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Whether you're still on a high from the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series or hopeful the St. Louis Cardinals will pull themselves above their lifelong rival, there is an excitement in the air. Tomorrow is Opening Day for Major League Baseball.
The great thing about the 2017 season is that, in essence, it will be similar to every other Opening Day for the last 100 years. The essential colors of the brown dirt, the green grass and ivy on the walls, the white bases and baselines are the same as they have always been. And what Jon Lester does on the mound today is similar to what Cy Young did at the turn of the century.
There's always possibility attached to every pitch; that's why the game has to move at the pace it does.
People say baseball is boring, but when you realize the possibilities going through the heads of every player on the field during every single pitch, you will understand why baseball moves the way it does.
The batter is trying to figure out if the pitcher is going to try to fool him with the same pitch again. The pitcher is trying to figure out if he can fool the batter with the same pitch again. The catcher is trying to figure out which pitch to call. The third baseman is wondering if he should play up or deep because the batter might bunt or swing for the fences. The shortstop is thinking about fielding a line drive and covering second if they runner on first steals the base. And every player, from those on the field to those in the dugout, is trying to figure out what their role in any of the 100 possible events that may occur within the next minute.
The great thing is that a grandfather can take his 13-year old grandchild to a baseball game and have the same experience as he did in 1966. The only things that are different, really, is the loud music and the food options. Hopefully, in 50 years, that grandchild will be able to share that experience with his or her grandchild, too.
Because unlike many other things in this world, baseball is an oasis, if you let it be. It's a place where you can almost go back in time and the rest of the world doesn't really matter for those couple of hours.


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|Honeysuckle and her happy airplane ears
With her wild, untamed spirit and her hair the color of honey, it was obvious to me that her name should be Honeysuckle. From the very moment she stepped off the truck, I was determined to not only milk her but to tame her as well. I had so much to teach her! And so the teaching began....when I called her to the barn, she would run the other way...sneaking up on her also proved to be the wrong approach. And so I turned to bribing her with sweet grain and alfalfa, but wooing her grew tiresome. She still would not budge. After months of this routine and feeling unappreciated, I gave into her determination and let her be.
When her first set of kids arrived, I dreaded introducing her to the whole milking routine and wondered if it would even be possible. After all, I have to be able to catch her in order to milk her! My determination kicked in again and this time I had no plans of giving up.
One particular evening, I prepped the parlor for milking as usual, stocked the feed buckets and headed for the girls pasture. I noticed Honeysuckle near the gate, like she was waiting for me. Odd I thought. As I neared the gate, she started to bolt in the opposite direction and then in one brief moment - while stopping dead in her tracks. She turned around to look at me - ears straight out to the side and with a piercing gaze she began walking towards the open gate. Still as a statue, I stepped aside as she then walked through the gate and into the milk parlor. Shocked and confused as to what just transpired, I immediately went to praise and dote on her. She quickly gave me that Honeysuckle stare that undoubtedly said, don't press your luck lady. And so I did not...from that day on Honeysuckle and I have a casual milking relationship only. She tolerates giving me milk if I do it the right way...which is her way...no catching, no touching, no wooing sweet talk. She's all business and to think, it took her a whole year to teach me that!
|2 days passed due with her 2nd set of kids and finally in labor
On one of the hottest days so far this year, Honeysuckle goes into labor. The labor long and intense, the stifling heat and humidity...and then to everyone's relief, the babies arrive!
|Baby Pippa
|Baby Patriot
|Honeysuckle showing off her pride & joy
|When you're 2 days old, this is all that really matters

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Honor your blessings, take them not for granted. Respect your convictions, for they are the values that carve your essence, they too are your blessings.
Remember who you are, and who you are committed to becoming. It's such a blessing.
Give thanks for your multiple blessings. ~Storm
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Master of Arts in Religion, Evangelism & Church Planting, Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary
Bachelor of Science, Religion, Honors, Liberty University
Diploma of Theology, Pastoral Theology, Liberty Bible Institute
I am the resident Missionary and President of E4L. My duties include directing the ministries of Evangelism and Missions as well as training evangelists. I have served in missions since 1998 when I took my first missions trip to Haiti. Since that time I have continued to study the Word of God with veracity and purpose. I have served as a full time Missionary functioning as a Church Planter, Church Planter Strategist and National Evangelism Missionary to Multi-Ethnic groups involving in both Personal & Mass Evangelism across North America through Street Witnessing, Community Outreach, Conference teaching, Church-wide trainings and other Equipping activities.
My passion is to share the life giving gospel of Jesus Christ with those who are perishing and separated from Christ. I make it a point to evangelize everyday because one day, someone shared the life giving gospel with me and I received freedom from sin and salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. That was the absolute greatest gift I have ever received.
In my spare time I love to spend time with my wife and four daughters especially while traveling.


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What The Media Should Tell You About Obamacare And Inequality
New research reveals that the Affordable Care Act has a relatively strong effect on reducing income inequality and economic insecurity for low-income Americans. However, given past coverage of the law, this fact is likely to go underreported in media.
A new study from the non-partisan Brookings Institution projects the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or "Obamacare" ) to positively impact low-income Americans. The research, performed by economists Henry Aaron and Gary Burtless, reviews a comprehensive income measure combining wages, the value of employer-provided health insurance, and the value of government-subsidized coverage. The authors project that the ACA will increase incomes in the bottom-fifth of the population by almost 6 percent, while increasing incomes in the bottom-tenth of the population by more than 7 percent.
Additionally, the authors found that positive "benefits of the ACA to low-income families would have been greater if the enacted version of the law had been put into effect." According to the study, the Supreme Court's landmark 2012 decision upholding the law, but allowing states to opt-out of expanding Medicaid to low-income residents, has dampened the effectiveness of health care reform -- preventing nearly 6 percent of the American population in the lowest 20 percent of income earners from accessing free health coverage through Medicaid. If not for the Supreme Court's decision, and corresponding "state inaction," the relatively strong impact of the ACA in reducing inequality for low-income Americans would have been greater.
The study concludes that, while the ACA does not positively impact the income of all Americans, the "small proportional drops in income" correspond with "larger proportional gains" for the poorest quarter of the working population. The graph below shows the average expected impact of the ACA on after-tax adjusted incomes for each tenth of the wage spectrum. The results show that corresponding positive impacts at the bottom of the income bracket more than make up for marginal decreases at higher income levels.
Previous Media Matters research has exposed how the media almost never mentions the positive impact of health insurance access on reducing economic inequality and strengthening economic security. Instead, media outlets opted to focus on the difficult rollout of Obamacare health care exchanges -- notably Healthcare.gov. The lack of discussion regarding the positive impact of the ACA on reducing economic inequality is particularly pervasive among right-wing media, where policy proposals aimed at reducing inequality are treated as trivial and unimportant.
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Urban landscapes carry a history. Cities have time etched into their architecture.
The markers of history can be subtle. They can be obvious and they can be found in construction of the new where the evidence of historical change is in progress. These markers can be discovered in more subtle decay or repair of something once new.
Sometimes the markers of history represent political, economic or cultural changes. Sometimes they merely represent humanity's response (or lack of) to naturally occurring decay.
In other cases, it is when the people living within a city use a space in a way that is different than the intended function of that space.
These buildings bear witness to time and evidence of that time is on and within them.


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On That Date, No. 2/
"We eat much more meat than is needed to supplement our vegetable food. Our meat is much fatter than would be necessary anyhow. The sugary and starchy foods of which we consume an excess make the fat still less necessary. . . . A reform must come, but it will come no faster than our farmers learn to . . . make more meat and leaner meat from less vegetable material, and consumers learn to buy and use meats and other foods of the kinds and in the proportions best suited to their actual needs." -- W. O. Atwater, "The Food-Supply of the Future," Century 43, no. 1 (November 1891): 103.


text: On December 2nd and 4th 2008, Research Day for the Computer Science Department at the University of Guelph is taking place. Research Day is a day where many of the graduate and some undergraduate students present research projects in various stages. For the graduate students the projects consist of initial results and proposals for thesis documents while the undergrads present results from their research projects.


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By ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Halfway into an ambitious four-year effort to safeguard nuclear materials from terrorists, President Barack Obama and other world leaders are lagging behind their self-imposed goals and facing renewed threats from Iran and North Korea. They're giving themselves a checkup at next week's summit in the South Korean capital, Seoul.
Although many nations have taken voluntary steps to corral material that could be used for terrorist weapons, they have sidestepped larger questions about how to track all such material, measure compliance and enforce security. U.S. officials expect no major announcements at the nuclear security gathering.
Obama will use the meeting to keep pressure on nuclear North Korea, which has threatened to halt new progress toward disarmament talks with a planned long-range rocket launch. The launch would lead to cancellation of a recent food aid deal with the United States and dim hopes for better relations under new leader Kim Jong Un.
The gathering of more than 50 nations is overshadowed by North Korea's nuclear brinksmanship and fears that Iran could soon build a nuclear weapon. North Korea has built and tested nuclear devices and is considered a suspect in the spread of nuclear know-how and weapons of mass destruction to other countries.
The planned missile launch appears part of a long pattern of steps forward but then backward in U.S. dealings with North Korea, and plays into Republican claims that Obama is being played the fool. Republican lawmakers have accused his administration of "appeasing" North Korea by offering 240,000 tons of food in exchange for a freeze on nuclear activities and a freeze on nuclear and long-range missile tests.
North Korea says the rocket launch is a peaceful marking of the centennial of the nation's founder in mid-April. The U.S. and other countries suspect it would serve to test capabilities of a long-range missile.
Obama has called for the eventual abolition of nuclear weapons, and he has made reducing the global stockpile of such weapons and materials a key goal of his foreign policy. He is considering sharp new cuts to the U.S. nuclear force, including a reduction of up to 80 percent in the number of deployed weapons.
"We've essentially built an international coalition of countries that are committed to the president's goal of securing all nuclear materials around the world," said Deputy National Security Council Adviser Ben Rhodes.
In Seoul, Obama plans to meet separately with numerous world leaders including Chinese President Hu Jintao, North Korea's only real ally. He will see Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for the last time before the Russian leader steps down in May. Despite differences on other policy questions, Medvedev and Obama together pushed through a new arms reduction treaty that trimmed the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals.
More recently, China and Russia blocked a U.S.-backed effort at the United Nations to condemn Syria for its bloody crackdown on civilians. Having all but ruled out military intervention now, the U.S. strategy on Syria is to tighten world denunciation of Syrian President Bashar Assad and make it untenable for him to remain in power.
U.S. officials called the Russian and Chinese vetoes disappointing and even irresponsible, but Obama is unlikely to get either nation to budge.
World leaders came to Washington in 2010 to endorse Obama's proposal to lock down all nuclear materials around the globe by 2014. While there has been some progress in securing potentially vulnerable nuclear components in the past two years, there are few signs that many affected nations would be willing to adopt the most severe controls that would be required.
The nations agreed to meet again in 2012 to check on progress. Obama had hoped to come to the gathering with better news not only about security improvements in established nuclear nations but also about efforts to prevent Iran from getting a weapon and to buy North Korea out of its bomb program.
An independent Arms Control Association study this month found overall that global leaders have kept about 80 percent of 67 voluntary commitments made at the 2010 summit to reduce or better secure stocks of nuclear materials. The study cautioned that "the nuclear material security challenge will not be solved even after all the national commitments made ... are completed."


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It is just minutes before Walking in Memphis: The Life of a Southern Jew is fixin' to start, and Jonathan Adam Ross, the show's creator, writer, and only performer, is out in the audience schmoozing with the crowd. If you didn't know him, you'd think he was just another spectator in his casual but fitted white T-shirt and jeans. In a transition as smooth as silk, Ross is standing before us introducing his show and thanking us for coming out on this cold, wintry New York evening. And then his story begins. At no time do you feel as if you are watching a performance or a stand-up routine. Instead, it as if you are gathered around a living room listening to stories about being Jewish in the South, much in the same way that Ross describes his family sitting around his dining room table sharing stories about his deceased mother.
Storytelling has been a longstanding tradition of both Southerners and Jews. One can imagine two elderly Georgians in rocking chairs on a stoop on a sweltering summer day, shooting the breeze about days gone by. Similarly, Judaism's history contains loads of unwritten tales passed down orally through the generations. Ross alludes to these traditions, particularly to the practice of telling stories several times over, enhancing and improving upon them each time. Indeed, both cultures are guilty of this sort of exaggeration for effect. It is what makes the stories themselves so endearing.
Ross portrays a host of characters, some Jewish, some not; some Southern, some not. Most notable are his father, known for his disregard for consonants; his non-Jewish neighbor Jim Griggs, who collected yarmulkes (prayer skullcaps) as a hobby; and his buddy E.Y., named so because his family uses letters for names, and by the time he was born, "all the good ones were taken."
But the standout character is Ross's brain-damaged sister, Julie. With precision and utmost respect and love, Ross portrays her silly antics (such as believing as a teenager that when her brother "got her nose," she might never get it back) as both humorous and deeply saddening.
You don't have to be Jewish or from the South to enjoy the show, but it helps. References to Waffle House, that ubiquitous, Southern late-night dining establishment Ross describes as "a dirty, redneck IHOP," got chortles from the Southerners in the audience, but flew over the heads of others. Similarly, the notion that "Adon Olam," the prayer that ends most Jewish services, is the Jewish "Hi Ho" (from Disney's Snow White) made waves in this mostly Jewish audience, but might have eluded those who weren't Jewish. Still, you don't have to be Jewish to find yourself cackling uncontrollably during Ross's hilarious renditions of Broadway musicals sung in Hebrew at the Jewish summer camp where he serves as drama director.
The camp is the same setting where Ross's narrative takes a more serious tone. His description of the impact he has made on a young jock-turned-performer, coming from the very proud father, is a poignant portrait of acceptance. Ross turns somber at other points as well, particularly in his stories about his mother's struggle with, and death from, breast cancer, which was added to the show several years into its run and just five weeks after her death.
Echoing the show's varying tones, Ross played portions from the titular Marc Cohn song on a piano in the corner. Following a burst of laughter at the end of a story, Ross's playing tended to be fast and energetic. Between more sorrowful bits, his playing was more melodic and graceful. (The aptness of this song, of course, lies in the lyrics: "And she said, 'Tell me, are you a Christian child?' / And I said, 'Ma'am, I am tonight,' " a reference to Cohn's being Jewish.)
In this delightful production, Ross places himself in the league of talented storytellers like Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg. One audience member, who is familiar with most of Ross's stories, having heard them throughout their friendship, told me it seemed that he was "always acting," even during one-on-one story sharing, because of his theatrical nature. I suggested that perhaps it was the other way around, that Ross was not "acting" during conversations but instead was "having a conversation" while acting onstage.
In either case, you would be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't enjoy hearing these stories. Director Chantal Pavageaux notes in the program, "It's a superhuman feat to recreate the past, enliven the dead, recall the tiniest nuances of someone's voice, their face, the idiosyncrasies that made them unique." Perhaps Ross is indeed Superman


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Plans for Bellingham waterfront shifting to more modest goals
BELLINGHAM - Port of Bellingham and city officials provided a preview of a slimmed-down plan for a redeveloped central waterfront at a Thursday, May 3, joint meeting of City Council and the Port of Bellingham commission.
The plan won't be in final form for Planning Commission scrutiny and public hearings until fall, but some key changes from earlier planning proposals have emerged:
Indefinite postponement - but not yet abandonment - of the port's cherished plan to install a marina inside the old Georgia-Pacific Corp. wastewater treatment lagoon.
Eventual demolition of the Granary Building, which historic preservation advocates hoped to restore.
Elimination of a proposed "Log Pond Park" along the shoreline between the old G-P pier and the port's shipping terminal, to enable that area to be developed as a waterfront industrial job source.
Indefinite postponement of relocation of BNSF Railway Co. tracks that now cut through the idle industrial area.
Indefinite postponement of a new Cornwall Avenue railroad bridge to link downtown to the waterfront.
Construction of a waterfront link via a new Commercial Street bridge, once envisioned as a late-stage project, could now be built somewhat sooner than envisioned in previous plans, although no dates were offered for the estimated $30 million project.
For at least two years, it has been clear that both port and city were moving away from redevelopment visions born amid the real estate boom that was still heating up when the port acquired the old G-P property in 2005. The most significant message from Thursday's meeting may have been the fact that port and city now seem to be working together on the plan, and the conflicts of recent years over street alignment, the pace of development and other key issues appear to have been resolved.
But the plan still faces a long road that includes public hearings before the Planning Commission, expected to get under way this fall, followed by City Council review. Mayor Kelli Linville said the Planning Commission process alone could take three to four months.
City and port staffers who have been working on the plan explained its features to the port and city elected officials.
In discussing the marina plan, Port Environmental Director Mike Stoner made it clear that the port still hopes to see pleasure boats berthed inside the treatment lagoon's massive breakwater some day. But he also acknowledged that the port has already added some new slips as part of its recent Squalicum Harbor refurbishing, and that demand for new moorage has slackened in the economic downturn.
On the Granary Building, it now appears that city officials have accepted the port's view that it has no viable new uses.
Stoner told elected officials that the cost of rehabilitating it has been estimated at $14 million, resulting in usable space that would cost $533 per square foot. City Public Works Director Ted Carlson said the building also stands in the way of the best location for construction of a new waterfront access street that is needed for the first phase of development work to take place.
Tara Sundin, special projects manager with the city Planning Department, said the relocation of the railroad had once been envisioned as an early part of the redevelopment process. But now, with the pace of development expected to be slower, the attention will focus on redeveloping the northerly portion of the site that is not impacted by the railroad in its current configuration.
The Log Pond Park plan has been shelved because planners now think it best to designate that area for light, marine-related industry indefinitely, instead of designating it for eventual conversion to commercial, office and residential use. A permanent industrial designation will make it easier to attract investment there, Sundin said.
Carlson said the Cornwall Avenue bridge project and railroad relocation would cost an estimated $40 million, and there is no current way to get that money.
If all goes well, the first phase of waterfront development could be complete by the end of 2015 and would include:
construction of the new street link where the Granary now stands, potentially clearing the way for public or private building construction in the area;
turning the existing Central Avenue into a bike and pedestrian route;
the cleanup and redevelopment of the Cornwall Avenue landfill site as a new park, complete with an over-water walkway to Boulevard Park.
But the timeline for other major features such as the marina or the Commercial Street bridge extension into the waterfront is still to be determined.
"We're happy to see an end to that planning process and the beginning of something actually being done on the site," Linville said.
The preview of the revamped waterfront master plan is available at the city's website (PDF).


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One of the most delicious ways to get back to your wild heart are love capers!
These joyful acts of love connect you to the way YOU are love in the world. This is important, because during times of personal transformation, love is the key ingredient -- giving and receiving.
Notice how many love capers are already in your life. It's all about the lens you walk through the world with- why not wear some rocking gold glitter love glasses!!! The smile a stranger offers you, the person who didn't run the stop sign and hit you, the friend who texted when you needed a little love. Share the love, create more love in the world!
We need it.
Joyful acts of love!
Leave a trail of Hershey Kisses on the stairs of your friends house
Blow a kiss to someone who flips you off in traffic
Buy a cookie/coffee/tea/water for the person behind you in line
Get your friends bike fixed and leave it with a red ribbon in their living room
Make your co-workers favorite treat and leave it on their desk
Bring balloons to your neighbors house and tie them on the front door
Buy an extra pint of raspberries and give them to a stranger
Write a letter of gratitude in pink ink and send it with confetti inside


text: Natalia Starr was a vision of beauty, as the morning light poured through the window and lit all her curves. She was wearing turquoise see-though lingerie, and her body was flawless. Natalia's tits were ripe as vine tomatoes, and her ass was round and firm. No doubt, she had awoken horny from a naughty dream and had to get some of that pent up sexual energy out, so she slid down her panties down and started playing with her pussy. Although she mainly kept quiet, Johnny heard some moans and came in from the next room to check it out. When he saw Natalia with her legs spread rubbing her pussy, he jumped right in and tongued that sweet pussy down. By then Natalia was crazy horny and stuffed her mouth with his cock. She bobbed up and down and sucked away on that dick. Johnny turned her around and entered that nice tight pussy from the back in doggy style. He stroked it nice and slow to get her good and wet. Natalia loved that and got on top to get him back. She worked that pussy like a pro, and Johnny couldn't get enough, as those nice natural tits bounced up and down. He took over again and pounded that pussy hard and deep, as Natalia orgasmed. Then he finally pulled out, and as Natalia waited with her tongue out, he covered her beautiful face in cum. This was a HOT one you won't want to miss!


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Music Review: Anne Midgette on Master Chorale's Finale, With 'Carmina Burana'
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
As a culture, we tend not to give endings their proper due. The radio host Robert Aubry Davis, introducing the Master Chorale, observed this from the Kennedy Center Concert Hall stage on Sunday afternoon. Death, goodbyes, conclusions are too often rushed, dismissed, hidden. So the Master Chorale's concert Sunday was a kind of music-thanatology: the branch of music devoted to adding beauty and significance to the act of death. For the concert marked the chorale's last-ever performance.
There have been a lot of closings in recent months as the recession exacts its toll on arts organizations across the country. But these closings tend to happen away from the stage, between performances. Seldom do organizations have the luxury of an actual farewell: a final concert that everyone knows is its last.
The Master Chorale announced its closing in March. It was running a deficit, and its financial reserves had been badly hit by the economic crisis. The only one of Washington's major choruses to include a core of paid professionals, it might have found the cost of paying for those singers too high. Perhaps the end was unavoidable. Certainly by voluntarily closing, the group avoided the hassle of declaring bankruptcy. Instead, on Sunday, it got to go out to a standing ovation.
When Donald McCullough, the chorus's director, selected the season's final program, he probably didn't know it was going to be a true finale. On the first half was Randall Thompson's "Frostiana," seven poems by Robert Frost in settings as pretty and straightforward and unvarnished and innocuous as the poems themselves. Thompson aims to please; he finds a meter and rhythm, and lulls the words along in it, couching them in soft cushions of vocal sound, obediently adding illustrative touches exactly when called for: a flute taking the part of a thrush, a beaten triangle mimicking a ringing telephone, or simply a key phrase given a gentle musical underline. It's inoffensive and unmemorable music, but perhaps struck the right tone of all-American nostalgia, a look back at a kinder, gentler era.
Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" is backward-looking, too, in that it sets medieval texts found in a German monastery. Yet it's also feisty and life-affirming. Orff captures the archaic quality of the poetry in clean, driving rhythms. The voices are sometimes raucous, sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying: The pounding "O Fortuna," however overfamiliar and overused in countless soundtracks and TV ads, never loses its force.
The Master Chorale assembled some fine soloists. The soprano Lisa Eden was a little hard-edged, but Robert Baker, fresh off his assignment as the Emperor in "Turandot" the night before, had a lot of fun with the unmercifully high role of the cooked swan. And Steven Combs, a late replacement for a colleague, was tremendously appealing; his tenorial timbre and honesty of approach compensated for a lack of vocal focus that sometimes made it hard to hear him over the orchestra. The Children's Chorus of Washington was clarion and focused from the balconies.
Music is about continuity. Performances are reduced, in the newspaper, to a sequence of isolated events: This was good, this wasn't good, buy your tickets now. But this is only a pale reflection of the way people actually experience music -- particularly in top-flight amateur choruses, which represent an entire community investing effort and energy over a sustained period of time. Reviews mark points on this time line: At this moment, the group sounded this way. But on Sunday, the crisp, careful diction of the chorus, the slightly over-cautious clarity coupled with perfect enunciation, were not things to be pointed out for later but mementos of an institution that was about to vanish. The group ushered in its own ending with a soft setting of a sentimental poem by Denny Clark about music's power to move, and then fell silent, though some of its members touched away tears during the long applause.
There are only about 32 choruses in the country with annual operating budgets of more than $1 million. Until Sunday, four of them were in Washington. Now, three remain: the Choral Arts Society, the Washington Chorus and the Cathedral Choral Society. Washington is not going to starve for choral music in the near future. But the landscape is continuing to change, and a piece of local history has gone.


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Check out a free excerpt from Ram Charan's book "Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business : 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning" - Lisa's serving it up on Management Craft.
I've not been that "into" Ram's books in the past, but this excerpt has piqued my interest. It's on its way to me from Amazon (by the way - is it just me, or does that arrow logo on their shipping boxes look just a bit suggestive?).


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I'm starting to turn into my mother – only the other day I moaned at my sister for not hanging on the phone long enough for me to first hear it, and then dig it out from the bottom of my bag. Since I got my iPhone, I'm constantly missing calls because I don't hear it ringing – and I thought my hearing was actually okay – but if I'm walking along the Euston Road to a client's offices, or even at the nearest soft play area with my five-year-old (FYI for non-parents these are places of torture, where children run around a circuit of ramps, ladders, swings, slides and other paraphernalia, all covered in soft foam to make them 'safe', while parents try to have a civilised cup of coffee while talking over the sound of 250 kids shouting, screaming, crying and generally creating pandemonium) – I can't hear the phone ring.
So I can only imagine how awkward it is for people who have genuine issues with their hearing. Stepping up to the rescue are the folk at Powertel, a German company that focuses on developing easy-to-use telecoms and accessories, who have come up with the Amplicom Powertel M4000. It has been specially designed for people with hearing problems, and features a booster button to increase the ring volume by up to 20 times (they reckon it's about as loud as a road drill!). In case that isn't enough, it also has an extra powerful vibrate setting
As well as its obvious advantages for those who are hard of hearing, it also has large, easy-to-read buttons, and the functions have been kept simple – it's no smartphone for sure, it simply offers the option to call and make calls and send and receive text messages.
It also has a hands-free speaker (which is also loud, of course), automatic key lock, desktop charger and can be used on any network on a contract or pay-as-you-go. It also boasts some functions that other phones of its ilk don't – such as colour screen with extra large text, and a phone book with space for 200 entries.
The M4000 is claimd to be the cheapest loud and hearing-add compatible mobile phone on the market – and at £69.99 we're pretty sure this is the case. For more, log on to www.hearingdirect.com


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Well, thank you ladies for the comments and for sharing your favourite layouts :)
So - our winners are ECLAIRE and Jenne!!!
Yay - congrats to you : ) Send me your address and i will send you your mystery scrap bag!!!
Watch this space for your fisrt challenge coming on the 10th December!!
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What's all this hubbub about Polyester ... Sunday Ecologists are still confused ! It seems that those part time environementalists will never know the difference between Actions, Consequences and Industry. They almost seem to be inhabitants of another world, as their sense of reality is distorted. Their attention is focused on their public image as populist political demagogues… Leaching their agendas through biased media… Giving us only the worst disinformation and manipulation can deliver. The most recent example being the so-called Global Warming Mission in Antarctica. WOW…Talk about a missed goal !!! Several Icebreakers from all over the globe were literally trapped trying to rescue the ship: prisoner of the thickest ice cap for decades ! When interviewed about the matter: it's Captain avoided the question by saying that it was – OLD ICE – !!!
But I digress ... Let us return to Polyester.
It's all over the Eco-Activist Press: - Polyester should be banned and its production, even completely forbidden ... - It's a rather heavy statement coming from oddballs who generally don't know their left from their right. Their show is topped with tearful pictures of whales, turtles or fish trapped in Polyester nets, Polyester rope, Polyester twine and plastic debris of all kinds. Well… I personally, and in a more pronounced fashion than many, really sympathize with those innocent victims !!! Except that I don't exploit them for stupid socio/communist agit-prop purposes…
Polyester is not the issue here: Human Negligence (almost criminal): YES !!! So why designate Polyester Industry as a scapegoat ? Marine life faced the same problem centuries ago when nets and ropes were made from hemp. These (supposedly well-meaning) activists should undergo class actions: for causing Audio-Visual Pollution and even shameful waste of public funds. Thanks to generous grants, loans and assistance some of these groups get. All in all, it seems that welfare states and big government subsidize their own self-promotion.... Really !! If you-please, wake the sleeping…
Polyester is a remarkable product, for the same reasons decried by you know who. And I'll tell you why. Polyester does not rot: In fact it is indestructible. And this quality alone makes it one of the most essential and useful products in marine environement applications of all kinds ! These same qualities that are turned into negativistic propaganda offer the best solution for designers truly concerned with Ecological causes.
Everyone nowadays sits or lies on Polyester. Polyester is superior to many traditional upholstering material since it is not as easily compressed. It can be washed, bleached, javelised, boiled… and is re-usable. Therefore Polyester is recyclable. I got interested in Polyester when I was secretary of my soaring club. Unlike nylon, it's not stretched easily, making it the ideal towing cable. It can be braided manually allowing to attach metallic rings without knots. All glider pilots know nodes break when they are under extreme stress. A Polyester Tow cable resists abrasion, giving it a remarkable lifespan. It is UV-resistant and fade proof ...
All these properties are precisely those sought by designers of marine applications. When it comes to filtering water, it's even better !!! Please take note that polyester is also Non-Toxic.
At SBMarine we don't use Polyester Wool: even though it is still a great mechanical filtration medium.
It's a different story today with Biological Filtration (Marine Biological System) and Polyester Membranes. These Biological Filters (biotic, for purists) are Permanent and Maintenance Free !!! They are literally block-proof (organic matter dœs not accumulate on or through it).
So ?
Who's at War with polyester ? - Not me !


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Date created: 2011-01-12 Name: paul arnold
Location: 50 stuart ridge rd. cle elum wa.
Satisfaction Rating:
"Furnace repairs"
3 year furnace, motor went out last year $250.00 switch went out this year $25200
Date created: 2011-01-10 Name: P.N.
Location: Illinois
Satisfaction Rating:
"Trane XE80 Lemons"
Stay away frtom a Trane. XE80 we have replaced ignitor, circuit board, blower motor and inducing motor plus problems with high limit switch. On the A/C unit, fan motor and several contactors. All of this JUST past warranty. I contacted the original installer and he sent me to Trane. They said "tough luck" and were willing to give me a FREE service if I paid for a service call and labor. How is that Free??
Date created: 2011-01-07 Name: Richard
Location: Auburn Hills, MI
Satisfaction Rating:
"Humidifier leaks onto motherboard"
I have this furnace over 2 years. It might be the installers but here are the problems: Trane humidifier doesnt fit snug so it leaks on to the top of the furnace. Then into the area where the pilot is, then down onto the electricals and fan motor, then down onto the wires and circuits on the motherboard. Terrible design, terrible installers! They replaced the motherboard once- two months ago and the new motherboard is toast right now as I write this. Red light stays on and does not blink. I called Trane and they said someone will get back with me. Garbage customer service too!
Date created: 2011-01-07 Name: Chilly Willy
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Satisfaction Rating:
"Trane Furnace is garbage!!"
I had this installed in 2007. There have been 7 service calls since. 3 motherboards, 2 flame sensors, an igniter.... what a piece of junk. I researched trane and their name was good when I bought. Those days are over. The installer did a great job, and has been good about the service calls but you can't make a silk purse from a sows ear. Do yourself a favor, stay away from Trane. Almost ALL of the "satisfied" comments here are from DEALERS of Trane garbage. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED. TRANE IS JUNK!!!
Date created: 2011-01-07 Name: S. Byrnes
Location: Newmarket, Ontario
Satisfaction Rating:
"Never Again by a Trance from Energy Direct"
In 2005 I purchased a Trane Furnace model TUYo80R9v3W, they installed something else because they could not fit the model I chose. The mid efficiency model has a five year warranty on part and labor. After four year in the winter the circuit board gave out and we were without heat for some time. Yet again, yesterday January 6th, 2011 the furnace broke down again and it appears to be yet another major problem. It is -10 outside and my husband is just getting over pneumonia. It is approx. 16 degree Celsius in the house right now. Nedless to say I have contacted a lawyer because I do not intend on paying another $4000.00. We have been maintaining the furnace and had it clean regularly.
Date created: 2010-12-21 Name: Adam
Location: St. Louis, MO
Satisfaction Rating:
"Any Brand Including Trane"
I am professional, in HVAC industry, it is not the equipment that causes problems, 95% of the time. Guess what it is, most of the time home owner who doesn't maintain the equipment and offten is the half qualified Installer who doesn't size it right and wrongly installes it. Thats the problem 95% of the times. When my company installes any of the brands, our customers enjoy trouble free comfort for many years to come. No we are not cheap guys, we do charge for our expert work. Those guys that complain, stop blaiming someone else, it probably is your fault. Think about it!
Date created: 2010-12-17 Name: S Wolf
Satisfaction Rating:
"Do NOT Buy a TRANE FURNACE!"
There was a trane furnace in our house brand new when we moved in...it quit working with in two days of moving into our very first ever home. We had it replaced with another trane cause we thought there would be warranty... Big Mistake! We have now had our 2nd one for 3 years, and every winter it quits working....it cycles on and off but will not blow heat! We live in Northern MN where it is -20 degrees. We can't go with out heat. Conveniently there is NO SERVICE REPAIR SHOP THAT WILL EVEN LOOK AT THIS PIECE OF CRAP within 2 hrs of us and NO TOLL FREE NUMBER TO CALL. Trane...you are awful and shouldn't be in Business. You don't stand behind your product or have anyone who can fix them or that we can call for help. Thanks for taking all my Christmas money yet again this year. We Drop kicked your furnace and are putting in a new furnace from a company that stands behind their product and has SERVICE!
Date created: 2010-12-16 Name: DMP
Satisfaction Rating:
"Trane Furnace"
This is in response to many of the reviews, including the one by LEH. It is very important to know that a large majority of the problems are from improper installation. When fittings are loose, its probably because they arent tightened properly at install. Or the install/service company didn't solder the joints properly and is covering their own mistakes by blaming it on the equipment. Also, mechanical valves do go back...but most likely the sensing bulbs for these valves were removed during install when the joints were soldered and they burned the vales up. Also, water leaks are almost always from poor installation....otherwise they would be replacing the drain pans inside the units. Just be sure you know WHO installed the unit and be sure of the job they did before you run around telling everyone the equipment is junk.
Date created: 2010-12-14 Name: AW
Satisfaction Rating:
"Repeated Service Calls"
Had my trane furnace for 5 years now. During the summers while running the AC, water would leak from the top of the furnace down the front and into the bottom section of the furnace. Over a three year period 8 service calls were required to try to stop the leaking. Fortunately, my area has several trane dealers, so I finally gave up on the dealer I was using and switched to another company, that company was able to fix the problem the first time and the three years of leaking were finally corrected. I've used the current company for two years now and so far so good. Like mentioned by some, many issues mine included have more to do with the people working on them than the product itself. A furnace/ac/humidifier/air cleaner is only as good as the people who work on it and back up that work. Be sure you have more than one dealer in your area.
Date created: 2010-12-09 Name: Susan Moors
Location: Santa Rosa CA
Satisfaction Rating:
"Comvination gas heating 7 cooling air cond"
I've had way too many service calls to get the furnace to ignite. Its costing me about $50 per mo. to keep it working. Something has to be done to fix this ignitor problem.
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It's been largely grey and overcast. Hurrying down toward camp I notice the clouds breaking up and some light starting to break through just in time for sunset. Forget camp! I run to get back above the trees for a view of the Patriarchs. It paid off...
Some friends and I are planning a spring trip into the Desert Southwest next month. I can't wait! Going back through my images from there, I came upon this previously unedited gem.
There was a ton of contrast in this scene so I bracketed the exposure with the Nikon D700 I was shooting with at the time. Using Lightroom and Onone, Inc.'s Perfect Photo Suite I brought the two exposures together. I first did my RAW Adjustments in Adobe's Lightroom 5. I developed the less exposed frame for the sky and light on the peaks and the more exposed frame for the trees and shadows. See below.
After a bit of noise reduction and sharpening, I opened the two images as layers in On1's Perfect Layers 9.5 (yes, it's a prerelease beta and it rocks!) and brushed the two images together with the masking brush. I've been loving my new Wacom Intuos Pro pressure sensitive tablet for this kind of brushwork and it integrates perfectly with On1 as well as Lightroom. As usual I finished the image in On1's Perfect effects 9.5.
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The AEC's Working Groups reflect the AEC selected business areas. The AEC has five Working Groups:
- Maritime Transportation,
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- Blue Economy
The AEC's work is based on the priorities set by the businesses forming the organization's membership. The AEC will also consider the establishment of the following Working Groups in the future: Aviation and Tourism.
Brief work plan for the Working Groups:
- Analyze the current business climate in the Arctic
- Incorporate the five overarching themes of the AEC
- Define actionable recommendations and variables that will raise the standard of economic development in the Arctic
- Execute, report and review


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Naughty OR nice, everyone deserves a little love this holiday season!
The Supernatural Honey's Holiday Gift List
1. Ouija Board Bag - I have this bag. I love this bag. Bonus: you'll always be able to contact a spirit.
2. The Beauty of Horror: a GOREgeous Coloring Book - Studies have shown that coloring relieves stress. Color some horror for your mental health.
3. Mini Squishable Cthulhu - Who doesn't need a Cthulhu of their very own to hug and squish?
4. Death and the Afterlife: A Chronological Journey - Everything you could know or ever want to know about death.
5. Always Follow Your Dreams Nightmare on Elm Street Mug - This inspirational mug will haunt your dreams…


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The hub of Miami's athletic facilities, the $5 million Walter L. Gross Jr. Family Student-Athlete Development Center, was dedicated in the fall of 2001.
This facility, which is located between Millett Hall and Yager Stadium, caters to both the academic and physical needs of Miami's student-athletes. One half of the facility is dedicated for a 10,000-square foot physical fitness center, which includes free and machine weights, a circuit training machine, cardiovascular equipment, and speed, agility and jump training facilities.
The other portion of the center is devoted to academic enrichment. The center features two large study areas, an informal study lounge, private tutoring offices and a computer lab.
Separating the academic and physical fitness centers is a main lobby and reception area, which features a rotunda that dominates the reception lobby ceiling.


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text: CLASSIC DINING ROOM, Mamaroneck, NY: When the homeowners moved into their new dream home, they brought with them their dining table, chairs and chandelier, but envisioned a more finished, inspired space. The host chairs were reupholstered in a graphic navy blue and gold chevron that adds a fresh, yet classic look. Walls are covered in a vertical metallic "moonstone" colored wall-covering to add a sense of drama fitting for their vintage glass and brass chandelier. Antique brass and glass hurricane sconces above the mantel add contemporary style and complement the vintage chandelier. Ivory linen sheer drapery and Roman shades for the large front window wall provide a light, easy style that counters the heavier dark wood table. An off-white textured faux raffia buffet with brass knobs sits on the chevron navy area rug ready to use as a serving area for the next dinner party.


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A Hybrid model comprises of two engines: one petrol, one electric, working in tandem. Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive forms the perfect partnership, switching between petrol or electric power and combining both for maximum efficiency while minimising fuel consumption and helping to improve air quality. When the petrol engine is running Toyota's hybrid cars emit anything from 70g of CO2 per km, which is an amazingly low statistic for a family car.
Behind the wheel of our hybrid cars you can be assured of some of the lowest CO2 emissions in their classes, in fact, when driving in EV-mode (Electric Vehicle mode), it can go from 0-50 km/h without producing any emissions whatsoever – you'd find more CO2 in a spent balloon. Unlike diesel cars, Hybrids also produce very low levels of harmful nitrogen oxides.
With a Hybrid there is no need to worry about how far you're travelling, just fill up with petrol like any conventional car. When the battery begins to run low, excess power from the engine charges it back up again. No energy is wasted, whenever you apply the brake or whilst cruising energy is recycled to recharge the battery.
With Hybrid there's double the power which comes from the electric and petrol engine. They can work in tandem to produce a serene power and responsive torque, which is on tap for when you need it. The power button can be used for that extra kick - for instance when you're overtaking - simply press it and enjoy an immediate reply.
Toyota Hybrid's adapt to their surroundings; Uphill, both engines power the vehicle to deliver maximum performance. Deceleration and Braking: the hybrid system reuses kinetic power to charge the battery. Overtaking; each engine power the car to provide optimum performance. Standstill; Both engines are automatically turned off so no energy is lost when stationary.
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Civil War History Wilmer McLean at the Beginning and End of the War Part 1
About Wilmer McLean an odd figure in American Civil War history who can claim to have hosted both the beginning and end of the War.
Maj. Wilmer McLean might well have said, as tradition has it, "The [civil] War began in my front yard and ended in my parlor."
McLean, a well-to-do wholesale grocer from Alexandria, had retired in 1854 to a pleasant estate along Bull Run, near Manassas Junction, in Prince William County, Va. He had made many improvements on the plantation, including a massive stone barn.
The place was known as Yorkshire, for the home county of a previous owner, Col. Richard Blackburn, a migrant Englishman.
Roads in the neighborhood led to the nearby rail line and important villages, and several crossed Bull Run not far from the farmhouse. One of these crossings was McLean's Ford.
In May, 1861, the line of Bull Run was occupied by Confederate troops to guard against an expected Federal thrust from Washington. Many regiments camped on or near Yorkshire, and Camp Wigfall was established on its southernmost acres.
Just behind McLean's Ford, and on either side, Gen. J. R. Jones had his brigade raise earthworks which remain today--though much reduced by bulldozers--amid a housing development known as Yorkshire Village.
On July 18, when Federals approached the site, Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, the Confederate commander, left his headquarters at a nearby farmhouse and went to Yorkshire. The general was riding the front lines at noon of that day when a Union shell dropped into a chimney of the McLean house, fell into the kitchen fireplace, and immediately exploded in a kettle of stew.
The stew was splattered over the room and the luncheon menu for the general, his staff, and the McLean household was revised.
The action in which this shot was fired threw Gen. Daniel Tyler's Federal division against Gen. James Longstreet's Confederates--a skirmish known to Confederates as the Battle of Bull Run, as opposed to the larger engagement of July 21 (which they called the Battle of Manassas, but which the Federals called Bull Run).
Casualties from this fight were placed in Major McLean's big barn, but officers were forced to move them when Union gunners shelled the place. Beauregard commented bitterly on enemy treatment of the McLean barn, saying that it was "surmounted by the usual yellow hospital flag. I hope, for the sake of past associations, that it was ignorantly mistaken for a Confederate flag."
Beauregard stayed at Yorkshire for three days while troops maneuvered over the farm.
McLean had had enough of war, and when the armies had gone, he bought a farm in isolated southern Virginia, its red brick house fronting a street in the village of Appomattox Court House. The McLean family seems to have lived peacefully for three years in their new home. Back at Yorkshire, the armies crossed Bull Run and the familiar fields in the Second Manassas campaign. And, in October of 1863, Jeb Stuart's artillery fought a day's engagement on the farm as part of Lee's withdrawal after Gettysburg.
The war caught up with Wilmer McLean about noon of Sunday, Apr. 9, 1865. The major was walking in the village street, probably alarmed at the number of Confederate troops lying near his home, now that the early-morning fire had ceased.
A young officer in a worn gray uniform hailed him, asking for a place where General Lee might meet with General Grant.
McLean showed the officer--Col. Charles Marshall--an unoccupied brick building in the center of the village. Lee's aide looked into its unfurnished interior and declined it: "Isn't there some other place?"
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In 1973 my father Adino bought this land.
In 1998 we decided to create, in this village on the slopes of Monte Conero in the Marche, Tenimenti Spinsanti. Since the beginning of this adventure was to the goal of becoming a wine-producing years of excellence. Passion, dedication, unique terroir and the unique microclimate, were taken to our label to be known nationally and internationally.


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Farmer Attitudes Toward Cooperative Approaches to Herbicide Resistance Management: A Common Pool Ecosystem Service Challenge, David E. Ervin, Elise H. Breshears, George B. Frisvold, Terrance M. Hurley, Katherine E. Dentzman, Jeffrey L. Gunsolus, Raymond A. Jussaume, Micheal D. K. Owen, Jason Norsworthy, Mustofa Mahmud Al Mamun, and Wesley Everman
Four-fold Increase in Solar Forcing on Snow in Western U.S. Burned Forests Since 1999, Kelly E. Gleason, Joseph R. McConnell, Monica M. Arienzo, Nathan Chellman, and Wendy M. Calvin
A Case Study of OregonWaterStories.com: Exploring Agency with Water Justice, Activist Applied Linguistics, and a Community Partner, Melissa Haeffner and Janet Cowal
Nutrients Mediate the Effects of Temperature on Methylmercury Concentrations in Freshwater Zooplankton, Meredith P. Jordan, A. Robin Stewart, Collin A. Eagles-Smith, and Angela L. Strecker
Assessing Local Attitudes and Perceptions of Non-Native Species to Inform Management of Novel Ecosystems, Casey L. Lewis, Elise F. Granek, and Max Nielsen-Pincus
When Pets become Pests: The Role of the Exotic Pet Trade in Producing Invasive Vertebrate Animals, Julie I. Lockwood, Dustin J. Welbourne, Christina M. Romagosa, Phillip Cassey, Nicholas E. Mandrak, Angela L. Strecker, Brian Leung, Oliver C. Stringham, Bradley Udell, Diane J. Episcopio-Sturgeon, Michael F. Tlusty, James Sinclair, Michael R. Springborn, Elizabeth F. Plenaar, Andrew L. Rhyne, and Reuben Keller
Macroecological Drivers of Zooplankton Communities Across the Mountains of Western North America, Charlie J. G. Loewen, Angela L. Strecker, Gary L. Larson, Allan Vogel, Janet M. Fischer, and Rolf D. Vinebrooke
A Mixed-methods Approach to Determine how Conservation Management Programs and Techniques have Affected Herbicide Use and Distribution in the Environment Over Time, Melanie Malone and Eugene Foster
Source Apportionment of Trace Elements and Black Carbon in an Urban Industrial Area (Portland, Oregon), A. J. Miller, D. M. Raduma, Linda Acha George, and J. L. Fry
Fine-Scale Assessment of Cross-Boundary Wildfire Events in the Western United States, Palaiologos Palaiologou, Alan A. Ager, Cody Evers, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Michelle A. Day, and Haiganoush K. Preisler
A Landscape Model of Variable Social-Ecological Fire Regimes, Robert M. Scheller, Alec M. Kretchun, Todd J. Hawbaker, and Paul D. Henne
Roots Mediate the Effects of Snowpack Decline on Soil Bacteria, Fungi, and Nitrogen Cycling in a Northern Hardwood Forest, Patrick O. Sorensen, Jennifer M. Bhatnagar, Lynn M. Christenson, Jorge Duran, Timothy J. Fahey, Melany C. Fisk, Adrien C. Finzi, Peter M. Groffman, Jennifer L. Morse, and Pamela H. Templer
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Sediment Chemistry of Urban Stormwater Ponds and Controls on Denitrification, Joanna R. Blaszczak, Meredith Steele, Brian D. Badgley, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Jennifer L. Morse, Erin N. Rivers, Sharon J. Hall, Christopher Neill, Diane E. Pataki, Peter M. Groffman, and Emily S. Bernhardt
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Climate Change and Stream Temperature in the Willamette River Basin: Implications for Fish Habitat, Heejun Chang, Eric Craig Watson, and Angela L. Strecker
Public Perceptions of Mountain Lake Fisheries Management in National Parks, Ariana M. Chiapella, Max Nielsen-Pincus, and Angela L. Strecker
Boater Knowledge and Behavior Regarding Aquatic Invasive Species at a Boat Wash Station, Samuel A. Cimino and Angela L. Strecker
Development and Field Validation of an Environmental DNA (eDNA) Assay for Invasive Clams of the Genus Corbicula, Dominique A. Cowart, Mark A. Renshaw, Crysta A. Gantz, John Umek, Sudeep Chandra, Scott P. Egan, David M. Lodge, and Eric R. Larson
The Economic Contribution of Stewardship Contracting: Two Case Studies from the Mount Hood National Forest, Jean M. Daniels, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Mike Paruszkiewicz, and Nathan Poage
Archetypes of Community Wildfire Exposure from National Forests of the Western US, Cody Evers, Alan A. Ager, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Palaiologos Palaiologou, and Ken Bunzel
The Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity of Novel Ecosystems: A literature review, Cody Evers, Chloe Wardropper, Benjamin Branoff, Elise F. Granek, Shana Hirsch, Timothy E. Link, Sofia Olivero-Lora, and Codie Wilson
Environmental DNA Detection of Aquatic Invasive Plants in Lab Mesocosm and Natural Field Conditions, Crysta Gantz, Mark A. Renshaw, Daniel Erickson, David M. Lodge, and Scott P. Egan
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Social Position Influencing the Water Perception Gap Between Local Leaders and Constituents in a Socio-Hydrological System, Melissa Haeffner, Douglas Jackson-Smith, and Courtney G. Flint
The Spread of Exotic Plant Species at Mount St. Helens: The Roles of a Road, Disturbance Type, and Post-disturbance Management, Lindsey Karr, Charles M. Crisafulli, and Jeffrey J. Gerwing
A Multi-City Comparison of Front and Backyard Differences in Plant Species Diversity and Nitrogen Cycling in Residential landscapes, Dexter H. Locke, Meghan Avolio, Tara Trammell, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, J. Morgan Grove, John Rogan, Deborah G. Martin, Neil D. Bettez, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Peter M. Groffman, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Jennifer L. Morse, and +
Assessments of Biodiversity, Carbon, and Their Relationships in Nepalese Forest Commons: Implications for Global Climate Initiatives, Harisharan Luintel, Robert M. Scheller, and Randall A. Bluffstone
Marine Debris Trends: 30 years of Change on Ventura County and Channel Island Beaches, Michaela Miller, Clare Steele, Dorothy Horn, and Cause Hanna
Local Capacity to Engage in Federal Wildfire Suppression Efforts: An Explanation of Variability in Local Capture of Suppression Contracts, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Cody R. Evers, Cassandra Moseley, Heidi Huber-Steams, and R. Patrick Bixler
Using Transboundary Wildfire Exposure Assessments to Improve Fire Management Programs: a Case Study in Greece, Palaiologos Palaiologou, Alan A. Ager, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Cody Evers, and Kostas Kalabokidis
Effects of Water Level Increase on Phytoplankton Assemblages in a Drinking Water Reservoir, Yangdong Pan, Shijun Guo, Yuying Li, Wei Yin, Pengcheng Qi, Jainwei Shi, Lanqun Hu, Bing Li, Shengge Bi, and Jingya Zhu
Among‐Species Overlap in Rodent Body Size Distributions Predicts Species Richness Along a Temperature Gradient, Quentin D. Read, John M. Grady, Phoebe Zarnetske, Sydne Record, Benjamin Baiser, Jonathan Belmaker, Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Angela L. Strecker, Lydia Beaudrot, and Katherine M. Thibault
Does Scale Matter? A Systematic Review of Incorporating Biological Realism when Predicting Changes in Species Distributions, Sydne Record, Angela L. Strecker, Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Lydia Beaudrot, Phoebe Zarnetske, Jonathan Belmaker, and Beth Gerstner
Reducing Surface Accumulation of Aphanizomenon Flos-aquae Using Wetland Water to Increase Cellular Turgor Pressure and Interfere with Buoyancy Regulation, Arick Rouhe and John G. Rueter
Water Flow and Biofilm Cover Influence Environmental DNA Detection in Recirculating Streams, Arial Shogren, Jennifer L. Tank, Scott P. Egan, Olivia August, Emma J. Rosi, Brittany R. Hanrahan, Mark A. Renshaw, Crysta A. Gantz, and Diogo Bolster
A Multi-Year Data Set on Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation-Meteorology Interactions for Marine Stratocumulus Clouds, Armin Sorooshian, Alexander B. MacDonald, Hossein Dadashazar, Kelvin H. Bates, Matthew M. Coggon, Jill S. Craven, Ewan Crosbie, Scott P. Hersey, Natasha Hodas, Jack J. Lin, Arnaldo Negrón Marty, Lindsay C. Maudlin, Andrew R. Metcalf, Shane M. Murphy, Luz T. Padró, Gouri Prabhakar, Tracey A. Rissman, Taylor Shingler, Varuntida Varutbangkul, Zhen Wang, Roy K. Woods, Patrick Y. Chuang, Athanasios Nenes, Haflidi H. Jonsson, Richard C. Flagan, and John H. Seinfeld
Ecosystem Services as Boundary Objects for Transdisciplinary Collaboration, Cara Steger, Shana Hirsch, Cody Evers, Benjamin Branoff, Maria Petrova, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Chloe Wardropper, and Carena J. van Riper
Mapping Water Availability, Cost and Projected Consumptive Use in the Eastern United States with Comparisons to the West, Vincent C. Tidwell, Barbie D. Moreland, Calvin R. Shaneyfelt, and Peter Kobos
A Decision Tree Analysis of Nonindigenous Species Risk from Ballast Water to the Lower Columbia River and Oregon coast, USA, Danielle Verna, Richard R. Rueb, Crysta A. Gantz, John Gala, Jeremiah Green, John A. Zalusky, and Rian vanden Hooff
Detecting Early Signs of Environmental Degradation in Protected Areas: An Example of Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve, China, Lizhu Wang, Yangdong Pan, Yong Cao, Bo Li, Quanxi Wang, Beixin Wang, Wanting Pang, Jie Zhang, Zhongfu Zhu, and Guiping Deng
Factors Determining Zooplankton Assemblage Difference Among a Man-made Lake, Connecting Canals, and the Water-origin River, Kun Zhao, Lizhu Wang, Catherine Riseng, Kevin Wehrly, Yangdong Pan, Kun Song, Liangjun Da, Wanting Pang, Qingmin You, Hua Tian, Shuiqin Liu, and Quanxi Wang
Submissions from 2017
Network Analysis of Wildfire Transmission and Implications for Risk Governance, Alan A. Ager, Cody Evers, Michelle A. Day, Haiganoush K. Preisler, Ana M.G. Barros, and Max Nielsen-Pincus
A Follow-up Study of Selected Biomarkers of Health in Cod Gadus Morhua L. Collected from the Southern Baltic off the Polish Coast, Joanna D. Borucinska, Dorota Morka, Zbigniew Grabowski, and H. Smith
Quantifying Resilience of Multiple Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in a Temperate Forest Landscape, Elena Cantarello, Adrian C. Newton, Phillip A. Martin, Paul M. Evans, Arjan Gosal, and Melissa S. Lucash
Tsunami-driven Rafting: Transoceanic Species Dispersal and Implications for Marine Biogeography, James T. Carlton, John W. Chapman, Jonathan B. Geller, Jessica A. Miller, Deborah A. Carlton, Megan I. McCuller, Nancy C. Treneman, Brian P. Steves, and Gregory M. Ruiz
Differential Sensitivity to Climate Change of C and N Cycling Processes Across Soil Horizons in a Northern Hardwood Forest, Jorge Durán, Jennifer L. Morse, Alexandra Rodríguez, and John L. Campbell
Live Diatoms as Indicators of Urban Stormwater Runoff, Nadia D. Gillett, Maggie E. Oudsema, and Alan D. Steinman
Competition Amplifies Drought Stress in Forests Across Broad Climatic and Compositional Gradients, Kelly E. Gleason, John B. Bradford, Alessandra Bottero, Anthony W. D'Amato, Shawn Fraver, Brian J. Palik, Michael A. Battaglia, Louis Iverson, Laura Kenefic, and Christel C. Kern
Developing a Representative Snow-Monitoring Network in a Forested Mountain Watershed, Kelly E. Gleason, Anne Nolin, and Travis R. Roth
Ecological Homogenization of Residential Macrosystems, Peter M. Groffman, Meghan Avolio, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Neil D. Bettez, J. Morgan Grove, Sharon J. Hall, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Susannah B. Lerman, Dexter H. Locke, James B. Heffernan, Jennifer L. Morse, Christopher Neill, Kristen C. Nelson, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Diane E. Pataki, Colin Polsky, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, and Tara Trammell
Accessing Blue Spaces: Social and Geographic Factors Structuring Familiarity With, Use of, and Appreciation of Urban Waterways, Melissa Haeffner, Douglas Jackson-Smith, Martin Buchert, and Jordan Risley
Gas Transfer Velocities in Small Forested Ponds, Meredith A. Holgerson, Emily R. Farr, and Peter A. Raymond
Suburbanization Alters Small Pond Ecosystems: Shifts in Nitrogen and Food Web Dynamics, Meredith Holgerson, Max R. Lambert, L. Kealoha Freidenburg, and David K. Skelly
The Impacts of Natural Flood Management Approaches on In-Channel Sediment Quality, Victoria Janes, Robert Grabowski, J. Mant, and Deonie Allen
Evaluating Simplistic Methods to Understand Current Distributions and Forecast Distribution Changes Under Climate Change Scenarios: An Example With Coypu (Myocastor coypus), Catherine S. Jarnevich, Nicholas E. Young, Trevor R. Sheffels, Jacoby Carter, Mark D. Sytsma, and Colin Talbert
Restoring Surface Fire Stabilizes Forest Carbon Under Extreme Fire Weather in the Sierra Nevada, Daniel J. Krofcheck, Matthew D. Hurteau, Robert M. Scheller, and E. Louise Loudermilk
Past, Present, and Future of Ecological Integrity Assessment for Fresh Waters, Lauren M. Kuehne, Julian D. Olden, Angela L. Strecker, Joshua J. Lawler, and David M. Theobald
Environmental DNA (eDNA) Detects the Invasive Crayfishes Orconectes rusticus and Pacifastacus leniusculus in Large Lakes of North America, Eric R. Larson, Mark A. Renshaw, Crysta A. Gantz, John Umek, Sudeep Chandra, David M. Lodge, and Scott P. Egan
Bending the Carbon Curve: Fire Management for Carbon Resilience under Climate Change, E. Louise Loudermilk, Robert M. Scheller, Peter J. Weisberg, and Alec M. Kretchun
Spatial Resilience of Forested Landscapes Under Climate Change and Management, Melissa S. Lucash, Robert M. Scheller, Eric J. Gustafson, and Brian R. Sturtevant
The Influence of Place on the Willingness to Pay for Ecosystem Services, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Patricia Sussman, Drew E. Bennett, Hannah Gosnell, and Robert Parker
Effects of In Situ Phosphorus Enrichment on the Benthos in a Subalpine Karst Stream and Implications for Bioassessment in Nature Reserves, Yangdong Pan, Guiping Deng, Lizhu Wang, and Yong Cao
Advancing Characterization of Social Diversity in the Wildland-Urban Interface: An Indicator Approach for Wildfire Management, Travis B. Paveglio, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Jesse B. Abrams, and Cassandra Moseley
Prozac In The Water: Chronic Fluoxetine Exposure And Predation Risk Interact To Shape Behaviors In An Estuarine Crab, Joseph R. Peters, Elise F. Granek, Catherine E. de Rivera, and Matthew Rollins
Assessing the Potential of Land Use Modification to Mitigate Ambient NO2 and Its Consequences for Respiratory Health, Meenakshi Rao, Linda A. George, Vivek Shandas, and Todd N. Rosenstiel
Forest Management Scenarios in a Changing Climate: Trade-Offs Between Carbon, Timber, and Old Forest, Robert M. Scheller, Megan K. Creutzburg, Melissa S. Lucash, Stephen D. LeDuc, and Mark G. Johnson
Interactions Among Fuel Management, Species Composition, Bark Beetles, and Climate Change and the Potential Effects on Forests of the Lake Tahoe Basin, Robert M. Scheller, Alec M. Kretchun, E. Louise Loudermilk, Matthew D. Hurteau, Peter J. Weisberg, and Carl Skinner
Disequilibrium of Fire-prone Forests Sets the Stage for a Rapid Decline in Conifer Dominance during the 21st Century, Josep M. Serra-Diaz, Charles Maxwell, Melissa S. Lucash, Robert M. Scheller, Danelle M. Laflower, Adam D. Miller, Alan J. Tepley, Howard E. Epstein, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, and Jonathan R. Thompson
A Unique Role for Citizen Science in Ecological Restoration: A Case Study in Streams, Gail Shaloum, Daniel Bedell, and Patrick M. Edwards
Increased Habitat Connectivity Homogenizes Freshwater Communities: Historical and Landscape Perspectives, Angela L. Strecker and Jeffrey Thomas Brittain
Effects of Environmentally-Relevant Antibiotic Mixtures on Marine Microalgal Growth, Jaclyn R. Teixeira and Elise F. Granek
Examining Inducible Defenses to Novel Predators Across Native and Introduced Populations, Brian C. Turner, Catherine E. de Rivera, and Marie E. Hepner
Incorporating Sociocultural Phenomena into Ecosystem-Service Valuation: The Importance of Critical Pluralism, Carena J. van Riper, Adam C. Landon, Sarah Kidd, Patrick Bitterman, Lee A. Fitzgerald, Elise F. Granek, Sonia Ibarra, David Iwaniec, Christopher Raymond, and David Toledo
Continental-Scale Homogenization of Residential Lawn Plant Communities, Megan M. Wheeler, Christopher Neill, Peter M. Groffman, Meghan Avolio, Neil D. Bettez, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Lindsay Darling, J. Morgan Grove, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Jennifer L. Morse, Kristen C. Nelson, Laura A. Ogden, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Diane E. Pataki, Colin Polsky, Meredith Steele, and Tara Trammell
Legacies of Stream Channel Modification Revealed using General Land Office Surveys, with Implications for Water Temperature and Aquatic Life, Seth M. White, Casey Justice, Denise A. Kelsey, Dale A. McCullough, and Tyanna Smith
Forecasted Range Shifts of Arid-Land Fishes in Response to Climate Change, James E. Whitney, Joanna B. Whittier, Craig Patrick Paukert, Julian D. Olden, and Angela L. Strecker
The Interplay Between Landscape Structure and Biotic Interactions, Phoebe Zarnetske, Benjamin Baiser, Angela L. Strecker, Sydne Record, Jonathan Belmaker, and Mao-Ning Tuanmu
Metacommunity Structure of Zooplankton in River Networks: Roles of Environmental and Spatial Factors, Kun Zhao, Kun Song, Yangdong Pan, and Lizhu Wang
Submissions from 2016
Assessing the Impacts of Federal Forest Planning on Wildfire Risk Mitigation in the Pacific Northwest, USA, Alan A. Ager, Michelle A. Day, Karen C. Short, and Cody R. Evers
The Effect of Artificial Light on Wildlife Use of a Passage Structure, Leslie Bliss-Ketchum, Catherine de Rivera, Brian C. Turner, and Dolores Weisbaum
Lake Macroinvertebrate Assemblages and Relationship With Natural Environment and Tourism Stress in Jiuzhaigou Natural Reserve, China, Yong Cao, Beixin Wang, Jie Zhang, Lizhu Wang, Yangdong Pan, Quanxi Wang, Daijun Jian, and Guiping Deng
Variation in Tussock Architecture of the Invasive Cordgrass Spartina Densiflora along the Pacific Coast of North America, Jesus M. Castillo, Brenda J. Grewall, Andrea Pickart, Enrique Figueroa, and Mark D. Sytsma
Reefscapes of Fear: Predation Risk and Reef Hetero-Geneity Interact to Shape Herbivore Foraging Behaviour, Laura B. Catano, Maria C. Rojas, Ryan J. Malossi, Joseph R. Peters, Michael R. Heathaus, James W. Fourquren, and Deron E. Burkepile
Bioenergy Harvest, Climate Change, and Forest Carbon in the Oregon Coast Range, Megan K. Creutzburg, Robert M. Scheller, Melissa S. Lucash, Louisa B. Evers, Stephen D. LeDuc, and Mark G. Johnson
Climate Change Decreases Nitrogen Pools and Mineralization Rates in Northern Hardwood Forests, Jorge Durán, Jennifer L. Morse, Peter M. Groffman, John L. Campbell, Lynn M. Christenson, Charles T. Driscoll, Timothy J. Fahey, Melany C. Fisk, Gene E. Likens, Jerry M. Melillo, Myron J. Mitchell, Pamela H. Templer, and Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur
Measuring and Managing Resistance and Resilience Under Climate Change in Northern Great Lake Forests (USA), Matthew Joshua Duveneck and Robert M. Scheller
Carbon Sequestration in Managed Temperate Coniferous Forests Under Climate Change, Caren C. Dymond, Sarah Beukema, Craig R. Nitschke, K. David Coates, and Robert M. Scheller
The Value of Long-Term Stream Invertebrate Data Collected by Citizen Scientists, Patrick Michael Edwards
Three Simple Experiments to Examine the Effect of Sediment Pollution on Algae-Based Food Webs in Streams, Patrick Edwards and Rodney Shroufe
Factors Influencing the Survival of Outmigrating Juvenile Salmonids Through Multiple Dam Passages: An Individual-Based Approach, Timothy Elder, Christa M. Woodley, Mark A. Weiland, and Angela L. Strecker
Wildfire Risk as a Socioecological Pathology, A. Paige Fischer, Thomas A. Spies, Toddi A. Steelman, Cassandra Moseley, Bart R. Johnson, John D. Bailey, Alan A. Ager, Patrick Bourgeron, Susan Charnley, Brandon M. Collins, Jeffrey D. Kline, Jessica E. Leahy, Jeremy S. Littell, James D. A. Millington, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Christine S. Olsen, Travis B. Paveglio, Christopher I. Roos, Michelle M. Steen-Adams, Forrest R. Stevens, Jelena Vukomanovic, Eric M. White, and David Bowman
Enhancing Small-Scale Fisheries Management Through Community Engagement and Multi-Community Partnerships: Comoros Case Study, Sarah Freed, Veronica Dujon, Elise F. Granek, and Jaffar Mouhhidine
Bridge Over Troubled Waters: A Synthesis Session to Connect Scientific and Decision Making Sectors, Kaitlin Goldsmith, Elise F. Granek, Amy Lubitow, and Michael Papenfus
Spatial and Temporal Variability of Contaminants Within Estuarine Sediments and Native Olympia Oysters: A Contrast Between a Developed and an Undeveloped Estuary, Elise F. Granek, Katherine E. Conn, Elena B. Nilsen, Lori Pillsbury, Angela L. Strecker, Steven S. Rumrill, and William Fish
Satisfaction, Water and Fertilizer Use in the American Residential Macrosystem, Peter M. Groffman, J. Morgan Grove, Colin Polsky, Neil D. Bettez, Jennifer L. Morse, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Christopher Neill, Kristen C. Nelson, Laura A. Ogden, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Diane E. Pataki, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, and Dexter H. Locke


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What's the story?
Media Molecule made a name for itself with the LittleBigPlanet franchise, and this is the first new game developed by the studio that doesn't fit into that series. At its core, it's a simple platformer that's exclusive to the handheld PlayStation Vita, but it has big ideas.
The Vita lends itself well to the distinguishing characteristic of this game: its world made of paper. You guide a messenger with the buttons, but also appear as a face in the sun thanks to the Vita's camera, poke your fingers "through" the rear touchpad to move things around, and frequently use the front touchscreen to create paper designs.
Highs and lows
Few games use the Vita's features this well. The unique mechanics could have felt gimmicky, but they're backed up by plenty of more traditional platforming. The combination of controls can be a bit fiddly, though.
The verdict
Tearaway is a bundle of innovative ideas that shows how the Vita can be more than the sum of its little-used parts, with recognisable Media Molecule style in its British flair and colourful, quirky design.


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Easy Energy Medicine technique for Saturn in Sagittarius!
The following is an easy Energy Medicine technique for Saturn making it's move into Sagittarius! Saturn is cold and blue. Medical Astrology says it restricts, limits circulation, undernourishes and paves the way for toxic build up and stiffness. As a result, energy can stagnate, and toxins can build up. Sagittarius rules the hips and thighs and is mutable, moving fire. Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, so Sag wants to expand, grow and move. So massaging the Neurolymphatic Reflex Points, especially on the inner and outer the thighs, will help move stagnation and toxins from those areas!
Take either your thumbs, or make a three finger notch with your thumbs and first two fingers, and starting at your outer hip, place them right where the crease would be if you were sitting. Think of the outseam line if you were wearing jeans. Begin to deeply massage in a line, all the way down your outer thigh to just above the knee. This line of points relates to the Large Intestine. Then, move to the inseam area of your inner thigh and massage deeply all the way down to just above the knee. This line of points relates to the Circulation Sex Meridian and the Small Intestine.
Deeply massaging these points, clears the lymph in the associated organ system, and is often enough to balance the meridians. If any of the points are really sore, it means they really need work.
This simple technique helps to energize, remove toxins, clear hormonal, emotional and physical stagnant energies as well as to help balance the meridians and their related organ systems. Plus, you get a good thigh massage. Enjoy!


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Hillary's amazing pile of debt reminds us to be careful who we deal with
With a recession in full swing, Clinton is facing increasing difficulties in paying off her debt. President Obama promised to help persuade his contacts to contribute to Clinton's debt if she endorsed him in the general election. She jumped at the chance, responding with an adoring speech urging everyone to support Obama. Joe Biden then joined in, signing an appeal to more than 3 million Obama donors to help Clinton pay off her campaign debt. President Obama may have thought he had repaid Clinton's support by making her Secretary of State, but her position limits her ability to raise money due to the Hatch Act.
Stuck in a recession and hampered by legal restrictions: where can Clinton get the millions she owes Penn? Well, she could argue that he didn't fulfill his duty to her, running a strategy that miscounted the delegates needed to win and relying heavily on an elitist top-bottom approach that contrasted Obama's grassroots operation. And who hasn't argued their way out of a credit-card fee or a bill for bad service?
Since he was fired in April 2008 for focusing too much on his (arguably conflicting) private work, Penn has been a piñata for Clintonistas in the blogosphere; Bart Motes, writing on The Huffington Post, called him "political swine flu."
But don't feel sorry for Penn. He'll be fine. He's the C.E.O. of public-relations colossus Burson-Marsteller. And Clinton has already paid him more than $4 million. He should have no problem raking in new business, given that he seems willing to have few restrictions on which clients he'll represent. Consider Blackwater Worldwide (now made over as Xe), the private-security firm that notoriously terrorized Iraqis during our current war. Or Countrywide Financial, the lender infamous for fueling the subprime-mortgage crisis, and whose C.E.O., Angelo Mozillo, was named "Worst American C.E.O. of All Time" by Condé Nast Portfolio. Penn has a great, high-paying job, and he's willing to make money from the worst possible clients. He should be able to handle forgiving Clinton's outstanding $2-million-plus loan.
Penn's team declined to comment on this matter, but if there's a personal-finance lesson here, it's this: Watch out who you hire. Check the people they're willing to work with. That will speak volumes for the work they're offering to do for you.


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How to Overcome Failure/
I tend to pay attention when the same thing appears over and over again in my world. Lately, this has been creativity and failure.
So I figured why not create this week's Thoughtful Thursday on this very thing?
Just the other day, I listened to Elizabeth Gilbert's podcast, Magic Lessons, with Brene Brown. Wow! 30-minutes jam-packed with nuggets of wisdom and inspiration. (Be sure to check it out if you haven't already done so.)
As I listened to them chat, it dawned on me that the same reason we give up when we experience failure (or feel as if we aren't good enough) is the same reason many of us don't experience the life we desire. They were totally speaking my language!
For so many of us, failure is a bad word.
This sure was true for me most of my life! And, if we have the courage to encounter it, we often use it as a reason to stop what it is we are doing.
In today's video, I address this fear and how to overcome it.
If you're anything like me and have found that failure or shame has kept you from creating something in the world (or trying again), you won't want to miss today's video.
Failure is an opportunity to notice how we are—and always will be—okay. {Tweet that!}
The next time you face a little failure, be more empathetic, notice how you are still okay, and then ask yourself if you are willing to do it again.
Now it's your turn! What is your favorite tool or technique to overcome failure? Share in the comments below so we can learn from one another and have more people who are willing to see that failure is offering us an opportunity rather than a threat.
If you know anyone who could benefit from hearing these inspirational messages about overcoming failure, please be sure to share this with them.
With love & gratitude,
P.S. Keep an eye out (or be sure to sign up) for some upcoming exciting announcements! I'm feeling into this season of change and will be offering up some new ways to deliver value and expanding some of what I already do.


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Today we sampled Jesse, the Olympia oyster selected for genome sequencing.
The oyster was collected in Fidalgo Bay, weighing in at 58.99 grams and 70 mm long.
The adductor muscle was selected for genome sequencing, thus quickly rinsed in 10% bleach.
Other tissues were sampled for RNA-seq
Samples were placed in two boxes, for redundancy.


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Just a very quick note about an amazing new release by Maaike!
This is what she sayd about this kit:
This kit is all about getting in shape! Let's face it, most women try to
get some pounds or kilo's off and a few of them try to get some
weight on! Now you can make some fun documentation of becoming
a healthy person again
Get it off contains:
20 papers (12 patterned and 8 solids)
60 Elements (incl. WA)
Look at these amazing and inspirational pages
created by her and her creative team
Happy Scrapping and we wish you some happy
xo Natascha


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We are a passionate team with the vision of delivering
the best & exciting experience for customers
Visiting the Amazon Rain Forest is one of the most eye-opening, informative and exciting travel experiences of a lifetime by itself. Imagine if you had the opportunity to share this experience with the most savy company in the market, it would be even better, right?
Amazonia Expeditions has worked with enthusiasm for over 30 years and it was founded by Moacir Fortes.


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An Uber driver from Schaumburg faces a felony drunken-driving charge for transporting a passenger while intoxicated in northern Kane County west of Elgin, according to a news release from the Kane County State's Attorney's office.
George M. Karyszyn, Jr., 45, of the 2200 block of Ramsey Circle, is charged with a class 4 felony count of aggravated DUI/vehicle for hire with passenger, a class C misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct/breach of peace and traffic offenses.
At about 5 a.m. Sunday, Karyszyn, while driving his 2017 Ford Explorer on eastbound Plank Road west of Muirhead Road as a vehicle for hire under Uber, was under the influence of alcohol, the release said. A passenger in the vehicle became alarmed and disturbed as a result.
The DUI offense is aggravated because Karyszyn was driving a vehicle for hire, the release said.
A Kane County Sheriff's deputy made the arrest after responding to a call for a well-being check, the release said.
The judge set Karyszyn's bail at $10,000 with 10 percent to apply for bond. He posted bond and was released. As a condition of bond, the judge ordered Karyszyn placed on electronic home monitoring and also ordered him not to consume alcohol.
His next court appearance is June 28 at the Kane County Judicial Center.


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Tara Strong on "Talking Voices"
In this week's episode of Talking Voices, the fans asked for it, and we finally granted their wishes! (no Fairly Odd Parents pun intended) Because today's episode features voice actress Tara Strong!
If you're thinking the name sounds familiar, maybe her resume will definitely give it away. She played Timmy Turner from The Fairly Odd Parents, Raven on Teen Titans, Harley Quinn from the Batman: Arkham video game franchise, Rikku on Final Fantasy X-2, Melody from The Little Mermaid 2, Batgirl from Batman: The Animated Series, and the list goes on and on...
This week, Strong talks about how she talks about playing Timmy Turner for almost a decade, bringing her characters to Vine, and her favorite voiceover memories.
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