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Building Multi-Discipline, Multi-Format Digital Libraries Using Clusters and Buckets
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Master of Science (MS)
Stewart N. T. Shen
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Special Collections LD4331.C65 N46
Our objective was to study the feasibility of extending the Dienst protocol to enable a multi-discipline, multi-format digital library. We implemented two new technologies: cluster functionality and publishing buckets. We have designed a possible implementation of clusters and buckets, and have prototyped some aspects of the resultant digital library.
Currently, digital libraries are segregated by the disciplines they serve ( computer science, aeronautics, etc.), and by the format of their holdings (reports, software, datasets, etc.). NCSTRL+ is a multi-discipline, multi-format digital library (DL) prototype created to explore the feasibility of the design and implementation issues involved with created a unified, canonical scientific and technical information (STI) DL. NCSTRL+ is based on the Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library (NCSTRL), a World Wide Web (WWW) accessible DL that provides access to over 80 university departments and laboratories.
We have extended the Dienst protocol (version 4.1.8), the protocol underlying NCSTRL, to provide the ability to cluster independent collections into a logically centralized DL based upon subject category classification, type of organization, and genre of material. The concept of buckets provides a mechanism for publishing and managing logically linked entities with multiple data formats. NCSTRL+ contains some of tl holdings of NCSTRL and the NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS). The prototype demonstrates the feasibility of publishing into a multi-cluster DL, searching across clusters, and storing and presenting buckets of information. The clusters provide multi-discipline access, and the buckets allow for the storage and retrieval of new information formats, increasing the availability of all forms of STI. We found that the overhead for these additional capabilities is minimal to both the author and the user when compared to the equivalent process within NCSTRL. We cover the current modifications to Dienst, discuss the proposed modifications to Dienst that we are coordinating with the NCSTRL Working Group, discuss the proposed tools to facilitate the construction and use of buckets, and discuss additional capabilities for which clusters and buckets provide the foundation.
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"Building Multi-Discipline, Multi-Format Digital Libraries Using Clusters and Buckets"
(1997). Master of Science (MS), Thesis, Computer Science, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/6np7-0004


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If you are injured on the job and unable to return to work, you may realize that filing a workers’ compensation claim is the best step you can take. By doing this, you are in position to receive regular payments until you can return to your job.
This is easier said than done, as your employer may argue that you should not receive workers’ compensation benefits. Along with this, some employers scare injured workers into believing that they will lose their job if they proceed.
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UK Border Talk
Sat 6th August, 6pm
Wauchope Hall, Yetholm.
Hospitality by Sophie's Sunshine Catering
An Artachat discussion in the Romany town of Kirk Yetholm halfway along the way on the consequences of the PBS to UK cultural life.
UK Border Walk - 5k for 5tier Policy
Sunday 7 August, start 9 am
All are welcome to join Claudia and Rocca on their last leg of the walk.
UK Border Walk is a 77k walk along the English/Scottish border by Artist Rocca Gutteridge and Curator Claudia Zeiske.
Both walk and talk aim to highlight and discuss the effects the Points Based System (PBS) has for arts and cultural activities across our communities in the UK
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Leading backup and disaster recovery solutions provider Acronis has launched its new Cyber Cloud Data Centre in Johannesburg. The state-of-the-art data centre comes with many benefits for organisations looking to reduce costs associated with maintaining such a facility on their own and improving data backup and security.
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The new data centre in South Africa brings the total number of data centres from Acronis to 40 globally, with plans to create more. This commitment will allow Acronis partners to deliver powerful backup and recovery solutions to their clients. The move will also accelerate digital transformation among South African businesses, with the ability to host locally, scale with ease and reduce latency issues.
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The Theatre School > About > Faculty & Staff > Design - Technology > Todd Hensley
Todd Hensley is a lighting designer and theatre consultant. He began his career in Chicago on the lighting staff at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, working with such designers as Duane Schuler, Jennifer Tipton, and Ken Billington. After the Lyric, he continued to design stage lighting for opera and theatre nationwide. He joined the staff of Schuler Shook Theatre Planners / Lighting Designers and is now a partner in the firm.
Todd's lighting design for opera includes productions for Florida Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera, Washington National Opera, the Skylight, Lyric Opera of Chicago's Opera Center, Chicago Opera Theatre, San Diego Opera, and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Notable productions include Six Characters in Search of an Author for the Lyric Opera Center; Carousel and the premiere of From the Towers of the Moon for Minnesota Opera; Florencia en al Amazonas and the premiere of The Tale of Lady Thi Kinh for the Jacobs School. Theatre work includes designs for Geva Theatre, Kansas City Rep, Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, and Laguna Playhouse. His work in Chicago theatre includes productions for Northlight, Court, Chicago Children's, and Victory Gardens Theater, including nine years as its Resident Lighting Designer.
As Theatre Planning leader for Schuler Shook's Chicago office, his projects include Lookingglass Theatre, Millennium Park's Jay Pritzker Pavilion, the Shanghai American School, the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theatre, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, and major opera house renovations in Chicago, Seattle and Sarasota.

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The 1996 zombie game Resident Evil was the foundation of the “survival horror” subgenre. It’s one of those indisputable facts, much like how Night of the Living Dead gave birth to the modern idea of zombies. But that term has since become rather confusing as more and more horror games are adding elements that seemingly detract from what Resident Evil brought to the table.
In the below video from Argent Cypher, the case is made that not only did Resident Evil coin the term “survival horror” but that the sequel Resident Evil 4 essentially killed it! It’s a rather interesting video that provides several good examples and arguments as to what the true definition of “survival horror” should be while at the same time explaining that certain titles don’t deserve that moniker.
What are your thoughts on the matter? Looking back on certain games and their franchises, did you see a change in gameplay, such as with the Dead Space series, that necessitated a different way to describe them? Give us your thoughts in the comments!
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This Week in Horror - May 1, 2017 - The Mist, Hellboy, Michael...
The Mist has an extra gory new trailer, Hellboy is getting an R-rated reboot, and legendary actor Michael Parks passed away.Posted by Bloody-Disgusting on Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Here’s Exactly When You’ll Be Able to Play ‘Friday the 13th: The Game’
New ‘Halloween’ Film Gets Early Piece of Promo Art
These Are the NETFLIX Horror Films Streaming in June 2017
Watching David Lynch Get a Standing Ovation at Cannes Will Make Your Day
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I got the Chocolate Hazelnut for Php 545 (or was it Php540?). I was undecided whether to get their bestseller "Death by Tablea" (Php 590) or the cheaper but second bestseller "Moist Chocolate Cake" (Php450) or the "Chocolate Hazelnut." The pieces of chocolate on top of the cake was the deciding factor for me and we were not disappointed. Yum yum yum! It's moist and has bits and pieces of chocolate hazelnut which tastes as good. I even thought it was just a local chocolate but it tastes like Cadbury or Van Houten. So I guess we will try their other chocolate cakes.
While his Lolo cooked sotanghon-pancit for him. I was only thinking of buying Jollibee spaghetti on my way home but since Lolo volunteered to cook, I am too happy to oblige.
Here is how Enzo would look if at 10 months, he still has mittens hihihi! naaah... that's his socks!
Oh... Enzo might be experiencing separation anxiety this early hmmm... he now cries if left all alone by himself so poor yaya can't finish her household chores until my mom arrives. The solution is to let him roam around the sala/kitchen area while yaya does the laundry.

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Gourmet Farmer- s05e02
Autumn has come around on the farm and Matthew has been told goats are the natural solution to tackling the farm’s blackberry problem. With the garden overflowing with Autumn veg, Sadie opts to trade fresh for fermented and takes some tomatoes to a local who offers up homemade miso paste. Matthew later experiments with the miso in the kitchen.
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Riyaad Minty, Head of Social Media for Al Jazeera: #PdFMeetup
BY Anthony Russomano | Friday, September 9 2011
For those of you who attended our first ever #PdFMeetup Worldwide Day in July, you already know what a great opportunity it is to come together with fellow PdFers in your community: people who are excited by how technology is changing politics, government and civic life. Thanks to the overwhelmingly positive feedback and support (50 PdF communities formed with 250+ people in attendance), we here at the New York office have decided to give it another go.
On September 12th at 6:30 P.M., we're partnering with the good folks at Meetup and we're honored to have with us a special guest: Riyaad Minty, Head of Social Media for Al Jazeera. We expect that there will be great interest in this meetup and will be posting a video archive following the event, for the many of you outside of the New York metro area.
About Riyaad Minty - Head of Social Media, Al Jazeera (Doha)
Riyaad Minty leads the Al Jazeera Network's social media initiatives. As part of the Network's New Media team, he ensures that Al Jazeera has a presence and is part of the conversation across Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms. Riyaad was part of the team that produced Al Jazeera English's Emmy nominated coverage of the 2008 US Presidential Election (International Digital Emmy 2009).
Most recently his work has focused on the use of citizen media for crisis reporting, with a particular focus on the Arab Spring (2011), the war on Gaza (2008/9) and the 2009 Iranian election.
Prior to joining Al Jazeera, Riyaad co-founded Future Technologies which focused on mobile content production, aggregation and distribution. His company brought the award winning cartoon strip, Madam and Eve, to mobile phones across South Africa.
The #PdFMeetup format allows for free flowing dialogue and enables participants to engage openly and honestly. Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear from and interact with Minty, a man with diverse and extensive knowledge in the field of social media.
For those of you interested in this Meetup who live outside the New York area, stay tuned for an archive of this event in the coming days. We also encourage you to organize your own PdF Meetups and engage with fellow PdFers around the country and world. Check out the PdF Meetup site for more information on over 50 local Meetups or to start your own.
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Play classic string games like Cat's Cradle and Jacob's Ladder with this beautiful, rainbow-hued String Game from Sarah's Silks.
Makes a great party favor or stocking stuffer!
Hand-dyed, approximately 65" long
Ages 5 and up (can present a choking hazard for children under 3)
Made in the USA
See my video to the left to learn more about the great benefits of these games for children's learning and brain development.

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Pablo Lopez Trujillo
He/Him/El | Education Equity Researcher
Employer: Education Northwest
Moved Here from: Chicago, IL on March 2023
Why did you move here?
I moved to Portland to be in person for my job as an education equity researcher.
What is one thing that you need/want from a community right now?
I would love to get to know more POCs in the Portland area.
What kind of civic connection are you interested in making?
I'd love to get involved with progressive groups focused on things like increasing voting access.

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On April 3, Peeler ordered the rescheduling to 1:30 p.m. June 3, anticipating “a large number of individuals will attend the sentencing, including family of the defendant, family of the victims, victim representatives, spectators, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and the media.”
Peeler said the delay was in response to the global pandemic and steps taken by the World Health Organization, the Ohio Department of Health and Warren County Common Pleas Court as part of ”’urgent and aggressive action’ to control the spread”.
Fornshell concurred with Peeler’s thinking.
“We anticipate there will easily be more than 50 family members of the victims in attendance for the sentencing, plus attorneys, court staff, media members, etc. With that volume, there’s no feasible way to maintain an appropriate level of social distancing in any of our courtrooms,” Fornshell said in an email Friday.
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The delay will probably reduce the amount of time Hopkins would face in prison, as time in jail is credited against prison terms.
His lawyers, David Allen and David Anthony Chicarelli, declined to comment.


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Golden Gate Day Tours
Hikeing tours through the Golden Gate Highlands National Park. A tour through the Basotho Cultural Village. A Rock Pools hike up in the Golden Gate mountains.
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No, Cell Phones Don't Cause Brain Cancer
WebMD News Archive
The researchers found no difference in usage patterns between the brain cancer patients and those without brain cancer.
Most of the people included in the study used analog cellular phones, and it has been suggested that the radiofrequency fields emitted from digital cellular phones could carry different risks. Several European studies currently are examining digital phone safety, but Muscat says it is unlikely that they will prove to be any less safe than analog phones.
"I don't believe these studies will find a difference in risk, because the power output from both analog and digital phones is very low, and there is a margin of safety built into them," Muscat says.
This American Health Foundation investigation was one of several cell phone safety studies funded by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA), an international trade association for the wireless industry. As of last year, the industry had spent approximately $25 million over a five-year period investigating health issues related to cell phone use, but had produced little substantive research.
Last June, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agreed to guide and review future industry-sponsored safety studies, entering into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with CTIA. FDA spokesmen said the agency was getting involved, in part, because the available scientific data on cell phone safety were inadequate.
While CTIA will continue to pay for ongoing and future research into cell phone safety, the FDA will help guide and oversee the research.
"There had been so many questions raised about the ... research we had sponsored," even though the studies' results were not influenced by the cell phone industry, says Jo-Anne Basile, CTIA vice president for external and industry relations. "We decided to go to where those questions wouldn't be raised -- and that is the FDA."
In addition to the CTIA-funded research, other large studies addressing the question of cell phone safety should be published soon, Basile says. The U.S. National Cancer Institute recently completed a large population study on the subject, and several large trials are being conducted in Europe.
"This study finds that cell phones are unrelated to the risk of brain cancer," she says, "and, along with others now in the pipeline, will contribute to an overall understanding of this issue."


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BOISE AT ITS BEST
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Boise At Its Best florist has been proudly serving the Boise City and its surrounding areas since 1994. The flower shop is dedicated to designing beautiful hand-crafted flower orders and floral gifts for any occasion with passion, consideration to detail, and exceptional care to its clients. As a family directed florist, they have the best collection of floral designs for all occasions from Birthday flowers to Mother's Day and Valentine's flowers. At each order, you will get fresh and beautiful flowers all-time with an added special touch with a 100% guarantee. At Boise At Its Best, Buy Make Merry by Teleflora $49.95, Artistic Bloom $53.95, Teleflora's Forever Fall $47.95, Go Green $52.95 & Teleflora's Hold Me Close Bouquet $49.95. Get same-day delivery from this shop for your last minute floral as well as nationwide delivery.
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BLOOMS FLOWER STUDIO
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It's March, and once again Women’s History Month. Last fiscal year July 2021-June 2022, BEDS Plus clients served were 53% women. A little over 25% of these women were either fleeing domestic violence or are survivors of DV. Over the next three weeks, we are featuring our "Road to Independence Campaign," to shed more light on this important topic.
Not Named Until the 1970's
Domestic violence has plagued history yet was not widely recognized until the 1970s, when the term “domestic violence” itself was first used in a 1973 United Kingdom parliamentary speech. The 1984 Family Violence Prevention and Services Act provided federal support for domestic abuse services, and the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) improved criminal responses and community responses to domestic violence. The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act remains the “primary federal funding stream dedicated to...assistance for victims of domestic violence and their children,” and the Violence Against Women Act was renewed again last year as a U.S. federal law.
BEDS Domestic Violence Programs
BEDS has served domestic violence survivors since its founding, and we’ve recently begun dedicated programs to help them regain independent housing. In 2018, we acquired La Grange Area Transitional Housing (LATH), an organization that placed families with histories of chronic homelessness (having been homeless for a year or more with at least disabled member) in organization-owned condominium units. Once we took over operations, we began placing many qualified families who had survived domestic violence in the program. In 2019, we received funding through the federal Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) and Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority to start a Transitional Housing program for domestic violence survivors and other victims of crime. We have partnered with domestic violence service organizations throughout our communities, including the Crisis Center for South Suburbia, Constance Morris House, and Sara’s Inn.
One of the largest costs outside of housing that can impede progress for a survivor can be access to transportation. Javon Harris, Director of Housing at BEDS Plus shares, “Our clients are rebuilding and can't afford gas to locate a job or apartment, car repairs, bus passes and Ubers to doctors and therapists. Not having access to transportation stalls a survivor’s ability to maintain and gain employment and is a leading expense for our agency.” Abusers also often create an environment of dependence, financially isolating individuals. This is one of the many reasons why women stay with their abusers. Miriam Martinez BEDS DV Housing Development Manager added, “BEDS Plus sees too many women who find themselves homeless when they decide to leave their abuser. We partner with domestic violence agencies and are a direct resource providing assistance for survivors. Your contributions will directly assist women and families with stability through supportive services and housing. It is very common for BEDS domestic violence clients to have little, or no credit and housing is a crucial step to security and transformation.”
You can support our services for women who have survived domestic violence by donating money here.
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I have so-called health insurance with Aetna. Several weeks ago I had to see my ophthalmologist for certain symptoms which she diagnosed as punctate keratitis, conjuncitivitis, and severe dry eye syndrome in both eyes. As part of the treatment she inserted plugs in the lower tear ducts of both eyes to help with the dryness and help retain the prescribed steroid drops in the eyes. Aetna refused to pay for the procedures, saying that they violated the ban on multiple surgical procedures in one visit. Instead, Aetna paid a much lower amount towards the cost of the plug for one eye. Now I'm stuck with $250 to pay for the plug on one eye.
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SOFTBALL SKYHAWKS DROP DOUBLEHEADER TO UC RIVERSIDE
March 9, 2017
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The University of Tennessee at Martin softball team got off to a bumpy start in the Highlander Classic, dropping a doubleheader to tournament host UC Riverside on Thursday afternoon. The Skyhawks fell in the opener 6-4 before dropping the second contest 8-4.
The Skyhawks (15-5) are riding a three-game losing streak – their longest of the season – after dropping a pair of contests on the opening day of their final road tournament of the season. On the offensive side of the scoresheet, the Skyhawks would hold their own by scoring four runs in both contest while tallying 18 hits on the day.
Playing in front of family and friends, Anaheim, Calif. native Carly Gonzales made a big splash. Gonzales paced the team with five hits on the day in seven at bats while tallying a double and one RBI. Junior Savannah Dodson also stayed hot with the bat, picking up four hits while senior Renate Meckl tallied three hits – including a solo home run. Meanwhile it was Rachel Williams and Gracyn McBride who paced the squad with two RBIs each.
Despite the team’s offensive balance, the Skyhawks struggled in the pitching circle. Sophomore Sara Hooten (2-2, 3.71 ERA) and Samantha Scott (3-1, 2.45 ERA) both suffered losses on the afternoon. Hooten started in Game 1, striking out five while allowing 10 hits and six earned runs in four innings of work. Scott started in Game 2 before struggling, allowing four earned runs and eight hits over 2.2 innings of work. Freshman Seeley Layne would prove as the bright spot, allowing just four hits in 5.1 scoreless innings of relief on the day.
Game 1: UC Riverside 6, UT Martin 4
UC Riverside would use its home field to its advantage early in the bottom of the second inning. The Highlanders would score four runs in the second to take control of the game early. The squad received RBI knocks from Brittney Garcia, Madeline Richard and Haley Harris in the inning.
UT Martin would later break into the scoring column in the top of the fourth inning. After a lengthy at-bat resulted in a strikeout, Meckl launched a solo home run to trim the margin to 4-1 in the fourth.
After the Skyhawks trimmed the margin down to three, UC Riverside added to its margin in the bottom half of the inning. The Highlanders would plate two in the inning off a RBI single by Hannah Rodriguez before bringing the second run home off a sacrifice fly by Jenna Curtan.
Facing a 6-1 deficit, UT Martin would look to get back in the game in the top of the fifth inning. Dodson got the scoring inning started by reaching base via a single before advancing all the way to third on a fielding error. Gonzales would bring home her fellow speedster with a single of her own through the left side before moving into scoring position by swiping second. The following at-bat featured yet another single into left field, this time scoring two off the bat of Williams to trim the deficit to 6-4.
The Skyhawks looked push one final rally in the top of the seventh inning still trailing by two. The squad would draw a pair of walks to move into scoring position, but the final hit would never come as the Skyhawks fell 6-4.
Game 2: UC Riverside 8, UT Martin 4
UT Martin would look to get off on the right foot in the second game of the afternoon by scoring in the first inning. Gonzales would start the game with a leadoff single before eventually watching the bases become loaded later in the inning. With a prime scoring chance at hand, Jodie Duncan would draw a six-pitch walk to bring the first run into score.
UC Riverside would quickly bounce back in the bottom half of the inning with three runs to take over the lead. The Highlanders would tie the game off a RBI single by Rodriguez, scoring two on the play before another run came home off a stolen base – taking a 3-1 advantage.
The Skyhawks returned the favor by cutting into the margin in the second. Dodson would reach base on a bunt single before advancing into scoring position on a wild pitch. Later in the inning, Lauren Myers would reach base via a fielder’s choice moving Dodson to third where the duo pulled off a successful double-steal.
UT Martin responded by retaking the lead in the top of the third inning. Both Meckl and Alli Fulcher would reach base to start the inning before moving into scoring position on a sacrifice bunt by Duncan. The Skyhawks would ultimately cash in on a two-out opportunity later in the inning as McBride doubled to right center to score both Meckl and Fulcher on the play to take a 4-3 advantage.
Much like the team’s first deficit, UC Riverside would not trail for long after responding in the bottom of the third. The Highlanders would score five runs in the third to take an 8-4 lead – marking the game’s final margin.
The Skyhawks would look to cut into the deficit in the final four innings by tallying at least a hit in each frame, but would not get the runs on the board – dropping its first pair of games in the same day this season.
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THE ROMANCE OF OLD BARCLAY
Here is a map of Old Barclay that will provide a basis for many hours of discussion and pleasant reminiscences for all who ever lived there. It also will give those of the present generation a good idea of this once famous old town of which only memories remain. It is believed to be the only map of the kind in existence and was drawn especially to accompany this article. It was planned out by William Strope of Towanda, who, it will be seen, did remarkably well despite the fact that he had only his memory on which to depend.
INTRODUCTION AND EARLY HISTORY
Hidden far from view on one of Bradford county’s least accessible mountain tops, lie today the ruins of a town that used to be – a town where once the laughter of hundreds of boys and girls at play joined with the hum of the saw mill and the clanking of the coal cars on the plane to signify to the world a busy, hustling and happy community—Old Barclay, whose name is still loved by all who ever lived there.
Nearly all the buildings long since have either been torn down or fallen into decay. Only a few portions of cellar walls and here and there a tumbled-down shack bravely holding out against the ravaging elements, remain to let the wanderer through the region know that once civilization existed where now the bears, deer and other wild animals of the forest once more can reign almost supreme.
Yet to this desolate mountain top once each summer a little group of former residents manage to make their way and, gathered together on the old picnic ground where so many happy occasions were celebrated years ago, they talk over what used to be. "Old Home Day" for them has a deep, almost sacred significance. Tender, yet happy, memories come flocking back and here and there oftentimes can be seen a teardrop on an unashamed cheek as incidents of the now gone forever village are recalled.
Barclay—the deserted village. Many of the present generation have heard it referred to as that, have wondered for a fleeting moment just what the town used to be, and never have given it another thought. Yet those who know old Barclay, know it is deserted from the standpoint of buildings and population alone. Its residents return there often in spirit, ride up and down the mountain in John Carroll’s well remembered hack, take rides in fancy once again over the snowy road along Railroad street and on down the steep, curving route to the Foot of Plane, and then go back in memory a few years further and beg a few pennies from father or mother to spend for candy or gum at "Granny" Hunter’s or "Granny" McNally’s.
These people have a bond of friendship that has lasted through the years. They are a somewhat clannish group; it is in their very blood. Their fathers were that way when Barclay was in its prime. No one knew want on Barclay mountain then. Where sickness or accident took hold with a cruel hand there was always aid forthcoming without fail. A collection netting from $100 to $400 would be taken and the distress relieved. If it happened in the right season, it would not be long before a benefit dance had taken place and the proceeds of that, too, added to the fund for the afflicted. As one old resident of Barclay says: "It seemed just like one big family."
It is to preserve as nearly as possible the history of this famous old settlement, which already is in decay, that this record has been prepared. The story is as complete as possible to obtain through interviews with people once living there and a study of the extremely few written records concerning the village.
Many have assisted in the compilation of the facts but I am particularly indebted to the following: Mrs. Anna Sheehan, Towanda; William Strope, Towanda; Charles E. Drake, Towanda; W. H. Crayton, Powell; John Anderson, Towanda; Walter Lyons, Towanda; Daniel Webster, Towanda; Mrs. George J. Krebs, Somerset, Pa.; Malcolm Macfarlane, New York City; Fred Cameron, Arnold, Pa.; Ernest Holcom, LeRoy, Pa., and Fred McIntyre, Towanda, Pa.
The township of Barclay was formed from Franklin in 1867. It is situated between the townships of Franklin on the north, Monroe and Overton on the east, LeRoy on the west, and Overton on the south, being separated from the last named by Schrader creek. The township was named in honor of Robert Barclay of London, England, who, in 1794, purchased 21,000 acres of land lying on what is now Barclay mountain. That is as far back as the history of the region can be traced.
In the western part of the township the summit reaches an altitude of 2041 feet. The general slope is [Page 4] toward the southeast, drained by Coal Run and other small streams flowing into the Schrader. This region, a section of the Towanda range, known as the Barclay mountains, generally, was heavily timbered, even on the slopes, with pine, hemlock and hard wood. Here among these great rocks, lofty trees and underbrush for many years was the favorite habitat of bears, wolves and wildcats, while on the heights elk, deer, and wild turkeys abounded. The Schrader swarmed with the largest brook-trout and eels in abundance.
Then accidentally coal was discovered by Absalom Carr while hunting on the mountain in 1812 and the whole complexion of the rugged country changed. The metamorphosis was slow at first. The first known user of the coal was Jared Leavenworth, a blacksmith living near the mouth of Towanda creek. In the beginning coal was brought down the mountain on sleds but the demand quickly grew, different openings were made, and then the coal was hauled away in wagons to supply blacksmiths in Northern Pennsylvania and Southern New York.
No settlement was made in the township, however, until 1856, when upon completion of the Barclay railroad, the Barclay Coal Company took men and equipment to the mountain and began working the original mine. Growth from then on was comparatively rapid until in 1875, when Barclay was at its best, it had more than 2,000 residents with stores, shops, churches, schools, and mills, and a spirit that made it a leader among the townships of the county. In 1876 there were 284 votes polled there.
There were five sections to the settlement, the largest of which was Barclay. The others, all close together, were Fall Creek, Graydon, Dublin, and Foot of Plane. Carbon Run, a little further away across the mountain, on the line between Barclay and LeRoy, also had several hundred inhabitants. There is still a settlement there and a mine turning out 55 tons daily is now in operation. It will be described more fully later when the mining industry is traced in detail through its various stages to the present time.
A post office was established at Barclay January 10, 1866, with George E. Fox as the first postmaster. July 9, 1874, a post office was established at Carbon Run with Robert A. Abbott as the first postmaster.
After Barclay and Carbon Run began to decline in the latter part of the century, a considerable settlement was established at Long Valley where mining operations were continued until 1909. That, too, is now an abandoned town with only wrecks of cellar walls to remind one of the past.
The township had become almost depopulated in 1902 when it suddenly was given a new lease on life by the establishment and operations of the Laquin Lumber Company. Around the big mills a village of several hundred inhabitants grew and flourished until a few years ago when the lumber was exhausted and the mills shut down. Only a chemical plant keeps the town yet alive and the time seems rapidly approaching when it, too, will go the way of its sister towns along the valley of the Schrader. Many of the homes already have been torn down and moved away, while others are going into decay where they stand. The large hotel is gone, the once famous baseball park is grown high with weeds and grass; its few remaining residents can only live in hope. The rise and decline of this section of the township also will be treated exhaustively in a separate section which will be devoted exclusively to it.
(Scanned from an original 1869 Beers Atlas by JMT rather than from the Romance ... photocopy in my possession)
Here is a pen picture of Barclay at about the time it was starting to
boom. It was taken from an old atlas printed about 1868 by Beers, Ellis
& Soule. The picture was furnished for this article by W. H. Crayton
of Powell who is a great lover of the now deserted village.
Published On Tri-Counties Site On 9/13/99
By Joyce M. Tice

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Universitas Ahmad Dahlan (UAD) Yogyakarta proved itself to be the best by managing to be the champion of Parade Cinta Tanah Air (PCTA) competition in 2018 in Yogyakarta Special Region (DIY), which was held by Representatives of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Indonesia DIY on July 18th, 2018 at the Public Bureau building of Setda DIY.
A total of 22 participants from universities and high schools participated in the competition. UAD team managed to outperform the team from UIN Sunan Kalijaga as the second winner and UGM in the third position.
Dr. Dedi Pramono, M.Hum., the Head of Bureau of Student and Alumni (Bimawa) UAD revealed that the annual activity which was held by the Ministry of Defence of RI was a very good thing to do to increase the youth’s understanding to be nationalistic.
"With the understanding of being a nationalist, the younger generation can avoid the dangers that can harm their love for the country," he said when interviewed on Friday (20/7/2018), in campus 1 of UAD on Jln. Kapas 9, Semaki, Yogyakarta.
The UAD team, represented by Akbar Asmar (second semester) and Vivi Lutfia (fourth semester) from Law Study Program, Faculty of Law, UAD presented an essay on campus-based rehabilitation as an effort to realize the younger generation’s awareness on the dangers of drug abuse and being a nationalist. Both were accompanied and guided by Gatot Sugiharto, S.H., M.H.
As the tutor, Gatot conveyed that in addition to having to write an essay, to participate in the competition students needed to have skills, such as singing, poetry reading, playing a musical instrument, or dancing.
"The team finished the essay in two days. During the competition, the quality and originality of the writing becomes an important value. There was also an oral test for 15 minutes. Alhamdulillah, UAD team becomes the top three," he explained.
During the presentation, Akbar and Vivi displayed their talents and artistic skills by singing and playing the guitar with a song entitled "Zamrud Khatulistiwa", which is a song made popular by Chrisye.
He added that each region needs an alternative in the rehabilitation process of drug abusers. Therefore, on campus, there needs to be a concept to prepare a tool that can be used for social rehabilitation.
Akbar and Vivi said that Indonesia was a cultured country that must be aware of drug abuse. In addition to revealing the problems, both of them conveyed solutions about how to overcome drug abuse, mainly in the campus environment.
In 2017, the National Anti-Narcotics Agency (BNN) said the death rate from drug abuse reached 11 thousand people per year, or 40 people per day. (ard)


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Thursday, February 3, 2011
I made this little delight in the calm before the first big Midwestern blizzard of 2011. It was supposed to be bartered in exchange for a night of babysitting while my husband and I enjoyed dinner out and a Baptism prep session. My husband and I ended up having to eat it ourselves since we got snowed in. Pity we couldn't try out the European mussel bar, but at least we got some delicious pie out of it. I used the Perfect Pumpkin Pie recipe again to make this one, except that I used 1.25 c. half and half and 1/4 c. milk instead of the proportions of heavy cream and milk called for in the recipe. I had quite a bit of half and half leftover from house guests that I needed to use up.
After about 48 min at 350, the pie came out marvelously as usual, which makes me wonder if my pie calling is to make pumpkin pie. Pumpkin and rhubarb medleys are definitely the top contenders right now. Though my husband says my pecan should be in the running too. Somehow I can't rationalize that one, since pecans grow nowhere near the great state of Wisconsin. Maybe I could make a version that uses local walnuts? Would it taste as fabulous, though?
In other pie news, I have been digging on the holiday issue of ReadyMade magazine. The pie spread in there is very inspirational. I'm particularly smitten with the Bittersweet Chocolate Cherry and Vinegar Chess. The Vinegar Chess Pie is a perfect "hunger gap" dessert, so I see that one getting made in the near future. The Dark Chocolate Cherry, on the other hand, is very festive and a bit more involved. Perhaps I'll treat myself for my birthday at the end of March.
Current Pie Tally: 45


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Pimping ain't easy, the saying goes, and no film better illustrates the second oldest profession's glamour and downside than The Mack, a 1973 blaxploitation classic that resonated throughout popular culture like few films before or since. Rap artists from Dr. Dre to Nice & Smooth co-opted its endlessly quotable dialogue, Oakland's Too $hort built his career around it, and filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and the Hughes Brothers paid overt homage to its quintessential tale of pimping in the big city. The Mack certainly wasn't the first film to invite audiences to identify with a gleefully transgressive antihero, but its combustible take on sex, class, capitalism, and race made it an important touchstone not only for black film, but also for hip-hop culture. Part gritty urban realism, part ridiculous male fantasy, The Mack stars charismatic, honey-voiced Max Julien as a small-time crook who gets locked up and emerges from prison eager to make up for lost time. With guidance and support from a sort of pimping Yoda, Julien becomes the city's top pimp, eventually attaining the coveted "Mack Of The Year" title at the Players' Ball. Julien's profession alienates him from his idealistic, Black Power-oriented brother (Roger Mosley), but with the help of fast-talking sidekick Richard Pryor, Julien succeeds in ridding the streets of drug dealers, corrupt cops, and other undesirables. A riveting mixture of truth and bullshit, The Mack tries to have it both ways. Its protagonist is a smooth-talker who controls women's minds and bodies, and audiences are invited to revel in his forbidden power and glamour, but he also gives money to kids, buys his beloved mom a new house, and cleans up the streets. The Mack also laid the groundwork for hip-hop's rampant materialism by presenting black wealth as an end to itself. In the film's most revealing bit of dialogue, Julien tells Mosley, "Being rich and black means something, don't you understand that? Being poor and black don't mean shit." The Mack isn't overly concerned with the exploited and abused women Julien steps on; instead, it concentrates on celebrating its hero's "indomitable spirit," as Julien characterizes it on the commentary track to The Mack's DVD. That track tells riveting backstage stories, and in both the commentary and a thrilling documentary also on the DVD, white producer Harvey Bernhard emerges as the production's heavy. Julien, who helped script The Mack, claims that Bernhard and director Michael Campus cut out a speech designed to humanize the prostitutes, and inserted a scene involving a corrupt cop and an obese black hooker, against Julien's strong objections. Concerned that Bernhard was exploiting the cast, a coked-up Pryor at one point urged Julien to join him in physically attacking the producer. Pryor undoubtedly overreacted, but there's a germ of truth to his belief that Bernhard, ultimately, was playing the role of the pimp.
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ZERO STARS!!! My wife and I went to see what looked like a great avant garde jazz show featuring Cassandra Wilson as the headliner with an under card featuring James Blood Ulmer. James played only 2 songs and left due to a loud, persistent buzz in the PA. system. After a delay, 2 entertaining bands from the Delta, Tawanna Shante and the Paper Clip Scientists played a rousing but curiously overlong set.
Sound quality was unprofessional to say the least, and there was a very lengthy break before the "headliner" Ms. Wilson came to the stage. We were shocked and disgusted by what then transpired. The group that was supposed to be backing Ms. Wilson, "Harriet Tubman", glibly informed us that they had barely rehearsed with her - on Skype - and proceeded to loudly overplay her to the point where she just stood by and watched them. They did four uneven, lousy songs and left the stage.
I'm a native New Yorker, and I must say I felt absolutely suckered by the debacle. Combine this musical disaster with slow service, overpriced food and drink and the false advertising done to promote the show and you have a pair of music lovers who will never set foot in this venue again. Buyer beware of this tourist trap - it's a disgrace to its namesake!


Polls close in P.E.I.'s deferred election, PCs lead advance polls
Polls are now closed in the deferred election in Prince Edward Island's District 9 Charlottetown–Hillsborough Park, where Progressive-Conservative candidate Natalie Jameson is leading the first few polls with almost 44.9 per cent of the popular vote, or 721 votes.
The next closest is Liberal Karen Lavers with 434, then Green John Andrew with 424 votes. Gordon Gay with the NDP trails with 28 votes.
Elections P.E.I. says a total of 2,476 voted in the election, for a turnout of 60.39 per cent. Thirty-four per cent of eligible voters cast their ballot during advance polls.
The winner will be the 27th member of the P.E.I. Legislature. The vote in the district was deferred from the April 23 election after Green candidate Josh Underhay, 35, died in a canoeing accident with his six-year-old son Oliver on the Hillsborough River on April 19.
The Greens and also the PCs put forward new candidates, while the Liberals and NDP kept those they had declared prior to the election being deferred.
Polls closed at the Malcolm J. Darrach Community Centre in Charlottetown at 7 p.m.
The April 23 election resulted in the first minority government in P.E.I. history. The PCs won the most seats with 12, the Greens eight, and the Liberals six. Whatever the result of the District 9 election, the balance of power in the legislature will not change.


So much hullabaloo, this Halloweentime, about the revival of Nickelodeon's fabled turn-of-the-century horror flick “Cry Baby Lane.” According to Reuters, it'll be airing this Oct. 31 for the first time since it debuted in 2000. (Once at 12 a.m., and once at 2 a.m., on TeenNick. On a school night, no less!)
It is also fabled that a devious Redditer uploaded the film in full, from VHS to YouTube, just last August. Wikipedia confirms! Wikipedia also says, “Director Peter Lauer has said he was surprised and flattered by the attention his film had gotten.” However…
… Viacom swiftly killed yet another collective nerd boner by calling copyright on that shit. Wah wah.
The made-for-TV movie is about a creepy farmer who saws his conjoined twins in half. It honestly isn't quite as crazy, one decade later, as legend has made it out to be; nothing we haven't seen a thousand times on TLC in the years since. Nickelodeon tells Reuters that it was never technically banned, either — “simply forgotten in the Nick vaults.”
But if you're still intrigued (which you should be, at least for the “Goonies” appeal) you'll be glad to know it still exists in parts! Catch it now, below, while Viacom isn't looking. Unless you're more stoked at the idea of having a TeenNick sleepover this Sunday night. Understandable.
On a kind of unrelated note, this may be the first time Reuters has ever mentioned Reddit in a news release. That's kind of scarier than taking a saw to one's siamese twins. Next thing you know, Conde Nast will commission a redesign to out-mainstream Digg!
Also, just curious — did anyone else previously unfamiliar with “Cry Baby Lane” think for a second, based on the title, that it was one of those gazzillion theory films on Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, Tupac's alleged murderer? Dunno. Maybe we just think about Tupac's alleged murder too much.


Letters: Kudos to Palmetto State for backing Newt
Hooray for Newt Gingrich and, more important, for the voters in South Carolina. At last, we may have a conservative for whom to vote for president. The media and their pals on the left do not realize how fed up and angry the American people are with the direction the country is headed.
Newt has the guts and the skill to return our country to capitalism and liberty and to stop the federal takeover of everything. He will stop the massive regulation of business, and thus reverse the economic slump. Newt will respect Christians, curtail the encroachment of the Environmental Protection Agency, approve the pipeline from Canada, allow drilling in ANWR and along the coast, respect the Second Amendment and eliminate the Department of Education and Obamacare.
Newt wouldn't make a federal case out of our soldiers urinating on enemy soldiers, a situation that should have been quietly handled at the lowest levels. He would stop nation-building in Middle East countries that hate us, and pay off our debt. Deciding whom to vote for in the Jan. 31 Florida primary is the easiest decision I have made in years: Newt Gingrich.
DARYL L. UNNASCH
Elite-basher needs dictionary
Up to and after his win in the South Carolina primary, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich castigated the "elite media" and the "liberal elite." According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, "elite" means the "best." Mr. Gingrich's misuse of "elite" demonstrates that beneath his thin veneer of sagacity lies an appalling ignorance.
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Give Paterno a pass, but not serial adulterer Gingrich
A significant number of people in this country believe that former Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno died in disgrace despite a long lifetime of good acts and ethical behavior. Apparently, there are many people who believe that Newt Gingrich should be our next president, despite a track record of determined adultery. I hope there are not many people who are in both groups; it would require a painful amount of moral rationalization.
Mr. Paterno made a mistake by not being more proactive in the Jerry Sandusky case. It was an error of omission. By contrast, Mr. Gingrich repeatedly betrayed the women in his life. He committed adultery over and over. We can choose to forgive him, but we should not choose him to be president.
Post, liberal media to blame for dearth of Paul coverage
The Palm Beach Post should be ashamed for its participation in the blackout of the Ron Paul campaign. In the article "New twists put Romney on defensive," in which all of the other candidates were discussed, Ron Paul was not even mentioned.
Ron Paul placed a strong third in Iowa. He came in second in New Hampshire. In both races, he did much better than Newt Gingrich. He clearly won the debates in South Carolina. What the controlled media are doing in the almost total blackout of the Ron Paul campaign is criminal. Ron Paul is a 10-term congressman from Texas who has consistently stood for freedom and the Constitution. How can anyone believe that we are a free country when we do not have a free press?
Romney just like Kennedy
Heavens to Betsy, we don't need another wealthy politician from Massachusetts pretending to know what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck, struggling to make ends meet, hoping and praying not to get laid off.
Gingrich demonstrably mean, but is that what we want?
I read in Sunday's paper a comment from a South Carolina voter who said, "I think Mitt Romney is a good man but we've reached a point where we need someone who's mean. ... Gingrich was the only one mean enough (to challenge Obama)."
The response from the former House speaker following a provocative question from Thursday's debate moderator fueled the audience indignation. They whooped and howled as the speaker shot the messenger, because we all know how unfair the mass media have been to conservatives, yes? Did they not deserve a whippin'?
Shooting the messenger worked quite well for the ex-speaker. John King joins Bret Baier and Juan Williams, who were targets in earlier debates. Temporarily, we are aroused by the theatrics of the day. Eventually, as grown-ups, we settle down and evaluate that performance. Is "mean" the virtue we seek in our president? The attack scenario works well on TV. But how would it in dealings with Congress?
A smart person finds a firm, strong way to respond to adverse situations, keeping his mean self in check. Republicans who encourage and support the antics of vilification are shooting themselves in the foot.
Palm Beach Gardens
Fox News snubbed Gingrich
I found it interesting but not surprising after Newt Gingrich's victory in South Carolina that Fox News didn't bother to show his victory speech. It was covered by all the other major networks. I am guessing it was because Fox was not happy with the results. Therefore, they decided this was news they did not want to share with their dedicated viewers, who can't seem to think for themselves.
I can't help but wonder that, if Mitt Romney had released a few years of his tax returns, he may have fared better, even with his millions in offshore accounts. So for the sake of all the GOP faithful, Mitt should release not only his tax returns today but maybe also his birth certificate.
Port St. Lucie
Find way to sign for another
I can understand the necessity of another person signing documents with your name when it would be difficult for you to do it yourself ("Is signing for others forgery?"). In doing so, the signature should be done in a way that can be recognized as being done for someone else. This could be done by printing the name instead of writing it, or some other accepted way.
A person's signature is that person's bond of approval, even if the person realizes it is the only option available in a case of foreclosure. There have been too many improper foreclosures made in Florida, where people are thrown out of their homes, and there might have been options to avoid it.
Degree fee just another tax
I was shocked to read "University heads urge higher fees for tech degrees." Against everything Republicans in Florida preach, here are people raising "taxes" on middle-class students and their families - not just any students but the very tech degrees we need to compete in the job market and make Florida attractive to business. I know the Republicans will whine that there just isn't enough money, but there would be if they stopped cutting taxes for the wealthy and big business and raised income.
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This afternoon, the year 3 gardeners helped to tackle the fruit bush border. There was lots of clearing and weeding to be done and the team really got their backs in to it. We managed to clear out most of the weeds in preparation for covering the border with a new layer of weedproof membrane and bark chippings next week.
We will then be able to plant our new fruit bushes, some of which came courtesy of the Morrison’s Let’s Grow vouchers.
The children had great fun finding all the different mini-beasts that were lurking in the fruit border. Among them were ladybirds, caterpillars, slugs, beetles, earwigs, spiders and even some tiger worms!


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Hi, I am in Australia and I have 2 desktop computers in my apartment. The main one is on ADSL cable running through a wireless modem that allows me to (plug in) 4 pc's via ethernet cable and 1 wireless. All I need to know is how to set up the wireless. I bought the "kit" Is it a matter of installing the set up disk, plug in the receiver and then I'm in business? Thanks for any help offered.


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Continuing Eater Lounge coverage from the Cayman Cookout in Grand Cayman. Top Chef All-Stars winner and Atlanta chef Richard Blais.
So what are you up to at the Cayman Cookout?
I have two dinners, a demo, and I have an MC thing. I'm the new guy so they're putting me to work. Can't complain. Sunshine. It's snowing in Atlanta today. 26 degrees.
What's up with your new restaurant, The Spence? The opening got pushed back to the Spring?
Well you know how these things work. It's building a restuarant there's no specific strategy. Looking at the first week of April. Round about 100 or so seats. It's not gigantic, not a megarestaurant. I like the word eatery. It's a place where people can eat. That's so basic, but that's what it's about. More of a brasserie.
So no tasting menus?
I don't think so. I think people are expecting this molecular gastronomy tasting palace. I don't want it to be. There might be elements but I really just want people to eat good food.
And the type of cuisine?>
It's going to be American. Brasserie describes the restaurant but it's going to be American. Like the Salisbury Steak I made on Jimmy Fallon. You know, food you wanna eat. I'm over the precious swooshes of sauce on a plate. I want to be a place where people can eat good food. I'm gonna sound like a donkey saying that, but it's true.
And your upcoming cookbook?
The book is going to be published next Spring, they're doing the photos right now. All last week in the studio space. It's my first cookbook, and I've learned a lot about how it happens. I wanted to be there for the photos of my food. I've been looking through a lot of cookbooks lately, and I'm like, wow that guy never showed up for that stuff, great chef but never showed up.
It's a book for the creative home cook. So many people have sous vide equipment in their houses now, not just professional chefs. It's stuff you can do at home. It's bits of pieces of the last five restaurants I've done. It's neat to look at food from that time.
So like a memoir of sorts?
Well not the text, but the recipes are. You can see it in the food like yeah that's totally dated. That was 2006.
Yeah foam. Foam's almost retro now! There are also a lot of recipes. Like for hair gel. Foie-haux. As opposed to faux. So a little rendered duck fat, liquid nitrogen. Or go flavored! A little peanut butter, a little ras el hanout. Recipes for how to clean your copper pot, not just food.
Well I think it's snowing right now, so what a jerk look at Richard Blais at Cayman! But it's an amazing culinary city, I don't think it gets enough props. Did I just use the word props? I did. There are a bunch of young, independent chefs opening up smaller stuff to do their own thing. I love Bachanallia, classic fine dining. I've got my head kind of buried in projects but it's a fun city.
Any plans for TV?
We're doing something for Cooking Channel. We're hopefully doing a series. It's a special episode airing in the next few months. I want it to inspire people, so we're going to the source and taking it back to the kitchen and messing around with it. It's not how Skittles are made, not that type of show.
If we're going to feature chicken, I'm going to the best known chicken place. But it's fun. I talked to Tony Bourdain yesterday and he said, "You know what's not easy? Walking and talking on camera." I think I am gonna fall all over. Tony Bourdain, man I'm a fan boy. I was at dinner last night for four hours sitting next to Tony, and I thought he's gonna say something that would make me lose my fan boy for him, but no! After four hours, still a fan boy.
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This mashup allows users to search ebay and display the results on a map. Useful for finding auctions that are nearby, with many search and sorting features.
A map of proposed and existing windfarms in New Zealand.
This is a Google Maps app that displays Yahoo! Simple Maps files. It implements all of Yahoo!'s enhancements to GeoRSS, including address geocoding, plus a couple of things from basic RSS that Yahoo...
With so many projects being worked on in GitHub, often by multiple users, Kristopher Sandoval discusses why developers love the service. The benefits of collaborative editing, language agnostics and powerful versioning support make it difficult to find reasons not to use GitHub.
There's a new way to get thousands of local points of interest into your web maps: the CloudMade Data Market Place. There's a fee for using the data, but otherwise it's as easy as the standard CloudMade API (our CloudMade API profile). For a few hundred dollars per year, you can add any restaurant in the U.S., hospitals in the UK to your map, or one of about 80 datasets.
The whole point of investing in Big Data is to drive the development of a new generation of data-driven applications. The challenge most organizations will face is that once they build those applications they will need to have a robust set of APIs through which to share the information those applications create.
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Few days back rumours spread that Disha Patani and Tiger Shroff are not in talking terms due to various misunderstandings and their rift is widening and the couple in all probability will part ways.
However close sources reveal that there is no truth in the rift between Disha Patani and Tiger Shroff. A source close to Tiger Shroff's family revealed “We wonder where these rumours are coming from! Tiger is not a frivolous person. Once he’s committed, he is unlikely to change his mind about a relationship. Tiger and Disha are in this relationship for keeps,”
The source went on to add “Tiger has raced far ahead, while Disha is only just getting there. But there’s no conflict of interest. Tiger makes sure he has time for Disha, and his family dotes on her too. This is a zero-threat relationship; those digging for dirt should look elsewhere,”

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Leave no trace
The Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Seafar Wildlife Reserve is one of my favourite places in Cumbernauld to visit. The Trust is working hard to change the structure of the woodlands, helping native trees and wildflowers to flourish in the new light, open spaces. More native trees and flowers means more insects like butterflies and dragonflies, which in turn leads to more birds and mammals. Already you can see signs of this change.
The reserve is popular with the public too, and because we spend a lot of time here the Wild Ways Well team feels a bit of responsibility towards it. A few weeks ago we had a litter pick and removed ten bin bags of litter, plus a family-sized inflatable paddling pool and a destroyed picnic bench, all from one tiny area. The saddest part was all the broken glass. It’s awful to think of barefooted children playing there, and of the animals who call Seafar home. Wildlife can be badly affected by litter, eating it, becoming entangled or injuring themselves. A cut paw for a badger, without access to a vet, could mean a death sentence.
The woods are for everyone to enjoy, and there’s nothing wrong with anyone spending time there. It’s a great place to relax, have a picnic, and let children play. But please be responsible, take your litter home with you, don’t smash glass or dump rubbish. At Cumbernauld Living Landscape we regularly run sessions involving dozens of people enjoying the reserves, but we never leave negative traces of our visits. We take our litter home and we leave clean spaces for everyone to enjoy. It can be done, if we all work together and all take responsibility for our own actions, we can make a huge difference.


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Hockey Canada appoints Andrea Skinner interim chair
Hockey Canada named Andrea Skinner interim chair of its board of directors Tuesday.
Skinner takes over for Michael Brind'Amour, who stepped down Saturday. She'll preside until the end of the current board's term in November. Skinner joined the board in November 2020.
“As a board we are listening to Canadians," Skinner said in a statement.
"We are working to make meaningful positive changes to the culture of the sport of hockey," she added. "I am proud of my lifelong commitment to hockey and am honored to serve Hockey Canada as chair of the board; a board that includes men and women with a diversity of age and life experiences, and one that represents different ethnic and cultural communities, including Indigenous Canadians, and the LGBT2Q+ community."
Skinner also said she believes the nation's governing body of hockey is "taking positive steps to effect meaningful change" beginning at the grassroots level.
The Cornell alumna and former athlete is a partner at Toronto law firm Aird & Berlis LLP, where she serves as the chair of its diversity and inclusion committee.
Brind'Amour resigned in the wake of multiple sexual assault scandals engulfing Hockey Canada. The organization settled a lawsuit in May in which a woman said eight CHL players - including members of Canada's 2017-18 world junior team - sexually assaulted her in June 2018 in London, Ontario.
In July, the federation reported and urged authorities to investigate an alleged group sexual assault involving members of the national junior team in 2003.
Last week, Hockey Canada appointed former Supreme Court of Canada justice Thomas Cromwell to lead a review into the organization's governance structure.
In late July, Hockey Canada CEO Scott Smith said he would not resign while testifying at parliamentary hearings in which it was also revealed Hockey Canada paid out $8.9 million in sexual abuse settlements since 1989. Days before those hearings took place, Brind'Amour reportedly tabled a motion to remove Smith as CEO, but it was defeated.
The Canadian government has frozen Hockey Canada's federal funding, and several of the federation's corporate partners withdrew support ahead of the World Junior Championship, which begins Tuesday in Alberta.
Hockey Canada unveiled an action plan in late July that aims to address "systemic issues" and "toxic behaviors" in the sport.


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There’s the College Football Playoff’s fearsome four. And then…there’s this quartet. College football returns to the airwaves (…)
Latest UCLA Bruins Leads
PM Roundup: Olivia Jade Giannulli; Mick Cronin To UCLA; T.J. Dillashaw Suspended Two Years For PED Use
Olivia Jade Giannulli; Mick Cronin to UCLA; T.J. Dillashaw suspended two years for PED use and more.
Barnes is reportedly staying at Tennessee.
This is a no-brainer.
Pitino already has a job.


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The newest BeeLine has been published and is available to WCFS members in the Members Only section. Articles include:
Ft. Vancouver apple tree history, Pierce County Gleaning, Triploid Apples, Book of Pears Review, Fast Track Fruit Breeding, Marty’s Discovery, Red-fleshed apples, Root-stock mistakes, Chill Hours, and Blueberry Viruses
Missy is a Master Gardener, and has been a bee farmer for many years. She has given numerous lectures about the marvelous pollinator that is the Mason Bee. She has spoken at nurseries, garden clubs, schools, scout troop meetings, and private home gatherings. She will teach you about caring for Mason Bees, keeping your hives healthy, and maximizing the pollination benefits of these creatures.
10:00 – 11:10 ‘Producing Apples Organically’ (Harry Burton)
Harry Burton retired at age 50, then began devoting all his time to running Apple Luscious Organic Orchard on Salt Spring Island. He grows over 200 varieties of the best tasting, rare, heritage and unique connoisseur apple varieties, and does so organically. His orchard produces over 8,000 Lbs. annually.
11:10 – 12:15 ‘Growing Kiwis in the Pacific Northwest’ (Hildegaard Hendrickson)
Hildegaard is a retired educator. She manages her “edible backyard” on a city lot. She has grown kiwis for 25 years, as well as figs, apples, pears, plums, raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries. She is the past Treasurer of the Western Washington Fruit Society. Her other passion is hunting wild mushrooms. She coordinates the identification of wild mushrooms for eth Puget Sound Mycological Society, and teaches wild mushroom identification classes.
11:20 – 12:30 ‘Common Diseases and Insect Pests of Berries’ (Elizabeth Vogt, Phd.)
Elizabeth is the president of the Vashon Island Fruit Club. She is an entomologist and beekeeper and organizes pest management panels for the Vashon Island Fruit Club each year. She will discuss all the common pests of berries, including the Spotted Wing Drosophila, Botrytis, Powdery Mildew, Verticilium Wilt, Leaf Spot, etc. You will learn important biological characteristics of each pest, how to identify them, the damage they cause, and best management practices.
12:30 – 1:30 ‘Summer Pruning’ (Larry Davis)
Larry is a Master Gardener and a 20 year member of the Seattle Tree Fruit Society. He lives on a quarter acre city lot with great fruit diversity. His lifetime of gardening has included several years as a volunteer at the Master Gardeners Demonstration Garden in Bellevue. He will explain the benefits of summer pruning, when it is appropriate, and how it should be done.
12:40 – 1:45 ‘Red-Fleshed Apples’ (Harry Burton)
Harry will discuss the history of red-fleshed apples, as well as other historic varieties. He will explain why he finds such delight in these varieties. He grows over 20 varieties of red-fleshed apples.
1:45 – 3:00 ‘Fruit Production in Limited Spaces’ (Ingela Wanerstrand)
Ingela is a professional horticulturist with 16 years experience pruning fruit trees and designing edible gardens She lectures and teaches fruit-related classes through City Fruit and Plant Amnesty, and is an active member of the Seattle Tree Fruit Society and the Friends of Piper’s Orchards. She will be discussing methods for growing fruit beautifully in small spaces using container, vertical space, espaliers, and more.
1:55 – 3:00 ’30 Years of Applied Permaculture’ (Kristan Johnson)
Kristan is a former President of the Western Washington Fruit Research Foundation. He is also a founding member of the Permaculture Institute of North America Board. He has practiced permaculture for over 30 years, and ha taught numerous classes.