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Oleksandrivka (în ) este un raion în regiunea Kirovohrad, Ucraina. Reședința sa este așezarea de tip urban Oleksandrivka.

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Conform recensământului din 2001, majoritatea populației raionului Oleksandrivka era vorbitoare de ucraineană (%), existând în minoritate și vorbitori de rusă (%).

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Foste raioane din regiunea Kirovohrad
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It was Milan Baros who scored twice to send Aston Villa into the fifth round of the FA Cup but just as significant was the 20-minute role played by Kevin Phillips.
David O'Leary hailed the return of Phillips, whose impact as a substitute was the difference between victory over Port Vale on Saturday and a replay.
Villa lost to Doncaster Rovers in the League Cup in November and, nervous and unsure of themselves, were unable to break Port Vale down for 70 minutes.
But Phillips, who has been sidelined for two months with an ankle injury, came off the bench in place of Juan Pablo Angel, and his first touch set up the opening goal for Baros.
Baros struck twice before Vale reduced the arrears through Nathan Lowndes, but Steven Davis sealed the tie with a headed goal in stoppage time.
"It was good to have Kevin back," O'Leary said. "He is a really good player and there is no doubt that we have missed him. It was lovely to have a senior player like him on the bench to be able to call upon instead of having kids. He quickly made his presence known.
"He has done well for us and is somebody I wish I could have signed a couple of years ago. Having him back will give us competition up front."
Angel, lacking confidence and seemingly unable to fit into the Villa style, is the player under threat from the return to fitness of Phillips. Baros has become the striker around which this team is built.
"Milan is a threat and will score goals," O'Leary said. "That is the type of striker he is. Sometimes they might not do much but they are always there in the box. Michael Owen is the same at times but you judge them on their goals.
"Anyone with the pace of Milan is a threat. He will enjoy the way we play and will get his chances."
O'Leary felt Villa were in command of the game throughout, although in fairness Vale matched them for lengthy periods and the outcome might have been different had Leon Constantine not s quandered a golden chance before the deadlock had been broken.
Martin Foyle, the Port Vale manager, felt his side could have snatched a replay after a grandstand finish that saw his team squander good chances.
"Sean Doherty had a couple of good opportunities and, on another day, the shots might have gone in. We played well and could have got something."


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Healthcare industry is undergoing a transition with increased competition among healthcare service providers. Currently, companies are more focused on providing quality care at lower price to their patients. Increasing healthcare cost is an alarming concern in this industry. In order to achieve cost savings, the industry players have introduced significant innovations in non-clinical solutions such as simplified administrative costs. The administrative components comprise all the services that range from front-end to back-end services. The process starts from gathering information from patients, documentation record, submitting, analyzing, and eventually paying for medical bills. This whole spectrum of administrative services is considered as healthcare RCM. Revenue cycle management (RCM) is the fundamental process that enables a company to be paid for providing their services. For most healthcare providers, RCM includes everything from pre-registering a patient all the way through the final zero balance invoicing for a particular visit.
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900 EU citizens in Colchester stuck in limbo as 'Settled Status' backlog soars.
The Liberal Democrats are calling on the Government to grant EU citizens the automatic right to stay in the UK, with the physical proof they need, as new Home Office figures reveal that 900 people in Colchester are still waiting for a decision on their Settled Status application.
The latest EU Settlement Scheme statistics show that, as of the end of December, there have been 11,480 applications from people living in Colchester but only 10,580 of these have been concluded.
The figures also reveal that 4,800 people in Colchester have only been granted temporary 'Pre-Settled Status'. That means a total of 5700 Colchester applicants have still not been given the permanent right to stay.
Responding to the figures, Martin Goss , Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Colchester, said:
"Far too many EU citizens in Colchester are still living under a cloud of uncertainty. They must have the right to stay.
"EU citizens are an integral part of our Colchester communities. They are our friends and family, and Liberal Democrats will always stand up for them.
"We will keep fighting to secure their automatic right to stay, with the physical proof they need."
Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesperson Alistair Carmichael added:
"Boris Johnson and the Conservatives promised to guarantee automatically the rights of EU citizens to stay, but they have broken that promise, as they have with so many others.
"The enormous backlog shows that the Government's botched scheme is anything but automatic. It puts thousands of EU citizens at risk of becoming the victims of a new Windrush-style Scandal."
The latest EU Settlement Scheme statistics by local authority can be found here. Liberal Democrat MP Christine Jardine tabled the European Citizens' Rights Bill on 26th February 2020. Its Second Reading in the House of Commons was due to take place tomorrow (22nd January), but that has been postponed indefinitely by the Government's decision to cancel sitting Fridays. More details of the Bill are available here.
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Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son, painted around 1669, is now part of the Hermitage collection in St. Petersburg, Russia. This work by the aging artist is a beautiful meditation on Jesus' parable. The painting portrays the loving father and the two sons—the son who left, leaning ruined and repentant on his father's breast, and the son who stayed, standing nearby in judgment with crossed arms. This solemn image tells us that both sons need healing and forgiveness from their father.
As we study forgiveness in the Bible with Today in the Word, we'll look at the Son of God—the One who told the story. We'll see that Jesus Christ, the Son whose obedience and sacrifice reconciled us with the Father, brought forgiveness both to the sinner and to the Pharisee in us. Our Scripture readings will remind us of the pain of guilt, the consequences of unforgiveness, and the need and the blessing of receiving and extending forgiveness.
The Parable of the Prodigal Son is an open-ended story. How will you respond? Will you forgive others, and even receive their forgiveness, as the Lord has forgiven you? Our prayer is that this month's study will help us come home to our Father and find shelter and refuge in His love, tenderness, and mercy. May we extend this mercy and forgiveness to those around us!


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Butterflies of the Soul
New study sheds light on the developmental origins of interneurons
By KEVIN JIANG March 30, 2018 Research
Drawing of the cells of the chick cerebellum by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, from "Estructura de los centros nerviosos de las aves," Madrid, circa 1905
Modern neuroscience, for all its complexity, can trace its roots directly to a series of pen-and-paper sketches rendered by Nobel laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
His observations and drawings exposed the previously hidden composition of the brain, revealing neuronal cell bodies and delicate projections that connect individual neurons together into intricate networks.
As he explored the nervous systems of various organisms under his microscope, a natural question arose: What makes a human brain different from the brain of any other species?
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At least part of the answer, Ramón y Cajal hypothesized, lay in a specific class of neuron—one found in a dazzling variety of shapes and patterns of connectivity, and present in higher proportions in the human brain than in the brains of other species. He dubbed them the "butterflies of the soul."
Known as interneurons, these cells play critical roles in transmitting information between sensory and motor neurons, and, when defective, have been linked to diseases such as schizophrenia, autism and intellectual disability.
Despite more than a century of study, however, it remains unclear why interneurons are so diverse and what specific functions the different subtypes carry out.
Now, in a study published in the March 22 issue of Nature, researchers from Harvard Medical School, New York Genome Center, New York University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have detailed for the first time how interneurons emerge and diversify in the brain.
Using single-cell analysis—a technology that allows scientists to track cellular behavior one cell at a time—the team traced the lineage of interneurons from their earliest precursor states to their mature forms in mice. The researchers identified key genetic programs that determine the fate of developing interneurons, as well as when these programs are switched on or off.
The findings serve as a guide for efforts to shed light on interneuron function and may help inform new treatment strategies for disorders involving their dysfunction, the authors said.
"We knew more than 100 years ago that this huge diversity of morphologically interesting cells existed in the brain, but their specific individual roles in brain function are still largely unclear," said co-senior author Gordon Fishell, HMS professor of neurobiology and a faculty member at the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad.
"Our study provides a road map for understanding how and when distinct interneuron subtypes develop, giving us unprecedented insight into the biology of these cells," he said. "We can now investigate interneuron properties as they emerge, unlock how these important cells function and perhaps even intervene when they fail to develop correctly in neuropsychiatric disease."
A hippocampal interneuron. Image: Biosciences Imaging Gp, Soton, Wellcome Trust via Creative Commons
Origins and Fates
In collaboration with co-senior author Rahul Satija, core faculty member of the New York Genome Center, Fishell and colleagues analyzed brain regions in developing mice known to contain precursor cells that give rise to interneurons.
Using Drop-seq, a single-cell sequencing technique created by researchers at HMS and the Broad, the team profiled gene expression in thousands of individual cells at multiple time points.
This approach overcomes a major limitation in past research, which could analyze only the average activity of mixtures of many different cells.
In the current study, the team found that the precursor state of all interneurons had similar gene expression patterns despite originating in three separate brain regions and giving rise to 14 or more interneuron subtypes alone—a number still under debate as researchers learn more about these cells.
"Mature interneuron subtypes exhibit incredible diversity. Their morphology and patterns of connectivity and activity are so different from each other, but our results show that the first steps in their maturation are remarkably similar," said Satija, who is also an assistant professor of biology at New York University.
"They share a common developmental trajectory at the earliest stages, but the seeds of what will cause them to diverge later—a handful of genes—are present from the beginning," Satija said.
As they profiled cells at later stages in development, the team observed the initial emergence of four interneuron "cardinal" classes, which give rise to distinct fates. Cells were committed to these fates even in the early embryo. By developing a novel computational strategy to link precursors with adult subtypes, the researchers identified individual genes that were switched on and off when cells began to diversify.
For example, they found that the gene Mef2c—mutations of which are linked to Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia and neurodevelopmental disorders in humans—is an early embryonic marker for a specific interneuron subtype known as Pvalb neurons. When they deleted Mef2c in animal models, Pvalb neurons failed to develop.
These early genes likely orchestrate the execution of subsequent genetic subroutines, such as ones that guide interneuron subtypes as they migrate to different locations in the brain and ones that help form unique connection patterns with other neural cell types, the authors said.
The identification of these genes and their temporal activity now provide researchers with specific targets to investigate the precise functions of interneurons, as well as how neurons diversify in general, according to the authors.
"One of the goals of this project was to address an incredibly fascinating developmental biology question, which is how individual progenitor cells decide between different neuronal fates," Satija said. "In addition to these early markers of interneuron divergence, we found numerous additional genes that increase in expression, many dramatically, at later time points."
The association of some of these genes with neuropsychiatric diseases promises to provide a better understanding of these disorders and the development of therapeutic strategies to treat them, a particularly important notion given the paucity of new treatments, the authors said.
Over the past 50 years, there have been no fundamentally new classes of neuropsychiatric drugs, only newer versions of old drugs, the researchers pointed out.
"Our repertoire is no better than it was in the 1970s," Fishell said.
"Neuropsychiatric diseases likely reflect the dysfunction of very specific cell types. Our study puts forward a clear picture of what cells to look at as we work to shed light on the mechanisms that underlie these disorders," Fishell said. "What we will find remains to be seen, but we have new, strong hypotheses that we can now test."
As a resource for the research community, the study data and software are open-source and freely accessible online.
A gallery of the drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal is currently on display in New York City, and will open at the MIT Museum in Boston in May 2018.
Christian Mayer, Christoph Hafemeister and Rachel Bandler served as co-lead authors on the study.
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (R01 NS074972, R01 NS081297, MH071679-12, DP2-HG-009623, F30MH114462, T32GM007308, F31NS103398), the European Molecular Biology Organization, the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation.
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Suzanne Césaire (née Roussi; 11 August 1915 – 16 May 1966), born in Martinique, an overseas department of France, was a French writer, teacher, scholar, anti-colonial and feminist activist, and Surrealist. Her husband was the poet and politician Aimé Césaire.

Early life
Césaire (née Roussi) was born on 11 August 1915 in Poterie, Martinique, to Flore Roussi (née William), a school teacher, and Benoït Roussi, a sugar factory worker.

She began her education at her local primary school in Rivière-Salée in Martinique (which still had the status of a French colonial territory at that time), before attending a girls' boarding-school in the capital, Fort-de-France. Having completed her secondary education, she went to study literature in Toulouse and then in Paris at the prestigious École normale supérieure from 1936-1938.

University and marriage to Aimé Césaire
During her first year as a student in Paris, Suzanne Roussi met Léopold Sédar Senghor, who introduced her to Aimé Césaire, a fellow student at the École normale supérieure. The following year, on 10 July 1937, the couple married at the town hall of the 14th arrondissement in Paris. During their studies, the Césaires were both part of the editorial team of the militant journal L'Étudiant noir. In 1938 the couple had their first child. The following year they returned to Martinique where they both took up teaching jobs at the Lycée Schoelcher. They went on to have six children together, divorcing in April 1963 after 25 years of marriage.

Literary career
Césaire wrote in French and published seven essays during her career as a writer. All seven of these essays were published between 1941 and 1945 in the Martinique cultural journal Tropiques, of which she was a co-founder and editor along with her husband, Aimé Césaire, and René Ménil, both of whom were notable French poets from Martinique. Her writing explored themes such as Caribbean identity, civilisation, and surrealism.

While her writing remains largely unknown to Anglophone readers, excerpts from her essays "Leo Frobenius and the Problem of Civilisations", "A Civilisation's Discontent", "1943: Surrealism and Us", and "The Great Camouflage" can be found translated into English in the anthology The Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean (Verso, 1996), edited by Michael Richardson.

Césaire had a particular affinity with surrealism, which she described as "the tightrope of our hope". In her essay "1943: Surrealism and Us", she called for a Martinican surrealism:

"Our surrealism will then deliver it the bread of its depths. Finally those sordid contemporary antinomies of black/white, European/African, civilised/savage will be transcended. The magical power of the mahoulis will be recovered, drawn forth from living sources. Colonial stupidity will be purified in the blue welding flame. Our value as metal, our cutting edge of steel, our amazing communions will be recovered."

Césaire also developed a close relationship with André Breton following his visit to Martinique in 1941. She dedicated an essay to him ("André Breton, poet", 1941) and received a poem dedicated to her in return ("For madame Suzanne Césaire", 1941). This encounter with André Breton opened the way for her development of Afro-Surrealism.

Her writing is often overshadowed by that of her husband, who is the better known of the two. However, in addition to her important literary essays, her role as editor of Tropiques can be regarded as an equally significant (if often overlooked) contribution to Caribbean literature. Tropiques was the most influential francophone Caribbean journal of its time and is widely acknowledged for the foundational role it played in the development of Martiniquan literature. Césaire played both an intellectual and administrative role in the journal's success. She managed the journal's relations with the censor—a particularly difficult role given the oppositional stance of Tropiques towards the war-time Vichy government—as well as taking responsibility for the printing. The intellectual impact she had on the journal is underlined by her essay "The Great Camouflage", which was the closing article of the final issue. Despite her substantial written and editorial contribution to the journal, the collected works of Tropiques, published by Jean-Michel Place in 1978, credits Aimé Césaire and René Ménil as the journal's catalysts.

Tropiques published its last issue in September 1945, at the end of World War Two. With the closing of the journal, Suzanne Césaire stopped writing. The reasons for this are unknown. However, journalist Natalie Levisalles suggests that Suzanne Césaire would have perhaps made different choices if she had not had the responsibilities of mothering six children, teaching, and being the wife of an important politician and poet, Aimé Césaire. Indeed, her first daughter, Ina Césaire, remembers her saying regularly: "Yours will be the first generation of women who choose."

Having stopped writing she pursued her career as a teacher, working in Martinique and Haiti. She was also an active feminist and participated in the Union des Femmes Françaises.

Reception and influence
Césaire was a pioneer in the search for a distinct Martiniquan literary voice. Though she was attacked by some Caribbean writers, following an early edition of Tropiques, for aping traditional French styles of poetry as well as supposedly promoting "The Happy Antilles" view of the island advanced by French colonialism, her essay of 1941, "Misère d'une poésie", condemned what she termed "Littérature de hamac. Littérature de sucre et de vanille. Tourisme littéeraire" (Literature of the hammock, of sugar and vanilla. Literary tourism).
Her encounter with André Breton opened the way for her development of Afro-Surrealism, which followed in the footsteps of her use of surrealist concepts to illuminate the colonial dilemma. Her dictum - "La poésie martinique sera cannibale ou ne sera pas" (Cannibal poetry or nothing) - was an anti-colonial appropriation of a surrealist trope. Suzanne Césaire's repudiation of simple idealised answers - whether assimilationist, Africanist, or creole - to the situation of colonialism in the Caribbean has proved increasingly influential in later postcolonial studies.

Suzanne Cesaire's work from the first year of Tropiques raves over her European inspirations such as the German ethnographer Leo Frobenius, the French professor, philosopher, and art critic Emile Chartier, and the surrealist Andre Breton, and their potential position in Martinique. Suzanne created a portrait of the complexity of Caribbean identity to European literary tradition.

Recent scholar Joseph-Gabriel argues that Césaire contributed an influential foundation for subsequent Caribbean anti-imperialist literature and political activity. Although Césaire published relatively few essays, her continued influence can be traced via personal letters and also remembrances from Haitian students. In letters to Gauclére, Césaire described her role in Haiti as an emissary who provided teacher training, wrote literary analysis, and edited dissertations for the purpose of supporting Aime's teaching. Haitian student activists Gérald Bloncourt and Michael Löwy recalled Breton's public speaking on surrealism as helpful in inciting the overthrow of undemocratic Haitian President Lescot. Suzanne Cesaire's work celebrated the multiethnic and multicultural influences that formed the Caribbean cultural identity of her era. Though highly criticized for appropriating black stereotypes, she used them in her writing in order to provoke both the colonizer and colonized to reexamine their perceptions of race. She wrote "The most troubling reality is our own. We shall act. This land, our land, can only be what we want it to be".

Works

Essays published in Tropiques
 "Leo Frobenius et le problème des civilisations" (April 1941)
 "Alain et l'esthétique" (July 1941)
 "André Breton, poète" (October 1941)
 "Misère d'une poésie" (January 1942)
 "Malaise d'une civilization" (April 1942)
 "1943: Le surréalisme et nous" (October 1943)
 "Le Grand camouflage" (1945)

Books
 Suzanne Césaire,  This book is a collection her seven literary essays.

English translations
 "The Malaise of a Civilization" and "The Great Camouflage" in
" Surrealism and Us" and "The Domain of the Marvelous" (extract from the essay «Alain et l'esthétique») in
 "The Domain of the Marvelous" (extract from the essay «Alain et l'esthétique») in
 "André Breton, Poet", Guy Ducornet and Franklin Rosemont, translators; "Discontent of a Civilization", Penelope Rosemont, translator; "1943: Surrealism and Us" and "The Domain of the Marvelous" (extract from the essay "Alain et l'esthétique"), Erin Gibson, translator; in
 "Leo Frobenius and the Problem of Civilizations", "A Civilization's Discontent", "1943 : Surrealism and Us" and "The Great Camouflage", Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson, translators; in

See also
 Antillanité
 Créolité
 Leo Frobenius
 Maryse Condé
 V. S. Naipaul
 Octave Mannoni

References

Further reading
 L. Kesteloot, Black Writers in French (1974)
 Maryse Condé, "Unheard Voice: Suzanne Cėsaire and the Construct of a Caribbean Identity" in A. Newson ed., The Transforming Voices of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (1998)

Surrealist writers
1915 births
1966 deaths
Martiniquais women writers
20th-century French women


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Wood's Chase: Action and Adventure in the Florida Keys (Mac Travis Adventure Thrillers Book 14) Jul 30, 2022
by Steven Becker
Enter the world of a deadly smuggling ring
When a small plane crashes in the backcountry of the Florida Keys, an unexpected and deadly chain of events is set in motion.
While helping a friend salvage his boat, Mac Travis witnesses the crash and rushes to help. Following the rescue, Mac trusts his instincts, but is led down a path of danger and deceit—which finally lands him inside a smuggling ring.
A story that highlights the beauty of the Keys while exposing their undesirable underbelly, Wood's Chase features the unique character of the island chain. Filled with boating, diving, and fishing, with plenty of action, unique characters, and stunning locations, escape on a tropical adventure in the latest in the bestselling Mac Travis Adventures.
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How far would you go to save a place that is a part of you?
When a devastating explosion upsets the delicate ecosystem of the Florida Keys backcountry, Mac Travis is faced with a situation that could ruin his idyllic lifestyle. To stay on the island that has been his refuge, he must work outside the authorities, who want to use the explosion as an excuse to take his home away.
Mac's investigation leads him down a path he never expected, and when he discovers the motivation of the perpetrator, he's forced into a dangerous situation—with no help coming.
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When is it better to be dead than missing?
A woman's plea to find her missing husband sends Special Agent Kurt Hunter down a road he doesn't want to go.
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The search leads to the mangrove-lined shores of the barrier islands, where smugglers and pirates have lurked for centuries. With the clock ticking on finding the man alive, Kurt and his team take to the backwaters of Biscayne Bay to find him.
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The fragile ecosystem of Biscayne National Park is at risk. The only person standing between its pristine waters and the irreversible harm caused by being located in Miami's shadow is Special Agent Kurt Hunter. Stuck in the middle of a war being fought between those who just want to enjoy the park and those who want to preserve it, Kurt is working in an unwinnable situation. When the dialogue turns violent, Kurt's forced to face off against both groups.
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Skyrocketing boat sales have made the waters of South Florida increasingly dangerous by turning quiet backwater coves into venues for huge sandbar parties—and not everyone is there for a good time. Along with the fun-seeking crowds comes the worst elements of Miami society. When a boat is found adrift in the national park with the body of a DEA agent aboard, Special Agent Kurt Hunter is caught in the crossfire between the city's seedy underbelly and the natural habitat he's sworn to protect.
To solve the murder, Kurt must investigate the in-crowd, only to find the case leads him deep into the sometimes dark history of the park's out-islands. To make matters worse, he's once again forced to navigate the political maze of the warring agencies involved.
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Wood's Honor: Action and Adventure in the Florida Keys (Mac Travis Adventure Thrillers Book 12) Jun 28, 2021
Out of Sight is Not Out of Mind
Within sight of Marathon, Florida, lies an island left to its own devices. While its harbor is picture-postcard perfect, abandoned and hurricane-ravaged Boot Key has a secret hiding deep in its mangrove tunnels and derelict fishing shacks. With its only bridge deemed too costly to maintain and its center span removed, Boot Key is accessible only by water. The authorities give the few residents a wide berth--until Mac Travis, working a salvage job, discovers the body of an old friend. His search for justice leads him down a road of murder and deceit.
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One man is ready to blow this disaster out of the water.
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Salvor, diver, and fisherman Mac Travis keeps it simple - a hammock, a spear gun, and a boat are all he needs. A SCUBA expert, he explores the coral reef with the best. But a shocking discovery ensures Mac's life will change forever when he finds a discarded nuke on the ocean floor.
Despite vows of silence, word gets out and dangerous lowlifes take over Mac's beach. A crazed terrorist will stop at nothing to possess the weapon, and a corrupt presidential candidate will do anything to keep the government's mistakes hidden. As events spiral out of control and the danger mounts, can Mac survive and expose the truth, or will Wood's Reef be his watery grave?
Lovers of Wayne Stinnet, Clive Cussler, and John D MacDonald will delight in this Conch Republic adventure. A devoted fan writes: "Grab a cold beer and relax while you follow Mac Travis. You won't be sorry!"
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Backwater Bay (Kurt Hunter Mysteries Book 1) Jan 9, 2018
How much would it take for you to kill someone close?
From Bestselling Author Steven Becker comes a new mystery series:
When a body is found floating in the mangroves of Biscayne National Park, Special Agent Kurt Hunter has his first real case. He's not looking for the spotlight or notoriety—he's had both with disastrous results. But that seems unavoidable as the trail leads him to South Beach and his introduction to the culture there is anything but comfortable.
In the National Parks Service's version of the witness protection program, Kurt quickly finds out that the pristine waters surrounding Miami are very different from the National Forest he transferred from. Follow Kurt through this new world as he unearths a crooked families greed to solve the case.
Wood's Wall: Action and Adventure in the Florida Keys (Mac Travis Adventure Thrillers Book 2) Feb 6, 2014
Action and Adventure in the Florida Keys
From Bestselling author Steven Becker comes a great new series
It's easy to become invisible in the Florida Keys. Mac Travis is laying low: Fishing, Diving and doing enough salvage work to pay his bills until three fishermen trolling the Gulf Stream discover a square grouper. Besides the drugs, the package contains a secret that changes their lives and jeopardizes the very existence of the Keys. When his wayward deckhand brings him part of the package, he and his girlfriend Mel, are drawn into the chase that has dire consequences for the Keys.
An action-packed thriller featuring plenty of boating, SCUBA diving, fishing and flavored with a generous dose of Conch Republic counterculture
Mac Travis Adventures:
Wood's Relic (An Early Mac Travis Adventure)
Wood's Reef
Wood's Wall
Wood's Wreck
Wood's Harbor
Wood's Reach
Tides Of Fortune:
The Wreck of the Ten Sail
Haitian Gold
Will Service Thrillers:
Bonefish Blues
Tuna Tango
Dorado Duet - Coming fall of 2016
Wood's Destiny: Action and Adventure in the Florida Keys (Mac Travis Adventure Thrillers Book 10) Feb 17, 2020
A powerful hurricane heading for the Bahamas sets a deadly plan in motion ...
… One that threatens the foundations of the United States Constitution.
One man is ready to change history.
Living on a small island in the Florida Keys is a dream for many. For salvor, diver, and fisherman Mac Travis, though, it's a way to become invisible. But trouble has a way of finding Mac, who makes a shocking discovery while attempting to save his friends and his boat from the wrath of the storm and deliver desperately needed supplies to the Bahamas.
Disasters bring out the best and the worst in people. With Green Turtle Cay overrun by looters, Mac is focused on rescuing his friends—until they accidentally uncover a shipment of weapons headed to Florida.
Finding the cache is only the beginning. As the plot to upend the Second Amendment unfolds, events spiral out of control and the danger mounts. Can Mac stop the shipment, survive, and expose the truth—or will he end up in a watery grave?
Lovers of Wayne Stinnet, Clive Cussler, and John D. MacDonald will delight in this tropical adventure. A devoted fan writes: "Grab a cold beer and relax while you follow Mac Travis. You won't be sorry!"
Don't wait to get your copy — Click the BUY button now!
Wood's Hope: Action and Adventure in the Florida Keys (Mac Travis Adventure Thrillers Book 11) Aug 10, 2020
On New Year's Day 1959, with Castro on the brink of overthrowing the Batista regime, the soon-to-be-deposed dictator looted the Cuban treasury and loaded it into four B26 Marauder bombers headed for Tampa.
Only three planes landed.
The fourth has never been found, and was rumored to contain three billion dollars in gold.
For diver, fisherman, and salvor Mac Travis, things are never as easy as they seem. While attempting to salvage his wrecked boat in the Bahamas, he stumbles onto the lost sixty-year-old plane, now encrusted in coral. But when the wrong person overhears that it may be the missing Marauder, containing billions in gold, history becomes Mac's enemy. With a fortune at stake, the CIA and the Mob—the big losers in the Cuban Revolution—are tipped off the wreck has been found. With a chance to recover their losses, the fight begins, leaving Mac as a pawn in a larger game—one that could cost him the life of a dear friend.
Filled with boating, diving, and intrigue, the treasure hunt begins. Check out Wood's Hope to come along on Mac's new adventure.


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Potentially 'Catastrophic' Metro Issue Linked to Derailment First Found in 2017: NTSB
The Metro train that derailed last week on the Blue Line derailed and "re-railed" itself twice earlier that same day, the NTSB said
By NBC Washington Staff • Published October 18, 2021 • Updated on October 18, 2021 at 4:21 pm
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Metro officials have been aware since 2017 of equipment problems that appear to have caused the train derailment last week in Northern Virginia, a preliminary investigation by federal safety investigators showed.
Metro train 407, which derailed on the Blue Line on Oct. 12, had two other minor derailments the same day and was able to get back onto the tracks, Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said at a news conference Monday morning.
The train derailed and re-railed itself once near the Arlington Cemetery station at about 3:20 p.m. and again near the Largo Town Center station at about 4:15 p.m.
After the third and final derailment, the train with 187 people on board got stuck in a dark tunnel near the Arlington Cemetery station. Riders had to walk the equivalent of about six football fields to get to safety.
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The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has known of problems with the wheel assemblies of 7000-series railcars for years, Homendy said.
"We were made aware that WMATA was aware of this situation with the wheel assemblies going back to 2017," she said.
Equipment problems that appear to have caused the Metro derailment in Northern Virginia last week have been known since 2017, a preliminary investigation by federal safety investigators showed.
NEW: @ntsb says Metro's train 407, which derailed on the Blue Line last week actually derailed 3 TIMES on the same day - and the 3rd derailment was the final incident @nbcwashington
— Adam Tuss (@AdamTuss) October 18, 2021
Metro removed its newest railcars, the 7000-series, from service after an axle defect was discovered following a partial derailment.
The train wheels appear to have moved outward from the railcars, causing the cars to come off the tracks.
Problems with the wheels have been found 52 times in total since 2017, including 18 times this year before the derailment.
Metro did not immediately comment.
Metro removed 60% of railcars from service on Monday, causing major delays across the region.
The 7000-series railcars, manufactured by Kawasaki Rail Car, Inc., are the newest in Metro's fleet. They went into service in 2015. The last set of the nearly 750 cars purchased was delivered in early 2020. They cost about $2 million each.
One person was taken to a hospital after the derailment last week. Many more people could have been hurt or even killed, Homendy said.
"The potential for fatalities and serious injuries was significant. This could have resulted in a catastrophic event," she said.
Panicked riders called their loved ones from smoke-filled trains to say I love you, News4 reported.
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The NTSB will delve into whether Metro handled prior equipment problems appropriately.
The derailment occurred as Metro works to attract riders who stopped using the system during the pandemic. Overall rider numbers remain at a fraction of pre-pandemic levels, but are expected to increase steadily as offices reopen and tourists return to Washington.
Metro recently extended late-night hours and began offering a $2 flat fare for the first time.
Under General Manager Paul Wiedefeld, Metro has previously taken dramatic action to inspect trains because of safety problems. Metro took the unprecedented step of shutting down the entire Metrorail system for more than a day in March 2016 so that crews could check underground cables. The shutdown occurred more than a year after a woman died and dozens of people were hurt after a Metro train filled with smoke at the L'Enfant Plaza station.
In remains to be seen whether the axle issue spreads to other regional commuter systems. Kawasaki supplies trains to the MTA in New York City, among other systems, and Homendy said the NTSB "may at some point" issue a recommendation for inspections of all similar train cars around the country.
"If you are a transit agency operating in the United States and you're listening, make sure you are checking your cars as well," she said.
The Associated Press contributed reporting.
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My thirst for travel was spurred on by a book, photographs and that one inevitable person who was my source of inspiration that, albeit eons later, sparked off what has now become a dream come true. How, you may ask? Well, you may recall this booklust post where I reminisced on how on Sundays my Dad used to take my sister and I to Text Book Centre to buy books. As fate would have it, one particular Sunday, my book haul involved the purchase of an Atlas of the World. The sheer excitement of flicking through the glossy pages and seeing pictures of all these wonderful looking places which at that particular point in time seemed so distant and far flung and impossible to get to, yet somehow I felt the itch to see these landscapes and experience these places for myself and not just through the pages of an atlas- well, that feeling is something I find difficult to put into words to this day. All I knew back then is what I find to be true today: this Atlas was the gateway to opening my mind to a world that existed beyond my lil bubble in Kenya and my love for exploring and experiencing new places was born.
The Atlas that started it all!
I didn't know it then but there is a term for such craziness, and I find myself flipping between "Fernweh" and "Wanderlust" and being completely smitten by the thought of travel.
All good things start with an idea, a dream, a castle in the sky. I happened later that Sunday afternoon to mention to my Dad how much I loved our book haul and in particular this Atlas and all the places that were shown in it and he then took out, from a red vanity case that my Mum still has to date, a whole bunch of photographs of his own solo trip around Europe and the USA, and I was gobsmacked at all the exploring my father had done, especially at a time when travel wasn't so common or as easily accesible as it is today.
A dream was born that sunny Sunday, one that was propelled by my very own Wanderlusting father whose love for exploring and his endless tales of his escapades around the world had my own itchy feet ready and raring to explore and find my own adventures so that I too, could someday sit back over a glass of wine and recount my tales to kindred spirits. My dear readers, I was sold, hook line and sinker to this alternate universe: a fairyland called TRAVEL.
They say you have Wanderlust in your genes. I don't quite know who "they" are but "they" are so right! My father instilled the love for books in me and is also responsible for passing on the wanderlust gene to me. The red vanity case of photographs was the tip of the iceberg as far as travel and exploring was concerned – I recall while growing up, my Dad was always off on some business trip or another, mostly to Europe where his work took him. It so happened that his travels were always on board either Swissair or Lufthansa and my sister and I would look forward to his coming back because we knew that we would be getting the amenity kits and one or two little treats from the Business Class Lounges! Cheap thrills, I know but oh so precious when I sit back and reminisce about these delicious memories today! When I take a moment and look back to see how my life has unfolded it is of little surprise that today, travel is a large part of my life and I have this innate desire to explore the world, much like father, like daughter!
The start of my obsession with Machu Picchu!
We have indeed been very fortunate to travel from a young age, though it may be apt to quickly throw in a caveat here and say that my family wasn't one that was floating in oodles of cash. I wish, but if wishes were horses….and all! My family comes from a humble background where my parents worked equally as hard as they played, and so those principles have been instilled in my sister and I to date. We couldn't really afford to travel overseas as a family in those days however this didn't stop my parents from showing us what treasures lay within Kenya. My sister and I would be bundled up into the car and we would head off to Amboseli National Park for the day, have lunch at one of the lodges and drive back home to Nairobi after. Yes, it was possible back in the golden "olden" days to do stuff like this even though today we wouldn't attempt it given the traffic situation! Every school holiday, my parents would take us to explore one of the many parks in Kenya and we would spend a some time out in the wild, staying at different places, sometimes the fancy lodges and other times, a motel en route.
You can see the thread developing here: the love for travel, exploring and having a growing taste for the finer things in life when the going was good was instilled from when I was a young lass and it hasn't stopped, in fact it has only become worse! Although the difference is that nowadays I have to work hard at my day job as a lawyer to pay for my travel addiction as opposed to those carefree days when my parents would just magically take care of it! From my musings flipping through the pages of my Atlas and my WanderList of places I want to see, I am elated to say that my dream of seeing the Shwedagon Pagoda and Komodo Dragons came true but in the same vein, Peru and Machu Picchu remains a WanderList dream yet to be realised. Given how EXPENSIVE it is to get to Latin America from Kenya, there is a WanderlustFund started just for this trip but it isn't quite there yet, so someday in the not too distant future I hope I will be on board that aircraft to Peru and you my dear Wanderlusters will be the first to hear about it!
The real deal clincher as far as engorging travel in my soul was my first overseas escapade in the summer of 1995. I had been lured into working extra hard in school that year with the sweet promise of travel if I came in the top three in class and lo and behold, that actually happened. Now, I wasn't totally convinced that my parents would indeed let my sister and I fly the coop alone as young girls but this was also my first lesson in what the mind can conceive it will achieve. The impossible ACTUALLY HAPPENED. The shiver of excitement that went down my spine the day my Dad came home holding our passports with US visas endorsed in them and two airplane tickets is a sensation that is with me to date, and is the same tingly feeling that I get every time I call my travel agent to issue a ticket to our next destination!
In the summer of 1995, many moons ago, my sister and I flew out of Nairobi on board British Airways, on their young sky flyers programme. At that time, I was obsessed with a book series known as "The Babysitters Club" where the girls talked about Bloomingdales and New York and I cannot even begin to describe my delight at being on that airplane, off to spend summer exploring THE New York City and Connecticut that I had read so much about and at that time in life, the dream of ALL dreams: Disneyworld in Orlando! Needless to say that summer flew by REALLY fast and I had the holiday blues for a loooong time to come and I headed home to Nairobi in tears on the 16 hour plane ride back, already planning my next escapade which sadly didn't happen until I flew out to study in the UK for university MANY years later!
The Captain's Autograph in my log!
Thankfully, I married the perfect WanderlustMate who like me, has Wanderlustitis and a passion for photography and discovering new places and these combined passions have taken us to some seriously stunning places over the last couple of years. How then, did my love for travel blogging start? As you can tell by my pretty verbose posts, I have always been a bit of a writer, not Conde Nast by any means but a writer nonetheless. I have written a journal and collected pictures of my WanderList destinations for as long as I can remember. But, sometimes my brain works faster than my hands can keep up and so I took to rambling and writing up memoirs of our travels as a couple together on Word, to prevent writers cramp more than anything else! One day back in 2013 while updating my laptop, M stumbled upon my writing and made an off the cuff comment about how I could link my musings to his photographs of the places we had been to and start a travel blog and lo and behold, the idea of Harpreet's Wanderlust was conceived!
Setting Footsteps Across The Globe with this precious person!
Dear readers, when Harpreet's Wanderlust was started there were only a handful of travel blogs in the blogosphere and it seemed like a great way to not only document our escapades as a young couple, showing other young couples and armchair travellers the world through my musings and M's photographs but also as a means of inspiration. This is not to say that there weren't other couples doing what we were but they were few and far between, and travel was more of a "we'll get to it someday after the kids are born and flown the coop" notion and not a "we must travel whenever we can" type of sydrome. I digress. Since 2013 I have tried albeit not very successfully to juggle a demanding day job as a corporate lawyer in the heart of Nairobi with my passion for travel. M and I try to travel as much as we can, be it exploring locally or internationally between our day jobs, because we love getting out and about and I love nothing more than to escape into the world of travel by recounting our escapades on the blog and showing the world through my eyes, my words and M's stunning photography.
This has been a bit of a ramble, but I'll pen off here and hope that this WanderInspo post has sated your curiosity as to how Harpreet's Wanderlust came into being. Are you a travel addict too? What's your travel story? Tell me in the comments below, I love hearing from you! Adios for now my dear Wanderlusters, I'll be back in a couple of days with more tales of my Footsteps Across The Globe! Xoxo.
My mum kept the logs for me…such a great souvenir! I don't know if BA does sky flyers anymore! And LOL, so glad to hear I am not the only one that read the Babysitters club…how uncanny is that?
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After winning a slew of awards, 100copies has decided to make prints of Lifecycle's Cityscape series. The series started out as a collaboration between Thomas Yang and Chris Soh for the LifeCycle retail bike shop but after garnering so much recognition, 100copies was nice enough to make it available to the public.
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Each registrant is receiving a complimentary daylily from Jamie Gossard for attending the conference. Please express your appreciation to Jamie! Also special thanks to John Kinnebrew, Dan Hansen and CJ & Virginia Gregory for opening their gardens to you for the Bus Tour.
Many local hybridizers will be open. A list will be posted separately.
Registration Fee: Includes Friday pizza, Saturday bus tour, lunch and dinner: $70 per adult, no charge for AHS Youth. Make check payable to: Central Florida Daylily Society. Mail check and completed registration form (next page) to: Trish Titer, 2450 McMichael Road, Saint Cloud, FL 34771. For Registrations sent after April 15, 2019 there is a $10 late fee.
Fairfield Inn & Suites, 4735 Helen Hauser Blvd, Titusville, FL 32780.
This is a modern and clean hotel located 15-20 minutes away from the meeting hall. A block of discounted rooms is being held for attendees at a rate of $124 /night plus tax. Free Wi-Fi and hot breakfast buffet is included. To receive the discounted rate, call 888-468-4934 and reference "Central Florida Daylily Society" when making your reservation. Rooms need to be booked by March 26th to receive the discounted rate.


In this class, you will learn some dance moves to Rumba, Samba, Cha Cha & Tango music. You've heard of country line dancing, but what about line dancing Ballroom style? No partner needed. Come on out and have some fun in this upbeat series.
Wilderness and Remote First Aid and CPR/AED. Pay at the door. Cost includes a CD with all printed material on it. CPR/AED class includes materials on CD, AED demonstration, use of AED trainer, and use of CPR manikins. Certification is for two years.


Easy to prepare and tasty, the Immuntive Lemon from Doppelherz® helps to support the immune system.
One sachet contains 1200 mg Lemon powder, 300 mg Vitamin C and 5 mg Zinc.
Lemons are rich in flavonoids with antioxidant properties that are beneficial to the vascular system and the immune system.
Vitamin C and Zinc are essential nutrients which cannot be synthesized by the body. Therefore it is necessary to ingest them regularly in sufficient amounts in order to remain healthy.