN repository at this location:
If you are new to SVN you might have a look at the Version Control with Subversion book.
Browsing Source
You can browse the source code online by using any of the following interfaces web interfaces:
How to Checkout
You must first install a SVN client. Then you check out the project using the following:
svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq/activemq-apollo/trunk apollo
cd apollo
Now you probably want to try build the Apollo code
Committer Access
Committers should check out the the source code using the HTTPS url.
Only project developers can commit to the SVN tree via this method.
Contributing patches
If you are not yet a committer but want to contribute some patch (we love contributions!) here's how you can submit patches
We gladly accept patches if you can find ways to improve, tune or fix Apollo in some way.
Most IDEs can create nice patches now very easily. e.g. in Eclipse just
right click on a file/directory and select
Team -> Create Patch. Then
just save the patch as a file and then submit it. (You may have to click
Team -> Share... first to enable the Subversion options).
Incidentally if you are an Eclipse user you should install the
subclipse plugin.
If you're a command line person try the following to create the patch
diff -u Main.java.orig Main.java >> patchfile.txt
or svn diff Main.java >> patchfile.txt
Submitting patches
The easiest way to submit a patch is to create a new issue at our Issue Tracker, attach the patch, tick the Patch Attached button on the issue then fire off an email to the mailing lists.
Next steps
Once you have checked out the code try following
- instructions to build Apollo
- read the documentation
- browse the developer links and maven reports
Git Clone
You can get a git clone of the svn repository using the following script:
mkdir activemq-apollo
cd activemq-apollo
git init
echo "Updating .git/authors.txt"
cd ".git"
curl "http://git.apache.org/authors.txt" > authors.txt
cd ".."
git config svn.authorsfile ".git/authors.txt"
git svn init --prefix=asf/ --tags=tags --trunk=trunk --branches=branches https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq/activemq-apollo
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Inclusive cycling sessions with Sheffield Cycling 4 All will continue in Hillsborough Park on Thursday during the winter, dependent on the weather, from 10am to 12.30. And then again at 1pm to 3pm.
Thanks to HealthRich funding, it's now only £3 to ride a bike . We are also able to arrange Disability Group Specific Sessions. Please contact us for more information on (0114)2536750 or email email@example.com
If you are hoping to attend during the winter months and want us to let you know if the session has been cancelled please let us have your name and email address so that we can add your name to our mailing list. either ring or mail us on the above contact details.


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Boost Internet necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 117 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
Boost Internet
We are a young internet startup which has been started by three individuals with more than 10 years experience in developing, running and monetizing web projects. All of us have started several websites years ago which are going quite well. Now we established a company to affiliate all of our websites and projects. The company's name is "Boost Internet". The company starts own websites (price comparison websites, communities, informational websites) and helps clients with their online marketing efforts (search engine optimization, search engine marketing, affiliate marketing, social media marketing).
For the future we are also looking for someone to work with us, as we need to design our company's website and business cards.
Our new logo will be addressing our affiliate partners, potential online marketing customers (b2b) and job candidates who gather information on our new website. We are a creative-minded team and therefore we need a logo that is SIMPLE, CLEAN and CREATIVE, yet explains what we do or what the word "Boost" stands for. We want our logo to convey that "Boost Internet" is a cool company where it's fun to work in and a trustful partner for our clients and affiliate partners.
Since Boost Internet is a young internet company addressing young job candidates and online affiliate partners, the symbol needs to convey COMPETENCE, TRUST and good "WORKING ATMOSPHERE".
The logo should be versatile enough to work against many different backgrounds (mainly on white background), including as a monochrome so that we can match it with different customers' color palettes and design schemes. If your logo consist of a NAME and a SYMBOL we must be able to use the name & symbol together, but also individually too.
- Symbol Idea #1: choose a more ABSTRACT IMAGE (maybe a rocket? explosion? Upward graph?) rather than a detailed drawing. Please no "Boost" buttons.
- Symbol idea #2: choose a funny CARTOON (rocket? robot? Whatever…). Think ironic-funny cartoon, not cutesy. Use a FLAT IMAGE and SOLID COLORS. We want it to be playful but not cheap or childlike.
- NO 3-D images.
- Please NO stock images
- Color: COLOR IS GOOD. Be tasteful and stylish, but use it! See the "brands we like" for ideas.
- AVOID: "Boost" button symbols
Words to describe Boost Internet:
- trustful
- competent
- hip
- young
- creative
Please feel free to experiment with colors!
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
We want something that is SIMPLE, fun and memorable. This logo will be used in all aspects of the business (web, label, letterhead, trade show sign, t-shirts, marketing tools, etc.)
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