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In the corporate world, most receive an annual "Job Performance Review". Heading into my near 18th year as a full-time "Domestic Engineer" I realized I've never been privy to such an assessment, unless of course the scrutiny I received from the GE repairman about the deplorable conditions lurking behind our fridge count. In that case, I would've been fired on the spot and not allowed to collect unemployment or ever purchase a new appliance until I completed a 10-step plan for the proper care of all such equipment.
Luckily, dust bunnies don't rat me out and those types of instances are "mommy's little secret". But in thinking about it, who would the most likely candidate be to perform this evaluation? The two most probable choices would be my husband or my kids. Whoa! That's not going to work—I mean, my husband is one of the smartest, most caring, respectful, and decent people I know—this lets him off the hook immediately. As for my darling children—I suppose they give me informal reviews on a regular basis with comments like "Is THAT what we're having for dinner tonight?" Or better yet, by giving subtle gestures like rolling their eyes (when they think I'm not looking) at my exuberant suggestions like spending a Friday night having a family sock matching party or sharing those quiet sighs that the entire neighborhood can hear when I ask for a volunteer to please locate the plunger, as I will be needing it to un obstruct a little clog in the main bathroom, yet again. Yep, they're out too.
Given that besides our dog, the only ones left would be the deli clerk, the orthodontist or the rubbish removal guys (they know more about what I do in a week than any other human beings on the planet) I think it's best if I rate my own performance—after all, who knows better than me what I do all week long?
Annual Job Performance Review for Cheryl L. Butler
Length of Time with the Company: 24 years, 18 of them caring for 1, here comes 2, and 3, oh baby now we're at 4, make that 5, no, I mean 6, strike that 7, final headcount– 8 precious children.
Current Position Held: Supportive and Loving Wife, Doting Mother, Chief Chauffeur, Culinary Goddess, Sanitation Engineer, Laundry Diva, Homework Supervisor, PTO Maven, Teen Counselor, Queen Boo Boo Kisser, Clutter Rehabilitator, Referee at Large, Bargain Hunter Extraordinaire, Head Honcho of Lost and Found, Cheerleader of all Things Kid Butler, VP of Storytelling, Mayor of Magic Words, CEO of Cookie Baking, Vomit-cleaning Vixen, Duchess of Daydreaming, Stain Master, Magician, Teacher of Anything and Everything that can help make my kids make a difference in this world, Life Saver, Life Giver—WOW—I think I'll stop there!
Knowledge of Work – Cheryl has gone above and beyond the call of duty in figuring out all phases (and then some) of her dream job. At this point—what she doesn't know won't kill her.
Communication – Cheryl has demonstrated high marks in effectiveness in listening to others, expressing ideas, both orally and in writing, and providing relevant and timely information to all those who reside in the household. Whether or not anyone actually listens to her, cannot be held against her.
Decision Making/Problem Solving – Cheryl has pulled off some unbelievable feats when figuring out how to be in 8 different places at once. Though she still hasn't figured out the art of cloning, she now knows what causes the white laundry to turn pink.
Expense Management – Cheryl is the first to admit that she and the word "budget" were probably not meant to come together in this lifetime. Other than a few bounced checks and forgetting the correct amount for hot lunch and milk money, she's holding her own.
Personal Appearance – Cheryl remembers "back in the day" when she and current fashion were pretty much one in the same. 18 years and 8 kids later, not so much. Still, she usually never forgets to brush and floss and can disguise a stain or pilled sweater like nobody's business.
Dependability – Cheryl has never missed a day of work in the past 24 years. She may arrive harried and a bit late, but nothing—nothing can stop her from showing up each day to care for those she loves.
Employees Strengths: Plain and simple—Cheryl loves her family and will continue to serve as devoted wife, mother and homemaker until her vacation home in the Caribbean is ready for occupancy. (Just kidding—just kidding!)
Performance Areas that need Improvement: Hmmm—this is where self-evaluation is tough. Well, not really. If I could recommend any performance enhancement in this most important of jobs that I'll ever hold in this lifetime, it would be to savor the small things, cut myself a bit more slack each day, not worry about what's going on behind my refrigerator (boo hiss Mr. GE repairman!), and never forget why I applied for it in the first place—because at the end of the day it's the only job that furnishes me with unlimited riches and benefits—my family!
Copyright 2011 Cheryl L. Butler


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Happy 4th of July weekend everyone! I hope you are all having a lovely weekend! I actually got to celebrate a little for this holiday. My parents came to camp nearby, so I got to spend some time out there with them! It was great to just relax by the fire and chat 🙂
I am super excited to share this week's meal prep with you all! Not only is it absolutely delicious, but it was really nice to our budget too. Enjoy!
So, in all my crazy distracted-ness, I actually forgot to photograph the snacks from this week's meal prep. I kept things pretty basic though. Cookie dough protein balls for Draz, chicken lunchmeat and cheese, celery sticks and peanut butter, and a few hard-boiled eggs. These higher protein and fat snacks have been working great for me! If you have any suggestions for high protein snacks you love, I would love to hear about them!
Now on to our main dishes of the week: Thai Peanut Chicken Pasta and Slow Cooker Pulled Pork for Draz (some favorites). Cabbage Sauteed with Chicken and Low Carb Chicken Burrito Bowls for me! Normally we have a little more overlap in what we eat throughout the week, but this one turned out pretty well split between us. I did have a little pulled pork though, because it is absolutely delicious 🙂
One change I made to the Cabbage Sauteed with Chicken – I doubled the amount of chicken in the recipe. This recipe is originally intended to be side dish. So to make it work better for a main meal, I increased the amount of protein! I didn't have to change anything else and it worked great with more chicken!
The Burrito Bowls were new and I absolutely loved them! I will admit, I was a little skeptical at first, since part of it calls for cutting up avocado and putting it in the bowls. But the lime did the trick and the avocado held up great throughout the week! For the shredded chicken, I used a variation of her Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken, but subbing out the tomato sauce for 2 cans of diced tomatoes (mostly because I didn't have any tomato sauce haha). One thing to note for this recipe – it might make things easier to buy the avocados a few days ahead of time so they are ripe. I didn't plan well for this, so I actually ended up assembling the burrito bowls a day later than the rest of the meal prep. Also, I left out the sour cream, since I'm not a big fan of it.
Here are the macros for this week's main dishes:
Want to give this menu a try? Get your grocery list here!
That's it for me this week! What did you do over your holiday weekend? Did you still do meal prep? I would love to hear from you, so please leave a comment below!


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Soul Singers
Our Soul Singers choir seeks to:
- Teach children about our faith through musical experiences
- Brighten the lives of others through the sharing of musical gifts
- Help each child feel good about himself or herself
- Help each child become part of a caring group
- Help each child have fun through musical endeavors
- Build a solid foundation in the art and discipline of music
Soul Singers rehearse and sing for worship from September until Spring.
SOUL SINGERS (YOUTH 7th AND 8th GRADE )
Director: Christopher Goodson
Rehearsals: Wednesdays 6 – 6:45 p.m.
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Mapping Mystery Manor
Thanks to Strange Maps, I visited the Culture Archive's collection of maps that appeared on British endpapers, a most evocative ingredient in books. The same site archives a variety of other fictitious maps from literature and advertising, including charts from Arthur Ransome's books.
The thumbnail at left comes from the endpapers map from Mystery Manor, a children's novel by Mary Evelyn Atkinson in 1939. The illustrations, including this map, are by Harold Jones.
The title Mystery Manor is, of course, intriguing. What story lurks behind the details on that map? Who are the four children pictured in the endpapers? (Two boys and two girls, naturally.) Why is the cat named Lady Archibald?
Some Googling brought me to reports from a British homeschooling family who read this book last fall. And I'm even more confused now. In fact, it almost sounds like a writing exercise: can you create a plot that takes readers from this beginning to this end? Here's how the book starts:
Oliver and Bill, the main children in the book, go spying on Mr Hugh, the main suspect. It starts at Mr Hugh's cottage, where he shows them his fly fishing equipment and tells them all about it. He then goes off saying that they can't come with him. Of course they don't believe he is really going fishing him, so they follow him. But much to their surprise he really does go fishing...That blog characterizes the male leads as "Oliver the bookish boy studying for exams or Bill, the lively one that prefers to dig in streams and climb trees and for whom maths is a mystery." The endpapers show Oliver in necktie, jersey, and socks pulled up, and Bill in a casual shirt with no socks at all. The blog offers no word on the girls, Jane and Anna.
And this is what happens at the end of the book:
The children finally found the tru[th] about what had been going on, but there was just one thing that puzzled Oliver, the eldest. He still didn't understand why Mr Hugh had attacked Bill while he was wearing the red school tie. He knew at the time that it was something to do with communism, but really didn't understand it.What an exciting finish! From a fisherman who actually goes fishing to two pages on Communism in the late 1930s. We just don't write mysteries like that anymore.
M.E. Atkinson often uses the lack of knowledge in her characters to inform children about current affairs, and communism was a current affair in 1937. So over the last two pages of the book Oliver explores communism...


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Microsoft is Desperate to Force Customers to Upgrade to Windows 10May 27th, 2016
According to current estimates, Windows 10, released in July, 2015, has over 15% of the PC operating system user base. Based on the most recent totals, the total user base is approaching 300 million, which sounds impressive. But when you look at the percentages, not so much. Indeed, it appears that the migration rate slowed rapidly within a few months after the initial release.
Until July 29, the Windows 10 upgrade is free for consumers. That makes it the same, at least for the first year, as OS X upgrades. But whereas Apple gains huge numbers of upgraders during the year of an OS's existence, the same isn't true for Windows. One reason is that Windows 10 isn't every PC user's cup of tea.
True, it's closer in approach to Windows 7, particularly when compared to the poorly-received Windows 8/8.1 release. But it retains the lame interface elements of the latter, along with the too-thin lettering. However, the Start menu now works like a proper Start menu, and some of the new features might be useful. So there's a virtual desktops feature similar to Apple's Spaces. In addition, Cortana, the digital assistant, is present. That's being touted as a huge advantage, especially since Apple hasn't yet introduced Siri on a Mac. This is something that may debut under the next OS X, which may be called macOS to unify the branding.
Coinciding with the arrival of its first anniversary, Microsoft is touting a major upgrade to Windows 10, referred to as the Anniversary Update. Once again, Microsoft's skills at catchy branding is lacking. But the ads for Windows 10 aren't so compelling either. They are focused on silly lifestyle concepts, which is peculiar, since the main audience for Windows still consists of enterprise users. Indeed, few expect large numbers of businesses to upgrade from Windows 7 — or even Windows XP — anytime soon. It may take years before they switch to Windows 10 or one of its successors.
That said, Microsoft is pulling out all the stops to entice — or trick you — into upgrading your PC. Over the past year, the company has been criticized for downloading Windows 10 in the background whether you wanted it or not. If your PC has a small SSD, or limited capacity on a regular hard drive, victims of this unwanted behavior may find their computers robbed of gigabytes of free storage. Indeed, I often wonder how Microsoft gets away with this stunt, since downloading something sight unseen — without your knowledge or approval — is one of the classic definitions of a malware infection.
To make matters worse, Microsoft is altering a long-time user interface convention to trick you to launch the upgrade installer. So on a Mac, PC or even a Linux computer, clicking the "Close" button should dismiss a dialog, right? Well, Microsoft is now pushing a notification dialog that alerts you to a Windows 10 upgrade. You would expect that clicking the "X" in the upper-right corner of the dialog would simply dismiss it.
But, based on an obscure interface change, that action authorizes the upgrade instead. I'm serious! This is the sort of behavior that is, plain and simple, unethical. Indeed, traditional Windows programming guidelines state that, when you click Close or Cancel in a dialog, it should, "Never give it the same effect as OK."
Well, not till now!
Perhaps most PC users will just groan and bear it! Maybe they wanted to try Windows 10 anyway, and this is a good opportunity, ahead of the time when you'll have to pay upwards of $119 for a consumer license. But that doesn't make this stunt any more acceptable.
I suppose this comedy of errors won't make so much of a difference on a consumer's PC. The enterprise is under more severe controls, so unwanted OS upgrades would traditionally be blocked. But I can imagine how it might impact the small business with a handful of computers.
So a few weeks back, I was listening to a well-known radio talk show host lambasting Microsoft for forcibly upgrading one of his work PCs to Windows 10 — while he was on the air! These shows use a PC to track callers to the show, and list the people waiting to speak to the host. But not while that Windows 10 upgrade was going on.
To his credit, the host, Thom Hartmann, talked about this stunt on his show. He regarded it as spyware. He pondered whether he should just switch to the Mac and be done with such unwanted behavior.
To be sure, Microsoft, despite reporting decent revenues and very high profits, is in trouble. PC sales are tanking. In order to entice skeptical users to upgrade to Windows 10, Microsoft made it free for a year, and when the upgrade pace declined, turned to unsavory tactics to force the installers, unwanted, onto PCs. This latest maneuver, to change the user convention for clicking an X in a dialog to trick you into upgrading your PC, is just going too far.
Fortunately for me, my sole forays into Window are courtesy of a Parallels Desktop virtual machine on a Mac. If a Windows 10 update doesn't work properly, I can always restore it to a previous version courtesy of a Time Machine backup. Or dump the PC virtual machine altogether and try something else.
PC users who don't want Windows 10 might be forced to restore their PCs, potentially a long and annoying process. When it comes time to buy a new PC, just say no and switch to a Mac. Apple won't force you to upgrade anything by chicanery. If you don't want a download, just turn of the options to update your OS, plus the "Automatically check for updates" option in the App Store preference pane. You can then go on with your business free of spyware or other unwanted intrusions from the OS maker.
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Russian Spies used Steganography
The FBI arrested 11 suspected Russian spies for passing U.S. information to Russian spy agents using wireless networking and steganography.
Steganography is the process of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, knows of the existence of the message, a form of security through obscurity. The message can be hidden in pictures, text and many different forms.


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The key to this move is that it starts with one beat of a 'outwards two-in-one-hand juggle'.
(In the first cycle of the move on the clip, I do a 'take-out'- ignore that, you don't need to do a take-out)
Let's assume that you're going to do that throw with your left hand- normally, in the 'cascade' pattern, that throw would be across the center of the pattern to the right- instead, you throw this ball away from the center, to your left.
(practicing two-in-one-hand using outwards circles will show the path the ball takes here).
That ball then peaks over your left hand, at which point the right hand, already holding a ball, swoops across to intercept the ball that has just peaked over your left hand- leading to the right hand now holding two balls.
As the right hand collects that 2nd ball, the left, now underneath the right hand (crossed arms)throws its ball vertically up, slightly to the right.
The right hand, already in possession of two balls, spies the peaking third ball and, its greed knowing no bounds, withdraws to the right, flying over the third ball and, swooping in a clockwise circle,gracefully intercepts it as it drops.
It then continues that anti-clockwise path, taking it to the left and underneath the left hand, at which point, realising that it's now holding three balls, panics and throws them all upwards under the left hand.
It throws them in such a cunning fashion, that the balls spilt into a neat triangle formation whereby the practised hands of the juggler, now completely empty, can skillfully retrieve two of the balls and recommence the basic cascade.
This move looks good just done once as it breaks up the flow of the cascade in a way that few other tricks do.
In this video I'm doing it repeatedly, alternating the sides, that's a nice looking sequence in its own right, but I think the main value of learning to do it repeatedly is as a kind of 'training drill' cos, when you get to the point where you can do that, your ability to just do the move once will be very solid indeed.
1. Practice throwing three balls out of one hand and going straight into a juggle
2. Practice a variety of other 'multiplex' tricks (these are any moves involving gathering more than one ball into one hand)
3. I'm going to upload a slow-motion version of this clip in the near future
4. Very important- remember that this move starts with the 'outwards tow-in-one-hand' backwards throw- a common mistake is that beginners forget this and the sequence just doesn't work without it.


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ARC Humanities Hagiography Bibliography
The ARC Humanities Press Hagiography Bibliography is a collection of a variety of publications on hagiography. They list books, websites, sources, translations, journals and several other. The website is very much up-to-date as it lists publications of 2017, too.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library makes classic Christian literature available. They select, collect, distribute, and promote valuable literature through the World Wide Web and other media; list writing of the church fathers and translations of different versions of the bible. All documents are machine-readable and thus fully searchable. What is more,… Continue Reading Christian Classics Ethereal Library
This is the website of the Belgian Research Group "Hagiologia" founded in 1994 investigating saints, sanctity and hagiographic topics. They published the Litterae Hagiologicae. However, neither the site nor the journal seems to be active recently.
Hagiografía Hispánica
This is the virtual library "Miguel de Cervantes". They have a section on Spanish hagiography and include free access to sources, editions, bibliographies, research as well as a collection of interesting links. An excellent site! They are also active on various social media platforms like twitter, facebook and youtube (links below).
Patrologia Graeca
The Patrologia Graeca is a collection of writings by the Christian Church Fathers in Greek. This website links to the complete works edited by Jacque Paul Migne. For each volume there are several links to digitized versions, not all of the links are still working, but it should be possible to… Continue Reading Patrologia Graeca
Pinakes – Textes et manuscrits grecs
This website collects Greek texts and manuscripts. They also include hagiographic texts. The database is searchable by saint, country, author, oevre and other. They also included a list with a few helpful links under the heading "liens", French for "links".
This project is not immediately connected to saints, but an excellent digital resource! The actual manuscripts are searchable, for example for the term "saint". The goal of HIMANIS is to digitize, transcribe and index medieval manuscripts and thus make them accessible for scholars. Currently, they are indexing the Trésor des Chartes… Continue Reading Himanis
AISSCA: Associazione Italiana per lo Studio della Santità dei Culti e dell'Agiografia
This is the website of the Italian association of the study of saints, cults and hagiography. They share information on their publication Sanctorum in Italian and English, about their organisation, their members as well as upcoming events they are holding. They also link to their fairly new youtube-channel.
Acta Sanctorum Database
The Acta Sanctorum Database is the online version of the complete printed texts of Acta Sanctorum. However, you have to register or use your library's subscription to access the database. So check with your library if you have access to the database.
A Clerk of Oxford
A blog about the literature and history of medieval England. As a scholar of Medieval English literature, Dr. Eleanor Parker posts about a variety of topics: Churches, folklore, Vikings, poetry and there is a variety of posts on (local) saints. She is also active on Twitter, where she posts about… Continue Reading A Clerk of Oxford
Medieval Nordic Text Archive
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Catalogue Digital Editions
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DMMapp – Digitized medieval manuscripts app
This is an excellent website if you are looking for digitized manuscripts from all over the world. The Digitized Medieval Manuscripts App (DMMapp) links to more than 500 libraries which digitised their manuscripts. They can be sorted by country, city, library or quantity of digitisations. Additionally they collected digital resources concerned… Continue Reading DMMapp – Digitized medieval manuscripts app
Pinakes – Textes et manuscrits grecs
A French website that contains the digitised manuscripts and index sheets of the Greek hagiographic manuscripts of the Société des Bollandistes (Bibliotheca hagiographica Manuscripta graeca). It's a cooperation between the Société des Bollandistes and the Laboratoire D'Excellence Relisions et Sociétés dans le monde méditerranéen (Labex RESMED). You can search for manuscripts… Continue Reading Pinakes – Textes et manuscrits grecs
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts: Internet Resources
Looking for digitised illuminated manuscripts? This site is an excellent collection of internet resources on Medieval illuminated manuscripts. Robert Miller from the University of Maryland University College lists websites to online images and resources of Medieval life, digitised manuscripts, blogs, brilliant Medievalist twitter handles (#MedievalTwitter),… Use this website as a starting… Continue Reading Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts: Internet Resources
Latin Library – Digitised Medieval Texts
The Latin Library contains digitised versions of public domain Medieval Latin texts. They are not limited to saints' lives and list Asser, Einhard alongside the Passio Sancti Edmundi by Abo of Fleury or the Vita Sororis Agnetis. Despite the fact that these are not critical editions of the texts (they explicitly… Continue Reading Latin Library – Digitised Medieval Texts
Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Saints' Lives
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook (IMS) is part of the Internet History Sourcebook project, which aims at providing digital versions of public domain original source texts and can be used as an online textbook. The Saints' Lives subpage of the IMS groups information on and source texts about saints via era… Continue Reading Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Saints' Lives
The Labyrinth – Resources for Medieval Studies
A Collection of Links to useful websites concerning Medieval Studies. They aim at providing an "Ariadne's Thread" through the maze of information available online sorted by categories. If you click, for example, on the category Church History you get links to the Cistercian Order, the St. Pachomius Library and much more.
My Albion. A Medievalists blog on Saints, Hagiography and more
A Blog on all things medieval by medievalist Steffen Hope (Centre for Medieval Literature, Odense University). On this excellent, lively and regularly updated Blog Steffen writes about his research on saints, on saints and hagiography in general as well as manuscript highlights, art history, historical artefacts and much more. If… Continue Reading My Albion. A Medievalists blog on Saints, Hagiography and more
The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
This site by Medievalist and Digital Humanist Andrea R. Harbin is collection of information and links on a wide array of all things Medieval (including a useful Medieval Glossary). Under "Saints and Martyrs" this site collected links to information on a few saints and some links to organisations researching hagiography… Continue Reading The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
OKI Regensburg – Unsere Linksammlung
A German collection of links to the homepages of Orthodox archdioceses and dioceses from around the world (sorted by country) as well as links to Catholic, Protestant and Ecumenical associations and dioceses. They also include several websites on liturgy. This site might be particularly interesting if you are looking for… Continue Reading OKI Regensburg – Unsere Linksammlung
Documenta Catholica Omnia
This site lists PDFs (scans) of Latin editions of Christian documents: a multilanguage catholic e-books database. They include liturgy, papal documents, patristic texts, and much more. For those interested in the present-day Catholic church, they also provide a list of archbishoprics from the entire world.
Studies on Christian Hagiography
A Blog on the Studies of Christian hagiography: It is mainly a collection of conference programmes and calls for papers up to 2016, when it was last updated. The entries are grouped according to topics (column on the right below call for participation, labels and blog archive). Useful, if you want… Continue Reading Studies on Christian Hagiography
Hagiographie et Histoire (Haghis)
The Blog HagHis has, unfortunately, not been updated a lot during the last years. Their list of online publications is, nonetheless, helpful as it includes theses on hagiography, articles, and reviews (however, many of the links are broken).
Ménestrel: Medieval Latin Hagiography
A French website (with some English resources and texts) listing websites of institutions dealing with scholarship on hagiography, bibliographies (book-form, online and/or digitised). Particularly the list of digitised bibliographies is very useful.
If you are looking for basic information on a variety of saints or simply want to get an overview over which saints were burned at the stake, this is the one. Although the information is very compact, it is useful resource if you are looking for and want to sort… Continue Reading CatholicSaints.Info
Mittelalter – Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte
A very useful collection of digital resources in German and English: academic blogs of medieval studies, monthly review overviews, calendar, conference proceedings and much more.
Dictionary of catholic theology
A French website listing to digitised editions and entries of the Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique concerning saints (grouped by type: doctors of the church, church fathers, mystics, century).
Viking Society Web Publications
The Viking Society for Northern Research brilliantly makes all their publications since 1983 available online for free! They offer their excellent research for everyone to read: Facsimiles, primary sources, research articles and their annual journal, the Saga-Book, on medieval Scandinavian and Northern Research, including research on saints from that region. Author: Anthony Faulkes Last… Continue Reading Viking Society Web Publications
Medieval Studies Hagiography
A bibliography on Hagiography by Charles D. Wright, English and Medieval Studies Professor at the University of Illinois. The entries are sorted in useful categories, i.e. "Comprehensive Bibliographies and Manuals", "Catalogues of Hagiographical Manuscripts", "Iconography" and many more. There are very useful links to web-content, however, as the website was last… Continue Reading Medieval Studies Hagiography
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Manuscripta BHLms
A digital issue of the manuscripts recorded in the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, BHL. You can get access to the catalogue of the BHLms, enter a Saint's name or a BHL-identifier and thus get an overview of and information on the manuscripts published by Bollandistes concerning the saint in question. The website is… Continue Reading Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Manuscripta BHLms
Franciscan Authors (13th -18th century)
A catalogue of Franciscan authors that is continually growing. Bert Roest and Maarten van der Heijden include an alphabetical list of the authors and further links to the preaching and historiography of saints. Additionally, they also provide information on Franciscan provinces.
Walters Ex Libris
Website of the Walters Art Museum including brilliant digitisations of more than 300 marvellous illuminated manuscripts, of the first printed books and of deluxe editions. Next to high-resolution images of Books of Hours and Gospels, they provide Ethopian Miniatures, Treasure Binding and much more. They also provide XML format, TEI information… Continue Reading Walters Ex Libris
Saint Pachomius Library
The Saint Pachomius Library is an encyclopaedia of Orthodox saints. It was established in 1994 and includes alphabetically sorted information on (Orthodox) theological concepts and short profiles of saints with further links to publications on this saint. The site is expected to undergo a major update in 2017.
Thesaurus der Heiligen
This Thesaurus lists primarily German saints and includes the opus in which the respective saint is mentioned. Clicking on this link gives a useful overview of the manuscripts of the opus in question, key information as well as the classification according to the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina (BHL). Furthermore, it also includes… Continue Reading Thesaurus der Heiligen
Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen
The Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen is concerned with the interdisciplinary and international connection of research dealing with Saints, Sanctity, Hagiography, Religiosity. There are yearly meetings in Stuttgart-Hohenheim (Germany) to discuss current research and regular conferences in Weingarten. The Programme and Reports of these conferences are available on the website.
The ORB for Medieval Studies
Content sorted by period and topic. Includes both primary sources and secondary literature. Very extensive lists and overview over all things Medieval.
Medieval Resources Online (University of Leeds)
Very clear structure, includes many helpful links for the study of saints and other topics.


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Decent Digital Signatures
June 26th, 2015
Digital signatures, also known as e-signatures, have been with us for some time now. For instance, a European Union directive 1999 conferred legal status to electronic signatures. By 2003 it had been followed by national legislation in the member states.
There are many implementations of this new technology. A surprising number of them choose to deviate from what I would call decent practices for using digital signatures.
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As many of you likely know by now, I recently moved - if at the beginning of the summer still qualifies as recently? As I was moving from a narrow, tiny and dark one bedroom on the Lower East Side to a spacious, modern and light one bedroom in the Financial District, I saw fit to upgrade my life accordingly (this is a danger of living in New York, of course!) So, months later, I'm still putting the finishing touches on my home, with my most recent additions being a sleek little wood and brass bar cart, and this, this GLORIOUS Turkoman rug from Medallion Rug Gallery, a manufacturer and online destination for fine handmade rugs from all around the world.
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Russian rag II / Elena Kats-Chernin ; performed by Elizabeth Green
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Ankylosis of the teeth is a rare genetic disorder that can keep your child's teeth from growing in properly. In children with this condition, some or all of the teeth are fused to the jawbone. Here's what you need to know about this condition.
Aren't teeth supposed to be fused to the jawbone?
It's true that teeth are supposed to be firmly attached to the jawbone, but they aren't supposed to be fused to the bone. Normal teeth are attached to the jawbone by a strong cord called the periodontal ligament. Kids with ankylosis of the teeth don't have these periodontal ligaments; instead, they have bony structures that connect the teeth to the jawbone.
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If your child has this condition, some or all of their teeth won't come in when they're supposed to. This condition can affect both the baby teeth and the adult teeth. You may notice that some of your child's baby teeth don't come in, or you may notice that when their baby teeth fall out, they aren't replaced by adult teeth. If this happens, ankylosis of the teeth is a possibility; your dentist can take X-rays to confirm your suspicions.
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Think elementary STEM education is out of reach? Picture a first-grade classroom.
Kids gather around the sand table and the teacher passes out some props—marbles, rulers, boxes, and cups. Students explore freely, filling cups with sand, burying marbles, and turning the rulers into shovels and rakes.
Then the teacher says: "I have a challenge for you today. How fast can you make the marbles roll?"
Kids start rolling marbles across the sand, only to find they get stuck. Then one student tries putting his marble on a ruler. It rolls much faster.
Then another props his ruler up on a cup and the marble flies.
After the kids explore, they gather on the rug to talk about their observations. The teacher asks:
"What did you design out of your tools that make the marble roll fastest?" "What do you think makes the marble slow down?" "Why do you think the marble rolls faster on the ruler than in the sand?"
Sand tables have long been a staple of early education. It is the way we plan a classroom activity and the questions we invite children to explore that turn an ordinary play activity into savvy and pointed elementary STEM education.
Why STEM in the early years?
STEM is gaining momentum in classrooms across the country. However, the U.S. still ranks 38th and 24th out of 71 developed countries in math and science student achievement, respectively. Combine that with research that shows STEM majors earn nearly $20,000 more per year than non-STEM majors, and it's easy to see that STEM education is essential for our economy and kids' future success. The earlier it starts, the better.
By giving our kids the tools they need to succeed in STEM, we are giving them a huge leg up in life. But when we think STEM, we think middle school and high school, robotics and chemistry—not first graders and the sand table.
While any exposure to STEM is good, research studies prove that kids who experience STEM early through hands-on learning are better equipped to develop a strong understanding of STEM concepts as they get older.
So how can you make STEM part of your daily elementary classroom?
I know your plate is already quite full. And while the standards are there (between The Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards) everyday tools and the practical age-appropriate lesson plans can be a bit harder to come by.
So we sat down with Dr. Shelley Green, a professor of STEM education at Nova Southeastern University to talk about how busy elementary teachers can get a handle on STEM education in a way that's meaningful and effective. Dr. Green helped us boil it down to the four essential tasks that teachers can do in order to lead their students to successful elementary STEM education.
1. Change your lens
Here's the secret: most elementary teachers don't have to overhaul the way they teach in order to become strong STEM educators. "It's all about changing the lens through which we view our teaching practices," says Dr. Green.
"Elementary teachers need the opportunity and the confidence to be engineers alongside their students," says Dr. Green. This can be as simple as changing the kinds of questions we ask our students.
"By adding a few words to your classroom questioning vocabulary—like design, experiment, and model—a whole world of STEM learning can be opened up for students." It's all about tweaking the lessons, activities, homework, and language just enough to create an environment where elementary STEM is a natural but effective part of the curriculum.
2. Enlist a STEM village
As a teacher, you're always busy innovating, finding new ways and cobbling together resources to help your students learn. But teachers shouldn't have to carry the entire responsibility for STEM education alone. "Community partnerships—both with education businesses and higher education institutions," agrees Dr. Green, "are a key factor in the success of STEM programs."
Local businesses and higher education institutions have a huge stake in making sure kids are prepared for STEM majors and careers. If support doesn't already exist in your district, check out these resources:
- Guide to building a STEM community coalition
- Free support from Lockheed Martin
- Contact local STEM businesses or local university STEM departments to talk about support
- Free resources from National Geographic
- This list of math websites (many free) with fun games for K-12
3. Integrate elementary STEM across the curriculum
STEM may seem like a topic for an AP Geometry or Physics 101 course, but it can be incorporated across your entire elementary curriculum to get your students thinking like innovators and builders.
"The principles of STEM—critical thinking, asking good questions, observation and exploration—are truly at the heart of every discipline," explains Dr. Green. T
Talk to teachers of art, music, and more about how you can incorporate more STEM into everyday concepts. And check out these lesson plans and ideas we love:
- This stuffed animal STEM lesson incorporates reading
- STEM bins include art and writing components (and are great for centers or early finishers)
- These elementary physics lessons (yes, seriously!) get kids moving
- These read aloud picture books cover STEM topics
- These hands-on activities include cooking!
4. Bring on the technology
Exposing kids to tools like computers, iPads, ereaders, and apps early on is important, but it's only through guided learning that these tools become an important part of STEM education, argues Green.
"We need to take a whole-child approach to teaching children about technology," explains Green. "Teachers can help kids make connections across various technologies to real-world concepts simply by strategic questioning and guided learning, especially if they have had access to research-based STEM education and teacher training."
- These lesson ideas incorporate early literacy and tech literacy into one
- These ideas for pre-K and kindergarten tech use are fun (even showing them some "old" technology, like your house phone!)
Getting Started with Elementary STEM
STEM education will only continue to expand and grow. Now is the time to seek out professional development in STEM and to start in small ways to make it a larger part of your approach to the classroom. With good resources and training, you can open up an entire world of elementary STEM learning for your students. Who knows, the STEM seeds you plant may change their futures.
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One thing I like about these group writing projects, such as our current one Learning Experiences, is that I don't have to think of something new to write on my blog every day; the Tillerheads do all the work. (Oh, by the way, if you were wondering who coined the word Tillerheads to define readers of this blog... it was bonnie from frogma.)
The Tillerhead of the Day is Jos M Spijkerman who writes Racing Rules of Sailing- Look to Windward, which is, without a doubt, one of the best blogs on the planet about the racing rules. His post Helping Hands is about a "learning experience" he had in one of his first events working as an international match-racing umpire... how he almost made a huge rookie mistake... and how he learned when not to lend a helping hand.
Thanks Jos who shows that there are all sorts of unexpected ways to interpret the theme of this project. Plenty of time left for you, yes you, to participate. Full instructions at Learning Experiences.


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Every Wednesday, with the help of our friends in the local music community, we share free music on SoundDiego with the Download of the Wednesday.
Today, we offer "Backburner" by Mike Pinto, a San Diego-based singer/songwriter storyteller. With a reggae, ska, and surf-rock backdrop, Pinto shares anecdotes of addiction, temptation and heartbreak. Originally from Philadelphia, Pinto moved to San Diego in 2006 and immersed himself in the Southern California music scene. In 2007, he teamed up with professional skateboarder/drummer Check Treece (Pearl Jam, G Love, Bad Brains) to record Pinto's highly infectious self-titled release.
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No stranger to touring abroad, Pinto has played sold-out shows in Guam and the Hawaiian islands. I had the opportunity to chat with him on LegitRadio about his music and his upcoming show at the Belly Up Tavern (March 12) with One Drop and Tommy Dubs. An affable chap, Pinto will be playing an acoustic show on Thursday night at Bar Ninety.
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text: Thirty-five years of arm-waving Grace with the Royal Marines Lt-Col Nick Grace saying farewell and leaving the rostrum for the last time at St Mary's Church, Fratton. Lieutenant Colonel Nick Grace, the nation's most senior military musician, left the Royal Marines Band Service this month after more than 35 years' distinguished service. Like every Royal Marine musician, he joined as a bandsman. His instruments were euphonium and cello. That was in 1982, the year of the Falklands war. In basic training his first success was to win the coveted Prince's Badge as the best all-round musician passing for duty. Later, he served on the Royal Yacht Britannia and in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Argus, a hospital ship during the Gulf War. He gained a first class Bachelor of Music degree at the London College of Music and has performed at many famous places all over the world, from the Royal Albert Hall and the Cenotaph in London, Windsor Castle, Twickenham and Edinburgh Castle, to auspicious venues in Australia and New Zealand. Lt-Col Grace's penultimate concert was at St Mary's Church, Fratton. It was a triumphant farewell to that great venue.The evening's programme was chock full of audience-pleasing music by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Saint-Saens. Three of the works were conducted by Nick.Others pieces came under the baton of the incoming Principal Director of Music, Lt-Col John Ridley and four sergeants on their bandmaster's course. Like many RM musicians before and since, John was given an entirely different instrument to learn from that on which he auditioned. He was given a bassoon to learn from scratch. He subsequently became a virtuoso on that instrument. A full orchestra was put together for this special occasion at St Mary's combining players from the Royal Band Portsmouth, the Band of HMS Collingwood and the renowned Countess of Wessex String Orchestra (CWSO), the Army's newest ensemble. More than 50 musicians, including a magnificent fanfare of trumpeters and the church's powerful organ, nearly lifted the roof off during the finale which was the thunderous Organ Symphony by Saint-Seans. Throughout the whole evening the orchestra was led by Corporal James Sandalls, an excellent violinist from the CWSO. As the rapturous applause died away Nick left St Mary's rostrum for the last time. However, his very last engagement was to conduct the Royal Band and HMS Collingwood's Band at Portsmouth Cathedral in Old Portsmouth at the annual memorial service for all of Royal Marines bandsmen who died in both world wars and in the bombing of the RM School of Music, Deal, by the IRA in September 1989. The cathedral was packed for that moving service. The cathedral choir and consort sang wonderfully. The fanfare of trumpets was truly magnificent and Nick conducted the assembled musicians with his customary aplomb. Even though he has left the RM Band Service this will not be a farewell to arm-waving.With a lifetime spent in music he's developed an unequalled and expert portfolio in managing, conducting and developing large-scale musical events worldwide. Without doubt, he will be much sought-after as a freelance music consultant, lecturer and conductor. His advice to aspiring musicians who want to play, travel and enjoy sport is to go for the best job in the world with the best band service in the world. Read more at: http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/whats-o...waving-grace-with-the-royal-marines-1-8193380


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Mount St. Helens Spelunking
Adventure in northwest Washington's volcanic landscape.
This park has seen impressive regrowth since the 1980 eruption, but it's still full of eerie landscapes and volcanic remnants. It also has one of the largest concentrations of caves in the northwest, most notably, the two-mile-long Ape Cave, which is the longest continuous lava tube in the country. It's open year round, with guided cave walks during the summer, but a pass is required after December 15; for $5, you can rent a lantern or simply bring your own.
Mount St. Helens Visitor Center
This park has seen impressive regrowth since the 1980 eruption, but it's still full of eerie landscapes and volcanic remnants. Stop at the Castle Rock Visitor Center for hiking information. Strap on your headlamp for the two-mile hike through Ape Cave, the longest continuous lava tube in the Western Hemisphere.
Beaches Restaurant & Bar
Raucous on the weekends (and most weeknights as well) this popular eatery overlooking the Columbia River serves upscale comfort food with a view. On clear evenings, look for the lights of Portland eight miles to the south. Coveted for its location, Beaches features a wall of plate-glass windows overlooking the Columbia River and patio seating riverside during the warmer months. Pizza, pasta, and seafood dominate the menu, along with a mother lode of dessert offerings and a hopping full bar. High ceilings amplify the often-festive noise level in a dining area enlivened by rotating motorcycles and an open-flame wood-burning stove.
Blue Heron Inn
The comfortable B&B makes up for its simplicity with views of Silver Lake and Mount St. Helens.
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Uptown amenities converge with small-town views at the Hilton Vancouver Washington, located on the banks of the Columbia River. Completed in 2005, the hotel occupies a lush riverside location eight miles north of Portland, OR, in the historic town of Vancouver, WA. Two walking trails within blocks of the hotel wind through the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site and past the shops and eateries of Vancouver's engaging downtown. The Hilton Vancouver hosts all the amenites expected in a full-service hotel: an indoor pool and fitness center, on-site restaurant, and 30,000-square-foot conference center.


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Anambra hots up for Ogbunike Cave Carnival
Organisers Postpone Ada Ogbunike
Ogbunike Community in Oyi LGA of Anambra State is currently in frenzy mood, as locals and visitors celebrate this year's Ogbunike Cave Carnival. The event, which commenced yesterday (December 30) with the OCC Five-A-Side Football Tournament and Women Volleyball Challenge at the Ogbunike Town Hall, continues today (Dec 31) with the Walk4life.
Starting from 7am today (December 31), the walk, which will commence from Ilo Mgbada Azu, will go through the usual routes, to the Round Palace of Igwe Ogbunike, HRH John Ositadimma Umenyiora, where guests will pay homage to the King, who celebrated his 75th birthday and 40 years on the throne on Boxing Day.
From the Palace, the train will move to the Cave, where visitors and tourist will have the opportunity of exploring the tourist destination that has put Ogbunike community on the world map. The day will wrap with the Carnival Concert/New Year Countdown by 6pm, at the Town Hall, with different musicians and comedians on parade.
Meanwhile, the organisers have announced the postponement of Ada Ogbunike Beauty pageant, which usually mark the end of the three-day event. Originally scheduled for New Year Day, at the Ogbunike Town Hall, the pageant has now been postponed indefinitely, while other activities will go ahead as planned.
"Due to some challenges, we thought it wise to postpone the Ada Ogbunike for now. As much as people would have wanted us to go ahead, we've set a standard for ourselves; there's no going down. However, a new date for the pageant will be announced on a later date. Notwithstanding, other activities lined up will go on as planned. We regret any inconvenience this change might cause our teaming fans, but our decision is in the interest of the people," Adaeze Uzodoh, the project manager explained.


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SACRAMENTO, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- California Gov. Jerry Brown is cutting $6.4 million from his own office as he prepares a state budget expected to slash billions in services.
The Los Angeles Times reported the new governor will abolish the first lady's office, although he has named his wife, Anne Gust Brown, an unpaid special counselor. He also is reducing staff in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., and closing field offices in San Diego, Riverside and Fresno.
Brown is eliminating the secretary of education's post since California already has a superintendent of schools and a board of education.
"California is facing a huge deficit and it is necessary to find savings throughout all of government," he said in a statement Friday. "We all have to make cuts, and I'm starting with my own office."
Brown's budget will cut public schools, universities and health and welfare programs, say people familiar with his plans. He also is seeking a special referendum for voters to extend billions of dollars in sales, income and vehicle taxes to avert further reductions.
Brown's office already did without $650,000 for the transition from his previous post as attorney general. He used empty space in the attorney general's office, spending just $120,000.


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I was often getting SQLite::BusyException (reraised as Sequel::DatabaseError) or Sequel::PoolTimeout exceptions when using Sequel to handle SQLite3 databases in a program with little concurrency, in a way that that exceptions are not expected (specially on reads). I rewrote my code to use the SQLite3 gem instead of Sequel, just for test, and I had no more exceptions.
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Trust in America's financial system continues to edge upward according to the latest quarterly findings in the Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index. According to the report published today, the Financial Trust Index has increased slightly from 21 percent to 22 percent for the period from July to September 2009.
Most notably, the researchers attributed the positive trend to increased confidence in mutual funds and large corporations, and an overall stable view of the stock market.
The Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index is a quarterly look at Americans' trust in the nation's financial system, measuring public opinion over three-month periods to track changes in attitude and to provide a better understanding of public trust. Co-authors Paola Sapienza (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University) and Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) published today's report as the fourth quarterly update since the inaugural findings were issued in January 2009. Sapienza and Zingales analyzed data from more than 1,000 American households, randomly chosen and surveyed via phone during two weeks in late September 2009.
"Last quarter we reported that consumers felt less fearful of a large drop in the stock market, and this trend is continuing. Forty percent of people surveyed in this issue of the Index think a big drop is likely as compared to 56 percent in December 2008," said Sapienza. "In fact, our latest wave of data shows that fewer people think the market is undervalued compared to the June report, and the majority of people surveyed this quarter said they are planning to leave their stock market investments unchanged."
The researchers also cited a change in attitude toward banks. While overall trust in banks and bankers has decreased slightly (33 percent in September 2009 versus 34 percent in June 2009), trust in banks is still up compared to 29 percent in March 2009. Additionally, the authors noted that trust in bank organizations varies dramatically based on the type of bank, with the most support for institutions serving consumers at a local level.
"Consumers surveyed put most of their trust in credit unions, which have a 65 percent approval rating versus 33 percent for national banks. Right now, credit unions have the highest level of trust compared to any institution we measure, though local or community banks also score much better than national banks with a 55 percent approval rating," Zingales said.
Despite an overall positive feeling toward local banking institutions, banks in which the government has a stake are trusted the least, with only a 25 percent approval rating. The researchers said this is one symptom of a shift in opinion of government intervention in the financial system.
"As people begin to feel more sure of their personal investments, their banking institutions and corporations, the demand for regulation and government intervention is starting to subside," said Sapienza.
Specifically, the Financial Trust Index reported drops in support for several areas of proposed government policy by the Obama administration. For example, supporters of regulation for financial institutions went down from 65 percent in June 2009 to 54 percent in September 2009. Likewise, supporters of caps on executive compensation dropped from 65 percent to 59 percent, and supporters of help for homeowners dropped from 68 percent to 54 percent.
"We discovered that 49 percent of those surveyed believe the Obama administration's economic policies were designed with the country's best interests in mind, while 23 percent think they were designed in favor of the unions and 22 percent believe they favored the financial industry," Sapienza noted.
Finally, the latest findings also explored perceptions of both the housing and job markets over the last three months.
"According to the survey, the perceived chance of becoming unemployed has dropped from one out of four in June 2009 to one out of five now," said Zingales. "And, we are seeing improvement on the housing front as well: 30 percent of people surveyed expect to see appreciation in house prices over the next 12 months, versus 28 percent in June and 19 percent in March. Similarly, fewer people think there will be a decline in home values, down to 23 percent from 37 percent six months ago."
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Valmeinier 1800: Beautiful residence "Lagrange Le Grand Panorama II". In the resort, 500 m from the centre, in a central position, 50 m from the skiing area. For shared use: indoor pool heated (10 x 8 m, 01.01.-31.12.). In the complex: reception, WiFi (extra). Sauna (extra). Billiard table, washing machine, tumble dryer (for shared use, extra). Bread roll service and breakfast (extra). Motor access (mountain road). In Winter: please take snow chains. Roofed, parking (limited number of spaces, extra). Shop, grocery, restaurant 800 m. Skisport facilities 500 m, slopes 100 m, ski school 800 m. Nearby attractions: Le Marché de Valloire, Piste de Luge Elan. Well-known ski regions can easily be reached: Valloire valmeinier. Hiking paths: Chiens de traineaux. Please note: car recommended. Suitable for families, baby equipment on request (extra). Ski bus (free of charge). The photograph shows a typical example. The catalogue photo is just an example. There are more similar properties for rent in this same residence. Note: TV extra 29 euros / week.
"24", 2-room apartment 25 to 30 m2. Object suitable for 2 adults + 2 children. Beautiful furnishings: living/dining room with 1 double sofabed (140 cm), TV can be hired. Sleeping alcove with 2 sleeping facilities. Kitchenette (dishwasher, 2 ceramic glass hob hotplates, microwave). Bath/WC. Electric heating. Balcony. Reserved parking (extra, roofed). Suitable for families. Maximum 1 pet/ dog allowed.
Included in price: • ERV cancellation insurance • Final cleaning
Compulsory extra costs, to be paid to the local service provider: • Breakage deposit: EUR 300.00 Payable in resort fixed price • Local tax: EUR 1.30 Payable in resort per person/day
Additional services (optional): • Breakfast: EUR 9.00 Optional in resort per person • Breakfast - children: EUR 5.00 Optional in resort per person • Bed linen (initial supply): EUR 8.00 Optional in resort per person • Cot (up to 2 years): EUR 15.00 Bookable extra, payable in resort fixed price • Final cleaning: EUR 39.00 Optional in resort fixed price • Highchair: EUR 15.00 Optional in resort fixed price • Beds made up for arrival: EUR 45.00 Optional in resort fixed price • Pet: EUR 39.00 Bookable extra, payable in resort per week • Parking: EUR 39.00 Optional in resort per week • Towels (initial supply): EUR 8.00 Optional in resort per person • Wireless internet access (WIFI): EUR 15.00 Optional in resort per week
All services (mandatory or optional) are for guidance only, ask for an accurate quote when booking your holiday.
•Easy upgrade ski pass options •Short transfer •Brilliant day care options
This traditional alpine resort has it all; beautiful French architecture straight off the front of a Christmas card, a brilliant ski area, connections to the Three Valleys and a Tourist Office who make it their mission to ensure all ages have the best ski holiday possible - you'll go once and almost definitely fall in love.
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Snow History: December average depth 62cm
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By Mary Lou Peter Kansas State Research andExtension�
MANHATTAN, Kan.- Following the drought and dust storms of the 1930s, the federal government'sresponse was to invest $13.8 million to plant over 200 million trees and shrubsthroughout the Great Plains.
These plantings were initially established to reduce windblownsoil, but research suggests that there is an additional benefit that wouldsurprise many agricultural producers. Windbreaks may increase cropyields.�
"Conventional wisdom suggests otherwise since the zoneimmediately adjacent to windbreaks usually exhibits obvious reductions in cropyields," said Bob Atchison, rural forestry coordinator with the Kansas ForestService. "But is seeing always believing?"
"This same research further supports that the visible yieldreductions immediately adjacent to windbreaks are more than compensated for byincreased yields in the rest of the field, the area that falls within the'protected zone' of the windbreak," Atchison said. "These yield increases weresummarized on a world-wide basis as far back as 1986 at the First InternationalWindbreak Conference and documented 12 percent yield increases for corn, 8percent for spring wheat, 23 percent for winter wheat, and 15 percent forsoybeans."
Some economists also suggest that field windbreaks will also payfor themselves within 10 to 15 years and provide additional income over theirremaining life span of 50 years or more, even when you consider the landremoved from production by the windbreak and the yield reductions that occurimmediately adjacent to the trees, he said.
�In an attempt to check the validity of this long-standing researchand discourage the removal of shelterbelts and encourage planting new ones, acrop yields study associated with windbreaks is being considered throughout theGreat Plains.
"For the Great Plains Crop Yield Study, we propose to obtaininformation from yield monitors that allow producers to assess the effects ofweather, soil properties, management, and in our case, windbreaks onagricultural production," Atchisonsaid. "The concept behind this study is to compare multiple years of data fromfields with and without windbreaks over a large area and from manyfarmers.� Because we are looking for relative crop yield changes and notabsolute numbers, this approach will minimize the variables of rainfall,fertility, crop rotation, and farming methods."
The key is that the data already exists with farmers because manyhave crop yield monitors installed on their equipment. When combined with GPS,yield monitors can provide crop yield data for virtually every point in afield.�
The first step, the forester said, is to find conservation-mindedlandowners who understand the intent of the study and are willing to sharetheir yield monitor data. Ideally, the data would be from bothwindbreak-protected and unprotected fields. The field(s) will be identified onaerial photography and when windbreaks are involved, their effectiveness willbe determined. Then the landowner can either upload the monitor data to a sitefor analysis or save it to a storage device for uploading later.
"The eventual outcome from the study will be an updating of ourknowledge of the windbreak/crop yield interaction," Atchison said. The information will be sharedamong farmers and conservationists through technical reports, journals,agriculture-related publications and conferences.
"By the way the study has been designed, it will not be possibleto report comparison yield results for a specific location," he said. "However,if the study can include several years of data, we may in time, be able toanswer other questions, such as, do windbreaks have greater, lesser, or noeffect during times of drought? Are they more effective with some crops andless with others?"
A database that spans several years and a wide region maypotentially add value to agriculture production beyond the original purpose ofthe study, he added.
Farmers, scientists, and other stakeholders interested inparticipating in the study should contact Atchisonat (785) 532-3310�or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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