She's our fair lady; Quilter: Elmira Seibert's stitch in time includes winning blue ribbons at every Howard County Fair -- all 53 of them. This weekend, she will be joined by 12 children and grandchildren in her quest for No. 54.
At Elmira Seibert's house, reminders of the annual Howard County Fair are everywhere. Rooms are decorated with entries from five decades of fairs, including stuffed animals, quilts and paintings. Cabinets are filled with patterns and recipes she might use in the future. A dozen family members are always scurrying about, working on possible submissions.
Seibert is believed to be the only person to have participated in -- and won a blue ribbon at -- each of the county's 53 fairs.
At the 54th fair, which begins Saturday, she might set a record -- having the most family members participate in the weeklong event. If all goes according to plan, 12 children and grandchildren will bring home a blue ribbon.
The weeklong fair takes place at the Howard County Fairgrounds in West Friendship. Categories range from judging animals to baking to sewing to artwork. The fair also includes rides and an assembly of sales booths.
Mrs. Seibert, 76, has picked which quilt she will submit. Her two daughters -- Betsy Ford, 49, and Kathy Nettles, 33 -- have narrowed the list of cookie and pie recipes. (Kathy is also considering entering some of her beets and tomatoes). Mrs. Seibert's son, Willis, 54, and his son Casey, 26, have mastered their sales pitch for the family business, a television store. Betsy's daughter, Kara, 17, is deciding which paintings will best showcase her talents.
Mrs. Seibert will help Kathy's children, Travis, 10, Kristen, 8, and Taylor, 5, with their cookie submissions. Willis' other children, Margo, 15, Alyssa, 11, and Meghan, 8, are deciding which artwork, handwork and vegetables they will enter. Willis will enter the family's youngest participant, his son Brendan, 7 months, in the baby contest -- an award Willis received the first year of the fair.
Willis' award was just the beginning of blue ribbons his mother would bring home, the first of hundreds of categories in which she would participate. And while family members acknowledge they like seeing their neighbors and trying new crafts, they're ultimately after one thing.
Combined with her second- , third- and fourth-place ribbons, Seibert has more than 550 ribbons, all sitting in a box in her closet. She would display them, but she ran out of room. She's making plans to put them in a scrapbook.
"It would be more of a story when Elmira doesn't participate," said Kim Sullivan, a Howard County Fair Association historian. "It's something we've come to expect."
Fair organizers said the Seiberts are among a handful of three-generation families participating this year. She has beat her neighbors, friends and even her children. It's nothing personal, she said. She likes good-spirited competition, particularly when she can win.
"One year, I made the mistake of competing [in the] rolls" category, Seibert said. "You can't beat her on rolls," she said, pointing to her daughter Betsy, who lives next door.
Pie competitions also are out.
"Oh, [Kathy] makes the best pie crust," Seibert said. "I stopped entering once she started."
"Didn't [Kathy] beat you last year in pies?" Kara asked her mother, Betsy Ford.
Reluctantly, Ford nodded her head in agreement.
Quilts are one category Seibert knows she can win. This year, she will enter a quilt that has blocks her grandmother made two years before she died in 1933. It's navy blue with 25 white blocks and embroidery on each block, designed for a full-sized bed.
"I am what you would call a quilt-aholic," Seibert said.
She spends up to eight hours a day in an addition on her Glenelg home, built specifically for her to work on her quilts. It's a sun room, lined with cabinets storing patterns. On the shelves are previous blue-ribbon winners -- mostly her award-winning quilts.
At the last minute, Kathy coaxed her mom into also entering the bread category, intentionally making them competitors.
Seibert's participation in the fair began like that of many other county residents. A lifelong Howard County resident, she was a 4-H member, winning ribbons at state fairs and 4-H contests. She started out entering pies, cookies and cakes and sewing samples. By 1942, she was a 4-H leader, starting the Glenelg chapter. She retired in 1987. Throughout much of that time, her husband also submitted vegetables, until his death last year.
All of her children were 4-H members, as are many of her grandchildren, leading to the family's ongoing participation.
She almost broke her fair streak in 1965 when Kathy was born one day after the weeklong fair began. But she managed to get some cooking samples in.
"It just really messed up that fair week," Seibert said.
She has passed on her secrets to her daughters, although they have a trick of their own -- taking recipes off appliances and ingredient containers.
Her daughter Betsy is particularly fond of Betty Crocker recipes. She is starting a streak of her own, entering -- and winning -- the spritz cookie contest, using a recipe off the cookie-cutter gun her mother gave her 41 years ago.
Kara Ford, Betsy's daughter, has been on a different path, opting to submit artwork. As a 4-H member, she raised rabbits for the fair, caring for 26 at one point.
Fair officials say family participation is part of what the fair is about -- keeping traditions alive.
"Those families are so valuable when it comes to running the fair because they can tell us how it's done," said Grant Hill, a fair spokesman.
And for all the preparation that comes before the fair, no one knows who is doing what until the day of the contest.
"I have gotten up at 3 in the morning before," Betsy Ford said. "Some things can only be done that day."


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«Сэм и Кэт» () — американский ситком телеканала Nickelodeon, созданный Дэном Шнайдером. рассказывающий о подругах Сэм Паккетт и Кэт Валентайн, которые решили подрабатывать няньками. На протяжении сериала они попадают в разные комичные ситуации.

Первая серия вышла 8 июня 2013 года, последняя — 17 июля 2014 года. Всего в первый сезон входит 35 серий.
Это последний сериал Никелодеона потом и Дисней с Арианой Гранде и Дженнет-Маккарди. Сериал стал одним из последних представителей подростковых ситкомов 2000-2010-х годов. Изначально планировалось продлить сериал на второй сезон, но это решение было отменено. Как сообщили некоторые СМИ, это могло произойти из-за разногласий актёров и их желания заниматься другими проектами.
Сериал получил большую популярность как и его приквелы Виктория-Победительница и  АйКарли.

В ролях
 Дженнет Маккарди — Саманта (Сэм) Пакетт. Агрессивная девушка, приехавшая в Лос-Анджелес, после того как её лучшая подруга Карли Шей уехала с отцом в Италию. Спасла Кэт Валентайн от мусоровоза. После чего девушки подружились, стали соседками и начали работать няньками. У Сэм есть мотоцикл, предпочитает тёмные тона, ненавидит работать, иногда обводит Кэт вокруг пальца, обожает куриные крылышки.
 Ариана Гранде — Катрина (Кэт) Валентайн. Наивная, довольно глупая, добрая девушка, имеет игривый характер. Падает в обморок когда пугается. Никогда не может правильно произнести фамилию Сэм, любит розовый цвет, имеет проблемы с орфографией, обожает библ.
 Камерон Окасио — Дайс. Сосед и друг Сэм и Кэт. Живёт со своей матерью и сумасшедшей тётей Ферджин. Уличный торговец, продаёт всякие разные вещи. Является менеджером и лучшим другом бойца смешанных искусств Гумера. Любит играть в покер.
 Зоран Корач — Гумер, 27-летний боец смешанных искусств. Друг Дайса, Сэм и Кэт. Думает, что фамилия Сэм не Пакетт, а Пикл
 Мари Читхэм — Нона Валентайн, бабушка Кэт.

В 2020 году сериал был внесён в Netflix.

Приглашённые гости
 Эрик Ланж — Эрвин Психовски
 Пенни Маршалл — Сильвия Бурк
 Синди Уильямс — Дженнис Добинс
 Кел Митчелл — Peezy B
 Эбби Уайлд — Стэйси Диллсен
 Скотт Байо — Офицер Келвин
 Элизабет Гиллис — Джейд Вест
 Нейтан Кресс — Фредди Бэнсон
 Мэтт Беннет — Робби Шапиро
 Майкл Эрик Рейд — Синжин Ван Клифф
 Ноа Манк — Гибби Гибсон
 Даниелла Морроу — Нора Дершлит
 Гриффин Кейн — Макс
 Эмили Скиннер — Хлоя
 Мэри Шир — Марисса Бэнсон
 Энтони Хилд — Доктор Слэрм
 Джессика Чаффин — Коко Векслер

Русский дубляж
На русский язык сериал дублирован компанией «SDI Media Ukraine» в 2013—2014 гг.

Роли дублировали:

 Екатерина Брайковская — Саманта (Сэм) Пакетт, второстепенные женские роли
 Анна Кузина — Катрина (Кэт) Валентайн
 Антонина Хижняк — Дайс
 Олег Лепенец — Гумер, второстепенные мужские роли
 Ирина Мельник — Нона Валентайн
 Александр Погребняк — Фредди Бэнсон
 Андрей Фединчик — Робби Шапиро, второстепенные мужские роли
 Марина Локтионова — Джейд Вест, второстепенные мужские и женские роли
 Ольга Радчук — Второстепенные женские роли
 Роман Чёрный — Диктор, второстепенные мужские роли

Список серий

Примечания

Ссылки
 «Сэм и Кэт» на сайте Nickelodeon.ru

Подростковые ситкомы США
Телесериалы США, запущенные в 2013 году
Телесериалы США 2010-х годов
Телесериалы на английском языке
Телесериалы США, завершённые в 2014 году
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American actor-comedian Kevin Hart is making his comeback to showbiz with a new standup comedy special. The 39-year-old comedian's first original Netflix standup special titled 'Kevin Hart: Irresponsible' will roll out universally on April 2.
The comedian, who was excited about his upcoming stand-up special, posted a short video on Instagram, in which he was spotted in a red spotlight, which then comes out and then creates Netflix signature 'N'.
The hour-long comedy special was shot in front of a 15,000-person crowd at the O2 Arena in London as part of Hart's tour of the same name, reported People.
"Hart touches upon his friends, family, travel and a year filled with Irresponsible behaviour," a press release read.
'Kevin Hart: Irresponsible' marks Hart's first original comedy special on the streaming service, however, he has earlier worked on content for the platform including 'Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History' which came out in February.
The upcoming special standup follows a few controversial months for the comedian, in which he was hired to host this year's Oscars but later stepped down from the gig on account of his homophobic tweets from the past.
Despite a lot of reports doing the rounds that he might return to host the Oscars, Hart in January said he would not be hosting the show, which aired on February 24 without a host.
"I don't want people to think there's a thing between me and the Academy, because there isn't. The Academy, they're amazing people, the offer was made, it was received, I was excited, things happened, it didn't work out the way that it should've. Right now, from a time perspective, I don't have the time [to return as host]… It's not going to happen. In the future, if it does, it does," he had said during an appearance on 'Good Morning America'.


In my experience, a town hall meeting finds the general counsel sitting in front of most or all of the law department and answering whatever questions are asked. It hails from the fishbowl ("workout") technique made famous by General Electrics. A town hall Q&A session is supposed to be open, candid, useful and to allow anyone in the law department to ask any question.
Sounds great in theory, but in real life no one wants to show up the big kahuna with a difficult or sensitive question. Nor to they don't want to float softball questions and get battered later as a brown nose. So the administrator or someone else has to seed the questions or let people submit them in writing so they can even fake the questions.
Town halls try to address the chronic complaint of lack of communication (See my post of Nov. 30, 2005 on the clamor for more "communication"; and Oct. 19, 2005 on communication methods.) and they try to build morale (See my post of Oct. 29, 2005 on symptoms and underlying causes of departmental morale.). They try to, and look good on paper, but peer pressure conspires against them (See my post of Dec. 8, 2006 on the GC's chilling effect.).


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Arsenal aim to eliminate Premier League pain with Europa League final win
Arsenal Has Not Been In A European Final Since 2006 And Have Not Won A Continental Trophy Since Lifting The Cup Winners' Cup 25 Years Ago.
Agencies | Updated on: 29 May 2019, 01:07:04 PM
Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League and a win in the Europa League will help them qualify directly for the UEFA Champions League. (Image credit: Twitter)
Arsenal has not been in a European final since 2006.
Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech, who will retire afterwards at the age of 37.
There was a moment of friction between David Luiz and Gonzalo Higuain.
Baku:
The build-up to the Europa League final has been marred by the controversy surrounding UEFA's choice of venue, but it is now time for the football to do the talking as familiar foes Chelsea and Arsenal prepare to do battle in the unfamiliar setting of Baku on Wednesday. Two and a half weeks after the Premier League season ended, here is a London derby exported almost 3,000 miles (5,000 kilometres) to Azerbaijan's capital, by the Caspian Sea. It is the first leg in a week of European finals dominated by England, with Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur contesting the Champions League showpiece in Madrid on Saturday. However, there will not be much of an English atmosphere at the Baku Olympic Stadium when the match kicks off at 2300 local time (1900GMT), with reportedly only around 6,000 tickets sold by the clubs in a ground which holds almost 70,000. The distances and costs involved and the difficulty in getting to Baku has prevented more fans from travelling, while Arsenal is also handicapped by the absence of Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
He decided not to travel because of fears over his safety due to an ongoing political dispute between Azerbaijan and his home country, Armenia. "It is not in my hands. They have their reason to play here and I must respect this decision," said Arsenal coach Unai Emery on Tuesday. "Yes, I prefer to play with our supporters here. I'd prefer it if a lot of supporters from us and from Chelsea could come here from London, but it's difficult."
Emery's players have promised to try to win the trophy for Mkhitaryan, and the stakes are certainly high for the Gunners. After finishing fifth in the Premier League, two points behind Chelsea in third and one point behind Tottenham, Arsenal have to win to qualify for next season's Champions League. "For a club like Arsenal, we have to be in the Champions League. It's an amazing and important game because we want to give us, the fans and the club the Champions League back," said midfielder Granit Xhaka. Whether that in itself is more important than winning a European trophy is another matter.
Sarri storms off
Arsenal has not been in a European final since 2006 and has not won a continental trophy since lifting the Cup Winners' Cup 25 years ago. In Emery, though, they have a coach who won this competition three years running with Sevilla. "All teams' first objective is to play to win a title -- I think that is the first objective, and then there is also the fact that it helps you to achieve the Champions League," Emery reasoned. Despite the pressure, Emery appeared calm ahead of the game. In contrast, his opposite number Maurizio Sarri looked anything but as he stormed off the pitch at the Olympic Stadium during a training session on Tuesday evening that was open to the media. Television cameras caught the Italian angrily throwing away his baseball cap as he headed for the tunnel shortly after a moment of friction between David Luiz and Gonzalo Higuain.
Sarri, who has been heavily linked with a move to Juventus, had earlier said winning the final would turn a "very good season" into a "wonderful" one.
Night of farewells?
He is still to win a major trophy, but he has already steered the Blues to a return to the Champions League and also took them to the League Cup final, where they lost on penalties to Manchester City. The game could also be Eden Hazard's last as a Chelsea player amid reports he will finally move on to Real Madrid. It will definitely be the last game for Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech, who will retire afterwards at the age of 37. A Chelsea great who crossed London in 2015, he has been tipped for a return to Stamford Bridge in an upstairs capacity. "I can speak about Petr Cech a lot, but above all he's a great man, a great professional," Emery said. "I want to do something important, with him playing or not playing."
Bernd Leno is the other option in goal, while Chelsea is sweating on the fitness of midfielder N'Golo Kante. "Kante has very little problem with his knee. The problem is the timing, but we are trying," said Sarri.
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A Life and a Death
Posted by Cyprium on February 18, 2013 at 5:00pm
It's strange to see a life lived in defiance to the Creator come to its inevitable end. We might be more accustomed to thinking of tragedies in terms of departed loved ones, sorely missed friends and relatives...decent people that leave behind many mourners. I am not sure, though, that i have ever been acquainted with such a tragedy as someone who lived their life in a state of seeming self inflicted torment, hatred of our Creator, disdain of fellow man and self absorption, ultimately ending in suicide.
There is an old saying..."say nothing but good of the dead"...but what do you say when there isn't any genuine good to be said?
But I'm sincere in saying that it's a tragedy. One of the saddest things i've ever seen.
The person i describe wasn't a friend of mine...i'd say he was a distant acquaintance for lack of any better term. The town, as a whole, though, was familiar with him. He might have achieved a status of notoriety, if not exactly popularity. He wasn't stupid, he wasn't disadvantaged, he wasn't disabled...at least not physically. "He might have really made something of his life" people said.
He did all those things the young and foolish do early in their life...went to college, attempted to pursue a medical career but got more interested in cocaine and alcohol than his studies. Neither cocaine nor alcohol were his friends, but they couldn't explain the downward spiral that is his story either. No medical career or any career for that matter was to be his lot in life. He spent his days on his parents farm helping them keep it running. He might have made a noble pursuit of that and inherited the farm and continued to work it but he could not let go of the bitter disappointment of having missed his "big chance" in life.
So he descended further into alcohol, narcissism and OCD level hypochondria. He worshiped diligently at the alter of modern medicine...imbuing that idol with faith that would be remarkably admirable had it been directed towards YHWH...but it wasn't. He insisted on the reality of ailment after ailment..all terminal...all ready to kill him and lived his days waiting for his next doctor's appointment. The doctors themselves, in spite of the enthusiasm doctors normally have for diagnosing ailments, could only shake their heads and give him minor amounts of medication to appease him.
He did less and less as he starved himself into a state of malnourishment, convinced that nearly everything edible on earth was in some way going to kill him because of one of various illnesses he believed he had. His diet was reduced to carrots and spelt crackers and his brain, no doubt starved of vital nourishment only became more unbalanced. His diet and brain were only exacerbating a reality that had been with him most of his life though...severe demonic oppression.
One only had to mention "God" to him to have a first hand glimpse of the demonic. Many one-time friends, aquaintances and neighbors tried to persuade him to church or witness the gospel only to be met with venomous, insulting rants that drove those people away. He relied on those around him to bring him his food, to cook his meals, to care for him as the invalid that he made himself into, yet he treated those people with less regard than a decent individual should have for a dog. Finally he drove them all away and there was no one left to take him to his much loved doctor's visits and bring him his groceries. He was finally alone. He could only call the ambulance if he wanted someone there to worry over him and tend to his "sicknesses", and he did...on a more than weekly basis.
The paramedics who were repeatedly called to his home tried to talk him out of trips to the hospital, tried to persuade him that he was not in the danger he insisted he was but many times he would not be talked out of a trip to the hospital. The police finally warned that he could not continue to make frivilous calls to 911 or charges would be pressed. In all this very real mental torment that he must have been in from those demons who whispered lies to his ears, he did not turn to YHWH, nor seemingly ever question his staunch atheism.
Only the hired aids were left to come to his home and cook meals for him. One day he wrote multiple notes to those who had once been a part of his life. He didn't mention suicide, but the torment of having to soon be put in a nursing home. He said he'd finally found out who he really was but it was "too late". Did he? Was there some truth he finally reached out and found even though it really was "too late" to salvage his will for living another day? We won't know in this age. The next morning he was seen with a shot gun by the aid who had come to prepare his meal. The man attempted to ( and believed he'd succeeded in) calming him down, but the aid was soon interrupted in his duties by the sound of shot gun fire in the bedroom. He'd finally ended the tragic life he'd been living in an equally tragic way.
He wasn't stupid...he was an intelligent person. He wasn't disabled...he was blessed with very good health in spite of his self afflicted malnourishment. He wasn't disadvantaged...he grew up on a 100+ acre beautiful farm with parents who remained married all their lives and provided for him even when he showed no ability to live a life for himself. People reached out to him, people cared, people tried...and he took those things for granted until he no longer had them. The only thing that separates the sad story of this man's life from you or i is that he never had a relationship with his Savior. The only thing that keeps any of us from being a victim of ourselves and the enemy is YHWH. "There, but for the grace of God, go i."
I wish he'd cried out to YHWH...i wish he'd seen his revelation of who he really was as an oportunity for a new way of life. I wish he'd put the gun down and got on his knees. In the end he wasn't a worse person than anyone...he just wouldn't let heaven help him.
A pretty dismal story for today, but i don't think it's without it's importance for all those who witnessed the life i speak of or those that read about it. If there's anything worth mourning, it's a life that never included Messiah. We need to be thankful today that we have been blessed to be called His. YHWH does not rejoice over the death of sinner.
Comment by Jacob on February 18, 2013 at 7:47pm
Comment by david omweno ongori on February 20, 2013 at 8:28am
No need to pray for the death body because no time to repent the sin he or she has committed before our messiah.
Comment by david omweno ongori on March 1, 2013 at 9:06am
The manufacturers of alcohol and cocaine do benefit a lot but out of these they cause more harm to human health.
Comment by david omweno ongori on January 23, 2018 at 9:38am
YHWH is not for idols the righteousness shall rejoice in him.


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Q: Peer to peer via Wi-Fi? Can I communicate from one WP7 device to another via UDP when one device enables tethering (becomes a wi-fi hotspot) and another one connects to him like to external Wi-fi hot-spot? Is this possible scenario? I just want to create p2p game.

A: To use UDP based socket connections on Windows Phone, all devices must already be connected to the same WiFi network. This means your scenario isn't possible.
See more on Windows Phone Sockets on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202874(v=vs.92).aspx

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As the competition heats up, smartphone manufacturers are focusing on making the best cameras for their flagships. One name stands out the most and that is Sony. They are the largest cell phone camera manufacturers in the world but unfortunately they have lacked behind the competition. Sony flagship phones have never been able to beat their competition when it has come to cameras but they certainly have been very competitive. There have been certain flaws that Sony has not addressed in the past few years. Sharpness of images has varied in different light conditions as well. This all has changed with Xperia XZ2 Premium.
With Sony's latest flagship, the Xperia XZ2 Premium, Sony has really out done itself. They have resolved all long standing flaws that were found in their older flagship models. The dual-camera setup has really been star of the show for Sony. Now, building on that, Sony will be introducing its all new 48MP sensor in its next flagship. Seems like they really took the criticism seriously. The new sensor has a higher resolution than Huawei P20 Pro, which had a resolution of 40MP and uses the same Quad Bayer technology. This will make Xperia XZ3 the most technologically advanced phone in the world when it launches on August 30th at IFA.
Sony really has all the pulled out all stops here. They need to update their interface and market their phones better. Lack of good marketing along with old designs and old UI has really made Xperia phones suffer in the past. Xperia series had the most stylish cell phone line up and a huge market share at one point in time on which Sony failed to build on. It is sad to see Sony's mobile division struggle to stay afloat. However, with changes in higher management there seem to be new strategy for cell phones. We finally got a new design language for Sony phones for a start.


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Great images by Jacopo Salvi / Circolo Vela Arco , more than 150 pics available here. Sandro Caviezel (G7 / Landenberger DS short rig) defended Mischa Heemskerk attack in the last five races where the 2012/2016 A-Cat World Champ scored same numbers of bullets putting him in second place overall after two bad races on Friday. Sandro reports that Mischa should have been the overall winner on his performance, but either way Sandro got two bullets in light winds with the short mast and finished all races in the top five.
Good news then for both yards, Scheurer on their foil upgrades for 2018 , and DNA seems to have nailed new foils setup/versions from the ones presented some weeks ago.
If you look above, and as posted on an Italian A-Class Fb group page, Ashby was present at the event, but decided not to race his F1. Reasons not officially known.


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The Belgian artist Corneille studied art at the Amsterdam Academy of Fine Arts. He was one of the founders of the COBRA movement in 1948. He was very active in the COBRA group from the beginning, not just painting, but also publishing poetry in the COBRA magazine. The poetic Corneille was heavily influenced by Joan Miró and Paul Klee, as Asger Jorn.
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Happy Sunday! Today was a pretty lazy day. We all slept in, went to the grocery store (been a long time, so our cart was overflowing), watched TV, played, and read. I cooked this yummy dinner.
I knew I wanted to make some kind of shrimp pasta possibly with Alfredo sauce. This was not your ordinary pasta Alfredo. I hope you give it a try one night!
Heat a large skillet and cook your bacon. Once done, set aside and drain on a plate with paper towels to soak up oil.
Add a table spoon of butter to your bacon fat. Cook your chopped onion on med.-low heat until soft, about 5-6 minutes. Add your garlic and cook about 3 minutes more. Add your broccoli and mushrooms. Add a few more turns of olive oil. Add some salt and pepper. Cook down about 15 minutes or so. I like the broccoli to still have a bite to it and be bright green. Cook to your preference. Season to your preference. Add your Alfredo sauce and combine. Turn to low.
Meanwhile, Bring salted water to a boil and cook your pasta.
Saute your shrimp in another pan. Cook about 4 minutes and add to your sauce. Add the pasta to the sauce. Add a bit of starchy pasta water if needed. Mix to combine. Chop bacon and add on top. Perfection!!!! Teach cute little shrimp lovers how to take off the tails!


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Abingdon-on-Thames ( ), commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, England, on the River Thames. Historically the county town of Berkshire, since 1974 Abingdon has been administered by the Vale of White Horse district within Oxfordshire. The area was occupied from the early to middle Iron Age and the remains of a late Iron Age and Roman defensive enclosure lies below the town centre. Abingdon Abbey was founded around 676, giving its name to the emerging town. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Abingdon was an agricultural centre with an extensive trade in wool, alongside weaving and the manufacture of clothing. Charters for the holding of markets and fairs were granted by various monarchs, from Edward I to George II.

The town survived the dissolution of the abbey in 1538, and by the 18th and 19th centuries, with the building of Abingdon Lock in 1790, and Wilts & Berks Canal in 1810, was a key link between major industrial centres such as Bristol, London, Birmingham and the Black Country. In 1856 the Abingdon Railway opened, linking the town with the Great Western Railway at . The Wilts & Berks Canal was abandoned in 1906 but a voluntary trust is now working to restore and re-open it. Abingdon railway station was closed to passengers in September 1963. The line remained open for goods until 1984, including serving the MG car factory, which operated from 1929 to October 1980.

Abingdon's brewery, Morland, whose most famous ale, Old Speckled Hen, was named after an early MG car, was taken over and closed down by Greene King Brewery in 1999, with production moving to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. The site of the brewery has been redeveloped into housing. The rock band Radiohead formed in 1985 when its members were studying at Abingdon School, a day and boarding independent secondary school. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 33,130. This is 2,504 more than in the 2001 Census total of 30,626, and represents just over 8% growth in the population.

History

A Neolithic stone hand axe was found at Abingdon. Petrological analysis in 1940 identified the stone as epidotised tuff from Stake Pass in the Lake District,  to the north. Stone axes from the same source have been found at Sutton Courtenay, Alvescot, Kencot and Minster Lovell. Abingdon has been occupied from the early to middle Iron Age and the remains of a late Iron Age defensive enclosure (or oppidum) lies below the town centre. The oppidum was in use throughout the Roman occupation. A Neolithic causewayed enclosure was found in Abingdon in 1926, dating to the 36th or 37th century BC.

Abingdon Abbey was founded in Saxon times, possibly around 676, but its early history is confused by numerous legends, invented to raise its status and explain the place name. The name seems to mean 'Hill of a man named Æbba, or a woman named Æbbe', possibly the saint to whom St Ebbe's Church in Oxford was dedicated (Æbbe of Coldingham or a different Æbbe of Oxford). However, Abingdon stands in a valley and not on a hill. It is thought that the name was first given to a place on Boars Hill above Chilswell, and the name was transferred to its present site when the Abbey was moved. In 1084, William the Conqueror celebrated Easter at the Abbey and it is possible that his son Henry I received some schooling at the abbey.

In the 13th and 14th centuries, Abingdon was a flourishing agricultural centre with an extensive trade in wool and a famous weaving and clothing manufacturing industry. The abbot seems to have held a market from very early times and charters for the holding of markets and fairs were granted by various sovereigns, from Edward I to George II. In 1337 there was a famous riot in protest at the Abbot's control of this market in which several of the monks were killed. After the abbey's dissolution in 1538, the town sank into decay and, in 1556, upon receiving a representation of its pitiable condition, Mary I granted a charter establishing a mayor, two bailiffs, twelve chief burgesses and sixteen secondary burgesses, the mayor to be clerk of the market, coroner and a JP. The present Christ's Hospital originally belonged to the Guild of the Holy Cross, on the dissolution of which Edward VI founded the almshouses instead, under its present name.

The council was empowered to elect one burgess to parliament and this right continued until the Redistribution  of Seats Act of 1885. A town clerk and other officers were appointed and the town boundaries were described in great detail. Later charters, from Elizabeth I, James I, James II, George II and George III, made no considerable change. James II changed the style of the corporation to that of a mayor, twelve aldermen and twelve burgesses. Abingdon became the county town of Berkshire sometime after receiving its Royal Charter in 1556.

Assize courts were held in Abingdon from 1570, but in the 17th century it was vying with Reading for county town status. The county hall and court house were built between 1678 and 1682, to assert this status. The building, now the Abingdon County Hall Museum, was reputedly designed by Christopher Kempster, who worked with Sir Christopher Wren.

In 1790 Abingdon Lock was built, replacing navigation to the town via the Swift Ditch. In 1810, the Wilts & Berks Canal opened, linking Abingdon with Semington on the Kennet and Avon Canal. Abingdon became a key link between major industrial centres such as Bristol, London, Birmingham and the Black Country. In 1856 the Abingdon Railway opened, linking the town with the Great Western Railway at .  However, Abingdon's failure to engage fully with the railway revolution, accepting only a branch line, sidelined the town in favour of Reading which became the County Town in 1869.

The Wilts & Berks Canal was abandoned in 1906 but a voluntary trust is now working to restore and re-open it. Abingdon railway station was closed to passengers in September 1963. The line remained open for goods until 1984, including serving the MG car factory, which opened in 1929 and closed in October 1980 as part of a British Leyland rationalisation plan. The nearest railway station is ,  away. Much of the original Abingdon branch line is now a cyclepath, whilst the land on which the station stood has been extensively redeveloped, and is now the site of a large Waitrose store and surrounded by a large number of new flats and houses.

The corporation was reformed, under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 but was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972. In 1974, under local government reorganisation, Berkshire County Council was abolished and Abingdon's governance was transferred to Oxfordshire with the town becoming  the seat of the new Vale of White Horse District Council, with Abingdon becoming a civil parish with a town council. Since the 1980s, Abingdon has played host to a number of information communication companies, with many based in the town's respective business and science parks. With this, and the result of Abingdon's proximity to academic and scientific institutions in Oxford, the town has seen an influx of young professionals taking residence in the town's many residential areas such as Peachcroft.

The town was sometimes historically called "Abingdon-on-Thames", but the official name of the borough (as given in statutes from the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 to the Local Government Act 1972 and all intervening Ordnance Survey maps) was simply "Abingdon". Local councillors voted in November 2011 to change the official name of the town to "Abingdon-on-Thames", and the change took effect on 23 February 2012.

Leisure and media
Sport and recreation facilities include the White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre, Tilsley Park and the Southern Town Park. Abingdon had four cinemas but all have closed. The last was the Regal, which closed in 1989. It stood derelict for 24 years until it was demolished in 2003 and replaced by housing development, Regal Close. The Unicorn theatre was built in an area called The Checkers Hall in the ruins of the Abbey buildings and shows plays and films on an irregular basis. In addition, a new cinema, called the Abbey Cinema has been built in one of the Town Council buildings and operates in conjunction with the Regal in Evesham.

The local newspapers are The Oxford Times, Oxford Mail and Abingdon Herald. The Oxfordshire Guardian, a free newspaper, was based in Abingdon for many years and was founded as the South Oxfordshire Courier until its closure in 2018. Local radio and television stations are shared with Oxford, although ITV retains a news gathering centre in nearby Milton Park (formerly having a broadcasting studio in the town) for ITV Meridian. Historically the ITV franchise was ITV Central. Local analogue radio is provided by BBC Radio Oxford, Jack FM, Jack 3 and Heart South (historically 'Fox FM' and later 'Heart Thames Valley'), while the town is also covered by the Oxfordshire DAB multiplex. There was a Six TV local TV channel until 2009 and the town's further education college was the home to That's TV studios for Oxfordshire until it relocated to Oxford Science Park.

The Tesco Extra store west of the town is the largest supermarket in Abingdon and has historically been one of the most profitable Tesco stores in the country. Nearby is the Fairacres Retail Park, thought to be the first retail park in the UK and recently redeveloped, which includes Argos, Subway, B & M, Dreams and Pets at Home stores. It originally had two long established Abingdon retailers—Vineys Home Furnishings (now part of the Lee Longlands chain but retains its name) and Mays Carpets (now part of the Carpetright chain and has re-branded accordingly). In the town centre, many independent stores, estate agents and charity shops make up the Bury Street shopping centre as major high street names have chosen to go to other towns. However, a recent renovation has attracted stores such as New Look, Peacocks and WHSmith to open branches.

The town centre of Abingdon was renovated in 2012 as part of the council's redevelopment plan, with the 1970s shopping precinct converted to look more modern. The roads around the area have been changed: notably the one-way system around the centre has been partially changed to two-way. While this has slightly reduced traffic within the historic town centre, congestion has greatly increased elsewhere. Local businesses have also complained that the increased traffic has driven shoppers away. Redevelopment of the Old Gaol site, most recently a leisure centre, began in 2010. The first stage was demolishing the 1970s additions and swimming pool extension. The Gaol has been converted into luxury flats, shops and restaurants, with access to the riverside.

Sport
Abingdon has two non-League football teams: Abingdon United F.C., who compete in the  and play at The Armadillo Energy Stadium, and Abingdon Town F.C., who play at Culham Road. Abingdon Golf Club/North Berks Golf Club (now defunct) was first mentioned in 1876. The club disappeared at the time of the Second World War The Oxford Saints American Football Club play their games in Abingdon at Tilsley Park and are one of the longest-running American Football clubs in the UK, founded in 1983. Abingdon is home to Abingdon Rowing Club, with members from 13 to 80 years old. It has had many successes at local and national races, and also holds its own head race in April, one of the main events in the Abingdon Calendar. Its boathouse is on Wilsham Road. Abingdon Amblers changed its name to Abingdon Athletics Club. They train at Tilsley Park and take part in county cross-country leagues.

Abingdon RUFC was formed at the Queens Hotel on 27 February 1931. During the 1930s the club was based at the Queens Hotel and games were played on the Council owned recreation ground at Caldecott Road. Immediately after the Second World War the club moved to outside the RAF camp (now Dalton Barracks) which offered on-site changing facilities and later a pitch inside the camp. At the start of the Suez Crisis in 1956 play temporarily returned to the Caldecott Road site because of security risks. This period saw the formation of the ill-fated Abingdon Sports Club; an amalgamation of the town's rugby, cricket and hockey clubs and the bid to establish a sporting centre at Hales Meadow. In a short time the ground was developed and a pavilion erected but the organisation was plagued with financial difficulties and very soon dissolved with hockey disbanding and Abingdon Rugby remaining at the site as tenants to the cricket club.  In the mid-1980s a determined effort was made to acquire grounds and a clubhouse dedicated to rugby.

The current base at the town's Southern Sports Park was opened by former Abingdon MP John Patten in 1989. Abingdon has had members representing the county, progressing to first-class level and on to international status in the Six Nations Tournament. The Abingdon Sevens traditionally opens the Home Counties' playing season and has attracted sides from throughout the country and beyond. Initiated in 1956 as a one-off tournament to celebrate the town's 400th anniversary of receiving a Royal Charter, it proved so successful that the competition has been held on an annual basis ever since. Several years ago it was decided to introduce the youngsters of Abingdon to Club Rugby. The Youth Section has 200 playing members from the ages of 6 to 18. In 2013–14 Abingdon RFC's President, Paul Murphy MBE, was also the President of the RFU. Since 2016, Oxford Rugby League have played in Abingdon at Abingdon School's Tilsley Park.

Economy
The Pavlova and Gloria leather works were major employers but both are now closed. Alfred Booth and Company of Liverpool traded with the Pavlova Leather Syndicate from 1860, bought a share in it in 1917–18 and took it over in 1921. In May 1947 at the annual British Industries Fair in Birmingham, Pavlova advertised doe skins, chamois, lambskins and goatskins, much of it as suede, for uses including shoes, gloves and belts. In 1958 Pavlova's site covered , employed neary 200 people and included a staff sports field. At that time its factory still processed imported skins of sheep, lamb and goat, mainly to make suede. Garner Group took over the Booth Group in 1979 and became Garner Booth. Pittards plc took over Garner Booth in 1987 and became Pittard Garner. It closed the Pavlova works in 1993.

Abingdon was originally home to the Morland Brewery, whose most famous ale was Old Speckled Hen, named after an early MG car. Greene King Brewery bought Morland for £182 million in 1999, closed the brewery and moved production to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. The site of the brewery has been redeveloped into housing. The Maltings was demolished and is now a mixed residential area and council offices. In 2010, a craft brewery, Loose Cannon, reinstated brewing in the town at the Drayton Road Industrial Estate and sells its beers locally, including on draught at some local pubs. Abingdon is near several major scientific employers: the UKAEA at Culham (including the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion research project), Harwell Laboratory, the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the new Diamond Light Source synchrotron, which is the largest UK-funded scientific facility to be built for over 40 years. Many inhabitants work in Oxford or commute by rail to London, from nearby Didcot. The Army now occupies Dalton Barracks, which, prior to 1993, was the Royal Air Force station RAF Abingdon.

Abingdon has a business park which has offices for several local, national and international companies including, until recently, Vodafone (acquired as part of its takeover of Mannesmann in 2000) and Northern Rock bank. The Science Park includes the global headquarters of Sophos, an anti-virus company. RM, an educational computing supplier, commonly refer to themselves as being Abingdon-based, which is technically true—even though their HQ is actually in nearby Milton Park, Milton, they have an Abingdon post code (as does the rest of Milton Park). Penlon Ltd, a medical equipment company, have their premises on the outskirts of Abingdon (their previous site, near the former railway station, has been redeveloped as residential housing). Another major employer is the British head office of the German appliance company Miele.

Industrially, Abingdon was best known for the MG car factory, which opened in 1929. 1,155,032 cars were made at the plant over the next 51 years until British Leyland closed it on 24 October 1980. Subsequent cars sold under the MG brand have since been produced either at Longbridge in Birmingham or at SAIC's factories in China. The company was founded in 1924 and moved its business alongside the Pavlova Leather Factory in 1929. By the outbreak of the Second World War, MG was established as one of the most popular brands of sports car in Britain. After the war, the MG factory continued to churn out increasing volumes of popular sports car which were available at competitive prices but the factory closed in October 1980 on the demise of the ageing but still popular MG MGB range, and was demolished within months. The headquarters of the MG Car Club, founded in 1930, is at 11 & 12 Cemetery Road, next to the old factory offices. A police station was built in its place, which was later extended with the addition of more cells, as Oxford's police station could not be extended further.

Geography and transport

Abingdon is  south of Oxford,  south-east of Witney and  north of Newbury in the flat valley of the Thames on its west (right) bank, where the small river Ock flows in from the Vale of White Horse. It is on the A415 between Witney and Dorchester, adjacent to the A34 trunk road, linking it with the M4 and M40 motorways. The B4017 and A4183 also link the town, both being part of the old A34 and often heavily congested. Local bus services to Oxford and the surrounding areas are run by the Oxford Bus Company, its sister company Thames Travel and smaller independent companies.

Abingdon no longer has a rail service. However, in recent years, urban expansion has brought Radley railway station close to town's northeastern limits. The small, primarily stopping-service, railway stations at  and Radley are both just over  from the town centre. Abingdon's eastern ring-road and newest suburbs are connected by footpath and cycleway from Radley.

Culham station was called "Abingdon Road" when it first opened in 1844, being the nearest station to the town at that time. It was renamed "Culham" when the Abingdon Railway branch line to Abingdon railway station was opened in 1856. That branch line initially connected to the main line at Abingdon Junction, before being extended to Radley station when that opened in 1873. The branch line from Radley to Abingdon closed to passengers in 1963. The nearest major stations with taxi ranks are  () and  (). All are managed by Great Western Railway. Frequent express buses operate between the local railway stations and Abingdon, run by Oxford Bus Company and its sister company Thames Travel.

Governance
The town is also represented on Oxfordshire County Council. The incumbent Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon is Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat). Abingdon is represented on the Vale of White Horse district council, as well as having its own town council. Control of the town council has passed between the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives in recent years. After the 2019 local elections, political composition of the council is:
 Liberal Democrats – 18 seats
 Green Party – 1 seat

Places of interest

Of the Benedictine Abingdon Abbey there remains a Perpendicular gateway and ruins of the mainly Early English prior's house, the guest house and other fragments. Other remains from the former abbey include the Unicorn Theatre and Long Gallery, which are still used for plays and functions including an annual craft fair. St. Nicolas' Church, parts of which were built in 1180, is near the museum. Abingdon Bridge over the Thames, near St Helen's Church, was built in 1416 and was widened or altered in 1790, 1828, 1927 and 1929. Abbey Gateway between the Abingdon County Hall Museum and the Guildhall remains a point of local importance.

Abingdon has the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle, which can be found to the north of the town centre surrounded by trees within a housing estate. Originally built of wood or stone, it was a fortification on a raised earthwork called a motte surrounded by a protective ditch. There is a Second World War FW3/28A pillbox by the River Ock near Marcham Road. A gaol, built by prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars in 1811, is on the south edge of town next to the Thames. In the 1970s the gaol was converted into a leisure centre. In 2011 the site was developed into residential and commercial premises. According to local legend, prior to its conversion in the 1970s, the gaol was haunted by the ghost of an eight-year-old boy who, after being convicted for arson in the mid-19th century, became the youngest person in the UK to be executed by hanging.

The Roysse Room was the site of Abingdon School (then 'Roysse's School') from 1563 until it moved to its current site after an indenture by John Roysse, who had been born and educated in Abingdon before he moved to London. The room is now part of the civic offices. St. Helen's Church dates from around 1100 and is the second-widest church in England, having five aisles and being  wider than it is long. The tower of St Helen's Church has a modern ring of ten bells, cast by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in 2005 and hung in a new frame with new fittings by White's of Appleton in 2006. Abingdon's county hall by the main market square, built in 1677–1680 reputedly by Christopher Kempster, stands on columns, leaving the ground floor open for a market and other functions. It was once hailed by Nikolaus Pevsner with the comment "Of the free-standing town halls of England with open ground floors this is the grandest". It now houses the Abingdon County Hall Museum and is run by Historic England.

Culture and folklore

Bun-throwing is an Abingdon tradition that began with the 1761 Coronation of King George III. This long-standing tradition of the town has local dignitaries throwing buns (5,000 buns in 2018) from the roof of the Abingdon County Hall Museum into crowds assembled in the market square below on specific days of celebration (such as royal marriages, coronations and jubilees). The museum has a collection of the buns, dried and varnished, dating back to bun-throwings of the 19th century. To date there have been 35 bun-throwing events. Since 2000, there have been bun-throwing ceremonies to commemorate the Millennium, the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2002, the 450th anniversary of the town's being granted a royal charter in 2006, the Royal Wedding  of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011, the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2012, the centenary of the end of the World War I in November 2018 and the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2022.

The centre of town and the whole of Ock Street (half a mile) are closed every October for two days for the Ock Street Michaelmas Fair, once a hiring fair but now maybe Britain's longest and narrowest funfair. The much smaller Runaway Fair, the following Monday, was traditionally for workers who were unsatisfied with their employment after the first week. Abingdon has a very old and still active Morris dancing tradition, passed on since before the folk dance and song revivals in the 19th century. Every year a Mayor of Ock Street is elected by the inhabitants of Ock Street; he then parades through the town preceded by the famous Horns of Ock Street, a symbol of Abingdon's Morris Dance troupe.

The Friends of Abingdon's Unicorn Theatre, housed in the old Abbey buildings, is the site of first productions of many stage adaptations of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, by Stephen Briggs. Old Speckled Hen ale was originally brewed by Morland's of Abingdon to commemorate the MG factory in the town. It continues to be brewed by Greene King along with several complementary beers. The rock band Radiohead formed at Abingdon School in 1985.

Abingdonians
See also Abbot of Abingdon, Abingdon School and List of Old Abingdonians.
Ælfric of Abingdon, 10th-century Archbishop of Canterbury
Alexander of Abingdon, late 13th-century/early-14th-century sculptor
Sammy Chung, British former football manager
John Creemer Clarke (1821–95), clothing manufacturer (Hyde and Clarke), JP, MP, benefactor
Oswald Couldrey (1882–1958), British artist, poet and author
Gerald Charles Dickens, actor and great great grandson of Charles Dickens, lives in Abingdon
Kate Edger was born in Abingdon and became the first NZ woman graduate
Saint Edmund of Abingdon, 13th-century Archbishop of Canterbury, was born in Abingdon, as were his sisters, Saint Alice of Catesby and the Blessed Margaret Rich
Kate Garraway, former GMTV and now Daybreak presenter, born in Abingdon and attended Fitzharrys school
Michelle Goodman DFC, RAF Pilot and First Female Pilot to receive the DFC (b. 1976), lives in Abingdon.
Tom Hingley, lead singer of Oldham band Inspiral Carpets
David Jessel, BBC foreign correspondent and justice campaigner, born in Abingdon
Francis Maude, Conservative Party MP, born in Abingdon and attended Abingdon School
Paul Mayhew-Archer, comedy writer and actor. Taught drama at John Mason School and co-wrote The Vicar of Dibley; currently lives in Abingdon
Alain Menu, World Touring Car Championship driver, lives in Abingdon
David Mitchell, actor and comedian, attended Abingdon School
Tom Penny, professional skateboarder: skateboards for Flip Skateboards and attended Fitzharrys School
Radiohead, the rock band, formed as students at Abingdon School
Dorothy Richardson, novelist, born in Abingdon. She was the first writer to publish an English-language novel using what was to become known as the stream-of-consciousness technique.
John Spiers, melodeon player best known as a member of the band Bellowhead which broke up in 2016
Stephen of Abingdon, 14th-century Lord Mayor of the City of London
Matthew Taylor, footballer, grew up in the town and attended John Mason School
Thomas Tesdale, 16th-century local benefactor and eventual founder of Pembroke College, Oxford
Sir Henry Tombs VC, KCB (1825–74), a recipient of the Victoria Cross
Oliver Tompsett, West End star, best known for appearing as Fiyero in the musical Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London
Dean Whitehead, footballer, was born in Abingdon
Kit Young, actor from Abingdon

Education
Abingdon and Witney College: provides further education.
Abingdon School: private, boys, 11–18.
The Consortium: local authority, mixed, a partnership of schools including Abingdon and Witney College and the following secondary schools:
Fitzharrys School
Larkmead School
John Mason School
Europa School, UK which replaced European School, Culham.
Our Lady's Abingdon: private, mixed, 3–18.
School of St Helen and St Katharine: private, girls, 9–18.

International relations
Abingdon is twinned with:
  Argentan, France
  Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
  Schongau, Germany
  Lucca, Italy

Freedom of the Town
The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Town of Abingdon-on-Thames.

Military Units
 RAF Abingdon: 1955.
 12 Regiment, RLC: 8 December 2010.

See also
 Abingdon Monks' Map
 The Abingdon Sword
 Albert Park, Abingdon
 Our Lady and St Edmund's Church, Abingdon

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Simian primates (monkeys and apes) are typically long-lived animals with slow life histories. They also have varying social organization and can slowly impact their environment by either being seed dispersers or by overbrowsing their food trees. As a result, short-term studies and those focusing on just 1 location only provide a snapshot of simian life under a specific set of ecological conditions that typically do not represent the complete spatial and temporal picture. Long-term field studies are needed to obtain a true understanding of their behavior, life history, ecology, and the selective pressures acting on them. Fortunately, there have been many long-term studies of simians, so a great deal is known about many species. Here, we consider examples of longterm studies that have operated continuously for approximately a decade or more. We review studies that deal with ecophysiology, social organization, population and community ecology, or conservation. The information emerging from these sites is particularly helpful in the construction of informed conservation plans, which are desperately needed given the severity of threats to simians and the fact that responses do not occur over the duration of a Ph.D. or granting cycle (typically 1-3 years). © 2017 American Society of Mammalogists.
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TITLE = { Long-term simian research sites: Significance for theory and conservation },
JOURNAL = { Journal of Mammalogy },
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ABSTRACT = { Simian primates (monkeys and apes) are typically long-lived animals with slow life histories. They also have varying social organization and can slowly impact their environment by either being seed dispersers or by overbrowsing their food trees. As a result, short-term studies and those focusing on just 1 location only provide a snapshot of simian life under a specific set of ecological conditions that typically do not represent the complete spatial and temporal picture. Long-term field studies are needed to obtain a true understanding of their behavior, life history, ecology, and the selective pressures acting on them. Fortunately, there have been many long-term studies of simians, so a great deal is known about many species. Here, we consider examples of longterm studies that have operated continuously for approximately a decade or more. We review studies that deal with ecophysiology, social organization, population and community ecology, or conservation. The information emerging from these sites is particularly helpful in the construction of informed conservation plans, which are desperately needed given the severity of threats to simians and the fact that responses do not occur over the duration of a Ph.D. or granting cycle (typically 1-3 years). © 2017 American Society of Mammalogists. },
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AUTHOR_KEYWORDS = { Conservation; Conservation planning; Diet; Ecophysiology; Ecosystem engineers; Hormones; Life history; Population and community processes; Seed dispersal; Social systems },
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MSJ:
It seems like things have been busy for you these past couple of years, and the Agents of Mercy release, The Black Forest, has gained some critical acclaim these past few months. Maybe that's a good place to start. How did the contributing ideas and writing process develop for the album?
I think we started in November of 2010. It's mainly ideas from me and Nad, who writes in AoM and we just set out to write plenty, even more than we needed, so that we could really pick the best songs. Then we started sending out mp3 versions of our demos to all band members. After that it was almost a totally democratic process. We were all into making a bit more of a rock album and leave the slightly softer pop style prog from earlier albums. Lyric-wise, we did set out for a darker, more disturbing theme for a change.
MSJ: Now that the CD is released, how does the band feel about the work, both from the final product overall as well as the popular reception of the work?
We are all very happy with the album, both the songs and the production. It feels like a natural progression from the earlier albums, a bit heavier but with the typical cinematic prog that is the AoM archetype. Also it feels good to know the music was actually played live in a room into an analogue tape recorder like in the old days. We want to be a good live band and be able to fully reproduce the music from the albums live, and this way we know we can. It's a good feeling.
MSJ: You've played in so many wonderful bands, each with their unique overall sound and approach. No one could argue that Flower Kings, Transatlantic and Agents of Mercy are all groups of masterful progressive rock musicians. How do you draw a unique voice and sound out of your work with each to keep it fresh and non-redundant?
I think my writing is probably not that different on each project. I just write what I feel at the moment. It's more based on each band's construction of individuals and combination. I'm a firm believer in band chemistry. So, even people like myself, or Neal tend to sound a bit different, depending upon who else is in the band. Transatlantic is such a dream team; we're frightening as writers. Agents of Mercy are a great bunch of people, too. We're like family, or like brothers.
MSJ: How do you balance writing styles when you have your own approach to a piece versus when working with a contributory ensemble? For example, how do balance bringing your ideas in to play with someone like Neal Morse?
With Transatlantic, it works like a writing pool. We just throw ideas on the table, pick a bit of Pete's and another from Neal, and then a piece of mine and hope it works. Normally I sing my bits and Neal his bits, as it just comes naturally that way. But, of course it happens that I sing some of what Pete wrote or Mike sings what Neal wrote. Then we do a lot of jamming, of course, and these bits are all part of the composition process. In Agents of Mercy, I just throw ideas on the table, then take in opinions from the band and try make the best of it. They of course add all their flair in playing it.
MSJ: I love some of the wide influences you've emphasized, whether it's Puccini or Miles Davis, Metheny or Genesis. Some composers start with melody, some with harmonic interplay, some with a basic rhythm idea, etc. What type of approach seems to work best for you?
It's different every time. Whatever the chord structures are like seems to be the trigger many times. I do not make plans about what to write, so it's all a very spontaneous process. I guess I just trust the muse that I'll come up with cool ideas, and I do nine times out of ten.
MSJ: The last I read, you were developing a symphonic project for the near future. Can you tell us how that is progressing, and what kinds of orchestration are you employing?
Oh, yes, that's my never-ending story. Wish it was "near future." Now it seems more like a distant future. I'm sort of almost halfway, but it still needs plenty of work. There have been so many other projects lately, so the orchestra thing is on the backburner. I hope to be able to finish it later this year. It will be quite different from anything I've done before.
MSJ: Is there anything new developing now for any of your other bands at this point?
Well, there is one thing, some would call major, but I'm afraid I still cannot say anything about it. However, I'm working on it as we speak and will enter studio with full band next week. Details will soon be revealed.
MSJ: With an industry still in total chaos for the past couple of decades, what would you advise young musicians today to do to approach writing, recording, and performing?
I'd say for everyone, anyone who is into making music for all the right reasons, don't stop, 'cause you can't go wrong. But for everyone else, be aware the music business is not somewhere you'll make easy money. Live music will always be attractive, even if it now tends to be focused on the big events and the image superstars. Also the big festivals get bigger, and ticket prices go up. It's not easy.
MSJ: Where do you think the music business is headed, and what will you do to adapt and survive in that context?
We will definitely see more digital distribution in all forms and shapes, but physical product will exist, too, and in particular with more elaborate products such as Vinyl and CD box-sets with extended artwork and books. We, as musicians, need to stay in the loop, get updated and be modernized, so I'm now slowly warming up to downloads and internet shops.
MSJ: What have you been listening to lately for your own enjoyment or inspiration?
Hmm, I've been listening to Steve Hackett's Beyond the Shrouded Horizon, Haken's Visions, Pat Metheny's Orchestrion, and Opeth's Heritage.
MSJ: And finally, if you would, please ask yourself a question and answer it!
Question: Will you still be doing it in ten years from now, will music still be fun, and will you have something to say that's valid?
Answer: Yes, definitely, to all!
MSJ: This interview is available in book format (hardcover and paperback) in Music Street Journal: 2012 Volume 1 at lulu.com/strangesound.
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Book Review – So It Goes By Jennifer Probst
The truth? Lonely advertising rep Malia Evergreen is still waiting for a soul mate, marriage, and a family. The lie? Telling every busybody she knows that she's met someone. Now it's a matter of finding him. Malia needs a date for a wedding. In a pinch she strikes a bargain with her former client, CEO Palmer Matterson—an arrogant, defiantly single, alpha billionaire whose best quality is insincerity. The perfect fake date.
Palmer has wanted Malia from the first moment he saw her. A challenging, sexy career woman who knows what she wants. It's just not him. Not yet, anyway. This is Palmer's chance to win her heart.
As fate throws them together, Malia unravels the layers of the man she thought she knew and, against the odds, finds herself falling in love. Palmer's falling too. If only they can convince each other what they share…a belief in a happy ever after.
Published Date: 13 September 2022
Malia ran her own media company have a successful company and the only lacking in her life is that special someone. All She have was many dating disasters instead. She have been dealing with Palmer in handling his company account. He is very demanding and she doesn't like him. But Palmer developed a huge crush on her despite their business dealing. When Malia told him she moving on to a new area of her company and that she no longer taking care of his company's account, Palmer tries to find opportunity to stay in contact with her including fake date romance in front of their families. Forced to work together, Malia continue to struggle with her attraction to a man she doesn't "like".
This book is a wonderful love story told from dual person perspective that at times pull at my heartstrings. I love Palmer for his vulnerability despite his macho outlook and the chemistry that both Palmer and Malia have. It is not just a love story. It was filled with dilemma especially at the part when Malia decide to go for the fertility treatment.