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Prior to joining Simpson Thomas & Associates, Silvana worked at a large national law firm where she gained valuable litigation experience and acted primarily for insurers and defendants in personal injury and professional indemnity cases. During that time, she also represented plaintiff personal injury clients and realized that she would rather advocate for injured people than work against them. Silvana's experience working closely with insurance adjusters has provided her with a unique understanding of ICBC defence strategy, including investigative tactics and approach to negotiations. This knowledge helps her guide clients through the ICBC claims process and achieve higher settlement outcomes. Since joining Simpson, Thomas & Associates, Silvana has been involved in several trials, negotiations, and mediations and has achieved great results for her clients. Silvana has experience acting for clients with a variety of injuries including traumatic brain injury, chronic pain, and severe depression and anxiety.
Silvana was born and raised in the Lower Mainland to a tight-knit, hardworking Italian family. She has a close family member with a disability and understands the challenges that disabilities place not only on the person suffering, but on the entire family. This experience with disability caused Silvana to start advocating at an early age and naturally led to a career in law. Silvana is thrilled and grateful to have the privilege of being able to devote her skills and knowledge to a practice which consists entirely of advocating for injured people.
When Silvana is not busy working, she enjoys circuit training, boxing, running, travelling, cooking, and exploring the beautiful BC trails with her dog.
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- Law Society of British Columbia, Member
- Canadian Bar Association, Member, Personal Injury Section
- Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia, Member
- The B.C. Brain Injury Association, Member
- Spinal Cord Injury of B.C., Member
- Disability Alliance, B.C., Member
- Fraser Valley Brain Institute, Member
- While in law school, Silvana devoted a semester to working at the pro-bono UBC First Nations Legal Clinic where she had conduct over several files and appeared extensively in criminal court.
- While in law school, Silvana was a volunteer for the Canucks Autism Network and taught soccer to children with Autism.
- The University of British Columbia Doctor of Law (J.D.) (Recipient of Award for Best Cross Examination at Sopinka Cup National Trial Advocacy Competition, Recipient of Davis Award for Appellate Advocacy,)
- McGill University Bachelor of Arts (BA) Honours, Political Science and International Development (Named Deans Honour List, Member of Golden Key International Honours Society)
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- 4 beds
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- Square Feet: 1,903 sqft
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The Nancy boasts a brick and stone exterior with a large front window and Dutch gable.. This home includes four bedrooms and two bathrooms and has 1,903 square feet of living space. Enjoy covered entryways and a sizeable family area with an inviting brick fireplace, perfect for entertaining guests. Additional features include a grand master suite with great closet space and 8- and 10-foot ceilings.
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Bond 23 officially announced; Skyfall begins production today
This morning in London, Sony Pictures, MGM Studios and EON Productions held a press conference at Pinewood Studios to announce the start of production on the 23rd James Bond film, which can now formally be called SKYFALL.
Director Sam Mendes and star James Bond were on hand with other members of the cast including Judi Dench, Bond girl Bérénice Marlohe, Naomie Harris and Javier Bardem, who was confirmed as the film's villain. Other cast members confirmed but not in attendance were Ben Whishsaw, Ralph Fiennes and Albert Finney.
Much speculation has been that Harris would star as Miss Moneypenny in the film but at the press conference the actress revealed she was playing a "field agent named Eve." In the previous films, Moneypenny's name was Jane but perhaps this is just a ruse to throw people off.
As for the film itself, the cast and crew weren't talking much but an official synopsis was revealed and may lend some hints towards the film's direction: "Bond's loyalty to M is tested to the full as her past comes back to haunt her. As M16 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost."
Mendes also noted that SKYFALL "doesn't connect with the last two films," which means (unless he's bullshitting) we won't continue the saga of QUANTUM (at least not this time around).
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A stack is a prebuilt root file system (rootfs) that supports a specific operating system. For example, Linux-based systems need
/usr and
/bin directories at their root. The stack works in tandem with a buildpack to support applications running in compartments. Under Diego architecture, cell VMs can support multiple stacks.
Note: Docker apps do not use stacks.
Available Stacks
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cflinuxfs2 stack is derived from Ubuntu Trusty 14.04. Refer to the Github stacks page for supported libraries.
Restaging Applications on a New Stack
For security, stacks receive regular updates to address Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Apps pick up on these stack changes through new releases of Elastic Runtime. However, if your app links statically to a library provided in the rootfs, you may have to manually restage it to pick up the changes.
It can be difficult to know what libraries an app statically links to, and it depends on the languages you are using. One example is an app that uses a Ruby or Python binary, and links out to part of the C standard library. If the C library requires an update, you may need to recompile the app and restage it as follows:
Use the cf stacks command to list the stacks available in a deployment.
$ cf stacks Getting stacks in org MY-ORG / space development as email@example.com... OK name description cflinuxfs2 Cloud Foundry Linux-based file system
To change your stack and restage your application, use the cf push command. For example, to restage your app on the default stack
cflinuxfs2you can run
cf push MY-APP:
$ cf push MY-APP Using stack cflinuxfs2... OK Creating app MY-APP in org MY-ORG / space development as email@example.com... OK ... requested state: started instances: 1/1 usage: 1G x 1 instances urls: MY-APP.cfapps.io last uploaded: Wed Apr 8 23:40:57 UTC 2015 state since cpu memory disk #0 running 2015-04-08 04:41:54 PM 0.0% 57.3M of 1G 128.8M of 1G
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For the third song of his set last night at Madison Square Garden, Eric Clapton invited out the first guest of the night: John Mayer, who Clapton has called a "master" guitar player. They launched into 1989's swaggering, gospel-steeped "Pretending." Midway through, Mayer played a melodic, fat-toned, piercing solo. Clapton shook his head, grinning, looking ready for a challenge. For his lead, Clapton stepped on his wah-wah pedal for the only time of the night, letting out a threatening flurry on his Stratocaster. There was no doubt who the master was.
That was the case throughout Clapton's 70th Birthday Celebration (the actual big day was March 30th), which featured friends like Jimmie Vaughan, Derek Trucks and Doyle Bramhall Jr. sitting in. It may be an off-year for Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival (it takes place every three years), but this show felt like being at the fest. Clapton, grey-haired in a vest and glasses, looked professorial, a teacher watching over his musical students with pride. To add to the master-class vibe, gigantic video screens behind Clapton focused more on his fingers than his face, proving he had lost none of his technical facility.
Clapton's show has its faults — why add backup singers on "Hoochie Coochie Man"; Why acoustic "Layla?" — but the moments Clapton let loose, like "I Shot the Sheriff," when he let silence hang for a moment and then produced a virtuosic, searing jolt of sounds – made those gripes feel minor. During the latter moment, Mayer, sitting in the bowl next to Katy Perry, practically jumped out of his seat, held his hands high and clapped, looking around as if to make sure others were appreciating it, too. Mayer and Perry continued to boogie in their seats during "Crossroads" and "I Shot the Sheriff."
While some aging acts expand their bands over time, adding players to do the heavy lifting, Clapton has stripped his down. These days, he has no backup guitarist, giving him far more room to stretch out. Beginning with the 12-bar "Somebody's Knocking," his tone throughout the night was clean and spare, his playing an exercise in restraint and expertly-chosen flourishes and dynamic shifts. He picked up the acoustic to belt country blues "Drifting Blues" and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," filling each song full of masterful fingerpicking.
But Clapton was happy to share the spotlight. After the acoustic set, he plugged in and invited friend Jimmie Vaughan out for "Before You Accuse Me" trading licks while laughing over a Texas Roadhouse shuffle. He let keyboardist Paul Carrack sing "You Are So Beautiful" and gave Carrack and fellow keyboardist Chris Stainton ample room to stretch out on "Little Queen of Spades."
Bramhall and Derek Trucks joined for 1970's "Let It Rain," Bramhall playing a tasteful, melodic solo, while Trucks unleashed a trademark demonic attack. And for the encore, Clapton invited all the guests out for for a cover of Joe Cocker's "High Time We Went," with Carrack on vocals. Everyone looked eager to impress their friend, pulling out their signature tricks, Vaughan showcasing tremelo-drenched spookiness while Trucks watched over him, grinning before letting out his own slide guitar fury, Mayer playing a solo that nodded to Vaughan's brother Stevie Ray.
Nobody was enjoying it more than Clapton, who late in the night, addressed the crowd: "Thank you very much for helping me celebrate this wonderful gift with these wonderful friends."


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Answer: The main concerns of any criminal lawyer or legal consultant is always to first meet the client and then try to get the person released as quickly as possible. Generally, the law gives prosecutors the right to provisionally release the accused for any crime committed or for any accusation they are charged with, unless the probable verdict is a death sentence or life imprisonment. Such bail decisions could be issued on the basis of a request from the accused or their lawyer, and prosecutors are able to grant bail at any point in the investigation up until the case reaches court. This is in accordance with Article 111 of the UAE Criminal Procedures Law. However, the law does not strictly mention what sort of guarantee should be offered against bail. More often than not, passports are offered to guarantee that the accused will attend court. However, if the passport of the accused is unavailable, then prosecutors have the right to withhold the passport of a member of the person's family or a friend. An alternative could also be to leave a fixed cash deposit with the court cashier or, if that is not possible, prosecutors could also take a guarantee amount from a solvent person that would not be returned if the accused breaches the release conditions. If this happens and an accused violates release conditions without justification, the financial guarantee will be owned by the government without any need for final judgment.
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"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. It is one of the hardest to define. A human being has roots by virtue of his real, active and natural participation in the life of a community which preserves in living shape certain particular treasures of the past and certain particular expectations for the future."—Simone Weil
Christmas Pastoral
The snow lies crisp beneath the stars,
On roofs and on the ground;
Late footsteps crunch along the paths,
There is no other sound.
So cold it is the roadside trees
Snap in the rigid frost,
A dreadful night to think on them,
The homeless and the lost.
The dead sleep sheltered in the tomb,
The rich drink in the hall;
The Virgin and the Holy Child lie
shivering in a stall.
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"…and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace—Isaiah 9:6
I had a dream the other night I was a salmon and I swam free towards the sea…then I reluctantly ceased to swim and slowly woke out of my dream. Awake. it didn't take me long to realize that today was election day! With purpose, I vigorously put on my beige Dockers, my casual business shirt, took my One-A-Day man vitamin and headed off to vote with some pep in my step.
Surprisingly, there were no long lines, as predicted by the talking heads. It only took me about 10 minutes to get in and out of the community center—easy-peasy lemon-squeezy.
Feeling pretty darn good, I drove home for a quick pit stop at the house before going in to work. I parked the Mini in the driveway and ran into the house. After grabbing a mouth full of chocolate chips, I ran back outside only to find my car missing. However, it didn't take too long to find my car. It was halfway down the cul-de-sac, having come to a rest atop my neighbor's mailbox. Apparently, when you place a car in neutral its gets the itch to move.
My first instinct was to grab the car and drive off, but my conscience got the best of me and I chose not to flee the scene. Although this good decision-making was encouraged by a neighbor watching me like a hawk. So, I went back into the house, grabbed some more chocolate chips (to steady my nerves), and proceeded to write a note documenting my negligence. I dutifully placed the note on my neighbor's door and took some pictures of the "crime scene" and then tore out of the neighborhood like a bat out of hell.
I figured at the most it would be a couple of hundred dollars to fix the mailbox, so I reconciled myself once more that I would just have to suck it up and take my medicine.
Regretfully, I didn't know anything about this neighbor. Other than they had big red truck and there was a woman at the house who curiously stared at us sometimes when we were driving to and from the house. So, I did not know what to expect when I got home from work that night.
After mansplaining to my wife about the car, insurance, and the cost to repair the mailbox, I went over to the house to just get it over with. But nobody was there except a teenage girl who told me through the door that her parents weren't home. About an hour later, I willed myself over to the house again and introduced myself as the guilty party, in my best Eeyore voice.
To my surprise my neighbor calmly told me that "sh** happens" and told me he appreciated my honesty. All he was going to ask is that I go and buy the post ($11) and from there he'd do the rest. We shook hands firmly and stoically parted ways. A win-win for both sides. A win for honesty and win for mercy. To think the Mini being put in neutral would actually be a blessing in disguise.
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What echoing Shouts thus cleaue my chrystal Deep?
And call mee hence from out my watrie Court?
What Melodie, what Sounds of Joy and Sport,
Bee these heere hurld from eu'rie neighbour Spring?
With what lowd Rumours doe the Mountaines ring?
Which in unusuall Pompe on tip—toes stand,
And (full of Wonder) ouer—looke the Land?
Whence come these glittring Throngs, these Meteors bright,
This golden People set unto my Sight?
Whence doth this Praise, Applause, and Loue, arise?
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AYLESFORD, NS – Kenneth Bower has questions about a new contract that will see all compost collected from the Annapolis Valley processed at a facility in Colchester County.
Bower is an accountant for Northridge Farms N.S., the Aylesford facility that will continue processing compostable materials collected by Valley Waste Resource Management until April 1, 2018, when the Fundy Compost composting facility in Brookfield will take over the contract.
Bower says his questions go beyond his professional bias as Northridge's accountant, and come instead from a personal investment in composting.
"I've composted for years, and so my main concern here is the environment. There are several points that do not line up, and have lead to growing concern for me," he said.
Presenting all information could have changed vote: Bower
The waste authority, meeting with representatives appointed by each municipality in the Annapolis Valley, voted in favour of awarding the contract to the Brookfield facility at the Nov. 15 meeting, for services to begin Apr. 1, 2018.
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Wondering why the switch had been made, Bower began looking into the new contract's terms that same week, and was struck by how little information he found.
He says he found nearly no information available on why the decision was made, other than it was a cheaper option. Prices have not been confirmed, but Bower believes Fundy Compost's per tonne price was around $20 lower than Northridge's, and that he has zero proof of anything other than this price point being considered.
Bower also questions why the facilities were compared as similar options when the systems they use for processing the compost – an open windrow, or row of compost, at the Brookfield facility compared to a closed on beneath concrete at Northridge – are completely different.
He has filed several Freedom of Information requests and has received acknowledgements confirming some are being processed, and is awaiting answers.
"I don't believe those voting were shown how different these facilities were, since no one questioned any of this," he said.
"Would they have voted differently had they been presented with all of the options? It's not possible to tell."
Environmental concerns, and others
The open facility plan is of concern to Bower, who says smells could be the least of local citizens' concerns.
He feels run off from the facility's outdoor leachate management system, which stores drainage from the facility in a pond to keep it from seeping into other water sources, could "leak into the stream at the bottom of the property."
Bower is also concerned with the mileage trucks will travel while transporting the compost to the Brookfield site, which is 215 kilometres from downtown Annapolis Royal, and the extra emissions this will cause.
These trucks will also lead to the loss of seven local jobs.
"There are seven employees who truck compost to Northridge who will lose out because of this. That's a loss of local industry," he said.
"That... should concern everyone."
Capacity a possible issue at Brookfield facility
Fundy Compost's website states it diverts 12,000 tonnes of material from landfills every year. Bower has also confirmed the facility's composting capacity under environmental assessments sits at 12,000 tonnes.
This new contract will see the facility process 1,500 from a current contract and another 10,500 from the Annapolis Valley, a total calculated before the system was changed to include cat litter, which Bower figures could mean a significant increase.
Bower hopes his worries are abated by answered questions that will come once his information requests receive replies.
"If I'm wrong about these things, I'd be happy, absolutely, but the longer it takes for this information to come forward, the more suspicious it becomes," he said.
"The bottom line is until my questions are answered, these concerns aren't going anywhere."
Fundy Compost did not respond by deadline to questions on whether changes have been made to allow for extra compost tonnage.


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How to get to BelpreFly into Parkersburg, WV (PKB-Mid-Ohio Valley Regional), 10 mi (16 km) from central Belpre.
What to see around BelpreHere are some recommended places to see in the surrounding area:
- • Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park (3.4 mi/5.5 km from the city center)
- • Grand Central Mall (4 mi/6.4 km from the city center)
- • Oil and Gas Museum (4.7 mi/7.6 km from the city center)
- • Blennerhassett Museum (4.7 mi/7.6 km from the city center)
- • Smoot Theater (4.8 mi/7.7 km from the city center)
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Seasonal temperature averages
- • January-March: 60°F day, 23°F night
- • April-June: 85°F day, 38°F night
- • July-September: 85°F day, 49°F night
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|Performing at Methodist Central Hall Westminster for Jazz Vespers with Dan Forshaw Qrt
October has been a crazy month. I've gone from performing for over a dozen toddlers running around and bouncing on cushions whilst listening to the Divas of Jazz for The Streets community high street project in Twickenham (cute!) to performing gospel songs to a huge audience at Westminster Central Hall during Jazz Vespers as part of Black History Month (awesome!). And in between I also visited Birmingham Jazz for the first time and had an amazing, appreciative audience for the final Spellbound Stories tour date (wonderful but also sad).
The Streets
The Streets is an amazing project bringing music to unusual places on the local high streets. Kate Williams and I performed in a lovely local Italian Restaurant, a library (with aforementioned cushions in the children's section) and a beautiful stately home called York House. There are few more performances next month. Would be great to see you if you're local.
14 Nov - Ilford Library 11am & 12.45pm
22 Nov - Leyton Library 11.15am & 12.30pm
Spellbound Stories - The Final Chapter
Our gig at Birmingham Jazz for Black History Month was such a lovely end to the Spellbound Stories tour dates. We had a great audience and lots of lovely feedback. Huge thanks to my amazing band, all the promoters and venues who booked us and my lovely agent Sabina at Mo' Connections. Although the chapter is over, there is a chance of an epilogue or two next year as there has been some interest from literary festivals. I will keep you posted. Until then, here are some great photos taken by Brian Homer at the Birmingham Jazz gig.
|With Nick Ramm on piano
|Eddie Hick on drums
|Oli Hayhurst on bass
Jazz Vespers
My final gig for Black History Month was Jazz Vespers at Methodist Central Hall in Westminster. It was an amazing, very well organised event and the audience loved it! It included powerful readings from Martin Luther King by Darren Raymond and contributions from many members of the church all backed by Dan Forshaw's excellent quartet. From all the positive feedback I think there's a good chance it will happen again. Again, I will keep you posted.
Just one week now until I'm off to Italy! Can't wait to go back to one of my favourite countries in the world. Once again I'll be performing with the wonderful Daniele Gorgone Trio. We'll be kicking off with two nights at Gregory's Jazz Club in Rome. It's currently raining and only 16 degrees in Rome but I refuse to let that dampen my spirits. Italia, here I come!
03 Nov - Gregory's Jazz Club, Rome
04 Nov - Gregory's Jazz Club, Rome
05 Nov - la claque, Genoa
06 Nov - Jazz Club Torino, Turin
07 Nov - Raindogs House, Savona
08 Nov - Ex Wide, Pisa
EFG London Jazz Festival
It's that time of year again! Once again, I'll be doing some family friendly concerts with Family Jazz All Stars. We've got two at artsdepot and one at Cadogan Hall. I'll also be performing and chatting to Alyn Shipton for Jazz Record Requests on 14 Nov live at the Barbican for BBC Radio 3. November is going to be another busy month! :-)
14 Nov - Jazz Record Requests @ Barbican Freestage, London 5pm
15 Nov - artsdepot, Finchley 11am & 2pm
21 Nov - Cadogan Hall, London 2pm


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Outlook for North Arrow Minerals is Rock Solid in 2015Spotlight Companies Follow |
When you think of the premier regions for diamond mining, Northern Canada might not be the first locale that springs to mind. Yet, in recent years, diamond mining has quietly become a reliably profitable industry in Canada, even while most other sectors of their economy have struggled to remain viable.
As the burgeoning Canadian diamond industry has matured, North Arrow Minerals (NAR:CA) has grown along with it, and a few mining projects have them well-positioned for this year and beyond. We recently had the opportunity to talk with two members of the North Arrow team about the company's prospects for 2015 and their place in the industry. You can find our interview with the company President, CEO and Director Ken Armstrong below and our interview with Investor and Community Relations Manager Nick Armstrong here.
EQ: Could you tell me a little bit about your background and how you got started with North Arrow Minerals?
Armstrong: Sure. I am a geologist, and very early in my career, in the early 90's, I worked in the diamond rush in northern Canada. When I graduated from a master's degree program in which I'd studied some kimberlites (a type or rock that sometimes contains diamonds), I was hired by Kennecott Canada to help with some of the initial resource modeling in the Diavik kimberlites which eventually became the Diavik Diamond Mine. Aber Resources was a junior company and a 40% partner of Diavik at that point.
Over a couple years I worked on Diavik-related projects and, in particular, was involved with the modeling of the A-154 North pipe. Through my work there, I met Gren Thomas (North Arrow's Chairman) and Eira Thomas (North Arrow Advisor), who were both involved with Aber, and so I jumped over and started working with them at that time, which was the late 90's, and I've worked with them ever since.
Gren was the President of Aber when Diavik was discovered, and Eira was a key person on the ground for the discoveries and has worked on a number of other diamond companies, including the founding of Stornoway Diamond Corporation.
Also involved as a director with North Arrow from the Diavik days is Dr. Chris Jennings. Chris was involved in North Arrow even before we decided to focus solely on diamonds. We had one diamond property in the company, a group of claims near to Lac de Gras, and Chris helped us finance and get some work done so he had a significant ownership stake in that property, which we converted into shares of North Arrow.
In the past Chris had a small operating diamond mine in South Africa. The newest addition to the board is William Lamb, who is the CEO of Lucara Diamonds ($LUC) who are running a very successful diamond mine in Botswana. William's experience is as up-to-date and current as it comes.
EQ: What projects does North Arrow Minerals currently have in the pipeline?
Armstrong: Right now we've got seven projects in the company, but two of them are especially key for us in the near-term. The most advanced is Qilalugaq, located near the coast in Nunavut. It's a unique story and it's one that encapsulates what we wanted to do with North Arrow from the word go. We're in the process of an interest in it from Stornoway.
BHP Billiton (BHP) actually did all the early stage high-risk work, very good work, and discovered a series of kimberlites—there's eight of them—including one body we call Q1-4, which happened to be the biggest kimberlite that they discovered. It's around 12 hectares in size which is quite large by northern Canadian standards. It was also the highest grade of the bodies they found, and it's the closest to the community of Repulse Bay; only eight kilometers, so it's very well located. Repulse Bay is a town of about a thousand people; there's an air strip, and a sea lift that comes three or four times a year in the late- to mid-parts of the summer, so, you can get there quite easily and you can ship anything in and out quite easily.
The project has a lot going for it, but with diamonds, compared to say, a gold deposit, they are a bit tougher to evaluate. One of the key reasons is that a diamond isn't a diamond isn't a diamond. It's not like an ounce of gold that we can all agree on what it's worth. For this project, we have the grade and the tonnage but we need to collect a large sample to get a bigger parcel of diamonds so we can get a proper indication of value. That's the deal that we struck with Stornoway. We agreed that we would collect a bulk sample, we'd process it, get a parcel of diamonds, get that parcel valued, and that will earn our interest in the project.
Armstrong: Last summer we collected just over 1500 tons of kimberlite, which is a pretty significant size. When you're working in the high arctic things can go wrong on a number of levels, but overall, this program went really well – very smoothly. The processing of that sample is ongoing right now. Our goal is to recover approximately 500 carats of diamonds and have them valued. Once we have that valuation, we'll be in a good position to see how this project will look going forward and whether we've got a real development stage project or not.
Typically, it takes a long, long time to make diamond discoveries, drill it off, get a resource, and then get an evaluation. We're hoping to have skipped over a lot of those really high-risk, early-stage expenditures with the Qilalugaq opportunity. That's the goal, and that's been our main business plan all along. It's really the story that has brought our largest shareholders on board.
Our other very important and active project is called Pikoo and its located in Saskatchewan. It was another property that we acquired as an option from Stornoway, but we have now vested our interest. We own 80% of the interest and Stornoway retains 20%.
Both are participating interests. It was a neat one, because when we rolled North Arrow together, we knew we wanted to conduct the Qilalugaq bulk sample. But that was the spring of 2013, and we knew we weren't going to get the bulk sample collected until 2014. We wanted some other news, and that's where Pikoo stepped in for us. It's in an area in Saskatchewan that Stornoway had identified as being prospective for diamonds.
They'd done a lot of that early-stage work that you do to try and identify targets over a number of years. They'd come up with two very compelling target areas that were ready to drill, but they were focused on building the Renard Diamond Project and raising the financing for that, so they did not have the money to drill test these targets. So, we drilled them and we hit kimberlite in 9 out of 10 holes. Kimberlite is the rock we're looking for that hosts diamonds.
Armstrong: Some of the intercepts weren't very big, less than a meter. But we did find one body of significant size that we called PK 150. It had enough kimberlite to do an initial test for diamonds. On an exploration project like this, the way we test for those diamonds is to submit a sample of kimberlite for microdiamond analysis. That's different from what we'd be doing with a bulk sample. With a bulk sample, we're trying to collect diamonds on a commercial recovery basis.
With a very early-stage exploration, you just try and find any microdiamonds. These are the diamonds that would be much less than a millimeter in size to all the way down to 0.1 millimeters in size. They're tiny, tiny, tiny things, but if they're there, you can plot up the numbers that you recover and determine whether there could be commercial diamonds or not if you were to take a bigger sample.
We announced some initial microdiamond results for Pikoo just over a year ago in November of 2013. The results were really positive for an initial sample. From that 200 kilos, we actually had 745 diamonds in total that were recovered, but that included 23 that were greater than 0.85 millimeters. That's an important cutoff, because basically a diamond that's greater than that size is right around a millimeter, and its right around a millimeter that the diamond starts to have some commercial value. Basically, diamonds that are a millimeter or greater in size are important. So, the fact that those diamonds were there in that small sample is really important.
Armstrong: In 2014 we conducted over 500 additional glacial till samples on the previously under-sampled eastern side of the property. We now have some very clear targets that are separate and distinct from the ones that we drilled in 2013. We're just preparing now for drilling programs starting in February that will test – not only the targets that we already had that Stornoway had identified, but these new targets as well. We think it's very clear that there are additional kimberlites to be discovered there.
We will be doing that in the February to March timeframe, which is the same timeframe we have for completing the bulk sample from Qilalugaq. The first half of 2015 is going to be hugely important for North Arrow. We'll ideally be drilling new kimberlites in Saskatchewan, and then also reporting on our grade from our bulk sample and ultimately getting those diamonds valued. So, it's going to be a really critical key time for the company, but that's the time that could really propel us on to the development track.
EQ: When do you expect the Qilalugaq diamond evaluation to be complete?
Armstrong: The physical evaluation itself only takes a day. Then, there's a report to write, and so forth. So really, we're looking at an April to May timeframe to have an idea on what our valuation might look like. That will really be big news for investors to look for.
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7 Beauties: The Films of Lina Wertmüller
Love and Anarchy
Dir. Lina Wertmüller, Italy, 1973, DCP, 129 min., Italian w/English subtitles
Giancarlo Giannini won the best acting prize at the Cannes
Film Festival for his achingly sensitive portrayal of Tunin, a freckle-faced
innocent who became an accidental anarchist. His contact in Rome is Salomè
(Mariangela Melato), a prostitute with her own sob story. While they prepare
for the assassination, Tunin falls in love with Tripolina (Lina Polito), which
threatens the entire operation. A film of operatic emotion and subversive
comedy, Love and Anarchy is a
powerful statement on the terror of fascism and the ignoble fates of those who
challenge it.
For about the same price as seven individual film admissions, you could purchase a membership and see all Lightbox Film Center presentations FREE for an entire year! Plus, you'll get to enjoy a complimentary Members-only reception on September 2nd between the 5pm and 8pm 7 Beauties screenings. Click here for more information.


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Mechanism of Punctuated Equilibrium
The Misconception About Macromutations
The Misconception About Restricted
The punctuated
equilibrium theory of evolution, in its present state, holds
that living populations show no changes over long periods
of time, but stay in a kind of equilibrium. According to this
viewpoint, evolutionary changes take place in short time frames
and in very restricted populations-that is, the equilibrium
is divided into separate periods or, in other words, "punctuated."
Because the population is very small, large mutations are
chosen by natural selection and thus enable a new species
to emerge.
For instance, according to this theory, a species
of reptile survives for millions of years, undergoing no changes.
But one small group of reptiles somehow leaves this species
and undergoes a series of major mutations, the reason for
which is not made clear. Those mutations which are advantageous
quickly take root in this restricted group. The group evolves
rapidly, and in a short time turns into another species of
reptile, or even a mammal. Because this process happens very
quickly, and in a small population, there are very few fossils
of intermediate forms left behind, or maybe none.
On close examination, this theory was actually
proposed to develop an answer to the question, "How
can one imagine an evolutionary period so rapid as not to
leave any fossils behind it?" Two basic hypotheses
are accepted while developing this answer:
1. that macromutations-wide-ranging mutations
leading to large changes in living creatures' genetic make-up-bring
advantages and produce new genetic information; and
2. that small animal populations have greater
potential for genetic change.
However, both of these hypotheses are clearly
at odds with scientific knowledge.


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One of the issues readers write to me most often about is marketing, and many want recommendations for companies that will do their marketing for them.
My usual thought when receiving these e-mails is that "if you are in the course business, you are in the marketing business, like it or not." As I have argued before, you need to spend at least half your time marketing if you are serious about building an audience and – by extension – growing a successful online course business.
Still, I recognize that response is not very helpful to people who simply do not want to do their own marketing. (Or, who want to do significantly less of their own marketing.)
So, it's worth asking: what parts of marketing can I legitimately offload without risking the success of my business? To answer this question, I find it useful to think in terms of the classic "4 Ps" of marketing: product, placement (distribution), pricing, and promotion. [Read more…]


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Here are the evil verses in the Qu'ran that support my claim: Quran (2:191-193) - "And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [disbelief] is worse than killing...
But if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah] and worship is for Allah alone. But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az-Zalimun (the polytheists, and wrong-doers, etc.)" (Translation is from the Noble Quran) The historical context of this passage is not defensive warfare, since Muhammad and his Muslims had just relocated to Medina and were not under attack by their Meccan adversaries. In fact, the verses urge offensive warfare, in that Muslims are to drive Meccans out of their own city (which they later did). The use of the word "persecution" by some Muslim translators is thus disingenuous (the actual Muslim words for persecution - "idtihad" - and oppression - a variation of "z-l-m" - do not appear in the verse). The actual Arabic comes from "fitna" which can mean disbelief, or the disorder that results from unbelief or temptation. Taken as a whole, the context makes clear that violence is being authorized until "religion is for Allah" - ie. Unbelievers desist in their unbelief.
Quran (2:244) - "Then fight in the cause of Allah, and know that Allah Heareth and knoweth all things."
Quran (2:216) - "Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not." Not only does this verse establish that violence can be virtuous, but it also contradicts the myth that fighting is intended only in self-defense, since the audience was obviously not under attack at the time. From the Hadith, we know that this verse was narrated at a time that Muhammad was actually trying to motivate his people into raiding merchant caravans for loot.
Quran (3:56) - "As to those who reject faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter, nor will they have anyone to help."
Quran (3:151) - "Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers, for that they joined companions with Allah, for which He had sent no authority". This speaks directly of polytheists, yet it also includes Christians, since they believe in the Trinity (ie. What Muhammad incorrectly believed to be 'joining companions to Allah').
Moderate Muslim is a vague and rare rationale descriptive word. Where moderates live are often not by Christians or Kurds. They all live together and live somewhat decent lives. The poorer more religious sects that actually follow the ways of Muhammad and and we are not just talking ISIS here, all groups. From the Islamic State in Algeria and Africa to Boko Haram to ISIL. They follow the actual words and participate in crusades like Muhammad did. The Sharia Laws are the court systems and yes many people love living under ISIS control. Moderates are better than Fundamentalists. They live more Christian like I would say.
In the same way someone can be considered a Christian can be considered one just by believing that God is the only god and that Jesus died and resurrected to save us from our sins you can be considered a Muslim by believing that Allah in the only god and that Mohammed is his prophet(and Ali if you believe he is his successor).If we only consider people that follow the entire book literally true followers without doing crazy interpretations we could only consider people that don't eat pork or birds and stone homosexuals as true Christians.There are indeed a lot of violent verses in the Qu'ran,but so does the Holy Bible,
My friend "outsideyourbox" stated verses which are not complete and are out of context except the one he stated first which is wrongly interpreted. To understand The Holy Quran you need to know a fact about it that it is poetic and not aphoristic(like Hadith). If you know about aphorism then you must know that any statement rings bell even without it's source. Example of aphoristic writer is Oscar Wilde.
Quran (2:190-194)
The context of this verse was when the Muslims were to fight their enemies for their very existence. After thirteen years of endurance and patience, the prophet and his companions had to leave their home town of Makkah and to emigrate to Madinah. When the people of Madinah had welcomed him there and he was accepted as a leader there, the Makkans became unhappy. They wanted to eliminate Muhammad and his religion and so they sent their army to root out Islam. And the crucial battle took place in Badr. It was just before this that Muhammad received the revelation from God to fight:
{And fight in the way of Allah with those who fight with you, and do not exceed the limits, surely Allah does not love those who exceed the limits.} (Al-Baqarah 2:190)
This meant that the Prophet and his companions were not to start the fighting but to defend themselves against aggressors. That was how fighting was ordained but we must know that once we fight, we fight to defeat the aggressors, so that we can live without fear of molestation and invasion so that we can live in peace so that justice is done. Remember God does not command any one to start fighting, rather He permits people to fight in self defence or for the defence of those who are attacked unjustly.
Quran (2:216) Jihad (holy war in the cause of God)
The first mistake is misunderstanding of the the word "Jihad"."Qital" is the word which refers to physical combat in war. Combat is ordained for Muslims in order to defend themselves and their rights, as well as the rights of others. The obligation to physically defend one's rights, and to establish justice is the meaning of Jihad.
It is most certainly a duty of all human beings to help each other from oppression and injustice.
Quran (3:56,3:151) are talking about punishment in the afterlife for unbelievers. If you don't believe in the Islamic account of Hell, not much to worry about, is there?
Yes, Allah will punish in this world and hereafter. But it is nowhere ordering Muslims to go around carrying out a punishment. If you don't believe in Allah, then you should have no problem with this deity casting terror into your hearts, am I right? Again, nowhere is it ordering Muslims to do anything. It's irrelevant to this discussion.
Moderate Muslims DO know about the context, without being Extremists/Radicals.
The five pillars of Islam are The testimony of faith, Prayer, Giving Zakat, Fasting the Month of Ramadan, The Pilgrimage to Makkah. Moderate Muslims as the question says aren't considered muslims at all since you can't be a muslim person if one of the pillars of the religion is dropped or considered as unimportant. It's like a house, once a pillar collapsed it becomes ruins. Nonetheless, each pillar of Isalm have its rules and sets of performing it. For example The annual pilgrimage (Hajj) to Makkah is an obligation once in a lifetime for those who are physically and financially able to perform it... So I actually think, there's no moderate Muslims just Muslims believing in Allah only and Individuals pretending to be Muslims.
Although you may think that some Muslims are not moderate, it might not always be because they chose that way. It's because some Muslims grow up in a society where the religion of Islam is not portrayed correctly and for this reason, many people grow up thinking they are doing the right thing when they're not. We could always be the nice humans we're supposed to, but not everyone is like that. So these people have to go on their own journey of education and enlightenment of their own religion to discover the right path. However, if they choose to continue in the wrong way, then they will be punished because they now know the right thing and they are preferring the wrong over it.


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Abstract and Applied AnalysisVolume 1 (1996), Issue 2, Pages 219-236doi:10.1155/S1085337596000115
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331, OR, USA
Received 20 September 1995
Copyright © 1996 A. Y. Khapalov. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This paper is concerned with the approximate and exact controllability
properties of the wave equation with interior point controls entering
via the concentrated force, the velocity of the displacement and the moment.
The emphasis is given to the moving point controls and their dual
observations whose advantages and disadvantages, versus the static ones,
are analyzed with respect to the space dimension, the duration of the
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- Inexpensive breakfast buffet served in the courtyard
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- Has great views of the surrounding Seine River
- Free Wi-Fi
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- Charming bar and lounge area, and on-site restaurant
- Residential location is far from main attractions
- Nearest metro station is a 15-minute walk
- No shower curtains
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The 71-room Hotel de la Jatte is a quiet, cozy boutique on the residential island of Grande Jatte. Rooms are comfortable and tastefully decorated with rich orange-red walls and dark wood furniture, and have natural accents such as pressed leaves in the nightstands. But the lack of shower door or curtain means that bathroom can get a little wet, and the sparse property features are limited to an honesty bar and a restaurant. The hotel may be somewhat removed Paris' central hub, but Hotel de la Jatte is charming value option, so long as you don't mind the long walks to the metro stations and to main attractions.


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Yesterday, Saturday April 25, 2015, was my 6-month fracture-versary. What did I do?
I spent 30 minutes on a cross-trainer and traveled 1.3 miles.
I walked 40 laps in the 2-4 foot pool (it's not incredibly long).
I spent about half an hour sitting on the beach at White Sands.
I applied for a job.
Six months ago today, I was sitting on my couch with my left leg wrapped in a box cast and ACE wraps, hopped up on pain meds, sweating and miserable. Through the care of my medical team and physical therapists, the support of my friends and family, and my own determination, I'm now walking well-enough to fool the uninitiated and I feel like I can truly start the Hawai'i life that I had originally planned. The thing is, that life is not the same anymore. I have been changed by this experience for the better, and I more fully appreciate the blessings that I have. My ability to be independent has been reinforced, but I learned how to ask for and accept help. My friendships have been refined and honed and expanded by sharing my experiences. The things that I value are different. These elements have combined to form a more authentic fabric of my life for succeeding in Hawai'i. Being close to the people and the land are the most important aspects for life here, I feel, and all other pieces of success will flow from there. I have a new social circle, I'm volunteering for several events, tomorrow is my first "torture" session with a new trainer, and I'll apply for my Hawai'i driver's license once I get my social security card within the next two weeks.
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Happy Thursday everyone! I few weeks ago I've mentioned about something big and important in my life here it is my engagement guys. I know that I've never talked about my love life, I'm very private about that most of the time not always. I've been dating Cristiano for the past 6 years and we decided to get engaged 6 months ago so you all know why I've been so absent lately due, to all the
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Late Brunch....
Hello my fellow readers! I hope you all doing great. Here is just a quick post of what I wore on Saturday, very lay back and casual I feel in love with my Aldo sunglasses its so cute guys, what you think?
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Hello Everyone! How you all doing? I hope you all doing well, its has been a while since, my last post. I've been very busy lately preparing for a big event in my life hopeful you will be able to see. You all must been wondering why my face is looking the way it is, the problem is that the Sun was hurting my eyes so I do those funny faces when I don't feel comfortable with something! As you can see I have been taking a few pics every now and then, but unfortunately is not with a professional camera, is with my Cellphone I hope you are not bothered by that. Nevertheless, on this first outfit I
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Happy Monday guys! A lot of you have already seen this look, for those who did please except my apologies for the previous post, the was so poor I had to remove it. So here is for the second and last time the Bazaar Look 3, I hope you all enjoy it.
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Urgent care has become a booming business in the state's health care industry, and for Advocare, southern New Jersey's largest physician-owned practice, it is the next logical step for growth.
Dr. Howard Orel, a pediatrician and one of Advocare's founders, said that the Marlton-based company will open pediatric and adult urgent care centers in the southern and northern parts of the state, but could not give further details.
"Unfortunately, we're still in the process where contracts haven't been signed yet, so there's a confidentiality aspect to it," Orel said.
According to the website urgentcarelocations.com, the Garden State has 182 urgent care clinics and another 274 walk-in clinics, an increase of more than 50 percent over the past decade. That makes urgent care one of the fastest growing segments of the state's health care industry.
What will differentiate Advocare's urgent care centers from others, Orel said, is its patients will have access to care during off-hours and the centers themselves will be able to access and update the company's electronic health care records.
"The centers will be open in several markets where our practices are located for both pediatric and adult urgent care, and for patients whose needs are greater than we can currently meet in in an office setting but not sufficient for someone to go to the emergency room," Orel said.
"The patients' care providers will have access to their electronic health records, so that the patients' primary care doctor is aware of what is happening almost in real time, so when the primary care doctor comes in to the office in the morning that doctor knows what's happened, and if a follow-up is needed, our offices can be proactive in arranging that," he continued.
Advocare is the second-largest physician-owned, multispecialty practice in New Jersey with 175 offices in New Jersey and another seven in Pennsylvania. Roughly 70 percent of its nearly 600 physicians are in primary care, and the other 30 percent are specialists. It will be celebrating its 20th anniversary next month.
Its physician-owned business model is unique in that it encourages doctors to be entrepreneurs as well.
"We base ourselves on the principal of being owned and governed by physicians," Orel said. "When you're a hospital-employed physician, it's a different model where the hospital dictates all sorts of things. Our physicians believe that doctors provide the best care when they're given some control over their own destiny and are involved in decision making. It's not just medical decisions, but decisions that are crucial to creating a high-quality patient encounter. It's everything from where your offices are to who works in your office. Our physicians are involved in those decisions, so it is truly an entrepreneurial model."
Orel and John Mackler, the company's chief strategy officer, said that the expansion into urgent care fits with the company's philosophy of providing patients with increased accessibility to medical care and its patient-centered model.
In the past six months, Advocare has expanded its extended access program so patients have access to a call center that is owned and staffed by the company and manned by trained nurses.
"In our extended access program, we want to meet people when and where they need health care," Orel said. "Our primary care offices offer very extensive hours. Some of them are not only open at night but on Saturdays and Sundays as well. When our offices are not open, we have advertised a program called Call Us First, where we ask our patients to reach out to us for any of their medical needs whether our offices are open or not.
"Routine calls are handled by nurses who will through nationally certified protocols with patients. Those nurses can give advice over the phone, and they can direct patients back to our offices for care the next day if necessary. They do have physicians backing them up, so if a patient needs a doctor, they are readily available."
In the past year, Advocare expanded its Call Us First program to service all of its pediatric and adult care centers, as well as some of its specialty care centers, Mackler said.
"There was an extensive marketing and education campaign for physicians and patients for this program, and it focused on orienting our patients to patient-centered homes so that they're relying on their primary care doctors," he said. "We now have a total of 45 employees in that department. At any one time, there are 10 individuals available to address patient needs."
The extended access program also fits with Advocare's patient-centered care model, which focuses on delivering tailored health care in a cost-efficient manner, Orel said.
"When someone calls our call centers, if something can be handled in our offices, we will refer them there," he said. "If something needs to be handled in an emergency room, we will refer them to the best possible facility."
Eliminating unnecessary ER visits has made its system more efficient, Orel said.
"So with one of our major health care plans, we saw a year-over-year reduction in our ER visits in the adult population down 9 percent, and in the pediatric population, it went down 11 percent," he said. "So we are not only cutting down on unnecessary costs, we're getting people care at the best possible places, which is hopefully at their primary care practices."


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Started in 1974, Bullseye Glass quickly evolved from a humble stained glass factory in Portland, OR to become one of the most popular manufacturers of colored art glass in the world. Early feedback from glass artists steered Bullseye toward researching ways to produce a wider variety of colors and textures of glass that are compatible with each other. Multiple pieces of glass that are not compatible cannot be fired, fused, or blown together, because the differing coefficients of expansion will introduce structural stress as the piece cools, causing it to crack or shatter entirely.
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Perhaps I need a more inspiring setting. Somewhere with whitecaps and blustery ridges. Or, at least, with a handsome, overgrown garden out back, where the slugs work their way through the mint plant, where we can sit on the bench and gaze through the treetops at a summer (or autumn, or winter, or spring) moon while leaves from the plum tree drop into our wine glasses, and a sunny lounge, shelves overstuffed with books, looking out onto the street, where people cycle past, whistling.
I like the North End; but it's not inspiring in that way. It's the sort of place I'd probably want to live if I had a 9-5 job and a few friends nearby to grab a quick cocktail before Grey's Anatomy. But I am/have none of those things. Give me my garden. Give me my rainy streets, and my slugs, and my little beautiful bowls of compost scattered about the kitchen, and my piles and piles of books, and I shall write you a story.
But now when I step outside all I see are the skinny North End girls walking their dogs; the old Italian ladies arguing in their floral-print housecoats; men hosing down the sidewalk in front of their restaurants, boys in pants that don't fit with cell phones plastered to their faces. I smell pizza, and cannolis. It's a pleasant enough atmosphere, and of all the places I've lived in Boston I really do like it best here; but it's not the same. It doesn't do for me what I think I need my home to do. And I can breath a sigh of relief when I come inside and fix a cup of tea and curl up in my chair, but the relief is only temporary. My stories are stifled here. There's no room for story when everyone keeps time to the beat of the 9-5 woman's heels, and makes sure to be home in time for Monday football (of the American variety). There's only room for daydreaming.
I like my Laundromat, though. It smells good, and I can sit crosslegged at the table in the center of the room and wait for my clothes to be spun and cleaned and watch everyone else moving around me. I liked that it smelled like Fall today. The air had that feeling. It's something so subtle—like a texture, something you both see and feel. I know it's silly to say, but you can just feel the cold creeping in, coming up over the curve of the earth. You breath, and there are little diamonds of winter, sharp and cool, in the air that was—just yesterday, you think!—warm and hazy.