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The customers who were able to pop on a middle-of-the-night laundry load could have earned a renewables windfall of between 1p and 5p for every kWh of electricity they used, rather than spending double this rate to run appliances for only a few hours later.
Yesterday, the firm’s partners Muirburn Energy held a drop-in session in the village hall to unveil rejigged plans to erect seven 4.2 megawatt turbines on the same site. The blade-tip height of the turbines has been cut from 139 metres to 125 metres while they have been set back further from both the A836 and the coastline.
The predicted cost of decommissioning the UK’s offshore wind farms has already risen to about £4 billion, the audience heard at a conference in St Andrews yesterday.
The Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that a district council acted unlawfully when, in granting planning permission for a wind turbine, it took into account a proposed donation to a local community fund. ..."they were proffered as a general inducement to the Council to grant planning permission and constituted a method of seeking to buy the permission sought, in breach of the principle that planning permission cannot be bought or sold."
Objector David Craig said local people are furious about what they claim is a democratic ‘outrage’. The two schemes were the subject of a public local inquiry which attracted hundreds of objections and a 1,500-strong petition. Scottish Ministers approved the application by Infinergy and Boralex at Limekiln but rejected the 17-turbine scheme lodged by Drum Hollistan Renewables LLP.
A wind farm developer has scaled back plans for a turbine extension in Moray following community feedback.
A billion-pound wind farm has been closed for more than two weeks after a technical fault brought it to a standstill. Rampion Wind Farm, which is 13km off the Sussex coast, is still out of commission after an electrical problem on October 26.
The energy minister is to launch a review into the impact wind farms have onshore amid claims the countryside is being “concreted over” with substations and cable corridors built as supporting infrastructure. The move has been welcomed by campaigners who have been fighting proposals in the East of England to build substations and cable trenches “the size of Wembley stadium” to get electricity from wind farms to the National Grid.
he Welsh landscape could be destroyed if more wind farms are built, campaigners have warned. They accept the need for renewable energy but are concerned about the impact on tourism in some areas.
Wind turbines taller than Blackpool Tower are being proposed for a site near Langholm. E Power Ltd has submitted a scoping report for the Callisterhall scheme to the Scottish Government and the proposals are for up to 25 of the 720ft high structures, dwarfing the iconic tower which stands at 518 feet and nine inches tall.
"We sense that the visual impact of today's big turbines - much bigger than those deployed in Middelgrunden [the world's first commercial offshore wind farm] and Arklow - may become a political issue in time because where we're looking at the early deployments on the east coast is where most of the population lives."
A decision on whether the world's largest offshore wind farm will be built has been delayed amid fears it will harm endangered birds. The Government was meant to rule on October 2 whether or not the Hornsea Three wind farm - 120 kilometres off the north Norfolk coast - would get the go-ahead.
One of the turbines had caught alight where the blade is attached to the tower. Smoke from the fire could be seen from as far at the A19 flyover.
The original intention was to dismantle the components of the Siemens turbine by crane. However, a suitable method of safely dismantling the turbine by this method could not be established and as a result, a controlled explosion was been identified as only feasible method for decommissioning the Siemens machine.
"We'll be absolutely there on the front line to attack it, because we believe what we've got now is more than we should have to bear... We've got the Snowdonia National Park and looking out from that you'll see this forest of metal turbines. It's just diabolical," he said. "Scenery is all part of what we sell as a tourist destination and tourism is our only industry. To put those there is industrialising the seascape.
RSPB Scotland director Stuart Housden stressed that the wind farm projects threatened to kill thousands of Scotland’ s internationally protected sea birds every year, including thousands of puffins, gannets and kittiwakes. “While we fully support deployment of renewable energy, this must not be at any cost,” he said.
Data collected will include three-dimensional radar tracks as well as video footage of birds moving through the development. It will allow identification of specific species, showing flight height as well as individual and group behaviour. The findings will reveal whether and how often birds might be colliding with the giant structures or if they are being displaced from important feeding grounds.
Residents have monitored the site and claim to have evidence that proves the turbines produce more noise than any other windfarm in Cumbria. Gillian Haythornthwaite and Barry Moon, who have lived on Moor Road in Marton near the turbines for more than 20 years, said they are fervently against the proposed plans.
A partnership between Scottish and Southern Energy and the council-owned Viking Energy Shetland, signed in 2005, the windfarm is to largely be built on peatlands, raising fears over carbon release. ...While peatlands cover only 3% of the world's land area they contain nearly 30% of all carbon stored on land. Campaigners and experts warn that damage to the peatlands could be irreversible with degraded peat losing the ability to absorb carbon and potentially releasing thousands of tonnes back into the atmosphere.
In 2012, when the original planning application was submitted, SIC received 2,772 individual objections and 1109 letters of support. Mr Hay said: “The question is, is the environmental damage justified? We don’t think it is. Shetland has a unique landscape and we’re just horrified by the prospect of it.”

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You weren't supposed to be on display! Kate Moss flashes her nipple beneath her T-shirt after David Bailey exhibition
She was lending her support to one of the many celebrated photographers who have captured her image.
But Kate Moss displayed a little more than she hoped for after the David Bailey exhibition on Monday, by flashing her nipple.
The model - who just turned 40 - chose to go without a bra under her thin T-shirt on the chilly February evening, and ended up showing some skin thanks to the flashbulbs outside the Groucho club in London.
Whoops! Kate Moss flashes her nipple under the flashbulbs as she leaves the Groucho Club after attending the David Bailey exhibition
But the wardrobe malfunction would have been no skin of Kate's nose, as she has walked the catwalk and showed off her naked physique more than enough times in her illustrious career.
But on Monday, at London's National Portrait Gallery, Moss revisited one of David's photographic incantations of herself, which focused on her famous face and not her body.
In a meta-pose, Kate took photos in front of her own portrait, taken by Bailey in 2013, looking typically stylish in a long grey dress coat, beneath which a
breezy black top and skinny jeans continued an understated theme.
Best foot forward: The model carried her mobile phone and her handbag as she left the party
Muse: The model had been a subject of David Bailey's over the years and was part of the retrospective
After-party: Kate paid a visit to the Groucho club following the show
She's still got it: The star recently celebrated her 40th birthday but still has her fabulous model looks
Her look oozed hipster chic, and Kate completed it with a pair of on-trend ankle boots and a distinctive statement necklace.
Bailey, 76, was on hand to launch his Hugo Boss sponsored Bailey Stardust exhibition at the iconic venue, where many of his subjects were presented in a series of rooms.
She wasn't the only muse to converge on Monday evening as the celebrated photographer launched his new retrospective exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery.
She's still got it: The star's model-like cheek bones stole the limelight as she left the exhibition
Female fan: Kate was swamped by fans trying to take pictures as she left the National Portrait Gallery
Say cheese: Kate's female fan got rather close to the model as she tried to snap a candid picture
Precious cargo: Kate's bodyguard and a photographer exchanged heated looks as the model tried to get into her waiting car
American supermodel Jerry Hall, attended in glamorous fashion, as did Marie Helvin, the third wife of David Bailey, who he was married to and worked with between 1975 and 1982.
Other guests to attend the event included Madness singer Suggs, socialite Heather Kerzner and fellow photographer Mary McCartney – the oldest daughter of Beatles legend Sir Paul.
Speaking to The Independent about Kate Moss and former model Jean Shrimpton – another of his subjects – Bailey admitted he ‘couldn’t understand’ the general public’s fascination.
‘There are many more beautiful girls. But they’ve got this universal, democratic appeal. It’s like Dietrich and Garbo in movies, they’ve just got this thing that makes them stand out.’
Covered up: Kate Moss let the artwork do the talking as she posed in front of herself at the National Portrait Gallery
Showing her support: Kate hugs and laughs with the celebrated photographer on Monday night
Historic faces: Jerry Hall with David Bailey and his ex-wife and former model Marie Helvin
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THE ART OF MAURICE SENDAK, WITH 261 ILLUSTRATIONS AND AN ORIGINAL POP-UP, INSCRIBED BY SENDAK WITH A SKETCH OF A WILD THING AND ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY AUTHOR SELMA G. LANES
LANES, Selma G. The Art of Maurice Sendak. New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1980). Oblong quarto, original pictorial cloth, original printed acetate dust jacket.
First edition of the first major retrospective of the acclaimed artist-author’s career, with 261 illustrations, including 94 color plates and an original Sendak pop-up, inscribed by him: “ForAlan—And with pleasure! Maurice Sendak Dec:80,” with a superb original sketch of one of his Wild Things (Moishe) saying, “Boo!" and additionally inscribed by author Selma G. Lanes.
Covering his best known works (such as Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen) as well as his youth in Brooklyn and his early work as an illustrator (for example, his advertisements for Jell-O), this lavishly illustrated chronicle of Sendak's career also includes three folding plates, a tipped-in facsimile of Where the Wild Horses Are (the first dummy for Wild Things) and an original pop-up illustration depicting a scene from "Little Red Riding Hood." Hanrahan A107.
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During the 7th Silk Road International Exposition (SRIE) in Xi’an, located in China’s Shaanxi Province, CGTN’s Zhou Yiqiu interviewed Sultangaziev Marat Eleusizovich, head of the local government (referred to locally as Akim) of Almaty Region, Kazakhstan.
He emphasized the establishment of a permanent comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Kazakhstan. At the local level, the implementation of this consensus is progressing systematically.
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Ryabkov: The US ignored our messages about cyber attacks
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stresses that the failure of the United States to respond to Russian messages regarding cyberattacks on state structures and institutions will not lead to any progress in bilateral relations.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stated that Moscow has sent more than 40 messages to the United States about cyberattacks on state structures and institutions in Russia but has not received any response.
He revealed that cyberattacks were addressed at the summit, bringing together Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Joe Biden in Geneva, where a cyberattack using Internet capabilities on the health care system in the Russian region of Voronezh was specifically addressed, adding that the Americans are not responding to Russia's calls.
Ryabkov called this an "unacceptable" approach, saying that the United States believes for some reason that we must respond to all their allegations. Still, they do not react to our demands, noting that this approach will not progress in bilateral relations.
The New York Times had previously reported that the United States intends to carry out several cyberattacks on Russian websites linked to the Russian authorities in the coming weeks.
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Enterbrain's Weekly Famitsu magazine is reporting this week that the anime adaptation of Compile Heart's Chō Jigen Game Neptune (Hyperdimension Neptunia) role-playing games will begin airing next summer.
NIS America released the Hyperdimension Neptunia and Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 games in North America, and it will release Kami Jigen Game Neptune V as Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory. All three games anthropomorphize the game console wars as female role-playing game characters.
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January 26, 2014
Movie Night: Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Review #531: Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Bela Lugosi (Doctor Mirakle), Sidney Fox (Mademoiselle Camille L'Espanaye), Leon Ames (Pierre Dupin), Bert Roach (Paul), Betty Ross Clarke (Mademoiselle L'Espanaye), Brandon Hurst (Prefect of Police), D'Arcy Corrigan (Morgue Keeper), Noble Johnson (Janos), and Arlene Francis (Streetwalker) Directed by Robert Florey.
I'm very familiar with Bela Lugosi already, with his work in (#071) Dracula, (#183) Plan 9 from Outer Space, (#260) The Wolf Man, (#274) White Zombie, and (#470) Mark of the Vampire. A theme week is 7 reviews of a subject in 7 days (Such as Robot Week with #086-#092, Harry Potter Week with 8 reviews from #117-#124, and the last one until this, Dreamworks Animation Week, from #160-#166), and I'm starting with the earliest Lugosi film I could find on short notice, and end...with his last speaking role. Murders in the Rue Morgue was (loosely) based off a short story by Edgar Allen Poe (notable for being the first detective story), with a few more of his works being adapted by Universal in the following years as part of their Universal Monsters line. Lugosi doesn't do that bad of a job, he certainly has a level of lunacy for this character, and it works well. The rest of the cast do fine and all, they aren't too overdramatic, and while Lugosi nearly steals the show, the cast don't do that bad. This film was sadly butchered upon original release from 80 minutes to 61 minutes by the studio, the deleted scenes apparently being cut due to being deemed too disturbing, and while the film does feel hacked off, the camera angles and the way of filming make up for it just enough. This is a disturbing, but entertaining film that lets Lugosi have his moment. Tune in next time for another one of Lugosi's films from 1932.
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I think we’ve had a really good first term in school. We’ve dealt with almost 90 cases of Covid-19 amongst students and staff but hopefully you’ll agree that together we’ve kept disruption to an absolute minimum and where self-isolation has been necessary, remote learning has been the next best thing. Our team at school has been fantastic – well done.
We are making the final day of term for students THURSDAY, 17th DECEMBER, 2020 – with a normal finish time. Students should NOT come to school on Friday, 18th December, 2020. To make up for the day that students will be missing, we will be in school on Monday, 22nd February, 2021, which was intended to be a teachers’ training day (INSET day). I am in no doubt that a full day of education on that Monday in February will be educationally better for all our learners than the traditional ‘half day’ on Friday, 18th December, 2020. Also, as a result of this decision, our track and trace team will not have to contact anyone on Christmas Eve as a result of any contacts made in school – which can only be good news for all our families.
Our non-uniform day will therefore now be taking place on Thursday, 17th December, 2020, with a £1 charity donation. All proceeds from this and our Christmas Jumper Day will be split between the charities that are normally supported this half term, including Save the Children, Children in Need and the Shoebox appeal.
Other activities to look forward to include Christmas lunches, Christmas assemblies and our virtual ‘Christmas Celebration’. This special recording was filmed at St Ann’s Church and in school and will be launched at 3.30pm on Wednesday, 16th December, 2020. We look forward to sharing it with the Trinity community.
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A pair of ace pilots face off against each other as one decides to hijack the nuclear warheads from their experimental B-3 bomber. In the air and on the ground, through trains, humvees, exploding helicopters and more as the rogue pilot plays cat-and-mouse with his former protege.
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On today’s show I just have another little heart-to-heart chat with anyone out there who is still listening. Among other things, I talk about:
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By now it's become a tired cliche that independent voices, granted new power and tools by technology, have up-ended traditional public discourse, challenging both media ...
By now it's become a tired cliche that independent voices, granted new power and tools by technology, have up-ended traditional public discourse, challenging both media institutions and politicians seeking to control the message.
Still, as with many cliches, there's a good deal of truth to it. There are two excellent examples at hand just now.
One is the video that attacks Hillary Rodham Clinton as an Orwellian "Big Sister." It was put up on YouTube by a Barack Obama supporter and has become quite the phenomenon as word spreads via blogs and mainstream news outlets. Yet another example of the difficulty candidates have in controlling the messages of their own campaigns.
The other is happening right now at TPM Muckraker, a Web outlet published by TalkingPointsMemo.com. Blogs like these, of course, are a big part of the new media mix and these particular sites were way ahead of the bigger news organization in pursuing the U.S. attorney purge story.
Now they have taken the information devolution a step further by asking their readers to help read through and comment on the latest document dump in the case.
"Josh and I were just discussing how in the world we are ever going to make our way through 3,000 pages when it hit us: we don't have to. Our readers can help," writes reporter Paul Kiel.
It reminds me of the sign-off line used by the news reader at San Francisco's KFOG radio years ago: "If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own."
UPDATE: The maker of the anti-Hillary video, a consultant with ties to the Obama campaign, has been outed and has resigned.
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New Delhi, May 18, 2021: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday appealed to the Central government to immediately cancel all air services with Singapore, saying a new strain of coronavirus there is said to be ’very dangerous’ for children.
This new strain of virus could invade India in the form of a third wave, he said in a tweet.
’The new form of coronavirus in Singapore is said to be very dangerous for children. It could reach Delhi in the form of a third wave. My appeal to the Central government: 1. Cancel all air services with Singapore with immediate effect 2. Work on vaccine alternatives for children on a priority basis,’ Kejriwal said in a tweet in Hindi.
While there is no know Singapore strain of the coronavirus or any known to have originated in the city State, Kejriwal appeared to be referring to a media report on Monday.
The report had mentioned the threat posed to Singapore’s children by the variant first detected in India.
Reacting to the media report, Dr V K Paul, member (health), NITI Aayog, on Tuesday said, ’We are examining it’.
Earlier this month, the chief minister had said Delhi should prepare for a third wave of COVID-19.
The national capital on Tuesday reported 4,482 Covid-19 cases, the lowest single-day rise since April 5, and 265 fatalities, while the positivity rate dipped to 6.89 per cent.
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About the GameAt The Worst Day Ever you will play the role of a new employee who has just been accepted into a large corporation. Your happiness does not last too long, however, because the contract you signed turns out to be a circus. The corporation quickly reveals its true face and the dark forces that took possession of the building come out into the light of day. Your task is to get to the top of the office building and overcome the board - only then you will be able to leave the demonic walls of the corporation.
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When those who loved and cared for Daniel Duane “3D” Deardorff commemorate his life on the weekend of Feb. 21-23, they’ll be paying tribute to a captivating musician, a …
When those who loved and cared for Daniel Duane “3D” Deardorff commemorate his life on the weekend of Feb. 21-23, they’ll be paying tribute to a captivating musician, a contemplative seeker of spiritual truths and a pioneer in the field of rights and accommodations for those with disabilities.
Deardorff died on Sept. 19, 2019, at the age of 67, of natural causes stemming from post-polio syndrome, but what those closest to “3D” are aiming to memorialize is what he achieved over the course of that life, including a half-century career as a musician that kicked off when he toured with the band Seals and Crofts as their opening act through the 1970s.
Judith-Kate Friedman, Deardorff’s life partner, is producing the event.
A musician herself, she didn’t meet Deardorff until the third phase of his career, after he’d moved to Port Townsend in the 2000s and became a storyteller and teacher of mythology. She had no idea at first that the man who would become her life partner had already been a pop musician.
Friedman recounted how Deardorff and his first wife, Joyce, spent their last money to take a road trip from Bellingham to Los Angeles to play some of his material for Seals and Crofts’ management company. Fortunately, the only one left minding the store that day was the management’s youngest daughter, Garni.
“Danny arrived in a push wheelchair, singing and playing the mandolin,” Friedman said.
“Then he laid his hippie charm on her,” added Michael Townsend, an old friend and fellow musician of Deardorff’s. “He was so naive. He thought they might like his music, so he just took off to try and meet them.”
Deardorff’s gamble paid off. Even when he explained that they had no place to stay, Garni and her husband put the young singer-songwriter up for the night, “so that everyone could listen to him play on the lawn the next day,” Friedman said.
That’s when he met music producer Louis Shelton, himself a member of The Wrecking Crew.
The next 40 years saw Deardorff perform throughout the United States and Canada, in Central and South America and the United Kingdom, release duo and solo albums, and produce albums for dozens of other musical artists, including Tingstad and Rumbel, Jim Valley, Michael Tomlinson and Tickle Tune Typhoon.
Deardorff’s musical career also thrust him into the role of a pioneer for disability accommodations, since the Americans with Disabilities Act didn’t become law until 1990 and Deardorff was a survivor of two kinds of polio from the age of 17 months. He ambulated via wheelchair and had a custom-made stage set to put him on eye-level with his fellow musicians.
“People heard his music and thought he sounded great, but as soon as they saw him, some producers were like, ‘We can’t put him on stage,’” Friedman said. “To their credit, Seals and Crofts always said, ‘If he doesn’t play, we don’t play.’”
Deardorff’s successes as a touring artist on this front were recognized when he was invited to perform and speak at the first-ever White House Conference on Disability in 1977, with President and First Lady Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter.
Although his touring and producing career continued through the 1990s, the effects of polio sequelae forced him to retire from the music business at the end of that decade.
Rather than closing a door, this transition merely seemed to expand Deardorff’s horizons, as he moved to Port Townsend, authored “The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture, and Psyche,” earned the acclaim and friendship of mythopoetic men’s movement leader Robert Bly, and met Friedman through his work.
“We met in 2003 on Orcas Island, at the Great Mother and New Father Conference,” Friedman said. “I was living in the Bay Area, and I had no idea that a random email from a stranger would draw me to a place I’d never been.”
Although Friedman and Deardorff initially bonded platonically over their shared love of music, she found herself returning to the Pacific Northwest, both for concert dates and to teach workshops for Songwriting Works.
At the same time, Deardorff founded the Mythsinger Foundation and began offering courses in myth and ritual, hosting monthly story nights and mentoring younger-generation tellers.
“Finally, we had dinner alone together in November of 2005, and discovered we were both single,” Friedman said. “We fell in love. I moved here in April of 2006, and in November of 2007, we had our wedding.”
Friedman is not the only artist to be drawn to Port Townsend and the Olympic Peninsula. Those ranks also include singer-songwriter Aimee Ringle, Ringle’s fellow storyteller Brian Rohr and PT Songlines founder and composer Laurence Cole.
Michael Townsend already lived in Port Townsend, but he was so taken with Deardorff’s “mythical journey, from performer to scholar,” that he wrote a profile about “3D” for the Jan. 28 to Feb. 4, 2004, issue of The Leader.
These friends — plus Michael’s wife, Vickie Townsend — will be joined at the “Songs and Stories in 3D” concert at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 21, by the Grammy-winning composer and instrumentalist Nancy Rumbel, of Tingstad and Rumbel, as well as Jim Valley of Rainbow Planet and formerly of Paul Revere and the Raiders, musicians Tracy Spring, Matt Sircely and Joe Breskin, and the Unexpected Brass Band, who will perform some of Deardorff’s songs and honor the “mythic stories he carried,” according to Friedman.
This concert will be followed by a celebration of life ceremony for Deardorff at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, and “3D’s Legacy — A Conversation” at noon on Sunday, Feb. 23, with the first two events taking place at the Madrona MindBody Institute at 310 Battery Way in Fort Worden State Park.
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In the meantime, Friedman is left with multiple albums’ worth of Deardorff’s material yet to be released, since the past eight years saw him experience a creative resurgence, thanks in part to advances in musical technology.
A full-length concert video, “Love Dogs: An Evening with Daniel ‘3D’ Deardorff and Judith-Kate Friedman,” recorded live at Key City Public Theatre on Valentine’s Day of 2015, will be the first of these yet-to-be-published projects to be released this spring.
All proceeds from the The Feb. 21 concert will support the Mythsinger Legacy Fund, now being carried forward as a project of Songwriting Works Educational Foundation, to release Deardorff’s as-yet-unpublished works and create a living archive of his teachings.
The artists are donating their performances, and the other expenses of the concert are being underwritten by grants including from the Port Townsend Arts Commission.
“I don’t have words for Daniel’s absence,” Friedman said. “I’m finding out what it’s like to live without my greatest love. Because of all that he lived through, from the polio through his music career, studying myth gave him the language and the context to understand his own life experiences.”
“He had a mythic strength, like a gladiator,” Townsend said. “He taught from his scars.”


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Space... Dark, vast and... beautiful and, somehow even, warm space unfolds before your very eyes, while these musicians from the far north jam out their riffs in your headphones. Space, ruled by pagan laws and magic. Accompanied by female vocals and psychedelic pagany organ, these far northerners come off really warm rather than cold. This is the my music of choice for work lately, as it gets me in a proper meditative state!


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This recipe seemed to be the most fitting choice to start this blog off. Much as I’ve come to have a deep and abiding love for my hometown (despite an entire youth of wanting nothing more than to get the hell out), I have grown to sincerely enjoy and look forward to eating this weird and hard-to-love soup. But I’ll tell you why it took so long to get there.
This mushroom soup is traditionally part of the valia, the Slovak Christmas Eve meal, which is how I first encountered it. (I’ll go into more detail about the history, and painful reality, of the valia as it pertained to my youth in another post. But for now, suffice it to say, I enjoyed those dinners in about the same way that any little kid enjoys a tradition that demands they sit down, shut up and eat funny tasting things.)
This soup–a little sour, with barely even a broth to speak of–certainly finds a happy home on that most auspicious of tables. As a child, partaking in those valia dinners constituted torture–not a single family member was allowed to leave the table (even to pee!) until my surly grandfather got up from his chair. And prior to the start of the meal, our family partook in a ritual for which I still can find no religious purpose which involved a benediction of a cross MADE OF HONEY drawn on my forehead not to be cleaned away until Christmas morning. And then they made me eat this soup. I can remember being near tears as my father whispered in my ear “If you don’t at least take a few bites, Santa Claus won’t bring you any presents tonight.” Ohhh, this soup and I–we go way back.
Miraculously, overtime I actually developed a fondness for this most weird and hard-to-love soup. I find myself craving the sour-yet-savory thinness of the broth, the earthiness of the mushrooms and the pleasing textures of the cabbage and peas. (Still the only dish in which I will willingly eat peas, though. And they’re not even technically required for the dish, they’re just a frill.)
Because this soup requires very little fat (a negligible amount to make a simple roux), it also freezes really well because it does not separate. I like to make a whole batch, then freeze a few portions in well-sealed tupperware for some truly lazy, desperate-for-comfort-food kinda nights. When stored correctly, this soup will keep for several months. And even if it doesn’t, it comes together in like, 20 minutes, so there’s no excuse not to make this all year round.
This is the pre-face I’m going to find myself giving pretty much every recipe I post here, but here goes: This is one of those recipes that everyone claims their grandma does better than everyone else’s grandma. So my family’s version is merely a variation on a classic theme. (In fact, I learned the peas thing from an exchange student from Slovakia at my high school’s International Food Night. You bet your ass he and I bro’d out over the fact that literally no one else at the event wanted to eat this soup, having been overshadowed by the Korean students barbecue. I can’t remember his name, but thanks Really Nice Slovak Kid!) You’ll find other options and additions that I’ve seen used or that I’ve come across during my research in brackets and italics. And I wholeheartedly welcome your comments or correspondence about what your family does differently, or how I totally committed sacrilege.
Here’s the recipe as it was presented in it’s original form, the Anniversary Slovak-American Cook Book, originally published in 1952.
Sour Mushroom Soup
1 lb. fresh mushrooms [I choose to use a bit more than that, and to mix both baby portobella and shiitake mushrooms, sliced to about 1/6″.]
1 T. butter
1 t. flour [I use a little more.]
Sauerkraut juice, to taste
Salt and pepper to taste
1 t. finely chopped onion
1/2 – 2/3 bag of sauerkraut (approx. 2 cups) — use this bag to strain away juice
1 c. fresh shucked peas, or 1/2 bag of frozen peas (If using frozen, don’t thaw or pre-cook, or they will turn too mushy way too fast.)]
Wash mushrooms and cook in 1 quart of water until tender. Strain. (Save water.) Run mushrooms through food chopper. [I choose to simply slice them in advance.] Add sauerkraut juice to mushroom water. [Add] salt and pepper and bring to a boil.
Brown flour in butter until light brown, add onion and brown. [It is at this point that I would add the strained sauerkraut and sauté with the roux and onion until the sauerkraut browns and the onions are translucent. The sauerkraut will brown faster than the onions, so waiting until the onions brown would woefully dehydrate the kraut, so keep an eye on it.] Add 1/4 cup water and bring to a boil and stir. Strain. [I choose not to add water here (and therefore also not to strain), because of the flavors developed by the kraut, but Sophie Gresko from Whiting, Indiana says so, so listen to her if you choose to go kraut-less.] Add contents along with mushrooms and simmer for a couple of minutes. [Taste. Add salt and pepper as necessary. If you added peas, don’t overcook, or they’ll get mushy!]
Enjoy with a good, crusty rye or sourdough for dipping. Tune in next post for a little more info on the cookbook from whence this recipe comes!
Na zdravie paisano!

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Cover caption: A lake formed by the blockage of a small river during the Altay megaflood, about 10,000 years ago. One of the largest floods documented in Earth’s history occurred along the Chuya River, which runs parallel to this view behind the gravel megabar in the right. Many bars like this were deposited along the Chuya R. during the high waters of the flood, constraining the peak water discharge above 10 million cubic meters per second.
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For a Tweed Ride earlier this month I decided to knit a beret. I fiddled with a couple patterns, but nothing was quite working. I love the look of lacey tams, but the reality is that once the temperatures drop, you want something a little more substantial. That said, I didn't want to look like I was wearing a woolen bucket on my head. Enter: the 1930's beret (pattern here).
I loved this one. It knits up fast, has a nice shape and stays where it's supposed to stay on your head. AND I'm just discovering the wonders of berets when it comes to hiding a bad hair day. I'll definitely knit this one again, especially as the temperatures drop.
And I also made a skirt for the tweed ride that I've been meaning to post about, but haven't gotten any good photos of lately. That's on the agenda, promise. Speaking of agendas, I've nixed the winter coat pattern I'd been working with. The muslin was a bit of a disappointment. While it fit well enough, the silhouette was boxier than I'd like, so I'm going to hunt around for another pattern. Anyone have any suggestions?

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Inspiring, energizing and at times a little troubling, the Lake Stevens premier of “Berzerker” a MTV documentary to be aired in January, debuted to a packed house at the high school Performing Arts Center last Tuesday, Nov. 22.
MTV cameras followed the 2010-2011 State Champion wrestling team for two months last season filming practices, meets and some very personal experiences. The idea for the documentary was a collaboration of Lake Stevens High School’s longtime wrestling coach Brent Barnes along with Lake Stevens High School graduate and Hollywood star Chris Pratt.
Pratt, who was a LSHS wrestler during his four years as a Viking, has continued to keep in touch with Barnes since he left Lake Stevens over a decade ago.
“Chris and I have been talking back and forth for years,” Barnes said.
Barnes has eight state titles under his belt and knows how to motivate kids to be the best they can be, both on the mat and off. So, with Pratt’s connections in Hollywood and his first-hand experience as a high school wrestler under the guidance of Barnes, the two knew they had a winning idea.
“To have a show done about your high school wrestling team you have to have somebody who can get it done,” Barnes said. “That’s where Chris comes in.”
After pitching the idea to several people including ESPN and MTV, who told Pratt no at first, they soon had the money and the commitment of MTV to make the in-depth documentary.
“What started as an idea has turned into a reality, Pratt said. “I know what I went through here. The goal of this was basically to see what these kids go through. This (the documentary content) is what I’m trying to say to people when I tell them I wrestled at Lake Stevens High School.”
The play button was pushed and the crowd soon got to see the 90 minute documentary for themselves as camera crews followed the team focusing on a handful of wrestlers including Jack Reeves, Steven Walkley, Ryan Rodrigo, Eric Soler and Jesse Peterson. Barnes and Assistant Coach Andy Knutson were also _______ .
Watching kids starve themselves and exercise for hours on end to lose weight for a meet, team in-fighting and even witnessing 103-pound wrestler Jesse Peterson being rush to the hospital after having trouble waking up during a meet made for some rough moments. But that’s what Pratt and Barnes hoped for.
“It’s not just a high school sport, it’s a family, it shapes them as young men and women,” Barnes said. “A normal human being wouldn’t do this.”
“It’s raw and it’s real,” Pratt said.
And real it was. Watching the team fight for the state championship title brought cheers and applause from the audience as Walkley not only won the state title in his 140-pound weight class but also earned the team enough points to pull out the state title. The audience felt like they were there at the moment Walkley’s arm was raised by the ref.
“It was different but it was really good,” Peterson said. “It definitely caught the real thing.”
“It’s not perfect but dealing with teens isn’t perfect,” Barnes said. “In the end you hope they have learned something.”
“I’ve done a lot of things in Hollywood but I don’t think I have ever been as nervous as I was hitting play tonight,” Pratt said.
The 90 minute film which was executive produced by Pratt, has been sent to both the Sundance Film Festival and the South by Southwest Film Festival but will air on MTV as a 43 minute documentary.
“I hated wrestling, I really hated it and I wasn’t going to do it,” Pratt told the crowd of many 2011-2012 wrestlers. “I’m so glad I finished it. When it gets hard and you want to quit – don’t quit. You don’t want to look back and have regrets. I have taken that lesson with me throughout life.”


It's the tenth anniversary of the atrocity of September 11 (I like this way of describing it). Nothing to add, except that Paul Krugman's sentiment seems (partially) right to me:
A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?
Sure, they're just pundits. Here is Krugman's colleague Thomas Friedman (again, sorry to those who had mercifully forgotten these lines) on the relation between 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq:
I think it [the invasion of Iraq] was unquestionably worth doing, Charlie.
We needed to go over there, basically, um, and um, uh, take out a very big stick right in the heart of that world and burst that bubble, and there was only one way to do it.
What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, um and basically saying, "Which part of this sentence don't you understand?"
You don't think, you know, we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy, we're just gonna let it grow?
Well Suck. On. This.
That Charlie was what this war was about. We could've hit Saudi Arabia, it was part of that bubble. We coulda hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could. That's the real truth.
Suck.On.This. Indeed. Now we are all sucking on it.


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Last week’s STEM Symposium for undergraduates, teachers and young scholars conducting summer research at the University of Tennessee featured a total of 53 projects, an all-time high for the event now in its third year. NIMBioS collaborates with three other NSF-supported research centers (CURENT, TNSCORE and NICS) on the UT campus to showcase the work of participants in their summer research programs. The result is a large combined poster session where students get to see and share their work with peers and the campus community. Many UT faculty showed up to encourage and recruit students for graduate programs or undergraduate jobs in their labs.
NIMBioS SRE‘s presented in groups on their six different summer projects. For some, it was the first time they had ever created a research poster and their excitement was visible when the posters arrived from the printer. The SRE continues, wrapping up Aug. 1 with student oral presentations at NIMBioS.
Some of the Symposium’s excitement was captured in this video from UT’s Office of Research.


4 Types of Articles That Music Journalists Write
Music journalists choose their careers because of their fascination with music and the people behind it. That passion inspires them to write about these subjects for a living. However, they do not produce the same type of written works. Some write one specific type of articles, while others have more variety. The following writing projects are some of their most common works.
1. News and Updates
A professional music journalist likely needs to produce daily content to maintain consistent work. The best way to accomplish so is by writing and publishing news that are relevant to the industry. There are always new developments when it comes to artists, songs, concerts, technology and more. Journalists can even update their stories if necessary.
Some journalists might be more interested in analyzing and criticizing recent music. Therefore, they spend their time writing reviews of new music releases and concerts. They are usually either full-time critics or just review the occasional piece as part of their varied work. Music reviewers earn more credibility from readers when they have significant knowledge of the medium and specific genres.
There are certain writers who are more fascinated by the lives of musicians and their process than other aspects of the field. They conduct interviews to learn more about the artists and how they work on their music. Interviews are mostly used to promote new releases or performances, but they can also be part of established writers’ larger projects.
4. Investigative Pieces
Simple interviews and reviews cannot sufficiently encompass broader topics such as the rise and fall of a genre or the influence of technology in music. Journalists can work on larger investigative pieces that propose a specific subject and support it with multiple interviews and detailed research. These articles are usually present in publications as feature stories.
Journalists have similar knowledge and skills, but they use them to produce different types of work. Music professionals either specialize on these projects or work with multiple versions throughout their careers.


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A MUM left her baby to bake to death in a car while she sunbathed during a heatwave, a court heard yesterday.
Marie Trueman, 32, left three-month-old daughter Courtney while she relaxed in the garden.
Her husband Andrew got home to find Courtney gasping for breath.
The temperature inside the car was more than 100°F, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Courtney died in hospital an hour later.
Mum-of-three Trueman, of Dukinfield, Manchester, has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of gross negligence and cruelty.
The trial continues.
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Thursday, October 24, 2019
What is a Dream? Essay -- Literary Analysis, Shakespeare, Carroll
Your eyelids are heavy and your mind is fogging, finally they close entirely with the weight of the eyelids, and in a few minutes you have fallen into slumber. You wake up with a vivid image in your mind, but you have no clue as to what it means: it was just a dream. A dream, some may argue is irrelevant; images assorted together creating nonsense. Others depict a dream as a message our mind is telling us. Throughout the day, the mind subconsciously picks up pieces of our daily life, whether they are thoughts, emotions, ideas, or interactions. The brain naturally resists chaos and is attuned to order and organization and, therefore, sees past the commotion and malfunctions, it begins to matrix things, such as images in the clouds. It is through dreaming that these images sort out all the confusion in the ordinary daily life and reveals a bizarre and unrealistic world, which is a reflection of the unstable reality that is actually lived in. Reality is considered unstable because it is constantly changing, moving and transforming into something else whether people are aging, dying or being born. It is a constantly changing factor that people refuse to accept, and it is in our dreams that it is revealed. It is in this dream world where William Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll use fantastical characters, such as fairies and the White Rabbit to exemplify the daily interactions one must make to seek the truth. It is in the court and woods where everything is turned upside down, and where what is right is wrong, and what one knows, are no longer relevant. Ultimately these dreams illustrate the absence of time within these worlds. The dream process plays an essential function in both ShakespeareÃ¢â¬â¢s A Midsummer NightÃ¢â¬â¢s Dream and CarrollÃ¢â¬â¢s Alic... ...nuously move to get somewhere and when they find they are looking for, they still have to keep going. The characters met through the journey represent the logical and illogical strangers that people face every day and some may help while others might pull them down. These interactions are significant because every interaction and actions affect a person even if it is not all that clear. Time is the biggest factor in how reality is unstable. No matter what a person does, time is constantly there, and every second is a second past. The main reason it is not stable is because it is always changing and moving and whether one likes it or not, no one can change time. In a dream, time is not a factor and characters met can have no significance and in a dream, just for those few hours, the world can be a perfect and stable place, at least just until it is time to wake up.


The physical scale and unprecedented population growth in some cities have officials grappling with how to manage their transportation network. The Open Mobility Foundation has a bold, digitally-based vision to help cities meet their mobility goals.
The career of Emily Yasukochi, senior associate at Nelson\Nygaard, has offered an incredible variety of experience and institutions considering it's all been centered around transit and sustainable transportation.
In Euclid v. Ambler Realty, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of zoning. Although three justices dissented, they did not write a formal dissent. This article is what a dissent might look like if the justices knew what we now know.
Mitchell Silver, commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, former planning director of Raleigh, and former president of the APA, discusses the aspirations and realities of a long, successful career in planning.
It's been a century since a hurricane larger than category three has scored a direct hit on the Tampa Bay region. If a storm arrives to change that streak of luck, it will find a region severly underprepared to deal with the effects of sea-level rise
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What about inflation and the Russia-Ukraine crisis?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is rattling the global economy and markets. In the United States, increasing oil and natural gas prices in the past three weeks have kept the administration on its toes. In his February 22 remarks, President Biden reminded the nation that “defending freedom will have costs for us as well, here at home” and that the “administration is using every tool at its disposal to protect American businesses and consumers from rising prices at the pump.”
However, higher gasoline prices are only part of the story. As Jeff Powell and Jeremy Witbeck discuss in this week’s podcast, the current crisis could have a wide range of supply chain implications — and consequently higher inflation — for which U.S. consumers must be ready for.


Belarusian engineers have built a prototype of a new two-seater electric roadster convertible they say can cruise at speeds of up to 170 km and drive up to 270 km before needing to recharge.
“This vehicle – we genuinely believe we can compete with Tesla. It’s light, it’s maneuverable, we’re using it to carry out critical development of our own engines and engineering solutions. The vehicle is rear-wheel drive, and has a special axle,” an engineer said, speaking to the Belarusian president as he toured the test track facility.
The unnamed roadster has yet to receive a body, although prospective designs on posters behind the vehicle show a possible sleek 1940s-inspired sports car-like design.
Lukashenko was also shown a new electric Zamboni (ice resurfacer machine), ordering the government to buy 25 of the vehicles for the country’s hockey stadiums. “We will order it, but make sure the quality’s good,” the president told developers.
Engineers also invited the president to take a ride aboard a new electricity-powered bus built by MAZ, the large Belarusian automotive manufacturer known throughout Eastern Europe for its quality trucks and buses. Lukashenko instructed the company to build at least 10-12 of the new buses and to deliver them to regional transport authorities by next year.
- Electric-powered MAZ truck and electric-powered Zamboni, among other prospective EVs presented to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday, May 5, 2020.© Photo : Belarusian President's Press Service
- Belarusian electric-powered MAZ bus.© Photo : Belarusian President's Press Service
- 'Minsk' and other Belarusian-brand electric-powered bicycles and mopeds.© Photo : Belarusian President's Press Service
- Engineer tells Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko about a new helicopter drone design.© Photo : Belarusian President's Press Service
Other vehicles shown to Lukashenko included electric street sweepers, road construction equipment, electric-powered bicycles, mopeds and even an electricity-powered box truck, along with Belarusian-made electric charging stations for gas station and home use. The display also showed off several drones for the Belarusian military, including the ‘Burevestnik’ (Petrel’), a 350 kg fixed-wing drone undergoing state testing, and a unique drone helicopter called the ‘Eye-Sky’.
After touring the facility, Lukashenko said that he expects Belarus to achieve a major surplus of electric power after the new Astravets nuclear power plant in the country’s northwest goes online later this year. The power plant, built with Russia’s help, is expected to generate some 2,218 MW of electricity using its twin reactors.


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The latest album from Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, The Serpent's Mouth, walks a tightrope between embracing steel pan's melodious charm and its kitschy past.
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Wayne Shorter, photographed in 2014. The famed saxophonist's ambitious new project, Emanon -- encompassing three discs of interweaving jazz explorations and orchestral arrangements, with an accompanying graphic novel — was released Sep. 14, 2018.
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Estelle says her mom "never really got to express her broken heart. She just had to live through it and get on with it." Lovers Rock chronicles the love story of Estelle's parents.
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Despite often being called “pellet grills,” they still cook via indirect heat, as opposed to flame, and are better seen as a smoker. They’re excellent for smoking briskets, chicken and turkey, salmon and other fish, but maybe not for steaks, as you won’t be able to get the same crispy, browned sear they call for, and that you can get with an open-flame grill.
While there's not a lot to dislike about pellet smokers, it really comes down to your cooking/grilling style. Some Smoking Geeks prefer pellet smokers to traditional smokers (or even the Green Egg style smokers) testifying that flavor is superior to that of other styles of smokers within the price range – and it's hard to argue with them. While Traeger is the pioneer, there are other brands that give it a run for its money.
Pellet grills come in many different sizes with a variety of features. To take the top spot among pellet grills, the Camp Chef SmokePro DLX Grill offers the best combination of grilling space, heat control, and easy-to-achieve flavors that will create tasty meats time and time again. The grill makes cooking with pellets quick, easy, and enjoyable no matter how much skill you have on the grate.


PWC Hoists are designed to lift watercraft that weighs less than traditional boats. Personal watercraft like skiffs, sea-doo, jet skis, and wave runners are included in this list. There are two types of hoists; belt-driven and direct-driven. A belt-driven hoist uses pulleys on the motor and gearbox to turn the gears to lift and lower the watercraft. A direct drive is an enclosed box that the motor mounts into that turn the gears to lift and lower the watercraft.


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2 edition of Some experiments on the developing ear vesicle of the tadpole with relation to equilibration found in the catalog.
|Other titles||Experiments on the developing ear vesicle, Journal of experimental zoology.|
|Statement||by George L. Streeter|
|LC Classifications||QL948 .S77 1906|
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Frog. Frogs have been used as research models for many years. Their physiology is relatively simple when compared to mammals, and the study of frog muscles in the 's led to the discovery that the neurotransmitter acetylcholine was responsible for relaying nerve impluses signaling movement to . About this book. Provides detailed summaries of tadpole morphology, development, behaviour, ecology and environmental physiology. Contents. Preface Acknowledgments List of Contributors Chapter 1. Introduction: The Tadpole Arena Roy W. McDiarmid and Ronald Altig Chapter 2.
View Tadpole morphology and metamorphosis Research Papers on for free. ICA () The Dynamics of Tadpole and Horseshoe Orbits 1. Theory STANLEY F. DERMOTT AND CARL. D. MURRAY Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Space Sciences Building, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Received J ; revised Aug The properties of the tadpole and the horseshoe orbit solutions of both the circular and elliptic Cited by:
The process by which frogs make a sudden transition from tadpole stage to adult form is called metamorphosis. During metamorphosis different tissues develop to facilitate life on land. The principal changes that occur include the - developement of lungs and disappearance of the gills and Gill sacs. front legs become visible. the lower jaw transforms into a big mandible. the spiral gut is. Click here 👆 to get an answer to your question  A tadpole will lose its tail as it grows into an adult. Which cell structures in the tail of a tadpole cause 1. Log in Join now 1. Log in Join now High School. Biology. 5 points A tadpole will lose its tail as it grows into an adult.
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from his experiments." He used tadpoles, larvae of the Rana sylvatica, measuring about 3 mm., and removed the ear vesicles from one side of 30 specimens and from both sides of 20 specimens.
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Further Studies on the Auditory Vesicle and Cartilaginous Capsule of Amblystoma Punctatum Article in Journal of Experimental Zoology 78(2) - May with 2 Reads How we measure 'reads'. A tadpole (also called a pollywog) is the larval stage in the life cycle of an tadpoles are fully aquatic, though some species of amphibians have tadpoles that are es have some features that may not be found in adult amphibians such as a lateral line, gills, and tails.
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Tadpole, aquatic larval stage of frogs and toads. Compared with the larvae of salamanders, tadpoles have short, oval bodies, with broad tails, small mouths, and no external gills. The internal gills are concealed by a covering known as an operculum. Most tadpoles are vegetarians, although those of.
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In some experiments, K-gluconate was replaced with equimolar KCl to change the IPSP reversal. Some whole-cell recordings were from data used in previous papers by Li, Soffe and Roberts where whole-cell recordings were made with Axon-2B amplifier, CED plus digitiser and Signal software (Cambridge Electronic Design).Cited by: In many parts of the United States, some types of tadpoles will change into the adult form (undergo metamorphosis) earlier than usual if the pond where the tadpoles are living starts to dry up.
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The Wetland Book is a first 'port-of-call' reference work on the description, distribution and conservation issues for wetlands globally. The contributions in the work summarize key concepts, orient the reader to major issues, and aid in further research on issues by multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams. Here we introduce the book which includes articles broadly covering Ramsar defined inland and coastal wetlands structured in sections on diversity of wetland types, natural and anthropogenic drivers of wetland change, and regional compilations of individual or wetland complexes. Overview articles typically describe the diversity within the wetland type, its distribution, extent, ecosystem services, biodiversity, and threats and future challenges. Regional contributions adhere to a general format describing the basic ecology of the system; uniqueness; distribution; biodiversity and species adaptations; ecosystem services with an emphasis on importance to dependent peoples where appropriate; conservation status and management; and threats and future challenges. A general conclusion that can be drawn from all articles is that wetlands are still under significant threat to loss and degradation from human impacts including climate change and concerted action is required among all levels of society in the management and conservation of these dynamic ecosystems.
|Title of host publication||The wetland book II|
|Subtitle of host publication||Distribution, description and conservation|
|Editors||C. Max Finlayson, G. Randy Milton, R. Crawford Prentice, Nick C. Davidson|
|Place of Publication||Dordrecht, The Netherlands|
|Number of pages||14|
|ISBN (Print)||9789400740020, 9789400740006|
|Publication status||Published - 2018|


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Updated: Jun 17, 2022
For me, things usually happen for a reason.
Mom died December 31st, 2020. My plan was to publish my book in honour of my mom on what would have been her birthday: May 28th, 2022. But things just didn’t work out that way. So, I was curious, what could possibly be an even better time to celebrate this courageous woman? Hmmm, June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month and I had been thinking about the challenges for older adults who still feel uncomfortable about discussing identify or sexual expression. Suddenly, it hit me. Mom came out late in life. What a perfect time to launch my book, Just Say “Hi” to Amazing Parts of Yourself ! Mom was amazing and so brave to acknowledge her personal truth and live it, but so many people ignore who they are inside because they fear being marginalized or even physically attacked for living their truth. I personally did not even know the words to describe what I felt about my own identity and self-expression. Fortunately, as a professional, I continually attended conferences and researched current cultural, therapeutic and medical issues around non-cis identity. Today, there are still many non-cis gender adults in their 60s, 70’s and 80s that may never feel safe to explore beneath the label of male or female. Many of the words we use today to express anything outside the box of male and female gender identity, sexuality and expression did not exist 30 years ago. And it was often shameful and dangerous to dress in clothing not matching the identity assigned to you at birth.
Many individuals are still living in conflict into their 80’s and beyond which can sometimes lead to anxiety, eating disorders and addiction. Feeling shameful of your own identity can cause you to turn despair inward or aggression and anger outward. People stay silent, hidden, lonely and afraid. Some will never get to feel the freedom of discovering who they truly are and may never have an opportunity to find pure happiness and even love. I understand now why Mom might have moved to another state. She may not have been able to face her family, friends or business associates while living an “untraditional” lifestyle. I can’t even imagine what public education was like when social media and the internet did not exist. Finding an inclusive community can still seem close to impossible, especially in the area of healthcare specifically for LGBTQ individuals. In my experience, working with clients and families, coming out or transitioning can be a challenging journey, one requiring a lot of self-care, reflection, communication and support from people that you trust. For me, the main thing to remember in any relationship with another human being is that they are the expert about who they are, how they feel, how they express themselves and how they want to be identified. Words are powerful. Especially the words we say to ourselves.
Pointing out that words used as labels can be helpful or harmful, the book Just Say “Hi” to Amazing Parts of Yourself!, encourages readers to embrace who they are with curiosity and appreciation. Using a simple 3-step method to help “identify, accept and become loving and kind to all aspects” of ourselves, we can be more compassionate inside, and bring more peace to others outside and in the world around us.
Glossary of terms can be found here: https://lgbt.ucsf.edu/glossary-terms

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Donlin Gold and the Kuskokwim Corporation have signed a surface rights agreement for the proposed gold mine located 120 miles upriver of Bethel. The deal gives the native corporation rights to some construction contracts and sets financial terms for decades to come.
The regional native corporation, Calista, owns subsurface rights at the Donlin site, while The Kuskokwim Corporation, has the surface rights. Maver Carey is President and CEO of TKC. She says the financial terms are confidential.
“I can say that over the next few years we’ve got a few milestone payments that Donlin has agreed to pay us, for example the signing bonus for actually signing the agreement,” Carey said. “What we’ve done with that is create our first elders dividend, and then a portion we need to use to get our companies ready to go.”
The open-pit gold mine that Donlin Gold is now working toward has been in the works for over a decade. It’s currently in the permitting stage. The Kuskokwim Corporation was formed in 1977 with 10 upper river village corporations merged. They have around $3,000 shareholders and a portfolio of companies from construction and apartments to aerospace operations.
The new companies would construct and operate a new port on the Kuskokwim River, downriver from Crooked Creek serving a couple of Donlin barges carrying fuel and supplies. TKC secured the right to the contract in the agreement. The deal replaces an agreement set to expire next year and sets the terms for accessing and building on the land.
The corporation also plans to play a big role in the reclamation of the mine site decades into the future after the millions of ounces of gold have been dug out.
“It just marks a milestone in that partnership that has been going on for some time,” Kurt Parkan, external affairs manager for Donlin Gold, said. “It’s an agreement with both entities to advance the project into the future.”
The agreement runs until 2031 and can be extended if and when the mine comes into operation. Carey says the agreement has provisions for shareholder scholarships and hiring. While the company calls it a historic agreement, Carey says the agreement does not mean instant wealth.
“Instead it’s a legacy we’re going to leave for our children and grandchildren, and when I say legacy, not just a financial legacy,” Carey said. “We have a lot to do in terms of training and employment opportunities, so our children and grandchildren can be CEOs of the new subsidiaries we’re creating.”
The open-pit mine would be among the largest gold mines in the world. The project is owned by Nova Gold and Barrick Gold, two Canadian companies.

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IMF warns against protectionism as Trump, Brexit loom
The International Monetary Fund renewed its warnings against protectionism on Thursday as nationalist political trends threaten trade integration on both sides of the Atlantic.
As the IMF and World Bank kicked off what are normally staid meetings, with central bankers and finance ministers from 189 member countries gathering in Washington, anti-free trade rhetoric in the United States and Europe created a tense atmosphere.
In her opening remarks, Christine Lagarde, the IMF managing director, tried to downplay differences with new US President Donald Trump’s administration over trade, financial regulation and climate change.
The fund this week bumped up its forecasts for global economic growth slightly to 3.5 percent for this year, a recently rare upward revision reflecting a rosier view of conditions in Asia and Europe.
But while acknowledging disillusionment with globalization, Lagarde said member countries should avoid the lure of trade barriers.
– ‘Self-inflicted wounds’ –
“All countries, of course, should guard against what I have called the self-inflicted wounds, such as restrictions, subsidies and other trade distortions that reduce competition and economic openness,” she said.
Lagarde’s remarks came as Britain heads toward an exit from the European Union and France prepares to stage presidential elections that also raise the prospect of quitting the bloc.
The United States is the IMF’s largest single shareholder and holds veto power on the fund’s board.
But Trump won the White House on a nationalist economic agenda and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross this week dismissed some IMF concerns as “rubbish.”
Nevertheless, Lagarde said Thursday she believes the Trump administration could be an effective partner.
“From the various contacts that I have had with the administration so far, I have every reason to believe we will make progress,” she said.
The fund would press for “a fair and level playing field,” she added, saying that that meant “no use of distortive measures, no protectionist measures going forward.”
“We need to make sure that this momentum is sustained and that we continue to have that growth and, more importantly, that that growth is shared more equitably,” Lagarde said.
Needed steps include fairer taxation, job-training assistance and infrastructure investment as well as forward-looking measures to address unsustainable debt and pension schemes, she said.
“We are very pleased to see that trade is picking up. Is trade going to continue to increase and grow? We do so think so,” she added.
“Is there room to improve that? Of course.”
Speaking to CNBC television following her address, Lagarde issued a stark warning about the prospects of a far-right victory in France’s presidential elections, the first round of which is set for Sunday.
“It would certainly entail major disorder,” she said.
Although polls do not suggest a clear path to the presidency for Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Front, pundits are wary of saying she cannot win.
Le Pen has pledged to take France out of the eurozone and stage a referendum on exiting the EU, as Britain voted to do last year.
Meanwhile, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble called on the Trump administration not to turn its back on trade liberalization.
“All of us have benefited greatly” from global integration and trade in recent decades, and Washington has been a leader in the process, he said in a speech ahead of this week’s semi-annual meetings.
– ‘That is fair’ –
“Surely it’s in America’s own interest to ensure security and economic stability” in its trade partners, he added.
Speaking at a separate event on Thursday, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declined to wade into controversy over the US trade policy.
However, in a possible nod to multilateralism, he said that discussions held among members of the Group of Seven and the Group of 20 economic forums were “very productive discussions.”
At the same event, White House economic adviser Gary Cohn said the United States was only seeking fair treatment.
“We treat our trading partners the way they treat us,” said Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs banker who now chairs the new National Economic Council.
A trading partner’s tariffs would be met by a countermeasure, Cohn said at a forum held by the Institute of International Finance.
“We treat you in reciprocal fashion. That is fair,” he said.


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One time, I found myself driving around Chicago on a mission not my own. As I drove into the city, I found myself both happy and heavy—excited to be back in a place where I felt most comfortable and happy as an adult, yet heavier and sadder as I passed landmarks that I’d not seen in years. Floods of memories washed over me, and my countenance began to fall as I longed to be back in the place where I’d felt I belonged. Familiar resentment swam around the corners of my mouth; lips downturned as I traipsed back and forth into a big old white van, dreading the moment I’d pull out of my favorite city once more.
As I found myself sliding into the final stage of my backwards grief cycle (trying to calculate when life would free me again to actually do what I’d set out to do in life before I was beset by all the things I had never wanted), The Holy Spirit spoke to me. Three words. I’ll never forget it:
Remember Lot’s wife.
I never intended on being a mother. And I don’t say that as something mean or dismissive of the gravity and importance of motherhood; it’s just that on my list of a dozen or so things I wanted to accomplish in life, wife was last, and mother never made it on the list. In my mind, I’d be the well-travelled, eccentric aunt whose life consisted of exotic locales and book signings and readings. I would sit at the feet of all the authors and poets of my youth sucking up their wisdom, then hold literary court with my contemporaries as a life of letters enveloped me. I would read and write and read and write, my days spent collapsed in a pile of notes and revisions stained with coffee and blueberry muffin crumbs brought to me by my professor husband on his way to lecture, my nights filled with gatherings and poetry and conscious songs and witty essayists and midnight inspiration. I would shower my family with gifts from the Continent, document my adventures in published memoirs and collections of memories manifested as unique gifts and secret treasures.
Instead, I am so many years into doing the last thing that ever crossed my mind, parent to teenage girls–and nearly 2 decades into marriage with a pastor who just figured out he still wanted to pastor then retired out of the blue. I have back-burnered my writing to free moments far and few between, have yet to have a passport by stamped, lived life on schedules not my own. The only place where I felt even a little close to touching a piece of my dreams was Chicago. Being there gave me hope that it would not always be the way it has been.
And yet, the Spirit of God clearly chastised my thinking–my longing for what I had aspired to. After I heard the words Remember Lot’s Wife, these words flowed past my eyes like the ticker-tape on CNN:
This is why looking back is not good—you get salty.
TELL ME WHY God do me like this?
So as I write this right now, I do not spin words into written melodies as someone who has come out on the other side of sacrifice. I am still smack dab in the middle of a life that still feels really foreign to me sometimes (especially when my kids start doing teenage stuff and my husband acts like the American made man that he is). I write from the sidelines of a life that seems as though it is passing me by while I yell about clean rooms and dirty dishes and bills that need to be paid before fun and talk frankly about changing bodies and high expectations and cry lonely tears and angry silent sobs. But I also write from a place no longer consumed by secret frustrations and regret. I finally stepped into what Paul said best: forgetting what is behind and straining for what is ahead, I press toward the mark (Phillipians 3).
It is not one that I had chosen for myself; indeed, were I to tell my whole story about how I got here in the first place, how these years really breaks down, the mark would seem impossible. Yet here I am, determined that if nothing else, I am able to count the former dream as loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ. I am able to rest in this idea that God’s salvation isn’t just about my present and future but my past–eternity. And I can thank God for being the One who was and is and is to come. I can thank God that all these twists and turns MEAN something not just for me but for the kingdom of God.
I get a chance to do what Lot’s Wife missed: an opportunity to do greater and be greater if I just trust God and walk into the unknown and not turn back.
And that is the lesson for today. What is behind you—behind me is not as wonderful as what is ahead. What is coming is greater than what has been. But only if you choose to look at it, look for it, look forward to it. Only you get to decide how your life will go: a place of bitterness and mourning? Or the life of great expectations and joy? Why choose to keep turning around in confusion and regret?
Set your focus. Proceed into the promises.


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Moderation in all things, is still great advice, if you can stick to it. We are spoiled for choice. So many options, so many choices, and it ends up filling up our lives with stuff we don’t really need or use, or even want. But, it gets hard to make a decision about what to keep and what to do once we manage to make a decision.… Read the rest
A rockhound is an amateur geologist or collector of rocks, minerals and gemstones. It’s not always about the value or selling them. Not for me. I like the history of rocks. Such ancient things, far older than even the oldest of trees. Eroded by time and the elements (mostly water) found on and under land, sea and space, small enough to fit into a pocket or far too massive to consider moving at all.… Read the rest
Besides journals (diaries) and of course, books, writers tend to keep:
- found objects
- newspaper/ magazine articles
Which of these do you keep as a personal interest or creative inspiration, or both?
I took a few pictures of my posie bowls tonight. Just messing around with settings on the camera mostly. Here are two of the results. These are my china posy bowls, which I would really like to find more (non-chipped) ones once I have disposable income again.
I don’t know the right spelling for posie/posey/posy?
For people who collect clutter… I mean silver spoons, teapots, matchbooks, postcards, books and other assorted junk… I mean treasures.
My personal treasure trove contains international postcards, oldish Canadian coins, books, newspaper and magazine clippings, posy china bowls and whatever else has slipped my mind at the moment.
Everyone seems to collect something.
These trilliums came up on EBay last year. I would have loved them. I even thought about making a bid. Reality checked in though and I just kept the photo of them instead. Someday I will find them when I can spend money on getting them.
I have a few of the posey/posie bowls now. Some from old Aunts and some from abandoned houses, etc.… Read the rest


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2nd Class meet Author Shane Hegarty
The boys in second class were delighted to be invited down to Charlville Mall Library to meet author Shane Hegarty. He is the author of the very popular Darkmouth series! He spoke to the children and answered lots of great questions! Some boys received a copy of his new book Boot!