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This post inspired by the inimitable Dot Stein (http://www.facebook.com/drdot), who, on 9-19-10 said: "… had a dream that Dweezil Zappa was putting Frank's face and logo on everything you could imagine: games, clothes, drinks, to make money. I woke up … Continue reading
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Yiddish Rock Stars: GEDDY LEENoe Gold
GeddyLee-KevinWinter_4-20-13, a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. Mazel Tov, Boychik! Rush, Heart, Public Enemy and Randy Newman were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last night. Geddy Lee is really Gary, but his immigrant grandmother (of … Continue reading
SRV by Jonnie Signed-B&W••_50, a photo by Jonnie Miles on Flickr. © Jonnie Miles. From a series of photos taken backstage at Colgate University on April 29, 1988. Photographer Jonnie Miles and I were on a road trip as I … Continue reading
Jimi_34 Montagu SquareKathyEtchingham, a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. My article in Daily Variety, March 7, 2013: This is one case where the overly micromanaging Janie Hendrix should have held off. A proper film about Jimi might have resulted. … Continue reading
Experience Music Project Hardhat Tour April, 2000Noe Gold
Experience Music Project Hardhat Tour April, 2000, a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. This is from a hardhat tour I took of the Experience Music Project in Seattle as it was nearing completion April, 2000. Note the Guitar World … Continue reading
I have published a book today called Yiddish Glossary for Goyim (only $4.99, cheap, as the fershlugginer editors of Mad magazine used to say). Please spread the word about it. I really am proud of it.
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Cameron Crowe-Patrick FugitNoe Gold
Cameron Crowe-Patrick Fugit, a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. From an article in The Hollywood Reporter, September 12, 2000: caption:Crowe with his "Almost Famous" star Patrick Fugit Crowe's NestFILM FESTIVAL BECOMES ALMOST FAMOUS FOR ITS 25TH ANNIVERSARY By Noë … Continue reading
jimi_jams, a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. Hendrix arrived in London in 1966 under the wing of new manager Chas Chandler, and he was treated like royalty forthwith. At the time, the Beatles and the Stones were the reigning … Continue reading
Clapton's Beano PeriodNoe Gold
Clapton-Beano-Yardbirds Fans-FB_10-27-12, a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. I have commented before about this Clapton session. You can see a print of Slowhand from February, 1966 on this pic clipped to the strings of a Les Paul guitar, which … Continue reading
Jamie Lee Curtis Returns to the Scene of the SublimeNoe Gold
halloween_JamieLee-LAT_10-24-12, a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. So, it is Halloween again and this news deserves a blog update. In honor of Debra Hill, the producer (R.I.P. 2005), who used to be my next-door neighbor …… I will make … Continue reading
Ballad of a thin manNoe Gold
Ballad of a thin man, a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. A magic quote from Mikal Gilmore's califragilistic interview (Bob Dylan Rolling Stone cover story Sept. 27, 2012) comes at the end with a reference to Dylan's supposed nod … Continue reading
OK, so there's a story behind this piece. Hendrix arrived in London in 1966 under the wing of new manager Chas Chandler, and he was treated like royalty forthwith. At the time, the Beatles and the Stones were the reigning … Continue reading
On the same page of the Guitar World SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION HENDRIX LIVES! March, 1988, P. 82,
there are two more pics which relate to the "Jimi and Leonard Nimoy" post of last month. Two photos, credited to "George Shuba/Commerce Studio" fill in the blanks on Jimi's historic meeting with Spock March 26, 1968 at Cleveland Radio Station WKYC on a visit to deejays Chuck Knapp and Chuck Dunaway, who look eerily similar in the two sets of photos..
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Les Paul by John Peden_1983, a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. By Noë Gold Photo by the great John Peden The Wizard of Waukesha was the cover subject in Guitar World March, 1983, in which we published Part I … Continue reading
Jimi Hendrix and Leonard Nimoy with Chuck DunawayNoe Gold
Jimi w Leonard Nimoy, a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr.Noel Redding, left, Leonard Nimoy, center, and Jimi Hendrix,second from right, in Ohio not long before the guitar hero's death in 1970. This is about the meeting between the great … Continue reading
Mick Taylor-Iridium NYC_5-10-12, a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. Mick Taylor shows off that awesome jazzy-bluesy slide work on "You Shook Me" at the Iridium Jazz Club, NYC ~ May 12, 2012 … … with that sweet soul section … Continue reading
Pagey GW cover October, 1988 , a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. NOW HERE'S THE THING about how FaceBook works Continue reading
My take on the John Carter MovieNoe Gold
Andrew STANTON-JohnCarterMovie , a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. I wanted so much for it to be good for my man Andrew Stanton, whom I have admired for his animation work (see my interview referenced below), but when compared to the more on-the-surface technoid-inspired aesthetic of Jim Cameron, I have to declare, along with Putney Swope, that Putney says the man's got to have more soul. The heart is what is missing from this venture, and as my 15-year-old son noticed, so is Cameron's painstaking attention to detail, seen all too annoyingly in the under-lit 3-D interior scenes. Continue reading
NAMM 2012 Noë & SeymourNoe Gold
NAMM_2012-Noe&Seymour_73•• , a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. Copyright © 2012 Noë Gold This is Seymour Duncan , a legend in his own right. After covering just about all the square footage at the NAMM show and imbibing of as many free hors d'oeuvres and shots as I could bear, I bumped into Seymour, the legendary maker of pickups and other sound-refracting devices for the likes of Jeff Beck, Yngwie Malmsteen and my beloved compadre Roy Buchanan .. Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Mick TaylorNoe Gold
Happy birthday Mick Taylor… just a couple of great tunes from the Mickster from iTunes…
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FZinGWP2 , a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. from an interview first published in Guitar World April 1987 on the occasion of the release of THE GUITAR WORLD ACCORDING TO FRANK ZAPPA distributed by Guitar Galaxy in association with Barking Pumpkin Zappa by Noe the G. – Guitar World, April 1987 Zappa's Inferno By Noë the G copyright © Noe Gold FRANK ZAPPA'S FULLY-EQUIPPED HOME RECORDING STUDIO is where he'd most rather be. Continue reading
Have Harps Will TravelNoe Gold
NoeHarpMiddleW.HaveHarps_40 , a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. ♥.•*¨`*•.¸.•´ ♥.._██_ ….(´• ̮•) ♥..( . • . Continue reading
FILEmag-Summer-1978_01Noe Gold
FILEmag-Summer-1978_01 , a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. FILE MAGAZINE VOL 4 NO 1 (SUMMER 1978) alternative to the Alternative Press, legendary Toronto collaborative General Idea's FILE Megazine – published from 1972 to 1989. FILE magazine Summer-1978 General Idea General Idea: FILE megazine, vol 4, issue 1, summer 1978 (the "1984: A Year in Pictures" issue), edition of 3,000 copies. Continue reading
Jimi & Mick Taylor at Madison Square Garden Nov. 1969 Pt. IINoe Gold
Jimi & MickTaylor xEthan Russell Nov. 1969 , a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. There is more to this story as I post this on Jimi's birthday November 27 2011 – if Six was Nine he would have been 69! This video, an official one, from Albert Maysles, is a back-in-time back story of what happened backstage: Jimi Hendrix with the Rolling Stones / Rocks Off Message Board – Thanks Albert Maysles! Pix and videos from the deserved Stu tribute with 4 out of the 6 surviving Stones Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and Ronnie Wood at rocksoff.org/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1299688523;start=all TRANSCRIPT COURTESY OF YOUTUBE USER "LIMEGINGER" [5:51-5:54] Black guy [to Keith]: Well, like, no reaction Continue reading
Roger Mayer w JimiNoe Gold
Roger Mayer w Jimi , a photo by Doctor Noe on Flickr. Roger Mayer, left, with Mitch Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix and Noel Redding. Continue reading


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Self Defence and Intoxication
Information on Self defence and intoxication
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Self Defence Part 1
- Publice self defence- Section 3(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1967 and is defined as resonable force to prevent crime e.g. Citizens Arrest
- Private self defence is a common law- allows the defendant to use reasonable force to;
- defend themsleves from an attack
- prevent an attack on another person
- defend your property
- Use the defence in relation to all crimes- but with murder the defendants life must be at risk
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- Courts will take into accout;
- Whether the accused could have retreated from the situation
- Whether the test was imminent.
- Whether the defendant made a mistake which made him think the action was justified
- Resonable force is considered by the jury based on the circumstances
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Self Defence part 3
- Self defence is a good defence provided the misake is honest- R v Williams
- Pre-emptive slef defence is allowed as long as the defendant act pre-emptivels to prevent and attack- AG's ref
- Excessive force means that the defence cannot be used becuase it indicates that the defendant actd unresonably- R v Clegg- Soldier, was excessive force- R v Martin- Psychiatric condition
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Saint-Gobain UK and Ireland will be holding its latest Passivhaus Tradesperson Course in May, enabling tradespeople to gain international accreditation for one of the world's most efficient energy standards.
The course will allow UK tradespeople to meet the growing demand for Passivhaus Standard buildings, as more than 1,000 are expected to be built this year – a hundredfold increase in just five years.
Delivered by experienced personnel from the Passivhaus Academy in partnership with Saint-Gobain, the course will run 19 - 23 October and will be hosted at the Passivhaus Workshop in Saint-Gobain's Technical Academy in Erith, Kent.
With a combination of classroom lectures and presentations and a significant amount of time spent on practical hands-on training over a duration of five days, attendees will gain an in-depth understanding of Passivhaus principles and learn specific techniques such as detailing correct airtightness testing and treatment, interpreting data from Passivhaus Planning Package (PHPP) and outlining the building methods to employ to avoid thermal bridging.
Stacey Temprell, Residential Sector Director for Saint-Gobain UK and Ireland, said: "The course has been developed to offer tradespeople vital skills and knowledge of Passivhaus construction to help the UK meet the growing demand for Passivhaus buildings. More than 1000 buildings are expected to be constructed to meet the Passivhaus Standard in the UK this year, compared to just 10 units in 2010, and the course will help tradespeople gain a competitive advantage by becoming a qualified, accredited contractor.
What makes the Passivhaus course so unique is the focus on practical, hands-on elements enabling sub-contractors, consultants and architects to gain the necessary skills and professional development to achieve the Passivhaus standard on site."
On completion of the course, participants will sit an exam to receive international accreditation from the Passivhaus Institute as a certified Passivhaus Tradesperson.
For more information and to book your place, visit www.saint-gobain.co.uk/training/passivhaus-tradesperson-course/


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|Jim Powell
|Garnet Martens
|Kim Bull
|Wyth Marshall
|Ahmed Siah
|Heather Brown
|Serena MacLean
|Zina Richmond
|Debbie Collins
|Heidi van Vliet
|Tina Podlasly
|Shayla Sopracolle-Tate
|Elan Downey
Dr. Jim Powell has over 30 years experience in the areas of fisheries and aquaculture sciences and is an established authority on fish reproduction and broodstock management both locally and internationally. His primary work has been in the area of fish physiology and adaptive management strategies of fish culture for a range of fresh- and salt-water species. He has extensive experience in aquaculture drug development, testing, registration and implementation in addition to work in fish health. Most recently, Jim was involved in fisheries and aquaculture management in the recreational and conservation sector with involvement in threatened and endangered species recovery. Dr. Powell is a founding Board member of the BC CAHS and has served on the board since inception.
Ahmed joined the team at BC CAHS in November 2011. His duties include managing research projects, developing new technologies in the field of aquatic health diagnostics and implementing and validating molecular biology technologies for diagnostics. Dr. Siah pursued his Postdoctoral studies in Molecular Ecotoxicology at the University of Le Havre in France after earning his PhD in Oceanography at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Rimouski, Quebec. As a Research Associate at Prince Edward Island's Atlantic Veterinary College, he led and managed several projects on mollusk health management and the development of molecular diagnostic tools. Ahmed's research focused primarily on identifying molecular biomarkers related to shellfish diseases and on developing new technologies to detect micro-organisms affecting fish and shellfish health. While at the Atlantic Veterinary College, Ahmed worked on hemic neoplasia in soft shell clams and developed diagnostic assays for rapid and high-throughput detection of tunicate invasive species which are heavily affecting the mussel industry in PEI.
Ahmed and his wife live in Campbell River with their young family. He's an avid soccer player.
Debbie worked at a health research facility for twenty-four years before moving to Campbell River in 2004. Debbie has moved her focus from human to aquatic fish health. She joined the Centre in 2005 and her main role is lab services such as ATPase and Cortisols. She also purchases all new equipment and lab consumables.
She enjoys being a great mom and interior decorating.
Elan received her Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology from the Univ. of Victoria (BC) in 1986. Previous to joing BC-CAHS, she worked for Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Nanaimo, BC where she participated in Shellfish research. She then joined the finfish aquaculture industry in the late 80's and worked in Fish Health and Environmental Monitoring. Elan also taught the Salmon Farm Technician Course at North Island College in the early 2000's. In 2006, Elan joined the BC-CAHS team as a research assistant and workshop instructor. Her areas of focus at BC CAHS include plankton productivity, sea lice, teaching workshops to industry and doing outreach activities in Campbell River, BC.
Elan now lives in Campbell River after living on Quadra Island for almost 28 years. She enjoys all there is to enjoy living on the west coast.
Garnet holds a BSC and MSc in Biology from the University of Victoria (1995, 2000) where he studied morphological changes. Garnet joined BC CAHS in March 2018 after nearly 17 years with the University of British Columbia (UBC) Bioimaging Facility. In addition to a strong technical background, he brings 12 years of laboratory and staff management experience to BC CAHS.
Garnet and his wife live in Courtenay, BC with their two boys. Garnet dedicates a lot of his time to youth sports (soccer, hockey, and baseball) and when not on a field or rink, he is usually found on a trail or in a campsite enjoying everything BC has to offer.
Heather joined the BC CAHS team in January 2012 bringing with her a strong interest in fish and knowledge of the aquaculture industry. She earned a BSc in Marine & Freshwater Biology from the University of Guelph in 2009 and a diploma in Fisheries & Aquaculture the following year from Vancouver Island University. Heather is the Research Assistant for the Kudoa Mitigation Project here at BC CAHS conducting field sampling, lab procedures, and research.
Heidi completed her BSc in biology at Vancouver Island University in 2013. Her favourite subject was parasitology and for her independent undergraduate research project she studied the prevalence of the nematode Anisakis simplex in Pacific Herring around BC. After graduating, she started banding birds in her free time, and also started working as a laboratory technician at CAHS. After her one-year contract at CAHS ended, she spent a year travelling and working with birds, before starting her MSc (biology) at York University in Toronto, where she studied the impacts of agricultural intensification on breeding grassland birds. After graduating from York University, Heidi joined CAHS for a second time as a temporary research assistant for the Kudoa Mitigation Project in Feb 2018 and is excited to be back.
Outside of CAHS, Heidi spends her time birding, hiking and rock climbing.
Kim holds a BSc in Biology from the University of Victoria. Kim joined BC CAHS in early 2012, after contract work in 2011. Prior experience with water sampling and analysis for a biotechnology company has given Kim the solid background needed to assist with a wide variety of projects at BC CAHS. In addition to salmonid enhancement and enumeration at a North Island hatchery, she brings to her position prior experience in the aquaculture industry.
In addition to being a full-time mom, Kim enjoys canoeing, hiking, and being involved with Rotary.
Serena comes from a gaming background where her love for analyzing numbers and reconciling accounts grew. After a lengthy career as a Gaming Manager, she decided to go back to school to study Business Administration to pursue a career as a bookkeeper/administrator. She started at CAHS in January 2018 as a part time Office Administrator.
Born and raised in Campbell River, Serena moved to the mainland for a short period of time but missed the beauty of the island and returned. In her spare time, she loves spending time with her dogs, husband and enjoys going camping.
Tina holds a BFA (Visual Arts) and a teaching certificate from the University of Victoria and is also a recent graduate of the Advanced Diploma in GIS Applications program at Vancouver Island University. Tina joined BC CAHS in July 2012, after working in the aquaculture industry for four years. She brings to her position prior experience in social media management, occupational health & safety, emergency management, website design & maintenance, database design & administration & education.
In addition to spending time with her family, Tina enjoys artistic pursuits, the outdoors and her pets - two cats and a dog.
Wyth joined the team at BC CAHS in 2010 as a Postdoctoral research fellow. She completed her PhD at the department of Botany at the University of British Columbia the previous year. She also holds a BSc in Biology and a certificate in Environmental Restoration from the University of Victoria. Her main research interest is in microbial ecology, specifically of parasites and aquatic disease organisms. Wyth's PhD work involved the discovery and characterization of new genera and species of symbiotic protozoa (Ichthyosporea and Thraustochytridae), using phylogenetics, population genetics, light and electron microscopy. Previously she worked and volunteered with the shellfish parasitology group at the Pacific Biological Station (DFO). She also curates a tree of life page. http://tolweb.org/Ichthyosporea/121172
Currently she leads research aimed at understanding the ecology and life-history of Kudoa thyrsites, a myxozoan parasite of farmed Atlantic salmon. Funding for her position comes from an Industrial Research and Development Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
When not at BC CAHS, Wyth loves windsurfing, gardening, and mushroom picking.
Zina studied at the University of Alberta in Edmonton majoring in Chemistry and Biology. Zina has worked as a Research Technologist for the past twenty-six years in the areas of immunology and vaccinology. Zina joined the Centre in 2006. Her duties include viral assays, tissue culture, immunological assays and quantitative PCR.
Zina loves running - half-marathons are particularly enjoyable as well as swimming, cycling, biking, and walking her dog.
Shayla Sopracolle-Tate had the privilege to grow up on Quadra Island where her admiration for the ocean began. During high school she started as a volunteer for BC CAHS and then was part of the opening of the Discovery Passage Aquarium. She has recently graduated from Quest University Canada, with a BSc in Liberal Arts and Science. In addition, Shayla has taken the opportunity to travel the world with her studies from the Arctic to the Amazon. Her academic focus has been in biological oceanography, and biodiversity conservation. For her major undergraduate research project, she completed a systematic review of marine protected areas in biodiversity hotspots in order to increase their effectiveness. Shayla is currently participating in virology work as a lab technician with BC CAHS. Otherwise, you will likely find her in the ocean, on a boat, scuba diving, snorkeling, swimming or surfing.


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About Bizgrowth Coaching Inc.
BizGrowth Coaching, a Toronto (GTA) firm helps business owners and key executives set goals and objectives for their business and works with them to develop the skills, abilities and action oriented plans to achieve these goals. Our approach and coaching philosophy is client centered and while we strongly emphasize client accountability for implementing plans they develop, once we've helped them evaluate the condition and potential of the business, our role is to be "part advisor, part sounding board, part cheerleader, part manager and part strategist." Put simply, our core function is to support our clients and work with them in whatever role is most effective to ensure their success.
Who We Are
Phil Richardson is the President of BizGrowth Coaching Inc. He has an MBA degree from University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and a B. Com degree (Honours) from University of Ottawa. Before starting his own Management Consulting business in 2006 he was a senior executive with Fortune 500 companies but also an entrepreneur who founded, built and sold his own company which employed a staff of 35 in the Toronto area. He has over 25 years' experience leading breakthrough growth for domestic and international organizations including American Express (Canada, Egypt), SVO Travel and Trade Services (Moscow), Gulf Oil Canada, International Paints and Adler International/Myron Business Gifts. His experience and accomplishments span a wide range of industries, from financial services and travel to oil, promotional products, Pharma, retail and national call centers. Phil has built an impressive track record as an executive, coach and consultant of achieving growth, revitalizing business operations and driving business opportunities that turn under-performing businesses into market leaders. These skills give BizGrowth Coaching its unique Coaching Advantage.
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Digital preservation has become an area of strategic importance for the European Union in recent years. This has been reflected in the investment of €17 million in co-funding three major digital preservation projects under call 5 of its Framework Programme 6 in September 2005. Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services) [1], CASPAR (Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval) [2] and DPE (DigitalPreservationEurope) [3] are all co-ordinated by British organisations: Planets by the British Library, CASPAR by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (formerly CCLRC) and DPE by the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow. This is an indication of the UK's leading position in digital preservation research and development. Planets and CASPAR are both termed 'integrated projects' with new knowledge as their primary deliverable. DPE is a 'co-ordination action' project, funded to foster collaboration and synergies between existing national initiatives and to improve co-ordination, co-operation and consistency in current digital preservation activities. All three projects commenced in the first half of 2006.
The purpose of the 2nd joint annual conference was to report the projects' progress to date but also to place the latter in the context of the wider international digital preservation and curation landscape. Furthermore, it was intended to provide a forum for networking and bridge-building, with collaboration as the key objective. The conference was presented under 'wePreserve', the umbrella for PLANETS, CASPAR and DPE's synergistic activities. A Web site with the same name has also been set up to deliver a collaborative Web platform shared by the projects [4].
Seamus Ross, Director of HATII, opened the conference on behalf of DPE. HATII is not only the lead partner in DPE but also a partner in both Planets and CASPAR. Seamus welcomed the participants and thanked the European Commission for supporting the conference.
The opening presentation was given by Carlos Oliveira, Deputy Head of the Cultural Heritage and Technology Enhanced Learning Unit, Directorate General Information Society and Media, European Commission (EC). Carlos emphasised the importance of digital preservation in knowledge economy and explained that the purpose of public investment was to support emergence of a coherent policy framework covering the organisational, economic, legal and technological aspects of digital preservation. He then gave an overview of the EC's activities in digital preservation, including initiatives at policy level and various strands of work funded under the Framework Programmes. Carlos also presented an action plan for digitisation, online access and digital preservation which included ambitious goals to develop national strategies for long-term preservation and deposit with quantitative and qualitative targets, standards for digital preservation and a legislative framework supporting digital preservation. There is an increased level of funding in the new Framework Programme 7, which is intended to fund areas which complement the current portfolio of projects and explore possibilities offered by new ICT (Information Communications Technology) to consider new approaches to digital preservation. Carlos concluded the presentation by flagging up some areas of challenge for digital preservation, such as analysis, identification and spread of good practices, self-assessment and certification, models for long-term sustainability and expansion beyond the 'knowing community'.
Herbert van de Sompel of the US Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) presented the aDORe Project, supported by the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). aDORe is a standards-based, repository federation architecture which has been implemented at the LANL for local storage of digital assets. The flexible, highly modular architecture facilitates the presentation of autonomous distributed repositories as a single logical repository. aDORE is not a digital preservation solution itself but the interoperability it provides is an enabler and eases the digital preservation tasks across distributed, heterogeneous repositories.
Ross Harvey of the Charles Sturt University, Australia, who is currently a visiting research fellow at the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in the UK, presented an international overview of digital preservation activities to analyse trends and directions. Ross started with an exploration of the definition of 'digital preservation' and related terms. He introduced Nancy McGovern's definition for digital preservation as a three-legged stool: the organisational leg (the 'what') and the technological leg ('the how') need to be backed by the resources leg (the 'how much') and co-ordinated to develop compliant and feasible digital preservation strategies [5]. He pointed out the strong research focus in European initiatives, as well as the theme of dissemination and collaboration. Skills development and links with the industry have also been seen in a number of major projects. The US initiatives cover a wide range of activities but much is happening in the areas of electronic records and digital repositories. Australia and New Zealand were given as examples to illustrate the development in other countries, where practice varies considerably. Ross concluded the presentation by summarising the trends in digital preservation in 2007. There is an ongoing strong emphasis on 'community', dissemination, testing and evaluation, and toolkit development. The new emphases are standards, public policy and strategy development, skills identification and development, and links with the ICT industry.
Helen Hockx-Yu of the British Library gave a general introduction to the Planets project. She presented the aims and objectives of the project and outlined Planets' approach to digital preservation. Involving 16 national libraries and archives, educational institutions and technology companies, Planets is developing practical digital preservation solutions to meet the needs of libraries and archives. Its work on automation of digital preservation processes should also provide useful answers for the wider digital preservation community. Helen reported on Planets' progress to date and referred to a number of prototype tools and services which were going to be presented at the conference by other Planets colleagues. She also highlighted the key deliverables by November 2008, explicitly demonstrating what could be expected of Planets in the near future.
David Giaretta of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) introduced the CASPAR Project, which aims to develop techniques and services to meet the challenge of understanding and using digitally encoded information in the future when software, systems, and everyday knowledge will have changed. The CASPAR consortium includes data holders, research universities, national organisations and a number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and industrial partners. CASPAR focuses on scientific, cultural and artistic data which are complex and need to be rendered as well as processed. David argued that the key to address the challenge is Representation Information, which is used to convert the bit sequences within a digital object into more meaningful information. One of the objectives for CASPAR is to design the infrastructure for capturing and storing various types of representation information, taking into account the knowledge base of the designated community.
Echoing Ross Harvery's observation on the strong emphasis on collaboration and co-ordination, Luigi Briguglio of Engineering Ingegneria Informatica presented the Alliance for Permanent Access, a membership initiative formed by major stakeholders from the world of science, including national and pan-European research organisations, research support organisations such as national libraries and publishers, and funding organisations for research. The primary goal for the Alliance is to develop a shared vision and framework for a sustainable organisational infrastructure for permanent access to scientific information. Luigi explained in detail the proposed mechanisms to achieve this goal, including collaboration within and between communities, development of general policies/practices and sustainable business models for preservation, as well as a research and development programme focusing on prototyping and testing of new knowledge. The Alliance will work closely with national governments and the European Union (EU) to strengthen strategies, policies and their implementation.
Maurizio Lunghi of Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale presented DPE's work in benchmarking competence centres. 'Competence centre' is the concept used by the DPE to review the current international landscape with regard to the availability and provision of digital curation and preservation expertise in the EU and beyond. Maurizio explained in detail the '7C's' benchmarking model DPE developed to assess competence centre sources and models, including: Capacity, Context, Credibility, Commitment, Certification, Competition and Communication. Based on the results of its assessment using the '7C's' benchmarking model, DPE recommends a federated approach to the provision of support and guidance for digital preservation. Maurizio concluded the presentation by outlining the benefits of establishing federated competence centres which should help nurture strong community relationships from a range of disparate stakeholders.
Planets, CASPAR and DPE all have a mandate to disseminate their findings and to provide dedicated training. In addition there are other organisations such as the DCC which provide training in digital preservation. The increasing number of training events being offered can potentially cause confusion amongst participants. A natural course of action is to join forces and collaborate. Joy Davidson of the DCC gave a presentation entitled 'Collaboration in Training Provision', in which she outlined the importance and benefits of collaboration, both for training providers and participants. Joy explained that collaboration can take many formats, ranging from simply sharing information to more formal collaboration and the delivery of joint events. She then reported on the effort of DCC, Planets, CASPAR and DPE in establishing an international curation and preservation training roadmap to ensure a coherent approach to training development and provision. A workshop took place in March 2007, involving key European stakeholders in digital preservation training. Issues discussed at the workshop included target audiences, training options, methods and themes, promotion and branding and business models. There was a consensus among participants that collaboration is extremely important, but that there is a serious lack of dedicated time available to participants. Joy argued that any follow-up meetings and activities must be carefully scheduled to maximise the potential benefits while minimising the time required to participate and plan joint events. She ended the presentation by announcing that the first DPE/Planets/nestor collaborative training event would be held in Vilnius, Lithuania on 1-5 October 2007.
Having set the scene and covered the wider context, the conference proceeded on day two to provide insight into different aspects of Planets and CASPAR.
Esther Conway of STFC gave a presentation on the complexity of data and the related digital preservation problems. In the context of specifying user requirements and scenarios, CASPAR had surveyed a number of data archives to understand the practices related to data sources, data access and use, and rights issues. The intention was also to understand aspects of changes which might affect the preservability of the information encoded in bit sequences. Having faced a large variety of proprietary data formats, Esther argued that there is room for standardising the representation of data and that SAFE (Standard Archive Format for Europe) is a positive step in this direction. SAFE has been designed to act as a common format for archiving and conveying data within the European Space Agency Earth Observation archiving facilities. She then gave detailed examples of the changes that affect our ability to understand data, such as changes in hardware, software and environment and termination of organisational support. In addition, retirement of key personnel, changes in copyright ownership or legal restrictions could all affect the knowledge base required to understand data.
Jérôme Barthélemy of IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique), France presented the Planets Performing Arts Testbed, where work has been undertaken to identify requirements and preservation scenarios for electro-acoustic music and allied fields. Jérôme explained that musical work in digital form suffers from accelerated obsolescence due to some of its unique properties. Some work created as recently as the 1980s and 1990s has already been lost. He then focused on the preservation of interactive multimedia performances and analysed a complex set of components of such performances, ranging from people, documents and musical instruments to mapping and content-generation applications, multimedia outputs and supporting applications for processing and rendering. Preserving individual components is already a challenge. More daunting still is assembling the components in a logical and temporal order, while preserving the knowledge about the performances' internal logical and temporal relationships over time. Using case studies, it was possible to derive a set of detailed preservation requirements by identifying the scenarios in which changes occur and how they affect any component of a performance.
Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard of the State and University Library, Denmark, presented the ongoing study of users within Planets. The purpose was to understand how the digital revolution affects the way in which the research community functions and how users access and employ digital collections. Answers to these questions will influence preservation strategies and quality measures, and consequently the preservation tools and services Planets is developing. Birte introduced in detail the methodology for the user study, the techniques used to observe users and analyse data. In order to anticipate future trends, interviews have been held with a number of futurologists, to tap into their anticipatory thinking about the changes in storing and using knowledge in the context of libraries.
David Giaretta presented the CASPAR conceptual model, which is guided by the OAIS Reference Model. David opened the presentation by stressing the importance of information and saying that the ultimate goal for digital preservation is to ensure that information to be preserved is independently understandable to (and usable by) the designated community. He explained that there is a strong focus on representation information within CASPAR, which is vital to the interpretation of data objects. An added bonus is that a piece of representation information can be associated with a large number of different digital objects, hence sharing the burden of preservation. David presented the key preservation components of CASPAR, describing in detail the information flow in a couple of scenarios in which representation information is created or retrieved from one or more registry/Repository of representation information, in case the representation information packaged with the data is not sufficient. He also explained the role of virtualisation within CASPAR, which is a technique of isolating dependencies on hardware, software and environment. Virtualisation creates external interfaces that hide an underlying implementation. The benefits for preservation arise from hiding the specific, changing technologies from the higher level applications which use them. David concluded the talk by saying the conceptual model had led to the CASPAR architecture which is broadly applicable and useful both for preservation and for interoperability.
Adam Farquhar of the British Library gave a presentation entitled 'Planets: Integrated services for digital preservation' and detailed the types of problems Planets is addressing as well as the rationale for project partners' involvement in the project. Adam started by examining the scale of the problem and concluded that losing digital information costs money and hurts everyone. All partners within Planets have vested interests in digital preservation and in the success of the project. For the national libraries and archives involved in Planets, preservation and access over the long term is their primary mission. Planets, for example, is expected to provide the technology component of the British Library's digital preservation solution. For researchers, digital preservation touches upon complex disciplinary issues and has a potentially huge impact on a broad spectrum of society. For the technology companies, this is an opportunity to introduce innovative services and products and to increase competitiveness. Adam then presented the Planets architecture, explaining the functions of the key components, including preservation planning, preservation action, preservation characterisation, the testbed and the interoperability framework, which integrate the different tools and services to provide one easily managed digital preservation system. In the context of two scenarios, Adam demonstrated how Planets methods, tools, and services can help organisations diagnose and treat obsolescence problems with their digital objects. He hoped that Planets' high levels of automation and scalable components will reduce the costs and improve the quality of digital preservation.
There is a Planets testbed and there are CASPAR 'testbeds'. Attentive readers will have noticed that one is singular and the other is plural. Some may have thought that both have something to do with validation. The details are hard to tell just from the names. There have been questions from outside the projects as to how the two differ. This was fortunately to a great extent clarified by two presentations, one on the CASPAR testbeds by David Giaretta and one on the Planets testbed by Max Kaizer of the Austrian National Library. Both presentations contained a great deal of detail and included a look into the future.
The 'CASPAR testbeds' seems to be the collective name for the following three aspects of work:
The Planets testbed is a software system which provides a controlled environment for experimentation which enables benchmarking of preservation tools, services and strategies. Its role within Planets is two-fold:
At a later stage testbed services will be offered to organisations outside Planets so that they can test preservation tools and services against benchmark content and validate preservation plans against organisational policies and content profiles. The first release of the Planets testbed is expected in early 2008.
Adam Farquhar chaired this session which included three presentations from CASPAR, providing a focused view of the various aspects of the project at detailed and technical level. Luigi Briguglio presented the CASPAR architecture. He explained the iterative and traceable process used to develop the CASPAR architecture and reported on its current status. The architecture is based on the conceptual model and will go through a number of stages to specify eventually key components interfaces. Although the main focus is on representation information, the overall architecture also includes key components such as data access and the security manager, digital rights manager, authenticity manager and visualisation manager. Luigi also provided a useful mapping of the CASPAR architecture to the OAIS functional model. A second presentation from Luigi focused on the concept of intelligibility of digital objects, which can be defined as the capacity to be correctly understood. Luigi argued that the intelligibility of digital objects is something that must be preserved along with the objects in addition to the bit sequences. Based on a model developed by Yannis Tzitzikas, it is possible to formalise the intelligibility of digital objects, using the notions of modules and dependencies. This can also be mapped onto the representation information requirements with the OAIS and formally model the community's knowledge and the gaps within it.
David Giaretta has touched upon representation information in a number of previous presentations. His presentation in this session was dedicated to it. He analysed in detail and provided examples of different types of representation information. He then focused on the Registry / Repository for representation information, explaining how it can be used and how the link is maintained between the data and the representation information. David also talked about the various desired properties of the Registry / Repository itself, such as its trustworthiness, extensibility and distributed nature.
David Giaretta chaired this session which included three presentations from Planets, providing a focused view of a number of key components at detailed and technical level. Christoph Becker of Vienna University of Technology presented a methodology for specifying preservation plans, which allows explicit definition of preservation requirements and offers a systematic way to compare candidate preservation strategies. The ultimate goal is to make an informed and accountable selection of the preservation strategy which is most appropriate to the orgnaisation. The methodology has been implemented in the context of a number of case studies. Christoph provided a sneak preview of the software tool called Planets Preservation Planning Tool (Plato), which is being developed to implement the methodology and automate the preservation planning process. Plato (including decision support and risk assessment modules) is expected to be released in August 2008.
Adrian Brown of the National Archive of the UK presented the content characterisation work. Tools and services are being developed within Planets to characterise the significant properties of digital objects, which are necessary to support the development of preservation plans and validate preservation actions (evaluating change). The aims and objectives of this strand of work are to define methodologies for describing significant properties, to develop tools and services for automating measurement and comparison of these properties and to make recommendations on improving the preservation characteristics of digital object types. Adrian then reported on achievements to date and provided technical details on the characterisation registry, the Extensible Characterisation Description Language (XCDL) and the Extensible Characterisation Extraction Language (XCEL), and the registry-driven characterisation tool framework. Adrian ended the presentation by sharing with the participants the planned year 2 activities.
Jeffrey van der Hoeven of the National Library of the Netherlands gave a presentation on emulation, a digital preservation technique which adapts the computer environment to render the digital object authentically. There has been some level of scepticism around emulation due to its technical complexity and high initial costs. Emulation has never been applied in an operational digital archiving environment. Work within Planets on emulation continues from the Dioscuri project, funded by the National Library and National Archive of the Netherlands in 2004, in recognition of the need for emulation, especially for rendering complex digital objects in the future without affecting their authenticity and integrity. Jeffrey offered a detailed description of the project's achievements. The Dioscuri emulator has been designed for durability and flexibility. It is built on top of a virtual layer, called a virtual machine (VM), which reduces the dependency of the emulator on the actual hardware and software it runs on. It is also highly component-based. Each component, called a module, imitates the functionality of a particular hardware component (i.e. processor, memory, hard disk, etc.). By combining various modules any computer emulation can be created. Jeffrey explained the areas where improvements are needed and presented a plan to take things forward within Planets. Jeffrey ended the presentation by presenting a diagram showing how emulation tools and services fit with other Planets tools and services.
It has been two intensive yet fascinating days. The participants went home with answers and expectations as well as further questions no doubt. Even for people directly involved in the projects, it has been a great opportunity to understand each other's work and discuss many digital preservation related issues. One could not help remarking upon the strategy behind the funding of three very different but highly complimentary projects. Planets focuses on the immediate problems of libraries and archives and aims to offer solutions here and now. CASPAR deals with more complex scientific and artistic data and provides a valuable insight into more generic systems for digital preservation. DPE is the glue which binds the synergies of PLANETS, CASPAR and ongoing national initiatives.
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Can I get shocked from the wires and sensors?
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What if I need to go to the restroom during my sleep study?
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How will I be able to sleep with all those wires on?
Most people doubt their ability to sleep at the Center, especially if they are unable to sleep at home. The fact is, some people feel more secure or less distracted in the lab than at home. But, if you do not sleep well in the lab, polysomnographic testing will still be able to determine a great deal of information.
What if my symptoms do not appear during the test?
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The six are to remain in custody while inquiries continue.
Det Ch Insp Andy Sharp said: "The victim and her welfare is a key priority for us (and) we will continue to work with her, at a pace she is comfortable with, in order to support her through this process."
They said local officers would continue to talk to residents and community leaders and provide the community with daily updates and reassurance around various rumours and speculation.


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|He was washing his jeans in the gutter right next to where we held outreach.
|Colleen was getting a language lesson
|Seun was teaching the kids how to sing a song.
|Some kids we saw this afternoon.
|Autumn and Titus....friends for life
One miracle that deserves mentioning happened tonight. We went out to feed 30 kids hot food tonight and up walked 65!!!!!! SIXTY FIVE KIDS SHOWED UP!!!!!!!!!!! I quickly ran around to everyone and said PRAY FOR A FIVE LOAVES AND TWO FISHES MIRACLE!!!!! You must understand something…..just this past Wednesday, at the regularly scheduled outreach we went prepared to feed 30 to 40 kids. We feed 35 and there was not a drop of food left.
Tonight, we brought the same exact amount of food. AND THERE WAS SOME LEFT AFTER FEEDING 65 KIDS MORE THAN ENOUGH FOOD EACH!!!!!!!!! My camera battery was dead and we were in the middle of our customary power cuts at the moment, or I would have taken a photo of the event.
After everyone had eaten one of the ladies on the team who is a nurse took Jacob into the van and cleaned his feet and bandaged him up. Jacob has a terrible fungal infection that is causing horrible pain. So, Jackie took what she knows to do and poured into the boys life. To me, it was such a beautiful example of the love and tenderness Jesus has for us. She was so sweet, so gentle and so loving. It was beautiful to watch. Jacobs needs were ministered to, not only on a physical level, but also on a spiritual and emotional level as well.
If you are interested in giving to us here in Zambia you can go to tscnyc.org and click on GIVE and follow the menu prompts to MORALES FAMILY / ZAMBIA


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Press Releases:
Isabel Suppé: US Book Tour 2013 (June, 2013)
Journey to Absa Cape Epic (April, 2012)
Life Stories on the Road (March, 2012)
On the Road to Absa Cape Epic (March, 2012)
Press and Website Mentions:
Unchained Cyclist: Adventures with Geoff Harper, J. Paks Blog (November, 2013)
Roam Life: La Vida LaCava, Team Robot Blog (December, 2012)
PITT to DC: Trail Blazing Bikers Plan to Stop in Connellsville, TribLive.com (October, 2012)
Roam Life: Adventure Workshop for Women, Peaks Over Poverty (September, 2012)
Team Honey Badger Takes on the Absa Cape Epic, My Life Behind Bars (March, 2012)
Roam Your Soul – Expanding Women's Empowerment, AgainsttheGrind.com (January, 2012)
Speaking Engagements:
Presenter, 62nd Annual Recreation Conference, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY (November, 2012)
Presenter, Journey to Absa Cape Epic – SoHo REI Event, New York, NY (April, 2012)
Organizer & Presenter, Hike Your Own Hike – SoHo REI Event, New York, NY (March, 2012)
Written Interviews:
Colby Sawyer Alumni Magazine (page 110), Spotlight on Josh Fonner, Colby Sawyer Alumni
Look for us in 2013!
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Sponsors & Partnerships:
Roam Life Racing Team 2013: Stan's NoTubes, Michelin Bicycle Tires
Two Village Idiots: PITT to DC (October 12 – 14, 2012): Giant Bicycles, Stan's NoTubes, POC
Absa Cape Epic (March – April, 2012): Stan's NoTubes, Giant Bicycles, Honey Stinger, POC, WTB, Sigma
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Ultrasound in Chiropractic Care
Because of its many therapeutic benefits, ultrasound in chiropractor care is often used in a patient's treatment plan. As its waves pass through the skin, they cause a thermal effect on affected areas, such as tendons, fibrous joint capsules, ligaments, scar tissue and bone structures. A chiropractor utilizes ultrasound to reduce pain, reduce muscle spasm and enhance the body's natural healing process. This treatment modality accelerates the healing time of the inflammatory process by attracting mast cells to the injured area. It also ramps up blood flow, which is helpful during the sub-acute phase of an injury. Plus, it stimulates collagen production to promote during the proliferative phase of healing.
For ultrasound healing, the device's head is moved over the injured area for about fifteen minutes. Dosage and frequency are dependent on the nature of the injury, such as whether it's chronic or acute. Each treatment builds on the previous session, so more than one treatment is typically needed. Lower frequency is used for greater depth of penetration, and high frequency is used for structures close to the skin's surface. A chiropractor using ultrasound may use it for conditions like soft tissue injuries, muscle sprains, disc herniation, osteoarthritis and more. The treatment is painless and often dubbed a "micro-massage."
When you're injured, the goal is to recover as soon as possible. This way, you can get back to doing the things you enjoy the most. With ultrasound therapy, you're on the road to recovery much faster. Heal faster, increase function and increase mobility with ultrasound therapy treatments.
Highland Chiropractic: Your Louisville Chiropractor
Highland Chiropractic in Louisville is your Louisville chiropractor who offers ultrasound treatment. Ultrasound therapy is designed to work synergistically with other treatment modalities, such as manual adjustments and corrective exercises. Louisville ultrasound chiropractor Dr. Charles Copeland implements a holistic approach to healing and may recommend a series of ultrasound treatments to lessen pain, quicken healing, reduce inflammation and reduce stiffness.
Ultrasound in Louisville medical facilities is a common and effective treatment modality. As an experienced chiropractor, Dr. Charles Copeland uses Louisville chiropractic treatment plans that incorporate ultrasound therapy when appropriate. Sessions typically last from 20 to 30 minutes. Not only is ultrasound therapy painless, it's totally relaxing. All you need to do is sit back and relax. Let our trained professionals do all of the work.
When you arrive for your first appointment at Highland Chiropractic, a comprehensive exam is performed, including physical, neurological and orthopedic tests. Once an accurate diagnosis is achieved, Dr. Charles Copeland then creates an individualized treatment and wellness plan to target your specific needs. If you're suffering in pain due to an injury, ultrasound may be helpful. Give our chiropractor in Louisville a call at 502-454-5000 to schedule an appointment today. Wellness awaits you at Highland Chiropractic. We've helped hundreds of others and can help you too.


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Turkey says it helps Kurdish fighters enter Syria
SURUC, Turkey -- Turkey said it was helping Iraqi Kurdish fighters cross into Syria to support their brethren fighting Islamic State militants in a key border town, although activists inside embattled Kobani said no forces had arrived by Monday evening, raising questions about whether the mission was really underway.
The statement by Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu came hours after the U.S. airdropped weapons and ammunition to resupply Kurdish fighters for the first time. Those airdrops Sunday followed weeks of airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition in and near Kobani.
After a relative calm, heavy fighting erupted in the town as dusk fell, with the clatter of small arms and tracer fire, as well as the thud of mortar rounds and big explosions of two airstrikes that resounded across the frontier.
"We are helping peshmerga forces to enter into Kobani to give support," Cavusoglu said at a news conference, referring to the security forces of the largely autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. The Kurdish government there is known to be friendly to the Turkish government.
A peshmerga spokesman said he had not been ordered to move units to Syria.
"They have not given us any orders to move our units," said the spokesman, Halgurd Hekmat. "But we are waiting, and we are ready."
The Kurdish activists in Kobani said there was no sign of any peshmerga forces.
Still, it was unprecedented for Turkey to promise to give Kurds passage to fight in Syria. That, combined with the U.S. airdrops, reflected the importance assigned to protecting Kobani from the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State group, which has rampaged across Iraq and Syria in recent months.
It also underscored the enormity of the challenge in battling militants who have been trying to seize Kobani since last month to spread their rule along the mountainous spine of the Syria-Turkey border, an area dominated by ethnic Kurds.
Ankara views Kurdish fighters in Syria as loyal to what Turkish officials regard as an extension of the group known as the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. That group has waged a 30-year insurgency in Turkey and is designated a terrorist group by the U.S. and NATO.
The government is under pressure to take greater action against the IS militants -- not only from the West but also from Kurds in Syria and inside Turkey who accuse Ankara of standing by while their people are slaughtered. Earlier this month across Turkey, there were widespread protests that threatened to derail promising talks to end the PKK insurgency.
Although a significant departure from previous positions, Turkey's announcement to allow fighters to cross its territory is not a complete policy reversal, since it involves peshmerga fighters from Iraq and not those from the PKK.
It remains uncertain whether Ankara would allow heavily armed Iraqi Kurdish fighters to make the journey in large numbers. It is also unclear if many of those peshmerga troops would even do so, given that the IS militants still threaten their areas in Iraq.
Cavusoglu did not give details of where and how Turkey would allow the Kurdish fighters to cross into Syria.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said it would be "irresponsible" and "morally very difficult" not to support the Kurds in their fight against IS.
"Let me say very respectfully to our allies the Turks that we understand fully the fundamentals of their opposition and ours to any kind of terrorist group, and particularly obviously the challenges they face with respect the PKK," Kerry said.
"But we have undertaken a coalition effort to degrade and destroy ISIL, and ISIL is presenting itself in major numbers in this place called Kobani," he told reporters in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, using another acronym for the Islamic State group.
The weapons and military aid were flown by U.S. cargo jets from northern Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdish regions.
Barzan Iso, a journalist based in Kobani, said he saw the airdrop, which included anti-tank missiles, sniper rifles, large amounts of artillery shells and medicine.
The Americans dropped the bundles amid heavy wind, he said. Two bundles landed in IS-held areas, and Kurdish fighters were able to retrieve one, while the other was blown up by the U.S. from the air, Isso said.
The U.S. Central Command said the coalition conducted six airstrikes near Kobani in the past 24 hours, targeting IS fighting and mortar positions and a vehicle. It confirmed that one airstrike targeted a stray resupply bundle. U.S. cargo planes also dropped arms and supplies provided by Kurdish authorities in Iraq, the Central Command said.
Idris Nassan, a senior Kurdish official from Kobani who is now in the Turkish town of Mursitpinar, confirmed the Kurdish fighters received the airdrop and asked for more weapons.
"We are not in need of fighters. We are able to defeat the terrorists of ISIS if we have weaponry -- enough weaponry and enough ammunition," he told The Associated Press.
The weapons drop for the Kurdish forces was a stunning diplomatic success. Syrian Kurdish officials have been lobbying Western governments for support, highlighting that they have no legal link to the PKK -- even though they are widely seen to have ties to the group.
They have argued that their fighters are the kind the West would want to support in Syria: secular, relatively moderate and well-disciplined. They have pointed to their opposition to the Islamic State group: most notably in August, when their forces fought to create a safe passage in northern Iraq to evacuate tens of thousands of Yazidis -- a persecuted religious minority who fled an onslaught by the extremists.
"We (asked) the international community from the beginning of these clashes for help, for more effective weaponry and for more ammunition," Nassan said. "This is the first step."
Iso, the journalist in Kobani, said by telephone that he had not seen any peshmerga -- he called out to a group of Kurdish fighters with him if they had seen any, and they could be heard answering "No!" over the line.
Echoing the views of many Kurds, who are deeply suspicious of Turkey, Iso said the foreign minister's statements had "nothing to do with reality."
President Barack Obama called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday to discuss the situation in Syria and notify him of the plan for airdrops on Sunday, a U.S. administration official told reporters. He would not describe Erdogan's reaction but said U.S. officials are clear about Turkey's opposition to any moves that help Kurdish forces.
Turkey has not allowed the U.S. and its allies to use its airspace or air bases to strike inside Syria.
In recent days, many of the airstrikes have focused around Kobani, which IS militants have been trying to seize for a month. Turkey has given sanctuary to about 200,000 Syrians fleeing Kobani and dozens of nearby villages captured by the IS group.
Mroue reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Desmond Butler in Istanbul, Zeina Karam and Diaa Hadid in Beirut, Matthew Lee in Jakarta, Indonesia, Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor in Washington, and Sameer N. Yacoub in Baghdad contributed to this report.


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On to the projects...I was blessed with four sons, and loved raising boys. There was only one thing I kind of missed when they were growing up and that was sewing girly things. Happily, my boys have provided me with granddaughters so now I get to make up for lost time and indulge myself. The girls are getting new dolls for Christmas, so I've been doing a little stash-busting to make them clothes.
Oh, and I scoured the local thrift stores for an 18" doll to use for a model (only $6.99!) and although her hair is kind of whacked up, she'll do.
Everything is from my stash, even the buttons. The corduroy is from a jumper I made for myself.
Stash fabric that I used to face the jumper made of the corduroy above. Stash rickrack.
Blue satin left from granddaughter's Cinderella costume and yarn remnants. More stash buttons.
This was Estate Sale fabric, probably a vintage piece - at least it looks like it. Tulle from the half-price remnant bin at JoAnn.
Pink knit left from making t-shirts for the girls. Denim cut down from a pair of my old jeans. Crocheted edging from thread stash. Iron-on appliqué from JoAnn.
The faux fur was stashed from a Christmas stocking I made last year. The satin and tulle were from the half-price remnant bin. Only the striped fabric was bought off the bolt.
I'm not done yet, I'll be making as many outfits as I can until Christmas and I have lots more remnants to use. I think I can say that I've now officially bonded with the 404. I really can't find any fault with it, and other than needing to zigzag on my 503 occasionally, I could use this for everything I sew.


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Sketch your ideas on paper. It's easier to make changes with an eraser than with a shovel. This is the time to consider garden views from inside the house, traffic patterns throughout the yard, and ways your family uses the yard.
Draw permanent structures such as paths, walls, fences, decks, and gazebos, even if you don't intend to erect them immediately.
Reserve space near hedges, walls, and fences for plants that benefit from the extra protection and shade. Keep plants an ample distance from one another and from nearby structures to allow for growth. Give wide berth to new shrubs and trees; when fully grown, they can take up a lot of space.
Remember to leave open play areas for children. Add exercise areas for your pets where they won't trample plants. Leave yourself room to work. If you plan large beds, add space for stepping-stones or a winding path that will allow access to plants in the middle of the bed.
To anyone starting a first garden, buying all the tools can be pretty intimidating. This list covers the basics that you'll need to get started.
In the excitement of spring planting, don't forget the part of the garden beneath the surface. Soil improvement is the most important step for creating a successful garden.
Prepare your planting beds well and your garden will thrive. Loose, crumbly earth that lets in air and moisture and doesn't become waterlogged encourages plant roots to develop.
Be sure your garden has the proper pH (acid-alkaline balance) and fertility. Most county cooperative extension services provide soil testing. Or you can buy a soil-testing kit at a local garden center for about $12. It will tell you if your soil is too acidic (sour) and needs lime, or if it's too alkaline (sweet) and needs sulfur or gypsum. Most perennials like an average pH count of about 6.5.
Soil tends to be acidic in rainy regions, alkaline in desert areas. Midcontinent gardens generally lean toward neutral soil.
Even when very fertile, soil that is too acidic or too alkaline will let plants die of malnutrition because some nutrients don't dissolve as well under acidic or alkaline conditions. The presence of organic matter, such as compost, makes the soils at either end of the spectrum more neutral.
Try this simple, no-dig way to transform a patch of lawn into a garden bed.
1. Cover the area with a layer of newspaper about 12 pages thick.
2. Cover the paper with 3 inches of compost, or a 50-50 mix of topsoil and manure (composted manure is virtually odorless).
3. Wait for six months while all the layers, including the sod, decompose to create a 6-inch layer of topsoil ready for planting.
If poor soil or drainage problems plague your yard, build a raised bed. Deeper soil fosters vigorous root growth and adds protection from encroaching grass and weeds. The extra elevation allows a flower bed's soil to warm earlier in spring so you can stop dreaming and start doing.
If your beds will be permanent, build retaining walls. Railway ties are one option, but brick and treated lumber are longer-lasting. To enjoy the advantages of a raised bed without the cost or labor, simply mound up about 10 to 12 inches of earth in your flower bed.
Once your soil is up to snuff, you'll be ready to dig in and start selecting plants.
When selecting plants, choose varieties that can thrive in your garden's environment.
Just because a plant does well in your neighbor's yard doesn't mean it will be happy in yours. That's because even within your own yard, there can be several microclimates, each with its own unique combination of soil type, sunlight, shade density, moisture, and exposure to the elements.
Here are suggestions for choosing the right plants.
Instead of groaning about limited light in your garden, celebrate the perks of shade: slower-growing weeds, fewer pests, less need to water, and cooler temperatures.
Any area that receives less than six hours of direct sun a day is considered shady.
These categories will help you select the right plants for the shady spots in your garden:
Partial shade. Receives direct sun in the morning or afternoon, or lightly dappled sunlight all day. This is the lightest form of shade in gardens.
Light shade. Receives an hour or two of full sun during the day and supports a wide variety of plants.
Half shade. Shaded for four or five of the brightest daylight hours. Gardens with no direct sun but lots of reflected sunlight also fall in this category.
Full shade. No direct sun. Found under mature trees with large leaves and a dense, wide canopy, such as maples and oaks.
Heavy shade. Deep, cool shadows cast by evergreen trees or tall buildings. Not many plants can grow in heavy shade unless they receive some reflected sunlight.
Size matters when you're gardening on a budget. Here are five ways to make the most of your money.
Knowing how to care for your plants now will help your garden prosper in future years.
Don't be too quick to tidy up your garden after frost. The muted hues of the dormant black-eyed Susans and purple coneflowers are beautiful. So are the ornamental grasses and the sturdy heads of tall stonecrops, such as "Autumn Joy" sedum. Plus, dried seed heads will attract birds to the garden, adding to its winter charm.
Extra snow piles up around dried foliage in winter, helping insulate the plant roots from fluctuating temperatures and providing extra moisture.
On the other hand, fall cleanup is a good way to combat a few diseases and pests that sometimes harm perennials. Examples include gray mold, a fungal disease that shrivels peony buds and turns them black, and borers, a serious insect threat to iris rhizomes.
A modified autumn cleanup is probably best for your garden. Remove the foliage of trouble-prone species, cutting it back to the ground. But allow your other perennials to stand, painting the winter garden canvas with their subtle colors.
Most plants need about an inch of water a week. When plants are young, regular watering is especially important.
A soaker hose, which puts the water on the roots rather than on the leaves, is best. Overhead sprinkling encourages fungal diseases and wastes water that is lost to evaporation. The ideal time to water is early in the day so the foliage can dry before nightfall.
If you have an automatic sprinkler system, guard against overwatering plants when you water your lawn. Too much water is just as lethal to plants as too little. One solution: Elevate the beds for better drainage. Or, install plants that like it wet.
Mulch is a blanket of anything that covers the soil. Because it holds in moisture and keeps down weeds, mulch is a great garden shortcut.
Fabric mulches made of nonwoven synthetic material are long-lasting and (unlike plastic) porous. But the best choice is an organic mulch, such as shredded bark, chopped leaves, pine needles, or chemical-free grass clippings. These can be moved aside readily when you want to transplant or fertilize, and they slowly decompose to feed the soil.
Mulch offers climate protection, insulating roots from intense heat or cold. In winter, pile mulch over spent perennials to help prevent heaving caused by alternate thaws and freezes. To avoid fungus problems, remove the mulch in spring as soon as plants awaken from dormancy. If your winters are warm and wet, winter mulching is not such a good idea because it could foster disease.
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Penalties for breaking fire code regulations include fines and prosecution for significant violations, as of 2015. Penalties vary depending on the area and the violation. Repeated violations often result in larger penalties.
While fire code regulations sometimes include fine amount information, others allow the fire marshal to determine the amount of the fine. Factors that determine the fine amount vary depending on the fire marshal. For example, the Travis County, Texas, fire marshal bases fines on the amount of harm or damage the violation could cause, and the extent of deviation from the fire code. The extent of deviation encompasses several factors, including the person's actions before and after the violation, and any past non-compliance issues.
Fines are often ineffective in the long run because they reduce the business owner's available funds, making him less likely to improve the facilities. In some areas, the fire marshal allows business owners to purchase improved fire protection as a substitute for fines. With this method, the fire marshal makes the business owner comply with fire code regulations and the business becomes safer. Since making improvements to buildings is expensive, this method works well for business owners who have accumulated a large amount of fines.