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2023 PRO SWIM SERIES – KNOXVILLE
- January 11-14, 2023
- Knoxville, Tennessee
- LCM (50 meters)
- Prelims: 9:00 AM (EST)
- Finals: 6:00 PM (EST), Day 1 4:00 PM
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After the first night of swimming was only timed finals of the 800 freestyle, Day 2 features the first full finals session of the meet. It’s a packed schedule, with finals of the 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 50 backstroke, 100 butterfly, and 400 IM.
Katie Ledecky and Katie Grimes will both take on a tough 200 freestyle/400 IM double. Ledecky is the top seed heading into finals for both events tonight after cruising to a 1:57.05 in the 200 free and 4:41.87 in the 400 IM. Grimes, who recently turned 17-years-old, squeaked into the 200 free ‘A’ final in eighth; the 400 IM will likely be a much closer race between her and Ledecky, as they’re separated by just .17 seconds after prelims.
The women’s 50 backstroke should also be an exciting race between world champion Kylie Masse, the resurgent Regan Smith, and American record holder Katharine Berkoff. All three were under 28 seconds this morning in prelims, setting up for a great race in finals. Pro Swim record holder Olivia Smoliga, who’s racing for the first time since U.S. World Trials, could also be in the mix.
In the men’s 200 freestyle, we’ll see club swimmer and Stanford commit Henry McFadden try to hold off a loaded field. McFadden swam 1:48.91 to grab lane 4 for finals and the rest of the field is all college and pro swimmers, including Olympians Kieran Smith and Drew Kibler. There’s also Gabriel Jett to keep an eye on–the Cal Golden Bear had a breakout 2022.
WOMEN’S 200 FREESTYLE — FINALS
- World Record: 1:52.98 – Federica Pellegrini, ITA (2009)
- World Junior Record: 1:54.79 – Summer McIntosh, CAN (2022)
- American Record: 1:53.61 – Allison Schmitt (2012)
- U.S. Open Record: 1:54.40 – Allison Schmitt, USA (2012)/ Katie Ledecky, USA (2021)
- Pro Swim Series Record: 1:54.40 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2021)
Top 8 Finishers:
- Katie Ledecky (GSC) – 1:55.47
- Bella Sims (SAND) – 1:57.87
- Erin Gemmell (NCAP) – 1:57.97
- Katie Grimes (SAND) – 1:59.08
- Ella Jansen (CAN) – 1:59.09
- Valentine Dumont (BEL) – 1:59.17
- Claire Weinstein (SAND) – 2:00.08
- Brooklyn Douthwright (TENN) – 2:00.54
Katie Ledecky picked up her first individual win of the meet in the women’s 200 free. Bella Sims and Erin Gemmell were with her through the first 50 meters, but Ledecky began to distance herself after that, turning at the 100 in 56.66. Ledecky easily took the win in 1:55.47, over two seconds ahead of second-place Sims and just over a second off her Pro Swim record of 1:54.40 set last year.
It was Sims and Gemmell vying for second through the whole race. Gemmell made a push on the last 50 meters to try and catch Sims; she split 29.83 to Sims’ 30.09, but ultimately ran out of room to catch her and took third in 1:57.97, a tenth back from the Sandpiper.
Regan Smith was expected to be in the final, but was a late scratch. She’s slated to race the 50 backstroke later in the session.
MEN’S 200 FREESTYLE — FINALS
- World Record: 1:42.00 – Paul Biedermann, GER (2009)
- World Junior Record: 1:42.97 – David Popovici, ROU (2022)
- American Record: 1:42.96 – Michael Phelps (2008)
- U.S. Open Record: 1:44.10 – Michael Phelps, USA (2008)
- Pro Swim Series Record: 1:44.82 – Sun Yang, CHN (2016)
Top 8 Finishers:
- Henry McFadden (JW) – 1:47.23
- Kieran Smith (RACT) – 1:47.33
- Gabriel Jett (UN) – 1:47.41
- Robin Hanson (UN) – 1:48.81
- Drew Kibler (CSC) – 1:49.59
- Zane Grothe (BCH) – 1:50.01
- Jay Litherland (SUN) – 1:51.02
- Jack Dahlgren (UMIZ) – 1:52.19
It was a thrilling final 50 in the men’s 200 freestyle. 17-year-old Henry McFadden turned fourth at the 150, but came blazing home in a 26.66, passing Kieran Smith, Gabriel Jett, and Robin Hanson for the win. His 1:47.23 is a new lifetime best, surpassing the 1:48.27 he swam at Junior Nationals in August 2022. He also moves up to #6 all-time in the boys’ 17-18 age group.
It was Hanson who was first at the 50, while Smith made his move over the middle 100, turning first at the 100 (52.41) and the 150 (1:19.85).
Jett’s time is a new lifetime best, clipping his old mark by .04 seconds.
Drew Kibler, who scratched into the ‘A’ final, finished fifth in 1:49.59, a two second improvement from his prelims time.
WOMEN’S 100 BREASTSTROKE — FINALS
- World Record: 1:04.13 – Lilly King, USA (2017)
- World Junior Record: 1:04.35 – Ruta Meilutyte, LTU (2013)
- American Record: 1:04.13 – Lilly King (2017)
- U.S. Open Record: 1:04.45 – Jessica Hardy, USA (2009)
- Pro Swim Series Record: 1:05.32 – Lilly King, USA (2021)
Top 8 Finishers:
- Mona McSharry (TENN) – 1:06.80
- Miranda Tucker (TFA) – 1:07.98
- Sophie Angus (CAN) – 1:08.75
- Byanca Melissa (Reveles) – 1:09.21
- Olivia Andersen (AQJT) – 1:10.25
- Adalene Robill (RAYS) – 1:10.81
- Cecilla Viberg (CARD) – 1:10.88
- Emily Santos (Montverde) – 1:11.19
Tennesee’s Mona McSharry was in control of the women’s 100 breast the whole way, giving the home team their first win of the night. It was a great swim for the Tokyo Olympic finalist, as it was less than a second off her lifetime best of 1:06.29.
McSharry pulled away from the field on the back half of the race, and it was Miranda Tucker who touched second in 1:07.98. Approximately another second back was Canada’s Sophie Angus, who rounded out the podium in 1:08.75. While the front part of the race was quite spaced out, fifth through ninth was separated by less than a second.
MEN’S 100 BREASTSTROKE — FINALS
- World Record: 56.88 – Adam Peaty, GBR (2019)
- World Junior Record: 59.01 – Nicolo Martinenghi, ITA (2017)
- American Record: 58.14 – Michael Andrew (2021)
- U.S. Open Record: 58.14 – Michael Andrew, USA (2021)
- Pro Swim Series Record: 58.86 – Adam Peaty, GBR (2017)
Top 8 Finishers:
- Lyubomir Epitropov (TENN) – 1:01.35
- Thomas Cope (CW) – 1:01.82
- Brandon Fischer (TRIV) – 1:01.92
- James Dergousoff (CAN) – 1:01.95
- Chase Kalisz (SUN) – 1:02.01
- Finlay Knox (CAN) – 1:02.09
- Michael Houlie (TENN) – 1:02.38
- Brayden Taivassalo (CAN) – 1:02.40
It was Tennessee’s Michael Houlie who was out first at the 50, turning in 27.90. However, in the final 15 meters, the field came back together and it was anybody’s race to win. At the touch, it was Houlie’s teammate Lyubomir Epitropov who gave Tennessee the win in back to back events, clocking 1:01.35. That’s another strong swim for the Vols, as it’s just over a second off Epitropov’s lifetime best.
Canada was well represented in the final, with James Dergousoff, Finlay Knox, and Brayden Taivassalo all wearing the Canadian cap. They finished fourth, sixth, and eighth respectively. Dergousoff was the fastest of the three, clocking 1:01.95.
WOMEN’S 50 BACKSTROKE — FINALS
- World Record: 26.98 – Xiang Liu, CHN (2018)
- World Junior Record: 27.49 – Minna Atherton, AUS (2016)
- American Record: 27.12 – Katharine Berkoff (2022)
- U.S. Open Record: 27.12 – Katharine Berkoff, USA (2022)
Pro Swim Series Record: 27.43 – Olivia Smoliga, USA (2018)
Top 8 Finishers:
- Kylie Masse (CAN) – 27.38 (PRO SWIM RECORD)
- Katharine Berkoff (NCS) – 27.80
- Olivia Smoliga (SUN) – 28.07
- Josephine Fuller (TENN) – 28.19
- Abbey Weitzeil (CAL) – 28.20
- Kira Toussaint (TNAQ) – 28.70
- Emma Kern (AQJT) – 28.95
- Danielle Hanus (CAN) – 29.17
Instead, it was a head-to-head between Masse and Berkoff. Masse won by almost half a second, setting a new Pro Swim series record in 27.38, breaking Olivia Smoliga‘s record of 27.43, which she set in 2018.
Smoliga was in this heat as well, swimming in her first meet since last April’s U.S. World Trials. Now training at Arizona State, Smoliga finished third in 28.07, .27 seconds back from Berkoff’s second place swim.
In an off event for her, Abbey Weitzeil swam well, clocking 28.20, her second time going sub-30 in the event. Before prelims where she swam 28.46, her best was 30.22, swum at the San Antonio Pro Series in 2021.
MEN’S 50 BACKSTROKE — FINALS
- World Record: 23.71 – Hunter Armstrong, USA (2022)
- World Junior Record: 24.00 – Kliment Kolesnikov, RUS (2018)
- American Record: 23.71 – Hunter Armstrong (2022)
- U.S. Open Record: 23.71 – Hunter Armstrong, USA (2022)
Pro Swim Series Record: 24.66 – Michael Andrew, USA (2019)
Top 8 Finishers:
- Justin Ress (MVN) – 24.49 (PRO SWIM RECORD)
- Hunter Armstrong (CAL) – 24.70
- Daniel Diehl (CUY) – 25.28
- Bjorn Seeliger (UN) – 25.38
- Hunter Tapp (NCS) – 25.55
- Ryan Held (NYAC) – 25.68
- Destin Lasco (UN) – 25.93
- Manuel Martos (ESP) – 25.93
2022 World Champion Justin Ress got it done here in Knoxville, getting the better of world record holder Hunter Armstrong. Ress, who moved to train at Mission Viejo in the spring of last year, set a new Pro Swim Series record, taking about two-tenths of Michael Andrew‘s former record of 24.66 from 2019.
Armstrong finished second in 24.70 and was the only other swimmer to get under 25 seconds. Daniel Diehl, who lit up the Winter Juniors – East meet in December, took third in 25.28, which is a new best time for him by .04 seconds.
Bjorn Seeliger, who burst onto the yards backstroke scene last NCAA season, took fifth in 25.38.
WOMEN’S 100 BUTTERFLY — FINALS
- World Record: 55.48 – Sarah Sjoestrom, SWE (2016)
- World Junior Record: 56.43 – Claire Curzan, USA (2021)
- American Record: 55.64 – Torri Huske (2022)
- U.S. Open Record: 55.78 – Torri Huske, uSA (2021)
- Pro Swim Series Record: 56.38 – Sarah Sjoestrom, SWE (2016)
Top 8 Finishers:
- Ella Jansen (CAN) – 58.92
- Bella Sims (SAND) – 59.86
- Sara Stotler (TENN) – 1:00.36
- Kiley Wilhelm (LIFE) – 1:00.40
- Levenia Sim (TNT) – 1:00.93
- Danielle Hanus (CAN) – 1:01.02
- Emily Thompson (GSCY) – 1:01.17
- Victoria Raymond (CAN) – 1:01.38
The only swimmer under the minute mark in prelims, 17-year-old Ella Jansen had set herself up as the favorite heading into finals. The Tennessee commit backed that up here, winning the women’s 100 butterfly in a lifetime best of 58.92. It’s her first time sub-59, as her previous best was a 59.27 from April 2022.
In her second swim of the session, Bella Sims earned another second-place, touching in 59.86 and the only other swimmer under 1:00. Her time is a lifetime best as well, and marks her first time breaking the minute barrier.
Tennessee’s Sara Stotler rounded out the podium with a 1:00.36, continuing the Vols’ strong session.
MEN’S 100 BUTTERFLY — FINALS
- World Record: 49.45 – Caeleb Dressel, USA (2021)
- World Junior Record: 50.62 – Kristof Milak, HUN (2017)
- American Record: 49.45 – Caeleb Dressel (2021)
- U.S. Open Record: 49.76 – Caeleb Dressel, USA (2021)
- Pro Swim Series Record: 50.92 – Caeleb Dressel, USA (2020)
Top 8 Finishers:
- Luke Miller (NCS) – 52.24
- Ryan Murphy (CAL)/Trenton Julian (MVN) – 52.41
- Ilya Kharun (SAND) – 52.53
- Clement Secchi (UMIZ) – 52.56
- Zach Harting (CARD) – 52.59
- Dare Rose (UN) – 52.79
- Nicolas Albiero (CARD) – 52.95
It was Olympic backstroke gold medalist Ryan Murphy who was out first at the 50, turning in 24.46. However, NC State’s Luke Miller, who turned fifth in 24.93, stormed home with a 27.31 on his back half to earn the win in 52.24. That’s a solid swim for Miller, backing up his win at the U.S. Open at the end of November.
Murphy still had a great swim, tying for second with Trenton Julian in 52.41, which is less than half a second off his lifetime best of 52.04, which he set in May 2021.
Sandpipers’ Ilya Kharun, who had a breakout meet at SC Worlds last month, touched fourth in 52.53. That’s just .22 seconds off the ASU commit’s lifetime best of 52.31.
WOMEN’S 400 IM — FINALS
- World Record: 4:26.36 – Katinka Hosszu, HUN (2016)
- World Junior Record: 4:28.61 – Summer McIntosh, CAN (2022)
- American Record: 4:31.12 – Katie Hoff (2008)
- U.S. Open Record: 4:28.61 – Summer McIntosh, CAN (2022)
- Pro Swim Series Record: 4:31.07 – Katinka Hosszu, HUN (2015)
Top 8 Finishers:
- Katie Grimes (SAND) – 4:35.92
- Katie Ledecky (GSC) – 4:36.09
- Leah Smith (TXLA) – 4:43.20
- Kathryn Hazle (NCA) – 4:46.90
- Alexis Yager (TNAQ) – 4:51.25
- Campbell Chase (COR) – 4:53.24
- Emily Thompson (GSCY) – 4:54.79
- Fernanda Goejj (UMIZ) – 4:56.95
Katie Grimes, the 2022 Worlds silver medalist in this event, built up an absolutely massive lead over the first half of this race. Out in 1:01.21 on the butterfly leg, by the halfway point she had a 5.31 second gap over second place Katie Ledecky, and a six second gap over third-place Leah Smith.
The breaststroke leg was where Ledecky made her move though, splitting 1:19.64 to Grimes’ 1:22.95, which cut the Sanpiper’s lead to just two seconds. On the freestyle leg, Ledecky continued to eat into the gap, until they were essentially neck and neck coming down the stretch in the final 15 meters.
The 17-year-old Grimes managed to hold onto the lead and got the win in 4:35.92, .17 seconds ahead of Ledecky. 4:36.09 is a great swim for Ledecky, as it’s less than a half-second off the lifetime best she swam to win U.S. Nationals. She came home in a blazing 59.75 on the freestyle leg.
Smith kept her hold on third place for the whole race and touched in 4:43.20.
MEN’S 400 IM — FINALS
- World Record: 4:03.84 – Michael Phelps, USA (2008)
- World Junior Record: 4:10.02 – Ilya Borodin, RUS (2021)
- American Record: 4:03.84 – Michael Phelps (2008)
- U.S. Open Record: 4:05.25 – Michael Phelps, USA (2008)
- Pro Swim Series Record: 4:08.92 – Chase Kalisz, USA (2018)
Top 8 Finishers:
- Bobby Finke (SPA) – 4:17.64
- Jay Litherland (SUN) – 4:17.97
- Kieran Smith (RACT) – 4:19.67
- Sean Grieshop (UN) – 4:24.47
- Trenton Julian (MVN) – 4:24.41
- Landon Driggers (TENN) – 4:25.60
- Ilya Kharun (SAND) – 4:26.99
- Matthew Mortenson (RIPT) – 4:30.75
For half of the field, this was the second swim of the night. Trenton Julian and Ilya Kharun, who’d just swum the ‘A’ final of the 100 fly, were 1-3 after the fly leg, but quickly fell back to the rest of the field.
Over the middle 200, it was Bobby Finke in the lead after backstroke, with Jay Litherland about 1.4 seconds behind him. Litherland, who’s one of the many pros who moved to ASU last year, took over on the breaststroke leg with a 1:14.25 split.
In the 800 freestyle on Day 1, Finke didn’t seem to have his trademark closing speed, but he found it for tonight. He closed the gap to Litherland over 75 meters of freestyle, and the two came towards the final touch together. At the end, Finke got the better of Litherland, splitting 57.79 to the Sun Devil’s 58.96, giving him a winning time of 4:17.64.
In his second swim of the night, Kieran Smith pulled himself into third over the breaststroke leg and extended his grip on that position on the freestyle leg. He touched in 4:19.67, well back of the top two but 4.80 seconds ahead of fourth-place Sean Grieshop.


text: I sometimes feel that I don’t take enough photos of my girls. And today, as Kate-Ruby turns 9, I am feeling very nostalgic. Time is just flying by and I want to hang onto every memory. Last week, in the chaos of packing and exams, we took these photos in a ballet studio. It was fitting for my girls, as they both love ballet, putting on shows and all kinds of dance. I hope these will one day remind me of their happy, carefree, twirling childhood days that are passing too fast. I love you my girls.

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There are a few more Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix details included in this week’s Famitsu. Famitsu also asked asked Tetsuya Nomura if we could eventually see Kingdom Hearts 2 HD.
First, let’s talk about the new theater mode. This will include remastered movie from Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, 70% of the voice work is new. 1.5 HD Remix will be making use of the models Square Enix created for Kingdom Hearts 3D. Another tidbit from the magazine reveals that the gameplay has been modified a bit so that it comes closer to Kingdom Hearts II.
Players will find the original Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories, and remastered scenes from 358/2 Days in the collection. What about Kingdom Hearts II ?
Nomura’s response was rather interesting. His reply stated that “it would be unusual if there wasn’t”.

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Around this time of last year, Apple has launched iPad 2 and then only the product launched in Malaysia on 29th April 2011.Then, a year later, Apple’s finally adding a new member to the family , iPad 3.
As mentioned in Dailymail, Apple’s iPad 3 WILL launch on 7th of March at special event in San Francisco, USA.
The look of the iPad 3 hasn’t been display yet but an sneak-peak photo with the caption on the right bottom says, ‘We have something you really have to see. And touch’.
Like any other new products, iPad models are expected to offer a much higher resolution : Full HD screen, thinner, sleeker design, and will be down nearly 20% in size compared to its predecessor, the iPad 2.
Furthermore, the weight of the battery would be lighter than iPad 1 or iPad 2, however it would cost 20-30% more than the current battery.
Apple enthusiasts or ‘fans’ has been expecting the Retina Display feature on iPad 2, however that did not happen. So, as part of the iPad 3 features, Apple has been working on the Retina Display function , just like on iPhone 4 which currently supports Retina Display with a screen resolution of 960 x 640.
Last but not least, the iPad 3 will be coming out with the latest iOS 5, which will be hosting the multi-touch gesture technology. However, several tech enthusiasts and analysts predict that Apple would introduce OS X Lion for the tablet, primarily because it will be powered by a quad-core processor. The iPad 3 O.S will also include multitasking features, such as task finishing, notifications, location, app-switching and background sound.
So , keep eye on iPad 3 new look/ design this 7th March. (8th March – 1 am (Malaysia Time)


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Antigua, Guatemala is widely considered to be one of the most beautiful travel destinations in the world, and no Guatemala holiday would be complete without a visit to this colonial city. Located in the highlands of the country, Antigua dates from the 1500s, and has managed to maintain much of its Baroque charm in the cobblestone streets, buildings, plazas, and fountains.
Prior to a large earthquake in the 1700s, Antigua was the capital city of Guatemala. After the capital was moved to Guatemala City, Antigua managed to rebuild and retain much of its former beauty. Built on a grid system, it’s a simple city to navigate using a map. The Parque Central and the Cathedral of San José are two of the most popular destinations for tourists and locals alike.
Antigua charms visitors with its colourful buildings and mix of Spanish and Mayan culture, and has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Surrounded by three volcanoes, Agua, Acatenango, and Fuego, the vistas from Antigua are world famous.
Today, Antigua is one of the most popular tourist destinations for travellers looking to learn Spanish in an immersion-type setting. The city is small enough to be easily traversed on foot, and the beauty and charm of the colonial buildings mixed with the stunning natural views and colourful Mayan culture make it a popular Guatemala travel destination.
As a result of the influx of tourists, Antigua contains an extraordinary number of Spanish language schools offering every type of language class imaginable. Traditional day schools with accommodations included in the price are popular, but there are more innovative options available for students looking for a more authentic language experience.
Immersion Spanish language schools with a volunteer program are becoming more and more popular with tourists. Programs run from short, one week programs to longer ones that can run to one month or longer. Volunteers often work in clinics, schools, helping with construction projects, and more. The benefits of combining language classes with volunteer work are many.
Volunteers often work with people who only speak Spanish, forcing students to use their newly acquired language skills. At the same time, volunteers are seeing a side of the country that a traditional Guatemala tour won’t show them. Finally, volunteers often perform important tasks that improve the lives of the residents they come in contact with.
There are many Guatemala tours that include Antigua as a featured destination, and many offer opportunities to enroll in Spanish courses at one of the many famous languages schools in the city. Whether you choose a traditional method school, one that donates a portion of tuition to charity, or a work-study option, there’s no more beautiful place in the world to learn Spanish and immerse yourself in such a rich cultural tradition.
Martsam Travel offers authentic adventures and cultural holiday experience in the most selected destinations for families, small groups and independent travelers. We offer Guatemala holidays packages with custom-made travel schedules and personalized attendance. To learn more about Martsam travel's Guatemala vacation packages, visit our website.
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Nothing is holding back actor-recording artist, Alexander James Rodriguez from unleashing his music in 2020.
The thirteen-year-old has been receiving extraordinary streaming numbers since dropping his debut pop song in July. The second song ‘Your Smile’ has been climbing at a rapid rate with over 102,000 streams on Spotify today, closely chasing his first single ‘My Crew’ currently pushing 200,000 streams. His monthly listeners are peaking towards 150,000 and are only going to soar higher.
Fans have been waiting steady for the charismatic rising star to release his debut music video, which he safely filmed in and around Malibu, California on August 26.
‘Your Smile’ was written with a cool Southern California summer vibe and is centered around a young girl’s captivating smile that is suddenly noticed by one of her friends, who is looking at her with a different appreciation for the very first time. Her admirer dreams of whisking her away for sandy toes and snow cones on the beach.
Due to the current COVID-19 filming restrictions in Los Angeles, the music video for ‘Your Smile‘ was safely made with two of Alexander’s closest friends and one videographer. The limited crew incorporated all of Malibu’s most gorgeous hotspots and Alexander’s love for the ocean. Catching the odd wave that drifted by on camera, was a must for the star.
Recording his three songs at age twelve during the Los Angeles lockdown, AJ is releasing one song consecutively each month, ‘My Crew’, which released on 07.07, ‘Your Smile’ on 08.08 and next in line is ‘Up To You’ on 09.09. He has a further three records penned for later in the year as well as a special Holiday song.
‘Your Smile’ from Alexander James (AJ) Rodriguez is currently out and available for download on iTunes and all digital streaming platforms including Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, TikTok, Pandora, DEEZER and more!


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Quantum Leaps Burnaby Conference
Date of Event: March 28, 2015
The Quantum Leaps Burnaby was a daylong event designed to inspire young women to consider pursuing careers in Science and Technology. The program, which was first initiated by the Society of Canadian Women in Science and Technology (SCWIST), has been successfully run since 1990 in communities across British Columbia and the Yukon. Each conference features brilliant role models; Women who currently work in key positions in science-based occupations lead hands on workshops, and give lectures on their lives and careers. University students studying these various fields serve on panels addressing important questions from their experiences in post secondary.
This event was organized by a team of Grade 11 & 12 students who brought together fellow Burnaby students to inspire and aid the transition between high school and a higher education.

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Facebook has become an increasingly valuable tool in today’s marketing world. As it currently stands, there are over 1 billion active users on the site which makes the obvious question why wouldn’t you use Facebook for your advertising needs? Beyond just the general reach you can get out of using Facebook, the platform allows you to be specific in your requirements and target audience to maximize on your ROI.
By creating a Facebook page for your business, you are opening a door to provide unique content to your audience along with the ability to advertise in different ways outside of your website.
Approximately 74% of marketers now utilize Facebook as a part of their marketing plans. With that being said, there are a few examples of how you can generate business from Facebook alone.
- Post content that is unique.
Entice your fans by posting content that isn’t being displayed on your website. This is one way to get people talking about your brand and grab their attention. Facebook allows you to post images, videos and statuses that can branch off of your website content, and show them there is more to your business through other mediums. Beyond that, you can make Facebook a platform to engage with your fans by posting unique facts about you and your company or pictures of employees to put a face to your brand.
- Specific offers.
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- Engage your audience.
Many brands out there have adopted unique ways to interact their fans with their posts. One growing trend is “caption this photo”. A great way to increase engagement with this type of post is to have contests with fans to get the most creative caption and reward them with a giveaway for the winner. Interactions and followers should start to increase.
Facebook has the most users out of every social media platform, and is a clear choice when it comes to your advertising needs, but is there real success behind sponsoring ads on the social media platform? It’s a good question to ask before spending the time and money.
One particular Florida store, Kay’s Designer Consignment, saw an increase of 30% in sales just nine months after converting their print ads to Facebook ads. Not only that, they also saw an additional 40% increase on an average transaction and a 3x increase in email sign-ups. Beyond the numbers, with a platform like Facebook, the store has the ability to strengthen customer relationships and widen the variety of clientele the store serves.
On a larger scale, Lysol added Facebook advertisement into their marketing plan and initially saw a 2x return on ad spend. By utilizing the platform to promote their latest cleaning product, Lysol was 3x more efficient in reaching their target audience than by promoting through television, and was able to effectively increase 7 points for brand awareness.
Beyond that, 92% of marketers are utilizing Facebook advertisements, retail advertisers saw a 152% for ROI, and there are about 1 million small to medium size businesses advertising on the platform.
How- to set up Facebook ads.
As stated above, having a Facebook page for a business is a great way to interact and build loyalty with your customers. It is also the first step in setting up ads for your business; here’s how to successfully set up the rest of your Facebook ads:
- Prepare images and text.
Initially you are going to want to try both long and short posts in your ad to gauge what works best with your target audience. As far as pictures, if you want to post ads directly on the newsfeed, the best size is 600 x 315 pixels with 20% text, or 100 by 72 pixels for advertisements featured on the right-hand side of the newsfeed.
Your ad should include the following:
- Your main offer
- The solution you are offering
- Call to action
- Your phone number (if applicable)
- Any additional information you feel relevant
- ‘Create an ad’
After you have an idea of what you are going to promote, log on to your account and click on the drop down menu located next to the ‘Home’ button. Scroll down and select ‘create an ad’.
You will then be guided to put in the link that will send your target audience back to your website, blog, landing page, etc.
- What is your goal?
Below your link input, you will see three options: get more likes, promote your posts, or advanced options to send people back to your website. Facebook gives you these options to get the most out of your business page and ads through their platform. After selecting one, you can move onto designing and targeting your campaign.
- Design and Target.
When designing your ad, keep in mind that Facebook allows a 25 character headline and a 90 character description, with the ability for your photo.
Next you are ready to target your audience. Facebook gives you the ability to target down to the location (state, zip code, etc.), specifically to your own fans, exact school attended, relationship status, etc.
- Name, payment and scheduling.
After your ad is set up and ready to be published, you want to name your campaign. Generally speaking, it should be something distinct such as the label of your target audience.
After that is complete, it is time for payment and scheduling. Facebook gives you different options to pay for your campaign such as PPC (pay per click) or lump sum for the duration of your campaign.
Finally, select the length of time you want your campaign to run for.
Your ad should now be successfully displaying on Facebook. To manage and track your campaign’s, navigate to the ‘ad manager’ tool and view how your stats are coming along. This is a convenient way to monitor the success of your campaign and pin point any adjustments you may need to make to maximize on your ROI.


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This is from a Taste Of Home Magazine. Looked so good in the picture I had to give it a try.
- 4 large tomatoes, Sliced
- 2 medium sweet onions, thinly sliced and separated into rings
- 1⁄4 cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped onion
- 1⁄2 teaspoon sugar
- 1⁄4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
- Layer tomatoes and onions in a shallow serving dish. In a jar with a tight-fitting lid, combine the remaining ingredients; shake well.
- Drizzle over salad. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours before serving.
The dressing adds great flavor to the tomatoes. In fact, I think the dressing would add great flavor to any salad! Perfectly seasoned--I think it would taste good with some chopped garlic as well.


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As women, we do a lot to keep our nether regions in shape: monthly waxes, birth control, and yearly checkups—and that’s just for starters. Recently, Gwyneth Paltrow recommended another to-do for your hoo-ha maintenance checklist: the V-steam.
On her lifestyle site, GOOP, Gwyneth writes that steaming your V is when you “sit on what is essentially a mini-throne, and a combination of infrared and mugwort steam cleanses your uterus, et al. It is an energetic release not just a steam douche that balances female hormone levels.”
Interesting, right? Since gynecologists generally frown upon any kind of douching, we wanted to see if that the same held true for the GOOP-approved procedure. The short answer: “It’s complete bull,” says Mary Jane Minkin, M.D., clinical professor of ob-gyn at Yale School of Medicine. Minkin says that the alleged benefits of getting your vagina steamed are totally bogus and that undergoing a treatment like this could even harm your lady bits. Here’s why:
1. It Burns
“My first concern is that someone would burn themselves because steam is hot,” says Minkin. “And I certainly wouldn’t want someone to get a burn in their vagina.” Fun fact: Your hoo-ha sits right next to the bladder and rectum, so a bad burn could damage the lining between the two of them and cause a lot of issues. “That would be a worst-case scenario,” says Minkin.
2. It Can Mess With Your Vagina’s Good Bacteria
Just like regular douching, trying to “cleanse” your vag with steam can be drying and disrupt the natural bacteria that lives up in there, says Minkin. And since the vagina is a self-cleaning machine, you don’t need to take any action to keep it that way, she says. However, one thing you could do to boost your vagina’s natural cleaning abilities is to eat more yogurt, which contains the good bacteria that keep your vag fresh yeast infection-free.
Minkin also questions the steam’s effectiveness as a uterus cleanser since it’s hard to say whether the steam could actually reach that far. She says that even if it could, there are very few bacteria in the lining of the uterus and that those bacteria absolutely do not need to be cleaned out.
3. It Won’t Balance Any Hormones
First off, Minkin says, there are no hormones produced by the uterus or the vagina. “The hormone factory is in the ovaries, and there’s no reason why steam would affect the hormones produced there,” she says. And again, it’s hard to say if the steam even makes it that far.


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This is a project by a community organisation in Merton, serving beneficiaries in Kingston upon Thames. The group will use the funding to deliver a series of art support sessions that will focus upon young people who are not in education, employment or training. This will improve levels of self-esteem and enhance the confidence of people who have a range of complex needs.
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Chris Anderson: Journalism jobs will be lost and news media could become smaller in the digital future
The Long Tail author says news media has to add value above that available from amateurs to survive in a digital future where getting content for free is the norm
Speaking from San Francisco - via an audio link - to the Journalism Leaders Forum, at UCLAN, Anderson expanded on a recent article in which he suggested that getting things for free was the future of business by telling delegates 'adding value' that amateurs were unable to offer was critical to the survival of existing journalistic enterprises online.
"What can we do as media organisations that others can't do, the answer is we can't do the long tail easily, we can't zero in on topics with incredible narrowness, there is absolutely no point in repeating commodity news from the newswires, so we need to do something that the internet has not either not already done or done too well, that may be original reporting, maybe it's investigative reporting. Maybe it's long form narrative; maybe it's the packaging of stories with photography and diagrams," Anderson said.
"That's basically our mission, I think, to figure out where the market failure is in the amateur internet and there in lies the commercial opportunity for us to do something that still has value and which people will pay for, either directly or in terms of their attention which can be monetised through advertising.
"It's our job as media professionals to figure out how we can do something that adds value to the internet, that people will pay for, and that still costs less than the income that we can derive from it - that's our job, that's business, that's the competitive marketplace."
Panellist Peter Kirwan, author of the Press Gazette's Media Money blog, suggested there was insufficient advertising cash available to support all online capital ventures and that as a consequence a certain number of journalistic operations could be put under pressure by amateurs on the web.
He asked Anderson if an advertising model based on giving content away for nothing could ultimately lead to the loss of journalism jobs and the impoverishment of some mainstream media outlets.
Anderson said this was 'the inevitable consequence of digital economics.'
"Craigslist has demonetised a section of the newspaper economy, especially classified ads," he said.
"It's not like it has shifted it from one place to the other, it had removed it entirely. That's what innovation and evolution and competition does. It will put people out of business, but this is the market place speaking.
"People are speaking with their feet, they're shifting attention to something that is relevant to them. This is an opportunity for us to figure out what our place is in the world - there is no law or God-given grant for the media industry to be any particular size.
"Maybe the professional media industry wants to be smaller in the future. Maybe there is less money on the table, that happens. The typesetters aren't as numerous as they once were either.
"I guess we are just going to run that experiment. It's going to happen and we will find out what the result is, and my bet is that there's still a place for a vibrant commercial media going forward but that our role is going to be different than it was before."
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So while we were in Italy I stumbled across these amazing gardens that were maintained by the townsfolk in Cinque Terre. In an attempt to keep people from walking through the garden, or picking the flowers, they had these huge sign detailing all of the things that they would like for you to avoid doing if at all possible. That is all but one of them had this large and very detailed sign; this garden had a little white sign that very simply said the word “No” in little red letters.
After seeing this sign I immediately decided that I needed to make a version of it for myself so that the next time someone walks up to me in the office trying to ask me to do something I can just hold the sign up. It’s going to make a nifty addition to all of my little office doodads and my friend Jess has already asked me to make her one too. I found the wooden sign things that I use in this tutorial at Michael’s for super cheap so if you’re looking to recreate this that’s where you’ll find them!
Wooden signs (I don’t actually know if this is what you’d call them, but it’s what I’m calling them)
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I started out by painting the whole of my sign white, which was totally unnecessary because it already came white I just wanted there to be a bit of a buffer between the paint and the wood so that everything wouldn’t stain or stick. You do not have to do this it is totally optional. I wish I had better painting skills. As it stands if someone had access to all the world’s nuclear missiles and was telling me if I didn’t draw something perfectly that the world would explode, then I’m sorry guys but it would be ‘so long and thanks for all the fish’ for the entire human race. It is just not a skill that I have. Next one I make though, I’m getting a stencil!
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Talks@Willoughby presents Will Davies speaking about his new book The Last 100 Days
06 August 2018
Thursday 9 August 2018, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Chatswood Library on The Concourse
Lower Ground, 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood
Will Davies, bestselling author of Beneath Hill 60 and Somme Mud, will speak about his new book The Last 100 Days and the Australian contribution to the end of the First World War, at Chatswood Library on The Concourse, Thursday 9 August 2018, 12.30pm.
In March 1918, with the fear of a one-million-man American army landing in France, the Germans attacked. In response, Australian soldiers were involved in a number of engagements, culminating in the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux and the saving of Amiens, and Paris, from German occupation.
Then came General John Monash's first victory as the Commanding Officer of the newly formed Australian Corps at Hamel. This victory, and the tactics it tested, became crucial to the Allied victory after 8 August, the 'black day of the German Army'. On this day the major Allied counteroffensive began, with the Australian Imperial Force in the vanguard of the attack.
Fast-paced and tense, the story of The Last 100 Days is animated by the voices of Australian soldiers as they endured the war's closing stages with humour and stoicism; and as they fought a series of battles in which they played a pivotal role in securing Allied victory.
Will Davies is a historian, writer and filmmaker. His books include:
- Somme Mud: The war experiences of an Australian infantryman in France 1916-1919, which he edited
- Beneath Hill 60 which was made into a major motion picture
- The Boy Colonel, the story of the youngest battalion leader in the AIF, is his most recent book.
Lindfield Bookshop will provide copies of the book for sale on the day.
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The Nintendo Switch has achieved another milestone in its sales, as the total sales of the console in the United States have surpassed the best-selling Wii. This accomplishment comes after the global sales of the Switch surpassed the Wii earlier this year in June.
According to Circana (formerly known as NPD), the total sales of the portable gaming system Nintendo Switch have now exceeded the Wii. This achievement has been made within a span of 6 years, with the Switch surpassing the Wii in July. However, Circana did not specify the exact number of units sold. On the other hand, IGN stated that approximately 49 million units of the Switch have been sold in America.
GamesIndustry.biz added that the current sales of the Switch are now less than 1 million units behind the Xbox 360 in the United States and less than 5 million units behind the PlayStation 2.
The continuous success of the Switch can be attributed to its strong lineup of 1st Party games in 2023. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will lead the pack, followed by Metroid Prime Remastered and Pikmin 4. Furthermore, the highly anticipated Super Mario Bros. Wonder is set to release later this year.
Nintendo’s official website stated that the Switch has now sold over 129 million units as of June 30, 2023, surpassing the lifespan sales of the Wii which are currently at 101 million units.
The best-selling game on the Switch is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, with 55.46 million copies sold. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild ranks as the fourth best-selling game with 30 million copies sold, while Tears of the Kingdom is the ninth best-selling game with 18 million copies sold.
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Unit 2: Medieval through Baroque The Enjoyment of Music- Prelude 2, “Music as Commodity and Social Activity” We begin when Europeans begin musical notation, writing down music on paper. A lot of the music from this time period was written for sacred purposes, written to be able to better extend Christian worship. Middle Ages begins with the fall of the Roman Empire, in 476 C.E. Very Important date. The Enjoyment of Music- Ch. 13, “Voice and Worship: Tradition and Individuality in Medieval Chant” The rise of monasteries shapes the culture of religious musical worship. The music of the early church was Plainchant. The music was monophonic and free flowing, and it represented the starting point of artistic creativity in Western music. These melodies are often known today as Gregorian chants, named of Pope Gregory the Great who codified them. Many Gregorian melodies were believed to have been composed by a divine mind. Usually conjunct; falls into the earlier discussed categories of syllabic, neumatic, and melismatic. Western music used a variety of scale patterns called modes. Typically, music from this time period is not tonal; sounds weird to us. Descended from Middle Eastern ideas. Hildegard of Bingen- given to the church as her parents’ tenth child (tithe). Had visions since she was little; said to be able to foretell the future. Founded her own monastery and provided political and religious guidance to many popes, priests, and kings. Her works are slightly more expressive than traditional Gregorian chants; more leaps and melismas. The Enjoyment of Music- Ch. 14, “Layering Lines: Polyphony at Notre Dame” Polyphony is the most important feature of western music. Organum was the earliest polyphonic music, and it evolved from the practice of adding a second voice to a Gregorian chant at the interval of a fourth or fifth. Léonin was the first composer of polyphonic music whose name we know; he was the leader of the composers of Notre Dame. Not all religious communities welcomed polyphony; it was seen as distracting in contrast to the simplicity of plainchant. The Enjoyment of Music- Ch. 15, “Symbols and Puzzles: Machaut and the Medieval Mind” Many traveling entertainers began to develop a more secular form of music for everyday medieval life. Those in the south of France were called troubadours, while those in the north of France were known as trouvéres. Both terms meant “finders” or “inventors”. The crusades brought a ton of culture over from the east, introducing our early scale system and many new instruments. Most music from the troubadours was about passionate tales of love, war, heroism; like the crusades. 2 New musical style called Ars nova meaning “new art”. Appeared after the beginning of the merge of European and Eastern cultures. This brings ideas of rhythm, meter, harmony, and counterpoint. Ars Nova begins to shift the subject of art from otherworldly ideals to human and natural subjects, from music to painting and all other art forms. Machaut was a French composer who was highly influential. He favored the chanson, a type of music set to one of several fixed text forms: the rondeau, ballade, and virelai. His rondeau “Ma fin est mon commencement” is a musical puzzle, where the top two lines switch in the middle. 3
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Reflections on Smart City Expo World Congress 2017
Following a highly successful event, I wanted to share my thoughts and experiences from Smart City World Expo 2017.
The growth and momentum of any industry or sector can often be judged by the increasing interest and attendance at the key exhibitions and conferences. This certainly seemed to be the case in Barcelona, where the recent Smart City Expo World Congress seemed to attract not only more people than ever, but those from a broader set of organizational functions.
What is a smart city?
Ironically, one of my key thoughts having attended the event, was that there’s a lack of a clear and consistent definition of what a smart city is. Government and cities around the world spend billions to create their vision of a smart city. But if you ask various stakeholders about what a smart city really is, you will soon discover that there are many different views. There is no short definition of a smart city, and to make the topic more tangible, I prefer to look at some of the key objectives most smart city projects are designed to achieve:
- Efficiency of services – to ensure efficient use of public resources and a high level of citizen service.
- Sustainability – to grow & develop the city with strong consideration to environmental impact.
- Mobility – to make it easy for citizens, workers and visitors to move around in the city, whether by foot, bike, car, public transport etc. (regardless of transportation means).
- Safety & security – to ensure public safety & security in every-day life and at special events, as well as being best possibly prepared for emergencies and disasters.
- Economic growth – to attract businesses, investors, citizens and visitors.
- City reputation – to constantly improve the city’s image & reputation.
Successful smart city projects, regardless of their core objectives, will help cities get closer to their ultimate goal of improving the overall quality of life, or in smart city terms, “livability”.
New places and faces
Clearly, having a smart city is seen as something to be proud of, and is now becoming an essential part of any city’s reputation globally. Many countries and cities were exhibiting and demonstrating how they are implementing smart city solutions – with a focus on improving public safety and making their cities resilient. Dubai, for example, had a very interesting demo of a robot police that are patrolling some of the busy areas of Dubai. Since last summer, citizens and visitors can talk to the robots and use their touchscreen to instantly report crimes. I also gave a talk at the event, where I highlighted Project Green Light in Detroit, a successful public / private partnership to reduce crime, improve neighborhood safety and promote the growth of local businesses. You can read more about this exciting project in my recent blog post.
I was also excited to see a new group among the usual attendees of IT, security, consultants, system integrators and partners. Smart city-specific roles, such as Smart City Manager or Smart City Project Manager, were also part of the audience, again another sign that the importance of smart cities is a growing focus across the globe.
Trends and topics
Predictive analytics was a hot topic, especially around crime and disaster prevention. On the Axis booth, we were asked a lot about our solutions for sound detection and drone detection, as well as facial recognition and traffic control. These technologies help to support law enforcement and infrastructure personnel, freeing up some of the resource currently sucked up by logistics and problem identification.
We were keen to focus less on specific products, and more on integrated solutions against specific needs. This meant close cooperation with our partners, and it was great to see Axis cameras being showcased in several booths outside our own. Axis and partners help cities around the world in their ambitions to become safer & more secure, and to improve their traffic situation (mobility). Connected video solutions enable authorities to quickly react to, respond to and resolve incidents that occur. Solutions that attracted significant attention from visitors included:
- Sound detection, drone detection and facial recognition to automatically detect and alert for potential threats or incidents.
- Automatic incident detection to give traffic management quick alerts for traffic incidents
- Real-time incident management solutions to ensure optimized response and efficient evidence collection
A more connected future
Another trend from the event was the desire to move away from silos and instead provide an increasingly collaborative approach to running a smart city, with more structured data and resource sharing. This cross-silo cooperation, supported by IT platforms, allows for connectivity, shared IoT devices and sensors for the efficient sharing of data and information between relevant stakeholders.
The use of cameras is one example of this. A city might have hundreds of cameras for traffic management, hundreds of cameras for surveillance, hundreds of cameras within retailers, hundreds more at stadiums, but the data stays within each of these silos. From discussions at the expo, it is highly probable that in the near future, there will be many of examples where data from cameras and other connected devices provide various stakeholders in a city with a clear, real-time view when something has, or is about to happen.
If I look forward to next year’s event, I think this is where we’ll see significant progress: increases in efficiency and effectiveness through sharing of data and information across city silos. I’m looking forward to it already.
Are you interested in other trends we have seen this year? See more in our Review of 2017 security technology trends.


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We missed our outbound flight in the early morning by probably 90 seconds. We looked at the departures board for the next flight, and bought tickets online. But we couldn't check in online as it is too close to the departure so we needed to go back to the check-in counter. Exiting the security area at London Luton airport turned out to be a huge hassle. In case you ever need to know, you need to go to Gate 6 which is far from the departures area and you need to call the airline responsible for your flight and ask them to send a personnel to escort you out of the airport through staff access which includes a passport check. Random piece of information, I know. But it may come in handy some day.
Anyway, we got there and joined our friends for a Sandeman's Barcelona city tour. It turned out to be less of a city tour and more of a history lesson. After 1.5 hours, we probably stopped at 5 places, each with a history lecture. So we left at break time. I've done many of the Sandeman's free tours that introduce you to the city. They used to lightly touch upon all the important sights in any city and show us at least half of them from the outside as well as tell us how best to visit those sights. This one was just a history class. So we left.
Montjuic is a hill. We can drive up there but we can also take a cable car from Parc de Montjuic. To get to Parc de Montjuic we can take a different "funicular". We googled up about cable cars and we find out there is one at the beach. So we went to the beach where we had a nice lunch and then we waited in the queue for the cable car. I had twice previously stood in this queue on my visits to Barcelona but I left because it takes so long. But this time we waited. While we waited we realised that this cable car doesn't seem to go to the hill at all. The hill is too far away. Nevertheless the website and all tourist info is telling our there is a funicular that takes us to the Parc. It took us a long time to figure this one out but anyway it's not from the beach.
We needed to take the Montjuic funicular from Parallel metro. We cabbed it to metro and couldn't find anything remotely looking like a funicular. Instead we found a bus that takes us to the Montjuic funicular. We took it. It delivered us to Avinguda de Miramar where Parc dear Montjuic is. I repeat there is actually no cable car that goes to Parc de Montjuic. It is a bus. From there we take the cable car to Castle Montjuic. We didn't go into the castle. The views from the hill are beautiful and you can see out into the sea. On the way back we stopped at one of the stops which is simply a park around a view point.


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|BRUSH-STROKES OF BLUE VETCH IN FIELDS OF GOLD, GREEN AND WHITE|
We have to make a trip to Superior, WI, and it should be a nice day to travel.
The American vetch, Vicea americana, in the Legume Family, is a common roadside plant, native to much of North America. It bears panicles of quite colorful small, blue plea-like flowers. It creeps and climbs by tendrils at the end of its compound leaves, and can be somewhat weedy. Blue wildflowers are a summer rarity, and it adds color and interest to our roadsides, particularly where it grows in large patches among the yellow Coreopsis.
American vetch is used in forest fire and mining restoration projects and is a good wildlife forage plant. Being a legume, it enriches poor soils. The plant may be confused with the legume Crown Vetch, which has similar leaves but without tendrils. Neither is welcome in my garden, however.
According to my records it is blooming right about on time.

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Grammy award winning artist and music producer, Terrace Martin, joined Snoop Dogg for the latest episode of Merry Jane’s GGN news. In signature fashion, the Dogfather started off by passing some pre-rolled herb over to Martin, right before discussing the soulful artist’s current project, “Velvet Portraits.” The album was released on April 1 of this year, and Snoop took no time to congratulate Martin for his progressive musical direction on the record.
LISTEN: Terrace Martin and 9th Wonder’s “Angel”
Terrace also listed his main influences in music as Miles Davis, Dr. Dre, DJ Quik, Snoop and many more. His West Coast cohort DJ Mustard also came up as a topic of conversation when Martin explained his appreciation for the man’s “musical genius.” Martin also talked about his critically acclaimed work on Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp A Butterfly”. King Kendrick was nominated for a total of eleven Grammys and Martin himself was nominated for five.
The interview ended like most GGN reports do when we found out what Martin’s cereal preference is and favorite part of a female. On the final note, we learn that Terrace doesn’t feel old in the game because he learns to adapt to the new sounds.

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Donald Trump is ignoring warning from chairman Powell regarding a dire need for economic stimulus to rescue the American economy and has called for suspension of talks until after the election with the stipulation that he will help if he wins.
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday left an opening on the Supreme Court 46 days before Election Day. The Republicans are ignoring their own precedence to push a nominee through. They are breaking the legitimacy of the US institutions. Is this what drain the swamp means?
President Trump used the spotlight of the Fourth of July weekend to sow division during a national crisis, denying his failings in containing the worsening coronavirus pandemic while delivering a harsh diatribe against what he branded the “new far-left fascism.”
President Trump continued his purge of inspectors general late Friday, moving to oust Steve A. Linick, who had served in that post at the State Department since 2013, and replacing him with an ambassador with close ties to Vice President Mike Pence. The decision to remove Mr. Linick, first reported Friday night by Politico, is the latest in a purge of inspectors general whom Mr. Trump has deemed insufficiently loyal to his administration, upending the traditional independence of the internal watchdog agencies whose missions are to conduct oversight of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.
Senior Trump administration officials have pushed American spy agencies to hunt for evidence to support an unsubstantiated theory that a government laboratory in Wuhan, China, was the origin of the coronavirus outbreak, according to current and former American officials. The effort comes as President Trump escalates a public campaign to blame China for the pandemic.
An informal coalition of influential conservative leaders and groups, some with close connections to the White House, has been quietly working to nurture protests and apply political and legal pressure to overturn state and local orders intended to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
The culture that President Trump has fostered and abided by for more than three years in the White House has shaped his administration’s response to a deadly pandemic that is upending his presidency and the rest of the country, with dramatic changes to how Americans live their daily lives.
For at least 10 years, Mr. Kerik had been seen as a fallen figure from a distant tough-guy era in New York, banished to the margins of power. But with the rise of Mr. Trump, Mr. Kerik’s fortunes changed. His brand — brashly conservative, critical of federal prosecutors and close with right-wing media — precisely fit the jaw-jutting mold favored in the White House.
In a move that drew outrage from labor unions and progressives, President Donald Trump this week quietly took steps to slash a scheduled pay raise for millions of federal workers from 2.5% to 1% due to supposed concerns about "keeping the nation on a fiscally sustainable course."
President Trump released a $4.8 trillion budget proposal on Monday that includes a familiar list of deep cuts to student loan assistance, affordable housing efforts, food stamps and Medicaid. In a speech Mr Trump said his budget would bring deficit to zero with rosy assumptions about economic growth.
President Trump on Thursday capped a three-year drive to roll back clean air and water protections by proposing stark changes to the nation’s oldest and most established environmental law that could exempt major infrastructure projects from environmental review.
President Trump campaigned in 2016 on a pledge to restore jobs — manufacturing jobs, specifically — to long-struggling Midwestern communities, and he has made the economy a centerpiece of his re-election campaign. But job growth has slowed sharply this year in Michigan, Pennsylvania and other states that were critical to Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016, as well as in states like Minnesota that he narrowly lost.
The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine public health regulations, overriding protests from scientists and physicians who say the new rule would undermine the scientific underpinnings of government policymaking.
The yield curve, an indicator from the bond market just a few months ago set off alarms about the risk of a recession. Now it has gone back to normal, and that signal has been met with relief in the markets. But as far as the economy is concerned, it might not matter. Once the yield curve has predicted a recession, one usually follows even if that signal changes later.
The Trump administration is expected to roll back an Obama-era regulation meant to limit the leaching of heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury into water supplies from the ash of coal-fired power plants, according to two people familiar with the plans.
The Federal Reserve is hoping that its latest interest-rate cut will help keep the economy safely at cruising altitude. But don’t expect it to provide much of a lift to the housing market. Few economists expect the housing market to take off in response to this week’s rate cut, because rates aren’t what was holding back housing in the first place. Instead, they point to other factors.
Dogged by uneasiness over trade frictions and weak global growth, the American economy’s growth inched lower over the summer. Gross domestic product — the broadest measure of goods and services produced in the economy — grew at a 1.9 percent annual rate for the third quarter, according to preliminary data released by the Commerce Department on Wednesday.
President Trump on Monday questioned whether the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Adam B. Schiff, should be arrested for treason for his description of a phone call Mr. Trump had with the president of Ukraine during a recent congressional hearing.
President Trump told a crowd of staff from the United States Mission to the United Nations on Thursday morning that he wants to know who provided information to a whistle-blower about his phone call with the president of Ukraine, saying that whoever did so was “close to a spy” and that “in the old days,” spies were dealt with differently.
In ominous signs of the damage being done by the trade war between China and the United States, data released on Wednesday indicated that the German economy was hurtling toward recession and that growth at Chinese factories was slowing at a pace not seen in nearly two decades.
The world’s largest automakers warned President Trump on Thursday that one of his most sweeping deregulatory efforts — his plan to weaken tailpipe pollution standards — threatens to cut their profits and produce “untenable” instability in a crucial manufacturing sector.
The latest report was a disappointing showing that will stoke fears the economy is softening as the Trump administration’s trade war with China and potentially Mexico escalates. The Federal Reserve has signaled that it would consider a rate cut in the event of economic weakness, and May’s data is likely to be an important factor in their decisions.
Mr. Trump was propelled to the presidency, in part, by a self-spun narrative of business success and of setbacks triumphantly overcome. He has attributed his first run of reversals and bankruptcies to the recession that took hold in 1990. But 10 years of tax information obtained by The New York Times paints a different, and far bleaker, picture of his deal-making abilities and financial condition.
President Trump asserted executive privilege on Wednesday in an effort to shield hidden portions of Robert S. Mueller III’s unredacted report and the evidence he collected from Congress. The assertion, Mr. Trump’s first use of the secrecy powers as president, came as the House Judiciary Committee is expected to vote Wednesday morning to recommend the House of Representatives hold Attorney General William P. Barr in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena for the same material.
The Trump administration escalated its defiance of Congress on Wednesday, as the Justice Department refused to let an official testify on Capitol Hill and President Trump vowed to fight what he called a “ridiculous” subpoena ordering a former top aide to appear before lawmakers.
Robert S. Mueller III revealed a frantic, monthslong effort by President Trump to thwart the investigation into Russia’s 2016 election interference, cataloging in a report released on Thursday the attempts by Mr. Trump to escape an inquiry that imperiled his presidency from the start.
President Trump and his Republican allies went on the offensive on Monday, vowing to pursue and even punish those responsible for the Russia investigation now that the special counsel has wrapped up without implicating him or his campaign in a criminal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election.
President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials and the White House’s top lawyer, four people briefed on the matter said.
As federal prosecutors in Manhattan gathered evidence late last year about President Trump’s role in silencing women with hush payments during the 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump called Matthew G. Whitaker, his newly installed attorney general, with a question. He asked whether Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York and a Trump ally, could be put in charge of the widening investigation, according to several American officials with direct knowledge of the call.
Michael D. Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for President Trump, has indefinitely postponed his congressional testimony, his lawyer said in a statement on Wednesday, citing Mr. Trump’s verbal attacks on Mr. Cohen’s family in the days since he scheduled his appearance on Capitol Hill.
The tit-for-tat between President Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the State of the Union address escalated sharply on Wednesday, with Mr. Trump telling Ms. Pelosi he would deliver the speech in the Capitol on Tuesday as originally scheduled, and Ms. Pelosi firing back that he was not welcome unless the government was fully open.
In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, according to former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation.
The Donald J. Trump Foundation will close and give away all its remaining funds under judicial supervision amid a lawsuit accusing the charity and the Trump family of using it illegally for self-dealing and political gain, the New York attorney general’s office announced Tuesday.
Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, admitted in court on Thursday that he had engaged in negotiations to build a tower in Moscow for Mr. Trump well into the 2016 presidential campaign, far later than previously known.
President Trump on Tuesday condemned Saudi Arabia’s account of the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi as “the worst cover-up ever,” and his administration warned for the first time that it would impose human rights sanctions on those who took part in the plot.
President Trump said on Monday that he spoke with the king of Saudi Arabia and that the ruler denied any knowledge of what happened to a missing Saudi dissident journalist. After the call, Mr. Trump said it was possible that “rogue killers” were behind the disappearance of the journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.
President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents, an investigation by The New York Times has found. Mr. Trump won the presidency proclaiming himself a self-made billionaire, and he has long insisted that his father, the legendary New York City builder Fred C. Trump, provided almost no financial help.
An American lobbyist on Friday admitted brokering access to President Trump’s inauguration for a pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch in a scheme that highlighted the rush by foreign interests to influence the new administration.
Federal investigators have provided ample evidence that President Trump was involved in deals to pay two women to keep them from speaking publicly before the 2016 election about affairs that they said they had with him. But it turns out that Mr. Trump wanted to go even further.
President Trump threatened on Friday to quickly revoke the security clearance of Bruce Ohr, a little-known Justice Department official, for the first time seeking to apply his power to cut access to sensitive information to a midlevel government worker rather than a prominent former national security official.
President Trump called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday to end the special counsel investigation, an extraordinary appeal to the nation’s top law enforcement official to halt an inquiry directly into the president.
A lawsuit accusing President Trump of violating the Constitution by maintaining a financial interest in his company’s Washington hotel cleared a critical hurdle on Wednesday when a federal judge allowed the case to move forward.The plaintiffs in the lawsuit, the District of Columbia and the State of Maryland, say that Mr. Trump’s profits from the Trump International Hotel, just blocks from the White House, violate anti-corruption clauses in the Constitution and take business from local convention centers and hotels.
Just a few hours after President Trump doused expectations of extracting any confession from President Vladimir V. Putin on Russia’s election meddling when they meet on Monday, his own Justice Department issued a sweeping indictment of 12 Russian intelligence agents for hacking the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign.
Now, affirmative action is at a crossroads. The Trump administration is moving against any use of race as a measurement of diversity in education. And the retirement of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at the end of this month will leave the court without its swing vote on affirmative action and allow President Trump to nominate a justice opposed to a policy that for decades has tried to integrate elite educational institutions.
The bond market’s yield curve is perilously close to predicting a recession — something it has done with surprising accuracy — and it’s become a big topic on Wall Street. Some economists on Wall Street think the economy could be growing at around a nearly 5 percent annualized clip this quarter. But if the current economic vigor is only reflecting a short-term stimulus coming from the Trump administration’s tax cut, then some kind of slowdown is to be expected.
In a series of Twitter posts on Monday, the president also railed against Europe’s immigration issues, especially in Germany, as his own policies come under enhanced scrutiny and criticism.
The New York State attorney general’s office filed a scathingly worded lawsuit on Thursday taking aim at the Donald J. Trump Foundation, accusing the charity and the Trump family of sweeping violations of campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegal coordination with the presidential campaign.
So what is the most honest way of talking about the Trump economy? It goes like this: The president inherited an economy that had come a long way toward healing. During his administration, the economy has continued growing at about the same rate it did before he took office, pushing incomes, employment and output to yet higher levels. There are plenty of problems that remain in the United States, economic and otherwise, and the degree of credit the president deserves for the state of the economy is an open debate.
The E.P.A. chief, who has reversed Obama-era rules on coal mining, enjoyed a superfan experience at a University of Kentucky basketball game — courtesy of an industry executive. But there was more to the game last December than a superfan experience for Mr. Pruitt and his son, who joined him. They sat in seats belonging to Joseph W. Craft III, a billionaire coal executive who has engaged in an aggressive campaign to reverse the Obama administration’s environmental crackdown on the coal industry. Mr. Craft and his wife donated more than $2 million to support President Trump’s candidacy and inauguration.
Mr. McCabe’s memo, one of several that he wrote, highlights the conflicting roles that Mr. Rosenstein plays in the case. He supervises the special counsel investigation and has told colleagues that protecting it is among his highest priorities. But many current and former law enforcement officials are suspicious of some of his other actions, including allowing some of Mr. Trump’s congressional allies to view crucial documents from the investigation.
When President Trump publicly demanded that the Justice Department open an investigation into the F.B.I.’s scrutiny of his campaign contacts with Russia, he inched further toward breaching an established constraint on executive power: The White House does not make decisions about individual law enforcement investigations.
A lawyer for President Trump broached the idea of Mr. Trump pardoning two of his former top advisers, Michael T. Flynn and Paul Manafort, with their lawyers last year, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions.
For Elliott Broidy, Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign represented an unparalleled political and business opportunity. An investor and defense contractor, Mr. Broidy became a top fund-raiser for Mr. Trump’s campaign when most elite Republican donors were keeping their distance, and Mr. Trump in turn overlooked the lingering whiff of scandal from Mr. Broidy’s 2009 guilty plea in a pension fund bribery case.
President Trump appeared on Sunday to abandon a strategy of deferring to the special counsel examining Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, lashing out at what he characterized as a partisan investigation and raising questions about whether he might seek to shut it down.
Andrew G. McCabe, the former F.B.I. deputy director and a frequent target of President Trump’s scorn, was fired Friday after Attorney General Jeff Sessions rejected an appeal that would have let him retire this weekend.vMr. McCabe promptly declared that his firing, and Mr. Trump’s persistent needling, were intended to undermine the special counsel’s investigation in which he is a potential witness.
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has subpoenaed the Trump Organization in recent weeks to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter. The order is the first known instance of the special counsel demanding records directly related to President Trump’s businesses, bringing the investigation closer to the president.
President Trump defied opposition from his own party and protests from overseas on Thursday as he signed orders imposing stiff and sweeping new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. But he sought to soften the impact on America’s closest allies with a more flexible plan than originally envisioned.
An adviser to the United Arab Emirates with ties to current and former aides to President Trump is cooperating with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and gave testimony last week to a grand jury, according to two people familiar with the matter. Mr. Mueller appears to be examining the influence of foreign money on Mr. Trump’s political activities and has asked witnesses about the possibility that the adviser, George Nader, funneled money from the Emirates to the president’s political efforts.
President Trump promised that his tax cut would encourage companies to invest in factories, workers and wages, setting off a spending spree that would reinvigorate the American economy. Companies have announced plans for some of those investments. But so far, companies are using much of the money for something with a more narrow benefit: buying their own shares.
A former top adviser to Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign pleaded guilty on Friday to fraud and lying to investigators in the special counsel inquiry into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and will cooperate with the investigation.
The special counsel investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election charged 13 Russian nationals and three Russian organizations on Friday with illegally using social media platforms to sow political discord, including actions that supported the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump and disparaged his opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Andrew G. McCabe abruptly stepped down on Monday as the F.B.I.’s deputy director after months of withering criticism from President Trump, telling friends he felt pressure from the head of the bureau to leave, according to two people close to Mr. McCabe.
President Trump on Thursday said his administration was answering “a call to action” by rolling back regulations on environmental protections, health care, financial services and other industries as he made a push to showcase his accomplishments near the end of his first year in office.
The decision to reduce Bears Ears is expected to set off a legal battle that could alter the course of American land conservation, putting dozens of other monuments at risk and possibly opening millions of preserved public acres to oil and gas extraction, mining, logging and other commercial activities.
A business associate of President Trump promised in 2015 to engineer a real estate deal with the aid of the president of Russia, Vladimir V. Putin, that he said would help Mr. Trump win the presidency.
President Trump’s main council of top corporate leaders disbanded on Wednesday following the president’s controversial remarks in which he equated white nationalist hate groups with the protesters opposing them. Soon after, the president announced on Twitter that he would end his executive councils, “rather than put pressure” on executives.
Walter M. Shaub Jr., who is resigning as the federal government’s top ethics watchdog on Tuesday, said the Trump administration had flouted or directly challenged long-accepted norms in a way that threatened to undermine the United States’ ethical standards, which have been admired around the world.
Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. last year to discuss possible compromising material on the Democrats, has been widely depicted as a one-issue activist consumed with getting Congress to repeal sanctions against Russian businessmen.
President Trump has done business with royals from Saudi Arabia for at least 20 years, since he sold the Plaza Hotel to a partnership formed by a Saudi prince. Mr. Trump has earned millions of dollars from the United Arab Emirates for putting his name on a golf course, with a second soon to open. He has never entered the booming market in neighboring Qatar, however, despite years of trying.
President Trump acknowledged publicly for the first time on Friday that he was under investigation in the expanding inquiry into Russian influence in the election, and he appeared to attack the integrity of the Justice Department official in charge of leading it.
A longtime friend of President Trump said on Monday that Mr. Trump was considering whether to fire Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating possible ties between the president’s campaign and Russian officials. The startling assertion comes as some of Mr. Trump’s conservative allies, who initially praised Mr. Mueller’s selection as special counsel, have begun trying to attack his credibility.
President Trump announced Thursday that he will withdraw the United States from participation in the Paris climate accord, weakening global efforts to combat climate change and siding with conservatives who argued that the landmark 2015 agreement was harming the economy.
President Trump has given at least 16 White House staff members dispensation to work on policy matters they handled while employed as lobbyists or to interact with their former colleagues in private-sector jobs, according to records released late Wednesday. Among those receiving waivers were former lobbyists for the insurance and fossil fuel industries, the White House counsel and key advisers including Reince Priebus.
American spies collected information last summer revealing that senior Russian intelligence and political officials were discussing how to exert influence over Donald J. Trump through his advisers, according to three current and former American officials familiar with the intelligence.
President Trump told Russian officials in the Oval Office this month that firing the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, had relieved “great pressure” on him, according to a document summarizing the meeting. The conversation reinforces the notion that President Trump dismissed him primarily because of the bureau’s investigation into possible collusion between his campaign and Russian operatives.

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What We Practice
a rather vigorous form of yoga aimed at challenging the body while uncovering habits of mind that are not of service to ourselves or to the world. We use our practice as a way to re-pattern those habits into habits that elevate ourselves and the whole of humanity.
Schedule of Classes
- POWER YOGA ($5) — Mon, Wed and Thurs at 6-7:15pm; Saturdays 10-11:30am
- GENTLE YOGA ($5) — Monday and Thursday at 10-11am
- LONG, SLOW AND DEEP ($5) — Tuesday at 6-8pm
- PRAYER YOGA (free) — Monday thru Friday at 7-8am

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From the Publisher'I cannot think of a more comprehensive treatment of mentoring and coaching within national and international contexts than this book co-edited by Sarah Fletcher and Carol Mullen. The chapter authors have impressive scholarly and practice based knowledge and experience. This book can be used in so many different ways because of its extensive and in-depth analyses and discussion that I recommend it as a "must read"
-Fenwick W. English, R. Wendell Eaves Senior Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership, School of Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
'The Sage Handbook of Mentoring and Coaching is an outstanding collection of cutting edge theory, research and practice in mentoring and coaching. It draws together an impressive international community of scholars and is edited by Sarah Fletcher and Carol Mullen, two leading lights in the field. It is a must read for academics, practitioners and graduate students not only for its comprehensive content but also for its ability to provide alternative viewpoints and raise a host of critical contemporary issues that impact upon mentoring and coaching within educational contexts'
-Prof Lisa Ehrich, School of Learning & Professional Studies
Queensland University of Technology

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Updated: Oct 30, 2022
2 pounds ground beef
2 Tablespoon cooking oil
1 large onion
2 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 cup flour
4 teaspoon dry mustard
1 package sliced American Cheese
1 Tablespoon chicken base
½ gallon water
Add the oil to a large pot on medium high heat, add the ground beef and begin to brown. Dice the onion and add to the browning meat, continue to brown the meat until thoroughly cooked.
Turn the heat down to medium and stir in flour to form a roux.
Cook roux on medium heat for 5 minutes while continuing to stir. Add water and cook another five minutes while continuing to mix with a whip.
As soup begins to thicken, add Worcestershire, mustard, and chicken base. Continue to stir and add the American cheese a couple of slices at a time until well dissolved and combined into the soup.
Set at low temperature and let cook for 10 minutes.