At Wattbike we have a number of Master Trainers who work behind the scenes to bring Wattbike education to gyms, hospitals, insurance companies, sports teams, and cyclists across the world. We thought it was time to put the spotlight on these fantastic men and women; so join us in our new blog series where we discover the people behind Wattbike education. Meet Adam Daniel - Lead Master Trainer at Wattbike.
Wattbike: why don't you tell me a little bit about yourself and your background. How did you first get involved with health and fitness?
I joined the fitness industry 23 years ago after my A levels when I decided I didn't want to go to uni. I had no interest in having a traditional degree or career and end up in the city like all my school friends. I got my fitness qualifications and started working at an independent private health club, where I worked my way up from gym instructor to gym manager. I then worked my way up to PT Manager at Holmes Place, Notting Hill where I had a team of 15 PTs to look after. I then set up PT platforms in Holmes Place Spain and Portugal before deciding to become a self-employed PT, coach, and educator.
During my time as a self employed PT/coach I have consulted for the English Rugby Football Union and British Rowing, have delivered education for some of the world's leading health and fitness brands, I have presented at some of the world's leading fitness events on a variety of topics, as well as having trained pro athletes, pop stars, supermodels, and royalty. Throughout my career I have always kept up to date with current trends and science by learning from some of the best educators in the world within health and fitness. This drive to keep learning eventually culminated in an MBA in International Sports Management from Loughborough University.
What a career! If you had to choose, which sports are you most passionate about?
My two main sports have been rugby, which I began playing at five years old all the way to England trials, and then athletics once I decided to take a break from rugby. In my athletics career I ran for England at U21 level reaching fifth in the world for the 400m hurdles until my career was ended by injury, at which point I returned to rugby. Unfortunately I hurt myself playing rugby too, so I took up cycling instead, thinking I would be safer.
That was six years ago, and it's how I got into working for Wattbike. The coach who I started cycling with recommended I buy a Wattbike, which I duly did. I actually owned a Wattbike before owning a road bike! Coming from two power-based sports, I spent 18 months working on my aerobic base with a goal to get into crit and road racing.
About 18 months after I first sat on a Wattbike I had my first race, in which I came dead last out of 70 due to launching my sprint too early. But I went back the following week and won! That was the start of my cycling career.
So how long have you been at Wattbike, and how long have you been a Master Trainer?
I have been a Master Trainer for 6 years, and been at Wattbike the same amount of time.
What do you like the most about the Master Trainer role?
I find it a privilege to travel, see new countries and cities whilst getting fitness professionals excited about using the bike. There is nothing better than when a fitness coach/PT has that 'aha' moment. It's the realisation that this is more than a bike and that it can help them be a better PT or coach even though they don't cycle!
What has been a highlight for you as a Master Trainer? Does a specific event come to mind?
Being asked to become Lead Educator for Wattbike. I can now take all my experience of using the bike over the last six years and help guide the development of the Wattbike education platform to deliver a world class education programme.
What do you think sets the Wattbike apart from other indoor trainers?
From a personal perspective, what drew me to the Wattbike was the feel and set up; it felt just like a road bike, therefore making the performance benefits transferable. I also love the accuracy. When I train I like to hit in-session targets and knowing I have hit my target power goals in the session for me is very satisfying and makes me happy. From a coaches' perspective, it's again the accuracy - which allows me to set very specific sessions - and the connectivity, meaning I can coach my clients anywhere in the world.
Do you have a favourite test or session on the Wattbike?
Yes - unders and overs. They have to be one of the most brutal sessions ever, yet the most rewarding once you have survived.
6x6-minute over-under intervals with 1-minute valleys at 95% FTP and 2-minute peaks that ascend to 105% FTP, although the intervals can last anything between 4-10 minutes. Cadence should be kept between 80-90 rpms.
The main goal of overs-unders is to increase your ability to tolerate and utilise the byproducts that accompany riding above your FTP, all while maintaining a reasonably high power output. Being able to do this means you'll develop the ability to handle changes in pace while getting a lot of work done.
Can you tell us your top three tips for people who want to improve their performance?
Consistency- no matter your level of ability, your goal, or your event, to get results consistency is key. That doesn't mean burying yourself on every session, it means having a plan and turning up and doing what is needed each and every session, both physically and mentally.
Recovery, regeneration, and sleep Health- Without good recovery strategies you are unlikely to see the progress you should, and this is something I educate all my clients on. Everyone is different and so with all my clients they each have different recovery strategies. This covers everything from nutrition, mobility, massage, meditation, epsom salt baths, and sleep. The one thing I always insist on is good sleep health.
Variability and fun- Whilst everyone has their own reason for training and/or cycling if there is going to be any kind of longevity in your "career" then it has to be fun and varied, you have to want to enjoy your training. Yes we all have off days or days where it's a grind, yet on the whole your sessions should leave you with a sense of self satisfaction and a smile on your face! The great thing about cycling is that you can ride inside and outside, on the road/off road, uphill, downhill, round a track or on a dirt track, you can even throw a bit of running and cycling in for good measure, which means you can always mix it up and keep it interesting.
Find out more about Wattbike education, and stay tuned for more Master Trainer profiles.
Feeling inspired? Check out our free training plans and put Adam's tips to the test!


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I have been doing some hand coded animations recently and I was sick of having to go into the OSX grapher every time I wanted to come up with a function. I would always repeat work that I have done before. So in order to save time in the future I am going to put up a couple of functions that I think will be useful for tweening.
There are other functions that are useful when you combine them with other functions that are in the range 0->1.
A function that is a lot like gamma is called bias but if its parameters are restricted to the range (0..1) which makes it a lot more intuitive to use than gamma.
Another useful function that is like smoothstep but you can control its curvature and the slope at the ends is called gain.
Here is a Mac OSX Grapher project file that shows how to make these graphs. It is an example of using functions and piecewise definitions of graphs.
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Home Government US Deep State targeting alternative media: American scholar
US Deep State targeting alternative media: American scholar
by Kevin Barrett, VT Editor, …with Press TV, Tehran
The US Deep State is not targeting President Donald Trump nor attempting to whip up war against Russia, rather it is trying to discredit alternative media analysts by identifying them with the so-called Russian subversion campaign against the United States, an American academic and political analyst says.
Dr. Kevin Barrett, the author of several books including Orlando False Flag: The Clash of Histories, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday.
Earlier this week, former Congressman Ron Paul claimed the US Deep State is behind Special Counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russians for "defrauding America" by discrediting Hillary Clinton using social media.
Dr. Paul, a three-time American presidential candidate and the founder of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, made the comments, after thirteen Russians and three Russian companies were charged with conspiracy to interfere with the US election.
On February 16, Mueller, who is investigating the alleged Russian meddling, indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities accused of interfering in elections in the United States.
What is US Deep State?
Dr. Barrett said,
"Ron Paul has just brought the Deep State into the national political conversation here in the United States once again. Of course, Trump and people around him have done that as well. This is a very, very interesting moment. Ron Paul is telling us that the recent indictment of Russians for supposedly manipulating the American election is actually a Deep State operation."
"The Deep State in the US has been defined in different ways. Peter Dale Scott of the University of California, Berkeley, has called it the politically active rich, that is the people who have so much money that they are above the law. The same way the mafia or criminal underworld is below the law, these people are above the law," he said.
"So they rig elections. They assassinate presidents — JFK was a notable victim — and candidates — his brother Bobby Kennedy — and senators, US Senator Paul Wellstone. These people run the drug trade. The CIA dominates the world drug trade as professor Alfred McCoy of the University Wisconsin proved decades ago, and he is still writing about that," he added.
'Deep State is essentially a criminal gang'
"So the Deep State is essentially a kind of a criminal gang that works with the world's wealthiest people, especially (those) here in the US, and runs the United States behind the scenes. We should also mention that they rig elections using computer election fraud," Dr. Barrett said.
"Now Ron Paul is very aware of this. He was a victim of election fraud when he should have won the Republican Primary but it was stolen for Mitt Romney in 2012," he added.
"Now I think what Ron Paul left out when he argued that this is really a propaganda operation on behalf of the Deep State against Russia — which it is — is that it is even more of a propaganda operation against the domestic alternative media here in the United States," he noted.
'Independent analysts frozen out of US media'
"Russia Today and Sputnik and other Russian media operations in English that try to get their side of the story out to the American people rely heavily on American alternative analysts who are essentially truth-tellers, whose views of the world are far more sophisticated than anything you'll find in the mainstream. But they cannot find an audience here in the United States, because they are frozen out of media, which is completely controlled by the Deep State," the analyst said.
"Operation Mockingbird was the CIA program that controlled the media. William Colby, the former CIA director, said that the CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media. I'm sorry that was William Casey. Colby said other things along the same lines," he stated.
"The bottom line here is we have a very substantial and growing community of Red Pill Americans, that is the Americans who understand Deep State related issues," he noted.
'Red Pill versus the Blue Pill'
"And the real issue here is not the red states versus blue states. It's the Red Pill versus the Blue Pill. In the movie, The Matrix, you take the Red Pill and you see the reality the way it really is, no matter how awful. And more and more people in the United States are waking up to that and are paying attention to the genuinely alternative media. Those people are the target of this operation by the Deep State," the commentator said.
"The Deep State wants to convince ordinary Americans who are not paying attention, which is the majority, that in fact the Americans who have taken the Red Pill and see the reality of stolen elections, political assassinations, horrific imperialism, the murder of a million people, the truth about 9/11, all of these issues are just Russian bots, that it is all the fault of Russia that the people are waking up to see how corrupt the United States is," he explained.
"So now they are trying to identify those of us in the alternative media with this kind of Russian subversion campaign. That is the real Deep State propaganda operation at work here," he observed.
"It's not really targeting Trump so much, and it's not even really trying to whip up war against Russia although that's part of it. It is really a panicky operation to try to shut down the alternative media here in the United States and to try to silence dissidents here in the United State by trying to equate us with some sort of Russian operation," the academic concluded.
Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist is one of America's best-known critics of the War on Terror.
He is the host of TRUTH JIHAD RADIO; a hard driving weekly radio show funded by listener donations at Patreon.com and FALSE FLAG WEEKLY NEWS (FFWN); an audio-video show produced by Tony Hall, Allan Reese, and Kevin himself. FFWN is funded through FundRazr.
He also has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS, and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications.
Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin; where he ran for Congress in 2008. He currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author, and talk radio host.
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Worker Bee February 24, 2018 at 1:19 pm
Zappa ought to know, since he was an asset of the deep state and part of creating the fake "counterculture revolution" of the 1960s.
Sparrows February 23, 2018 at 6:27 pm
I have to agree with the comments JohnZ has made regarding Americans. I would like to add that I have studied and traveled in Europe. First at the University of London and then Cambridge U. If Americans understood how they are perceived in Europe, then they would indeed hold their heads in shame. It is only the alternative media here that can give Americans a small inkling of what it is like abroad, and how the people over there learn and know more than we do. Even the English-speaking people, the English language is different.
Another thing I have to mention (being a Republican) that the Republican Party is a cult. It is a horrible thing to be a part of a political party only to find out later in your life what they really are. However, to witness the extent their foot soldiers will go to in making sure that reality is never seen by their friends or neighbors is something to witness in this Trump stronghold of small rural town I live in.
I get to see all this first hand, and it sucks! We are in a very dangerous situation because Americans believed and still believe the hype that our country is the best country in the world. Unfortunately, that has been a lie for a very long time.
joetv February 23, 2018 at 11:30 am
Kevin you must know this already; your radio program, Truth Jihad, is under attack. It's a rather clever one too. I was listening to you and professor Hall this past Friday and often I experienced silence. The audio would eventually return but, not until I missed so much of the news and conversation that it was hard to follow the topic. So, the feed wasn't interrupted only the audio, often and constant. Ah, they're going for the jugular.
David Odell February 22, 2018 at 11:50 pm
Time after time I have heard US people who worked for RT say they were not influenced in any way.
Guys like Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders who go after the pig trough are allowed to get so far, and then…
The loss of trust is also being exploited, to try to pin the blame on anything but what it should focus.
9/11. – That is the key trust issue and we cannot let it go away.

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Q: Eclipse Angular IDE project creation fails and has wrong node version I'm on a mac. I just installed Angular IDE (eclipse) and when I try to create a new Angular project it fails. I can run the same commands from the terminal and it works. I'm using node 8.9.1 and npm 5.5.1 outside the IDE, but can't find where to tell the plugin to use that version.
Node.js version:    v9.1.0
NPM version:        5.5.1
npm install @angular/cli@1.4.9
npm WARN npm npm does not support Node.js v9.1.0
npm WARN npm You should probably upgrade to a newer version of node as we
npm WARN npm can't make any promises that npm will work with this version.
npm WARN npm Supported releases of Node.js are the latest release of 4, 6, 7, 8.
npm WARN npm You can find the latest version at https://nodejs.org/
WARNING: You are likely using a version of node-tar or npm that is incompatible with this version of Node.js.
Please use either the version of npm that is bundled with Node.js, or a version of npm (> 5.5.1 or < 5.4.0) or node-tar (> 4.0.1) that is compatible with Node.js 9 and above.
/Users/bobsmith/.webclipse/nodejs/9.1.0/bin/node[4666]: ../src/node_zlib.cc:437:static void node::(anonymous namespace)::ZCtx::Init(const FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value> &): Assertion `args.Length() == 7 && "init(windowBits, level, memLevel, strategy, writeResult, writeCallback," " dictionary)"' failed.
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A: First, try to execute outside the IDE the line "npm install @angular/cli@1.4.9", later in the IDE, you need to create the project with the same versions for node, npm, en angular cli that you have installed in your machine.

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IEA: U.S. Will Be The World's Top LNG Exporter In 2024
The United States will surpass…
Why Natural Gas Prices Collapsed
Natural gas prices have collapsed…
U.S. Increases Dominance In Natural Gas, Produces More Than Entire Middle East
In 2018, the U.S. produced…
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Is Haynesville About To Make A Comeback?
By Tsvetana Paraskova - Mar 30, 2017, 5:00 PM CDT
Back in early 2011, the Haynesville shale play in east Texas, northwest Louisiana, and southwest Arkansas surpassed the Barnett Shale in Texas as the highest-producing shale gas play in the U.S., according to reported pipeline flows. Since 2013, however, Haynesville production has been falling amid low gas prices, and the shale play has been outrun by the lower-cost Marcellus and Utica basins in the Northeast.
The Haynesville may have been down, but it is not yet out. Recent production forecasts and Haynesville's geographical proximity to the Sabine Pass LNG terminal and other planned LNG export facilities, as well as its proximity to planned additional pipeline capacity to Mexico, may help Haynesville come back to life again. The uncertainty and downside, as always, are the price of natural gas and concerns that a glut would keep prices low, at least in the short to medium term. But many producers have been hedging gas production to try to offset the negative impacts of price volatility.
At the CERAWeek event in Houston earlier this month, Chesapeake chief executive Doug Lawler said, referring to Haynesville, "It was largely written off by industry two to three years ago, but it has reemerged stronger than ever."
According to EIA's latest Drilling Productivity Report, Haynesville natural gas production is expected to increase by 108 million cubic feet/day from March to stand at 6.247 billion cubic feet/day in April.
This year, total U.S. dry natural gas production is expected to average 73.7 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), up by 1.4 Bcf/d from the 2016 level, and reversing the 2016 production decline, which was the first annual decline since 2005, EIA's Short-Term Energy Outlook shows. According to the EIA, new natural gas export capabilities and growing domestic natural gas consumption will contribute to the Henry Hub natural gas spot price rising from an average of $3.03/MMBtu this year to $3.45/MMBtu next year.
The EIA also expects that the U.S. will become a net exporter of natural gas on an average annual basis by 2018. The transition to net exporter would be driven by declining pipeline imports, rising pipeline exports, and higher LNG exports. Expectations of rising natural gas exports, especially from new LNG terminals, sustain projections of continued growth in U.S. natural gas production. Related: Climate Change Policies Working: CO2 Emissions Flat For 2 Years In A Row
As of January 2017, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) had seven LNG export terminals approved and already under construction, and another four approved but not yet under construction. Most of those approved LNG export terminals are in Louisiana and Texas, with one in Georgia and one in Maryland.
So Haynesville could be a beneficiary of that additional export capacity of LNG along the Gulf coast. In addition, it is also poised to benefit from the rising U.S. natural gas exports to Mexico via pipelines, with pipeline capacity also set to grow, as Mexico is largely meeting its growing electricity demand with new gas-fired plant generation.
So export capacity is set to grow, and the companies that have emerged from the oil price downturn and from the low gas prices are now increasingly hedging production to spare themselves the negative impact of low prices. Related: The 5 Biggest Strategic Petroleum Reserves In The World
Mining and energy commodities giant BHP Billiton has operations in the Haynesville shale, but in 2015 it decided to suspend development there amid the low natural gas prices, its asset president of shale, Alex Archila, said at the CERAWeek event earlier this month. BHP Billiton has recently launched a gas price hedging strategy in North America. That strategy was an "essential aspect of the return to Haynesville," Archila noted.
According to Wood Mackenzie, oil hedging in the U.S. is surging, while gas hedging activity in Q4 2016 was more subdued, "mainly because producers already held healthy positions for 2017". WoodMac's analysis shows that 2.2 billion cubic feet/day of new gas hedges were added in Q4 2016, down by 57 percent from Q3 2016, with most of the new gas derivatives added at strike prices between $3.00/mcf and $3.60/mcf Henry Hub. Analyzing a peer group of producers, WoodMac found that the group's hedged gas production accounted for 42 percent of its output for 2017, up from 32 percent in 2016.
With export capacity close to Haynesville growing, the shale play has the chance to play a bigger role in rising U.S. natural gas exports. The question is: will producers find the sweet spot between Haynesville's well economics and natural gas prices?
By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com
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It's bloody cold here, heats still on. Lakes still frozen and hopefully Vermont is cold too.
Skip Peel, Independent Landman on March 30 2017 said:
You lost me at the first sentence. Not only is there no Haynesville Shale exploration or production in Southwest Arkansas, there is no Haynesville Shale well within 25 miles of the AR/LA border. An oil and gas publication should know that. It is disappointing that after eight years of development this erroneous statement of Haynesville Shale anywhere in AR persists.


Unlike traditional wedding celebrations, Indian Weddings often span over the course of three to four days focusing on different aspect of the wedding union with special cultural ceremonies and practices.
One of those is the Mayian, which is the preparation ceremony the day before a Punjabi or Sikh wedding is held.
According to Sakurako Yakushiji the COO and Master Florist & Decor Expert of LATIN ASIA -- a premiere wedding decor stylist team in the Cancun-Riviera Maya area -- Mayian is usually a night ceremony that involves many rituals among them chuni or choora ceremony, or Jaggo where matka or jaggo (metal bowls) are placed on ladies heads while they dance amongst the crowd. Sometimes the Mayian happens in combination with the Sangeet (music and performances night) and ladies Mendhi where henna is applied.
Yakushiji and her LATIN ASIA team recently created a vibrantly hued Mayian Ceremony display at the Moon Palace Golf & Spa Resort and she explains some of the inspiration behind their creation.
Question: What is the inspiration behind this particular design?
This particular design we created was a combination of traditional elements presented differently. Why? Because we like to do things better every day! Matkas, choki tables, thalis with multicolor crystals, bajots and a stunning backdrop with Pakistani, Indian and Arabic lanterns all together with colorful solid fabrics and sarees on top with a raised platform dressed with golden sequin fabrics gives a stunning result and all your guests will rave from years to come! If this is the Mayian which is the prelude of the wedding, imagine what we can do for your wedding ceremony and gala reception.
Question: What type of feel were you aiming for in this design?
Maiyan is the door or prelude to the wedding day, so a backdrop to demark the ceremony enhances its importance and gives it a special touch. Regular backdrops are flat and boring, so we aimed to bring volume and movement. So we used a 3-panel backdrop with contrasting colors, dashes of gold and hanging lanterns to make this Maiyan unique. At LATIN ASIA, we do not do cookie cutter, we like to design from scratch and little details make a huge difference. Breaking the rules and standards of flat, or square we see endless options to create a fabulous shape, incredible color combinations and stunning textures with props. We do not forget even the floor as all Indian weddings must have a raised platform. We decided to pop it up with golden sequin covers to transform an empty space from bland to extraordinary.
Question: What was the inspiration behind the color palette you chose?
As Maiyan is a very meaningful event and it is the preparation ceremony, we tried to make it vibrant, festive and bright -- in other words colorful. Orange and bright pink are quite popular colors among these festivities. And golden touches is something all Indian weddings must have.
Question: What sets LATIN ASIA apart from other styling teams when it comes to Indian destination weddings?
As a wedding industry professional for over 10 years and having my wedding ceremony in Agra India, I know the good, the fabulous and of course the ugly around the hood when it comes to destination Indian weddings.
Designing décor for an Indian wedding, is not an easy job, as it is not just about the design, it is about knowledge of each of their rituals, ceremonies and events. Each wedding is unique and special. When it comes to Indian weddings, this feeling of uniqueness enhances tremendously and it could be a challenge to rely on people who do not understand the truly meaning of an Indian wedding. Moreover when it comes to Indian destination weddings, the lack of knowledge and understanding each need of bride and groom and both family members is a scary situation. Luckily with LATIN ASIA, we truly understand the meaning of a destination Indian wedding, which is to EMBRACE marriage and collectively work together, where each of the members of the wedding: bride, groom, immediate family, hotel members, vendors, priest, musicians, photographers, etc. -- EVERYONE has to participate actively to make this happen. So it is not surprising to see vendors, hotel members, priests and aunties all together participating and doing things together. Something totally opposite to western style weddings where every part does its own part separately.
My LATIN ASIA team and I understand how to embrace this collective effort and we happily participate from beginning to end on every destination Indian wedding we do. For 2015 alone, we did 81 destination Indian weddings from scratch to end, each one with an average of 3-day events. So if you do the math, you'll see that in 2015 alone, we attended 243 days of destination Indian weddings! And we were so happy and proud to be part of each of them.


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Q: Does datadog agent get into the host application program? Does a datadog agent generate metrics?
How does it collect metrics that the host's app generates?
Does it intrude the app code environment to collect metrics?

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*Let's say that the app is a Spring Boot app. It has a set of metrics already being generated by Micrometer and is exposed on the /metrics endpoint. How does a datadog agent fit in, here?

*Let's say that the app is the same this time. But, does not have micrometer enabled.
How would datadog fit in here?

*Would it have the capability to generate metrics from this app? If so, how does it do the same? Furthermore, in doing so, does it access the application's source code? Or gets into the runtime and adds bytecode to generate metrics by observing the events?

*Let's say that, we have an application running on the host, that already generates metrics and can ship it to a network accessible storage. Can datadog be used just to collect the data and visualize it? Without an agent?
Does datadog only collect metrics that are exposed by the host's app?
The reason I am curious to know these aspects is to analyze the vulnerability of the host with this respect, understand the added overhead in terms of infrastructural resources, understand the performance overhead and the cost involved.
At the same time, a stronger question that stands is, why datadog?
Any thoughts on Dynatrace in the same respect?


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Hartwick's Yager Museum Celebrates New Exhibits with Fall Reception
Hartwick College's Yager Museum of Art & Culture invites the public to help celebrate the launch of its latest exhibitions at a Fall Reception on Thursday, September 27 from 5 – 7 p.m. Admission to the reception is free and refreshments will be served.
The Museum's newest exhibit, Sculptures in Silver: America's Standing Liberty Quarters, 1916-1930, recalls a time when the United States Mint commissioned currency designs from the nation's finest sculptors. The Standing Liberty quarter was designed by Hermon Atkins MacNeil (1866-1947), who also created Justice, the Guardian of Liberty, the East Façade sculpture at the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. The complete collection of MacNeil's quarter in all of its variations was donated to the Yager Museum by Jeffrey Hendrickson '91, "with appreciation for Hartwick College."
Sculptures in Silver: America's Standing Liberty Quarters, 1916-1930 joins two current exhibitions at the Yager Museum. Contested Identities: Images of Native Americans, 1880-1930, draws on compelling photographs from the Museum's Falconer Collection to illustrate the struggles of Native Americans in retaining their cultural identity in the face of government efforts to assimilate them into general American culture.
Black Lives at Hartwick Then and Now is an exploration of the history of African Americans and African-American Life at Hartwick Seminary and Hartwick College from the 19th century to present. The exhibition features photos and documents from the College's Paul F. Cooper Jr., Archives and artifacts from the Museum collections.
Other exhibitions continuing on view include:
Of Time and the River: 12,000 Years in the Upper Susquehanna Region, which features many Native American artifacts collected by the Museum's founder, Willard Yager.
Masterpieces of European and American Art: Hartwick College's Art Treasure Room, a permanent exhibition of works ranging from the Italian Renaissance to 20th century pieces by Rockwell Kent and Childe Hassam.
Along the Rails: Willard Yager, Native American Art and 20th Century Tourism is a student-curated exhibition that examines the Museum founder's journey to the American Southwest, the cultures he encountered there, and the artifacts he brought back to Oneonta.
In a Modern Vein: Contemporary Art from the Yager Museum Collection highlights the Museum's modern art collections, featuring works by Rauschenberg, Calder, Warhol, and more.
The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. when the College is in session. The Museum is closed Sundays, Mondays, and College holidays.
The Yager is the Oneonta area's only museum of art and culture. Admission is free and parking is available near the entrance on the first floor of Yager Hall. To reach the Museum, take West Street to Clinton Street and turn right onto Cayuga Drive. Follow Cayuga Drive to Yager Hall. Parking is available adjacent to the Museum entrance.
For more information on The Yager Museum and its exhibitions, visit its website or Facebook page, call 607-431-4480, or e-mail Museum Coordinator Doug Kendall at kendalld@hartwick.edu.


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  COPYRIGHT 1910 BY OREGON SHORT LINE
  TEXT BY EDWARD F. COLBORN    PHOTOS BY F. J. HAYNES

  TO GEYSERLAND

  [Illustration: Geyser.]

  UNION PACIFIC--OREGON SHORT LINE RAILROADS
    TO THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

  Connecting with Transcontinental Trains from all points East and
    West thence through the Park by the four-horse Concord coaches
    of the M-Y STAGE COMPANY

  [Illustration: The Great Falls of the Yellowstone]

GEYSERLAND

Where in confusion canyons and mountains and swift running rivers with
painted banks abound, and elk and deer, buffalo and bear range through
the wilds unterrified by man and gun, and tall, straight pines in almost
unbroken forests plant their feet in a tangle of down-timber that
centuries were required to produce; where in the earth there are vents
through which roar and rush at exact intervals columns of boiling water,
sometimes more than two hundred feet high, or in which painted mud
blubbers and spurts; where pools by thousands at scalding heat boil and
murmur; where under one's feet is felt the hollow of the earth and
through hundreds of holes of unfathomable depth come deep growls of
Nature in her confinement; where dyes have been daubed in delirium on
hillsides and river's brink; where a canyon gashes the earth thousands
of feet through colors so vivid and varied that no record can write them
down; where one of the highest navigable lakes in the world washes the
feet of mountains that hold aloft the snows through every month of the
year; where the supernal and the infernal are blended in a harmony that
only Infinitude can produce, and every miracle of Creation has been
worked; where one can be lost in a wilderness as long as he will and
come face to face with almost every form of creative eccentricity--there
is _Geyserland_.

_The Way in and Out_

Yellowstone National Park is reached via the Union Pacific and its
connection, the Oregon Short Line, the New and Direct Route, over one
stem from Kansas City and Leavenworth, and over another from Council
Bluffs and Omaha. By way of the latter you cross the Missouri River over
a magnificent steel bridge and traverse the "Lane Cut Off," a splendid
illustration of modern railroad construction. If you journey over the
stem from Kansas City, your way leads through a succession of thriving
cities and towns amid the finest farming region of the West, and through
beautiful Denver, through Cheyenne, thence through Wyoming, and a
portion of Utah, to Ogden, from which point Salt Lake City, 37 miles
distant, is reached.

[Illustration: _The Cascades of the Firehole River_]

[Illustration: _Hayden Valley between Yellowstone Lake and the Falls_]

Leaving the central system of transcontinental lines, access to the Park
is had in a night by way of the Oregon Short Line Railroad from Salt
Lake City, Ogden, or Pocatello to the station, Yellowstone, Montana, at
the western border, nineteen miles from the Fountain Hotel.

All along this route are strewn stretches of delightful scenery, and
fields of rare fertility; but these things the tourist does not see--he
awakens for breakfast at Yellowstone, and an hour thereafter is
following the course of the beautiful Madison, well on his way into the
Park and to the wonders that there await him.

_The Scenery_

As a whole, the scenery of the Park is restful and satisfying. What it
lacks in the stupendous it makes up in softness of coloring and the
gentle undulations that lead gradually to the massive mountains. The
green of the pines, lightened and darkened here and there with the
shades of different species, is everywhere. The waters of the rivers are
dimmed by the shadows; the cascades have a glimmer and sparkle quite
their own, and now and then peep out in the sweeps of the distance,
little lakes that shimmer in the sun. Vagrant clouds of steam, signs of
the geysers and boiling springs, are seen all over the landscape,
especially in the early morning when a little of the night frost still
lingers in the air. Many grotesque shapes are taken on by the rocks, and
there is hardly a spring or pool that does not suggest its name by its
form. From the Lake Hotel can be seen facing skyward, the profile of a
human face so perfect it has long been called "The Sleeping Giant."
Yellowstone Lake is a marvel of beauty; the dense forest comes down to
its shores, little dots of islands sprinkle its surface, its waters are
crystal clear away into the deep, and under the kiss of the sun the face
of the sea takes on a glory altogether splendid.

[Illustration: _Keppler Cascades_]

[Illustration: Western Entrance]

[Illustration]

[Illustration: Gibbon Falls]

[Illustration]

_Coaching in the Park_

The stage coach, the old-fashioned one with the lofty seat for the
driver and the boot and the thorough-brace, the rocking-cradle vehicle
that served so well when civilization was beating its way westward fifty
years ago, holds the first right-of-way through the Park. Driven from
use almost everywhere else by the iron horse, it has found safe refuge
there, and neither the railways nor the automobiles can enter to oppose
it.

[Illustration: _The Mud Geyser_]

[Illustration: _A Coaching Party_]

A good half of the pleasures of the tour is found in the coaching. To
watch for the coming of the stage at the door of the Inn where the
baggage is piled, and the porters and bell boys stand expectant--to hear
the clatter of the wheels, the sound of hoofs, and to see the gaily
harnessed horses in conscious pride swing the coach gracefully under the
Porte Cochere--to be wheeled over the winding, dustless roads at ten
miles an hour behind prancing leaders and wheelers--to be garbed as you
please without thought of style or detail--to breathe air distilled
among the fragrant pines--to be touched by breezes that fan your cheek
and dishevel your hair--to be free from all care and abandon yourself to
the delights that come with the everchanging scenes that panoramic
Nature is constantly unfolding to your gaze--is to experience an
exhilaration never to be found among the busy haunts of men.

The drivers, gentlemanly and skillful, are full of information, and you
do the 158 miles from Yellowstone around the circle back to Yellowstone
with so little fatigue that you regret the trip is not longer.

_Park Regulations and Improvements_

Two companies of United States Cavalry are stationed at Fort
Yellowstone, and, during the summer detachments of these troops are
placed in different parts of the reservation. Their duties are to patrol
the Park, prevent the spreading of forest fires and the commission of
acts of vandalism. The troops have authority to make arrests for any
violation of Park regulations. Hunting is especially prohibited, and all
guns are officially sealed at the entrance to the Park.

The commanding officer at Fort Yellowstone is Acting Superintendent of
the reservation. All rules and regulations emanate from the Department
of the Interior, and printed copies of them will be found posted in all
Park Hotels.

The Government has constructed a system of macadamized roads of easy
grade throughout the Park, and these are kept sprinkled daily during the
Park season.

[Illustration: _The Crater of Oblong Geyser_]

[Illustration: _Punch Bowl Spring_]

[Illustration: Grotto Geyser Formation]

[Illustration]

[Illustration: Rapids above Upper Falls]

[Illustration]

[Illustration: _Upper Geyser Basin_]

_The Geysers_

Nature has lavished her gifts on the region of the Yellowstone--wild
woodland, crystal rivers, gorgeous canyons and sparkling cascades--all
under the guard of mountain sentinels around whose lofty heads group
every form of cloud castle that vagrant winds can build. But of all the
wonders that God in His mysterious way has there worked to perform, none
is so strange--so startling--as the geysers.

To count them, great and small, would be like counting the stars, and to
measure in words their awful power, or picture their splendor of sparkle
and symmetry--that, no one can do. They must be seen to be appreciated,
and once seen--the memory and mystery of them will linger to the end of
the longest life. They are as different as geysers can be. There are
dead geysers--dead from bursted throats--mere boiling pools now--shaped
to resemble a variety of familiar things; with depths that the eye
cannot sound, and colors--blues, greens, purples, reds--down their deep
sides and in the wonderful tracery about their rims, so blended, so
beautiful that one may well believe that all the paints on the palette
of the Master were commingled in their decoration.

One blubbers and gurgles and grumbles awhile, and then with an angry
roar lifts a great column of mud into the air. Another steams and growls
through an orifice hundreds of feet wide in seeming angry spite that
years ago it blew out its throat and ceased to gush forever.[A] But the
geysers that most attract are the regular-timed spouting wonders--the
Giant and Giantess, Old Faithful, the Grand, the Fountain, the Castle
and others whose names mark the geography of the Park.

[A] In 1888, Excelsior, then the greatest geyser in the known world,
while playing with unusual vigor, ruptured its crater and has never
spouted since. In its former periods of activity it is said to have
raised the Firehole river seven feet in as many minutes with its waters.
(_Ed._)

[Illustration: _The Geysers in Winter_]

They are variously located in three distinct basins which are far enough
apart to give the traveler by stage a few geysers with each day's
entertainment. These basins are great wastes of a white deposition
called in Park vernacular "the formation" under which must be boiling
one of the mighty cauldrons of the earth, for one can feel under foot a
tremble, and can hear through a hundred orifices the hiss of steam and
the angry murmur of the waters below.

The coming and going of the geysers is an astonishing and awe-inspiring
spectacle, and so accurately timed and so certain to perform are they,
that no one need miss the experience. The geyser passive is a hole at
the summit of a cone. The cone rises gradually from the plane of the
formation and, ragged and deep, growls hoarsely and steams fitfully.
Thus it is a moment before its time for activity, and then comes the
geyser active. There is a loud preliminary roar and then suddenly, with
a rush and power almost terrifying, a white obelisk of scalding,
steaming water is lifted into the air sometimes 250 feet, and there held
scintillating and glistening in the sun until the play is over, when it
sinks gradually back from whence it came, and the fitful growling and
steaming begins anew.

Every geyser has a time of its own and there are thousands of them,
varying in size from the little growler that sputters and spits a
thimbleful from its tiny throat, to the Giant that three times a month
plays for ninety minutes, 250 feet high.

How old the geysers are, recorded time does not tell, but one or two of
the wise men, who are always measuring the duration of things by some
system of calculation, have determined by multiplying the deposition
from each eruption by the height of the cone, that the Giant, for
instance, has been playing some thousands of years.

If those who come and go across the land every year on pleasure bent
only knew how curious and beautiful geysers are, the National Park would
count its visitors by multitudes.

[Illustration: Old Faithful]

[Illustration: The Great Falls From Below]

[Illustration: _Old Faithful at Sunrise_]

_Old Faithful_

In imagination, lift in a symmetrical cone two hundred and fifty
thousand gallons of scalding, steaming water one hundred and fifty feet
high and hold it there three minutes; jewel the grand fountain with a
million diamonds; filter through it the hues of innumerable dancing
rainbows; commingle in confusion every sound of splash and splutter--and
you will have a faint idea of Old Faithful in action.

It is the immutable water-clock of the Yellowstone--the most perfect
illustration of geyseric phenomena--the most famous and beautiful geyser
in the whole world.

The note of the beginning of the play of the geyser is an angry growl
down deep in its throat whence almost instantly the water, in rapid
recurrent leaps, forms the stately fountain that plays for three minutes
and then slowly sinks into the earth to await its time to rise again.
Sometimes the winds unfold from its top an iridescent banner of spray;
but more often the fountain form is a perfect cone.

Old Faithful plays every seventy minutes and never disappoints. Visitors
to the Park may therefore see it under various conditions of light. In
the daytime, under the sun, it glistens and gleams with prismatic hues;
but the most enchanting hour to witness its performance is that when
night is falling--when the dusk is around it, and the last faint tints
of the sun linger in the sky. Then it is a spectre in ghostly white
standing against the sombre background of the wilderness--a sight
strange and startling and never to be forgotten.

It has long been the custom at Old Faithful Inn to flood the geyser at
night with the rays of a searchlight. Then the spectacle takes on new
features--all the rainbow hues are there, and looking through the
fountain along the sweep of light, one sees a bediamonded form more
beautiful than any ever wrought by the hands of the Ice King.

Verily, Old Faithful is one of the most wonderful presentations in all
the repertoire of Nature.

[Illustration: _The Great Falls from Point Lookout_]

_The Canyon and Falls of the Yellowstone_

The Canyon and Falls of the Yellowstone beggar description. They are
twin wonders in a Wonderland. Is there any other gorge as gorgeous as
that Canyon? With such gaiety of coloring--with such delicate and lovely
shades of yellows and reds, purples and pinks, greens and crimsons, all
commingling in harmony from the green-fringed brink, down, down the
craggy sides into sombre depths where the writhing, gleaming ribbon of
river thousands of feet below, plunges along on its winding way to the
sea?

And the falls--the drapery of the canyon--the two silvery curtains that
hang at its head--a great river pouring over a precipice and falling in
glassy sheets hundreds of feet, then ruffling and flouncing and
festooning until lost into the rainbow-hued mist at their feet.

See all this as thousands have and thousands will from "Inspiration
Point"--a rocky balcony over the gorge, with the eagle's nests below
you--or from "Artist's Point" on the other side, where Moran transferred
the glories of canyon and falls to canvas; or see it from any of the
other places where tourists love to linger and look, and you will see
the most tremendous, stupendous, alluring and altogether splendid
spectacle that Nature ever spread out for the wonder, amazement and
delight of mortal eyes.

[Illustration: MAP OF OREGON SHORT LINE, UNION PACIFIC,
OREGON-WASHINGTON RAILROAD & NAVIGATION CO., SOUTHERN PACIFIC AND
CONNECTIONS]

[Illustration: Bridge above The Rapids]

[Illustration]

[Illustration: The Upper Falls]

[Illustration]

[Illustration: YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK Oregon Short Line Railroad]

GEYSER TIME TABLE

  _Corrected by observations made during season 1910.
   From Haynes' Official Guide--Yellowstone National Park_

  ==================================================================
     NAME         HEIGHT    DURATION      INTERVALS OF ERUPTIONS
                   FEET
  ------------------------------------------------------------------
  UPPER BASIN
    Artemesia        50    10 minutes     12 to 24 hours
    Bee-Hive        200     8 minutes     12 hours to 40 days
    Castle           75    30 minutes     26 hours (freq. misses)
    Cliff           100     8 minutes      4 to 8 hours
    Comet            60     1 minute      Irregular
    Cub (Big)        30    10 minutes     With Lioness Geyser
    Cub (Little)     10     3 minutes     With Lion Geyser
    Daisy            75     2 minutes     45 to 60 minutes
    Economic         20    10 seconds     Follows Grand and plays
                                            every 5 min. for 2 days
    Fan              60    10 minutes      4 to 6 hours
    Giant           250    90 minutes      7 to 12 days
    Giantess        150    12-24 hours    16 to 25 days
    Grand           200    40-80 minutes   2 to 20 days
    Grotto           30    30 minutes      2 to 5 hours
    Jewel            40     1 minute       5 minutes
    Lion             60     8 minutes      6 to 12 hours
    Lioness         100    10 minutes     15 to 20 days
    Lone Star        75    10 minutes      1 to 2 hours
    Mortar           30     5 minutes      2 hours
    Oblong           35     5 minutes      7 to 8 hours
    Old Faithful    150     4 minutes     65 to 75 minutes
    Riverside       100    15 minutes      7 hours
    Saw-Mill         35     2 hours        2 to 3 hours
    Spasmodic         4     2 minutes      2 to 3 hours
    Splendid        200    ----------     Ceased to play about 1892
    Surprise        100     2 minutes     Irregular
    Turban           40    20 minutes     With Grand Geyser
  ====================================================================
  LOWER BASIN
    Fountain         75    20 minutes     3 to 6 hours
    Great Fountain  100    30 minutes     8 to 12 hours
  ====================================================================
  MIDWAY BASIN
    Excelsior       300    Variable       1 to 4 hours, ceased in 1888
  ====================================================================
  NORRIS BASIN
    Constant         20    10 seconds     30 seconds
    Fearless         25    15 minutes      3 hours
    Minute Man       15     1-3 minutes    1 to 3 minutes
    Monarch         100     6 minutes      6 hours
    Mud              20-60  1-2 minutes   New, irregular
    New Crater       20     1 minute       3 minutes
    Valentine       100    40 minutes      7-1/2 hours
  ====================================================================

  A FEW OF THE IMPORTANT POOLS AND SPRINGS

  POOLS

  Ace of Clubs
  Black Sand (Deepest in Park--soundings, 300 feet)
  Cannon Ball
  Diamond
  Devil's Pump
  Devil's Well
  Emerald
  Five Sisters
  Gem
  Handkerchief
  Oyster
  Oyster Shell
  Orange
  Purple
  Punch Bowl
  Rainbow
  Sapphire
  Silver Bowl
  Sunset
  Surprise
  Three Sisters
  Tea Kettle
  Topaz
  Vault

  SPRINGS

  Arsenic
  Apollinaris
  Beauty
  Beryl
  Butterfly
  Cleopatra
  Castle
  Congress
  Devil's Ear
  Iron
  Morning Glory
  Pearl
  Peanut
  Sponge
  Soda
  Soda Butte
  Three Craters

  [Illustration: Mammoth Hot Springs]

  [Illustration]

  [Illustration: Hot Springs Cone]

  [Illustration]

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

_The Mammoth Hot Springs_

The structural features are the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel and the
garrison of Fort Yellowstone, around which, and in the vicinity of the
springs, the landscape gardener has produced many beautiful effects.
Here are found the most remarkable terrace-building hot springs in the
world. The formation is calcareous, and the deposition by the waters has
built up through the centuries cataracts in stone of indescribable
beauty through which the paints from the earth have been mingled and
blended with a vividness of coloring and a perfection of shading that
none but the Master's hand could work.

The waters are of such extraordinary transparency that the eye can only
guess at their depth. They are held steaming and pulsating in great
over-hanging bowls, from which they gently flow down over the stony
cataracts, carving and decorating as they go. Jupiter and Pulpit
Terraces are the master-pieces of Nature here; but there are hundreds of
other curious and beautiful things to see. The drive to and from Norris
is alive with interest. It leads through the Golden Gate, and on the way
can be seen Obsidian Cliff, Roaring Mountain, Beaver and Twin Lakes and
other attractive and curious features of topography.

[Illustration: _Mammoth Hotel_]

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

_The Tame Wild Animals_

The animals of the Park are objects of peculiar interest. No sound of
gun or bark of dog is ever heard, and the animals, though wild, have
become so tame that they give only curious notice to tourists as they
pass. Deer, elk and bear roam at will throughout Geyserland. The red
squirrel and the chipmunk scamper along the roadway, and those furry
little bundles, the wood-chucks, flatten out on the rocks and take no
heed of your passing. It is an everyday sight to see deer and their
young by the roadside, and now and then you get a glimpse of an antlered
elk, with his family of cows, swimming the streams of the Park. So much
has been accomplished by law in robbing man of his terrors to the wild,
that all of the animals in the Park, except those that--like the
mountain lion and sheep, frequent places inaccessible to travelers--have
well-nigh lost their fears.

The bears, some of them wrapped in robes that would command a fancy
price, come down in the evening from their homes in the hills to feed
around the hotels. The after-dinner entertainment they afford to guests
is an everyday pleasure.

[Illustration: _Feeding the Bear_]

[Illustration: The Giant Geyser]

[Illustration: Eagle Nest Rock]

[Illustration: _New Grand Canon Hotel_]

_The Inns_

They happen along at the end of each day's drive--great roomy structures
alive with light and full of comfort and good cheer. And such inns they
are--generous lobbies to lounge in before old-fashioned fire-places,
with their blazing, snapping logs--beds to sleep in, clean and
restful--prettily furnished rooms--and cookery and service almost too
good to be true. To find all these things in a far-away wilderness is to
wonder what magic was worked to bring them all about.

The great inn at Mammoth has in its foreground, three hundred feet high,
the wonderful, many-, and beautifully-formed Hot Springs Terraces
which belong in the list of the water-made wonders of the Park.

One of the inns--Old Faithful--cannot be matched anywhere in the
world. It is a lofty, wide-spreading structure of logs, with a
touch of Swiss about its gables and windows. Within, the logs are
everywhere--partitions, balustrades, stair-steps, and newel posts--even
the drinking fountain is a log. It must have been a mighty task to
search the forests for all the queer forms of growth that enter into the
construction of the curious, rustic interior. And the lobby, with its
four great cheerful fireplaces--its huge corn popper--its clock and
twenty-foot pendulum, and all the log-made galleries above it--that
charms and comforts beyond the power of words to tell.

[Illustration: _Old Faithful Inn_]

The inns are located nearby the greatest marvels of the Park and their
sites have been selected to show them off with admirable skill.

From the Fountain the geysers of the lower basin can be seen at their
play.

Old Faithful Inn looks out upon a great steaming, spouting field, and
has its namesake--the glory of all the geysers--almost at its doors. So
near, indeed, is it, that all the night through, at intervals of seventy
minutes, can be heard the old monster in eruption.

On a <DW72> that sweeps gently down to the waters sits the Lake Inn. The
forest creeps down to it on three sides, and the outlook from its goodly
porches is over the broad expanse of Yellowstone Lake--one of the
highest of navigated seas, and as passive, clear and prettily
tree-trimmed a sheet of water as there is in the world. You may reach
this inn from Thumb by steamer or by coach; but if you would have two
hours of ecstacy, take the steamer. Thumb is a lunch station, and the
lunch there is a creation.

The Canyon Inn is almost on the brink of the gorge where falls the
Yellowstone. It is a duplication in excellence of the other inns, and
when you bid it good-bye it is to begin your last day's tour of the
Park. Then comes Norris, with its geysers and its awful "Black Growler,"
and a lunch that will send the tourist on his homeward way with a
grateful heart. After that--Yellowstone--and the whistle of the engine
and the waiting Pullman--your tour is ended and the Park a pleasant
memory.

[Illustration: Golden Gate]

[Illustration]

[Illustration: Pulpit Terrace]

[Illustration]

_The Stage Line_

[Illustration: _Lone Star Geyser_]

The M. & Y. Stage Company, operating from Yellowstone, Montana (The
Oregon Short Line terminus at the western entrance to the Park) is
licensed by and is under the direct supervision of the United States
Government.

The line is equipped with elegant new two and four-horse Concord coaches
and two-horse surreys, and the finest of horses.

The coaches accommodate eight and eleven passengers, the surreys three
and five passengers. The drivers have been especially selected for the
service, are well informed, and will point out every interesting feature
of the Park.

The five days' coaching over the line of this Company takes in all
interesting sights in the Park, and every effort is made by the
management to secure the comfort and pleasure of passengers.

Stop-over privileges at any Park hotel are allowed without additional
stage charge; but twenty-four hours' advance notice must be given to the
Stage Company of the coach to be taken. Parties so desiring can arrange
for special coaches or surreys for the Park trip. For further
information regarding coaches and transportation facilities through the
Park, address F. J. Haynes, President M. & Y. Stage Company, St. Paul,
Minn., or Yellowstone Park, Wyo.

THE YELLOWSTONE PARK FARES

Owing to the frequent changes of fares throughout the United States,
this publication will deal only with the round-trip fare from Salt Lake
City, Ogden, Pocatello and Yellowstone. Following fares from Pocatello
and Yellowstone are open to all passengers:--Fares from Ogden or Salt
Lake are side-trip fares available to holders of transcontinental
tickets of any class reading between Cheyenne, Denver, Colorado Springs,
Pueblo and points east thereof, on the one hand, and points west of the
eastern state line of Nevada via the Southern Pacific Company, San
Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake R. R. or Western Pacific Railway, or west
of Pocatello, Idaho, via the Oregon Short Line R. R. on the other hand.

  COMPLETE TOUR OF THE PARK            From Salt Lake         From
                                       City, Ogden and    Yellowstone.
                                       Pocatello. Rail,    Stage and
                                       Stages and Hotel.     Hotels.
  Five-Day Trip via the Fountain,
  Old Faithful, Lake and Canyon Inns,    $55.50             $46.25
  Mammoth Hot Springs and Norris

  Hotel accommodations in the Park
  (thirteen meals and four lodgings)
  included in the ticket.

  Fare for children covering rail
  transportation only                      4.65

  MAIN POINTS OF INTEREST

  Four-Day Trip via the Fountain,
  Old Faithful, Lake
  and Canyon Inns and Norris              45.50              36.25

  Hotel accommodations in the Park
  (ten meals and three lodgings)
  included in the ticket.

  Fare for children covering rail
  transportation only                      4.65

  TO THE GEYSERS AND RETURN

  Two-Day Trip--among the Geysers         25.50              16.25

  Hotel accommodations in the Park
  (four meals and one lodging)
  included in the ticket.

  Fare for children covering rail
  transportation only                      4.65

   Children under eight years of age will be granted half rates
    locally in the Park, on stage lines and at hotels.

   For the season of 1911 the first date that passengers can leave
    Yellowstone (western entrance) and make the tour of the Park is
    June 16th; the last date leaving Yellowstone, September 16th.

  BAGGAGE REGULATIONS

  The baggage limit on coaches is 25 pounds. Excess rate per pound
  10 cents. Trunks are not transported through the Park. They may be
  stored free of charge at Yellowstone, Pocatello, Ogden or Salt
  Lake City, or they will be sent around to Gardiner by rail for
  tourists going out that way. Tourists entering via Gardiner and
  touring the Park by coaches operating from there, if routed out
  through the western entrance, will transfer to the M. & Y. Stage
  Line at Norris. They should arrange at Mammoth for transfer of
  baggage and Oregon Short Line Pullman reservations.

  Provisions will be made at Yellowstone station for the care of
  ladies' hats, and for cleaning and pressing clothing while
  passengers are en tour through the Park. A nominal charge will be
  made for this service.

  GERRIT FORT     Passenger Traffic Manager        OMAHA, NEBRASKA
  D. E. BURLEY     General Passenger Agent    SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
                  OREGON SHORT LINE RAILROAD

  [Illustration: Mammoth Hot Springs]

  [Illustration]

  [Illustration: Castle Geyser]

  [Illustration]

FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION ADDRESS ANY OF THE FOLLOWING

    ATLANTA, GA.
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Mar 13, 2019 | Admissions, Article, Research & Advocacy
In the past twenty years of supporting college-bound families, we have learned to not be overly surprised by the potential for misconduct and harmful behaviors of parents.
The Atlantic provides a succinct summary "A coast-to-coast FBI probe alleges that a network of celebrities, business executives, and other powerful figures is at the center of a massive bribery scheme to secure admission into some of the country's most elite colleges, according to court documents unsealed earlier today.
Among the defendants are nearly three dozen parents whom federal prosecutors are charging with conspiracy and other crimes for allegedly using hefty sums of money to get their children into schools such as Yale, Georgetown, and the University of Southern California. Specifically, the newly unsealed court documents contend that these high-rolling parents—some of them being public figures such as the actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, as well as Loughlin's husband, the fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli—paid hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions, of dollars per child to a fixer who would then use that money to allegedly bribe certain college officials or other conspirators to help secure the child's admission."
We know that many parents and families are dedicated to helping their children to get into college. We review the mail, visit Naviance & Parchment websites to identify realistic and stretch schools, review admissions essays and eventually even often remind them to sign up for the college admissions tests. Some parents even go so far as to hire coaches and tutors to help facilitate the process.
But the FBI has found that some parents have gone much too far creating a national scandal that reflects poorly on school officials who participated, school officials who failed to reliably audit admissions process and even a cheating scandal, involving both the ACT and SAT, that was also included in a 46-page criminal complaint from the FBI in what is being called the largest college admission scandal ever.
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In the context of nearly 3 million students applying for college admissions, the scope of the conspiracy is small, but the shocking part of the criminal complaint is how bold the parents were in thinking that they were entitled to purchase access to the college of their choice. The allegations start in 2011 and involve at least 50 parents ("defendants") who appear to have used fraudulent means to facilitate their children's admissions to high profile colleges including Yale, Stanford and others. The fraud was perpetrated in several different ways.
Exam Fraud: The defendants bribed others to either allow a third party to take a standardized college entrance exam in lieu of their student, or they provided the student with answers during the exam or they corrected the exam after its administration. This all resulted in the student's obtaining a much higher score than they would have gotten otherwise.
Bribes to Coaches: In some cases, defendants bribed college coaches to the tune of millions of dollars to designate their child as athlete, regardless of whether the student even played the sport. As a designated athlete, the bar for admission in term of grades and scores is lowered so these fictitious athlete designations allowed non-athletes to get into a university with lower grades and test scores.
Academic Fraud: Sometimes third parties would be paid to take classes for the defendant's children with the understanding that their grade would be substituted for the child's grade. Finally the defendants would submit falsified applications for admission; with fraudulent grades, extracurriculars and standardized tests.
This approximately $25 million bribery ring was run through a college admissions company located inn Newport, California. The defendants used the facade of a charitable organization to conceal the nature and source of the bribe payments.
Joseph R. Bonavolonta, the special agent in charge of the Boston office of the F.B.I., noted that most families play by the rules and that "You can't lie and cheat to get ahead because you will get caught," he said.
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Sabrine Ellouzi (; born 28 June 1997) is a footballer who plays as a forward for Eredivisie club Feyenoord. Born in the Netherlands, she represents Tunisia at international level.

Club career
Ellouzi has played for Twente since 2009 having progressed from the academy to the first team in 2015.

International career
Ellouzi, who has dual Dutch nationality, made her debut for the Tunisia national team on 10 June 2021, starting the match against Jordan.

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Scores and results list Tunisia's goal tally first

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List of Tunisia women's international footballers

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OGT Receives $300K SBRI Grant to Work on New Variant Interpretation Software Product
Aug 02, 2014 | Uduak Grace Thomas
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Recently, Oxford Gene Technology said that it had been awarded a £200,000 (around $338,000) phase one development contract by the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) healthcare competition to develop user-friendly software for analyzing variants found in whole-genome sequence data.
The grant comes from the jointly run UK Department of Health and Genomics England collaborative. They operate a funding competition that supports the development of innovative technologies, including bioinformatics tool and analysis algorithms, which will address the requirements of the 100K Genome Project.
The partners award contracts in two phases. In the first phase, groups receive resources to demonstrate the technical feasibility of their proposed products. Then, if they are successful, they are eligible to apply for a second phase of funding to further develop and test the product.
Dietrich Lueerssen, OGT's director of computational biology, told BioInform that his firm will use the funds to develop software that will, among other things, provide simple workflows that clinical laboratories can use to identify actionable mutations, compare multiple samples, and share data with other researchers within their labs and institutions.
The proposed system will also include a database of variants from samples analyzed in previous studies that can be used for comparison purposes, a mechanism to update the database as new variant information becomes available, and tools for generating and sharing reports.
In developing its new product, OGT will rely on the experience its internal informatics team has gleaned from years of developing software first for the microarray market and, more recently, for the next-generation sequencing market. Existing software products from OGT include CytoSure Interpret, a software solution that the company markets alongside its CytoSure arrays product line.
The software provides capabilities for analyzing and annotating data from arrayCGH experiments including tools for identifying both copy number variation and loss of heterozygosity. It also includes a database that contains results from previously analyzed samples, to which users can compare the results of new samples.
The company's informatics unit also developed software that OGT provides as part of its NGS service, which launched about four years ago. The software offers simple to use tools for things like data quality checking and simplifies the process of sorting through long variant lists to identify those that are most meaningful.
In addition to using internally developed algorithms, Lueerssen's team is also exploring open-source software options that might be a good fit for the product, he said. OGT has spoken "extensively," Lueerssen said, to current customers and potential customers as well as collaborators to ensure that it is creating a system that meets current and potential customers' requirements and addresses pertinent analysis pain points.
"I think the best way to describe what we are proposing here for this software is that we want to bring to NGS what we did for arrays when we introduced CytoSure Interpret software," he said. "We have a lot of experience in not only making that software robust, but also in supporting our customers here and everywhere in the world."
OGT hopes to have its new software on the market by next year. It intends to sell the solution as a standalone desktop product. However, it is not disclosing further details of its commercialization plans for the product at this time.
When it does bring the product to market, OGT's solution will have to contend with companies such as Ingenuity Systems — now Qiagen Redwood City — and Omicia, who also develop and sell variant interpretation software for the clinical laboratory market.
But Lueerssen believes that OGT can compete favorably in the space. "There are different models that can work for different people," he said. For example, some other companies provide solutions where users have to move their data to external servers, but that does not work for all customers, some of whom might be worried about data exiting their firewalls. With a desktop solution, all the data stays local and so any privacy concerns are addressed, he said.
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Virtually everyone is jumping of the remaster bandwagon these days, thanks to the fact that the last few crops of games for the PS3 and Xbox 360 were really great more than warranting a reworking for newer platforms. Joining the fray is From Software, who recently had players babbling excitedly about their first true current generation title, the PS4 exclusive Bloodborne. But while Bloodborne presents some new ideas for the developer, they haven't left their roots behind, and Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, makes a very welcome appearance on PS4 and Xbox One.
While the name might imply that it is a different game, or a standalone expansion, Scholar of the First Sin is actually a remastered version of the original Dark Souls 2. That said, it does contain all three Lost Crown DLC packs, which are a great addition if you have the stomach to fight through to them.
This is usually the point when we point out that, other than cosmetic changes, better resolution and improved frame rates, nothing much has changed. But From Software aren't exactly known for being forgiving when it comes to their games. And while the massively steep learning curve and brutally unforgiving nature of the original are still present here, From decided to mix things up a bit. Some not all of the encounters have been modified. Where previously there may have been no enemies, there are now new surprises. And the locations of some items like the near crucial Ring of Binding have been changed.
What this means is that while newcomers will have to take on the dangers of Drangleic from a fresh perspective (and won't notice much new, beyond how punishing the game is) veterans won't just waltz through Scholar of the First Sin. While the experience won't be entirely fresh for those that have played Dark Souls 2 before, there are enough changes and surprises to keep players on their toes.
In terms of visuals, the upgrades certainly are as apparent as they can be in the drab and depressing kingdom of Drangleic. There is more to occupy the eye, and while it might not seem like a massive upgrade at first, this dead world certainly seems more alive than before.
And, of course, there are the three brutal and punishing DLC packs. This adds value, particularly for veterans who never got to the extras. And newcomers well, they're in for a massive, sprawling experience that does its very best to see their character on the wrong side of dead.
What's truly refreshing here, though, is something that isn't common in remastered games. For the most part, they are carbon copies of what came before, albeit spruced up for the new hardware. But From Software obviously wasn't content with delivering the exact same experience before, and their tweaks included the switching up of certain elements that were mentioned before. This means that upgrading your version of Dark Souls isn't necessarily a grudge purchase. While it may not be a truly fresh experience, it has freshness to it, and surprises that help the game stick to its punishing nature, even in the unlikely event that the player has finished Dark Souls 2 before. It's something of a caring approach ( a word that seems out of place when describing any game from From) and one that shows that this developer wants to add value to what others might perceive as a quick cash-in opportunity.
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It is the best to choose the same style of Canvas Wall Art Painting in the interior,You can also occasionally use one or two entirely different styles of decorative paintings as ornaments, such as decorative paintings are particularly conspicuous, while the style is very obvious, with a strong visual impact, then you'd better match the style of furniture, sofa and so on.
The postion to hang the Canvas Wall Art Painting and the colors,generally in the wall opposite with the television wall, namely back to the sofa wall, will decorate 1 to 3 decorative paintings,Because sofa is usually the protagonist in the living room, the sofa is the center when choosing the living room decoration painting. Neutral color and light color sofa are suitable for warm colors with decorative paintings, red and other brighter colors sofa are suitable for a neutral tone or similar colors with decorative paintings.
The choice of colors is important: Canvas Wall Art Painting can be arranged in many places, such as the wall behind the TV, the bedroom. It can even be hung on walls such as kitchens and balconies. However, when hanging decorative paintings in these places, we should notice that we should choose different colors to match different space.
Decorative painting style to be consistent: if you want to hang Canvas Wall Art Painting of the house, if more spacious, the line of sight can see the different space of several paintings. It is suggested that the style should be unified when choosing painting. Including types, such as the choice of sketch on the full use of sketch; abstract paintings are all abstract paintings; frame style should also be the same. After the unification of these pieces, the style of the decorative paintings will be consistent.
Leave space for the wall: when choosing Canvas Wall Art Painting, you should give priority to the size of the room that you will hang the painting. If there is enough space on the wall of the room, then you can choose a large modern or abstract painting to decorate, if the space is not large enough, you can only choose a smaller Canvas Wall Art Painting. it will not make the room depressed, but also can make the wall have a little blank, resulting in the overall aesthetic feeling.


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Why would my springer's white fur on her paws and belly be turning a pinkish, cream color, also around her snout. Other areas are still a good white color. She is 15 years old.
This is not uncommon in older dogs, Mungo who is the same age had pink spots, its usually dicolouration of the skin, but if you are really concerned or it looks like its irritating her you may want to get the vet to check it out.
While many white dogs get discoloration around their eyes and paws, especially as they grow older, I have found in my two last dogs that it is not necessarily normal. I noticed my young female began to get discoloration as she was chewing her paws and shaking her ears. A culture from her ears revealed yeast (fungus) and I began to do copious research. Is your dog chewing his/her paws? Does s/he chew at her rear? Many dog products these days are chalked full of sugar or carbs with a high glycemic (sugar conversion) index. Watch especially for potato, pea starch, tapioca, molasses, sweet potato. Some dogs (and many springers) get systemic yeast and it shows up in a pinkish/brownish discoloration on the paws, the mouth, and the rear area. Check your dogs ears to be sure there isn't a brownish, yeasty smelling grime building up. I have a solution that is not a vet-prescribed product if there is an ear infection. Most vet prescribed products have deafness as a side effect, that wasn't acceptable to me. K9 Ear Solution, out of the US, is a miracle product! Good luck to you.


COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Kellen Mond threw for 353 yards and freshman Seth Small had four field goals, including the go-ahead kick in the fourth quarter, to lift No. 22 Texas A&M to a 26-23 victory over South Carolina on Saturday.
Mond also had a 4-yard touchdown pass to Jace Sternberger in the second quarter and, when Small hit a 32-yard field goal on the Aggies' first drive of the second half to go up 16-0, it looked like more than enough to put away the Gamecocks, who managed just 102 yards of offense the first 30 minutes.
That's when Jake Bentley, returning after missing last week's win over Missouri with a knee injury, led a pair of third-quarter TD drives — and the two-point conversions both times.
Bentley had a 22-yard scoring pass to Shi Smith to start the comeback, then hit Chavis Dawkins for a 33-yard touchdown throw off a flea flicker.
Bryan Edwards caught both two-point tries, stretching second across the line before falling out of bounds to tie the game.
Texas A&M responded with the winning drive next time out, moving 45 yards to set Small up for a 39-yard field goal with 9:16 left.
The Aggies sealed things with Trayveon William's 3-yard scoring run with 1:36 left.
South Carolina got a final TD pass from Bentley to Samuel with 48 seconds to go, but could not execute an onside kick attempt. Texas A&M ran out the clock.
Mond got the Aggies going when he found his big tight end Sternberger. The 6-foot-4, 250-pound junior had a 53-yard reception where he dragged safety Steven Montac (some 65 pounds lighter) about 25 yards inside the South Carolina 10.
Small opened Texas A&M's scoring with a 52-yard field goal, the freshman tying his career long kick.
South Carolina struggled with Bentley back behind center in the opening half. The junior, talked about at times this season as an NFL prospect, was 6 of 17 passing the first 30 minutes for 46 yards. He had an awful interception in the end zone to kill off the Gamecocks best scoring chance of the half.
Mond was 25 of 37 passing. His 353 yards was the second most of his career after throwing for 430 yards in a 28-26 loss to No. 4 Clemson last month.
TEXAS A&M: The Aggies have found ways to hang in games and overcome opponents at the end. It happened a week ago in a 20-14 overtime victory against previously undefeated Kentucky. And they did it against the Gamecocks when momentum had switched in South Carolina's favor.
SOUTH CAROLINA: The Gamecocks played another in a series of terrible first halves. Bentley had only nine yards passing two weeks ago at Kentucky the first two quarters and South Carolina trailed 23-14 at the break against Missouri before rallying. The Gamecocks must figure out a way to start faster or risk more such defeats this season.
Texas A&M is off next week and plays at Mississippi State on Oct. 27.
South Carolina is off next week and returns to play Tennessee at home on Oct. 27.