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If anyone has had experience with supplementing melatonin at night, what have you found to be a good amount? Do you prefer the sublingual or the timed release?
I live in Amsterdam and saw Melatonin on the shelf at the health store today.
According to my thyroid/hormone doc, that is false-and he specializes in this. That's not hard proof or anything, but I think he knows since he sees patients that use it like every single day.
Yeah they made it OTC again when they saw all the positive studies around it.
It's not true that you would only get Melatonin with a prescription here, in The Netherlands. One can buy it OTC in drugstores. I even saw 5mg tablets! It used to be that you had to have a prescription but apparantly changed.
Quick google search has at least one forum post claiming melatonin is banned in the EU.
Quick search has at least one forum post claiming melatonin is banned in the EU.
Netherlands. To be more accurate, it's prescription only. Same in Finland, and I'd imagine most of EU.
Where are you that is is illegal?
If your shades are shut you won't wake up naturally at all.
I'd worry about screwing up your own melatonin production by using it on a regular basis. My father-in-law basically can't sleep anymore without taking melatonin. Not so sure that's a good thing.
Melatonin can worsen depression in some studies. I stay far far away from it - not least because it's illegal here.
Also, it's not recommended for people with digestive problems because it slows gastric emptying, which is the main reason I had to stop taking it. It's very similar to serotonin in that most of it is made in the gut and like serotonin it can help some people with IBS and hurt others depending on their symptoms.
I think the main reason not to take it is because the body no longer has to produce its own melatonin, and you have to ask, if a person can't sleep without melatonin, what's causing their natural production of melatonin to be lower or stopped completely? Other hormones like cortisol and leptin affect melatonin production so taking melatonin is just treating the symptom. I do think it can be used temporarily to reset one's circadian rhythm which studies show it does, and for people switching time zones, but not for long term use.
And why not just take melatonin, which has a decent safety record?
Haven't tried timed release. Sublingual works for me.
Lewis, Alan (1999). Melatonin and the Biological Clock. McGraw-Hill. p. 23. ISBN 0-87983-734-9.
There's widespread reference online to an extensive clinical trial, where a high dose of 75 milligrams of melatonin per day was given to 1400 women in the Netherlands for up to four years with no ill effects. Haven't found the citation for the study, however.
Use melatonin with darkness. That is, when you're done with computer, TV, and reading. Exposure to bright lights in the evening disrupts the normal melatonin cycle of the body.
Don't the the idea of some safe Paleo "norm" keep you from experimenting. Larger doses of melatonin expand dream potential. Our ancestors knew the importance of dreams. They were guided by their dreams in charting their quests. So check the dosage label for "relaxation" or "sleep," and then up the dosage and go for some serious nighttime inner voyaging.
Dosage is very individualized, you have to experiment..and time release or not depends on if you can't fall asleep at first versus night waking that keeps you up.
To me it is relatively mild in strength but definitely abnormal. I used it only a few times because I wanted to find a reason for my insomnia instead. Because the melatonin comes from a pill and not your own pineal gland as a part of a natural need for sleep, I can't see that it will help sleep health over the long term, wouldn't it just confuse your brain? I don't think anyone can tell yet whether a pineal gland is functioning by scanning it in any way, except if there is an obvious tumor destroying it, or other obvious structural damage. In that case I would think you'd be a chronic insomniac, unable to do much of anything, and melatonin supplements wouldn't be useful at that point.
So I think now the mainstream thought is that melatonin can be useful for jetlag and temporary disruptions to sleep that you might have avoided except for the cicrumstances, for nearly all people.
There are stronger prescription-free sleep aids you can use (doxylamine, but watch out for diphenhydramine) but in my experience I felt temporarily messed up as a trade to using them (only a few times at normal doses), and not cured of anything. I suggest not dealing with sleep aids at all. If you use sleep aids please don't drive for some days after using them, because you can be clumsier than usual and not know it.
I had some horrible experiences with melatonin, and will never touch the stuff ever again (but other people use it with no problems).
I had tried a 1 mg dose the first night, and it worked like a charm to resolve my insomnia issues. However, the following night, I took 1 mg again, and couldn't sleep a wink -- and the following morning, when I had to get up for work, I felt like I had literally been dosed with horse tranquilizers, I felt so completely doped up and incapacitated. That night, I took 2 mg, and it worked great. But then, the night after that, I took 2 mg again, and couldn't sleep at all, and again felt super-drugged the following morning. Apparently, my body was quickly developing a tolerance for melatonin, and was requiring ever-higher doses just to fall asleep.
1mg a night works for me. I take it about a 1/2 hr before I'm ready to go to bed. For some reason more than 1mg tends to screw up my sleep.
Love it! I use Source Naturals from WF. I started with 1MG but read on one of the Paleo blog's to do 1/2MG. While I never had a problem sleeping pre-Paleo, once I went Paleo I had so much energy that trying to FALL asleep was very difficult.
1/2 MG 1/2 hr before I want to fall asleep does the trick. I usually take it at 8:30pm and always feel it coming on so I just turn the TV in the LR off. I make sure I have already done my last dog potty run, my night-time rituals done (brushed teeth, taken vitamins, pjs, etc) so I can just fall asleep on the floor near the dog (see Durante's post on this). The dog usually wakes me up a few hours later, and I haul myself to bed (DH likes to sleep with TV on), turn the TV off and climb into bed. I sleep soundly until 7am and usually don't hear the household rising before me. I do have to be careful climbing the stairs. I'm not groggy when I awake 9 hrs later. I feel very refreshed. After having had CFS for a few yrs prior to Paleo and never feeling refreshed in the morning, this is great!
I've tried melatonin and I dislike it. Because the hormone causes your body to respond to lightness and darkness as opposed to just making you sleepy, it won't work if you have lights on when you take it. It will also wake you up earlier than usual - when the sun starts to rise - so it can disrupt a full eight to ten hours of sleep. While someone who goes to bed at seven or eight could probably get away with taking melatonin, for most people who have to work into the night it won't function in a beneficial way. Calming, cortisol lowering, routines might enhance sleep more.
Try tryptophan or 5htp instead, they give the body the raw materials it needs to make more melatonin. I used to take melatonin and it was too powerful for me at any dose, so I started taking tryptophan and it helps me sleep much better without being groggy the next day. It's not good for the body to rely on taking hormones when it can make them itself with the right conditions.
Melatonin doesn't help you fall asleep, it just makes you sleep more "sound". But it doesn't work the same for everybody. I took some recently after traveling from Amsterdam to Sydney to get over the jet lag. Took 10mg each night for the first three nights and had no jet lag whatsover. Same on the way back. If you want to fall asleep, have you tried Valerian root?
I learned in a psych class a few years back that taking melatonin does not actually cause it to function as melatonin does in the body, so it has a low efficacy in treating sleep deprivation. Is that not true?
This is a Paleo site and no one knows what Melatonin is?
Melatonin is a hormone made in the body to get you to sleep, by the pineal gland. It's more Paleo than a lb of bacon swimming in coconut oil. My brain makes it, yours does, and the EU can't do anything about it!
Know it or not, you go to bed with melatonin that is released by the brain. It is supposed to happen at dark, to prompt you to sleep.
What has happened in modern times is that our lifestyle has shattered the natural cycle. That's why using melatonin is the most logical place to start-not magnesium, not sleeping pills or other tricks.
People who try a melatonin supplements and put it away should be patient, try some different brands, and not give up. I'm sure there are some bad brands out there since it is not regulated.
I do 10 mg I get from my dr and an additional 3mg in Tranquil Sleep because it has 5-HTP and L-Theanine (something like that).
It's true most of the EU requires a prescription. That's a mistake.


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1. A place to embrace His presence through Torah study (Original & New Covenants), praise & worship, song & dance, flags & banners, shofarot & musical instruments.
2. A place to study and learn about the Jewish-Roots of Christianity and observe the Biblical Festivals and Shabbat.
3. A place from which to bless Israel - through prayer and financial giving.
responsibility & obligation to Israel and the Jewish people.
5. A place to work with and support other Messianic and Jewish-Roots Ministries.
6. A place to share the good news about Yeshua Ha'Mashiach.
And call out to her, that her warfare has ended, that her iniquity has been removed.
praise & worship, song & dance, flags & banners, shofarot & musical instruments.
and observe the Biblical Festivals and Shabbat.
Celebrating Purim with the parody play, "Dorothy-Esther & the Wonderful Kingdom of AZ"
the Festivals, and our responsibility & obligation to Israel and the Jewish people.
6. A place to share the good news about Yeshua Ha'Mashiach - Jesus the Messiah.

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David Powers King: New Release: A Night Divided, Self Publishing Decision and What I'm Doing, and My Comic Con Schedule!
New Release: A Night Divided, Self Publishing Decision and What I'm Doing, and My Comic Con Schedule!
Last week I mentioned the possibility of giving self publishing a try. Several things have gone into motion since then that will make this decision a reality. The date isn't set yet, but I'm looking at a January release for my zombie novel. Why January? I planned this story as a series, so giving me a few months will help me get acquainted with the process and get the other books underway, so there won't be a huge gap between releases. Plus I'm balancing this project with the work I'm doing on the traditional front. I'll have more info later.
The Undead Road: My Zombie Summer, Part One - coming soon!
If you're able to make it to America's fastest growing comic con, it would make my day to see you there. Do it for Captain America!
Before I sign off for the week, I'd like to thank my readers and the blogosphere for the outpouring of support you've shown me this last week. I was extremely anxious about sharing that post, but I'm glad I can put my serious hat on every now and then. Thank you for your comments and emails. Because of your help, I'm on the upswing.
Until next time, keep it tight.
Who else is picking up A Night Divided? Are you ready for my first zombie novel? Is anyone planning to visit Salt Lake Comic con?
I'm David, and ... I could use a bag of jerky right about now.
Yay for self publishing! Good luck!
Glad you have a target release month.
Have fun at the con! Wish there were more cons in my area.
Good luck with your new endeavor! Zombies will always be awesome. I can't wait to see it.
I just bought A Night Divided. So good! Have fun at Comic Con!
Congrats on the decision to self-publish. Do you have a formatter?
I've been to a Star Trek convention in ABQ, NM, but that's it.
Is it a series or a serial? I've been enjoying various serials lately. Short, but with a frequent release schedule it's great.
We will have to hear how the self pub goes!!! Congrats!
I just bought A Night Divided. Thanks for the recommendation. I love books set during that time period. Our oldest daughter who just started college has been dating a guy (man I suppose I should say) that she met two years ago when he was an exchange student here in the states. He is from Germany and his family lived in East Berlin before the wall came down. He vacationed with our family this summer and I never tired of his fascinating stories of what his life was like growing up.
Congrats on making a decision and setting a release date. I don't know the factors that went into your decision, but I'm sure you made the right choice for you. A lot of authors seem to be dividing their work between the traditional route and the self publish route. Best of luck with your January Zombie release.
Self-publishing is a great idea, and i hope you can find some jerky soon.
Have a great time At Comic Con! I so want to attend a Con some day. My girls are on-board. So is the husband. Just waiting for the right opportunity!
Woohoo! Can't wait to shout about your zombie novel from the rooftops!
Jennifer's book sounds sad and wonderful.
Funny, to me that is not a historical novel LOL. Have fun at the comic con.
Good luck with the zombie book. I wish you all the best with it. Hugs.
I'm glad you're feeling better, David. Enjoy Comic Con!
I wish I lived close enough to heckle, I mean visit you at the ComicCon. I thin k you made an excellent choice, o' wise master of your own destiny! I can't wait to read the zombie book. I'm expecting great things!
It sounds like you will have a blast at this Comiccon. Congrats on the book and it sounds like the blogger buddies really helped you through a tough week. The book about the Berlin wall sounds excellent especially since my mom escaped from East to West but NOT in Berlin and this was way before the wall.
Hey, David. Sorry I missed your IWSG post, but I'm glad to hear that things are on an upswing. Hopefully, my post today will bring further cheer - check it out! Exciting to hear about your self-publishing adventure, you're going to be busy, but it's worth it. Have a blast at ComicCon!
Hi David - yes as Nick says ... glad the posting and comments helped -and you've got lots to look forward to. That book looks to be so interesting ... we hear stories, but they are always interesting to learn more and understand the times better.
Good luck on the self-publishing front. Be sure to keep us informed about what you learn.
Have a great time at Salt Lake Comic Con Dave. Your rubbing shoulders with the best in the sci fi business. I couldn't believe my Star Trek Conventions page hadn't your link- well thats fixed!!!
I'll watch for how your self-publishing experiment turns out. Good luck.
Local and regional Cons are the best. Have fun and congrats on self-publishing.
This sounds incredibly exciting! Sounds like you have the best of both worlds with publishing. Congrats David. Have fun at your Cons!
Looks like you're going to be busy during the Comic Con. Hope you have fun!
I've added Night Divided to my TBR list. Sounds compelling. Let me know when your Zombie book comes out. I'll help pimp it. Do you know if you'll look at having it be an audiobook?
Ooh! Getting brave, eh? I'm stoked for you. I've read a few zombie books I absolutely loved, and who doesn't love watching zombie shows?
Good luck with the self-publishing journey and Comic Con!
I can't wait to read A Night Divided. I have plans to make a book run trip soon, since I seem to be running out of things to read and there are so many good books coming out soon.
Congratulations on the self publishing! I hope it all goes well!

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Have you ever thought what makes a happy person, happy? Yes, there are personality traits associated with happy people. Happiness is the one thing that most everyone wants to achieve. Many people share similar preferences in how to achieve happiness, such as world travel, a great job, a big family, but in the end, the goal is ultimately the same.
They are not material things that only certain people can have or even experiences that money can buy, it helps, but they are qualities that you can bring into your own life if you want. Happy people are not seeking happiness from other sources, preferably they depend on themselves to accomplish it.
1. They accept that everything isn’t always going to be perfect.When you can accept imperfection, which is unavoidable, you will not feel like a failure if it is not achieved. Imperfection happens to everyone, so if you are not able to be flexible and roll with the punches, you will constantly hit a wall that will not let you be happy. If you want to feel happier, find the beauty in imperfection.
Happy people know that the challenges of life are what make them better. They accept the gifts and the life you are given. Maybe your job is not your dream job, but they do their best anyway. This doesn’t mean they don’t try to get to a better place, rather, they find the blessing in what is.
Happy people know when they can help and know when they can’t. They know how to say NO when they need to. Knowing your limits lets you do the best work on what are you able to accomplish. With too much on your plate, nothing will be done well or completely, and without knowing your limitations, you will continue to bring work upon yourself that you do not have the capacity to accomplish.
🙏🏻💕 you’re more than sweet!

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Mindfulness and wellness have become some of newly used buzzwords of the past few years as more and more people look to find more focus and peace in the way they work.
Many corporations are sending money to send staff on specific wellness programs to help them be happier in their work and therefore more creative, more passionate and more energetic.
One of the places that this type of learning could have a big impact is the kitchen work environment: highly pressured, hot, stressful and demanding - it’s place that would benefit from mindfulness.
In fact, the topic of health and work environment within the kitchen has pushed one of the biggest shifts in kitchen culture since Escofffier designed the brigade system. It’s forcing restaurants to operate differently, to open on different time schedules, to offer different compensation for chefs and some high profile leaders, like Eric Ripert, to denounce the old ways of working and replace stressful kitchen environments with places that people happily want to work inside.
This new movement towards a more balanced work environment inside the kitchen was also on display at this year’s MAD Symposium in Denmark where ‘Mind The Gap’ was the theme and a number of speakers presented on topics relating to how kitchens are changing.
One of the these talks was hosted by meditation teacher Michael Miller who guided the audience through a basic technique that he says can help relieve stress, increase focus and create a better kitchen working environment.

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Is that the Bullitt Mustang?
It sure is. It may look a little out of its comfort zone on the left-hand side of the road under the grey, foreboding skies of Britain – as opposed to leaping around the sunny streets of San Francisco – but don’t think that means it feels any less special. Quite the opposite, in fact.
If you need a reminder, the Ford Mustang Bullitt is a special edition of the current ‘Stang that apes Steve McQueen’s wheels in perhaps the most famous movie car chase of them all. It was launched last year to mark 50 years since the release of Bullitt but is still on sale, topping the Mustang range at a smidge under £50,000.
When the Mustang has made a name for itself providing much V8 noise and power for little money, a hike of over five grand seems particularly large. Luckily it brings lots of goodies with it, not least a thumping 1,000-watt B&O stereo.
Of more priority, though, ought to be the visual changes – Dark Highland Green paint, front badge deletion, extended splitters and sills, a cue-ball gear knob – and some mild dynamic tweaks, namely an extra 9bhp and some strengthened suspension.
So how’s its performance now?
Not really much different, given all of its trinkets add 33 kilos to the Mustang’s already stocky kerb weight, lifting it to 1,851kg. Its power output is now 459bhp, its top speed has climbed from 155 to 163mph, but its 0-62mph time is an identical 4.6secs.
This is a car about so much more than on-paper stats, though. Anything with a naturally aspirated V8 but the mass of a Discovery Sport is not going to compete using traditional performance car benchmarks.
Thus it’s not especially agile to drive, and if you take it out to your favourite B-road for a life-affirming blast you’re going to be left crestfallen. It’s a muscle car and proud, and you need to enjoy it as such, settling into the hugging yet squishy Recaro and burbling around in just about any gear you like, such is the spread of torque on offer by its 5.0-litre engine.
Surely there’s some fun to be had?
Roll up your sleeves, get properly stuck in, and the Mustang does reveal some vigour. You need to be sensitive with your inputs – the gearbox in particular doesn’t like being rushed – but abandon some inhibition, trust in its surprisingly strong traction, and it starts to feel as exciting as its rakish looks suggest. The traction control turns off with one simple button press if you’re feeling really silly.
This car’s just a little bit more at home when you calm back down and immerse yourself in the engine more than the chassis. It never shrinks around you or magically shrugs off some of its weight as you up your commitment. Those suspension tweaks over standard must be pretty small, too, as the Bullitt doesn’t have a tangibly different character to a regular, £42k Mustang GT.
A more ethereal charm that won me over despite the Bullitt legend being a bit too old to register on my radar. Rather like the excitement of brushing past a celebrity on the street, regardless of whether you like them, there’s movie-star credibility here that’s simply irresistible.
Put it this way: normally, I’m not the Mustang’s biggest fan. I appreciate its place in the world – and I hope there’s always an affordable manual V8 coupe on sale in Britain – but its appeal wanes when there are Caymans, Alpines and BMW M2s for similar sums of money. Yet this Bullitt wormed its way under my skin, its additional, more extrovert layer of muscle car cool enough to convince me of this car’s place in the world. Which isn’t rivalling a dinky French coupe with a Megane engine in the middle.
There’s also a big boot and some decent (ish) rear seats, enough to accommodate children who’ll become even more besotted with the Bullitt than its driver. If you’re worried the future generation won’t much want a car when they’ll be able to order an autonomous pod via a holographic app, then perhaps we can plant the seeds of being a petrolhead with cars like this. It’s a public service.
It’s a good ‘un, then. Any bad things?
The rather set-in-stone spec list means you’re limited on customisation. Options comprise black paint (you definitely don’t want that) and adaptive suspension (it’s £1,600, and you can probably live without it) while there’s stuff you can’t have. Namely a convertible roof, an automatic gearbox and heated seats. The former two we’d actively discourage anyway, and the latter can surely be counteracted by wearing a thicker rollneck.
Yep, to fully fathom this car’s appeal and navigate its quirks, it’s worth slipping a little into the character of Frank Bullitt. But that’s fine. What other car currently on sale comes with such a veneer of big-screen credibility? The Mustang Bullitt is contrived but actually rather cool. Rather than feeling stifled on Britain’s roads, it actively livens them up.

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PARIS ST-GERMAIN are eyeing Barcelona duo Neymar and Sergio Busquets, according to European sources.
Spanish media outlet Fichajes claim the ambitious Ligue 1 champions are keen to snap up the duo.
The news looks set to be a huge blow for Manchester United who have also been linked with both players.
TalkSPORT claim United, along with Manchester City and Chelsea, are interested in a bumper summer swoop for Busquets .
Busquets' current deal worth £120,000-a-week runs until 2019 but the playmaker wants a pay rise.
And the Spain international could be tempted to move elsewhere if the Catalan giants refuse to play ball.
Neymar, 24, has been repeatedly linked with a move to Old Trafford.
United are keen to bring the Brazilian to the Premier League by triggering his current £150m release clause.
Spanish footy experts Don Balon claimed last week that Barca are considering a period of austerity.
The Nou Camp is set to be redeveloped and Barca could be tempted to cash in on Neymar as they look to balance the books.

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Guide to Fairfield, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
FAIRFIELD (St. Thomas à Becket,) a parish, in the union of Romney-Marsh, hundred of Aloesbridge, lathe of Shepway, E. division of Kent, 6¾ miles (W. by N.) from New Romney.
Brookland and Fairfield were part of the hundred of Aloesbridge.
↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 206-209. Date accessed: 29 July 2013.
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At this moment the healthcare crisis in the U.S can be likened to a pressure cooker that is about to blow its top. The number of uninsured or underinsured Americans is close to Fifty million, and shows little sign of diminishing.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the elderly make up twenty-three percent of the major costs of U.S healthcare spending and each year more people are entering these age brackets as the baby boomers mature and get older.
The over 65 population will nearly triple as a result of the aging Boomers.
More than six of every 10 Boomers will be managing more than one chronic condition.
Although Canada has an admirable healthcare system in many respects, many residents admit that there is a serious crisis brewing. Poor government funding has led to a notable lack of physicians, nurses, and state-of-the-art medical equipment. This, in addition to the long waiting times for many surgical procedures, has created unrest and an urgent call for healthcare reform.
According to a 2007 article in the Christian Science Monitor, Britain's Department of Health reported that at any given time, nearly 900,000 Britons are waiting for admission to National Health Service hospitals, and shortages force the cancellation of more than 50,000 operations each year.
In each of these cases the government has failed to adequately meet the basic healthcare needs of many of its citizens. As baby boomers age and the current healthcare system is stretched to the breaking point, expect individuals and businesses to look at new ways of regaining control of their healthcare. The medical tourism phenomenon is a natural outgrowth of these conditions – an outlet if you will, for people trapped by an unwieldy system that offers little hope for a better tomorrow.
Long wait times for certain procedures is also a big factor for residents of Canada and other countries with socialized medicine, and is effectively forcing people to look for other options, including medical tourism. Wait times of a year or more are quite common in Canada and England. Contrast this with “wait times” of weeks or even days at many medical tourism destinations.

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I am so excited to finally shoot this makeup tutorial together for you. I think it is going to be so much easier to show you what beauty products I love and how I love to use them rather than just write posts like I usually do.
Today I thought I would start with my first everyday glam makeup look, this is my go-to look everyday, but I have glammed up elements. It focusses on glowy skin, matte earthy toned eyes, highlighting and my favourite products to line my lips, to make them look bigger.
I want to also apologise for the stop and start filming and therefore slightly different lighting throughout. SOO ANNOYING I am such a rookie.
My camera kept dying as I was shooting my makeup tutorial and also my memory card kept getting full- (of course I didn’t think that I needed more than one memory card) So I had to keep stopping and downloading videos to my computer, then deleting them off my camera so I could keep shooting, aahhh nightmare!!
Sorry-I promise to be better organised. Also, I know this is a super long makeup tutorial, probably too long (eek, I need to learn to zip it) as you all know I sure love to blab. I definitely won’t chat this much next time. So feel free to skip to a section that interests you as I do my whole face from start to finish.
Enjoy! And please let me know your thoughts with what you want to see next. All products used in this video- linked below.
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Thank you for the best makeup tutorial I have seen in ages. I like that this is actually a tutorial that shows what YOU ACTUALLY USE rather than a video that has a range of sponsored products. I loved the video and have even copied down some of the products you use to buy for myself.
Can you please do one on your everyday skincare? Can you please list your products too! All of the skincare products you have as your go to products with their purpose and how often you use them as well as your daily routine.
Can you also please do another on your hair care too, products listed as well – shampoo, conditioner, treatments and any styling products.
And other makeup tutorials would also be a great addition.
I have subscribed and I am so keen to see these tutorials too.

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Mike Chamberlain: I know that most people will simply write a check to their charity of choice but for many, there is a more tax efficient way to gift, right?
Laura Scharr-Bykowsky: It’s true that a check is the easiest way, but if an investor wants to make a gift and help themself to a bigger tax break, there is a better option. If an investor has held an appreciated stock or mutual fund for more than one year, they can donate those securities to a charity and receive a tax deduction for the fair market value of the securities, and eliminate any capital gains assessments on the future sale of the securities. In some cases that could be as much as 23.8% in addition to a savings on State income tax.
MC: Well that sounds good, but can you give us an example?
LSB: Sure! Let’s say Mr. Benevolent, who happens to be in the 25% Federal tax bracket (or 32% bracket when you factor in State income tax rates), wants to give $10,000 to his favorite charity and writes a check to it. That’s a simple tax deduction of $10,000 less $3,200 (the Federal and State taxes he avoided) for a net cost to him of $6,800.
If you don’t itemize your deductions then this type of gift doesn’t make much sense.
If you didn’t own the securities for a minimum of 12 months because the tax deduction will be limited to the original purchase price or your cost basis.
If you are in a lower tax bracket with little or no exposure to capital gains taxes.
If there is a fairly short period of time before a step up in basis following a death.
If you’re unable to exactly establish when you bought a security or not able to easily determine the security’s cash basis then it makes sense to donate the security.
If you’ve got a large allocation of appreciated stock then gifting some of it is a very good way to lower your risk exposure as well as further diversify your portfolio.
If you can’t wait for “step up in basis” which occurs at death then gifting the security is one viable option.

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Our Timber Valley Cedar Storage Box sells by 2. Made of 100% wood and finished with natural wood color, our storage box is a perfect addition to either your indoor counter top, desktop and window sill for any small stuff or your outdoor garden and patio for tools. Lid with hinges makes opening and closing easier; lock is not included but can be added to keep stuff untouched and safe. Half an inch thickness, as well as cut-out design on side panels, ensures the strong and sturdy structure. Available for DIY painting. Our Cedar Storage Box will make your life more organized and efficient.
W 16" / D 10" / H 6.5" / 8.5 lb.

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Growing on a level plateau above scenic Troutsdale, Dale Top is bordered by heather covered earth banks to the north east and north west. The western boundary is formed by a stone track, which provides the main access to the land from the lane in the valley. In the south east, the boundary is marked with timber posts where open heather moorland, rich in ecology, gives way to bilberry and naturally seeded groups of pine trees.
Throughout the woodland area, pine and birch are the dominant species with some rowan or mountain ash too. Glades and open areas offer opportunities for planting, a suitable place to camp with family and friends, or as a base for other woodland operations. The open understory gives excellent access on foot.
An oak-topped bench is located a short distance from the ride-stop entrance. From here there are views over an open section of moorland as well as into the wood of Dale Top itself. It is a great place to stop for a while and take in the serenity of the place.
Deer tracks cross the heather moor in the south eastern part of the land and birds are regularly observed such as buzzards, kestrels, bullfinch and other small wood and moorland birds.
The North York Moors became a national park in 1952. There are records of 12,000 archaeological sites and features throughout the National Park, of which 700 are scheduled ancient monuments. Human history in the area dates back to the last ice age when, around 10,000 years ago the cold temperatures rose above the growing point of 5.5 °C; plant and animal life gradually re-established and humans re-colonised plateaus and dales as hunter-gatherers.
Sunlight filtering through edge trees.	 Pine trees, clear beneath. Branching old pines. Heather moor glimpses throught the trees.	 A crisp frost still covers some of the shaded areas. A small clearing with heather and billberry. View from the northern boundary over neighbouring land. Dale top, view along the south east edge. Lichen.	 Pine and some birch in the background. Blue skys and sunshine bring out the winter colours. Ride stop with space to park.	 Bench in a clearing. Shared entrance from the road.
Are marked in red, on trees along the track on the south-western boundary. On all other boundaries markings are on wooden posts.
Just 12 miles from Scarborough and 13 miles from Pickering.
Turn north in Snainton onto Nettledale Lane next to the Peacock Hotel signed to Troutsdale.
Continue north for 3 miles before crossing a cattle grid and passing Cockmoor Hall Farm on the left.
Proceed across the common and after passing the parking area to the right of the road drop down the hill into Troutsdale.
At the sharp right turn follow the main road to the right signed for Troutsdale and Hackness.
Proceed down the hill crossing another cattle grid before reaching Troutsdale Mill in the valley bottom.
Continue steadily uphill and then pass through Manor House Farm.
After 500 metres the entrance gate is reached on the left hand side of the road. Park on the grass verge top the right of the road.
Proceed on foot through the bridal path gate and up the hill.
At the top of the hill follow the track around the bend, the entrance to Dale Top is a further 150 metres on the right.

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Katherine Addison’s The Goblin Emperor got a starred review in Library Journal!
The assassination of Emperor Varenechibel and three of his sons was shocking to the people of Ethuveraz, but none was more shocked than 18-year-old Maia, the youngest son and almost forgotten heir to the Elfin throne. The half-elf, half-goblin Maia had lived in exile since his birth when his now-dead goblin mother was banished by the emperor soon after becoming pregnant. When he takes the throne, Maia must adjust not only to life at court but to the knowledge that there are many who don’t believe he should rule.
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Researchers suggest that social media can harm kids’ brains, and few would disagree. Either way, social networks such as Twitter are here to stay. My question is, what impact do online networks play in strengthening minds and leading innovation across differences?
Social Media can help us lead and learn across differences!
Increasingly, brain gurus such as Susan Greenfield weigh in on such topics as more evidence weekly to draw from.
We know from neurogenesis that you improve or worsen your situation by beliefs moved into action, and that social media reshapes the human brain by choices people make daily. Social networking websites, it turns out, literally reshape human brains chemically and electrically, and can alter brainwaves up or down too. Is that a good thing though?
Results are sobering. Research suggests that sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo can actually decrease attention spans, foster instant gratification, and encourage self-centered communications. People reboot to live more for the moment. Check out AcademHack’s ways to use Twitter to enhance academia.
No surprise that social media is said to be changing the way we think, yet jury’s still out on the negative or positive effects to the human brain. We’re warned of definitive ways to get social media wrong. To seems equally important to highlight the other side, would you agree?
Here are 10 surefire ways to benefit from social media, with the brain in mind.
1. Use tone to build goodwill, even among those who disagree. Tone tools opens opportunities for you with life-changing dividends. Social media tone draws success like the moon attracts tides on an ocean shore.
2. Network to enhance your busy day, not swamp it. Fuel your brain with chemical hormones for growth and learning, by planning times ahead to engage others online. Then stick to designated times, rather than flipping online whenever desire to chatter pops into mind.
3. Interact with different ages and cultures. Follow social media leaders who differ from you and learn from their diverse insights. By linking to others’ sites and subscribing to feeds, learn from and value differences.
4. Ask great questions, and then act on social media’s best answers to add zip to your day. To read or hear works less magic in the brain than to rewire for enthusiasm through genuine, 2-footed questions.
5. Put feet to your own beliefs in social media settings, yet change and grow even deeply held assumptions, when others hold better ethics up to the rainbow. Know the difference, by the results received.
6. Run from cynics or bullies, in favor of proposing solutions to negative issues raised online. The opposite of abuse from others or toxic settings online, is to take deliberate steps toward peaceful solutions, that work wonders for intelligence.
7. Link to high performance minds in order to help build communities with those who lead change for improvements. Facilitate innovative minds online. Results can lead you to a fix for a broken system, that traps hebbian thinkers.
8. Engage opposing views in ways that show strengths from alternative perspectives. Step out of comfort zones often to check out views at unusual online sites. Embrace even change that comes from unexpected place and online remedies can lead to visible improvements.
9. Learn new technologies that improve networking. Rarely is it easy to learn new skills but online is the perfect place to risk benefits new learning offers. Each time you step up to another plate to learn, you stretch and exercise your brain’s working memory for more of the same.
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Thanks for stopping by Lee. The research you are looking for is from neuroscientist Susan Greenfirld, and you’d enjoy an article at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1153583/Social-websites-harm-childrens-brains-Chilling-warning-parents-neuroscientist.html.
Thanks for this post. It’s of great interest to me, particularly the research you cite in your 3rd paragraph. Can you share the specifics of that research?
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Thanks for dropping by Judith, and thanks for your kind words. I can sure identify with the crossover between Twitter and APA — and it makes me wonder. Hey – is there no middle ground here:-) Good luck with your studies!
Thank you for this article. I love your list of ways to make social media in favor of positive brain change. I employ several of them already, particularly, as a student. #7 was the reason I linked to you.
I also have two children, 13 and 16, who enjoy social media and actually came into it after me, using my experiences as their springboard.
I believe truly that there has to be a combination of skills taught to our children. I frequently move back and forth between Twitter shorthand and my school assignments written in APA style.


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Music sets the atmosphere, enhances the drama of events, and highlights character traits in the best sci-fi movie soundtracks.
While music in cinema is new in comparison to the age-old practice of music composition, the process of composing movie soundtracks isn't much different than any other composition project. The clear predecessor of music as a soundtrack to acting is opera, with its fusion of the arts of music and acting. While the methods of transmitting visual information have changed since opera ruled the acting world (the set made of cardboard has become one of digital backdrops and green screens), and sound effects were added (synthesizers, samplers, and various ethnic instruments), there isn’t much difference, in regards to musical needs. The goal of a sci-fi movie soundtrack the same as the music behind an opera: set the atmosphere, enhance the drama of what’s happening on stage, and highlight the specific features of the characters.
The composers of the best sci-fi movie soundtracks have each solved for these aspects in their own way. Someone like Jerry Goldsmith focuses on the general atmosphere of his score, and John Williams gives each character a distinctive theme, but one thing is for sure: all of these sci-fi movie soundtracks have deservedly taken their place among the best.
When asking Hans Zimmer to write the soundtrack for Interstellar, Christopher Nolan didn't tell him it was going to be a space movie. He told him it was a story of a relationship between a father and a daughter. It's a very intimate story and at times the space travel here is actually as much of a background to this relationship as it is the main theme of the movie. Due to the fact that it's a look into the past and future at the same time, Zimmer chose to combine both electronic instruments and antique ones, such as a 14th century organ.
The soundtrack for Tron: Legacy was created by Daft Punk. Relying mainly on music from the original Tron, the musicians nevertheless created something new: a fusion of electronic and symphonic music, very unusual even for Daft Punk. The computer atmosphere of the soundtrack set the parameters for creating the music, using such exotic elements as granular synthesis and glitch. Skillfully combining the sound of the orchestra with electronic sounds and effects, Daft Punk create their own world. As a result, the soundtrack is clear, almost mathematically verified, and very accurately conveys the technological atmosphere of the film.
In Blade Runner's soundtrack, Vangelis uses a whole range of styles like synti, new age, and minimalism, skillfully combining these musical directions that can sometimes seem contradictory. Before the filming started, Vangelis already knew the basic idea behind the film, and was able to create a score based off clear concepts. The use of synthesizers brings a desired flavor of the future era into the atmosphere of the film, and lingering melodic compositions with the elements of ethno are a distinct feature of new age. Finally, the repeating elements are a tribute to minimalism, which at the time was becoming more and more popular among academic composers. The result is a unique combination and a feeling of total immersion in the story.
The Star Wars soundtrack is perhaps the most famous sci-fi movie soundtrack in existence: John Williams created something truly extraordinary. Treating the film as a giant opera (parallels have been drawn to The Ring of the Nibelung), he carefully worked out the images of the characters. In Star Wars, as in opera, music is one of the main carriers of action, participating in everything happening on screen. Each character has its own theme, which sometimes manifests itself in combination with other character themes. Created according to the classical models of music, this soundtrack may rightly be called "the first space opera."
Tom Holkenborg fully encompasses the expressive means of both a contemporary classical composer and a DJ in the soundtrack to Mad Max: Fury Road. Using classical instruments, (strings, brass) he paints a gloomy picture of a post-apocalyptic world where the remaining survivors do not know what to do with themselves, fighting for a place in this world without knowing exactly why. The use of modern electronic music devices adds technological elements to this absurd world (absurd in the musical sense too), showing the eternal cyclical nature of what is happening: technology as a means of destruction, rebirth, and destruction again.
When Steven Price was invited to work on the music for Gravity, the film has already been in production for three years. Therefore, Price understood what the film is going to be like, and wanted his music to reflect to film and its "feeling of an open space." This concept influenced the music greatly. It was impossible to do anything too edgy: The action in the film runs very smoothly, and any abrupt musical actions would conflict with the film's atmosphere. And although cruel things happen in the film, they happen with a certain grace, and this influences the choice of instruments and style of the composition. In general, the lack of sound in space determined the music of the film. It dives into the "inner space" of the characters, feeling and empathizing with them, and does not distract itself with external factors.
Inception is considered one of the best Christopher Nolan’s films in all senses, music included. Diving into another world, the emotional torment of the main character, quick changes of scenery—all this requires strong musical support, without which everything happening would be less exciting. The soundtrack escalates, switches to a more rhythmic tempo, and finally results in an excellent track entitled "Time" that reflects the essence of the movie. Immersing himself further and further not only into the levels of a dream, but also his problems, was the main character able to achieve what he wanted so much? As the music subsides, the question remains open.
M83, led by Anthony Gonzalez, did a great deal of work on the soundtrack to Oblivion. It’s an ideal situation when music and film merge so beautifully. The music in Oblivion becomes almost a visual component of the film. There are clear allusions to Daft Punk. It should be noted that the previous soundtrack composed by Joseph Kosinski was Tron: Legacy, and the continuity of styles is quite obvious.
The level of recognition of this soundtrack is probably comparable only to Star Wars. At the early stage of his career, Brad Fiedel was doing a lot of things: composing film music, accompanying various music bands, etc. But he stood out from the crowd by using a synthesizer which, at that time was a rarity. That’s how James Cameron noticed him and he was invited to work on the music for The Terminator. The main theme sounds very convincing and comes inevitably, as does the Terminator. The famous metal strikes were performed by Brad Fiedel himself—on an ordinary frying pan—is it the same metal that will be melted to produce that same T-800?
A cult film from a cult director, with the participation of an iconic composer. Although a lot of musicians, including Eric Clapton, worked on the soundtrack, most of the work was done by Alan Silvestri. The music perfectly reflects the spirit of an idealized future, where there are self-fastening sneakers, flying skateboards, and the engine which can make you time travel fits in an ordinary car. The use of synthesizers has brought that same sense of an impending future, and the sound of the orchestra brings a feeling of a confident present.
By the scale of their work, the Zimmer-Nolan duo can compete only with the aforementioned duo of Williams and Spielberg. When it comes to the music of The Dark Knight, it is difficult to split the trilogy apart, since the films are interrelated. Each part the film becomes more epic and the music becomes larger-scale. For example, in the final section Zimmer uses new elements that were not present in previous films—a choir and percussion. As a final touch, the music reused an element from Batman Begins—a theme gradually increasing in drama and reaching a great climax.
The soundtrack from Planet of the Apes takes a different approach to writing film music. Written in the traditions of classical music, it conveys the general atmosphere rather than focusing on specific images. This approach was common in the film music of the mid-20th century, and Jerry Goldsmith, who learned from the renowned film composer Miklos Rozsa, picked up his approach. It’s interesting how the role of the strings in the soundtrack is minimized and the piano and various percussion instruments come to the forefront. Through various methods and non-standard sound production (e.g. knocking on instruments), the composer shows us the phantasmagoria of a world in which the apes rule, and people are just animals.
This large scale soundtrack, created using many means of modern music technology, was written by James Horner. Before he composed the soundtracks to Cameron’s Aliens and Titanic. The composer collaborated with Wanda Bryant, musical ethnographer, to create the musical culture of the alien race. Horner worked on the soundtrack from 4:00 AM until 10:00 PM every day, admitting that Avatar was the most challenging film he had worked on and his greatest work up until that point. For example, Horner wrote the choir in the Na'vi language separately from the musical accompaniment, and then combined them into a single composition. The choral singing was recorded in March 2008, the music accompaniment in the spring of 2009.
John Murphy is a self-taught musician, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, who began his career in the 1980s, has worked with many artists, and in the early 1990s began writing music for films. The name of his track for Sunshine—"Adagio in D minor"—displays his love of classical music (Bach, Puccini, etc.) as well as his approach to writing the soundtrack. This is a typical Adagio with large stringy melody and big bars and could well be the second movement of some modern symphony and in general even resembles the famous "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber. Of course a modern movie needs a refreshed version of such classic slow movement, and for this purpose Murphy applied pulsating bits, which makes it sound fresh and original.
Although there is a lot of music used in the film (Rage Against the Machine, Propellerheads, Ministry, Massive Attack, The Prodigy, and many others), The Matrix first and foremost glorified its composer, Don Davis. Studying the film, Davis noticed that the reflection effect is used in the movie quite often: The reflections of red and blue pills in Morpheus’ glasses, Trinity watching the agents putting Neo in their car through the rear-view mirror on her motorcycle, and so on. Therefore, while writing the music, the composer focused on the theme of reflections, combining the orchestral themes with the contrapuntal ideas.
John Carpenter’s films are often supplemented by distinctive music composed by the director himself and performed on a synthesizer. As a result, the director personally wrote the soundtracks to almost all of his films. Many of of Carpenter's compositions have been recognized as cult ones. His style varies within the pop-rock/new age. In this film the music goes quite smoothly, with a couple of memorable tracks and individual motives, giving the film a stunning atmosphere.


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I’m overwhelmed by how much I love these four books- the Neapolitan series. It wasn’t love at first page. I earnestly struggled with Book 1 of the series, which details the younger years of these two passionate, brave, deeply weird women. And then, somewhere in Book 2 (‘The Story of A New Name”), I feel in book love. Book 3 (“Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay”) is my favorite of the four- bad choices and consequences dominate. Elena Ferrante has written books for the ages.
Lila and Lenù are captivating. They have the kind of tumultuous, lifelong friendship many women can relate to. Driven by fierce ambitions, the culture of their neighborhood, and each other, they battle and love. The author explores marriage, motherhood, career choices through the main characters and even minor characters. Naples plays a huge role and you get a sense of how turbulent and varies this Italian city is. They are not called the Neapolitan novels in the abstract. I can’t imagine these stories, these characters living anywhere else. The city is part of why they are who they are.
The narrator is Lenù and much as I love her, it is really Lila who makes the pages come alive. She’s angry and possessed of charm and brilliance. Honestly, I find myself thinking about her as if she is a real person I can talk to and get to know. Elena/Lenù tells us everything that happens to both of them, and yet Lila is a mysterious figure in many aspects. The narrator is filled with jealousy towards but also love for Lila, and that is so interesting to me.
I hate reviews that tell you too much about the storyline, but I will say that each woman’s journey, and the journey of their community has many twists. The plots and subplots are comic, tragic, and true-to-life.
Despite the pretty and somewhat misleading covers, these books are dense and thick, Dickensian in scope. They are not light reads; be prepared to learn about Italian politics, the sexual revolution, cultural shifts from the 50s to now. Violence and sexuality are enormous themes in these novels.
The lives these women lead are epic but relatable. If you are a creative woman, you may find these books pleasurable for how they delve into why we create at all- what drives us to make something from nothing.
This series is one of the best I’ve ever read and I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Plus, If you haven’t heard, this series is coming to HBO.


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TERC hosts regular field trip programs during the school year on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Tahoe Science Center located within the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences (TCES) building on the campus of Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, Nevada. During the spring and fall, we also host occasional field trips to the Eriksson Education Center located inside the Tahoe City Field Station just east of Tahoe City, California.
Please complete the Online Field Trip Request Form to reserve your field trip dates for this school year and review the Student Tours Visitation Policy for field trip details.
The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center Education Team has created specialized thematic programs aligned with grade level specific science curriculum. All programs include presentations of the Tahoe Environmental Research Center research vessel and laboratory exhibits in the Tahoe Science Center as well as a viewing of "Lake Tahoe in Depth" 3-D movie (15 minutes) in the Otellini 3-D Visualization Lab.
Water on Earth (Grades 3 - 5): Students explore watersheds, the water cycle, water as a limited resource, and Lake Tahoe water quality. Hands-on activities may include Blue Planet, Drop in a Bucket, and the Incredible Journey or Incline Creek Stream Monitoring (weather-dependent).
Shaping Earth's Surface (Grades 4 - 6): Students explore the forces behind the formation of landforms with an emphasis on erosion. Hands-on activities may include 3D Earthquake Viewer, Topography, and Landforms.
Geology/Plate Tectonics (Grades 4 - 8): Students will learn about the geological processes that formed Lake Tahoe and how tectonic activity is still at work in the Tahoe Basin and around the world. Activities may include viewing the 3-D Earthquake Viewer, Quakes at the Lake, and Rock Around Tahoe.
Aquatic Food Web (Grades 4 - 12): Students become biologists and ecologists as they meet various aquatic species from Lake Tahoe, make observations, ask questions, and discover connections, and build a model of Lake Tahoe’s aquatic food web. Hands-on activities may include Building Lake Tahoe’s Aquatic Food Web and Macroinvertebrate Monitoring (weather dependent).
Environmental Detectives (Grades 6 - 8): Investigate human impact on both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems while assessing watershed health with the "Mystery of the Dying Fish" based on GEMS Environmental Detectives. This field trip requires a minimum of 5-6 hours.
Lakes of the World (Grades 5 - 12): This new field trip aims to educate students about how lakes are formed, where they are located, and how freshwater resources are both used and threatened around the world. We use 3-D technology to soar high above the earth in our 3-D theater to see the location, shape, and bathymetry of each lake, and learn about the lake as students take a virtual trip to visit new places.
The Tahoe System (Grades 3 - 12): This program provides an overview of the Tahoe Basin with a focus on systems thinking. Students explore the different features of Lake Tahoe that make it so special and learn about threats to the lake. Hands-on activities may include Watershed Model, Build Lake Tahoe, Incline Creek Stream Monitoring (weather-dependent) and Macroinvertebrate Monitoring (weather-dependent).
Earth System Science (Grades 3 – 12): This program includes an engaging game show that helps students conceptualize the Earth science concepts of life webs, cycles of matter, and the flowing of energy. A “3-Part Play” shows how Earth and all of its life forms continuously receive energy from the sun that fuels all vital processes then leaves the planet as heat that flows to outer space. The play helps students grasp the intricate network of relationships that connects the planet's organisms with each other and with the cycles of matter and flows of energy. Other activities on this field trip can include the topics of the carbon cycle, the carbon budget, and the greenhouse effect.
High School Field Trips (Grades 9 - 12): Any of the above thematic programs are appropriate for high school aged student groups with a focus on in-depth discussion of more advanced concepts and/or lab tour.
Environmental Detectives (Middle School - Grade 8): Investigate human impact on both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems while assessing watershed health with the "Mystery of the Dying Fish" based on GEMS Environmental Detectives. This field trip requires a minimum of 5-6 hours.
Fish and Wetlands (Elementary School - Grade 3): Discover the importance of wetland habitat in an aquatic ecosystem and learn the impact that terrestrial and aquatic invasive species have on native species. Hands-on activities include Capture, Store, and Release, Native Species Scavenger Hunt, and Wetland Monitoring.
Please read the Student Tours Visitation Policy sheet for additional tour information. Once you have chosen the thematic field trip and activities you are interested in, please fill complete the Online Field Trip Request Form to reserve your field trip dates for this school year. Alternatively, email all necessary information (contact information, school, grade, group size, dates requested, and activities requested) to tercinfo@ucdavis.edu or fax to 775-832-1673 and someone will be in touch with you.
Pre- and Post-Field Trip Activities are available for you and your students to utilize before or after your visit. Directions to the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences building and a Site Map of the UC Davis Tahoe Science Center (first floor of TCES) are available.
We will contact you to confirm the date and time of your tour. Please note that your tour has not been booked unless you receive confirmation.


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When we think of outdoor photography—especially in the context of hunting and fishing—it’s often the bruiser buck, strutting tom, or splashing largemouth that steals the focus.
I can clearly remember the defining moment when I stood back from my camera and realized that focusing on the hunter or angler, not the animal, often created the most compelling images. I think these photographs are gripping because I am able to place myself in the boots of the subject. In them I often find the intricate details that represent my life as an outdoorsman and a conservationist.
The right combination of level and lighting allows the subject of your photo to shine.
This is age-old in the school of photography: always be aware of the light. Early mornings and late evenings are the golden hours. If you live out west, you’re already at an advantage as the light there is the best I’ve ever seen. Blown out skies or too much flash can give a falseness to the authenticity that you’re trying to accomplish—much like a living room full of plastic chairs.
This is a convenient aspect of photographing the hunter rather than the hunted. They allow you to get incredibly close without the fear of stomping hooves, harsh blows, or white flags. Don’t get so close that you lose a sense of the surrounding landscape, but near enough the viewer is able to develop a sort of intimacy with your subject.
The third—and possibly most important—tip is to be very conscious of the angle at which you take the photo. I try in vain to never ever shoot down on a subject, but dead level or up. When you shoot down on something, whether it’s an animal, person or still life—with the exception of food—you’re belittling the subject. Capturing a photo looking up has a way of making the subject larger than life.
Don’t keep all of your photography buried on your hard drive. When you feel you’ve captured some quality images share them with friends, family, and the public. Their feedback will make you an even better photographer, and, if you’ve done it right, they may just find a little piece of themselves in each shot.
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Josh Wolfe is a freelance writer and photographer and the editor and publisher of The Golf Sport magazine. A graduate of Auburn University (B.A. English) and the Savannah College of Art and Design (M.A. Photography), he got his start in the outdoor industry first as a columnist with Outdoor Hub, which he maintains today, and later as an associate editor with Sporting Classics magazine and the editor of its online publication, Sporting Classics Daily. He lives on a farm just outside of Lynchburg, Tennessee, and won’t hesitate to tell you Jack Daniel’s is most effectively consumed neat.
See more of his work at www.joshwolfeoutdoors.com and www.golfsportmag.com.


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OCALA - Victory in the Republican primary for the District 3 Senate seat probably will not come cheap.
The two GOP favorites - state representatives Dennis Baxley of Ocala and Charles Dean of Inverness - each raised more than $220,000 through the first campaign contribution reporting deadline, which was Thursday.
Baxley's account totaled $239,460, including a $101,500 loan he made to his own campaign. He had spent nearly $175,000 through Thursday.
Dean had a little less money, but almost $100,000 more in contributions. Through Thursday, he had spent about $119,000.
The majority of Baxley's contributions have come from individuals and businesses in Marion County. Other contributors include political action committees for the Florida Transportation Builders Association, the Florida Restaurant Association and the Florida Academy of Physicians Assistants.
Dean's contributors include political action committees for the Florida Retail Federation, Florida Cattle, the Florida Chamber of Commerce, the Associated Builders and Contractors of Florida Inc., the Florida Medical Association, and Lawyers Action, a political lobbying group for attorneys.
Dean's campaign has also received contributions from business groups in the gambling industry, including Gulfstream Park Racing Association, Calder Race Course Inc., the Florida Greyhound Association and the Tampa Greyhound Association.
Baxley has made a point to note those contributions. He said he does not accept money from business groups with ties to gambling - "not that they're offering me any lately."
Baxley did receive $500 contributions from the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders Association, Ocala Breeders' Sales and the Florida Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association out of Pompano Beach.
Dean could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
The two Democrats vying for their party's nomination in the District 3 race - Suzan Franks of Citrus County and Mark T. Ravenscraft of Tallahassee - had raised less than $10,000 each by Thursday.
"It's going to be a task for whoever wins the Democratic primary," Franks said. "But I think I'm up to it. They [Republicans] can't stop people from talking to each other, can they? I'm doing a grass roots campaign. You go everywhere and you talk to everybody."
In the GOP primary for Florida House District 24, Marion County School Board member Kurt Kelly is leading the way with $54,430 in contributions.
Kelly's contributors included fellow School Board member Judy Zanetti and local businesses such as Counts Construction, Cone Distributing, Ocala Recycling and the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders.
He also had more contributions from outside the district, including from the Florida Hospital Association, than his opponents.
"This is a state position," Kelly said of the District 24 seat. "I have a broad base of support. I have a lot of support from inside the county, as well."
Former County Commissioner Parnell Townley's contributors included Tax Collector George Albright III, Ocala businessman George Carrasco, and Amsden Sign Advisors Inc., the business of former Ocala City Council member Mike Amsden.
"I look at Mr. Kelly's contributions and see a lot of money from outside the district," Townley said. "Most of mine is from within the district."
Damon Baxley's contributors include School Board members Ron Crawford and Steve Hering; Carolyn Roberts, the chairwoman of the Florida Board of Governors, which oversees the state university system; and former Belleview City Commissioner Emery Abshier.
In Tallahassee, the Florida Police Benevolent Association and the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law political action committee have contributed to Damon Baxley.
Local businesses MSE Development and Touchstone Realty have contributed to Steve Shaw's campaign.

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Our vision of the future is mostly inspired by science fiction movies and can look like anything from dystopian classics such as Terminator to the more hopeful The Martian, where mankind is able to travel to the red planet with relative ease.
Whatever shape our futuristic dreams take, the one constant about the future is that technology is seamlessly integrated into every aspect of our lives and there are gleaming screens displaying reams of information in every corner.
LG Electronics, the global leader in OLED products offers solutions for the future for business, public and personal spaces. State-of-the-art LG signage products such as the transparent OLED display is a unique technology that is impressive in a number of environments from retail to art galleries where such signage is able to display vivid images without being a distraction.
LG is taking digital signage to a whole new level with Open Frame OLED, In-Glass Wallpaper OLED and Ultra Stretch signage solutions. Think of those scenes from Minority Report where Tom Cruise is watching and then moving videos seamlessly across crystal clear transparent screens and you’ll have an idea of what LG’s screens are capable of. Of course, the ability to move videos with smart gloves from one screen to another hasn’t been invented yet, but it isn’t too far off as LG’s advanced IPS Interactive Digital Boards deliver collaborative tools and touch-enabled interfaces that allow multiple users to write simultaneously and share ideas with this intuitive technology.
OLED technology allows screens to emit light without the need for backlighting to create superb images with remarkably lifelike colours while providing wider viewing angles than conventional backlit displays.
Due to the inherent thinness and flexibility of OLED displays, Flexible Open Frame OLED signage allows customers to change the curvature of installations in either landscape, or portrait modes and the actual curvature of the screen can be changed after installation to allow for either convex, or concave displays.
The shape and size of Open Frame OLED displays can be tailored for multiple uses in any industry such as large-scale video installations and informational displays designed to fit into any commercial space.
Adaptability is also evidenced by LG’s flight information display systems (FIDS), which come in a wide range of sizes and orientation with an advanced anti-reflection feature that allows passengers to see accurate flight information at a glance without distracting reflections.
OLED Wallpaper TV delivers a first-class ambience to any hotel and the Gallery Mode enables the display of artwork in guest rooms with superb picture quality. Hotel management will also appreciate the TV’s smart platform, which supports simple editing tools for customising content.
The Internet of Things and the inherent solutions that such integration offers can be enjoyed with LG’s Smart Hotel TV that gives hotel guests the ability to control lights, door locks and wireless curtains, among other smart devices through the TV’s Pro:Centric Direct user interface.
Designed with dual-sided ultra-slim OLED panels in a glass pane, LG’s In-Glass Wallpaper OLED signage provides a touch of futuristic class for boutiques, art galleries and other businesses that would like to add a sophisticated element to their interior décor. This signage is available in standing and hanging versions to allow businesses the freedom to utilise the displays as effectively as possible.
Nothing is a more perfect illustration of the future than the ubiquitous multi-storey screens we’ve seen in just about every sci-fi movie. LG’s 55 and 65-inch OLED Video Wall solution in portrait or landscape formats combined with LG’s 1 x 4 OLED Video Wall unit, which can be connected to other units, will enable businesses to create vivid signs of various configurations and sizes.


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Uninterrupted Power Supplies (UPS) allow you preserve your equipment, and prevent data loss when the electricity goes out. Acting as a fancy power bar, it has a built-in rechargeable battery that can give you some 10-15 minutes of power in case of a power failure, enough to save your files safely, and shut down your computer.
I own two APC Back-UPS. The first one has a LCD screen and plugs in the computer via USB to provide better control and cooperation between the two. I plug in my desktop computer, USB drive, and anything valuable on this one. The second is smaller and I use it more for laptops and smaller peripherals.

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The double bedroom is located to the left on entering the front door on the ground floor. The bedroom is carpeted with the en-suite flooring in natural stone with underfloor heating. The bed measures 4'6'' width x 6'3'' length x 22'' height and is a four poster bed with a roof. There are bedside lights and wall lights on both sides of the bed together with cabinets. There are two chairs in this room. The hospitality trays include various teas (green, fruit etc.), coffee both caffeinated and decaffeinated, hot chocolate and a jug of fresh drinking water (as we try to support sustainable tourism we do not believe in using bottled water). All rooms have flat screen television/dvd players with freeview and have Wi-Fi broadband access for guests bringing their own computer.
The twin bedroom is located also to the left on entering the front door on the ground floor. The bedroom is fully carpeted with the en-suite flooring of natural stone with underfloor heating. The beds measure 3' wide x 6'3'' length x 24.5'' height. There is a bed side light in the centre on a table with switches either side of the bed for the wall lights. There are three chairs in this room. The hospitality trays include various teas (green, fruit etc.), coffee both caffeinated and decaffeinated, hot chocolate and a jug of fresh drinking water (as we try to support sustainable tourism we do not believe in using bottled water). All rooms have flat screen television/dvd players with freeview and have Wi-Fi broadband access for guests bringing their own computer.
The single bedroom is accessed through the guests sitting room. The bedroom is fully carpeted with the en-suite in Jerusalem limestone. The bed is 3' width x 6'5'' length x 22.5'' height. There is one chair in this room. The hospitality trays include various teas (green, fruit etc.), coffee both caffeinated and decaffeinated, hot chocolate and a jug of fresh drinking water (as we try to support sustainable tourism we do not believe in using bottled water). All rooms have flat screen television/dvd players with freeview and have Wi-Fi broadband access for guests bringing their own computer.
Situated just two miles south of the market town of Devizes, Blounts Court Farm is located on the edge of the village of Potterne. Set in 200 acres of arable farmland, we back onto woodland with the village cricket field to the rear of the house. The world heritage sites of Stonehenge and Avebury are 15 minutes by car, Lacock (the television series Cranford to name but one was filmed here) is also 15 minutes by car and Bath & Salisbury can be reached in 30 minutes. Many National Trust properties are on the doorstep including the beautiful gardens of Stourhead. Longleat House and Safari Park is also close by. We also have the enviable position of being walking distance to the village public house (pub) which serves local beer and meals. All our bedrooms have been individually styled to enhance our guests' visit to Blounts Court Farm. We offer en-suite double, twin and single rooms (all with crisp, quality linen and fluffy towels), private guest sitting room and because we appreciate our guests like to come and go as they please, have their own entrance. All our accommodation is located on the ground floor. The hospitality trays include various teas (green, fruit etc.), coffee both caffeinated and decaffeinated, hot chocolate and a bottle of fresh drinking water). All rooms have flat screen television/dvd players with freeview and have Wi-Fi broadband access for guests bringing their own computer. All in all, the perfect base for visitors or business guests alike with ample safe parking. We are extremely privileged to have been awarded a 5 STAR GOLD award with the AA (which means we are one of the top 10% accommodation providers in the country). If you are looking for peace & quiet, home from home and stylish accommodation then Blounts Court Farm is for you.
Take A360 Salisbury road until you reach Potterne. Turn opposite the George & Dragon public house into Coxhill Lane and continue for 0.25 miles until it divides into two. Take the left hand turning and carry on up tarmac drive to Blounts Court Farm at the top.
Take the A360 Devizes road until you reach Potterne. On entering the village the George & Dragon is on your left hand side. Opposite the pub turn into Coxhill Lane and continue along for approx. 0.25miles until the lane divides into two. Take the left hand turning and carry on up the tarmac drive to Blounts Court Farm at the top.