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A grape is a popular and refreshing fruit, which can be eaten raw or processed in a variety of other food products such as jam, juice, wine, raisins, or grape seed oil. Grapes come in different varieties, with the fruit’s most common colors being green, red, and black. Different varieties ripen at different times, depending on where they are grown. Learning how to select grapes can help you find ripe, fresh fruit to suit all of your culinary needs.
Examine the grape texture. Ripe, healthy grapes should be firm and plump on all sides. If a grape is shriveled where the stem meets the fruit or if there are any signs of moldiness, the grapes are not in good condition. You should also avoid grapes that have excess moisture inside the bag, as this is often a sign that the grapes may be susceptible to mold or rot.
Look at the skin on the grapes. The best grapes will have a healthy shade to the skin. Ripe red grapes should have a dark purple hue, as any signs of green indicate that red grapes are not yet ripe. Ripe black grapes should have a full, rich shade of bluish-black, and green grapes should have a yellowish hue.
In addition to skin tone, healthy grapes should also have a light silver-colored dusting on the skin called bloom.
Bloom is commonly mistaken for dirt, but it's actually the plant's way of protecting the fruit from drying out or rotting.
Check the stem. The stem of a healthy grape cluster should be green and flexible. If the stem is brown or brittle, the grapes may be old or poorly-grown. You should also make sure that the majority of grapes are securely attached to the stem, as this is considered a sign of healthy, well-grown grapes.
Determine if grapes are in season. The climate in which a grape variety is grown will affect when it ripens and how it tastes. The majority of each type of grape (green, red, and black) generally tend to ripen in the same part of the growing season. There are exceptions, of course, and each type's growing season may vary somewhat, depending on where they are grown.
Green grapes typically ripen in the middle of the growing season. Ripe green grapes should have a yellowish hue to the skin.
Red grapes tend to ripen fairly early in the growing season, though there are some exceptions. Ripe red grapes should have a dark reddish-purplish hue without any signs of green.
Black grapes generally ripen in the early to middle part of the growing season. Ripe black grapes should have a rich violet hue to the skin.
Choose a slightly sweeter grape for eating. Grapes can vary significantly in sweetness from one type to another. In general, though, most people choose sweeter grapes if they're being used as table grapes (for eating as they are).
Canadice, Concord, Himrod, Mars, Neptune, Niagara, Reliance, and Thompson Seedless are among the most commonly-purchased table grapes found in stores.
Select a very sweet or tart grape for making jam. When choosing grapes to make jam with, you may want to opt for a grape that's sweeter than what you would pick for table eating. For this reason, many jam makers prefer muscadine grapes for a sweeter jam, though others do prefer a more tart grape for a more balanced jam profile.
Beta grapes and Chambourcin grapes make a good tart jam, while something more saccharin like Van Buren grapes would be ideal for a sweeter jam.
Most wine grapes can also be used for making juice and jam, and they tend to range from very dry to very sweet. Which type you choose will depend largely on your taste preferences.
Pick a wine grape that suits your tastes. Wine grapes (which are also frequently used for making juice and jam) range dramatically in flavor, from very dry to very sweet. Which grape you choose to make wine or juice with will depend entirely on what flavor profile you're looking for.
Cayuga, Chardonel, Moore's Diamond, and Riesling grapes are all good choices for a dry wine or juice.
Canadice, Catawba, Jupiter, LaCrosse, and Muscat grapes will produce a sweeter wine or juice.
Some people like both sweet and dry wines, depending on the meal that wine is being served with. Try experimenting with different types of grapes and different flavor profiles to find a grape that works best for your needs.
Store grapes without washing them. It's important to wash grapes before eating them to ensure that you remove any bacteria and pesticides. However, storing wet grapes is more likely to lead to mold and rot. Instead of washing the whole bag, it's best to just remove however many grapes you need for one serving and wash only those grapes.
When you do wash grapes, you can simply rinse them under clean, cool water from the faucet.
Place washed grapes on a plate with paper towels to prevent water from spilling as you snack on them.
Keep grapes in their original packaging. The bags that grapes are sold in are specially designed to protect the fruit while simultaneously allowing the grapes to breathe. These ventilation holes also allow any moisture to escape so that the grapes do not get moldy or go bad as quickly as they would in an unventilated bag.
While sealable sandwich bags are great for storing some foods, it's best to store grapes in a bag that lets the fruit breathe unless you plan on freezing them.
Chill grapes in the refrigerator or freezer. Grapes keep best in a cool to cold environment. If you're storing them for a short period of time, keep grapes in the back of the refrigerator and set the temperature to around 30 to 32 degrees Fahrenheit (-1 to 0 degrees Celsius). If you're planning on using frozen grapes in a smoothie or simply want to store them for prolonged periods of time, you can store them in the freezer. Simply wash, dry, and de-stem the grapes, and they're ready for the freezer.
They are typically ripe when they look like juicy grapes and this is usually late summer, early fall. They go bad really quickly so pick them quickly once they ripen. It is why ancient Romans made wine.
I just bought red seedless grapes, but they are green or half green. They taste good and are sweet, but are they OK to eat?
Yes. It's just the color.
Wash the grapes under cold running water before consumption.
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Carolyn passed away in Nelson on April 12 2015 after struggling with cancer for more than 2 years. Carolyn was born in Calgary, AB April 24 1945 to Bob and Marjory McElroy. During her elementary school years the family settles in Nelson where she completed the majority of her early education. Later the family moved to Calgary where she trained as a Floral Designer. In 1963 she married Terrence E. Baugh in Calgary where they started their family. A few years later they were transferred to Edmonton & in 1971 relocated to Nelson. Carolyn was a kind & generous Mother first, but also enjoyed meeting interesting people & entertaining. She was an excellent hostess & partner with her husband. Carolyn had a love of beautiful things & enjoyed the time spent working with flowers, in her garden & on her home. She was an attractive woman who always liked to look her best. It is impossible to capture in words all that she has brought to life and to those she touched.
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Last week we had an amazing Thesis Theater event, a great discussion about C.S. Lewis’ WWII-era science fiction trilogy. Recent Signum University MA graduate Adam Mattern was the central figure, presenting his thesis titled “An Image of the Discarded: C. S. Lewis’s Use of the Medieval Model in His Planetary Fiction.” I facilitated the conversation Adam, and we were pleased to have Lewis scholar, Dr. David Downing, join us by audio. David is director of the Wade Center at Wheaton College and has written one of the more important books on the Ransom Cycle, Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy (1992). David has also written an Inklings novel, Looking for the King (which I reviewed here), and an annotated version of C.S. Lewis’ The Pilgrim’s Regress–books mentioned in the discussion. The conversation went so well I decided to share it below.
Sometime in late 1936 or early 1937, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien agreed to write science fiction stories, since what was being published at the time included too little of what they enjoyed. Within Lewis’s science fiction series, he incorporated the Medieval Model (as described in his The Discarded Image) to construct the cosmos of his trilogy and populate his extraterrestrial worlds of Malacandra and Perelandra. With an eye on Lewis’s history with the genre and his approach to writing fiction, this paper explores why Lewis patterned his cosmos after the Medieval Model and how he used medieval literature to inspire a feeling of Sehnsucht or Joy, a critical component of his fiction. His personal experiences with Sehnsucht informed Lewis’s approach to creating a sense of Other by drawing on spiritual elements, which he believed to be an analog of the type of alien worlds that science fiction readers longed to visit. It was through the Medieval Model and the experience of other worlds that Lewis’s series critiqued and subverted what he saw as the growing misapplication of specific scientific principles to ethics, which had become popular in other science fiction stories of the time.
Adam Mattern works for Cisco Talos as a team lead for a group that conducts web traffic analysis for a web filtering product. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with his wife as she completes her Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology. He started with Signum University with the Tolkien and the Epic class and discovered Medieval Literature through reading about Tolkien and Lewis’s friendship and their fiction. Now finished with his M.A., he plans to get back into woodworking, writing, and attempting to surmount a reading list that has only been bolstered by his time at Signum.
If you would like a copy of the thesis, send me an email at junkola [at] gmail [dot] com.
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This was lovely right off the bat. The label wasn’t great, but the wine had beautiful colour, smelled of nothing really, and was very smooth to drink. It didn’t have the complexity that you expect of a Shiraz (with that lovely after-glow effect in the back of your throat) but maybe that’s because we opened it a few years after its prime.
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ORCHESTRAL (re)arrangements of art songs may strike some listeners as a bore or an affront. But this Thomas Hampson program with string chamber orchestra features performers so expert, cohesive and spirited that they just might disarm such critics. It helps that the baritone, more than a quarter-century after his first solo recording, is in remarkably secure vocal estate, while his rapport with the songs of Schubert, Brahms, Wolf and Barber is as convincing as ever, sparked by a spirit of discovery. Before recording this program, Hampson and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta chamber orchestra took it on a twelve-city tour, and that experience gives their work a palpable lift.
The Sinfonietta’s twenty-odd strings perform accompaniments arranged by David Matthews that are tasteful and effective. Schubert’s “An die Leier” is almost predestined for all-string accompaniment, as it’s called “To My Lyre” and the text harps (so to speak) on “my strings,” which “resound only to the strains of love.” The players run with that message admirably here, managing the song’s stark contrasts and transitions more smoothly than some piano versions.
In Wolf’s whirlwind “Der Ratten-fänger” (The Rat Catcher), a tour-de-force for Hampson, the string accompaniment has bite, recalling Beethoven’s “Grosse Fugue.” But I would have welcomed more orchestral differentiation among the three stanzas, each of which proclaims a different aspect of the character’s prowess—as exterminator, then pied piper and finally Don Juan.
The sweet-toned Netherlands Female Youth Choir, backed by subtle string chords, joins Hampson in a buoyant “Ständchen” (Serenade), D. 921, not to be confused—as the liner note does—with the posthumous and better-known “Ständchen,” to a different text.
Throughout, tempos are brisk, and the Amsterdam musicians shine. While the booklet is ambiguous about who’s conducting, photos from rehearsals show Hampson’s arm raised toward the players. He at least collaborated closely, and rewardingly, with the group’s artistic director, Candida Thompson.

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"Quota pars operis tanti nobis committitur?"
"What part of so great a task is committed to us?"
Somewhere between "God spoke, and it was so" and the "millions and billions of years" of gradualism is the truth. This Third Story, radically different from BOTH the traditional religious and the academic ones, listens to and is educated by our ancient ancestors giving us an account of planetary catastrophe delivered by electrical interactions involving the Earth within relatively recent times.
This Third Story challenges the religious story that relies upon a mystical interpretation both of myth and an essential misinterpretation of what happened in the ancient times. This "religious" story generally gives us an angry destructive "dictator-God", a God that needs us to placate him and who—in the thinking of Pauline Christendom—ultimately resorts to placating himself. This "religious" story also gives us variations of Hell and damnation, angels, demons and devils, and a sterile, unromantic and androgynous Heaven, always with "God" being the center of power, control and attention, etc. And this only gives half of it: the God of myth was both destructive and saving. This "first story" twisted critical thinking not only from fear but also from unworthy awe, and salvation that hasn't come. It is all so mystical and unfathomable that there is hardly room for intellectual responsibility to apply, and we excuse its absence and substitute for it with "faith".
This Third Story also challenges the second or modern story that relies upon vast amounts of time to resolve the most fundamental issues of creation, design, life form development, and geological and paleontological formation. It gives us such sensational yet outlandish violations of logic, such as constructs of infinite space, the Big Bang, black holes, dark matter, dark energy, false vacuums, string theory, reified space-time, warped space, time/sequence reversal, etc. Again, it is all so mystical and unfathomable that there is only the need to accept the current fashionable mainstream interpretations and no need for intellectual responsibility. See The Modern Mythology.
Besides drawing on what can be verified from ancient accounts, this Third Story draws much from modern space exploration, field geology, and the plasma laboratory, and is faithful to a synthesis educated by all the scientific disciplines, including human psychology.
"There really is something wrong with our scientific and cultural environment today, and there is a growing yearning for a deeper understanding...a more clear, more coherent, more unified, and non-contradictory and non-fragmented way of seeing the universe.
...How did human history begin? The evidence may seem too complex for generalization, yet all of history can be stated as two stories. First came mythology, filled with cosmic dramas and celestial wonders. We lived in the presence of the gods. It was the gods who determined the fate of the world, demanding allegiance even as they called humans to sacrifice.
The gods were unpredictable. When angry, they went to war, or they destroyed their own creation. Over time, however, man's quest for deeper meaning in the myths ignited sparks for spiritual awakening. And it was from these sparks that the great religions arose. But all of the world's religions shared a taproot in mythology, and not one freed itself entirely from the momentum of the first story.
The second story arose from doubt as philosophers, poets, and naturalists began to lose faith in the myths. And some stopped believing in the gods altogether. That was because direct experience under a highly predictable sky gave no support to the archaic myths.
Skepticism inspired closer attention to nature, the essential requirement of science and technology that would change the world. Thus the completion of the second story; rational science rising to vanquish myth and magic.
And so the full sweep of human history comes down to just two stories in competition; per se, science versus myth and religion.
The above sentiments were taken from the DVD lecture given by David Talbott at the 2013 EU conference titled, Seeking The Third Story.
One challenge for the acceptance of the "Third Story" of recent planetary catastrophe is that it tends to get confused with the religious "Divine catastrophism", and that the proposal of it is a way to bring back that understanding, or at least, to salvage or legitimize the divine authority of sacred scripture.
Since in the minds of most scholars, scientists and the public, myth is considered to be tantamount to fiction fabricated by ignorant and superstitious ancient people, along with this new academic thinking, the feasibility and acceptance of "Velikovskian" planetary catastrophe and the Saturnian Reconstruction faced almost insurmountable obstacles and resistance.
Not the least of these obstacles, one such impediment is fundamentally psychological. The psychologist Velikovsky tried to deal with it by diagnosing Mankind as collectively suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, amnesia and denial. Not only were these ancient catastrophes incredibly destructive and excruciatingly awful, but the implications are generally reprehensible for us regarding whatever agency controls the universe.
It matters not much if you are atheistic, Christian, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist or Muslim etc., accepting the Saturnian scenario and its breakup in the "Great Deluge" will trouble and disrupt your belief system in a major way. If you think that the Biblical "God" is in control of things on earth, he not only once drowned almost the entire population of the earth out of anger, but continued to wreak his vengeance on and destroy his "children" with almost unfathomable violent upheavals, massive cascades of rocky material from above, and widespread rains of burning with "fire and brimstone". If you don't believe in "God", and think that "stuff just happens" in the universe, you are compelled to realize on some level that the universe is NOT benevolent, but can be frightfully dangerous and evil in a way that we are essentially helpless to do anything about.
Maybe the final factor in accepting the "Third Story" is apathetic denial. What does it matter? So what?—if we can't do anything about it anyway!
Given the above factors, and that planetary catastrophism is going to be entertained only by people with strong stomachs, it was felt that it had to be presented as "scientifically" and dynamically feasible. And in a gravity dominated or "gravity only" cosmos, it is NOT feasible. Hence, it was decided that for the Third Story to be defensibly presented and reasonably considered, the astrophysical foundation called the Electric Universe (EU) had to be prominently proposed and primarily presented before the emphasis could be laid upon planetary catastrophe.
What has actually happened since Velikovsky published Worlds in Collision in 1950, and a renewed effort over the last two dozen years to bring the Third Story into the public domain, is a version of mission creep. Even among the avid followers of the renewed effort, the interest and emphasis is upon the EU foundation, the science, and not the far more important part dealing with the implications of the ancient solar system rearrangement for so many aspects of human origins, history, psychology, destiny, etc,. There is a vocal contingent of the public that is enamored with the EU theory and thinking, but wish the program would drop that discrediting "myth crap".
The popular take on ancient myth is that it is fiction or fantasy, stories that don't reflect any actual reality, or at least only faintly and remotely. While it is true in the era of mythmaking that human imagination DID run wild under the influence of extraordinary and devastating natural events, the ancients did NOT fabricate the events, but rather became intellectually irresponsible in their interpretations, primarily by anthropomorphizing the planets into semi-human gods. Yet, we have to deal with both this mythologizing AND the underlying reality of these intensely traumatizing events: See Why Care About Myth?
Asteroids: See Where do Asteroids Come From?
Historical catastrophes: Consider the "Great Chicago Fire" catastrophe, The national earthquakes of 1811 culminating in the New Madrid Catastrophe along the Mississippi River in 1812—forgotten for generations and now out of the public consciousness, the Tunguska event, the Carrington event of 1859, etc.
Monument building was totally connected as a reaction to the planetary deity catastrophes, serving as a misguided way to induce the gods to return along with the Golden Age environment, but also in some cases serving as a kind of "bomb shelter" against material falling out of the sky.
Artistic content Consider the vast amount of artwork and sculpture devoted to celestial catastrophic themes and the planetary demigods.
Musical content, thematic content: Consider the Wagner's Gotterdammerung and Mozart's Dies Irae type music and themes.
Literary themes and content. Consider the vast amount of literature devoted to catastrophic themes.
This CANNOT be emphasized too much! Understanding the Third Story is CRUCIAL to building a valid picture of what has happened to the human race in the past. It affects almost every concept of how we got to where we are now, where we are going, and where we COULD go.
Most theological concepts are also heavily influenced by misconception introduced through the ancient myth, and now modern "science". Without being grounded in this knowledge of ancient planetary catastrophe and the perspective that it gives, one is simply in danger of being lost in the fog and maze of the traditional religious story and/or the modern secular replacement mythology. This is WHY so much of this material has been included on this site.


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It is not an easy task to make kids study. One needs to have a lot of patience in making the kids study. It is not a great idea to make kids learn from huge books. At first, they are never motivated by the dull, colorless books and they tend to get confused looking at the volume.
So, if you want to impart the best knowledge to your kid, you should create worksheets that are interesting. Include a lot of designs and drawings into your worksheets so that it entices the kids to learn from the worksheet by themselves and they are not in need of someone to constantly monitor them.

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Figures on a Landscape is a climb in Joshua Tree. It’s not a hard climb, but it is a classic multi pitch line in the park, and known for a run out face climbing traverse. The name always captivated me because of its poetic nature. There is something romantic that clicks in my mind, a harmony, a balance, where our expectations and worries leave us, and we morph and blend into the surrounding world.
The past week has been a strange one. I decidedly pulled off climbing for the entire week (almost) to allow my finger to heal, and took to the water. I found myself working long days without feeling like I was going crazy, but just sort of being able to accept. The waves started slow, but I allowed my expectations to soften.
On Thursday I knew that a swell was building, so I headed to the beach, expectations still low. The ocean was flat as a lake, so I threw on my trunks and swam to the end of the Ocean Beach pier and back. When I arrived back at the shore there were traces of swell lines far off on the horizon, so I chose to stick around and splash in the knee high waves, catching waves with only fins to assist, and flipping and rolling as much as possible. It wasn’t critical, but it was fun. I was smiling again, like a child, and I was laughing. I was happy.
When I pulled onto Saratoga after work the following day, 4:30pm, I was welcomed to a parking spot closest to the beach, and I walked to the edge of the grass and watched the 4-7ft. pumping surf crashing in perfectly formed A-Frame peaks, offering unlimited bowls and shoulders. I felt happiness brewing in my stomach, and I ran back to my car, suited up and grabbed my fins. The swell had arrived.
I caught a perfect wave, a little shoulder, a little barrel, a few spins to add some flare, and I kicked out before the wave could swallow me whole. My head popped up and I heard a woman’s voice speak a familiar name: mine. Two shapes silhouetted on the horizon–figures on a landscape. Two people who refuse to be caged.
I haven’t drank in eight years. Round pegs who stopped trying to fit in square holes, we walked up Newport watching the interesting folks roaming a beautiful Octoberfest night, and I told her of my early sober days struggling to fill time on Friday nights. All I knew of Friday nights were drunken blurs and sped up highs. Once idle and restless, here I am walking the streets of Ocean Beach showing a stranger around–becoming not so strangers.
The next day I handled my business in the morning, finishing up the most urgent assignments and obligations and picked up my friend Tony and headed to the beach. The traffic was horrendous, and I think he was surprised by how much I’ve changed as I calmly navigated the chaos of a 100 degree Sunday in mid October in San Diego. A guy stole a parking spot right out from under me, and Tony’s mouth gaped open that I smiled and shrugged it off and laughed my way down the street in search of the next spot.
Once again, the waves were perfect, and as I dropped into a perfect corner barrel I was too infatuated with this pipe dream to punch through the back and was swallowed up and over the falls. I tumbled and rolled on the bottom and I popped up right next her. We both laughed, and after awhile we both got out and walked our separate, further delving into the sweetness of life.
I have an absurd definition of serendipity: organized chaos. It’s as though when we stop trying and let the world spin on its own it paints a picture of obscure contexts and moments simply attached by synapse–but these only exist when stop controlling and just enjoy the ride.
Today I went climbing. Did you see that coming? Surely. There were a lot of things I’d neglected throughout the week and weekend, and there were deadlines to meet and places I felt I was supposed to be, but here I was again–climbing. At the top of the third pitch after pulling the rope and setting my partner on belay I looked left and there he was, a shadow on the rock: the figure on the landscape.
I feel like a broken record but that was beautifully poetic. So glad to see you are finding happiness and peace and excitement.
I felt that as I started writing it, and I think it just fueled me. That whole week through that weekend was poetic.


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Massachusettts State Police Marine Unit patrolled Boston Harbor. The much-anticipated arrival of the Tall Ships in Boston this weekend has been designated one of the highest security risks in the country this year.
The much-anticipated arrival of the Tall Ships in Boston this weekend has been designated one of the highest security risks in the country this year, ranking behind only a handful of national events such as the presidential inauguration, the state’s homeland security adviser said Tuesday.
The federal government’s analysis, known as “special event assessment rating 1,” ranks the event as a greater security risk than the Boston Marathon and Boston’s July Fourth celebration, and is equivalent to the Super Bowl, said Patrick McMurray, the state’s undersecretary for homeland security.
“It's a new world environment now,” said McMurray, who worked for the Secret Service for 25 years.
The elevated assessment comes after several terror attacks in Europe that have targeted scores of civilians and put law enforcement on even higher alert. Boston has not had a security operation of this scope since the Democratic National Convention in 2004, McMurray said, and fewer than 10 events in the United States this year have been classified as SEAR 1.
McMurray stressed that no specific threat has been discovered, and that a broad array of law enforcement agencies has been working closely for many months to ensure that Sail Boston 2017 is a safe event.
But several factors — millions of potential spectators, complex geography involving land and sea, and the arrival of foreign ships and dignitaries, for example — prompted the Department of Homeland Security to label Sail Boston as SEAR 1, he said.
By contrast, the Marathon and Independence Day concert on the Esplanade are designated SEAR 2, he said.
Thousands of public safety personnel, including the entire Boston Police Department, will be deployed during Sail Boston 2017, which is scheduled to begin with a parade of more than 55 Tall Ships on Saturday and last until the vessels depart June 22. At least 3 million spectators are expected to attend.
Security will be provided on land, air, and sea, including protection from three Coast Guard cutters and the air wing of the State Police. Spectators will undergo individual screening and be barred from bringing a range of items to the viewing areas, including backpacks, cans, bicycles, firearms, and sharp objects.
“We’re using all the tools we can to keep the citizens safe and be reasonable,” McMurray said.
That will include parking restrictions and road closings, including Northern Avenue and many secondary streets in the Seaport District.
John Kelly, the national homeland security secretary, was recently briefed on Sail Boston preparations, McMurray said.
The public safety presence will be about four times as large as it was during the last Boston appearance of the Tall Ships in 2009, said Dusty Rhodes, the event organizer. More than 60 agencies have been meeting regularly to coordinate security in a broad arc from Castle Island in South Boston to Deer Island in Winthrop. A robust contingent of undercover officers also will be deployed.
“Given the world that we live in now, we have to think of this as large scale,” Rene Fielding, the city’s emergency management director, said of security precautions.
Sail Boston planners heard from the federal government in February that the event had received high-risk status, Rhodes said. Organizers and public safety officials have been meeting every two to three weeks for six months, she added.
Captain Richard Bailey looked over the Spirit of South Carolina.
On Wednesday afternoon, Governor Charlie Baker and Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh will join city, state, and federal officials to discuss public safety preparations.
“It’s sort of an all-hands-on-deck situation,” said Christopher Coakley, spokesman for the city’s office of emergency management.
The Coast Guard, for example, will have more than 500 personnel working to ensure safety, said Petty Officer Brandon Hillard.
The risk rating means that a federal liaison officer has been assigned to the event and will obtain additional safety resources if needed, Fielding said. Command posts have been set up on the South Boston Waterfront near the Boston Design Center, and 24-hour staffing will begin Friday and continue through the weekend.
Deckhand Aaron Funk worked on the Spirit of South Carolina.
The central operations room will contain nearly 50 people from 40 agencies, even including a representative from the National Weather Service. A forecast of imminent thunderstorms, for example, could spur an evacuation order for teeming crowds on the waterfront.
Officials from the FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; and the Department of Homeland Security, among many others, will monitor the event. At the command post, a screen has been installed to provide an overview of the harbor and allow officials to look closely at potential problem areas.
“We want to make sure everyone is on the same page,” said Fielding, who will be among about a dozen people in a separate room for the unified command team. That group will be responsible for making “game-changing decisions” as Sail Boston progresses, she said.
homeland security officials, who have “provided both personnel and other law enforcement resources to ensure a safe and secure event,” said Lieutenant Michael McCarthy, a Boston police spokesman. The agency also will help defray personnel costs associated with the event, he said.
Coakley, the emergency management spokesman, did not provide a cost estimate. “It’s tough for the city to determine an actual cost until the event has ended,” Coakley said.
Deckhand Tripp Seaman worked on the Spirit of South Carolina docked in Salem Harbor.
Brian MacQuarrie can be reached at brian.macquarrie@globe.com.

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PH21 Gallery as a new contemporary photography exhibition space was established in the Szkene Theatre at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The mission of the gallery is to provide group and solo exhibition opportunities for contemporary photographers. To this end we invite emerging and established photographers to participate in our regular calls for entries for solo and themed group exibitions.
Ph21 Gallery archives all photography exhibitions, allowing us to promote our exhibiting photographers to curators, collectors, and the viewing public.


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Kids will love the new artworks at Singapore’s largest digital art exhibition. The Nature gallery has been rebuilt from scratch to accommodate stunning interactive installations such as a six-metre-high “waterfall”, where the water’s direction changes at the slightest touch of your hand. What a fun way to learn about biodiversity! A family ticket for two adults and two kids costs $54.
Celebrate the heritage, people and places that make up Singapore’s most famous waters. Stretched across Boat Quay, Clarke Quay and Robertson Quay are festivities galore, led by a month-long LAH (“Local at Heart”) Bazaar that peddles uniquely Singaporean products. It’s also the first-ever cashless marketplace! Other highlights include Sky Aquarium @ Boat Quay, where a synchronised LED kite display of kites, lights and lasers illuminate the river skyline.
October 16 to November 11.
3 / 32 Dreamworks Find The Fun!
Poppy and Branch from popular Dreamworks animated series Trolls: The Beat Goes On! are dropping in so don’t miss their meet-and-greet sessions at the Find The Fun party. Don’t forget to catch the free screenings of other Dreamworks shows Tales of Arcadia: Trollhunters and Dragons: Race to the Edge, too.
November 12-18, Level 2 Atrium, Junction 8.
This immersive performance is inspired by the Chinese philosophies of Heaven, Earth and Man as well as Eight Tones, seeks to develop children’s awareness of diverse cultures in the world and develop values such as respect and empathy for others. There are three segments, including Man, where performers encourage babies to communicate by improvising their voices.
November 16 & 18, The Artground, Whitebox, Goodman Arts Centre.
Look forward to a line-up of family-friendly activities such as reading and storytelling sessions, writing and craft workshops, and educational experiences at this year’s Singapore Writers Festival.
Leading the fun-filled family-friendly arts programmes is Musical Notes by French troupe Compagnie des Quidams. Three quirky black and white characters on stilts will lead audiences in their musical fantasies as they dance along to different melodies. Arts in Your Neighbourhood brings together different experiences across music, dance, theatre and visual arts to cater to different ages in the community.
Look out for interactive art installations that evoke spontaneity and creativity at Rolling@TAG (The Artground), where kids aged 12 and below can discover their own expressions of “play” and hone their motor skills.
The art installations include Wave Structure, Climbing Dome, Big Slide, Mini Platform and Mini Tunnel. Filled with slopes, surface and tunnels, children can enjoy an exciting play experience as they climb through, over and under freely.
Until 30 November, Tanjong Pagar Centre.
Four legs good, two legs bad! The theme of bullying takes centre stage in this stage production of George Orwell’s novel. It is also the first to feature the young graduates of Spur, an annual programme by Act 3 Drama Academy to nurture budding thespians. Tickets cost $15 per adult or child aged seven and up.
November 20, Black Box, Drama Centre.
How does one steal Christmas? So that he gets to enjoy some peace and quiet during the festive season, the Grinch decides to pose as Santa Claus and disrupt the celebrations. He runs into Cindy Lou, who plans to trap Santa Claus on Christmas Eve so she can thank him for helping her overworked mother. This heart-warming movie about optimism and friendship stars Benedict Cumberbatch and is based on the eponymous classic by Dr Seuss.
You know the story: Princess Aurora is cursed to fall into a deep sleep for 100 years on her 16th birthday after pricking her finger, and must be awakened by a true love’s kiss. Presented by the Singapore Dance Theatre, this ballet production is set to the enchanting score by Peter Tchaikovsky performed by the Metropolitan Festival Orchestra. Tickets start from $35; concessions are available.
December 6 to 9, Esplanade Theatre.
Grab your youngsters and pop in at this horticultural adventure, which is sure to enrich and engage with its exciting line-up. Work together to win a game at A Play-Date with Plants (ages five to six), or explore the link between animals and plants through a series of games and puzzles at My Outdoor Adventures (ages 10 to 12).
Otherwise, go on a scavenger hunt and learn to create a mini garden at Green Encounters (ages seven to nine). Programmes run on various dates, with fees starting from $60; register by Nov 5.
The leading showcase for affordable contemporary art returns with a fresh plethora of local, regional and international talents featuring 80 galleries. It’s an excellent opportunity to introduce your youngsters to art. Tickets cost $18; concessions are available.
November 16 to 18, F1 Pit Building.
13 / 32 Eiichiro Oda presents Hello, One Piece Luffy is here!
One Piece is a Japanese manga adventure written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It is a story about Luffy, who forms the Straw Hat Pirates with his friends and embarks on an adventure to become the Pirate King by finding the mysterious treasure known as “One Piece”.
This exhibition is headlined by a replica of Oda’s desk, and a virtual reality experience of Oda at work. It introduces Oda’s art to both fans of One Piece and anyone who is keen to discover more about this colourful world.
November 27 to January 1, 2019, Maritime Experiential Museum at Resorts World Sentosa.
Passion@KampongGlam is a weekend series of experiences dedicated to bringing out the district’s best through a carefully curated programme of food, music and cultural activities designed to appeal to both young and old.
Activities take place from Friday to Sunday, from 4pm to 6pm, on a stage in front of the Singapore Visitor Centre on Bussorah Street. Kids will be especially delighted with games and cultural performances on Sunday.
An ancient board game has been discovered at River Safari. Play the role of an adventurer stuck in time and come face-to-face with fearsome river creatures as you attempt to escape in this exciting game quest. Designed for the family, adventurers can form groups of up to six participants to solve puzzles to escape.
Filipino conductor-arranger Gerard Salonga leads the SSO for Concert for Children, a musical showcase that seeks to teach kids to listen out for themes that represent characters and events in a musical story or picture. Suitable for kids aged from 4 to 14.
November 10 & 11, Victoria Concert Hall.
Enjoy an evening of delightful Disney tunes and catchy Christmas carols sung by the angelic voices of The Saint Marc Children’s Choir. Younger ones will be excited by songs such as When You Wish Upon A Star (Pinocchio) and Let It Go (Frozen). And since the choir is singing in French, kids will be exposed to foreign language.
November 20 & 21, Victoria Concert Hall.
Always wanted to get up close and personal with a magnificent stallion? The opportunity is here. Snap a photo, get up close and feed the horse only at United Square! Kids also get to decorate their own horseshoe! Counters will be placed to sell feed and provide craft materials at a token value, in support of Riding for the Disabled Association Singapore (RDA). All proceeds will go to RDA.
November 25, Level 1 Roundabout Driveway.
Around the world, 15 million babies are born preterm and more than a million die as a result. As part of its efforts to raise awareness of this crucial health issue, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital celebrate preemies for their strength and tenacity. Highlights include a telematch and a bubble show!
November 10, Community Plaza@ Oasis Terraces, Punggol.
Disney Tsum Tsum brings a touch of magic to the Christmas floral display at Gardens by the Bay. In this special “Poinsettia Wishes Featuring Disney Tsum Tsum” floral display, Olaf makes himself at home with a snowy landscape of poinsettias, Christmas berries and holly, while Dumbo takes flight with a sled full of presents. Admission charges to Flower Dome apply.
November 2 to January 6, 2019.
The Robocar Poli gang comes to Marina Square (which will be transformed into Brooms Town) for Christmas. Join your favourite characters Poli, Helly, Amber, Roy, Cap, Spooky and SchoolB for a festive adventure filled with kid-friendly games, colourful bites and exciting workshops.
November 17 -18 & 22-25, Central Atrium, Marina Square.
After taking in the new Disney-themed Christmas light-up along Orchard Road, take the kids to Ion Orchard, which has a gorgeous 14m-tall Cartier ferris wheel featuring its iconic red boxes. While you can’t take a ride, it’s worth queuing up for the photo booth, where you can take fun selfies and receive a free printout and e-mail copies (until Jan 1, 2019). We suggest going at night, when you can see all its 2,688 lights in their full glory.
Stop by the adjacent Christmas Park that’s made for festive OOTDs, stay for the Ion Sparklers’ energetic dances (think The Rockettes) and other entertainment (now until Dec 25). If you love art, take the family to the mall’s Virtually Versailles digital exhibition, which brings to life the splendours of French culture and history for the first time in Singapore (until Jan 6, 2019).
Learn about different species in these marsh, woodland and grass habitats in this free tour. Participants will be guided on a 3km walk through an ecologically sensitive conservation area not usually open to the public. It is not recommended for young children without supervision.
Registration is compulsory and visitors who turn up without first registering will be turned away. E-mail nparks_sbwr@nparks.gov.sg or call 67941401.
As part of an ongoing exhibition celebrating the 75th anniversary of the French classic The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince), by writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a special dark room displays five sculptures depicting characters from the book. Visitors, including the visually impaired, will get a tactile experience of the story. Free for Singaporeans and PRs.
It’s never too early to start practicing yoga, and while you can introduce this to your kids via exercises at home and YouTube tutorials, there is nothing better than working with an experienced practitioner. Sophie at So Yoga runs kids classes at various locations and her classes are suitable for kids between 6- and 9-years-old. Best of all, they are affordably priced at $20. She also runs family yoga classes on occasion (there is one on Nov 17 at Kate Porter Yoga Studio), which is a great way to bond with the kids over a restorative practice.
Do you have a budding MasterChef in your home? Treat them to a Junior Chef cooking class at ToTT. Suitable for ages 5 to 12, ToTT runs cooking classes where parents and kids can work together in a hands-on class to cook dishes like takoyaki, Harajuku crepes, confetti cupcakes, cookies and chocolate log cakes — all things the little ones will enjoy eating too. They will learn to prepare at least three dishes per class, using the state-of-the-art tools and equipment that ToTT is famed for. The kids go home with recipe print-outs and an apron. Classes are held on weekdays and weekends, at their Century Square and Suntec outlets.
Instead of wallet-draining activities, teach your kids to spend their time giving back to society and in turn they will learn to value what they have. The month-long school holidays are a good time to explore volunteer work. The Food Bank Singapore is an organisation that collects unused and unwanted food from homes and organisations, and donates it to the needy. Get involved by adopting a bank box as a family, and collect unwanted food items from within your neighbourhood, friends and community. Food Bank also recruits junior volunteers who join the Food Bank Singapore Junior’s Club. The kids will be involved in collection and donation drives, food sorting and more. The experience and learning will be priceless.
To keep your hyperactive young ones actively engaged, look no further than the gymnastics camps atThe Yard. Its two locations (Dempsey and Jurong) will run five-day intensive three-hour-long camps which are a mix of fun and training across various ages. Choose from single-activity camps and multi-activity camps and expect them to dabble in gymnastics, trampoline, parkour, ninja and freestyle programmes. The camps see kids going from drills to skills, strength to strength, with continuously monitored progress and challenges. Camps run from Monday to Friday from 9am to 12pm. All five-day campers will receive a goody bag and a certificate of completion. From Dec 17 to 21, 2018 at $380 per child.
Every Saturday from Nov 10 to Dec 15, Our Tampines Gallery is organising tons of arty-crafty activities for the young ones. No need to register, just walk in with your kids to try your hand at making a traditional game like Five Stones, or make you own works of art with paper craft. You will be learning from seniors from the Tampines area, and they will teach you old-school games and crafts that came before today’s internet games and online world. It’ll be an insightful and fun experience for your kiddos. From 2pm to 5pm.
Take Grandpa and Grandma out with the kids to visit the Mint Museum of Toys’ Back in 公 Kong’s time programme on Nov 24.
There, you’ll get to feel what it was like to be a kid growing up from the 1930s through to the 1960s – its showcase of toys and tin collectables will surely bring back sweet childhood memories for the grandparents, and your kids will enjoy bonding with them over shared stories.
This is a special tour that takes place outside the museum’s usual hours, and curator Richard Tan will be on hand to explain the history behind the toys. Usual admission charges apply.
Visit the Kinderland chain of preschools on Nov 24 from 9am to 1pm for a morning of fun activities for the little ones, including arts and crafts, storytelling, as well as music activities that showcase its music-infused curriculum. You can also find out more about its enrolment promotion there, too.
These are the participating childcare centres: Choa Chu Kang, Sengkang, Woodlands Civic Centre, Hougang, Ministry of National Development, Marine Parade, Pandan Valley and Ministry of Manpower, as well as its kindergarten in Serangoon.
In support of Grandparents Day, all grandparents enter the National Museum for free on Nov 24 and 25 – that’s all its galleries as well as ticketed exhibitions such as In an Instant: Polaroid at the Intersection of Art and Technology. Sign up for 1.5 – 8 Sensory Playdate by Home Play Singapore, where kids from 18 months old to eight years old can bond with parents and grandparents while feeding “birds” at sensory trays and creating a play dough collage. Or be among the first 15 kids to queue for a special storytelling session by great-grandmother Eliza Quek, who will help them discover more about the museum’s William Farquhar Collection of natural history drawings. Visit its website for a full list of activities.


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due to the involvement of regional powers.
World powers have agreed to push for a cessation of hostilities in a weeks time.
Mr Assad expressed support for peace talks but said negotiations did not mean "we stop fighting terrorism".
US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Mr Assad was "deluded" if he thought there was a military solution to the conflict.
More than 250,000 people have been killed and some 11 million displaced in almost five years of fighting in Syria.
Some Syrian cities have been cut off from humanitarian aid for more than a year because of fighting. About 13.5 million people are in need of aid, the UN says.
What does truce deal amount to?
Mr Assad was speaking in Damascus on Thursday, ahead of the deal on the cessation of hostilities that was agreed in Munich late on Thursday night.
He said government forces would try to retake all of Syria "without any hesitation", but that the involvement of regional powers meant that "the solution will take a long time and will incur a heavy price".
Syrian government forces, backed by Russian air strikes, have almost encircled rebels in parts of the northern city of Aleppo and cut off their main supply route from the Turkish border.
Media captionLyse Doucet: "Moscow says its fighting terrorists; the West says its mainly bolstering the Syrian military in its fight against the rebels"
Mr Assad told AFP that if all rebel supply routes from Turkey, Jordan and Iraq were cut, the countrys "problem" could be solved in less than a year.
Mr Assad rejected recent accusations by the UN that his government was guilty of war crimes.
Earlier this month, UN human rights investigators said the Syrian government had carried out a state policy of extermination against thousands of detainees.
In a report for the UN Human Rights Council, they accused the Syrian government of crimes against humanity. The report also said government and rebel forces had committed possible war crimes.
But Mr Assad called the accusations "politicised" and said the investigators had provided no evidence.
Tentative peace talks were held in Geneva earlier this month and have been "paused" until 25 February.
Mr Assad said he "fully believed in negotiations and in political action since the beginning of the crisis."
"However, if we negotiate, it does not mean that we stop fighting terrorism. The two tracks are inevitable in Syria," he said.
He also told AFP he believed there was a risk that Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which both back Syrian rebel forces, would intervene militarily in Syria.
Tens of thousands of people have fled the fighting around Aleppo, raising fears of a humanitarian crisis.
Many have headed to the Turkish border but have not been allowed to cross. Instead, Turkey says it will support the refugees on the Syrian side of the border.
Both Turkey and the European Union fear those displaced could add to the hundreds of thousands making the often perilous journey to Europe to seek asylum.
Mr Assad said European governments had caused the migration crisis "by giving cover to terrorists in the beginning and through sanctions imposed on Syria".
"I would like to ask every person who left Syria to come back," he said. "They would ask why should I come back? Has terrorism stopped?."
Meanwhile, a new UN task force set up to co-ordinate aid distributions is expected to convene in Geneva later on Friday.
Riad Hijab, co-ordinator of Syrias main opposition bloc, told the BBCs Newsnight programme that to announce a cessation of hostilities before making progress in the political process "is not realistic, objective or logical".
"It only satisfies the Russian demand to preserve gains by Russian and Iranian forces through their scorched-earth policy against rebels in territories under their control," he said.
Iran, Russia and Lebanons Hezbollah movement are propping up the Alawite-led Assad government, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar back the more moderate Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the US, UK and France. Hezbollah and Iran are believed to have troops and officers on the ground, while a Western-led coalition and Russia are carrying out air strikes.


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The other day I was walking to the train station in the city and I heard a new born baby cry. Being a mum I couldn't turn around quick enough to see the tiny bundle. As I turned around the newborn vomited all over mum and I could help but giggle to myself, only months earlier this was me and bringing back those memories of what I thought was torture I now miss.
Reflux is quite common in newborns and most infants grow out of it by the time they are 9 months but when going through it as a parent it can be exhausting. Reflux can be quite varied with infants having little spit ups and to infants like my husband who would scream all day/night long and only sleep in 20 minute intervals. fortunately, my son James wasn't that bad and he would cry for a while until he vomited then he settled down.
I remember going grocery shopping once and I had James in the baby carrier, half way through the shop he vomited everywhere, all down my top, my face, in my hair it wasn't pretty but I was that tired and at that point I didn't care what I looked like so I cleaned him up and wiped most of the visible vomit off me with the cloth diapers I used for vomit wipe ups and kept going because you get to a point as a parent you just need to get things done.
1. Cloth Nappies (cheap ones from Big W or Kmart) great for putting over your shoulder, in between you and baby in the carrier (this will help you) cleaning up vomit.
2. Water Bottle - Take a spare water bottle when you’re out if vomit reaches the ground then use this to water it down.
3. Dummies - this is your choice but after a bottle it helped sooth James reflux they say the sucking keeps it down.
4. Comforter's - It just provides an extra level of comfort remember to have multiple on hand when you’re out.
6. Baby Wipes - Make sure you have ample in your Nappy bag when you’re out and about not just for the baby but for yourself.
10. Pillow wedge - this was great to keep him upright while feeding, also I used it a few times and put it under his mattress in his bassinet to keep upright during the night after a feed until he goes to sleep.
There you have it my top ten reflux essentials that helped me get through 11 months on constant reflux, it breaks your heart to see your child in pain but at least you can be prepared. Please share your essentials for reflux with comments below.
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More than forty years ago I began my career developing leadership on the Navajo Reservation in northwest Arizona. The leadership development skills learned, and applied there led to new expressions which opened over time.
I was privileged to participate in the development of business and charity leaders in more than a dozen countries. While I started out focused on non-profits, and maintained a majority interest in that sector, the business world offered many opportunities. While the objectives are different, the principles of leadership, human development, and resource management are the same in both sectors.
I don’t recall exactly when I sold my first article, but it was sometime in the 70’s. Since then, I have written and consulted for Woodcraft magazine, Classic Auto Restorer, Thousand Trails Campgrounds, World MAP, the Methodist Churches of Cuba, Ten Tables Restaurant, the Equation Gallery and Restaurant, and many more.
Having spent the last 7 years on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, I am living now with my wife in southwest Florida. JackDunigan.com is a site in process. I will be adding from my files of past materials and new works.


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On Friday I was having Life Skills class with the 8th graders in a different part of the building. We were doing a circle game and needed an open space for it. A couple of the kids who had gotten eliminated from the game were horsing around, and one of them went against the wall too hard. She broke through the drywall.
We’re going to make it right. The two horse-play kids are staying after school tomorrow, when they’ll help me get a new piece of drywall screwed in, and get the first layer of patching compound on. I’m going to do the mud-job on this very slowly and in layers. It’s a high-traffic area, so it needs to look smooth.
Well, there’s your next Life Skills topic. You’re doing the right thing and they’ll thank you for it someday.
1. Amen to showing/teaching students how to repair these sort of things – I would bet this isn’t the only time this has/will happen. Her parents should thank you for that.
2. She?! Hope this serves as a lesson to any who were possibly thinking of “messing” with this young lady.


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Magnetizing is the ability to create by choice what you want in your life. You decide what you want and then by using the principles of magnetizing you bring what you want to you. Magnetizing is a new way of viewing the world. To magnetize successfully, you need to view the glass as half-full!
Many of us think there is a lack – lack of money, time, freedom, love, health, food, etc. We don’t get what we want and then we say, “see, I told you… there isn’t enough of that for me”. What we believe and continue to feel is what we get. We are being a magnet and attracting more of what it is we believe and focus on: lack! In order to magnetize what you really want, you must be willing to let go of your existing beliefs around scarcity and lack. There is abundance and you simply choose what you want, and when you receive it, you know there is plenty more where that came from.
I hear a similar pattern in all those who are not yet magnetic. They believe there is never enough or they’ll never have what they want, and instead of acting like a magnet, they act like a repellent. They hold a deep belief that they don’t deserve things, and they really won’t get what they want. This belief interferes with the magnet’s ability to pull in.
The best way to practice focusing your thoughts is to spend some time each day quieting the mind. The best way to turn off the babbling is to spend time simply being quiet and breathing deeply while you practice focusing your attention solely on your desires. You can do a formal process or meditation if you wish. During this process, creatively visualize what it is you want to attract to your life with your “magnet”.
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text: "Branding, to be crass, is a means of selling a place –a building, a district or a city. Capitalising on image demands metrics, and metrics imply control – of the image, the message and, ultimately, the men and women who flesh out the image: us. In the end, the most important metrics in city branding are increases in property values and tourist spending. Yet these are not necessarily good for city dwellers, especially rental tenants and people who depend on public services that may be underfunded while municipal budgets are diverted to creating and maintaining tourist attractions."

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Tip Top Auction software is web-based, giving your auction team the freedom to work wherever, whenever they wish, from any computer, tablet, or smartphone.
We've included everything you need to run a fundraising gala auction—from ticket sales to credit-card processing—and nothing you don't.
We offer one plan with everything you need, so you can spend your time building your auction, instead of comparing features on a pricing grid.


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The bicycle park is the new entertainment in this resort. The aim of it is to increase the interest of guests during the summer.
There are many tracks that change and improve every year. The hosts have made 4 types of tracks and have endeavored to meet the requirements for all levels of complexity.
The Stoykite Trail is for beginners. It is 5.4 km long. and is suitable for photo tours and family walks. There are three intermediate routes that are marked on the map in blue. The yellow trail was opened in 2013, it must be tested. For the most advanced there are red trails, and for real pros and black.
If you do not have your own bikes, you can rent without difficulty.


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You can reset your master account password using these forms. You may only send one reset request per hour. This only works for master accounts, not individual clan accounts. Always link your clan account to a master account!
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text: The North Canton City Schools Business Operations Department is in charge of all non-instructional areas of the school district. The three main areas include: Transportation, Food Service and Custodial/Maintenance. The department also oversees the district's approximately 300 Classified employees.


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Considering the benefits rendered by lemon oil, it is also an essential part of aromatherapy. It lifts up the spirits and has a cooling and refreshing effect. The effect of the oil is such that it also helps in decision making, provides emotional stability to an individual and aids him/her to fight depression and fear. Lemon aromatherapy massage from this oil improves clarity and concentration. Apart from this, it is also a great healer for skin problems and is a great way to treat dandruff, dead skin and improves the user's complexion.
mind and soul of an individual, leaving him/her feeling fresh and healthy.


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Aspect ratio = screen size. 1.33:1, 2.40:1, etc, a simple ratio of width of the screen to the height of the screen.
Anamorphic Widescreen = automatically squeezing/stretching a widescreen DVD video to fit a 16:9 widescreen television.
Non-Anamorphic Widescreen = no squeezing/stretching of DVD video.
Since these days 16:9 widescreen monitors are normal commonplace, I will only show examples of DVDs played back in relation to a 16:9 widescreen monitor.
In addition, there are other varying aspect ratios - 1.19:1, 1.37:1, 2.35:1, 2.76:1, etc.
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Hearing about the June 3, 1980, Grand Island tornadoes gave author Ivy Ruckman goosebumps.
That's when she knew she had to write "Night of the Twisters" based on the experiences of her cousin, Florence Rozendal of 822 E. Bismark.
Ruckman, a Hastings native who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, spoke about the process of writing the children's book Saturday morning at College Park, then led a writing workshop for students Saturday afternoon. The Central Nebraska Reading Council sponsored her appearance. Ruckman has written 14 published books.
"All of these books but two began with goosebumps," Ruckman said.
Ruckman's idea for the book started on June 4, 1980. She turned on the radio in her car and heard Grand Island, Neb., mentioned. She had recently been in Grand Island.
"I reached over and turned up the volume. The newscast said Grand Island had about been destroyed. They were saying 30 to 35 were dead," Ruckman said.
She tried calling her cousin as soon as she got home but couldn't get through. She didn't know whether Florence had survived until several days later, after a police officer pulled up to Florence's mother's home in Hastings and said she was alive.
Ruckman talked to her cousin 10 days after the tornadoes.
"For over an hour, we talked. My legs were covered with goosebumps," Ruckman said.
Florence Rozendal was sewing a dress at her kitchen table the night of June 3, 1980. Her children kept asking her when they were going to go to the basement because of the bad weather. Her husband, Harley, was standing outside.
They didn't head for their basement until after they heard sucking sounds from their drains.
"She felt as if she had vacuums pulling on both ears," Ruckman said.
Florence ran to a bedroom and grabbed her infant son, Ryan. Rozendals have two other children, Cindy and Mark. The book is dedicated to the children and to Tia, their cat, who disappeared after the tornadoes. Florence got caught in a mobile above Ryan's bed and pulled it away from the ceiling. Harley came inside.
"They all got right into the shower (in the basement), and thereby saved their lives," Ruckman said.
Ruckman tried to get her cousin to write an account of her experiences for Reader's Digest, which paid $1,000 for first-person reports. After that didn't occur, Ruckman decided to write the book because no one had written a children's book about tornadoes.
Ruckman read from an Oct. 13, 1981, letter to her from Florence.
"Just before the tornado hit our house, the wind kind of died down and a small amount of hail fell. The bathroom drains started making a sucking sound just before the tornado hit our house. It sounded as if the furniture was being moved about above us, and then the windows and glass started breaking. Soon some of the sheetrock on the ceiling fell in on Ryan and me. That is when we got into the shower, and then there was a big sucking, vacuum feeling, very intense in my ears and the roof and everything above us was gone," Rozendal wrote.
"The sound of the tornado was much like that of a train, and I did not notice the intensity very much. I know that it was not at all what I expected a tornado to be. I always figured they came in a sudden whoosh and left quickly. This one was slower moving than most, but it just seemed to hover over us what seemed like hours," Rozendal wrote.
Ruckman began researching tornadoes and traveled to Grand Island in May 1982 for background work on the book. The first person she interviewed was Don Davis, a Grand Island meteorologist. Ruckman wanted to talk to Kelly Buck, a Hall County sheriff's deputy who had spotted the first tornado in northwest Grand Island.
"I didn't get to meet him," Ruckman said as she started to cry. "He had died about two months before of a brain tumor that was inoperable."
Ruckman did talk to Buck's sister and got permission to use Buck's badge number in the book. She also interviewed Dodge Elementary School students who had lost their homes because of the tornadoes.
Ruckman talked about the structure of her book. The main character, Dan Hatch, was fictional.
"I didn't want to use a real neighborhood in Grand Island," Ruckman said.
So she created a neighborhood, including Sand Crane Drive and Fonda Way.
Many parts of the book are based on Rozendals' experiences.
Ruckman read from her first rejection letter for the book, dated Nov. 30, 1982. After receiving it, she rewrote parts of the book. Ruckman asked the audience to remember an Isaac Asminov quote, "Writing is rewriting."
After Ruckman's husband died in 1983 in a mountain climbing accident, she relied on income from writing and speaking engagements to support herself.
Ruckman then showed slides concerning the June 1980 tornadoes taken by Grand Island photographer Hal Maggiore. Ruckman has shown the slides during presentations she'd made about the book.
"The book has taken me everywhere," she said. "I didn't have to go back to teaching to support myself."
She once calculated that she was meeting 30,000 children a year because of her presentations about writing. Writing the book identified her as a writer. She received $3,500 as an advance for "Night of the Twisters" and another $1,500 for a paperback version. She said she continues to receive "a small but steady royalty income" from the book.
Ruckman showed slides describing production of a TV version of "Night of the Twisters," filmed in Canada.
She gave a two-hour workshop for 17 students Saturday afternoon. Ruckman offered tips on writing dialogue, then had students write dialogue based on the premise of two children taking makeup tests in a second-story school library on a Friday afternoon and locked in after the librarian left for the weekend. Students then read their work, and Ruckman gave tips.


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When you're thinking about how to have the perfect vacation possible, it's very important for you to think about everything. When you know that you have been able to put everything into place, you are able to get lots of advantages and that is why proper planning is required. Knowing the exact number of people that will be going will help with logistics and that's one of the things that you have to check. One of the things that you're going to have to do would be to focus on your accommodation, you should be able to know how to do this in the most effective way possible. Putting everything into perspective is usually very important especially when it comes to accommodation, it helps you a lot. Staying in a hotel is usually one of the options that quite a number of people use but there are also alternatives. While it might seem that the hotel is going to give you so many as options like the use of cabin rentals can give you much more advantageous. Today, there are a number of companies and organizations that are providing cabin rentals and getting them is easy. When it comes to twain harte cabins rentals, choosing the best type will be very important and you have to take your time to look at your choices.
Choosing your destination will be one of the most important things before trying to look for cabin rentals. Being able to do online booking is one of the best things, your space is going to be reserved for you. This article is going to discuss some of the main reasons why you should be considering the use of giving rentals. Cabin rentals are usually very spacious and this is one of the biggest advantages, you will not be crowded in any way whether you are alone or with your family. You will also be able to get very good facilities like water, power bathrooms and everything else that is required. The kind of furniture that is usually there will be most of the time, traditional furniture and it will be a great and unique experience. Be sure to plan a trip today!
The location of most of the cabin rentals is usually perfect in terms of the peace and quiet that you will be able to enjoy. When you are able to get that peace and quiet, it is good for you to relax because that is the reason why you go on vacation in the first place. The other reason why cabin rentals are also much better is that you do not have to pay so much money for them, they are quite affordable. Check out this website at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_cabin for more info about cabin rentals.


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Since this is my first post on this blog, let me give a disclaimer about the content I will provide.This is a blog centered on items from the “Recently Added,” or “New Releases,” sections of Netflix. I am not going to give entire plot summaries and I’m not going to spoil you the satisfaction one should receive from watching a film. I will be giving a review that is specific ,enough to create an idea of what the movie is, but vague enough so that you will still want to watch it.
“An Honest Liar,” Directed by Justin Weinstein and Tyler Measom.
This 90-minute documentary centers around the life of James “The Amazing” Randi, a magician contempt on showing the brilliance and evil of deceiving people. Looking back on his life at 86 years old, Randi narrates in detail, while the filmmakers double it with actual footage of the stories he tells. Along with intervals of present-day interviews with Randi, the film mirrors his quest of revealing who are wrongly deceiving people for profit in America, with the struggles he experiences now. The film does a great job at presenting the life of Randi in a way that shows people who he is through his work, while at the same time presenting a mindset that Randi thinks one should have while going through life. Randi creates an ideology in the watcher that magic is exactly what it should be, a form of deception. He claims that magicians use it solely for entertainment. Randi looks to prove how people who claim that they really do have paranormal powers are just playing on the deception of humanity.
Final Review: 9/10: A great documentary that will make you think.


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How can i use combination of both -nct and -nt in GATK?
Question: How can i use combination of both -nct and -nt in GATK?
Is there any way to use -nct and -nt both to speed up the computation in GATK pipeline?
Hi mandecent.gupta, please stop posting these kind of low-efford one-liner questions. If you seek help, please take the time to put together a proper question that gives some details on what you want to do, where the parameters in your question come from and what you have tried so far. People here are generally happy to help with all kinds of problems, but that requires some motivation in the form of a decent and elaborate question. Looking at your posting history, this has mostly not been the case. For the future, please read and follow How To Ask Good Questions On Technical And Scientific Forums.
Please invest some effort before you ask people for help. It helps your credibility when we can see that you've tried your best. The current situation makes you look lazy.
ChIP-seq: To use IDR, samples have to pass both tests or is it enough to pass the pseudo-replicate test?

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Girl, you are a freaking badass!
This tumbler holds 22 oz., has a matte black lid that you can sip from, and also comes with a matching straw.
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LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Walt Disney overhauled its struggling interactive division in a sweeping reorganization that will reduce the number of video games it develops and alter its advertising strategy to focus more on the fast-changing mobile market.
As part of the revamp, Disney will lay off 700 employees, roughly one-quarter of the interactive division, according to a person with knowledge of the layoffs. A Disney spokeswoman would not confirm the number.
Disney’s games and online division has for years been a persistent money loser and a small but significant drag on a corporate empire that spans movie-making and television to cable network ESPN, theme parks and cruise lines.
As with other major game publishing houses, Disney has been trying to keep up with rapidly shifting consumer preferences and an explosion in mobile gaming worldwide. In 2010, it bought mobile game developer Playdom for over $500 million, an acquisition that has yet to bear significant fruit.
Last year, Disney Interactive lost $87 million as revenues rose 26 percent from 2012; the division has lost a total in recent years of more than $1 billion.
In Disney’s fiscal first quarter that ended on December 28, the unit reported $55 million in operating income.
Disney now plans to license most of its games to earn additional revenue, Pitaro said.
It will continue to develop games and content for its “Infinity” platform, a combination video game and toy line; it has sold more than 3 million copies of the platform globally since its August release.
That line, which echoes Activision Blizzard Inc’s “Skylanders” product, is viewed as a pivotal element in Disney’s effort to revive the interactive division.
Disney will continue to make kid-friendly mobile games and short videos for YouTube, Disney.com and elsewhere, Pitaro said.
The company also intends to adjust its online strategy and streamline its diverse websites.
It will close two smaller sites, Spoonful.com and BabyZone.com, and revamp Disney.com to use its primary website more as a promotional site for its retail, parks and other businesses.
Disney will continue to generate advertising revenues from Disney.com and will increase the amount of content it produces in conjunction with sponsors, Pitaro said.
For instance, Disney produced a 38-minute video with Google called “Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story.” In December, it announced it would make a series of animated shorts with Rosetta Stone that Pitaro said would be the model for future joint efforts.


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....Please stay the **** off TWITTER!!!!!
I don't know what is worse. That she totally misrepresented his political viewpoints or that she gushed about his achievements at boot camp!
Hey, don't diminish the honor of the "UNITED SERVICES ORGANIZATION SHIPMATE AWARD" which is presented to the graduating recruit whose enthusiasm, supportive attitude and willingness to help others during their training period exceeded Navy training standards. Sorta like the "Miss Congeniality" of Navy boot camp.
They make a big deal about it and other awards.
But do they get a gong for it?
Of course. Well, actually a ribbon, no medal attached. The Navy Basic Military Training Honor Graduate Ribbon.
One is perhaps lucky to have a mother who is not technologically sophisticated.
My mother is an early childhood educator (semi-retired), so she didn't need a high level of technological sophistication. This means that I get to practice the skills she taught me about teaching with her as a very willing subject. Besides, I much prefer receiving physical letters rather than e-mail from family.