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Now, as we all know the government policies are getting strict (especially the GMADA action taken by the Mohali Development Authority), is really a good and smart move for making the city safe from any kind of nuisance being created or any kind of crime taking place in the city from any kind of outsider living in the Paying Guest Accommodations which are unregistered.
So, for that reason the policies against the paying guest accommodation have been amended and we would like to give you a brief of that.
- So, first of all it should be clear that Paying Guest accommodation is a place( room, which is single of shared) where any person can stay for a specific period of time with the owner’s permission.
- The owner cannot make the paying guest go out of the place without any notice. He should inform him/her in advance.
- The owner of the paying guest accommodation must be the owner or member of the house living there.
- The owner should maintain proper cleanliness at his place for the guests.
- 50 sq. ft shall be the minimum area that can be used by any of the paying guest staying at the place.
- 7½ Marla shall be the minimum area of the paying guest accommodation and some part of it must be used by the owner itself.
- The residential properties which are sanctioned as per building Bye-laws can have the PGs only.
- There must be discipline, peace and harmony at the PG which is for the welfare of the whole society and all of these things should be looked after by the owner itself.
- List of paying guests living in the house/accommodation shall be provided to the concerned SHO of the area by the owner of the place.
- Information about available and occupied accommodation shall also be provided by the owner to the concerned SHO along with the current tariff plan.
- Proper police verification must be done of all the candidates with their legal IDs.
Now Some Policies That Should Be Followed By The Paying Guest
- The paying guest himself has to take care of the behaviour and ethics so that there must be proper peace and discipline at the place where he is staying.
- The paying guest should not be indulged in any kind of illegal activities inside the accommodation.
- He must submit his proper ids and contact number of his/her guardian to the owner as it may be needed in case of emergencies.
- No candidate can run his/her own kitchen at the paying guest accommodation.
Some Other Important Policies
- The paying guest accommodation shall be open and transparent with regard to all the documentation and rules to be obliged.
- If there is any kind of fraud of fault from the accommodation’s end, the GMADA may stop that accommodation for any further use.
- All the rules laid by the government should be strictly followed otherwise it may lead to cancellation of license of the PG.


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Life Goes On
In the wake of tragedies, I always struggle with how life just continues as if nothing happened. In the recent weeks, our world has experienced multiple hurricanes that have caused devastation for thousands of people. The natural disasters took many lives and destroyed countless homes and communities. As the hurricanes hit, we thought about the victims when we received breaking news updates on our phones or when we received emails with ways to donate. Outside of these times, most of us continued with our days as usual – going to class, eating meals with friends, studying in the library, going out, etc. In the days and weeks following the hurricanes, the plight of those affected no longer crossed our minds. Life went back to ‘normal’. Meanwhile, the victims were just beginning to deal with the devastation from the hurricanes, which they’ll continue to deal with for months if not years. Is it fair for us to simply move on with our lives while thousands of people are struggling to rebuild their lives? No, it is not fair. But, at the same time, what can we actually do to help? Not everyone can drop everything and travel to Houston, Miami, Puerto Rico, or the Dominican Republic to provide aid on the ground. So is there any point to dwelling in sadness if we cannot or will not offer help?
Even more recently (earlier this week), the worst mass shooting in US history occurred, killing 59 people and injuring hundreds more. Many people were missing in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, causing their family and friends to worry frantically about their well-being. I cannot fathom what it would be like to anxiously wait next to the phone, convincing myself that any answer is better than not knowing. Anyone would agree this situation is devastating and would hopefully express sympathy towards those experiencing it. However, in the last couple days very few of us have taken the time to think about the people affected by or the causes behind the massacre. In the 48 hours since the shooting, my daily routine has not changed: I have carried on with my normal schedule, attending to my own needs and problems – which seem so miniscule and trivial in hindsight. What’s even more discouraging is that I’ve had only three conversations about the incident. Why do so few of us seem to be affected by this incident? Have we become numb to these events because they happen so often? Or do we not consider the events important because they may not directly affect us?
Regardless, people are dying because of these incidents. Dismissing an event as “just another shooting” that didn’t affect us perpetuates the future occurrence of such violent acts. The United States in the only developed country that has mass shootings occurring over and over again. We keep refusing to analyze what it is about our government that enables these shootings to continue happening. We keep refusing to address our devastating lack of gun control legislation. What tragic event will it take to finally pull us from our daily routines and force us to take action towards ending these massacres?
I’m scared to find out.

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“I was over here two years ago with Matthew Macklin,” explained Gallagher last month, as he prepared for another busy day at the gym located on the corner of Sunset and Vine. “He was getting ready for the Darren Barker fight and I just seen what was going on here at the Wild Card and I’ve got a lot of kids this year that we’re breaking into championship class and I wanted to know before we went to ‘war’ as I call it, what they were like out of the comfort zone. Because I’ve got a lot of good six, eight-round fighters now that will become 10, 12 [round] fighters and by coming to the Wild Card, I’ll take them out of the comfort zone in sparring good fighters.
“Scott Cardle sparred Ray Beltran yesterday. Liam Smith sparred [Wale] ‘Lucky Boy’ [Omotoso], who’s 23-0. Liam’s only had 11 fights. They handled themselves very well. It gives them the confidence when they go back to know, ‘We don’t need to be intimidated.’”
In many respects, what Gallagher did with his team (and like the old, vintage Kronk led by Emanuel Steward, they believe in being a tight, close-knit unit, also believing in a certain kind of unity in what is the ultimate individual sport) is very similar to what many NFL teams do in scrimmaging with other squads for a few days during training camp. Liam “Beefy” Smith, a 10-0-1 junior middleweight with five knockouts to his credit, remarked to Maxboxing, “It’s exactly what we come for, the sparring at the gym. They’re all top kids, Peter Quillin, Paulie Malignaggi; you got Shane Mosley in here. It’s what you can’t get back home. I’d love to come again.”
Smith, who was scheduled to fight this Friday night back home in the United Kingdom, admitted there was a different energy being at a foreign gym that is star-studded. “When I first walked in here, I said to Joe, ‘I feel the nerves when I walk into the venue as a fighter. When we box at home, we have someone going into the changing rooms and like, ‘Liam, you got like eight minutes; you’ve got five minutes,’ and when Freddie came over and said to me, ‘You’re doing three more [rounds],’ it just felt exactly the same.”
Scott Cardle, a light welterweight with a mark of 4-0 (1), said of this experience, “I’m loving it; I’m just learning every day really. It’s been a target for me to come over to Los Angeles, see what kind of training they do over here. So as soon as I get here the first day, I just loved it, the atmosphere, everything about it.”
Back in the U.K., they are situated at Amir Khan’s gym in Bolton. Gallagher decided it was time for he and his lads to hit the road and expand their horizons. Boxing is boxing. In many ways, it’s the same across the world - but also very different at the same time. Every gym has a unique personality and culture, not to mention the caliber of prizefighters who inhabit it. “Boxing is a global sport but it’s a village; everybody knows everybody and that’s the thing with the personalities I’m developing with some of my fighters. You’ve got to understand; my fighters, I see them when they come into the gym, three, four hours a day. But having to live with them for two weeks, I’m learning more about them and the mental aspects and how things poke them and how things don’t poke them. It’s given me a great insight into them as people, themselves.”
For the first few days in Hollywood, this crew was lodged next door at the Vagabond Inn but eventually they rented a house in Woodland Hills.
Gallagher makes it clear, “These kids and myself, we paid for this out of our own pocket. There’s been no sponsors; this is all self-funded, just for them to better themselves and better myself.” He says when he made plans for this extended stay in So Cal that, “Definitely, there’s one or two that wanted to stay home; there’s one or two that had just had children. But listen, they were all for it. It’s the Wild Card; we all watch [HBO’s] ‘24/7.’ Paul Smith was obviously on ‘The Contender’; Scott Quigg’s been over here before. But for the rest of them like Anthony Crolla, who’s British champion and he fought [Juan Montiel] on the [Floyd] Mayweather [vs. Victor Ortiz] undercard last time out, it’s the first time he’s been over here. So he’ll get to pull his teeth with the big boys.”
Smith, who trained in the past in Vero Beach, Florida at the gym of Buddy McGirt, says he was more than willing to hit the road. “I was happy. I mean, ever since ‘The Contender,’ I haven’t had a chance to get back to Los Angeles. I met a lot of good people when I was on ‘The Contender’ and I wanted to get back to Los Angeles as much as I could.”
Others admit to being just a tad starstruck over the surroundings.
“Wow, were going to see the lads in the Wild Card, all the famous boxers,” was the initial reaction of lightweight hopeful Callum Johnson. “I’ve been lucky enough to meet Freddie Roach, Shane Mosley, Paulie Malignaggi. We’ve seen some of the stars walking around L.A. and things like that. Just that side of things - oh my God - and then to come in the gym and watch them boys train and be in their presence. I looked up to Shane Mosley as a kid, watching him fight and I’m training on the bag and he’s standing on the side of me. It’s surreal and I’m enjoying it.”
But this wasn’t about reuniting with past associates or taking photos with future Hall-of-Famers but bettering themselves as boxers and getting a look at a higher caliber of fighter. If there’s one thing the Wild Card can provide is quality sparring from flyweight to heavy. There aren’t a lot of easy days at this gym.
“You come out of your comfort zone and it’s not like everyone in this gym is out to prove a point; they all want to be the best. So you’re training and sparring against top fighters. There’s more quality fighters in this gym and totally different styles that a lot of us haven’t come up against,” said Quigg, who has the look of a future world champion at 122 pounds and beyond. And he notes that he’s far from being the only foreigner to walk through these doors. “I fought an Argentinean, a Venezuelan; they’re totally different styles. So coming over here, you’re sparring, gaining experience and you can always stand in good stead.” Quigg, who faces Rendall Munroe again in November, didn’t have to be asked twice to return. “I was buzzing, me” he said, “I’ve been out here twice before and it’s done me a world of good and coming out again is only going to help me even more.”
So what’s the contrast between fighters in the States and those in England?
According to Johnson, “The boxers are very different. Obviously, there’s different styles all over the world and coming to America, the fighters are very explosive, very fast hands. To see how they train here and how they go about the work, it’s good to see and it’s been a good experience so far for me and I’m really enjoying it.”
Right now, these young prizefighters are like exchange students studying abroad.
“Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking,” agreed Cardle (who calls the Wild Card “the most famous gym in the world.”), “because I’m learning different things every day. I’m going in with different boxers every day. I’m learning with the likes of Ray Beltran. It’s a great experience for me.” Smith added, “It’s always great coming in, sparring fresh opponents. You literally got to fight to survive in there. So it’s good hard sparring.”
There’s no doubt about it; you can get a bit complacent sparring the same boxers over a certain period of time. And what do they say about iron sharpening iron? Sparring can only be as beneficial as the quality of boxers you’re in with. Quigg doesn’t disagree with this theory, “If you stay home, you can get stale a bit. It’s the same surroundings and you’ve got to test your limits. You’ve got to get out of your comfort zone, go out and test how good you are, go and fight the best, go and spar the best. It’s how you get on; this is what makes boxing the best sport in the world, I think.”
This is every bit the opportunity for the trainer to learn a few things.
“I don’t pretend to know everything but one thing I’m willing to do is watch and learn and listen,” said Gallagher, who will be busy in the upcoming days, weeks and months with his fighters. “And the same with my fighters and all I try to do is become the best coach I can be so that enables my fighters to be the best they can be, being in this type of environment.”
According to Keith Kizer of the NSAC, all the fighters (except for Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.) passed their drug tests for their respective bouts last weekend in Las Vegas...The replay of last week’s bout between Sergio Martinez and Chavez Jr. will air on HBO tonight at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT, followed by “The Fight Game with Jim Lampley” at 10:35 p.m. (which has lowered its standards to a point where I will be a guest on this edition)...According to HBO PPV, the Martinez-Chavez bout procured around 475,000 buys which, if not a grand slam, is at least a three-run homer...Here’s a link to what was an entertaining segment on ESPN’s “First Take,” where Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez paid a visit to Bristol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g14oXymO9s&feature=youtu.be. I’m surprised Skip Bayless didn’t ask either about Tim Tebow...The November 16th edition of “ShoBox” will feature Omar Henry...The NSAC announced that the September 8th bout at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas between Lucas Matthysse and Olusegun Ajose sold 377 tickets with 1336 unsold and 810 comps for a total gate of $65,675...Did you see the latest episode of “Real Sports” on HBO? Geez, when did ‘Niners fans go all Raider Nation?...Can the ’Canes keep it close versus GaTech?...The game I’m most looking forward to in college football is Clemson vs. FSU...I can be reached at email@example.com and I tweet at www.twitter.com/stevemaxboxing. We also have a Facebook fan page at www.facebook.com/MaxBoxing, where you can discuss our content with Maxboxing readers as well as chime in via our fully interactive article comments sections.


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From Mrs. Nellie Redicker, February, 1982
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The collection is composed of various documents relating to the Mother’s Study Club of Galesburg, dating from the years 1925 to 1984.
Dates: February, 1982

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2nd Chance 4 Life Rescue is primarily a sanctuary for senior and medically needy dogs. Every once in awhile you will see younger dogs but for the most part our dogs live out their life at the ranch at the request of their previous owners or their owners families. We have many sponsorship dogs. Our sponsors love to keep in touch and know how their sponsored fur buddy is doing :) When we have foster families we are thrilled to be able to take adoptable younger dogs :) So if you have ever thought about becoming fosters please feel free to go to our foster/volunteer page and fill out an application. The Ranch located at 737 Taylor Rd., Windsor, PA is always looking for dedicated volunteers that will commit to at least a 2 hour shift per week at the rescue. Volunteers work in play yards, help with laundry and feeding. Some enjoy landscaping or carpentry projects and some like to bake for the healing center visitors :) Thank you for supporting our mission of caring for the elderly and medically needy souls that need us!
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VOL. 126 | NO. 97 | Wednesday, May 18, 2011
House Votes to Set Later Start Date for Schools
NASHVILLE (AP) – The House has passed a bill to require that the school year could no longer start before the fourth Monday in August, but not before lawmakers adopted changes to exempt dozens of counties.
The measure sponsored by Democratic Rep. John Deberry of Memphis ultimately passed 71-23 after extensive debate on Monday evening. The bill was opposed by 11 Republicans, 11 Democrats and one independent.
The measure now heads back to the Senate to try to reconcile differences between the two versions.
The upper chamber passed its version of the bill on a 24-5 vote last week.
Republican Rep. Richard Montgomery of Sevierville said enacting the bill would promote tourism in Tennessee and standardize the school calendar around the state.
Online: Read SB1471 at: www.capitol.tn.gov
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Virtus Investment Partners Inc. (VRTS) Shares Gap Up to $74.87
Virtus Investment Partners Inc. (NASDAQ:VRTS) gapped up prior to trading on Friday . The stock had previously closed at $74.44, but opened at $74.87. Virtus Investment Partners shares last traded at $77.35, with a volume of 24,285 shares.
Several equities research analysts have recently issued reports on VRTS shares. Sandler O’Neill lowered their target price on shares of Virtus Investment Partners from $91.00 to $71.00 in a report on Tuesday, April 12th. Zacks Investment Research raised shares of Virtus Investment Partners from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Wednesday, May 11th. Finally, Jefferies Group downgraded shares of Virtus Investment Partners from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and reduced their price target for the stock from $99.00 to $74.00 in a research note on Thursday, March 10th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating and four have given a hold rating to the stock. Virtus Investment Partners currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $100.75.
The company’s 50-day moving average is $77.41 and its 200 day moving average is $84.21. The company has a market cap of $637.49 million and a P/E ratio of 24.12.
Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ:VRTS) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Friday, April 29th. The closed-end fund reported $1.12 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.08 by $0.04. The business earned $80.30 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $81.08 million. The firm’s quarterly revenue was down 22.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $2.11 EPS. Equities research analysts anticipate that Virtus Investment Partners Inc. will post $5.15 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Other hedge funds have bought and sold shares of the company. California State Teachers Retirement System boosted its stake in Virtus Investment Partners by 1.2% in the fourth quarter. California State Teachers Retirement System now owns 12,648 shares of the closed-end fund’s stock valued at $1,486,000 after buying an additional 145 shares during the period. Rhumbline Advisers boosted its stake in Virtus Investment Partners by 3.4% in the fourth quarter. Rhumbline Advisers now owns 13,142 shares of the closed-end fund’s stock valued at $1,544,000 after buying an additional 433 shares during the period. Matarin Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in Virtus Investment Partners during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $1,934,000. First Trust Advisors LP boosted its stake in Virtus Investment Partners by 3.9% in the fourth quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 24,959 shares of the closed-end fund’s stock valued at $2,932,000 after buying an additional 941 shares during the period. Finally, New York State Common Retirement Fund boosted its stake in Virtus Investment Partners by 9.1% in the fourth quarter. New York State Common Retirement Fund now owns 26,495 shares of the closed-end fund’s stock valued at $3,112,000 after buying an additional 2,199 shares during the period.
Virtus Investment Partners, Inc is a provider of investment management and related services to individuals and institutions. The Company provides its products in various forms and through multiple distribution channels. Its retail products include open-end mutual funds, closed-end funds, exchange traded funds, variable insurance funds, undertakings for collective investments in transferable securities (UCITS) and separately managed accounts.
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Hiking The Sierra High Route
On this burly, 210-mile traverse, which crosses 33 passes and barely touches established trails, you can find Alaska-sized scenery, complete solitude, and just enough risk to keep things interesting.
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North Palisade, California’s third highest peak – Photos by Steve Howe
Minaret Lake beneath the Ritter Range
Descending Mt. Conness
Campsite below Cirque Pass
Think you can’t find life-altering adventure in the Lower 48? Think again. Right under Yosemite’s nose is an extra-burly route that gave our battle-scarred veteran more than he bargained for: more scenery, more solitude, and more jaw-tightening risk. Join him on an Alaska-size trek across a landscape of irresistible power.
The pond is so blue I can’t tell if I’m descending to a lake or climbing out of a hole into the sky. The question doesn’t even seem weird to my oxygen-starved brain, still ditzy from clambering across 11,500-foot Red Pass. I’ve barely begun this trek, and already things are feeling surreal. They don’t get any more normal once I reach the uncanny blue oval, its translucent sapphire water so clear I can see 20 feet down.
I strip for a quick baptism to wash off the 6,400 feet of climbing and five passes I’ve crossed since joining the Sierra High Route at Kings Canyon two days ago. The cold slap of September-cool water reorients me. The map says this is Marion Lake, at mile 23. Only 160 miles to go.
Conceived by climber Steve Roper in 1977 and first published in his book Sierra High Route: Traversing Timberline Country, the SHR is a classic mountain journey similar to the John Muir Trail (JMT), but with a huge difference: It touches trails only grudgingly, and it rarely dips below 10,000 feet. Steep, rocky, and often hazardous, it’s thru-hiked only half a dozen times each year and requires more self-reliance and routefinding skill than the average trail hiker possesses.
Yet every inch is also achingly beautiful. Since I left Road’s End in Kings Canyon, I’ve been staggered by the flower-filled meadows, skyscraping cirques, and clear streams flowing over polished granite slabs. If there’s a Shangri-La in the Lower 48, the Sierra may be it. And if there’s a Shangri-La in the Sierra, the lake I’m crawling out of might get my vote.
The window of my Torrey, Utah, office looks out on a hedgerow. It’s thick and impenetrably green, another one of those ridiculously effective barriers of suburban chlorophyll. Somewhere behind it is the red uplift of Capitol Reef National Park, but in the months before I hit the SHR I’d been too boxed in–by shrubbery and deadlines–to get out into it. By summer’s end, thick around the middle from too little activity and too many nachos, I needed to escape.
I picked the SHR because I’d heard it was long and solitary, a perfect filter for civilization’s toxins. A few calls turned up a reputation for brutal topography, but the warning barely registered. I’d hiked the hardest trails in America’s wildest parks, and–humility be damned–I didn’t find much challenge in them anymore. Sure, pockets of tough terrain exist, especially if you like bushwhacking, but I subscribed to the notion that the Sierra was a thousand miles too far south for true adventure. Need your ass kicked and your soul cleansed? Better go to Alaska.
Or so I thought. A day past Marion Lake, the view from atop Frozen Lake Pass brims with unsettling menace. Below me, a steep pile of refrigerator-size blocks perches atop downsloping slabs and ball-bearing gravel, all set in a corkscrewing 60-degree gully. Even a rope wouldn’t help; there’s nothing solid to anchor it.
Reluctant to retreat so soon into the journey, I test the terrain by downclimbing the top section without my pack. Minutes later, I claw back to ridgeline, my mind made up: I’m going around. Not only is the descent deadly, but the location is appallingly remote. I haven’t seen another person since Kings Canyon, and my satellite phone is getting spotty signals. Even if
I survived a fall intact enough to make a call, it could take searchers days to find me.
So I back down the col, chastened and awakened. These days, 200 miles might not sound like much–not in an era of transcontinental yo-yo’s and thru-hiking speed freaks. But this route is the real deal. Curtains up. Lights on. This is some big, bad wilderness. It’s showtime.
Two days later, after a 16-mile detour that touches the JMT, I’m back on sketchy terrain. This time, I’m navigating a labyrinth of cliff bands above Lower Palisade Lake. The exposure and slick tundra ramps require all of my focus, and I’m whipped by the time I pitch camp near Cirque Pass.
That night, camped on a granite slab next to an unnamed tarn, surrounded by the immense, parabolic ridgelines of the Cirque Crest, my solo tent looks awfully tiny. Staring up at the peaks, their tips glowing in the fading sun, I feel a twinge in my gut that I haven’t felt since a six-week solo on Alaska’s North Slope, 15 years ago.
The spasm of uncertainty is ironic, because the JMT is just three miles back, and I’d encountered 65 people on it in just three hours. In two days, I’ll be at South Lake, one of the Sierra’s busiest locales. And at least 10 million outdoorsy Californians live within a day’s drive of the trailheads here.
But proximity is deceptive, especially in the mountains. Four formidable ridges rise between me and the nearest parking lot, and very few of the JMT’s hordes ever venture into these trailless cirques. It occurs to me that steepness, obscurity, and difficult routefinding make more effective wilderness boundaries than legislation or mere distance.
The next morning, I cross Cirque Pass on monster granite ramps, then Potluck Pass via a 40-foot rock climb. I drop down into Barrett Lakes, threading my way around tadpole-filled pools beneath the jagged, wizard-castle spires of the Palisade Crest. Days pass, and I settle into the trail’s rhythm, my legs and lungs growing stronger. Clambering over tremendous boulder piles beneath North Palisade, I finally reach easy terrain at Bishop Pass. It’s day nine, time for my first resupply.
From the ridge, I can almost smell the pizza at Parchers Camp, a cabin resort only six miles downvalley. But I’m immersed in my wilderness reverie, so I make quick work of the detour, sorting supplies and heading right back out. Soon, I’m breezing down through pastoral Dusy Basin, its meandering stream cloaked in deep emerald grasses.
The placid creek rolls over a brink into the deep V of Le Conte Canyon, and I follow it on a magical descent spiced by long slab waterfalls, the twisting bonsai trunks of Sierra junipers, and conical peaks of the Black Divide lording over the far side of the gorge.
I hike on for two more days, September getting colder and the snowfields hardening beneath a nightly rain of shooting stars. Lacking an ice axe or crampons, I cross the Glacier Divide via bouldery Alpine Col rather than steep, icy Snow Tongue Pass. That night, I watch huge thunderstorms rake the open tundra, swallowing the colossal ocher pyramid of Mt. Humphreys in orange-sherbet veils of rain.
Weasels scamper through the rock piles as I crest Puppet Pass, drop into deep French Canyon, then climb again to Feather Pass. On the ascent, I run into the first person I’ve seen off-trail in 100 miles of hiking. John Miles is a young painting contractor on an eight-day solo. We chat and compare notes, two kindred spirits, but soon branch off, anxious to be back in our own spaces.
Dropping into Bear Lakes Basin, I stumble upon the most evocative country I’ve encountered. This rocky alpine bowl merges every Sierran archetype–blond granite, clear water, airy vistas, rushing cascades, and flowery meadows–into one died-and-gone-to-heaven setting. Isolated ledges and pockets of tundra are scattered around the azure pools, a perfect maze of meditative perches, each poised at a scenic vantage point, beckoning me to linger. I push on up to the highest pond and camp at 11,760 feet with a sweeping view of Seven Gables and the stairstep lochs below.
Lapping waves rouse me around midnight. A waning moon paints a shimmering silver path across the black water. Low clouds hover above, creating an apocalyptic sky washed in deep blue. The scene is raw and harsh, beautiful in a primeval way, and very cold. The season is sliding toward winter, and my ultralight gear barely suffices. The chill drives me inside, where I shiver until dawn, sleeping in full Gore-Tex.
Shout-of-Relief Pass is a welcome landmark. Supposedly, it’s so named because the next 25 miles to Devils Postpile National Monument–and my second resupply–are easy. Sure enough, two fast days later I’m gable-walking down the high pumice ridgeline of Mammoth Crest as hawks whiz past on howling gales.
Descending on easy trail, high on fresh air, I reflect on the Sierra, the most beautiful of ranges. The impact of its graceful aesthetic on visitors like John Muir almost singlehandedly created the modern environmental movement. And its recreational history goes back almost 150 years. Long before backpacking became a sport, people like Joseph Le Conte, Theodore Solomons, and Norman Clyde threw home on their backs and got lost here for weeks at a time.
Steve Roper, the father of the SHR, is a throwback to that era, and to the early days of the ’70s backpacking boom. A Berkeley boy who became a Yosemite dirtbag climber, he betrays a bit of hippie still, sprinkling his sentences with ‘mans’ and frequent profanities.
“Climbing and hiking get you out into nature and away from these horrible f***ing cities, all that traffic and war and pestilence and sh**,” he tells me when I call him for pre-trip beta. “It gets you out, and you’re there, man.”
Roper’s eureka moment in creating the SHR–recorded in a July 26, 1977, diary entry–came on a backpacking trip in the Laurel Creek area. “I was with my wife and sister-in-law,” he recalls. “Around the campfire that night, I looked at my maps and went ‘God, you could actually do a timberline route the whole length of the Sierra!'”
He didn’t want it to start at Whitney (“too high, too crowded, too much talus”), so he spent the summers of 1978 to 1980 reconnoitering the route. “It took me three years because I was so f***ing lazy,” he laughs. “The research was the fun part, just going in there with friends, or alone. It was pretty easy to write, you know, just a guidebook, so I had to pad it with birds and trees and all that natural history sh**.”
Roper’s nonchalance belies an almost religious passion for the region’s history and landscape. “The country, those lakes,” he says, “are some of the most beautiful places on Earth. They call it the gentle wilderness, and it sure is, especially with the weather and you’re always hiking on those slabs, with all the birds, and the little gardens of wildflowers. One guy wrote me last year and told me he ran the thing in six days. Seems pretty f***ing stupid.”
It’s hard not to agree, but I discover that Roper has his foibles, too. Chief among them is a tendency to sandbag. I discovered this first at Frozen Lake Pass, then again as I muddled through an obtusely described descent below Izaak Walton Lake. Now, as I pass the halfway point, I occupy a few minutes composing a Roper-to-reality phrasebook. “Beginning hikers might have trouble” means hairy Class III scrambling. A “frustrating” descent means hellishly loose leg-breaker talus that seems to go on forever. And euphoric purple prose generally covers up a serious routefinding challenge. Other than that, he’s spot on.
Mammoth Crest comes ahead of schedule, and I face the resupply with ambivalence. I’d keep going, but I need the food and warm gear in my box, some glue to fix a boot sole, and I’ve promised to meet my brother-in-law, Jeff Kirstein, and his wife, Nancy, who’ll join me for the next four days.
I spend two claustrophobic nights holed up in a Motel Six watching Jerry Springer and Telemundo as frigid arctic winds blow volcanic dust through the town of Mammoth Lakes. Jeff and Nancy finally arrive, and we punch northward into the jagged Ritter Range, with its dark, twisted Minaret Spires.
Laughing and joking, we scramble endlessly along rock-bound shorelines. At Cecile Lake, the view is pure Himalaya: Banner Peak rises like a monstrous pyramid above us, lacking only the summit plume of an 8,000-meter giant. Four days later, on the west shore of Thousand Island Lake, we hunker down in a whitebark grove as winds pummel our tents, and in the morning, my friends bid adieu. Watching them skirt the lake, I suddenly feel tiny, vulnerable, and intimidated by the huge ridgeline I must cross westward.
Slowly, I climb to Glacier Lake Pass. The ponds are thickly iced, the streams choked with crystalline shards. The birds and marmots are silent until noon, when the sun briefly thaws the landscape again for a few hours.
The nights freeze my bottles solid, even inside the tent. The cold is a predator now, dogging my tracks, nipping my fingers every time I pause too long. And then, suddenly, the weather turns warm and I spend an hour lounging on sun-baked slabs in Bench Canyon, watching miniature trout weave through rivulets pouring across the polished rock.
I blow through Yosemite on good trail. The facilities at Vogelsang and Tuolumne are closed for the season, and since no pizza or brews await, I slink across the Tioga Pass highway like any respectable coyote, waiting for a break in traffic and sprinting, unseen, to the safety of the far woods.
North, north, always north. I cross Mine Shaft Pass on a geologic contact zone, my left foot on gray Sierra granite, my right on brick red schist. I traverse Mt. Conness by descending a steep slickrock arête and a half-mile of granite slab, set like a chessboard with house-sized boulders for the pieces.
Packing up the next morning, I’m surprised to see silhouettes atop Sky Pilot Col, my next goal. Suddenly, two of the figures run at each other, followed seconds later by the distinctive hollow crack! of sheep horns colliding. It’s a small group of bighorn rams. By the time I treadmill my way up the pea gravel of Sky Pilot, they’re long gone, so I skitter down a slope of hardened clay overlain with ball-bearing pebbles. The only way I can descend is to wear gloves, stand sideways, and ride the talus avalanche, dragging my rear hand like a surfer sliding down the face of a wave.
At Soldier Lake, I’m only a day from trip’s end. Already, I’m waxing nostalgic, trying to stretch and deepen every moment. I grab my sleeping bag, hike to a knoll above camp, and sit cross-legged watching stars emerge around a scimitar sliver of moon.
I’ve spent 40 years chasing adventure from Peru to the Canadian arctic, but this has been perhaps my toughest–and most magnificent–mountain journey. For the last month, despite the hard work and occasional trepidation, I’ve slid comfortably into a simple, migratory lifestyle. The immersion has been calming, purifying. I sleep better, feel fitter, worry less, laugh more. I have someone else’s legs, and the bags have disappeared from beneath my eyes. (Funny how unhealthy civilization can be, isn’t it?)
If winter weren’t approaching, if I didn’t miss my wife, if I had more supplies, perhaps a hot shower, I’d happily turn right around and do the SHR again. One thing I know for sure: I’ll never be the same after this trip. Challenge, scenery, wilderness–the bar has been raised on all of them.
All along this last leg, I’ve been worrying about Stanton Pass, the last big crossing. In the morning, it looks quite scary. The gully rolls over into an open-book corner with 400 feet of exposure. Fall-you-die country. But just across the canyon I can see Horse Creek Pass, and from there it’s just a stroll to the finish line at Twin Lakes. So I lace my boots tighter, cinch my pack, and begin inching north once again.
Expedition Planner Sierra High Route
This 210- to 220-mile, 20- to 30-day cross-country journey could be the premier mountain trek in the Lower 48. But it is an expert route–not for novices, youth groups, bad knees, or even experienced trail hikers new to loaded scrambling and off-trail navigation. You’ll hop boulders for 40 miles, and cross a sawtoothed succession of steep passes and deep gorges. You’ll traverse two national parks, three wilderness areas, one national monument, 33 named passes, and 11 major divides. If you’re unsure of your abilities, gain experience on less committing trips or section-hike the route. Since this trek crosses much fragile alpine tundra, small groups and Leave No Trace practices are mandatory.
Best Maps I used the detailed and nicely illustrated Tom Harrison Kearsarge Pass, Kings Canyon High Country, Mono Divide High Country, Mammoth High Country, Yosemite High Country, and Hoover Wilderness maps. (tomharrisonmaps.com)
Guidebook Sierra High Route: Traversing Timberline Country, by Steve Roper ($17, The Mountaineers, mountaineers.org)
Download The author’s 63 sat-phone podcasts from the SHR are free on iTunes. Search “BACKPACKER,” then hit the Trail Tours icon.
Getting Around Park your car at journey’s end, Mono Village Resort ($1/day), on Twin Lakes above the town of Bridgeport. To access the southern trailhead at Road’s End in Kings Canyon (see opposite page), the easiest/cheapest way is to start from Onion Pass trailhead above the town of Independence, then hike 19.6 miles/2 days to Kings Canyon, and begin the SHR from the Copper Creek Trail. While commercial shuttles have operated in the past–you could get one from Twin Lakes to Onion Valley for about $330, or from Twin Lakes to Kings Canyon for $1,000 or more–there are none currently offering the service.
- Solid aerobic fitness
- Good knees and ankles
- Off-trail navigation skills
- GPS and/or compass
- Ability to downclimb Class III-IV with a heavy pack
- Tough boots
- Bearproof canisters
- Full storm gear
- A big pack, for the food
- Freestanding tent
- Trekking poles (with rubber caps for the tips)
- First-aid and repair kits
- Stream-crossing shoes (until midsummer)
- Ice axe and crampons (often until September)
- Recommended: PLB, satellite phone, or SPOT beacon (especially for soloists); 40 feet of climbing rope for pack hauling and lowering
Onion Valley to Bishop Pass
Distance 64 miles; 7 to 10 days
From Market Street in Independence, CA, drive 15 miles west. Forest Service camping is available along the way.
Northern trailhead Drive 22 miles SW from downtown Bishop via Bishop Creek Road (CA 168) and South Lake Road to South Lake trailhead.
Parchers Resort is 1.2 miles from the South Lake trailhead and offers cabins, a restaurant, a small general store, and free package hold for guests. Reservations recommended. (760) 873-4177; parchersresort.net
Free if you start from Onion Valley. Reservations are $5/person, via mail or fax. Inyo National Forest: (760) 873-2485, (760) 873-2483 for reservations; fs.fed.us/r5/inyo. For Kings Canyon start: Apply via mail/fax ($15). Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks: (559) 565-3341; nps.gov/seki.
Bishop Pass to Mammoth Lakes
Distance 73 miles; 10 to 13 days
See South Lake above.
Reds Meadow in Devils Postpile National Monument. Take US 395 and CA 203 through Mammoth Lakes to Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort and park. To reach Devils Postpile (760-934-2289; nps.gov/archive/depo/depomain.htm), take the mandatory shuttle bus ($7) to either Reds Meadow or Devils Postpile Ranger Station bus stops (30 minutes).
Use the post office on CA 203 in Mammoth Lakes, or Motel 6 (760) 934-6660, which is next door and will hold UPS/FedEx parcels. The Mammoth Lakes Welcome Center (2510 Hwy. 203, 760-924-5500) is located a quarter-mile east of the PO. More than a dozen Forest Service and BLM campgrounds are in and around Mammoth Lakes (760-924-5500 info; 877-444-6777 reservations). Additional lodging info: 888-466-2666; visitmammoth.com. Earlier, pre-shipped resupply is also available at Mono Creek (mile 113) via a 10-mile hike west from the SHR to Vermilion Valley Resort on Lake Edison ($15/package; 25-lb. limit; 559-249-4000; edisonlake.com).
Same as above
Mammoth Lakes to Twin Lakes
Distance 77 miles; 8 to 10 days
See Devils Postpile above.
Mono Village Resort (760-932-7071; monovillage.com) on Twin Lakes offers lodging, long-term hiker parking ($1/day), a restaurant, and internet. From Bridgeport on US 395 (760-932-7500; bridgeportcalifornia.com), drive 14 miles on Twin Lakes Road.
Tuolumne Meadows (mile 192) has a general store, campground, and post office. Send packages to: “Hold for thru-hiker X” c/o Tuolumne Meadows Post Office, Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite, CA 95389. Mark food packages so USPS employees can store them appropriately. The post office closes each day at 4 p.m., and all Tuolumne facilities close on September 15.
Walk-in at Mammoth Welcome Center (see resupply, above). (760) 873-2483; fs.fed.us/r5/inyo

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What is a chakra? A chakra in Sanskrit means wheel. There are 7 main chakras in the body that resonate with each energy center in physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual ways. Practiced in religions like Hinduism and Tantric Buddhism. The 7 main chakras alignment the mental and emotional body starting at the root of your feet to the crown of your head.
What’s the purpose of chakras? Understanding your chakras can guide you to healing your life. Energy centers can transform your inner and outer being. Clearing your energy is a way to unblock any stress and balance your body, mind and spirit.
Who uses Chakras? Anyone can practice using their chakras as a fundamental resource to better health. Chakras are studied by yoga instructors, reiki practitioners, holistic health practitioners ,and spiritual enthusiasts.
The 7 main Chakras for Beginners are listen below.

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It’s summertime, and so millions of families across the country will be heading out in search of rollercoasters, waterslides, and other thrill rides. Some will head to the carnival at the local fair, while others may travel hundreds of miles to expansive theme parks. Amusement parks can be a ton of fun, but many people don’t realize that, unfortunately, accidents do happen. These accidents can result in serious injury.
Park Ride Injuries
In June, local news outlets reported that a 16-year-old was injured on a park ride at Lake Winnie. It was the fourth incident within a week – one woman broke her foot on a water ride, and two injuries happened on a roller coaster called the Wild Lightning. One of the people who was injured on the Wild Lightning required surgery for her injuries. The ride was temporarily closed during safety concerns.
In Daytona Beach, Florida, two passengers were seriously injured last month when they fell 34 feet to the ground when a roller coaster derailed. 6 of the 10 passengers on the ride were taken to the hospital for treatment.
As with any other premises liability claim, amusement parks owe their patrons a duty of care in maintaining and operating the park. However, park ride injuries can also be caused by manufacturing defects with the ride or safety equipment. Here are some of the common causes of park ride injuries:
- Mechanical failures resulting from the park’s failure to maintain the ride or a manufacturing defect.
- Inadequate signage or instruction that helps patrons enjoy the rides and the park safely.
- Improper operation of the ride due to poor training of park employees.
In addition to safely maintaining and operating the rides, amusement parks have a duty to provide a safe environment for their guests. As a result, parks are staffed with security and other measures intended to prevent and deter crime.
You may have recently read about the 2007 incident at Six Flags in Atlanta, where a teen was brutally beaten and suffered severe injuries. The case has been in litigation for years, but the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that Six Flags should be held liable for the bulk of a multi-million dollar award for the teen’s injuries. The gang members had been roaming the park for hours, harassing and threatening various park guests. The Court found that Six Flags did not provide adequate security, and therefore breached its duty to its guests.
Slip, Trip, and Fall
Amusement parks are under the same obligations as any other property owner to ensure that guests can safely walk and get around the property. As a result, it should be free from tripping hazards, potholes, or other hazards that can result in injury. In other instances, the park may be under the obligation to provide signage or other measures to warn patrons to watch their step., such as putting out a “wet floors” sign after mopping. If you fall on the property and are injured, the park may be liable for your damages as a result of its failure to maintain the property or provide adequate signage.
Georgia Amusement Park and Carnival Injury Attorneys
The lawyers at Slappey & Sadd help people who have been injured across the state of Georgia. If you’ve been injured at an amusement park or carnival, you may be entitled to compensation. Our lawyers are here to help – call us at 888-474-9616 or send us an email for a free consultation.

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For Tuesday, it's Chef Surprise and Soy Milk.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has scheduled listening sessions on reform of the federal school lunch program, including whether to include soy milk with students' meals.
Current regulations require that milk be served with school lunches or the meals are NOT reimbursable. The rules also define milk as cow's milk, which makes meals served with soy milk ineligible for reimbursement, except in cases of medical need.
Advocates working for the inclusion of soy milk cite the health benefits of soy-based foods … and note that some school systems rely on the federal lunch program for more than half of their cafeteria funds.

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Prime Minister Andrew Holness, on Monday (March 9), launched the Spotlight Initiative Country Programme for Jamaica, which focuses on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
The Spotlight Initiative will be a three-year programme costing approximately US$10.6 million. It will contribute to transforming the society into one where women and girls can thrive, free of any kind of violence towards them. It is funded by the European Union (EU), with contributions from the United Nations (UN).
Speaking at the launch at the Office of the Prime Minister, Holness, said it will focus on addressing the issue of “normalisation of violence” in Jamaica and encourage society to see family violence as a public issue requiring consistent and concerted effort to address.
The Prime Minister explained that the initiative will focus its intervention within four parishes that have been determined to have high levels of violence towards women and girls, while work will continue on the legislation and policy aspects to impact the entire population.
The parishes are Kingston and St Andrew, St Thomas, Clarendon, and Westmoreland.


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Call for Papers for 2019 – closed March 10, 2018
Wednesday Evening Reception: The Millyard Museum
Sponsored by ACGS
Join us at 6:00 p.m. for an informative and entertaining evening at the Millyard Museum. The Museum was opened in 2001 by the Manchester Historic Association in one of the renovated mill buildings of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. It is home to the permanent exhibit, Woven in Time, 11,000 Years at Amoskeag Falls, that tells the story of Manchester from the time of the earliest settlement to the present time. This, and the museum’s changing exhibits, include selections from the organization’s vast collections. The Research Center, renovated in 2006, houses the Association’s library and archives where the records of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company can be found along with archival collections of Manchester families, businesses and organizations. The Research Center maintains a large photograph collection, and has a collection of books, oral histories, ephemera, artwork, manuscripts and other materials. Researchers may also access the Association’s collections of Native American artifacts, and other types of historical objects through the auspices of the Research Center located on Amherst Street, facing Victory Park, in the heart of the city.
The Manchester Historic Association was established in 1896, 50 years after Manchester became the Granite State’s first city. Conscious that the achievements of its past leaders were becoming fast fading memories and concerned that the artifacts chronicling Manchester’s growth from a village to an industrial city could soon vanish, its founders Its founders began to collect, preserve, and share Manchester’s history so that the growing, changing city would retain ties to its past. The Association provides educational programs for children and adults and organizes historic preservation initiatives.
The reception will include light refreshments and the opportunity to tour the museum’s exhibits at a cost of $15 per person.
Come to Manchester, meet at The Millyard Museum, tour the facility, and get in the mood for NERGC 2019!

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Vitamin and Mineral Supplements for Women
A look at women's vitamin and mineral needs, food sources, and supplements.
Calcium for Women continued...
For most people, pills aren’t the best way to get enough calcium, according to Robert Heaney, MD, a Creighton University professor of medicine and an expert on calcium and vitamin D. “The body needs both calcium and protein for bone health,” Heaney tells WebMD. “So the ideal source of calcium is dairy products, not supplements.”
Here are the calcium levels of some foods:
- 8 ounces of yogurt: 415 mg of calcium
- 8 ounces of milk: 300 mg
- 3 ounces of salmon:181 mg
Many foods, including orange juice, are fortified with extra calcium. Tofu and leafy greens are good plant-based sources of calcium.
But not everyone can tolerate dairy, nor eat enough other calcium-rich foods to meet recommendations. The IOM's recommendations still support taking calcium supplements, and there are many studies that show benefit.
Calcium carbonate tablets cost the least. Take them at meals; stomach acid aids digestion. Calcium citrate may be slightly more effective for people with low stomach acid, such as the elderly.
Adequate calcium may help prevent high blood pressure. Here, too, food sources appear to be better than pills.
When Harvard School of Public Health researchers studied nearly 29,000 middle-aged and older women, they found that women who ate more low-fat dairy products were less likely to have high blood pressure. Taking calcium and vitamin D supplements, in contrast, had no effect on blood pressure. But that study doesn't prove cause and effect, so it's not clear that dairy products made high blood pressure less likely.
Vitamin D for Women
The latest superstar supplement is vitamin D. There's growing evidence for its importance to good health.
Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to fatigue, joint pain, high blood pressure, certain forms of cancer, and other health problems.
Supplements seem to help. A 2010 report, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, showed a small but consistently lower risk of heart disease in people who took up to 1,000 international units (IU) of vitamin D.
The IOM recommends 600 IU of vitamin D per day for people ages 1-70 and 800 IU for those over 70.

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In this enchanting photographic masterpiece series by Koukouwitaki, a blooming flower comes to life in a fascinating dance, skillfully immortalized through an extended exposure time. The extensive exposure captures the flower’s graceful descent, transforming it into a moment of dynamic tranquility that challenges the viewer’s perception of time.
Koukouwitaki artfully manipulates perspectives by playfully twisting and tilting the flower’s position, introducing a fascinating dimension to the composition. This unique fusion of movement and stillness invites viewers into a delightful dilemma, sparking profound wonder and contemplation about the blurred boundaries between reality and artistic interpretation.
Elevate your space with this extraordinary piece that invites you to explore the harmonious interplay of movement and stillness, leaving you captivated by the mysterious beauty captured within each image.
This artwork consists of 9 close up flower photography pieces, each measuring 40x30cm.

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Bruce Springsteen made history this week with what may be the biggest deal ever penned for a single artist’s body of work.
Confirmed by Sony on Thursday, the deal, which covers all of the extensive body of Springsteen’s work, is valued at about $550 million, much more than was discussed in previous negotiations, though specific details were not announced.
This is just one of the many megadeals taking place in the music industry in recent years. The ways music is listened to is ever-evolving and music companies, investors and private equity firms want in on it.
Neil Young, Stevie Nicks, Bob Dylan, just to name a few, have sold all of parts of their work. Those figures are well into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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September 17, 2019
Calling all EDM lovers! Frogmonster has your new favorite track: “Devotion.” Jam out to it below!
There’s nothing quite as transportive as a great EDM track. From the first notes of the synth to the drop, the best EDM songs are like a roller coaster you want to ride over and over again. Frogmonster’s new song, “Devotion,” displays a true penchant for the EDM form. The synths are otherworldly, creating space and anticipation. The vocals feel almost extraterrestrial at first, before grounding the rest of the song. And of course, the breakdown is absolutely sickening in the best way. Lucky for you, we’ve already added this tune to our Gas Mask FAVORITES playlist on Spotify. Stream it there, or listen below!
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“A flash, a flash of brightness
Leaving traces of the years
The center of my world
Is still is still you
Year after year, year after year
Fly by in the blink of an eye
The only thing that never changes
is to keep changing.”
Lin An Lan who was sitting next to him could hear the tenderness in his voice as he sang without haste, just like the feelings he had. It was clearly passionate but without any trace of aggression.
He heard him sing in a low voice:
“I don’t know how much longer, so I want you to know
I will still love you, it’s the only way out
I will still cherish every moment of happiness with you
Every breath you take, your every movement, your every expression
I will definitely still love you in the end.”
He sang with deep emotion and concentration, but he didn’t dare look at Lin An Lan from the beginning to the end.
He also wanted to look, but he wasn’t sure he could do what Zhou Yuan just did, pretending to glance at him without thinking, and then quickly look away.
He was afraid that if he looked at Lin An Lan, he wouldn’t be able to take his eyes off of him.
He simply knew himself too well.
It was only after Cheng Yu finished singing that he raised his head. Restraining the emotions in his eyes, he said to Lin An Lan, “It’s your turn.”
Lin An Lan shook his head and gave his guitar to Li Yongshi across the room, “I don’t know how to play a guitar.”
“I also don’t know how to.”
After this round, the guitar went back to Zhou Yuan.
They all had a good time as they talked and laughed, finishing their dinner.
As Lin An Lan and Cheng Yu walked back side by side, Cheng Yu’s song still echoed in Lin An Lan’s mind.
He didn’t expect that Cheng Yu would one day sing such a song on such an occasion.
It was very likeable and very memorable.
Fortunately, the camera could help them to make a record.
Their villa and Ma Junshan’s villa were so close that they didn’t have to walk more than a few steps to get home.
Lin An Lan turned on the lights, walked in, and took off his mic.
The cameraman didn’t come back with them. Lin An Lan asked Cheng Yu before starting the camera, “The song you sang, was it for me too?”
Cheng Yu nodded then kissed him.
Lin An Lan was so happy that he couldn’t help but smile.
“So, do you have any gift in return?” Cheng Yu asked him, “For example, sing a song for me too.”
“What do you want to hear?” Lin An Lan asked him.
“Then I’ll play it for you.” Lin An Lan said, “I remember there is a piano here. I’m not used to singing love songs to others, so I’ll play one for you.”
“Alright.” Cheng Yu said happily.
The two went upstairs and walked into the piano room that had never been used in the villa.
As Lin An Lan sat in front of the piano, he took his phone out, searched for the piano score of the song Cheng Yu had just sung, and then played it slowly.
This was the first time he was playing this song so he wasn’t all that skilled, but fortunately, Cheng Yu didn’t mind. He just looked at him gently, his heart filled with happiness.
Lin An Lan finished playing and once he looked up, he fell into the deep love in Cheng Yu’s eyes.
He smiled and said, “I’ll still love you too, whether it’s before or after amnesia.”
Cheng Yu’s smile froze, but slowly the corners of his lips rose and took a seat next to him.
“Play it again,” he said, “I like it a lot.”
He turned on the recording function of his phone and Lin An Lan played the score again while Cheng Yu listened quietly and recorded the piece.
When Lin An Lan finished playing, he kissed him then leaned on him.
Cheng Yu hugged him tightly, cherishing this moment of peace and sweetness.
Coming out of the piano room, Lin An Lan went back to his room and turned on the camera.
But he didn’t turn it on for long before he turned the camera off again with the excuse of “I’m going to take a shower”.
Going into the bathroom, he took a shower but just as he started to change his clothes, he heard the sound of the piano coming from outside.
The melody was very familiar. Lin An Lan thought for a while then finally realized, wasn’t this the wedding march?
He opened the door and walked out. Using the light of the corridor, he came to the piano room and saw Cheng Yu sitting in front of the piano, playing the piece with his head down.
He was wearing black pajamas, his hair dark with his bangs covering his eyes, making it so he couldn’t see the emotions in his eyes.
The moonlight shining through the window fell on his body and on his hands, adding a cold and hazy dreamy quality to him.
He was playing so quietly that he didn’t seem to have noticed his arrival.
Lin An Lan didn’t enter, he just stood in the doorway, seemingly afraid to disturb the brightness of the room and also seemingly afraid to enter Cheng Yu’s dream by mistake.
He stood silently, listening quietly to the familiar tune.
He thought in his heart, Cheng Yu probably wanted to marry him.
Only now, it was obviously not possible.
Cheng Yu stopped and silently looked at the piano in front of him. He sat silently for a few seconds, then stood up.
With this movement, he finally noticed Lin An Lan at the door.
He seemed to have been here for some time and he was looking at him gently, like the bright moon in the sky in the clear haze, looking immaculate.
Seeing that he had finished playing, Lin An Lan walked into the room, going over to him.
“It sounds so good.” He continued, “I like it very much.”
Cheng Yu looked at him, his heart as soft as water.
He lowered his head and kissed Lin An Lan. Picking him up, he placed him on top of the piano.
Lin An Lan’s hand pressed down as he tried to find purchase, which caused the piano to make a “buzzing” sound, scaring Lin An Lan so much so that he removed his hand instantly.
Cheng Yu laughed lowly, amused by his appearance, thinking he was cute.
Taking his hand, he placed them on his shoulders.
Lin An Lan’s eyes had unconscious innocence in them and he looking very well behaved. Reaching out, Cheng Yu touched his face, then lifted his chin and kissed him tenderly on the lips.
He kissed him seriously and delicately, holding him tightly the whole time and occasionally biting his lips.
Lin An Lan tilted his head as he met his kisses. He didn’t dare move, afraid that if he moved the piano would sound loudly.
But even so, there was still the sound of the piano playing slowly.
As Cheng Yu listened to the sound of the piano, he moved his lips unhurriedly to kiss the side of his face and neck while the music played in the background.
An An, will you marry me? He asked in his heart.
Kissing him again, he whispered, “Baby, say you love me.”
“I love you.” Lin An Lan whispered.
“Then say you are willing.”
Lin An Lan didn’t know why, but whatever Cheng Yu wanted to hear, he would never refuse him, “I am willing.”
Cheng Yu laughed lightly as he held him tightly in his arms.
“I’m willing too.” He said.
He was also willing to marry him.
“I love you.”
Cheng Yu hugged him, his love as deep as the sea.
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Healthy consumer spending
While much of the hype around disruption often centers on technology and innovation, travel and hospitality companies must keep a close eye on economic trends, since consumers will be quick to cut travel from their budgets at the mere hint of a financial downturn.
The US economy, with low inflation and low unemployment, seems poised to sustain 2 to 2.5 percent growth through 2018. Incomes are rising, which points to more confidence to spend it.
In Vietnam, 2017 is a successful year of the tourism industry with the total number of international visitors reached 12.9 million visitors (an increase of 2.9 million visitors compared to 2016) and 73.2 million domestic visitors; revenue from tourists reached more than 23 billion US dollars, 25% more than in 2016. These numbers are expected to increase higher in 2018.
For UK, it has been a rough year since the weaker pound and higher inflation has squeezed real household incomes and has taken the edge off consumer-led growth. However, as the global economy is growing well, overseas visitors are encouraged to travel more, and the fall in the value of the pound since the Brexit vote in 2016 has provided an added incentive for visitors to come to the UK.
Healthy corporate travel demand
Strong economies drive business activity. 2018 is forecasted to be a robust year for corporate travel spending, for more than 6 percent, the highest growth rate since 2011.
Going back the global trend, in UK, according to ONS data there has been a decline in inbound business travel with passenger numbers falling by 7% in June 2017. Better news is that although fewer business people actually stayed in hotels those that did stayed longer and the number of nights in hotels increased modestly.
From products to experiences
Travel is outpacing the demand for goods. Spending on recreation,travel, and eating out is up, while spending on many durable goods and staples like clothing is down. That’s why midscale competition or home stay competition in Vietnam is poised to heat up in 2018.
Compared to upscale and luxury hotels, midscale properties are cheaper to develop, do not require large staffs to operate and can provide the modern design aesthetics and unique experience of a pricey lifestyle hotel in an affordable package. Awareness of the opportunity is growing, and forward-thinking hotel chains are launching new brands with increased cadence.
Brands who fail to innovate have high risk losing market share. With just a few swipes in a travel app, today’s consumers can compare more hotel and private accommodation options than ever before. With hotel reviews and virtual tours at their fingertips, travelers can easily sniff out “big-box” properties that have high tendency to offer something “run-of-the-mill” hotel experiences.
However, hoteliers most are concentrating innovation up-market—leaving the midscale segment in desperate need of an upgraded experience. If there is one segment that should capture the attention of hotel developers in 2018, it is midscale hotels.
Aside from that, in Vietnam, VNAT is forecasting a further increase in international tourist arrivals to 15-17 million visitors and in domestic visitors to 79 million in 2017, so to facilitate the increase, the government has introduced an online visa system from mid-2017 for short-term and business travellers from top source markets and is also extending the waiver of visa requirements to more countries.
Globally, hotels are struggling to drive up-room rates in a market flooded with new supply. Competition from alternative accommodation choices such as the sharing economy and serviced apartments arealso likely to eat into hotel market share.
In US, since 2008, the number of hotels in New York City has grown 55 percent to 634 properties and 115,000 rooms. Already competing with a rise in private accommodation rentals, hoteliers aiming to keep their properties full must offer attractive rates. Then some hoteliers are resorting to cutbacks around service, maintenance, and even lobbying with city officials for property tax reform.
In VN, justin 2017, 106 establishments in the 3-5 star segment were recognized. The system of tourist accommodation throughout the country continues to grow with more than 500,000 chambers, including 116 5-star hotels with over 33,000 chambers.
In UK, Pipeline data suggests 7,000 new rooms open their doors across London could open in 2018 and that’s a lot of new rooms to fill. The continued increase in new branded budget supply and the increase in other branded budget hotels share of new room openings continue has been a factor in the midscale/economy market under performance.
While strong post-recession gains appear to be cooling off, the hotel sector is projected to sustain strong 5–6 percent growth throughout 2018, setting up the industry to hit a record-breaking $170 billion in gross bookings.
Hovering around 66 percent, occupancy seems to have hit a peak, however, this prolonged strength of the hotel sector to be a cause for concern. Historically, hotel performance has proven to be cyclic, with long runs of growth often followed by intense downturns, generally occur every 10 years. With the last down cycle occurring in 2010, some speculate soft market conditions to be imminent.
So while positive signals continue to emanate from the broader hotel industry, as always, success isn’t guaranteed in 2018.
Compiled from PwC, Deloitte, Vietnam National Administrators of Tourism Reports


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Lionel Messi’s Argentina defeated France 4-2 on penalties to lift the FIFA World Cup trophy. Argentina lifted the trophy after 36 years; it was Argentina's third title after 1978 and 1986. Player of the tournament went to Lionel Messi for having three assists and seven goals. Messi won the Golden ball for the second time after previously winning it in 2014
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Leicestershire Police Federation Chair, Dave Stokes, provides a statement regarding the recent taser roll-out pledge.
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Looking at this expressive and shining photo-series by Italian photographer Valeria Trasatti just makes a good mood. (‘Martincity Loca’ is a surname of Valeria’s city.) This whole series comes with a vivid and cheeky presence of model Rada Ghedea, a beautifully dope style with pieces by fashion designer Marianne Cancrini and has glittering and eye-catching accents created by the make-up by Luselis Chavez.
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Tony Nicholson has given us a number of superb talks at our meetings over the last few years, regaling us with tales from the lives of Gus and Annie. His ‘Secrets from the Attic’ talks always leave us desperate to hear the next part of the saga.
In his long awaited new book, ‘The Love of Dangerous Men: A Secret History in Letters’, we finally get the full story of the complex tale of Gus and Annie. Tony leads us from the discovery of a bundle of letters and photographs in the attic of his home in Brotton, exploring tales of intrigue that he has discovered among the streets of Calcutta and Victorian Whitechapel, and takes us through to the modern day with the connections that he has made with decedents of the family.
Tony will be giving us a talk on a new subject, ‘The Langworthy Mystery’, on Wednesday 20 December (see our talks programme for details) and will have copies of his book available to buy, making the perfect last-minute Christmas present for any history lover.
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Detailed structural analysis of protein necessitates investigation at primary, secondary and tertiary levels, respectively. Insight into protein secondary structures pave way for understanding the type of secondary structural elements involved (α-helices, β-strands etc.), the amino acid sequence that encode the secondary structural elements, number of residues, length and, percentage composition of the respective elements in the protein. Here we present a standalone tool entitled “ExSer” which facilitate an automated extraction of the amino acid sequence that encode for the secondary structural regions of a protein from the protein data bank (PDB) file.
ExSer is freely downloadable from http://code.google.com/p/tool-exser/
Protein structures are determined by experimental methods which include NMR, Xray and Electronic Microscopy. The experimentally solved protein structures are archived at the publicly available databases such as, Protein Data Bank (PDB) . Protein Data Bank (PDB) is an internationally referred protein structure database, it comprises of the atomic coordinates of the three dimensional (3D) structure of proteins . The coordinate file is organized in a common file format, called the PDB format . Amino acid sequence, secondary structural information and atom positions are organized systematically in the PDB file enabling machine learning . Many molecular visualization tools (RasMol, JMol, PyMOL etc.) have been developed based on the PDB format leading to visualization of the 3D structure of proteins from the atomic coordinates. The information pertaining to the fold class at the tertiary level and the arrangement of secondary structural elements (motifs) at the lower levels in the structural hierarchy could directly be inferred from the 3D structure. However,information that are embedded in the PDB file such as the amino acid sequence of the secondary structural elements viz., αhelices and βstrands, is of significant interest to the scientific community. Knowing the amino acid sequence of the secondary structures throw light on the biochemical and structural properties of the residues which inturn governs the formation of αhelices and βstrands in proteins. It furthers understanding on the relationship between proteins and their possible evolutionary origins, the relationship between the amino acid sequence and the tertiary structure and, structurefunction analysis. To the best of our understanding, the amino acid sequence is manually extracted based on the identifier(s)that are associated with the secondary structural elements in PDB format. Towards an automated extraction of the amino acid sequence encoding the secondary structural regions, we developed a standalone tool entitled ExSer (Extract the amino acid Sequences of secondary structures). ExSer decipher the amino acid sequence encoding the secondary structural elements (helices and strands), number of residues, position and their percentage composition, given the PDB coordinate file as query.
ExSer was developed using Practical Extraction and Report Language (PERL)  and Tool kit (Tk) . PERL is used for scripting and Tk for designing graphical user interface (GUI). ExSer provide the option to either select a PDB file via the browse button or to paste the structural information in the PDB format. Firstly, the tool extract the entire amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain(s) based on the identifier “SEQRES” defined in the PDB format (latest ver. 3.20) . Simultaneously it picks up the start and end positions of the helices and strands using “HELIX” and “SHEET” identifiers mentioned in the PDB file. Finally, based on the above positions the amino acid sequences of helices and strands were extracted from the PDB coordinate file (Figure 1). The ExSer output comprise of, the complete amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain(s) (likely A, B, C etc.) that make the protein structure, the amino acid sequences of secondary structural regions (helices and strands), the number of residues involved, the start and end positions of the secondary structural regions and their percentage composition with respect to the total protein. Subclassification in the helices such as righthanded alpha, omega, pi, gamma, 310 and lefthanded alpha,omega,gamma etc., finds mention in the output. Similarly, the parallel and antiparallel nature of the strands with respect to the previous strand is indicated. The extracted amino acid sequence finally appears in the FASTA format as output and can be saved in a separate text file, as well.
ExSer had been validated with more than 300 coordinate files downloaded from PDB. Since, turns finds no explicit mention in the PDB format (ver. 3.20), the tool cannot retrieve the amino acid sequence corresponding to the turns in protein structure. This tool can work on all windows operating systems including windows vista. In future, ExSer will be available for Linux and Macintosh operating systems.
This tool was developed at the Bioinformatics centre, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University with the financial support of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India under the Biotechnology Information System (BTIS) program.
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Fifteen years ago I made a conscious decision to take a trip each year with my son, Nik. He was only three at the time. My reasoning was simple: if we made this an annual ritual, we would continue it when we reached the point where our life paths and outlooks diverged.
I was right. But there was more. And I see it each time we go out together on one of our “little trips.”
I mention this because he and I just returned from a simple three day trip into the Turtle Mountain region of North Dakota. To most folks, it would be a “nothing” trip — 700 miles of driving through the prairies and small towns of a state most either ignore or denigrate. But, oh, how wrong they would be. North Dakota, like everywhere else, has magic, if only you have eyes to see.
I have long loved the state. It has a peace about it that no other place in America contains. This is a result of the spiritual clarity of the land — sky, earth, horizon line — and the physical emptiness that allows the voices of the past to speak. Each town is a sentinel; each cloud, a messenger. The people live with a respectful awareness of the shoulders on which they stand: tough, honest immigrants who braved winters and loneliness and hardships that we can only imagine. But because of how little things have changed, it is possible to come close to an understanding of their lives just by staring into the changing prairie sky, or sensing the coming of a thunderstorm, or feeling the first chill of an encroaching winter wind.
The graveyards, too, echo with the presence of the past. Small and isolated, they sit in the great openness as testaments to the human spirit and the common humanity we all share.
And then there is the Native presence. It is not so strong for me as in South Dakota — not because it is not there, but because the power of the weather and the great, looming presence of the impending winters always intrudes upon my consciousness. Summer seems like a spasm here. In this way, it is like my own northern Minnesota — your eyes turn toward the northwest and hear a distant drumbeat of something inchoate and monumental. In South Dakota, something different echoes up. It comes from the earth. In North Dakota, it comes from the sky.
But I started this post as a praise to a moment shared between father and son.
In the course of our three days, Nik and I walked through the creaking halls of small museums created from abandoned school houses; we shared a table with a 92 year old Dakotah man who grew up speaking only his tribal language and had his life shaped by the boarding schools; we wandered amidst ruins of abandoned homesteads; we met people who had been born and raised, and now were reaching their final years, in the same small town of 150 people. Witnesses to almost a century in a single place, they were not simply the artifacts of history, they were its very vessels. It was an experience of intimacies set against the vastness of a great landscape that levels all with its challenges. Arikara, Hidatsa, Mandan, Dakotah, Ojibwe, Icelanders, Norwegians, Irish, Lebanese, Poles — all these and others carved out lives in this land of wind and space, and all their lives still echo. When you meet someone in the small towns, they immediately connect you with the past, because their experience has changed so little from those who went before.
Yes, our conveniences are greater; our connectedness is greater; our capacity for comfort and protection from our environment is greater. But to see a Mandan earth dwelling, or an abandoned farmstead, or an old thresher rusting in a field, is to feel the presence of the past in a way that is almost visceral.
This is one of the great privileges that comes from visiting the unpeopled parts of our country: history, in all its guises, lives close to the surface. You can see old trails, old footprints, old shards and pieces of lives in each town, near each riverbed, on each hillside.
Nik and I had this privilege together. We talked — about life, about our individual dreams and failures, about the people we met and the places we saw. I got to see him interact with strangers, watch the nature and level of his curiosity about the things we encountered, saw him meet the world with the fresh curiosity and energy of youth.
My bones are old. They start slowly, take fewer risks, require more rest. If he sees a hill, he climbs it. If he sees an abandoned building, he explores it. He floats out grand theories about life and history, and wanders in his mind with a freedom and excitement that I can only remember with fondness and participate in vicariously. My mind, my thoughts, my understanding, are freighted with knowledge and experience, and those sometime limit the freedom of creative imagination.
It was a wonderful journey, this short flare of a trip into the intimacy and immensity of North Dakota. It was a symbolic embrace of father by son and son by father. And it is the product of years spent traveling together, where the father who once watched carefully from behind a wall or a tree while a young, energetic child ran from excitedly from place to place, now watches appreciatively while the same son wanders with intense curiosity among the memories and artifacts of different people in different times and places.
And I feel him watching me — to see if I am alright, to see if I am keeping up. He values my capacity to talk to strangers, and tries to mimic me in this regard. But he also sees my limitations, my indecisiveness, my easier physical weariness, and works to assist and protect me.
What a wonderful passage this is — father to son. It is our journey across the seasons of our lives, and it is made all the more precious when it is set against the seasons of the land.


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