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West Virginia camp hosts COVID-19 vaccine clinic
Cars lined up outside of the West Virginia Nazarene Camp in Summersville, West Virginia, last week when the campground served as a COVID-19 vaccination clinic for the surrounding county. The county health department, with assistance from law enforcement and emergency services, vaccinated those over the age of 80 in its county.
“We anticipated a fairly good crowd today, which we have validated,” Charley Bickford, Nicholas County emergency manager, told WOAY News. “When we showed up at 8 a.m. today, everyone was ready to rock and roll.”
They distributed somewhere between 150-200 doses of the vaccine, which was administered to people in their cars as well as in a traditional sit-down clinic.
West Virginia Nazarene Camp is owned by both the North and South districts. According to Kevin Dennis, superintendent of the West Virginia North District, the Nicholas County Health Department approached them years ago to serve as a critical crisis center for the state. The campground has held typical flu vaccinations in the past. When the county called to ask if the camp would help the community get the COVID-19 vaccine, they were more than happy to agree.
“Our districts are both very pleased that we’re able to use the facility to reach out to the community with this very important vaccine,” Dennis said. “We’re excited about the number of people that have been cared for through the facility.”
While West Virginia hasn’t been one of the hardest-hit states by the COVID-19 pandemic, it does have a larger high-risk population, and Nicholas County specifically has one of the higher rates of infection in the state. While camp and district leaders are currently in conversations with the county health department to hold more COVID-19 vaccination clinics on-site, they are also excited about serving the community through a new compassionate ministry to be housed on the campgrounds.


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We’ve all know that guilty feeling that comes with throwing out leftovers. “I would have eaten this, if I had remembered it was in there!” you think, as you toss out dinner from last week. We all struggle with it, and while it’s impossible totally eliminate it, here are a 7 ways to cut down on food waste.
Ditch the aspirational meal plan
There’s an item on your meal plan that you feel you need to eat, but every time it comes up, you push it back another week. You just aren’t in the mood for that tonight. Does this sound familiar?
The meat is already frozen, you can always defrost it next week…Or maybe you’ll hold off on that recipe for another week, right? We’ll just leave it on the meal plan!
For me, it’s salmon. I find great deals on it at Aldi, but when it comes time to actually eat it, I just don’t want it. It sits in the freezer for months until we do a freezer inventory and the frozen fish goes for a dive into the garbage can.
So don’t buy what you won’t eat and make a realistic meal plan that includes buying food you and your family LIKE and will look forward to.
Keep a list of preferred recipes
To avoid recipes you aren’t a fan of, try keeping a list of go-to meals that you don’t mind revisiting on a regular basis. We try to rotate tacos or a Mexican dish in every week, and that’s one day that’s always easy to prepare for!
We keep a list of food we like on our phones and refer to it often when trying to figure out what to meal plan. Only successful meals go on the list, and it makes sure that yummy things don’t get forgotten! We also list who cooks the great meal and any details that made it awesome.
Some of our FAVORITE meals on our preferred recipe list:
- Bacon Avocado Burgers with white cheddar on Brioche buns with fries
- Chicken Parm
- Chicken and Dumplings
- Sushi a-la Sarah (See how to make homemade sushi!)
- Baked Hawaiian sandwiches
- Bacon Brown Sugar Garlic Chicken
- Thai peanut chicken
- Tater tot casserole
- Italian wedding soup
- Biscuits and gravy
- Chicken Tortilla Soup with homemade tortilla strips
- Teriyaki beef with jasmine rice
- Homemade Pot Pies
- Chicken and waffles
- Breakfast for dinner (pancakes/ waffles, fried eggs, sausage, etc.)
- My famous 5 can taco soup!
Keep a sub-list of go-to LAZY meals!
You don’t need to knock yourself out every night. Don’t be afraid to have some easy meal ideas! In addition to taco night, we also do grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup or fried noodles (ramen noodles cooked and pan fried with sauces) pretty often to give ourselves a break.
Consider an EASY Dinner night as a staple in the rotation and keep things on hand to make a filling, 10 minutes or less meal that will be low-mess, low effort.
Ideas for EZ Dinner Nights
- Loaded baked potatoes – wash and stab a potato with a fork or knife, microwave that shiz, top with butter, bacon bits, sour cream, cheese or anything else that is around or in the fridge (great for leftover bits of chicken/ meat!)
- Grilled cheese and tomato soup – We use milk instead of water to make the soup extra creamy and rich. It takes about 10 mins from start to clean up!
- Omelets – Couple eggs, shredded cheese, salt, pepper, onion, garlic and bacon bits or some shreds of lunch meat if you like! Healthy-esque and a light, filling dinner.
- Quesadillas – Perfect for if you have some leftover cooked meat (steak, chicken, beef), throw it into a tortilla with some cheese and add some salsa and chips on the side (two pantry staples of mine!) and you have a great meal.
- Macaroni and cheese – I keep a box in my pantry at all times!
Stop buying food you won’t eat!
Food waste doesn’t just happen when you’re cleaning out your fridge. Sometimes, it happens before you even buy the food. Don’t put items on your grocery list or in your cart that you aren’t going to eat!
It’s definitely tempting to take advantage of sales or coupons, but it’s not worth spending money on items that are just acting as fridge decorations.
Produce is a big culprit here – are you eating that whole bag of cuties or would one orange suffice? Avoid buying food in quantities that you won’t be able to finish. Foods like yoghurt and lunch meat are sneaky little scamps here, because it’s easy to shove them to the back of the fridge where they’ll gladly start going bad.
Fancy breads and pastries also tend to go stale quickly since they aren’t as saturated with preservatives.
Same goes for food you *wish* you ate… like bagged salad for me. It’s just not going to happen.
Don’t cook for an army
If you are, in fact, cooking for an army then you can ignore this tip. If you’re tossing out leftovers, then you’re making too much. I’ve had a lot of success with making smaller portions – if we’re still hungry after dinner then we can always have dessert!
If you know you’ll be able to eat and enjoy an item several days in a row for lunch, go ahead and make enough for that, but almost no one can get excited about the same meal four days in a row. Make enough food for you to eat, savor and still want it the next time you make it!
Many online recipe sites will allow you to scale the recipe up or down to suit your needs. This isn’t always possible when you’re using single-use cans or containers of items, which leads me to my next tip.
Save surplus ingredients
Taco Soup (recipe above) is one of my go-to comfort recipes. It’s warm, soothing, and a little spicy. However, it’s easy to make way too much! The recipe I use calls for several kinds of beans which only come in a single size: can. Once you mix everything together, you have a full pot of soup, which is great but hard to plow through if you aren’t dedicated to having it multiple times.
I have found that the trick is to keep surplus ingredients in reserve. This works for the aforementioned Taco Soup, but also works for chilis, pot pies, and other dishes that call for a variety of ingredients.
When I have a recipe that calls for lots of ingredients that I can’t buy in small quantities, I use enough for my recipe, but I reserve the rest of it in a mason jar or Ziploc baggie and put it in the freezer.
This strategy allows me to have all the flavors and ingredients I want while still letting me make a smaller batch that won’t go to waste. I simply date and freeze the food. It saves a lot of time later on and I can make a small pot of Taco Soup when I’m craving it.
Pre-prep for success
I’ve found if I wash, chop, bag and portion fruits and veggies shortly after buying them, I’m far more likely to use them as I’ve already done a bunch of the work!
If I wash and remove grape stems and bag/ mason jar up grapes for the week, I’ll eat them up far before they go bad. However if I leave them stemmed in that perforated grocery bag, they’ll rot and end up in the trash.
Why? It’s the step between seeing and eating… I won’t grab it from the fridge and then go wash and de-stem when I’m hungry. It’s too much work! But if all I have to do is open a mason jar or ziploc and fresh, ready-to-eat fruit is waiting for me… sold!
Vegetables pose a similar theory. If I’ve already washed and chopped ingredients for my planned meal and all I have to do is throw them together… why wouldn’t I cook?
You also avoid the stress of juggling multiple things at a time during dinner prep and potentially ruining an ingredient!
Make things as easy as possible for yourself and your personal food waste will go way down!

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Remember this Top Satan Claus Dabbing Christmas 2020 Toilet Paper Shirt from 1997 when I was hitting a nightclub in Wolverhampton. Many a drunken dance to this. I’ve been listening to La Sexorcisto on repeat for over a week now, I always go back. This is one of my top 5 favorite songs: It’s 2020 and I got this CD when it just came out and I still don’t understand how this was the most famous/popular song on that album???! It’s good but literally, every other song was way better. That was a damn good CD and the funny thing is, it still seems like it’s one of the loudest/heaviest metals albums to this day. Their first album sounds like a plain rock compared to the heaviness of this album.
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Wasn’t this also the intro to Top Satan Claus Dabbing Christmas 2020 Toilet Paper Shirts Batman beyond? I’ve been throwing back some zombie for the last week, it’s been great. Absolutely love this song but… well, all the other good Rob Zombie songs are just basically this song but less good, no? Still, it is a 2 am dancefloor killer. I think the best way to approach Zombie material is to enjoy it wholeheartedly while simultaneously acknowledging that it is not particularly original or good. I respect Rob Zombie and don’t really have any negative about him and his art. But… I sort of don’t get the mass appeal lol. Love horror, love industrial. Never got into a White zombie or any of his music.

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Have you heard of 'Deep Fakes' before? They are an incredibly interesting but also potentially dangerous use of modern technology; it allows anyone with a computer and some spare time to create near-perfect recreations of a face and apply them to already existing footage. Using AI-generated video anyone can make themselves look like James Corden, Tom Holland, or anyone they can get video footage of. It works by "training" an ai to detect the way a face looks, it then attempts to recreate a face from scratch based on what the user is trying to create.
It’s not certain you’d look exactly like the other person, but something like this can be done in a few minutes using an app called Reface which has taken social media by storm. Reface, as shown above, gives people a quick and easy way to look like their favourite celebrities with a touch of a button. Much like the saying 'you get what you pay for' Reface is very limited in its application and because of its ease-of-use is what's considered a 'shallow-fake'; it takes a very long time and pretty high tech equipment to create more convincing deepfakes such as the video below: Jim Carrey placed into the role of Joaquin Phoenix's Joker (2019)
For the most part, this kind of tech is being used by both internet pranksters and university labs looking to study the very interesting form of AI; however, it can take a malicious turn when you consider a military coup was nearly started because Gabon’s president had been absent from the public eye and upon his return, his opposition suggested a video of him was in fact a deep fake; or that there are growing concerns deep fakes can add female celebrities or politicians into compromising positions. As previously mentioned, however, the kind of deepfakes you would worry about take a very concise effort to create.
Ever heard the phrase: “I saw it on Facebook'' from a misguided but well-meaning relative? This line of thinking is becoming more and more dangerous. This video below shows Jeremy Corbyn, ex Labour leader, pledging his support for Boris Johnson ahead of our last election; this is obviously fake and was created by an organization called Future Advocacy to help raise awareness but all it takes is clipping that out of context and you have a recipe for disaster. This kind of technology is on the fast track to becoming a huge threat not only to our democracy but to the very principles of truth in the media.
How do you protect against what appears to be near-perfect videos of the people you’ve been told to trust? Well, you can't really, you can only take the best course of action to ensure that in the event you’re tricked you understand why that happened and what you can do in the future to prevent it. Knowing not to take things at face value is paramount to defending against this kind of misinformation, it’ll still be a while before it's truly perfect and if you get a gut feeling, don't ignore it. “Don't believe everything you hear on the internet” is still a very accurate statement people should keep in mind more often especially when it comes to social media.
Is your business up to the challenge of new cybersecurity threats? Would your team members be able to spot a deepfake? Our IT team provides cybersecurity consultation to ensure you and your team are kept safe. If you are concerned about your business falling foul, we can provide advice and guidance. Get in touch with our marketing team today and we can discuss how you can protect yourself and your staff.


This time of year, it makes sense to tune into greener living, what with Earth Day making an appearance in April and spring greens popping up all around us. Take the time to appreciate and preserve the beauty of earth while simultaneously improving your own health with these simple and sustainable tips—remember, a healthier earth means a healthier you!
It can be tough to change your daily routine, but you’ll see an enormous payoff when you make the choice to live more naturally. Not only will you feel healthier, you will be more connected to your local community and environment. If you’re looking to live a long and healthy life, you’ll need Mother Earth on your side! Start with these 5 tips.
you know what’s in your water? According to an investigation by the
Environmental Working Group (EWG), there are at least 315 pollutants in the tap
water Americans drink. More than half of these pollutants are unregulated
chemicals for which no safety standards have been created. Where are these
pollutants coming from? Industry, agriculture, pollution, and runoff from urban
and suburban sprawl are the biggest contributors. In traditional Chinese
medicine, water is viewed as a strong symbol of the life that exists on our
planet because it nourishes land, plants, and people throughout its journey.
Likewise, this is the same life force that flows within the channels of our
bodies, so protecting our water supply is crucial.
Start by protecting your water at home with a filtration system that uses carbon-based filters. The EPA has designated carbon as the best current technology for filtering out volatile organic compound (VOCs) like formaldehyde and other harmful chemicals. Consider trying the Aquasana Water Filter that I recommend for your home. Use your own reusable glass or stainless steel water bottle to carry your filtered water around with you, instead of using the plastic bottled water. As it turns out, bottled water has been found no healthier than tap water—plus all those bottles add up to a real waste problem. Reduce stress on the earth while you nourish yourself!
Most people can’t afford to eat organic produce all the time, and the Environmental Working Group (EWG) understands that. If you want the health benefits of eating organic without sacrificing your entire budget, focus on the foods that matter most to purchase organic. The EWG created a list called the “Dirty Dozen” that acts as a guide to the twelve fruits and vegetables that have the highest pesticide levels in them: apples, celery, strawberries, peaches, spinach, nectarines (imported), grapes (imported), sweet bell peppers, potatoes, blueberries (domestic), lettuce, and kale or collard greens. By buying organic versions of these foods, or avoiding them altogether, you can reduce your pesticide exposure by almost 80 percent! And when you reduce your exposure to pesticides, you’re taking action to help support a healthier earth.
In addition to organic and local fare, make sure that you are eating a variety of unprocessed whole foods and grains. This will help offset your risk of unknowingly ingesting large quantities of toxins from an unsafe food product. While most foods on the market shelves are safe to eat, there are plenty of cases where harmful substances get into the food. Take for instance the chemical arsenic, which has been showing up more frequently in food. A recent study by Dartmouth University found that 2 out of 17 baby formulas contained unhealthy levels of arsenic; it turned out that the arsenic was actually in the formula’s primary ingredient, brown rice syrup. (Arsenic is more likely to be found in grains like rice because it requires high levels of water and pulls chemicals from the soil.) Don’t let this news frighten you—you can help protect yourself by making sure that you’re sourcing your daily nutrients from a variety of fruits, vegetable, and grains. Diversify your diet and you won’t have to worry about the ill effects of one bad food product.
Another way to reduce your impact on the earth is to use more natural cleaning products at home. Conventional cleaners may look and smell bright and shiny, but they leave toxic residue around our home, produce poisonous runoff that affects the water supply, and waste plastic along the way. Because the manufacturers of these products don’t have to label all of the ingredients on these products, they generally don’t—so you may not even know what you are getting into. Switch to cleaning products that have a list of recognizable ingredients and don’t contain words like “danger” or “poison” on the label. Or, better yet, make your own low-impact cleaning products. They clean your home just as well, without the health concerns. To make your own all-purpose cleaner, mix ½ cup vinegar, ¼ cup baking soda, and 2 liters of water in a spray bottle. Many more natural cleaning tips will be featured in an upcoming article!
Spring clean your wardrobe and green your bedroom by buying organic cotton. According to the Sustainable Cotton Project, conventional cotton is so heavily sprayed that is uses about 25 percent of the world’s insecticides and over 10 percent of the pesticides. These chemicals are still present when you purchase your cotton products. Buying organic cotton is really an investment in the health of you, your family, cotton farmers, and the earth.
I hope you follow some of these tips to benefit you and the earth!
You can find more ways to live a long and healthy life in Secrets of Longevity: Hundreds of Ways to Live to Be 100, which is now available on Kindle. In addition, The Natural Health Dictionary makes a great companion to your quest for longevity. It is a comprehensive guide that answers all your questions about natural remedies, healing herbs, longevity foods, vitamins, and supplements.
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May you live long, live strong, and live happy all year long!
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We are thrilled to add a farmer to our Farm to School team! Meet Kimberly Koogler, our new Farm to School Assistant. Kimberly will be assisting with workshops, October Farm to School Month, and the Golden Radish Awards.
We are so excited for her to join us, and, of course, we had to ask her the tough questions we pose to all new employees:
What was your previous job?
My previous job was full-time vegetable farmer at Cosmos Organic Farm. I am still at Cosmos, but will just be going to markets and managing our CSA program, now that I am working at Georgia Organics, too!
Who/what inspired you to do the work you are doing for Georgia Organics?
So many things…Having worked a lot of farmer’s markets selling vegetables, I have learned that one of the obstacles facing local farmers who are trying to sell their organically grown produce directly to consumers is widespread ignorance about the big, industrial food system, what it takes to grow vegetables organically, and what some of the vegetables are and what to do with them.
Exposing kids to vegetables and teaching them about where food comes from now will hopefully make a huge difference in our broken food system in the future, when they are influencing their parents’ food purchases and when they are eventually buying their own food. I hope that the Farm to School programming will help to overcome the hurdle of general disconnect from good, healthy food.
What do you want to accomplish for Georgia’s farmers?
I hope to help educate people about food so that they will be more inclined to support their local food producers. It seems that the more people know about how food is produced and distributed, the more they want to support their local, organic farmers. We need that!
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The Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) announced its 2017-18 HCA/TriStar Health Broadway at TPAC series, and delighted in plans for presenting for the first time ever the world premiere of a developmental production of PART OF THE PLAN, a new, original musical written by Kate Atkinson and Karen Harris and scored with the music and lyrics of famed singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg.
Produced by K-Squared Entertainment and co-produced by TPAC, PART OF THE PLAN follows three turbulent decades in the lives of an adopted boy and the teenaged girl of privilege who was forced to give him up and explores themes of love, loss, renewal, and how everything in life happens for a reason.
This poignant and powerful new work launches a blockbuster season that includes the Nashville debuts of contemporary Broadway hits like the ground-breaking 2015 Tony Award-winning Best Musical FUN HOME; the gorgeous Tony Award-winning AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, featuring the music of George and Ira Gershwin; the irresistible hit musical WAITRESS, inspired by Adrienne Shelly’s film and featuring original music and lyrics by six-time Grammy Award® nominee Sara Bareilles and the long-awaited continuation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ultimate love story, LOVE NEVER DIES, the spellbinding sequel to The Phantom of the Opera.
The season also will feature beloved classic titles like the breathtaking Lincoln Center Theater production of RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S THE KING AND I; a new production based on the Tony-Winning revival of Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of CABARET and the highly anticipated return of WICKED, which will play four weeks in 2018.
In addition, TPAC will present several special Broadway engagements, including the summer debut of DISNEY’S THE LITTLE MERMAID; the Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award-winning musical, JERSEY BOYS; Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning phenomenon, LES MISÉRABLES, which last played Nashville in 2011; and a limited engagement of the mind-blowing THE ILLUSIONISTS – LIVE FROM BROADWAY.
“We’re so fortunate to have access to a deep and rich menu of classic and contemporary Broadway titles to present in Nashville,” said Kathleen O’Brien, TPAC’s president and chief executive officer, during the annual event for season ticket holders, sponsors, donors, group leaders and enthusiastic fans of the arts. “Along with returning fan favorites only available on tour, our season brings new productions that explore relevant themes and current issues, bringing them to life on stage in extraordinary ways. We hope audiences will find themselves in these stories and make new connections with those around them through the shared experience of live theatre.”
Dates for the 2017-18 HCA/TriStar Health Broadway at TPAC Series
PART OF THE PLAN – September 8 to September 24, 2017
FUN HOME – October 10 to October 15, 2017
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS – October 31 to November 5, 2017
RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S THE KING AND I – January 30 to February 4, 2018
CABARET – February 27 to March 4, 2018
WICKED – April 3 to April 8, 2018 (Week 2)
WAITRESS – June 5 to June 10, 2018
LOVE NEVER DIES – June 19 to June 24, 2018
See these performances this month at TPAC
Riverdance—The 20th Anniversary World Tour will be at Andrew Jackson Hall in Nashville, TN – April 21 through April 23, 2017
The international Irish dance phenomenon is back by popular demand in Riverdance—The 20th Anniversary World Tour. Drawing on Irish traditions, the combined talents of the performers propel Irish dancing and music into the present day, capturing the imagination of audiences across all ages and cultures in an innovative and exciting blend of dance, music and song. Of all the performances to emerge from Ireland—in rock, music, theatre and film—nothing has carried the energy, the sensuality and the spectacle of Riverdance. Riverdance—The 20th Anniversary World Tour is composed by Bill Whelan, produced by Moya Doherty and directed by John McColgan, and comes directly to North America from a sold-out run across Europe and Asia.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will be at Andrew Jackson Hall in Nashville, TN – April 25 through April 30, 2017
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, winner of five 2015 Tony Awards® including Best Play, is coming to Nashville as part of the HCA/TriStar Health Broadway at TPAC season! Hailed as “One of the most fully immersive works ever to wallop Broadway” by The New York Times, this “dazzling” (Associated Press) adaptation is the Tony Award®-winning new play by Simon Stephens, adapted from Mark Haddon’s best-selling novel and directed by Tony® winner Marianne Elliott. Fifteen-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain; he is exceptionally intelligent but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under suspicion for killing his neighbor’s dog, he sets out to identify the true culprit, which leads to an earth-shattering discovery and a journey that will change his life forever.

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Palermo and environs
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Coastline to the north-east and north-west of Palermo.
The coastline winds its way along for about 200 km from Balestrate to Finale di Pollina. It is characterised by three gulfs:
Carini - Palermo - Termini Imerese.
Area around the gulf of Palermo - Small seaside suburbs of Sferracavallo, Mondello, Vergine Maria, Arenella and Acquasanta.
Area of the gulfs of Castellammare and Carini - Balestrate, Capaci, Carini, Cinisi, Isola delle Femmine, Terrasini, Trappeto.
Coastline to the North-east of Palermo - Altavilla Milicia, Casteldaccia, Ficarazzi, Santa Flavia, Termini Imerese, Trabia, Campofelice di Roccella, Cefalý, Lascari.
At Palermo and environs, there is tourist accommodation available in hotels, farm holiday, farmhouse, residence self-catering accommodation, b&b, rooms for rent, holiday homes, camp sites and tourist villages.
Hotels Madonie Park
Hotels Orientata Natural Reserves Capo Rama

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Author has written 8 stories for Titanic, Dogma, Movie X-overs, and TV X-overs.
"Abby someone...Abby Normal." -Young Frankenstein
I mostly write Titanic fan fiction, but I do have other fandoms that I adore equally: Farscape, Highlander, Star Wars (the original), Indiana Jones, Firefly, and Harry Potter, among many others - though I've written little or no fic for them. As a reader and as a writer I tend to gravitate toward sci-fi, fantasy, action-adventure, and the just plain bizarre. James Cameron was a sci-fi director before he did Titanic so I think there's a correlation there.
I really tend to read or write anything actually, I'm eclectic and easy to please. But my favorite kind of stories are definitely sagas with complex plots and characters, and broad scopes.
The main reason I've written so much for Titanic is, while it was about a single event and a single relationship, it so rich that it can be expanded into many worlds and stories, especially about Rose's life.
If you're still interested in reading any of the stories below, I'll do the best to explain my sensibilities as a writer as objectively as I can:
-I'm not a very fluffy writer. Although I am a firm believer that not all sentiment is inorganic (yes, real people can speak in metaphors, be romantic, or say "I love you" and mean it without beating you over the head with it) I don't like gushiness without substance. I think some of my earlier writing is too melodramatic for my tastes now, but I hope not painfully so.
-I like gray areas. No black and white characters. No mustache-twirling bad guys and boy scout heroes. These things work fine in spoofs or if the author is purposely setting up caricurtures but not if you want organic, realistic, complex characters. Good guys aren't all good; bad guys aren't all bad. (a shining example of this, in my opinion, is Farscape.) Real people have contradictions and any relationship (of any kind) that lacks tension isn't worth anything. Just because life is messy does not mean it isn't beautiful. And if you've never sinned, it means your life's been too easy.
-Again, given that I've gotten myself crazy-obsessed with a James Cameron movie, I tend to write like I'm writing a JC film: there will be some action. Plus. being about Titanic, I tend to weave in lots of other history as well.
-Anything I write, no matter how serious the overall story, will be funny. People with no sense of humor (especially about themselves) are not to be trusted. Life is absurd. Let's laugh at it every now and then. Just like the real people you love, you will cry harder with characters if you can laugh with them.

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On Monday the singer was visiting the island and, according to local daily Granma , this “private trip” could be related to the preparation “of the concert that the group plans to give” soon.
The Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger was Monday visiting Cuba, a country where the group should occur for the first time at its next tour of Latin America, are we learned from sources. During the weekend, the singer of 72 years has attended the concert including timba (near genre of salsa, Ed) of Bamboleo group in a room in the west of Havana, noted journalists of the AFP.
According to the daily state Granma , he also walked Saturday with his son on the streets of the old town, causing in its wake many passers emotion and tourists. According to the newspaper, this “private trip” could be related to the preparation “of the concert that the Rolling Stones are planning to give” on the communist island as part of their Latin American tour in early 2016. Contacted by AFP, employees of the singer did not wish to provide more details on the duration or program of stay of the singer in Cuba.
The rock considered a weapon of US imperialism in Cuba
The guitarist of the legendary rock band, Keith Richards, recently confirmed the project to the group stage on the island, on the margins of promoting his latest solo album. According to several newspapers, this concert could be held in March at the Latin American Stadium in Havana, the temple of Cuban baseball. Bassist of the Rolling Stones Darryl Jones had already come in February in Havana to give it a concert with his The Dead group Daisies.
After the Castro revolution in 1959, rock music, considered a weapon US imperialism has been banned for many years in Cuba before being gradually tolerated up to win in state media during the last decade.


I just bought the car with alot of miles on it because I am a poor college student. After driving it for a week I noticed that when it idles (when being driven the temp is fine) the temp goes up to the red, sits there for a few minutes then goes down. I was told by a mechanic to replace the thermostat, but I dont have the money to have him do it, so I want to try it myself. First of all, does it sound like a thermostat problem? If so, could I get some very detailed instructions on how to make this repair in that it doesn't sound like the thermostat is very accessible on this vehicle. Thanks.
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Air fryers: What are the pros and cons?
Here’s a little behind-the-scenes fact for you. The air fryers test results is one of the most popular pages on our website. Tens of thousands of people have gone to that page wanting to find out which air fryer they should buy over the last year.
So why are air fryers so popular? And what are some of the downsides to air fryers you need to know about if you’re thinking of jumping on the trend? Here are a few things to consider.
Pros of an air fryer
Healthier than deep-frying
The big appeal of an air fryer is you can get the crispiness of frying with a lot less oil – they are more like a small fan-forced oven. So, you’re getting the taste without the extra calories.
Faster than the oven
Bryan Wall is our air fryer guru at Consumer – he’s written up the test results for dozens of them. He also wrote a piece about how using one for a week went in his household.
“I have a love hate relationship with the air fryer. They are incredibly convenient and quick to cook small quantities of food, allow you to experiment, and are cost effective for small households, but they certainly aren’t the one appliance to rule them all,” Bryan said.
Convenient to eat at different times
If the family gets home and wants dinner at different times of the evening, it’s easy for them to just pop in what they want to cook and quickly have their dinner on the table.
Great for elderly people
They’re fairly safe to use and make it easy to just cook a small portion. Check out our test results to see which ones score highly for ease of use.
Need hard-boiled eggs? Just pop them straight in the air fryer. They also make amazing toasted sandwiches – you get all the meltiness without the squish you get from a toastie maker. There’s a never-ending supply of ideas on what to cook in your air fryer once you go down that online rabbit hole.
Great for reheating food quickly
Put a slice of pizza in the microwave to warm it up and you’ll instantly have soggy regrets. But an air fryer will keep it crisp.
Cooking frozen food is a breeze
Fish fingers, chicken nuggets, fries and their frozen friends are a breeze in the air fryer. This could quickly turn into a con if you find yourself turning to these foods for the convenience factor time after time!
Cons of an air fryer
It’s an extra cost
Getting a good air fryer will cost you a few hundred dollars. There are cheapy ones at Kmart and The Warehouse but they’re not the ones we liked the most. Saying that though, there is one we recommend that you can pick up for about $150 when it’s on sale.
They take up space
Air fryers are like mini benchtop ovens and the more people you have to feed the bigger your air fryer will need to be. "They are somewhat bulky and ugly products and I don’t understand why this barrel aesthetic was chosen for some of the models," Bryan said. They also need a bit of space around them to be able to ventilate.
You’ll probably still use your oven
Unless you’re a single person or a couple you’ll probably find you can’t cook every part of your dinner in the air fryer. Even if you have a bigger model that can fit a whole chicken, you’ll still need to crank up the oven to cook the veg.
It’s another thing to clean
Air fryers need to be wiped out every time you use them. Sure, it’s easier than cleaning the oven but they can be trickier to clean than just putting an oven dish in the dishwasher after dinner.
They’re no healthier than using the oven
Air fryers are healthier than deep-frying, but when you compare it to using an oven, you’re not getting much of a health difference. You might still need some oil to make the food brown and get a better flavour.
Air fryer owners – what have we missed? Let us know in the comments.
So, are air fryers worth buying? See our test results to find out:
- The top air fryers to buy in New Zealand
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Lamu, KENYA: Following a successful court petition, two Lamu County CEC’s who had been fired by governor Fahim Twaha have now been reinstated.
The two, Raphael Munyua, the CEC for Health and Florence Wairimu, the CEC for Agriculture and Water Development were reinstated by the governor himself after the Mombasa Employment and Labour Relations Court directed they be reinstated with immediate effect having found no compelling reasons for their dismissal six months ago.
The two were fired in April this year and immediately replaced.
The court felt that the governor dismissed the two without any known reasons.
The announcement was made at the Lamu County Assembly on Thursday afternoon where the speaker Abdu Kassim read out a communication indicating that the governor had reinstated the two CECs.
“Raphael Munyua has been reinstated as CEC for Health Services and Environment while Florence Ndung’u as CEC for Agriculture and Water Development as per the court judgment delivered in Mombasa on September 20, 2018,” read part of the statement.
When contacted, Munyua thanked the governor for respecting the court order and assured the people of Lamu of better service.
“I am glad the governor obeyed the court order.I will work hard for the people of Lamu,” he said.
Meanwhile, the county assembly of Lamu has commenced the vetting exercise for the three candidates for the positions of Chief Officer.
They are Julius Okindo-Chief Officer for Public Service Management and Administration, Charles Mathenge-Chief Officer for Livestock and Cooperative Development and Simon Komu-Chief Officer for Fisheries.

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An interesting AFCON 2015 match awaits us in group D as Cameroon is pitted against Ivory Coast for a ticket to the next round. Group D called up international attention due to the fact that either all favorites stumbled in their matches or for the fact that it ended up with all four teams in the group being tied at everything, goal difference, goals scored, and points. The best odds for this match are in VIP-IBC, the best betting platform for multiple bookmakers.
The teams are hoping for a breakthrough as Cameroon hopes to avoid the drawing of lots that will decide which teams will progress should the group situation remain unchanged. They will rely once again on Choupo-Moting, Aboubakar, and Moukandjo for the goals amidst a team of talents even if not as star-filled as Ivory Coast.
Cote D’Ivoire will be without Gervinho who is serving the last match of his suspension while Tiote will sit out due to two yellow cards in the first two group matches. Gardel could see a starting eleven spot after coming off the bench to save Ivory Coast from the embarrassment of losing against Mali.
During the qualifications, Cameroon won a match with 4-1 and another one ended in a 0-0 draw. Neither team impressed in the tournament so far, nor have they made true to the expectations put upon them. This match, in particular, will serve as a means to set things in motion, make a claim on the title, and qualify from the first place in the group. Ladbrokes gives Cameroon 3.25 odds to win, a draw at the end of regular time has 3.10 odds and Ivory Coast has 2.30 to win. We are going to bet 8 units on the second half with the majority of goals with 2.15 odds from Ladbrokes, the most trusted online sports betting brand.
Cameroon: Team’s Formation
Ivory Coast: Team’s Formation
Prediction for the match: The second half with the majority of goals

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Following his last stint on 'Naagiin', Arjun Bijlani
will be seen continuing his love affair with the supernatural genre as he is all set to enter another fantasy thriller 'Kawach... Kali Shaktiyon Se'. He'll be the latest star addition to a show that has a stellar cast of Mona Singh
, Vivek Dahiya
and Ssara Khan
. Unlike his human avatar in his previous show, Arjun will play a supernatural character of a powerful jinn (a genie) in this one.
A source associated with the show informs, "Arjun will play Aryan, a Casanova who has women swooning over him. He enters the show as Paridhi's (Mona Singh) saviour. He helps her to catch Manjulika (Ssara Khan) and more later. Her husband Rajbir (Vivek Dahiya) gets jealous of Aryan and suspects him of being romantically involved with her. But the reality is that they are just friends. Unfortunately, jinns are not allowed to have relationships with humans."


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Two weeks ago, Towleroad reported that two Republicans, Holly Schepisi and Declan O'Scanlon, and two Democrats, Wayne DeAngelo and Gabriela Mosquera, said they would be voting to override Chris Christie's 2012 veto of the marriage equality bill.
Another Republican who voted against the marriage equality bill in 2012 now says he'll vote to override Christie's veto if the vote comes up, Politicker NJ reports:
Assemblyman Chris A. Brown said during a Wednesday evening legislative debate he would vote to override the Republican governor’s veto. Brown’s announcement marks the first time during the lead up to an override vote that a lawmaker who voted against the same-sex marriage bill last year publically announced they would change their vote.
“This is a decision I came to on my own,” Brown said following the debate after telling Atlantic City residents civil rights shouldn’t be decided by a ballot referendum – as Christie has advocated.
“I just believe when it comes to civil rights, I don’t believe it’s appropriate for the public to vote on it,” he said.


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Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was an acclaimed American author, poet, and civil rights activist. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Angelou overcame significant hardships in her early life, including trauma and a period of muteness.
She went on to become a prominent voice in literature, known for her autobiographical works that explored themes of identity, race, and resilience. Angelou’s most notable work, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” brought her international recognition and established her as a powerful storyteller.
Throughout her life, she actively participated in the civil rights movement, working alongside influential leaders and using her words to advocate for equality and social justice.
Maya Angelou’s contributions to literature and her unwavering commitment to activism continue to inspire and resonate with audiences worldwide.
Maya Angelou Timeline
April 4, 1928 – Maya Angelou is born in St. Louis, Missouri
Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson, came into the world on April 4, 1928. She was the second child of Bailey Johnson and Vivian Baxter Johnson.
Also Read: Accomplishments of Maya Angelou
Angelou’s birthplace in St. Louis, Missouri, would be the starting point for a life that would later inspire millions of people worldwide.
1931 – Her parents divorce, and she moves to Stamps, Arkansas
In 1931, when Angelou was just three years old, her parents’ marriage ended in divorce.
Following the separation, Angelou and her older brother, Bailey Jr., were sent to live with their paternal grandmother, Annie Henderson, in the small town of Stamps, Arkansas.
Also Read: Facts About Maya Angelou
It was in Stamps that Angelou experienced the harsh realities of racism and discrimination, which would later influence her writings and activism.
1950 – She gives birth to her son, Clyde
In 1950, Maya Angelou gave birth to her only child, a son named Clyde, whom she affectionately called Guy. Angelou was just 17 years old at the time.
Becoming a mother at a young age presented Angelou with additional challenges, but she embraced her role with love and determination. As a single mother, she worked various jobs to support herself and her son while also pursuing her passion for writing.
1954-1955 – Angelou tours Europe as a performer
In 1954, Maya Angelou embarked on a tour of Europe as a performer in the internationally acclaimed opera production of “Porgy and Bess.”
This tour provided Angelou with an opportunity to showcase her talent as a singer and dancer in countries such as Italy, France, and Switzerland. Her exposure to different cultures and experiences during this time would have a profound impact on her artistic development and worldview.
1960-1961 – She lives in Cairo, Egypt, and works as an editor
In the early 1960s, Angelou moved to Cairo, Egypt, with her son. During her time in Egypt, she worked as an editor for the English-language newspaper, The Arab Observer.
This experience allowed her to immerse herself in a new environment and engage with diverse perspectives. Angelou’s exposure to different cultures and her interactions with writers and intellectuals in Cairo enriched her understanding of the world and influenced her writing style.
1963 – Angelou becomes involved in the civil rights movement
In 1963, Maya Angelou became deeply involved in the civil rights movement in the United States. She worked alongside prominent civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, using her talents as a writer and speaker to advocate for racial equality and social justice.
Angelou’s commitment to the civil rights cause and her dedication to raising awareness about racial discrimination and injustice played a significant role in shaping her identity as an activist and influencer.
1969 – Her autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” is published
In 1969, Maya Angelou achieved a major milestone in her writing career with the publication of her first autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”
The book chronicles her early life, including her experiences growing up in Stamps, Arkansas, her sexual assault at a young age, and her journey toward self-discovery and empowerment.
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” received critical acclaim for its raw honesty, poetic prose, and powerful portrayal of Angelou’s resilience in the face of adversity. The book became an international bestseller and established Angelou as a prominent literary figure.
1993 – Angelou recites a poem at President Clinton’s inauguration
In 1993, Maya Angelou was invited to recite a poem at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton, making her the first African American and the first woman to perform such a role at a presidential inauguration.
The poem she recited, titled “On the Pulse of Morning,” emphasized unity, hope, and social progress. Her powerful performance resonated with millions of people around the world and brought her even greater recognition as a poet and public figure.
2014 – Maya Angelou passes away on May 28 in North Carolina
Maya Angelou passed away on May 28, 2014, at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, at the age of 86. Her death marked the end of a remarkable life filled with profound contributions to literature, civil rights activism, and the arts.
Angelou’s passing was mourned by people from all walks of life, and her legacy as an influential writer and advocate for equality and justice continues to inspire and impact generations. Her works and her unwavering voice remain a testament to the power of storytelling and the enduring spirit of resilience.


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|Abstract:||Binary Pd(II) formamidine complexes formulated as [Pd(L1-4)Cl2] where L=formamidine ligands, were synthesized and characterized using different tools, such as; elemental analyses, mass, infrared spectroscopy, magnetic susceptibility, thermal analysis and DFT calculations. The complexes are diamagnetic and the electronic spectral data showed the peaks due to square planar Pd(II) complexes. The optimized structures of complexes (1-4) indicate a distorted square planar geometry with Cl-Pd-Cl and N-Pd-N bond angles in the range 83.89º-94.27º. The electronic energies (a.u.) (-553.79 to -763.92) and the highest occupied molecular orbital (-0.223 to -0.250) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energies (-0.091 to -0.127) of the complexes were negative in their values indicated the stability of the complexes. The complexes are polarized as indicated from dipole moment values (6.50-15.71 Debye). All complexes are neutral, stable and nonhygroscopic. The complexes have noticeable cytotoxicity with IC50 (M): 0.0740 (MCF-7), 0.0074-0.0082 (HEP-2), and 0.0119-0.0144 (HepG-2).|
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In case you haven’t yet noticed, Google is now on street corners all over New York City, which is not only home to millions of New Yorkers, but is also one of the most international of cities, hosting tourists and business people from all over the world, what to speak of UN delegates and their families and UN Missions and consulates and visiting politicos. Pay attention.
Not too long ago, a consortium called CityBridge started wiring New York with wi-fi kiosks, many of which are replacing public phones. Everyone loves ubiquitous free wi-fi, but if there’s one thing that we’ve learned about the tech industry, it’s that free is never free: that if you’re not the (paying) customer, you’re the product. “If all goes according to the plan, the kiosks will be as commonplace as pay phones once were,” says The New York Times (New Yorkers Greet the Arrival of Wi-Fi Kiosks With Panic, Skepticism and Relief), “…Once a smartphone is registered, it will automatically connect to the Wi-Fi signals that radiate from the kiosks and extend 100 feet or more.”
Which means that you’ll be tracked all over town.
The name of the project is LinkNYC, but the real question is: LinkNYC to what? Or to whom?
Of course, CityBridge is Google, by any other name. Or rather, Alphabet, which is Google by any other name, or as the Village Voice explained it best: “The city isn’t building the network at all. It will be built, owned, and operated by a consortium of private companies calling itself CityBridge. The history and structure of CityBridge is tangled. When it was awarded the city franchise in 2014, the consortium included some of the biggest companies in their respective fields: Qualcomm, the telecom manufacturer; Civiq Smartscapes, a Comark Corporation company working on technologies for wired smart-cities; Control Group, the technology and design consultants; and the outdoor-advertising company Titan. Last summer, two of the core partners, Titan and Control Group, were bought up and merged into a new company, Intersection. Intersection, in turn, is owned by Sidewalk Labs. And Sidewalk Labs, an “urban innovation company,” is owned by Alphabet, the renamed umbrella corporation most people still know as Google.”
Not that Alphabet was part of Google’s plan to somewhat legitimately create shell companies or muddy the waters of legality, mind you.
“It’s a real-time, personalized propaganda engine,” Douglas Rushkoff, a New York–based media theorist and author of the bestselling Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, told the Voice, “a multibillion-dollar manipulation apparatus, customized not to meet our consumer desires, but to overcome our psychic defense mechanisms. And now you want to unleash that on the entire city of New York as a public service? I’m sorry, that’s a deal with the devil we really don’t need…What we have here is our public officials serving up the public to corporations,” he says. “It’s like New York doesn’t realize that it has the power of place against these extractive corporations. The city is looking at its population not as a power base, but as an offering, as the thing to sell.”
If you think you have precious few nodes of privacy now, just wait. As the Village Voice warns, Google Is Transforming NYC’s Payphones Into a ‘Personalized Propaganda Engine’. Propaganda and control engine, to be more precise. And New York is just one city in their plan.
Not that there was any public debate or discussion over a plan that’s this invasive, what to speak of ubiquitous. Lest we forget about Google’s other forays into the public space, as the Voice reminds us: “From 2008 to 2010 the company sent cars bristling with cameras all over the world to create Google Street View; it was later revealed that the cars were also equipped with Wi-Fi-sniffers, which sucked data from any open Wi-Fi signals they happened to pass and then stored that data at an Oregon facility. When Google was busted, it tried to pass the snooping off as an honest mistake, but an FCC report later determined not only that Google engineers had expressly wanted to collect that data, but that project leaders were well aware of what was going on. In 2013 the company ended up paying $7 million to settle lawsuits from 38 states’ attorneys general over the episode. That figure was dwarfed by a settlement from the year before, when Google paid out $22.5 million over the revelation from Wall Street Journal reporters that the company was using a coding trick to get around the anti-tracking protections built into iPhones.”
There is a privacy statement when signing onto the wi-fi, which more or less informs you that you have the right to absolutely no privacy. In typical Google fashion, all your base are belong to us, and city officials seem just fine with that.
Bottom line: The project, in effect, means total control of virtually every street corner in NYC, which would be mapped, and monitored by Google, as well as to all of your personal information and data. Lest we forget, Google has been repeatedly fined for violating privacy standards in the United States and Europe. And gets away with what amounts to mere slaps on the wrist, given the amount of money – and information – that they amass in the interim: discovery and lawsuits take time. Tech has always been rather fond of its ‘ask forgiveness, not permission’ mantra, which seemed to be fine when it was more an emerging industry that was struggling to establish itself. Now that tech potentially wields a level of power and control that the world has never seen or experienced before, we’ve gone way beyond the point where a slap on the wrist will suffice and when it comes to Google collecting our information in the real world, forget the slap on the wrist: best to cut it off at the knees, if the idea is to go onward and forward.


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Tips for Buying Puppy
Puppies are the best pet you can always consider to have at your home or elsewhere. When you have puppies, it means you will enjoy every minute with your puppies since they are always adorable and keeping you happy. When you are searching for puppies to buy, it important to make sure you got the breeding you are looking for. Not all breeding is wanted since those who do more research about breeding will definitely consider so much when it comes to buying puppies and breed. When you are buying puppies, you really need to focus on breed since most of the professionals who do breeding will be of help to get you the puppy you want. Many people who do consider breeds are the right professionals who can always manage to give you what you are looking for. In most cases, breeding is a process where not everyone can manage to breed, but only specific professionals who deal with puppies can give you the best. It’s important to buy puppies from professionals who are recognized to sell puppies in order to finally get the pet you want.
Puppies are part of your family when have one or several, there is a need to have all the puppies you want but it a much you make sure you take care of them all. The moment you own puppies, they will automatically become part of your family and everything you do about the family you also need to consider your puppies. In every family, health is the most important thing you can always have where everyone will have to be checked. This is the same thing you also need to do when you have puppies in order to be healthy and this can be done through checkup. Puppies always need to be checked in order to make sure their health is well, through veterinary it the only way for your puppies to be check and treated if there is any condition they are suffering from. Buying puppies are processes where you also need to consider their health and once you have identified the puppy you want, you can finally find a veterinary to checkup before you come into conclusion to be friendly to everyone at home. Sometimes you cannot tell if the puppy is sick or suffering from various conditions, but once you have veterinary your puppy will be treated if any condition.
Today, puppies market has really changed since many people are interested to keep puppies at their home all the time. You are likely to find that most of the people keep puppies and they cannot afford to stay without them, once you are used to puppies you cannot manage to stay without them since you will need their company. The online market that deals with puppies are available to everyone where you can be able to search for the puppies you need online. Through online markets like ericasdoodles you can manage to buy puppies since professionals have puppies available for you.

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COLUMBIA — After touring the garden at Oak Towers, 43 gardeners lined up on a chalk-drawn number 30 and looked up and smiled at the camera on top of the apartment building.
This was in celebration of the Community Garden Coalition's 30th anniversary. The coalition, which helps provide support for community gardens in Columbia and Boone County, hosted its annual Garden Cruise on Saturday.
During the event, individuals toured five community gardens in Columbia. The stops included gardens at the Broadway Christian Church, Ash Street Garden, Oak Towers, West Boulevard Elementary and the Unite for Health Community Garden at the Health Department.
Many community gardens across the nation began in the 1980s, said Bill McKelvey, president of the coalition.
"In Columbia, I think it was partly related to looking into ways to help elderly folks, those with lower incomes and people with disabilities have access to fresh food," McKelvey said.
When McKelvey became involved in 2005, there were only 10 gardens in the Community Garden Coalition. Today there are more than 1,000 people involved in 32 gardens in the coalition's network, McKelvey said.
The gardens are all independently maintained, but the Community Garden Coalition provides gardening advice and funding opportunities for gardeners.
The most growth has been in school and youth gardens, McKelvey said.
During the stop at the garden in West Boulevard Elementary's outdoor classroom, fourth grade teacher Becky Elder and former students Adeline Kraus, Tori Dooling and Arual Kuol shared what they learned in the past year with the visitors.
"We emphasize it's a classroom outside," Elder said. "Sometimes we're moving mulch or planting trees, but there's always some type of academics we tie in."
The students planted garlic and used it to make garlic butter, planted two evergreen trees and one dogwood tree and observed the types of birds that visited bird feeders the students filled with peanuts and sunflower seeds.
"I like to learn about the bird feeders and the types of food birds need for their beaks," Tori said.
The last stop of the tour was the Unite for Health Community Garden, developed three-and-a-half years ago through a collaborative effort of the Public Health and Human Services Department, Columbia Public Works, Community Garden Coalition and the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture.
Part of the land is used by Public Works for stormwater education, and individuals also have garden plots. Last year, the Health Department decided to create a plot to grow tomatoes and peppers for families in the Women, Infants and Children program.
"We thought 'wouldn't it be neat to get families involved?'" said Maureen Coy, an employee at the Health Department.
There are currently five families from the WIC program working in the garden, and other gardeners donate some of their produce to the families in the program.
"The learning and community going on is really refreshing," Coy said.
Kathy Doisy said she's been involved in the Community Garden Coalition for three or four years and enjoys the sense of community it fosters.
"To me the point of this coalition is to get people to get to know each other, get to talk to each other," Doisy said. "It builds neighborhood. It builds community."
The gardens exist because people get together to make them happen, McKelvey told the group during a lunch after the tour, which included a birthday cake.
"That's a cool thing, when you think about it," McKelvey said. "There wouldn't be a coalition if there were no gardeners."
Supervising editor is Hannah Wiese.

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Quaker Earthcare Witness is different from organizations that come from a purely environmental standpoint in that we seek to improve our relationship with Earth by living out right relationship with all of creation. We feel that a spiritual need rests at the heart of our current environmental crises and that by applying Friends’ ways and testimonies, we can bring a voice of connection, reflection, deepening, and right action to today’s environmental concerns.
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This section of our website offers ideas and inspiration for Friends and caring others who want to deepen their spiritual understanding and practice in relation to their care of Earth. Here you can learn more about Friends’ ways and practices, explore ideas around eco-spirituality, find tools that can help you deepen your own spiritual connection with Earth, and find out more about the 5 Purposes.
LOVE SPEAKS OUT to me from the Biblical account of Exodus as a way to face climate breakdown. I hear this as someone of Cherokee Celtic-Irish descent and a Quaker carrying a ministry about Right Relationship, connecting care of the Earth and human communities. The mythology tells us about Moses the prophet and liberator; God as Yahweh of the burning bush and whirling wind, plagues and parting the Red Sea. On the whole, we learn how the Hebrews receive a new way of life—the covenant—from Yahweh, and eventually reach their Promised Land.
If I were a poet, I would summon for you the cold creak of the board walk beneath your booted feet,
And the gentle caress of the cool breeze on the back of your neck.
My words would paint for you the glint of the
just-rising sun through the trees,
and the scarlet flash of the blackbird’s shoulder,
And the soft rap of the downy woodpecker,
And the startle of the waxwing in the morning light.
If I were a poet, I would know the right words to conjure for you the lavender blush
of this new-dawning day,
I HAVE HEARD the conventional wisdom that the business community needs certainty to function, and that the stock market needs certainty to grow. When I hear that, I think, “Well, what you are really saying is that you need to know that you will continue to make money even if that means that you take more than your share and your competitors make less money.” It speaks to an assumption that I have a right to have what I need and not worry about what the other person needs.


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SARDEP helps farmers improve
Established in 1991 under the then Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Rural Development, SARDEP was set up to develop and demonstrate rangeland management strategies and to improve livestock production in pilot communal areas.
The project was intended to produce a sustainable national rangeland and livestock strategy sampled from commercial farming areas and adapted to communal farming. However, the project experienced difficulties at first because of the different farming objectives between commercial and communal farmers. Also, it was found that in the early nineties, communal farmers did not prioritize issues concerning rangeland and livestock management as commercial farmers do.
It was only after the intervention of expert programme advisors of the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) that the programme gained momentum resulting in successful capacity-building amongst communal farmers.
SARDEP continued to develop the livelihood of farmers while at the same time supporting women empowerment in rural areas. One particular farmer to have benefitted from the programme is 53-year old Saara Bock from the Hardap region.
Saara’s farming journey started in 1982 with only one water point for her 7 goats and 15 sheep. She is now a communal farmer on a 2800 hectare farm called Nico Noord 377 situated 85 km on the B1 road from Mariental. Today her farming operation boasts 150 goats, 600 karakul sheep, 250 persian sheep, 6 donkeys as well as 12 horses.
Speaking through an intepreter, Saara shared her experience during the 11th Session of the Conference of Parties (COP11) in Windhoek. She maintains she previously farmed on commercial land and had to do whatever it takes to improve the quality of land for her animals.She said she started a small garden to sustain her family as her farm did not generate enough income at the time.
“ I was fortunate enough to be introduced to SARDEP and through the programme, I tried various farming methods which helped improve the land I was farming on,” said Saara. One method included treating the land with animal manure and growing vegetables in that area.After a period, she noticed that certain vegetables did not grow well in areas covered with animal dung. According to Saara, such practices helped her realise what worked and what did not.
She said other community development projects were established in her area apart from SARDEP. “We have established a community generating income scheme that would benefit all the farmers in our community especially when times are hard and other projects initiated for women such as crafts and needlework, are proving to be a success,” said Saara adding that farming with karakul sheep has proven to be more sustainable and many of the farmers generate a lot of income from the pelts sold. She said although projects like SARDEP improve the livelihood of communities, not all areas benefit from such programmes because of the pilot approach. She therefore asked that the pilot projects be rolled out so that all communities can benefit from future programmes. According to Saara, another challenge facing the farmers is the issue of land tenure as many of the communities do not own enough land to farm on.


Watch NASCAR Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond streaming online live by clicking on the link at the bottom of this preview of the race.
NASCAR’s Sprint Cup series’ last race – the Bojangles Southern 500 at Darlington – was one of the longest courses in the Sprint Cup series. Today, drivers go from a grueling 500 mile race to one of the shortest tracks on the series. Not only is the course a short track.75 mile oval, but at 400 laps, the entire race is only 300 miles.
Tonight’s race starts at 7 P.M. Eastern Standard Time.
A few notable drivers to be watching:
- Kyle Busch. Busch has owned Richmond in recent years, taking the checkered flag four straight years from 2009-2013 in his Toyota. Busch was knocked off last year by Kevin Harvick as he finished a disappointing 24th after starting in the 8th position. Kyle, who is sixth in the Chase for the Cup point standings, will seek to return to form in this year’s NASCAR Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond.
- Kevin Harvick. Harvick won the NASCAR Toyota Owners 400 last year, bringing his total to three victories at Richmond. Kevin has been up and down so far this year, with two wins and two did-not-finishes. He comes into today’s Toyota Owners 400 22nd in the point standings.
- Carl Edwards. Edwards is widely regarded as the best short track driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series, according to a race preview in The Bleacher Report. He finished top six on the track twice last year and he won the last race run at Richmond.
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. Junior passed his dad up for Daytona 500 wins earlier this year. Junior and Senior are tied for wins in the NASCAR Toyota Owners 400 (previously run under a variety of other names) with three wins apiece. A mistake that led to a car fire – while considerably less dangerous that the car fire a mother and her two kids found themselves in during a visit to the lion enclosure at a safari park – saw Junior make an early exit in the Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.
- Jeff Gordon. Gordon hasn’t historically done well at Richmond int he Spring, but you can never count him out. He hasn’t had a checkered flag yet this year, but he’s finished in the top 10 every week and in the top five three times – and that’s been enough to keep him on top of the points standings. Look for him to come out strong in tonight’s NASCAR Toyota Owners 400.


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Pork is a great alternative to the more traditional poultry and red meat fare. Many people, however, are concerned about how to tell when pork is cooked fully. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many people were worried about trichinosis, a parasitic disease often caused by a worm found in undercooked pork and wild game. These days, though, the parasite is not as much of a concern and, if your pork is cooked fully, it is not something to worry about.
Purchase a food thermometer if you do not already have one. Measuring the temperature is the most accurate way to determine if your meat is cooked. The USDA recommends that all cooks use a thermometer, either digital or dial, as the device prevents overcooking and all guesswork involved.
- Pork is a great alternative to the more traditional poultry and red meat fare.
- The USDA recommends that all cooks use a thermometer, either digital or dial, as the device prevents overcooking and all guesswork involved.
Place the food thermometer into the thickest part of the pork. Avoid touching any bone, fat or other non-meat parts of the cut, as this will throw off the reading. Once the internal temperature reaches 74 degrees Celsius, your pork is fully cooked and all harmful bacteria has been destroyed.
Check visually to confirm the pork is done. Cut into the thickest part of the meat. The colouring should be largely white, although a trace of pink is okay.
Never rely on visual checks to determine if your pork is fully cooked. The only way to know for certain is with a food thermometer. Again, even when done, pork will have shades of pink in the meat.


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Carrying the highly revered Cousteau name, Jean-Michel Cousteau Resort in Savusavu is widely considered to be the best diving resort in the area, with the best conservation practices. The company proudly states on its website that it’s not just about diving, it’s about “bringing to life the bond between ocean, land and culture.”
A variety of dive sites to suit different levels of experience, including the rich Namena Marine Reserve, are just a short boat journey away. Closed for 6 months after the deadly Cyclone Winston in February 2016, Jean-Michel Cousteau Diving now uses some of the cyclone-damaged areas as an educational tool for divers.
While diving is available year-round at this secluded spot in the Yasawas, the main reason scuba divers choose Mantaray Island Resort is, unsurprisingly, for its namesake – the manta rays. These impressive filter feeders are frequent visitors during the months of May to October, due to the nearby feeding channel which is rich in nutrients.
In addition to SSI scuba diving certification, Mantaray Island Resort is Fiji’s only accredited Freediving operator, running two to three-day courses.
Taveuni is Fiji’s third island and considered to be the base for the best scuba diving in the Fiji Islands. Taveuni Dive Resort has been designed for divers, by divers. It has a strong sustainable focus while retaining the authenticity of the local Taveuni culture, using solar power and rooftop rain harvesting.
It’s just a short walk to the marina where the dive boats are moored, ready to take guests out to the colourful and thriving Somosomo Strait.
Not far from the diver’s paradise island of Taveuni, sits Qamea Resort and Spa. Its PADI 5-star dive centre runs trips to internationally renowned dive sites such as Purple Wall and Qamea Freeway, as well as charter dives to the famed White Wall and Rainbow Reef in the Somosomo Straits.
The resort offers dive certification including a Nitrox speciality to make the most of every dive.
Unlike many dive centres, Qamea’s operation offers flexible timing for those who prefer a later start than the traditional 8am check in. With such a small number of guests, there may be times you are the only diver on the boat, leading to a truly personal and intimate dive holiday.
Qamea Resort and Spa Qamea Island, Fiji +679 888 0220
Namale Resort in Savusavu has a unique focus – a holistic, luxury scuba diving experience. The resort has hosted many celebrities over the year and prides itself on its luxurious setting and top service and facilities.
Nearby dive sites include the thriving Namena Marine Reserve, Purple Gardens, the Rainbow Reef and the Somosomo Straits. With the sites only a short boat ride away, divers can head back to shore for their surface interval and enjoy the other watersports available, such as Stand-Up Paddleboarding or sea kayaking.
Namale Resort, Hibiscus Hwy, Savusavu, Fiji +679 885 0435
If you’re looking for a diving retreat far away from hyperactive and noisy children, consider the adults-only boutique Tokoriki Island Resort, situated in the northern part of the Mamanuca Islands. Its PADI 5-star Gold Palm Dive Centre is an environmentally conscious operation with a strict, ‘no-touch’ policy on all marine life.
The location of the resort is an ideal spot to explore a variety of dive sites with hundreds of fish species and soft and hard corals. Tokoriki can be accessed by a 15-minute helicopter flight or one-hour boat journey.
Tokoriki Island Resort, Tokoriki Island, Fiji +679 666 1999

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SUNNYVALE (KPIX) – The cold and chilly nights have cities around the Bay Area taking extra measures to protect their most vulnerable residents who sleep outside on the streets. They are setting up warming shelters for homeless residents.
But when it comes to when these shelters open up, it’s all about the numbers. Over the past couple of nights, those numbers have added up to a lot of misery and suffering on the streets.
At the Sunnyvale shelter on Hamlin Court, just like homeless shelters all across the county, they are gearing up for another windy, frigid night.
They do so by making space for temporary beds. In reality, it’s just a thin mattress on the concrete floor.
Andrea Urton is the CEO of Home First Services. She was homeless herself for several years as a teenager.
“What does a 2” rubber mat mean to somebody on a night like tonight? Well, they’re not in the mud somewhere,” says Urton. “They’re inside a building where they know they’re going to be warm. They’re offered a clean blanket. They’re offered a hot meal.”
Santa Clara County recently bumped up the temperature range under which the shelters open.
The overnight low only needs to drop to 40 degrees or lower. When there’s a 50 percent chance of rain, or 48 hours or more of precipitation, shelters open when it dips to 45 degrees or lower.
“I think it’s great,” says Urton. “I think it provides more people the opportunity to come in and be safe and be warm, they don’t have to wait until they’re absolutely freezing. They know that when they start to get bitter cold, they will have a respite.”
Michelle Covert with the county’s Office of Supportive Housing, says the cold weather has triggered a total of 150 temporary beds to open up at two dozen churches, community centers, and even libraries.
“They’re kind of de facto safe places for people to go,” says Covert. “I think libraries and community centers have always informally been daytime centers for homeless individuals. Now, it’s a more official program.”
Brian Hargrave is homeless. He says a shelter on a freezing night is a blessing.
“You tend to have peace of mind you know. You don’t constantly have to look over your shoulder and worry is this guy gonna attack me, or what’s gonna happen here, you know,” says Hargrave. “It takes a lot of the stress, worry and day to day stress away from you.”
Hargrave says the shelters don’t just keep people warm. They save lives.


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Mankato, Minn.— There’s no better way to learn about what is happening in the global soybean market than to see it for yourself. The Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion Council (MSRPC) is coordinating a See For Yourself trip to Japan and the Philippines to show Minnesota soybean farmers where their soybeans are going, to build relationships with foreign buyers and to help farmers better understand how their checkoff dollars are being invested. It also provides you with a chance to evaluate your investment.
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The owners of a Minnesota egg farm are one step closer to winning a free Super Bowl commercial having been named finalists in a national TV contest. Locally Laid Egg Company is located in Wrenshall, Minnesota and is one of more than 15,000 small businesses nationwide vying to win a free 30-second spot in the Super Bowl on February 2. Locally Laid co-owners Jason and Lucie Amundsen submitted a video entry featuring their charismatic chickens – all named LoLa – in Intuit’s “Small Business Big Game” contest, sponsored by QuickBooks.
After heading back to school this fall, students across the Midwest enjoyed creating their very own milk mustache poses for a chance to win Midwest Dairy Council's Fuel Up with Milk World School Milk Day Contest. Students were encouraged to submit photos of themselves wearing real milk mustaches or milk mustache stickers while participating in various school activities -- eating breakfast or lunch, working at a computer, doing a favorite physical activity or simply posing with a teacher or school principal.
OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 5, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq:GPRE) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire two ethanol plants of BioFuel Energy Corp. ("BIOF") from an entity composed of its lender group. The ethanol plants are located in Wood River, NE and Fairmont, MN. BIOF had previously agreed to transfer the ethanol plants to the lender group entity pursuant to a deed in lieu of foreclosure. Following the transfers, Green Plains will purchase the ethanol plants and certain related assets from the lender group entity.
(Pipestone Systems) -- The Pipestone System has recently cooperated with the Pipestone County Sheriff’s Office in response to a complaint of animal mistreatment by a former employee. The complaint was lodged by Jessica Marie Buck, a former Pipestone System employee, who we believe to be an undercover activist with the Mercy for Animals organization. It’s our understanding that the Pipestone County Prosecutor has determined not to bring any charges against any of the employees on the farm at this time.
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Minneapolis filling station is offering consumers more choices when filling their vehicles. The Penn Minnoco Station at W 60th Street and Penn Avenue South has E15 and E30 on tap. Vehicle owners with 2001 and later models can use the E15 blend, similar to the current E10. The E30 blend offers additional flexibility for anyone driving a flex fuel car.
WASHINGTON, D.C. [10/28/13]—As Farm Bill negotiations ramp up in Congress, U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) joined a coalition of senators to fight cuts to nutritional programs for millions of American children, families, and seniors.
(Brewster, MN) -- In 2007 MnSP entered into a Management Services Agreement (MSA) with Bunge North America, Inc. Under that agreement, Bunge assisted MnSP in developing its own management and financial team and provided MnSP commercial and risk management services.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J., Oct. 10, 2013 -- Zoetis has awarded a $100,000 PRRS Innovation Research Grant to Kyoungjin Yoon, DVM, PhD, and Jianqiang Zhang, MD, PhD, investigators at Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, to conduct research into virus characterization and the immunobiology of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS).
The Minnesota Farm Bureau (MFB) salutes 4-H during National 4-H Week, October 6-12. This week is a great reminder of the many reasons why Farm Bureau maintains such strong support for the 4-H program.
Farm Bureau invests in 4-H throughout the year because Farm Bureau recognizes that rural youth benefit from participation in this organization. This is a program that develops leaders that will contribute back to their communities and invest in our future.
Below are some of the ways Farm Bureau partners with 4-H throughout the year.


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The 25-year-old took to Instagram to share a rare snap alongside her boyfriend.
Eminem's daughter, Hailie Jade, is cozying up to her boyfriend on the 'gram. The 25-year-old took to Instagram Sunday to share the rare photo of her and her longtime boo, Evan McClintock. In the photo, the rapper's daughter rocked an orange cut-out dress topped with a white fedora as she sat resting her arm on Evan's shoulder, while he kept it casual in a gray graphic t-shirt.
"I rarely share my feed, but when i do i’m happy it’s with you ❤🔥," Hailie captioned the summery snap.
Hailie's posted several photos with Evan over the years as they've celebrated holidays and special moments together like Halloween, St. Patrick's Day and Hailie's 21st birthday celebration.
"No babies, [but] she has a boyfriend," the rapper told Tyson and his co-hosts at the time. "But she’s doing good. She’s made me proud for sure."
"She’s graduated from college, had a 3.9 [GPA]," he added proudly of his daughter's accomplishment. Haile -- whom he shares with ex-wife Kim Scott -- graduated with a psychology degree from Michigan State University in 2018.
Eminem reflected on how much his daughter has grown during the course of his career and how "it's crazy" to listen to his old music when he rapped about his daughter back when she was a little girl.
"I have a niece that I have helped raise too that’s pretty much like a daughter to me, and she is 26. And I have a younger one that’s 17 now," he continued, adding that -- despite all of his acclaim, all of his popularity and accolades, his biggest achievement has been as a parent.
"When I think about my accomplishments, probably the thing I’m the most proud of, is being able to raise kids," he explained.


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MOUTH MOLDING IS A TOTAL NEW, FINGER LICKING CANDY-EXPERIENCE that challenges you to sculpt the candy with your mouth and create a piece of art that you can eat. It was introduced at the Tokyo Designers Week 2011 for the first time and in 2012 at the Sanoma Media Parade in Holland. We are currently working on making this a product that you can order to have more fun at your (child's) birthday party and at festivals and other happy places. Don’t forget to brush your teeth after.
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Ottoman Istanbul—Mosques, Palaces, Bazaars
Lecture no. 24 from the course: The Great Tours: Greece and Turkey, from Athens to Istanbul
Taught by Professor John R. Hale | 31 min | Categories: The Great Courses Plus Online Travel Courses
Finally, ponder the origins and planning of the Topkapi Palace, jeweled seat of the Ottoman sultans. Penetrate the layers of the palace, from the grand courts to the royal kitchens and harem. Conclude with visits to the Blue Mosque, hammams (baths), Grand Bazaar, and vistas of the mystic city from the Bosphorus.

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Dinosaurs are all around us: in movies, toy shops, museums, and children's books. We all think we know what they looked like. Yet they died out around 65 million years ago, and all we have left of them are some incomplete fossil remains.
So how do we know anything about them? How do scientists put together a dinosaur exhibition that requires working out how these animals looked and moved? Here are eight of the keys steps.
Step 1 Find bones
Dinosaurs may be well-established stars of our planet's history, but if we'd never found any of their bones, we wouldn't have a clue that they'd ever existed. It's impossible to say when the first bones were discovered, but it's likely that dinosaur fossils are the basis for legends about dragons. People had been finding them for centuries, with no idea of what they were. As recently as the 17th century, the thigh bone of a megalosaurus was thought to have belonged to some kind of giant human.
Today, dinosaur fossil finds are common enough that palaeontologists often won't bother fully excavating a discovery unless they suspect the buried bones are of particular interest – either because they might be a new species, a very popular species, or because the fossil remains seem unusually complete or well-preserved.
Step 2 Clean up bones
After spending at least 65 million years buried underground, it's not easy to separate dinosaur bones from the rock that encases them. One single bone can take a couple of months to be cleaned up, so getting an entire skeleton of a large dinosaur ready for an exhibition takes years.
Step 3 Work out the animal that the bones belong to
Palaeontologists will have a good idea of what they're working on while they're at the dig site, based on the approximate size and shape of the bones they're digging up, and also on the age of the rock layer that they're digging in – which will tell them when the animal died.
But once the bones are cleaned up as much as possible, the real academic analysis can begin. At this stage, experts will compare what they've dug up with the more than 500 species of dinosaur that have already been discovered, to see what matches – or to see if they've found a new species. And surprisingly, finding a new species of dinosaur isn't as rare as you might think. With new parts of the world now being explored, scientists are discovering about one new dinosaur every week.
Step 4 Work out how the bones go together
With the wealth of knowledge that we've now amassed about dinosaurs, it can be reasonably straightforward to work out how the bones of a new species fit together – it's likely that any new discovery will be reasonably similar to something we already know about.
But that doesn't mean that mistakes haven't been made in the past. The first ever dinosaur exhibition in the world, in south London's Crystal Palace Park, includes a number of howlers.
One of them is the megalosaurus, which is standing on four legs, whereas in fact it was bipedal, more like a T-rex. The first ever T-rex reconstruction, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, was also wildly inaccurate. Constructed in 1915, it depicted the animal standing in a very upright pose with its head held high and its tail dragging on the ground, like a kangaroo.
We now know that T-rex's tail jutted out behind it, balancing the enormous weight of its forward-thrusting skull.
Step 5 Work out what a fleshed-out creature would have looked like
Most people who go to a museum want to see more than just a skeleton. They'd rather see a lifelike recreation of the animal, complete with fully fleshed-out muscles and face. But soft tissue very rarely fossilises, so how on earth do scientists work out what muscles an animal that lived millions of years ago might have had?
Clues lie in the bones, which often have "attachment scars". These are marks on the bones which show you where muscles were attached to them, and the size of the scar will give an approximate indication of the size of the muscle that used to attach to it.
Step 6 Add the final layer
Until recently, all dinosaurs were thought to have scaly, reptilian skin. But new discoveries have led to an astonishing revelation. A large number of fossils have recently been discovered in China that show that some species had feathers.
It turns out that even some tyrannosaurs were feathered, which raises the surprising possibility that the most fearsome dinosaur of them all – T-rex – might actually have had fluffy offspring.
Step 7 Colour
Palaeontologists always assumed that we'd never be able to know for sure what colour dinosaurs might have been. But the discovery of feathered dinosaurs has given us an incredible insight into dinosaur colour.
Previously, they've always been portrayed in various reptilian shades of brown, green, and grey. But, amazingly, buried within the fossilised feathers that have been discovered, there are clues about what colour these dinosaurs were in real life - and they're not reptilian at all.
One dinosaur, sinosauropteryx, for example even had an orange and white striped tail.
Olly Bootle is the producer of 'How To Build a Dinosaur', 9pm, Wednesday, BBC4Reuse content

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This in a study of intercolonial cooperative action among the New England colonies from their beginnings to the New York Conference of 1690. The towering experiment of the period was the Confederation of four New England colonies, which served a practical purpose for nearly fifty years and was destined to implant in the minds of the colonists the idea of federal union and to serve as a precedent for the later American Union.
The United Colonies of New England was the acorn from which the mighty oak sprang. The seedling may appear at times tender and frail--in such terms as population and resources--when compared to a modern age, but it is the lesson of history that great events have small beginnings. The American Revolution, one of the most far-reaching events of all time, was accomplished in an arena of a scattered and not always sympathetic populace numbering less than the present state of Guatemala. As a prime mover of the Puritan Confederation expressed it: "Small things in the beginning of natural or politic bodies are as remarkable as greater in bodies full grown."
A word may be said about the transcribing of seventeenth century script. Until recently it was the fashion to transfer literally the many contemporary abbreviations and signs when making direct quotations, as if this method would better preserve the quaintness of the period. But such frill-like writing was nothing more than a shorthand method and does not therefore depict the actual spelling of the words intended. Thus, in quotations an attempt is made to spell out the words beyond the shorthand used, according to the spelling intended. Also, for the sake of readability, certain letterings are sometimes changed, for example: substituting the letter "u" for the words beginning with "v" (e.g., "united Colonys") and "v" for "u" in such words as "have."
Dating presents a problem. In Great Britain and the American colonies of the seventeenth century the Old Style method of reckoning time was used--thus a date in the seventeenth century is ten days earlier than that reckoned by the present Gregorian calendar (e.g., May 19 becomes May 29). The first day of the year was March 25, with March considered as the first month. The matter is further complicated in that the Dutch,


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"Walk with me, baby, walk with me." "Stop running, you're not really in a rush." "Hey, bee-yoo-tiful laydee." Like a virus that never dies but only mutates, the endemic street harassment that we laydeez know so well has a new guise. The perpetrators linger, eyeballing us, muttering, blocking our path, following us and violating our space. Except now they work for Save the Llama or the Happy Smiling Different Shades of Brown Babies Joy-Joy Sympathy Fund. They are charity muggers, vermin in tabards. Like all harassers, they are not about desire but domination. They want to dominate your credit card number and set up a goat-sponsorship scheme. Women charity muggers have it even worse: they must grovel and squirm like coquettes to businessmen who leer, but don't stop.
I deal with "chuggers" just fine: "What on earth do you think you're doing harassing women in the street? Didn't anyone teach you any manners? You should be ashamed of yourself. What I'm going to do now [takes out iPhone] is take your photograph and send it to the Metropolitan Police sex harassment database [which doesn't exist]." I shamed one hapless chap by telling him that I worked for a children's charity hotline. This is a lie, although I did once go on a voluntary agritourism holiday in southern Italy. We made some lovely almond oil.
The need for charitable giving was highlighted this week by Oxfam's report about the global food shortage. But on-street harassment is not the answer. The charities I donate to simply sent me leaflets explaining the work they do. I am in favour of charities allying themselves with sports and arts events, with cultural diplomacy. That is surely a more respectful path, and will stop me packing a crossbow on Upper Regent Street.

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