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How do I know if my rabbit’s teeth are overgrown? A rabbit’s teeth are made to perpetually grow. A healthy rabbit will wear his/her teeth down by every day gnawing at food, toys, and other things in your home. When a rabbit’s front teeth do not meet each other properly, the result is called malocclusion.
The teeth will continue to grow without being worn down resulting in misalignment of the teeth or elongated roots on the bottom incisors which can start digging into the gums causing pain and swelling of the face. This condition needs immediate veterinary attention but can be resolved with regular chewing activities for your pet as well as proper diet supplementing with foods rich in calcium (rabbit feed pellets are usually deficient in calcium).
Providing your bunny with chewable toys, such as apple branches and other fibrous plants will help wear down those teeth. Your veterinarian can show you how to trim your rabbit’s teeth yourself if the condition persists.
How can I check my rabbit’s teeth?
Even if your rabbit has perfect teeth, it is a good idea to check its mouth regularly for signs of disease. With your rabbit sitting in front of you, open his/her mouth and look inside. A healthy tooth line should be white or greyish with no reddening or swelling around the gum tissue outside the teeth. Teeth that are overgrown will usually not meet properly and you may be able to see abnormally long roots on the molars.
How do I keep my rabbit’s teeth healthy?
A rabbit’s teeth are designed to perpetually grow, which can cause misalignment of the teeth or elongated roots on the bottom incisors which can start to dig into the gums causing pain and swelling of the face.
This condition needs immediate veterinary attention but can be resolved with regular chewing activities for your pet as well as proper diet supplementing with foods rich in calcium (rabbit feed pellets are usually deficient in calcium). Providing your bunny with chewable toys, such as apple branches and other fibrous plants will help wear down those teeth. Your veterinarian can show you how to trim your rabbit’s teeth yourself if the condition persists.
How do I know if my rabbits are in pain?
Signs of pain include a hunched-up appearance, unwillingness to move or jump, red/swollen areas on the face and neck, overgrown incisors, face rubbing, and lethargy.
How do I stop my rabbit from biting me?
Rabbits bite when they are in a fearful situation or simply feeling territorial. If you have a carrier for your pet, then it’s best to put him/her inside of it before attempting to pick up the rabbit. If you are comfortable with your rabbit, then give him/her treats to associate you with good things. However, if your bunny continues to bite, she will need professional training from a specialized rabbit veterinarian.
Your bun may benefit from having some human company too! It is not uncommon for rabbits to be left alone during the day or weekend when their owner is away. If your bunny does not have any other rabbit or human companionship, then you can try to spend some time with him/her during the workday by putting half of his/her cage in a quiet room. Your pet will also enjoy an aquarium-sized “cage” where he/she can hop around inside without feeling too confined.
If your rabbit is very anxious or aggressive, then you should consider a second bunny for him/her to play with during the day.
This will not only give your pet company but will also prevent chewing and urine marking behaviors in the house that are commonly seen when rabbits are left home alone too long!
How do I stop my rabbit from biting the cage bars?
Rabbits that live in cages will often bite onto the steel bars and chew them into an oblong shape. This is more than just a habit and can be a sign of misaligned teeth or other dental problems. If your bunny starts to chew on the bars, you should immediately provide him/her with an appropriate chew toy. If the chewing continues, then you should seek the advice of a specialist for your rabbit’s teeth or other underlying conditions. You can check your bunny’s mouth for overgrown teeth by opening his/her jaw and looking inside (please consult with your veterinarian before performing any examination on your pet).
How do I minimize my rabbit’s stress when I take him/her to the vet?
The veterinary office can be a scary place for your rabbit, who rarely experiences it. Use a carrier and put it in the back of the car where your bunny cannot see out or into other cars; then drive slowly and try not to make sudden stops. When at the clinic, you can let your pet sit out of the carrier and near you while waiting for the veterinarian. This way, he/she can see that you’re not leaving him there! The office staff should be able to show you how rabbits are handled safely during a check-up or procedure, too.

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These superb plants produce spreading mounds of evergreen, needle-like foliage, which smothers out the weeds, making them a superb choice for ground cover. In winter and spring they really come into their own, becoming completely smothered in little spikes of bell-shaped flowers (which the bees adore), and putting on a colourful display even through snow and ice and anything else a British winter can throw at them.

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Soak up the best of New Zealand’s South Island by bike on our nine-day cycling tour, with some extra special comforts along the way.
What to expect
Aotearoa is the Maori name for New Zealand. It translates directly to ‘land of the long white cloud’, but that beautiful term barely scratches the surface of the natural beauty you will be immersed in on Bicycle Network’s Great Kiwi Escape.
Join us in 2020 for a life changing bike riding holiday covering the best of New Zealand’s South Island. We’ll experience breathtaking blue lakes, the natural wonders of Milford Sound, silent valleys, rugged mountain peaks and tranquil rail trails.
To make it easy for you, we’ll stay in premium accommodation, provide meals and unparalleled on-route support while you’re riding so all you have to worry about is taking it all in.View route
It’s one thing to see New Zealand’s natural wonders by bike, but to truly experience them you need to get up close and personal. We’ll make sure you can do this on the Great Kiwi Escape.
Your entry includes many unique and special experiences that are unmissable if you visit New Zealand’s South Island. As well as this, all entries include meals every day, nights in three to five star accommodation and support personnel to help you along the way if you need it.
Activities and experiences
- Welcome cruise across Queenstown’s Lake Wakatipu to Walter Peak High Country Farm for dinner
- Welcome drinks and canapes
- A ticket to ride the Skyline Queenstown gondola and take in the sweeping views across the mountain ranges including The Remarkables and Coronet Peak
- Te Anau Glowworms Caves tour (included in PremiumPLUS entries and optional for Premium entries)
- A cruise through Milford Sound with a guide to explain its history and point out the hidden gems
- A traditional welcome and insight into Maori culture with a Hongi and Haka experience by Wanahaka
- Star gazing tour (optional)
- Self-guided walking tours through Hooker Valley and Tasman Glacier near Mount Cook
- An entry ticket to Tekapo Springs spa and hot pools
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In May 2019, Bicycle Network took 125 people from across Australia, New Zealand and even the US, to central Australia to experience this life changing experience on the first Great Outback Escape.
Over eight days, with full support, we experienced the desert wind in our hair, the changing colours of sacred landscapes and the red dirt under our tyres.
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text: This Envisat image, acquired on 4 October, features the island of Iceland covered in the first snow of the 2008 winter. More than 11 percent of the island is covered by glaciers. The Vatnajokull glacier, the largest glacier in Europe, is located in the southeast where the white area is more prominent. Reykjavik, the country’s capital, is located in the southwest - slightly inland from the boot-shaped peninsula on the bottom left that extends out into the Atlantic Ocean. Brilliant colours of blue-green are visible swirling in the waters off the south and western coasts. These are caused by large concentrations of phytoplankton, which form the basis of the ocean's food chain and have an essential role in the global ecosystem.


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Hyundai starts electric car-sharing in L.A.
Hyundai has established a new venture named MoceanLab to provide mobility services in LA. Starting with a pilot carsharing, Mocean Carshare will deploy up to 20 Hyundai Ioniq PHEVs across the city of angels still this year before adding pure electric vehicles to the fleet.
Los Angeles orders 130 BYD electric buses
BYD has just announced that the Los Angeles Department of Transportation has ordered 130 battery-electric buses. The order has been prompted by the “Green New Deal”, that involves converting the entire LA public transit bus fleet to zero-emission buses by 2030.
Sharing is caring
The city of Los Angeles has suspended Uber’s electric kick scooter and bike permits after the company refused to share data. The corporation rents electric vehicles via their subsidiary Jump and has until Friday to appeal or their permit will be permanently revoked.
Tritium opens new plant in Los Angeles
The Australian fast charging station manufacturer Tritium has opened a new plant in Los Angeles. Tritium now has expanded manufacturing and logistics capacities for the American market as well as a research and development department.
Faraday Future with new business strategy
The Californian EV startup Faraday Future announced its new strategy shortly after appointing Carsten Breitfeld as new CEO. The aim is to start series production of the FF 91 in September 2020 and deliveries shortly thereafter.
LA targets 100% electric vehicles by 2050
Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti has just introduced a target for the eradication of CO2 emissions in all transport, housing, industrial and governmental applications by 2050. By 2025, electric vehicles in the city shall increase by 25% and 80% by 2035.
EV startup Evelozcity renamed Canoo
The Californian e-mobility startup Evelozcity that is led by former BMW managers (that had a stint over at Faraday) has got a new name: Canoo. They also streamlined their offer and have now announced four electric vehicles all designed for urban life and to be sold on a subscription basis only.
Kia to debut new Soul EV in LA
Kia has confirmed they will present the new Soul EV at the end of the month at the LA Auto Show and has released a teaser image. The new version of the Kia Soul will only be available as a battery electric vehicle in Europe.
Ikea to accelerate electrification in five cities
Ikea has announced an accelerated time plan for their planned switch to electrified vehicles. As things stood, in 2020 deliveries in the inner city areas of Amsterdam, Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Shanghai will be conducted in a fully electric manner.
LAPD patrolling on speed pedelecs by Bosch
The Los Angeles Police Department has had a quirky addition to their fleet of patrol vehicles as they acquire 20 electric bikes. They have been specifically designed for the force and assist officers up to a speed of 28 mph (45 kph).
Byton launches 2nd US site and manager duo
The electric startup Byton has hired two new managers, and opened a new factory in the USA. After the completion of the company HQ in Santa Clara, the EV brand owned by Future Mobility set up a new location in Los Angeles called the “LA Future Lab”.
New options for Tesla’s Model 3 soon available?
Tesla has updated the configurator for its Model 3, suggesting that more options for the car are about to be introduced. Moreover, the model has hit the first show rooms at the U.S. East coast, where it attracts a lot of attention.
Uber will trial its electric aircrafts in L.A.
Uber has closed a cooperation deal with U.S. space agency NASA to realise tests of its “flying cars” also above Los Angeles. As reported, Uber extends its project called Uber Elevate in order to create a network for its planned on-demand service.
California sees first eHighway
Siemens and the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) inaugurated a 1.6 km test track with an overhead catenary system made by Siemens. The eHighway stretches out in the Californian city of Carson, close to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Tesla, Hubject, Los Angeles, Q-Park.
Dual charge port by Tesla: The Californians have unveiled a dual connector charge port system to support more than one charging standard on the Model S and X. In Europe and China, Tesla usually uses the Mennekes plug (Type 2) but has now added the second charge port featuring China’s new GB standard. This points to a CCS plug coming to Europe soon, given Tesla reacts to the standardization efforts that have been undertaken in a similar fashion and the EV maker had joined CharIn last year.
Hubject is hungry for more and announced its expansion to the States and China. The shareholers are on board and have freed some more millions of euro. In the U.S. the charging network provider has already established a subsidiary, Hubject Inc. which is now to be build up and find partners. The move into China is in preparation as you read and Hubject hopes to set up “a comprehensive digital charging network in cooperation with local providers and operators.”
EV sharing in LA: Los Angeles got its first all-electric car-sharing service using Tesla Model X thanks to Green Commuter. The operator leases EVs to vanpoolers during commuting hours and to car-share users or companies for fleet replacement the rest of the time. The Model X are available to the public through the Green Commuter app.
Reserve a place to charge and park cheaper is the offer Q-Park is flagging to members of the UK’s Polar charging network. The 20 percent discount applies on parking in city centres across the UK and Ireland when drivers pre-book online. Meanwhile, Polar has just installed its 300th unit on the Isles, according to operator Chargemaster.
parking, 300 chargers (both Chargemaster)
Ubitricity, Engie, California, Los Angeles, New Zealand.
Berliners turn London on: Dozens of street posts in the British capital have been transformed into easy access charging spots with Ubitricity technology. The Berlin start-up’s latest addition to the network is the borough of Richmond upon Thames, where ten charge posts went live. The London Borough of Hounslow, Westminster City Council, and the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea are other districts that have turned lamp posts into EV charging opportunities. Ubitricity’s progress is reflected in them opening a new London HQ.
Fleet electrification: French utility Engie wants to electrify 20 percent of its vehicle fleet in the UK by 2020. It’s low emission pledge effectively sees the company switching to 395 EVs in the next three years but also includes a no diesel policy by 2025.
California signs tough stance on VW into law as legislators approved a bill asking Electrify America to spend a portion of clean car infrastructure funds in so-called disadvantaged communities. The request had been on the table for a while and is part of Volkswagen’s infrastructure obligations following the diesel fraud scandal. CARB wants VW to invest 35 percent of the first 30-month investment in poor neighbourhoods that are often worst affected by air pollution.
L.A. buses to go all-electric? SoCal’s most thriving metropolis may replace 2,200 buses with electric models. If testing by transport provider Metro goes well, Los Angeles may have a complete zero-emission fleet by 2030. Interestingly the phase out is for natural gas buses. The first trial is set in North Hollywood and downtown LA and the board will decide by 2019 if to go ahead.
Electric double-deckers are making their way into New Zealand, where the capital of Wellington has ordered a total of 32 buses from Tranzit and Uzabus. The first ten may serve from July next year with the rest joining the feet until 2021. Eventually, Wellington wishes to electrify all its buses.
LA, San Diego, Golden Gate Transit, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Queensland.
Sharing is caring: Los Angeles will kick off a three year carsharing project featuring 100 electric and hybrid vehicles in its low income districts. It will also install more than 100 charging points. The project’s aim is to allow people with lower incomes to use carsharing instead of purchasing a vehicle. The California Air Resources Board funds the initiative with 1.6 million dollars.
nbclosangeles.com, labusinessjournal.com, greencarcongress.com
BYD EVs for San Diego: The U.S. city of San Diego has ordered 50 units of the e6 electric car from Chinese manufacturer BYD. These are intended for airport transfers.
electriccarsreport.com (San Diego)
Golden Gate Transit bets on hybrids: The company is looking to order 74 new buses, which will hit the road at the end of 2017. After looking at a score of option, Golden Gate Transit prefers to go with diesel-electric buses, due to improved fuel economy and reduced emissions.
More electrification in Germany: Germany’s southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg decided on actions against fine dust and noise. It wants to therefore build up more charging infrastructure and increase the amount of electric cars in its own governmental fleet to 10 percent. It thus hopes to reach its target of 200,000 EVs on its roads by 2020.
baden-wuerttemberg.de (in German)
Electric highway: The Australian State of Queensland wants to equip the 1,600 km long “Bruce Highway” with solar-powered fast chargers for electric cars. The first such charging station will be set up in Townsville.
Aldi Süd, Gothenburg, Los Angeles, Duluth, Dubai, CoStar.
Fast chargers at German supermarkets: German supermarket chain Aldi Süd is partnering with utility and charging station provider RWE, installing its first charger in Düsseldorf as part of the new project “Sonne tanken“ (“charging sun”). Until mid-2015, the discounter wants to have installed 50 multi-standard rapid chargers that will be free to use for shoppers without any registration.
handelsblatt.com, rwe.com, aldi-sued.de (articles in German)
Volvo electrifies Gothenburg: Starting on June 15th, the Swedish city of Gothenburg will take three fully electric Volvo buses into service. They will operate alongside seven hybrid buses from Volvo on route 55 between Lindholmen and Chalmers/Johanneberg.
transportengineer.org.uk, eurotransportmagazine.com, volvogroup.com
More electric buses: LA has begun operating the first five of 25 electric buses by BYD. The city of Duluth in Minnesota has meanwhile purchased six electric buses from manufacturer Proterra and Dubai has kicked off a nine month trial with an electric bus.
shanghaidaily.com (LA), wdio.com (Duluth), gulfnews.com (Dubai)
CoStar goes hybrid: The commercial property data specialist has added eight Toyota Yaris Hybrids to its fleet, which already features a series of Prius models. With employees driving between 15,000 to 20,000 miles per year, the company says it needs fuel efficient cars.
London Heathrow, Fastned, Japan, Los Angeles, Lingang New City.
Cleaner air-port: A ten-point-plan designed to improve air quality around London’s Heathrow Airport and the introduction of an ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ) by 2025, could affect 8,500 airside vehicles operating at the airport. The proposal also includes a 5 million pound investment to improve EV charging infrastructure and to partly electrify the airport’s fleet by 2020.
Fastned flatrate: The Dutch start-up says it will introduce EV charging price plans similar to mobile phone tariffs. EV drivers will be able to choose between unlimited fast charging for 100 euros a month, fast charging at a reduced rate for 12 euros a month or charge as you go.
Tesla chargers in Japan: Tesla plans to quintuple the number of Superchargers in Japan this year, increasing the number to 30 on the main island of Honshu. Currently, there are only 6 fast-charging stations. All Japanese Superchargers are to be fully powered by solar energy.
Five electric buses by BYD will soon be tested in LA for six months. The vehicles, which were built in California, have been delivered to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) that holds an option of 20 more electric buses from the Chinese company.
EV sharing in China: Lingang New City launched an electric car sharing scheme under which drivers can rent a Roewe E50 for 30 yuan (4.80 dollars) an hour. Currently, 30 EVs are available but the fleet is said to grow to 50 later this year with an app to be introduced in June.
Renault, Proterra, Washington, Los Angeles, Phillippines.
Cognac distillery electrified: Renault delivered 23 Zoe and 22 Kangoo Z.E. to Hennessy. The liquor company does thus electrify 80 per cent of its fleet in one go in the French city of Cognac where the electric cars will be used by employees.
Good times for Proterra as the company just received a grant over 3 million dollars from the DoE. The money goes into the design and construction of Proterra’s new electric bus manufacturing line in California. Foothill Transit ordered another 13 Proterra buses scheduled for delivery in 2016.
Bad news for Tesla and BMW as Washington State is discussing to limit its EV subsidy in form of a sales tax exemption to vehicles costing less than 35,000 dollars. The Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt would still qualify. So far, the bill is a proposal but could replace current EV policies by the end of July.
Low carb LA: Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, has outlined his vision for a sustainable Hollywood star hub and its outer boroughs. Among other initiatives, the ‘pLAn’ asks for the installation of 1,000 EV charging stations within the next two years.
Electric trike trial: On the Phillippines, Fujitsu and Global Mobility Service (GMS) are to expand a trial with electric three wheelers that GMS already conducted in Manila. The trikes will now be connected to the to the Fujitsu Intelligent Society Solution SPATIOWL, a cloud service that plans routes according to remaining range or access to a charging spot.
Los Angeles is no stranger to motorbike gangs, but this is a first for the city. Hollywood Electrics is a group of electric bike riders who go and drive along scenic routes and eat in restaurants that use electric motorcycles for deliveries. All that emission and noise free – ride on!
greencarreports.com (with video)
Nissan, CCS, PlugSurfing, Scotland, PTI Airport, Los Angeles.
No charge to charge goes Germany: Nissan now introduces free of charge charging in Germany where the programme runs under the rather descriptive name ‘Freistrom für alle.’ The Japanese carmaker offers free charging at all its dealerships, regardless of the make, as long users don’t occupy the charging spot longer than necessary and only during opening times. Depending on the outlet, standard sockets, Type 2 or CHAdeMO chargers are available. Dealers are offered financial support to erect more chargers.
presseportal.de (in German)
CCS coverage in Europe: According to ccs-map.eu, there are more than 400 CCS fast chargers available in Europe at the moment, covering one third of the continent. The biggest expansion is seen in the UK while France and Italy are only now starting to charge up.
PlugSurfing expands its coverage: The Berlin-based company now offers access to an additional 10,000 charging points in the Netherlands, including stations from Nuon, Essent, Eneco, ANWB, Greenflux and The New Motion. PlugSurfing describes it as an important step in connection EV infrastructure across Europe.
plugsurfing.com (in Englisch), plugsurfing.com (in Dutch)
Saving ones own: The Scottish Government has ordered a new hybrid ferry from Ferguson Marine Engineering. Without the 12.3-million pound (19.9m dollar) contract, the Scottish ship builder would be threatened with closure. The diesel-hybrid ferry is the third that is built by Ferguson for ferry operator CalMac and is set to enter service in late 2016.
Charge and fly: Piedmont Triad International Airport in North Carolina now has installed four charge points. This makes it the only airport offering EV charging in the region. Rejoicing the electric car is for free while parking fees still apply.
Campus charging: The California State University Los Angeles now has a total of 15 EV charging points on its campus. The start of the project dates back to 2010 and has recently received a grant from the Department of Energy to fund more stations.

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The atrial septum is the wall between the two upper chambers of the heart, and an atrial septal defect (ASD) is an abnormal hole in the wall. ASD, a heart problem that is present at birth, allows the blood from the high-pressured left side of the heart to cross into the lower pressured right side of the heart, increasing the work load of the right side. Over time, the excess blood flow to the right side of the heart and the lungs can result in right heart enlargement and dysfunction and can also result in serious permanent damage to the blood vessels in the lungs.
ASDs can occur as isolated heart defects or may occur in combination with other congenital heart defects, according to Neill Videlefsky, MD, pediatric cardiologist at Sibley Heart Center Cardiology. ASD is sporadic, not usually inherited, but in some cases, individuals may have a family history of this defect due to a specific genetic mutation. These genetic disorders are often associated with other congenital cardiac and extracardiac abnormalities. Atrial septal defects are common, accounting for approximately 10 to 15 percent of congenital heart disease.
“Most patients with an atrial septal defect are asymptomatic, and the ASD is usually detected in childhood by the primary care physician during routine physical examination,” Dr. Videlefsky said. “On auscultation (listening) of the heart, a heart murmur (turbulent blood flow) and abnormal heart sounds are heard.”
Most heart murmurs are innocent, but if it is suspected to be abnormal, the child is referred to a pediatric cardiologist, who may perform an EKG and echocardiogram to confirm the findings.
“The echocardiogram is a definitive diagnostic tool with which we can conduct a noninvasive, painless study that provides exquisite definition of the anatomy of a child’s heart,” Dr. Videlefsky said. “An echo provides information about the size of the defect and the size and function of the heart chambers.”
If ASD is found, the patient will be monitored regularly. Smaller atrial septal defects may close spontaneously over time. Larger ASDs are usually closed between three and five years of age.
Some of the complications occurring from an untreated ASD include congestive heart failure, pulmonary hypertension and arrhythmias. A rare complication is stroke due to a blood clot passing across the ASD and reaching the brain.
In the past, a child would have to undergo open heart surgery to close an ASD, but an exciting development in atrial septal defect closure called Transcatheter Device Closure is now regarded as just as effective, with an almost 100 percent success rate in suitably selected patients. This eliminates the need for open heart surgery, placing the child on cardiopulmonary bypass and is accomplished with no scars to the chest. The Transcatheter Device Closure procedure involves inserting a catheter through the groin into a vein and advancing into the heart, where a device shaped like a clam shell is positioned, resulting in permanent closure of the ASD. This provides a complete repair, and the child should not require further interventions in his or her lifetime.
“Sibley has a specialty interventionalist clinic,” Dr. Videlefsky said. “If the family opts for the procedure, they would be referred for multiple opinions, not just one, and they would meet with the actual interventionalist who will discuss the procedure in detail with them and determine whether their child is a suitable candidate for the procedure. The beautiful thing is that life expectancy is normal, and patients can have a normal life with no restrictions.”
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After weeks of jubilance over the Solana ecosystem’s resounding comeback—one that boosted SOL, Solana NFTs, Solana meme coins, and even the lackluster Solana smartphone—the momentum began to cool this week, triggering intensified exchanges between advocates of the blockchain and those of its dominant rival, Ethereum.
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko was quick to add his voice to the discourse, dismissing Ethereum as a “cockroach settlement layer.”
The tension was likely heightened by the declining fortunes of key Solana winners of recent weeks, most notably the once-unstoppable dog-themed meme coin BONK.
And just in time, native tokens of Ethereum layer-2 networks such as Optimism and Arbitrum shot up over 30% and 16%, respectively—likely due to those blockchain’s lower gas fees.
Soon, animosity between ascendant Ethereum maximalists and defensive Solana advocates came to define almost every corner of Twitter discourse.
Even seemingly unrelated news events got sucked into the fray. When news broke earlier in the week that Donald Trump had started offloading millions of dollars worth of ETH from his struggling NFT projects, Twitter users were quick to view the news as some sort of referendum on the never-ending Ethereum/Solana fracas.
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Vineyard Wind has submitted a proposal to build an offshore wind project, called Liberty Wind, in New York State, which could have a capacity of up to 1.2GW.
The Liberty Wind proposal, which includes three size options of 400MW, 800MW and 1,200MW, was filed by Vineyard Wind in response to New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA) first large-scale offshore wind solicitation, ORECRFP18-1, which was issued in November 2018.
Vineyard Wind, which is a 50:50 joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and Avangrid Renewables, claims that the 1.2GW size is the most cost-effective option for New York ratepayers. The proposed 1.2GW offshore wind farm would generate enough electricity to meet the power consumption needs of more than 750,000 homes in the region.
Furthermore, the proposed 1.2GW Liberty Wind project could be a major contribution to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s objective to develop 9GW of new offshore wind generation.
Vineyard Wind CEO Lars Thaaning Pedersen said: “Our team’s extensive offshore wind experience from around the world and nearby in New England, where we are building the nation’s first utility scale offshore wind project, allows us to deliver the best project for New York.
“Liberty Wind will bring clean energy at the lowest price to New York ratepayers along with substantial economic benefits for the state through investments in local infrastructure and businesses and by utilizing the state’s existing supply chain and workforce.”
The proposed offshore wind farm to be located in the Atlantic Ocean will deliver the generated power through a submarine cable directly to the New York grid at an existing substation located on Long Island.
Vineyard Wind said that the turbines of the project will be located in the US territorial waters, 136km away from the nearest New York shore.
The company has entered into a collaboration with transmission developer Anbaric Development Partners for the proposed Liberty Wind offshore wind farm.
Under the collaboration, Vineyard Wind will finance and own the power generation components of the wind farm while Anbaric will finance and own the transmission components.
Anbaric CEO Ed Krapels said: “Anbaric is delighted to be teaming up with Vineyard Wind on the Liberty Wind Project.
“Our buried cable will bring renewable power into the heart of the Long Island electric grid, where it can be distributed to hundreds of thousands of customers in southern New York. This is the first leg of a well-designed New York ocean grid for offshore wind that will help achieve Governor Cuomo’s goal of building a planned offshore grid.”
In December 2018, the US Department of the Interior (DOI) awarded rights to Vineyard Wind to develop an offshore wind farm off the Massachusetts coast in the OCS-A 0522 lease for a sum of $135.1m.


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The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing two civil penalties totaling $633,000 against Trans States Airlines, Inc.—a Bridgeton-based company—for allegedly operating two Embraer 145 regional jets on 3,660 passenger flights while the planes did not comply with Federal Aviation Regulations, Avionics Intelligence reports.
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In the first case, the FAA alleges Trans States improperly installed replacement radio altimeter antenna cables on two airplanes, which the airline then operated on 268 revenue passenger flights when they were not in compliance. Inspectors found the new cables lying unsecured to the airframe inside each aircraft's large aft wing-to-fuselage fairing. Inspectors found the old, apparently defective cables still mounted to the walls where the new cables should have been secured to prevent them from chafing. The proposed civil penalty is $ 322,000.
The FAA discovered the alleged violations during inspections in 2009, after Trans States returned in the leased aircraft to their owner, the report said.
Trans States, according to its website, is the fifth largest independent regional airlines in the country, with hubs of operation in Chicago and Washington D.C.-area.
Its corporate headquarters is located in Bridgeton, along with its training and maintenance facilities. The airline flies more than 2.1 million passengers annually with more than 150 daily flights flying to nearly 40 cities.
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RadioShack is locked in hardball negotiations with cellular phone providers as it scrambles to avoid a bankruptcy filing, The Post has learned.
The cash-strapped electronics retailer, which generates nearly half its revenue through cellular phone activations but makes barely any profit selling AT&T, Sprint or Verizon Wireless phones, sources said, is telling the companies is must rework its cellular deals or it will be forced to file Chapter 11.
The RadioShack position is a “credible threat,” a source familiar with the discussions said.
By filing Chapter 11, a debtor is able to break contracts.
Presently, the contracts give RadioShack a bigger slice of the revenue if their number of activations grows, which it has not, sources said.
RadioShack, in a dispute with lender Salus Capital over whether a recent financing package violated earlier credit agreements, believes it is dealing from a position of some strength, since it has 4,000 US stores.
It is much less expensive for the carriers to rework contracts than to open their own stores if RadioShack collapses, RadioShack has told the companies, according to an insider.
Meanwhile, RadioShack is expected to announce as soon as Thursday it is de-emphasizing mobile sales and focusing on higher-margin headsets and private-label brands, the source said.
The cellular carriers are already under pricing pressure due to the escalating price wars.
John Stephens, the CFO of AT&T, said Tuesday that AT&T was being forced by rivals to cut prices. Verizon Wireless said Monday that promotions were eating into its margins. Verizon shares fell 4.1 percent Tuesday to $46.92.
RadioShack and Sprint did not return calls. Verizon and AT&T declined comment.


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Riding high on the back of expanded production facilities, Rabiah-Nassar & Zamil Concrete Industries (Ranco & Zamil), one of the largest precast concrete factories in the region, has clinched a string of high-profile projects in the kingdom.
Ranco & Zamil has upgraded and expanded its facilities and now owns a total of five major factories all located in one manufacturing complex covering an area of around 500,000 sq m east of Riyadh.
The main production facility has been upgraded with the latest concrete batching and mixing plants and technologically-advanced machinery.
In addition to the new recent expansions which include a new hollow-core factory and a new hi-tech fully-automated panel production factory, the company has built an additional factory this year for producing panels of different types, taking the number of factories to five in total.
“Building on its success through its long history in the precast industry, the company did not hesitate in investing in these major expansions to maintain its pole position as one of the leaders in the market,” said Faisal Al Rabiah, business de-velopment manager.
The company utilises the latest specialised engineering design, planning and operation software applications aimed at improving accuracy and efficiency of its production. In fact, it has won an award from Tekla, a renowned 3D design software company, as the winner of the Middle East Model Design Competition for its Al Jomaih car showroom project.
Ranco & Zamil continues to secure some of the prestigious projects in the country – right from universities to substation projects – with its recent orders involving work on the new terminal of King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. The pre-cast concrete manufacturer is now eyeing a good share of the Riyadh Metro project, and is in advanced negotiations with the consortia working on the project.
The company recently signed a deal to build three college buildings comprising a full precast structure for the Prince Salman University in Al Kharj City. This is in addition to a similar project to build three colleges for the girls’ campus in Hail City.
Meanwhile, for the Najran University, it is currently working on a theatre, gymnasium, two stadiums and three college buildings, having earlier completed six college buildings for the university.
And for King Khaled University, the company has just handed over a major project comprising 45 college and administra-tive buildings in Abha and Khamis Mushayit. The project was completed in record time, Al Rabiah said.
Ranco & Zamil also plays a key role in substation projects across the country for the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), with its latest contracts calling for the construction of seven new substations in various locations, in addition to more than 11 substations that it is currently involved with in the kingdom.
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This loop track meanders through the wetland for just over 6km. Signage at the car park has information about the Lower Kaituna Wildlife Management Reserve. The wetland has an abundant supply of waterfowl.
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Eighty-four Mahasiddha of the Abhayadatta System based on the depictions documented by Jonang Taranata (1575-1635) as commissioned and painted as murals in the Ganden Puntsogling Monastery, Tibet (grubs thob brgya bcu rtsa bzhi'i 'bri tshul bzhugs so). See Abhayadatta Outline Page.
This painting belongs to an eleven painting set and depicts eight Indian adepts, siddhas, from early in the list following the Abhayadatta system: number 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 15, 18 and 20. The composition is likely the 2nd painting (R1) in the set and placed immediately to the proper right of the central painting. This same number of paintings and the general composition is also followed by the later 18th and 19th century Palpung sets that depict the same Eighty-four Mahasiddhas described by Jonang Taranata. (See examples R1 HAR #15432 and L1 HAR #73421). There is also a good example of a 19th century Eastern Tibetan initiation card set that follows the same iconographic model.
Numbered List - Greyscale Image:
5. Shavaripa, holding a bow and arrow and wearing peacock feathers (bottom right).
6. Saraha, holding an arrow (bottom center).
7. Kankaripa (bottom left).
8. Minapa, naked, standing on a fish (middle left).
13. Tantipa, the weaver seated at a loom (middle right).
15. Khadgapa, flying in the sky (top left).
18. Aryadeva (Karnaripa), dressesd as a monk (top middle).
20. Naropa, wearing a human skin (top right).
Jeff Watt 6-2009
Front of Painting
English Translation of Inscription: [Tibetan name inscriptions for each of the eight figures]

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Outback Queensland shares in Federal Government's mobile phone reception boost
The Federal Government says the first of the new or upgraded mobile phone base stations across regional Queensland will be rolled out in the coming months.
Almost 500 will be established under the first round of the Government's $100 million mobile phone blackspot program.
There will be 68 base stations included in the rollout in Queensland, 16 of those in the Maranoa electorate, including Crows Nest and Cooyar and 10 in the Mount Isa state electorate.
Locations include Yaraka and in the Eulo, Adavale and Jackson areas, also between Blackall and Tambo and Winton and Cloncurry, as well as at McKinlay, Gregory and on the Barkly Highway between Mount Isa and Camooweal.
MP Bruce Scott said there would also be another round for more locations but these first improvements would make a huge difference in remote areas,
"These will be 4G bay stations and the extension of that means they will be able to be used for internet as well," he said.
"It's not just for people who live in the area, it is for the many thousands of tourists who are an important part of our economy.
"People come into the area, they want to be able to use their mobile phone and this is going to be a terrific boon for those communities that didn't have access to mobile telephony in the past."
Mr Scott said it equated to a $2.67 million investment to improve local mobile phone coverage, road safety and productivity across scores of identified blackspots.
He said the first base stations would begin to roll out in the second half of the year, with the full rollout to continue over a three-year period.
"The Cunnamulla to Thargomindah road, there is one at Eulo, there's one at Cooladdi-Cheepie, there's another going at Adavale, there's one going to Yaraka and Mount Slocombe," he said.
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MP Rob Katter said too many remote areas had been without adequate coverage for too long and the new funding was welcome.
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Meizu Pro 7 Render Image Shows Curved Display and Ultrasonic Finger Print Scanner
Meizu has been rumored to launch a Smartphone with edge display. After Samsung, Vivo, Xiaomi, Huawei, they all have launched smartphones with a similar design. Now Meizu is also getting ready with such model that is expected to be Meizu Pro 7.
The render of Meizu pro 7 shows a curved display, and there isn’t a physical home button on the front panel. It seems Meizu Pro 7 may feature a Finger Print Scanner based on Ultrasonic technology, like Xiaomi Mi 5s. The LED flash on the back seems to be missing, but if you look closely, it seems LED flash is located around the rear camera.
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The Santa Cruz Valley Bicycle Advocate Committee had many accomplishments this year. Besides holding their sixth annual Ride of Silence memorial ride in May, the group was instrumental in the completion of four bike lane projects, on Sahuarita Road, the I-19 east frontage road, Continental Road and Whitehouse Canyon Road.
Two shared-use paths were completed on La Villita and again on Whitehouse Canyon Road, while the Anza Trail was connected to the Abrego trail head thru Torres Blancas Golf Club.
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The Senate plans to vote in favor of a resolution that would block President Donald Trump’s recently declared national emergency later this week. Because the House already passed this resolution two weeks ago, its passage in the Senate will mean it has the approval of both chambers of Congress.
Trump is expected to veto the resolution, but legal experts tell Vox its passage would nonetheless send a strong message to the courts, indicating just how much Congress disagrees with him on the subject.
While the lawsuits that have been filed to challenge the emergency will be evaluated on a number of fronts, a clear objection to the emergency from Congress bolsters the case that Trump is bypassing Congress’s constitutionally granted “power of the purse” in order to obtain the funds he’s authorizing.
By voting to terminate the resolution, Congress is emphasizing that it doesn’t approve of using other designated funds to pay for the southern border wall. The legislative body’s actions might not have immediate teeth, but they could be used to argue that Trump’s efforts are, in fact, unconstitutional.
This congressional action comes as 16 states, including California, New York, and Michigan, have filed a legal challenge to the president’s decision to declare a national emergency to obtain funding for the wall.
“The challengers are arguing that the president is using emergency powers unconstitutionally to access funds Congress has been unwilling to appropriate,” says Liza Goitein, a co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, who authored an expansive explainer on emergency powers for the Atlantic.
“With a majority of Congress voting for the resolution ... the argument that Congress has affirmatively approved the use of emergency military construction funds would be off the table,” Goitein adds. “A vote in favor of the resolution would thus preserve the record of Congress voting against funding for the wall, leaving the challengers’ constitutional argument intact.”
Congressional efforts to block the emergency could also undercut the president’s claim that there is a national emergency in the first place. The National Emergencies Act of 1976 gives presidents wide latitude to declare and define an emergency, but the pushback from Congress implies legislators don’t share Trump’s view that the wall warrants an emergency.
“When this issue gets to the courts, Congress’s view that no emergency exists might well affect how aggressively the courts review the president’s arguments to the contrary,” says Richard Pildes, a constitutional law professor at NYU.
There are a couple of legal issues courts will evaluate
Congress’s stance on the emergency will likely just be one issue that judges will evaluate as they weigh the many lawsuits that have been brought against the declaration. There are a couple of factors the courts will examine, says Michael McConnell, the director of Stanford’s Constitutional Law Center.
“The legal issues will be 1) standing; 2) whether the declaration of an emergency is judicially reviewable, and if so, whether this declaration was within the terms of the statute; and 3) whether construction of the wall is a ‘military’ project in service of the armed forces rather than in support of the civil law enforcement responsibility of DHS,” he tells Vox.
Here’s a look at how plaintiffs will have to address each of these questions:
1) Do plaintiffs have standing? In order to obtain “standing” in a challenge of the national emergency, plaintiffs will have to prove that they are being harmed by it in some way. This is the first obstacle they would have to overcome in order to levy their cases at all.
In the case of the states’ lawsuit against the Trump administration, the states are arguing that they are being harmed because the emergency could divert funding from state-based projects to construction of the wall. “We’re suing President Trump to stop him from unilaterally robbing taxpayer funds lawfully set aside by Congress for the people of our states,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement.
Others who could have standing to sue include landowners along the border whose property could be seized for wall construction. They could argue that such seizures would directly hurt them.
If they choose to pursue this route, congressional Democrats could also potentially have standing to sue. A 2014 case in which House Republicans sued the Obama administration over payouts to insurers under the Affordable Care Act could serve as precedent.
In that case, a federal judge granted standing to House Republicans, because they argued that the Obama administration was using funds to pay insurer subsidies that were not approved by Congress. This time around, Democrats could argue that the Trump administration is using funds that were not authorized by Congress for its wall.
2) Is the emergency judicially reviewable? Was it lawful? Because of how broad the National Emergencies Act is, it’s possible a court could determine that Trump simply has the ability to do what he wants under this statute.
As Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) laid out in an op-ed outlining his position on the declaration, courts will have to decide if the emergency qualifies under the statute and, potentially, if it’s constitutional:
First, does statutory law allow for the president’s emergency orders, and, second, does the Constitution permit these emergency orders? As far as the statute goes, the answer is maybe — although no president has previously used emergency powers to spend money denied by Congress, and it was clearly not intended to do that.
But there is a much larger question: the question of whether or not this power and therefore this action are constitutional.
In order to determine whether the National Emergencies Act can be used in the capacity that Trump has announced, courts will have to weigh whether the need for a border wall constitutes a national emergency. Again, presidents have historically had expansive discretion on this front, so Trump may have significant leeway, Stanford’s McConnell says.
However, comments that Trump himself made during his announcement about the emergency declaration could actually be used against him. “I could do the wall over a longer period of time, I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster,” he said in February, suggesting that the situation may not be so much of an emergency after all.
Becerra’s office has also argued that the “emergency” at the border that Trump keeps hammering is effectively rebutted by recent data, which shows that “unlawful southern border entries are at their lowest point in 20 years, immigrants are less likely than native-born citizens to commit crimes, and illegal drugs are more likely to come through official ports of entry.”
This is a part of the case where Congress’s likely decision to block the emergency could also come into play. With Congress shooting down the emergency, it could be tougher for the Trump administration to make the case that there is one.
On the question of constitutionality — if courts see this as a valid argument to review — Congress’s decision to terminate the emergency could help bolster the case that the declaration and its authorization of funds is, in fact, unconstitutional, since it’s actively going against Congress’s position on the subject.
3) Is construction of the wall a “military” project? There are many statutes a president can invoke when declaring a national emergency, and under the one that Trump is using, he will have to prove that construction of the wall qualifies as a “military” project.
Because border enforcement is typically seen as a civilian endeavor, this argument could be a tough one to make, former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti tells Vox’s Sean Illing.
“Our border defense is primarily a civilian, not a military, operation,” he says.
Due to this distinction, it’s possible that courts could find that funding for the wall does not qualify under the statute that the Trump administration has identified, and decide he does not have the authority to repurpose these funds.
The Senate is expected to vote Thursday on the resolution to terminate the emergency. It’s a move set to have far-reaching political and legal implications.

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Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity
The Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity is committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible, and diverse intellectual and cultural campus experience related to the mission of North Carolina State University. We bring the offices of Equal Opportunity and Equity and Diversity and Inclusion together with the African American Cultural Center, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) Center, Multicultural Student Affairs and the Women’s Center. OIED also offers diversity and equity training through its Education and Training unit and a campus-wide diversity newsletter, the Diversity Digest (this week’s top articles below).
C. Ellen Washington was invited to present at the Gender Summit 5 in Cape Town, South Africa on April 25-29, 2015. The Gender Summit platform was introduced to the continent by a partnership of regional research funders led by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). Partners in South Africa included the Department of Science and Technology, the Department for Women and the National Research Council, as well as Howard University, USA.
The GS5-Africa was received with enthusiastic response from all the participants, who welcomed the idea of applying the gender lens to improve research and development outcomes and the idea that actions must be evidence-based and consensus-led. The event attracted energetic interest from South Africa’s media, with many speakers invited to take part in TV interviews and radio call-in programs.
Dr. Washington’s presentation focused on “Women of the African Diaspora in STEM Leadership.” Women of the African diaspora represent one of the fastest growing and richest pools of untapped talent in the academic STEM disciplines in the United States. The urgent need for widening their rates of participation in STEM is fueled by projections that global labor markets will require greater expansions in science and engineering than in any other sector in the 21st century.
There is also a need to cultivate the kind of talent in these fields that possesses an affinity for and cultural sensitivity to historically underserved communities. However, in U.S. institutions of higher education, women of color remain underrepresented in STEM. Recent evidence suggests that the retention of more women faculty and administrators of color would provide the kind of same-gender/same-race mentoring that could not only redress these trends, but also yield strong psychosocial support, better career outcomes for minority women students and global equity.
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At the May, 2014 meeting of the University Diversity Advisory Committee, Chancellor Randy Woodson made the observation that staff were not as connected to the university as he would like them to be.
The Staff Diversity unit in OIED took that to heart and made staff connections the focus for 2014-2015. Two new affinity groups were formed, and a major web-based program was created by the Staff Diversity Advisory Board that provides easy access for all university employees to attend traditional events and visit special locations that exemplify the welcoming, inclusive institution that we are. The Connect with NC State website was developed by John Starbuck, web administrator for Campus Enterprises, and received top awards from two national organizations.
The Latin@ Student Support Network (LSSN – pronounced “listen”) brings Hispanic/Latin@ faculty and staff and students together for student support and to strengthen the Latin@ community at NC State. It also aims to make Latin@ faculty and staff aware of and welcome at student- sponsored cultural events. The staff and faculty members of LSSN were introduced to incoming Latin@ students and their families at the Hispanic/Latin@ Student Symposium in August and have joined the students at various activities throughout the year.
[Editor’s note: The term ‘Latin@’ uses the ‘@’ symbol to denote both the masculine and feminine forms of Spanish words, as preferred by the Latin@ community.]
The Asian/Asian American Community members have spent time learning about each other’s cultures and experiences on campus. They have also learned about AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) students’ experiences. Since Asia is a vast and multicultural region, this discovery process has been a rich one. The group will continue to meet over the summer.
Speaking of summer, the OIED Staff Diversity unit is sponsoring SOS: Summer Opportunities for Staff, a calendar of events featuring tours of the soon-to-be complete Talley Student Union, a staff reading circle on the student summer reading, coffee chats and lunch and learns. Co-sponsors for the events include the Staff Senate, the African American Faculty Staff Organization, and Campus Enterprises.
New affinity groups are planned for employees who are veterans and employees with disabilities. Anyone interested in helping to start these groups should contact Dr. Deb Luckadoo, director of Staff Diversity.
Dr. Deb Luckadoo is director of Staff Diversity. For more information about OIED’s staff initiatives and programs, please see the Staff Diversity website.
For this article and more, see the full Diversity Digest.
On Wednesday, April 29, 2015, OIED’s Education and Training unit held its annual Equal Opportunity Institute (EOI) Graduation celebration. (See list of graduates at left.) EOI has become an NC State institution, marking its 16th year of educating faculty, staff and students about a full range of diversity and equity topics. For the third year, EOI has also welcomed graduates back to the program to earn the Graduate Scholar designation by taking three new two-hour workshops of their choice. Many campus organizations, academic programs and departments have made EOI a recommended or required training component for their staff.
This year, we were honored to have had outgoing Vice Provost Joanne Woodard and Dean Daniel Solomon speak at graduation. Dean Solomon delivered the address, asserting that diversity within the university is an academic imperative. Vice Provost Woodard, under whose leadership EOI was established, has supported this and other noteworthy initiatives, such as NC State’s National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) program, during her tenure at NC State. We will miss these advocates, both of whom will be retiring this summer.
Applications for the next class of EOI will be available in August of 2015. See the EOI website for more information.
Congratulations, EOI Graduates and Scholars
We congratulate the following:
2015 EOI Graduate Scholars
Erica Braman Cutchins, Darren Seitz Lipman, Talitha Molet, Tammy Bullock, Rebekah Dunstan, Jacqueline Gadison, Seprina Justice, Kim Outing, Shannon Plummer-White, Adam Poplin, Elizabeth Snively, Gary Tew, Rosalie Tisa, Katherine Wilson
2015 EOI Graduates
Nicole Abbott, Kelly L. Cravener, Amanda Driver, Leah Haile, Sakshi Handa, Pamela Kuras, Sherrie Lucas, John Miller IV, Shauna Morin, William A. Russell IV, Alexandra Toti, Katy Weilbrenner, Latosha M. Williams, Zheng Yang, Allison M. Bennett, Maria Gallardo-Williams, Alvin M. Gilmore, Pennie R. Graham, Susan Grant, Karen Horne, Jean Lembke, Jordan McMican, Amy Mull, Samantha Lynn Oster, LeNelle Patrick, Jacqueline Perry, Julie Ricker-Hagler, Paula D. Waller, Marie H. Watson, Renee Wells
2015 EOI Graduates with Special Recognition (10 or More Classes)
Marshall Cedric Anthony, Jr., Carolyn Carter, Carrie Caudle, Robert Leon Grant III, Simone Ramdeen, Callie C. Womble, Ayo Agunbiade, Kellie Allison Burris, Erin Alena Champion, Raymond Corbett, Maria Correa, Michele Gurkin, Timothy A. Hammonds, Jr., Mary Harrell, Melissa M. Jackson, Jasmine Omorogbe, Almissie Connor Parker, Aimee Christine Stright, Joshua L. Talley, Shiela Lynn Thomas, Barbara White, Kathryn Kaufman Zellmer
For this article and more, see the full Diversity Digest.
The Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity is comprised of Equal Opportunity and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Education and Training, Multicultural Student Affairs, the African American Cultural Center, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Centerm and the Women’s Center.

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Recently acquired automatic farm/ranch gate Salesman Demonstrator. 18" x 23" x 9". Patented by William R. White, of Bloomington, Illinois (2nd photo), patent number 493,539, March 14, 1893. This was found in an antique shop in Maine.
Used by Salesman to demonstrate the unique features of his product. Ride up on your horse, pull a lever, and the gate unlatches and opens. Pass through and pull the other lever and it closes and locks. Great labor saving device. And as you know a cowboy doesn't like to walk. Everything he does is on horseback.
A piece of the operating linkage was missing. It gave me great pleasure to research the patent drawings and re-create the missing part.
Mr. White was issued fourteen patents for gates, gate hinges, and other fencing items. This model includes features from patents number 496,926, May 9, 1893, and number 584,280, June 8, 1897 as well.
Two salesman demonstrators representing patent #584,280 are located in the Devil's Rope Museum in McLean, Texas. Patent #496,926 is the unique hinge mechanism used on the gates. Two other W.R. White models may be viewed in this collection.


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Lovely EB Foley England teacup and saucer features a bouquet of summer flowers in the base of the cup and center of the saucer. Trimmed in a lemon yellow and enhanced with hand painted gold. D-shaped handle.
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By David Gullette
Wherever Robert Hass is, the poet drinks in (and reports to us) the details of place and human activity.
Summer Snow by Robert Hass. Ecco (HarperCollins), 192 pages.
For many of us in the East Robert Hass has been sending dispatches from the West Coast pretty much all our lives as readers and writers.
This new book, Summer Snow, reminds us, as he nears 80, of his boundless energy, of the range of his wandering mind, and the subtlety of his methods. Take for instance “Abbott’s Lagoon: October,” which has one of the finest long lines I can think of. There he is, up in Point Reyes, putting together the clues that will make this moment in this place make sense. Bear with me as I quote the whole sentence: “And this is the new weather / At the beginning of the middle of the California fall / When rain puts an end to the long sweet days / Of our September when the skies are clear, days mild, / And the roots of the plants have gripped down / Into the five- or six-month drought, have licked / All the moisture they are going to lick / From the summer fogs, and it is very good to be walking / Because you can almost hear the earth sigh / As it sucks up the rain, here where mid-October / Is the beginning of winter which is the beginning / Of a spring greening, as if the sound you are hearing / Is spring and winter lying down in one another’s arms / Under the hawk’s shadow among the coastal scrub, / Ocean in the distance and the faintest sound of surf / And a few egrets, bright white, working the reeds / at the waters edge in October in the rain.” Whoa, you could go on listening to that voice for a long time. Then you look back at the whole poem: in the first half the words “October” and “rain” are linked together, twice, and in the long sentence above (which is the entire second half of the poem) the same thing happens again, twice. What I hear is a pair of harmonic gongs struck, first one, then the other, in four mini-riffs. And each half is exactly 16-and-a-half lines. Does that symmetry matter? Yes and no. It’s a part of what it means to hear this distinctly American fabric of words hung on an older well-hidden structure, but hung with the lightest possible touch. True, the lungful-of-air length of the line has a lineage that goes back to Ginsberg and before him Whitman. But it flows without gasping or hyperventilation.
Of course this precision and formal restraint brings to mind Bashō and the other masters of the Haiku, which Hass himself brought to us years ago. As he did with the poetry of Czesław Miłosz (with the help of other translator-poets, including his Stanford classmate Robert Pinsky). We would not have that Polish poet’s lines ringing in our ears without the hard work of his UC Berkeley colleague Hass. In fact one of the most delightful of the poems in Summer Snow is “An Argument About Poetics Imagined at Squaw Valley After a Night Walk Under the Mountain,” the invented back-and-forth with Miłosz producing show-stoppers like “‘In my religion metaphor makes us ache / Because things are, and are what they are, and perish.’”
There’s a lot happening in this book, some of it more memorable than the rest. He’s been reading an anthology of 17th-century English poetry, and produces a series of meditations on death at different moments in the course of life, in infancy, in childhood, in adolescence, “in Their Twenties,” “in Their Thirties,” “in the Middle Years.” In several of these poems Hass plays tag with his great predecessors, Crashaw, Ben Jonson, Donne, Traherne, riffing on their sharp insights. When Crashaw addresses a nursing/dying infant (“Nor let the milky fonts that bathe your thirst / Be your delay; / The place that calls you hence is, at the worst, / Milk all the way.”) Hass hesitates: “Almost as if one should not speak of it, / who has not, as a parent, had the shock of it.” When a student of his dies, his parents write asking to see their son’s final essay in the poet’s lecture course. Hass finds it: “on voices speaking from the dead / in Dickinson.” This strong section of Summer Snow ends with “Three Old Men,” and “Pablo Neruda: Only Death.” In the first he pays tribute to Stanley Kunitz, who many years before had selected Hass as a Yale Younger Poet: “Died at almost a hundred and one. / ‘My mother’s breast was thorny.’ / He had made a life. / His ashes in the garden he made / Of the salt air on the Cape.” In the latter he channels Neruda’s Magic Surrealism: “Death stretches out like a clothesline, and then suddenly blows, / Blows a dark sound that swells the sheets / And beds are sailing into a harbor / Where death is waiting, dressed as an admiral.”
This is no “slim volume.” Summer Snow has almost 60 poems, many of them multpagers. They cover the wide travels of the poet beyond California, from Okefenokee to the Stazione Termini in Rome, from Jersey to Seoul. But wherever he is, the poet drinks in (and reports to us) the details of place and human activity. Can his poems sometimes sound like little more than charming, educated monologues by a favorite professor, with clever titles like “The Sixth Sheik’s Sheep’s Sick”? Yes. And when political, are his Left Coast opinions sometimes painfully obvious? Yes. (Although it’s worth pointing out that he has also been ready to Walk the Walk. In 2011, having heard that police were roughing up UC Berkeley students at the Occupy Cal demonstration, 70-year-old Hass and his wife, the poet Brenda Hillman, joined the demonstration and were both badly beaten by police batons.) But these hesitations are quibbles. Poem after poem in this rich collection gives us lyrical pleasure and hard-earned human insight. And even when a combination of radical understanding and dark memory brings a sense of “the pointlessness of the world,” Robert Hass has good advice for us in “The Archeology of Plenty”:
All you have to do
Is reach into your heavy waking,
This metaphysical nausea that being in your life,
With its bearings and its strifes, its stiffs,
Its stuff, seems to have produced in you,
Reduced you to, and make something with a pleasing,
Or teasing, ring to it; if you can’t get rid of it,
Sing to it is all you have to do.
David Gullette was an early editor of Ploughshares, and is Literary Director of the Poets’ Theatre. His poems are collected in Questionable Shapes (Cervena Barvá Press).


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SewCanShe is nearly 7 years old! After all these years, Pinterest has recently surpassed Facebook as my biggest source of social media traffic.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised by that - I often treat Pinterest like my own sewing project search engine, lol!
So I used Tailwind to take a look at my most-pinned (& re-pinned) free sewing projects. The results were so much fun to see - do you want to check them out?
Here are my 15 most-pinned sewing projects...
(click on the pictures to view the Pin, or the link below to go straight to the free sewing tutorial)
2. The Chubby Lunch Tote
4. Handy Purse Organizer - great for switching your stuff between bags.
5. Snappy Pleated Coin Purse - this one's so much fun!
7. Travel Jewelry Case Pattern - make a great gift (for yourself or someone else!).
8. DIY Cutting Table with Storage Underneath - not a sewing project but a project to help you with your sewing. :)
9. Big Fold Up Baskets - these are my favorite!
10. DIY Heating Pad for Shoulders and Neck - the perfect teacher gift or relaxation sew!
11. One Yard Magic Tote Bags - sew 1 from a yard or 2 from 2 yards of fabric.
12. Here's my Heart Potholder - so sweet!
13. Wrist Strap Keychain Fobs - with two different size variations.
14. Super Easy PJ Pants Pattern - for big kids!
15. And finally... the Car Diddy Bag. This is one of my most popular sewing tutorials ever. Mostly due to Pinterest, I'd bet!
Thanks so much to all of you for sharing my pins on Pinterest!
And for sewing fun projects with me all these years. I love writing this blog being a part of our amazing online sewing community. ❤


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Judy Goldman will judge.
Judy Goldman is the author of seven books – three memoirs, two novels, and two collections of poetry.
Her new memoir, Child, was named a Katie Couric Media Must-Read Book for 2022. Her recent memoir, Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap, is an Amazon Best Pick and was named a best book of 2019 by Real Simple magazine.
Among her awards are the Hobson Award for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters, Fortner Writer and Community Award for “outstanding generosity to other writers and the larger community,” Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award, Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Award, and others.
Her work has appeared in USA Today, Washington Post, Real Simple, LitHub, Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, Ohio Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.
The Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize is facilitated by the Great Smokies Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. The program offers opportunities for writers of all levels to join a supportive learning community in which their skills and talents can be explored, practiced, and forged under the careful eye of professional writers. The program is committed to providing the community with affordable university-level classes led by published writers and experienced teachers. Each course carries academic credit awarded through UNC-Asheville.
The Thomas Wolfe Review is the official journal of The Thomas Wolfe Society, publishing articles, features, tributes, and reviews about Wolfe and his circle. It also features bibliographical material, notes, news, and announcements of interest to Society members.
North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame inductee Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938), was born in Asheville. His Look Homeward, Angel is considered one of the most important coming-of-age novels in the English language. Wolfe was considered at the time of his death to be the greatest talent North Carolina had given to American literature. His novels and collected short stories go beyond autobiography, trying to, in William Faulkner’s words, “put all the experience of the human heart on the head of a pin.” His intense poetic language and thoughtfully developed symbology, combined with his uncanny ability to enter the minds of his other characters and give them powerful voices, elevate the books from memoir to undeniable literary art.
The winner of the 2022 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize (judged by Crystal Wilkinson) was Alan Sincic of Florida, for “God of the Gator,” an excerpt from his manuscript titled “The Slapjack,” a Depression Era novel set in the state.
The full competition guidelines are listed below and can be found here.
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- The competition is open to all writers regardless of geographical location or prior publication.
- Submit two copies (if submitting by mail) of an unpublished fiction manuscript – short story or self-contained novel excerpt – not to exceed 3,000 words, double-spaced, single-sided pages (1″ margins, 12-pt. Times New Roman font).
- Author’s name should not appear on manuscripts. Instead, include a separate cover sheet with name, address, phone number, e-mail address, word count, and manuscript title. (If submitting online, do not include a cover sheet with your document; Submittable will collect and record your name and contact information.)
- An entry fee must accompany the manuscript: $15 for NCWN members, $25 for nonmembers.
- The entry fee is per submission. You may submit multiple entries.
- You may pay the member entry fee if you join the NCWN with your submission. Checks should be made payable to the North Carolina Writers’ Network.
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- The winner is announced each April.
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