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A student whose attendance at the University is interrupted is required to apply for re-admission. You are considered a returning student if you have enrolled at another institution without prior written approval or failed to enroll in at least one Embry-Riddle course within a two calendar-year period. Students who have been suspended from the University and are seeking re-admission must submit an application to the Office of the Registrar after completing requirements stated in the Criteria for Readmissions page included with the suspension letter.
While an essay is not required for admission, it may help us to assess your qualifications. You may include an essay when you submit your application package.
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The Best Christmas Gift For Your Youth Group
Jesus. The answer is always Jesus. You should know that by now!
Well, maybe the answer isn't that simple.
Christmas is in full swing! Trees are being decorated, carols are being carol-ed, travel arrangements are being made, and storefronts are packed! It's the most wonderful time of the year and we love it! We can all agree that people are just joyful and giving this time of year.
With all this Christmas joy being thrown around, I began thinking about how I might be able to bring this attitude of giving into our youth ministry. I began to ask, "What's the best gift for our youth ministry this Christmas?" After thinking this over for a while, I've come to the shocking realization that maybe the answer isn't Jesus after all.
Take for example Matthew 4:18-20 when Jesus calls his first disciples. Jesus didn't approach these fishermen and simply hand them a Gospel tract. He didn't say: Hey guys, I'm God's Son, and then drop the mic and leave. Jesus offered these men His presence. He offered them a relationship, and it was through this unique and special years-long relationship that God did great things!
Don't get me wrong. Jesus is the greatest gift of all and the reason for the season, but nothing could have happened without relationships. What our students need this year is not more information, but your presence. So, be available, be willing, be present. It's what Jesus did, and it's the best thing you can give to your youth group this Christmas.
So seriously, make a phone call, send a text, schedule a one on one and tell your leaders to do the same. If you do give a gift to your youth this Christmas, do it in person. Remember, one of the biggest ways that God shows his love to us is through his presence. It's why Jesus is Emmanuel - God with us.
If your presence isn't enough for your giving heart, then here's a few alternatives to those cheesy youth-group Christmas gift ideas found all over the internet…
- Extra T-Shirts From Your Ministry: Who doesn't love a free youth-branded t-shirt?
- Music: Gift some of your favorite songs from the past year, perhaps in the form of an iTunes gift card.
- Books: On Guard For Students by William Lane Craig, Wondrous Pursuit by Jarrid Wilson, and Love Does by Bob Goff are a few favorites! (My latest book, Wake Up, is also available on the Kindle store!)
- Something Personal: Who wouldn't love something meaningful and personal from their role model?
- Xorbee: Stay tuned for our giveaway for a chance to win one of your own!
By Scott Statson
YGC Content Contributor
& Pastor of Student Ministries at Trinity Church


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The concept of company mission statements and their relevance are as polarizing a debate as any in the annals of management science. Some argue that a company's mission gives its purpose and establishes a framework for formulating a corporate strategy.
For decades, business users were able to analyze small sets of data independently using off-the-shelf tools like Microsoft Excel. Business users and technical non-IT personnel were able to perform a variety of tasks to extract value
Business Intelligence (BI) represents the collection of tools and technologies used to transform raw data into useful insights. BI and related analytics is one of the fastest growing industries with Gartner estimating the market to grow to $22.8bn by 20201.
On July 11 2016, President Obama became the first sitting president to publish an article in JAMA, the distinguished Journal of the American Medical Association. Even though...
Market access teams perform the critical task of articulating a drug's value proposition to key payer decision-makers. Historically, that has meant MSLs, payer marketers, HEOR professionals...
MedPAC is going full Bulworth! Last month, the pharma and physician communities reacted with a collective gasp when MedPAC announced...
The Internets were ablaze earlier this week as Reuters broke the news that Anthem is looking for a way to end their long-term pharmacy benefit agreement with Express Scripts (ESI). Given the strategic importance of the Anthem business to Express Scripts (14% of ESI revenue), this was for once, a development with implications to match the headlines.
Pay-for-Performance (P4P) contracts have long been thought of as an effective way to address the disconnect between high drug prices and sub-optimal patient outcomes.
This is a follow-up to our last post about the affordability of specialty drugs within the Medicare Part D population. First, a quick review:
- Nearly half of Medicare recipients have annual incomes less than $24,150 and a full quarter of the recipients have annual incomes lower than $14,350
Since its inception, Medicare Part D has been a boon to seniors with a 2015 Medicare Today national survey showing that 89% of seniors are satisfied with their Part D drug coverage. In the same survey, 71% of seniors say they derive a great deal of peace of mind from their prescription drug coverage.
Express Scripts just fired the next shot across the bow in its much-publicized quest to control prescription drug costs. Beginning 2016, ESI is launching the SafeGuardRx℠ program, marketed as a "collection of novel solutions that will transform the pharmacy benefi
The last few weeks have seen a drip-drip-drip of news headlines about the rising prescription drug costs in the US. The New York Times just reported that federal prosecutors are investigating Valeant pharma for drug pricing practices.
Anthem's recently proposed purchase of Cigna is expected to create the largest health insurance company in the US. If the transaction goes through, it will cap a dramatic episode in the continuing consolidation of the payer market.
Even the most ardent advocate for a single-payer system in the US would not have seen this convoluted path to get there: the rapid consolidation of the health insurance industry. Just in the last few weeks, there has been news about three major potential acquisitions: Aetna-Humana, Wellpoint-Cigna, and Centene-HealthNet.
Any moment now, the supreme court will rule on a case that challenges the legality of subsidies granted to eligible low and middle-income populations buying insurance through the federal health exchange. The Kaiser Family Foundation's analysis of the case's impact paints a stark picture of what's at stake.
Research has shown that a 1% loss in net price can lead to a >5% decrease in operating profits. With the ever-increasing payer pressure for higher rebates, price protection, and other forms of concessions managed markets teams need to adopt best practices to minimize revenue leakage from unintended contracting events.
At Stotle, we often work with brands that have a large number of managed care contracts. These brands invest substantial Gross-To-Net dollars to secure the appropriate formulary access.
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Chipotle Olive Tapenade
Allspice Cafe
Crafted By: JD Cowles & John Lesko
Having created award-winning sauces since 2006, All Spice Cafe has taken their Abbot Kinney neighborhood by storm. Their Chipotle-Kalamata Olive Tapenade exemplifies their approach to spice for flavor not necessary for heat. A classic mixture of olives, capers, garlic, and rosemary are made modern with a kick of chipotle and is ideal in scrambled eggs and with red meats or in compound butters and vinaigrettes.
Drunken Monkey Jam
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Crafted By: Jessica Quon & Sabrina Valle
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The Jam Stand is Brooklyn's happiest food company and started by two friends driven to push the limits of what packaged food can be by combining unique flavors. Using only the freshest fruit sourced from local farms their products have an imaginative personality and meticulous detail. The Drunken Monkey Jam is created with sugar-coated bananas, a splash of rum, and a squeeze of lime. Perfectly sweet with an undercurrent of tart notes, the jam compliments pancakes, jamaican jerk flavors, or even in cocktails.
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...that all you ever wanted to do with your life was create music? Like a lot of my friends and collegues and maybe even you, I was unsure of what I wanted to do for the rest of my life at one point - this is how I got my answer...
Music heads, interviewers, friends, family and usually clients will eventually ask how long you've been a professional doing what you do and I rarely have an answer that I'm satisfied with as the truth. My official answer as a music producer is since I went to University in 2011, or sometimes when I studied music in college in 2009 but I was making music way way way before either of these dates. I've always taken my musical ability, like most creative people, for granted. It was never something I considered myself passionate about - just something I was able to do well and enjoyed doing.
The first thing one of my mentors (Raj Kotecha) ever asks anyone who doesn't know what they are passionate about is "what is your 4am subject." A simple concept question put to anyone who doesn't know what they are passionate about... what can you tell me about in depth at 4am? Why 4.. well, 3am - you're probably leaving a club... 5am - you're waking up early so that's cheating but 4am?! Ha... good luck talking about something you're not interested in at 4am.
I never understood the power of the question until my first year at University.
On the first day we were given access to the smallest studios in the building it felt like Chistmas. Myself and my friend George stared at an empty booking screen as our successful introduction to the smaller consoles and miking techniques drew to a close. George looked at me and asked if we should do an all nighter... what..? Spend all night in a freezing room with the A/C too low, no food, no change of clothes, in front of thousands of pounds worth of equipment I can barely use yet and then go to lectures first thing in the morning?! Sure, why not. We hesitantly booked out two studios all night and fell in love with the experience.
Fast forward a few more weeks in and by this time we'd passed our studio exam and were now allowed to record within the studios for our production 1 assignments. Myself and George had teamed up to do our seperate projects together using each other as assistants. George being a very able drummer not only player the role of engineer but musician as well. Our first couple of sessions went horribly as we got to grips with recording drums with elaborate mic set ups, technical misunderstandings and generally being newbys at the whole process. If I recal correctly it took us 60 hours of recording to nail George's track and that was just the drums.
I'm sure none of this strikes you as something that'd inspire passion but wait for it...
I'd chosen to do a live cover of I'm On One - Drake for my assignment which was insanely complex and we had a lot of trouble getting the drums right. By the time I'd got around to my project I'd been drum tracking every night for 3 weeks with very little sleep and we'd barely made a start on my assignment. Half way though the second week I'd fallen fairly ill and it was getting worse, I had been assisting other assignments and making no progress on my own, I was tired and hadn't eaten a proper meal for over a 2 weeks and all I had in my system for the most part was a litre of Boost energy drink and a weird tasting tesco sandwhich or worse... a pasta with a yellow reduced label over the packaging. I'd go from afternoon lectures filled with electronics and math or physics straight into the studio until early morning, rest for 2 or 3 hours and then repeat. It finally caught up to me HARD.
I made the decision to come home on Wednesday night after countless nights of recording. The minute I stepped into my bedroom everything hit me. My mind turned off auto pilot, my legs ached and my knees felt as though a knife was lodged in the socket, my body had been ignoring its pain up until now and on tops of this sleep deprivation had gotten too much for me to handle. I didn't know what to react to first, all I remember doing is bursting into tears; physically I'd never felt more run down and my mind had not been more worn.
I should have rested. A regular person would have called in sick at 20% of this - that much I was sure of. I was happy to be home until the realisation set in and a reminder went off on my phone. Studio: TASCAM booked at 3AM – 8AM. Prior to leaving the studio I'd left George and another friend of mine, Camillo (a student from Italy), to record drums for another track. We were going to do mine in another studio at 3 and I'd forgotten.
Initially I refused to go back – I felt like a poorly 6 year old who didn't want to go to school. I could feel my muscles refusing the thought of it – I despised the idea of even standing up though my headache.
But after a short conversation with my mother we decided that I'd rest for an hour, she'd wake me up and drive me to the studio where I'd continue. This is where I realised I would be making music for the rest of my life. I didn't disagree. This was my 4am. Despite everything telling me no. How weak I was and how much pain I was in there was a very strong but extremely powerful part of my mind reminding me that I want this. I wanted it so badly it'd hurt more not to be in that studio. I think my Mum knew that way before I did. That's when I knew this is what I'd be doing for the rest of my life...
If I was going to give anyone any advice - especially the people going to Uni this year with no idea what they'll do after - from my own experience, just do what you love. You won't be worrying about money when you're just fulfilled with your day to day tasks. And if you don't know what you love then answer the question - if you were asked to do talk about something at 4am - and do it - what would it be?
If you've got a similar story to mine I'd love to hear it; or any tips on how to discover what you're truly meant to be doing. Just comment below...
P.s. on a side note – I have the most supportive parents in the world. They perhaps do not understand what it is I do and that's fine with me because some days neither do I but they'll make sure I'm pushing myself as hard as it goes no matter what I am doing. Thank you Mum and Dad if you're reading this.


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What We Do
Greater Ohio Policy Center endeavors to turn our state's abundant supply of water, perhaps its greatest natural asset, into a comparative advantage by equipping our water and sewer systems with the best and most innovative financing options while also exploring the benefits of "green" approaches to storm water control.
Assessing the Water/Sewer Infrastructure of Ohio's Cities
Like many places in the country, Ohio's cities have fallen behind in making needed investments in water and sewer infrastructure. Many districts have made nominal investments while some, for various reasons, have opted to delay addressing these challenges altogether. However, further postponing this infrastructure repair will only compound current problems. Greater Ohio Policy Center documents the many challenges facing Ohio's cities and smaller communities as they prepare to upgrade water and sewer systems. Read more here.
Providing Policy Solutions to Strengthen Ohio's Infrastructure
GOPC has developed recommendations for new financing programs to help address unmet infrastructure and redevelopment needs in both large and small cities and communities. Aging infrastructure poses a threat to human health and the overall quality of life, but also creates an opportunity for new creative strategies. Approaches to water infrastructure are changing rapidly, with "green" alternatives to traditional storm water capture and filtration becoming more commonplace and cities exploring how to reuse vacant or abandoned property for this purpose. New technologies are making it possible to generate electricity from wastewater treatment so utilities can lower costs. GOPC advocates for policy changes that will create these options for communities and in ways that are not financially burdensome. Read more here.
Water Infrastructure in Small Communities
Thousands of local governments provide drinking water and wastewater services in Ohio. These systems, especially in villages and small towns, are finding it increasingly difficult to meet financial and technical requirements. GOPC is working with a coalition of organizations in the Small Communities Environmental Infrastructure Group to educate local governments about the value of partnering and using shared services to lower costs and achieve economies of scale. To learn more,
Recent Publications
Strengthening Ohio's Water Infrastructure:
Financing and Policy
GOPC explores how state leadership can promote new ways of doing business in the water utility sector that can increase long-run financial sustainability.
Green Infrastructure for Stormwater Control Memo
Greater Ohio Policy Center is conducting research and analysis to develop solutions to modernize Ohio's aging water and sewer infrastructure in a manner affordable to Ohio cities.
An Assessment of Ohio Cities' Water and Sewer Infrastructure
GOPC Report assesses infrastructure challenges facing communities and discusses opportunities for upgrades.
Additional Resources
Greater Ohio Summit 2017 - Water Infrastructure Presentations
Lead in Water Supply Pipes
The chain of events leading to the crisis in Flint, MI
Flint Water Advisory Task Force Final Report
Elevated lead levels in Sebring, OH
The dangers of lead poisoning and EPA guidance on lead levels
Water Quality in Lake Erie
Toxic algae and Toledo's water crisis of August, 2014
Ohio, Michigan, and Ontario sign an accord to lower phosphorous levels in the lake by 40 percent
Combined Sewer Overflows
Toledo: Department of Justice, Waterworld
Columbus: Clintonville rain gardens
Columbus: Water management plan


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Stefan Scheiber will become the new CEO of Bühler effective July 1, 2016
Uzwil (Switzerland), July 9, 2015 – On July 1, 2016 Stefan Scheiber will succeed Calvin Grieder as the CEO of Bühler. Calvin Grieder, who has successfully held this office for 15 years, will then focus on his role as Chairman of the Board.
Stefan Scheiber, highly qualified and internationally experienced, will succeed the long-standing CEO Calvin Grieder. Scheiber (49) has been working for Bühler since 1988. In the course of his 25-year career with Bühler, he has headed various sales and production organizations in Kenya, South Africa and Germany, living and working some 15 years abroad. In 2005 he was appointed Head of the Sales and Service Division, thus becoming a member of the Executive Board of Bühler. In 2009 he took charge of the Food Processing Division and in 2014 of the entire Grains & Food business of Bühler.
Calvin Grieder will transfer his CEO duties to Stefan Scheiber on July 1, 2016 after successfully holding this position during 15 years. Grieder has also acted as Chairman of the Board of Bühler since 2014 and will retain this position. The Board of Directors welcomes this early succession planning for the top executive level of the Group. This will ensure that the long-term corporate strategy is continued, which aims at ensuring the profitable growth of the Group. This continuity has characterized Bühler for many decades.
The succession planning for Stefan Scheiber as CEO of the Grains & Food business is already in progress.


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These might be my favourite sugar cookies to date! Not only are they super simple to make - hello limited to no piping! They are also a total show stopper if I do say so myself. I was scrolling through Pinterest the other day when I came across prints with a marble background and gold sayings, and I just knew I had to turn them into a cookie. If you are short on time or are still new to cookie decorating these sugar cookies can be made even simpler by leaving off the gold sayings. I love that each cookie is unique - just like marble!
I put together a short video to show you the process of making these marble sugar cookies - which I have shared below. The video shows a step by step process on how I made these marble sugar cookies. I had a lot of fun putting it together and I hope you enjoy it!


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I stumbled across this recipe while trying to figure out how to use up some remaining kale that I had in the refrigerator. Admittedly, the end result kind of looks like a bowl of cooked spinach but these chips will definitely be replacing anything I had previously purchased at the store. They are absolutely delicious!
2 cups Kale
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 teaspoons sea salt
Preheat over to 300 degrees. Tear kale into bite sized pieces, removing stems. Toss with olive oil and sea salt. Place on cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake in over for approximately 20 minutes or until crisp.
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Tom Cruise is 'honoured' to be Irish
Actor Tom Cruise has said he is 'honoured' after he received a certificate to mark his Irish roots after researchers discovered one of his ancestors restored evicted tenants to lands just before the famine.
Patrick Russell Cruise, his great-great-great grandfather, returned from America to Ireland after his land agent forced families from farms in Co Westmeath in 1843.
Cruise was in Dublin for the premiere of his latest blockbuster Oblivion at the Savoy cinema, engagements with the Irish Film Board, a pre-recorded Late Late Show interview and a visit to the Guinness brewery.
The star said: "It's a great honour for me and for my whole family - I can't wait to bring it back to them and enlighten them on their history.
"I'm very proud to be Irish. There's a pride in America of being Irish. I can't wait to come back and I want to visit the land of my ancestors and the castle that they had."
Barack Obama has also previously celebrated his own Irish roots, enjoying a pint of Guinness on St Patrick's Day.


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Michael Beasley's career with the Heat is nothing but a footnote to the dynasty the team assembled in the summer of 2010. Drafted second overall by the Heat in 2008, Beasley was quickly traded away in order to make room for LeBron James and Chris Bosh.
Well, Beasley is coming back. According to the Miami Herald, he's signed a one-year, no-guarantee contract with the Heat.
At one point, the team hoped Beasley would develop into a natural sidekick and eventual successor to Dwyane Wade. Instead, he just smoked a lot of pot. Seriously, Timberwolves general manager David Kahn, of the team Beasley was traded too, said Beasley failed in Miami because he "smoked too much pot."
Beasley's most embarrassing moment with the Heat came in 2009 when he tweeted out a photo of his, uh, interesting "Super Cool Beas" back tattoo with what seemed like a baggie of pot in the background. The Heat sent him to rehab after the incident.
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It didn't seem to work. He was arrested for marijuana possession in Arizona on August 6 and promptly dropped by the Phoenix Suns.
Pundits are still split on whether Beasley's off-court issues are hampering his natural talent, or whether he's a mediocre player at best who should have never been drafted second in the first place.
Here's hoping a chance to help LeBron, Wade, and Bosh to another championship will finally convince him to put down the bong for a bit and prove his critics wrong.
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SANFORD — They have very different styles: Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda is fiery, dramatic and aggressive. Defense attorney Mark O'Mara is calm, laid-back and thoughtful.
On Monday, they will go head-to-head, de la Rionda trying to convict George Zimmerman of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, O'Mara trying to win his acquittal.
For each, it is the biggest case of his career.
De la Rionda has said little to reporters, but during hearings and jury selection, he has made clear his passion.
"We are to seek justice, to present evidence of wrongdoing," he told 40 prospective jurors Wednesday.
O'Mara has been far more visible, vocal and in recent months more confident. He has begun to predict victory.
"This case will fall," he said Thursday, "on the fact that the state cannot convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt with their evidence that a crime was committed by my client."
The two attorneys were collegial during the two weeks of jury selection, but earlier, their criticism of each other turned bitter.
De la Rionda has repeatedly accused O'Mara of grandstanding and playing to the media. O'Mara has accused the prosecutor of failing to turn over key information in the case, including that the state's most important witness lied under oath.
De la Rionda
De la Rionda will put on his case first. On Monday, that will begin with an opening statement.
The 56-year-old has spent his entire career as a prosecutor. He became a lawyer in 1983, the same year he went to work at the State Attorney's Office in the Fourth Judicial Circuit, which is headquartered in Jacksonville, a job he has never left.
Attorneys in Jacksonville are reluctant to talk publicly about de la Rionda, saying they fear retribution from the State Attorney's Office there. A former co-worker describes him as "very tough" and "overly aggressive," especially in death-penalty cases.
"He is an extremely hardworking attorney," said the former co-worker. "He'd work 24 hours a day if it's necessary."
De la Rionda has handled more than 250 jury trials, according to his office — 68 of them murder cases — and has sent 29 people to death row.
He is the office's No. 2 employee, serving as senior managing director and second only to elected State Attorney Angela Corey, the special prosecutor in the Zimmerman case appointed by Gov. Rick Scott.
To Orlando-area attorneys, though, he is an unknown.
Bill Sheaffer, legal analyst for WFTV-Channel 9, has watched de la Rionda during Zimmerman's jury selection and at earlier hearings in the case.
"He's certainly passionate," Sheaffer said. "He's fiery. … That fire just is always below the surface, and at any given moment, it can erupt."
On Day 4 of jury selection, de la Rionda spent more than an hour grilling a man who described Zimmerman as a conscientious neighbor who was trying to do the right thing. The man had donated $20 to Zimmerman's legal-defense fund but told the increasingly hostile prosecutor that he could be a fair juror.
You gave money to George Zimmerman's legal-defense fund and you believe you can be fair? de la Rionda barked.
"Lower your voice," Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson instructed. That prospective juror was not chosen.
But de la Rionda also was upbeat at times in jury selection, bouncing on his feet, laughing and joking.
"Generally speaking, prosecutors seem to be more stoic with the jury than do defense attorneys," said Orlando defense attorney Lyle Mazin, but de la Rionda "did a good job of trying to be lighthearted with the jury."
During an exchange with a nervous prospective juror who had never received a juror summons before, de la Rionda tried to draw her out. How has it been? he asked.
"It's been spectacular," she said dryly.
O'Mara's tone in jury selection Thursday bordered on professorial: It was much like a civics lesson, followed by long discussions of several of the jury instructions relevant to the case.
After he explained that jurors should listen critically to witnesses and consider their possible biases in evaluating testimony, one woman — B-51 — said she was grateful.
"It's good to know that, because I didn't know that," said the woman, who was chosen as a member of the jury.
Before Thursday, "in 35 years, I've never heard a juror thank either the prosecution or the defense for asking the questions and explaining the concepts," Sheaffer said.
O'Mara, 57, graduated from Florida State University College of Law in 1982 and spent two years as a prosecutor for the Seminole County State Attorney's Office before entering private practice.
A past president of the Seminole County Bar Association, he operates a practice that handles a wide range of cases, from family law to death-penalty murders.
He has experience with high-profile cases, including the 2001 trial of serial killer Frederick Peter Cox, whom he represented with current co-counsel Don West.
Dean Reed, a Longwood defense attorney and former prosecutor who has opposed O'Mara in the past, called him "a pretty laid-back-type guy ... kind of like a country lawyer."
That mentality was on display as O'Mara addressed the jurors as a group Thursday. He wanted to be sure they would forgive his manners if he pointed at them during questioning, "though my mother, rest her soul, would not be happy with this."
O'Mara's tenor in the case so far matches his reputation, members of the local legal community say.
Going forward, "I think he's going to be very hard to fluster," said Orlando defense attorney Diana Tennis. "I don't know that I could come up with a more calm, collected, unflappable legal duo than Mark O'Mara and Don West."
O'Mara, she continued, "is a Zen kind of guy."
How to start?
Jurors will hear opening statements Monday from de la Rionda and West. After that prosecutors will start presenting testimony and evidence. How will they begin?
Central Florida defense attorneys had different opinions:
Mazin expects the first witness to be a law-enforcement officer giving a general overview of the facts: "There's no one piece of evidence; there's no 'gotcha' moment that the state's going to have here."
Tennis said the same: "I would expect either the lead detective or 911 operators." Prosecutors usually try to tell a story chronologically "in a narrative, because that's the easiest for people to understand."
Reed said Trayvon's mother, Sybrina Fulton, "would probably be the first person you'd put on, because you always want to start strong and end strong. ... The victim cannot speak for himself. She will speak for that victim."
Sheaffer said there's only one choice: "the 911 call" that recorded screams and the fatal gunshot. "Does that not set the stage? Is that not like cold water in your face? ... The screaming and then the shot and then the silence."
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Episode 102: Bacon, Lettuce, Tomatoes, and Pride
John got a check in the mail for services rendered...in the future. Ed is escorting a kangaroo...with a human face. In this very spooky episode, Ed and John discuss a late-night encounter at the convenience store, when the seventies actually ended, how much patron food assembly is permissible at a restaurant, and the maximum allowable variation from the canonical BLT. Follow links to The Pond House Café, The New Deal Café, and We Want Plates.


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Top Cloud Hosting Companies for WordPress in 2017
The choice of who to host your website with can sometimes be a difficult one to make because there are so many to choose from. Then, you add in the fact that not only do you have to choose a company, but you have to figure out which type of web hosting your site needs, and it's like, "Just give me whichever is the cheapest and fastest!"
Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but you get my point. There are a lot of choices to make when it comes to web hosting and one wrong turn could do serious damage to your site's performance and credibility. If I can be of any help at all here, I'd like to suggest that cloud hosting is one of the safer choices you could make for your site's ensured longevity.
Let's take a look at what makes cloud hosting different from the alternatives and get a closer look at some of the top cloud hosting companies available in 2017.
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What is Cloud Hosting?
In order to understand what makes cloud hosting so different, it's important to understand how web hosting works in the first place. Think about it like an apartment rental:
Shared Hosting
Shared hosting would be like if you rented apartment 506. It's small, affordable, and feels safe enough. The only problem you have is that you have to share amenities: the laundry room, the gym, and even the bathroom. That's why whenever you see a new moving truck parked outside, you cross your fingers and hope they're moving into that vacant apartment on the fourth floor. You don't want to have to fight more people for access to your apartment's resources.
Dedicated Hosting
On the other end of the spectrum is dedicated hosting. This is like if you rented apartment 1200, which also happened to be the penthouse suite that occupied the entire twelfth floor. Luxurious, expensive, and allllll yours.
Cloud Hosting
Now, somewhere in between those two options is cloud hosting, which basically takes the physical restraints of the apartment building out of the equation. It would be like if you had a job that required you to travel so much that your company just paid for you to live out of hotels. Sure, you'd be jumping from new home to new home every few days or weeks, but everything else would be taken care of for you: space, security, amenities, furnishings, etc.
Cloud hosting has actually proven to be quite beneficial to websites for a number of reasons:
- There's less of a chance of downtime since your site draws upon resources from a cluster, or network, of servers instead of just one. The inherent failover/redundancy of this type of hosting makes it one of the most reliable.
- There's also less of a chance of diminished speed or performance due to peaks in bandwidth—from your site or from neighboring ones that share server space. Other servers in the cloud network will pick up the slack.
- Since the amount of resources you consume with cloud hosting depends on what you actually use, it happens to be a good option for scaling because of how flexible it is.
The only real drawback to cloud hosting is the expense aspect. While it generally isn't as expensive as dedicated server hosting, it can still cost you a pretty penny if you don't know how much server capacity or resources your site will need. Unexpected spikes in traffic could end up being very costly, so if you're not quite sure what sort of traffic to expect with your site, cloud hosting might not be the best option at this time.
That being said, you do need server space to run your website from. If you've chosen to go with self-hosted WordPress, and you're thinking that cloud hosting is right for you, then it's time to find a provider.
Cloud Hosting Companies for WordPress
No matter how great the idea of cloud hosting seems, the quality of hosting will only be as good as the provider you choose to work with—and not all cloud hosting providers are made equal. You need a web hosting company that's known for providing reliable, secure, and fast cloud hosting, and you also need a plan that fits within your budget.
Not sure where to start? Here are the top cloud hosting companies for WordPress in 2017.
- Pricing: SiteGround's cloud hosting plans are fully managed, include 24/7 support, and come with email, free domain registration, Apache, MYSQL, SSH Access, and more. Pricing is all-inclusive and ranges from $80 to $240 a month if you select one of the plans as is. They also allow for CPU, memory, and SSD customization.
- Infrastructure: SiteGround's network is spread across five locations: Chicago, London, Amsterdam, Milan, and Singapore. Each data center is protected by 24/7 security, redundant electricity, and daily backups. In addition, each data center has speed-boosting technology built in, including SSD drives, NGINX web server technology, a proprietary caching mechanism, and HTTP/2-enabled servers.
- Uptime: SiteGround has a 99.99% uptime guarantee. Each plan also includes a free CloudFlare CDN upgrade, use of SiteGround's own backup system, as well as the customer's choice of which data centers to host their site from for improved geographic accessibility.
- Flexibility: SiteGround equips customers with a number of options for scaling their site with cloud hosting. They can use the standard plan customizer tool to scale resources up or down as needed. They can also set resources to automatically scale, so that, in the case of an unexpected traffic spike, SiteGround takes care of it.
- Pricing: Kinsta's managed cloud hosting is on the pricier side of things, but that's because you're working with Google cloud infrastructure and a fully managed platform. The cheapest plan available starts at $100 a month and covers you for one website. Pricing goes up incrementally based on how many websites you intend to run from the cloud as well as any additional bandwidth or storage needed. The most expensive plan on their site is advertised at $1,500 a month and that's really only meant for really large websites or for developers managing a large network of sites.
- Infrastructure: Kinsta is powered solely by Google cloud infrastructure, so you know that the network is reliable. They have five data centers around the globe, three of which customers can choose to primarily run their websites from. In addition to providing fully managed cloud hosting, Kinsta also offers daily backups, 24/7 monitoring of your website, a free SSL certificate, and more than enough security to keep your site(s) covered, including a hardware firewall, malware scanning, and regular system updates.
- Uptime: Kinsta's cloud hosting plans come with a 99.9% uptime guarantee. So even if they receive the average five billion HTTP server hits every month, your site shouldn't be affected. They also offer a support service guarantee, provided by their in-house WordPress development expert team.
- Flexibility: As this is managed cloud hosting, much of the backend management of the server and monitoring of the site is taken off of your hands. This means more time for customization. Kinsta provides developers with plenty of tools to do this, including professional monitoring tools, DNS record management, and server-level caching.
A2 Hosting
- Pricing: There are three plans available, depending on the amount of RAM and HDD storage you need. Pricing ranges from $15 to $25 per month, to start. All plans come with an anytime money-back guarantee.
- Infrastructure: A2 Hosting owns and wholly manages their network of redundant, secure, and closely regulated servers, spread out across three locations in Michigan, Amsterdam, and Singapore.
- Uptime: A2 Hosting promises a 99.9% uptime guarantee and offers free high availability failover on all their plans, so that your site is always backed up across multiple nodes in case of total loss.
- Flexibility: Although there are three cloud hosting plans available to start, each is completely customizable in terms of memory, CPU cores, CPU speed, and HDD/SSD. (Interesting note: the SSD upgrade claims to improve site speed by up to 300%.) Of course, changing their pre-set plans comes with additional costs, but the option is available nonetheless.
- Pricing: Being a strictly cloud hosting company, this means that DigitalOcean has a more comprehensive plan and pricing structure than most other companies. For instance, they break their pricing out into two categories: standard and high memory. Standard cloud hosting can run a customer anywhere from $5 to $640 a month. High memory hosting ranges from $120 to $1,680 per month.
- Infrastructure: DigitalOcean has servers located in New York City, San Francisco, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bangalore, and Singapore. Each server comes with enterprise-grade SSD, 40GbE network connectivity, and enterprise-grade KVM hypervisors for optimum performance.
- Uptime: 99.99% uptime is the promise, and DigitalOcean relies on its data replication process, failover IPs, and redundant hypervisor connections to keep customers' sites up and running.
- Flexibility: DigitalOcean refers to its customers' reserved cloud hosting space as "droplets", but offers a variety of ways they can be enhanced and scaled per their customers' needs. This includes attaching an SSD block storage to the droplet or adding a load balancer.
Liquid Web
- Pricing: There's only one plan available for Cloud Sites, the cloud hosting solution from Liquid Web, and it costs $150 per month. However, that includes an unlimited amount of sites, visitors, 50 GB of SSD storage, and 1 TB of bandwidth. So, for anyone managing a large network of sites or just one really large and popular site, this is a good option to consider.
- Infrastructure: Liquid Web owns and manages their three data centers in Michigan. They also have data centers located in Texas, Arizona, and Amsterdam. Each data center offers tier-1 bandwidth, redundant power and cooling, and security on-site.
- Uptime: With a 100% guaranteed uptime and a one-minute response time to any customer issue, Liquid Web is on top of the situation at all times. They offer built-in redundancy, geographic failover, as well as Guardian Backup and Recovery services for all customers.
- Flexibility: For the most part, the Liquid Web Cloud Sites plan is fully managed so that customers don't have to worry about monitoring their sites, adjusting for usage, or scaling. All of that is built into the plan, so that adjustments are made automatically.
- Pricing: Because Cloudways is a managed cloud hosting company, pricing will be higher than you'd be able to get if you went with a traditional cloud hosting solution. And while they do advertise that customers can choose whichever cloud infrastructure provider they want, each option comes with different pricing. For example, DigitalOcean hosting starts at $7 a month, Vultr at $11, Kyup at $21.11, Google at $34.17, and Amazon at $36.04.
- Infrastructure: The actual infrastructure that your site runs on does not come from Cloudways. It will be provided by one of their five infrastructure providers (see Pricing notes above). In total, their network consists of 25 data centers around the world. In addition, Cloudways does tout performance-enhancing caching tools powered by their Thunderstack. So while uptime can't be guaranteed, fast page load times are.
- Uptime: Since Cloudways is a sort of liaison to other cloud hosting providers, they cannot provide an uptime guarantee. Be sure to read the fine print from your chosen infrastructure provider when doing your research on them. (DigitalOcean is on this list, so you can find out those details down below.)
- Flexibility: If there's one thing that makes Cloudways a better option than the rest, it's the scalability and ease of use in their platform. They've also included Git workflows and project management resources for WordPress professionals that want more integration with external resources that help them work better.
- Pricing: When compared to the other managed cloud hosting providers on this list (i.e. Cloudways and Kinsta), pricing for Flywheel's hosting plans is pretty reasonable. To run a single website on Flywheel's cloud servers, you can expect to pay between $15 and $75 a month. For agencies and developers managing more websites, 10 will run you $100 and 30 will cost $250 a month.
- Infrastructure: There isn't a lot of information provided by Flywheel on the state of their data centers, but they do let customers know that they have 10 of them scattered around the world; four are in the U.S. and the remaining are located in Canada, Asia, and Europe. Customers can choose which center they want their site to run from. Flywheel is also powered by MaxCDN so customers can be assured that their site will run fast regardless of where their main data center's base of operations is located. In terms of support and security, this is a platform built specifically for WordPress designers, developers, and agencies. This means that Flywheel has built their hosting plans chock-full of the features you'd normally have to get through plugins. For instance, Sucuri scanning and caching are included. They also have workflow tools available (e.g. billing and collaboration) so you can centralize all your WordPress website work in one platform.
- Uptime: The guarantee is 99.99%. With a team of WordPress experts monitoring customer sites 24/7, this seems like a pretty fair promise to make.
- Flexibility: As with other managed cloud hosting plans, a lot of the heavy lifting has been removed, which means you can focus on building and managing your sites and stop worrying about the performance, security, or software updates on the backend.
Wrapping Up
If you've made up your mind that cloud hosting is the right type of web hosting for you, then you've got a lot to think about. But, as you can see from the above list of web hosting companies, there are some really good eggs to pick from.
Are you looking for cloud hosting that's perfect for a brand new site that's light on traffic, but that you eventually want the ability to scale? Cloudways is our pick for newbie cloud hosting that's built to scale.
How about the opposite? Let's say you've got a high-traffic and really popular website you're struggling to keep online as it grows in popularity with each passing day. Liquid Web is our pick for high resource consumption cloud hosting.
What if you don't want cloud hosting that's too flimsy to stand up to the weight of a major surge in traffic, but also don't want to go paying money you don't have because your site's traffic isn't blowing it out of the park just yet? That's why SiteGround is our pick for the best overall cloud hosting solution—from the small business to the enterprise.


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This Week at State: May 12, 2017
By DipNote Bloggers on May 12, 2017
Did you miss key foreign policy developments this week? We've got you covered. Each week DipNote recaps the latest U.S. Department of State highlights spanning a wide range of global issues, events, and initiatives in one blog post.
Here are the highlights from This Week at State:
Secretary Tillerson Led Final Arctic Council Ministerial Under U.S. Chairmanship
This week, U.S. Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson hosted the 10th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska. As the outgoing chair of the Arctic Council, the United States convened the foreign ministers of the Arctic states --Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and the United States-- along with delegations from the Arctic Council's indigenous Permanent Participant organizations as well as observer states and organizations.
During the two-day meeting, Secretary Tillerson announced the signing of the Fairbanks Declaration in which the Council reaffirmed its commitment to maintain peace, stability, and constructive cooperation in the Arctic. The Council also announced the signing of the Agreement on Enhancing International Arctic Scientific Cooperation, an agreement that facilitates access by scientists of eight Arctic States to Arctic areas and calls for the parties to promote education and training of scientists working on Arctic matters.
Secretary Tillerson: The last two years have witnessed a remarkable growth in the reach and productivity of the #ArcticCouncil. pic.twitter.com/jFGCnS9IHn— Department of State (@StateDept) May 11, 2017
In his remarks to the Council, Secretary Tillerson recognized the Arctic Council as an indispensable forum for cooperation and reaffirmed that the United States will continue to be an active member as it transfers chairmanship of the Council to Finland. Secretary Tillerson stated, "The opportunity to chair the council has only strengthened our commitment to continuing its work in the future."
United States and Georgia Signed General Security of Information Agreement
On May 9, Secretary Tillerson met with Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili at the State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C., to participate in a signing ceremony for the U.S.-Georgia General Security of Information Agreement. The agreement represents a major milestone in security cooperation between the United States and Georgia as it establishes a legal foundation for bilateral intelligence sharing and will strengthen counterterrorism cooperation between the two countries.
Today, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili at the @StateDept in Washington, D.C., to discuss the strong U.S.-Georgia partnership. This year marks the 25th anniversary of U.S.-Georgia diplomatic relations. The Secretary and Prime Minister also participated in a signing ceremony for the U.S.-Georgia General Security of Information Agreement. The agreement represents a major milestone in security cooperation between the United States and Georgia. The GSOIA will strengthen #counterterrorism cooperation between the United States and #Georgia.
Following the signing, Secretary Tillerson and Prime Minister Kvirikashvili met to discuss the strength of U.S.-Georgia partnership. Secretary Tillerson reaffirmed U.S. support for continued progress toward Georgia's Euro-Atlantic integration. Underscoring the significance of the 25th anniversary of U.S.-Georgia diplomatic relations, the two leaders agreed to continue efforts to ensure Georgia's security and prosperity.
State Department Hosted the 47th Annual Washington Conference on the Americas
On May 9, the U.S. Department of State also hosted the 47th Annual Washington Conference on the Americas along with the Council of the Americas at the Harry S Truman Building in Washington., D.C. This year's conference brought together U.S. government officials and distinguished leaders from across the region to focus on the major policy issues affecting the Western hemisphere. Acting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Francisco Palmieri represented the State Department at the conference, which included remarks by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Canadian Minister of International Trade Francois-Philippe Champagne, among others.
United States Marked Public Service Recognition Week
Public Service Recognition Week has been celebrated the first week of May since 1985 to honor the men and women who serve our nation as federal, state, county, and local government employees. In his Presidential Proclamation, President Donald J. Trump said, "During Public Service Recognition Week, we express gratitude for our civil servants. Their daily effort keeps our Government functioning and helps make our Nation exceptional."
A new Foreign Service Officer spoke with students in his hometown about diplomacy & public service.— Department of State (@StateDept) May 12, 2017
Read his story: https://t.co/SJ8SyiUtkp
To mark the 2017 theme for Public Service Recognition Week, "Honoring Our Public Servants. Connecting Citizens with Their Government," the State Department has highlighted the efforts of foreign affairs professionals who advance U.S interest with their work in Washington and in embassies overseas. Learn more about public servants working at the State Department here.
Editor's Note: This entry is also published on Medium.com/StateDept.
Follow the State Department on Twitter and Facebook for additional information and updates.


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Finding adventure with kids in Guatemala
The last thing I expected while staying in a remote Guatemalan resort was hearing a cacophony great enough to rival any earsplitting noise of a large city.
But there it was—the insistent, otherworldly sound of an animal so loud to conjure images of Godzilla roaring and trampling through an unwitting metropolis of city dwellers. Or, in this case, a tiny cluster of casitas set in a steep hillside of lush rainforest, housing a smattering of some very startled, confused guests.
"We have three different howler monkey families fighting for territories here," said Santos, one of the waiters at the main lodge, where many of us had ascended toward the source of the commotion.
The territory in question was a ramón tree, which roughly from January to April yields the ramón fruit or Maya nut, a chocolate-flavored delicacy that the monkeys covet when available. "They prefer the tree closer to the hotel because it's small and it's easier to reach the fruit."
Nothing out of the ordinary at La Lancha—"boat" in Spanish—Francis Ford Coppola's rustic retreat located in Guatemala's northernmost (and largest) region, El Petén.
Aptly named, La Lancha's casitas (10 rooms in all) are huddled against a hillside looming over the splendid shores of Lago Petén Itzá, the country's second-largest lake. With endless nearby natural and Mayan wonders, La Lancha is a perfect "launching" pad to all the unique sites the region has to offer.
In particular, my husband, Michael, and I wanted to revisit Tikal, one of the country's largest and most revered pre-Columbian Maya archeological sites. Named in 1979 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, we had visited the national park on a 1998 Central American getaway during which he'd proposed.
Some 16 years later, we returned as parents of two boys, ages 5 and 7, along with Michael's longtime friend Kevin Norris and his wife, Lora Salfi. Ever the "up-for-anything" couple, they travel with us frequently and are happy to accommodate the whims of our kids.
For starters, understanding that visiting said Mayan ruin on our first day of vacation would undoubtedly elicit from them whining protests. We chose instead a 45-minute boat ride from the hotel to the nearby island of Flores, a popular town among Tikal visitors located on Lago Petén Itzá.
Years before on our first trip there, we felt like we had traveled off the beaten path. The tidy cobblestone streets were virtually empty save for our Belizean tour guide and a few tourists.
What little evidence I have of human presence is a photo I took of two young girls at a sleepy souvenir shop dressed in traditional Mayan dress: a huipil (wee-PEEL), the customary blouse; a corte or skirt; and a faja or belt.
So Michael and I were astonished to disembark onto a bustling street dotted by the festively painted restaurants and shops typical of many Colonial cities in this part of the world. In a word, the city was more vibrant than before.
"It seems so much more developed and geared toward tourists," Michael said.
Backpackers and travelers of all color and age lined the waterfront, resting on the steps that led to a shallow swimming spot where young locals waded in their street clothes. Many others sat and ate plain picnic lunches of fried chicken and Coke.
Our boys watched from the second floor of Capitan Tortuga's, where we'd stopped for lunch, captivated by a teenage boy who'd dragged his dirt bike into the water.
"That dingbat is trying to ride his bike in the lake!" marveled our oldest son, Brody, who could scarcely stop long enough to eat before jumping into the water to witness the fruitless activity up close.
But the real action was in nearby Ixpanpajul (ish-PAHN-pah-hool) Natural Park, a private nature preserve that's less than 2 square miles packed full of adventure. And with an offering like the Tarzan zip-line tour, it was a no-brainer for the kids.
For me, however, it feels antithetical as a mother to send my kids zipping from one massive tree down a thin line of cable on a metal carabiner toward yet another massive tree. Oh, and there were no helmets.
Don't get me wrong: The tour operators were careful to fit our harnesses properly and clip us into the safety mechanisms at each platform. In fact, they were far from reckless. But we're so conditioned in America to sign release forms and follow safety protocol that it felt reckless.
My point? Simply that sometimes we moms have to throw caution to the wind, particularly on vacation, and just let our kids be kids—waiver forms and helmets be damned.
I knew we were all safe (relatively, anyway, with giant trees whizzing past our heads). Plus the boys were expertly following the guides' instructions—hold on, legs straight, toes up—with each platform approach.
Their joyful giggles as the guides bounced their lines, and as they watched Dad and Kevin fly face forward a la Superman, allayed my anxiety. And the "Jane" mannequin hidden among the canopy on a platform just off the main path was a special touch.
I was decidedly less anxious once we headed to the Sky Way, a hiking trail that includes a series of suspension bridges perched across gaping valleys of verdant canopy.
Of course the boys ran with pure anticipation of what awaited on the other side. But we adults—Lora and I mostly—were careful to walk opposite one another to avoid tilting the planks and the consequent sensation that we might go flying over the handrails.
I wasn't sure if I felt better or worse when I noticed a sign indicating the bridge held a maximum of 10 people at a time.
"Is that 10 Americans?" I joked.
"Twenty Guatemalans, 10 Americans," said our guide, Abel, laughing.
The next day we trekked to Tikal, about a 45-minute drive from La Lancha. En route we picked up our guide, Antonio, who skipped polite introductions and jumped right into his tutorial on All Things Tikal. Kevin later told us that Colin at one point declared to him under his breath, "I don't want to hear that guy talk anymore."
Fortunately for us all, though, more activity than boring history lessons awaited us at the Park. Touted as the largest excavated site in North and Central America, it is more than 200 square miles of thick jungle and soaring temples—including six gigantic ones, Temples I through VI—with architecture spanning from about 4th Century B.C. to 900 A.D.
After navigating through the endless kiosks of Guatemalan souvenirs—colorful textiles, wood-carved trinkets and, my favorite, the ubiquitous, ceremonial animal masks painted in vivid hues—we began our approximately 6-mile trek through the ruins. (I'm proud to say Antonio had never made the whole trip with kids until ours.)
Greeted by a crocodile, "cocodrilo" pond, curious coatimundis and an imposing Ceiba (SAY-buh) tree—the country's national tree with silk-fiber-covered limbs that look to me like a tree wearing a feather boa—the boys hardly complained about the long hike. Especially when they realized they could climb on many of the limestone ruins, much to my chagrin.
"Antonio told me you're only allowed to climb the first four stairs," I said, winking to our guide in hopes of discouraging them from scaling steps so steep to make any mother cringe.
"Why are those people climbing so high?" asked Colin, pointing to a group of nearby tourists in a lofty ascent.
"Because they're adults," I said. "Kids are only allowed to climb the first four steps."
I was soon thwarted, however, once me made our way through ancient Mayan palaces, where the kids darted from one room's passage to another, a young boy's exploratory dream.
They became more and more brave, climbing ever-higher structures toward greater vantage points, until I had to relent. They are, after all, boys, whose very job is to constantly test a worrywart mother like myself.
But it was worth it to let them experience what I recall as one of the most breathtaking sites I'd ever witnessed. In particular, the Grand Plaza, the heart of Tikal that's punctuated on either side by Temple I—the iconic Temple of the Great Jaguar—and Temple II.
I recall climbing these structures years before via rickety, ladder-like stairs that challenged my fear of heights. But the newly installed (within the last year or so, said Antonio), two-way wooden staircases with handrails made it easy to reach the top of Temple II.
Stairs also led us up Temple IV, easily the most famous Mayan structure in American pop culture. "Star Wars" fan or not, a great conversation-starter is telling friends you've stood where director George Lucas filmed footage for the rebel base—a stunning view featuring the tops of Temples I, II and II—in the 1977 classic movie. Though, for my kids, it was more noteworthy for spotting ants and making me fret in their pursuit of them.
With such a long day behind us, our last day at La Lancha was significantly less vigorous. Guided once more by Antonio, we headed in the late morning just outside of Flores to Las Cuevas Actún Kan, also called La Cueva de la Serpiente or The Cave of the Snake. Yet another translation describes The Cave of the Serpent's Mouth.
Basically, according to Mayan legend, this is figuratively the home of a giant snake. A dark, claustrophobic cave system that's sure to house bats (it did) and possibly snakes (it doesn't)? Sign me up!
As you can guess, the kids loved sporting headlamps to explore the spectral maze of limestone tunnels that even today remain sacred in Mayan culture.
For the better part of two hours, we walked among the clay (and, shudder to think, bat guano) from one cavernous nook to another—able to stand up in most places so as not to send me into a claustrophobic panic—while Antonio identified the 30-plus formations of stalactites and stalagmites with names like The Thinker, The Stone Rose and The Elephant Foot.
Glad to have faced my phobia of tomb-like spaces, I was too happy to leave the Mayan underworld passage for aboveground activities, such as watching the boys play in the small pool back at La Lancha.
But after an hour or more of watching them float ants on "boats" fashioned from leaves that almost always drowned the unsuspecting insects, we needed to so something else.
So with a stable of horses at our disposal, our final outing in Guatemala was an easy choice: a sunset horseback ride. Not a typical activity of ours back home in Colorado, we generally enjoy it on our Central American jaunts, largely because it's anything but dull.
After all, trail rides in America usually involve tame (read: lazy) horses that are happy to walk slowly and snatch a bite of grass along the way when possible. (Cue "Happy Trails": bum-bah-dee-dah, bum-bah-dee-dah).
My experience of horses in these parts of the world, though, is that they are likely to run if given the chance. (Case in point: a ride on a Nicaraguan beach involving a horse that spoke only Spanish and had no use for the word, "Whoa!")
Our guide Jairo (like Cairo with an "h") assured us, "Los caballos son muy agradables y tranquilos," so I was confident that my kids were safe riding "nice, calm" horses. And that was absolutely true, even on the few occasions where the horses trotted up the steep hills just to expedite their strenuous climbs.
And as seems typical, Lora and I got the runners. (Kevin, by contrast, rode "Happy Trails.") In my everyday, "normal" life, I have to follow rules and conduct myself with some level of decorum, deficient as it may be.
I mean, I am the mom, aka "Mommy Buzzkill," as my friend Brett once called me. (Gee, how rude of me not to let Colin peep out of your back window and climb onto the top of your truck!)
But vacation is all about stepping out of your day-to-day life into something extraordinary. And to me, galloping on a wild horse toward a beautiful, mountaintop sunset qualifies.
"Mommy, why do you laugh every time your horse runs?" Brody asked.
"Because it's fun!"


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Pirelli Night Dragon Truck to appear at Major Bike Rallies
Pirelli Moto confirms its commitment to the renewed motorcycle market with plans to attend the most important V-Twin outdoor motorcycle events in 2012, where it plans to bring a tire support vehicle, recently donned with Pirelli's common worldwide F1™-inspired livery to various local dealers. The tour serves as a way of highlighting the Pirelli Night Dragon's expanded size range which covers fitments for newer touring Harley-Davidson models, baggers and metric v-twins, joining an already robust line of Harley-Davidson® aftermarket replacement tires.
The Night Dragon is Pirelli's newest performance touring tire, offering both and aggressive tread look and excellent grip on the straights and at lean than standard tires for custom/cruisers with the use of EPT technology to optimize contact patch. Optimized for new V-Twin engines with more power and higher torque, they are able to improve riding enjoyment through a good balance between reliability and life of the tire.
"Pirelli is a performance tire brand, and the V-Twin market is ripe for this fresh new product," stated Chris Wall, Pirelli Moto's Director of Marketing. "The Pirelli Night Dragon is a quality, performance tire dedicated to the American and metric v-twin motorcycles with enhanced power characteristics. We look forward to helping customers try out Pirelli Night Dragon tires at one of these nationwide events."
|1) Arizona Bike Week*
|Phoenix, AZ
|Mar 28-Apr 1
|2) Laughlin River Run
|Laughlin, NV
|Apr 25-29
|3) Myrtle Beach Spring Rally
|Myrtle Beach, SC
|May 11-20
|4) Rolling Thunder
|Washington, D.C.
|May 27-30
|5) Americade
|Lake George, NY
|Jun 5-9
|6) Laconia Bike Week
|Laconia, NH
|Jun 9-17
|7) JP Cycles Open House
|Anamosa, IA
|Jun 23-24
|8 ) Sturgis Bike Week
|Sturgis, SD
|Aug 6-12
|9) Street Vibrations
|Reno, NV
|Sep 19-23
|10) Thunder Beach Fall Rally
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In a bid to compete with Apple and Google, Amazon.com has begun testing a new service that would allow in-app purchases on the Kindle Fire.
According to Bloomberg News, the in-app purchasing system would include both monthly subscriptions, say for a magazine, or a one-time purchase, say to access additional levels in a game. It is currently being tested by a physical fitness app called Skimble, which has been conducting trials for about a month.
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Selling items from within downloadable software can generate revenue for developers as well as companies, such as Google and Apple, that distribute apps through online stores. Amazon could use the transactions to wring more sales from its Kindle Fire tablet and the widening array of applications that can be downloaded to the device.
Amazon.com, which has a deal with mobile payments firm Bango, is expected to charge a 30 percent commission on the in-app purchases, according to Bloomberg.


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In 2018 we are running two Playgroups – one on Monday morning and one on Friday morning.
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Friday morning Playgroup is for parents, carers and their babies, toddlers and pre-school children and meets in our Hall from 10am-11.30am (weekly, except for school holidays). This Playgroup is full at the moment but you can register your interest and/or place your name on a waiting list… thanks for your understanding! For more information please contact the Playgroup coordinator at email@example.com


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Sugar Leaves: What They Are & What To Do With Them
Before you go on and roll a sugar leaf joint, there are a few things you should know! Let's get into the best ways to use your sugar leaves.
Cultivators are always looking for ways to maximise the utility of every single part of the cannabis plant. This includes utilising trim for various purposes, which ultimately involves extracting cannabinoids for consumption. But there are parts of the cannabis plant that fall in a grey area of whether they should be considered trim or smokable. These are the sugar leaves.
You might not know what they are by name, but you've certainly seen them on your cannabis plants! Some growers trim them completely from the buds, but others will just leave them on for reasons you'll soon understand. Let's get a better sense of what sugar leaves are, and what they're used for.
Sugar leaves are small leaves that grow out of your buds. They aren't the large fan leaves you see protruding from branches on the plant. These can be easily distinguished. For starters, you'll most likely be able to locate the stems of your fans leaves. Sugar leaves, however, are more hidden, with only their tips peaking through. The title "sugar leaves" comes from the white coating of delicious trichomes they have at the end of the flowering phase. While fan leaves also have trichomes, they are far less concentrated and therefore, less potent. However, fan leaves can still be used when making edibles.
Different strains will have different amounts of sugar leaves with different amounts of trichomes. And these traits are not correlated. Having more sugar leaves does not mean more trichomes, nor will resinous flower automatically signal more sugar leaves. Their size will also vary a lot. Sometimes they'll cover the bud, while other times, they'll barely peek through the flower. This will also be affected by how their size compares to that of the bud.
On the other hand, there seems to be a relation between the number of leaves and the size of the buds. When the buds are larger, they tend to contain fewer sugar leaves. But when the buds are smaller, they will have more sugar leaves. Why this happens is still a mystery, but growers have reported a noticeable trend.
Unfortunately, there is no definitive answer to this question. It's up to you as a grower to make the decision. Some growers will choose to leave them on for the extra weight. On certain strains, the sugar leaves will even make the buds more visually appealing due to the abundance of trichomes on them. They will also help the drying process happen more naturally.
On the other hand, sugar leaves will absolutely yield a harsher smoke. If you smoke them by themselves, the joint or bowl you pack will not taste good, nor will it be smooth on your throat. Although containing THC, sugar leaves are less concentrated than the flower and contain excess amounts of chlorophyll and other trace elements that contribute to a plant-like taste. Also, you'll have to grind a larger weight than usual to feel the same high with sugar leaves. If you so choose to smoke them, you're best leaving the leaves on the buds and grinding them with the flower as you go. This way, it will increase your volume of smoke without having too much of an unpleasant effect on the experience.
The decision of smoking sugar leaves will depend on the amount you have. If after curing, you feel they aren't that present in your buds, you might as well leave them. They won't be worth the trouble of trimming further. But in case you've decided the cons of smoking the sugar leaves outweigh the pros, here's what you can do with them.
Sugar leaves make excellent cannabutter and concentrate. You can mix these in with fan leaves and stems, then add some oil or butter to extract and activate the cannabinoids. With this, you'll be able to make anything from weed brownies to infused steaks. Even though the leaves don't have as high of a natural THC content as buds, by concentrating them, they can become extremely potent. With enough trim, you'll make a decent edible batch for you and the squad. Just strain all plant matter out of the finished product. With this, you'll be sure to end up with the same results as if you had used flower.
Another great use of the trim and sugar leaves will be in hash-making. There are tons of methods out there for this, and we have a great article that covers every part of it. If done properly, you will get some great stuff out of the trim some growers discard. Research well, and you might start doing this with every single one of your crops. In the same way you make hash, you can also make oil for a wider array of uses.
If you plan to use the sugar leaves for more healthful purposes, you can also turn them into a superfood of sorts. We suggest doing this by making a sugar leaf tincture, then infusing it into smoothies with healthy fruits and vegetables. Experiment with different dosages to optimise your intake of cannabinoids.
Making a tincture is easy enough. The first step is to decarboxylate your cannabis, then let your leaves soak in 90% alcohol for at least a month. Then, open the jar for a week or so. This will allow alcohol to evaporate and the tincture to concentrate further. And that's pretty much it. If you want to learn more about the process, we also have a great article on that to help you. It will provide you with a more in-depth explanation on how to go about making your own tincture.
And there you go. We hope that you now have sufficient information to decide on what to do with sugar leaves after your next harvest. Best of luck with it!


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Tweet One problem many hikers face when visiting Tasmania is transport to and from the start of the walk. It can be a tricky and expensive exercise. Many of the start and finish points are not serviced by public transport or, at best, it is seasonal or intermittent. Ian Ferrier from Mountain Bike Tasmania contacted […]
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Lake Oberon – Western Arthurs – a July trip being planned
Tweet Ok, It must be silly season as we have agreed to join a mate of our's Grant on a bit of a stroll into Lake Oberon (South West Tasmania) in July. He has been into this area several times and is an experienced Tasmanian bushwalker. We are (in reality) pretty pathetic adventurers and like […]
Wet feet, worry and tough scrub – Crossing the Never Never
We love to read stories of adversary and tough times. Sometimes hiking conditions can test and challenge you like never before.
In this article we welcome Greg, who has been kind enough to share his recent Tasmanian bushwalking experience on a trip from the Walls of Jerusalem via the Never Never to the Oveland Track in Tasmania.
We have done this trip twice. Our article Lake Meston Hut to Kia Ora Hut via the Never Never has a small map of the area and documents our experiences. It might be an interesting background to Greg and his son's story.
So, over to Greg who reflects on the trip, often referring back to the GPS waypoints we sent him a couple of months ago to help navigate through this area:
My 15 year old son and I aimed to replicate the walk you gave me on the GPS. It seemed the most logical thing to do regarding distances covered in one day etc. We even started out the same with a trip with Simon from Tasmania Tour Company to the beginning of Walls of Jerusalem! Simon asked me my walking intentions and when I said I was going across the Never Never to the Overland Track he kind of paused and then said, "Take it easy through there. There has been a lot of rain down that way." I replied, "Yeah, no worries!", sounding confident but not really sure of what his definition of 'a lot of rain' was! He did remind us though that we would see 'no one' through there in winter.
The first day was spent walking to Dixons Kingdom Hut and we had an evening of wind, heavy rain and then a decent blanket of snow.
Wet walking track – give up on dry feet?
Bushwalking in Tasmania can be a wet experience. In this post we share a short video of some of the track conditions you can encounter after a lot of rain. Wet feet are part of any backpacking journey and this video was shot near Cradle Mountain and Lake Rodway. We hope it demonstrates how wet the tracks can be after a good lot of rain. Enjoy !
Scott Kilvert Hut – have you been there?
Scott Kilvett Memorial Hut is at the back of Cradle Mountain and many people stay the night there as part of an extended Overland Track hike or just visit and check out the beautiful area. A few weeks ago we traipsed around the back of Cradle Mountain and spent a night in Scott Kilvert Hut.
Frank shot one of his abysmal, amateurish video's of the Hut and surrounds but thought anyone who was planning to stay at the Hut would like an idea of how it looks and the beautiful surrounds it is nestled in are like.
Many apologies for it's quality, he still has a lot to learn!
PLB / EPIRB activation – A "lost in Tasmania" experience
Hiking gear list for a 2 week bushwalking trip
Tweet What gear, food and equipment would you take for two weeks wilderness hiking? If you are planning a long backpacking trip (into really wild country) what gear would you need? Matthias Siegel, over at Matt Down Under, has put together a terrific gear list for his trip to the South West Cape area of […]


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I am in a process of finding out, during that I find myself unlearning rather than learning. Instead of absolute truth I find uncertainty and endless possibilities. Building courage to stand still for there I find a beauty of listening to what is. This sensitivity is a counter balance to a sense of control. I find it in the depth of my heart. Beyond the apparent structure of society my voice is crystal clear. I hear it whisper inbetween each heartbeat.
Love is blossoming. Like a lotus flower it grows from the depth of the mud. It moves trough the dark water, striving to reach the sun, perceiving only small glimpses of illumination. It is a battle requiring tremendous strenght and it does not know why it moves. The journey started by an internal explosion bursting out from the seed of intention. It moved out of the hard shell of safety. Finally it touches the air and receive blessed kisses from the sun. It rests on the water as a representation of the body of emotions. The stem is growing trough the water and its roots deeply attached in the mud keep lifeforce flowing in a cirquit of life and death. Subconsciousness touches awareness. Love is dancing with the rays of the sun.
The lotus flower does not know that it gives birth to love, it simply push the water aside to reach the golden light.
Not trying to control the outcome gives a surprising result. Images arise from the childs state of dreaming. A new comprehension of life. Those pictures are illustrations from a timeless perspective. That is what I receive within my heart beats. The images are draped with beautiful colours of sensory impressions. I move and the paint of my spirit mix with those of the rainbow. That very motion is creating the images I see inside my heart. I live to create who I am. I create to live as I am.


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During this year's Open Engagement Conference Mary Miss/ City as Living Laboratory invited a small group of artists and a scientist to conduct a workshop responding to the Queen's Museum's Watershed model. Rather than have a regular panel discussion, the idea was that we would try to generate ideas about how the Museum might activate this recently restored artifact. The group consisted of Franco Montalto (Civil/ Environmental Engineer and Hydrologist), Eve Mosher (Artist), Elliott Maltby (Landscape Architect), and Mary Miss (Artist). Though the model is an incredibly important resource for engaging visitors with information about where their water comes from, it is difficult to 'read' especially when compared with the very legible model of New York City at the other side of the hall.
We conducted preliminary research regarding visitors' encounters with, knowledge of, and responses to the museum's Watershed model, as well as their awareness and stories of New York's water resources. This information was collected using brief comment cards that were handed out at the museum in the weeks leading up to the conference. The three main questions were: Where does your water come from?, What is your biggest question after looking at this model?, and Do you have a water story? We used the survey of responses to identify four main aspects of the model that could be expanded upon to communicate the current state of NY's watershed; these included: Infrastructure (Maltby), Water Cycle and Sources (Montalto), Geography (Miss), and Connected Citizens (Moser). We divided the session attendees into four groups and brainstormed ideas that might make the model more engaging to visitors.
This document outlines and provides a narrative detailing what each group discovered during the workshop discussions with conference goers. Water is such an important issue globally as well as for our own communities that it is essential for us to re-imagine this underutilized resource. We hope this report to the Queens Museum will encourage ideas for revitalized use and fuller engagement with the Watershed model.
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A day at the Polo!
The Polo… what a day! It was definitely a Saturday to remember. Not to mention a pretty sweet way to kick of the new year!!!! Melbourne put on an absolute cracker of a day. Sunny & blue skies! The dream! Lana Wilkinson (one of the best stylists going around!) worked her magic as usual & dressed me up in a cute Alice McCall one piece. Jade Kisnorbo did my makeup & included some fun pieces from ulta3! I'm a lucky girl to have these amazing women glamming me up for these events.
The glamour continued when we arrived. I visited the Jeep, Peroni & the Jagged tent throughout the day. It's always nice to make sure I can spread my time & say hello to as many people as possible. Brooke Meredith, Bec Judd, Anna Bamford were all there looking stunning & of course my main man Josh who scrubbed up so well! Work has been amazing lately…full of great work & the very best of clients but it is always awesome when I get to spend the day with Josh… family comes first! I still cannot believe I got him in a suit… it's unheard of!
After a day full of fashion, sun, chit chat & laughs we went off to the after party at Bec and Chris Judd's house which was very cool! Luckily I wasn't too exhausted at this point. The day felt a little more causal compared to the races… The dress attire was a tad more relaxed … lots of wedges, hats & sunglass. It was nice to have more of a chilled out day while having a drink & watching the horses play!
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Oh Food I love you so. I even love some your friends, "food like stuff"
You have always been there for me when I needed to feel comforted, to celebrate, to be miserable. Really just to be there for all the emotional highs and lows.
It's magical the ways you are can be fresh & sweet or so heavy & creamy or crispy & smoky. The way you make my neurotransmitters light up with joy when I have had one or all of those magical tricks play out in my senses. All these wonderful combinations make up for when you pretend to be tasty in that grapefruit or dill pickle form.
You have been patient when I have taken thousands of pictures of you over the years, during your raw and artistic phase or those times where I over styled you on a plate to share with others. For that I am both grateful and sorry, but I can't say I won't do it again.
Oh Food I love you so. You are so clever with all the ways you can be interpreted and all the places that you have traveled to and fro. You are so brave to be so willing to try so many new things.
I know not everyone treats you with the love and respect that you deserve, but I work hard day in and day out to make sure that one day they will.
And best of all Food, you have brought people together to love each other, to appreciate each other, to hear each other. The way you unselfishly continue to bring people together is why I truly love you so. Almost all of my best memories and friends have revolved around you. In fact, I'm having a hard time writing this without crying with gratitude.
Oh Food, I love you so. Thank you for loving me too.


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