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Weekender: Bundy's Olympic hopeful
Upcoming demolition to make way for new skate park
Taryn takes on Olympic dream
Three new play areas part of park upgrade
Westside Shopping Centre childcare proposed
Tribe Tropical expands to the United States
What's On Bundaberg
Lachlan shines in Lions Youth of the Year competition
Isis Kindy an adored community asset
Alternative learning ignites Tyrone's horticulture passion
'Allo 'Allo brings crazy comedy to the Playhouse stage
Garden: Hayhoe's hands on, tropical garden reaps rewards
Recipe: Sweet Potato Croquettes
Jason Kubler headlines Realway Bundaberg Tennis Open
The demolition of the Walla Street skate bowl in Central Park is set to take place in early May, making way for the construction of a brand new facility for skating enthusiasts.
Mayor Jack Dempsey said the state-of-the-art facility was part of Council's commitment in enhancing liveability and promoting healthy and active lifestyles in the community.
"Council is continuously adding to our outdoor spaces through new pathways and recreational areas for residents and visitors to our region to enjoy," he said.
"Through these many projects we aim to meet the diverse recreation needs of the community, promote social inclusion and provide health and wellness benefits.
"This skate park ticks all of those boxes."
Mayor Dempsey said after extensive community consultation and a rigorous design process, it was exciting to see the final stages unfolding.
"The new skate park will be a fantastic addition to our region, providing a top facility for skaters to practice, to refine and to finesse their skills," he said.
"It will also offer up new experiences for those just learning to ride and skate, for families looking to get out and about with the kids and for residents wanting to try something new.
"I am looking forward to seeing the skate park come to life in the coming months."
Divisional representative Cr Tracey McPhee said the area in Central Park would be ready for skating enthusiasts to enjoy by the end of the year.
"After the demolition process, construction will follow for about 28 to 30 weeks with the skatepark set to be finished in December, weather permitting," she said.
"Once completed, the new facility will not only be a boost for our skating community, but the revitalised area will also bring about a whole new look to Central Bundaberg."
Cr Tracey McPhee
Cr McPhee said Bundaberg Regional Council had undertaken extensive community consultation and planning to ensure the creation of a diverse recreational space.
"The planning process started with pre-design workshops, surveys and on-site consultation held in February 2020," she said.
"A stakeholder group was formed combining local skateboard riders, BMX riders, scooter and rollerblade riders and freestyle roller skaters.
"The end result is a design featuring multi-level ramps and stairways, plenty of shade and three separate skate areas where enthusiasts can refine their skills.
"The perimeter of the park will be accessible to people with a disability and new accessible toilet amenities are being built."
The Central Park 'Walla Street Skate park' upgrade is a joint initiative of Bundaberg Regional Council and the Queensland Government's Works for Queensland program.
Keep up to date with progress here.
The skate bowl in Central Park on Walla Street will soon be transformed.
Taryn on track to follow Olympic dream
Video: Paul Donaldson
New play equipment will be constructed in South Head Parklands, Burnett Heads next month with three separate areas to provide fun for children of all ages and abilities.
Divisional representative Cr Tanya McLoughlin said the upgrade was identified in Bundaberg Regional Council's Parks and Open Space Strategy 2019- 2026 and Capital Works Program 2020/20121.
She said the design of the new facility featured three play areas broken up into toddler, junior and senior themes as well as shade sails throughout the park.
"The toddler section which will feature a slide, swings with a 'joey' seat, a chimes panel, a small train, play hut and fort," Cr McLoughlin said.
"A junior play area will include an all-abilities spinner, climbing and slide set while the senior's area will feature a six-metre tower and spinning orb."
Cr McLoughlin said the current play equipment at the site would also be utilised in the design.
She said the new play equipment would be a boost to the coastal area.
"We have had a lot of community feedback about the need for more play equipment for children so this will be welcomed by many," Cr McLoughlin said.
"The new equipment is being designed and supplied by local business Willplay and once constructed will benefit many families and visitors to our wonderful region.
"The area will be fenced off to the public from Friday, 21 May with the project expected to be completed by July, weather permitting."
Residents are advised there will be no access to the existing playground for safety reasons while the construction is underway.
At times there may also be no access to the shelters and some of the nearby pathways.
Access to the toilets will remain.
The South Head Parklands playground is a joint initiative of Bundaberg Regional Council and the Queensland Government.
Megan Dean
A 24-hour gym and childcare facility could revitalise the Westside Shopping Centre which has sat largely vacant since the exit of its supermarket tenancy.
A development application for a Material Change of Use Indoor Sport and Recreation (gym) and Childcare Centre was recently lodged with Bundaberg Regional Council by Lather Industrial Park Pty Ltd.
Under the proposal the shopping centre would be wholly utilised between the new uses and existing tenants.
If approved, the childcare facility would operate from 6 am to 7 pm, accommodating a maximum 26 staff and 100 children, and the indoor gym would operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
"The works involve the conversion of part of the existing Westside Shopping Centre (most recently used as a Shop (supermarket) to an Indoor Sport and Recreation (gym) facility," the application said.
"The extensions include a small mezzanine level above the gym amenities and the use of part of the loading bay for outdoor functional training.
"The application also seeks to utilise a portion of the existing supermarket and shop tenancies for a childcare centre.
"The proposal seeks to retain the existing retail tenancies along the eastern elevation and the amenities facilities.
"The central mall is retained."
Located next to Stockland Bundaberg and other commercial uses including car dealerships and eateries, the shopping centre site covers 1.247ha.
Among the improvement works proposed is a minor extension to the building to accommodate am outdoor play area for the childcare use.
"The conversion will result in the majority of the tenancy being used as a gym, with the north-eastern portion being used for a childcare centre," the application said.
"The indoor sport and recreation use (gym) will have a total area of approximately 3521m², including a mezzanine with a GFA of 212m².
"The childcare centre has a use area of 892m², of which 621m² was previously retail.
"To accommodate the outdoor play areas associated with the childcare centre, 15 carparking spaces are proposed to be removed.
"This will result in a total of 185 carparking spaces remaining across the site."
The application said the proposed extensions to the Westside Shopping Centre would maintain the single storey-built form and provides an outdoor play area associated with the child centre and outdoor training for the gym.
Georgia Neville
Since launching local swimwear company Tribe Tropical, Emily Gradon has been working on growing her business and in just two years she has already cracked the overseas market.
The Bundaberg-based entrepreneur said not only was her brand available for purchase throughout Australia, Tribe Tropical had also recently been launched in Hawaii.
Credited to networking through LinkedIn and Instagram, Emily said persistence was a key factor in her mission to expand the business.
"To be stocked in the United States only two years after launching is an achievement that I'm really proud of as it really takes a lot of hard work and tonnes of time to get to this point," she said.
"There really is a lot that goes on behind the scenes of a business that is trying to grow, it's quite crazy and as a start-up it's even more challenging, but hopefully with time all the hard work will pay off."
With a commitment to the environment through a range of sustainability initiatives, Emily explained that despite now stocking internationally, her goals remained the same.
"From 2021, I am using five times less plastic in my business by way of a reduction in the number of polybags used," she said.
"Instead of receiving each individual swimsuit and hat in its own polybag I have asked my supplier to send five pieces per polybag."
The designs on the swimwear include Bundaberg Region inspired patterns from areas such as Mon Repos and Bargara.
Next month, Tribe Tropical is taking part in a world-record breaking attempt on the Gold Coast to raise funds for koala conservation at the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital.
Along with five other Queensland fashion brands, they will be part of the Gold Coast Beach Parade at Burleigh Beach on 16 May.
You can find out more about the attempt here.
Tribe Tropical was born from a love of tropical Australia and a desire to enjoy time in the sun without the consequence of prolonged sun exposure.
St Luke's Anglican College student Lachlan Hocking has reached the state final of the Lions Youth of the Year award, making him the first student to compete at the state level from the Bundaberg Region in over a decade.
The Lions Youth of the Year award is designed to encourage, foster and develop leadership in conjunction with other citizenship qualities in our youth.
As part of the competition, Lachlan had to respond to a range of interview questions, including two impromptu questions and deliver a five-minute speech on a topic of his choice.
Representing the Bundaberg North Lions Club, Lachlan entered the local competition in the Q4 region, which covers west to Longreach, south to the Sunshine Coast and north to Rockhampton, competing against around 100 other entrants.
Lachlan won and progressed further to win the regional and district finals, where he then went on to compete in the state final in Brisbane against the winners of the other three regions.
Lachlan explained that the experience provided him the opportunity to meet a range of other young people as well as learn about what the Lions are doing within the local community as well as further afield.
"The competition gave me the opportunity to meet a range of other young people and learn from their experiences, as well as gain further understanding of the impact the Lions have on our communities and the support they provide," he said.
"I would encourage other young people in Bundaberg to give the competition a go, as you have got to throw yourself in the deep end and challenge yourself."
Bundaberg Lions Youth of the Year Chairman, Michael Brown, explained that it was a fantastic achievement to make it to the sate finals, with only the cream of the crop rising to the occasion.
"Bundaberg North had never had a representative contestant reach the State Final, so this was a huge thrill," Mr Brown said.
"We were proud to see the confidence and improvement in Lachlan at the various stages he experienced."
The stages of the quest include club, zone, regional and district judging before reaching the state finals, with the State winners going on the National Judging at the Lions Annual Convention each May.
While St Luke's Anglican College is associated with Hinkler Lions Club, the six entrants were this year spread across six local clubs at the Zone final.
This allowed for one student to represent each of the Bundaberg North, Moore Park, Hinkler, Bundaberg, Bargara and Gin Gin Lions clubs.
The Youth of the Year quest is an annual competition run by Lions in Australia for youth age between 15 and 19 years.
Wayne Heidrich
With a new Director and newly elected committee to guide its progress, Isis Community Pre-School and Kindergarten has entered its 61st year of operation with a renewed commitment to build on its enviable history.
Terri Stower was appointed to the role of Director in July last year.
She said the whole environment surrounding the operation of the facility from its design and location, parents, staff and general community support made it the most delightful centre in which she had worked in 30 years of childhood education.
"This kindergarten is very special and it is quite incredible how generations from individual families have continued to support the centre.
"Last year we have had one family with a child that is fourth generation so I guess that speaks volumes for the respect this facility has been able to engender over an extended period," she said.
Terri said modern childcare facilities could not call on such history and she felt the Isis Community Kindergarten held a rather unique position in childcare education.
"This is one of few facilities where the children have such diverse resources including a playground with real grass and a genuine contact with the natural environment.
"We cater to children aged three to five years with a focus on their education. We get the kids ready for Prep so the transition into the school system is just that much easier for them and their parents.
"We have recently given the centre a refresh with new equipment, colourful carpet and updated general resources. The local Masonic Lodge very generously supplied funding for some of our new furniture," Terri said.
"The Kindy will be participating in the forthcoming Childers Festival in July and the new committee has some great ideas in relation to that."
Terri said COVID-19 had caused the cancellation of planned 60th anniversary celebrations last year.
"While the major event didn't go ahead, the kids were able to help us celebrate the occasion within the necessary restrictions. There was a dress-up day, party and we created a lovely banner."
"We do have positions available for more children and are planning an open day in May-June where parents can come along and see for themselves just what kindy can offer in the way of childhood education," she said.
"I would encourage anyone considering enrolling their children to visit our Facebook page or phone 41261241 for additional information."
Bundaberg Year 11 student Tyrone Shaw has discovered a passion for horticulture which is helping him to re-engage with his studies thanks to support from the Ignite Program.
The program assists students at risk of disengaging with school by offering up alternative study options and hands-on work experience.
Project officer at the Bundaberg Regional Youth Hub Jo Donnison said it was through Ignite that students like Tyrone were able to find their own path in successfully completing their education.
"Mainstream education proved difficult for Tyrone for varied reasons but predominantly due to his struggles with developing sound literacy skills in his early schooling years," Jo said.
"He initially engaged with Ignite when he was in Year 8 and with the assistance of a personalised learning program, developed in conjunction with Vocational Training Queensland (VTQ) and the Bundaberg State High School Rapid Reading Program, his literacy and numeracy skills have improved.
"To help Tyrone become work ready, he then completed a Transition to Success with Youth Justice in 2020 and with their support, Tyrone was able to gain a Level One Chainsaw and Certificate II in Horticulture."
With those technical skills under his belt, Jo said Tyrone needed an opportunity to gain real-life experience.
"With assistance from Youth Justice, an offer of work experience with Shalom College was accepted," Jo said.
"Tyrone has worked with the facilities team at Shalom for the past term performing a range of duties."
The Bundaberg student said his work experience was not only helping him decide what he wanted to do in the future, it was also building his confidence levels and skillset in many different areas.
I prefer doing this than sitting in a classroom, it is a lot more fun being outside and getting dirty.
Tyrone Shaw
"My dad worked out on a farm and I used to help all the time.
"I have always loved being around plants.
"I am also doing a bit of mechanical work, which is something new for me."
Attending Ignite two days a week and working at Shalom College the other three has meant Tyrone can still work on his numeracy and literacy while growing his employability skills and building his resume for future job opportunities.
"Tyrone has discovered a passion for horticulture and land management, something he is genuinely good at and is looking forward to gaining further skills and paid employment in this field," Jo said.
Trish Mears
'Allo 'Allo, based on the hugely successful British television series that ran for seven seasons, will hit the Playhouse stage in May.
Director Nigel Dick said fans of the hit TV series should love the play.
"This hilarious comedy relates the adventures of a hapless cafe owner, Rene, in occupied France," Nigel said.
"You can see all of your favourite TV characters in the flesh, including Rene's tone-deaf wife Edith, the hapless Constable Crabtree, German Officer Lieutenant Gruber, Major-General von Schmelling, and the Gestapo officer Herr Flick!"
Nigel said the play was based around Rene and his wife, who have stashed a priceless portrait in a sausage in their cellar.
It is where two British airmen are also hiding until the Resistance can repatriate them.
"Communications with London using the wireless that is disguised as a cockatoo add to the many embarrassments this intrepid proprietor endures in the company of his patrons," Nigel said.
News that the Fuhrer is scheduled to visit the town inspires more hilarious spectacles.
"Meanwhile Rene summons all the wit he can muster to save his cafe and his life."
'Allo 'Allo will be performed by Bundaberg Players Inc for five performances - May 21, 22, 28 and 29 at 7.30pm, with a matinee on Sunday, May 23 at 3pm.
Bookings are open for subscribers at 10am this Saturday and for the general public at 10am this Sunday.
You can buy tickets at the Playhouse Theatre box office at 2b Steffensen Street weekends from 10am unil noon – either in person or by phone on 4153 1904 or online.
Tickets are $22 for Adults, $19 for Concession/Students and Groups 10+ $19.
"Bring a group along, enjoy some refreshments at the bar and enjoy a night of uproarious laughter," Nigel said.
Hayhoe's hands on, tropical garden reaps rewards
Morgan Everett
Julie and Paul Hayhoe began developing their tropical haven 28 years ago after moving to Bundaberg in 1993.
The couple walked away with a love of palms after living in Darwin for 11 years, inspiring their rainforest journey.
"In the beginning the soil was of fairly poor quality but with constant mulching it has improved out of sight," Julie said.
"After the first 10 years we could see it starting to come together."
Paul said practicality was at the forefront when designing their outdoor space, with trees planted to create privacy and protect from wind and dust.
"The golden canes were the very first things that we needed," he said.
"The circle garden at the end of the house of course was put there to block wind."
The gardening pair said they would attend local markets where Julie would buy plants for aesthetics and Paul would look after the practical side.
I love anything that provides a lot of greenery with a good splash of colour and a heady perfume
Julie Hayhoe
"Spending time in the garden for me is very calming and enjoyable."
Hard work has paid off and according to the Bundaberg green thumbs, it was no easy feat getting the soil up to standard.
"Once we turned it around, we got lots of earth worms and it started to develop its own eco system and that's when it really took off," Paul said.
"We have a constant supply of palm fronds which my hubby mulches and bamboo mulch from our wind break at the rear of the property," Julie said.
As the garden has constantly evolved, Julie and Paul said it was refreshing to take in the sights of the space throughout the week.
"It's nice to go for a walk in the garden, stroll around and take it all back in," Paul said.
"There's always something to see and there's definitely always a weed or three to pull out."
In the lead up to Taste Bundaberg Festival some of the region's most talented chefs will be sharing their favourite recipes, including these Water St Sweet Potato Croquettes.
If you're looking for breakfast inspiration then look no further than this delicious dish!
Alex Cameron from Water St shares his tips and his passion for fresh local produce in this perfect brekky.
The Realway Bundaberg Tennis Open will host its biggest field in more than a decade and a former world top 100 player at this weekend's AMT (Australian Money Tournament) Gold Event at Drinan Park.
Headlined by international tennis pro Jason Kubler, the tournament has experienced a surge in interest with 66% more players set to compete than in 2019.
A total of 58 players have entered the men's AMT event and 19 players will compete in the women's AMT.
The former world No. 91 and world junior no. 1 Brisbane based Jason Kubler is the top seed in the men's draw, followed by Sunshine Coast based Calum Puttergill.
Kubler, who last competed in the event in 2013, when he was beaten by current world No. 71 and future Australian Davis Cup representative James Duckworth 6-7, 2-6, is returning from injury and prefers claycourt tournaments due to recurring knee issues.
Kubler was often referred to as a "right-handed version of Rafael Nadal" for his powerful build and strong forehand.
Back in 2009, Kubler led the Junior Davis Cup team to victory, remaining undefeated in singles and doubles and this triumph was part of a 36-match winning streak in 2009 that also reaped five junior ITF titles.
Later that year he won the Optus 18s Australian Championships and he made his Grand Slam debut at the 2010 Australian Open.
Kubler qualified at Wimbledon in 2018, marking the first time he had won three qualifying rounds to reach a Grand Slam main draw.
The 27-year-old, who is currently ranked no. 274, will meet unseeded 20-year-old Sam Oster in the first round at 12.30pm tomorrow.
Bundaberg's Chris Rae, who competed at the Australian Open as a junior for a number of years, will make a return to tournament play at the age of 42.
Chris will play in qualification, meeting sixth seed Hugo Joaquim Babakian first-up, 8am tomorrow at the Realway Bundaberg Tennis Open.
Chris will also team up with Lachlan Vickery in the doubles.
"Thanks to the inspiration of my two sons Lachlan and Christian, a bit of personal drive, and getting my butt back on the court to hit some balls, I've decided after 18 years off to have a bash in my first tournament," Chris said.
"The last time I played in the Bundy Open Queensland Claycourt in 2002, I won the men's singles. The last match I ever played in 2003 was in a pro tournament in Rockhampton, where I won my first round of main draw and was forced to forfeit my second round due to injury.
"I made the tough decision to stop playing competitively from this point and move to different ventures in life which I have greatly appreciated and learnt from. I never thought this would happen, but you never know what's around the corner in life."
In the women's event, Alexandra Bozovic (NSW) is the top seed, ahead of Megan Smith (Qld).
Competition will run throughout the weekend with the finals on Monday at Drinan Park.
Bundaberg Open Tournament Director Ken Hick is encouraging locals to come and see high level tennis.
"The Bundaberg Open has always attracted strong fields and this year we are seeing the strength in numbers as well as calibre. To have Jason Kubler, who cracked the world's top 100 in 2018 headlining our field demonstrates the standard of players we have competing this year. I invite Bundaberg locals to get down to the tournament and support the future stars of Queensland tennis," Hick said.
Rob Barty, the father of world no. 1 Ashleigh Barty, will also visit the Bundaberg Open and Bundaberg Juniors during the weekend to answer questions and share his experience of raising the world's best player.
A number of other locals will also compete in the Men's Special Singles and Double.


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Stay Active for Life is the theme for March at Janice Woody's Lifetime Health. Last week we talked about activity being a mindset and the fact that everything is created twice, first in the mind, then in our outer reality. Staying active requires the most profound yet simple commitment. We must take the first step.
For someone who is overweight or obese, this kind of struggle may seem obvious. But what if you're young and active right now. You never imagine a time when you won't be this way. That is where the challenge lies. When we are living an active lifestyle, we tend to take it for granted. We assume it will always be that way. Sometimes we're not present to our lives. We may go for a run or go to the gym every week because that's our routine. We don't give it a lot of thought. We may not even know why we started in the first place. Maybe it became a habit because of an old boyfriend or girlfriend. I challenge you to question why you are so active right now if this is your reality. Think about your WHY. Knowing and understanding it, may save your life one day.
Life happens in a flash. Our daily routines can be upset in an instant by a bad decision, people in our lives, health challenges, etc. Before you're aware of it, your world is turned upside down and what was once an active lifestyle changes into a stress filled, stationary existence. It only takes a few days for some people. Their healthy pattern is broken and they find themselves making different lifestyle choices which don't involve much movement.
I've seen this in my own life. I used to walk 3 miles every day and bike and swim. Then I changed my work life and found myself sitting in front of a computer monitor from early morning to late into the afternoon. I told myself this was necessary if I wanted to be "successful". Did it take its toll on my health? You bet it did. I started to gain weight, slowly at first, but then it really started to pack on. I had always enjoyed being active, but just didn't realize how much I needed to make it a priority for my health. Here's the part that's really annoying, it took me longer to get back my stamina and previous level of strength and agility. Whenever I slacked off, it would always take longer to come back physically.
Stay active for life. Take the first step. If you're already there, take the second step and be present to why you're doing it, how it feels and why it's important to you. Don't take your life for granted. It's precious. Every moment is precious. If you get this, please like it and share it with your friends. Visit me at JaniceWoody.com and sign up for a class or coaching to help you on your path of Wellness and Graceful Aging.
Activity is a mindset may seem like a strange statement to many people. Consider this. It is in keeping with universal law. Everything in this dimension is created twice, first in the mind, then in the third dimension. Think about this concept and you will see this is how your life works as well. You think of something you want first, then you set about acquiring it. This is an easily seen truth in our consumer driven realm.
Working each day with individuals struggling to stay active, I see them miss this simple truth. It starts with your mindset. An active lifestyle begins with an idea, then grows into an active lifestyle. We've all at least heard that an active lifestyle leads to better health and wellness. You may ask, but how do I get there? The answer is simple. Set your mind on the idea of an active lifestyle.
If everything is created twice, starting in the mind, then reason follows that to create your own active lifestyle requires that you start with your own mind. Like in any garden, you start by preparing the soil and planting seeds for what you want to grow. To plant seeds for an active lifestyle, look around you and see all the activity of others. This will give you ideas about what is possible for you. Then ask that all important question — What more is possible for me?
Get still and listen for answers. Then you will know what seeds to plant. Sometimes it's as simple as getting up every day and walking to the mailbox if that is a challenge for you. If you've got the mailbox down but can't seem to find time for a brisk walk or bike ride, find 10 minutes to take a brisk walk. If you can't find 10 minutes for a brisk walk, you are a slave. Slaves do not live long or prosperous lives. They typically die younger and suffer miserable, painful deaths. Are you a slave?
Be a free man or woman who takes charge of life. Make the decision to stay active for life. Get up and move. Be well in mind, body and spirit. For more information on wellness and graceful aging, hang out with me HERE at JaniceWoody.com. Find out more about my classes and coaching. Let me help you get on the path to an active, healthy life.


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Øivind Hånes (* 5. Januar 1960 in Drammen) is a norwegian author, musician, composer and producer. He has published five solo CDs, two collections of short stories, two collections of poetry, and ten novels. Furthermore Hånes wrote serveral books about food & drink.
Since 1998 he has been living in Cologne, Germany. In 2006 he was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for his novel Pirolene i Benidorm.


The Flag of the United States, affectionately referred to as 'Old Glory' by the Americans, must be one of the most well known and recognised flags on the planet. But it didn't always exist in its current form, and its history is every bit as interesting as the story behind the formation of the "United States".
At many times during the evolution of the flag there were often numerous variants and types floating around so we should point out that the timeline below, for reasons of clarity, is a heavily summarised version of events.
The first flag of the America's could arguably be the one that was borne on the main mast of the Mayflower, the ship that carried 102 settlers, or Pilgrim Fathers, to form the first permanent colony in New England (1620) in what was later to be called Plymouth in Massachusetts.
This flag would have been the Union Flag (consisting of the crosses of St George and St Andrew) and first used in Brita in 1606. It signified the Union of Scotland and Britain (when James VI of Scotland also became James I of England and Wales).
We need to jump over 150 years before a semi-official flag was next used. On October 21st 1774 the 'Taunton Flag' was first raised in Taunton Massachusetts, which was at this time a hotbed of rebellious fervour. By the time the Taunton Flag was raised, the town had sent lawyer Robert Treat Paine to the First Continental Congress representing Massachusetts.
Accordingly The Grand Union Flag, also called the Cambridge Flag , Continental Colors, Congress Flag or First Navy Ensign was adopted on December 3, 1775. It was the first to start looking like the Flag we know today. It consisted of thirteen horizontal stripes alternating red and white; with the British Union Flag in the canton.
The Rhode Island Flag – 1776 Carried at Brandywine, Trenton and Yorktow by the Rhode Island Regiment. In Rhode Island the anchor had been used as a government symbol since 1647 and is carried on in the current state flag. The anchor represents Rhode Island's seafaring activities and the thirteen stars, the original thirteen colonies. The native Rhode Islanders were among the first to join the Minutemen outside Boston. The Rhode Island Regiments served at the Battles of Brandywine, Trenton and Yorktown.
On June 14, 1777 the Continental Congress adopted a resolution for the first Stars and Stripes flag. According to legend, Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross designed the new canton for the Stars and Stripes, which consisted of a circle of 13 stars and a blue background, at the request of General George Washington. Historians have been unable to conclusively prove or disprove this legend.
May 1st, 1795 The 'Star Spangled Banner' became the official national flag of the United States and lasted from 1795 to 1818. The designer of the 15-star flag added two stars and two stripes to represent the states of Vermont and Kentucky. The Star Spangled Banner would last for twenty-three years under the presidency of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe.
In 1818 Congress passed the Flag Act of 1818, which prompted the redesign of the Star Spangled Banner again. This flag returned to the original thirteen stripes , representing the first colony states, but added five more stars to represent twenty states. The additional five stars represented the state of Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, and Mississippi.
… and on to today : After 1818 the development followed a regular pattern where additional stars were added as new states joined the union.
The 50th and last star was added to the flag on July 4th, 1960 to represent the state of Hawaii.


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Letter to Washington
'Life After Bernie': The Young Left Braces for Disappointment in 2020
Democratic Socialists are surprisingly sanguine about Bernie Sanders—because they're building a movement that will outlast him.
By TIM ALBERTA
Tim Alberta is chief political correspondent at Politico Magazine.
March 6, 2020 | Columbus, Ohio
Dear Washington, I expected to find all eyes fixed on the televisions mounted above the bar, alternating expressions of triumph and torture on the spectators' faces as they clung to every syllable muttered by the candidates on stage. This was, after all, a white-knuckle watershed in the history of the Democratic Socialists of America: After blowout victories in New Hampshire and Nevada, Bernie Sanders could put a chokehold on the presidential nomination by defeating Joe Biden in South Carolina, a reality not lost on members of the DSA Columbus chapter as they assembled inside Rehab Tavern on a damp Tuesday night to watch the pre-primary debate in Charleston.
But when the debate came on—a debate that would change the trajectory of the campaign— nobody in the bar was watching. Having pushed together a few tables in one dingy back corner, the couple of dozen DSA activists seemed content to sip craft beers and trade stories and share laughs. The nearest TV was muted, with a scrolling caption bringing the candidates' words to life on a 10-second delay, but it hardly mattered: Bernie Sanders could have tackled Mike Bloomberg while singing Lady Gaga without any of the DSA members noticing. It was strange—like sitting near a group of superfans whose team is on the cusp of advancing further than it ever has, but who have no interest in watching the game.
The offices of the Columbus Dispatch newspaper. | Tim Alberta/POLITICO
I'm writing you after 72 hours on the ground in Columbus, a college town and capital city whose progressive politics are accented by the reddening hue of the surrounding state. Democrats speak incessantly of retaking the Rust Belt in 2020, yet when they map out the path—Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania—they don't even pay lip service to Ohio, the state that was America's bellwether until it suddenly wasn't. Donald Trump's 8-point victory here in 2016, and the demographic realities that enabled it, foretell a future in which Ohio, at least in the short term, is not competitive for the Democratic Party.
And yet, even amid this Trumpian takeover of a state that once stood for stolid, Midwestern moderation, something else is happening, a trend that can be understood as an equal and opposite reaction to the rightward lunge of the Republican Party. Socialism is ascendant among ascendant voters, the youngsters ages 18 to 35, not as a short-term political engine to propel Sanders into the White House but as a long-term restructuring of the American social contract, a way to rebuild cohesive localities and rethink the government's obligations to its citizenry. You may be under the impression that the hopes and dreams of the red rose crowd are riding on Sanders' candidacy. You may assume that, after so many of these bleeding hearts sat out the 2016 general election, they're sufficiently unnerved to rid the nation of Trump this November by any candidate necessary.
If so, you'd be mistaken.
It's understandable why Ohio is perceived to be placid, politically unoffensive, as dull and tame as its topography. And yet, few places have populist roots that run deeper than they do here. This is a state with a storied past of ideological pioneering, particularly on the left: From the labor strikes that migrated north via Kentucky, to the numerous socialist mayors elected in the early 20th century, to the prominent congressional careers of Dennis Kucinich and Sherrod Brown, Ohio has been a proving ground for progressive fads that later swept the nation.
Enter Bernie Sanders. Although he lost the state's 2016 primary to Hillary Clinton—thanks to her 43-point advantage among black voters—the senator planted the seeds of a far-left insurrection, one that would be realized only when Clinton lost the presidency to Trump later that year.
"The day I joined DSA was the day after the 2016 election," KRISTIN PORTER, a 33-year-old paralegal, told me inside Rehab Tavern. "I had never considered myself an organizer, but I was always searching for something, and I didn't know what it was. Now I do: a politics that is rooted in community and human compassion."
Kristin Porter attends a happy hour organized by the Columbus chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. | Tim Alberta/POLITICO
That word—community—is central to the worldview of the young socialists I met in Columbus, for three reasons. First, it explains their powerful feeling of tribal belonging, a tight bond with like-minded people whose beliefs and experiences reaffirm their own. Second, it molds their approach around the principles inherent to their ideology: shared ownership, shared sacrifice, shared success and shared failure. Third, and most important, it prioritizes their activism from the inside-out: National races are sexy, but neighborhood organizing is essential.
Only after I understood this could I fathom why the debate wasn't drawing a more engaged audience—and why the DSA members were surprisingly sanguine about the outcome of 2020, even with their standard-bearer closing in on America's ultimate political prize.
"This isn't about the success of one person, it's about the success of a movement. Bernie is building a movement that will be able to take power back. It's just a matter of time."
Kristin Porter
"The DSA has grown 10-fold since Bernie's campaign in 2016. And it's going to keep growing regardless of what happens in 2020," Porter said. "That's the difference between Obama and Bernie — this isn't about the success of one person, it's about the success of a movement. Bernie is building a movement that will be able to take power back. It's just a matter of time."
A few feet away, leaning over the bar and casually glancing upward at the TV as they wait for refills of Bell's Two Hearted Ale, SYTHAN POK and HUNTER KAUFFMAN are having a similar conversation.
At first glance, the two men would seem to have nothing in common. Pok, 33, is fiery and animated, describing himself as "left as fuck—so left I want to firebomb the White House, and you can quote me on that." Kauffman, 21, is polite and cerebral, a recent Navy enlistee who ships off for basic training in a few weeks' time. But they are bound together by common feelings of alienation from mainstream politics—marginalization, disillusionment, fatigue with the status quo.
Sythan Pok, right, and Hunter Kauffman watch the Democratic presidential debate inside Rehab Tavern in Columbus, OH. | Tim Alberta/POLITICO
Pok grew up "the only brown kid in Utah," raised by parents who emigrated from Cambodia and left the rest of the family behind. "When I was a kid, it wasn't, 'Finish your meal, there are starving kids in Africa.' It was, 'Finish your meal, your cousins in Cambodia are starving,'" Pok recalled. "So, I always was mindful of that. But then I would see all this waste, all this inequality, everywhere around me."
Pok became enamored of Obama in 2008, believing the problems he saw would finally be addressed by the progressive young president. When they weren't—at least to his satisfaction—Pok became deeply cynical. "Obama's failures are the reason for where I'm at with my beliefs now," he said. Today, Pok isn't putting his faith in a political figure. He supports Sanders but is skeptical that a president, any president, can do much to affect his life. "That's why I'm here," he said, motioning toward the DSA allies behind him.
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At just 21, Kauffman isn't old enough to be disillusioned. Or so you'd think. Hailing from a conservative Republican family, Kauffman says it was his decision to come out as queer—and move from the suburbs to the big city of Columbus—that opened his eyes to the injustices plaguing the everyday lives of those around him. "It's drug legalization, 'Medicare for All,' mass transit, affordable housing," he said. "I listen to people talking about the terrible things Trump has done, at the Supreme Court and the Mexican border and everywhere else, and they think impeachment is going solve all our problems. It's like, no, that really doesn't solve any of our problems."
Kauffman has worked in a warehouse the past two years, driving a forklift and "hating every minute of it." It was this experience, he said, toiling for peanuts on behalf of a corporate entity that recorded booming profits, that turned him decisively against the capitalist creed. (Pok, raising his beer in the air, agreed: "Can you believe I work for Jeff Bezos? Fuck Jeff Bezos!")
Having dropped out of college after a year, and with little else on his résumé, Kauffman settled on an unconventional solution to his beef with corporate America: The United States Navy. "Yes, I'll be a queer socialist in the Navy," he said. "But you know what? As diverse and divided as this country is, the military should be a reflection of that."
"Yes, I'll be a queer socialist in the Navy," he said. "But you know what? As diverse and divided as this country is, the military should be a reflection of that."
Hunter Kauffman
Kauffman said he's prepared to proselytize his shipmates—not on behalf of Bernie Sanders, but on behalf of a philosophy that speaks to so many young people like him, even military men and women. "It doesn't matter whether he wins or not," Kauffman said of Sanders. "He has put forth these big ideas, exposing them to people who hadn't heard about them before. And now we need to move them forward."
"Now is our time," 20-year-old EVAN SCHMIDT told me. "With Morgan Harper, with the Squad, and yes, with Bernie, it's our time. I think young people recognize we have an opportunity to redefine progressivism, to redefine collectivist ideals, to redefine socialism in a way that's distinct from the Soviet Union or China or the eastern bloc. We can build our own movement around socialism and remove the old connotations."
Inside a small classroom on the campus of Ohio State University, a group of 15 students—the OSU branch of the Young Democratic Socialists of America—had just adjourned its weekly meeting. The proceedings had made Sanders' candidacy feel like something of an afterthought, just the way Schmidt's comment had. There was talk of upcoming events and division of duties among members. Half the meeting was spent planning canvassing routes for the week ahead—but that work was being done on behalf of Harper, the young Democratic Socialist candidate running for Congress against an entrenched incumbent in the March 17 primary. Only at the tail end of the gathering did the conversation turn explicitly to Sanders and the 2020 race.
After the meeting—and after Schmidt had explained to me that, in his view, Sanders "can be a bit too compromising, and that's what's been holding the Democratic Party back"—I asked one of his fellow YDSA members about the race.
"Bernie is having his moment and people are scared. 'The commies are coming to get us!'" cried NIKKI VELAMAKANNI, waving her arms in mock panic. "I'm trying to keep my cool about all this, because overconfidence is our enemy right now. But whatever happens with Bernie, we knew this was going to happen before long. Young people are taking over politics. And for young people—especially young people of color—this is the vision they have for America."
Nikki Velamakanni talks with friends at a meeting of the Young Democratic Socialists of America on the campus of Ohio State University. | Tim Alberta/POLITICO
Velamakanni, a sophomore studying neuroscience and pre-law, joined the YDSA after becoming fed up with the complacency of the College Democrats on campus. (She met the Democratic Socialist students at a campus protest of conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza, a comical slice of irony for the young Indian immigrant.) "They were just way too accommodating," she said of the College Democrats. "It's not like I want to flip over cop cars or anything, but I want to be an activist, you know? I'm angry. I'm angry because the establishment has caused us to lose faith in the system and the people who uphold it."
An only child, born of an Indian immigrant culture that measure success by material wealth via professional success, Velamakanni came to Ohio State to be a doctor. But what she discovered along the way—"a sense of solidarity, a sense of community"—led her to study law. She hopes to use the degree to empower the powerless, to help replicate the solidarity and community on a bigger scale. But she worries about the implications. "My biggest fear is I'll disappoint my parents. Everything is so commoditized in America, I'm afraid I won't be able to support them, to pay them back for everything they've done for me," she said. "And I'm afraid my family back home will think I'm a failure because of it."
CONNOR MCCULLOCH, a 21-year-old aerospace engineering student, said he could relate. Raised by a single mother who worked 60-hour weeks for Southwest Airlines—and still does—McCulloch feels enormous pressure to make enough money not only to pay off his student loans, but to help his mom retire with security.
Connor McCulloch leaves a meeting of the Young Democratic Socialists of America on the campus of Ohio State University. | Tim Alberta/POLITICO
"I read about these people who spend decades trying to pay off student loans. What would I do if that were me?" he asked. "That's why I majored in aerospace, because hopefully it lands a high-paying job. But I'm worried, because it needs to be on the commercial side. I'm not going to build weapons to kill people."
"That's why I majored in aerospace, because hopefully it lands a high-paying job. But I'm worried, because it needs to be on the commercial side. I'm not going to build weapons to kill people."
Connor McCulloch
In addition to canceling student debt, McCulloch cares passionately about Medicare for All and universal childcare. Not long ago, he noted, these ideas were considered fringe. And while he isn't optimistic about a President Sanders implementing them—"I'm concerned about any Democrat's ability to pass these things into law"—McCulloch, who has never voted in a presidential election, takes a much longer view.
"People have tried to delegitimize these ideas with the label 'socialist.' But it's not going to work for much longer; it's like a red-scare tactic that loses its effectiveness over time," he said. "And there's also a cognitive dissonance. 'Socialism' is a scary word for a lot of Americans, but when you get beyond the word and study the ideas, majorities of people support most of these ideas we're fighting for."
If Trump benefited from the binary view Republican voters took 2016—that to stay home was to support Hillary Clinton, the greater of two evils—then the Democratic Party's eventual nominee could suffer for the opposite reason in 2020.
Certainly, your average Democrat feels an extraordinary urgency to defeat Trump this fall. But Democratic Socialists are, by definition, not your average Democrats. I was shocked at how, in nearly a dozen conversations with DSA-aligned young voters, there was near-uniformity in refusing to back anyone except Sanders as the nominee. Two people said they would definitely vote for Elizabeth Warren, but many more said they definitely would not; one of them said her self-identifying as a capitalist was "disqualifying." As for the other options—Mike Bloomberg, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg and, of course, Joe Biden—the consensus was overwhelming: It's Bernie or bust. "I held my nose for Hillary in 2016," Kristin Porter told me at Rehab Tavern. "I'm never holding my nose again."
It's a volatile combination, youth and ideological purity, that has young leftists convinced they don't need to compromise—not with themselves, not with the Democratic establishment, and sure as hell not with the Republican Party. Having come of age in the post-9/11 era, with wars and school shootings and economic hardships the norm, these voters aren't going to settle for a promised return to normal, because in their eyes, normal was never all that great.
"I was 18 when Obama won, a freshman in college, and it felt like we had changed the world. It felt like we were unstoppable," said DANI HOWELL, a 29-year-old copywriter in Columbus. "But it became clear that one person wasn't going to change anything. And then I became apathetic and stopped caring altogether. And the more stuff we found out later—like how it was Obama's administration that put some of these kids in cages, and the drone strikes he was ordering, and everything else—it's really frustrating. But I'm also mad at myself. Like, what did I expect?"
Dani Howell, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. | Tim Alberta/POLITICO
I met Howell at the weekly meeting of the Columbus DSA, held in a small reserved room at the public library. The next day, over coffee in a chic district north of downtown, she explained why this presidential campaign does not consume her—or her allies—the way prior ones have.
"We've been building this movement to exist outside of electoral politics. This campaign is one fight for us, but the bigger battles for social change will go on regardless of what happens with Bernie," she said. "That's why we should focus on local politics anyway. It doesn't matter who the president is; we need to build local organizations that have a longer-lasting impact than electing one president. To me, these housing ordinance fights in Columbus are just as important as Medicare for All, because it's an issue we see affecting peoples' lives here every single day."
"To me, these housing ordinance fights in Columbus are just as important as Medicare for All, because it's an issue we see affecting peoples' lives here every single day."
Dani Howell
When she and her peers do engage politically, Howell said, it's from the bottom up. This is so counterintuitive as to seem insane: Even as Sanders, a committed ideologue and the leader of the DSA movement, established himself over the past year as a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, Howell and her friends in the DSA grew all the more fixated on local projects, including a losing city council race and, more recently, Harper's long-shot congressional bid.
"To see Bernie winning, it's nice," she shrugged. "But it's not the only thing we're focused on."
ALEX STIGLER, the co-chairman of the Columbus DSA, admitted that as a "Bernie Sanders nerd"—having years ago gotten hooked on the senator's C-SPAN videos—he would not take a loss in the Democratic primary easily. It would be hard, Stigler said, for devotees of the Vermont senator to watch him elevate a new generation of ideas only to lose in consecutive primary contests.
That said, unlike four years ago, Democratic Socialists can feel secure in their future at the end of this campaign no matter the outcome.
Inside the Melt Bar & Grilled restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. | Tim Alberta/POLITICO
"It's important to recognize Bernie is just one guy—a guy we'd like to be president, but just a guy all the same," he said. "I mean, we have these meetings, and we talk about Bernie, but the political work is just one element of what we do. We fix broken headlights and taillights for free. We fill food pantries. We try to make more just and more cohesive communities. Bernie was the flint on the stone to spark this fire, but it's these relationships we're building, the work we're doing in these communities, that will endure."
Stigler added, "So, I'm excited to work for him. But there's a recognition that we need to prepare for life after Bernie." He paused, allowing a smile to creep across his face. "And I'll be just as excited to work on behalf of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when she runs for president."
That's all for now, Washington. I've got to pack my bags for another trip—another opportunity to listen and observe and learn. Keep an eye on your mailbox.
If you've got places you think I should visit, people you think I should meet, drop me a line: [email protected].
Your old friend,
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The Ultimate Luxury Adventure in Alaska's Last Great Frontier
Alister & Paine July 10, 2019
Photography by Brian Aitken and Ken Baldwin
There is a place in this world where the air seems a little purer, the landscape a little brighter, the world more primitive. Where glaciers glisten and bald eagles abound, where salmon spawn and brown bears hunker down. That place is Alaska, the last great frontier. With so many miles of unexplored land, it's one of the greatest and wildest places a human being can experience.
There are many ways to see the last great frontier—a bus tour from Anchorage, a cruise around the Pacific—and those are fun, sure. But the really wild terrain, the really remote parts of this incredible state, the sort of isolation that Chris McCandless and thousands after him have yearned for, that's what we wanted to see. That's where the true Alaska begins.
Head to Angry Eagle Lodge in Pedro Bay
It's a trek to get out there (plan for about two days of travel each way), but my goodness is it worth it. From Newark, we flew to Seattle, grabbed a plane to Anchorage, and then finally hopped into a little six person seater plane for an hour long ride (literally through the mountains) and finally, the heavens opened up to welcome us to Pedro Bay.
Crisp outlines of the volcanic Aleutian Mountain Range, turquoise blue glacial water below, and a pureness to the air like we've never felt. Soothing, peaceful, absolutely serenity. And underneath all that—straight adrenaline for the adventures to come.
Angry Eagle Lodge is a full service fishing lodge, operated in the heart of Southwest Alaska's Bristol Bay region on Lake Iliamna. The name is derived from the abundance of bald eagles nearby—and the fact that you'll catch so many salmon, the eagles will get pissed off. Just a homespun tale to add to the excitement of the trip. The lodge is so remote they don't even have an address, and are 180 miles from the nearest major road. That's the kind of isolation we're talking about. They are absolute experts—not just in super knowledgeable fishing trips, but adventures of all kind. You come to Pedro Bay perhaps with the intention to catch some Salmon, bring back a box of filets, maybe grab a Rainbow Trout or Grayling too. What you leave with is so much more.
Meet Your Private Lodge Staff
From the minute you arrive, the Angry Eagle staff welcomes you and instantly makes you feel like you're home. You know those hotels that do a really great job of making you feel like you're their one and only guest, a la St. Regis style? This is like that, but a touch more rustic and on an incredibly private level.
With genuine smiles and hands stretched out, you meet the team of about dozen staff who run the lodge and work seamlessly behind the scenes to make sure your every need is met, whether that's a beer in your kayak, a mason salad jar shoreside, a fresh baked orange ricotta cookie on your pillow every evening, laundry done daily…or just taking you fishing, teaching you all about this crazy sport, cleaning your salmon, or taking you for a wild glacier tour in a float plane.
Your personal chef for the week is Miss Jeanie, who worked as a caterer in a former life before becoming 'Lodge Boss Mom'. You won't know how much you needed her until you wake to the scent of her breakfast every morning and eat her pan roasted Halibut in the evening, but you sure will miss her once you're home. Your in-house baker for the week is a dangerous woman by the name of Dana—a cookie temptress whose baking skills are so superior she will break every single dieter within a 200 mile radius. Once you've been stuffed sufficient with ribs and crème brûlée galore, it's time to get out there and fish.
It's fishing. In Alaska. Surrounded by rivers, glacial lakes, and the bay. You're bound to get wet, so gear up with wool base layers and waterproof exteriors. We had the ladies outfitted in water resistant Fjällräven jackets, and Norwegian brand Norrøna jackets and pants coated with gore-tex waterproof top layers for the men.
The fishing chic look is completed with bad ass polarized sunglasses from Krewe so you can look super stylish and also see the huge schools of sockeye at your feet.
For the sunny days in the river where you don't need so many layers, Mizzen & Main performance menswear shirts are perfect—classic styling in a moisture-wicking, wrinkle-free fabric. DUER provides the same concept, in jean form so you look super stylish while retaining the ability to hike and fish. A solution for the gentlemen of the outdoor world.
What else should you have on the river, besides a keen style acumen? Probably a damn good knife, to protect from the grizzlies and moose and eagles and such…and to clean that fish for a fireside lunch. Medford makes some of the best knives around, with bespoke handmade blades and innovative designs that are unparalleled in the marketplace. The owner, Greg, takes great pride in each and every knife he creates and insists you ship the knives to him for perfect sharpening, every time.
Get Up Close And Personal With the Grizzlies at Katmai National Park
Uber at Pedro Bay is a little different than in the big city. Calling a ride here means just grabbing a lift via plane, gator, kayak, speedboat, you name it. You have access to so much more than you dreamt possible, like jumping in a Dehaviland Beaver float planes with Air National Guard expert pilot and guide Derek Boschma—he will have you in the clouds and conquering any fear of flight within minutes.
The nice thing about transportation to your daily adventures here is that every route is the scenic route. Derek took us on a stunning plane ride out to Katmai National Park, a staggering four million acre park with more grizzlies per square feet than anywhere in the world.
The reason for the bears? Salmon, of course. Sockeye salmon swarm here to return to freshwater and fulfill their destiny of spawning and dying—some become a bear's lunch before they can make the athletic leap upstream. It's an incredible reminder of the natural order of the world and the true mysteries of nature.
Katmai National Park is home to approximately 2,200 bears…and they haven't had a mauling in decades, due to visitors respecting the wildlife and following the safety rules. It's totally wild to realize that you can see, up close and personal, the daily antics of these coastal brown bears catching salmon, sleeping the day away, and just frolicking through the Alaskan wilderness. You can frolick with them too! Just don't frolick alone…
With a fishing pole in hand (and one of your trusty Angry Eagle Guides) you can actually walk the river and not be confined to the 'safe' and 'touristy' boardwalks of the park. Fish as you go, but good luck focusing on your line and not at the absolutely adorable and a little too close for comfort grizzly bear to your left. We watched a Momma Bear protect her cubs, a teenager gorge himself on five fresh salmon within minutes, and a few rascals just horsing around in the water. A visit here reminds you that bears are inherently dangerous creatures, but if you respect them and their home you can witness pure magic.
Learn to Fish with the Pro's
Daily adventures start with guides like Ken Baldwin, an enigmatic and engaging teacher who also happens to be a fantastic photographer and will help you catch those images of you very gently (never running) tip toeing away from those majestic and slightly terrifying grizzlies. He's an advanced guide who has worked at the lodge every summer for fifteen years and even hosted his own Anthony Bourdain style 'Season on the Edge' travel and fishing show. No matter who you head out with, every team member is an expert at what they do and are effortless at making you feel like you can conquer the world—even if the day starts without a catch (which doesn't happen often).
Guides will supply you with all the necessary means—fishing poles, lines, flies, sack lunches, wine and beer, a little bit of good luck and helping hands for the newbies.
By the end of the first day you'll probably have reached your sockeye fishing license limit—five per day—and by the end of the week you'll be at the airport checking a box chock full of the brightest, most beautifully colored filets you've ever seen. You can actually see those Omega 3's glisten in every vein. Each day when you bring your daily catch back the crew pumps up the country music, gets the filet knives and buckets out, and cleans and preps your fresh caught salmon.
Arrive back in NYC a week later to throw the most enviable dinner party possible. Your private chef for the week, Miss Jeanie, will also take the salmon eggs and prepare some fresh caviar on the spot for you—from a fish you caught hours earlier. So very rewarding. Place a beer in hand and enjoy.
Leave With a Heavy Heart, Some New Friends, and a Plan to Return
When anyone here says "It's not just fishing, it's an adventure!" they really mean it, with all of their heart. No gimmicks or falseness here. The team lives together all summer long as a family, and they treat you like family too. It's authentic. A farewell low-country boil is protocol for your last evening at the lodge, where you'll have gigantic fresh crab legs in one hand and an ice pack in the other, nursing a sore shoulder from all that salmon slaying. Not a bad injury to endure.
The morning of your departure is a wistful one, but one look back at the mountains rising from the fog, a peek into the schools of salmon swimming in the water below, and you know you'll be back. It's a place that draws you in, that welcomes and comforts you, challenges and accepts you, and changes you a bit. You're still you, but your relationship with nature, with the grizzlies, with the salmon, with the world…it's changed. You understand it and respect it just a little bit more, now that you've had your own taste of the wild.
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Antiproliferative and proapoptotic activities of anthocyanin and anthocyanidin extracts from blueberry fruits on B16-F10 melanoma cells.
: Anthocyanins have been proven to affect multiple cancer-associated processes in different cancer cell lines. However, relatively few studies have investigated the effects of blueberry anthocyanins on metastatic melanoma. Thus, this study focuses on evaluating the chemopreventive potential of blueberry anthocyanins and their aglycones (anthocyanidins) in B16-F10 melanoma cells.: Blueberry anthocyanin and anthocyanidin extracts were prepared mainly by combined chromatography techniques. Their antiproliferative and proapoptotic effects on B16-F10 cells were evaluated by MTT assay, calcein acetoxymethyl ester/propidium iodide (calcein-AM/PI) staining, and flow cytometry of the cell cycle and apoptosis.: The MTT and calcein-AM/PI staining results showed that both anthocyanin (purity of 62.5%) and anthocyanidin (75.1%) extracts could significantly inhibit the viability and proliferation of B16-F10 cells in a dose-dependent manner, while anthocyanidin extracts exhibited significantly higher ( < 0.05) cytotoxicity than anthocyanin extracts. Furthermore, anthocyanin and anthocyanidin extracts blocked cell cycle procession at the G0/G1 phase below 400 and 200 μg/mL, and induced early apoptosis below 400 and 300 μg/mL, respectively.: These data suggest that both anthocyanin and anthocyanidin extracts inhibit the proliferation and trigger the apoptosis of B16-F10 cells, and anthocyanidin extracts may be a more promising candidate in preventing metastatic melanoma than anthocyanin extracts.


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Sir Gregory Winter joins Biosceptre Board
30 May 2016 Newsdaniel
Biosceptre announces today that Sir Gregory Winter, founder of Cambridge Antibody Technology, Domantis and a co-founder of Bicycle Therapeutics Limited has joined the Board as a non-executive Director.
CAMBRIDGE, UK, May 31, 2016 -Biosceptre, the therapeutic antibody company targeting the nfP2X7 receptor across a broad range of cancers, announced today that Sir Gregory Winter has taken a board position as non-executive Director. Sir Gregory has been strongly associated with Biosceptre since 2011 as chair of its Scientific Advisory Board.
In this role, he provided invaluable guidance driving a better understanding of Biosceptre's novel nfP2X7 oncology target and translation of the science to enable development of three promising therapeutic candidates. Based on this significant progress to date, Sir Gregory will now take on a broader role within Biosceptre.
Sir Gregory said: "I have taken an interest in Biosceptre since Domantis was involved in developing a domain antibody against nfP2X7. Not only is nfP2X7 an exciting target for the development of antibodies but also vaccines. I am therefore delighted that the Biosceptre programme is now at the stage that it can enter further clinical trials. I look forward to increasing my involvement in Biosceptre by providing guidance as a member of the Board."
Gavin Currie, Biosceptre's CEO, said: "I am delighted that Sir Gregory has agreed to join the board of Biosceptre at this exciting time for the company. We have characterised nfP2X7 and its relationship with cancer, leading to the development of a broad therapeutic portfolio. With a successful clinical trial completed, demonstrating safety and a strong indication of efficacy, we have a further three clinical trials planned for 2016. The contribution that Sir Gregory has made as Chair of our Scientific Advisory Board has been invaluable to our progress and his new role as Board Director will help drive our advance into phase I and II trials this year."
About Sir Gregory Winter:
Sir Gregory Winter is Master of Trinity College Cambridge, and until recently was a member of the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), serving as both a Head of Division, and as Deputy (and Acting) Director.
Sir Gregory developed technology for making humanised antibodies and human antibodies in bacteria. Many of the therapeutic antibodies on the market now were developed using methods devised by Sir Gregory. As a Founder and Director of Cambridge Antibody Technology (acquired by AstraZeneca), of Domantis (acquired by GSK) and currently of Bicycle Therapeutics Limited, he has unique biotechnology industry experience.
Sir Gregory was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1990 and awarded the Royal Medal by the society in 2011 "for his pioneering work in protein engineering and therapeutic monoclonal antibodies, and his contributions as an inventor and entrepreneur". Sir Gregory has also won several international awards including the King Faisal International Prize for Medicine, the Cancer Research Institute William B. Coley Award and the Canada Gairdner International Award. Sir Gregory was appointed Knight Bachelor in 2004.
About Biosceptre:
Biosceptre is a Cambridge, UK headquartered biotechnology company focused on developing next generation cancer treatments targeting nfP2X7 including topical products, systemic antibody-based therapeutics and vaccines, to treat a range of cancer types. With one successful phase I trial completed, Biosceptre will undertake three additional clinical trials in 2016, to progress the following candidates to market:
• BIL03s, a systemic human domain antibody for treatment of solid tumors (phase 1)
• BIL06v, a therapeutic vaccine for treatment of solid tumors (phase 1)
• BIL010t, a topical antibody treatment for Basal Cell Carcinoma (phase 2)
These trials will further advance the use of nfP2X7 as a new and important target for the successful treatment of a range of human cancers.
Biosceptre will give a presentation on the science of nfP2X7 in Chicago on the 3rd of June 2016 at the Sachs' Associates 2nd Annual Immuno-Oncology: BD&L and Investment Forum. For more information please visit
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Die HG 2/3 1 bis 4 waren meterspurige Dampflokomotiven für kombinierten Adhäsions- und Zahnradantrieb der Appenzeller Strassenbahn (ASt). Die von Adolf Klose konstruierten und 1889 und 1890 von der Schweizerischen Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik (SLM) gelieferten Lokomotiven mit radial einstellbaren Achsen waren die ersten Vierzylinder-Verbund-Zahnradlokomotiven der Welt.

Geschichte

1889 nahm die Appenzeller Strassenbahn auf der Strecke St. Gallen–Gais den Betrieb auf. Sie enthielt vier Zahnstangenabschnitte mit bis zu 92 Promille Steigung und Kurvenradien von 30 Metern. Für den Betrieb der Bahn wurden drei Lokomotiven bestellt, die Züge mit einer Anhängelast von 40 Tonnen zu befördern hatten. Die Höchstgeschwindigkeit betrug auf den Adhäsionsabschnitten 30 km/h und bei Zahnradbetrieb 12 km/h. Die Einfahrt in die Zahnstangenabschnitte musste ohne Halt erfolgen.

Die wegen vielen Abänderung erst an Weihnachten 1888 statt im April eingetroffene erste Lokomotive versagte bei den Probefahrten. Nach der Behebung des von Klose selbst gefundenen Montagefehlers übertraf die Maschine die verlangten Leistungen bei weitem. Nach den Kollaudationsfahrten am 17./18. Januar 1899 sprach das Eisenbahndepartement Klose eine besondere Anerkennung seiner Konstruktion aus.

Konstruktion

Für die schmalspurige Adhäsionsbahn von St. Gallen nach Gais  mit mehreren Zahnstangenabschnitten war eine leistungsfähige Lokomotive mit getrennten Triebwerken notwendig, um auf den Adhäsionsabschnitten die zulässige Höchstgeschwindigkeit von 30 km/h zu erreichen und andererseits auf den Zahnstangenabschnitten eine genügend hohe Zugkraft zu entwickeln.

Zur Unterbringung der Innentriebwerke wurden die Lokomotiven mit Aussenrahmen versehen. Die Maschinen hatten einen einachsigen Klose-Stütztender, der ähnlich dem Engerth-Stütztender mit einem Querarm vor der Feuerbüchse drehbar mit dem Lokomotivrahmen verbunden war. Die beiden Adhäsionsachsen waren als Klose-Lenkachsen ausgebildet und wurden durch den Querarm des Stütztenders radial eingestellt, wodurch sich eine gute Kurvenläufigkeit ergab. Der sehr lange Kessel mit seiner stark überhöhten Feuerbüchse trug einen grossen Dampfdom, auf dem zwei seitliche Federwaag-Sicherheitsventile montiert waren.

Der Rahmen war auf Blattfedern über den Achslagern abgestützt. Der hintere überhängende Teil der Lokomotive stützte sich mit starker Querfeder auf die Tenderdeichseln, die ihren vorderen Halt im Lokomotivrahmen vor der Feuerbüchse fanden. Die Tenderachse war fest im Aussenrahmen des Tenders gelagert.

Die zwei Aussenzylinder dienten zum Antrieb der beiden Adhäsionsachsen. Das Adhäsionstriebwerk befand sich ausserhalb des Rahmens und war mit Hallschen Kurbeln und Heusinger-Steuerung modifiziert nach Belpaire versehen. Dabei wurden die Kulissen nicht durch Exzenter, sondern mit unter den Kessel führenden Querwellen vom jeweils um 90° versetzten Triebwerk der anderen Maschinenseite angetrieben. Kompliziert wurde der Antrieb wegen den Klose-Lenkachsen. Die dreieckförmige Triebstange wurde in der verlängerten Führung der Kolbenstange gerade geführt. Sie war mittels eines senkrechten Doppelhebels mit der Kuppelstange verbunden, welche die Kurbeln in Drehung versetzten. In Kurven wurde von der Querverbindung des Tenderrahmens die Achse radial eingestellt und gleichzeitig über ein Hebelwerk und dem Doppelhebel in der Triebstange die Länge der Achskupplung berichtigt.

Die Innenzylinder trieben über eine Vorgelegewelle mit einer Zwischenübersetzung das in einem Hilfsrahmen gelagerte Triebzahnrad an. Wegen den engen Kurven war die Zahnradachse mit Seitenspiel versehen. Die unter den Zylindern angeordneten Schieber wurden von einer Heusinger-Steuerung angetrieben, die ihren Kulissenantrieb auf gleiche Weise von den gegenüberliegenden Triebwerken ableiteten wie die Adhäsionstriebwerke. Alle vier Zylinder hatten den gleichen Durchmesser und den gleichen Kolbenhub. Das für die Verbundwirkung nötige Zylinderraumverhältnis von 1 : 2 wurde durch die wegen der Übersetzung doppelten Umdrehungszahl des Zahnradtriebwerks hergestellt. Bemerkenswert war die Verbundwirkung auf den Zahnstangenabschnitten zu einer Zeit, als in der Schweiz mit der Versuchsmaschine D 3/3 Nr. 503 der Chemins de fer de la Suisse Occidentale erst eine Verbundlokomotive verkehrte. Die Konstruktionsidee Kloses wurde erst 1904 beim Bau der HG 2/4 der ASt wieder aufgenommen.

Als normale Betriebsbremse kam auch auf Adhäsionsstrecken zur Entlastung der Zugsbremsen die Gegendruckbremse zu Anwendung. In Notfällen stand ein lose auf der Tenderachse sitzendes Bremszahnrad zur Verfügung. Wegen der radialen Einstellbarkeit der Achsen konnten keine Triebradbremsen eingebaut werden. Die Züge waren mit der Klose'schen Federbremse ausgerüstet, die mit Druckluft ausgelöst wurde. Sie wirkte nicht auf die Lokomotive. Die Lokomotiven waren zuerst mit Klose-, später mit Hasler-Geschwindigkeitsmessern, einer Signalglocke und einer Vorrichtung für die Dampfheizung ausgerüstet.

Die ersten drei Lokomotiven kosteten 83'700 statt der budgetierten 55'000 Franken. Sie erhielten die Namen Gais, Teufen und Bühler. Der wegen der guten Frequenzen 1890 zum Preis von 80'000 Franken gelieferte Nachzügler Nr. 4 erhielt den Namen St. Gallen.

Betrieb

Die Lokomotiven und die von ihnen befahrene Strecke übten eine solche Anziehungskraft auf die Fahrgäste aus, dass eine vierte Lokomotive nachbestellt werden musste. Die vier Maschinen bewältigten bis 1904 – als die ersten HG 2/4 abgeliefert wurden – den gesamten Verkehr auf der Strecke St. Gallen–Gais.

Die komplizierten Lokomotiven bewährten sich nur zum Teil. Das vielteilige Klose-Lenkwerk führte vielen Störungen und war wartungsintensiv, was den Betrieb verteuerte. Viele Teile der stark beanspruchten Maschinen mussten verstärkt und erneuert werden. Beim damaligen Stand der Technik hätte die Appenzeller Strassenbahn mit konventionellen Lokomotiven jedoch nicht betrieben werden können.

Bereits 1909 wurde die Maschine Nr. 1 ausrangiert, da sie durch eine im gleichen Jahr gelieferte HG 2/4 ersetzt werden konnte.

Die HG 2/3 erhielten 1912 eine Westinghouse-Bremse, die Züge der ASt wurden erst 1921 mit der doppelten Westinghousebremse ausgerüstet.

Quellen
 Alfred Moser: Der Dampfbetrieb der Schweizerischen Eisenbahnen 1847–1966. 4. nachgeführte Auflage, Birkhäuser, Stuttgart 1967.

Dampflokomotive Achsfolge B1
Dampflokomotive Bauart Klose
Stütztenderlokomotive
Schienenfahrzeug (Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik)
Triebfahrzeug (Appenzeller Bahnen)
Zahnradlokomotive

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