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is about a remote area in west central British Columbia, Canada
called the West Chilcotin. Surrounded by numerous glacial mountain
ranges, alpine lakes teeming with wild Rainbow Trout, and full
of wildlife. Living here goes from no running water or electricity
to spacious log homes with all the conveniences and without
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The Day After Friday The 13th.
presume everyone made it through Friday The 13th okay.
We did all right but I wasn't too sure just before midnight
I was working on the computer when all of a sudden the
dog bellowed, the Christmas tree lights started slapping
against the front of the house, covers on the snowmobiles
started flying all over the place and the flags were pulled
straight out and skinny! A wild wind had just come
straight in like a freight train out of nowhere. Sounded
like it too. The branches on the few trees we
have left near the house were whipping like crazy and
I saw a piece of something go flying past the dining room
So here I am, in the middle of the night right out in
the teeth of this wind, reattaching the Christmas lights
to the barbeque, (Tying your lights to the hinge on a
barbeque so that they won't flap around is a Hillbilly
invention. Don't ask.) securing the snow shovel on the
deck, (Yes, we still need it because it's only April and
we're good for a few more snowfalls yet.) and planting
blocks of wood on top of the light snowmobile cover on
Andy's new machine to keep it from blowing off.
The wind is just howling around me like a banshee and
I'm thinking to myself, "You know, I didn't go anywhere
today, didn't even get out of my office except for a walk,
so the creepys have come here to get me instead."
Actually, I know that makes me sound superstitious, and
I'm not really. Except for maybe Friday the 13th.....
Talked to a friend last night about some stuff I'm doing
for her and she said she had just come back from snowmobiling
to recover a couple of machines up in the Rainbows. Stating
it had been a long, horrendous day, she said, "And
do you know I just found out it's Friday the 13th? There's
no way I would have gone up there if I had known that!
I wouldn't even have gotten out of bed much less spent
12 brutal hours up on the mountain if I'd known that!"
So she's a bit more superstitious than me, although maybe
with good reason. I guess her partner went through the
ice into water and they had spent some time lost, and
it snowed the whole time they were up there.
I don't know what it is about Friday the 13th. but it
just never seems a good day to go out the door. Like I
said, I'm not particularly superstitious. I don't mind
black cats crossing my path because I've owned a few and
trust me, they can't help but cross your path when they're
tripping you up winding around your legs. I don't mind
ladders...other than I refuse to go up them but that's
a heights thing. And I don't throw salt over my shoulder
because that means pulling out the vacuum cleaner and
I dislike that thing about as much as I do ladders. Me
and Martha Stewart don't have a lot in common.
It's not like anything drastic has ever happened on Friday
the 13th. I just don't like to go out or travel on that
day. Last year in January when we were headed down to
Arizona for a week was a good example. We Hit a
vicous snowstorm. Mind you, that went on the whole
way down and the whole way back where roads and passes
were closing one after another right behind us so maybe
that can't be blamed on a specific date. Still, if I don't
have to go out on that day, I don't.
I did go for a walk yesterday, not that
I got far. I haven't been going for a while because with
all the beetle kill we've been knocking down I'd be lucky
if I could drag my bottom end down the driveway and back
much less go for an actual walk. I tried to go
on the back trail yesterday but ended coming back out
on to the road after awhile. The snow is soft on the trail
and very difficult to walk on but a few more days of melt
and I'll be able to walk in the woods on either side of
the trail. No animals and no fresh tracks but I did see
an interesting bird that I've never seen before. White
with black markings on its back, it sounds like a sandpiper
and protects its nest in much the same way but doesn't
look anything like one. I don't know if it's a bird
that changes color from winter to summer like a ptarmigan
does but I'll have to look it up and see what
Oh, and just to let you know, the Chilcotin hicks do
win out on occasion over the city types. If you recall,
I was on a rant last week about having to have a residential
address in order to get packages from some companies or
a telephone hooked up. Well, our cell phone arrived with
the local courier out of Williams Lake and was dropped
off up at the Nimpo Lake store just as all packages
are, and the fellow that was trying to get a phone
without having a residential address, did. He says they
(I'm not sure who 'they' is, but I'm assuming government
of some sort.) have now addressed all the residences on
that road. However, from north to south and all on the
same side of the road the addresses run in this order.
2040, 2015, 2020, 2030.
I guess it makes some kind of sense to someone....
it's not that bad but you can certainly tell there are
a lot in use right now. Listen outside from just about
anywhere in this country and you'll hear a chainsaw going
in the distance. Whether from our place on the lake, from
up in Nimpo, or go anywhere in Anahim, and there's that
The first topic in the Chilcotin has always been
the weather. Now it's pine killed by the Mountain
Pine Beetle. No matter who you talk to they've either
put down up to a hundred and eighty trees (the highest
number I've heard yet) last year or this year, are in
the process of taking down trees, or will be getting started
soon, before forest fire season starts. That's when the
weather comes back into the conversation. Will we get
a dry spring as well as dry summer? Will the wind continue?
Because, of course, that all has a bearing on how much
the country will be affected by forest fires this summer.
We had one of those 'April' days today when you're not
too sure what you're going to get. A little sun, some
cloud, first warm then cool with a pretty brisk breeze
that cut into cutting down any more pine after the first
one this morning. That's okay. We both need a body break
and a little time to relax. We can see the end of the
tunnel now so the tree problem doesn't bring with
it quite the same sense of urgency that it did even a
To me, our place just looks awful now with all the stumps,
piled and un-piled firewood and the junk. You know, all
the 'good' stuff that you've collected over the years
that was neatly hidden by trees? Now you notice things
that you never saw before, like power lines and that most
of the buildings need paint or upkeep of some sort or
I thought our place was the only one that had suddenly
gone from cozy chalet on the lake to the new 2007 stylishly
drab cutblock chic. However, when I went down
to a resort at the south end of the lake today where the
owners have had a big push on this spring to clean up
their beetle killed pine, I didn't feel quite so bad.
Like the resort at the north end, they're now plagued
with a whole lot of stumps and way too many empty spaces.
Like our place, every little sign of age or lack of paint
on a building shines right through all that open real
estate. You just can't get away with cozy little places
hidden among the trees anymore. Everything's going to
need a good spit, polish, and shine.
On the positive side, I'm looking forward to finally being
able to grow some lawn. While great at camouflaging
a little wear and tear on the place, those water sucking,
sun blocking lodgepole pine can kick butt on a nice green
lawn any day! Or anything else that tries to share
real estate with them. And boy, do we have sunshine now!
We've got more sunshine than we know what to do with.
When the sun's shining, that is.
I've discovered that if I want to work in my office in
the afternoon now, I'm going to have to purchase blinds
for the window next to my desk. Without the thirty or
so trees on that side of the house to block the sun, I'm
blinded for a couple of hours each day. That or else I
need to try growing a couple of tall cacti in my window.
Our driveway on the north side of the house that has snow
on it all summer and usually doesn't dry out until fall
(well, maybe not quite that late. :-) is already seeing
sun in the afternoon, even this early in the year. And
I would have to say that nude sunbathing may now be out
of the question in more than one quadrant on this property
because the resorts across the lake can definitely
see a whole lot more than they could before!
Going to have to do some tree planting....lol.
A big nasty weather system is following the Jet Stream
in off of the Pacific packing high winds and a fair amount
of moisture for the south coast, as well as us. So I guess
we'll see if we cut trees down in the next few days.
My apologies for no blog yesterday but spring seems to
have arrived and things just need to be done outside so
the daily blogs may not be quite so daily for the next
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Coast Mountain Range front and center. This 1920's heritage
home has an old fashioned covered deck loaded with baskets
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where the geese, ducks and Trumpeter Swans play around
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As well as an informal restaurant the Inn has a
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Today was another work day but at least it was in our
own yard with another four trees down, but since one was
a three way schoolmarm and a huge one at that, it was
actually seven trees. That's a grand total of 79
trees knocked down on our property alone. I know,
because I counted the stumps tonight. I wanted to know
why we're both stumbling around like a couple of stodgy
We got most of the limbs burned up today but couldn't
do it all. The wind came up so we had to let our burn
pile die down. We did get a weenie roast out of it though.
It got below freezing last night but warmed up to not
a bad working temperature today, at least until the wind
came up and it felt like a lot of arctic cold coming in
suddenly. We're expecting it to warm up tomorrow and hopefully
we'll see some sun. That was a hit and miss thing today.
Done One, More To Go.
just watched three moose take off running from the island
in front of our place across the lake to the other side
while having our supper. I really didn't think there would
still be moose this low down with so much of the snow
gone but Andy said he saw a small moose in nearby meadows
yesterday and today. I suppose it's much like all the
caribou we saw last week, which were also at a much lower
elevation than I would have expected this time of year.
But it's possible that there's still way too much snow
higher up for the animals to get around in. Although
if you look at the mountains across Nimpo Lake it's amazing
how much black has shown up on them in just the last few
The weather has been incredibly warm this weekend and
temperatures have never dropped below freezing at night.
A lot of snow has melted and the lake has been covered
in water for days, as our boots can attest.
We had fires on the lake for the first two days that we
were burning but there was so much water on the ice that
you got a good soaking every time you carried brush to
the fire. We started moving up the hill by the second
day and decided to make our fires on dry land and closer
to the felled trees shortening up the distance we had
to carry dead limbs.
Logan took his plane on skis out yesterday and I don't
even know how he could see through the water coming off
of his prop but so much water was coming off of his skis
that they looked like floats.
I know that the other evening when I looked out at a house
light reflected on the ice and then the moon, I thought,
"Hmm, something just doesn't look right here."
Of course, while we had been down at the other end of
the lake working all day, the snow and ice on the lake
had been melting so that when I looked out and saw lights,
they were no longer reflected on ice, but on water, making
them look the way they would in summer, not winter or
spring. A bit disconcerting.
Our weather finally quit on us this morning, bringing
snow, sleet, rain, hail and a very chilly wind.
It didn't take long for all of us to become soaked to
the skin and stuck with wet boots from slogging around
in mud churned up by the Cat. But the job down at the
north end of the lake is finally done and my Mom and Terry
B. have enough firewood for the next fifty years or so.
My sister's husband and son will be stopping by here tomorrow
to give us a hand falling a couple of tricky trees that
we have, and then they can finally return to Williams
Lake. I'm sure they will be thoroughly relieved to get
out of this dead pine country, but am I ever glad they
came out because did they ever do a nice job cleaning
trees up. The skill and speed they displayed falling,
skidding, limbing and bucking up trees was just amazing!
Like us, they were dragging their heinies at the end of
the day but they certainly got lots accomplished.
We're supposed to see a bit of a cold front coming in,
which will certainly make working outside more pleasant
and slow some of the melt down a bit. Right now where
frost is coming out of the ground you can just about sink
out of sight. A fast breakup will make a real mess
of things, and of course, many areas in British Columbia
are in dire danger of being flooded out. Right
now it's estimated that there is up to 150% above normal
snow pack in the mountains so a fast melt is going to
cause a nasty mess in low lying areas. I think if I lived
on a flood plain or near a creek or river as many in British
Columbia do, I would start filling sandbags now.
As you can see, I have started a new week so you can see
last week's articles at April,
The purpose of this web site is to draw attention to a
remote area of west central British Columbia. It is a
beautiful area that relies heavily on tourism. The search
engines don't know much about the West Chilcotin, Anahim
Lake, Nimpo Lake or any of the other small communities
in the region and I hope to change that! Even as large
as this site will eventually be, there just isn't enough
room or time in the day to fully describe this incredible
country but I am going to try scraping away at the tip
of the iceberg, so join me!
the links, and see what the West Chilcotin is really like!


[media-credit name=”Marilyn Avila” align=”alignright” width=”150″][/media-credit]Marilyn Avila — NC State House District 40
Political Party: Republican
How long in district: Almost 30 years.
Occupation: Worked in the textile industry and later as an administrator at the John Locke Foundation.
Campaign website: http://www.marilynavila.com/
Obviously the economy is at the top of voter’s minds this year. What do you think elected officials can actually do to help it improve?
The only thing we can do locally is in the few areas that impact business and those are taxes and regulation. And of course only what North Carolina can control, our tax structure and regulations that we place on business. In addition to that we can strongly lobby our counter parts in Washington to get their act together to look at tax issues as well as regulations issues. That has created a tremendous amount of uncertainty with businesses, who, they want to know if five years from now pretty much what is my cost going to be of hiring somebody, whether it’s in the taxes I have to pay on them or the health care I have to pay for them or the taxes my business is going to have to pay. A lot of that unfortunately, as good an environment as we can create here in North Carolina, is controlled quite a bit by Washington as well.
Why do you think your constituents should elect you?
Because they can look at my record and see that my concerns that drive my votes are for the benefit of the citizens of North Carolina. I approach my job as analytically as I ever did in my chemical work. And that is when an issue comes up, there’s always two sides, sometimes there’s three … I want to know who’s for it and why. I want to know who’s against it and why. And then I do independent research, so that by the time I’ve evaluated what the change is going to be or the new program or whatever, the final deciding factor is, is it going to be the best decision for the citizens of North Carolina.
What do you think of the state’s new fracking law and how do you think it should be implemented?
I’m in favor of it. As a scientist, I know that the technology has improved greatly since some of the early days of just drilling in general for oil or gas or whatever the case might be. It’s an issue that definitely needs to be approached with caution and with great study. I think the committee that we put together that’s going to be looking at how we ask the people to come to the state of North Carolina to drill on our land, will be very mindful of our quality of the water supply, as well as quality of life here. I think it has been a subject that has been portrayed unfairly by a lot of people, very emotionally. And literally with a lot of lies as well, when you go in and do some serious investigation on some of the horrific claims that they’ve made and find that there is no basis in fact. That’s why I would really like for every individual not to listen to someone else’s opinion. Do your own research, look at what the other guy has to say.
In a recent Supreme Court ruling, the court gave states the option of expanding the Medicaid program to cover many low-income adults, and the federal government will be paying for the bulk of the expansion. What, if anything, do you think North Carolina should do about expanding Medicaid?
I think that’s something that we need to really, seriously evaluate, because you understand the promise of the government support is for three years. I’ve been on the appropriations subcommittee for health and human services and I have seen programs just this year that the government has put millions and millions of dollars into in the past and they’ve cut. My concern is that if we expand these services and get people in a situation that they depend on, and then the government pulls back, that means we’re either going to have to cut a lot of people loose and they won’t have the services that they’ve been accustomed to or we’re going to have to take on a tremendous financial burden, which will be at the cost of the other things government has to do like education and transportation.
So if it’s something the federal government is not willing to enter into for more than three years, then you think it’s perhaps something that North Carolina should not enter into to?
I don’t think so, because they are opening it up to everybody and I still have some issues with program eligibility. Are we making it to easy for people to become dependent and not establish a sense of responsibility. I don’t mind spending the money. And believe me after being on the HHS [Health and Human Services] committee after just this one year that I’ve been on there, I’ve seen people everyday that desperately need services from the state of North Carolina and those are the people that I want to make sure get the services.


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To promote New York agriculture, Harmony House Marketplace in Cohoes is sponsoring two opportunities to go on one-day bus trips this fall.
— Washington County Cheese Tour: The Sunday, Sept. 14 trip will take riders to six farms (cow, goat and sheep) for a tour of their facilities and a taste of their artisan cheeses. The trip costs $15 per person and includes bus transportation and snacks on the bus.
— A Finger Lakes Wine Tour: The Sunday, Oct. 12 tour will take riders to four wineries on the west-side of Cayuga Lake Wine Trail to help celebrate the trail’s 25th anniversary. The wineries that will be visited are Montezuma Winery, Buttonwood, Thirsty Owl Wine Company and Sheldrake Point. The trip costs $45 per person and include bus transportation, a boxed brunch, all tasting fees, a “Linner” (lunch-dinner) at the acclaimed Red Bistro located on the grounds of Sheldrake and snacks of the bus.
Both trips will depart from Harmony House Marketplace where there is plenty of parking available.
Space on the buses will be limited. To make reservations for either outing, please call Harmony House Marketplace at 238-2232.

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WEAR - Search Results
Stolen Petland puppy returned
The search is over for the eight week old puppy stolen from Petland.
The stolen Yorkshire Terrier is worth $2,400.
Petland says an anonymous person came in this afternoon with the dog.
The person handed them the dog, then turned around and walked out.

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Massage therapy has been used for centuries to improve overall health and help alleviate a long list of complaints. When it comes to pregnancy, prenatal massages can help decrease mental health issues like anxiety and depression, relieve muscle and joint pain, and even improve labour outcomes and newborn health.
With that in mind, it’s easy to see that prenatal massages have so many benefits. If you’ve just become pregnant or you’re looking to become pregnant, we recommend exploring the benefits of massage therapy for expecting mothers.
Are you intrigued by a prenatal massage? Here are the seven pregnancy massage benefits for expecting mothers:
Benefit #1: Eases muscle tension
If you’re in the later stages of pregnancy, you may be experiencing nerve pain. This is mainly due to the uterus resting on the pelvic floor and lower back muscles. This pressure spreads tension to the muscles in the upper and lower leg. This in turn causes them to swell and put even more pressure on nerves that are located nearby.
So where does massage therapy come into play? It directly focuses on the inflamed nerves to help release muscle tension. Prenatal massage for sciatic nerve pain has been shown to significantly reduce this type of pain.
Benefit #2: Pain relief
Pain relief is one of the best pregnancy massage benefits. Prenatal massages don’t just help with nerve pain. While you’re pregnant, your abdomen grows outward and your posture changes to realign the center of gravity over the hips. This can cause stress on the joints and muscles. What this results in is low back, pelvic, neck, or shoulder pain.
Prenatal massage also helps with back pain that may result from pregnancy. More on this later.
Benefit #3: Decreases swelling
We’ve all heard about how much swelling we need to endure during pregnancy. This is no fun at all. One potential remedy for this is prenatal massage.
Swelling of the joints during pregnancy, also known as edema, is caused by a reduction in the circulation and increased pressure on the major blood vessels by the uterus.
Massage helps by stimulating the soft tissues to help reduce the collection of fluids in swollen joints.
Another benefit is that this process also improves the removal of tissue waste.
Benefit #4: Relaxation
When you’re pregnant, chances are you’re still working, taking care of your younger children, doing housework and other daily tasks. You may be able to handle this just fine normally, but when you’re pregnant, everything starts to take its toll.
Carve out some time for yourself where you go for a massage so you can reap the benefits mentioned here, but also spend some time relaxing and tending to your sore muscles. Doing this regularly will help with the aches and pains that accompany pregnancy.
When you’re relaxed and your muscles have been worked, some of the aches and pains should be easier to manage.
Benefit #5: Better sleep
If you’re pregnant, you have probably realized by now just how difficult it can be to sleep some nights. Prenatal massage is something that can help with this. It’s been shown to increase levels of the hormone serotonin which is a precursor to melatonin. This is the hormone that controls sleep and wake cycles, so it’s very important in getting a good night’s sleep.
If you’re desperate for sleep, want to sleep more, or better, consider going for regular prenatal massages.
Benefit #6: Regulates hormones
It’s been found in recent studies, that hormone levels associated with stress and relaxation can be significantly altered when women attend a prenatal massage. This often leads to other benefits like mood regulation and improved cardiovascular health.
To take full advantage of the benefits, pregnant women must attend massages once every two weeks for five weeks. When this happens, hormones like norepinephrine and cortisol are reduced, while other hormones like dopamine and serotonin are increased.
Benefit #7: Reduces back pain
With all of the added weight to your abdomen, it’s bound to affect your back. You will find (or may have already found) that your back is giving you a lot of trouble. You may have aches and pains in your back that make it difficult to stand or walk for prolonged periods. A prenatal massage can help with this as your massage therapist can spend some time massaging your back and reducing muscle tension. Go for regular prenatal massages and you will begin to see a positive difference.
As you can see, there are so many benefits of prenatal massage. From decreasing nerve pain and swelling to promoting better health, there are so many positive aspects of prenatal massage. If you have never been for a prenatal massage and have concerns, give your chiropractor a call and someone will be pleased to answer your questions and reassure you. You never know how much a prenatal massage can make a pregnancy at least a little bit easier!

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Meanwhile, the number of hospital admissions also continues to rise, albeit not as sharply as the number of new confirmed cases. During the week between 25 and 31 July an average of 22 COVID-19 patients were admitted to hospital each day. This is up from 18/day during the week from 18 to 24 July.
The average number of fatalities from COVID-19 remains stable at 3 per day.
The figures show that the active population is the most likely to become infected. During the past week 40% of the new cases were among people in their 20’s or 30’s. 47% of new confirmed cases were in Antwerp Province.
51% of all new hospital admissions during the past week were in Antwerp or Brussels.


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But those are the two hottest questions going into Saturday night's Coke Zero 400.
Call them too pop-culture in nature, with two mainstream names, not inside enough for hard-core NASCAR fans, if you will. But, hey: This is a pop-culture race, always has been, run in a hurry before an audience comprised more of beachgoers than serious fans.
This is the direct descendent of the Firecracker 400, which many still deem the best name ever for a NASCAR race, before the advent of commercial names.
Todd Warshaw/Getty ImagesDanica Patrick was impressive at Daytona in February. Will she be even better on Saturday?
What Johnson could do is become the first driver to sweep both races at Daytona International Speedway in a single season since Bobby Allison did it in 1982.
Patrick, as with every week she fires her engine, can become the first woman to win a major NASCAR race -- but it's much more interesting this weekend than it has been at, say, Michigan or Charlotte this year.
She started on the pole for the Daytona 500 in February, ran in the lead pack throughout the race, was third going into the final lap and wound up eighth because she didn't yet know how to swim with the sharks in a restrictor-plate-racing shuffle at the end.
So this could be her best shot to win since the season opener.
Johnson was quick but subtle to point out the differences in his own task from what Allison accomplished.
"Have plates been on for 31 years too?" JJ deadpanned. Allison's feat came five years before restrictor plates were instituted. In '82 a driver could race and win on his and his car's own merits. Now, of course, a driver is largely along for the wild ride in the shuffling and scrambling of plate racing, depending on others for aerodynamic pushes and pulls.
And this may be the same track Johnson won the Daytona 500 on this year, but conditions are different -- somehow even more intense for the summer race than for NASCAR's showcase event in February.
"When you come back for this event the track has so much less grip, much hotter conditions, and there is just more urgency to lead just more energy and more opportunities to make mistakes in the July race than in the February race .
"Also, everybody is just charged up for a night race, Fourth of July weekend and all those things."
Different, yes, but, "I feel like it's not going to be worlds of difference," Patrick said in response to questions as to whether she can deliver a drive as electrifying as hers in February.
"Yeah, I can do the same thing," she said. "I don't get worse as the year goes on."
Her friend and TV commercial colleague, Dale Earnhardt Jr., got a point blank question: Can Danica actually win this race?
"Yes. Of course. Absolutely," he said.
Patrick figures the biggest reason she dropped back from third to eighth in the last-lap shuffle in February was that she failed to take advantage of an opportunity to work with Earnhardt in the waning moments.
Should the two find themselves in position to draft together again Saturday night, does Patrick now have enough experience that Earnhardt could help her win? Or, conversely, enough experience that she could help Earnhardt win?
"The answer is yes for both," Earnhardt said. "With plate racing you just don't know. Mark Martin was pushing me in the [February] race and he has as much experience as anybody, and we didn't get the job done, as good as I think we are at it
"You just sort of go by your gut in those last moments," Earnhardt continued. "It just comes down to anyone, her or I or anybody, making that gut decision at that moment
"You don't fall back on years of experience," Earnhardt said. "It comes down to, really, like dodging a bullet as you move left or right and hope you make the right decision."
Where the Daytona 500 is NASCAR's showcase race, the 400 is a sprint with enormous sense of urgency, flying by the gut, dodging bullets.
"Firecracker 400" still says it best about this race.

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I picked this book up because the cat's face made me laugh. I flipped through the pages, chuckling as Archie Snufflekins Olive Valentine Cupcake Tiberius (different names from different neighbors) visited everyone in the neighborhood with his trademark stoicism and charm. But one day, he's gone and the neighborhood sets out to find their cat. This is a tender story about community and noticing the people around you. — From Halley
Archie, Cupcake, Oliver, Valentine... the cat who lives on Blossom Street is called something different by everyone, and loved by all. But there is one house on the street that he hasn't visited yet...
In this sweet story, Katie Harnett explores how one well-loved cat can change a lonely woman's life and bring a small community together.
Katie Harnett graduated from an Illustration BA at the University of the West of England, followed by an MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art. She received the Bologna Children's Book Fair ARS IN FABULA Grant Award in 2015.

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The Cotton-to-Clothing (C2C) Export Strategy launched by Zimbabwe in 2014 to boost domestic production and promote export of textiles and garments is still on course despite the devastating drought that hit the country in 2015/16, an official said Monday.
The strategy, which aims to increase cotton production three-fold by 2019, revive the cotton and textile industry and help boost the country’s economic growth, was developed by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce with support from the International Center for Trade (ICT), a joint agency of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization.
It was funded by the European Union (EU) under the EU-Africa Partnership on Cotton, and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) with international and regional development partners expressing interest in financing and supporting activities elaborated in the strategy’s plans of action.
ICT spokesperson Jarle Hetland told Xinhua Monday that while they were still hoping to see a three-fold increase in cotton production by 2019, the project had unfortunately not been progressing as fast as they had hoped.
“There are several reasons for this, including drought, which has severely affected cotton growers, but also the related limited investment in productivity.
“However, the implementation of the project carried out by ITC and COMESA is on track and is helping ensure that the sector is ready to grow and scale up its activities,” he added.
Seed cotton production decreased by 23 percent to around 80,000 tons in 2015/16 following the severe drought that hits the whole of Southern Africa.
More than 100 stakeholders from the Cotton-to-Clothing sector, including representatives of the public sector, rural communities, small and medium-sized enterprises and civil society, were involved in defining a series of market-led development priorities to support the strategy.
The C2C strategy was launched as a part of the EU-funded regional “Coordination of African Regional Cotton Sector Strategy” led by the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa.
ITC was later invited by COMESA to assist Zimbabwe in the implementation of some aspects of the strategy, in particular training activities, market intelligence tools and market linkages, institutional capacity building to support private sector and carry out an industry wide audit for future business development in the COMESA Free Trade Area.
“The implementation of the strategy is still on course. The government working with the private sector is making all efforts to ensure that the activities identified are implemented,” Hetland said.
He said part of the effort was being led by a local textile group and the Association for Cotton Value Adders of Zimbabwe.
“They are receiving support from the ministry on continued implementation of the strategy. In addition, what would be of benefit to the Zimbabwean cotton industry is agreement on the proposed strategic partnership with Cotton South Africa and other regional partners,” he said.
The strategy has identified key markets in Africa, Asia and Europe where the value, diversity and attractiveness of ‘Made in Zimbabwe’ products has not yet been tapped.
It is hoped that the strategy will deliver a unifying roadmap with an ambitious set of targets, including a steep increase in yields to 1,200 kilograms per hectare that will benefit 250,000 smallholder farmers and increase production of cotton lint to 450,000 tons per year.
Zimbabwe produced about 150,000 tons in 2013 at an average 269 kg per hectare.
A substantial increase in cotton production to around 210,000 tons in the 2016/17 marketing year has been forecast on the back of the government’s inputs support program to revive cotton production and the support given by ginners and merchants through contract farming schemes with smallholder farmers.
Export of textiles and garments is expected to reach 7.5 million U.S. dollars and set out a roadmap to help the country regain its leadership in quality and value addition in the C2C sector by 2019, when the implementation of the strategy is expected to be complete.
The sector extends from smallholder farming which contributes to the livelihoods of more than 1 million Zimbabweans to capital-intensive sub-sectors such as spinning and textiles that have played an integral role in the country’s industrialization.
It also has important food-security implications with cottonseed processing by-products used as animal feed, while cottonseed oil is used for human
Zimbabwe’s clothing and textile industry was once one of the country’s biggest employers with about 24,000 workers, but problems such as inadequate capital, power shortages, high labor costs and obsolete machinery have led many companies to operate at below 10 percent of their capacity.
The labor force has also declined to less than 4,000 because of company closures which affected ginners, spinners, knitters and weavers, dye houses, clothing companies and retailers as some were either placed under judicial management or liquidated.
As a result, Zimbabwe is currently exporting most of its cotton lint without adding any value to it, while cheap imports from Asia are flooding the market. The local clothing industry is also only able to meet about 25 percent of local demand.


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Would stay at the hotel again if I needed to be in the LB area, but would prefer to stay more north along the pacific coast highway if given the choice. Too much industrial stuff going on. But what we saw within walking distance was nice.
Views are not the best of the ocean - not their fault due to a building in front.
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January 17, 2018
CNEC Calls on Congress and White House to Fully Fund the Federal-State Partnership for State of Good Repair Program in FY2018
(Washington, D.C.) - On January 17th, members of the Coalition for the Northeast Corridor sent letters to House and Senate leaders, as well as the White House, urging policymakers to ensure that the corridor’s rail infrastructure receives critical investment in FY 2018 by fully funding the Federal-State Partnership for State of Good Repair”- a federally authorized grant program for rail/NEC.
We thank House appropriators for appropriating $500 million the House FY 2018 THUD bill for the Federal-State Partnership for State of Good Repair grant program, authorized in the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act. The appropriated $500 million could be leveraged (via State matching requirements) into another $500 million – bringing the total investment up to $1 billion. However, the Senate only included $26 million.
While the bill for all the NEC state-of-good repair needs is daunting— funding the program will help avoid future failures and secure a sustainable infrastructure for the future. This not only supports the corridor, but the entire nation.
We thank Congress and the White House for their leadership.
The Coalition for the Northeast Corridor (CNEC) is a multi-stakeholder coalition formed to advocate for increased infrastructure spending specifically on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor.. The coalition intends to protect the job-creators, investors, and communities that rely on a vibrant interstate and commuter rail system between Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. by informing and mobilizing stakeholders across the corridor, and by developing and advocating for solutions for the region’s growth.


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Creation. The Common Council, the legislative body of the City of Middletown, a municipality of the State of Connecticut, hereby creates a public body politic and corporate under the name and style of the Long Hill Estate Authority. Long Hill Estate shall be comprised of all lands, and additions thereto, of the former Wadsworth/Cenacle property.
Powers and responsibilities. Such Authority shall have the following powers and responsibilities:
To administer, operate and maintain said Long Hill Estate, including all structures and land and any adjacent property owned by the City that is made part of the estate;
To contract and be contracted with, in order to administer, operate and maintain said estate;
To set policy and to make, amend and repeal bylaws, rules, and regulations not inconsistent with the Connecticut General Statutes and the Middletown Code of Ordinances to carry out its purposes;
To use and develop park facilities as authorized by law only within said park in accordance with a duly approved master plan, as amended;
To fix and revise from time to time and to charge and collect fees, rents and other charges for the use of any project or facilities thereof on behalf of the City; to pay operating and maintenance expenses; and to contribute toward repayment of bonds heretofore or hereafter issued by the City to finance the construction and reconstruction of facilities within said estate and the principal of and interest on any obligations the Authority may incur;
To pay over the net receipts annually in July each year (gross receipts less operation and maintenance expenses, a reserve for capital improvements not exceeding 25% of gross receipts for the fiscal year, and Authority debt service from the operation of the park) to the Treasurer of the City to be placed in the general fund of the City;
To make an annual audit, consistent with the Connecticut General Statutes and the Middletown Code of Ordinances, of the financial transactions of the Authority. The Treasurer elected by the members of the Authority shall be bonded in an amount determined pursuant to C.G.S. § 7-148, as amended;
To issue bonds, notes or other obligations as authorized by C.G.S. §§ 7-130a to 7-130w, inclusive, as amended, to be paid from the revenues of the Authority.
To accept loans, grants or gifts from the City or any other person, government or agency thereof, for the purposes of the Authority; and
To appoint or dismiss an executive director and to adopt an annual budget for the administration of the park under the overall direction of the Authority, the fiscal year of said budget to coincide with that of the City of Middletown.
The Common Council of the City of Middletown shall assume and retain the following powers and responsibilities for Long Hill Estate:
Approval by majority vote of a master plan, and amendments thereto, for the development of the park, said plan to designate the construction, demolition, extension, renovation, or substantial improvement, excluding routine maintenance, of all structures, lands, lakes, ponds and watercourses, conservation areas, park and recreational facilities, public utilities, roads and walkways, and other public facilities. All improvements to structures shall be compatible with the historic nature and character of the property. The master plan shall include the concepts of the site plan of the Wadsworth Mansion Building Committee for the rehabilitation of the mansion and the stewardship plan compiled by the Long Hill Estate Stewardship Committee for the use and care of the park lands. Prior to the adoption of said plan, the use of the park shall be limited to functions authorized by the Common Council of the City of Middletown at the mansion and to existing municipal use of the property, and improvements shall be limited to the restoration and maintenance of existing and/or historic structures and features, including the provision of health and safety measures. Approval of the master plan and amendments thereto shall follow a public hearing and referral to the Planning and Zoning Commission for review and report.
[Amended 1-6-2003 by Ord. No. 01-03]
The article of incorporation of the Authority are as follows:
The name of the Authority and the address of its principal office shall be: Long Hill Estate Authority, c/o the Wadsworth Mansion, 421 Wadsworth Street, Middletown, Connecticut.
[Amended 6-1-2015 by Ord. No. 10-15]
The Authority is created under C.G.S. §§ 7-130a to 7-130w, inclusive, as amended.
The participating political subdivision is the City of Middletown, Connecticut.
The members of the Authority, their addresses and terms of office, shall be as appointed by the Mayor and the Common Council.
[Amended 1-6-2003 by Ord. No. 01-03; 6-1-2015 by Ord. No. 10-15]
The Mayor of the City, with approval of a majority of the Common Council, shall select and appoint the members of said Authority, which shall consist of nine members. Members shall be selected from interested citizens with experience and expertise in one or more of the following fields: natural resource planning and management, horticulture, historic preservation, arts and culture, the hospitality industry, finance and real estate management. One of said members shall be a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of Long Hill Estate. All appointments will be made for a term of three years. Terms shall be limited to three three-year terms. Officers shall be a Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary and Treasurer who shall serve for a term of one year. Officers shall be elected by the members of the Authority.
No member of such Authority may receive any compensation for his or her services.
The Authority shall remain in existence perpetually unless terminated by the City.


Aug. 8, 2011 -- Women looking for an alternative to hormone replacement therapy for problems with menopause will get little help from soy supplements. A new study reported in Archives of Internal Medicine found there was no difference between soy and a placebo in relieving symptoms such as bone loss or vaginal dryness.
Researchers randomly assigned 182 women within the first five years of menopause to either daily doses of a soy supplement or a placebo. The soy supplement contained high levels of isoflavones. Those are plant compounds that act like the hormone estrogen in the body.
After two years, there was no difference in the rates of bone loss between the two groups. The percentage of women who had other common complaints, such as vaginal dryness, loss of interest in sex, and difficulty sleeping, was also the same in the two groups. The one exception was hot flashes.
Soy and Hot Flashes
At the study's start, about 50% of women reported having hot flashes. By the end of the study, more women in the soy group reported hot flashes compared to the placebo group, 48% vs. 32%.
"We know that soy isoflavones are a very weak estrogen," says researcher Silvina Levis, MD. "And so we don't expect it to provide much relief, and it didn't." Levis is an associate professor in the department of medicine and director of the Osteoporosis Center at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine.
"It could be that the soy isoflavones are partially blocking the estrogen receptor," Levis tells WebMD. That would prevent a woman's own natural estrogen from binding there. Lower estrogen levels are thought to increase hot flashes.
Soy Offers Little Benefit
Experts had mixed reactions to the study's findings. "This study, I think, is pretty much where the story ends for isoflavones and bone," says Mark Messina, PhD. Messina is an adjunct associate professor at Loma Linda University and an expert consultant for the United Soybean Board.
Messina points to another study published in 2010 in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition. That study tested similar doses of soy against a placebo in 224 early menopausal women. It also concluded that soy offered little protection against bone loss, which accelerates for most women in the first few years after menopause.
"These studies make it very difficult to promote this idea that isoflavone supplements, at least, are good for bone health," Messina says. But he thinks the study's finding that soy didn't help hot flashes and possibly made them worse was wrong.
Messina says he recently reviewed 19 studies of soy for hot flashes. The results of his review, which were presented at a medical conference, found a clear reduction in the frequency and severity of hot flashes. Compared to placebo, the use of soy resulted in about a 50% reduction.
Another analysis of 19 studies also found a benefit in soy supplements for hot flashes. The benefit, though, was very slight. That review, which was published in the journal Menopause in 2010, found that on average, soy supplements cut the number of daily hot flashes women had by less than half a single hot flash.
"If it works," says Deborah Grady, MD, a professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, "it's a tiny effect and probably not worth taking great big amounts of soy." Grady wrote an expert commentary on the new study but was not involved in the research.


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It’s got kale in it, so we’re basically eating a salad.
A salad with long silky strips of carbs, a rich cream sauce, Italian sausage and three kinds of cheese.
So yeah, just like a salad.
(stop shaking your head at me.)
Roll ups! Everyone loves roll ups. Except I never know if it’s roll UPS, or rollups, or Roll ups, or roll Ups, or roll-ups, or roll-Ups, or Roll-ups, or rollips. Just kidding on rollips.
I like rollips.
I want to warn you now, so that you’re not blindsided with blasphemy later on. I did take one shortcut with these lasagna rollips. And as I was taking the shortcut I thought, “Oh no – is this morally right? Am I making a huge mistake? Will I be letting the masses down? Do I even know myself anymore?” And then as I was eating the shortcut I thought, “Ummm, yeah – this is fine. Actually good. Totally works. It’s my new bf. I still love me. We’re cool.”
I used a jar of white sauce. *OFF WITH HER HEAD*
But let me explain! It was a local restaurant’s jarred alfredo sauce, but it actually turned out to be pretty tasty, once baked. So! If you’re a bad-to-the-bone overachiever, feel free to make your own creamy white sauce. Boom. If you want to use a jar and save a smidgy of time, you’re still a good person. Bam.
WE ARE STILL GOOD PEOPLE.
Italian sausage + wilted kale + ricotta + parsley + mozzarella + white sauce + lasagna strips = unadulterated winter mouth bliss.
The majority of the hands-on time is in the beginning, when you’re boiling the strips, browning the sausage, wilting the kale, mixing the ricotta and parsley. (hence the sauce shortcut) But if you think of it as a weekend project recipe while you catch up on The Goldbergs (my favorite ’80s-spoof sitcom EVARRR), everything will fall into place for your life. (You can even wear a bedazzled sweater while cooking.)
And in the end, you get to eat this…
Did mama say knock you out? Yes. Yes she did.
That was the best salad ever.
- 10-12 lasagna strips, boiled until tender
- 3 links Italian sausage, casings removed and sausage browned
- 10 oz baby kale, wilted in a skillet (and squeezed of any excess water)
- 1 cup ricotta cheese
- 2 Tbs. freshly chopped parsley, plus extra for garnish
- 1 (8 oz) block of mozzarella, shredded
- 1 (15 oz) jar of your favorite Alfredo sauce
- Parmesan cheese, for garnish
- Salt and pepper
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Pour about half a cup of the Alfredo sauce in the bottom of a large casserole dish. (Two dishes if you need more room.)
- Mix the parsley with the ricotta cheese and season with a pinch of salt and pepper.
- On a large work surface, evenly spread the ricotta over the cooked lasagna strips. Lightly sprinkle each strip with the browned sausage, wilted kale, and mozzarella cheese. Starting from one end, gently roll up each lasagna strip and place them seamside down in the baking dish. Repeat with the remaining roll ups and nestle them in the dish. Top with the rest of the Alfredo sauce, and finish with a good sprinkling of the mozzarella cheese. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until the cheese is browning and bubbly. (May need to flip the oven to broil at the last second!)
- Garnish with extra parsley and Parmesan cheese. Weep for a month.
- Makes 10-12 roll ups. I mean rollips.
Yay for roll ups! I mean rollips.
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SEATTLE — A University of Washington research institute has won $45 million in funding to develop a universal flu vaccine and improve neurodegenerative disease medicine.
The Institute for Protein Design, which is part of UW Medicine’s Department of Biochemistry, announced this week it aims to tackle those innovations by designing synthetic proteins, which carry out important bodily functions like moving muscles and firing neurons.
“I’m excited about the potential, because there’s huge amounts that protein design can contribute to making the world a better place,” said David Baker, director of the Institute for Protein Design.
Typically, Baker said, researchers would find a naturally occurring protein that was closely aligned to what they wanted it to do and then modify it. However, computing has allowed scientists to create new proteins from scratch, designed specifically for a certain purpose.
“Just as in the 21st century we don’t go looking around in nature for things that already exist when we want to solve new problems – instead we build things from first principles – that’s what we’ve now learned to do with protein,” Baker said.
The institute has picked five areas of research to focus on based on what it deemed was highest priority and could have the biggest boost from protein design: vaccines, neurodegenerative disease medication, targeted drug delivery, “smart” protein therapeutics, and proteins that store solar energy.
A single universal flu vaccine would protect against all flu strains, and patients wouldn’t have to get revaccinated every year. Researchers hope to eventually expand that vaccine to other conditions, including HIV, malaria, and cancer.
Researchers are also developing new chronic pain and neurodegenerative disease medication, working to get these compounds into the brain. As researchers learn more about neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Baker said they can then design a specific protein that targets that area of the brain.
With drug delivery research, scientists hope to target medicines to specific tissues, rather than administering them throughout the body.
Smart protein therapeutics could potentially tell which cells are cancerous and which are healthy. This would be an update from current medications, which researchers called “really blunt instruments.”
Finally, scientists are designing new nanomaterials, which can capture and store solar energy. That technology could eventually be used in manufacturing applications, according to the Institute for Protein Design.
The funding, which came from the philanthropic collaborative group The Audacious Project, will allow the institute to expanding staffing with three new tenure-track professors, five acting instructors, and additional postdoc fellows, grad students, and scientists.
This research also builds off other advances in protein design. In January, UW scientists created the first ever synthetic interleukin-2 protein, which can fight cancer. In its natural form the protein has toxic side effects, a trial found but UW’s synthetic version had the same cancer-fighting properties without the side effects.
“We expect there will be hurdles at every step,” Baker said. “These are extremely challenging problems, but we like challenging problems, and we believe we can systematically make progress in all five areas.”

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When Basbibi Kakar was an infant, her family fled the Taliban in Afghanistan, settling in Pakistan. As refugees, life was hard. Her father, who had been a college professor in Afghanistan, had to resort to selling fruit from a cart to make ends meet.
All of the 10 children had to contribute to the family’s livelihood but they all also got to go to school, including the girls. “My father was an enlightened man who strongly believed in education,” says Kakar, who came to the United States in 2013 on a full scholarship to Montclair State. “He went so far as to insist that each of his children, girl or boy, go on to college and seek a profession. I definitely owe my love of learning and determination to pursue my education to my father.”
Once arriving at Montclair State, Kakar had the freedom to pursue her education and access resources and opportunities that were never available to her in her homeland.
Studying at the Feliciano School of Business, Kakar was able to follow her dream of learning the fundamentals of business administration and economics, knowledge necessary to someday open her own business or pursue a career in economic development and public policy that she hopes to apply to changes in Afghan society.
Beyond the educational advantages in the United States, Kakar says she always felt welcomed and safe dressing as a Muslim woman on campus, wearing her hijab, or traditional Muslim head scarf, when she attended her classes. “I really liked the safe space, environment and diversity Montclair State provides, because it makes things easier for students to pursue their goals instead of worrying about what others have to say about them,” she says.
The 25-year-old graduated from the Feliciano School of Business in May 2017 with a degree in business administration and economics. She plans to pursue an MBA and to eventually earn a doctorate. In the meantime, she is living in Manhattan and working at two internships – one in finance at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and one in girls’ education advocacy at the Malala Fund.
Kakar’s interest in business started early. She was an entrepreneur at 17, when she returned to her hometown in Afghanistan and started an Uber-like on-demand car service. She did well enough after a couple of years, she says, to bring her father and younger siblings back home and help her siblings further their education.
“Conditions had improved in Afghanistan but we were still witnesses to daily violence,” she says. “The challenges to women were enormous: We wore burkas for anonymity when on the street, our movements were restricted and we often received threatening calls condemning us for simply going about our lives as doctors, teachers and students.”
Throughout this time, she says, she dreamed of furthering her education in the United States, particularly since women in post Taliban Afghanistan were still discouraged from pursuing a higher education. And her father wanted both his daughters and sons to study beyond 12th grade. He encouraged his daughters despite pressure and disapproval from his own relatives.
“He has been very supportive of working class women and the phenomenon of how women help the countries grow toward development if they are educated,” she says. “I think that’s why he was a very strong believer of sending his daughters to school and fighting and advocating for them.”
Now among Kakar’s sisters is a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher and an undergraduate in international business in St. Louis. Her brothers are also first-year college students, majoring in business.
At Montclair State, Kakar says she found a huge amount of support in the faculty of the Feliciano School and the resources the school provided for her.
Associate Professor of Economics Vidya Atal says she admires that Kakar always faces adversity with a smile. “Being a woman, especially from an extremist society, Basbibi has been fighting all the obstacles to pursue her dreams,” Atal says. “Yet I have never seen her lose that smile and positive attitude, no matter how much difficulty she is into, be it in class, or in life.”
That positivity comes easily, Kakar says, because she is so grateful to have the opportunity to study in the United States. She recalls that the biggest culture shock she experienced upon her arrival was encountering students who took education for granted.
“I think it’s a fact that when people are provided in abundance, some opportunities are taken for granted, but when deprived they seek to get it in any way possible,” she says. “My greatest achievement in life is getting a full scholarship to Montclair State University that I proudly completed this year.”
She hopes that her graduate education in economic development and public policy will help her become “an effective implementer of ideas that will promote peace, education and a sustainable living in Afghanistan. My country is grappling with unique issues, and it will take unique means to resolve them. Education is necessary in order for women to have rights and be able to make better decisions for themselves and their families.”
Despite the fact that Afghanistan has been “laid waste by bombs and violence,” Kakar has hope in the future. “So where is the hope? It is in the young and their love of learning it is in the determination of Afghans to rebuild their civil society and in every individual who takes on the challenge of making a change.”


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Inspired by Amarilla’s shot of a building I’ve never seen, I varied my wending-across-the-valley-of-the-Gowanus this evening and walked some streets for the first time.
Some instructions on Douglass Street.
This is peeling and mushrooming sign on the Douglass side of the Gowanus Pumping Station seems to be an old mascot for the canal rats.
Calling David Hockney! DeGraw between Nevins and 3rd.
Maine: Vacation Land Volvo on Sackett State.
This unintentionally truncated mural faces the "empty" lot at the NE corner Union and Sackett. Mural and strange plot of ground, with its two vents and slab of concrete and fire hydrant in the middle of nowhere, are all part of the Tunnel#3 complex, bringing us the good water of the north.
Wandering the city is one of the great joys of urban living. A couple more shots here for the hardcore geographers.

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Dr. Ko has served as an advisor to multiple wound healing and tissue regeneration companies assisting in the development and utilization of their products. “We welcome Dr. Ko to the Medical Advisory Board and look forward to his involvement with this revolutionary, non-invasive skin closure device. The addition of Dr. Ko to the DermaClip® team brings another expert in the cosmesis of wound closure to help promote awareness of the benefits of puncture-free closure,” said DermaClip US CEO Charles M. Darling, IV. “Additionally, his experience in helping to bring new products to market will be beneficial to our efforts to make DermaClip® the new standard of skin closure,” Mr. Darling added.
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Sploid feature highlights stunning imagery of NASA’s proposed real-life ‘Enterprise’ starship
Space Exploration Technologies just unveiled its new Dragon V2 crew-rated spacecraft, which was a big “wow” moment for a lot of people. But if these newly released conceptions are any idea, NASA may be planning on trying to upstage that, big time. The dreams of a Star Trek-like Enterprise starship which could travel to the stars have come to life on the drawing board of Dr. Harold “Sonny” White, who is the Advanced Propulsion Theme Lead for the NASA Engineering Directorate. He wants to bring a real warp-drive-enabled starship to life, and the new 3-D concept illustrations are amazing, as just published on Sploid.
The 3-D illustrations are designed to inspire; the artist, Mark Rademaker, said that “he worked with White to create the updated model, which includes a sleek ship nestled at the center of two enormous rings, which create the warp bubble.”
The renderings are an update to the earlier concept, which was based heavily on the original “Star Trek look.” While the two huge outer rings are new, the main spacecraft itself, which sits inside them, is definitely inspired by the original Enterprise. They are meant to convey a more realistic depiction of what this kind of spacecraft may actually look like.
The “warp drive,” which would be needed for this kind of interstellar vessel, is a controversial concept, given that it would be designed to allow a spacecraft to, in a way, travel faster than the speed of light.
Such an endeavour may seem like the stuff of science fiction and nothing more, but Dr. White and his colleagues would disagree with that sentiment. In their opinion, it is not only doable, but perhaps even achievable in the not-too-distant future.
White has developed the new, theoretical work necessary to solve the problems with the Alcubierre Drive concept, a theory that states that faster-than-light travel could actually be possible, based on Einstein’s field equations in general relativity.
The solution is a kind of work-around; while our current knowledge of physics still maintains that nothing can travel faster than light, the warp drive would “cheat” that barrier by creating a bubble in the space-time fabric and bending space around the craft, which would essentially make the distances between far-flung points in the galaxy shorter. So it wouldn’t really break the speed-of-light barrier, but it would seem like it did.
According to Dr. White, “by harnessing the physics of cosmic inflation, future spaceships crafted to satisfy the laws of these mathematical equations may actually be able to get somewhere unthinkably fast – and without adverse effects.”
While the work involved is of course still preliminary, it has already advanced past simply being theoretical. From the Sploid article:
“Working at NASA Eagleworks – a skunkworks operation deep at NASA’s Johnson Space Center – Dr. White’s team is trying to find proof of those loopholes. They have “initiated an interferometer test bed that will try to generate and detect a microscopic instance of a little warp bubble” using an instrument called the White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer.”
According to Dr. White, such a spaceship should be able to get to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to Earth, in about two weeks Earth-time, with the same amount of time passing inside the craft as well. It could also reach Gliese 581g, an “Earth-like” exoplanet 20 light-years away, in only two years.
Dr. White sums up his work in that context:
“Perhaps a Star Trek experience within our lifetime is not such a remote possibility.”
Paul Scott Anderson has had a passion for space exploration that began when he was a child when he watched Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos.” While in school he was known for his passion for space exploration and astronomy. Then, in 2005 he began to detail his passion for the skies in his own online journal. While interested in all aspects of space exploration, his primary passion is planetary science. In 2011, he started writing on a freelance basis, and currently writes for Examiner.com. He has also done supplementary writing for the well-known iOS app Exoplanet.


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Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin
|Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin|
|Studio album by Brian Wilson|
|Released||August 17, 2010|
|Genre||Rock, Pop, R&B, Traditional pop|
|Brian Wilson chronology|
|Singles from Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin|
Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin is the ninth studio album by Brian Wilson, released on August 17, 2010, by Walt Disney Records as part of the Disney Pearl Series. The album consists of covers of ten George and Ira Gershwin songs, bookended by passages from Rhapsody in Blue, along with two new songs completed from unfinished Gershwin fragments by Wilson and band member Scott Bennett.
In the summer of 2009, Walt Disney Records approached Wilson about recording his own arrangements of songs from Disney films; however, Wilson first wanted to record an album of Gershwin covers, which the label agreed to support. He and band member Paul Mertens picked the songs to record based on Wilson's vocal range, and which ones he thought he could sing "appropriately."
In addition to the covers, the Gershwin estate granted Wilson access to over 100 unfinished Gershwin songs and fragments for the project to use for new material. Two songs were completed by Wilson and Scott Bennett (who provided lyrics) based on these fragments: "The Like In I Love You" and "Nothing But Love," which serve as the first and last full songs on the album, respectively.
Recording of the album began at the start of 2010. Wilson served as producer, with Mertens writing out the arrangements as well as the linking pieces between tracks. The instrumental tracks were produced using his backing band, who also supplied backing vocals; however, the Rhapsody in Blue harmonies that bookend the album were done entirely by Wilson. According to Mertens, Wilson would spend eight hours a day in the studio perfecting vocal tracks. Elaborating on Wilson's role as arranger, Mertens said:
|“||I tried to prepare the band as much as possible for the songs by writing skeletal arrangements from my meetings with Brian. The band tracks were cut live in the studio. So the band would start playing and get the song up and walking around. Then Brian would start to do his thing. He’d hear what people were doing and say, "Can you play that up an octave?" Bass drop out here…That’s how he works best. Or he has it completely done in his mind. He’s done that too, where he has come to a sound check and goes, "Here’s your vocal part, you play this." Since the Gershwin music was new material it was helpful to have the song in front of him so he could manipulate and move things around the way he wanted.||”|
Mixing took place in the spring. Walt Disney Records' reaction to the final product was positive, though they hired recording engineer Al Schmitt to remix the original tracks prepared by Wilson.
Release and reception
On June 28, 2010, "The Like In I Love You" was released for streaming on Wilson's website in advance of the album's release. The album was released on August 17, 2010. Upon its release, it charted at #26 in the Billboard 200, falling to #53 in the second week. It also reached #1 on Amazon.com and the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.
Critical reaction was generally positive. Rolling Stone described the album as "lovely, weird, subtly psychedelic symphonic lounge music." In particular, the album's arrangements were praised for their uniqueness. Allmusic's John Bush wrote, "As usual, Wilson's musical instincts are impeccable, and with a full orchestra lending additional weight to these songs, it's easily the best production on a Brian Wilson record since 2004's SMiLE." Certain songs, such as "I Got Rhythm" and "They Can't Take That Away From Me," were noted for their Beach Boys' influences. The new songs completed by Wilson and Bennett were also generally well-received; GQ described "Nothing But Love" as "suitably celestial."
Some reviews, however, were less favorable, mostly concerning the quality of the arrangements. Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote, "On an album that feels like a posthumous competition, Mr. Wilson emerges the clear loser." Michael Hann of The Guardian was particularly critical of the covers, describing the songs as being "reconfigured into pastiches of past Wilson classics."
|1.||"Rhapsody in Blue/Intro"||George Gershwin||1:07|
|2.||"The Like In I Love You"||G. Gershwin, Brian Wilson, Scott Bennett||3:20|
|3.||"Summertime"||G. Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward, Ira Gershwin||3:13|
|4.||"I Loves You, Porgy"||G. Gershwin, Du Bose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward, I. Gershwin||3:38|
|5.||"I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'"||G. Gershwin, Du Bose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward, I. Gershwin||2:45|
|6.||"It Ain't Necessarily So"||G. Gershwin, Du Bose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward, I. Gershwin||3:58|
|7.||"'S Wonderful"||G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin||2:48|
|8.||"They Can't Take That Away from Me"||G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin||2:51|
|9.||"Love Is Here to Stay"||G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin||2:59|
|10.||"I've Got a Crush on You"||G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin||2:41|
|11.||"I Got Rhythm"||G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin||2:43|
|12.||"Someone to Watch Over Me"||G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin||3:06|
|13.||"Nothing But Love"||G. Gershwin, Wilson, Bennett||3:24|
|14.||"Rhapsody in Blue/Reprise"||G. Gershwin||0:38|
|15.||"Let's Call The Whole Thing Off [iTunes only bonus track]"||G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin||2:39|
- Brian Wilson - Lead Vocals, backing vocals
- Jeffrey Foskett - Backing Vocals
- Darian Sahanaja - Piano, Electric Piano, Clavinet, Moog, Vibraphone, Tack Piano, Glockenspiel, Organ, Harpsichord, Backing Vocals
- Scott Bennett - Vibraphone, Piano, Keyboards, Xylophone, Drums (Track 13), Backing Vocals
- Paul Von Mertens - Clarinet, Celeste, Harmonica, Bass Harmonica, Saxophone, Flute, Alto Flute, Backing Vocals
- Probyn Gregory - Guitar, Tannerin, Banjo, Trumpet, Wah Wah Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Baritone Guitar, Slide Guitar, Nylon String Guitar, Backing Vocals
- Nick Walusko - Guitar, Backing Vocals
- Nelson Bragg - Percussion, Glockenspiel, Timpani, Backing Vocals
- Brett Simons - Electric Bass, Acoustic Bass, Baritone Guitar, 6-String Bass, Tic-Tac Bass
- Gary Griffin - Organ, Piano
- Taylor Mills - Backing Vocals
- Todd Sucherman - Drums (Tracks 3-12)
- Mike D'Amico - Drums (Track 2)
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- GQ.CO.UK 16 August 10. "The Ten Best Things In The World Right Now - GQ Editor's Picks - GQ.COM (UK)". Gq-magazine.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-08.
- Holden, Stephen; Pareles, Jon (August 15, 2010). "Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins". The New York Times.
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Europe Factors to Watch-Shares seen steadying near 2-week highs
LONDON Feb 17 (Reuters) - European equity index futures edged higher on Monday, which traders attributed to the region's markets tracking gains overnight in Asia, while a key regional equity index was set to steady near 2-week highs.
The euro zone's blue-chip Euro STOXX 50 futures contract was up by 0.2 percent at 0725 GMT, Germany's DAX futures also rose 0.2 percent while France's CAC futures edged up by 0.1 percent.
"It's just a follow-on from Asia and from the tail-end of last week. The markets are looking firm up here," said Darren Courtney-Cook, head of trading at London-based Central Markets Investment Management.
Italian shares will be in focus as centre-left leader Matteo Renzi was poised to become the country's new prime minister.
Milan's FTSE MIB equity index rose 1.6 percent on Friday as investors welcomed the likelihood of Renzi's appointment, and credit rating agency Moody's lifted its outlook on Italy on Friday to "stable" from "negative".
Friday's gains in Milan helped the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index to close up 0.5 percent at 1,332.30 points, marking its highest level in around two weeks.
The FTSEurofirst 300 has managed to recover from declines at the start of the year related to concerns over a slump in emerging markets economies, and is now up by 1.2 percent year-to-date.
Data on Monday showed that Japan's economy grew at a much slower pace than expected at the end of last year, but the country's Nikkei stock market still edged higher. Continuación...


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Large-scale disturbance legacies and the climate sensitivity of primary Picea abies forests
Determining the drivers of shifting forest disturbance rates remains a pressing global change issue. Large-scale forest dynamics are commonly assumed to be climate driven, but appropriately scaled disturbance histories are rarely available to assess how disturbance legacies alter subsequent disturbance rates and the climate sensitivity of disturbance. We compiled multiple tree ring-based disturbance histories from primary Picea abies forest fragments distributed throughout five European landscapes spanning the Bohemian Forest and the Carpathian Mountains. The regional chronology includes 11,595 tree cores, with ring dates spanning the years 1750–2000, collected from 560 inventory plots in 37 stands distributed across a 1,000 km geographic gradient, amounting to the largest disturbance chronology yet constructed in Europe. Decadal disturbance rates varied significantly through time and declined after 1920, resulting in widespread increases in canopy tree age. Approximately 75% of current canopy area recruited prior to 1900. Long-term disturbance patterns were compared to an historical drought reconstruction, and further linked to spatial variation in stand structure and contemporary disturbance patterns derived from LANDSAT imagery. Historically, decadal Palmer drought severity index minima corresponded to higher rates of canopy removal. The severity of contemporary disturbances increased with each stand's estimated time since last major disturbance, increased with mean diameter, and declined with increasing within-stand structural variability. Reconstructed spatial patterns suggest that high small-scale structural variability has historically acted to reduce large-scale susceptibility and climate sensitivity of disturbance. Reduced disturbance rates since 1920, a potential legacy of high 19th century disturbance rates, have contributed to a recent region-wide increase in disturbance susceptibility. Increasingly common high-severity disturbances throughout primary Picea forests of Central Europe should be reinterpreted in light of both legacy effects (resulting in increased susceptibility) and climate change (resulting in increased exposure to extreme events).
Global Change Biology
dendroecology, disturbance legacies, historical ecology, Picea abies, primary forest, regional scale, susceptibility
Schurman, Jonathan S.; Trotsiuk, Volodymyr; Bače, Radek; Čada, Vojtěch; Fraver, Shawn; Janda, Pavel; Kulakowski, Dominik; Labusova, Jana; Mikoláš, Martin; Nagel, Thomas A.; Seidl, Rupert; Synek, Michal; Svobodová, Kristýna; Chaskovskyy, Oleh; Teodosiu, Marius; and Svoboda, Miroslav, "Large-scale disturbance legacies and the climate sensitivity of primary Picea abies forests" (2018). Geography. 270.


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i am in the middle of baking 2 cakes & i ran out of veg oil. is there anything i can use in place of oil or do i run to the store now? thanks
you can sub some applesauce in its place, but it's never as moist as when you use vegetable oil. I've used olive oil when I was in a pinch and didn't notice a difference in taste.


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Birth Name: John Montgomery Ward
Occupation: Baseball Player
Place Of Birth: PA
Date Of Death: March 4, 1925
Cause Of Death: N/A
John Montgomery Ward was born on the 3rd of March, 1860. He was famous for being a Baseball Player. Former MLB pitcher, short stop, and manager. He compiled 2,104 hits with a .275 batting average across his 17-year career.
John Montgomery Ward was born in PA. He broke into the league in 1878, pitching for the Providence Grays and posting a 22-13 record with a 1.51 ERA. He was part of National League penant winning teams in 1879 with the Grays and in 1888 and 1889 with the New York Giants.
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John’s John Montgomery Ward attended Pennsylvania State University.
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John Montgomery Ward was born in the Year of the Monkey.
|REAL NAME:||John Montgomery Ward|
|AGE GENERATION:||G.I. Generation|
Zodiac Sign: John Montgomery Ward was a Pisces. People of this zodiac sign like romance, to sleep, spiritual themes and dislike the know-it-all, to be criticized, and cruelty of any kind. The strengths of this sign are being compassionate, artistic, gentle, wise, while weaknesses can be to be fearful, overly trusting and desire to escape reality. The greatest overall compatibility with Pieces is Virgo and Taurus.
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