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This was my first time reading a book by Kaira Rouda; it was definitely an enjoyable read. The story was enthralling; a book that was hard to put down.
As the kids are in their last year of High School, preparing for College to begin their lives, their parents are struggling in their own unique way. The novel explores various dysfunctional elements within the families as they prepare to face the inevitable Empty Nest Syndrome.
It was fantastic to read both the kids' & parents' perspective; most definitely an interesting style of writing.
The drama amongst the different families are connected and intertwined with common themes. The author has certainly explored issues that some families face during this major transitional period.
Very well-written!
Looking forward to reading her other work!!
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Melanie, a perfectionist mom who views the approaching end of parenting as a type of death, can't believe she has only one more year to live vicariously through her slacker senior son, Dane. Gorgeous mom Sarah has just begun to realize that her only daughter, Ashley, has been serving as a stand-in for her traveling husband, and the thought of her daughter leaving for college is cracking the carefully cultivated façade of her life. Will and his wife are fine—as long as he follows the instructions on the family calendar and is sure to keep secret his whole other life with Lauren, the woman he turns to for fun (and who also happens to have a daughter in the senior class).
Told from the points of view of both the parents and the kids, The Goodbye Year explores high school peer pressure, what it's like for young people to face the unknown of life after high school, and how a transition that should be the beginning of a couple's second act together—empty nesting—might possibly be the end.
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"Rouda deftly examines the difficult transition parents and their children face as they prepare for the end of one life and the beginning of another. Her latest is a compelling story and a thoughtful examination of the nature of change and the importance of working to accept it." ―Booklist
"The Goodbye Year is an often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, always engaging look at the last year before high school seniors leave their families for good. I devoured it!" -Meg Mitchell Moore, author of The Admissions, So Far Away, and The Arrivals
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I am going to be a bit too exuberant here. I read Ali Smith's novel Winter last week and I was completely blown away. I think it is brilliant. It is also thoughtful and funny and blisteringly compassionate, if blistering and compassion can be used together in a way that makes sense, but somehow, in terms of this novel, it does.
Admittedly it took me a bit to get settled in the novel, and I had my doubts over the first 50 pages or so, but then I was lured in. In the end, I I think Winter is even more compelling than Autumn, although it isn't nearly as immediately accessible. This is a novel to savor slowly, and as I read, I also saw that the discomfort one feels, especially at the beginning, is intentional. After that I began to see what Smith was doing, and I feel deeply for the book, for its beautiful prose, for Smith's amazing way of looking at things and telling a story, for the layers of humanity and metaphor and meaning, as well as the way the author can subtly and magnificently turn everything on its head and make it seem like the most natural thing in the world.
Initially it seemed to me that Winter was more deeply imbued in its seasonal theme than Autumn was but that was only on my first reading. I went back and read Autumn again, and think it fits its title perfectly, and Winter, well winter is a more difficult time for most of us. Smith actively uses winter metaphors and ideas here, more directly than in Autumn, but Autumn is no less autumnal than Winter is, in many ways, an exploration of winter. The novel is rooted in its time, and yet it is not. The author understands the way the threads of relationships, of past, present and future all intertwine and are simultaneously related and separate.
I would say that Autumn and Winter are kindred, and I am using Smiths' phrasing here. The novels are related, but not directly so. There is overlap. Two characters in Autumn reappear in Winter, although a major character in winter was but a whisk of memory in Autumn, and a major character from Autumn plays a minor role in this novel. You do not have to have read one to enjoy or understand the other. The novel deals with relationships, as did Autumn, but not just the relationship of the characters to each other, but to themselves, and it is also a skillful commentary and allegory about changing climates, in our understandings of ourselves, our relationships, in our social and sociopolitical worlds, science, art, socialization and self-absorption.
Smith explores the ways in which we are constantly evolving as the world around us also evolves, through storms and deep freezes, and eventual springs. The winter metaphor and allegory is explored, no it is almost embodied in its many forms in the text, but like winter itself, the story is not without hope. And this is where I think the novel really is brilliant. Smith uses winter as a way of exploring the human condition. This novel, its subject and its title, gives the author a way to frame and explore relationships and who we are, forming a metaphor that bridges our experiences, bringing new perspective. I used the idea earlier that the novels are kindred, picking up from this line in the novel, referring to Kepler, but as part of a deeper tale:
Kindred means family, what I'm saying is that the thought that truth and time are sort of related, family to each other.
And yet I think this also relates to what Smith is doing here, and to the reason that I am looking forward to the next novels in this series, more so now than I was even after reading Autumn. In fact I bought this book immediately upon its release, and then put off reading it after a couple of people said it was a disappointment, as if that should really matter to my ability to form my own opinion. Now however, after reading the novel, I would say that even this tendency to trust the consensus over one's own opinion is also melded into the themes of these novels. Winter is complex and musical in its structure, not a simple little ditty, but a symphony. My words cannot do it justice. I think this is a novel that will bear up to reading and rereading, which is good, because I think I will be revisiting it with each new addition to the series. Going back to that symphonic metaphor, I feel as if each of these novels is the movement in a symphony. Each stands alone, and yet I cannot think of one without referring, either backward or forward to the other. Smith is writing stand-alone novels, but which are also intimately a part of something greater, something that is revealed only in the relationship between the parts, just as the phases of our lives and our relationships seem to stand apart but are not, are all woven into a complex fabric which we, for the most part, never unravel.

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Sorry for the radio silence! It's been a busy few years since Tom's granddaughter was born in 2015. But we're still around and going to do our best to keep you more updated on all of Tom's forthcoming appearances! In the meantime, please enjoy this photo of Tom and his granddaughter from the Spirit of Aloha at the Polynesian Resort last night.


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DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - A public visitation will be held in Michigan to honor John Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress in history, who died last week at age 92.
The visitation will be Monday at Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in his hometown of Dearborn, a Detroit suburb. A funeral will be held Tuesday at a local church.
His wife, Rep. Debbie Dingell, says another funeral will be held in Washington and that her husband will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
Her office says former Vice President Joe Biden, Rep. John Lewis of Georgia and Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan will speak at the Tuesday service in Michigan. It says former President Bill Clinton, Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland and former House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio will speak at the Washington service Thursday.
Dingell represented parts of southeastern Michigan in Congress for nearly 60 years before retiring in 2014.
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Parents Rota is suspended for now, until we find out more about how the Junior club is going to run under COVID conditions. Check back early September.
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excavated from the North American region was found in a Canadian mine beside the Arctic Circle, the media reported.
A yellow 544-carat diamond was discovered at the Divewick mine, located in the north of Canada, hundreds of miles south of the Arctic Circle, reports Hina.
"The size of this thing is completely unexpected in this part of the world and this is a true milestone for digging diamonds in North America," the company said on the site mining.com.
The gemstone found is among the 30 largest diamonds in the world.
The egg-size diamond will not be sold in an unspoiled form, but from "Dominion" looking for a partner to cut and polish the diamond.
The company says it's too early to talk about the value of the precious item found.
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This is my all-time favourite honey pork ribs which I can never have enough of. It's Yoke Heng's Signature Dish where this honey glazed succulent ribs are wrapped in the aluminium foil to preserve the heat. Tender texture infused with a savoury, smoky flavour, a sweet and sourish tangy sauce, it was definitely a friendly companion with the rice. There is a melt-in-the-mouth experience that I could not stop eating them. Highly recommended for pork lovers ...


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I was reading cosmology and I took a course online of the evolution of the universe. This subject became so interesting to me, because I knew about difficult skin like interstellar, sedonic, sederate, etc.
In the evolution of the universe, there are celestial, stars, planets which originated from the big bang.
The big bang originally was the biggest incident of the world when it shuttered it composed the sky, the space and planets, above, the earth, the seas and underseas.
In the holy Quran mentions big bang in a nutshell:
"Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, then We separated them, and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?" (Quran 21:30)
But the evolution does not stop here, there are tools and wonders. Tools like the telescopes, the launcher, the missal. Wonders like the Quarks, Quasars and observation of space men to the earth.
E.G. If a space man observe the earth from space, he will see it as a paining of art, like we see the moon as a girl with hair laughing as a profile, but not all of us from my experience some see it a rabbit.
The observation is re-flexed with the earth and space, both are worlds.
This was just a notion about the evolution.
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Lucca Summer festival is one of the best music events in Tuscany. During July, offers great concerts including Robbie Williams, John Legend, Elton John, Snoop Dogg and Lenny Kravitz: located only 30 minutes by car or train away from Lucca, Montecatini Terme is an ideal solution to enjoy a few relaxing days in Tuscany and at the same time participate in this beautiful event.
Here, you will find all the dates and the LINK to the site of the event (tickets on www.ticketone.it and on the festival website):
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- July 5 - John Legend
- July 7 - Los Lobos
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- July 9 - The Script
- July 10 - Billy Idol
- July 11 - Elton John
- July 22 - Mark Knopfler
- July 23 - Robbie Williams
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The presence of a trolley will definitely make things easier when you have to load your goods.Most people do not have the knowledge that they can transfer your insurance cover from your motor to the budget truck Rental rates. This transfer has some advantages. It will save you money and minimizes the exposure to higher damage excess. Vehicles that are rented have a greater danger top quality than motors. They will make you smile all the way to your new house.Proper preparing is the key for a smooth transfer and you require to begin the preparing process by collecting particulars of your transfer. The first that you require to decide is what items would go to the new house and what all should be thrashed. As soon as you have sorted out the products that has to be disposed, they should be both donated to a charity or consider going for garage sale. Get in touch with the local charity or organize dates for garage sale at least two months prior to the shifting day. For attracting group, it is much better to promote the garage sale locally. If feasible you need to group up with your neighbor and strategy for a large community sale.Accept imperfection: It's essential to do a bit of self reflection in order to decide whether your family can afford shifting or transforming. Consider whether or not the next grander home will end up sensation unsatisfactory for 1 reason or an additional, as nicely. Remember the previous adage "no make a difference exactly where you go, there you are." It's fairly true when it arrives to switching locations. If 1 is trying to jazz up their life or repair a broken relationship with a housing alter, they'll need to rethink their inspiration. If after doing some soul looking, you nonetheless discover that the actual reason for seeking to transfer or transform is because of to a accurate necessity, then get heading. 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A fire broke out at a Beverly Hills mansion just as the rising young star who lives there walks the red carpet at the premiere of his new movie Beastly.
Agron and Pettyfer dated for almost a year, but the relationship ended abruptly, and badly, just a few weeks prior to the fire.
Agron just recently moved out of Pettyfer's house.
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Buenas Tardes Luncheon: Rebrand Your Purpose!
Join the Greater Mission Chamber of Commerce for a panel discussion on the economic development within the City of Mission businesses. The discussion also addresses historical elements, including La Lomita. Panel of experts includes: Daniel Silva, CEO of Mission EDC Cynthia Stojanović, museum director of Mission Historical Museum Ben Olivarez, owner and treasurer of Barrera Supply Co. Gabe Puente, owner of RGVision Media Contact the chamber for more information or tickets, or register online.


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'Victoria' Fans: Learn These Surprising Facts About Queen Victoria
A glimpse into the story behind the show
The recent premiere of Season 3 of Victoria on Masterpiece on PBS has us curious about the stories behind the story as well as the history that inspired the show. In the series, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the characters surrounding them are all based on figures from life, with plotlines taken straight from the history books. A little digging reveals some interesting facts about the monarch, her family, and the politics of the day.
1. She went by her middle name.
Queen Victoria was born Alexandrina Victoria. As a child, she went by her first name, Alexandrina, and was often called by her nickname, "Drina." Upon becoming queen at age 18, she chose to use her middle name, Victoria.
2. She was fifth in line to the throne.
For most of her life, Queen Victoria was not "next in line" to the throne. In fact, when she was born, she was fifth in line to the throne. A series of deaths, and the fact that several royals had no heirs, led to Victoria assuming the throne in June of 1837. A year later, her coronation took place.
3. She had nine children.
Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, had nine children: Princess Victoria (later German Empress and Queen Consort of Prussia, born 1840), Prince Edward (Edward VII, born 1841), Princess Alice (later Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, born 1843), Prince Alfred (later Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, born 1844), Princess Helena (later Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, born 1846), Princess Louise (later Duchess of Argyll, born 1848), Prince Arthur (later Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, born 1850), Prince Leopold (later Duke of Albany, born 1853), and Princess Beatrice (later Princess Henry of Battenberg, born 1857).
4. She was five feet tall.
According to the records, Queen Victoria was five feet tall. For comparison, Queen Elizabeth II is five feet-and-four inches tall.
5. She helped popularize the white dress wedding trend.
Prior to Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert, wedding dresses came in a variety of colors and patterns. When she married, she donned a white dress with patterned lace, and a trend was born, one that has only grown in the centuries since.
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6. Her reign was 63 years long.
Queen Victoria was monarch of the United Kingdom for precisely 63 years, 7 months, and 2 days. She ascended the throne on June 20, 1837, and her reign ended upon her death on January 22, 1901. At the time, her 63-year rule was longer than the reigns of any of her predecessors. Only the reign of her great-great-granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth (at 66 years and counting), has been longer.


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One Book effort aims to foster compassion
DANBURY -- The goal of the fifth annual One Book One, Community project launched in Danbury on Wednesday is to encourage reading and sharing discussions within the community about a single book.
This year's selection is "Breakfast with Buddha," by Roland Merullo, which organizers hope will contribute to creating a more compassionate community.
According to Booklist, a book review website, "the skillful Merullo, using the lightest of touches, slowly turns this low-key comedy into a moving story of spiritual awakening."
One Book, One Community is a partnership of Danbury Library, Danbury public schools, Wooster School and Western Connecticut State University.
"We want to encourage the entire community to read the same book and share ideas and responses. It will broaden and expand their viewpoints," Tanya Castiglione, president of the Friends of Danbury Library, said at the Wednesday launch of this year's program.
"Our choice of `Breakfast with Buddha' is to share a story of a philosophy and of personal development," she said. "We think it's a good read."
Each year, the organizers plan events and readings around the theme of the selected book. This year, the book dovetails with the October visit of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, to Danbury.
"It's an incredible coup for the Western Connecticut State University to have the Dalai Lama visit, and it will be a high point for this community in history," Mayor Mark Boughton said during the gathering in the lobby of City Hall.
More InformationOne Book, One Community project Book: "Breakfast with Buddha" by Roland Merullo Partnership: Comprised of Danbury Library, Danbury public schools, Wooster School and Western Connecticut State University. Purpose: Encourages every resident to read the same book and participate in activities related to the book. Author Roland Merullo: is expected to speak at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9 at WestConn in Danbury.
"But at the end of the day, this program is about encouraging reading. Reading is an important brick in the foundation of learning," he said.
Jampa Gyltsen, one of five monks who live at the DNKL Tibetan Buddhist Center for Universal Peace in Redding, just started reading "Breakfast with Budda."
"We have been here for five years and we have not really been involved in the community, and this is a good chance to know more about it," he said.
Deidre Coury of the Tibetan center, praised WestConn and the Danbury community for the efforts they are making to create a more compassionate community.
"The Dalai Lama has said the human brain is special and that a good heart, a warm heart, a compassionate heart is teachable," she said during the hourlong event. "He believes that education should expand to teach how to be compassionate."
WestConn President James Schmotter said the program has been good for bringing together many levels of the Danbury community.
"It shows how we can come together to make Danbury a more vibrant, aware, and intellectual place," he said. "It generates ideas that make Danbury a more interesting place. We are creating an intellectual store in the community every time we do it."
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This is probabilly the most secret USAF military plane together with the misterious T3-3B posted by me before, so that USA tried many times to say the whole Aurora program doesn't even exist. But it does exist, and this plane has beeen seen many times by now. It's a Stealth hypersonic plane, it's speed range should be within 5-10 mach !
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The International Women's Rights and Cinema Festival brings together a selection of new films, panel discussions, debates and conferences and it is also an opportunity to discover unique artists with universal and innovative projects.
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During the festival 10 feature films will be screened. These films in competition question the image, role and place of women in today's world as well as "gender" inequalities.
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WASHINGTON — James. B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, was met with raised fists and chants of "no justice, no peace" by protesters on Friday as he delivered the keynote address at Howard University's convocation, marking a rocky re-emergence into public life since he was fired by President Trump in May.
Mr. Comey gamely delivered his speech, at a ceremony marking the school's 150th opening convocation, amid disruptions from more than a dozen protesters in the packed, large auditorium who interrupted him repeatedly to let him know he was not welcome on campus. He has accepted a yearlong post as an endowed chair at Howard.
Ignoring the disruptions, Mr. Comey encouraged the crowd to "listen with an attitude that they might actually be convinced of something. Instead, what happens in most of the real world and about four rows in this auditorium, is that people don't listen at all."
A group called HU Resist arranged the protests at Howard, a historically black college. The demonstrators appeared to be taking aim at Mr. Comey's previous comments regarding law enforcement efforts to prevent crime in African-American communities. In a statement, the group said Comey had "boasted many affronts to black communities and communities of color during his tenure with the F.B.I., including the dismissal of racist state-sanctioned violence, and efforts to dismantle the growing Black Lives Matter movement."
The group's email address contained the phrase "Concerned Student 1867," the year the school was opened and a name similar to that used by a group at the University of Missouri formed to protest racial injustice on that campus in 2015 that drew widespread attention.
The protests also come at a time of roiling debate on college campuses, which have become sites of fringe protests and counterdemonstrations over free speech and the role of schools in providing students access to opposing viewpoints.
As F.B.I. director, Mr. Comey gave an unusually candid speech in 2015 about race, weighing in near the height of a national debate over race and policing set off by the shooting death of Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old, by a white officer, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Mo. Mr. Comey said that police officers needed to recognize their inherent biases and acknowledge law enforcement's history of discrimination and abuse.
"At many points in American history," he said, "law enforcement enforced the status quo, a status quo that was often brutally unfair to disfavored groups."
But he also promoted the idea that crime was increasing in part because bystanders videotaped police officers, making officers afraid to do their job. That theory, known as the Ferguson effect, has not been proven and remains controversial. Taping officers is legal and tapes of police abuses have led to investigations, firings and convictions.
In its statement, HU Resist said the Ferguson effect was a "racist lie."
Civil rights activists say Mr. Comey's remarks seemed to blame bystanders for police misconduct. Police groups also criticized him, saying Mr. Comey unfairly blamed officers for rising crime. "He ought to stick to what he knows," James O. Pasco Jr. of the Fraternal Order of Police said at the time.
Some in the room came to Mr. Comey's defense, shouting, "Let him speak." Some of his remarks were well-received, and attendees clapped for him several times during his address.
Since he was abruptly dismissed in May, Mr. Comey has largely remained out of public view, writing a book about leadership and deciding on his next steps. He is expected to give five lectures at the school and donate his salary to a scholarship fund.
The major exception was Mr. Comey's congressional testimony in June, in which he said he believed he was summarily dismissed because of the F.B.I.'s investigation into Russia's meddling in the election and possible collusion with Trump associates.


text: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a racist is "a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another." I am still wondering, and of course, take issue with the fact that I was called a racist by several members on this forum regarding a comment I made about education in England, when I am English. If I had made a derogatory comment about for example French people (which, of course, I would never do as my furieux cousins in France would never invite me there for Christmas again), I would have expected that reaction. Can anyone, especially those who "got off the boat many years ago," explain why?


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Diving Board is about a young mermaid – her adventures and growth with sea friends in their fanciful somewhat imaginary seaside home. Alternately, it is not about a mermaid at all, it is completely about the idea of diving into the continual newness of like – the beautiful messiness of it all. Please take a look at the Diving Board News post for a more detailed look at the fabrics, projects and meaning of the line.
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Attacks often take advantage of vulnerabilities found in web-based and other application software. Vulnerabilities can be present for many reasons, including coding mistakes, logic errors, incomplete requirements, and failure to test for unusual or unexpected conditions. Examples of specific errors include: the failure to check the size of user input; failure to filter out unneeded but potentially malicious character sequences from input streams; failure to initialize and clear variables; and poor memory management allowing flaws in one part of the software to affect unrelated (and more security critical) portions. There is a flood of public and private information about such vulnerabilities available to attackers and defenders alike, as well as a robust marketplace for tools and techniques to allow "weaponization" of vulnerabilities into exploits. Attackers can inject specific exploits, including buffer overflows, SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, and click-jacking of code to gain control over vulnerable machines. In one attack, more than 1 million web servers were exploited and turned into infection engines for visitors to those sites using SQL injection. During that attack, trusted websites from state governments and other organizations compromised by attackers were used to infect hundreds of thousands of browsers that accessed those websites. Many more web and non- web application vulnerabilities are discovered on a regular basis.


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Wildfire wrote:Taurus wrote:Bros, When do i get to fly a UFO?
Same here, I hope it will be possible to fly a fleet of our own craft with all our nuclear warheads to wherever the reptards hide. Then we can teach them what it feels like to have ones planet nuked and super ruined.
I always held a conclusion that the reptarded deserve this wherever they may be and is fully polluted of those shitheads, for the Mahabharata war and everything they did like with Phaeton. That can also teach other a-holes out there on what happens if they want to be reptards 2.0 and ooga booga murder us. I'd play tchaikovsky's overture final piece over the deaths of those abusers even worse than a swarm of school bullies:
Or...hope they try nuking our planet and have their weapons somehow backfire and blow themselves up instead. That's even more hilarious because they'll make a new year's party for us in space over their own deaths.
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**How will the Cannabis Act affect mortgage lending??**
The legalization of Cannabis is set to take place on October 17th. We just received confirmation that CMHC will continue to insure mortgage loans for residential properties where cannabis was previously grown and/or will be legally grown. At this time we only have one lender who is willing to loan on such properties and with that loan comes a 1% premium on the interest rate, as well as, the client must pay the CMHC insurance premium no matter the downpayment amount. Regardless if it is a previous grow-op or a legalized grow-op the main reason lenders don't lend on such properties is due to the high level of humidity required to grow, creating mold issues. We our in process of contacting each of our lenders on this to see if any new policies will be coming down the pipe with the impeding legalization.
This is a confusing topic, so please do not hesitate to contact us with questions!


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August 30 was National Toasted Marshmallow Day. No, for real. I can't make this stuff up. Well, I certainly COULD, but I'm not. I swear. My wife has a crazy sweet-tooth, so I tend to believe her when it comes to news about sweets.
She brought this to my attention earlier this week and suggested that we start a fire in our backyard and make s'mores. Because our last attempt at starting a fire went so well… Ahem, sarcasm! Cough, cough. Needless to say, we still had some fire wood left over! We also have a small fire pit that previous tenants left behind, and we've had an itch to put it to use. Furthermore, for this past Christmas, my wife requested a cast pie iron often used to make "pudgy pies." Since I'm not much of an outdoorsman, those haven't been put to use yet either. You guessed it, we decided it was time to break those bad boys out and do some work with a bonfire.
We sent an invite to a couple of friends and our neighbor that lives downstairs from us, and it was set. Yes, we were kind enough to invite our neighbor to her own backyard. Don't judge me. It's the thought that counts. We checked our cabinets and plucked out the few key ingredients, then made a list of things for me to pick up at the store after checking some expiration dates. I also got to scoop up my dog's piles of waste that he so graciously leaves behind for me to find. I know you're jealous.
Then, the time had come…the moment of truth. It was time to start building the fire. I set up the metal, bowl-shaped fire pit and tossed in a couple small pieces of firewood, along with some kindling. I tried to keep it small since I wasn't trying to heat all of the outdoors, and only needed enough heat to light some marshmallows on fire and heat up a pie iron. Not to mention I really didn't want to have to wait outside forever until the fire died, or go through another fiasco of putting another fire out. Without the use of lighter fluid, the wood took a little coaxing before going up in flames. Throughout the evening I ended up throwing a couple more logs on the fire to keep it going, and it flamed out just at the right time.
This was the first National Toasted Marshmallow Day that I have ever observed, or heard of for that matter, and it was a success. Any reason to blow out a flaming marshmallow is a good reason for me! As long as it's not while standing on top of a skyscraper with a 10-story marshmallow man pillaging the city. As long as that doesn't happen, we're already looking forward to next year.
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The warning by Barney Ribeiro
In comparison to our previous albums, I'd say we've experimented a little more this time around both in the way we approached writing these new songs and with the finer details like adding ambiences and atmospheres into the music. We've added a bit more room for creating a sense of mood into the music on this new album and I think it worked out pretty well. We flew out to France to record the drums with our friend Kevin (ex Benighted) who lives there, unlike our past albums this time we pretty much got involved with exactly how we wanted to drums to be performed. We knew exactly what we wanted the drums to sound like – technique and idea-wise, so we made sure we weren't compromising this time around. There are also songs on the album that we had written individually from start to finish. Previously we would always incorporate each other's idea and merge/vibe off each other's parts to complete a Nervecell song. We just took a conscious decision this time to approach it differently and it actually turned out pretty sweet and pretty damn heavy. Quite honestly the heaviest Nervecell album to date. We also really took our time and let these songs really settle into our skin before we ticked them as good to go. I think it's important to mention that as we are really picky with what we do but if there is any good from all of this, it is that the fans will get what they wanted and more importantly what they have patiently waited for from us!
The title of the album 'Past, Present…Torture' was actually taken from a song that I had initially written. When we were getting closer to finalizing the album and we started to realize the songs were all falling under the theme of ancient historical events and incidents that James had started to write stories about based on his own research and analysis of those particular events. We've always been a humanitarian band and tend to dwell on social unrest lyrically, however, this time around there are songs that are more on a personal level to James like 'D.N.A.' and also songs that focus on topics such as wars, deception, lies and scriptures from the past that are open to interpretation. The title basically summarizes where we as a human race are eventually heading for. One would argue that we should learn from our past, but are we really? We've seen and studied human behaviour for years and as they say, history repeats itself… so all we've got is the present to develop change and if we do nothing about it NOW then we can expect the worst. So I chose the word "torture" to replace "future" deliberately to create that sense of urgency and importance to act now. It sounded catchy and made so much sense, so I stuck with that title and we agreed to call the album that eventually, as it captured the mood of every song in this album and our message in general.
There are loads of sources where inspiration can hit you. For me apart from music, I find inspiration from just how unfair life can be sometimes. There is a lot of mystery and uncertainty about why you are here and what your purpose on earth really is. Unless you try to find and search for your destiny yourself you will always be a sheep trying to fit in and finish that rat race like the rest. I've always been curious about the existence of other life forms and planets, historical events etc. and when you start to ask questions and look deeper into what your thought in school you eventually realize how conditioned and narrow-minded the mass majority of us humans really are. So the more you try to discover and open your mind, some of the stuff you start to learn just blows you the fuck away! You start to question everything and ask yourself for instance "how the hell did I not think of it from that point of view before!?" It could be something as simple as the very earth we live on, it is 70% water, out of that 70% we haven't even discovered 50% of what the ocean consists of. So who exactly are we to talk about the universe and how many other planets there are out there!? It's ridiculous…Then there are things like the day to day struggles and compromises one has to go through. As hard as it may seem to be, you can always look around and tell yourself you are actually better off than most. If you've travelled the world to less unfortunate places for instance and you see a family without a roof over their heads and barely any food to eat living off the streets, it effects you, man! You can't un-see or choose to ignore shit like that. That's the kind of stuff that inspires me. So if I can express my feelings or emotions via music then so be it. It helps me have that outlet that we all need.
We are very much involved in the artwork of the album. We bring the concept to life by explaining to the designer we choose to work with what our vision is and take it from there. On this album we wanted a desert landscape to depict the region we are based out of and also to represent the past. There is still so much of untold information out there from the past that people do not necessarily know about, and that is only until recently being brought into the limelight. One would expect we live in a modern civilized world today but the future has so much of unpredictability ahead of us that it will inevitably lead to the fall of the human race. The present basically represents us trying to do our bit and alarm everyone to start taking action before it gets too late, hence why you see the Nervecell Emblem arising from the grounds on the album artwork to resemble a sense of warning and symbolism to act now, so take matters into our own hands so to speak, before it's too late.
We've never been pressured by labels or management to write the music we do differently. I don't see why any musician would allow that to ever happen ever. This is what we love to do, and we do it passionately. The day we don't have any fun touring, writing music etc. is the day we will call it quits for sure. We feel a hell of a lot more confident than we did 13 years ago when we put out the Human Chaos E.P. that's for sure! We have naturally grown and progressed as musicians with every album. I wouldn't want it any other way, I love that we experienced success and went through all the accomplishments that we've earned gradually rather than overnight.
Interview by Alex Milazzo – Copyright 2017 © Heavy Music Artwork. All rights reserved.


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Our house is on fire. Join the resistance: Do no harm/take no shit. My idiosyncratic and confluent bricolage of progressive politics, the collaborative commons, next generation cognitive neuroscience, American pragmatism, de/reconstruction, dynamic systems, embodied realism, postmetaphysics, psychodynamics, aesthetics. It ain't much but it's not nothing.
Friday, March 22, 2019
Sanders campaign pledges carbon neutrality
He pledges to offset the travel carbon footprint by "partner[ing] with the Vermont-based NativeEnergy to offset the costs of travel for Sanders and his staff, as well as the emissions generated by venues and attendees at campaign events. NativeEnergy works to invest in renewable energy and carbon reduction projects."
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When ION pulls into the Kitchener City Hall station, can you hear the hum of the sewing machines?
This stop has history sewn into its location. The John Forsyth Shirt Company occupied the corner of Duke and Young Streets, across from the present location of Kitchener City Hall. Flooded with sunlight, the sewing room pictured above, likely in the mid 1940s, was claimed to be "Canada's longest sewing room." In 1937, an art deco addition to the factory was built facing Duke Street.
Founded in 1903 by John Derby Claude (J.D.C.) Forsyth, the John Forsyth Shirt Company took over the former Star White Wear factory building at 31 Young Street, Kitchener in 1917. Additional factories were located in Waterloo and St. Mary's, Ontario. Under Forsyth's management, branch offices were opened across Canada and in Manchester, England. By 1956, the Forsyth Co. had 600 and grew to 800 employees in the Waterloo Region by the mid-1960s.
Over the course of its life, the Forsyth company produced dress shirts, shirts with detachable collars, pyjamas, underwear, scarves and ties.
Beloved founder and owner, J.D.C. Forsyth, died on 23 June 1948.
In 1973, the company was sold to Dylex Ltd. of Toronto. After several ownership changes, the Kitchener plant was closed in 1992 and employees were moved to a Cambridge plant. After failed bids to find a buyer, the building fell into disrepair and was demolished in 2006.
Cheers, Karen
This is post 11 of 19 in the Stories That Move You series.
Stories that Move You is a Kitchener Public Library project that celebrates the launch of ION service with curated collections of reads, music, audio, learning resources, and local history to help people make the most of an unique window of time during their public transit ride.


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I will keep this short, as I am just getting home (3:30pm Tues) from our ordeal that started at 11pm last night when we took Brittany to the ER at W. Fla Hospital. Deb and I havent sleep a wink and are planning to come home for a few hours while the other sits with her til she gets out.....so bear with my fuzzy brain. :)
For those of you who are not yet aware, we took Brit to the ER last night after realizing her searing headache, fever and weakness were not getting better, only worse. They took numerous tests, CT scan and gave her 3 pints of fluid, as she was severely dehydrated. She seemed to improve so they released her around 5:15am. As we were taking her out, she collapsed, a terrifying thing to see as a parent.
Her blood pressure screamed down...way down, as her heart rate plummeted to the 30's. Thankfully, there was no one being seen at that moment and the full force of nurses and doctors went to work fast. They gave her something fast to get her heart back up and began hooking up our baby to every sort of device as they tried to get her back from the brink.
I know this sounds dramatic, but only a parent can know the helplessness. The primary concern was meningitis, so they did a spinal tap. Thankfully, the tests have all come back negative. An infectious disease specialist was called in, as her being in China for a month is highly suspect.
She is in Critical Care and will be there for at least another 24 to 48 hours. She has stabilized and Deb is up there now while I take a nap, shower, then go back around 7. We will stay in touch with Nancy or Jennifer to give updates. We are deeply confident in the Lord and believe the incredible amount of prayer that has gone up for her will result in her coming thru this.
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Cả nhà cùng chúc mừng bạn Nguyễn Thiên Phúc, học trò lớp IELTS Level 3 của thầy Mike đã xuất sắc đạt IELTS 7.0 trong kỳ thi vừa qua nhé. Điểm thành phần của bạn là Listening 8, Reading 7, Writing 6, Speaking 6.5, Overall 7. Dưới đây là những dòng chia sẻ của Phúc về khóa học và về giảng viên IELTS Mike yêu quý nhé.
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I would like to say 'thank you' to KTDC Group and, especially, Mr. Mike for helping me to achieve a high IELTS band score after a relatively short 54-hour course.
I chose KTDC instead of other English training centers because with KTDC you may only have to attend one course (Level three, in my case) to feel confident to take the IELTS exam. Moreover, KTDC has experienced and highly-qualified teachers, the tuition is reasonable, and the materials used are concise and comprehensive.
What I am most impressed with is the way that Mr. Mike conveyed his deep knowledge to us. He loves teaching IELTS to his Vietnamese students so much that his enthusiasm and passion have stimulated and inspired the whole class to study harder. He also possesses a great sense of humor creates a joyful and comfortable learning atmosphere, which reduces our tension while studying. However, he is quite strict and expects his students to work hard and meet homework deadlines. This, of course, is good for students.
I have achieved a satisfying result thanks to KTDC and Mr. Mike. Therefore, I would definitely recommend KTDC to my friends and relatives.
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Don't assume all marriages work for a lifetime. As there are also no such thing as perfect marriage. During your marriage, you will experience rough times. Although many couples will get throughout these rough times, there are also some who can't survive and turn out breaking their marriage.
Choosing the proper counseling services. Using the quantity of professionals offering counseling services today, finding the right individual who could help you save your marriage is very challenging. This is why we within the article some practical ideas to help you pick a qualified couples counselor.
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Go with a Couples Counselor with Proven Track Record. Sometimes, permission is not enough to demonstrate how competent the therapist or counselor is. Before selecting a counselor, you should do a little shopping around first in reference to his or her reputation. Read some reviews online, or ask him or her directly what percentage of his or her people are couples as well as what percentage finish up in divorce. You should consider asking the counselor if she or he can provide a shorter report on his or her past patients and after that randomly pick at the very least three from that list and provides them a trip. When the response of the sufferers are positive, and the amount of couples who end up having a divorce is low, then that counselor is a great pick.
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Crossword #13: Wit and Wisdom
The image at the top of this page is a non sequitur. This puzzle is entirely Trump-free. Yes, the juxtaposition of "hair" and (the absence of) "wit" in the quote from Shakespeare does inevitably suggest Donald Trump, but you have my word that this puzzle (neither of them–see below) is safe for consumption by even the most Trump-averse among you. I trust that is all of you.[1]
Shakespeare's quote uses "wit" in a sense much closer to "wisdom" than what is probably the more familiar modern connotation of the word. I created this puzzle with this modern usage in mind. The person to whom this crossword nods is usually described as "a wit." A wit because of the pithy quips for which he or she is well-known, and because who ever heard of a person being described as "a wisdom"?
Have at it, but do not fail to scroll and read farther down this page for information about a companion puzzle you will not want to miss. This bonus crossword, co-created with the godfather of Minnesota cruciverbalists, features the folksy wisdom of another noted wit.
|Download the puzzle
|PDF copy to print
|Puzzle file for AcrossLite[2]
|Solve online at XwordInfo.com
The solution to this puzzle was published on Thursday, December 17.
As I constructed "Wit," I thought of featuring it on my site with a companion puzzle named "Wisdom." A two-fer! But as my enthusiasm for going so soon again through the often-tedious process of filling a grid waned, I decided to abandon the idea.
Then I thought of pitching George Barany (described above as the "godfather of Minnesota cruciverbalists"[3]) on a collaboration. Would he be interested in taking my idea for a theme, creating and filling a grid and then share with me the job of cluing it (the more enjoyable part of constructing)?
He would. He did. In a remarkably short time, he created and presented to me a realization of my idea. (An idea, by the way, he already had on a back burner.)
In the end, I think we split the writing of clues pretty evenly (I haven't counted). I am quite pleased with the results, and I think "Wisdom" makes a fun companion to "Wit." I hope you will agree.
To access this puzzle, click on the thumbnail at right to obtain Wisdom from George's site.
Don't forget to look through the hundreds of free puzzles on the George Barany & Friends website and you might enjoy the group's Facebook page as well.
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- I can't promise that my crosswords will always be Trump-free. Just as comedians must simultaneously fear and salivate over the prospect of a Trump presidency, so crossword constructors can't help finding him a grotesquely alluring potential subject. How fortuitous that DONALD TRUMP and EGOMANIACAL each contain eleven letters! Other fun fill might include BLOWHARD, JINGO, IGNORAMUS and FEARMONGER. [^]
- The Across Lite program can be downloaded for free at Litsoft.com and runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X. I can recommend it unreservedly. It is easy to install and use, and is free of any of the malware garbage that commonly plagues freeware. [^]
- "Godfather" can have unintended negative connotations. Probably "the mensch of Minnesota crosswords" is a better description of George's tireless and enthusiastic work in this regard. [^]


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I've been waiting to write about something that comes up frequently in my writing group. The problem was that I couldn't come up with a good example. I finally found one in a gardening column I was typing for my husband.
Charlie was writing about resurrection plants that dry up and look dead – sometimes for years – until a rain shower revives them. One plant in this category – Selaginella lepidophylla, aka "spikemoss" – has an even more remarkable quality. Here's what my husband wrote about it. Notice anything?
Interestingly, even wholly dead specimens uncurl when moistened because the cells responsible for rehydration continue to expand after death.
I had doubts about that "wholly dead" – but before I could say anything, Charlie raised the point himself. "Dead is an absolute term," he said. "You can't be wholly dead, can you?" (In fact I just raised that point in a recent post.)
My thoughts exactly. But after we talked about it for a couple of minutes, we agreed that "wholly" should say in. Why? Because he wanted to emphasize that he was talking about plants that really, really, really were dead.
It's an issue that comes up all the time in my writing group. Rules are rules, aren't they? Don't good writers have to follow them 24/7?
Instead of giving a direct answer, I usually raise another question: Which came first, rules or language?
The answer – of course – is that language came first. Rules were an attempt to pass on what good writers were doing so that the rest of us could follow in their footsteps.
My standard advice is to write the problematic sentence both ways – following the rules and breaking them. Then set the sentence aside. After some time has passed, read both versions and decide which one feels better. Use it without apology. If someone raises an objection, say – loudly – I like it this way.
(I always picture an English teacher falling over dead when I say this. Sorry!)
I'm going to leave that unfortunate English teacher lying on the floor (in the spirit of this "resurrection" post, I'll bring her back to life in a minute). I want to explain why I voted for "wholly dead."
Every book of writing advice ever written urges writers to aim for brevity. "Omit needless words!" is the solemn advice from Strunk and White's classic The Elements of Style. William Zinsser's On Writing Well has a whole chapter about avoiding verbal clutter.
The problem with this sensible advice is that it sometimes clashes with other essential writing principles: Be emphatic. Be clear. Sometimes an apparently unnecessary word can be useful and should stay in. Our language is full of redundancies (the lofty term is "overdetermination"). They're so much a part of our everyday lives that we never notice them.
Take a look at this sentence:
He takes his car to the dealership for an oil change twice a year.
How many times does this sentence tell you he's male? Not once but twice: He/His.
And how many times does it tell you that we're talking about just one person? Three times! He/takes/his.
Everyday communication usually takes place in less-than-perfect surroundings. The TV is on, an ambulance siren is blasting, other people are talking. But even if you miss big chunks of a conversation, you're likely to know exactly what was said: The redundancy in our language ensures that you won't miss anything important.
(Surprising fact: Much of this research was done by telephone companies. Their studies showed that static and interference don't cause problems with most phone conversations. The redundancy built into our English language has saved phone companies from wasting a lot of money on unnecessary upgrades.)
Let's bring that English teacher back to life and talk about Charlie's column. He wanted to make sure his readers got the point: Even a dead-as-a-doornail spikemoss specimen can revive – slightly, for just a few moments – when it's given some water. How do you show that you're no longer talking about the specimens that lie dormant for years and dramatically spring back to life?
That two-syllable word does the job nicely: Wholly dead. Nobody is going to miss the point – even if the kids are squabbling in the background, the microwave is beeping, and the dog is barking.
Spikemoss is amazing. So is our language!


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Over the years we have had many superb writers contribute to the Fishtec blog, but few come as close to capturing the excitement and enthusiasm of the moment as Airflo tackle nut Stuart Smitham does. In this write up Stuart shares his latest passion – the charms of small brook fishing!
With an ever growing number taking up small stream fishing, I am one of those that has recently felt the draw of the tumbling Brook. It is a feeling like nothing else for me right now. Casting short but more accurate distances for free rising fish. That pulse of the rod tip as a good fish decides to go for gold and do a Usain Bolt on you. Sheer bliss.
Replacing the 10 ft #7 rod with one that is 7ft 9"and a #3 line is something else and is light as a feather in comparison. Matching the rod with an Airflo Xceed reel and Super Dri Xceed fly line, I have a very good outfit that is well up to the job. Since the extension of the Sightfree tippet range to include the Tactical tippet, this has been a fantastic addition to my small stream kit.
Fishing here is Shropshire, we are quite spoiled for choice, as there are numerous small streams to choose from that thread their way through some gorgeous countryside.
When I say small stream I mean small, with brook widths of my rod length or less, but there is always the possibility of catching a really beaut of a trout, from possibly one of the smallest of rise forms. The free risers often feed more avidly just before dark or early morning. Through the day they'll often sulk away in some way out scrub or bush tangle, that offers comfort in the current and out of the sun. Don't get me wrong here, these fish ain't going to ignore the flies coming past them. They're hiding often in plain sight, right under a bush or branch and often with a bolt hole, should they need it?
A lot can happen in two minutes……
(Start the clock) One such day I was casting a small size 14 Iron Blue Dun variant on what was it's first trial. This fly is tied with a fluorescent red butt and fluorescent red head to match. Casting and wading between long tangles of weed and casting between reed and nettle fringed banks, the wind picks up and I make a bad delivery with my fly just catching a reed stem.
(10 seconds) Making a small quick anti clockwise spin on the rod tip, the fly plucks clear and lands on a floating frond of weed. I let the stream current draw on the fly line and fly just slips into the current eddie.
(20 seconds) There are small rise forms in the next pool up, so I'm expectant, poised and nervous too, all in the same moment. The fly moves slowly down toward me as the stream current creates drag on the water surface to catch at my fly and leader. Then the fly just stops momentarily in the current with a shadow below it – with the smallest of rises the fly gets sucked down and I don't see the shadow anymore? I lift my rod up and grip my fly line, to take up the slack line and strike!
(35 seconds) This is the point when a man with more control would sit back and just soak up the moment. I'm not built that way, so start wondering how I'm going to handle this fish, which by the way is now tearing off upstream!
(50 seconds) Bringing the reel into life I realise I have slack line around legs and weed. Tangle the line here and it's game over. So I reel in the slack and pray the hook maintains it's hold. This fish is not pleased about being connected to me and for good reason too. It's a wild Brownie and I've just seen it's head with some lovely looking spots on it's flanks. It turns downstream and comes straight at me. Holding the rod tip up, this is now a very dangerous moment! Slack line or snag the line and I'm a broken man. .
(1.20) The fish then does an out of the water flip and falls on weed, which it spins on and drags my leader through it , making a bold decision I plunge the rod tip under and the Brownie pops up with it's tail pounding away. The little fly rod is bouncing away at the rod tip and I know I have to be really careful now. With the fish tiring and starting to come toward me, I have a chance of landing this beast. I undo the French clip on my net and get ready…
(2.00) Pushing the rod tip upward I try to draw to fish toward me. He wants none of it and smashes his tail at the surface water. I make a lot ditch attempt to net this fish and lean down with the rod up and drag the Brownie of the wait net rim
In those brief moments you feel every emotion don't you? Thrilled, paralysed in space and time. Rushes of adrenaline and your trying to keep calm. Shaking on the thrill ride that you don't want to come off. Then praying you don't lose the fish, which you've just seen and it makes it worse. Then, as quickly as the thrill starts, it ebbs away as you gaze at what is one of nature's true marvels. A beautiful brown trout, resplendent in black ash spots with red spots intermingled. The magenta tinges on the gill plates are just sheer gorgeousness (is that a word?)
With the trout in the net, I am truly a happy chap. Thrilled and relieved that I landed it. So a few pics for posterity and release it to fight another day. Then onto the next pool?
Big thanks to Ceri Thomas at Airflo for encouraging me to look into other lies and areas on the stream. It was he who said to me, "there are bigger ones in there". How right he was!!!


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Refreshments will be served in the atrium of EBB at 2:30 p.m. Seminar will be held in the EBB Building, CHOA Room at 3:00 p.m.
Dr. Joaquin Resasco, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Understanding and controlling the complexity of catalytic active sites"
Heterogeneous catalysis is of central importance to the global economy today, facilitating the conversion of raw materials into valuable fuels and chemicals, and the abatement of chemical pollutants in an efficient way. As environmental concerns associated with the use of fossil fuels and increased viability of alternative technologies motivate a transition away from traditional chemical processes, continued development and understanding of catalytic reactions will be of vital importance. At the atomic level, catalytic reactions involve the making and breaking of chemical bonds between reacting molecules and active sites. As our understanding of catalytic reactions advances, it has become apparent that the environment in which active sites operate can significantly impact reactivity, both by influencing the structure of these active sites, and by directly affecting reaction energetics. Appreciation of the dynamic behavior of active sites and the influence of the reaction environment on catalysis is therefore required for a full description of a catalytic process, and once understood, can provide additional tools for designing catalysts. Control over both the binding site and the non-reactive components in its vicinity can lead to optimal activity, as elegantly demonstrated by nature's catalysts, enzymes. In this talk, two illustrative examples are provide that demonstrate the consequences of the reaction environment surrounding an active site on catalyst structure and reactivity.
In the first, it is demonstrated that the coordination of atomically dispersed Platinum (Pt) catalysts to oxide supports influences activity for the oxidation of carbon monoxide (CO). Through a combination of state-of-the-art in-situ atomic resolution microscopy and spectroscopy based characterization supported by first principles calculations it was demonstrated that isolated Pt species can adopt a range of local coordination environments and oxidation states, which evolve in response to varied environmental conditions. The variation in local coordination showed strong influence on chemical reactivity and could be exploited to control catalytic performance.
In a second example, the effects of ions present in the electrolyte solution on the activity and selectivity of metal catalysts for the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) are elucidated. Kinetic studies, supported by density functional theory calculations, demonstrated that solvated cations interact electrostatically with adsorbed species, having a preferential effect on intermediates with high polarity. Thus cations in solution act as a built in promoter with a function analogous to alkali metal promoters for gas phase reactions.
Joaquin Resasco completed his B.S in Chemical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley under the guidance of Professor Alexis Bell. His doctoral research elucidated the effects of electrolyte ions on the kinetics of electrochemical CO2 reduction. Joaquin was the recipient of the UC Berkeley Chancellor's Fellowship and NSF GRFP. Joaquin is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara working with Professor Phillip Christopher. His postdoctoral work focuses on developing relationships between the dynamically evolving structure of atomically dispersed catalysts and their reactivity.


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Today's Itinerary: Gyeongbukgung, Chandeokgung, Bukchon Hanok Village, Samcheongdong, Myeongdong
Today we went back to actually see the palaces. We were there at around 10am, and we bought the combined palace tickets (Gyeongbokgung, Changdeokgung, Changgyeonggung, Deoksugung and Jongmyo Shrine) for 10,000 won, thinking that we would be able to visit the palaces within the day. This would be a good buy if you plan to visit all four palaces within your stay, as you would save around 4,000 won. For us, however, this was another expensive mistake as we only ended up visiting two palaces because of our limited time.
**the combined palace tickets are good for 3 months. So if you're going back or someone you know can use the tickets you won't be able to use, then this probably would be good too!
We joined the free English tour at 11am, which lasted for an hour or so. I must say that this is a great tour to join, because it adds so much appreciation for the culture and the palace itself. The buildings in itself look very similar, and without a guide it's quite difficult to know its functions and the meanings behind the building. I watch a lot of k-dramas so I have a pre-existing appreciation, but after the tour, my sister who knew 0% of Korean culture ended up asking for a historical drama to watch! (haha victory!!)The beautiful Gyeonghoeru Pavilion, where royal banquets were held.
The tour ended near the National Palace Museum, and with a story of how the lineage of the royal family ended naturally. The last king had two sons only. One died early and the other had no children. Now there are only royal relatives who live common lives, but are in charge of the annual ancestral rites. It's quite interesting how South Korea would be like if the royal family's line continued. Maybe they would remain as symbolic figures? Ohwell, I can watch Goong for that fantasy. Haha.
After the tour we went out the East gate, and it was a short walk to Samcheongdong. This place turned out to be one of my favorites in our whole trip in Seoul, as it had a very young and artsy vibe, and it was truly built in human scale. There were so many interesting shops and restaurants that we had a hard time settling for one!
We ended up eating at this restaurant which served rice bowls at a cheap price.
I have no idea what the restaurant is called, but the food was great, and the ambiance was so chill~
We enjoyed a leisurely walk around the area while eating churros, looking for the road that will lead us to Bukchon Hanok Village. By this time our feet were like ice from the cold and the tiredness, so it was a struggle even to walk!
General tips for Gyeongbokgung and Samcheongdong:
- Do join a tour for the palaces! They're very very good and will give you a better appreciation of the culture. Our hanbok mistake turned out for the better in the end, because we might have ended up not joining the tour and just taking pictures of ourselves.
- It is quite impossible to visit all palaces in one day if you want to do it at a good, steady, appreciating-the-surroundings-while-imagining pace. If the palaces are a must-visit for you, try and look for a hotel near Gyeongbokgung, Anguk or Hyehwa stations so you could visit the palaces nearby at different days. Jongno sam-ga is also a good proximity to the palaces, plus the station is an intersection of 3 lines so I imagine it's super convenient to live near this station.
- Samcheongdong is good for shopping for unique finds and interesting snacks! There were a lot of shops filled with random cute stuff, or paintings, and even designer toys. I loved the fact that some designers were there themselves, explaining their products to us. If it were just up to me, I'd spend a good part of my afternoon to early evening in the area.
Check out the next post for the rest of the day's itinerary: Changdeokgung, Myeongdong
Do let me know your thoughts and recommendations! 🙂


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I don't believe 29-30 is a good spot. From 29 to the hard left turn is a high speed section, but nothing stands out for spectating there.Thank you! Rm 29-30 was recommended for a good section to spectate?
The only "hard to reach" areas would be the trails near Soggy Dry Lake (RM 9). Challenging rock crawling trails, but probably not the best for spectating the race. Here is a link to a story about the trails in question (with pictures): 2 New Johnson Valley Trails! Crowbar and Shaft Canyon - Pirate4x4.Com : 4x4 and Off-Road ForumThank you very much for all the info. I will be in a 4x4 jeep and will feel comfortable going anywhere. I will check those spots out for sure! Are there any hard to reach areas you can think of that make for good spectating?
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