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Privateers were privately owned ships that were equipped and crewed at private expense but were given official government licence to attack, raid and harass the enemies of said government in time of war. Privateers were de-facto legal pirates that were supposed to be treated a legitimate combatants if captured.
Privateers achieved their authority through the "Letter of Marque." The letter of Marque was a government commission and permission to a private citizen to build their own warships. The use these warships was to gain "prizes" (captured enemy ships and their cargo) that would be sold in friendly ports. The government received up to twenty-five percent of the profit gained by the privateer from these auctions. This greatly added to the number of ships available to wage war upon an enemy for virtually no cost to the government.
The most famous privateer was Sir Francis Drake, sailing the Golden Hind, he became the first Englishman to sail around the globe (1577-79). In his attacks upon Spanish shipping on that voyage he brought home a treasure reported to be worth more than the entire yearly expenditures of the English Government (the capture of the Nuestra Señora de la Concepción alone netted more than 15 million dollars in today's money in gold, silver and jewels). His backers earned a 4700% return on the money they invested in his ships and crew for this epic voyage. He so angered the Spanish through his successful raids that they offered a 20,000 ducat reward for his capture (over 7 million dollars). It was never collected.
Merchant ships were large, slow targets for the smaller and faster privateers who preferred to capture rather than destroy these valuable targets. The lure of easy pickings brought many a privateer to sea during major conflicts (more than 1200 Letters of Marque were issued by the Americans during the Revolution alone).
Privateers tried to avoid battle with warships as the latter were usually better armed and carried little cargo of value. But occasionally the warships caught up with the privateers as in this action between the American Chasseur vs HMS St. Lawrence in the War of 1812. The American won, an unusual occurrence for privateers.
Privateers came in all sizes, brigs and sloops were the most common but they could be small as this Confederate privateer during the American Civil War demonstrates. The American Civil War was the last major action by privateers, the Industrial Revolution, improvement's in Naval technology and communications reduced the need and increased the risk to the point that privateering was no longer profitable. Future wars would see more deadly ships and subsurface vessels whose goal would be to destroy, not capture enemy commerce. The age of legal piracy was over.


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Name of Book : Satbanna
Writer : Puran Chand Badgotra
Price : Rs 210/-
Publisher : Apurva Prakashan,
New Plot, Jammu.
With his latest and fourth collection of poetry of Kundalis, 78 year old Puran Chand Badgotra has firmly established himself a Dogri’s master poet of the difficult poetic genre.
One who took to writing poetry in Dogri some fifteen years back after retirement in 1995, Badgotra’s prolific contribution in modern Dogri literature so far includes the seven poetic anthologies: Geet and Kundali collection. These are ‘Tapash Loi Di’, ‘Sochein Da Sarlaa’, ‘Kul Devta Diyaan Aartiyan Te Bhajan Sangreh’, ‘Sukka Soun’, ‘Gaas Hoaa Badlokha’, ‘Shabad Shabad Smarth’ and the latest ‘Satbanna’.
In an informed introduction of ‘Satbanna’, Jammu’s veteran scholar Prof Sat Pal Srivtsya opines that the title ‘Satbanna’, is symbolic not of the multicolors but the varied and colorful concerns which figure in his poetic expression and range from lament for fast fading age-old social customs and concerns, forgotten forms and images, virtues of some great personalities, along with satire on contemporary reality of the corruption in politics, general sense of insecurity in society, systemic violence against women et al.
Kundali, for its complexity is called serpent-meter. Its first couplet of the is a doha, while the second and third couplets are in rola metre, whose first foot matches in length the second foot of the doha (thus accommodating the repeat). Badgotra’s unique commitment to this unique meter and his understanding of the technical structure of Chhand is beautifully reflected in his own words in kundli:
“Doha rola Purna, kundali chhand byan,Ik so chutaali matran, kul sarmaya jaan/
Kul sarmaya jaan, dohae, rolae ch bsat, krmsha: teraan-jaraan, jaraan- teraan anupat/
Doha choutha charn, pa roulae pehal pajoaa, ant ch taahre, shabad, jis nai rambda ho da/
Counting the 194 kundalis in his latest poetic anthology, the poet has so far penned down more than 600 kundalis in Dogri: a feat which has certainly enriched Dogri poetry. For the convenience of readers to understand typical Dogri words used in his poetry, Badgotra has also given their easy meanings in footnotes.

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When Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Wednesday that his Department of Justice was suing the state of California over three laws limiting cooperation with federal immigration agents, he made it seem simple: “We are not asking California, Oakland, or anyone else to enforce immigration laws. […] We are simply asking California and other sanctuary jurisdictions to stop actively obstructing federal law enforcement.”
That idea — that places run by Democratic governments, including cities around the country and some blue states like California, are “actively obstructing” the federal government to protect “illegal immigrants” — is at the heart of the debate over “sanctuary” jurisdictions. (Usually, people refer to “sanctuary cities,” but in this case the Trump administration has picked a fight with a “sanctuary state.”)
Sanctuary cities have become one of the favorite targets of the Trump administration. Sessions spent most of his first year as attorney general trying to find ways to block sanctuary cities from getting federal grant money and is now moving on to using the courts to get the policies themselves struck down.
In the imaginations of the most heated immigration hawks, “sanctuary” cities and states are places where the rule of law simply doesn’t apply — where Democratic-controlled governments have allied with “open borders radicals” (as Sessions put it Wednesday) to prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from arresting unauthorized immigrants even when they’ve been convicted of crimes.
In the imaginations of some progressives, it’s kind of a mirror image of the same idea: “Sanctuary” policies have become a way for Democratic-governed parts of the US to demonstrate that they reject the Trump administration’s immigration agenda and the idea of America it projects, and want to protect everyone who lives within their jurisdiction regardless of legal status.
The wonky truth is that neither of these is exactly right.
The federal government has spent the past 20 years using local government (especially law enforcement) as a force multiplier to help it find, arrest, and deport immigrants more efficiently — and for almost as long, progressives have been trying to reassert local autonomy. At this point, the line between “obstructing” federal law enforcement and simply deciding not to help isn’t as clear as one might expect.
In the courtroom, the fight over sanctuary cities is narrow and technical. Outside the courtroom, it’s a culture war.
What is a sanctuary city?
“Sanctuary city” is not an official government term. It has no legal meaning.
Lots of people use the unofficial term “sanctuary city” to refer to local jurisdictions (not just cities but counties and sometimes states) that don’t fully cooperate with federal efforts to find and deport unauthorized immigrants. If that sounds vague, that’s because it is, and it gets at the tension between federal policy and local law enforcement generally used to carry out those laws.
The federal government relies heavily on local law enforcement to identify and detain immigrants. This relationship is a big reason deportations went up exponentially during the Bush and Obama administrations: from 189,000 a year when Bush arrived in office to 400,000 a year in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
Here’s one way to think about the impact of the local “force multiplier.” In 1996 (the year a law was passed creating new opportunities for local-federal immigration collaboration), 70,000 immigrants were removed from the US. That includes immigrants caught at the US border and those deported from communities within the country.
Each year, from 2011 to 2014 — the peak of local-federal immigration cooperation — a single local-federal program, Secure Communities (which checked immigrants booked into local jails against federal databases), resulted in the deportation of more than 70,000 immigrants. Secure Communities got more immigrants deported during those years than the entire federal government had in 1996.
But that cooperation hasn’t always been smooth. Local resistance — often due to pressure by immigrant activist groups — can cause problems for the federal government.
Local police departments aren’t required to help the federal government do whatever it wants, and since immigration law is federal law, it makes sense that catching unauthorized immigrants might not be a local law enforcement priority. After all, local police don’t go out of their way to enforce federal tax law either.
And a lot of police chiefs think it’s a net negative for local cops to enforce immigration law — it makes immigrant communities afraid of police and less likely to report crimes or cooperate with investigations in, say, murder cases.
So exactly how much assistance local governments should provide in immigration enforcement is an ongoing fight. At heart, it’s been a policy fight over what local governments should do. But under the Trump administration, in particular, it’s taken on the color of law: the idea that cities are refusing to do something they’re obligated to do.
Where’s the line between refusing to help ICE and acting to hinder it?
The Trump administration’s biggest frustration is with jurisdictions that don’t comply (or that only comply in limited circumstances) with ICE requests to get custody of an immigrant who’s being held in a local jail, or requests that local officials hold immigrants for 48 hours longer than they’d otherwise be detained to allow federal agents to come pick them up.
“In January, Ventura County declined a request from ICE to hold an alien Ventura had arrested for continuous sexual abuse of a child,” Sessions told the California Peace Officers Association, a law enforcement union, in his speech announcing the lawsuit. “Instead of being removed from this country, he was released back into the community and now our federal law enforcement will need to find him and arrest him wherever he may be.”
That’s the most common type of policy that governments have passed to declare themselves “sanctuaries.” But it’s not the heart of the legal challenges the Trump administration has posed to “sanctuary” policies.
Federal law does say one thing unequivocally about federal-local immigration cooperation: Section 1373 of Chapter 8 of the US Code bars any state or local government from passing a policy that prevents government employees from sharing “information pertaining to the immigration status, legal or illegal, of an individual” with federal authorities.
The Trump administration alleges that local ordinances or state laws that bar the sharing of information about immigrants — like California’s SB 54, which prevents jail officials from telling ICE when a prisoner will be released (in many cases) unless ICE has a warrant signed by a judge — violate the federal law. Cities and states that have passed such policies, however, argue that sharing information about when someone will be released from jail or prison is different from sharing information about their immigration status, so it’s legal for the state to put restrictions on the former. (That argument has been upheld by a federal judge — ironically, in a case brought against San Francisco by the parents of Kate Steinle, whose death in 2015 made her a cause célèbre for immigration hawks including President Trump.)
Even beyond the specific text of federal law, though, the Trump administration thinks it’s “obstruction” for state and local laws to tell individuals — whether they’re police officers or employers facing ICE audits — what they can and can’t do when ICE comes around. And they argue that because the federal government fundamentally has power over immigration law, that sort of obstruction is tantamount to ignoring the separation of powers itself.
Legally, this is murky territory that gets pretty complicated pretty quickly — though the Trump administration’s 2017 efforts to defund “sanctuary” jurisdictions were smacked down hard by federal judges. But the Trump administration’s war on sanctuary cities doesn’t rest entirely on this lawsuit — after all, the Trump administration’s suit against California doesn’t even challenge the provision Sessions was alluding to in his Ventura County anecdote. The lawsuit is simply one manifestation of the political fight that Trump and Sessions are picking on behalf of a segment of the conservative base.
Two separate fights about federalism: sanctuary cities (and states) versus Trump, and Democratic cities versus Republican states
The sanctuary fight has only recently become a consistent partisan matter, with Republican-governed jurisdictions (like the federal government and red states) on one side and blue states (and most cities) on the other. Under President Obama, the political calculus was more complicated for (progressive) local governments looking to fight back against the federal immigration apparatus.
When Trump was elected, the mayors of many American major cities joined the anti-Trump “resistance” by proudly declaring themselves sanctuary cities — as a way to reassure immigrant residents that while they might not feel welcome in America writ large, they would always be welcome in New York or Chicago or any number of cities. And Republicans, even though they now control the federal government, have been able to keep tapping into fears about criminal immigrants by fobbing off blame on cities, the one level of government that Democrats still tend to control.
At the same time, the sanctuary fight has seeped into a more enduring political dynamic: the domination of state legislatures by Republicans, who are increasingly interested in legislating what cities within those states (often governed by Democrats) can and can’t do. Even states that don’t even have any sanctuary cities, like Virginia, have considered bills to preemptively stop any cities from trying. Politicians who vote against such bills run the risk of getting hit with attack ads in their next campaign, as famously happened to Ralph Northam when he ran for governor of Virginia against Ed Gillespie in 2017.
But the ads don’t appear to have worked. Northam won, and there’s some evidence that Gillespie’s attacks on sanctuary jurisdictions were part of the reason. That gets to the key dynamic that makes sanctuary cities so much more prominent in the national debate than the legal battles might deserve: It’s a fight that both sides are enthusiastic about having.
The idea that parts of America are essentially ungoverned by the US is a potent one
When the Trump administration has been criticized for its aggressive immigration tactics, like arresting immigrants in courthouses or in their driveways, it has blamed sanctuary cities for forcing it to.
But the Trump administration has also made a point to hype enforcement in sanctuary jurisdictions as a way to send a message that immigrants are not safe there. So even as the Justice Department sues California for making it too hard to enforce immigration law, ICE is as visible in the state as ever.
The workplace raids law the DOJ is suing over didn’t stop ICE from raiding several 7-Eleven franchises in California in January, armed with notices to inspect their I-9 forms. Nor did California’s laws stop ICE from arresting more than 150 immigrants in a massive “sweep” in Northern California in February, including some who say they were approached at random in public by an ICE agent and asked for their papers (something ICE generally denies it does).
Logically, the fact that ICE is arresting immigrants in sanctuary cities ought to complicate the myth that these cities are blocking all enforcement of federal immigration law.
But it doesn’t. Because the people who are most invested in the false stereotype of sanctuary don’t have any opportunity to learn about the reality — and because the idea that Democrats and “illegal immigrants” would ally to thwart law enforcement plays into existing stereotypes.
In a way, sanctuary cities are a homegrown equivalent of the myth of “no-go zones” in Europe: neighborhoods dominated by Muslim immigrants in which it’s unsafe for anyone of white European descent to even set foot.
There aren’t any no-go zones in Europe, but that hasn’t stopped conservative outlets like Fox News from talking about them. Some conservatives appear to believe that America has no-go zones of its own. But what’s more potent, in the American context, is the idea that Democratic local officials are attempting to undermine “real” America by sheltering masses of unauthorized immigrants and allowing them to terrorize Americans.
It would be much harder for such a fear to take root if conservative culture warriors didn’t already consider cities culturally suspect. For half a decade, since the beginning of white flight, cities have been seen as centers of crime; Americans tend to believe crime is going up throughout the country, even as they acknowledge it’s gone down in their own neighborhoods.
As white flight has guaranteed Democratic Party dominance of urban governance, conservatives have started to believe that Democrats are allowing cities to fail — or deliberately keeping them down to preserve their own political power. And as cities have grown and revitalized over the past two decades thanks to millennial gentrification — and become accordingly tolerant of LGBTQ Americans — it’s only strengthened the perception that cities are a place where “traditional values” don’t matter anymore.
Deep-blue states — especially California — get painted with the same brush. The idea that California is basically a “third world country” isn’t unpopular in conservative circles — and the justification is often that it’s been overrun with immigrants and refuses to throw out the criminals among them. Some conservatives, like Fox host Tucker Carlson, are even more forthright: “The majority in the past 30 years — where do the majority of those people come from?” Carlson asked a guest in March. “Do they come from the Midwest? No, they came from a third world country. Do you think that might have something to do with it?”
The Democratic base wants to see their leaders stand up for immigrants and against Trump
On the other side of the culture war, of course, progressives hear such invocations of traditional American values as nostalgia for a time when white supremacy was unquestioned and midcentury sexual mores kept LGBTQ people from homemaking and kept women from doing anything else. They hear an attack not just on marginalized groups but on pluralism and diversity — things many progressives defend as “American values.”
The Democratic Party has long been wary of defending diversity in its own right — especially when it comes to racial justice. Democratic politicians tended to understand that some whites felt threatened by demographic change, and tried to chart a course by which they could praise diversity while reassuring its skeptics that it sympathized with their concerns. This was another key reason why fights over sanctuary cities never seemed as heated under Obama as they are today — local politicians were ambivalent about picking a fight that could make it look like they were favoring one group of people (unauthorized immigrants) over the well-being of everyone.
But the culture war has intensified in the past couple of years, and fewer and fewer progressives are worried about being accused of practicing “identity politics.” That’s led even once-hawkish politicians like Rahm Emanuel to proudly declare their cities “sanctuaries.”
They’re not always as concerned with explaining what exactly that means. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had to admit to the New York Times in February that he couldn’t prevent ICE from entering New York City by calling it an immigrant “sanctuary.” But the point is to send a message that unauthorized immigrants are just as welcome as everyone else.
The official position of the Trump administration is that any unauthorized immigrant in the US should be “looking over [her] shoulder” and worried that ICE will come after her at any time. The biggest change to policy under Trump hasn’t been the scope of deportations or even of arrests — it’s been the aggressive messaging that anyone could be next.
Local and state officials who see unauthorized immigrants as part of their own communities, and who are concerned about the effects that targeting unauthorized immigrants will have on their legal immigrant neighbors and US citizen children, are trying to combat that fear.
Laws that force ICE to put more effort into arresting and detaining immigrants are one way to do that. Simply sending the message that some politicians are looking out for immigrants and fighting for them is another — probably not as effective, but something nonetheless.


Posted: Jan 28, 2013 11:01 AM PST
Updated Sep 26, 2016 11:14 AM PDT
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The device does it all and in real-time.
It’s so accurate it’s giving judges the confidence to let more people stay out of jail – at least those charged with alcohol-related crimes.
It saves taxpayer dollars and gives people a chance to stay at their home and keep their jobs while on probation or awaiting trial.
“It’s been very effective in getting folks out on pretrial release that are incarcerated and unable to make bail,” said Darcy Pitkin, county probation officer.
The Probation Department says the device saves the county nearly $100 for each day a person is monitored with it – instead of being held in jail.
The department is currently using 6 of the Soberlink Cellular devices.
But if things continue to go well, the county will be getting more.
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Find the entropy change of an ideal gas and of a van der Waals gas in case of isothermal expansion in which the volume increases by a factor alpha. Also, find the entropy change in case of a free expansion in which the volume increases by a factor alpha.
In case of the free expansion of the van der Waals gas, find the temperature change.© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com October 9, 2019, 9:27 pm ad1c9bdddf
In part a) we can reason as follows.
If we let a gas expand slowly, then it will perform work. If we know the internal energy as a function of volume and temperature and we keep the temperature the same during the expansion, then we know by how much the internal energy has changed during the expansion. We also know how much work the gas has performed, so we know the heat that the gas has absorbed. If we divide this heat by the temperature we get the entropy increase. In case of an ideal gas the internal energy does not depend on the volume for fixed temperature. So, the heat absorbed by the gas is equal to the work performed by the gas. For the van der Waals gas this is not true and we need to use the internal energy function to compute the entropy change.
In part b) we can use that in case of free expansion no heat is absorbed and no work is performed, so the internal energy stays constant. In case of an ideal gas we then know that means that the temperature stays constant (I'll derive that later). But then you get the same result as in a) for the entropy because temperature and volume are the same in the end state. In case of the van der Waals gas the temperature will change. We can use the internal energy as a function of temperature and volume to find by how much the temperature will change.
So, we see that to solve the problems we need to find the internal energy change in terms of changes in temperature and volume. I derived this for another problem a few days ago, so I have included that derivation here:
The fundamental thermodynamic relation expresses dU in terms of dS and dV
dU = T dS - P dV (1)
If we want to consider U as a function of T and V, then all we need to do is rewrite this in terms of dT and dV. We substitute:
dS = dS/dT dT + dS/dV dV (2)
Here the derivatives are partial derivatives, the derivative ...
A detailed solution is given.

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Feb 6, 2013, 4:02 PM EDT
The Washington Capitals lost again last night. This time, it was a 3-2 home defeat to Toronto.
The Caps are now 2-7-1 — the worst record in the NHL — and, apparently, they’re considering taking drastic measures.
Keeping the puck out of the net is one thing the Caps could try. Their 3.60 goals-against average is 27th in the league.
Also, they need to score more goals — they’re tied for 24th (2.30) in that category.
The penalty kill (23rd) and power play (14th) aren’t very good either. They could try and improve those.
But if there’s a cow available…
Related: George McPhee on the hot seat?
- Bernier, Leafs agree on two-year, $8.3 million deal 0
- How do Voracek, Giroux compare to the most expensive duos? 54
- Voracek turns monster season into massive eight-year deal 71
- Report: Canucks, Sutter closing in on five-year deal, north of $20M 28
- Voynov serving sentence at jail that once advertised it had flat screen TVs 45
- Report: Bernier and Leafs more than $2 million apart ahead of Friday’s arbitration hearing 12
- Flyers re-sign Couturier: six years, $26 million 41
- Benning calls Sutter a ‘foundation piece’ for Canucks 24
- Here’s a chart that shows which teams have been good/bad at drafting 44
- Penguins sign Fehr to three-year, $6 million contract 22
- Bettman says NHL would have to ‘consider’ putting Quebec City in the Western Conference (71)
- Voracek turns monster season into massive eight-year deal (71)
- Rangers sign Stepan — six years, $39 million (62)
- NBC Sports to broadcast 105 NHL games in 2015-16 (58)
- Trade: Penguins send Sutter to Canucks for Bonino, Clendening (54)

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Recipe by Holland House®
"The distinctive flavor of Marsala Cooking Wine adds just the right spark to these hearty burgers."
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lean ground beef
Holland House® Marsala Cooking Wine
shredded Cheddar cheese
margarine or butter
1 1/2 cups
sliced fresh mushrooms
chopped fresh parsley
The taste of the wine was too strong in this recipe and didn't like the sauce either
The type of marsala wine you use makes a big difference, the cheaper the wine the more pungent the taste. I buy a midrange bottle for about $7 and use it for chicken marsala also and it works well. The mushroom topping wasn't great so I wouldn't make the topping again.
thought this was pretty yum - was short on time so i just added the cheese (fresh mozz) on top. would be curious to try w/ ground chicken or turkey.
Made this for lunch today using ground turkey and it was delicious. I did not, nor would I ever use grocery store cooking wine. The real stuff is only a few bucks more and it's well worth it in taste.
tasted too much like the wine
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Serving Size: 1/4 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 4
Amount Per Serving
Calories from Fat: 239
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Russia is negotiating the delivery of more air defense systems to Iran in defiance of Western pressure to halt the move, an official says.
General Director of Russian arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, made the remark while talking to reporters at the Africa Aerospace & Defense-2008 (AAD-2008) exhibition near Cape Town in South Africa.
According to RIA Novosti, , Anatoly Isaikin added that contacts between Iran and Russia on the delivery of air defense systems are continuing and Moscow sees no reason to suspend the negotiation.
""Deliveries of Russian anti-aircraft weaponry to Iran were aimed exclusively at increasing its air defense capability and were not subject to international restrictions,"" he reiterated.
The report said that Iran recently took delivery of 29 Russian-made Tor-M1 air defense missile systems under a USD 700m contract signed in late 2005 and trained Iranian Tor-M1 specialists, including radar operators and crew commanders.
At the same time, Israel has urged Russia to halt its sale of advanced weapons to Iran and Syria.
This is while the U.S. and Israel have consistently refused to rule out the possibility of military action against Iran.
Iran, however, has denied reports that it has purchased the advanced Russian-made S-300 anti-aircraft defense system.
S-300 surface-to-air missiles could greatly improve Iranian defenses against any air strike on its strategically important sites, including nuclear facilities.
The advanced version of the S-300 missile system, called S-300PMU1 (SA-20 Gargoyle), has a range of over 150 km (100 miles) and can intercept ballistic missiles and aircraft at low and high altitudes, making the system an effective tool for warding off possible air strikes.
Tehran has carried out several high-profile war games this year, including a three-day series of Air Force and missile defense exercises on September 15-18 aimed at achieving preparedness against all possible threats.
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Le site officiel de l’Opéra de Paris : programmes du Palais Garnier et de l’Opéra Bastille (opéra, ballet, concert classique)
OK, I hope you are all watching! Le jeune homme et la mort was absolutely breathtaking! Bravo à Nicolas, bravo à Eleonora!
And Bolero would be even better. I promise… So, turn it on. NO EXCUSE!
Highlight for me the slap on the butt Mathieu Ganio gave to Audric Bezard in Caligula (technically he’s slapping his horse but it’s still funny to me ;D)
On more serious note, it’s nice to see POB School Italian student Francesco Mura in Bal des cadets solo as the drummer boy dancing with such great aplomb (beautiful turn-out and very good turns). I can’t imagine how daunting he must have felt to dance alone in the big Palais Garnier stage watched by all the etoiles, corps de ballet and the public (which include France prime minister, culture minister, justice minister).
I also love Le Jeune Homme et La Mort and Bolero (Nicolas is such a dramatic and intense dancer), the standing ovation at the end was very emotional more so with the appearance of Clause Bessy (!!!) former POB School director whom he studied under during his school year. I admit my throat tightened a bit when Nicolas and Sylvie hugged her.
Farewell Nicolas, you will be missed :(


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I love three day weekends. I love even more that I get three day weekends every other week. This is good. While I could certainly keep myself busy in the office with a for real full time schedule, my sanity benefits greatly from the extra day off. Rarely does that day (or some part of the three day weekend) go by without at least one phone call for some bit of something requiring me to fix it, but I still get to spend a good bit of those long weekends doing the things I love to do. This particular weekend, though, I think I hit a home run with all I packed into it.
As I’ve mentioned before, I do make a good effort to be a mostly monogamous knitter. I find it helps to keep me from becoming overwhelmed with PhD’s if I keep to a very limited number of projects on the needles. It’s usually one large, at home project, one on the go (sock) project and my EBI. Right now, I’ve added the Deranged Dad Socks to the list to be worked on as I see fit, no pressure of a deadline or even a finish line. There’s a new sock on the needles, the Winding Roads sock using a skein of Merino-Cashmere-Nylon from indigodragonfily in one of my very favorite color way names- Cute & Cuddly Mutant Zombie Squirrels of Doom. How do you not love that? I can’t. In fact, I keep giggling while I knit it. Which is probably not helping with that whole weird girl with the knitting image I seem to have acquired. Oh well.
The Winding Road socks were cast on because I finished my Boneyard last week. I used sock weight instead of the prescribed sport weight so my shawl is very light and airy. I think this will be perfect since my office is usually on the warm side. Finally figured out my dress form makes a perfect model for such things, too, so here you go- my Boneyard in Malabrigo Sock in Rayon Vert. It sort of makes me wish it was fall so I could wear it. But for now, a quick photo shoot and a tuck away into the closet with the rest of my Knit Ahead Season goodies will have to do.
Having finished my Bon Jovi Fish Hat (Not sure yet if it will be a live fish or a dead one, which lead BFF to name it the Bon Jovi fish- Dead or Alive. Get it? I am a lifer in the Bon Jovi fan club dating back to their earliest days when I was still in middle school. I can’t shake it. I just go with it now) I needed a new at home project, too. This one happened a bit by accident. There’s been a great deal of discussion of the Wingspan Shawl on Ravelry lately, one of those hot knits of the day sorts of deals, but this one didn’t really speak to me. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t something I needed to knit to be happy.
Then I stopped at Grafton Yarn Store on Friday- I needed some Cascade 220 in purple for the next Bon Jovi fish, and there it was… A store sample of Wingspan. And suddenly I understood what all the fuss was about. I caught the bug and I needed to knit one. SO I cast it on. It’s theoretically an Orgy of Greed gift for one of my nieces. More on the yarn and some pictures on Wednesday I think…
So there you’ve got the knitting part of my bicraftual weekend. That part shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Nor should the spinning part. The Tour de Fleece got my spinning mojo on and I really missed it during the Ravellenic Games- I didn’t enter the Handspun Heptethalon and we had no reenacting events so I hadn’t touched my wheel in a couple of weeks. I missed it. So this weekend I got to play a bit more with that. I finished what I deemed to be a reasonable bobbin full of a 70/30 wool silk blend, Navajo plied it and tossed it in the dye pot. This time I decided to try another new technique for gradient dying- wound the yarn into a cake then put it into the pot. Didn’t come out perfect, but I like it!
I also decided my second hand dyed skein from the Rav Games needed to revisit the dye pot or I just wasn’t going to be happy. So I stirred up something that seemed close for the deep purple, soaked the skein in the acid bath for several hours this time, gave it a much lighter twist than the last go around and tossed ‘er back in. and this time… LOVE. Really. Seriously LOVE. I think this along with the dove gray I spun during the TdF might become my Rockafeller Shawl.
I didn’t end up with quite as intense a dark purple the 2nd time around but I was sort of aiming for that- figured I didn’t want to “mess up” the color I already had so a little lighter wouldn’t adversely effect that and it still pleads nicely with the rest. Turns out the one photo I snapped shows more blue than purple but oh well. You’ll just have to wait for a knitted item to really see what it looks like. Wait. So do I!
So there… We’re up to three different crafts visited in one weekend- knitting, spinning and dying. Not really a surprise, these are pretty frequently visited projects round these parts. But here’s the deal. I didn’t stop there. I’ve spent the last couple of weekends tidying up the stash room and I got an urge. One I haven’t felt in a good long while. The one that had me… Wait for it… SEWING. Quilt blocks.
Crazy, right? I’ve been contemplating at least a light de-stash of my fabric hoard. I haven’t felt the urge to work on a quilt in months if not more than a year. But there it was. Last Wednesday was quilting night. I finished a shawl and worked on a hat. And I bought the 10th or 11th block for a block of the month quilt I signed up for last fall. Laughing with my SIL again about how I hadn’t touched a single block yet. But there it was. I wanted to sew. Specifically, I wanted to start the blocks for my Generals Wives quilt. So I did. I finished 4 blocks this weekend. And while in the grand scheme of a quilt 4 blocks barely scratches the surface, but considering how long it’s been since I’ve wanted to sew something, it felt pretty huge. It’s been quite some time since our bed was graced with a new quilt, maybe this one will finally be it.
So there you have it. A grand tour of my bicrafutalism. I think I hit every single one of my crafts of choice. I even did some cooking and baking. And I finished a book. And we saw fireworks. So pretty much all the highlights I could possibly have wanted to hit in a single weekend, I did! It was awesome! Just the thing a girl needs to recharge the batteries for another week of work. A full, five day week this time. I don’t love those near as much as the 4 dayers, but at least I am rested and relaxed. Which is all you can really ask for, right?


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The Hypocritical Charade of the Sea Shepherd Krill Fishery Campaign
The Sea Shepherd Australia and Global ship AllanKay (Formally the Austral Toothfish ship Corinthian Bay) arrived in Hobart this weekend for their “victory” tour after their donor funded hypocritical charade of a voyage to the Southern Ocean.
It was billed as the “Antarctic Defense Campaign” although it was really a Southern Ocean tourist and photography excursion.
All that money was spent on sending a ship and crew down to the Southern Ocean to take pictures and to document something that they already “documented” the year before in 2023 with the same ship duplicating what had previously been thoroughly documented by Greenpeace in 2018 and Nat Geo after that.
How many more expensively obtained photos of krill fishing boats in the process of fishing for krill are needed to demonstrate that krill fishing ships in the Southern Ocean are fishing for krill?
This is 2024, we can see these ships in real time from satellites. We know what they are doing. We have all the evidence, photos, and videos needed to educate the public about what they are doing.
I founded and established Sea Shepherd to take action, to stop destructive industries depleting diversity in the sea, not to snap pictures like a bunch of elite privileged tourists.
Sea Shepherd did nothing to block them, to stop them, or even to harass them. This is NOT the Sea Shepherd that I created. Led by deceitful backstabbers terrified of doing anything confrontational or controversial, they are now on this “victory” aka “fund-raising tour” of Australia to hustle bucks to support what has become their growing bureaucratic mediocre mainstream feel good business.
The biggest deception is not just that they did nothing and accomplished nothing, but they are hypocritically ignoring the involvement of their corporate partner and supporter Austral Fisheries in the very krill exploitation industry they are pretending to oppose.
Here is what they did: Sea Shepherd Australia Director Peter Hammarstedt led a campaign to document the destruction caused by the krill fishery in the Southern Ocean. Sea Shepherd Global and Sea Shepherd Australia sent a ship that they purchased at a discount from the Austral Fisheries Company. Austral Fisheries has a partnership with Sea Shepherd Australia and Sea Shepherd Global.
The largest Scottish salmon company LeRøy Seafood buys krill fish meal from Aker Biomarine.
Austral Fisheries buys salmon from Lerøy Seafood.
Aker BioMarine is the world’s largest Krill fishing company that produces the fish meal feed for LeRøy Seafood.
Krill caught and processed. into a fish meal by Aker BioMarine. Biomarine sells fish meal to LeRøy Seafood. LeRøy Seafood sells salmon to Austral Fisheries. Austral Fisheries is 50% owned by the huge Japanese fishing company Maruha Daichiro formally the Taiyo Fishing and Whaling Company.
Sea Shepherd Australia maintains that Austral Fisheries, their corporate partner is a sustainable fishing company.
So, what was the Sea Shepherd ship AllanKay doing taking pictures of krill fishing boats to demonstrate the destruction caused by the krill fishery when the krill is being processed by a company that helps to produce a product for Austral Fisheries, their corporate partner?
What this campaign does, a campaign that did not block, interfere with, or harass the krill fishing ships, is to deflect the association away from Austral Fisheries, because of course they are not involved. After all, Sea Shepherd Australia has given them the “sustainable” seal of approval.
This appears to be a situation very well played by Austral Fisheries and it all began in 2015 when Austral Fisheries had one of their Toothfish ships sidle up to the Sea Shepherd ships “Bob Barker” and “Sam Simon” off the coast of Africa while chasing the toothfish ship “Thunder” to demonstrate their “support” for Sea Shepherd.
This was followed by Austral Fisheries CEO David Carter using his political connections to get Australian tax charitable status for Sea Shepherd Australia followed by donations to Sea Shepherd Australia from Austral Fisheries.
When I began to question the relationship between Austral Fisheries and Sea Shepherd Australia, I, the founder of Sea Shepherd since 1977 was dismissed from the Sea Shepherd Australian Board of Directors.
I’m sure none of this will be mentioned during the current AllanKay fund-raising tour of Australia.
Captain Paul Watson was the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. He led many campaigns to the Southern Ocean to oppose Japanese whaling between 2002 and 2013. After being forced out of Sea Shepherd for being overly controversial, he established the Captain Paul Watson Foundation to continue the policy of “aggressive non-violence” that made Sea Shepherd famous and successful. Captain Watson continues to work with Sea Shepherd France and Brazil to aggressively oppose poaching on the high seas.
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During his working visit to Poland, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba held talks with Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau.
The heads of Ukrainian and Polish diplomacy discussed the Polish OSCE Chairmanship in 2022, threats of Nord Stream 2 to Europe’s energy security as well as a number of issues of bilateral cooperation.
“Nord Stream 2 undermines the security not only of Ukraine and Poland, but also of the entire Europe. Russia deliberately destabilizes gas supplies to the European consumers and creates chaos in the markets, making gas prices hike. Ukraine and Poland are ready to jointly combat threats to energy security and stability of the European continent,” Dmytro Kuleba underlined.
Ministers pointed out the importance of smoothly integrating the Ukrainian energy system into the European ENTSO-E.
Foreign Ministers paid special attention to the Polish OSCE Chairmanship in 2022. Zbigniew Rau assured that ending the Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict and the de-occupation of Crimea will remain among the key priorities of the Polish OSCE Chairmanship. The Polish Foreign Minister expressed his readiness to actively contribute to the implementation of the tasks of the Crimea Platform.
Dmytro Kuleba invited Zbigniew Rau to visit the contact line with the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions in his capacity as OSCE Chairman in early 2022.
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The Army is closing what its supporters say is one of the world’s great rocket science libraries in Alabama next week, and veterans of America’s space program are angry.
The Redstone Scientific Information Center (RSIC), a Redstone Arsenal repository of more than 200,000 books and 200,000 journals that dates to 1962, will cease to exist as a walk-in library Sept. 30, the Army says.
It will reopen as a “virtual” RSIC, the Army says, with “online-only access to scientific and technical journals and ebooks, plus a repository for electronic versions of technical documents.”
What will remain accessible is far from all that was stored in the three-floor library building on Redstone Arsenal, library users say. That includes books that date to 1962 and volumes written by Russian scientists as well as Americans.
“This is unique knowledge that doesn’t exist anywhere in the world,” retired software developer Elaine Woodling of Huntsville said this week.
Woodling said she understands the argument for using the building in another way. Tightened base security after 9/11 made RSIC harder for the public and college students to access, she said, and the Army needs space at the growing base.
“The problem is they decided to dispose of all these books instead of trying to find a place for them,” Woodling said. “This is not the decision someone would make who knew what books were there. This is a decision made by someone looking at a budget.”
Neither NASA nor the Army responded immediately to requests for comment Tuesday.
The decision to close was made early this year and posted on the aerospace blog Spaceref. But it is not believed widely known in Huntsville, where more than a few rocket Phds did their doctoral research among the library’s stacks.
Unconfirmed reports have some current Army and NASA managers sending teams to the library to check out selected books and stack them in conference rooms and out-of-the-way places for saving.
One project engineer posted in a group chat that RSIC “has been valuable to understand the basic equations of vibroacoustic modeling and see how others are using them. I don’t think these techniques are taught in college. In my job, historical data is absolutely a necessity.”
Another engineer in NASA management called RSIC “a world class technical library” and wrote “in my experience I haven’t found a library with even close to comparable resources over so many scientific and engineering disciplines.”
The books have been used by both the Army and NASA, and the library’s history dates to Dr. Wernher von Braun. When von Braun asked the Alabama Legislature in 1961 for the funds to establish a research institute in Huntsville, he told the lawmakers, “It’s the university climate that brings the business. It’s not water or real estate or cheap taxes that bring industry to a state or city. It’s brain power. Opportunity goes where the best people go, and the best people go where good education goes.”
Von Braun’s analysis proved as on target as his lunar lander. The research institute became the University of Alabama in Huntsville with a current enrollment of nearly 10,000, and Huntsville is one of the fastest-growing cities in the South.


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How to Time Travel in Animal Crossing: Time Travel is the best thing you can do to level up quickly. Some find it cheating while some find it fair to do time travel. It has been a controversial topic. The same applies to Animal Crossing, Nintendo has that it’s cheating to do time travel in Animal Crossing. Nintendo is even trying to remove this feature from the Animal Crossing game but players are loving it. Players are finding this feature helpful and don’t want Nintendo to remove this feature from the game.
No matter Time Travel is cheating or not but it’s fun. For some player, Time Travel is the most exciting feature of a game like Animal Crossing, and we find it helpful too, so we thought of writing a detailed article on How to Time Travel in Animal Crossing, If you are looking for the same it must be helpful for you too.
Assassin’s Creed community has also involved in this controversial topic. AC community also wants developers to remove this feature from the game because the community didn’t find this feature helpful. Nintendo and AC community has the same thoughts on this topic, but players who play the game don’t want this feature to be removed from the game.
There are mixed thoughts on this topic all over social media platforms like Twitter and Reddit. Forget about the positives and negatives and let’s follow the guide to time travel in animal crossing.
How to Time Travel in Animal Crossing
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Here is the complete guide on How to time travel in Animal Crossing in November 2020. Have a look at the guide:
- On the Nintendo Switch, just go to the Homepage menu and then head over to System Settings.
- On the left scroll down to the bottom and choose System.
- On the right-hand side scroll down and search for an option that says Date and Time and then select the option.
- Now you have to check whether the Sync Clock via the Internet is enabled or disabled, if it is disabled, please disable it.
- Now you have to select a time zone, you can choose any timezone you wish.
- Please note that after enabling this feature you have to load the game again and it is very risky and there is a chance that you might lose your in-game progress, you are only dependent on the autosave feature, if something happens you might not be able to get your progress back.
How to time travel in Animal Crossing: The Positives and Negatives
The time travel allows the player to:
- attend the events they like
- receive mail sooner
- receive interest from bank.
There are a lot more like-
- The new villager will be moved to a sooner
- Fruits on trees will grow faster
- Various item will be there at the stores
- Grass will regrow
- Ability to catch fish and bugs out-of-season
- Flower growth will speed up
- Trees will grow quicker
- Bushes will grow faster
- It will also allow the player to participate in his own birthday or the inhabitants as well as faster.
So these were all the Positive points if you do time travel in animal crossing, now let’s see the negatives.
- More weeds will be there.
- Flowers will shrink or might die.
- Phineas might not appear
- You might miss some item which is on sale in the game
- Your mailbox will be full which you have to make empty to receive more emails.
- If you travel forward in time more than a week then your hair will grow worse.
- Turnip price will be down.
- A cockroach might appear at your home.
- The villager will talk about the player, why he was away for so long.
So these were all the negatives of time traveling in animal crossing.
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The Netbook hardware is basically a small laptop that is designed for the Internet. Most users do not require the sophistication of a large computer, which is why the Netbooks do not typically include disk drives. When choosing an operating system, it is best to determine the experience level of the user. Some operating systems require significant configuration to work properly.
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The Valle de Sula is one of the longest-inhabited regions of Honduras . A village site excavated in the early 1990s along the Río Ulúa was dated to 1100–900 B.C. Little is known about the site’s builders, other than they had some apparent contact with the Olmecs of central Mexico, suggesting a fairly high degree of development.
The Maya are believed to have maintained settlements along the Valle de Sula, but their presence in what is modern-day Honduras was mainly limited to the region farther west and south, near the present Guatemalan border. The largest Indian settlement in the region, which the Spanish saw when they first penetrated the interior of Honduras, was at Naco, in a small valley on the south side of the Sierra Merendón from San Pedro.
La Villa de San Pedro was founded on June 27, 1536, by Pedro de Alvarado, conqueror of Guatemala, on the flat area of the Valle de Sula, far enough from the edges of the Ríos Chamelecón and Ulúa to protect the settlement from flooding. An early base of operations for the Spanish in their conquest of Honduras, San Pedro quickly faded in importance during the middle and late colonial period. After 1600, San Pedro was virtually abandoned, in part because of pirate and Indian attacks and also because colonists had moved on in the Spaniards’ search for gold and silver in the highlands.
During the later part of the colonial era, San Pedro was a base for local cattle-ranchers and a collection center for sarsaparilla, a root that grew wild in the region and at the time was considered a miracle drug by Europeans, who believed it cured venereal diseases.
In the mid-19th century, San Pedro’s fortunes took a turn for the better when commerce picked up at the port of Omoa , and San Pedro became a frequent stop-off point for goods on their way in or out of the country. But it was the growth of the banana industry and the reopening of Puerto Cortés  in the late 19th century that jump-started San Pedro’s economy, and it has continued growing steadily.

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How can you say that you had an "awesome" ski vacation when you are getting ready to ski at 9 a.m. and it is -27 outside? And we aren't talking wind chill here. How? Stay at Sno Summit and you will know why. We are avid skiers but also enjoy the great family time that comes with staying at Bpla. Sno Summit is made for that family time. It has great gathering spaces as well as nice private spaces. Plentiful bedrooms, bathrooms, a great area to put on/take off your gear, entertainment area (pool, shuffle board - both huge hits), fireplaces, two hot tubs, two refrigerators - I could go on. But you could do all that "stuff" on the cheap right? Not these owners. They pumped serious money into this place. You will find high end cabinetry, a huge wet bar with a granite surface, an outdoor hot tub that can keep warm even when it is -30 in the evening, I could go on.
We also found the staff at Big Powderhorn Lodging association so wonderful to work with again. They are there to ensure your vacation is great.
Things for the owner to consider investing in? Some new mattresses - especially for the queen/doubles. Most of the guests who had these bedrooms complained of "rolling into the middle of the mattress" - which speaks to a seriously worn out mattress. But that is my only recommendation. We booked again for next year.
Thanks for sharing your awesome place with us.
Another great family ski trip with great lodging at Sno Summirt
Left on 02/14/2014 for a stay in February 2014 | Cadman Family
After staying at several trail side lodging condos for the last 25 years, Sno Summit is our family favorite! Unfortunately, it is booked for next February. It is beautiful and so very comfortable with rooms galore for a large group. We appreciate the opportunity to have been able to stay and use the many amenities available. Great place!!
Excellent facility for large groups
Left on 01/30/2014 for a stay in January 2014 | Steve
We really like sno summit. It is ideal for the type of weekend we had planned - 10 people from work spent 3 nights and two days there. There was plenty of room to stretch out and little private areas if you needed to take a break. The two hot tubs - one inside and one outside are great. Also it was really clean and the staff did a great job preparing for our party. We loved it. Read more
Response from Big Powderhorn Lodging Association - 01/30/2014
Thank you for a wonderful review! We are so glad you enjoyed your stay and look forward to seeing you again soon!
Left on 01/29/2014 for a stay in January 2014 | Skibobs
My group has been coming to Big Powderhorn for 27 years. We've stayed in all kinds of chalets. From Snow Flake to SlopeSide and Weekend adjustment. This was by far the best unit on the hill. We are a large group of guys so we appreciated all the bedrooms. The pool table and shuffle board table were used non-stop. The hot tub as well. Pleanty of room to spread out. It doesn't hurt to have the best snow up there in a few years. Weather was great, Skiing was fantastic. I'm hoping to get this unit again next year.
One thing for the owners; we noticed a few of the kitchen chairs on both sides were a little shakey. We kept those off to the side so we wouldn't break any. I let the lodging association know about it already.
Thanks so much!
Fabulous, well appointed ski chalet
Left on 01/19/2014 for a stay in December 2013 | MLL
Sno Summit is the perfect layout for multiple families to share. A beautiful large great room with huge stone fireplace where everyone can watch the action on the slopes, along with two individual more intimate family rooms on the main level where Dad can watch the weather in one and the kids can watch cartoons in the other. Two kitchens are always an asset when feeding a large group. The lower level is great for kids, tweens or teens with two additional dens for watching TV or just a place to hang out away from Mom & Dad. The lower level also boasts the indoor hot tub and Sauna (an outdoor hot tub in its own 3 season porch is also located just off the great room on the main level). There were ample bedrooms and sleeping space. We love skiing at Powderhorn and appreciate owners who provide this level of accommodations for other guests to enjoy!
Bud and Janelle Cadman
Truly a five star rental unit!
Left on 03/14/2013 for a stay in February 2013 | Bud and Janelle Cadman
Our family has been staying at Powderhorn for over 20 years, and Sno Summit is the best. It is newly remodeled and accommodated our adult family and grandchildren. The two kitchens were a plus for our family. Although there is an inside hot tub, we still prefer dashing to the outside hot tub. The Bpla are very helpful and friendly. Great place to stay!
Left on 03/06/2013 for a stay in February 2013 | Matt"SkiingIsNotMy"Forte
I have to admit that I'm becoming my dad. I'm the guy who musters up complaints and tries to parlay them into discounts and freebies. I don't feel good about it. This property was perfect! We had a larger group (12-15) this year and the accommodations could not have been better. We look forward to doing it again next year.
I still wish I had someone of pinning my broken leg on...
Thanks for making our trip so uniquely at home.
Great for large groups
Left on 01/30/2013 for a stay in January 2013 | Family outing
We enjoyed our stay at Sno Summit over Martin Luther King weekend. It is a great location (ski in ski out) and is set up to accommodate multiple families. We had 10 teenagers and 2 sets of parents and we all had space to relax after a full day of skiing. We had a basketball game. a chick flick, and a kid movie all showing in different areas at one time with plenty of room for all. Both hot tubs,sauna and pool table were great amenities.
Lake Zurich, IL
The best place to ski in the Midwest!!
Left on 01/17/2013 for a stay in January 2013 | Kim P
We always take a chance by booking our Midwest ski trip over New Years. Can not count on the snow. Powderhorn did a great job of making snow and getting runs open so we could still ski in and out which is very important to us. We have been coming to Powderhorn for about 40 years almost consecutively. I learned to ski there and I taught my children to ski there! The best times of my life have been at Powderhorn. We stayed at snow summit this year. It was just remodeled and beautiful. Great location on the hill. After the huge addition we all wish that they would have opened up the kitchen area to one large kitchen instead of two small kitchens. We were never able to all eat together until we rearranged some furniture. We made it work and hope to rent it again.
Our vacation was great because our rental house was amazing.
Left on 01/02/2013 for a stay in December 2012 | Doni
This house is phenomenal...We stayed there 5 nights and it is like in the paradise. The house is huge with very comfortable 8 bedrooms. House is well designed 2 full kitchens and has a gas fire place and a flat screen TV almost everywhere in the house. They have added a actual bar and a 42" flat screen in the main living room, the bar is equipped with everything that you need to mix your favorite, also the bar is equipped with different drink glasses (Wine, shots, mix drinks, cocktails etc ). The open air outside hot tub is the best it is located outside the main living room/bar and they come clean it every day. We went there with 5 other couples and kids so I highly recommend this house and would go back again. Well worth every single penny. Read more
Response from Big Powderhorn Lodging Association - 01/03/2013
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ERIA Experts Discuss ASEAN Integration with Viet Nam PM and DPM
A delegation of experts from the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) led by ERIA President, Prof Hidetoshi Nishimura, paid a courtesy visit to the Prime Minister of Viet Nam H.E. Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and attended a roundtable discussion with Deputy Prime Minister H. E. Vương Đình Huệ in Hanoi on 18 July 2017.
Prof Nishimura delivered the introductory remarks in which he briefly explained the background of ERIA, including the fact that the first Chairman of ERIA, Dr Dinh Van An, was the president of the Viet Nam's Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM).
In addition, Prof Nishimura praised the hard work of ASEAN Secretary General H.E. Ambassador Lê Lương Minh, who also attended the meeting, in developing the ASEAN Community 2015 and the blueprint for ASEAN Community 2025. Prof Nishimura expressed ERIA's readiness to support Viet Nam as the Chair of ASEAN in 2020, when the ASEAN Community would have been effective for five years and the member states are gearing up towards further consolidation and stronger cohesiveness in ASEAN Community 2025.
Prime Minister Phúc stated that connectivity among ASEAN member states is crucial and emphasised that ERIA's research has contributed to ASEAN development and integration efforts.
During the roundtable discussion, ERIA Senior Economist Dr Ponciano S. Intal, Jr. and Senior Policy Fellow Tan Sri Datuk Dr Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria briefed Deputy PM Huệ on various issues related to ASEAN integration and what Viet Nam can do in order to take advantage of the deeper integration of the region. Representatives of the Viet Nam business community also attended the discussion.
In closing, Deputy PM Huệ expressed his appreciation for ERIA's expert advice, stating that amidst Viet Nam's international integration efforts and in the context of current global economic and political conditions, Viet Nam benefits greatly from the assistance from international organisations like ERIA. Prof Nishimura responded by reiterating ERIA's support for the government of Viet Nam.


Say what you will about its rather erm… bold face, but BMW’s latest 7 Series has finally landed on our local shores and beyond that interestingly striking aesthetic lies BMW’s latest executive flagship packed full of their latest
We can’t tell you how they will drive yet but being a BMW, there’s no doubt those sitting in the driver’s seat will be any less entertained than those being cosseted in the rear. And yes, those are laser lights.
The new 7 will be initially offered in 4 variants. The 730Li, 740Li, 740Li “Visionary” spec and the all wheel drive hybrid 745Le xDrive.


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Anti-obesity program doesn't help teen girls: study
By Genevra Pittmann
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 09 - An intensive obesity-prevention program for Australian girls didn't lead to any improvements in their diet, physical activity or body weight a year later, according to a new report.
Findings from the school-based intervention, which involved exercise sessions and nutrition workshops for lower-income girls, are the latest disappointment in a slew of research attempting to head-off adult obesity -- and the disease risks that come with it.
Especially during the middle- and high-school years, girls' physical activity declines dramatically, according to lead researcher Dr. David Lubans, from the University of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia.
"We were fighting against a range of psychological, sociological, environmental and biological barriers," he told Reuters Health in an email.
In the future, he added, "we need to make the programs more appealing and exciting and present information in a way that is meaningful to adolescent girls."
Dr. Lubans and his colleagues conducted their study in 12 schools in low-income areas of New South Wales. All in all, they randomly assigned 357 eighth-grade girls either to an intensive program at school or to a control group.
At the start of the study, girls in both groups weighed an average of close to 130 pounds, with about 40% considered overweight or obese.
Adolescents in the intervention group were given pedometers to encourage walking and running and invited to nutrition workshops and regular exercise sessions during the school day and at lunchtime.
Participation in some of those activities was less than ideal. For example, the girls went to only one-quarter of optional lunchtime exercise sessions, and less than one in ten completed at-home physical activity or nutrition challenges, the researchers reported May 7th in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
At the end of the year, girls in both groups had gained a similar amount of weight and there was no difference in their average body fat -- about 33%.
The participants also gave similar answers on surveys of how much exercise they got and how much they ate, as well as on measures of self-esteem.
Only "screen time" was significantly lower in the intervention group after a year -- by about half an hour per day.
Preventive medicine researcher Dr. Robert Klesges, from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, said that although some anti-obesity programs have helped adults lose weight, the teen population has consistently been a source of frustration for researchers.
"The common belief is: nothing works," he said. "And we've got to get beyond that."
Dr. Klesges and his colleagues also found "bupkis" (i.e., nothing) when they tested group behavioral counseling covering physical activity and healthy eating in hopes of preventing obesity in younger African American girls.
"We need to think outside the box," Dr. Klesges, who wasn't involved in the new study, told Reuters Health.
That could include learning from what has worked in adult studies, such as giving meal replacement drinks or prepared foods to teens who have trouble making changes to their diet.
Or, it could mean using a "step-care" approach where young people who are still having trouble eating better and losing weight after a few months are given more intensive help -- rather than researchers or their doctor telling them to keep doing the same thing, Dr. Klesges said.
SOURCE: Preventing Obesity Among Adolescent Girls
One-Year Outcomes of the Nutrition and Enjoyable Activity for Teen Girls (NEAT Girls) Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
David R. Lubans, PhD; Philip J. Morgan, PhD; Anthony D. Okely, EdD; Deborah Dewar, BEd; Clare E. Collins, PhD; Marijka Batterham, PhD; Robin Callister, PhD; Ronald C. Plotnikoff, PhD
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. Published online May 7, 2012. doi:10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.41
Objective To evaluate the impact of a 12-month multicomponent school-based obesity prevention program, Nutrition and Enjoyable Activity for Teen Girls among adolescent girls.
Design Group randomized controlled trial with 12-month follow-up.
Setting Twelve secondary schools in low-income communities in the Hunter and Central Coast regions of New South Wales, Australia.
Participants Three hundred fifty-seven adolescent girls aged 12 to 14 years.
Intervention A multicomponent school-based intervention program tailored for adolescent girls. The intervention was based on social cognitive theory and included teacher professional development, enhanced school sport sessions, interactive seminars, nutrition workshops, lunch-time physical activity sessions, handbooks and pedometers for self-monitoring, parent newsletters, and text messaging for social support.
Main Outcome Measures Body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared), BMI z score, body fat percentage, physical activity, screen time, dietary intake, and self-esteem.
Results After 12 months, changes in BMI (adjusted mean difference, –0.19; 95% CI, –0.70 to 0.33), BMI z score (mean, –0.08; 95% CI, –0.20 to 0.04), and body fat percentage (mean, –1.09; 95% CI, –2.88 to 0.70) were in favor of the intervention, but they were not statistically different from those in the control group. Changes in screen time were statistically significant (mean, –30.67 min/d; 95% CI, –62.43 to –1.06), but there were no group by time effects for physical activity, dietary behavior, or self-esteem.
Conclusions A school-based intervention tailored for adolescent girls from schools located in low-income communities did not significantly reduce BMI gain. However, changes in body composition were of a magnitude similar to previous studies and may be associated with clinically important health outcomes.
Trial Registration anzctr.org.au Identifier: 12610000330044
Author Affiliations: Schools of Education (Drs Lubans, Morgan, and Plotnikoff and Mrs Dewar), Health Sciences (Dr Collins), and Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy (Dr Callister), Priority Research Centre in Physical Activity and Nutrition, University of Newcastle, Newcastle; and Interdisciplinary Educational Research Institute (Dr Okely), and Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology, (Dr Batterham), University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia.


Tempers boiled over between Merrillville’s Town Council and Clerk-Treasurer over raises the Clerk-Treasurer wants to give her staff.
Kelly White Gibson became furious at the Town Council during its September 28 council meeting when the body voted once again to table a salary ordinance in which she would give the money set aside for her raise this year to her employees. Councilman Leonard White, D-7, attempted to put the ordinance back in play, but the vote on that motion came down to three “yes” votes, one “no” vote and three abstentions.
“I got assurances from you and Mr. Hardaway that this would get taken care of,” she said to Council President Rick Bella. “You assured me.”
Bella contended that per the town’s financial advisor Trista Hudson, the town doesn’t have the funds to do what she wants. Hudson further explained that the money White Gibson believes she has comes from a short window when an employee left and White Gibson didn’t fill the spot right away.
“So you want to give these employees the equivalent of a two-month raise?” Hudson said.
White Gibson reiterated that she was also using the money that was set aside for her own raise to pay the new employees, who’ve taken on more responsibilities with the Dean and Barbara White Community Center and came into Town Hall during the pandemic to work when other departments didn’t. She was given funding to increase her own salary to $75,000 from $60,500 for 2022, she said.
Additionally, she pointed out that her department is its own office where she’s the sole administrator and doesn’t have to consult the town.
Council members and White Green then argued over where the votes on the ordinance fell. White Gibson and White argued that the three abstentions didn’t count toward the vote, yet a majority of four still voted; Councilman Sean Pettit, D-6, argued they would’ve needed four “yes” votes to pass the ordinance.
In other business, Bella said council representatives will be setting up a meeting with the new property owner of Vita Luxury Apartments, 8400 Grant Circle, to discuss their rental practices. The property owners have started updating the apartments, resident Ernestine Barnes said, but with those renovations have come exorbitant rent hikes.
“They call them ‘luxury apartments’ now, and they’re calling $1,575 ‘standard market rent,’ not including amenities,” Barnes said. “They’re trying to get us all on the same leasing schedule, so they’ll extend a lease for only six months. Then they renovate the apartments when people move, but why won’t they renovate the apartments of people still living there? I’m sure it’s because they’re trying to force us out.
“The seniors are packing up because they can’t afford it. Can anything be done?”
Michelle L. Quinn is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.


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Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 2016 07 2622(36) 12916-30 doi 10.1002/chem.201601468
The CXCR4 chemokine receptor is implicated in a number of diseases including HIV infection and cancer development and metastasis. Previous studies have demonstrated that configurationally restricted bis-tetraazamacrocyclic metal complexes are high-affinity CXCR4 antagonists. Here, we present the synthesis of Cu(2+) and Zn(2+) acetate complexes of six cross-bridged tetraazamacrocycles to mimic their coordination interaction with the aspartate side chains known to bind them to CXCR4. X-ray crystal structures for three new Cu(2+) acetate complexes and two new Zn(2+) acetate complexes demonstrate metal-ion-dependent differences in the mode of binding the acetate ligand concomitantly with the requisite cis-V-configured cross-bridged tetraazamacrocyle. Concurrent density functional theory molecular modelling studies produced an energetic rationale for the unexpected [Zn(OAc)(H2 O)](+) coordination motif present in all of the Zn(2+) cross-bridged tetraazamacrocycle crystal structures, which differs from the chelating acetate [Zn(OAc)](+) structures of known unbridged and side-bridged tetraazamacrocyclic Zn(2+) -containing CXCR4 antagonists.


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Two sanitation workers were injured Tuesday when the truck they were riding on backed into a box truck in Pinebluff.
Emergency responders were dispatched at 12:22 pm to a reported accident involving two large trucks on East New England Avenue near the corner of South Apple Street.
According to law enforcement officials the garbage truck was backing down New England Avenue to pick up trash from houses when it struck a box truck that was parked in front of a house.
The two workers on the rear of the garbage truck reportedly realized that the accident was about to happen and were able to take evasive action to help prevent them from receiving serious injuries.
Both men were transported by ambulance to FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst with injuries reported as not life threatening.
The box truck was unoccupied at the time of the accident as it sat parked while workers were installing a HAVC system at a house on New England Avenue.
The injured workers were employed by a private contractor, Roberson Unique, which provides sanitation collection services for the Town of Pinebluff.
Responding to the accident were units with Pinebluff Fire & Rescue, Aberdeen Fire & Rescue, Moore County EMS, and the Pinebluff Police Department.


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Offering barbecue facilities and garden view, Kiama Beach Cottage at Easts Beach is located in Kiama, 14 miles from Shellharbour City Stadium and 14 miles from Historical Aircraft Restoration Society Museum. The air-conditioned accommodation is 12 miles from Jamberoo Action Park, and guests benefit from private parking available on site and free WiFi. The vacation home features 2 bedrooms, a TV and a fully equipped kitchen that provides guests with a microwave, a fridge, a washing machine, an oven and a stovetop. Nan Tien Temple is 26 miles from the vacation home, while WIN Stadium is 24 miles away. The nearest airport is Shellharbour Airport, 14 miles from Kiama Beach Cottage at Easts Beach.
If you want to take advantage of our offer, you can check in in hours:
The check-out times are as follows:
Kitchen with equipment at your disposal:
- High chair
- Coffee machine
- Electric kettle
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There is a bathroom at your disposal with:
The amenities in our rooms are as follows:
- Private entrance
- Ironing facilities
- Air conditioning
We invite you to book your accommodation.


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