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Winter Weather Impact at Iris January 19 2017
As the thaw continues here in the Southern Willamette Valley, we here at Iris would like to share some winter scenes and news from our vineyard.
The ice storm in mid-December left us with many trees and limbs to remove from our roadway. Thanks to our hardworking vineyard staff, we were able to open the road and tasting room quickly following. Our crew is continuing to make repairs to the deer fence surrounding the fields. It saw much damage from fallen trees and limbs. The vineyard itself weathered the ice storm without problem. The unpruned vines did not break under the weight of the ice as they are well supported by our high- tensile trellis. The trellis is designed to carry a heavy load. It must support the vines' canopy of leaves in the summer breezes as well as the weight of multiple tons per acre of grapes.
We experienced some lower than average temperatures in the past week. The Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Gris vines we farm are dormant for the winter season. While dormant, they are not damaged by cold until temperatures fall below 5 degrees. We believe that we are safe thus far. In the next week, our vineyard manager will spend time in the field, dissecting dormant buds to double check that they are alive and ready for the 2017 vintage. If we discover some spotty damage, we will adjust our pruning strategy to compensate.
Our vineyard crew is getting started pruning the vineyard. We will be working on this important and labor intensive job until March. Stay tuned for more.
Thank you to our patient tasting room customers for your understanding as we have been forced to close a number of days recently. The roads out to the vineyard and our driveway had been unsafe for our staff and customers to make it out to Lorane, but we are happy that safe access has been restored. We all are keeping our fingers crossed that this Oregon rain continues to fall in liquid form!
Riddling Sparkling Rose' January 10 2017
We have a very special upcoming release at Iris: Sparkling Rose'! In order to bring this limited-edition release to you, this wine is currently in the riddling stage of sparkling winemaking.
Over the course of the riddling stage, the dead yeast cells and other sediment formed as a by-product from the fermentation stage collects in the neck of each bottle. The goal is to achieve a crystal-clear wine. Not only does the riddling process remove the sediment from the wine, but it also helps create its unique texture and complex bouquet. The longer the wine sits in the riddling stage, the more complex and bubbly it becomes.What is riddling? Riddling is an age-old technique that involves rotating tilted bottles to remove sediment created from the fermentation stage. During this stage, the bottles are placed on a riddling rack with their necks down and gradually rotated in 1/8 to ¼ turn increments, both clockwise and counterclockwise. The average riddling process consists of about 25 turns over 4-6 weeks while the steepness of each inverted bottle increases from 45 degrees to 60.
After the riddling process, the sediment must be disgorged from the bottles. To do this, each bottle is placed in a sub-zero solution for a few minutes to form an ice plug made of the sediment deposits in the neck. The cap is then removed and the pressure within the bottle shoots out the ice plug with the frozen sediment trapped inside it.
Stay tued for the release date of this very special varietal (an Iris first!), and follow its process on our social media channels!
Harvest 2015 Comes to a Close October 12 2015
Harvest has concluded at Iris! 2015 was the earliest start and finish for harvest, with the final truck leaving the vineyard last Thursday. And what a great harvest it's been! We could not have asked for more perfect weather this year, and Arpad, our vineyard manager, is very pleased with this year's results: beautifully ripe fruit, superb flavors, and excellent tonnage harvested.
Autumn colors are just starting to set at the vineyard, so we hope you'll come out to see the beautiful fall foliage later this week. We'll also be serving Sauser for the last time this weekend. If you haven't had a chance to enjoy this delicious, harvest-season-only "new wine," this will be your last opportunity to enjoy it until next year. Traditionally only available to winemakers and their teams, Iris has been delighted to serve Sauser throughout this harvest season. Tastings are free, and a glass is only $6. We're open Thursday – Sunday from noon until six. We hope you'll join us. Cheers!
Iris' International Interns September 23 2015
Harvest is here! Not only is this an exciting time for our team as we start the process of transforming the harvested fruit into vintage 2015, but also because we welcome our annual international interns to the winery. When our winemaker, Aaron Lieberman, started with Iris in 2008, he brought with him an international intern program that continues to this day. Just prior to harvest each year, interns are selected from around the world through CAEP (Communicating for Agriculture Education Programs). Due to the strong wine culture in other parts of the world, international students tend to be the majority of our interns through this program. Typically, these students are graduates of an enology program at various universities around the world.
Our participation in the program is not only beneficial to the interns, as they apply their skills learned in university in a hands-on environment, but is incredibly beneficial to our wine-making team. We are able to keep up-to-date on the most recent science, research and techniques in wine-making, straight from the classroom experience at universities from around the world. These interns are also familiar with which wine
styles are currently popular outside of our region, as well as current market conditions. International flair and a global perspective is another tremendous benefit to our team via this program. In turn, we are able to provide real-world exposure to wine-making in order to complement the knowledge they gain in the classroom environment. Benjamin Ohly, from Germany, and Danny Wastivino, from Chile, are two of this year's interns and, according to our Cellar Master Bruce Howard, are two of the best the we have had the privilege to work with. We'll profile both of these interns as we move through harvest season, as well as update our readers on the current harvest. Until then - cheers!
2015 Veraison is in Full Swing September 04 2015
Veraison: In viticulture (grape-growing), veraison is the onset of ripening. The term is originally French (véraison), but has been adopted into English use. The official definition of veraison is "change of color of the grape berries".
The Southern Willamette Valley received some much needed rain over the last week, but fortunately it was not enough to have a negative impact on our quickly ripening grapes. The rain did, however, settle the dust a bit for our vineyard crew! The vineyard is at 80-95% veraison at the moment, and it looks like harvest will start with Pinot Gris at the end of September continuing with Pinot Noir in early October. The Chardonnay is always the last to ripen and be harvested.
The long term trend forecast is calling for a warmer and drier than average September and October. If this holds true, that will be great news for vintage 2015! We still have a sizable crop hanging and it needs a month or so of decent weather to ripen. Cheers!
Photos: Pinot Gris (top left), Pinot Noir (top right and below), & Chardonnay (far left)
July Vineyard Update July 22 2015
Growth and berry development continue very rapidly with the warm weather we've been experiencing in the Pacific Northwest. 95 degrees has been highest temperature so far in the vineyard; however, the vines have not looked heat stressed at all. Fruit set happened quickly and seems solid. The grape berries are quickly approaching pea sized. We've paused on leaf pulling due to heat and the need to keep up with raising wires and shoot positioning. Our crew is currently making a final pass for these tasks. We've been irrigating replants and hedging both by hand and with the machine.
We've also found some nesting swallows close to the tasting room. They are voracious insect eaters, and we are glad to see them healthy and helping to control the insect population at the vineyard. Stop by and see the fledglings this weekend!
If you have any questions about the vineyard, feel free to leave a comment below! You can also reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Cheers!
Eye on Iris February 16 2015
We'd like to introduce our new video blog series, "Eye on Iris." Arpad Walker, our vineyard manager, will provide periodic updates and information on our vineyard. We hope you enjoy!
WINE + CHOCOLATE= A Perfect Pair! February 02 2015
Join us at the vineyard tasting room for an informative and delicious wine and chocolate tasting with Chocolatier Shane Tracey. Chef Shane will be educating us on single origin chocolates and pairing our lovely wines with unique and interesting chocolate flavors. We will be pairing chocolates with our 2012 Chardonnay, 2012 Reserve Pinot Noir and 2012 Syrah.
Chocolate will be available for purchase all day, but Chef Shane and the wine and chocolate presentation will happen from 3:00-5:00 P.M.
This exclusive wine and chocolate flight will be $3 for Trellis Club members and $8 for the general public.
Please RSVP for the session with Chef Shane by e-mailing email@example.com. We hope to see you there!
The Oregon Truffle Festival and Iris Vineyards December 30 2014
Next year, the Oregon Truffle Festival will celebrate ten years, and we are excited to be a sponsor for next year's festival! Between the 15th and 25th of January 2015, the 10th-annual Oregon Truffle Festival presents North America's only epicurean celebration of all things truffle right in the heart of Oregon—one of the few places on Earth where native truffles thrive. For nearly a decade, the Oregon Truffle Festival has been one of the leading voices for a burgeoning industry as well as an exciting culinary festival that sells out its popular weekend experiences and culinary events year after year.
This is an international event that joins truffle fanciers and truffle experts from all over the world in three days of celebration, educational seminars, and hands-on experiences. From James Beard winning chefs to truffle industry experts to food journalists and food enthusiasts, many renowned culinary figures participate in the Oregon Truffle Festival every year. It's the only event of its kind in the country, and the foremost wintertime culinary event in the State of Oregon.
There are still tickets available for the weekend's festivities, including the Winery Luncheon hosted by Iris Vineyards on January 24th. We hope you will join us in celebrating this unique to Oregon event!
Black Friday Chestnut Roasting Party November 24 2014
In what we hope will be an annual tradition, Richard will be roasting chestnuts on Friday afternoon (Black Friday). The chestnuts are harvested from an orchard onsite and are quite delicious! We will also be releasing a new vintage, an After Dinner Chardonnay, which we are excited to share. We hope you'll join us for this festive afternoon as we kick off the holiday season!
We will also be open on Wednesday in case you need to get some wine prior to Thanksgiving, and we'll have extended hours all weekend. Of course, we're closed Thanksgiving Day to spend time with family on the holiday. Below are some photos from our last Trellis Club Party where Richard fired up the chestnut roaster for our members. Cheers and Happy Holidays!
"It's a bird, it's a plane, it's…" a drone! November 03 2014
On a beautiful autumn Sunday, Iris Vineyards was fortunate enough to be able to host a drone owning guest who was onsite to fly the drone around the property. While not quite superman, this Phantom Quadcopter captured spectacular views of the vineyard, tasting room, and surrounding terrain. Below are some of the beautiful aerial photos captured during the flight:
The above shot captures Iris' vineyard and the landscape to the east.
The tasting room is seen from a bird's eye view and is the leftmost building in the picture above. The patio expands to the right, with Pamela and Richard's house being the structure at the top of the photo.
A direct shot of the front of our tasting room, trellis, and the vineyard expanding in the foreground.
Above, you see a different view of Iris' vineyard and tasting room.
The forestland to the west of the vineyard is pictured in the above shot.
Looking northwest, you see our tasting room, patio, vineyards, and forestland.
It was an exciting day to be at the vineyard! We hope you enjoy the photos and are able to visit us for a glass of wine and amazing "ground level" views.


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Work Smarter – I won't work more, nor can I work less, but I do need to work smarter. I have a surplus of things that need to be done…and when I try to do them all, I do none as well as I'd like. So, I need to be more proactive about setting priorities and delegating what I can.
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Last month on the Finalsite blog, Andrew Martin featured a beautiful advent calendar created by Seattle Preparatory School using our Posts module. It was inspiring! I wanted to build one for myself. In case any of you feel the same way, I'm taking you along for my journey.
Here at Finalsite headquarters, up in blustery Connecticut, there's only one thing we can think about: spring! So I'm going to make my advent calendar a Countdown to Spring. Imagine all the things you could use a countdown for, though: countdown to graduation, countdown to the last day of school, countdown to the first day of school...
Before I get started, I have to collect all my images. I made a full-color version and a black-and-white version of each, plus a cover photo.
I didn't use any special tools to make these, by the way. I used the tools available in Preview for Mac to create black-and-white versions, crop, resize, and overlay text.
Next, I'm going to upload them to Resources. These are going on my Support Blog Resources board, so to keep everything organized, I'll put them in that board's folder in Resources. I use the Bulk Upload tool to upload everything at once. I already have logical names for my files, but I do want to add an "advent" tag, just in case I need to find them all quickly later. Since these are going into Posts, I don't need to add them to a gallery, either.
Once my files are uploaded, I do want to go in and add titles and alt text to each image. Overlaid text isn't recommended for accessibility, so I want to make sure each of my images has alt text that includes what's written on the picture. This takes a little while, but it's important.
Now that all my images are ready to go, I can head to Posts and set those up. I want to think about it before I start, though, to make sure I don't have to go back and make a bunch of changes. I'm looking for a grid of images that counts down to 1, with black-and-white images being replaced by colorful images as the days change. Therefore, I want all my black-and-white image posts to start immediately, then expire at midnight the day of the switch.
The colorful image posts will not be scheduled to start until midnight of their day. I also want people to be able to click on the colorful images to see a quote about spring, so I'm going to put that in the body content of my post.
I've also added an "advent" tag to each of my posts, and I've put the image in as a Thumbnail. Since I took the time to add alt text to my images when I put them into Resources, that alt text automatically replaces the default alt text of the post title.
As I'm creating my posts, I can see they're lining up according to their Published and Scheduled status. This would be a problem if I tried to put them in the element this way, but I'm going to create a collection to keep them in the right order.
When the posts are added to a collection, I can group them together so they appear in the correct order as they go live and expire.
I have plans for my cover photo that will be made clear in the next section, so I'm going to go ahead and put a "Featured until" date on that post, and add it to my collection at the very beginning. I need it to be featured the whole time, though, so I'll just put the date way in the future.
Since my posts are coming along, I head over to Composer to set up my advent calendar page. I create a new page and choose a two-column layout with a wide right column. I add a Post element to each column.
In the settings for the left-hand Post element, I choose the Grid format, and then I choose my collection under Content Filters. I don't want my cover photo to show in this element, so I choose to show "Only Non-Featured" posts. I choose only the Thumbnail and "Link titles to post details" for my Content Details, and under Link To I choose "Element" and select the other Post element on the page.
Now my grid is showing the black-and-white images I have added to my collection so far. It's not showing the cover image, though, because that post is featured. (Now that step from earlier makes sense, right?)
The other Post element is where my colorful images will display, along with the quote. So I select the Single format, choose my collection, and set the Body and Thumbnail to display. There is no featured/non-featured option for the Single Post element, so my cover post will display in this element when you first load the page.
That's it! I've added all my posts to my collection, and as the colorful ones become available, you can click on them to load the full-size image on the right and read an inspirational quote below it. My advent calendar is ready to go live and welcome the new season.
This project took a little while to set up, but it wasn't hard. Most of the effort went into editing the images, adding alt text to the resources, and creating the posts. The page itself only took a few minutes.
I really did build this advent calendar. If you're looking forward to spring as much as I am, and you want to get some Posts inspiration and spring inspiration at the same time, check out: https://www.finalsitetraining.com/countdown-to-spring/.


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You're familiar with the Swiss Army knife, right? These all-in-one gadgets are packed with so many tools and features they're useful in almost any situation.
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Must-Have Mixer Attachments
Pasta Roller
Are there any things in life better than freshly-made pasta? (Sure there are, but not many. Scratch-made pasta is that good.) Snap a pasta roller attachment onto your stand mixer and in minutes you'll have plenty of fresh pasta, all with a minimum of effort. You can get attachments for making different types of pasta, ranging from fettuccine to ravioli.
Food Processor
Using a knife to dice, shred, or julienne can be time-consuming and tiring, especially if you're whipping up multiple dishes. Put down the knife and pick up a food processor attachment, which connects to your stand mixer and makes quick work of chopping up veggies, fruits, and hard cheeses.
Food Grinder
Harness the powerful motor of your stand mixer to grind raw meats or other ingredients using a food grinder attachment. You can create your own burger patties, meatloaf, or salsa.
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Fresh fruits and vegetables are good for you, but it can be a challenge getting the daily recommended serving amount. A juicer and sauce attachment not only allows you to create your own delicious and healthy smoothies, it's also perfect for making flavourful sauces.
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After the main course is done, you have to move on to dessert. (It may not be the law, but it should be.) An ice cream maker attachment lets you whip up any frozen dessert you prefer, whether it's ice cream, gelato, or sorbet.
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Certified Health Coach
Speaking of walking,
most days, I exercise because I like how it makes me feel.
You won't find me training for a marathon, weightlifting competition or anything that could be described as extreme.
Most of the time,
I aim to eat real foods that nourish my body and keep me functioning at my best.
But I indulge my undeniable sweet tooth occasionally too.
Meditation is
a regular part of my life that helps me manage stress and live better.
But I'm not a super-woo-woo kind of gal.
Over the years,
I've developed solid habits and routines to help me find a sense of balance, remove barriers and make healthy living easier.
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Together we'll explore small habit changes to help you feel more comfortable in your own body.
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Who is Pauline Roque?
A young lady in her mid twenties exploring the world of fashion, beauty and skin care by glamming up one girl at a time. Pauline Roque is a Certified Makeup Artist and Microblading Technician and is currently studying in the area of skin care. In addition to her love of beauty, she has dived into the social media world and has collaborated with a few makeup and skin care brands as an ambassador. She is well trained from photography, editorial, avant garde, bridal, events and HD makeup applications. Pauline has trained with some of the most well known artist in the beauty industry and continues to educate herself in all areas. She has worked with some up and coming New York photographers as well as established ones, to Models who are represented by agencies.
As an artist, she uses a wide range of high end and professional products from Makeup Forever, Kryolan, MAC Cosmetics, Temptu, Laura Mercier and other well known cosmetic brands to ensure long lasting makeup as well as beautiful results.
Other than being a makeup artist, she is a musician, a D.I.Y. enthusiast, event stylist and coordinator, social media queen, a wife and most importantly a child of God. Being able to share her art, her passion and her goals with those who care give her the utmost joy.
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What is your deepest secret? What are your interests? How do you feel about current events? What is your greatest fear? What is your greatest weakness? This blog is a book review on Bill Tancer's Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters. Of course, I will examine the book's (unintentional?) spiritual insights, which are evident from a recommendation by TVWeek, who named Bill Tancer one of "12 to Watch" for 2008: "There once was a time when we used to share our deepest secrets with our hairdresser. Now, we share those secrets with Google or Yahoo or MSN.com. We tell Google what we want, who we're interested in, how we are feeling. We are what we search for. That's why Bill Tancer is in demand." Kirkus Reviews said, "InClick, he boils down those mouse-using multitudes to reveal valuable observations about […] the very human frailties that people expose in their online searches."
Statistics are boring…
In my Digital Media class, one of my first assignments was to use the internet to gather information about my place of birth, Farmington Hills, Michigan. This is an excerpt from that assignment:
For many people (like myself), demographics (yawn) are very useful (as a cure for insomnia). However, since demographics and economics are closely related, it is best to break out a couple of toothpicks, prop your eyelids open, and pay attention. The demographics for my hometown, Farmington Hills, Michigan, are included throughout this discussion post.
Since the population of my hometown, as of 2009, is 80,910, and since approximately 18% of them have an annual income of $150,000 or more, it is likely that a few thousand people are watching their favorite TV shows in high def or even the latest phenomena, 3D. My husband is legally blind in one eye, so 3D is right out. I couldn't find statistics for one eyed people in Farmington Hills, but I did find stats on homeowners. 67% of the housing units are owned, not rented.
Statistics are exciting!
I tried my very best to make this information as interesting as possible, recognizing that perhaps a people-group, somewhere, might be very interested in reading statistics, and also recognizing that my classmates were not likely to be counted among that particular people group. How much more interesting would it be to actually go to Farmington Hills and people watch, perhaps strike up a few conversations, visit some landmarks, etc. The real stories are about the people behind the numbers. I am much more interested in who these 80,000 are or whether some of that 67% are no longer homeowners because of the collapse of the housing market and the depression. I would like to talk to them and find out if they have different worldview now, if they are devastated by the loss of their possessions and jobs, or if they have a renewed appreciation for the things that really matter. I want to look Farmington Hillians in the eye.
Tancer's Click demonstrates that statistics can be interesting after all. He explores different ways the internet affects the way we experience the world, makes relevant observations about the relationships between the speed of technology adaptation and business success, and overwhelms the reader with the potential wealth of information that is now becoming available to us. Tancer also moves past the numbers and into the motivations of the heart, demonstrating how individuals are influenced by information, and also how people leave a trail of information behind them. For people who are interested in people, this is very exciting news.
Hello. Please tell me about your porn habit.
In the past, research efforts have been hampered by the participant's wariness of trusting a stranger with personal information, as well as the participant's tendency to paint himself/herself in a positive light. Tancer explains:
Imagine fielding the consumer survey aimed at estimating true porn consumption. Maybe it would go something like this: The phone rings, perhaps at seven-thirty in the evening, just as your interview subject is sitting down to dinner. "Hello, I'm conducting a survey on behalf of _____ market research firm. Would you be willing to answer some questions about your interest in online pornography?" This hypothetical interruption to your subject's evening poses two problems: (1) Who would be willing to take such a survey, and (2) Could we trust the answers that the subject provided us with?
Tancer explores this idea further than I ever expected, demonstrating that online porn sites are less visited on Sundays and most visited on Fridays. He introduces readers to Craig Gross, founder of xxxchurch.com "the #1 Christian porn site." Using the information gathered from 40,634 adult sites tracked by Hitwise, Tancer sees that 72.6% of visitors were male and 27.4% female. He breaks down the top ten states with the most traffic to Adult sites (Ohio was number one). Perhaps the most interesting statistic on adult sites is that there is a correlation between a decline in interest in online porn and an increase in interest in social networking.
The Affects of Anonymity on Research
The point here is not adult websites or xxxchurch, it is that Tancer had this information available to him, as a researcher, because people know that their online activity is anonymous (or at least it is supposed to be). This is something that I noticed about two years ago, when I began blogging about the absurdity of the erroneous doctrine of eternal torment. On a personal, professional, and emotional level, all hell broke loose for me as one who had been employed in a church office for five years and who was very involved in church activity. One thing that really helped me to get through those dark days was the analytic program which showed me whether people were reading this blog. The number of visits increased by six times the amount prior to my blogging about this subject, yet only a handful of people revealed their identity. I did an experiment – I made my blog private, so that only those who registered could read it. I did this only for a week or two, but during that time, the number of visits dropped to the previous norm. As soon as I made them public again, the number of visits shot right back up. What does this tell me? That anonymity is very important to the orthodox evangelical crowd. They really want to read the content, but they also really don't want anyone else to know that they really want to read the content. This is one reason why I found Click to be so intriguing.
"Search engines have become a new nonjudgmental place for us to ask questions we are increasingly less likely to ask each other." – Bill Tancer
Other subjects in the book include pills, casinos, the half-life of negative information, seasonal consumer online search results, failed resolutions, false hope, celebrity worship, consumer generated media, the TV-internet connection, analytical predictions, new technology, and Malcolm Gladwell's "tipping point." Perhaps the most interesting subject covered in this book is Chapter Six: What are you Afraid Of? and Other Telling Questions. Tancer begins the chapter asking, "What are you afraid of? It's a simple question, but your answer may depend on who is asking the question or the setting in which you're answering." This is so true, especially within the walls of a church. For example, before I came out of the spiritual closet about my controversial beliefs, I did an experiment in one of my small group Bible study (although it was really a book study) classes by asking a few pointed questions in a row. I never made any claims, I just asked the questions. I was met with a hostile tone of voice and facial expression from the instructor of the class, whose goal seemed to be more focused on redirecting the conversation back to the approved study materials than on exploring the questions. In another class, I did the same thing, only this time, I expressed my beliefs. The response was mixed, but the tension in the room was so strong I could have cut a doughnut out of it and dipped it in my coffee. Within a few days of that class, I was called into the pastor's office and instructed on how, when, where I was allowed to discuss these ideas, if at all. Apparently, someone in the class had tattle-tailed on me. And this particular class was supposed to be a "safe" class, where everyone agreed in the beginning to keep our discussions private – "what happens in the Xxxxxxx class stays in the Xxxxxxx class," they said. The environment (and social constructs in that environment) of question asking and answering is hugely important, when it comes to spiritual discussion.
Top 15 social "fear of" queries
For a person who is considering the idea that perhaps the orthodox traditions about eternal torment in Hell are erroneous, fear can keep him or her from exploring this and other important questions. Tancer's list of search terms for the top fifteen social "fear of" queries demonstrates my point. I have highlighted the fears that I feel are directly or indirectly related to asking hard questions in a hostile institutional church environment:
1. Intimacy
2. Rejection
3. People
4. Success
5. Crowds
6. Failure
7. Sex
8. Commitment
9. Public Speaking
10. Being alone
11. Love
12. Girls
13. Falling in love
14. Abandonment
15. Broken heart
I look forward to conducting some research on internet searches regarding Christian Universalism, The Larger Hope, Amazing Hope, The Victorious Gospel, Universal Salvation, Universal Reconciliation, or whatever you want to call it. Since I believe that the internet is to this generation what the printing press was the Reformation, I also believe that internet research will likely offer some strong evidence that orthodox evangelicals and other spiritual police do not hold as much clout in this world as it seems, that this Glorious Message is spreading despite their efforts to suppress it, and that people are looking into church history and discovering that they have been mislead by others who have been mislead by others who have been mislead… I've bookmarked Tancer's website for future reference, and I recommend Click for anyone who would like to read a very unique kind of book on statistics.


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Unfortunately, it appears if the petitioner would have just listened to the courts and/or read the criteria to become admitted she would have had a very fair chance of being allowed to sit for the bar.
Further, this would have been interesting as nowhere does it say she is actually admitted to practice in CA. In the case of Ross Mandell V MBE(?), he had passed both the FYLSE and the CBX on his first attempt and I remember one of the Justices' actually acknowledging the known difficulty of the CBX.
It just seems ridiculous to make it this far in a fight and be denied based on the fact that you didn't answer a basic question the court was asking.
RE: And this, "it just seems ridiculous to make it this far in a fight and be denied based on the fact that you didn't answer a basic question the court was asking", how could you have a problem with that?
No, problem here. I was just stating that I thought this lady was ridiculous... Not the ruling or the law.
I agree w/ much of what you have said and would have liked to see this lady furnish the court with what it required, then I could see how they rule on her merits (ie:her schooling). Although one could argue she has indicated her merits in her poor compliance w/ the court.
As a correspondence student myself, I don't believe many online/distance students should be able to take the bar anywhere let alone GA or MA, (2) states I could care less about.
Maybe Mrs Batterson should have hired an attorney?Well, in a way she did. She is already an attorney licensed in CA. She was trying to do what the other guy did in Massachusetts. Her only problem is that she screwed up by not following the rules. as i posted above, Georgia allows non-ABA grads to practice law. They just have to apply differently. She screwed up on her application and didn't provide all the required information. then she thought she could appeal it like the guy in Massachusetts did. The only difference is that the attorney in Massachusetts followed the rules and was finally admitted to the bar. This lady did not follow the rules.
Nowhere did I see any indication that she passed the CBX, only the Baby Bar. Maybe she did pass the general, but I doubt it based on what I have read.You are right. I misread where it stated "California's bar exam for first-year law students" and the MPRE. I looked up the actual case and it also does not state she had passed the bar.
Good. Online grads shouldn't be admitted anywhere.
They wouldn't allow her to take the Georgia state bar because she went to a terrible law school. Northwestern California University School of Law treats students poorly. The admissions guy named "Nick" told me that we woud rather kill himself instead of going to law school to be a lawyer. Nick then went on to tell me that he is too busy to send me demo of their lectures. This is the only law school that doesn't have online demo's to show prospective students. He was rude. I tried to discuss Nicks negative conduct with the Dean of the school Michael Clancey. Clancey was just as negative and rude as Nick. They defended one another. I think Dean Michael Clancey and Nick of the Northwestern California University School of Law are gay lovers. I never seen two men stick up for each other like that. It was weird.
If she would have graduated from an online law school with a good reputatin, then they probably would have allowed her to take the Georgia bar.
Could you imagine if every ABA graduate were assessed on the same level as Mitchell was in Mass? How many would not be allowed to take the bar in their state? Either say the education is good or not, but to say it really depends on your grades, your participation in extracurricular, how quickly passed the bar, shows a complete discord.
Screw it, go to SCUPS.
Plus, yeah dude we know you're talking about yourself in the third person. It is so tiresome to have school recruiters pretend to be students on this board. Yeah, I see you..... :-X
Good. Online grads shouldn't be admitted anywhere.


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This bowl is the very best winter bowl. It's deep and nestles so nicely in your hands. We see chili, soup, oatmeal, beans and rice and stews in the bowl. Of course we are pretty sure you will love it so much you'll use it in the summer too.
Glazed in an egg-shell white glaze on the outside, a glossy grey on the inside and decorated with rust and cinnamon slips and carving.
Gas fired, cone 10 reduction.
Microwave and dishwasher safe.
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Aspire sharing the success of my short film and sample chapters of my upcoming self help book - @tonic of the Sea'. My article can be accessed here.
Aspire is a national charity that provides practical help to people who have been paralysed by Spinal Cord Injury. A spinal injury can happen to anyone at any time, and no one is prepared for how it will change their life. Aspire exists because there is currently no cure.
Their swimmers raised an incredible £850,000 in 2016 by taking on major swimming challenges, and so they decided to curate a swimming blog and a newsletter that are solely about swimming and, whatever your level of swimming, they hope you will enjoy it and find it inspiring. Link to their swimming blog can be accessed here.


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"This was out of inspiration for something to do with my fresh sour cherries. Only got a few this year so wanted to make something really tasty! I think this did it. Very simple and can be adjusted to your needs if fresh sour cherries are not available, but I do not recommend using Bing or sweet red cherries for this. Use sour cherries in the can if you can find them. Enjoy! Refrigerate when completely cooled."
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- Line the bottom of an oven with aluminum foil to catch spills. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a 9-inch square baking dish with the pie crust.
- Place cherries in a bowl. Let sit in the refrigerator for about 4 hours until juices start to come out. Gently press down on top of the cherries to release juice. Pour off 3/4 cup juice, reserving cherries in the bowl.
- Pour juice into a small saucepan over medium heat. Mix sugar, cornstarch, and cinnamon together. Stir mixture into the juice before it starts to steam. Bring mixture to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and keep stirring until mixture starts to thicken, 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in vanilla and almond extracts.
- Pour juice mixture into the bowl with the cherries; stir until combined. Pour mixture into the prepared crust.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 40 minutes while preparing the crumb topping.
- Mix brown sugar, flour, oats, cinnamon, and salt together in a large bowl. Cut in butter pieces with a fork until they're the size of small peas.
- Remove cherry pie from the oven. Top with the crumb topping and bake for an additional 20 minutes. Remove from oven and cut a small hole in the center to help vent. Let cool, at least 1 hour. Serve warm.
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- Cook's Notes:
- For pitting cherries, I recommend inserting a clean, opened paperclip into the top of the cherry and pulling out the pit.
- Three cans drained sour cherries can be substituted for the fresh cherries. If you are using canned cherries, you just need to save the drained juice from the cans. Just be sure to squeeze each one gently to check for any pits that may have been missed (you don't want anyone to break a tooth!).
- Quick-cooking oats can be substituted for the rolled oats.
- Substitute margarine for the butter if desired.
Nutrition Facts
Per Serving: 492 calories; 16.2 85.6 4.7 24 288 Full nutrition


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There are some entrepreneurs out there that have created and sold several businesses and made it seem easy. There comes a point with every successful business when the time comes to decide to scale your business or just sell out and let someone else take it off your hands. Business owners have lots of important emotional and financial considerations to make when considering a sale. For a start, they have to figure out what to do after selling the business. You can make a lot of money selling your business, but an entrepreneur isn't satisfied unless they are running businesses, solving problems, and coming up with cool new products and services. When you get an offer for your business, it's time to start thinking and planning.
Buyers Could be Anywhere
Understand that buyers can come from literally anywhere. You may even be able to sell your business to a key employee. They would be a good fit as they understand the business and are passionate about making it succeed. Consider grooming employees to take over the business for you when hiring them. It can take some time for a deal to close, but if you've decided to sell your business instead of scale it, then you can use this time to plan your next steps.
Prepare to Leave
Scaling a business and sale it begin with understanding how much it is worth, and how much more it might be worth. There are lots of variations to consider depending on the business itself, the buyer, and the deal in question. Keeping your books clean helps buyers, and you want to have lots of financials available in case of a sudden offer. There are also business valuation companies who can evaluate your business for you. Be sure to use a respected one with experience in your industry.
Negotiate Responsibilities
Selling out a business doesn't mean that you're done with it. Sometimes a buyer may request that you stay on with the company for a set period of time to manage special projects and keep the business running smoothly during a transition. Ask what kind of commitments a buyer expects from you, and plan and prepare accordingly.
Create Plans for your Time and Finances
How you plan on spending your time and money is an important consideration when selling a business. Think of it is something of an early retirement, but with the potential to get back into business soon. Do you want to take some time away from business to start a family? Do you have any other business ideas you want to start immediately? Or do you just want to relax for a while and recharge your batteries? It's important to consider all of this when selling a business. It also plays into the choice of having to scale a business or sell it. Scaling a business often means losing even more of your free time and it takes money. Are you in the right position in life to scale a business? Or should you just sell it?
Never Do it Alone
This is not a decision that you want to take lightly. You should get some advisors that you work with and trust. Accountants, lawyers, and investment bankers are great people to have on your side. Consult with a financial planner about what to do with the money. Having a good team of people who have different strengths and weaknesses helps you to overcome any obstacle put before you and your business.


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Below is a list of items that we use on a daily basis to keep our rescue dogs clean, well fed and happy. If you can help us out by popping an extra item or two in your trolley whilst doing the weekly shop we would be very grateful.
Poop Bags
Disinfectant/Floor Cleaner
Mops and Buckets
Indoor Sweeping Brushes
Tinned Hotdogs
Hard Cheese
Dog Toys
Tennis Balls
Leads and Collars (clip not buckle)
Chappie Dog Food (Wet and Dry)
Tasty Dog Chews (Pigs Ears, Jerky, Paddywack etc.)
Air Freshener
Black Bin Liners
Wash Powder
Flea and Worm Treatments (Frontline, Advocate and Drontal)
As always, thank you so much for the continued support.
We also have an Amazon Wishlist for those of you who want to help but don't live locally - http://www.amazon.co.uk/registry/wishlist/OZMX5EY1X80L


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Each year, CWLC hosts our Pursuit of Justice Awards luncheon to recognize leaders who have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to the advancement of gender equality. This year, we are proud to honor California's Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye and California's First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom. We invite you to join us in applauding these champions and supporting CWLC's mission pursuing justice for women and girls on May 13, 2020.
The California Women's Law Center, with co-counsel Legal Aid at Work and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, reached agreement in a Title IX athletics dispute involving female athletes at Sierra Vista High School in the Baldwin Park Unified School District. Girls' volleyball players were forced to practice in an unsafe space in the gym while
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Press Release: August 22, 2018 CONTACT: Elizabeth Kristen, Director, Gender Equity & LGBT Rights Program, Legal Aid at Work, 510-501-4692, firstname.lastname@example.com Jayma M. Meyer, Counsel, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, 212-455-3935, firstname.lastname@example.com Amy C. Poyer, Senior Staff Attorney, California Women's Law Center, 323-951-9276, firstname.lastname@example.com Female Athletes Reach Agreement with Baldwin Park Unified
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Today is the 55th anniversary of the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which amended the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit pay discrimination on the basis of sex. Fifty-five years later, women still do not receive equal pay. In 2017, women on
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CWLC supports AB 2289, which would promote gender equity in education by ensuring that pregnant and parenting students in California receive consistent and adequate parental leave. Read AB 2289 Letter of Support. AB 2289 was approved by the Governor on September 30, 2018.
In this issue… CWLC 2018 Pursuit of Justice Awards honors Rita Hall, It's On Us, LA County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis and Lois Thompson on May 17 Speaker Series with Congressman Adam Schiff March is Women's Herstory Month "Equal Pay" in 2018 CWLC Welcomes Kim Nakamaru 2018 Pursuit of
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The California Women's Law Center is proud to recognize International Women's Day and our commitment to press for progress and gender equity. Created by suffragettes and first celebrated in 1911, International Women's Day (IWD) is a global celebration to honor the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. IWD is also a time to
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CWLC's Senior Staff Attorney Amy Poyer was a panelist on the Tackling Inequality in Public Schools, a program that was part of the month-long series of public education classes and continuing legal education programs held at LA Law Library in celebration of African American History Month 2018. The panelists guided a discussion, responded to questions and concerns
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The California Women's Law Center (CWLC) is proud to recognize National Girls and Women in Sports Day by celebrating the importance of fair play and honor the extraordinary achievements of female athletes. Girls who play sports are more likely to graduate, go to college, earn higher wages, have better physical and mental health throughout
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CWLC's Executive Director Betsy Butler participated in a talkback after the screening of the film Political Animals. This film was part of University of California, Irvine School of Law's Reproductive Justice and LGBTQA Film Festival that began on February 1, 2018 and ran through March 29, 2018!
Happy Holidays to you and yours from the California Women's Law Center staff and Board of Directors.
In peace and with respect for all, we wish you a happy and healthy 2018!
In this issue… CWLC Speaker Series: Champions In Sports CWLC's Trainings and Community Outreach Weighing In: CWLC's Amicus Briefs California Report on Women, HIV and Sex Work Welcome CWLC's New Board Member, Stacey Armato CWLC Speaker Series: Female Athletes Leading The Way On October 25,
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CWLC was one of six organizations who filed a joint amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in the case of Lazar v. Kroncke.
The California Women's Law Center hosted a Speaker Series with former UCLA softball coach and Title IX champion Sue Enquist, USA Olympic beach volleyball player Lauren Fendrick, film director and author Gwendolyn Oxenham and the NBA's first female referee Violet Palmer on October 25, 2017 at the Feminist Majority Foundation in Beverly Hills. Their discussion titled
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The California Women's Law Center announces the release of the "HIV Criminalization and Sex Work in California" which analyzed the application of many of our state's criminal laws related to HIV. In collaboration with The Williams Institute and the California HIV/AIDS Policy Research Center, CWLC was pleased to be able to participate in the creation of this report analyzing arrests made in California from 2005-2013 for prostitution and other offenses related to sex work.
On Wednesday, October 25, 2017, the California Women's Law Center hosted a Speaker Series with Sue Enquist, Lauren Fendrick, Gwendolyn Oxenham and Violet Palmer titled "Women in Sports: Challenges & Opportunities."
Yesterday, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos signaled her intention to roll back protections for campus sexual assault victims put in place by the Obama Administration in 2011. The Department of Education's actions are likely to discourage survivors from reporting sexual assaults and could prevent rapists from being held accountable.
In this issue… 2017 Annual Pursuit of Justice Awards, Teen Dating Violence Brochure, CWLC's Beach Cities Legal Housing Clinics, CWLC Releases: Lactation 101 Report, Join Us: LA Sparks #WeAreWomen game on August 27th, and more!
CWLC hosted a Teen Dating Violence training on Thurs. July 27, 2017
CWLC's Senior Staff Attorney Amy Poyer was interviewed by local NPR station KPCC to discuss the release of CWLC and BreastfeedLA's "Lactation 101: Lactation Accommodations in Los Angeles County Higher Education" and the importance of accessible lactation accommodation policies in schools. Listen to the audio and read the article here!
Access to lactation accommodations is an issue at all levels of educational instruction. Thus, Lactation 101 adds to our previous work at the K-12 level, broadening our coverage to 107 colleges, universities and institutes of higher learning in Los Angeles County. Of the 107 institutions evaluated, only 4 schools met four or more of the
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The California Women's Law Center was honored to recognize amazing leaders and champions who are pursuing justice for women and girls: The Actors' Gang Prison Project, California State Senator Connie M. Leyva, and the Los Angeles Sparks. Sponsorship opportunities available.
The Women's Leadership Conference featured a day of dynamic speakers, film screening and reception, compelling panel discussions, expert-led trainings, interactive workshops, keynote luncheon, exhibitor hub area, and so much more! It was an exciting daylong event geared toward women who live, work and play in West Hollywood.
Amy Poyer of CWLC and Kim Turner from Legal Aid at Work, formerly known as the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center, hosted a Title IX Athletics training webinar titled "A Level Playing Field: Title IX and Gender Equity in K-12 School Athletics" on Wednesday, May 10, 2017 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm PST.
This informational webinar reviewed the laws protecting pregnant and parenting students in California to enable practitioners to identify and remedy these harmful forms of discrimination, shared the results of the ABC's of Breastfeeding Report Card grading lactation accommodations in K-12 schools in Los Angeles County, and discussed next steps in expanding the impact of the report card.
The California Women's Law Center supports AB 1209, The Gender Pay Gap Transparency Act, introduced by Senator Gonzalez-Fletcher, which seeks to address the gender wage gap in California. Read AB 1209 Support Letter AB 1209 was vetoed by the Governor on October 15, 2017.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). Please join CWLC and our allies in raising our collective voices to support survivors and increase awareness about the fact that sexual violence is never acceptable. #SAAM2017 #SAAM
Today is National Equal Pay Day, recognized this year on April 4th which represents how far into the new year women on average must work to earn what men did the previous year. Overcoming the wage gap is difficult for all women but particularly for the vast majority of women of color.
The California Women's Law Center supports SB 320, the College Student Right to Access Act, introduced by Senator Leyva, which will secure students' access to reproductive health services at public universities and colleges by providing medication abortion at student health centers that receive state funding. Read SB 320 Letter of Support SB 320 was introduced
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CWLC supports SB 570, introduced by Senator Newman, which would amend the rules governing income and eligibility for the CalWORKs program to exempt all education related benefits paid to military, veteran and surviving family members by the United States Veteran Administration (VA) from income tests for the program. Read SB 570 Support Letter SB 570 was
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In this issue… Distinguished Speaker Series with Erwin Chemerinsky and Michele Goodwin, CWLC to honor The Actors' Gang Prison Project, State Senator Connie M. Leyva and the Los Angeles Sparks: 2017 Pursuit of Justice Awards – May 16, 2017, Policy Brief Released: "Aging, Women and Poverty In California," Join Us: Upcoming Title IX Webinars, CWLC Welcomes New Board Members, and much more!
The Feminist Majority Foundation, CWLC and various sponsors and supporters attended the Rally & Walk for EQUALITY on March 26, 2017.
International Women's Day (IWD) is a collective day of global celebration but also a call for gender parity. IWD honors the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women around the world. But the unfortunate fact is that women are still not paid equally to their male counterparts, women are still not present in equal numbers in business or politics, and globally women's education, health and physical safety are threatened every day.
Today is Asian American Women's Equal Pay Day, which means Asian American women's salaries are just catching up to what white men made in 2016. Compared to their white male counterparts, Asian American women working full time typically are only paid 85 cents for every dollar paid to white men.
March is a month of reflection and appreciation for women, but it is also a month of action. Please join us as we celebrate the gains women have made since our country was founded and know that CWLC will be on the frontlines to stop any attempt to force women backward or diminish our possibilities. Together, we will be successful in our mission to ensure the future is bright and full of opportunity for every woman and every girl in the nation.
The California Women's Law Center is proud to recognize March as Women's History Month. Every month, but especially this month, CWLC is proud to recognize the fearless women who shaped our past and whose sturdy shoulders we now stand in our ongoing fight for fairness and equality. Get involved all month long!
Today would have been Susan B. Anthony's 197th birthday. Ms. Anthony dedicated her life to fighting for women's rights, traveling across the nation fighting for a woman's right to vote. She also campaigned for the abolition of slavery, the right for women to own property and retain their earnings, and for women's labor organizations.
The California Women's Law Center (CWLC) is proud to celebrate National Girls & Women in Sports Day, commemorating the extraordinary achievements of women and girls who participate in athletics.
Forty-four years after the enactment of Title IX, however, schools continue to discriminate against female athletes. Female students still have significantly fewer opportunities to participate in sports compared to their male counterparts, and often also have unequal funding, facilities and equipment. CWLC remains committed to fighting for gender equity in California schools. We proudly maintain our role as an expert regarding matters relating to Title IX throughout California and serve as a primary resource center in the state for girls, parents, coaches, school officials, and policymakers.
On January 29, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which ensured that women like Ms. Ledbetter are able to successfully assert their claims by confirming that each discriminatory paycheck rejects the 180-day statute of limitations to file a claim.
On February 22, 2017, the California Women's Law Center and our sponsors Sleeping Lion, Inc. and Lois & Jim Thompson and co-hosts Cathy Kim & Matthew Kelly and Rasha Gerges Shields hosted a Speaker Series with Erwin Chemerinsky and Michele Goodwin titled "Forecasting Reproductive Health and Rights in the Era of President Trump."


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Congratulations to the members of Maghaberry Prison and Hydebank College who achieved the OCN Level 1: Healthy Living for the Individual award for participating on the Fit Future- Health and Fitness Programmes. Also a special thank you to Davy White who was our guest speaker at the celebration events. Davy who is now an accomplished author as well as a respected sports tutor and facilitator hosted a Q & A with the inmates.
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Websites 101: Everything You Need to Know About Setting up a Site for Your Private Practice
During this webinar, Vice President of Sales & Marketing Sam Chlebowski walks through everything you need to build a website from the ground up.
Sam discusses domain names, hosting, design, search engine optimization, HIPAA compliance, and much more.
The world of websites can be tricky, but there were a ton great questions asked and answered during this webinar that helped to explain things clearly.


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An Annotated Corpus for Machine
Reading of Instructions in Wet Lab Protocols
Chaitanya Kulkarni, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Raghu Machiraju
Proceedings of NAACL 2018 (short paper)
Extracting entities, actions and relations ... This may take a minute.
We train a Bi-directional LSTM with a Conditional Random Field (CRF) Layer to extract entities and action spans for every sentence in the protocol text.
For relation extraction, we use rich hand-engineered features and train a maximum entropy model to independently classify every pair of extracted entities and actions with one of the 12 relation labels.
We describe an effort to annotate a corpus of natural language instructions consisting of 622 wet lab protocols to facilitate automatic or semi-automatic conversion of protocols into a machine-readable format and benefit biological research. Experimental results demonstrate the utility of our corpus for developing machine learning approaches to shallow semantic parsing of instructional texts.
Wet labs conduct biology and chemistry experiments typically involving chemicals, drugs, or other materials in liquid solutions or volatile phases. Wet lab protocols, then are rules or instructions guiding one such experiment in these labs. They consist of a sequence of steps, mostly composed of imperative statements meant to describe an action. They also can contain declarative sentences describing the results of a previous action, in addition to general guidelines or warnings about the materials being used.
An example protocol, as seen in Figure. 1 of our paper.
Research groups around the world curate their own repositories of protocols, each adapted from a canonical source and typically published in the Materials and Method section at the end of a scientific article in biology and chemistry fields. Only recently has there been an effort to gather collections of these protocols and make them easily available. Leveraging an openly accessible repository of protocols curated on the protocols.io platform, we annotated hundreds of academic and commercial protocols maintained by many of the leading bio-science laboratory groups, including Verve Net, Innovative Genomics Institute and New England Biolabs. The protocols cover a large spectrum of experimental biology, including neurology, epigenetics, metabolomics, cancer/stem cell biology, etc.
We present Wet Lab Protocol Dataset (WLP) composed of 13,679 sentences from 622 protocols. Each sentence were manually annotated with actions and a rich set of 17 semantic arguments along with a total of 12 relationships between them. We aim for it to serve as a resource for developing Machine learning models for automatic semantic parsing of instructional texts. Additional information regarding the action, entities and relations can be found here.
An annotated sentence from one of the protocols in our corpus. This is visualized with the help of BRAT tool.
The dataset was annotated with the help of BRAT tool. The annotation file has been maintained and stored separately from the protocol text as a .ann file, and follows the same format as used in brat tool for easy visualization. The annotation format is well described on BRAT tool website here.
Please fill the following form in order to request access to the 600+ Wet Lab Protocol Corpus. The Wet Lab Protocol Corpus is licenced under a Creative Commons Attributions 4.0 International license.


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We aim to help our customers reduce packaging costs and believe that supplier support and unbiased packaging material choice are two primary strengths in being able to accomplish this.
We cherish our long-standing relationships with key national suppliers, working closely to ensure that the raw material quality is consistent.Bespoke requirements are also accommodated to help keep material waste to a minimum. This means our customers can therefore benefit from the most cost effective raw material rates through a combination of low waste and high volume national discounts.
Our innovative approach to designing and proposing the most cost-effective packaging is not constrained by the material medium. When reviewing our customers' packaging requirements, we are objective and unbiased regarding the packaging material that provides the best solution.
We use whichever material is the most appropriate – and it may be that the best solution is a combination of not only timber and cardboard, but also alternative materials. The only consideration is that the packaging has to be the correct material for the product and for the customer.


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St. Marys Church in Cantonment
area of Belgaum, consecrated on April 15, 1869
by the then Governor of the Bombay Precedence,
has again regained its Gothic glory.
Built entirely of Gokak pink
stones and Alnavar and Dandelt teak and mortar,
it took five years to complete. This magnificent
Gothic structure was built under the supervision
of the then army garrison engineer.
The church is distinguished by its beautifully
carved arches, pillars and gabled canopy roof.
Its classic elegance evokes a feeling of timelessness.
The altar is built with teak
and marble and is towered by an exceptionally
beautiful stained glass collage. The collage
is about 20 feet tall and 8 feet wide and was
made in Italy. It depicts the life of Lord Jesus
from birth to resurrection in 12 magnificently
touching frames.
The Church faces the west
and the altar the east. The position of the
church is such that when the sun filters through
the stained glasses during the morning service
the effect is breathtaking. The main entrance
is in Gothic style with impressive arches of
cut stone.
pipe organ, though now not in a working condition,
is as old as the church itself. This along with
the brass and silver candle stands and the memorial
plaques on the walls gives one a glimpse into
the glorious history of this distinguished church.
Marys Church follows the Anglican form of worship.
Prior to Independence, it was the Army Garrison
Church of Belgaum, under the Army Station Commander,
the Bishop of Bombay and the Archbishop of Canterbury,
England. The head priest of the church was the
Chaplain of Belgaum. Even today the locals refer
to this church as the Church of England or High
The church is the property of the Bombay Diocesan
Trust Association, an organization based in
Bombay looking after properties of Anglican
Christian church all over western India. For
the first time since Independence, the Trust
has undertaken the renovation of church and
the construction of the much needed compound
wall. The Trust has spent amount Rs. Six lakhs
in the renovation of this Church and construction
of a wall.


text: The VMAPA (Parents Association) sponsored and evening of painting and socializing in on Tuesday, January 30. Villa Maria art teacher Diane Mallon, her daughter Rebecca Mallon '13, and senior Nikki Klein '18 led the evening. A portion of the $10 cost per person benefited St. Martin de Porres Catholic School. Attendees also made donations of copy paper, crayons, colored pencils, #2 pencils, pens of assorted colors.


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Emilio Botín, who has died aged 79, was the third-generation chairman of Banco Santander, which he transformed from a modest Spanish regional lender into one of the world's most successful commercial banking groups.
Botín's native city of Santander on Spain's north coast (comparable in population size to Swindon) was developed in the 19th century into both an Atlantic port and a holiday resort for Spanish royalty and their entourage. Banco Santander, created by royal charter in 1857, found its niche in the finance of maritime trade with Latin America and came under the control of the Botín family in 1909, when Emilio's grandfather took the chair, to be followed in 1950 by Emilio's father.
The young Emilio Botín became chief executive in 1977 and succeeded his father as executive chairman in 1986; though the family eventually owned only a small slice of the bank's shares, their boardroom control was never challenged.
Spain had joined the EU at the beginning of that year: Banco Santander rode the upswing that followed, grabbing domestic market share by offering high-interest accounts — and ignoring a gentlemen's agreement between Spanish banks not to poach each other's customers. In 1994 Santander acquired a troubled rival, Banesto, and in 1999 it merged with another, Banco Central Hispano — supposedly on terms of equality, though Botín rapidly secured his position and forced Banco Central senior executives into retirement after a legal battle.
Over the decade that followed, Santander became a force in global banking through a relentless spate of foreign acquisitions — in defiance of the rule that aggressive growth in the financial sector generally leads to disaster. In the UK, it acquired the former building society Abbey for £9 billion in 2004, adding both Alliance & Leicester and the rump of the collapsed Bradford & Bingley in the teeth of the financial crisis in 2008; rebranded Santander UK, the group became Britain's fifth largest high-street lender, with more than 1,000 branches.
Botín also bought banks in Brazil and the United States, and was a partner with Royal Bank of Scotland and the Benelux-based Fortis group in the 2007 takeover of ABN Amro of the Netherlands — which brought catastrophe for both RBS and Fortis, while Santander quietly absorbed ABN Amro's Italian and Brazilian interests, sold off other parts, and emerged unscathed. In 2012, Santander withdrew from a deal to buy 316 of RBS's UK branches.
If Botín's ruthless nose for a deal made competitors wary, they also admired his ability to micromanage risk and to impose his ethos across such a vast conglomerate. Having started from a base of fewer than a million Spanish customers, his Santander group eventually claimed almost 100 million around the world — while its balance sheet surpassed a trillion euros, matching the gross national product of its home country.
Surrounded by trusted long-serving associates, Botín kept a formidable grip on his empire in his later years. At an awards ceremony in 2008, he summed up the philosophy that had served him so well: "If you don't fully understand an instrument, don't buy it. If you would not buy a specific product for yourself, don't try to sell it. If you do not know your customers very well, don't lend them any money."
Emilio Botín-Sanz de Sautuola y García de los Ríos was born on October 1 1934. Educated at a Jesuit boarding school, he went on to study law and economics at universities in Valladolid and Bilbao. Having eavesdropped on his father's business meetings from behind a curtain as a boy, he joined him in the bank in 1958 and became a member of its board two years later.
Formula 1 world champion Spain's Fernando Alonso (L) and Emilio Botin in 2007 (AFP)
Outside business, one of Botín's enthusiasms was for Formula 1 motor-racing: Santander was a sponsor of the McLaren team, whose boss Ron Dennis called him "passionate and charming, firm but always fair". He was also the force behind a Santander programme which gives €140 million a year to more than 1,100 universities around the world to support research, scholarships and teaching.
Though his voice was not often heard in public, Botín wielded political influence in Spain and his support was crucial in 2012 when the Spanish government decided not to seek a bail-out from its international creditors. He was not free of controversy, however: in 2011 it came to light that the Botíns had held undisclosed accounts in Switzerland since 1936, when Emilio's father stashed some of their wealth there after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War; they agreed to pay €200 million in back taxes to avoid charges, denting a billion-euro family fortune.
Emilio Botín is survived by his wife Paloma O'Shea, the pianist daughter of a part-Irish father and a Basque mother; she is the founder of the Queen Sofia College of Music in Madrid and was awarded the rank of marquess, or marchioness, by King Juan Carlos in 2008. The Botíns had six children, of whom the eldest, Ana Patricia Botín, the former chief executive of Santander UK, has succeeded her father as chairman of the Santander group.
Emilio Botín, born October 1 1934, died September 10 2014


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Beautiful new Bear Lake lodge home nestled on the mountain side conveniently located in the Harbor Village subdivision across the from state Marina. Just minutes from the lake and downtown Garden City. Relax in the grassy yard area and improve your short game on the outdoor putting green! Enjoy the downstairs gaming area with ping pong and basketball shootout. This home is perfect for whole family or just a quick weekend getaway with a group. Guests will have access to a heated outdoor pool, outdoor tennis, and basketball courts during the summer months. The shared hot tub is open all year round.
What's Nearby
You can four-wheel, snowmobile, or hike right out of the driveway from this home and get to the trailhead right across the street, accessing hundreds of miles of amazing BLM open trails. Beaver Mountain Ski Resort is 15 minutes from this home. Take a walk or bike on the trail next to Bear Lake Boulevard. Explore all the delicious restaurants on the blvd and make sure to pick up a famous raspberry shake!
Where Memories Are Made
When you book your stay at the Dreamland Lodge you will create your own memories. Bear Lake will be the place to go for generations to come. There are many things to do in Garden City, Utah.
Putting Green
While at the Dreamland Lodge, don't forget to play a round of golf. What could be better than playing a round of golf in Bear Lake. Don't forget to enjoy the views of the lake from the cabin.
We hope you enjoy your stay at Bear Lake in Garden City, Utah. After your stay at the Dreamland Lodge, don't forget to give us a 5 star rating. Here are a few of our past guest's reviews.