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"Drinking Behavior and Perception of Thirst in Untrained Women During 6" by Jennifer K. Ormerod, Tabatha A. Elliott et al.
The purposes of this study were to characterize measures of fluid intake and perception of thirst in women over a 6-week period of exercise-heat acclimation and outdoor training and examine if this lengthy acclimation period would result in changes in fluid intake that differ from those previously reported in men utilizing a shorter acclimation protocol of 8-10 days. Voluntary water intake (11- 17 degreesC) and perception of thirst were measured in a group of 5 women (21-26 yr) undergoing exercise-heat acclimation for 90 min/day, 3 day s/wk (3 6 degreesC, rh 50-70%) and outdoor training 3 days/wk for 6 weeks. Decreased drinking during acclimation was characterized by a decrease in the number of drinks (35 +/- 10 to 17 +/- 5;p < .05), greater time to first drink (9.9 +/- 2.0 to 23.1 +/- 4.7 min; p < .05), and a decrease in total volume ingested per week (3310 +/- 810 to 1849 +/- 446 ml;p < .05) through the 6-week study. Mean perceived thirst measurements remained low and showed only slight variance 3 +/- 0.4 to 5 +/- 0.4). These observations support a psycho-physiological response pattern different than that previously observed during 8-10 day acclimation protocols in men.
Ormerod, J. K., Elliott, T. A., Scheett, T. P., VanHeest, J. L., Armstrong, L. E., Maresh, C. M. (2003). Drinking Behavior and Perception of Thirst in Untrained Women During 6 Weeks of Heat Acclimation and Outdoor Training. International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, 13(1), 15-28.


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Thanks for reading my blog, which is most often written from my laptop in central Minnesota, USA. I am not a native mid-westerner, though. I was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in the Ballard neighborhood during a time which I call ‘Seattle Before Starbucks’. Upon graduating from Holy Angels High School, I moved with some friends to Minneapolis, MN, where I met the man who was to become my husband. We married on 1/1/1972, and were blessed with two children, a son, and a daughter. I returned to school in 1980, this time in Marquette, MI, and became a registered radiologic technologist.
Blogging came into my life around 2005. Thyrkas’sblog.wordpress.com, subtitled *anchoring it down with print*, came to be in 2008 and is primarily about day to day events in my life, but also has a number of book reviews.
Thanks for stopping by to read the blog. I look forward to reading your comments!
Well dear this section is for writing something about you, that is who are you, what do you do apart from blogging. What are your favorites and what do you hate. Also you can write message to the reader, regarding your blog. Well your blog is interesting, but people would like to read about the author of the blog too. So write something dear. I am waiting to follow you. O.K. take care…….
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Plaça Catalunya used to be a relatively quiet place maybe 20 years ago but now is some sort of anthill being poked with a stick. Crowds move fiercely as if life was in danger. Some people, tired of so much fighting against the stream, get out of the turmoil and scurry to take refuge on the grass of the square, the benches or whatever appropriate surface where to lay their humanity. Chaos must have some order so it doesn't go out of control and that's when dissuasion and coercion enter the scene. In our case here, from the two mossos d'esquadra, guess who would do the dissuasion and who the coercion. This beautiful and important area of the city next to Las Ramblas and the Triangle with important shopping areas and a dense traffic of tourists is where the scum of our city likes to go hunting. If this was a desert it would be that small pond where animals have to go to quench their thirst, or maybe that wade in some African rivers, where crocodiles patiently wait for the gnus. In the same way, gnus get killed and are drawn into the water while the next fellow keeps on going, innocent tourists pretend not to see or get scared for just two seconds and then make their way out protected by the strength of the pack. Well, I am exaggerating here, but it is important that you are aware. I am not one of those that promote repression for the sake of security but let's accept the fact that some patrolling helps.
By the way, Barcelona is trying to cope with massive concentrations of people these days due to FC Barcelona's victories. The season has been so successful that Canaletes fountain, a very small area of Las Ramblas which has been traditionally the place to celebrate titles cannot hold the thousands of fans and Placa de Catalunya where these two policemen are, has been conditioned to receive the exultant multitude, mainly when we won the UEFA Champions League yesterday, the trophy that crowned the biggest campaign of our team in history.
Update: Finally the big celebration takes place today May 28 at Camp Nou stadium. Almost a million people gathered on the streets of Barcelona to welcome the FC Barcelona soccer team.
These two coppers are interesting, too. Mutt and Jeff. The one on the right is a big guy!
Don't know why but I can notice the red color unusually highlighted on various things in the picture.
The shot indeed is amazing!
I was there in 2006 when Barca won, and it was MAD!

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Exodus 32:7ff. Though his people are so stiff-necked and stubborn, Moses begs God to forgive and give them another chance.
John 5:31ff. If John the Baptist was a shining lamp, Jesus throws even more light upon our way to God.
The question arises: is Moses projecting his own frustration into the mind of God? He had hesitated at other times, especially when he balked at striking the rock for water (Num 20:6b-13). If Moses is confusing his own temptation with God’s, then how well he is mirroring ourselves. Like Moses we too can imagine that our temptation to quit is an expression of God’s holy will!
In the footsteps of Moses, Jesus too had continuously to face the arguments of his critics. Even though he had just helped a man lame for many years to walk, they carped at him. Both Jesus and the early church patiently “sat down” and carefully explained the reasons for his actions. This response comes from his compassion and genuine love. Jesus appealed to their experience of John the Baptist, again to his own miracles as works of his heavenly Father, to the interior presence of God the Father within the mind of each person, and to the Scriptures.
We must decide, during a lively discussion or argument, which approach is best. Perhaps, the least probative and argumentative, the weakest in the face of opposition, yet the most genuine and in the long run the most powerful reason is found in God’s hidden presence, his silent testimony on our behalf. Our first decision, and any subsequent reappraisal should be undertaken in God’s presence.
Interior conviction, sustained by our consciousness of letting ourselves be directed by the Lord, will eventually win the day. This attitude of serenity enables us to persevere and lessens the temptation to quit. And so our faith community will eventually, perhaps after long delay as in Moses’ case, cross the river Jordan and enter the promised land. We do not seek to win an argument but to be a people for God.
But Moses implored the Lord his God, and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, how you swore to them by your own self, saying to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'” And the Lord changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.
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It’s a speaker! Or maybe it’s a piece of decorative furniture. No, it’s actually a fully functional computer, and it’s called Tenius.
Nintendo Zapper Laser: You Know You Want One!
Remember the good old days of Duck Hunt on NES? Remember the Zapper? I didn’t have an NES, but one of my childhood friends did, and I will never forget the occasions we went to his house to play. Those were definitely good times.
I am not sure if the children of this generation are still exposed to the antics of the most beloved Stone Age family (of our generation, at least), but I have no doubt that if a child were to be introduced to the Flintstones today, the allure of the cartoons will be just as strong.
How can one not fall in love with those Stone Age characters and all their quirks? How can one NOT want the foot mobile?
And speaking of this iconic mode of transportation, Stone Age it may be, it still has its admirers in modern days.

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The Shorties – My 2016 Short Story Awards!
Somehow I neglected to do the “Shorties” awards last year. But here are the 2013 and 2014 editions if you want to see the past winners. This year, for the Third “Annual” edition, we retain George R.R. Martin’s Tyrion Lannister, brilliantly brought to life by actor Peter Dinklage in the HBO Series, Game of Thrones, as our spokesman, taking to heart his quotation below. “A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge.” And… once again, as I did last year, I’ll stress that “shorties” is intended as a term of endearment not a politically incorrect disparaging remark about short people. 🙂 All the stories below may be found in the summary post for my 2016 Deal Me In Challenge.
Really a toss up here, between Pyle and Thompson, but I’m going to have to go with Maurice Thompson. Both his stories in my Deal Me In deck were among my favorites of the year!
At the risk of heading toward an Academy Award-like sweep, I’ll go with the title character, Alice, in Booth Tarkington’s The Beautiful Lady. Such purity of heart is rare – and refreshing. I did notice that there was a lack of memorable female characters in my Deal Me In stories this year. Of course, with a lot of non-fiction in the mix, there were fewer opportunities, but I’m going to keep a better eye out for them in 2017.
I enjoyed all of these writers very much, but the Shortie goes to Tarkington. The clinching quotation (from The Beautiful Lady): “To fall in love must one behold a face? Yes; at thirty. At twenty, when one is something of a poet No: it is sufficient to see a grey pongee skirt! At fifty, when one is a philosopher No: it is enough to perceive a soul! I had done both; I had seen the skirt; I had perceived the soul.” Winner.
So tough to decide, but since I’ve already “honored” Tarkington twice, I’m going to go with Maurice Thompson’s story, “The Pedagogue” – a classic Indiana “Frontier” story that sometimes reminded me of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Honorable mention to Martone, whose stories in the collection “Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler’s List” have all been enjoyable thus far.
This year for Deal Me In (my 7th!) I’ve decided to try something a little new. I’ve decided to let fate decide, er, I mean let THE fates decide. You know, the three fates from Greek Mythology? Clotho, Lachesis & Atropos? (pictured below) In Plato’s Republic, Lachesis sings of “things that were,” Clothos of “the things that are,” and Atropos of “the things that are to be.” So I’ve roughly assigned some stories or essays that fit those categories. But that’s only three suits, right? I needed a fourth, and for some reason I recalled that the streets in the Indianapolis neighborhood I grew up in had literary names. (Hawthorne, Emerson, Riley, etc.) So I’m going to “take a stroll through the old neighborhood”and read things by the “author” street names in that neighborhood. How’s that? I’ve also included some more essays in my roster, making this a non-pure “short story” challenge. But the rules are flexible on that. 🙂 I’m repeating my tradition of making “deuces wild” to allow some ad hoc selections throughout the year. I will try to keep those in line with their suit, though.
“It’s The Most Wonderful Day of the Year!” – Announcing the 7th Annual “DEAL ME IN” short story reading challenge.
-Anthony Hopkins (portraying Dr. Robert Ford) in Westworld, season 1, episode 10.
Yes, I know you’re being bombarded with posts about all sorts of reading challenges for the new year, and they all sound like a lot of fun. But here’s a unique challenge where your reading burden is relatively light AND where you still can experience a lot of different authors and genres.
2) if you don’t have a blog or website you may comment on any of my Deal Me In posts, sharing thoughts on your own story – or start one at WordPress or blogspot – it’s easy and free to create a basic blog.
(The 52 stories themselves are totally up to you.) Before you get start reading, come up with a roster of fifty-two stories (you can use any source) and assign each one to a playing card in a standard deck of cards. It can be fun to use different suits for different types of stories, but that is optional. I’ve often included one wild card for each suit too, so I can maybe read a story I’ve heard about during the year, or read another by an author I’ve discovered through this challenge. Each “week,” (if you’re like me, you may occasionally fall a story or two behind – that’s okay) you draw a card at random from your deck and that is the story you will read. There are links to many of last year’s participants’ rosters in the comments to last year’s sign-up if you want to see some examples. I’ll be posting my own 2017 roster soon. My twists this year? I’m actually including 13 essays this time around (inspired by “o” at the Behold the Stars blog) One of my suits will be stories by authors who the streets in the neighborhood I grew up in are named after (Irving, Hawthorne, Wallace, etc.) I think my other three suits will be loosely based on the three fates (Moirae) from Greek Mythology who, we are told in Plato’s “Republic” sing of “things that were, things that are, and things that will be.” Not sure how I’m going to manage that, but I have a few days left.
Leave a comment below with your URL and I will link you on my home page, where I’ll eventually have a section in my sidebar for “2017 Deal Me In Participants.” This year, I think I’ll try to go back to a weekly wrap-up post, linking to other Deal Me In participants’ posts I’ve seen recently too. Late sign-ups are allowed and encouraged too.
The Deal Me In “Euchre Deck Version”If you work for “one of those companies” where you only get paid twice a month on the 15th and 30th, e.g., use a euchre deck! Note: I’ve experimented with an accelerated euchre deck version for a couple readathons, especially the 24 in 48 readathon, where, instead of trying to read 24 hours out of 48, I try to read 24 short stories in 48 hours. Also pretty challenging.
The Deal Me In “Full Moon Fever Version” – this would be the baby steps way to ease into the Deal Me In routine, basically reading just one story a month (who doesn’t have time for that?). Just use one suit or face cards only and you’re set. Seeing the full moon in the sky can also serve as a reminder – “hey, I need to read my next short story!” We only have twelve full moons in 2017, so maybe you can have a ‘discretionary read’ sometime during the year where you draw a thirteenth card.
You can try the using the new moons, as well, or BOTH new and full moons. In the past, we’ve had a couple Deal Me In’ers have a full moon add-on in addition to their 52 stories.
On December 11th, two-hundred years ago, Indiana became a state. The 19th state in the United States of America to be precise. 346 days ago, here at Bibliophilopolis we began a year-long celebration of the State’s Bicentennial year, retrofitting our annual “Deal Me In” short story reading challenge (What is Deal Me In??) to contain only stories with some Indiana connection. It’s been a long journey and, rather than spread out the final three posts of the rest of December (i.e. after Indiana’s actual birthday has passed), I thought I’d just do the last few early to get them posted closer to the exact date of Indiana’s birth.
During the course of the year for this project, I read more than twenty authors for the first time, and several I know will become future favorites. My favorite suit was easily “Clubs” – the “legendary authors” suit, but each suit had its own merits and I did enjoy reading some short, non-fiction works for the first time in a Deal Me In challenge this year. So much so that I may include a suit of essays in my 2017 version. We’ll see.
Well, thanks to all those who followed along this year, and especially those that commented on some of these 52 posts. If Deal Me IN was a new discovery for you this year, I hope you’ll consider doing the challenge in 2017. The official sign-up post will be on 12/21/2016.
The Suit: For this year’s Deal Me IN, Spades is my suit for short Indiana-related non-fiction works.
The Selection: “Working a Jigsaw” from my copy of the “Not Like the Rest of Us” anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, which along with Deal Me “IN” 2016, is a fellow Legacy Project of the Indiana Bicentennial Commission.
The Author: Barb Shoup, the director of the Indiana Writer’s Center in Indianapolis. A couple years back, I enjoyed her novel, “Looking for Jack Kerouac” but didn’t blog about it. My buddy Dale at the Mirror With Clouds blog did, though.
What is Deal Me “IN” 2016? I’m glad you asked! Before the start of each year, I come up with a list of 52 stories to read and assign each of them to a playing card in a standard deck. Each week, I draw a card, and that is the story I read. By the end of the year (52 weeks), I’m done, and ready to start a fresh deck. (For a more detailed explanation of the Deal Me In challenge, see the sign up post. For a look at my deck of cards/storyroster click here.) Since 2016 is my home state’s bicentennial, in this year’s edition of my annual Deal Me In challenge, I’m reading only stories that have an Indiana “connection” of some kind. The 2016 iteration of Deal Me “IN” is also a “Legacy Project” officially endorsed by The Indiana Bicentennial Commission!
In “Working a Jigsaw” Shoup describes a planned week-long personal writing retreat where she intends to get some serious work done without distractions. Describing items she’s packing for the trip (books, notebooks, computer, printer, paper, pens, etc) she then adds “As an afterthought, I brought along a puzzle.” It’s not just any puzzle though, it’s a jigsaw puzzle of a painting by Vermeer, she “impulse bought” when in Wales.
I looked up Vermeer after reading this story and, although I’m not certain, I think I may have found the painting that the puzzle in this story represents.
♫♫Personal Notes: Do you enjoy jigsaw puzzles? Did you do a lot of them as a kid, but don’t do them any more? I bet a lot of us fall into the latter description, myself included. Sort of. I remember several large puzzles we had when I was a kid that we liked to do over and over again. One was of a couple boys being given spoonfuls of castor oil by a woman while they were sitting among scattered green apple cores as a sign that they had over indulged. Another favorite was one of the presidents. It was unique because it was circular in shape, with small portraits of the presidents around the border and a seal of the United States in the middle. Of course, we were frequently vexed by lost or missing pieces.
Well, with this post, my Deal Me “IN” 2016 project is complete. I’m a couple weeks ahead of schedule because I was desperately trying to finish on Indiana’s exact birthday (12/11) but I missed it by a day. Soon I’ll have a summary post with links to all the stories I’ve read this year. It’s been quite a fun challenge and I’ve “met” a lot of new authors that I’m sure I will see again over the years. I’m already starting to plan for the “7th Annual” Deal Me In Challenge in 2017. The official announcement/sign-up post will be on 12/21, the shortest day of the year. Thanks for reading!
The Suit: For this year’s Deal Me IN, Diamonds is my suit for Stories by Contemporary Indiana Authors.
The Selection: “Murder on Indiana Avenue” from my copy of the short story anthology “Decades of Dirt” – a production of the Speed City Chapter of Sisters of Crime.
The Author: Andrea Smith (pictured above from a reading at Bookmamas Bookstore), an Indianapolis writer who was born in Chicago, and who I’ve read once before, in the “Hoosier Hoops and Hijinks” anthology.
Eve and Gabriel Dawson are a jazz musician/singer couple from Chicago, in town (Indianapolis) to perform at the Stardust Theater. The club is run by a friend of theirs, Lester Sanders, and their appearance at his club is kind of a mutual favor for both parties. When they arrive, they awkwardly walk in on a confrontation between Lester and some unsavory types. Their friend subsequently waves it off as nothing, but sure enough, later in the evening their performance is interrupted when the police swarm the club investigating a murder, and Lester is their prime suspect!
Eve and Gabe proceed to do some amateur detective work of their own, enlisting the aid of an attorney whose office is also in the Walker Building. A couple twists and turns later and they have their man.
I’ve never been a big reader of mysteries, so don’t feel that well qualified to rate them. I do think it must be incredibly hard to write an effective one in just about 20 pages, but the stories I’ve read from the two anthologies produced by the Speed City (Indianapolis) Chapter of “Sisters of Crime” seem to be able to pull this off.
The Suit: For this year’s Deal Me IN, Spades is my suit for short, Indiana-related non-fiction works.
The Selection: “Educational Testing: Just Another Job” from collection of essays titled “Personal Indianapolis.” This is the fourth piece from this book that I’ve read for this year’s Deal Me “IN” challenge.
The Author: David Hoppe –An Indianapolis writer who has labored for Indy’s “Alternative Weekly” Nuvo Magazine since 1998.
I struggled with this piece, which was my least favorite of those that I’ve read thus far in Hoppe’s book, Personal Indianapolis. I have no children in school so perhaps lack a good vantage point of the issues the essay covered, but I have followed news stories about standardized tests for years, and have frequently been amazed at how big the time gap between testing and receiving results is. I also naively hadn’t realized that the standardized testing included a writing sample from the students (i.e. something that can’t be scored in an automated fashion). I had just been picturing a multiple choice, computer scored exam like many we used to have even way back when I was in school.
Wait. It only means that if the rate is at the bottom of that scale. What about the 70 cent rate? At the top of the scale it would be $28 an hour, right? Shouldn’t it read something more like “scoring forty papers every sixty minutes might only earn him $12 an hour,” or even “That means he has to score forty papers every sixty minutes to make $12-$28 an hour”? My loyalty as a reader goes out the window pretty fast when I feel I’m being manipulated by partial truths, whether they are intentional or not.
Overall, though, this piece and the DiMaggio article that inspired it, left me disappointed in “the system” once more and even glad I don’t have kids that are being “taught to pass tests” that people who often are not even educators themselves are scoring in an assembly line fashion.
What about you? Any teachers out there reading this? What are your thoughts about standardized tests and their value? I’d love to hear more from the front lines on this issue.
10. Ernie Pyle – famous *Hoosier* war correspondent in World War Two. I’ve read several entries in his book “Final Chapter” and also bought another book of his (Home Front) and have ordered a biography on him too. I must like him.
9. Susan Wallace – wife of General Lew Wallace, who you may have heard of, she wrote the book “The Storied Sea,” which I read and enjoyed in hopes of attending a book club meeting but sadly couldn’t make it when the date came around.
6. Meredith Nicholson – a writer from “The Golden Age” of Indiana literature, I found his novel “The House of a Thousand Candles” a real delight. So much so that I bought and read a biography of him a month later.
5. Sarah Layden – Another local author who I’ve also had the good fortune of meeting a few times at local events. Her book “Trip Through Your Wires,” which I read back in February, is getting some great reviews.
3. James Baldwin – technically not totally new to me, as I had read a short story by him, but I finally got around to reading his famous “Go Tell it On the Mountain” and was quite impressed.
2. Lauren Ann Bolton – I read a story of hers from Butler University’s “Booth” literary journal and it (“The Man in Carnivorous Plants”) was one of the stories that made me think the most this year. Always a plus for me. Sorry, couldn’t find a pic in my cursory search.
1. Mark Haddon – I finally got around to his famous novel, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” last month for another book club. It led to one of my favorite discussions we’ve ever had with that group.
The Selection: “Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler’s List” from the short story collection of the same name (with the subtitle: “Indiana Stories”). I own a paperback copy, and another of its contents, “Schliemann in Indianapolis” made an earlier appearance in this year’s Deal Me “IN” challenge.
The Author: Michael Martone (his picture at left (that’s an Indiana flag shirt!) found at http://www.erinpringle.com/2014/07/2014-summer-library-series-four.html ). Last year I was quite impressed with “Winesburg, Indiana: A Fork River Anthology” which he edited, and I had heard of this volume through the grapevine so it found a place on my Deal Me “IN” roster. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and is currently a professor at the University of Alabama.
Perhaps not, though. Other research indicates that Fort Wayne was potentially a prime target during World War II – due to industrial production, etc. – whether or not it was really on a list is a bit unclear. This “story” (it felt more to me like I was reading a prose poem) is about a city that was once on ‘high alert’ during wartime, and centers around the narrator’s grandfather who lived in those times.
It also seems that the grandfather never quite fully exited the “war footing” mentality and even decades later would still see and feel things about the city in that context and through the lens of a slight paranoia. This gave the story a haunting quality.
I enjoyed this piece less than the other one I read for Deal Me “IN,” but it was still quite good and I’d like to once again recommend the book Martone edited “Winesburg, Indiana.” Which is full of great, short vignettes about the people of a fictional Indiana town.
Have you read anything by Michael Martone? What did you think of him? What are some of your favorite literary depictions of the “Home Front” during the war? One I can think of is the excellent “Under the Apple Tree” by Indiana author Dan Wakefield.
Deal Me In Bonus: Trivia question: Which iconic 1968 cinematic space traveler hailed from Fort Wayne, Indiana?
The Author: Booth Tarkington of Indianapolis. One of the standard bearers of The Golden Age of Indiana Literature. He also won the Pulitzer Prize. Twice.
What is Deal Me “IN” 2016? I’m glad you asked! Before the start of each year, I come up with a list of 52 stories to read and assign each of them to a playing card in a standard deck. Each week, I draw a card, and that is the story I read. By the end of the year (52 weeks), I’m done, and ready to start a fresh deck. (For a more detailed explanation of the Deal Me In challenge, see the sign up post. For a look at my deck of cards/storyroster click here.) Since 2016 is my home state’s bicentennial, in this year’s edition of my annual Deal Me In challenge, I’m reading only stories that have an Indiana “connection” of some kind. Deal Me “IN” is also now officially endorsed as a “Legacy Project” by The Indiana Bicentennial Commission.
Just the quotation above should be enough to let you know what kind of story this will be, but I will drone on a little more about it… The narrator of the story is a man of twenty-four who is down on his luck in Paris. He has a half-brother who is seemingly a villain. He had a “full” brother who is now dead and whose two children the narrator tries his best to support and pay for their schooling at a nunnery. The beginning of the story finds him so penniless (franc-less?) that he has accepted a humiliating job for the term of a week. The job is to be a living advertisement for a theater and consists of him having to shave his head bald, allowing an advertisement to be painted on the top of his head, then to sit at the venue with his eyes pointing to his lap so passersby will see the ad and perhaps be curious enough to buy a ticket. He hates it. You probably would too.
The narrator doesn’t see the lady during this “encounter” but perhaps will again during his next “job.” For my part, I loved this story. It was a bit predictable in its plot twists, which honestly stretched credibility to its seams, and also in its saccharine sweetness, which makes my admission of liking it something of a guilty pleasure, I suppose. It made me think of times in my own life where things weren’t going as I hoped or maybe when I was “ashamed” of a current employment or living status, and doesn’t it always seem to work out that you run into people you haven’t seen in a long time when you’re looking – or at – your worst? I believe Tarkington captures this phenomenon nearly perfectly in this story, which is one of my favorites of Deal Me “IN” this year.
What have you read by Tarkington? The Magnificent Ambersons? Alice Adams? Some of his shorter works? I’d love to hear about your encounters with this author.

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Isn’t the problem ubiquitous? :D One of my favorite comics on the web is http://wetherobots.com Check it out!
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Stem: young crown conic; branches +- whorled in young pls, smaller +- drooping; young bark smooth, with resin blisters, mature thick, deep-furrowed, dark brown; twig without persistent, peg-like leaf bases; leaf scars +- smooth, +- elliptic; bud < 15 mm, fusiform. Leaf: persistent < 8 years, 2--4.5 cm, tapered to a short petiole above persistent base, +- spreading, +- flat, with 2 +- white bands abaxially. Seed Cone: pendent, 4--20 cm, maturing 1st year, persistent or not; stalk < 2 cm; bract exserted, 3-toothed or -lobed, free from scale. Seed: plus wing < 25 mm.
Stem: trunk < 67 m, < 4.4 m wide; mature crown rounded; upper branches large. Leaf: 2--4 cm. Seed Cone: deciduous; bracts well exserted. Chromosomes: 2n=26.
Ecology: Widespread in mixed-evergreen, mixed-conifer forests; Elevation: < 2200 m. Bioregional Distribution: KR, NCoR, CaRH, n&c SNH, CCo, SnFrB, SCoRO; Distribution Outside California: to southwestern British Columbia.
Unabridged Note: In Scottish, Menzies pronounced "Mingis," with the "g" spoken as in "singer".
Citation for this treatment: J. Robert Haller, Nancy J. Vivrette, & James R. Griffin 2012, Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=64553, accessed on April 25, 2019.
KR, NCoR, CaRH, n&c SNH, CCo, SnFrB, SCoRO; Markers link to CCH specimen records. Yellow markers indicate records that may provide evidence for eFlora range revision or may have georeferencing or identification issues. Purple markers indicate specimens collected from a garden, greenhouse, or other non-wild location.

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Britain will put forward a UN Security Council on the conflict in Yemen to be voted on later this week, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told Parliament on Wednesday.
Palestinian resistance movements in the besieged Gaza Strip said on Saturday that an Egyptian-mediated truce had been reached after the movements had responded to Israel’s most ferocious bombing in recent months with a barrage of rockets, triggering air sirens in several settlements.
A cease-fire announced by Hamas largely held Saturday after a wave of deadly strikes across the Palestinian enclave sparked by the death of an Israeli soldier shot near the fence.
Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani formally announced an end to the government’s unilateral cease-fire with the Taliban, but urged the group to accept comprehensive peace talks.
Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has formally announced an end to the government’s unilateral ceasefire with Taliban insurgents, but urged the militant group to accept comprehensive peace talks.
Iran's top military commander said both Tehran and Damascus will comply with a month-long Syria ceasefire declared by the UN Security Council, but that attacks will continue in the Damascus suburbs held by terrorists.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow will consider supporting a UN-proposed ceasefire, providing it does not cover the Takfiri terrorist groups of Daesh and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, as well as other militant outfits that are shelling civilians in Syria's militant-held Eastern Ghouta.
Clashes broke out near South Sudan’s capital Juba between government troops and rebels, officials said on Friday, the latest violation of a cease-fire signed last month.
A truce between pro-Russia fighters and the Ukrainian army is likely to be enforced on Monday in the volatile eastern Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says.
Iran and Syria said a successful cease-fire would pave the way for the restoration of permanent peace and stability to Syria.
Iran, Russia and Turkey – sponsors of talks in Kazakhstan between Syria and militant factions – pledged Tuesday to consolidate the country's nearly month-old cease-fire and set up a three-way mechanism to ensure compliance of all sides.

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Both sweet and pleasingly tart, this rhubarb compote is a snap to put together. The rhubarb stays in nice big pieces as it cooks but then spreads like butter over cakey scones. We also like it spooned over thick Greek yogurt.
What to buy: Look for rhubarb that is free of blemishes. Remove any leaves, dried-out pieces, or brown spots before cooking.
Game plan: The compote will keep for 5 to 7 days refrigerated in a covered container.
This recipe was featured as part of our Mother’s Day tea party.
1Heat the oven to 350°F and arrange a rack in the middle. Rinse rhubarb under cold water, trim ends, and remove any leaves. Slice each stalk in half lengthwise, then cut each half crosswise into 1-inch pieces.
2Combine rhubarb, orange zest, orange juice, and sugar in an 8-by-8-inch glass baking dish; toss together until rhubarb is well coated with sugar.
3Cover the dish with aluminum foil and bake until the rhubarb has released a lot of juice and the mixture is bubbling, about 35 minutes.
4Remove the foil and continue baking until the juices are slightly thickened, about 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool.
If you were alive in the late 18th and early 19th century, as some of you might have been, you know that it was no guarantee that your cocktail would be served or cooled with ice. In fact, there was a good chance the tavern or bar you were in had no ice at all. Especially if you lived in the American South or a stone's throw from the equator. You can thank Frederic Tudor, the “Boston Ice King,” for remedying that. His ice deliveries from the Northeast to hotter climates paved the way for creative uses of ice like the crushed “cobble stone”-like pieces of ice found in the cobbler. Grab your Lewis Bag and get crackin’!


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Designing a hallway can be a challenge at the best of times, but if yours is smaller than average, you'll need some clever tricks up your sleeve to make it feel as big and bright as possible – all while trying to cram in some stylish touches, of course. Use these clever design ideas for small hallways to help yourself think big.
Looking for more pratical advice on how to design a hallway? Check out our dedicated feature for answers to those all important hallway questions.
Narrow shoe storage units with hinged drawers that tip out, like this Stall unit from Ikea (on the right of the hallway), are great for narrow hallways, and the surface gives you somewhere to pop keys or post when you come through the front door. Two have been placed side by side for optimum storage opportunities.
Find tons more hallway shoe storage ideas in our guide.
We love this idea of partially removing the wall between the hallway and lounge, creating an open-plan feel, while still having wall space for coat and shoe storage.
Want to give this whole open plan living thing a go? Find out everything you need to know about creating an open-plan layout in your home.
Just because you have a small hallway, doesn’t mean it has to lack character. Paint a wall with blackboard paint to give you somewhere to write messages and reminders, use the space above doors to hang shelves for books, and hang a pegboard, like this one is by Kreis Design, with a mixture of hooks and shelves, to provide a range of small storage options.
If you want to try out this look, it's actually a really easy DIY jobbie. Just check out out guide to how to create a chalkboard wall, (spoiler: with chalk paint).
Keep small hallways clutter free and organised with a selection of hooks, shelves and an umbrella stand positioned by the door. And, if space permits, a small bench like this one from Garden Trading will provide storage as well as giving you somewhere to perch when pulling on your shoes.
Find more hallway storage solutions in our buyer's guide.
Unlike a standard hinged door that requires floor space to swing open, a sliding barn door takes up little more space than the thickness of the door. These sliding doors feature a very simple mechanism, which, if you’re a competent DIYer, are easy to install. Because barn doors slide and hang to the side of the door, you will need to make sure you have wall space to slide the door across.
Find a selection of rustic and modern traditional barn style tracks at Ironmongery Direct, Screwfix, and SDS London.
Transform your hall into a welcoming entrance with String’s multi functional modular furniture, which can be customised to work for your space. The system can accommodate a variety of different storage solutions, including hooks for coats, shoe racks, and a bowl shelf for your keys, which is made from felt to minimise noise.
Mirrors in narrow rooms are particularly effective, making the space feel almost twice its size. Have one made to measure so that it covers the whole wall (this will help the visual effect of lengthening and widening the space), and, where possible, place near a window to reflect light from outside. Room design by Brown Architects.
Find more hallway mirrors in our buyer's guide.
Add personality to your hallway using flooring with a geometric design. Choose one with a diagonal pattern to trick the eye into seeing a narrow space as wider.
Choose the best hallway flooring for your home with our guide.
Utilise the space under your stairs with built in storage cupboards. Pull-out storage drawers like these from Avar Furniture are a brilliant way of introducing lots of storage in your hallway and can be used to stash anything from cleaning equipment, to coats, to children’s bikes and toys.
Find tons more ideas for under stairs storage solutions in our guide.
Just because it’s small doesn’t mean it can’t be striking. Check out @trollsteinen_interior's hallway: with bold stripes, painted in wide bands of black and white, which she’s teamed with a neat black bench and peg rail, and some lush green foliage, it's packed with character. Plus, the horizontal stripes make the room exaggerate the walls' proportions.
Small hallways need good lighting to look their best at night. Ideally, choose a combination of lighting types: bright overhead downlights to create a feeling of daylight in otherwise dark hallways; characterful table lights for atmosphere only; and lights in skirting boards to light stair risers (and exaggerate the stairs' width).
Find out how to plan the best lighting for your hallway with our guide.
Small hallways can sometimes lack the natural light you need to make them feel as big as possible, so use all the tricks up your sleeve to lighten your hallway – from hanging mirrors (tick) to choosing pale paint colour schemes. Find more ways to lighten your hallway in our guide and browse the best hallway colour schemes, too.
Carpet below by Cormar Carpets.
Hanging wallpaper with a subtle stripe will exaggerate a hallway's proportions: choose a horizontal stripe to make it feel longer or wider; pick a vertical stripe to make the hallway seem taller. The Emilia from Sandberg takes its cue from Breton stripes and will complement a contemporary home with nautical accents.
For more hallway wallpaper design ideas, check out our feature.
We know we bang on about gallery walls, but what's not to like: they're easy to create, add bags of character and take up no space. Plus, if you choose light coloured frames and prints, your hallway's proportions will be flattered.
Find how to create your own gallery wall – and be inspired by our photo and picture display ideas.
Saving space and letting in light are the two must-dos when designing a small hallway. Window film is a super-affordable way to create instant privacy, but interest, too, without having to invest in window dressings.
Window film by The Window Film Company.
See more wonderful window film ideas in our design gallery.
Didn't think you had room for any book storage in, say, a narrow hallway? Think again. This book shelf has been built into a door so it doesn't take up any extra space. We are sure you could DIY this kind of thing but if you aren't up for the challenge, a carpenter or joiner would be your best bet.
Find more brilliant book storage ideas.

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PHOTO: Erik Unger Dakari Quimby's work focuses on empowering the marginalized in Chicago. “I have also been privileged to get to know the extensive strength, resilience, and other internal resources among the youth, families, and community leaders residing in these neighborhoods,” he says.
While studying for his doctoral degree, Dakari Quimby has spent much of his time taking his education to the streets of Chicago to make a difference in the community.
Much of his studies and efforts focus on empowering systemically marginalized youth, families, and communities of color, especially in Chicago, in the areas of health, safety, education, and treatment. As a member of the Risk and Resilience psychology lab, Quimby has spent the past five years helping to build violence prevention interventions within Black and Latino communities on the South and West sides of Chicago.
Quimby, a sixth year as a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology, successfully defended his dissertation last August, titled The Experience of Mentors in a Cross-Age Peer Mentoring Program: Exploring The Helper Theory Principle. He has also kept busy serving in several roles in trauma and resilience-based mental health treatment and therapy for youth and their families. Recently, he received funding to transfer the operation of a cross-age peer mentoring program from Loyola staff to community leaders through the Chicago Fund for Safe and Peaceful Communities.
Through his time at Loyola, Quimby says it has been the influence of mentors like psychology professor Maryse Richards that has helped him learn how to put his education into action to help others.
“I have witnessed Dr. Richards and other like-minded students and staff on the Risk and Resilience team take an active role in fostering change through activities like attending rallies for racial justice, supporting businesses in Black communities, and being critically conscious consumers.


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Vietnam’s General Vo Nguyen Giap was popularly known as the “Red Napolean”. A pioneer of modern guerrilla warfare, his role in the Vietnamese armed forces’ stellar victories over the colonial militaries of Japan, France and the United States inspired millions in the global South in their own anti-colonial struggles. A tribute.
In the early days of October news came from Vietnam of the death of General Vo Nguyen Giap, at the age of 102. Second in reverence only to Ho Chi Minh, General Giap came to symbolise the success of what has come to be more recently defined as asymmetrical warfare. At the outset of the modern Vietnam independence struggle, the Viet Minh numbered in the hundreds and increased from small-scale guerrilla units to more conventional large-scale battle formations, defeating in turn the French colonial occupation forces and the mighty United States (US) and its neocolonial puppets.
Giap, like many other revolutionary leaders, came from a comfortable landowning family. His father, functioning as a low-level bureaucrat under French colonial administration, was imprisoned in 1919 for nationalist agitation, where he died as did his sister. He attended the same Lycée as Ho Chi Minh, and Ngo Dinh Diem, the latter going on to become president of South Vietnam until he lost US support and was assassinated in 1963. Giap was expelled from the Lycée for nationalist agitation, followed by his arrest in 1930, spending a bit more than a year in prison. He took a BA in Law at the University of Hanoi, but failed the certificate exam due to his time-consuming political activity. His inability to practise law led him to a position as a history teacher, where he became familiar with Napoleon and T E Lawrence. He later came to be known by his adversaries as the “Red Napoleon”.
Prior to leaving for China in 1940 he founded a socialist youth newspaper. He returned to the Viet Bac, the northern six provinces of Vietnam inhabited mostly by minority people, in 1942. When I visited that area in 1973 the commanding generals all expressed pride in it being a secure area whenever the Viet Minh needed an impenetrable refuge. (On the lighter side one of them leaned over at dinner and asked if I wanted the address in Hanoi of Ho Chi Minh’s girlfriend, who was still alive. He was kicked under the table by one of his comrades.) While Giap no doubt gained from his experience in observing the development of the Chinese revolution on the ground, the adversarial challenges he was to face, on any scale, were, no doubt, significantly greater than that faced by Mao. This is no diminution of the latter.
On Christmas day of 1944 Giap was charged with the first military assault on a Vichy French outpost, which he captured. Four months later the Viet Minh force numbered 5,000. Two hundred of them were selected for training and arming by the US special forces in the attempt to drive out the Japanese forces who controlled the country with the cooperation of Vichy France. In August 1945 Giap led his forces into Hanoi, tactically retreating back to the Viet Bac the following year when French forces reoccupied the country. It took another eight years of guerrilla level fighting before the decisive battle of Dien Bien Phu took place. The French fortified the outpost hoping to sever Viet Minh supply lines, believing in their technological superiority.
Giap developed what I would call the noose strategy, of digging tunnels around the French forces and surrounding them with units fortified by Soviet tanks and artillery. Ironically, the first artillery salvo fired by Giap’s forces was a 105 mm gun which had been captured by North Korean forces during the Korean war, sent by rail across China and installed in the perimeter of Dien Bien Phu. This gun had been kept covered in satin in 1971 in the basement of the war museum in Hanoi. French forces surrendered, and after the US refused to provide critical support, the French announced their withdrawal. Richard Nixon, who was then vice president of the US urged the use of tactical nuclear weapons in support of the French, a proposal which President Eisenhower rejected.
The US incrementally came to replace the French in Vietnam through their domino principle – if Vietnam “falls” to the communists it would be followed by similar liberation wars in South-East Asia and ultimately threaten Australia and New Zealand. In 1968 Vietnam’s Communist Party concluded that a major military offensive would spark a nationwide rebellion. The date was set for the Tet holiday period. There has been some suggestion that Giap was less than enthusiastic, as he left for medical treatment in Hungary, returning to Vietnam after the offensive began. As minister of defence, Giap nonetheless coordinated the attack with horrendous casualties on both sides.
Tet did for the US what Dien Bien Phu did for the French; it precipitated the decision to withdraw. Giap had achieved the political goal. While the anticipated nationwide rebellion failed to materialise, the morale in the south Vietnamese military began to crumble. Five years later, in 1973, I visited the Thac An river which was the front dividing the southern and northern armies, and one officer commented that the commander of the southern forces had informally communicated to the National Liberation Front command that if he received an order to open fire across the river he would fire to miss, as none of his men wanted to be the last soldiers to die in the war. The South Vietnamese government survived for another seven years after Tet before Giap’s tanks broke into the presidential palace in Saigon, capturing the then president, “Big” Minh. Vietnam was again reunited as one country. During this period the Soviet Union provided material military support and the Chinese sent in 3,20,000 troops.
In 1980, Giap retired as minister of defence, followed two years later by resigning from the politburo of the communist party. He stayed on as deputy prime minister and central committee member until 1991. Many western commentators have suggested that he was marginalised in the post-1975 period, but have failed to consider that age and health may have been the basis of his withdrawal.
At the age of 99 Giap expressed support for an expert committee report which expressed severe reservation on a major bauxite extraction proposal as damaging to the ecology in the central highlands of Vietnam as well as concern over national security, asking who would invest the $1 billion required for infrastructure modification. A few years earlier I was asked to explore with the Aluminium Company of Canada (ALCAN) if they would be willing to pick up the tab, but was informed that Australia was on top of their list followed by India and, maybe half a century later, Vietnam.
Vo Nguyen Giap was a complex man in complex times, but as we can see from the thousands who rushed to his home on the announcement of his death, he remained a leader to be cherished and revered. Having visited with his father-in-law on two visits to Hanoi, I can testify to how he was respected by both the general population as well as within his family.
Sam Noumoff ([email protected]) served in the 1970s as director, Centre for East Asian Studies and in the 1980s as director of the Centre for Developing Area Studies before retiring from McGill University, Canada.


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I subscribed to the magazine in mid-2011 and they recently sent out a copy of issue #44. This edition was published in 2010 and afterwards the magazine went into an extended hiatus (I believe the editor, Stuart Mayne, retired). According to the Aurealis website the next edition should be out in late 2011/early 2012. I hope so, this was a good read.
I really enjoyed gunning for a tinker man by Jason Fischer, a story based in a post-apocalyptic world where the main character, Lanyard, is a fallen “jesusman” (a caste of warrior priest types who can kill the ‘witches’ that prey on the remnants of the human race). I also enjoyed for the want of a jesusman that I heard on the Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction podcast (number 18) set in the same world. The characters are not clean cut hero types and I enjoyed the way the world was described and realised. Fairly gritty and violent in places – not for the faint of heart or those that like a neat happy ending. I understand from Mr Fischer’s website that he is working on a full novel set in the same world, which I am now very much looking forward to reading.
I also particularly enjoyed Storm in a T-Suit by Simon Petrie (a good rescue story based in an interesting depiction of the frontiers of colonisation of the solar system), The Death of Skandar Taranisaii by K J Taylor (love a bit of swords and sandals action) and A Billion Tiny Lights by Adam Ford (I am quite fond of the flash fiction format at the moment).
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Graveside service for Douglas Adams, age 83, of Emory will held at 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at Ridgeway Cemetery with Bro. Mike Eason. There will be no formal visitation. Mr. Adams passed away on Saturday, February 2, 2019 at Rock Creek Health and Rehab, Sulphur Springs.
Edward Douglas Adams was born on March 16, 1935 to Bascom and Lottie Adams. He married Margaret Ann Yarbrough and she precede him in death. Douglas was a Trucker and Dispatcher for AMPI Trucking.
He is survived by his daughter, Sherry Coffman and husband, Tony; step-children, Charles Coker, Gale Martin, Kay Peterka and Karen Huie; numerous grandchildren and two great grandchildren; brothers, Paul Adams, Dalton Adams and Jerry Adams.
Douglas was preceded in death by his parents; wife; son, Gregory Don Adams; great granddaughter, Tessa Nicole Skeen; brothers, Billy Jean Adams, Malcom Glenn Adams; sister, Melba Scott.


text: If you are looking for an office to rent at Guttahalli. This is a 16 X 16 sq ft office in Guttahalli. You have to only ay 3 months rent in advance. The rent ranges from Rs4000- 15000. This shop is located on the ground floor. The shop is north and east facing and is semi furnished.


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A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the State Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation. PEAKED ARCH MOULDED LINTELS. EXPOSED REAR FOUNDATION. FIRST SANDSTONE BLDG ON OSCEOLA'S MAIN ST. CAST IRON STOREFRONT W/RECESSED ENTRY. ORIGINALLY BUILT AS A SALOON BY GEIGER, A GERMAN IMMIGRANT. BLDG. USED AS JAIL, SHERIFF & JUDGE QUARTERS UNTIL 1899.
NEILL, REV. EDWARD D. "HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY & THE ST. CROIX VALLEY" (MINNEAPOLIS: NORTH STAR PUBLISHING CO. 1881). Take a Walk on Main Street: Historic Walking Tours in Wisconsin's Main Street Communities, Wisconsin Main Street Program, 1998.


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At Plaza La Reina there is no such thing as “standard”. Forty-four unique 4-star junior suite, one-bedroom and specialty suites offer the luxuries of a hotel and all the comforts of home. Enjoy private balconies, stunning furnishings, pocket kitchens, in-suite laundry, designated work-spaces, and prized finishes. All the stylish vintage-inspired accommodations are Plaza La Reina hallmarks, the perfect place to call home as you explore the City of Angels.
You’re home. Shed the clamor of the outside world and linger over a cocktail on the secluded rooftop terrace overlooking Westwood Village. In your room, log on to the complimentary lightening-fast Internet, check in with your loved ones, and enjoy dinner from your own kitchen. Settle in with your favorite program on your 55-inch 4K TV before retreating to the perfection of a sumptuous bed. In the morning, step out onto your private balcony, or greet another beautiful Southern California day over coffee in the charming flower-draped courtyard. Plaza La Reina, an elevated experience that caters to guests seeking an inspiring experience.

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Orpington MP Jo Johnson has welcomed the news that plans for a pioneering £11 Aerospace and Aviation college at Biggin Hill Airport will become a reality.
The announcement, from London and South East Colleges, (LSEC) means that young people in Orpington and the South East will have the opportunity to make up the next generation of aircraft engineers.
Largely funded by the Grwater London Authority (GLA), the new college will help address the huge skills gap that the aviation industry is facing, by providing first-class technical training for the next generation of engineers, technicians and ground crew.
Due to open in September 2019, it will offer around 250 places for students, expanding to over 650 by 2012/22.
A range of technical specialities will be covered, including routes into Aerospace Engineering.
Other aviation pathways will also be on offer for progression into a broad range of jobs on the ground, including cabin crew and aviation operations.
MP Mr Johnson said: “It is fantastic news that the college will be delivered.
“This project will produce skills and opportunities for Orpington, while also increasing local employment.
The £11m investment, which is to be called the London Aerospace & Technology College, will see the establishment of a state-of-the-art facility offering a variety of training in mechanical, electronic and service engineering.
Stephen Howlett, chair of LSEC, said: “Young people in Bromley and further afield will benefit from first-class industry training, helping to develop the next generation of aircraft engineers and technicians.
Further information on the project is available on the LSEC website at http://www.lsec.ac.uk/news/1752-take-off-for-new-aviation-college-at-london-biggin-hill-airport.

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text: Once upon a time in 2007, there was a little-known game called Shadowrun, that let gamers on both Xbox 360 and PC destroy one another for sport. Such is the environment that Microsoft facilitated, but alas, it wasn't for long, as the moment Shadowrun flopped the cross-platform feature was dropped, though it resurfaced once or twice in third-party titles as the years shot by. Outspoken HP exec Rahul Sood (of Voodoo fame) spins a slightly more complex yarn, however: he says Microsoft killed the project when it found that "mediocre" PC gamers could wipe the floors with the very best players on Xbox. Now, we're not confirming his story, and there are plenty of other possible explanations if you follow the money, of course, but we can't help but feel a hint of admiration for the longevity of gaming mouse and keyboard. Here's hoping we can all leave our predilections at the door as developers pit Android vs. iPhone.


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Texas would like to play Texas A&M at some point down the road. Tom Herman will tell you that. So will Chris Del Conte. Problem is, “down the road” keeps getting pushed, well, down the road.
The Longhorns are all booked up through 2027 and, according to Chip Brown of Horns247, more elite non-conference series are on the way.
Texas officials have had discussions with Clemson, an opponent the Longhorns have never faced, about a possible home-and-home in 2030 and 2031, the source said. But UT might be closer to a deal to play home-and-home with Penn State in 2030 and 2031, the source said.
Texas and Georgia have played four times previously. The Longhorns won the first three but the Bulldogs took the most consequential meeting, a 10-9 victory in the 1984 Cotton Bowl that, thanks to No. 5 Miami’s upset of No. 1 Nebraska in the Orange Bowl later that New Year’s Day, cost No. 2 Texas its fourth national championship, instead allowing the upstart Hurricanes to win their first of four national titles over the next nine seasons.
Penn State holds a 3-2 advantage over Texas, including the most recent meeting, a 39-15 whipping in the 1997 Fiesta Bowl. Texas and Clemson have never played.

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cannot reduce output on their own. Looking ahead, futures are pointing to a higher open on Wall Street as investors await the latest look as US third-quarter GDP. We also expect possible comments from the ECB’s Praet and Coeure plus the DoE oil inventory report.
One has even said there is “zero chance” the deal will get through. But No 10 has warned that the PM will not ditch the deal — and will keep pushing it through Parliament until it passes.
* UK Finance Minister Hammond said a ‘no-deal’ Brexit could clearly happen.
* EU Dombrovskis said Italy will need to make substantial corrections to their draft 2019 budget.
* Interfax: Russian Defence Ministry are to deploy more S-400 missiles on the Crimea peninsula.
* Spokesman for the Russian Kremlin said the Putin-Trump meeting is still set to go ahead.
Saudi Arabia will not and cannot reduce output on their own.
* Italian Finance Minister Tria said the government are in talks with the EU to find a shared improvement to the budget.

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Replacement battery tray for Radiodetection’s Precision Locators.
2-Cell Battery Tray, holds 2x D Cell / LR20.
Compatible with RD7100 and RD8100 Cable and Pipe Locators.
Compatible with RD7000 and RD8000 Cable and Pipe Locators.

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A Recipe for (Almost) Forgotten Beets and Radishes | cook on your nerve.
If you’re anything like me, then you, too, got overly excited to see many of your favorite greenmarkets return, selling many of your springtime favorites.
This means you purchased everything (beets, radishes, asparagus, ramps, chives, thyme, rhubarb, tomatoes, lemons, the list goes on) for ONE MEAL. I did this for Mother’s Day. Mom deserves it all, amiright? Even fava beans! Which I walked to 4 stores to find them and took 20 minutes to shell them (worth it), just to make the Spring Pilaf she requested. The prep work itself was a meditation. I missed it.
But let’s just say not everything made it to the table. Yes, I slow roasted cherry tomatoes again, to accompany Branzino.
Yes, the Spring Pilaf was a thousand times Spring in taste AND color. (Always add shredded carrot, maybe shredded purple cabbage, and ALL the greens you can stand).
Yes, I threw baby potatoes, chunks of purple cabbage, ramps, asparagus, slices of lemon, chives into a cast iron and roasted it all with two, lightly seasoned branzinos right on top. But where the hell are my beets? My radishes!?
So two days later, this very simple, very earthy, very spring soup happened. Cooked gently in your favorite stock with thyme, ramps, ginger, garlic, and chives, it’s sunshine broth will make you feel good.
In a heated pot with oil, add thyme, onion, garlic, and ginger. Sautee for a few minutes. Add your stock and bring to a light boil. Add beets and let it do its thing for about 20 minutes. Then add your radishes and ramps. Cook another 8 minutes. Add salt and pepper and any fresh herbs/greens you’d like. I used chives. I imagine dill would be beautiful here. Enjoy warm or even chilled!
I can’t wait for more spring cooking (and cleaning! and gardening!), though I have a feeling summer will arrive much sooner than scheduled. Hit your local market and/or farm ASAP! Let me know what you come home with ❤ I’ll be trying this recipe again when my own variety of beets start growing. Or sooner!


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Cremation services in Clam Gulch, AK completely understand how you will be devastated by the loss of a loved one and will need help and assistance in arranging a cremation.
One of the main reasons that people regularly choose a cremation over a burial is linked to the cremation costs in Clam Gulch, AK. The final bill for cremating a person is usually far lower than the cost of arranging a burial because you do not have to pay for the land, its preparation and then the long-term upkeep.
Across all of America cremations are rapidly increasing as the most popular choice of interment and it is predicted that over 50% of people will choose cremation within the next 20 years or so. An exact and full price list will be passed to the person organizing the cremation so that you fully understand all of the cremation costs in Clam Gulch, AK.
Why Do People Choose Cremation in Clam Gulch, AK?
When you have experienced standing around a graveside as the body is lowered into the earth, it is an experience that many prefer to forget. The very different, and less dramatic experience of attending a cremation, focuses more on the person who has died rather than the events organized by Clam Gulch, AK cremation services.
Some religions will only accept a cremation as the only option for interment and this will be explained by cremation services in Clam Gulch, AK. In the past, other religions would not accept a cremation as an alternative, but in modern times, the majority of religions are completely accepting of the cremation method being used.
In the majority of states, you can care for the deceased at your own home, but the majority of people will prefer that cremation services in Clam Gulch, AK will undertake the facility.
Clam Gulch, AK cremation services will explain that the body of the deceased is placed into a container which can be a coffin or casket, but a simple and suitable container is all that the law requires. At the crematorium, the employees will remove jewelry and medical devices, like pacemakers, to reduce the safety hazards for the cremation process. An efficient tagging system is used so that the individual can always be properly identified.
The individual will be cremated in the furnace at temperatures between 1400?F and 2000?F during the course of 2 to 3 hours, when the body will be reduced completely to fine powder, mostly a grey color. These are the ashes that are then returned to the nominated person as part of the cremation costs in Clam Gulch, AK.
All of the options related to the memorial service will be carefully discussed with Clam Gulch, AK cremation services.
The Clam Gulch, AK cremation costs will detail whether the crematorium will be supplying a standard urn to return the ashes to you or whether you have opted to purchase a model for display which you may decide to use for a number of years.
The individual is always cremated alone, so you can rest assured that the ashes being returned to you are always correct and all of the procedures will be explained in detail by Clam Gulch, AK cremation services.
Some religious groups will require for a cremation to be completed inside 24 hours after the death of the person. This will be arranged by the funeral director and included within the Clam Gulch, AK cremation costs, once all of the legal documentation is complete.
There are so many things that you need to think about after someone has died so you should not be worried about leaning heavily on the skills and experience offered by Clam Gulch, AK cremation services.


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But Bowyer and the Ford drivers enjoyed their time at the Cowboys’ facility. Fellow driver Ryan Blaney couldn't have envisioned a better facility for a football team.
"It's amazing. I know if I was a college kid coming out, trying to figure out what team to go to, that'd sell me," Blaney said. "Sign me up. Where do I sign. It's really impressive."
Along with Bowyer and Blaney, other Ford drivers on hand included Brad Keselowski, Trevor Bayne, Aric Almirola, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Paul Menard, Joey Logano, Matt DeBenedetto, Michael McDowell, David Ragan and Kurt Busch.
Of course, the flag football game grew competitive. Bowyer was still kicking himself for dropping what should have been an easy catch. He also recalled being blocked on a play by fellow driver Michael McDowell.
As far as the best driver-turned-football-player, Bowyer pointed to Stenhouse Jr. But he said Stenhouse had an advantage after the University of Kansas provided him with wide receivers gloves on a recent promotional trip to Kansas Speedway.
“Let me tell you something – they ought to ban them things,” Bowyer said, laughing. “That’s ridiculous. It made a football player out of him whether he was the quarterback or receiver or anything else. He just had to hold his hand up and the ball basically just stayed there. He was clearly cheating.
The heroes of NASCAR, well we all know their faces and names, but the unsung heroes are the truck driver's who make sure their $2 to $3 million dollars worth of equipment and cars make across the country to each racing venue in one piece.
The first campers arrive Saturday at Texas Motor Speedway, where they will wait 8 days for the O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 on April 8.
Hard to ignore the early success of racing's Christopher Bell. Can he win again this weekend at TMS?


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Aside from a reasonable safety profile, the first published Phase 2 study of a blood-derived antibody preparation to treat Alzheimer’s disease looks inconclusive at best. The six-month dose-finding trial of Octapharma AG’s intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) missed its primary endpoint, failing to change plasma Aβ. The IVIg product also showed no signs of cognitive or functional benefit.
If there was a glimmer of hope, it came from brain scans showing better glucose metabolism in parietal and frontal cortical areas of treated patients relative to those on placebo. Some researchers said poor trial design and short timeframe made the results hard to interpret. “These findings are not what the Alzheimer’s disease research community was hoping for, and echo the largely negative results of the other recent immunotherapy studies,” wrote Clive Holmes, University of Southampton, U.K., in an editorial accompanying the January 31 Lancet Neurology report (see ARF related news story on bapineuzumab) and ARF related news story on solanezumab). Richard Dodel of Philipps University, Marburg, Germany, led the Phase 2 study.
Intravenous immunoglobulin is a human blood preparation that contains natural antibodies, including some against Aβ. Researchers believe it lowers brain Aβ through a peripheral sink mechanism, shifting Aβ from the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to the blood. Two small, open-label studies support this idea, showing increased serum Aβ in AD patients treated with IVIg for six months (Dodel et al., 2004; Relkin et al., 2009). In a Phase 2 trial of 24 AD patients reported at the 2008 International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD), those receiving Gammagard®, an IVIg preparation developed by Baxter Healthcare, improved on cognitive and global measures at three-, six-, and nine-month time points (see ARF related conference story). At 18 months, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data indicated that IVIg may have protected against brain atrophy (see ARF related conference story). Of the 16 patients who completed the open-label three-year follow-up, the four receiving the most effective dose (0.4 g/kg every two weeks) “were essentially unchanged from baseline,” Norman Relkin of Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, told Alzforum. On this last finding, other scientists cautioned that a number as small as four means little because it might also represent outlier patients whose disease progresses slowly.
Besides effects on Aβ, some researchers believe the mixture of natural antibodies in IVIg may treat AD via other effects on innate immunity.
For the current Phase 2 trial, Dodel’s team enrolled 58 people with probable AD from 12 sites—seven in the U.S. and five in Germany. For six months, participants received saline placebo or one of six IVIg doses: 0.2 g/kg, 0.5 g/kg, or 0.8 g/kg every four weeks, or half those doses every two weeks. Five of the six treatment arms showed no change in plasma Aβ compared to placebo. One subgroup (0.4 g/kg every two weeks) did separate from placebo, but in the wrong direction—plasma Aβ1-42 levels dropped, instead of rising as in prior IVIg studies. There was no cognitive signal on ADAS-cog, Mini-Mental State Examination, or CDR Sum of Boxes, or functional improvement on ADCS Activities of Daily Living. Hippocampal and whole brain volumes on MRI also did not respond to IVIg treatment.
Dodel confessed he was “not happy” about the trial design. There were only five to seven participants per arm. “[That is] not enough to make a conclusion about whether [the treatment] is effective,” Dodel said. Relkin agreed, calling this an “underpowered study with a lot of variance.” With fewer sites and more standardized raters, “the results could have been different,” he told Alzforum.
Perhaps the only credible finding from this trial, Relkin said, was the improved cerebral metabolism in treated patients—a secondary outcome measured by fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET). Because it is a standardized, semi-quantitative measure, inter-site and inter-subject variability may be less of an issue, Relkin noted, adding, “That may be why this one particular measure did show the expected effect.” The Gammagard Phase 2 study found similar metabolic benefits by FDG-PET, he said.
Dodel RC, Du Y, Depboylu C, Hampel H, Frölich L, Haag A, Hemmeter U, Paulsen S, Teipel SJ, Brettschneider S, Spottke A, Nölker C, Möller HJ, Wei X, Farlow M, Sommer N, Oertel WH. Intravenous immunoglobulins containing antibodies against beta-amyloid for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2004 Oct;75(10):1472-4. PubMed.
Relkin NR, Szabo P, Adamiak B, Burgut T, Monthe C, Lent RW, Younkin S, Younkin L, Schiff R, Weksler ME. 18-Month study of intravenous immunoglobulin for treatment of mild Alzheimer disease. Neurobiol Aging. 2009 Nov;30(11):1728-36. PubMed.
Dodel R, Rominger A, Bartenstein P, Barkhof F, Blennow K, Förster S, Winter Y, Bach JP, Popp J, Alferink J, Wiltfang J, Buerger K, Otto M, Antuono P, Jacoby M, Richter R, Stevens J, Melamed I, Goldstein J, Haag S, Wietek S, Farlow M, Jessen F. Intravenous immunoglobulin for treatment of mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease: a phase 2, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-finding trial. Lancet Neurol. 2013 Mar;12(3):233-43. Epub 2013 Jan 31 PubMed.
Holmes C. Intravenous immunoglobulin for Alzheimer's disease. Lancet Neurol. 2013 Mar;12(3):218-9. PubMed.


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New HP i7 Spectre XT Touchsmart Ultrabook 15t-4000 is available with attractive features and has 2 years warranty HP proudly introduces an all new Ultrabook with attractive range of specifications. HP Spectre XT Touchsmart Ultrabook 15t-4000 comes with Windows 8 and powered by Intel i7 core processor. HP Spectre Ultrabook is good for Full HD touch screen display and slim hardware. An ultrabook is meant for speed and so is offered in HP 15t-4000 Ultrabook with Thunderbold port.
HP Spectre Ultrabook features slim designs as the Ultrabooks must have. New HP i7 Laptop has dimensions 14.87 x 10.01 x 0.87 inches and weighs 5 pounds, although the design is sleek but HP Spectre Ultrabook is heavier than other Ultrabooks. HP Spectre XT Features 15.6 inches Full HD touchable display. The screen of the New HP i7 Laptop offers 1920×1080 pixels native screen resolution. The graphic quality is not so good in HP Spectre Ultrabook, Intel HD Graphics 4000 is installed. HP Spectre XT Features a very sophisticated island style keyboard which is well spaced and typing error rate is very low. The 4.4 x 2.8 inch Synaptics clickpad is responsive to multi-gestures of fingers. The clickpad is highly responsive.
HP Spectre XT Features latest Windows 8. HP 15t-4000 Ultrabook is powered by Intel Core i7-3517U clocked it 1.9-GHz. New HP I7 Laptop Features 8GB RAM and 500GB space is provided in hard disk and 32GB mSATA SSD is also there in HP Spectre XT Touchsmart Ultrabook 15t-4000,there is plenty of space in HP Spectre Ultrabook. HP Spectre XT Features wireless and wired connectivity with Wi-Fi 802.11 a/g/n and 3 USB 3.0 with fast data transfer rate. There are Ethernet and HDMI ports as well. HP 15t-4000 Ultrabook has Thunderbold port that transfers data with the rate of 10GB per second. The 15t-4000 packs Beats Audio technology that gives good audio quality to the HP Spectre Ultrabook. Beats Audio Control Panel will help you to access the speakers. HP Spectre XT Features webcamera that clicks images in 720p. while recording videos on The HP Spectre XT TouchSmart Ultrabook 15t-4000 you may get noise however the colors of the video are fairly good.
The HP Spectre XT TouchSmart Ultrabook 15t-4000 is preinstalled with many branded apps and some applications from Microsoft as well. sMedio 360 Suite for HP is there to ensure synchronization in two programs, TrueSync and TrueLink+. Meridian-powered HP, Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 and Premiere Elements 10, Skype, I Heart Radio, Amazon Kindle, Netflix, eBay and a free 24-month subscription to Norton Internet Security 2012 are some important application software that are already installed in HP Spectre Ultrabook.
You may like: HP EliteBook 2170p Notebook.
HP Spectre XT TouchSmart Ultrabook 15t-4000 features 1.9-GHz Intel Core i7-3517U CPU/8GB RAM/500GB 5,400-rpm hard drive/32GB mSATA SSD/Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU costs $1,349. For $1,274 you will get same specs as above but 4GB RAM. You can get 128GB SSD for $170 and 256GB SSD for $370. HP Spectre XT TouchSmart 15t-4000 is now in the stores. HP Spectre Ultrabook comes with 2-year warranty. Battery: HP Spectre XT TouchSmart 15t-4000 has 4 hours and 22 minutes with continuous Web surfing over Wi-Fi. We can conclude that the battery life is not too good in HP Spectre Ultrabook.
Dimension s : 14.87 x 10.01 x 0.87 inches.
HardDisk : 500GB mSATA SSD.
Touchpad : 4.4 x 2.8 inches.
Display : 15.6, Resolution 1920×1080 .
Price : HP Spectre XT Price is $1,349.


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Sorry for missing two Fridays in a row, I've been way too busy traveling to Mexico and keeping up with pre-Christmas commitments. I'm thankful, though, for some of those commitments turned out to be insightful conversations with very interesting people, among which two successful entrepreneurs got me thinking.
Both have succeeded big time in their ventures (tech related), and are now filthy rich. Both are great guys, feet-on-the-ground type. And interestingly, both were very vocal during our conversations about how they are helping others now. They seem to feel grateful enough to start giving back part of the luck they've had in life. One of them is helping other entrepreneurs start up their ideas, the other just built a school in Turkey, 10km from the Syrian border, to help refugees keep up with their studies and prevent some of them from becoming a lost generation.
While none of these two cases is Zuckerberg level philanthropy, the same principle applies. It seems helping others is the next big thing after you've quenched your success needs. It works in a Maslowian way, apparently: you first look for a) food, then you try to find b) shelter. When those basic needs are met you find someone to c) love and to be loved by and to have some laughs. Then you aim for d) success, recognition and realisation in what you do. Finally you start looking for ways to e) help others, to share, and to leave a legacy.
This hierarchy of needs gives us an unrefraining opportunity to ask the COSMO question of the day: which level are you in? I’m in LEVEL D, like most of you, still fighting for that promotion, that raise or that great idea long overdue. But more important than where you sit is how you relate to the other levels, as it has more profound significance. On one hand, upper levels seem frivolous, extraneous. How can you worry about philanthropy when you are still unsure you’ll be able to provide your children with worthy means? On the other hand, lower levels are taken for granted. Our food doesn’t make us feel privileged. We don’t feel the urge to look after the love of our close ones. That is until your wife packs, and the floor falls from your feet and you find yourself one level below, a level you’ve long forgotten about.
So here comes the true realisation: admire not the people that climbed up to the top of the hill but those who keep full perspective while still struggling somewhere in the middle. People capable of love when they have nothing to eat. Helping people that care about others even when they’ve lost it all. People that take time and money from their families to make a difference for others. People that look after their loved ones at the expense of that crucial overtime at the office that will grant you a raise. People that feel privileged every time they have a beer.
Struggling for success, recognition and realisation is part of life. A very important one if that’s where you are. But caring for what we have and realising that we can make a difference to others is our real fight. And it is a real fight because if we really commit to it, we will compromise our chances of success, recognition and realisation (or so it will seem). But we need to balance our urge to win vs the joy of living fully. The rush of the victory vs the peace of mind.
While I get better at this, I’ll take this chance to wish you a Merry Christmas and great days full of good food, drinks and family - those luxuries we usually take for granted ;) Then, if you want to feel filthy rich, consider donating for a cause that touches you. In any case, enjoy and I’ll see you on the other side. Cheers!


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August 2011 - At this year’s Fi Europe (FiE) in Paris, BENEO – one of the leading manufacturers of functional ingredients – will demonstrate its continual commitment to support customers in all phases of product development by announcing the creation of its BENEO-Technology Center.
The BENEO-Technology Center brings together BENEO’s long-standing food application and technical expertise to enhance and encourage product innovation. As such it will complement BENEO’s chain of expertise providing customers with specialist advice to tackle technical questions in product development and formulation. The foundations for this were laid in 2009 when BENEO founded the BENEO-Institute, which offers guidance and thought leadership in nutrition, health and regulatory affairs. Additionally, BENEO developed its expertise to provide customers with dedicated consumer and market insights, going so far as developing product and marketing concepts to demonstrate the benefits of BENEO’s functional ingredients.
Highlighting one of the areas of expertise covered by the BENEO-Technology Center, Rudy Wouters, Vice President Food Application Technology and Head of the BENEO-Technology Center, will be speaking at FiE on the topic of creating texture and creaminess in reduced-fat food products.

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The topic of corporate values is an interesting one; it enables an external person to get a sense of the common denominator connecting those working under the ANTAL company umbrella. It is natural occurrence made possible when like minded individuals work together with common goals.
Each person working in the Network is aligned to these values and is working together. A practical and prime example of the ANTAL values in action is the daily conference calls where as many as 12 offices from all corners of the globe discuss business development and key clients in their niche markets.
This open sharing of information and business enables the offices to use each other’s strengthens and so achieves results. The call fosters business relationships whilst developing trust between offices and also our external clients.
Everyone with Antal is aligned to a cycle of learning and improvement, on the daily calls we also share best practice enabling us to learn from each other. Our quest for continuous improvement and to be a leader in the world of global recruitment is indeed our common goal.
The Antal values impact each person within the organisation, Anisa Begum, our Franchise Sales Administrator follows the Antal values in her daily work and says, “Values are the foundation of my decisions, actions and behaviour, The Antal values help us achieve our goals while working together on a global scale”.
Antal International Network operates a franchise system which allows investors to join our organisation and set up their very own Antal offices internationally. Contact the team on franchise@antal.com for more information on how you can be part of our expanding network and align yourself with our values.


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Soft, light weight and slightly fitted long sleeve t shirt with Walter's iconic Flag design.
Care: Machine wash cold inside out with like colors. Air dry or tumble dry low. Medium iron. Do not iron decoration. Do not dry-clean. Do not bleach.


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We have a new website! If you landed here, please click over to www.blacksheepfiberemporium.com for our current information and new online store!
See you there for more fabulous yarn, patterns, fleece, spinning wheels, and MKALs!!!
Our cozy shop has been serving the crafting community for just over five years. We sell many types of yarn, buttons, hooks and needles, patterns, and spinning supplies. We are open varying hours Tuesday- Saturday, but we often extend our hours for evening workshops and special events.

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Amazing car! CTC are delighted to offer for sale this stunning M-Sport Coupe in with superb spec with over £3500 of factory options and in the most sought after colour combo. This really is a lovely, genuine example with that is in excellent condition throughout and drives superbly. Additionally, the stunning looks & excellent standard of spec makes this a truly aspirational sports coupe that really does turn heads when you drive it. It has all documentation, complete book pack & 2 keys plus for your peace of mind the car has full BMW service history, a clear HPI report & 15 months warranty and is sold with a full MOT with no advisories. Extremely rare car in this price range so don't delay!
CALL FOR VIDEO WALK ROUND & CHECK OUT OUR CUSTOMER REVIEWS ON GOOGLE & FACEBOOK. Any trial and test drive welcome. We welcome part exchange and offer finance facilities with payments and deposits tailored to suit your budget even if you have a poor credit history or have been refused elsewhere. For details, finance quotes or any more info please get in touch...we're here to help!

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text: Release 80.00 (31 Dec 2004) is the final release for the PIR-International Protein Sequence Database (PIR-PSD), the world's first database of classified and functionally annotated protein sequences that grew out of the Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure (1965-1978) edited by Margaret Dayhoff. Produced and distributed by the Protein Information Resource in collaboration with MIPS (Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences) and JIPID (Japan International Protein Information Database), PIR-PSD has been the most comprehensive and expertly-curated protein sequence database in the public domain for over 20 years. In 2002, PIR joined EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute) and SIB (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) to form the UniProt consortium. PIR-PSD sequences and annotations have been integrated into UniProt Knowledgebase. Bi-directional cross-references between UniProt (UniProt Knowledgebase and/or UniParc) and PIR-PSD are established to allow easy tracking of former PIR-PSD entries. PIR-PSD unique sequences, reference citations, and experimentally-verified data can now be found in the relevant UniProt records.


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The Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa, is a large, long-legged, long-billed shorebird first described by Carolus Linnaeus in 1758. It is a member of the Limosa genus, the godwits. There are three subspecies, all with orange head, neck and chest in breeding plumage and dull grey-brown winter coloration, and distinctive black and white wingbar at all times.
Its breeding range stretches from Iceland through Europe and areas of central Asia. Black-tailed Godwits spend winter in areas as diverse as the Indian Subcontinent, Australia, western Europe and west Africa. The species breeds in fens, lake edges, damp meadows, moorlands and bogs and uses estuaries, swamps and floods in winter; it is more likely to be found inland and on freshwater than the similar Bar-tailed Godwit. The world population is estimated to be 634,000 to 805,000 birds and is classified as Near Threatened.
The Black-tailed Godwit is a large wader with long bill (7.5 to 12 cm long), neck and legs. During the breeding season, the bill has a yellowish or orange-pink base and dark tip; the base is pink in winter. The legs are dark grey, brown or black. The sexes are similar, but in breeding plumage, they can be separated by the male’s brighter, more extensive orange breast, neck and head. In winter, adult Black-tailed Godwits have a uniform brown-grey breast and upperparts (in contrast to the Bar-tailed Godwit’s streaked back). Juveniles have a pale orange wash to the neck and breast.
In flight, its bold black and white wingbar and white rump can be seen readily. When on the ground it can be difficult to separate from the similar Bar-tailed Godwit, but the Black-tailed Godwit’s longer, straighter bill and longer legs are diagnostic. Black-tailed Godwits are similar in body size and shape to Bar-taileds, but stand taller.
It measures 42 cm from bill to tail with a wingspan of 70–82 cm. Males weigh around 280 g and females 340 g. The female is around 5 % larger than the male, with a bill 12-15% longer.
The most common call is a strident weeka weeka weeka. A study of Black-tailed Godwits in the Netherlands found a mortality rate of 37.6 % in the first year of life, 32 % in the second year, and 36.9 % thereafter.
L. limosa limosa, the European Black-tailed Godwit, which breeds from western and central Europe to central Asia and Asiatic Russia, as far east as the Yenisei River. Its head, neck and chest are pale orange.
L. limosa islandica, the Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit, which breeds mostly in Iceland, but also on the Faeroe Islands, Shetland and the Lofoten Islands. It has a shorter bill, shorter legs and more rufous coloration extending onto the belly, compared to limosa.
L. limosa melanuroides, the Asian Black-tailed Godwit, which breeds in Mongolia, northern China, Siberia and far eastern Russia. Its plumage is similar to islandica, but the bird is distinctly smaller.
Godwits from the Icelandic population winter mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and the Netherlands, though some fly on to Spain, Portugal and perhaps Morocco. Birds of the limosa subspecies from western Europe fly south to Morocco and then on to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. Birds from the eastern European populations migrate to Tunisia and Algeria, then on to Mali or Chad. Young birds from the European populations stay on in Africa after their first winter and return to Europe at two years old. Asian Black-tailed Godwits winter in Australia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.
There is an estimated global population of between 634,000 to 805,000 birds and estimated range of 7,180,000 square kilometres. In 2006 BirdLife International classified this species as Near Threatened due to a decline in numbers of around 25% in the previous 15 years. It is also among the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
Black-tailed Godwits are mostly monogamous; although it was not recorded in a four-year study of 50-60 pairs, bigamy was considered “probably frequent”. A study of the Icelandic population showed that despite spending winter apart, pairs are reunited on their breeding grounds within an average of three days of each other. If one partner does not arrive on time, ‘divorce’ occurs. They nest in loose colonies. Unpaired males defend a temporary territory and perform display flights to attract a mate. Several nest scrapes are made away from the courtship territory, and are defended from other godwits. Once eggs are laid, an area of 30–50 metres around the nest is defended. The nest is a shallow scrape on the ground, usually in short vegetation. The eggs may be hidden with vegetation by the incubating parent.
The single brood of three to six eggs, coloured olive-green to dark brown, measure 55 x 37 mm and weigh 39 g each (of which 6% is shell). Incubation lasts 22–24 days and is performed by both parents. The young are downy and precocial and are brooded while they are small and at night during colder weather. After hatching, they are led away from the nest and may move to habitats such as sewage farms, lake edges, marshes and mudflats. The chicks fledge after 25–30 days.
They mainly eat invertebrates, but also aquatic plants in winter and on migration. In the breeding season, prey includes include beetles, flies, grasshoppers, dragonflies, mayflies, caterpillars, annelid worms and molluscs. Occasionally, fish eggs, frogspawn and tadpoles are eaten. In water, the most common feeding method is to probe vigorously, up to 36 times per minute, and often with the head completed submerged. On land, Black-tailed Godwits probe into soft ground and also pick prey items from the surface.
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The Warriors are winners of eight straight games after Monday night’s win over the Lakers in Los Angeles, Klay Thompson is on fire, DeMarcus Cousins has been a tremendous edition, and Draymond Green is playing his best basketball of the year.
But amid all of those good vibes, something negative popped up in Tuesday’s blowout win over the Lakers, when Jordan Bell and Warriors coach Steve Kerr were caught by TNT cameras in a fourth-quarter sideline spat.
Is there cause for concern in Golden State or is this nothing to worry about? Warriors reporter Logan Murdock and columnist Dieter Kurtenbach break down the situation — and all the good things that are happening around Golden State, too — in the latest Warriors’ HQ podcast.
If you enjoy the Warriors HQ Podcast, be sure to subscribe and rate (it really does help) the pod on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify.
And be sure to subscribe to the Warriors HQ newsletter, where Logan brings you the daily Lo-Down on everything Dubs.