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The images below best illustrate why we love Warriewood Valley the way it was originally planned and the way it has been developed to date. We congratulate the developers that feature in this gallery for development that works with the beauty of our natural environment. The water management facilities in each sector are a credit to what can be done to make these a natural feature of the development, and in many cases serve to create additional parks and playing areas when they are not required to detain water in times of heavy rain. Support our fight to preserve what we have and to stop developer greed and the suggested crazy over development of our beautiful valley. We understood that the building heights would be a maximum of 8.5m and we will campaign to maintain this feature of the Valley .
Water management ponds in Sector 12 – Shearwater – Developed by Clarendon at 15 dwellings per Ha
Bike trail traverse the Valley and follow the creek line corridors preserved for all to enjoy.
Warriewood Waterfall in Ingleside Chase
Sector 10 developed at 15 dwellings per Ha by Stockland (Fernbrook Sanctuary).
Water management in Sector 10 is an integral part of the neighborhood park in the sector.
Sector 1 developed by ……. at 15 dwelling per hectare.
Warriewood Beach
Sector 11 (Seagreen) developed by Australand at 25 dwellings per Ha
Other reasons we love Warriewood:
We have just moved into Warriewood and we love it. It is so friendly and the wetland paths and shared cycle tracks are fantastic. It's like being on holiday everyday. We want to preserve the beauty and spirit of the area and we support the Warriewood Residents Association and their strategic plan to restrict overdevelopment and one Pittwater Council. You can count on us.
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We love Warriewood 'cause it's smack-bang in between Warriewood Square and Mona Vale shopping centres. The beach is closeby too as my husband and I were both brought up on summer surfing holidays. There is so much to do and places to go, We are lucky to live near 2 city bus stops. Our children are not far away. We applaud the way the residents association is putting pressure on the local council to halt the over-development of the area. Thank you
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Starting tomorrow, we'll be shedding light on each of (Y) Collaborator Oliver Drew's top ten favourite films. More info after the jump!
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An Oliver Drew Retrospective – (Y): 1 Month On
I'm kind of hoping that by now we have a die hard following, those of you who read each and every post we post, lapping it up as soon as it airs. Now this is both something that is hard to gauge and possibly hard to perceive at this early juncture in our journey. It …
Taxi Driver (1976) and The Auteur Theory
Originally a piece I wrote for a University assignment, presented here for it's somewhat prescient link to the three of us as collaborators and our rally for the spirit of collaboration to become the industry's main focus, as opposed to it's current objective of making bank. Read the piece after the jump:
Only God Forgives (Refn – 2013)
This is not, despite the adage, a case of seeing the forest for the trees but of seeing the trees for the forest. Rather than having a story that is presented to the audience on a platter, Only God Forgives, does not forgive. Its series of intimate moments and crushing instances of supernatural violence convene …

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Spanish mobile phone company, Geeks Phone has announced the launch of their Google Android mobile phone, the Geeks Phone One Android Phone.
The Geeks Phone One Android Phone will come with a 625MHz PXA310 processor, a 3.2 inch touchscreen display, quadband, EDGE, HSDPA, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity and a 3.2 megapixel camera.
The One Android Phone will go on sale later this summer in Spain, and it will cost between $352 to $422 unlocked.
Have a look and our article on Android vs iPhone to see which smartphone and mobile platform is best for you.
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She's There
I've always had a problem with lateness, even before I had kids. It's kind of my thing. I have to say above all else I excel at lateness. Haha. I say that knowing my mother will laugh, but at the same … Continue reading
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If you are what you eat, you might as well be Greek!
I know….the title! I am just in a goofy mood today. But I am Greek, so I love Greek food and Greek ingredients! But it also means I need an extra razor, some creme hair remover for my face, and … Continue reading
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Stop Screaming at Me, Head!
Hey y'all, so you may be able to tell this from my writings, but I am pretty driven. I like to multitask, and I like to be busy. And I am doing most everything I do because it's in my … Continue reading
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Love is Never Wasted
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Perfection is Ill-Fitting
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92 points for Riserva Vigna Paganelli
Our Brunello di Montalcino 2010 Riserva Vigna Paganelli has just been scored by the British magazine "The World of Fine Wine" and received an average of 92 points, making it one of the top 10 wines in its tasting!Read more >
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A solid silver bangle with traditional Nepalese engraving and silver wire patterning.The bangle weighs 24g and measures approx 5 cm across its widest part. It is approx .5cm thick. It can fit any wrist as silver is soft enough to allow it to open.
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Tightening of EPFO withdrawal norms
Retirement fund body Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has tightened norms on withdrawal of provident fund (PF) recently. Read more on that here.
One of the pertinent changes is in the restriction imposed on withdrawing the employers' contribution before 58. This is a good thing in my opinion and here is why:
- EPF savings is a targeted savings for retirement. It should be left untouched till one retires.
- Distress withdrawal rule of the past has often become the path of least resistance to be tapped as a easy source whether one is in distress or not. Not a good thing. At least, this ensures that employer portion is locked allowing you to tap only on retirement.
- In contrary to what many may think that GoI needs your money by retaining employer contribution, they may be wrong – GoI don't. Recall the changes in 2012 where GoI imposed a restriction that only active accounts will earn interest. Many were forced to withdraw unwillingly. Why? Leaving it there and earning inflation-equated (more or less) returns was a good deal for many. Not for GoI.
- GoI is more flexible than several other countries I know when it comes to premature withdrawal of retirement accounts. In several countries, they do not allow you to touch till 59. No exceptions. Australia is one for instance. Few allow you to touch but discourage by charging penalty and taxing the proceeds. Deterrence imposes discipline which is still good, as situations masquerading as distress will get scrutinized more.
- Many may think that employer contribution is rightfully their own because it was part of Cost-To-Company (CTC) and has the rights to withdraw. True. Gratuity is part of CTC too. You don't earn it unless you complete 5 years. Treat the employer EPF contribution as a deferred vesting which is in your interest.
It is your money and you have rights. No questions about it. This is less about 'rights' and more about what it is intended for and and doing what is right. Doing the right thing for many often comes from self-discipline or deterrence induced self-discipline. There are 'exceptions' as always but the policies and rules are designed for majority by and large.
Do any of you see this irony? There is a mad rush to get NHAI tax-free bonds at 7.5% interest when EPFO paid 9% for 2015-16. While I understand that the latter returns are not locked and reset each year, I still see that the 10-15 year averages is more likely to be in favor of EPFO. More importantly, EPFO does not carry the interest rate risk of NHAI – EPFO is more like a Short term(for interest reset) Floating-rate tax-free bond which is a desirable attribute in my opinion. Buying a NHAI 15 year bond with a hope to meet the expectation of inflation-maintaining returns is a long term call on the economy and interest rates. Not an easy one to get right with history reminding us often how fallible our experts' predictions are even for short duration.
Update: Govt has rolled back the restriction imposed in Apr 2016. Read more on that here.


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Tara constantly checks that me and Little Bird are still walking behind. My senior wolf.
Little Bird with his backpack to carry his drink and snacks. Lost in his own thoughts. Memorized by the greenery or the birds or the buzzy creatures or the clouds.....
Many paths to choose. We don't let Billy off his lead for fear he'd get run off and get distracted. He's such a scamp.
Blossoms and cow parsley. Different grasses. Should take my Hubbard book - not the easiest of identification books but I loved it when I used to do botanical surveys.
They like eating leaves as much as bug passion.
Still checking.
At the duck pond. Billy takes a peek. Tight leash.
I used to live nearby to here. A new housing estate. Sometimes I wish we all could move back as it's quiet and children play out. Expensive houses though for the size. Little Bird would like it here so it's something to consider for the future.
Wish the sun would come back!


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Health insurance
Having access to health care during your study abroad period is important.
Norwegian National Health Insurance Scheme
Becoming a member of Norway's National Insurance Scheme is an option for accessing health care for some students studying in Norway.
Students from Nordic countries
You are a member of the Norwegian National Insurance Scheme if you are registered in the National Population Registry in Norway. If you are not a member you are nevertheless entitled to health services under the National Insurance Act and you do not have to verify it with a European Health Insurance Card.
Students from EEA countries or Switzerland
The general rule is that you do not become a member of the Norwegian National Insurance Scheme. If you are a member of social security in your home country while studying in Norway, you are entitled emergency and necessary treatment under Norwegian legislation. If you are not entitled to a European Health Insurance Card from your home country, you must have other insurance to cover any medical expenses you might incur in Norway.
Students from countries outside the EEA
If your study abroad period is more than one year you will automatically be enrolled/insured under the National Insurance Scheme when you register as a student at an education institution and as a resident. If you are studying abroad less than one year, you will not become a member of the Norwegian National Insurance Scheme automatically, but you can apply for voluntary membership if you have a residence permit. Voluntary membership entitles you to have health services on an equal basis with other Norwegian residents. You have to verify your entitlement with your European Health Insurance Card. People from other countries must prove that they can pay for treatment with private insurance.
On-campus health services
Some institutions offer on campus services. You may wish to explore your institution's website for more information about any health care services provided. In Bergen, the student welfare organization, Sammen, helps organize some health services for students.
Health Care
You may wish to explore the website of Helse Norge ("Health Norway") for more information in English about navigating health care services during your time in Norway.
Generally dentistry is self-pay in Norway. However, children (under 18) receive most dental treatments for free. Adolescents (19-20), are 75% covered by the Public Dental Health Service (they pay 25% themselves). In Bergen, Sammen offers dental examinations and treatments for students.


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In order to allow other people to see your Docs you must set the "Share" settings to be "publicly visible" or "editable".
Navigate to the Google Doc in question in your web browser.
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1. Click in the top right of the document.
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Time is flying by!
Sweet Taryn May,
You are already 2 months old! You are such a good baby. You have begun to show more of your personality. You have been very quick to smile and make fun faces at us lately. You are also finding your voice. You like "oo" and "ah" with an occasional "cuh" or "guh". Your daddy gets you smiling and talking quicker than anyone else! I think you are going to start laughing any day.
Zane loves to kiss you on the face and talk to you. He also really likes to try to pat and talk to you when you are asleep but we try to keep him from disturbing your rest as much as possible! You love to watch him as he runs around and acts silly.
You are starting to enjoy toys now. You like to sit in your bouncy seat and smile at the monkey and the lion. You also love the sea animal mobile on your swing. You fuss every time they stop moving.
You are an incredible sleeper. You started consistently sleeping through the night at about 5 weeks old. I usually feed you for the last time between 9:30 and 11, even if I have to wake you up, and then you sleep until at least 7. There have been days that I had to wake you up at 8:30! I think we may try to drop that late night feed soon and see if you can go all night.
Your beauty brings you attention just about everywhere we go. Your long hair and pretty little eyes are quite striking!
I just can't believe how fast you are growing!
Here are some pics from our month:
Taryn shared her first swim with Zeke & Zad Thompson (6 mos old). She wasn't sure what to think about it all.
Zane loves to dance at his summer music class!
Zane had his first movie theater experience on July 4th. We saw Despicable Me through the Kids' Summer Movie Club.
Happy 4th of July!
Zane is really in to super heroes right now. Any super hero will do but his current favorites seem to be Thor, Iron Man, and Wonder Woman.
Daddy ranks pretty high on the list too!
What a blessed life we lead!
With love,
Mommy (Crystal)
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Kilbrogan B&B
We continue to have fun running our bed and breakfast and self catering accommodation at Kilbrogan House in Bandon, Co Cork in the South West of Ireland. Come and visit us! You won't be disappointed. It's a great place to base yourself if you plan to tour the beautiful countryside on the south coast of Ireland. The property was built way back in 1818 and we have tried to keep as many of the original features as possible! If you like old, unusual places, you will like our house!


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Inspire & Equip Your Tribe
I am currently seeking out speaking opportunities.
If you've got a community, team or event, and you want to equip them with the latest tactics in advertising, with a solid foundation in the fundamental principles of marketing, let's talk.
Speaker Bio
Gabriel is an Agency Insider… a Growth Strategist with over a decade of experience in business development. As the Account Services Director for Strikepoint Media, one of the largest Agencies and Alternative Ad Networks in the Financial Publishing industry, Gabriel and his team have overseen millions of dollars in ad spend. He is driven by data and results, with a deep understanding of the results-getting art of story. Gabriel has been speaking and teaching freelancers and entrepreneurs since 2009. Since 2014 he has personally helped hundreds of businesses, all with one common goal: to scale their customer acquisition efforts with digital media. The success of those 100+ businesses resulted in a more than 300% growth for Strikepoint Media in 2017 and their team is continuing its growth streak to this day. Gabriel's most recent project is The Business of Relationships podcast, a show diving into the often overlooked personal side of business, aimed to help entrepreneurs and marketers forge better, more profitable, relationships both 1-on-1 and at scale.
I live & work in beautiful Bend, Oregon where the beer flows like wine (sorry Lloyd… it's not Aspen, California).
But have traveled around the world living my best life and sharing that with others. I would love to meet you where you're at and continue that journey.


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SEOUL — Barry Sonnenfeld has been attached to direct and produce an English-language remake of Korean box office hit "Scandal Makers."
Pic centers on a philandering pop singer whose life is turned upside-down when he discovers that he has a daughter and a grandson.
"I was immediately attracted to 'Scandal Makers' because of its universal themes," Sonnenfeld said. "It is funny, intelligent and full of heart."
Sonnenfeld is looking to partner with a major studio and producer to develop and release the project.
June Lee, former head of Chan-wook Park's production company, Moho Film, is also attached as a producer. M-Line Distribution reps the film's remake rights and international sales.
The original "Scandal Makers" marked the directorial debut of Kang Hyung-chul. Since bowing in December, pic has topped the 2008 box office chart in South Korea with 8.2 million admissions to date, bringing in $36 million locally.
Sonnenfeld is repped by WMA, which is also negotiating U.S. rights to the film. The film was presented in Korea by Sovik Venture Capital, DCG Plus, Lotte Entertainment, and produced by Toilet Pictures, DCG Plus, and M-Line Distribution.


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Getting to the interview stage is a crucial (and nerve-wrecking!) part of the job hunt experience. Here is the story of the disastrous interview that led to me getting hired!
In early May 2012, just weeks before my graduation, I was invited for an interview taking place an hour from where I lived. Setting out at rush hour in the fog, I gave myself two hours to drive there. I didn't have GPS (Sat Nav) and was unfamiliar with the roads, but I did have rough directions written down. However, I still managed to get massively lost. During this ordeal, I was on the phone with my interviewer (the company president) multiple times explaining that I would be late. She eventually had to talk me through how to get there over the phone. I felt like an idiot before I even walked in the door. How unprofessional!
Before I walked in for the interview, I thought there was a slim-to-none chance that I could actually get hired after all this. However, having this low expectation actually worked in my favour. I was able to relax and be myself. My personality and passion for the job really came through, and my boss could see me for who I really was, instead of a fake scripted act. She informed me a week later that she would like to hire me. I worked there one year and it was an amazing experience. I was a really good fit for the company, and I'm glad my boss could sense that during the interview.
Now, I'm not suggesting to be late for interviews, or even forget your list of references as I also did in this situation. The moral of the story is to be yourself on the interview. Of course, the professional you. Being too scripted, nervous and serious will make you sound unnatural. Plus, if you are truly yourself and don't get the job in the end, you can be at peace knowing that you might not have been a good fit anyway, for either the desired role or the company. Look at interviews as a learning experience. At the very least they are practice for future interviews, a way to learn about a company or industry, and make for a story to tell as well. Good luck!


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7 Tips to help you achieve your New Year's health goals
As the new year closes in on us, you may think that this is a good opportunity to refresh your health and fitness goals. Here are seven tips on how you can achieve your New Year's health goals.
Find your motivation – Look at listing out what inspires you to lose weight. Your goals could be looking better in your clothes or improving your endurance by running a 5K.
Have a plan – Planning is key to reaching your fitness goals. To start your journey, list out the key areas that will need to be changed to reach your goals. You could look at changing your eating habits, meal prepping your meals or buying an exercise machine.
Make goals – Your goals should be measurable like losing 10kg in 3 months, losing 10 inches off your entire body or eating more vegetables and lean proteins.
Track what you eat – Tracking what you eat, will help you understand where you need to amend you're eating habits to suit your goals.
Eat breakfast every day – Eating breakfast every day will regulate your blood sugar levels after your last meal. Breakfast will also help you make healthier choices during the day and help you stay full between meals.
Fill up on vegetables – Vegetables are a source of nutrients, water, and fiber.
Exercise – To burn more calories add exercise to your health goals. Start off with just fifteen minutes of high-intensity cardio and then increase the length of your workouts by five minutes a week. Look at a thirty-minute workout per day to keep weight at healthy levels.


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Researchers are reporting what they say is the most compelling evidence, to date, that the infectious proteins called prions that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or "mad cow" disease, have infected humans, causing fatal brain degeneration.
Recent studies have suggested that the outbreak of mad cow disease in the late 1980s in Great Britain was responsible for the emergence of a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal brain-degenerative disease in humans also caused by prions. However, the link has been inconclusive.
The current study establishes that the particular strain of prions, responsible for mad cow disease, is, in fact, the same strain that causes new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
The finding, reported in the December 20 issue of Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, is particularly unsettling because it undermines the comforting presumption that a "species barrier" dramatically lessened the likelihood that people exposed to "mad cow" disease through meats, cosmetics, and medicinal supplies would be infected. The species barrier refers to the relative lack of susceptibility of one species to prions derived from another species.
While Great Britain took the necessary measures in the late 1980s to limit spread of the disease, the disease is believed to incubate for at least 10 years, making it impossible to predict, the researchers said, how many people have been infected.
More than 175,000 cattle, primarily dairy cows have died of BSE during the past decade. More than 50 teenagers and young adults have died of new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD) since 1995. Nine new deaths from CJD were reported in the last quarter of 1998.
While the origins of BSE remain obscure, one possibility is that the cattle developed the disease by being fed meat and bone meal contaminated with prions from the sheep with the disease, scrapie.
No cattle in the United States were contaminated with "mad cow" disease, and no cases of new-variant CJD, have been reported in this country, according to public health officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. To protect public health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the use of most mammalian protein in the production of animal feeds for cows, sheep and goats in 1997.
The study was conducted by researchers in the UC San Francisco Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, using brain tissue from human cases supplied by researchers at the National CJD Survelliance Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland. The Director of the UC San Francisco Institute, Stanley B. Prusiner, MD, UCSF professor of neurology, biochemistry and biophysics, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for discovering that the neurodegenerative diseases known as spongiform encephalopathies were caused by prions.2
Prusiner and Stephen A. DeArmond, MD, PhD, UCSF professor of pathology and chief of the Division of Neuropathology, were the senior authors of the study.
The current finding builds on recent epidemiological studies, along with studies of the prion protein and transmissions to inbred mice and primates, that suggest a link between the cow and human forms of prion disease.
The researchers conducted their study by first creating a line of transgenic mice genetically engineered to contain genes for the bovine prion protein. (Prion proteins are not, in themselves, lethal. They exist in all mammals and birds that have been examined, including humans, and become destructive only when their shape is altered, a change that occurs either through infection by an already infectious protein or through a genetic mutation.) The line of mice was known as Tg(BOPrP).
The researchers then inoculated the mice with prions from diseased cows. And approximately 250 days after being inoculated, all of the transgenic mice developed the neurologic disease.
Next, another group of mice was inoculated with prions from the diseased mice, and this group became sick after a virtually identical period of time, confirming that the transgenic mice transmit mad cow disease prions with no detectable change of strain or species-specific properties attributable to the mice, themselves.
Finally, and most important, transgenic mice inoculated with prions from human cases of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease produced the same incubation period and pattern of brain damage as had inoculation with prions from diseased cows.
To test their findings, the researchers inoculated transgenic mice with prions from sheep with scrapie, another prion disease causing neurological damage, and determined that these prions have dramatically different biological properties.
"BSE and new variant CJD produce the identical disease pattern of disease in Tg(BOPrP) mice, and those characteristics were those different than that found with inocula from other CJD cases or scrapie from sheep. These findings argue unequivocally that BSE and new variant CJD are the same strain of prion," said senior author DeArmond.
"The fact that the human new-variant CJD prions so precisely duplicate the properties of native bovine BSE prions in their behavior on transmission to the transgenic mice creates a compelling argument for a persuasive link between BSE and nvCJD," said Michael R. Scott, PhD, UCSF associate adjunct professor in the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the lead author of the study.
Given the enormity of the affected cattle population in Great Britain, a means of assessing risk to the human population is paramount, and more sensitive methods for detection of prions are urgently needed, the researchers said. The newly developed mouse model, Tg (BoPrP), should provide a sensitive test for detecting BSE prions, they said.
Co-authors of the paper were Hoang-Oanh B. Nguyen, BS, UCSF staff research associate, and Patrick Tremblay, PhD, UCSF assistant adjunct professor, both of the UCSF Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Departments of Neurology; and Robert Will, MD, and James Ironside, MD, of National CJD Survelliance Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland.
The work was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation.
To protect public health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the use of most mammalian protein in the production of animal feeds for cows, sheep and goats in 1997. And companies that produce drugs from animal tissues are required to conduct a purification process intended to destroy prions. These moves followed the 1989 regulation in Great Britain banning the use of offal in cattle feed.
But the FDA ban excludes processed products produced from blood, collagen and gelatin for human consumption. And the UCSF scientists are concerned that these materials might harbor prions under some unusual circumstances. Moreover, they are worried that the technique being used to screen cattle products is not sensitive enough.
1. Prior to development of transgenic mice harboring bovine prion protein genes, the only sure-proof way to determine if a live cow has bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is to wait out its lengthy incubation period—a minimum of four years. To circumvent this delay, scientists inject cattle tissue into "wild-type," or normal, mice to see if they develop the disease. But non-transgenic, normal mice have severe limitations: the animals take nearly a year to develop signs of the disease, they develop it only sporadically, and acquire it only when exposed to high levels of prions.
2. Prusiner won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for discovering that the neurodegenerative diseases known as spongiform encephalopathies, which include "mad cow disease," are caused by an infectious form of a protein that exists in all mammals and birds examined, including humans.
He proposed that the protein becomes infectious and destructive only when its shape is altered, and that this change occurs either through infection by an already infectious protein or through a genetic mutation. The protein is believed to be the principal, if not sole, component of an infectious particle that Prusiner named "prion" (PREE-on), for proteinaceous infectious particle. The normal protein is referred to as PrPc.


text: From the day we join the workforce, we are trained to think work means 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. This is especially true in California, which swoops in to reward employees with overtime pay when they work over 8 hours a day. You might be surprised, however, to learn that California allows for some flexibility. Instead of the normal 8 hour day, employers and their workers have the ability to implement an "Alternative Workweek Schedule," which, if done right, lets employees work more than 8 hours per day, without daily overtime, while putting in fewer days of work per week.


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Wine tour experience
Are you a wine or cava lover? Don't miss our wine tour experience in Penedès wine region!
Our wine tours in Penedès includes a multilingual driver guide who will drive you to a couple of cellars in Penedès region only 40 minutes from Barcelona.
In this tour you will have the oportunity to visit 2 cellars in Penedès wine region. You can choose which ones to visit, or we can recommend some of the best wineries such as Llopart, Codorniu, Parés Baltà, Torres, Jean León, Freixenet, etc.
All wineries will explain you the process how to obtaint wine and/or cava, a bit of his history and at the end all cellars offer you a tasting of their best wines!
Duration of the tour is approximately 8 hours.


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fakecanvas aims to expose the awesome capabilities of canvases to those whose hardware/software are not able to use them. it is meant to be a drop-in library, only needing a require 'fakecanvas' call in order to be used.
fakecanvas automatically detects canvas capabilities and will use real canvases if supported, but it can be configured to always use fake canvases (useful for testing!).
canvas emulation is not bulletproof, and may have a fair bit of overhead, but it's a nice fallback for many cases.


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In his last speech, black conservative Anthony Hervey told a crowd of Southerners that he loved them and would die for them.
Anthony Hervey was killed later that night.
Anthony Hervey was run off the road after he was chased by a carload of black liberal activists.
Arlene Barnum, Anthony Hervey and others at pro-Confederate rally (Examiner)
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On Saturday Arlene Barnum, a Vietnam-era veteran, burned her NAACP card at a pro-Confederate rally.
Then she was run off the road on the way home.
A Stuart woman who attended a pro confederate flag rally in Birmingham, Alabama, said on her Facebook page she was subsequently involved in a car accident in Mississippi. Arlene Barnham, of Stuart, posted this image after saying she had been in a roll-over accident after being chased. (McAlester News)
The NAACP, New Black Panthers and other radical black leftist groups were at the rally and confronted Barnum when she burned her NAACP card.
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Then she was run off the road.
Examiner reported:
Arlene Barnum, a Vietnam-era veteran of the U.S. Army and Republican activist who supports the Confederate battle flag, burned her lifetime membership card to the NAACP at a multi-racial unity rally to save the Linn Park Confederate Monument in Birmingham, Alabama, Saturday. After the rally, however, Barnum was injured in an accident when the truck she was in rolled over after reportedly being chased, Save Our South public relations spokesperson Jonathan Barbee told Examiner.com Sunday.
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The truck was being driven by Anthony Hervey, another speaker at Saturday's rally. According to the McAlester News-Capital, Hervey was killed in the accident, which took place near Oxford, Mississippi. Initially, supporters thought Barnum had been killed as well, but the tough Army veteran posted a video to Facebook ensuring everyone that rumors of her death were quite premature.
Supporters were relieved to hear Barnum survived, but were saddened by Hervey's death. Hervey, Barbee told Examiner, was a veteran from Mississippi who received the Purple Heart.
According to the News-Capital, Barnum said Hervey noticed a vehicle speeding up to catch them. The vehicle started to swerve into their passenger side, the report said. Apparently, Hervey sped up, but a silver vehicle continued to pursue them. Barnum reportedly said the entire incident happened quite fast.
"HELP," she said on Facebook as the incident was taking place. "They after us. My vehicle inside down." It is unclear, exactly, who "they" were, and unsubstantiated rumors quickly spread. Later, she tweeted: "Anthony Hervy pinned in… gas leaking."
"Our hearts and prayers go out to our friends and their families today," Barbee said in his press release. "We were all very proud of our peaceful event that brought everyone together in unity right here in Birmingham, which is home to the Civil Rights movement. Unlike the events in South Carolina, our event was peaceful and all races were encouraged and welcomed to attend."
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Arlene Barnum posted video from her hospital bed yesterday after the accident.
No.. Nobody hacked my iphone. I'm alive & survived the wreck.
Posted by Arlene Barnum on Sunday, July 19, 2015
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More… Authorities in Mississippi are investigating the crash that killed Anthony Harvey.


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Purple 10: Adult Only Hotels Tenerife & Canaries
If you're planning a holiday this year and prefer to relax in a child-free environment then you'll enjoy this Purple Travel guide to the best adult only hotels in Tenerife and throughout the Canary Islands. Designed and built with over 18s in mind, these adult on hotels Tenerife and throughout the Canaries focus on beautiful surroundings, choice of dining options, range of luxury facilities and excellent service and attention to detail. Enjoy the Purple 10 adult only hotels Tenerife & Canary Islands – and remember! For more information or to book any adult only hotels Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote or Gran Canaria, talk to the expert team at Purple Travel on 0207 993 9228.


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The results are in from the Grand Jury of the Innovation Awards organised by Le Mondial du Bâtiment 2017 and its trade shows INTERCLIMA+ELECHB, IDÉOBAIN and BATIMAT in partnership with ADEME. The wide range of winners represents the innovative spirit of today's construction industry.
The Grand Jury met on 6 September to select the winners in the 9 Innovation Awards categories from the 89 candidates selected by the Expert Juries in June.
Guillaume Loizeaud, Director of Le Mondial du Bâtiment, was delighted with the number of businesses that entered, 217, up 10% on 2015, explaining that "this underlines the industry's determination and capacity for constant innovation in constructing and renovating the buildings of today and tomorrow."
Guillaume Loizeaud commented on the number and range of the 2017 entrants and winners, saying that "the three Le Mondial du Bâtiment trade shows will once again serve as a launchpad for a whole range of innovations, providing the ideal conditions for discovering them via dedicated innovation areas and visitor itineraries."
These products will be on display during the 5 days of Le Mondial du Bâtiment:
At Innovation Areas at the trade shows
Visitors to Le Mondial du Bâtiment will be able to discover, handle and make their own minds up about the winning products from the 2017 Innovation Awards.
Three new Innovation Areas will be located at the heart of INTERCLIMA+ELECHB, IDÉOBAIN and BATIMAT where there will be daily demonstrations of the innovations exhibited to promote their performance and boost their distribution and use.
Via Innovation Itineraries at the trade shows
This practical way for visitors to tour the trade shows will feature all the stands of Innovation Awards entrants.


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Custom Hang Tag
It seems like everywhere I look these days designers are using more and more handmade objects in their work. From pencil sketches and fabric scans to paper scraps and household odds and ends these items are making their way into our work. In this Photoshop tutorial you'll learn how to create a retail hang tag.
It seems like everywhere I look these days designers are using more and more handmade objects in their work. From pencil sketches and fabric scans to paper scraps and household odds and ends these items are making their way into our work. In this Photoshop tutorial you'll learn how to create a retail "hang tag".
As always I recommend using a little reference material when you're creating something from scratch that actually exists in the physical world. For today's lesson I'm using two pieces I found at iStockPhoto, one for the card-stock background and one for the hang tag. By entering the item ID into the iStockPhoto search you can pull up the exact images I'm using.
In this lesson we'll be using a photo of actual card-stock for the project. If you'd like to learn how to create this effect from scratch check out my Cardboard And Torn Paper Business Card tutorial.
Our first step will be to organize these items on the stage. I've merged the reference tag from iStock with the background layer for convenience. (The .PSD file at the end of the lesson will contain both original comp pieces from iStock). I've also rotated the card-stock background.
Lets go ahead and create the shape of our tag by tracing the outline of the reference tag with the Pen tool. This will be easy since the outline of the tag is all straight lines. Press the P key to invoke the pen tool and click your way around the outside of the tag until you end up back at your start point.
(*note: This is easier if you zoo in on the tag for a better view.)
Before we go any further lets click over to the Paths tab in the Layers palette (or by choosing Window>Paths from the main menu) and lets name our path. The reason for this is that if we create a new working path now without naming the one we just created we risk loosing the initial path because if we don't name it Photoshop assumes we're done with it.
While we still have the Paths tab open and our Main Tag Area path selected lets also add the hole. Press the U key to invoke the Custom Shape tool, in the options bar at the top of Photoshop make sure that the tool is set to Paths, choose the Ellipse tool and make sure the Exclude Overlapping Path Areas icon is selected.
Holding down the Shift key to constrain the circle, click and drag a circular path onto the stage where the hole in the tag is.
Sometimes despite our best efforts to do things in the correct order Photoshop can have a mind of it's own so lets double check and make sure this new circular path indeed has the Exclude Overlapping Paths option actually chosen. Press the A key to switch to the Direct Selection tool and take a look at the options bar at the top of Photoshop. Mine actually had defaulted to the Add To Shape Area option rather than retaining the Exclude Overlapping setting. If this is the case for you, just go ahead and click on the Exclude Overlapping Path Areas icon to switch it. We do this to make sure that the hole is actually cutout of the tag.
Switch back to the layer tag and with the Direct Selection tool still selected click and drag around the entire path area to select both paths. Move the path over the top of the background texture and press Command-T (PC: Ctrl-T) to invoke the Free Transform tool (yes it works with paths too). Make sure to hold the Shift key as you grab one of the corners of the transform box to constrain the path as you transform it to the size you want to use. Hit the Return (PC: Enter) key when you've resized the path to commit the transformation.
We can convert the selected path to a selection by simply pressing Command-Return (PC: Ctrl-Enter) and then convert the selection to a Layer Mask by clicking the Add Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers palette. (*note: make sure you've got the Main Tag layer selected before doing this or the layer mask won't be applied to the right layer.)
While we're on this Main Tag layer lets go ahead and add a couple of Layer Styles to it. Command-Click (PC: Right-Click) on the layer and choose Blending Options to bring up the Layer Styles dialog and add the following two styles.
Create a new layer above the Main Tag layer by clicking the Create New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette or by using the keyboard shortcut Command-Shift-N (PC: Ctrl-Shift-N), call this layer Grommet.
Press the M key to switch to the Marquee tool, use the fly out menu in the Tools bar to switch to the Elliptical Marquee tool or you can use the keyboard shortcut Shift-M (PC: Shift-M) to switch between Rectangular and Elliptical once the Marquee tool is selected. Click and drag a selection where the reinforcement grommet will live around the hole in the tag.
Click the foreground swatch in the Layers palette and change the color to #706340 and click OK, then fill the selection with this new foreground color by pressing Option-Delete (PC: Alt-Backspace).
Lets copy the layer mask from the Main Tag layer to the Grommet layer by holding down the Option (PC: Alt) key and clicking and dragging the layer mask (in the Layers palette) from the Main Tag layer to the Grommet layer. Lets also change the grommet's layer Blend Mode to Multiply and lower the Fill opacity to 70%.
Just like we did in Step 9 lets go ahead and give the Grommet layer a few Layer Styles of it's own.
It's time to add some string to our tag. We'll do this by drawing a few separate paths and then stroking the path with a brush so lets first press the B key to switch to the Brush tool and we're going to choose a round hard edged brush with a radius of 3 pixels.
Create a new layer called String 1. Change the foreground color to #735e47 and press the P key to switch to the Pen tool. Using the Pen tool click and drag a path onto the stage that will represent our first piece of string coming from the opening of the hole.
With the Pen tool still selected Control-Click (PC: Right-Click) on the path and select Stroke Path. Choose Brush from the dialog and make sure Pen Pressure is not checked then click OK. Pressing Command-H (PC: Ctrl-H) when you're finished will hide the path so you can see what you've done.
Repeat Steps 14-15 on a new layer called String 2.
And one last time lets create a path and stroke it to create the loop that wraps from behind the tag around the two strings we just created. I'll call this layer String Loop. I'm going to draw this path overlapping the tag and we'll trim it in Step 18.
Press M to switch to the Marquee tool, make sure the Rectangular Marquee is selected and then click and drag a selection to the edge of the tag (where we need to cut our loop of string). Press Delete (PC: Backspace) to remove the overlapping string then deselect by pressing Command-D (PC: Ctrl-D).
To add a little more realism lets add a Drop Shadow, Bevel & Emboss and Pattern Overlay to our string. You can add these layer styles to any of the String layers and then by holding down the Option (PC: Alt) key you can click and drag the layer style from one layer to the next (just like we did with Layer Masks earlier) to add the same style to all 3 String layers.
(*note: The Pattern Overlay is actually overkill for such a small piece of string, but if you're creating this at 300ppi for a print project it will add the slightest bit of texture to the string and actually adds to the look nicely. Obviously at 300ppi you'll need to adjust all the layer styles accordingly as well.)
Now that our tag is complete it's time to put something on it. We'll want to put the the graphics that will be on the hang tag just above the Main Tag layer and it's a good idea to create clipping masks from all those layers back to the Main Tag layer so that any graphic that extends beyond the edges of the tag will retain the shape and edge effects of the tag itself.
I'll start by throwing in the obligatory PSHERO star logo by creating a new layer just above the Main Tag layer and calling it Star. I've got the logo star saved as a custom shape so I'll just throw it onto my layer and position it above the tag as desired. Then by Command-Clicking (PC: Right-Clicking) on the layer and choosing Create Clipping Mask I can use the Main Tag layer as a mask for the Star layer. I also switched the layer Blend Mode to Linear Burn and lowered the Fill opacity to 55% to make it look more like the star was printed onto the card.
(*note: By placing the star behind the Grommet layer which has Fill opacity to 70% I could see the star through the grommet, I didn't like this look so I raised the Fill opacity of the Grommet layer back to 100% and lightened the color a little.)
I'll repeat Step 20 a few more times adding text and a little bit of paint with a grunge brush to get to my final image, and yes, all this is included in the download at the end of the lesson. If you want more instruction on how to age and distress in Photoshop you should check out these tutorials:
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Welcome to the first edition of Newcomer Chronicles, a segment of this blog that records the first impressions of someone getting into a popular series for the first time.
Star Wars is among the single most important entertainment properties in all of geek culture. The episodic space opera of the 1970s goes down in history as one of the most important film franchises ever, and the most influential sci-fi series ever. Everyone by now knows some of the films' classic lines, charming characters, and timeless themes. It has gotten to the point that, even if you have never seen a Star Wars movie before, you are aware of its existence and can respect it for the impact it has made… I should know. Continue reading Newcomer Chronicles: Star Wars (Original Trilogy)


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Of all the complaints about M&M's I've had over the years, size has never been an issue. I've been perturbed by the persistent existence of the gross dark chocolate raspberry flavor and irritated there's never been a re-release of the "strawberried peanut butter" version.
But weight and girth? I thought that was just fine.
I guess not everyone feels similarly, or, at least, the R&D folks at Mars seem to think so. In December 2013, I read an article announcing the upcoming release of "M&M's MEGA," candies that would contain three times (3X!) the chocolate of regular M&M's. "Mmm," I thought, "bloated M&M's. Could be delightful." I would have to wait, however, to sample the goodies, as the release was scheduled for May 2014.
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Or so I thought.
While wandering through CVS in the sort of daze that comes from not having a shopping list yet knowing there are many necessities you intended to buy at the drugstore, I found myself in the candy aisle. Tucked in between the violent pastel displays of Easter candy and shabby marked-down Valentine's hearts was a shelf of M&M's MEGA. I quickly lost all interest in the Cadbury Creme Eggs and scooped up a bag.
The first thing I noticed about M&M's MEGA is their different hand feel; whereas a quarter cup of regular M&M's feel relatively weightless (and is therefore oh-so-easy to pop in your mouth), a similar amount of M&M's MEGA is heavy, even borderline taxing on the palm. Eating them by the handful would be impractical, as well as strenuous.
The amplified chocolate content is, as one might expect, pretty damn great. One can imagine many ways in which the greater cocoa-to-shell ratio would benefit other baking projects, and I look forward to using the remainder of my M&M's MEGA to make some cookies. As for casual snacking, however, they're just a bit too large for mindless consumption. Though perhaps I just need to practice more with them.


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Author Shoichi Aoki continues his documentation of the amazing street fashion scene in Japan with his follow-up to Fruits that is appropriatley called, Fresh Fruits.
I came accross the book this past Fall and was instantely hooked. It's a great reference to have kicking around to jump start the creative juices. A must have for the studio.


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Welcome to 428 (Peterborough) Wing and to the newly renovated Air Force Hall. We are proud to host you in our historic century home, right in the heart of beautiful Peterborough!
The Air Force Hall is perfect for functions for groups of 30 - 110 persons:
- Non Smoking Building: 428 (Peterborough) Wing is a non-smoking facility. Smokers may feel free to smoke outside at our side door which is the entrance to Air Force Hall.
- Catering: We have acces to some of the best caterers in Peterborough, or you can use your favourite.
- Bar Staff: Our professional bar staff is here to serve you. All bar staff are "Smart Serve" trained and are dedicated to making your function a success.
- Sound System: Air Force Hall is equipped with professional quality speakers and amplifier. Bands or DJ's can simply "plug in" to the system.
- Special Requests: We will always do our best to accommodate special requests. Please feel free to speak with the Rentals Director if you have any special needs to make your function a success.
Several different room configurations are available depending on the number of guests and type of function. The Redmond Boardroom is available for groups up to 20 for meetings.
Guests can decorate the Air Force Hall to suit their function theme. Advance access to the Air Force Hall is often available for decoration.
We will work with you to design a room layout that will work for your specific function!
"Old fashioned" quality and service in a newly renovated hall
for groups up to 110.
For Rental Information, please call (705)743-6052 and speak to our Rental Director, the Bar Steward on duty, or leave a detailed message and we will return your call.
The Air Force Hall
This warm, intimate room is perfect for anniversary or birthday parties, company functions and of course, weddings and receptions for up to 110 people.
Variable lighting, access to our professional sound equipment, flexible room layouts, and our famous beautiful oaken bar make the Air Force Hall a unique and memorable room for your function.
We will work personally with you to make sure we help you host the perfect function for your guests!


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Oblong, its jutted ends rounding into circles,
The old sunken basin lies with its flat, marble lip
An inch below the terrace tiles.
Over the stagnant water
Slide reflections:
The blue-green of coned yews;
The purple and red of trailing fuchsias
Dripping out of marble urns;
Bright squares of sky
Ribbed by the wake of a swimming beetle.
Through the blue-bronze water
Wavers the pale uncertainty of a shadow.
An arm flashes through the reflections,
A breast is outlined with leaves.
Outstretched in the quiet water
The statue of a Goddess slumbers.
But when Autumn comes
The beech leaves cover her with a golden counter-pane.
The thing I like most about Imagist poetry is how it merely presents, often in enchanting imagery, a scene, without seeking to add narrative or morality. Here, as the title implies, lies a broken fountain, sunken from its days of glory, but still exceeding in beauty.
I'm sure we can inject a lot of morality into the scene if we wish, almost like Shelley's "Ozymandias" in which all man-made works one day turn to dust, reclaimed by nature, but I don't see any judgment in these lines. The ruins of the fountain are beautiful, with the fountain and Goddess statue within lying enchanting, enhanced by "bright squares of sky" and covered with "a golden counter-pane."
I think moralizing the scene would be to do it a disservice. This is a scene, almost like a panoramic photo that can somehow span seasons. We see the summer sun reflected in water disturbed only lightly by the passing of a beetle. The leaves lie softly, outlining the sunken statue, covering it enticingly, inviting us to look about the scene. The fountain's ragged edges end in smooth marble circles, beautiful in its ruin. I like to think that this is the sort of poem which lets you walk around it. The scene is so vivid that you can create a picture in your head through which you can take a leisurely mental walk. See, in your mind's eye the scene described. Read the poem aloud and let the scene take root in your mind. It's a wonderful place to be.


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Messy Church is a brilliant way to enjoy church with all the family!
Messy Church is a great mix of craft activities, songs, a story, a little prayer and lots of food. Each service usually begins with an activity as everyone arrives followed by a song and then it's off to get crafty and creative! After the craft it's back for another song, a story and a prayer and then off to tea – a full sit-down tea with sandwiches, crisps, fruit and cake for the kids and tea and cake for the adults. All you have to do afterwards is take the little ones home to bed!
Our next Messy Church is on the Good Friday (10th April) from 10am – 12noon. See you there!


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SILVERTON — As the clock approached 5 a.m., the sun still tucked behind the mountains, they emerged bleary-eyed from the shadows and lined alongside the Silverton High School gym.
It is known at the Hardrock 100 as "The Golden Hour" — the final 60 minutes before the 48-hour cutoff for finishing this 100.5-mile odyssey through the rugged San Juan Mountains, a run that requires athletes to climb nearly 33,000 feet.
A small cadre of fans, crew members, run officials and runners who have already finished gather to cheer and support the last runners who will finish and be known as true Hardrockers.
Among them is Kilian Jornet, the Spanish super athlete who some 24 hours earlier had won this run despite suffering a dislocated shoulder. He stood unassuming in a blue down jacket and long black pants, his arm still wrapped in a gauze sling, a camera around his neck, another face in the crowd.
"It's the same journey and experience for everybody. That's why I want to be here to talk to people and what they've experienced and share some moments of the race," Jornet told The Denver Post. "All the runners are here chatting with each other. To be part of the same experience — you can be here running, crewing or volunteering. It's the same level of importance."
At 5:49 a.m., Robert Andrulis, 49, rounded the turn toward the high school and trotted to kiss the Hardrock marking the end of his nearly 48-hour journey as the final finisher in this year's event. Jornet walked up and shook his hand — a 29-year-old prodigy who has set speed records shaking hands with an everyman 20 years his senior, sharing their accomplishment. For Andrulis, a nighttime equipment manager, it was his 10th Hardrock finish.
"I get free train tickets," Andrulis joked, referencing the Durango-to-Silverton train round trip the last finisher is awarded each year. "What do they call the last finisher of any race? A finisher. Everyone out here is family. That's all that matters."
Jornet offered Andrulis, who lives in Arizona, congratulations. "I said, 'Congratulations on running with that busted up body part of yours,' " Andrulis said.
Of the 145 runners who started at 6 a.m. Friday, 126 finished the looping course through Silverton, Lake City, Ouray and Telluride, marking the highest number of finishers ever at the event, said run director Dale Garland. The run has soared in popularity in recent years, attracting 2,000 applications for this year's event, up from 1,200 just a few years ago for its 145 slots. It has gained more corporate sponsorship as ultrarunning's popularity has soared.
And despite the attention, the run has earnestly maintained the feel of a close-knit annual family reunion — the Sunday morning awards are referred to as "graduation," and the Silverton High School gym is packed wall to wall with 500 people. That ambiance is the reason often cited by professional athletes and laypeople alike who make the annual journey to the San Juan Mountains. Jornet, who has little left to accomplish here after four wins, intends to return next year, he said.
In the race's final miles, at Putnam Ridge, Jeffery Hart of Bellingham, Wash., proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Jennifer Thistle. He carried the ring 92 miles on a keychain in his pack, nervously checking periodically to make sure it was still there. He and his young son had selected the ring. Thistle was going to pace him for the final 11 miles.
"I wanted to make sure I could get there," said Hart, 48, who was running in his first Hardrock. "I was motivated to finish."
"We get to the spot, and I said, 'We should really take a (picture); this is amazing.' It was a high point, high on a ridge. You can see 50 miles in any direction. So I said, 'Let me get down and get my phone out.' And then I said, 'My legs, I can't get up. Will you give me your hand?' She reached down, gave me her hand, and I said, 'Jennifer Joy Thistle. There is nothing in the world more…' And at some point, she said, 'Shut up, are you serious?'
"I said, 'None of this race would be possible without you. To try to finish this race without you knowing how integral you are in that — how much you have been central to making it happen, wouldn't be fair. And I can't think of a more beautiful place for that to happen.' "
Even those who don't get a chance to run journey to Hardrock anyway. The annual lottery produces a wait list of those hoping to get their shot. As participants drop out because of an injury or other reasons, waitlisted runners get a chance to run, something Steve Collins of Durango was hoping for. Twelve days out, after starting at 13th on the list in December, he was moved to the top of the list.
"I've been preparing like I was getting in all along," Collins said.
He tapered his training, set up his drop bags and crew, attended the orientation meeting, and woke up Friday preparing as if he were running an ultramarathon. Collins has either volunteered or paced runners for seven years. After learning at 5:53 a.m. he wouldn't get in, he volunteered to pace another runner later in the race.
"It's Hardrock. I would have been here anyway," Collins said. "It's Christmas in July. It's what I do for this time. … You know what? I'll get in next year. … This is my tribe."


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Q Newsdesk and By Michael McHugh and Rebecca Black, PA
An 18-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital after being stabbed at the site of a controversial bonfire in Belfast.
The victim was one of two men stabbed in the New Lodge area, where the disputed fire was burned late on Thursday night.
The teenager was stabbed in the back while a 39-year-old man suffered wounds to his arm and hip. The older man's injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Two men aged 21 and 28 were arrested in the early hours of Friday at an address off the Oldpark Road on suspicion of several offences, including causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
Two men, 21 and 28, have been arrested following a number of stabbing incidents in New Lodge area last night. Two men who were stabbed are being treated in hospital.— PSNI (@PoliceServiceNI) August 9, 2019
Police Service of Northern Ireland Chief Inspector Kelly Moore urged witnesses to come forward.
She added: "We are aware of footage circulating on social media and this will be examined as part of the wider investigation."
The incidents came as large crowds gathered to watch the bonfire, which was set alight to mark the anniversary of the introduction of the controversial policy of internment without trial of suspected republicans in 1971.
Earlier on Thursday, police abandoned an operation to remove the structure before it was lit amid concerns innocent bystanders could be hurt in disorder.
Trouble broke out in the area when armed officers attended the scene during the day.
Three police officers were injured amid violence police claim was likely orchestrated by dissident republicans.
PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd has said he regrets the failure of an operation involving more than 150 officers to allow contractors to remove the wooden pallet pyre in the nationalist estate.
Young people climbed on top of the pile in triumph and the police operation ended with vehicles speeding from the estate under a hail of missiles.
The PSNI said six petrol bombs were recovered and a 13-year-old youth was arrested on suspicion of riotous and disorderly behaviour.
Police had moved in early on Thursday to facilitate contractors tasked with removing the structure and officers were injured during sporadic bouts of violence that followed.
The estate was later barricaded using metal fencing following the police retreat.
The bonfire was built on land owned by Northern Ireland's Department for Infrastructure.
The Housing Executive had urged residents to leave the nearby Oisin and Fianna tower blocks as they said they could not guarantee their safety, due to the proximity of the bonfire.
Operation Demetrius in 1971 saw hundreds arrested across Northern Ireland on suspicion of being involved with paramilitary groups.
The vast majority arrested were nationalists, although a significant number of them had no connection with the IRA.
The anniversary has traditionally been marked by many from the nationalist and republican tradition with bonfires, although recent years have seen a move away from pyres towards community-based diversionary activities.


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The sprawling State of California is in quite the quandary and experiencing the sobering repercussions of back to back disasters and upheavals. Some of the problems are so severe that many residents are making plans to the flee the state and head for more stable ground. Tensions are increasing as drought settles over much of the northern region where most of the giant states agriculture resides. It is also becoming more difficult to govern the large state as different regions have vastly different needs. This has prompted venture capitalist Tim Draper to press harder for a ballot initiative that would see the Golden state split into six individual new states. Add to that the growing concerns of radiation poisoning in the Pacific Ocean from the ever leaking Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan. California has reason to worry about the oceans level of nuclear waste just as much as the drought that is causing quiet but widespread panic on top of the growing momentum for a split state bid.
Although drought is nothing new to this desert state, the present conditions are alarming to say the least as California has never had an unlimited supply of accessible water to depend on. Amid the growing concerns of this current drought being the worst in recorded history, produce growers and dairy farmers are feeling the devastating effects in not only their dry fields, but in their wallets as well.
Many have been forced to have water trucked in to help save their parched crops as well as their livelihood. Water rationing has been implemented and bans have been placed on outdoor watering. Regulating the use of groundwater would be a big step in the right direction for this very troubled state. Heavy rain has been forecast for the state in the coming weeks which is very good news for this thirsty state. Many are praying for a virtual deluge to saturate the parched land.
Despite media attempts to down play the growing disaster, researchers have confirmed that radiation has continued to build up in the waters off the West Coast. They are racing against time to figure out the extinct of the damage and just how much radiation is getting into the ecosystem. As the government continues to turn a blind eye to the seriousness of the threat, the public's distrust continues to grow and concerns are mounting in regards to the safety of Pacific Ocean seafood. Many avid beach goers are starting to voice concerns about the safety of swimming in southern California beaches.
Some oceanographers are claiming that due to the size and strength of open ocean currents, radioactive concentrates will dilute within four months after leaving Japan. Suddenly, prime beach front property doesn't seem so attractive anymore. Don't be surprised if there are significant drops in property values along the coast in coming years. With California oceans being flooded with radiation and its lands drying out, it is no small wonder that these major concerns are causing mounting panic and building widening interests in the long shot plans to split the state into sections ripe for congressional bidding.
The prospects for the sate actually being split into any number of smaller states are exceedingly slim. Even if the ballot was approved by voters, it would still need to clear hurdles in congress. The U.S. Constitution calls for congress' approval to divide or create new states. That is very unlikely to happen given the current political atmosphere.
As local city and state councils convene to find solutions to California's growing problems, many residents are seriously considering throwing in the towel and moving to greener pastures. Admittedly, California has a long way to go in tackling oceanic nuclear waste and land drought, but perhaps these issues that are causing widespread panic might be successfully addressed with a split state bid succeeding ,and consequently providing desperately needed improvements for its residents.
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Jewish World Review Oct. 20, 2008 / 21 Tishrei 5769
Is Palin presidential timber?
By Debra J. Saunders
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Is Sarah Palin ready to be president? I haven't seen enough of the GOP vice presidential candidate to get a handle on the answer to that question. I know that she wants to finish the job in Iraq. I know that she cut spending in her own state. I also know the woman whom GOP candidate John McCain chose as his running mate is a genuine maverick who stood up to the GOP power boys in Alaska.
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When professional soccer player James Brown grew tired of having to hike to central London to find high-end fashion, he opened Heartless in the affluent Buckhurst Hill area in Essex. Despite the name, plenty of heart went into curating the store's collection of luxe menswear products, which boasts big labels like YSL and Balenciaga and edgy, hard-to-find brands like Mastermind Japan.
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Chief Brendan Kearney (MA) || Vice President
Brendan began working for Boston EMS as an EMT in 1984. He steadily advanced his career by serving as a Paramedic and a Deputy Superintendent before being promoted in 2004 to Superintendent of Field Support. In June 2010, Brendan was named Superintendent in Chief, the department's second in command. In this role, Brendan oversees the combined responsibilities and resources of all Boston EMS Divisions and has the authority to serve as acting Chief of Department in the Chief's absence. Brendan is the recipient of several department awards, and has served on a number of local, regional, and statewide committees focusing on a variety of EMS related issues including: policy development, treatment protocols, emergency medical dispatch, communications and interoperability, disaster preparedness, and EMS service zone planning. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the IAEMS, as well as Secretary before assuming his current role as Vice President of the Association. Brendan holds a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice and a Certificate in Health Care Management from Stonehill College, a Masters in Public Administration from Bridgewater State University, and has completed programs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the National Fire Academy..


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- Author: Cheryl Reynolds
'Tis the season for baking lots of tasty treats. Breads, cookies, cakes, and candy are just a few that come to mind. What makes many of these treats so tasty is the addition of almonds or walnuts to the list of ingredients.
In California, we are lucky to be at the center of almond and walnut production. According to the California Department of Food and Agriculture's (CDFA's) latest Agricultural Statistics Review, more than 99% of the almonds and walnuts produced in the United States are grown in California.
Almond and walnut growers work tirelessly to supply enough nuts to not only satisfy domestic demand, but also for export. Worldwide, almonds rank as the largest specialty crop export. California is the top almond producer in the world, accounting for about 80% of all almonds grown. For walnuts, California ranks as the second largest producer in the world. To keep up with this demand, almond and walnut growers must be constantly aware of pests, diseases, and abiotic problems that can affect the tree and growing nuts.
The University of California Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program (UC IPM) has recently published revised Pest Management Guidelines for almonds and walnuts, helping growers prevent and manage pest problems with the most up-to-date information.
Revisions in the Almond Pest Management Guidelines include:
- A new section on bacterial spot, a new disease of almond in California found in the Sacramento and northern San Joaquin valleys
- A renamed section on fruit russeting, revised from the old powdery mildew section
- Significant revisions made to the management section of navel orangeworm, one of the major pests attacking California almonds
- Improvements on how to do dormant spur sampling section with easier-to-understand information on monitoring and thresholds
Revisions in the Walnut Pest Management Guidelines include:
- Updated information on the association between walnut twig beetle and thousand cankers disease
- New sections for Botryosphaeria and Phomopsis cankers, branch wilt, and paradox canker
- Significant changes to the walnut husk fly management section
Both the almond and walnut revised Pest Management Guidelines also include updated information on fungicide efficacy, weed management, and vertebrate management.
Authored by University of California specialists and advisors, the Pest Management Guidelines are UC's official guidelines for monitoring and managing pests in California crops. For more information on pest management in these or other crops, visit the UC IPM website.
- Author: Laura J. Van der Staay
- Editor: Themis J Michailides
On May 10, 2016, Kearney researchers, Kris Tollerup, UC ANR cooperative extension advisor at Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center, specializing in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for almond, pistachio, tree fruit and grape crops; and Themis Michailides, UC ANR plant pathologist and lecturer in Plant Pathology at UC Davis and Kearney Agricultural Research & Extension Center, conducted a workshop to help attendees learn more about leaffooted bug monitoring, damage, management, and its involvement in spreading Bot of pistachio and other diseases on pistachio and almond.
Tollerup discussed the different Hemipteran pests (leaffooted bugs and stink bugs). A PowerPoint handout was provided. The handout covered what the bugs look like; the stages of the bugs' growth; diagnostics for identification; the host crops; overwintering, what the damage to almonds and pistachios looks like; when the damage occurs; what we know, and what we need to know.
In the field, Michailides showed how the insect damage can lead to an increased incidence of pathogenic infections. Field research by Michailides and Dave Morgan has shown that there is an "association of Botryosphaeria panicle and shoot blight of pistachio with injuries of fruit caused by Hemiptera insects and birds."
Michailides concluded that the disease in almonds caused by insect damage "is a new disease of almond and it is very similar to the stigmatomycosis reported on pistachio." Early insect damage can result in the nuts dropping from the tree and later damage can render part of the crop unmarketable due to decay and black spots on the kernels.
The photograph shows: Infection of pistachio fruit by Neofusicoccum mediterraneum (initially identified as Botryosphaeria dothidea, thus the name Bot of pistachio disease) initiated from insect-punctured fruit and spread into the main rachis of the cluster [A and B; note a leaffooted bug (Leptoglossus clypealis) on the rachis of pistachio cluster in B]; C, fruit infected by the pathogen and covered with pycnidia surrounding the sap exuded from the insect's injury; D, fruit infections initiated from injuries caused by birds and spread into the main rachis of clusters.


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Hey everyone!
Glad to join the board. I've been vegan for the last 6? 7? years, but have only recently gotten into fitness. I used to be a total bibliophile & couch potato, but now I get my best rush from weight training (in which I'm a total beginner)...
Generic life specs: 28, queer single parent, still studying (and sometimes translating). I used to be pretty active in animal rights, but now all my volunteering/ organization work has been focusing on founding a free / democratic school in my home town. It's a lot of work! I also love to write, paint, and dive into all sorts of interesting thoughts - surfacing, then, with a crazy idea that needs to get done. I love getting stuff done and am a bit of a time management / organizational freak.
Looking forward to all the discussions!


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Includes gold lobster fastener. Crafted with wire guards to reduce wear at the fasteners. Approximately 19″ plus 2″ extension chain.
Optional box with cotton-type insert available here, perfect for storing your necklace or gift-giving.
(1 box per necklace, please; all rights reserved.)
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Inspired by the seductive & mysterious woman. She has it all....chic, sexy and sport luxe style. We used a very modern monochrome prints, in combination with mesh, pink and white fabric. Stripes gives this nautical style which always stays in fashion. Mesh and sequins added in bikini's, bandeaus and onepieces. Very feminine and mysterious collection. Reversible swimsuits with a little touch of a statement "text".
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Hyderabad, May 12 (IANS) Chennai Super Kings (CSK) spinner and out of favour India international Harbhajan Singh on Sunday slammed the team hotel staff for negligence ahead of their final against Mumbai Indians (MI) here.
Harbhajan wrote on his Twitter handle that the food was undercooked and no one took his calls at the reception.
"As much as I love staying with you @ITCHotels in all the other cities… I hate staying at #ITCKAKATIYA Hyderabad… No one cares about food being cooked properly or not… No one responds to the calls from duty manager to room service… They seem to be too busy for guests," the 38-year-old World Cup winning off-spinner wrote.
Harbhajan has time and again turned the clock this season, snaring crucial wickets and helping CSK reach their record eighth final in 10 years (they were suspended for two years).
The World Cup winning India off-spinner has so far taken 16 wickets from 10 matches.
Fondly known as the 'Turbanator', Harbajan returned figures of 2/31 in Qualifier 2 on Friday night against Delhi Capitals as they were restricted to 147/9. Chennai then gunned down the target with six wickets in the bag.
Sunday's match will be the fourth Indian Premier League (IPL) final between MI and CSK and both of them have a chance of winning the IPL for a record fourth time.


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Spirit, Doubt and Life
We read here the story of two evening encounters. The first tells us about the explosive, forgiving newness that is released at Easter. The second takes a little deeper into the question of what happens when human beings like us are encountered by the resurrected Christ.
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When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, 'Peace be with you.' 20After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. 21Jesus said to them again, 'Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.' 22When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, 'Receive the Holy Spirit. 23If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.'
24 But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. 25So the other disciples told him, 'We have seen the Lord.' But he said to them, 'Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.'
26 A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, 'Peace be with you.' 27Then he said to Thomas, 'Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.' 28Thomas answered him, 'My Lord and my God!' 29Jesus said to him, 'Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.'
30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. 31But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.
To help give shape to the reflection here are three types of question: head questions, heart questions and hand questions. They are about our intellectual response, our emotional response and our practical or behavioural response. I hope that you will want to work at all three levels.
Head Questions
- How would the story be different if the door had not been locked?
- Does Thomas put his finger in Christ's wounds?
- The result of faith is 'life in his name' (v 31). How do you understand this: consequence, conclusion, reward…?
Heart Questions
- What impact would Jesus' gift of the Holy Spirit have on the eleven?
- To what extent can you identify with Thomas in his doubting?
- To what extend do you feel the power of Thomas' proclamation: 'My Lord and my God!'?
Hand Questions
- Do you need to empower someone to forgive?
- Can you?
- Will you?
These questions are intended to challenge you to engage more closely with the passage and to hear and feel what it has to say to you. That's more than a five-minute task. And so is the follow-up, working out what you might want to say to others as a result of engaging with the passage with head, heart and hands. Take your time.