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Wader Quest: Let's try to make it £1000 by the time we should have been back from Australia/New Zealand!!!!
Let's try to make it £1000 by the time we should have been back from Australia/New Zealand!!!!
We were due to fly to Australia tonight (looks like we would have had a terrible journey anyway) moving on to New Zealand and then back to Australia before returning to the UK.
We have received £777 so far, which is fantastic, thank you to everyone who has donated (see list below). Let's see if we can make it to £1000 by the time we should have got back from our trip on the 22nd of February!
Just think. If you and everyone you know just gave a couple of pounds, we'd soon be on our way.
So Please! Find a few quid for the spoonies.
Visit the just giving website http://www.justgiving.com/waderquest or click on the "CLICK HERE TO DONATE AND SAVE A SPOONIE" link on the right margin of this page and give as much as you can. Thank you!
IMPORTANT REMINDER: EVERY PENNY DONATED GOES TO THE WWT, NONE IS USED TO FINANCE WADER QUEST!!!
Thank you to all those listed below who have donated so far.
Anonymous: Here's a start for you good luck!!
Juha Honkala: A great challenge for a great cause! I hope 2013 will be successful for Spoon-billed Sandpiper and you two as well. Good luck Rick and Elis!
Martin: Good Luck! I hope to see you protecting the Waders!
Pawasut Chatmaleerat: Great, as a thai citizen it'd be great to see the last refuge of the waders protected.
Jeremy Minns: Good luck and I look forward to seeing Elis' photo of a spoonie.
Lee and Rachel: Wishing you the very best of luck with your Wader Quest. It's a great idea and we'll be checking out the blog regularly.
Oliver Simms: Good luck. Looking forward to reading about your adventures.
Chrissie: Very best of luck with your venture and look forward to reading about it.
Gyorgy Szimuly: I'm happy to donate your initiative even if this is a minor amount. It could be considerably more if many of us would donate.
Olli Haukkovaara: I'm also happy to donate and I hope that Spoon-billed Sandpiper will survive from extinction. Keep up the good work Rick and Elis!
Jeff Skrentny: Please accept this modest donation with hopes your work makes a difference soon enough. It remains a dream see a Spoon-billed Sandpiper in the wild.
Bruce Lombardo: Keep up the good work, Rick. I saw a spoonie once. He was a little lost on the east coast of the U.S. during migration. Please save them. Good luck!
The Grey Phalarope family (Graham, Helly and Katie Horrocks): Good luck with the Quest.
'Rocky' the Piping Plover and Western Sandpiper.
Dave and Norma Park: Thanks for your recent help with our trip to Brazil. Good luck with Waderquest.
Adrian and Pat Childs: Good luck with spoon-billed sandpiper quest. Pat & Adrian Childs.
Sue Smith: Enjoyed your talk on Wader Quest and Spoonbill Conservation tonight at the San Diego Field Ornithologists' meeting. Good luck with WaderQuest.
Hudsonian Whimbrel, Marbled Godwit and the back end of a 'Western' Willet.
David and Claire Simpson: Great work! Good luck with the Wader Quest!
Marc Hughes: Good to meet you at the P Sands. Good luck with the quest. My son, Aled is doing a talk on S-p sandpipers in school next week, inspired by your story.


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Breast cancer has relatively high incidence and survival rates, demonstrating that there is an ever-increasing population of survivors in the United States. These women frequently suffer from ongoing cognitive dysfunction, which hinders memory, work performance, and ability to complete activities of daily living. Exercise has been shown to improve results on objective cognitive tests in several clinical populations, but this has not been studied among recent breast cancer survivors. PURPOSE: This study was conducted to determine whether aerobic exercise is an effective intervention for improving cognition among recent breast cancer survivors. METHODS: Twenty breast cancer survivors who completed their primary treatment in the past 3 months were randomly assigned to 12 weeks of an aerobic exercise intervention (INT) or a sedentary control group (CON). The intervention group attended moderately intense exercise classes, 3 days each week, while the control group maintained their normal, inactive lifestyle. All participants completed pre/post cognitive testing utilizing the Trail Making Test (TMT-A), Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWAT), and Design Fluency Trials 1-3 (DF1, DF2, DF3). Data was analyzed with repeated measures ANOVA. RESULTS: Executive function increased in INT vs. CON on scaled scores (SS) from DF1 (CON 11.71±3.5 vs. 10.86±3.0; INT 11.69±4.3 vs. 13.92±3.7, p=0.44). There was also a trend toward greater improvement in INT vs. CON on DF1+DF2 SS (CON 11.29±2.6 vs. 11.57±2.6; INT 12.23±3.4 vs. 14.38±3.4, p=0.178) and on DF1+DF2+DF3 SS (CON 11.43±2.4 vs. 11.86±2.7; INT 12.46±3.3 vs. 13.92±3.3, p=0.364). Education adjusted scores of attention and processing speed on TMT-A did not improve significantly in either group, but showed a slight trend toward greater speed in INT vs. CON (CON 25.12±8.6 vs. 24.39±9.8; INT 25.49±7.5 vs. 22.28±5.5, p=0.459). COWAT scores of verbal fluency did not appear to be affected by aerobic exercise (CON 37.43±14.8 vs. 36.43±15.8; INT 47.69±16.5 vs. 51.46±18.3, p=0.264). CONCLUSIONS: Aerobic exercise can improve several domains of cognitive function in breast cancer survivors when compared to usual care. Given a longer time-frame and larger sample size, these benefits would likely be more pronounced.
Funded by the Margaret M. Hard Research Award and the James and Diann Robbers Student Research Award.
Larsen, J and Knuth, J (2016) "EFFECTS OF AEROBIC EXERCISE ON COGNITIVE OUTCOMES AMONG BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS," International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings: Vol. 8 : Iss. 4 , Article 74.

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The Vintage V6 Thomas Blug Signature Guitar has several interesting features, including the meticulously-aged 'Summer of Love' artwork by German artist Daniel Hahn, and Thomas' beloved Bukka switch, operated by a push/push pot on the back tone control, which provides a hum-cancelling, subtly tone-altering extra dummy coil when needed.
"I wanted a guitar that looks cool - like Hendrix's, but with all the features of my signature Vintage Icon V6 guitar," said Blug. "And it had to play like all the guitars I usually play: pickups in the same position and not a reversed body." Vintage worked to meet all his requests, producing a guitar with the same top-quality specs as his original Vintage signature, itself based on his treasured Olympic White '61.
The V6 has an alder body and a hard maple neck. The rosewood fingerboard has 21 frets and dot position inlays.

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The TruAudio and Forge D-Tools product catalogs have been completely updated to show new products as of January 2013. This includes the addition of new products, as well as the identification of old products as discontinued.
Users of SIX and SI5 can download the updated information via the download browser in System Integrator.

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It looks as if Seth MacFarlane and Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke are no longer playing the game of love.
At least not with each other.
E! News has learned that the 39-year-old Family Guy funnyman and the 25-year-old actress have parted ways.
"They are no longer dating," a source tells E! News. "It was really a location challenge. She has been in Europe shooting Game of Thrones and he is based in California, so it was hard to make it work despite the distance. They have remained friends."
MacFarlane most recently hosted this year's Oscars while Clarke will soon be seen on Broadway in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
A rep for MacFarlane could not be reached for comment.

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Kerstin Heather features tiny spikes of fuchsia bell-shaped flowers at the ends of the branches from mid summer to mid fall. It has attractive grayish green foliage. The needles are highly ornamental and remain grayish green throughout the winter. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.
Kerstin Heather is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a mounded form. It lends an extremely fine and delicate texture to the landscape composition which should be used to full effect.
Kerstin Heather will grow to be about 8 inches tall at maturity extending to 12 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 18 inches. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.
Kerstin Heather makes a fine choice for the outdoor landscape, but it is also well-suited for use in outdoor pots and containers. It is often used as a 'filler' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, providing a mass of flowers and foliage against which the thriller plants stand out. Note that when grown in a container, it may not perform exactly as indicated on the tag - this is to be expected. Also note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.

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Monday, September 5, 2016 – At 158 kilometres, stage 16 in the Vuelta a España leads from Alcañiz to Peñíscola. The first half of the race is uphill before a long drop takes the riders to 20 flat closing kilometres.
Stage 16 in the Vuelta a España is something of a present for the fast men who are still on board. Of course they have to climb (after all, we are in Spain), but at the the end of the road a fast and flat arrival at the shores of the Mediterranean offers them a perfect chance to shine.

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FREEPORT, ILLINOIS — Mark your calendars for the Coddiwomple Cardboard Challenge, a fun family interaction event set to take place in the new year for Freeport Elementary School families. Come share a morning together making an epic piece of art on Saturday, January 19th from 9 to 11 AM at Carl Sandburg School. The word “coddiwomple” means ‘to move purposefully toward a vague destination.’ Materials will be provided and art teachers will be on hand.
Pre-registration will be required. Forms are available through your child’s school. Note that parents/guardians must accompany their children to this event.
Note: The location of this event has been changed to Carl Sandburg School, not Empire Elementary School as previously publicized.


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> B Channels > Veritas Netbackup 8.1.2 Top Reasons to Upgrade.
With NetBackup™ 8.1.2, the most common activities can now be accomplished within a few clicks or touches, thanks to the new intuitive, web-based UI. Authorize secure, self-serve access for a variety of other users with different roles from your desktop or mobile device.
Not ready to switch to the new UI just yet? The classic NetBackup UI is still there for you.

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When I went on holiday recently I chose five books from my recent downloads to read (a lot of my random e-book reading are from the "free" section of Amazon with paid downloads being true recommendations from friends). Two of them were never started, the other three were a glorious surprise.
The first book I completed was 48 Hours : A City Of London Thriller by J Jackson Bentley. It was free when I downloaded it (and, at the time of writing, still is free). The plot was unpredictable and kept me glued to the book. When you thought it was concluding you realised there was loads more of the book left and another twist happened. My only criticism is that one of the characters is literally Bob Geldof with a name change - there should have been more originality with this character because it still would have worked. I'm glad to have discovered this author and will probably be downloading more from him.
Next was The Last Day which has been written by a very good blogger friend of mine, Emily Organ. Emily was offering this as a free download just after publication so I grabbed a copy (at the time of writing, this is available for £1.75). I love that it was set in the 80s and the cultural references are spot on. The story is set during just one day and hinges on the fact that the main character had a premonition about the day that he was going to die. A really unique plot with an unusual ending.
Finally, and probably my most favourite book, was No Tears For The Clown : An Autobiography by Les Dawson (I can't remember if I paid for this download but it's currently priced at £2.99). Les lived in St Annes in Lancashire which is where I grew up for part of my childhood so many of the references to the town are places that I know well. This part of his autobiography is based around his first wife's death and his new relationship with Tracy and it's good to hear his side of the story, especially as the media version is so different. I kept reading parts of this book out to my husband because of references to locations and events that have also been a big part of my life. The book finishes with the birth of his daughter, Charlotte and, as we all know, he didn't live for very long after that. I would love to have read a conclusive chapter from Tracy (or even a book of her own about her life with Les).
As you may have gathered, much of my holiday was spent with my Kindle in my hand, which was perfect for me (and I mention it in this video). It also made me realise that I haven't been reading much recently which is something I've already rectified although I'm dreading starting The Fault In Our Stars because I'm probably going to cry all the tears.
What books would you recommend to me for the rest of my Summer reading?

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Robert Moore, PhD. 6 hours 5 minutes. Audio.
The Magician is the archetype of awareness, inner work, initiation, and healing. Without adequate access to this psychological resource a man will sleepwalk through his life, never asking the questions which can liberate him from his credulity and naivete. He needs the magician within, "the inner shaman", to help him wake up, to give him the keys to access the various inner spaces of the masculine personality, and to help him serve responsibly as a ritual elder for other men.
Ⓟ 1990 C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago.


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Tucked between Dallas and Fort Worth, Arlington is known as the Entertainment Capital of TX thanks to a wide array of sporting venues, theme parks and shopping complexes. Situated near Interstate 20, Highway 360 and UTA, the apartments at Arbrook Park offer easy access to some of the most exciting destinations in the state.
At the Arlington Highlands, an expansive outdoor market and office park, you can shop at your favorite stores, dine at delectable restaurants and laugh along with your friends at a comedy club. With major department stores, a movie theatre, an ice-skating rink and popular eateries, The Parks Mall at Arlington truly offers something for everyone.
Sports fans will love living near the home of the Dallas Cowboys, AT&T Stadium, and Texas Live, an upcoming dining, retail and entertainment complex around the Texas Rangers’ Globe Life Park. Sprawling amusement parks such as Six Flags over Texas and Hurricane Harbor offer the perfect destinations for thrill-seekers of all ages. As a resident of Arbrook Park, you are also just minutes from the University of Texas at Arlington, the fourth largest public university in the state.
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An electrician is a person who installs, maintains, and fixes electrical equipment in buildings, houses, offices, etc. In today’s world, electricity is one of the basic requirements, and hence, there is always a demand for good electricians by power supplying companies. An electrician resume includes his education, qualification, skills, past experiences, etc. that are essential for the job. Word Resume Samples gives great examples of how such a resume should be designed for best effect.
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The job of an electrician requires a lot of skill and training. An electrician resume should include all such details. Word resume samples, with HVAC Resume Samples, provide a great example as to what an electrician resume should contain, and how it should be designed to impress the recruiters.

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Lebanon awaits winner in regional war: Shias or Sunnis? Iran, Saudi Arabia or Isis?
This week Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese Shia party Hezbollah, decried Saudi Arabia’s “tyrannical, criminal, terrorist and takfiri face” after the Saudis beheaded the leading Shia cleric, Ayatollah Nimr al-Nimr. In response, Ahmad Fatfat, an official in Lebanon’s mainly Sunni Future movement, called Hezbollah “an Iranian militia” that wanted to “take control of Lebanon”.
In neighbour Syria, where the death toll has passed 250,000 in four years, the Islamic State (Isis) this week released its latest video, showing the execution of five “spies”. Meanwhile, Israel shelled south Lebanon after Hezbollah bombed Israeli soldiers in a disputed area along the Israel-Lebanon-Syria border. Barely noticed, the UN put the death toll in Yemen at nearly 2,800 after nine months of fighting.
And that’s all just since last Saturday. In Lebanon in 2015, there were suicide car bombs claimed by Isis, popular ‘You Stink’ protests against the government that were crushed by security police, fighting between Islamist and other factions in Palestinian refugee camps, and the sentencing of a former minister for importing explosives to kill politicians and religious figures.
Ordinary Lebanese are bewildered, their population of around 4.5 million swelled by over 1.5 million Syrian refugees. Mountains of rubbish and electricity cuts are tangible consequences of government corruption and incompetence. There has been a political crisis with the presidency vacant since Michel Sleiman’s term expired in 2014, and paralysis in government for far longer.
Just across the border in Syria, Russia and Iran are backing president Bashar al-Assad, from the minority Alawi sect, against a collection of rebels who are mainly Sunni and have various degrees of support from the authorities and non-governmental groups in Saudi Arabia and other Arab Gulf countries.
There are Lebanese from Hezbollah and Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) fighting alongside Assad, while on the other side Lebanese Sunnis have joined the rebels. So far, the violence has spilled over only occasionally into Lebanon.
Lebanon has 18 distinct religious sects. Most parties are based on sect and linked to regional interests – the mainly Sunni party Mustaqbal to the Saudis, the Shia parties Amal and Hezbollah to Iran. Lebanon’s Christians, largely hostile before 2005 to Syrian dominance in Lebanon, are now unsure where to turn: some sense Assad and Hezbollah are a better bet than militant Sunnis like Isis, and one Christian leader, Michael Aoun, is openly allied to the ‘party of God’.
The problem in waiting for the end of the regional war is that there seems no sign of how and when it will end. Or if anyone will win it; or even if anyone will ‘win’ in Syria.
Both Hezbollah and Iran have lost ‘martyrs’ in Syrian – just over 1,000 Lebanese Hezbollahis according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 400 Iranians according to Irna last June – but why, exactly, are they fighting there?
Officially to protect Shia shrines, some of which have been destroyed by Isis. And to advise an allied government fighting ‘terrorists’.
But also to maintain a supply route to Hezbollah in Lebanon? As part of an ‘axis of resistance’ to Israel? Even as Hezbollah’s losses in Syria approach the 1,300 killed fighting the Israelis in south Lebanon?
The links between Lebanon, Syria and Iran are complex.
Nadia von Maltzahn, research associate at the Orient-Institut in Beirut and author of The Syria-Iran Axis, recently elaborated to me on Tehran’s active, long-term cultural diplomacy in Syria, recalling her visits in 2008-10 to the Iranian cultural centre in Latakia, the Alawi heartland, where the Iranians’ work seem to find more resonance than in mainly Sunni Damascus. She had also noticed, on research trips to Iran, popular scepticism about such outreach.
Is the regional conflict about religion?
Iran’s links with the Assad regime did not begin, as some argue, with a simple marriage of convenience between the supposed secular Baath party and Shia Iran in 1980 against their common enemy Saddam Hussein, who had attacked Iran.
Back in the 1970s, the Qom-born Lebanese Shia cleric Musa Sadr developed close links with Iranian revolutionaries like Mostafa Chamran and Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, who were in Lebanon working with Palestinian militants. Sadr was also close to Hafez al-Assad, who had taken power in Syria in 1970 and styled himself an Arab nationalist, and Sadr’s religious ruling in 1973 that Alawi were Shia was important in helping legitimise Assad as Syrian president, a post reserved for Muslims.
This was not the first attempt to bring the Alawi into the Muslim ‘mainstream’ and neither was it wholly successful. The Alawis’ esoteric beliefs – including the transmigration of souls and the sense of Ali, the prophet Mohammad’s son-in-law, as divine – were one remnant of a vast variation in religion that had characterised the Levant: the valleys and mountains of Lebanon and coastal Syria were for hundreds of years attractive territory under the Ottoman Empire for minority faiths, including the Alawis, Druze, and even Maronite Christians who spoke Syriac rather than Arabic well into the 19th century. Hidden away, it was possible to practise beliefs looked down on by larger groups of Muslims and Christians.
This emerges from an anecdote about a visit to Latakia in the 1930s by Lebanon’s preeminent Twelver [ie Shia] divine [cleric], Shaykh Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din of Tyre. To his host, a leading Sunni notable and sayyid of Latakia, he said: ‘I have come first of all to visit you and then to ask about the doctrine of the Alawis among whom you live. I have heard it said that they are ghulat’ [literally ‘exaggerators’ or ‘extremists’, usually applied to people attributing divine characteristics to members of the prophet’s family].
In this curious scene, a Twelver Shi’ite inquired of a Sunni about the beliefs of an Alawi. In fact, the Alawi shaykhs were no more prepared to bare their doctrines to Twelver Shi’ites than to Sunnis. The Alawis had simply chosen to judge themselves, in their own courts, by the principles of Twelver Shi’ite jurisprudence. The religious shaykhs had not decided to submit their beliefs to the scrutiny of Twelver Shi’ites, or to recognize the authority of living Twelver divines.
Fast-forward to the 1970s, and heady days of ‘anti-imperialism’ that brought together militant Lebanese, Palestinians and Iranian revolutionaries not just in discussion but for military training. Ali Shariati had developed ‘red Shiism’ as a kind of liberation theology, and knew Chamran and Ghotbzadeh through the Freedom Movement of Iran, founded in 1961. Long before the Revolutionary Guards went to the Bekaa in the early 1980s to train what would become Hezbollah, PLO fighters mixed in Lebanon with Chamran and others who would later lead the IRGC.
And while after 1979 Iran’s Islamic Republic saw itself as neutral in the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union, the international battle between ‘capitalism’ and ‘communism’ was helping shape the Middle East. Lebanon was caught up from 1958, when US marines came ashore on the beaches just south of Beirut to support the Christian president Camille Chamoun. Lebanon was also embroiled in the struggle of the Palestinians against Israel, especially when the PLO occupied much of south Lebanon and Beirut after their expulsion from Jordan in 1971.
Amid the ‘anti-imperialism’ of the 1970s, Musa Sadr established Harakat al-Mahroumin (the movement of the deprived), later known as Amal and still one of Lebanon’s two Shia parties. Ayatollah Khomeini adopted the nomenclature in identifying Islam with the mahroumin and the mostazafin (dispossessed) against the mostakberin (oppressors).
By the time he disappeared in Libya in 1978, a year before Iran’s Revolution, Musa Sadr had helped forge links between Assad and Iran’s revolutionaries, which would work to Iran’s benefit in the 1980s war with Iraq. But these links were already valued by Assad who in 1977, according to Yossi Alpher, then in Mossad, turned down an offer from the Shah’s foreign minister to cut Iran’s relations with Israel in return for Syria rejecting the Iranian opposition.
Knowing Iran’s revolutionaries in turn helped facilitate Assad’s links with Hezbollah, which emerged in Lebanon around 1983, even if the 80s were messy years when Assad did not approve all of Hezbollah’s actions in taking western hostages or attacking US and French troops.
But the era of anti-imperialism was coming to an end, and this too would shape Lebanon.
“The US Soviet divide went on until the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, which was the same year as the Taef agreement ended the Lebanese civil war,” says Akkaoui. Brokered by Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran, Taef opened a period in which Lebanon, even with the Israelis occupying a ‘security zone’ in the south, was at peace and even began to prosper.
The drift towards a new polarisation – the ‘regional civil war’ – was uneven. In 2000, all Lebanese factions welcomed Israeli withdrawal from the south and with varying degrees of enthusiasm saluted Hezbollah’s role in helping bring it about.
Some date the change to the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, when Iran welcomed the downfall of Saddam Hussein, a change that alarmed Saudi Arabia. Others date it to 2005, when Lebanon’s former Sunni prime minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated, or to 2008, when Hezbollah, which had refused to disarm after the Israeli withdrawal, asserted itself militarily against a Lebanese government led by a Saudi-backed coalition, over its control of security around Beirut’s airport.
By May 2011, ‘Arab spring’ protests prompted Saudi intervention in Bahrain to protect a Sunni monarchy facing protests amid a mainly Shia population, and in Syria demonstrations against president Assad’s regime in early 2011 morphed within months into an armed conflict with increasingly sectarian dimensions.
By 2015, with the Saudis using air attacks to back ousted Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Al Hadi against the Houthis, who are mainly Zaidi Shia, the regional civil war looked distinctly Sunni-Shia.
But while events in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iran can reverberate around the region, people may lack real knowledge of each other. Flights between Beirut and Tehran, for example, cater mainly for Shia pilgrims going to Mashhad, and Nadia von Maltzahn’s book is peppered with anecdotes of misunderstanding between Syrians and Iranians.
Instant reactions may not be informed ones. Saeid Golkar – a lecturer at the Northwestern University, Illinois, who closely monitors Basij social media activity - contrasts a wave of meetings organised by Basijis over the Saudis’ execution of Nimr with a lack of interest, or even contempt, among many other Iranians.
Golkar is uneasy about regional tensions. He believes “hardliners” in Tehran will provoke “distractions” to undermine President Hassan Rouhani in the run-up to elections in late February. “I will not be surprised if there is another crisis in the next month,” he says.
But playing up external threats for political reasons can have uncertain consequences.
There is little sign of any interruption in the supply of raw material. In October Masood Ahmed, director of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia department, said that with oil revenues falling, 10 million additional people would be seeking work in the region’s oil-exporting countries by 2020.
Back in Lebanon, Yasser Akkaoui, a champion of regulated capitalism, bemoans poor education and the shrinking of the country’s middle class through emigration and lack of social mobility. He despairs at resentment towards the better-off, which he traces back to Musa Sadr’s championing of the mahroumin (deprived).
This article was amended to reflect that the PLO occupied much of south Lebanon and Beirut after their expulsion from Jordan in 1971, not 1970.


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industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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LG G7 ThinQ root tutorial is here with an easy step-by-step guide.
With this post, you will be able to flash Magisk Systemless root via TWRP or Fastboot (both methods are described below).
Gain root access to your LG G7 ThinQ and modify the device on the way you want.
All steps and download links are given below, read them carefully.
LG G7 ThinQ is a powerful device of 2018, comes with high-end flagship specification. Backed with Snapdragon 845 processor and 4GB of RAM, the device have 64GB onboard internal storage, while the 6GB RAM variant has 128GB internal storage. The device performs excellent, fast and fluid animations and quick performance on launching an Application or playing a high-quality game.
The software experience of LG G7 ThinQ is similar to all other LG phones of recent years. LG software is always decent, less bloatware and a clean user interface. It elegant for eyes, with a multi-colored scheme throughout the UI elements, easy to read fronts and fluid animations. The software version is Android 8.0 Oreo for now, but it’s upgradable.
In Android Community, the ability to root this phone fully depends on whether the device is US variant or the international one. Rooting LG G7 ThinQ is limited to the model G710EM (Global) version only. It is strictly due to the locked bootloader of the US variant. But for all those lucky folks who own the G710EM Global Edition, here’s the detailed step-by-step guide on How to root LG G7 ThinQ using Magisk 16.6 Beta systemless root utility.
For Android enthusiasts, a root is a vital utility that allows the modifying of the system software. Also, higher flexibility to control the smartphone. You can customize the device in the way you want. Even you can change the kernel settings for better performance.
Read ahead; we have a quick and easy guide along with all necessary tool download links to root LG G7 ThinQ. Please keep in mind that, all the download links and steps on this post is specific to LG G7 ThinQ G710EM Global Edition only. Do not try this tutorial on any other model of LG.
Your bootloader must be unlocked from before to root LG G7 ThinQ. If not, please do that first, then get back to our tutorial.
Install LG USB driver on your computer.
There are two different methods to root LG G7 ThinQ. We have mentioned the full step-by-step instructions on How to root LG G7 ThinQ using Magisk tool. If you are entirely new to rooting, flashing a Custom ROM or an Official Firmware, please read the entire tutorial once before actually performing it on your device.
Download the root image file (g7-root.img) to your computer.
Once the device has restarted, you can verify root status using a root checker app from the Play Store.
Your LG G7 ThinQ has been successfully rooted now! You can now install a Custom recovery like TWRP any try some cool Mods like the Viper4Android sound Mod and Xposed Framework.
So you are done with this tutorial! You had successfully rooted your LG G7 ThinQ using our guide. If you faced any problem with performing this tutorial, please let us know by dropping a comment below. Our team will reply you back as soon as possible.


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Bring M/J 2015 Past Paper.
Complete question explained in class.
P2, Resource Pack to be bought.
Q3 of Paper 2 M/J 2012 to be done.
Past Papers to be submitted.
Do question 2 of Islamiyat P2.
Do Directed writing page 70 of English workbook.
Complete essay given in the class.
Past Papers to be submitted by next Thursday.
Bring workbook and the handout tomorrow.
Submitt “Light” workbook on Monday.
Past Papers to be submitted on Thursday.
Test of Q2 Paper 1 tomorrow.
Test of Light & Lenses.
Test of Coordinate Geometry on Tuesday.
Test of P1 and P2 (all types) on Monday.
M/J 2018 History, Geo Past Paper.
Q3. and Q4. of 2013 May/June Past Paper are to be completed.
Complete the letter assignment by Thursday.
Complete past paper of History and Geography of M/J 2018 by Thursday.
Do Q.3 and Q4. of 2013 M/J Resrouce Pack.
Do the questions given in the last class.
Make sentences showing singular and plural possession. Convert singular sentences to plural.
Do a past paper of History and Geography of M/J 2018 by Thursday.
2 Questions of Physics to be completed.
Test of Chapter 11 and 12 on Saturday, 9th Feb 2019.
Complete Q3 from Resource Pack.
Do the question given in class from workbook.
Complete classwork and tomorrow’s homework.
Do Chem marked question of the workbook.
Complete the workbook questions given in the class. Please bring all 3 workbooks.
Do the workbook question given in class.
Complete the interview assignment given in class.
Test will be taken tomorrow.
Complete the question given on Friday.
Complete the workbook (work, power, energy).
Take out information on Mother Teresa for essay in class.
Complete page 21 of the Acids, Bases & Salts workbook & submit it by tomorrow.
Bring a photocopied version of the urdu text book by tomorrow.
Worksheet (Complete) Test on Tuesday Composite Function.
Complete the 10 and 4 mark Q/A given in class.
– Test of Salts Preparation.
Page 21 of workbook (acids, bases & salts).
Test of Inverse Functions on Monday.
Describe Hajj as a pillar of Islam.
Q. Method of Hajj and difference between Umrah and Hajj?
Do part (a) and (b) of the next 2 passages.
Test of Arc Length and Area of Sector on Friday.
Test on Tuesday 6th February Exercise 8D, 8E.
Solve the questions that teacher dictated (6 questions). To be handed in on Monday.
Project is due on Monday.
Submit the speech and summary tomorrow.
Q18, Q20 of the workbook.
Q 6 and 8 from workbook.
Workbook: Standard Form Complete. Question 1 – 30 by Monday.
Test of “Price Relative” on Monday.
Workbook: Attempt till Question 50. Test of Indices and Standard Form on Monday.
Complete Exercise 6F and Test of Price Relative on Next Wednesday.
Complete the workbook till question No. 91.
Question 1, 6, 10 homework.
Question 20 – 40 from work books .
Do all questions of Malik Ghulam Muhammad.
Do Page 8-11 in workbooks.
Test of Chapter 2.2. How Market Business Work.
Exercise 2A, 2B, 2C Test on Tuesday.


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Being vegan doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy BBQ season with your friends and family.
Hosting a cruelty-free cookout is just as easy as hosting one with beef burgers. In fact, it is a good chance to open people's eyes as to to how good vegan food is, and how little you really have to sacrifice to have an enjoyable spread of food.
With a wide variety of vegan alternatives available at popular stores, and the huge amount of information and recipes online, including those on this website, of course, you will find a way to veganize any dish you would normally find at a BBQ.
I recently enjoyed a small vegan cookout with my family and friends, and while doing so I took some notes to create a guide to share with you.
So here's my seven step plan for a delicious vegan BBQ.
Typically the “main course” of a BBQ ends up being full of meat. There are a huge variety of veggie burgers that are amazing on the grill, including but not limited to Boca, Gardien, and my personal favorite, the beyond meat Beast Burger!
There are many cheese substitutes as well that you could put on a burger such as Follow Your Heart or Daiya. You can also get a pack of smart dogs, or the veggie dogs from the new vegan line at Aldi.
Although many of Morningstar’s products are vegetarian but not vegan, one of the few products that are vegan are their meatless BBQ riblets.
There is a wide selection of vegan sausages and meatless chicken from brands like Field Roast, Lightlife, Tofurky, and Gardien.
If you aren’t a fan of vegan meats, you can always come up with something using seitan, falafel, or jackfruit.
There are endless options for sides at a BBQ. I typically look at Pinterest or flip through a cookbook if I don’t already have a bunch of sides in mind already.
A potato salad dish and/or vegan mac n' cheese are always a safe bet when hosting a vegan cookout for people who would normally eat meat and dairy.
Salads, pasta, veggies, or any kind of appetizers will do. You can buy boxed mac n' cheese that is dairy free from brands like Amy’s, Daiya, or Annie’s.
There are also tons of sides you can buy in the freezer section that are easy to make like riced veggies, sweet potato fries, or mashed cauliflower.
Mac n' cheese on the go!
Everyone loves fruit, especially in the summer. Make up a platter and let people serve themselves. Fruit is one of those dishes that people keep coming back to snacking on throughout the afternoon/evening. Remember to keep it covered from flies.
When choosing fruit, consider the weather. It’s hot outside and the extra water is much needed. Pineapple, watermelon, and mango are definitely favorites, but strawberries and blueberries are always good picks too (no pun intended).
If you want you can get a little creative and serve something like frozen fruit bars, a fruit pizza, or fondue.
Chips, pretzels, veggie straws, crackers, or veggies and hummus are all little snacks people can graze on. If you don’t want to make your own hummus, you can buy it already packaged at the store.
There are tons of other dips that you can make or buy, like Kite Hill chive cream cheese. It’s made with almond milk and it tastes extremely similar to sour cream dip.
Daiya cheese slices make a great addition to a burger or veggie dog. V8 isn't a super healthy drink but it beats soda drinks. The blackberries are very health though!
Although it isn’t necessary to have dessert at a cookout, it’s an excuse to have dessert. Why not take it?
Cookies are always good if you have a lot of people to serve. Again you can find a vegan version of any dessert you can dream of on Pinterest. However sometimes it’s easier to just grab a box of brownie mix that doesn’t contain eggs or milk and mix it with some applesauce and dairy free milk.
Pop that in the oven and forget about it while you cook the actual meal. It’s almost like cooking with a crockpot.
A lot of cake, cookie, and brownie mixes are accidentally vegan, but require milk or eggs to make them. Using dairy free milk and something that replaces an egg — like ¼ cup applesauce or one banana — is a p wht pretty simple to make a good vegan dessert.
You can’t taste the applesauce in it, but it makes the cake really moist. To make it even easier, you can also mix a can of soda with your cake mix and it will bake just the same.
Soda is a common feature at a summer BBQ, and to each their own, but pop makes me feel sluggish and bloated. I used some V8 Splash at my last vegan BBQ, although it isn’t the healthiest option so you may want to use natural fruit juices, kombucha, water, or anything else that you like to drink.
If you plan on having booze at your BBQ, make sure to check the ingredients because it might contain dairy milk or isinglass.
Isinglass is a substance obtained from the dried swim bladders of fish. It is a form of collagen used mainly for the clarification or fining of some beer and wine.
Many major brands of wine, beer, and liquor are vegan, however some that are not include Barefoot wine, Baileys Irish Cream, Franzia wine, Red Stripe, Newcastle, and Milk stouts.
You can use the Barnivore vegan booze checker tool to make sure you stay on track.
When you've made your veggie burgers and dogs you need to dress them up and give them a little pizazz.
Don’t forget to get Ketchup, mustard, lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, onions, relish, the lot. Let your friends and family pimp up their veggie dog and make it awesome.
Even though the buns may seem like a no-brainer, they are very easy to forget – so put those on your list now. Make sure you buy buns without milk in them. cheaper breads may use whey powder or other dairy derivatives.
It is common thing for people who rely heavily on meat and dairy in their diet two half seriously joke that vegans can’t eat anything, but the reality is that even when it comes to a cookout, you can go 100% vegan BBQ and have a fantastic afternoon of delicious food.
Veganism has grown massively in popularity over the last few years, and the market is responding by releasing an increasing amount of plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy products.
No longer is it about sacrificing something that you used to enjoy eating, but rather replacing it with an alternative that is far more ethical, and in many cases healthier.
Whether you're hosting a vegan barbecue because you are vegan or just fancy giving it a go, or if you are doing it on behalf of a family member or friend who is vegan, I hope that this guide has giving you some inspiration for writing your shopping list, and some tips on how to prepare for the big day.


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Too Good To Go — save food and money!
TGTG is a start-up founded in 2015 with the aim of reducing food waste in restaurants, hotels and cafés. And the results so far are impressive: To this point, around 3.3 million meals from almost 6000 restaurants have already been saved. According to the TGTG website, this corresponds to 6000 tonnes of CO2 saved, which in turn corresponds roughly to the CO2 emissions of 15 flights to the moon — wow!
How can you join this wonderful mission? Just download the app (for free) and see which meals you can save in your area, choose how many portions you want to pick up and how you want to pay. Then you can get your tasty food at the time indicated and simply enjoy. Personally, I also like the app so much because it is a win-win-win situation. The restaurants win because they throw less away and still earn a little money from TGTG users. The environment benefits because a great amount of CO2 is saved. And we as customers also benefit, because we can net really fine food at a low price (approx. 3-4 € per portion).
After already trying the whole thing a few times, I am still enthusiastic. The app is easy to use, you are always warmly welcomed in the cafés and restaurants and you can often even put together yourself what you want to eat. From the market stall, the bakery, the pastry shop, hotels to vegan restaurants, there is something for everyone. Even on holiday, you don't have to miss your loyal companion TGTG, because the app is already available in eight countries: So if you are on holiday in Denmark, Great Britain, France, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands or Switzerland, you can also save money and food while still tasting regional specialities.
A company with a similar structure is ResQ, which was founded in January 2016 with the same goal. Unfortunately, this app now specializes in the area around Berlin and has withdrawn from other cities. But when you are in Berlin, you can find many attractive offers to indulge in via ResQ.
Have fun trying it out & enjoy your (first) saved meal!
Originally published in German for Join Magazin.
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What is a ppz file and how do I open a ppz file?
These PPZ files are developed by Smith Micro and known as Compressed Poser Prop Files because they refer to the compressed objects that the model or animation that Poser created, references. They deal mainly with images such as models and animation which is why they are also known as 3D images files. PPZ files contain the reference to .OBJ files wherein it includes geometry data or simply geometry information. The objects and models created by Poser are not originally compressed and these uncompressed files use the file extension PP2. It is the compressed objects and models that use the file extension PPZ. PPZ files can be opened using Poser, an application developed by Smith Micro. This application is used to render and animate a 3D CGI and this is usually used for the creation and development of 3D animation or digital art. This application runs on both Windows and MAC OS.


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The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center-affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency is a three-year program (PGY 1, 2, 3) designed to provide education and experience in the clinical, educational, administrative and research aspects of emergency medicine and its allied fields. The clinical program is the cooperative endeavor of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Ohio State University Hospital East and Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
In developing our Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine (EM/IM) Combined Residency Program we have combined excellence in leadership, residency training (emergency medicine and internal medicine) and academic and patient care opportunities. Common areas of emphasis and expertise include the treatment of critically ill patients and the use of evidence based medicine, simulation and ultrasonography to gain expertise in the management of these patients.


text: Hey there! I'm Antonio and id love to find a new friend in your furry friends. I've grown up around animals all my life and they have always been a part of the family to me. Aside from the standard dogs and cats my mom has had a horse for almost half my life, and a few years ago we were lucky enough to move to a new place in boxford with a barn and plenty of room for new friends! so now we have 2 dogs, 2 indoor cats and 1 barn cat, 2 horses, 2 goats, 8 chickens and 8 more that belong to a friend and we just started fostering a donkey(i think he's staying!! i do landscaping durring the spring summer and fall but the winter is really slow for me and any extra income helps this time of year and its always great to meet new furry friends!


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The History of Driver Power Refuted | Amazing Car Reviews Library!
Some drivers have up to four phones as they’re working for different on-line cab operators and don’t have contracts with any. Sometimes you might need to become rid of the corrupt driver utilizing the safe boot option and do an original installation. You can discover the precise driver causing the issue by reading the Minidump file as stated in the article earlier. When deciding on a dimmable LED driver, it’s necessary for you to know some critical tips on the best way to pick a good one.
The consequent type of power will be contingent on what voltage we use. You have the ability to work shifts that let you to pursue an education or a different career on the sideand the capacity to change your fortune shouldn’t be ignored. As an auto buying tool, Driver Power is tough to beat. It is the largest car satisfaction survey undertaken in the UK, tapping into the vast audience of the Dennis Motoring portfolio to give the very best knowledge and insight into the market place.
The cars we’re developing still have a couple difference from the picture. If you are looking for a trendy car which reflects your way of life, look at investing in the Mazda3. The typical car had 113 problems, which might vary from a little squeak to a complete engine failure. You can also locate the best cars to own by market sector and our run down of the best cars in each one of the survey’s sections.

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A special subset of LEED Fellows are also Fellows of AIA.
Prior to the announcement of the 2016 LEED Fellows later this month, I would like to introduce a subset of LEED Fellows who are also Fellows of AIA. This group of accomplished professionals, from all across the United States, shares common values in design excellence, aesthetic beauty and performance.
Using their extensive knowledge and expertise to engage their colleagues, clients and communities, this group creates a better built environment. They continue to raise the quality of design through their commitment to develop, advocate for, educate about and disseminate higher standards of sustainable performance through an integrative process.
The combined efforts of these leaders can play a significant role assisting in energy transition, the impact that buildings have on climate and better resiliency and design. They engage in initiatives related to collaboration, sustainability, globalization and other industry transformation trends.
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Fellowship program dates back to the 1880s and was developed to elevate those architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession. Election to Fellowship not only recognizes the achievements of the architect as an individual, but also honors before the public and the profession a model architect who has made a significant contribution to architecture and society on a national level. Out of a total AIA membership of over 88,000, there are over 3,200 members distinguished with this honor.
At USGBC®, the honor of LEED® Fellow designates the most exceptional professionals in the green building industry, and it is the most prestigious designation awarded by GBCI®. LEED Fellows are LEED APs who have acquired significant technical knowledge and skills. They also have a history of exemplary leadership, impactful commitment, service and advocacy in green building and sustainability. Out of almost 165,000 LEED APs, there are 211 members distinguished with this honor. They have been recognized for their outstanding work as LEED professionals and for the significance of their impact on the green building community at large.
In both cases, a rigorous selection process is followed and the documentation of their career achievements is judged by nationally accomplished peers.
For 25 years, the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) has been a strong advocate for green design and construction, sharing and enriching USGBC’s commitment to build leaders and markets and to measure mission impact. Many of its early leaders also helped found USGBC in 1993, and many dual Fellows continue to serve on committees in both organizations. One place where dual LEED and AIA Fellows are able to leverage this leadership to shape the future of green building is through the AIA COTE Top Ten + Project Awards, begun in 1997, which celebrates excellence in sustainable design.
Stay tuned for the announcement of the 2016 LEED Fellows later this month.

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Kolkata-based Indian Jazz Fusion/Modern Jazz outfit The Bodhisattwa Trio have released their self-titled third album, under the banner of Croatian Record Label Intek Music, thus making it a first-of-its-kind Indo Croatian venture. This album promises to take listeners on a sonic journey from ambient trip hop to Industrial drum-n-bass to contemporary jazz, backed up by rhythmic foundations of Indian classical music, parallelly driving the album conceptually towards the abstract, conflicting and grey areas of the human mind, hence “calling” it The Grey Album.
The trio, with Bodhisattwa Ghosh (compositions, guitar), Premjit Dutta (drums) and Arunava Chatterjee (keyboards & synth bass) delivers a sound that crosses over the barriers of genres and one that can only be termed as “unique,” with special emphasis on harmonic and rhythmic expansion, expressionism, theme and variation, virtuosity and spontaneous improvisation.
Following their second album release in 2016, they have played in festivals across India and have performed in England, Slovenia, France, Croatia, Germany, Poland, Lithuania in the last two years, and will be touring in Europe with their new album in summer 2019.


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Leadership Expert Home » Leadership Blog » Leadership » So, you are a Leader, Right? Says who?
Now look, leaders are leaders, aren’t they?
Now look, leaders are leaders, aren’t they? So, they go over there, and we go with them, that is, we follow… Right?
Nope, that is a shepherd. What leaders do, is to awaken our own thoughts, our own volition, our own impetus. We want to go where they are going!


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In our Poppy room you will find our youngest children.
Babies from 0 – 2 years are cared for in their own dedicated space. No more than 12 babies at any one time create our little perfect paradise.
Here, babies learn to sit up, roll, crawl and eventually take their first few steps. Following on from the wonderful start life they will have had at home, our staff are trained to meet each baby’s individual needs and routine.
Our Poppies (and their keyworkers) love to get messy, from paint, sand and water that is on offer all the time, to jelly play, gloop and play dough – these are just a few of the sensory opportunities we plan daily. As well as this books, construction, home corner and heuristic play make up the rest of the playroom.
And when we are all tired out, there is a cosy sleep area to rest in until our batteries are re charges and we start the fun all over again!!
Just shortly after your child’s second birthday they will move to the Daisy Room, this is where the fun really begins!!
Having newly discovered walking, running and climbing there are lots of physical play opportunities in this room. The children have a large undercover outdoor area allowing them freedom to play in or out at all times.
The Daisy team love mess just as much as the Poppy’s and so creative and sensory opportunities continue to be one of the main focuses in here too.
Being 2 years old is so exciting, the Daisy children now have more words and love to sing and dance and have so much energy – from nursery rhymes to stories, train tracks to dollies, dinosaurs to painting pictures there is so much to do, the children never want to go home!!
The children in the Daisy room have the opportunity to join in Wiggle and Roll sessions at the local gymnastics club (where Kimberley is a Coach) Yoginis (Yoga for mini people) Dance & Movement Music and Singing sessions.
Meet our pre-school children, here our eldest children are busy getting “School ready”.
Enjoying all the fantastic opportunities the children downstairs have, Sand, Water, Book, Construction, Painting, Role play and Investigation areas, these children also enjoy numbers and patterns, ICT and computer work. We introduce the children to letters & sounds sessions, with an emphasis on “Jolly Phonics”.
The Sunflowers have their own delightful roof top garden, which also has an undercover area for all weather play.
These children also get to enjoy all the fabulous extra curriculum opportunities as the Daisy’s but also get to go swimming once a week too.
We love being outdoors in the Sunflower Room and so use the local park all the time, “Muddyboots” is a part of our curriculum that allows us to explore nature and the world around us, especially as we have the park right on our doorstep!!
Staff loosely follow the principles of “Forest Schools” and with our wellies, waterproofs and water bottles off we go for a fun filled adventure every time!!
All our children work towards the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). The children under 3 mainly work on the PRIME AREAS of the curriculum – *Personal, Social & Emotional Development. *Communication & Language & *Physical Development.
Once the children become really secure in these areas, our skilled practitioners then introduce the SPECIFIC AREAS – *Literacy, *Mathematics *Understanding the World & *Creative Development.
The Bluebell room is a multipurpose room, used by different groups throughout the week. Children attending for just the free 15 hour sessions will have their 3 hours per day delivered from here. All children aged 3 – 5 are entitled to a free 15 hours per week place (the term after their 3rd birthday) as well as some 2 year olds.
Sessions are morning or afternoon 8.45am – 11.45pm or 12.15 – 3.15pm.
The room is bright and spacious, again with its own garden – all the usual provision areas can be found from painting and drawing to construction and role play.
This room is also used for Breakfast and After school club with pickup and drop offs at Whitegate End, New Moston & St Margaret Marys primary schools.
Holiday care will be available subject to demand.


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Mike Geric Construction Ltd. takes great pride in the quality of our homes and the satisfaction of our homeowners. Each home has been built to meet or exceed the standards of quality in materials and workmanship set out by the Building Code and the Homeowners Protection Act. It is our mandate to provide our homeowners with exceptional homes of superior design, quality construction and exquisite finishing.
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NCAC’s mission is to promote freedom of thought, inquiry and expression and oppose censorship in all its forms.
The Youth Free Expression Program empowers youth with knowledge, tools and opportunities to assert and defend their right to free expression. YFEP believes that denying young people the freedom to create, explore and inquire is counterproductive and dangerous. Young people have every right to participate in conversations–locally, nationally and globally–that affect their lives.
The Kids’ Right to Read Project offers support, education, and direct advocacy to people facing book challenges or bans in schools and libraries and engages local advocates in promoting the freedom to read.KRRP has helped defend hundreds of titles, in almost every state in the nation. It was co-founded with the American Booksellers for Free Expression and is supported in part by the American Booksellers for Free Expression and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
The Arts Advocacy Program is the only national project dedicated to working directly with individual artists and curators involved in censorship disputes. AAP protects artists’ rights to participate in the democratic dialogue through advocacy and education, by defending public access to artists’ work and supporting their ability to freely express views that might be unpopular or controversial.
The Open Discussion Project promotes civil conversation at a time when Americans are deeply divided. ODP creates community-based spaces for discussion among people of opposing views–discussions that are intentionally political and not intended to convert. Our democracy depends on our continued engagement with one another.
The best way to fight censorship is to call it out when it happens. If your free expression rights have been threatened, or you have witnessed the expression rights of others being threatened, please let us know!
We take on new cases everyday. Tell us your story.
The Free Expression Network is an alliance of organizations dedicated to protecting the First Amendment right of free expression and the values it represents, and to opposing governmental efforts to suppress constitutionally-protected speech. FEN members provide a wide range of expertise, resources and services to policymakers, the media, scholars, and the public at large.

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text: Nyle came to see Parrock Dental looking to improve the appearance of his smile with Clear Fixed Braces. He wanted to close the gaps on his upper jaw, in particular the gap between his 2 front teeth. Once he had his clear fixed braces removed he also had whitening and opted for a fixed retainer so that his teeth would not move from their new position. He is very happy with the results!


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Ida B. Wells — Happy Birthday Today!
Her call to speak out against lynching had come just two years earlier, when a Memphis mob murdered her close friend and neighbor Thomas Moss. The incident started as a dispute among white and black boys playing marbles, but it quickly evolved into an excuse to murder Moss, a successful businessman who was drawing patrons away from a nearby white grocer.
Wells was an orphan and a poor, single woman who supported her younger brothers and sisters through teaching and journalism. She recognized that “my good name was all that I had in the world,” yet she would not be silenced. Wells used words to fight white Southern lynch mobs, an indifferent white Northern public and, sometimes, black critics who felt that her outspokenness undermined their agenda. Southern white supremacy was cruel and crazy, and she was the rare person who could see beyond the cultural insanity in which she was immersed. For that she paid dearly.
Paula J. Giddings tells several larger stories as she narrates Wells’s life. Foremost among these interventions is a history of lynching and opposition to it. She spares no details as she tracks the development of spectacle lynchings at the turn of the century, when lynching became a premeditated act, hundreds of people converged on the scene, and the mob sometimes tortured the victim all day before killing him or her in the evening.
In exploring Wells’s early life — she was born to enslaved parents in 1862 in Holly Springs, Miss. — Giddings also paints a rich portrait of black life during Reconstruction. She movingly recounts dashed African American hopes in Tennessee in the 1880s and ’90s as white Southerners tightened segregation. Wells, for one, refused to accept it. When told to move to a blacks-only train car, she refused, bit the conductor as he threw her off the train, filed suit against the railroad and won $500 in damages.
Finally, Ida becomes a national history as Giddings skillfully recounts the great migration of Southern African Americans to Northern cities in the first decades of the 20th century. Wells moved from Memphis to New York to Chicago, where she married attorney Ferdinand Lee Barnett Jr. in 1895. There she confronted a new set of problems as a social worker and neighborhood organizer, but she also gained a modicum of power through local politics and women’s suffrage. Giddings describes the tensions within the black women’s club movement, which fought locally and nationally to ameliorate Jim Crow, and excels in portraying the sexism of black male civil rights activists and their white allies.
Despite a long and influential career in journalism, social work and politics, Wells has not received the recognition she deserves. She left an unfinished autobiography, and other authors have dealt with her activism in various contexts. Giddings set out to write a definitive biography and has succeeded spectacularly. Ida gradually brings us to see the world through Wells’s eyes; as she shops for a new seersucker suit that we know she can’t afford or feels betrayed when fellow activists try to leave her off the list of founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, we come to love this brave and wise woman.
Read it and weep. Then give it to the last person who told you that ideals are a waste of time.
Wells’ life and social thought are important examples of taking race and gender into account simultaneously.
She was described, which is only obvious to a nitwit, as not being “the best representative of Latin beauty.” Simply put, Jakiyah, who has Dominican roots, was too Black for the competition. But do not worry, justice will prevail. All will be put to rest, and the crown will be returned to the rightful owner. That is . . . . once the parents provide proof that their daughter is 25 percent Hispanic.
Too bad that she will have some trouble with this task since her undocumented Dominican grandmother is deceased. Interestingly enough, participants are normally taken at their word relating to their heritage. But why was this same courtesy not afforded to Jakiyah?
Let’s start by being honest with one another.
Beauty has truly and overwhelmingly throughout the history of the world been defined by White. In fact, within disproportionate segments of the world, whiteness is the definition of beauty. This may be why more Latinos than in previous years, self-identified themselves as White within a 2011 Pew National Survey. With the help of commercials coaxing you to purchase over-processed foods, to the high falutin’ and over-priced designs placed upon the emaciated bodies of those walking the runways of New York to Malian, the image is crystallized. No matter the social class or ethnic lineage, we as a society sway back and forth due to the white snake charming effect.
For some, the effects are heartbreaking. The 2013 documentary, Dark Girls, highlights the prejudices experienced by dark-complected women throughout the world.
This is clearly another example that proves the existence of a white racial frame within the 21st century. I am confident the spirit of the Brown Bag test (used by a number of Black sororities and fraternities to stop darker skinned Blacks from admission), segregation within businesses, churches, Black colleges, preparatory schools, or the previous Charles Chestnutt’s Blue Veins Society are still alive today within our society.
In fact, the lyrics of the classic blues singer, Big Bill Broonzy, “They said, if you was white, you’d be alright, If you was brown, stick around, But as you is black, oh brother, Get back, get back, get back” are still prevalent and relevant to the discussion relating to little Jakiyah.
Latinos are not exempt from being poisoned by the prevalence of white racism. Patricia Hill Collins, discusses domains of oppression (e.g., gender, class, race, sexual orientation, religion), and how they are all interconnected.
Even though each domain differs regarding social categorization, they still remain connected through the same confrontation of oppressive challenges. At times, they may even overlap. Importantly, due to a particular social location, one who is oppressed may instead become the oppressor. In the case of the Miss Chiquita Delaware competition, it is clear who is oppressing and who is oppressed.

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Stub Stewart is usually an end destination for local bike tourists, but it also makes a great basecamp for further gravel road exploration.
Stub Stewart State Park is a well-known bike touring destination for Portland-area bicyclists. Located off the Banks-Vernonia Trail, it is a relaxing car-free experience to gently ride up the rail trail through the forests in the foothills of the coast range. It is also featured in the Tualatin Valley Scenic Bikeway video we filmed. We’ve ridden there about a dozen times and have always treated “Stub,” as it is affectionately called, as an end destination for a quick bike overnight.
Hitting the gravel early on Saltzman Rd.
Over the last year or so, we’ve become more interested in mixed terrain road riding. After joining the Gravel Working Group on a recon ride a few weeks ago, and getting a sample of some of the great quiet roads in the area, we decided to try treating Stub as a basecamp for further adventure.
Usually, we take the Max out to Hillsboro and ride this route, which puts you on about 10 miles of quiet country roads before the start of the Banks-Vernonia Trail. We actually prefer this route to the official Scenic Bikeway route. It is a bit shorter, a lot less traffic, with fewer major street crossings. If you’re a beginner bike tourist or even a family, it is probably the recommended route.
We wanted a few more miles in our legs so we took this route from Portland all the way to Stub. It was our first time riding there without taking MAX. You essentially leave Portland on HWY 30, climb over the West Hills via Saltzman, ride about a mile on Skyline, descend via Springville, and weave your way through a strange tapestry of suburban trails to country roads.
Riding up Saltzman to Skyline.
The route was circuitous and strange, but generally low stress. At one point, you make a left on a gravel service road for 500 feet beneath some power lines. It looks like you are going the wrong way, but you’re not. If you attempt this route, I’d highly recommend taking a GPS, especially if you are not familiar with the trail system. When you get to Banks, it is pretty straight-forward. Hop on the trail and head into the hills.
Through an odd network of suburban trails.
If you need a lunch break, the Banks Cafe makes some solid hamburgers (GF bread available), has free wi-fi and even some craft beers on tap! Not bad for a tiny town. A little further down the street is the Trailhead Cafe with a green bike out front. They have coffee and focus on more breakfast-type items (the breakfast burrito was a good 2nd breakfast for the ride back to PDX).
We got to the cabins just as the sky opened up.
Perhaps one of the best-kept secrets about Stub is its cabins! We’ve tented at Stub, but during the colder months, the cabins are really the best option. They are all wood and are outfitted with a futon, bunk-bed, a small dining table, and lamp. The have heat and electricity inside, as well as a fire ring (wood is available from the camp host) and picnic table outside. Bathrooms and hot showers are a short walk to a separate building. They all have a porch with a bench that overlook the coastal range (for best views, book cabins 11 or 12!).
Warming up with a little #coffeeoutside inside.
If you are into mountain biking, there is a trail network that you can connect to from the cabins. If you are into disc golf, a short walk down the hill and you are on the course. The price is more than reasonable at $44 a night. They are popular during the summer months and weekends, but if you have a flexible schedule, going midweek almost ensures you’ll have a quiet stay.
Each cabin has a fire ring and picnic table.
Probably the best $40/night view in the greater Portland area.
As a side note, there are no kitchen facilities, so bring your camp cooking gear. We brought along a small electric kettle, which was awesome for not only making coffee, but for cooking dehydrated mashed potatoes and oatmeal.
The only caveat is that, if you come on bike, be prepared for a one mile slog up-hill to get to the cabin village. While nothing terrible, the road from the trail to the cabins tops out at about 9% grade. If you are hauling kids or a super heavy load, there’s no shame in walking and enjoying the view.
For us, riding in the area around Banks and Vernonia is relatively undiscovered terrain. We are car-free, so just getting out to Stub is essentially a day ride. By treating the cabins as a basecamp, it has opened up our range of roads to explore. There are two routes that have been mapped out in the area by a friend of ours, a local gravel road connoisseur. One of them starts from Banks, and a slightly longer one starts from Vernonia.
Having ridden the one from Banks with the recon group and knowing that it was a good ride, we opted for a modified version of that one. We had a chilly descent down to the Manning Trailhead and picked up the route there. After crossing the 26, we hopped on Hayward Rd, which essentially climbs in earnest. It is initially paved but quickly turns into a great gravel country road. It is important to note that, although the roads seem blissfully empty, you should still generally be aware of the errant vehicle which will definitely not be expecting you.
There are a few houses and small farms along the route and more than a few dogs. For the most part they kept away, but there is a chocolate brown boxer that lives at the top of a hill that got a little bitey during the recon ride a few weeks ago. I was carrying a friend’s Dazzer as insurance. If you are uncomfortable around dogs, this is worth noting. Generally, having some sort of deterrent or plan if a dog gets a little over anxious is a good idea.
The roads are not flat, but the views are rewarding.
The route climbs at a fairly steady pace, with the occasional 14% grade spike. You’ll meander along a rolling ridge before a fast descent to Cedar Canyon Rd that you take into Banks.
The gravel roads this time of year are hard packed and fast! Conditions will change as things dry out, or if there are logging trucks using the roads. I was riding on 33.3mm Jack Brown tires and they were perfect. Laura was riding on 28mm Panaracer GravelKings, which is probably as small as you’d want to go.
About as bucolic a bike ride can get.
After another lunch in Banks, we headed back up to the cabin. Although it was sunny, it was still cold, so we decided to call it a day. The area definitely calls for more exploration when the weather is warmer and the days are a little longer. The next day, we left Stub and rode back to the Hillsboro MAX station and took it back to Portland.
We wore all our layers on the cold and foggy descent.
Stub Stewart is a great bike touring destination, but it is also an ideal basecamp for gravel rides. We, admittedly, barely scratched the surface, but are planning to go back again and spend more time riding other routes. It is easy to imagine some awesome 3-night cabin stays in the summer when the days are long, riding loops around the area and ending every evening with a campfire, cold beers, and watching the sunset behind the mountains!
Great write up and gorgeous photos Russ. I’m really looking forward to exploring more of this area myself. And using the Stub cabins as a base camp is a perfect idea. You can literally point your bike in any direction from the cabin and open yourself up to untold miles of backroads.
You guys should put that Snow Peak dripper on your Amazon site. I am going to be trying out the Helix first, but if I end up with the Snowpeak, I would like to buy it through you.
Great write up. Thanks for post the route you took from Portand to Banks.
Hi, I really enjoy reading your posts and your presence in my Facebook feed is one of the most welcome ones. This is just the sort of post I needed in the dark and dingy months of January. I’m working away from home in the middle east so no bikes – when I get back to the UK i’m back with the bikes but right now, its full of snow! So a bit of inspiration like this post is just what I needed. I love reading about your travels especially in the Portland area – is there somewhere you could link to where we could find some maps of the places you write about – even a link to Gmaps would help to complete the experience.
They way you describe your riding experiences paints a very enticing picture of the landscape, environment and the facilities in the area – I’d love to make a trip out there and for me pouring over maps for hours on end is part of the planning.Thanks again!
When we were touring the coast, I swore that regardless of the day’s terrain, somehow every campground involved one last climb you hadn’t bargained for.
I live S of Portland. I have the good fortune of riding this trail and the coast route often. Nicely written post. thanks.
great write up, many thanks. this is a wonderful area to explore and dairy creek out of manning has some great cutthroat fishing if you pack a rod and trout season is open.
i’ve found that a squirt from a water bottle stops dogs in their tracks. also simply saying “good boy”, “good dog” or “you go home” gets enough of a pause to get past them or just defuses the encounter.
Good write up on our area. I assume you ate lunch at the Trailhead Cafe?? Again thanks for a great discription of the Banks and Vernonia area.
Beautiful written and illustrated! thanks for sharing!
Your link mapping out a stress free route from Hillsboro MAX to Stub Stewart is not working! I really want to try this with my partner but she prefers as stress free as possible. Can you please send an updated link with the route? It would be SUPER appreciated!!!
Wesley….will look into this and update the link.

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text: Across the tropics, landscapes of continuous rain forest are being replaced by forest fragments embedded in a matrix of pastures and farmlands. This conversion has endangered many species, including arboreal primates. Species vary, however, in how they are able to supplement their diets from the matrix, although this is rarely studied in primates. We studied two groups of black howlers (Alouatta pigra) for a total of 1156 h, one inhabiting a smaller fragment (0.4 ha) and the other a larger fragment (20 ha). monkeys inhabiting the smaller fragment spent more time in the matrix than in the habitat fragment, spending 50 % of their time (335 of 667 h) in an abandoned mango (Mangifera indica) plantation, 8.8 % in scattered trees, and 0.2 % in pastures. In contrast, monkeys in the larger fragment spent 75 % of their time (368 of 489 h) in the forest fragment and only 25 % of their time in the matrix. Feeding in the matrix accounted for 53 % and 12 % of the foraging time for groups in the smaller and larger fragments respectively. We suggest that Alouatta pigra can use resources in the matrix to supplement their diet by means of crop raiding or taking other resources in many fragmented landscapes and that this may be true also for many fragment-dwelling primates. It is important to include a consideration of the matrix in conservation planning, considering both the total resources available to primates and the consequences of crop raiding for farmers. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York.


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The Below Deck Season 4 crew member thanked fans for all of their love and support during this difficult time.
Emily Warburton-Adams has updated fans on her father's condition after he was diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer last August. "Today we found out that he has an E. coli strain of pneumonia that he's being treated for," Emily shared in her latest Instagram Story. "The cancer has also spread to his brain."
The Below Deck Season 4 stew began her message to fans with an update on the money that was raised through the JustGiving page set up by Emily, her sister Isabella, and her brother Max, in the hopes of raising funds to fly their dad back to his home in the U.K. from Malaysia, where he had been hospitalized immediately following his diagnosis. The JustGiving page raised £35,515 (about $46,703), as of the time of this writing. "We have held the correct funds raised for the repatriation in the hope that his condition would improve," Emily shared in her Instagram Story. "A fraction of the funds have assisted with his palliative care in the interim."
Emily went on to thank everyone for all of their love and support during this difficult time. "I'm updating at this stage because you've been such a wonderful support and we are so grateful for your donations," she wrote. "We don't know how the next stage of events will unfold, but it's easier updating now rather [than] later."
She ended the message by sharing that she and her siblings will be visiting their father again soon, and she included a throwback photo of herself and her father, along with "#heartinthroat."
The Below Deck family has been there for Emily in her time of need, with Captain Sandy Yawn recently showing her support on Twitter. "So very sorry to read this news," she tweeted after hearing Emily's latest update on her dad. "Only good thoughts for you and your family."
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The Scottsdale Schools Voices of Saguaro, an 85 voice choir under the direction of GayLin Tutnick, have been invited by the Choirs of America to be one of a few elite choirs to perform in the 2016 COA Nationals for Mixed Choirs.
Only the top choral programs are invited to participate in the event according to COA’s Artistic Director, Christopher Scott Olin.
The event will be held in the New York City area March 31 – April 2. Karen Kennedy, director of choral activities at the University of Miami and Joshua Habermann, director of the Dallas Symphony Chorus, two respected choral conductors, will co-conduct the massed choir of 800 voices in a concert at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium. Additionally, the concert will feature the world premiere of a newly commissioned piece by noted composer, Z. Randall Stroope, according to a press release.
Choirs invited to the COA Nationals will participate in adjudicated performances, observational opportunities, clinics with renowned clinicians, vocal master classes and engaging workshops.
In addition to performing with the massed choir, the Voices of Saguaro will perform alone. The event will include the conducting debut of Mrs. Tutnick in Carnegie Hall. The Voices of Saguaro have performed in Carnegie Hall in a mass choir in 2005 and have performed in large venues including Fenway Park and Wrigley Fields. Additionally, their Advanced Vocal Ensemble has performed with The Manhattan Transfer, Josh Groban, Jonathan Cain of Journey and Foreigner. Mrs. Tutnick has directed the Voices of Saguaro since 1995.
Individuals seeking additional information about this event can visit saguaro.susd.org. To learn more about performing arts opportunities available to students within Scottsdale Unified School District, visit www.susd.org.


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You write a paragraph, pass the paper and pencil to me, I write a paragraph, and voilà, we are collaborating and co-authoring.
You write a paragraph in Word, email the file to me, I write a paragraph in word, and voilà, we are collaborating and co-authoring.
Now that we have established paper and pencil is not the best way to collaborate and co-author, lets discuss what these terms mean to us and more importantly what they should mean to you.
To be honest, co-authoring is the little brother to collaboration. The ability to co-author is implied when we talk about collaboration and quite frankly almost every document a company produces is going to have some form of co-authoring. It may not be an obvious 50-50 split as we might imagine but if you write a document and send it to IT to double check your technical jargon, you are now co-authoring. Now most of us have seen the cute Google Docs commercial where Hall & Oates are working on the lyrics for “Maneater“. You can watch it here if you haven’t.
Quite honestly its a great commercial and really hits home the perceived idea of “co-authoring”. On the other hand, try creating a readable document when you have 20 people working on a 500-page document. We doubt you will have same warm, fuzzy feeling as you do while watching the commercial. Co-authoring cannot be the wild west of writing. Content, sections, and writers all have to be tracked and actions accurately logged to ensure a quality end result.
We here at Xait, prefer to use the term true collaboration instead of just collaboration First of all, collaboration, as we have just seen does not automatically imply an improvement of your process or a reduction in time to get a task done. True collaboration both improves your process and reduces the time it takes to complete a task, project, document etc. For example, working in real time with your team anywhere in the world while having complete visibility and control over what changes are being made. You also need the ability to assign tasks to team members and create workflows. You might also want to implement security measures to ensure only the right team members have access to certain content. That is true collaboration and that is what we think, and you should think, is required to effectively collaborate with your team members.


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In most circles, playing country music might not seem like a radical move. But that's exactly what it was in the early 1980s when Tony and Chip Kinman retired their Doc Martens after years in the seminal L.A. punk band the Dils, moved to Austin, Texas, slipped on cowboy boots and launched a new musical hybrid soon dubbed "cowpunk."
With Tony's booming baritone carrying echoes of Johnny Cash, Chip's soaring tenor and a muscular rhythmic drive forged in the late-'70s hotbed of Southern California punk rock, the Kinman brothers created Rank and File, an influential band that wedded the narrative storytelling lyrics and twangy musical textures of country with the raw power and take-no-prisoners attitude of punk.
It was one of several distinctive musical incarnations also including Blackbird, Cowboy Nation, duo performances and Chip's latest band, the punk-blues group Ford Madox Ford, a.k.a. FDMDXFD.
Yet the brothers were still collaborating: Ford Madox Ford's debut album, "This American Blues," released in February, was produced by Tony, who died Friday after a recent battle with cancer, Chip Kinman posted this week on Facebook.
On Thursday, Chip Kinman's Facebook page alerted fans of his brother's condition: "Tony is home with his family. He is no longer receiving treatment and is comfortable and at peace. I have read him everything that people are posting and he is very moved. I will let everyone know when it is done. I love you all. Thank you, Chip."
He was diagnosed with cancer in March, and had begun what had been expected to be a six-month program of chemotherapy, according to the CaringBridge page Chip's wife, Lisa Kinman, created to keep fans informed. But the cancer turned out to be extremely aggressive.
Tony was born in 1956 and grew up with his family in Carlsbad in San Diego County. In 1977 he and Chip formed the Dils, a stridently political punk group known for songs including "I Hate the Rich" and "Class War."
The Dils were so poorly received in San Diego that the trio moved briefly to San Francisco, which had a more thriving punk scene.
There they associated with bands including the Avengers (for whom Tony briefly played bass) and the Nuns, before heading south again, where the group plied Los Angeles' erupting punk scene at Hollywood clubs such as the Masque.
Quickly, the Kinmans began to move in another direction.
"There were louder and faster bands who were pushing even farther into punk," Tony said. "That wasn't the kind of music we were interested in anymore. It was frustrating to write songs for a punk audience that didn't like them."
Chip moved to New York for a time, and teamed up there with guitarist Alejandro Escovedo, whom he knew from the Nuns. Soon Tony joined them, they relocated to Austin, found Austin drummer Slim Evans through an audition, and Rank and File was born.
The group's 1982 album "Sundown" was declared the year's "best debut album by an American rock band" by The Times' pop music critic, Robert Hilburn. The Austin Chronicle crowned Rank and File the country band of the year.
Even those heaping praise on the group couldn't settle on what Rank and File was — just that they liked what they heard.
"'Sundown' steps boldly from the new wave, punk and electro-pop styles that offer today's most appealing rock," Hilburn wrote, "yet it conveys much of the same driving spirit that fuels the most compelling new music …. The band injects its most invigorating songs with a charm and original vision that haven't been seen in rock-tinged country since Gram Parsons' early work with the Flying Burrito Brothers."
It was, in fact, a thoroughly punk move that came at a time when punk was adopting its own musical, political and sartorial formulas. It started to resemble the same rigidity that the genre's free-thinking originators rebelled against in other forms of music when they threw the rock rule book out the window and started bashing their guitars and drums at breakneck speed, volume and intensity.
As they expressed it in the Rank and File song "I Went Walking," "This fellow told me that I was a square / That I didn't wear buttons or spike my hair / A badge is just a badge and after all I've seen / When the line's been drawn, they don't mean a thing."
"I think one of the most important things about this so-called 'new country' sound is its independence," Tony said in 1983. "Besides, country music has a long tradition of scaring away young blood. Remember what happened when Elvis tried out for the Grand Ole Opry [in 1954]? They told him he'd better not give up his day job."
One of the great testaments to the compelling authenticity of Rank and File's music was a version of their song "Amanda Ruth" recorded by one of their role models (and sibling musician predecessors), the Everly Brothers, who included it on their 1985 album "Born Yesterday."
Indeed, in rebelling against the rebels, the Kinmans added their names to a long list of proud California musical mavericks that included Buck Owens, the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and the Flying Burrito Brothers.
Fittingly, given their early career path, the Kinmans didn't stick to a singular style long enough to get pigeonholed with it, largely ditching the twang and morphing Rank and File into a harder-rock outfit on the group's third and final album, 1987's "Rank and File."
"Now they're into the semi-heavy metal, arena-rock bag," writer Kristine McKenna noted of that evolution, "and being the talented pair that they are, they do it pretty well."
After Rank and File disbanded, the Kinmans created an even harder-edged techno-metal band with Blackbird, which released two independent albums in 1988 and 1989, and one major label album in 1992 — all three titled "Blackbird."
Again, the Kinmans found themselves swimming upstream in the music business.
"Our orneriness really works for us because we're always wanting to do something different. It's gotta be a challenge," Chip told The Times in 1992. "A lot of people want rock to be safe. There is a lot of B.S. in the business — there's hundreds of rules: 'Don't release a record at Christmastime.' 'Don't release the record in the summer.' 'Don't release the record at spring break.' None of them are true. If everybody knew how it worked, everyone would be rich."
Several years into their existence as Blackbird, the Kinmans again started getting the urge to shift gears.
"Right now we're thinking, 'Do we still want to be Blackbird?'" Chip said in 1993. "It's been five years, which is longer than any of our other bands. We sort of did Blackbird just to wipe the plate clean from Rank and File. We're just getting back into the swing of things. Maybe we'll change our name to the Grunions. Then we can say 'We do it on the beach.'"
They subsequently formed Cowboy Nation, which emphasized the western side of the rootsy hybrid once known as country-western.
"There's nothing here that could not be played around a campfire," the Colorado Springs Independent wrote of the band's 2001 debut album. "Aside from a few ki-yi-yippies, the songs provide very easy listening, atmospherically closer to the Cowboy Junkies than Roy Rogers. Once again, the Kinmans leave us, delightedly, unable to categorize them."
Such was the Kinmans' stature in the history of Southern California music that organizers of the Stagecoach country music festival in Indio booked Cowboy Nation for the inaugural edition of that event when they decided in 2007 to spin off a country cousin to the annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.
More recently, although Tony Kinman worked behind the scenes on the new Ford Madox Ford album, which also features Chip's son, guitarist Dewey Peek, Chip said his brother played a crucial role.
"Tony was instrumental in the whole thing, he was really important, contributed musically, threw in a few lines and made it all cohesive. He's got really great ears," Chip told the L.A. Weekly in December. "Tony is a true taskmaster. At one rehearsal, we went through a song and I asked him, 'How was it?' And he says, 'That was fine. Now play it so it sounds like music'."
Throughout their lives, the Kinmans took a certain pride in confounding listeners' expectations—and learned to brush off the inevitable criticism.
"We don't really pay much attention to that stuff," Tony told Times contributor Steve Hochman in 1987. "We've always been willing to take that kind of short-term risk to satisfy ourselves and have fun. There's really no other reason to do anything."
Fans and fellow musicians posted messages on a Caring Bridge page that Lisa Kinman created to keep followers informed.
"He was my bandmate and an unwitting mentor to me as a young man," former Rank and File drummer Evans wrote. "Always smart and articulate, clear in his intentions, strong, determined, funny, he does not suffer fools gladly, sometimes stern, but also very kind. Always a gentleman. Standing there tall and ready, calmly smoking his Pall Malls. Looking cool on a stage.
"His voice is a beautiful thing," Evans wrote, "with a deep sonorous tone that would draw you in and you knew he meant business, singing all those songs about the working class, historical figures like John Brown, the KKK, trains going to hell with a conductor that wears black…and then maybe a moving cover of the Patsy Cline ballad 'He's Got You.' You could hear his integrity."
Guitarist and singer Mike Palm of Orange County punk band Agent Orange wrote, "I know it's been a long time, but I often look back on my time in L.A. and think of Tony.… Nothing but great memories. Mucho Love."
Besides his brother, Kinman is survived by his wife, Kristie.