Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Dip makes a sweet snack for enjoying with pretzels, vanilla wafers, fresh strawberries and ginger snaps.
There are 14-layer cakes, lattice pies, meringues and souffles. Then, there's Apple Crisp. Labor intensive, complicated desserts have their time and place, but a dessert that's good enough for a weeknight is good enough for me. No other delicacy screams fall and comforts the home and heart like it. What's more, the dish is easily adaptable for large or small crowds. Dinner for two? Serve it in ramekins. Family coming for Thanksgiving? It's time to dust off that trusty ol' casserole dish. With its warm nutmeg and cinnamon spices, served alongside a scoop or two of cold vanilla ice cream, it's the fall season in a nutshell (or in this case, a bowl).
After a dinner of chili, Apple Crisp hit the spot. The crunch of the granola and earthiness of the pecans, with the tart and sweet combination of apples is foolproof flavor. My home smelled just like the mountains, and made me wish I was sipping coffee in a rocking chair somewhere up in Tennessee, admiring the changing leaves.
My recipe serves 4-6. Enjoy!
1 Tablespoon of lemon juice (This keeps the apples from turning brown).
Peel and slice apples. Place in a medium bowl and add the remaining filling ingredients. Set aside. In another small bowl, stir together flour, sugar and chopped pecans. Cut in cold butter with a fork or you can blend the ingredients quickly with your hands. Pour filling into a 1 1/2 quart or 8 x 8 casserole dish and top off with the brown sugar mixture. Sprinkle with granola. Bake in 375 degree oven for 35 – 40 minutes. Let cool slightly. Serve with ice cream and coffee, preferably on the porch.
Don't forget to eat the leftovers for breakfast the next day!
Summertime may be my absolute favorite time to visit the farmers' market and fruit may be my absolute favorite thing to purchase. On Saturday morning, I scored a large package of plump blackberries and the season's first Georgia peaches. You can imagine my excitement when I came across a delicious recipe for Peach-Berry Crumble in the latest edition of Southern Living. Sunday afternoon just got better.
Fruit from the fields of Screven County.
I paid $5 for this huge container of blackberries. You can't beat that! Well worth the money, especially knowing I'm supporting the local farming community. Thanks Ricardo from Poor Robin's Produce! The peaches came from my friends at Jacob's Produce. I snuck a few pieces while slicing them for the crumble. Irresistible, juicy and sweet.
Crumbles make the perfect summer dessert. Simple to throw together, they're special enough for entertaining yet quick enough for a post-dinner weeknight treat.
I substituted 1/2 cup of uncooked regular oats with Honey Bunches of Oats with Vanilla. It's what I had on hand and it got the job done! Assembling this dessert is so much fun because it's rustic and hands-on. Butter makes everything better.
Bake for 40-45 minutes at 375 degrees.
The end result is a crunchy, buttery topping filled with warm, sweet fruit. Serve with cold vanilla ice cream or sweetened whipped cream. Garnish with fresh mint. Savor summertime!
Here's a quick glance at the recipe. Thanks Southern Living for the inspiration!
Preheat oven to 375°. Place first 2 ingredients in an 11- x 7-inch (or 2-qt.) baking dish. Stir together egg, egg yolk, and next 4 ingredients with a fork until mixture resembles coarse meal. Sprinkle over fruit; drizzle melted butter over topping. Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until light brown and bubbly. Let stand 10 minutes; serve warm with ice cream.
Watch My Video Segment on The Dr. Oz Show MONDAY!
2014 is off to a great start! Tune in to The Dr. Oz Show this Monday, Jan. 27 at 4 p.m. on WSAV-3 Savannah to watch my video segment during Dr. Oz's Healthy Recipe Challenge. I was asked to submit a healthy recipe to represent my home state, featuring Georgia peaches. Three finalists were chosen to appear on the show to have Dr. Oz taste their dessert. Though I wasn't chosen as one of the top three finalists, the video I submitted will appear in a segment! Be sure to check your local listings for the time the program airs in your area.
I submitted my Grilled Georgia Peaches with Toasted Granola and Honey. If you've never tasted grilled peaches, start living. Something about grilling fruit makes it that much more desirable, and Georgia peaches really shine in this lightened up dessert. While we all know there's no real substitute for one of Georgia's best Southern recipes–good ol' peach cobbler, this dish satisfies your sweet tooth without packing on the pounds. The great thing is, when fresh peaches aren't in season, you can substitute frozen ones. The peaches may also be grilled outside or on an indoor grill pan. Not an ice cream fan? Forgo it and serve it with fresh, sweetened whipped cream instead.
To grill a fresh peach, slice it right down the middle, remove the pit, brush the halves with melted butter and season with kosher salt. Allow the peach to grill skin side up for about 3-4 minutes. Meanwhile, toast granola in a saucepan over medium heat, about five minutes, stirring slightly, until golden brown and fragrant. Place 1-2 scoops of cold ice cream in a bowl. Top with grilled peaches. Sprinkle with granola and drizzle with honey.
Once the program airs, the episode will be available online here. Also, be sure to check back on Some Kinda Good for what you won't see on the show…my blooper reel!! Thanks for watching, y'all.
P.S. A few other bloggers from around the U.S. will also be featured on The Dr. Oz Show. Check out the recipes they offered up to show state pride!
New to Some Kinda Good? Welcome!
I'm a Georgia food writer and Statesboro-based TV personality. A Season 2 Contestant on ABC's "The Taste," I'm honored to make my second national TV debut on The Dr. Oz Show. Some Kinda Good is a Southern, coastal food blog highlighting East coast restaurant reviews and Lowcountry-inspired recipes. I hope you'll stick around, and follow me on Twitter at @SKGFoodBlog or find me on Facebook. If you want, learn more about me, and thanks for visiting!
Blackberry Cobbler and No Vanilla Ice Cream? What a Tragedy!!
I hadn't been in my new home 48-hours when I decided to break the kitchen in and cook up a blackberry cobbler from Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible, one of my favorite Christmas gifts. Though mixing bowls, pots and spoons were still boxed up, I knew a little digging would be worthwhile for this southern classic—and believe you me, it was.
Start by bringing a cup of sugar and four cups of blackberries to a boil. I used frozen blackberries because they're cheaper and I had them on hand. I just love blackberries.
Once the oven was pre-heated, I melted one stick of butter in my new casserole dish (thanks mama!).
After combining the dry ingredients, whisk your milk in slowly to prevent clumping.
Next, pour the mixture into the melted butter, but don't stir.
I love to see the sugar and blackberries come together. You could pour this combination right over the top of ice cream as is, or blend it up with some ice cream and milk and have you a blackberry shake.
Then, spoon your blackberries into the dish evenly throughout. This part is fun.
Don't forget your sauce. Drizzle it down over the blackberries. Once it cooks up, you'll see it swirled all through the cobbler.
Beautiful! The cobbler is ready when it's lightly browned and firm to the touch.
Never have I wanted a scoop of cold, vanilla ice cream so badly…what a tragedy that there was none in the house.


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Mercy for families
Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna talks with Pope Francis during a meeting with Austrian bishops at the Vatican Jan. 30. CNS photo/Courtesy of L'Osservatore Romano, Reuters
By Catholic Register Editorial
Perhaps Cardinal Christoph Schonborn best summarizes Pope Francis' papal exhortation Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love): "There are true innovations, but no break" in tradition, the Austrian theologian told reporters the day the exhortation was released.
It was never likely that the Pope would soften Catholic doctrine, particularly surrounding marriage and divorce. Instead, the Pope, as is his way, settled on what is becoming the main tenet of this papacy: mercy.
"I understand those who prefer a more rigourous pastoral care which leaves no room for confusion," the Pope writes in Amoris Laetitia. "But I sincerely believe that Jesus wants a Church attentive to the goodness which the Holy Spirit sows in the midst of human weakness, a Mother who, while clearly expressing her objective teaching, always does what good she can, even if in the process, her shoes get soiled by the mud of the street."
The Pope should be commended for convening Synods in 2014 and 2015 that encouraged open and sweeping dialogue on many difficult topics and then, after considering entreaties from more than 250 bishops and cardinals, issuing a document that is true to Church teaching. For let us be clear: there is nothing in this document that the Church has not already said, loudly and clearly. What it tells the world is that the Church is open to all, a welcoming presence for all its members, no matter their imperfections.
The Synods were not easy days for the Church. There was considerable and, at times, rancourous disagreement between the bishops that far too often spilled out of the synod hall and into the media.
This led to suggestions that a progressive Pope in the Year of Mercy would ultimately propose the Church adopt more inclusive language, if not outright change, on several contentious issues, including communion for divorced and remarried couples, common-law relationships and same-sex unions. But those issues turned out to be secondary concerns in a final document that focused primarily on the many critical social, cultural and spiritual struggles families encounter and which the Pope had encouraged his bishops to address.
Overall, Amoris Laetitia is an admirable pastoral guide that explores vital topics affecting family life. During the back and forth of the two Synods, there appeared a danger that these vital topics would be drowned out by the rhetoric surrounding a few headline-grabbing issues. But Francis prudently issued a document that, for the most part, addressed the most common and more vital dilemmas of modern family life. Many families the world over are in crisis and in urgent need of help, encouragement and mercy.
The Church, Francis believes, has in the past offered too much judgment and too little compassion. He has spoken often of what he calls "wounded families." Finding ways to heal those wounds is largely what prompted him to convene two Synods and, ultimately, to issue the pastoral guide embodied by Amoris Laetitia.
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Asian style low maintenance landscape ideas and solutions may include Buddhist statues, water features, bamboo features, water fountains, pagodas, wooden gates and fences, small ponds, mounds, trees, waterfalls, rocks and boulders.
Landscaping gives people and visitors a first impression of your house and it also reflects the home owner's lifestyle and gardening taste. Generally, landscaping and gardening takes a lot of time to maintain unless you have a low maintenance garden which can be achieved by using Asian style low maintenance landscape ideas and solutions.
Asian style landscape gardens originated over three thousand years ago. It incorporates culture, art pieces and natural elements into the garden, creating harmony between human and nature.
Asian style low maintenance garden with Buddhist statues can be used to decorate your garden. For example, you can place Kwan Yin statue at focal points creating a protective layer of energy at your house entrance which makes your guests and visitors feel welcome. Other Asian style statues can be used to suit your own religious beliefs.
Water features are very popular and are used as the central element in Asian style garden landscapes. Water symbolizes wealth and abundance in Chinese Feng Shui. Water should flow towards your house bringing wealth and prosperity to your family.
In addition, water features, rocks trees, shrubs and mounds are used to create nature on a small scale to represent natural gullies, waterfalls and mountains.
Japanese bamboo water fountains are another type of water feature used in Asian style landscape and gardens. These were traditionally used to scare away the birds and deer in the rice farm. In the modern garden, it is used to clean up, refresh and give peace of mind.
Asian style low maintenance landscape also includes rocks and boulders, which are both low maintenance features, surrounded by trees and shrubs.
An Asian style low maintenance garden with a pagoda and wooden gate and fence can be used to create a natural look to your Asian style low maintenance landscape garden.
Now it's time for your to choose your own Asian style low maintenance landscape ideas and solutions.


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Twelve notes. That's all it took. Suddenly, I was 6 years old again, twirling around the living room with my father.
I took my younger son to see The Nutcracker and The Four Realms last night. I was a little shocked when the opening notes of the overture and the opening scene brought me to tears. Of all my father's Christmas albums, Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker was one of my favorites. I still listen to that music every year. He read me the story of Clara and The Nutcracker more times than I could ever count. I knew the movie was a different take on the story. And yet, with those few opening notes all the innocent wonder came flooding back. It was as if I was hearing it for the first time.
It's funny how much music is tied to memories. The Rolling Stones and baking endless batches of chocolate chip cookies. U2 and hanging Christmas lights. Pink Floyd and writing end of term papers. And of course, it wouldn't be Advent without O Come, O Come Emmanuel and my father's alternate lyrics inducing church giggles.
I have so many good memories of Advent and Christmas. And yet, as I sit on this dreary first Sunday of Advent, I find myself feeling a little off. Last year, the holidays were a time of great apprehension. This year, things are more stable but there's that part of me that constantly asks, "For how long?" Last year was the year without a Christmas. I don't want to be so afraid of a repeat occurrence that I miss out of what good can be this year. So, I've tried the last couple days to listen to some of my old Christmas favorites. I mean the really old childhood favorites from my father's collection. These are the songs I asked for over and over that have nothing but good memories attached to them. This is my attempt at being hopeful. The Holly and The Ivy, The Coventry Carol, What Child Is This?, Carol of the Bells, and The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns lead the playlist. Yeah, I know, I was a weird kid with a great love of pipe organs, bells, and big choirs.
What I'm finding is that trying to be hopeful is not really possible. Either I can cling to hope… or not. Either I can remain haunted by ghosts of unhappy Christmases past or I can let go and experience one full of joy, love, and wonder. The opening notes of the Nutcracker Overture caught me off guard in that movie theater last night because I went in not knowing what to expect. I was ready for something new, something unexpected, something wonderful and I was not disappointed.
Can I approach this season of Advent with that same kind of hopeful expectation? I suppose I shall have to wait and see.


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Día de muertos ("Day of the Dead"), also known as Día de difuntos and Los hijos de la guayaba, ("The Children of the Guava") is a 1988 Mexican comedy-drama film directed by Luis Alcoriza. It is Alcoriza's penultimate film as director and his last one made entirely in Mexico; his last film directed, La sombra del ciprés es alargada, was a Mexican-Spanish co-production.

Plot
In a cemetery on the Day of the Dead, the lawyer Talamantes is going to place a cross on his mother's grave. There, he meets with other assistants who commemorate his relatives: a bricklayer, a poet, the shoemaker Zacarías, the plumber Baltazar and the hairdresser Pedro, with their respective families. In the heat of alcohol, they all argue, show their weaknesses, resolve disagreements in couples, fight, flirt, reconcile and swear each other eternal friendship.

Cast
Pedro Weber as Baltazar (as Pedro Weber "Chatanuga")
Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez as Zacarías
Carmen Salinas as Cholita
Adalberto Martínez as The Thief (as Adalberto Martinez "Resortes")
María Rojo as Yolanda
Sergio Ramos as Pedro (as Sergio Ramos "El Comanche")
Patricia Rivera
Ernesto Gómez Cruz as The Poet
Leticia Perdigón as Martha
Edgardo Gazcón as Salvador
Eugenia Avendaño as Enriqueta
Fernando Luján as Francisco de Jesús Talamantes
Raúl Araiza as Beto
Héctor Suárez

Analysis
In an interview collected in the book Memorias de posguerra: Diálogos con la cultura del exilio by Manuel García García, director Luis Alcoriza described his film thus, "[L]a película salió muy dura. Era una agresión frontal al sistema y a la moral dominante. Había una burla agresiva a la muerte que superaba la crítica común del mexicano." ("The movie came out very hard. It was a frontal assault on the dominant system and morals. There was an aggressive mockery of death that surpassed the common criticism of the Mexican.") He added, "La gente se asustó un poco. La peícula es divertida pero con un fondo violento. Abordé el tema de la figura de la madre de manera muy frontal y eso aquí no está bien visto." ("People got a little scared. The movie is funny but with a violent background. I approached the subject of the figure of the mother in a very frontal way and that here is not well seen.")

See also
 Day of the Dead

References

External links

1988 films
1980s Spanish-language films
1988 comedy-drama films
Mexican comedy-drama films
Films directed by Luis Alcoriza
Day of the Dead films
1980s Mexican films

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Why The Mekong Region Matters to the United States, ASEAN, and the Indo-Pacific
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David Stilwell published an article titled "Why the Mekong Region Matters to the United States, ASEAN, and the Indo-Pacific" in the Cambodia Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP) Journal of Greater Mekong Studies.
Updates • Connectivity, Energy, Environment, Health, Infrastructure, Trafficking in Persons, Wildlife, Drugs, and Natural Resources, Transnational Crime, Water, Women's Empowerment
United States and Vietnam Convene 17 Friends of the Mekong in Support of a Secure, Prosperous, and Open Mekong Region
On January 12, the United States and Vietnam co-hosted the first Friends of the Mekong Policy Dialogue under the new Mekong-U.S. Partnership. In his remarks, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Ambassador Atul Keshap emphasized that the United States is committed to a secure, open, and prosperous Mekong region, highlighting the importance of this region to ASEAN centrality and to the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific. The 17 participating countries and institutions under the Mekong-U.S. Partnership and the Friends of the Mekong offered recommendations on sustainable infrastructure development and connectivity; human resource development and building the foundations for a Mekong digital economy; sustainable water, natural resource management, and environmental protection; and COVID response and regional collaboration on health security.
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Now more than ever, the United States sees the importance of a partnership with the Mekong Region. Perhaps the best example of that is the new Mekong-U.S. Partnership, which was launched in 2020 as a successor to the Lower Mekong Initiative. This partnership – with Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and the ASEAN Secretariat – aims to improve lives in the Mekong Region by spurring economic growth, improving natural resource management, and tackling transnational crime. "We are open to working with all partners who shared our principled, transparent approach," said Melissa A. Brown, Head of the U.S. Mission to ASEAN. Watch this video to learn more:
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U.S.-Singapore Third Country Training Program (TCTP) 2020 Cybersecurity Workshop Held Virtually
The United States and Singapore co-hosted the 2020 Third Country Training Program (TCTP) Cybersecurity Workshop as a series of virtual events on October 26 and 27 and November 2 and 3. This cybersecurity course was fully subscribed with 30 participants from all ASEAN countries as well as Timor-Leste and the ASEAN Secretariat. It covered a broad range of cyber policy topics including the importance of whole-of-government cyber coordination, frameworks and best practices for a risk-based approach to cybersecurity, and the framework of responsible state behavior in cyberspace. The participants identified key themes and lessons to bring back to their home countries for implementation, including raising public awareness on cybersecurity, strengthening network defenses against cybersecurity threats, and creating public-private partnerships to effectively respond to and manage cyber incidents.
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Webinar: An Uncertain Future: Working Towards a Thriving Tonle Sap
The U.S. Department of State and the Sustainable Infrastructure Partnership are pleased to announce the second Mekong Virtual Symposium. As part of the U.S. Vision for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific, the U.S. government is committed to providing a platform that encourages information sharing, dialogue, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement for cooperative, responsible management of the Mekong River. The U.S. engagement in the Mekong region has long supported transparent, open cooperation for sustainable management of the river. This program will engage key stakeholders on the range of issues facing the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia: fishing and fish migration, plastics, floods and droughts, sediment, and dam impacts. As drought and dams have led the Mekong's flow reversal to happen later and later each year, the Tonle Sap now faces an uncertain future.
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Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Stilwell provided opening remarks at the inaugural Indo-Pacific Conference on Strengthening Governance of Transboundary Rivers on October 15. U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Michael DeSombre offered closing remarks. The conference, organized in partnership with the East-West Center, convened policy-makers, academics, members of civil society, and other transboundary river stakeholders from across the Indo-Pacific region to share best practices related to the sustainable development and cooperative management of transboundary rivers.
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The United States Department of State, in partnership with the East-West Center, will host a virtual Indo-Pacific Conference on Strengthening Transboundary Rivers Governance on October 15-16. The invitation-only conference brings together practitioners, experts, and national and civil society representatives to focus on Enhancing Transparency, Partnerships & Stakeholder Engagement. This event includes sessions on "Transparency and Partnerships in Transboundary River Governance," "Negotiating Transboundary River Governance," "Stakeholder Engagement in Transboundary River Governance," and "Next Steps for Strengthening Governance of Transboundary Rivers." Assistant Secretary David Stilwell and U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Michael DeSombre will give opening and closing remarks, respectively.
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July 14 Webinar: Fostering Solutions and Collaboration for a Sustainable Mekong River Delta
Mark your calendars for July 14 from 10:00 PM - 11:30 PM EDT for the Fostering Solutions and Collaboration for a Sustainable Mekong River Delta webinar, where global and regional experts will discuss the threats to the Mekong River Delta including increasing saltwater intrusion and drought. The Mekong River is home to one of the most productive and biodiverse…
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Beyond Trad Music Camp
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Classes '20
Site & Meals
Our instructors are chosen for their ability to empower students to explore, create and move beyond the traditional roles of their instruments. We are committed to finding the best and brightest music educators & performers to bring to Beyond Trad.
This year we are expanding certain programs and are very excited to welcome some new faces to the teaching team.
Fiddle:
Jennie Bice
Miriam Sonstenes
Julian Smedley
Guitar:
Jeff Dill
Marc Atkinson
Tony Marcus
Band Class:
Ali Romanow
Carol Johns
Neal Chin
Eduardo García
Jenny Lester
Dawn Pemberton
Patrice Haan
Brian Tate
Kids Programming:
Anthea Morritt
Max Wallace
Sofya Bice
Ali Romanow
Classes at Beyond Trad:
Folk Harmonic
Band Lab
Western Swing Strings (Twin Fiddle)
Ali Romanow is a multi-instrumentalist and music educator based on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Competent on a variety of instruments Ali also brings her captivating vocals, original writing and arranging to whatever project she is currently focused on. Ali spends her time in Courtenay BC, where she directs FolkHarmonic Orchestras, a Western Swing Orchestra & teaches private music lessons.
Kids Programming
Originally from Hornby Island, Anthea Morritt is a Vancouver Island based performer and educator with a passion for music and the arts. Anthea holds a diploma in Theatre Arts from Studio 58 in Vancouver and is currently completing her degree in Education at Vancouver Island University. In addition to her studies, Anthea also works as a Volunteer with the Canadian Improv Games, a nationwide Improv organization for middle and high school students, and loves teaching drama and improv workshops to children of all ages.
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Morning Vocal Warmup & Sing
Camp Choir (Large Ensemble)
Drum Magic (Small Ensemble)
Group Improv Songwriting
Ear Yoga
You Got This
Now residing in Victoria, Brian Tate is an award-winning composer/arranger and well-known choral director. A prolific composer and arranger, dozens of his works for choir are published and his music is performed worldwide. Brian is the former director of Vancouver's 100-voice City Soul Choir and has taught singing and choir for 22 years at Studio 58, Langara College's professional theatre school. He also performs with Dawn Pemberton and Karla Mundy in the world music a cappella vocal trio "TriVo". Brian has had a lifelong interest in music of the African Diaspora and has travelled and studied in Cuba and West Africa. He is also a drummer and percussionist.
Building Your Bag of Tricks (vocal class)
Soul Sessions
Vocal Care 101
Vibrant, genuine and soulful, Dawn has deep musical roots that take her powerful voice from gospel and soul to jazz, funk and world music. She has become a staple of the Vancouver music scene and can often be found tearin' it up as a vocalist, pianist, teacher, adjudicator, choir director and "go to girl" for live performances and studio sessions. She currently spends her time touring with her own original music project as well as with Canadian blues juggernaut,The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer and The Blues Berries. Dawn has toured extensively throughout Canada and Europe and has performed with musical greats such as Betty Levette, John Boutte, Kenny Werner, Kurt Elling, Robert Randolph &The Family Band, Randy Bachman, Ruthie Foster, The Hamiltones, Linda Tillery and has opened for musical heavyweights Maceo Parker, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, The Philosopher Kings and Lee Fields. Dawn is the founder and Artistic Director of Roots 'N' Wings Women's Choir and teaches masterclasses and workshops all over North America. Her debut solo album, Say Somethin', released on DoRight! Music won Best Urban Recording at the 2015 Western Canadian Music Awards and has received praise from around the globe forecasting her as "…the new queen of Canadian soul." A passionate educator and performer, Dawn approaches music with a sense of adventure, quirkiness, and serious groove and shapes it into her own unique and dynamic package. Tight, expressive and bold, Dawn will hit you where it counts, funk you up and make you say "Go 'head!".
Intermediate Ukulele
Son Huasteco (Huapango)
Ukulele Kick-off
Chord Melody Made Easy
Eduardo is a multi-instrumentalist originally from Mexico that arrived in Vancouver in April 2017.On his journey, he studied and played music in a large variety of environments, worlds, and languages. Being both classically and traditionally trained, he soon got active in a wide diversity of music projects in Mexico, teaching, performing and writing music. Eduardo played several different traditional string instruments with 'Amate', a traditional mariachi based in Guadalajara, that performs regularly inside and outside of Mexico. Parallel to that, he played the cello on the 'Victor Manuel Medeles' chamber orchestra, of which he was also the arranger/composer of almost all of their repertoire, and the repertoire of other choirs and ensembles in Mexico. During 2017, he collaborated on the book 'Tsenten Ajab', a book of studies and arrangements of both traditional and modern music for the Jarana Huasteca, a traditional folk instrument from Mexico's Huasteco region that was published in 2018.
He was the founder/director of the Academia de Ukuleles de la Ribera (Lakeside Ukulele Academy), a self-financed music school that provides instruments and free music lessons to all children in his community.
In September 2017,he became a teacher at Ruby's Ukes, based in Vancouver, B.C., and started conducting/arranging music for the Ruby's Ukulele Orchestra in 2019. He has participated on the Vancouver Ukulele Festival in 2018 and 2019, the Ajijic Ukulele Retreat (Mexico) in 2017 and 2019, Coquitlam Ukulele mini festival (Canada) in 2019, Beyond Trad (Canada) music camp in 2018, 2019 and soon, 2020, and the Seoul International Aloha Ukulele Festival (South Korea) in 2019.
Beginner Guitar
Accompaniment 101
Bluegrass Guitar Runs
All You Need is the I IV V - Nashville Numbers
Jeff Dill began music at a young age, singing in his school choir and playing piano and trumpet in his school jazz ensemble. His earliest performance memory is singing a solo with his choir at age 9, for the song Old Paint. As a teen he taught himself to play guitar, and formed his first band, playing original songs and rock covers. He has spent the last ten years immersed in the Victoria bluegrass and old-time scene playing rhythm and lead guitar. He performs regularly with fiddler Miriam Sonstenes (Old Paint Duo), who have just released their debut album, and toured throughout BC and Western Canada. Further musical travels have taken him to Ireland, North Carolina, Louisiana, and across Canada on VIA Rail's Artists on Board Program. He has also spent time studying celtic guitar accompaniment, Western swing, was a member of Victoria's Riverside Bluegrass Band, and even did a stint playing klezmer guitar with the Yiddish Columbia State Orchestra. As a dedicated teacher he has shared his love of guitar playing at workshops across BC, including Mountain Fever Bluegrass Camp, Georgia Straight Guitar Workshop, Vancouver Island Music Workshop, and Nimblefingers Bluegrass & Old Time Workshop.
Beginner Fiddle
Improv Comedy
Strathspey
Singing; & Fiddlin'
Fiddler, singer, actor, composer, educator Jennie Bice is at home in many musical genres. From frenzied boot-stomping Irish craic, country & eastern, roots and rhythm styles, to world fusion, rock,jazz and blues, Jennie shines on every stage she meets. Bice began playing fiddle at the age of fouraround the family piano, and never stopped. Currently recording and performing on the west coast ofCanada with Roads Unknown, Ari Neufeld, Boris Sichon, John Welsh, The Doolins, Boilie's Goat andmany others, Jennie also loves taking time out every once in a while to teach workshops at a few of BC's fantastic fiddle camps. A producer, engineer, and teacher at Annwyn Studios, Bice is devoted to
musical exploration and artistic inspiration. An absolute delight to watch perform.
Harmony Singing
The Blue Grass Stack
Songwriting in an hour
Jenny Lester is a dynamic Canadian Bluegrass performer and recording artist who has established herself as an important singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her original songs are carefully crafted in the bluegrass convention while at the same time displaying a contemporary freshness and vitality that breathes new life into the fabled "high lonesome" sound.Jenny is a veteran stage performer from Smithers BC, beginning on the fiddle at age eight and continuing on to become a notable rhythm guitarist and bassist.Bands include Driftwood Canyon Family Band, Just For Fun, Dark Horse, John Reischman & Bluegrass Signal Hungry Hill and the Bluegrass Made in Taiwan. Popular original songs include The River Mother Nature & Me, Friends Like You, Mountain Girl and more.
Advanced Violin
Ter-Riff-ic (the art of accompaniment)
Jazz Violin Greats
Julian Smedley is a jazz violinist who has made his home in the Pacific Northwest. During a musical career of 45 years, he has performed in multiple countries, produced and recorded numerous projects and has an active interest in jazz theory, song writing and composition. Early formal training in England helped spawn a lasting desire to play and teach improvised music. He is frequently on staff during summer camp sessions of Fiddlekids, BC Swing Camp, Puget Sound Guitar Workshop.
While playing in several bands, Julian is currently archiving the work of Northwest songwriter, Linda Waterfall.
Tools for Jamming
Finger Picking
Marc Atkinson is one of Canada's finest JUNO-nominated, Western Canadian award-winning musicians. He is the leader and composer of the internationally renowned Marc Atkinson Trio (and co-founder, composer and performer in the acclaimed, The Bills). The music of this virtuosic group is melodically captivating, sensually charged and ferociously, technically awe-inspiring. Embracing a lifetime of musical influences, Marc and the Trio have just released their fourth CD, The Marc Atkinson Trio IV, praised as the finest yet. The compositions on this CD are punchy, driving and rhythmically inventive. The Trio, formed in 2000, has toured North America, England and Europe and has received standing ovations everywhere they perform from the Montreal Jazz Festival to the Vancouver International Folk Festival to DjangoFest Northwest.
Kids Program
Max Wallace is a theatre artist and educator based in the Comox Valley. A graduate of the Studio 58 acting program, Max has a passion for all things, theatrical, musical and comedic, with a deep appreciation for the natural world that surrounds us. Max is currently working towards a degree in Education at Vancouver Island University, and loves working with children and nurturing the spirit, perspectives and ideas they bring to everything they do.
Intermediate Violin
Fiddle for Violinists
Fiddle Improvisation
Practice tech
Based in Victoria, BC, Miriam Sonstenes is a versatile fiddle player, and prominent fixture in the west coast folk/roots music scene. A decade of performing and recording with many west coast bands and solo artists has helped shape her original sound, encompassing bluegrass, country and Western swing. Miriam performs regularly with award winning trio The Sweet Lowdown, The Unfaithful Servants, and her newest project, Old Paint Duo.
Formally trained in classical violin, Miriam turned to fiddle music in her mid 20's. Victoria's longstanding old time and Celtic fiddling scene provided a wealth of learning and inspiration, which has found its way into her current playing, projects and compositions. Freelance study throughout the Pacific Northwest, Ireland and Louisiana has further enriched her knowledge and appreciation of diverse fiddle traditions. She has toured Canada, the US and the UK, and with The Sweet Lowdown was featured on CBC's Vinyl Cafe with Stuart McLean. Miriam was recently awarded a Canada Council grant to study with bluegrass fiddle legend Bobby Hicks, in North Carolina, and her newest album with Old Paint Duo features some of the tunes she learned in those sessions.
A composer as well as performer, some of Miriam's original songs have been published, recorded and performed by musical groups across North America. In 2020 she will be publishing her first book of original fiddle tunes. When not performing and touring, Miriam can be found teaching at music camps in BC and across Canada, and has a full teaching studio at home in Victoria.
Advanced Ukulele
Low G 'Ukulele
The Art of the Kanikapila
Intro to Jazz 'Ukulele
Award winning artist and Maui, HI native Neal Chin, has been both an 'ukulele educator and performer over the course of his musical career of 20 years. His clear and direct enthusiasm for music has come to life in countless workshops, concerts, and private instruction. While his heart is in jazz, Neal has played with many musicians of different genres including Hawaiian, folk, rock, and hip-hop. His contribution to the collective The Akira Project,won his first Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award in 2014 before moving up to the Pacific Northwest. Since then he has been nominated for the Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award for 'Ukulele Album of the Year two years consecutively for 'Ukulele Paintings and The Spotless Mind in 2017 & 2018,started his own 'ukulele practice in the Pacific Northwest,and has toured across North America and even back to his home state, Hawai'i.Neal currently lives, teaches, and performs in Seattle, WA.
Listening to the Lyrics
Celtic Tunes
Mind Meld
Patrice Haan is a harper, singer, songwriter, composer and wordsmith, devoted to the healing presence of listening. She's most familiar in the camper-community for romantic and complex harmonization of jazz standards with Tony Marcus in the Oakland-based duo, Leftover Dreams. As well as playing therapeuticharpmusic with Healing Muses, a San Francisco-Bay-area non-profit that provides music for healing in local hospitals, she has recorded three albums of original music, lush, melodic collections for harp and piano and voice.
Tony Marcus
Western Swing Guitar
Intro to Western Swing Guitar
Western Swing Strings
Tony Marcus has found joy playing many styles of music. He has played bluegrass with mandolin legend Frank Wakefield, jug band music and blues with Geoff Muldaur, fiddle tunes with the Arkansas Sheiks, string swing with Cats & Jammers, big band jazz with the Royal Society Jazz Orchestra, weird old Hawaiian and hokum with R. Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders and honky tonk country with Rose Maddox, to name a few. Playing music has taken him from Japan to Ireland, and from Alaska to Florida in the USA. He currently performs with Patrice Haan in the vocal duo Leftover Dreams and with the country band Crying Time.
Sofya Bice
Sofya Bice is very excited to be back at Beyond Trad! Some of her talents, besides being a great helper, include acting, anything art-y, playing saxophone, piano, ukulele, accordion and is known to be silly at the drop of a hat. She is looking forward to this year's shenanigans!


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Anne van Olst (født 25. marts 1962) er en dansk dressurrytter, der har deltaget i fire olympiske lege. Det bedste resultat opnåede hun under OL i 2008 i Beijing, hvor hun fik en bronzemedalje i holdkonkurrencen sammen med Nathalie zu Sayn Wittgenstein og Andreas Helgstrand.

Anne van Olst er født Anne Koch Jensen. Hun blev første gang udtaget til sommer-OL 1988, hvor hun med hesten Le Fiere opnåede en 42.-plads i den individuelle dressurkonkurrence samt en 9.-plads i holdkonkurrencen. Fire år senere opnåede hun en individuel 10.-plads på hesten Chevalier til sommer-OL 1992 (foran bl.a. Anne Grethe Törnblad), og hun var også med til sommer-OL 2000.

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Eksterne henvisninger
 Van Olst Stables

Ryttere fra Danmark
Dressurryttere fra Danmark
Personer fra Aalborg
Olympiske bronzemedaljevindere fra Danmark
Medaljevindere fra Danmark ved sommer-OL 2008


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Orange, CA – I have been attending monthly MI3 meetings at CHOC Hospital in Orange County, CA. MI3 is the Medical Intelligence and Innovation Institute. If you are in healthcare or interested in innovation these meetings on the third Monday of the month from 4 to 6 p.m. are worth attending.
In this video Kevin McDonald interviews Dr. Anthony Chang, the Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer of CHOC Hospital on data science, artificial intelligence and the other innovations being promoted at CHOC.
The institute was started with funding from a Disney heir. The Sharon Disney Lund Medical Intelligence and Innovation Institute (MI3) at CHOC Children's is a unique and first-of-its-kind institute that creates, focuses and executes projects in the areas of intelligence and innovation in pediatric medicine. These two interrelated disciplines, extremely limited in development in the pediatric realm, hold great promise to change the trajectory of pediatric care around the world.


Ready to Take Your Driving Career to the Next Level? RT&T wants YOU to succeed! Profitable drivers lead a profitable company. If you are a professional driver who desires to own your own truck, Call Brian or Shane today at 877-899-7214 ext. 1 At RT&T you will buy a competitively priced truck with NO MONEY DOWN and NO BALLOON PAYMENT at the end of the lease. There are no hidden fees or terms to your lease-purchase contract. You have a set number of payments at a set price over the course of the lease. Make your last payment and the TITLE IS YOURS! RT&T s Regional fleet enjoys weekly home time and focuses on the Midwest - IL, IA, WI, IN, OH, and MI. APPLY NOW and you will receive a $1,500 SIGN ON BONUS after 6 months!! Other incentives available to our drivers: Be known by your name, not a truck number Affordable Lease to Own Program. Weekly Settlements No Down Payment or Balloon Payment No Credit Check Required Excellent Pay Packages, Up to 72% Base Pay Package 70% of Gross Revenue of the Load 2% additional Load Assignment Bonus No charge for your Cargo & Liability Insurance No charge for your Baseplates No charge for your HVUT/2290 No charge for Qualcomm or submitting your bills electronically We cover your basic Occupational Accident insurance Direct Deposit options/weekly settlements Safety bonuses Comdata Cards provided All lease trucks have an APU or Optimized Idle E-logs, Qualcomm, & submit bills with your smart phone To qualify you must have: One Year of verifiable Over The Road experience Three or fewer moving violations in the past three years A solid work history About Us: RT&T Enterprises, Inc. is a family owned and operated Transportation Management Company providing transportation solutions to companies throughout North America. Our operating area includes the 48 states, but is primarily focused on the Midwest, South, and South East. RT&T's fleet is made up primarily of Owner Operators and Lease to Own Operators, and is a solid, growing company. If interested in this Driver opportunity with RT&T, please click on the APPLY NOW button to submit your application today or CALL 877-899-7214 ext. 1!


Nice 1968 vintage SCHWINN FASTBACK - STINGRAY in fantastic condition. Features the well-known and well-loved Schwinn Coppertone paint color; a brilliant, shimmering, deep orange! This bike is COMPLETELY ORIGINAL!!!!! Untouched, unmolested, 100% authentic vintage bike with all it's original parts!!!! This bike is a running, driving, stopping, shifting bicycle.
This bike has been attic stored and was previously used. Like most bikes of it's age, there are signs of use and wear but not abuse; minimal scuffs, wear on the decals, and light paint chipping. Silver tone seat and it's piping are in fantastic condition!!!!
We understand that condition is subjective. We encourage you to use the provided images to aide you in making your own decisions. I WILL RETURN WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS.
The item "SCHWINN 1968 Fastback Sting-Ray 5 speed Bicycle-Vintage Bike Coppertone Stingray" is in sale since Monday, August 6, 2018. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Transportation\Bicycles\Complete Bicycles". The seller is "junkinjohnny" and is located in Crestwood, Kentucky. This item can be shipped to United States.


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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
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    android:layout_width="match_parent"
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import Column, {widthChanged, labelChanged, metaDataChanged, dirty, dirtyHeader, dirtyValues, rendererTypeChanged, groupRendererChanged, summaryRendererChanged, visibilityChanged} from './Column';
import {IDataRow, IGroup} from './interfaces';
import {patternFunction} from './internal';
import ValueColumn, {IValueColumnDesc, dataLoaded} from './ValueColumn';
import {IEventListener} from '../internal/AEventDispatcher';
import {IStringDesc, EAlignment} from './StringColumn';
import StringColumn from './StringColumn';

export interface ILinkDesc extends IStringDesc {
  /**
   * replacement pattern, use use ${value} for the current value, ${escapedValue} for an url safe value and ${item} for the whole item
   */
  pattern?: string;

  /**
   * optional list of pattern templates
   */
  patternTemplates?: string[];
}

export interface ILink {
  alt: string;
  href: string;
}

export declare type ILinkColumnDesc = ILinkDesc & IValueColumnDesc<string | ILink>;

/**
 * emitted when the filter property changes
 * @asMemberOf StringColumn
 * @event
 */
export declare function filterChanged(previous: string | RegExp | null, current: string | RegExp | null): void;

/**
 * emitted when the grouping property changes
 * @asMemberOf StringColumn
 * @event
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export declare function groupingChanged(previous: (RegExp | string)[][], current: (RegExp | string)[][]): void;

/**
 * emitted when the pattern property changes
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export declare function patternChanged(previous: string, current: string): void;

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@toolbar('search', 'groupBy', 'filterString', 'editPattern')
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  static readonly EVENT_GROUPING_CHANGED = StringColumn.EVENT_GROUPING_CHANGED;
  static readonly EVENT_PATTERN_CHANGED = 'patternChanged';

  private pattern: string;
  private patternFunction: Function | null = null;
  readonly patternTemplates: string[];

  private currentFilter: string | RegExp | null = null;
  private currentGroupCriteria: (RegExp | string)[] = [];

  readonly alignment: EAlignment;
  readonly escape: boolean;

  constructor(id: string, desc: Readonly<ILinkColumnDesc>) {
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    this.escape = desc.escape !== false;

    this.pattern = desc.pattern || '';
    this.patternTemplates = desc.patternTemplates || [];

    if (this.pattern) {
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    }
  }

  setPattern(pattern: string) {
    if (pattern === this.pattern) {
      return;
    }
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  getPattern() {
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  protected createEventList() {
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  on(type: typeof LinkColumn.EVENT_PATTERN_CHANGED, listener: typeof patternChanged | null): this;
  on(type: typeof LinkColumn.EVENT_FILTER_CHANGED, listener: typeof filterChanged | null): this;
  on(type: typeof ValueColumn.EVENT_DATA_LOADED, listener: typeof dataLoaded | null): this;
  on(type: typeof LinkColumn.EVENT_GROUPING_CHANGED, listener: typeof groupingChanged | null): this;
  on(type: typeof Column.EVENT_WIDTH_CHANGED, listener: typeof widthChanged | null): this;
  on(type: typeof Column.EVENT_LABEL_CHANGED, listener: typeof labelChanged | null): this;
  on(type: typeof Column.EVENT_METADATA_CHANGED, listener: typeof metaDataChanged | null): this;
  on(type: typeof Column.EVENT_DIRTY, listener: typeof dirty | null): this;
  on(type: typeof Column.EVENT_DIRTY_HEADER, listener: typeof dirtyHeader | null): this;
  on(type: typeof Column.EVENT_DIRTY_VALUES, listener: typeof dirtyValues | null): this;
  on(type: typeof Column.EVENT_RENDERER_TYPE_CHANGED, listener: typeof rendererTypeChanged | null): this;
  on(type: typeof Column.EVENT_GROUP_RENDERER_TYPE_CHANGED, listener: typeof groupRendererChanged | null): this;
  on(type: typeof Column.EVENT_SUMMARY_RENDERER_TYPE_CHANGED, listener: typeof summaryRendererChanged | null): this;
  on(type: typeof Column.EVENT_VISIBILITY_CHANGED, listener: typeof visibilityChanged | null): this;
  on(type: string | string[], listener: IEventListener | null): this {
    return super.on(<any>type, listener);
  }

  getValue(row: IDataRow) {
    const l = this.getLink(row);
    return l == null ? '' : l.href;
  }

  getLink(row: IDataRow): ILink | null {
    const v: string | null | ILink = super.getValue(row);
    return this.transformValue(v, row);
  }

  private transformValue(v: any, row: IDataRow) {
    if (v == null || v === '') {
      return null;
    }
    if (typeof v === 'string') {
      if (!this.pattern) {
        return {
          alt: v,
          href: v
        };
      }
      if (!this.patternFunction) {
        this.patternFunction = patternFunction(this.pattern, 'item');
      }
      return {
        alt: v,
        href: this.patternFunction.call(this, v, row.v)
      };
    }
    return v;
  }

  getLabel(row: IDataRow) {
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    return l == null ? '' : l.alt;
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  dump(toDescRef: (desc: any) => any): any {
    const r = StringColumn.prototype.dump.call(this, toDescRef);
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      r.pattern = this.pattern;
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  restore(dump: any, factory: (dump: any) => Column | null) {
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    if (dump.pattern) {
      this.pattern = dump.pattern;
    }
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  isFiltered() {
    return this.currentFilter != null;
  }

  filter(row: IDataRow) {
    return StringColumn.prototype.filter.call(this, row);
  }

  getFilter() {
    return this.currentFilter;
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  setFilter(filter: string | RegExp | null) {
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  getGroupCriteria() {
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  setGroupCriteria(value: (string | RegExp)[]) {
    return StringColumn.prototype.setGroupCriteria.call(this, value);
  }

  compare(a: IDataRow, b: IDataRow) {
    return StringColumn.prototype.compare.call(this, a, b);
  }

  group(row: IDataRow): IGroup {
    return StringColumn.prototype.group.call(this, row);
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}


This trip was my first experience hiking above 8000 feet. I flew from Minneapolis to Denver for a week. I wanted to acclimate for a few days before the hike. Tuesday, I went exploring to the east along I-76 and the South Platte River, looking for Michener's fictitious town, 'Centennial'. I found the model town.
Wednesday, I visited Rocky Mountain National Park, to get some time at 11,000 ft. Thursday, I drove to Colorado Springs, and took the tram to Pikes Peak. Friday, I drove to the top of Mt. Evans, 14,264 ft feet. Saturday was the hike.


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NASA Announces Next Undersea Exploration Mission Dates And Crew
by Underwatertimes.com News Service - May 4, 2010 22:35 EST
Discovery Announces Dates For 2008 Shark Week; Mythbusters, Survivorman, Dirty Jobs, Mysterious Shark Coast
Marine Exploration's Burt Webber And Crew Are Diving For Sunken Treasure In Dominican Republic Waters
Oceanography Mission Data Now Available From NASA Satellite; 'A New Era Has Dawned'
NASA Mission To Be Crystal Ball Into Oceans' Future, Mirror To The Past; 'It's The Motion Of The Ocean'
8-day Undersea Mission Begins Experiment To Improve Coral Reef Restoration; 'like Living On The Space Station'
Strange Creature Found On Russian Coastline Baffles Locals - 472 comments
Freak! Malaysian Fisherman Reels in Shark with 'Webbed Feet' - 383 comments
Guinness: India Park Home to World's Largest Crocodile; 23 Feet - 302 comments
Shark Attack Leaves Florida Student Scarred, Wounded; 'There Was Blood' - 294 comments
1063-pound, 12-foot 6-inch Mako Shark Hooked off Florida Coast May Be World Record - 270 comments
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- NASA will send two astronauts, a veteran undersea engineer and an experienced scientist into the ocean depths off Florida's east coast this month to test exploration concepts and learn more about working in an unforgiving, treacherous environment. The 14th expedition of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, or NEEMO, begins May 10.
Canadian Space Agency astronaut and veteran spacewalker Chris Hadfield will lead the NASA team on a 14-day undersea mission aboard the Aquarius Underwater Laboratory near Key Largo. Aquarius is owned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and operated by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Joining Hadfield will be NASA astronaut and flight surgeon Thomas Marshburn, Lunar Electric Rover Deputy Project Manager Andrew Abercromby and Steve Chappell, a research scientist. Abercromby and Chappell work for Wyle Integrated Science and Engineering of Houston.
During NEEMO 14, the ocean floor will simulate aspects of another planet's surface and a low-gravity environment. In October 2009, a team of aquanauts set the stage for NEEMO 14 by placing mockups near Aquarius of a lander, rover and small crane that simulates a robotic arm.
The NEEMO 14 crew will live aboard the underwater laboratory, venture out on simulated spacewalks, operate the crane and maneuver the vehicles much like explorers would in setting up a habitat on another planet. As the aquanauts interact with these developing technologies, they will provide information and feedback to NASA engineers.
The crew will simulate removing a mockup of the Lunar Electric Rover from the lander, retrieve small payloads from the lander and the ocean floor, and simulate the transfer of an incapacitated astronaut from the ocean floor to the deck of the craft.
The rover and lander mockups are similar in size to vehicles NASA is considering for future planetary exploration. The lander mockup is wider than a school bus is long and almost three times as high. It measures 45 feet wide and 28 feet high, including a 10-foot-high crane. The rover mockup is slightly larger than a full-size SUV, standing eight feet tall and 14 feet long.
While inside Aquarius, the crew will perform life science experiments focused on human behavior, performance and physiology. The mission also includes a study of autonomous crew work. There will be periods when there is limited communication between the crew and the mission control center, much like what could happen during missions to the moon or Mars.
The six-member crew of NEEMO 14 brings a wide range of experience to the mission. Hadfield conducted two spacewalks and operated the International Space Station's robotic arm, known as Canadarm2, during the space shuttle's STS-100 mission in April 2001. He also worked extensively with the shuttle's robotic Canadarm on STS-74 in 1995. Marshburn, a flight surgeon, conducted three spacewalks on STS-127 in 2009.
Abercromby adds his extensive experience in planning and executing field test operations, or analogs, that simulate space environments, such as NEEMO and NASA's Haughton Mars Project, Desert Research and Technology Studies and the Pavilion Lake Research Project. Chappell is an active member of Rocky Mountain Rescue based in Boulder, Colo., and earned a doctorate degree with a focus on human performance in reduced gravity.
James Talacek and Nate Bender of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington are habitat technicians and will provide engineering support.
For more information about NEEMO and links to follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter, visit:
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Gross domestic product at constant prices in Taiwan 2007-2017
Published by Shu Han, Sep 23, 2019
The statistic shows the gross domestic product (GDP) at constant prices in Taiwan from 2007 to 2017. GDP refers to the total market value of all goods and services that are produced within a country per year. It is an important indicator of the economic strength of a country. In 2017, Taiwan's gross domestic product at constant prices was 16.34 trillion New Taiwanese dollars.
Gross domestic product at constant prices in Taiwan from 2007 to 2017 (in billion chained 2011 New Taiwanese dollars)
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Note: 1 chained 2011 New Taiwanese dollar equaled approximately 0.030 U.S. dollars and 0.024 euros.
Figure for 2007 has been taken from a previous publication.
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In June 2013 Karel Eloot (Director in McKinsey's Shanghai office),Alan Huang and Martin Lehnich (Principals in McKinsey's Shanghai office)published an article in the "Insights & Publications" of McKinsey.
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Janet McCabe, The West Wing (TV Milestones series) Wayne State University Press, 2012 ISBN: 9 780 81433436 2 US$15.95(pb) 133pp (Review copy supplied by Wayne State University Press) The scholarly genre of the slim-volume-on-one-film and/or-TV-programme is a burgeoning one this millennium. BFI popularized the notion in the early 1990s with their Film Classics series, now at around 150 titles. The …
Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster
Warren Buckland, Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006. ISBN: 0 8264 1691 8 242pp US$19.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Continuum) Within the last eight years or so, the body of scholarship on contemporary Hollywood cinema has grown exponentially. Prior to this, a few key works, like Timothy Corrigan's 1991 A cinema …
Aaron Baker, Steven Soderbergh Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011 ISBN: 9 7802 520779 68 US$19.95 (pb) 148pp (Review copy supplied by University of Illinois Press) Since the inception of auteurism, studies of directors have proliferated largely in short-form writing, from the capsule entries in Sarris' The American Cinema to the slim volumes on directors included in the Secker and …
"The Uncensored Cortex": Psychedelia and American Avant-garde Film in the 1960s
The youth-movement counterculture(s) of the 1960s remain contested terrain for commentators across the ideological spectrum, interpreted and re-interpreted from every conceivable political or socio-cultural perspective. The struggle over the counterculture's meaning in relation to larger historical contexts, in fact, mirrors its own concerns with representations of itself. One abiding concern of radical movements of the period was that of authenticity …
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Robin Nelson, State of Play: Contemporary "High-End" TV Drama. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN: 978-0-7190-7311-3 US$24.95 (pb) 272pp (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press) Even with the continued growth of television studies in the academy and television criticism in the popular press, little has been written about television aesthetics. In the thirteen years since John Thornton Caldwell's Televisuality (1995), only …


I haven't posted my e-mail address lately. I figure the worst that could happen is someone writing saying they are bored. So am I.
If I ever went to seminary and went for a S.T.M., I would title my thesis, "The Theology of Monty Python."
Something that never seems to be pointed out is when Monty Python leans right. Those who have seen the sketch "World Forum" which has Karl Marx getting pissed off because he didn't win a lounge suite. Maybe I'll explore this later on.


What was the last good book you read? Were you able to relate to the characters….feel their emotions, pain, struggle, and triumphs? Were you able to experience their processing and resolution? Books give us a chance to experience struggles like our own and struggles apart from our own. For this reason, books afford the kids the opportunity for a highly therapeutic experience. In my private practice, I use books with all of my clients…from my preschoolers to my teenagers.
Last week, I got the awesome opportunity to attend a workshop by Numinds Enrichment about bibliotherapy and was able to add to my title repertoire. As a parent, I encourage you to use books with your own kids when dealing with important issues. Books are such a great tool for a child to realize they are not alone in their thoughts, feelings, or situation, to provide catharsis, model decision making processes, and promote empathy.
Even older kids can use a good picture book. They are quick to read, provide interesting illustration, and an older kid can see details that a younger child does not discern. Don't rule out the picture book.
If your child doesn't like to read, consider the graphic novel. Graphic novels require a child to take in so much detail from the pictures, make inferences, and use deductive reasoning. There are many well written graphic novels to use as bibliotherapy.
Consider reading chapter books with your teens. Discussion promotes comprehension, identification, and generalization.
You can ask a librarian or a counselor for a relevant title when challenged with a particular topic.
P.S. Do you have a young child dealing with bullying? Check out "One" by Kathryn Otoshi, it's a wonderful book!


The clubhouse at Solara at Mill Avenue in Tempe, Arizona was completely renovated with a new design and layout. There were structural changes to both the leasing area and clubroom in order to make the atmosphere more open for both prospective and current residents. There is seating for residents to come relax and visit with other tenants along with pool table for entertainment. In addition, residents can utilize the free Wi-Fi the property offers.
Renovations to the fitness center have been done along with adding a crossfit gym for residents to utilize. The laundry room has been updated as well.
The model has been renovated for prospects to view and get a feel for what their potential home will look like.
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The apartment has recently been completely renovated to a modern look. The apartment is furnished with a fantastic open plan kitchen, living / dining room, a lovely bedroom and, a brand new bathroom. The apartment offers stunning views over the Calypso, Calahonda, as well as breathtaking sea views that can be enjoyed from dawn to sunset. The apartment is located centrally to town, restaurants, supermarkets, bars etc. Well-functioning Home Owners Association, with many different nationalities and good selection of permanent residents. From the apartment complex there are about 200 meters to the nearest beach - El Bombo beach, a well-known beach, which enjoys golden sandy beach and fantastic facilities on site.
The uniform and elegant style of the house is expressed throughout. The feeling of a peaceful and relaxing environment is what has been tried to bring out as much as possible. By minimizing the use of heavy furniture and decoration, current owners have managed to create themselves a quiet, peaceful and relaxing environment, as they can enjoy the Mediterranean lifestyle in the best possible way.


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A-Rod moves up in the Yankees' lineup
Manager Joe Girardi admitted coming into spring training that he had no idea what to expect from Alex Rodriguez, but seven weeks later, Rodriguez seemed as reliable as anyone for the second spot in the order.
NEW YORK – With the Yankees' lineup already posted on the clubhouse door, Alex Rodriguez came walking toward the batting cages and suddenly stopped in his tracks on Thursday. Someone had just mentioned that he was hitting second. Rodriguez froze and looked back.
"You're kidding me," he said.
He walked to the door, looked at the lineup, walked away, came back, looked again and whispered "wow" before going to hit in the cage.
Rodriguez rewarded the move by drawing a walk and hitting his first major-league home run since September 20, 2013.
"I felt like I needed Google Maps or something to round the bases," Girardi said. "It's been a long, long time."
Manager Joe Girardi admitted that he came into spring training with no idea what to expect from Rodriguez, but seven weeks later, Rodriguez seemed as reliable as anyone for the second spot in the order. He hit seventh the first two games of the season, but moved up to second because the Yankees were facing a left-handed starter and Brett Gardner was out of the lineup.
It was, essentially, an acknowledgment that the Yankees have been happy with Rodriguez's at-bats and ability to get one base — and occasionally hit for power — since spring training.
"We talked about it in spring training," Rodriguez said. "Anything that I do this year is going to be kind of a surprise to everyone – sometimes even myself. That one felt good to get us on the board and start a little momentum."
Eovaldi's debut: New Yankees starter Nathan Eovaldi will make his team debut on Friday, pitching the first game of a weekend series against the Red Sox. Acquired from the Marlins in a trade for Martin Prado and David Phelps, Eovaldi impressed the Yankees this spring with his 20 strikeouts and three walks.
"I mean, it's not Opening Day," Eovaldi said. "We've already had a few games. It's just the cold. That's the only thing for me. I'm still trying to get used to that."
Lefties on the bench: Facing their first left-handed starter, the Yankees had lefty hitters Brian McCann, Brett Gardner and Stephen Drew all on the bench Thursday. All three were healthy, just sitting because of the matchup.
Girardi said that John Ryan Murphy, the backup catcher, will not be paired with a specific starting pitcher this season. He will simply play based on matchups and when McCann needs a break.
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Erica Levin's research focuses on the intersection between avant-garde cinema, post-war art, performance, and visual culture. Her writing has been published in Media-N, World Picture, Millennium Film Journal, Discourse, and most recently in the collections Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable and The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender.
She is currently at work on Media-America Inside Out: Experimental Film and Television in the 1960s. The book takes as its focus film and television experiments made in the wake of the Civil Rights movement and mass demonstrations against the Vietnam War that expose the difficulties and contradictions entailed in mediating social order. The phrase Media-America is drawn from Guerrilla Television, a cult handbook and "meta-manual" for video collectives formed in the age of the portapak. It describes an imaginary nation constituted through electronic media "looped-in" to neural networks, where information becomes "a staple right behind food, clothing, and housing." Contesting this vision of Media-America as a totalized synthesis given in advance, the project focuses on misappropriations of media images and forms—unruly montages, multi-screen projections, and live film performances—that interrogate the mass media's capacity to secure social unity in times of national crisis. It looks at works by filmmakers and artists made in response to news of political assassination, rioting, and war that engage media as historically contingent, subject to both contestation and reinvention. Case studies focus on instances where filmmakers came to occupy commercial and public television studios for the first time as artists-in-residence, or worked at the margins of these sites appropriating footage from newsreels or still images from the popular and underground press. Situating experimental work by Bruce Conner, Carolee Schneemann, Stan VanDerBeek, and others, alongside contemporary efforts by militant filmmakers and video guerillas to negotiate a political sphere increasingly dominated by mass media, Media-America Inside Out offers a new approach to the study of moving images in the post-war period. It uncovers what the affective intensities and stubborn contradictions that emerged through political and aesthetic experimentation in the 1960s can teach us about the state of media today.


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S. Martinelli & Co. Introduces 1868 Hard Cider to Commemorate its 150th Anniversary
September 10, 2018 / Emily Kovach
Martinelli's — you know, that company that makes the amazing foil-topped sparkling cider that you buy for your kids and then secretly steal sips of — is celebrating its 150th Anniversary, and it's doing it in style. To commemorate this momentous occasion, its parent company, S. Martinelli & Company, is releasing 1868 Hard Cider! Believe it or not, hard cider was the first product made by Martinelli's, which it stopped making once Prohibition laws went into effect in 1920, then started making again after it was repealed, but then retired for good in 1978.
Currently only available via limited distribution on the West Coast, this fresh-pressed hard cider is named after the year the company was founded.
"We are very excited about the launch of our 1868 Hard Cider. It's a great way for us to celebrate Martinelli's rich heritage, as most people don't realize that we were founded as a hard cider company in 1868," explained Gun Ruder, president of S. Martinelli & Company.
Martinelli's crisp, tart-sweet apple juices come from a unique blend of premium apple varieties, including Newtown Pippin, Gala, Fuji, Granny Smith, Jonagold, Mutsu and Honeycrisp. According to tasting notes from the company, the 5.7% ABV cider has "a slightly sweet, crisp flavor, contains no added water, concentrate or preservatives, and is fermented with no additives of any kind."
If you live on the West Coast, keep an eye out for Martinelli's 1868 Hard Cider, and if you try it, let us know what you think!
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Lots of people often hear the expression "striking the jackpot," but there are several who don't understand what which means. There are several who aspire to "hit the jackpot" as quickly as possible. Exactly what is a jackpot? It's the greatest payoff of the casino game. Most jackpots are progressive, and therefore the quantity of the jackpot increases with each and every game or every round it is not claimed.
The most typical progressive-jackpot games are slots and electronic poker. In many casinos, players using the greatest bets are qualified to win the jackpot despite the fact that players with lower bids still lead towards the jackpot. The jackpot increases a small % every round, game or hands that's performed both in electronic poker and slots. Several machines are linked to one progressive-jackpot, so the jackpot can grow rapidly despite the fact that every individual deposit is small. However, only a part of all the casino's gaming machines are really attached to the jackpot. To be able to win, the gamer should have the greatest winning mixture of cards referred to as a royal flush in electronic poker, and have the matching symbols around the correct line around the slots. The likelihood of winning a progressive-jackpot are really small, however the novelty of the progressive-jackpot may be the large reward for winning. The machines are continually altering fancy meters and to attract players continuously.
Although progressive jackpots are often connected with slots and electronic poker, several games have jackpots. Many versions of poker have progressive jackpots like Caribbean Stud Poker. Some casinos online offer progressive jackpots for roulette, blackjack along with other popular casino games. Winning progressive blackjack necessitates the player to create yet another bet per the casino, and not just beating the dealership, but additionally getting a particular mixture of consecutively worked cards. Apart from that, progressive blackjack and standard blackjack are performed exactly the same way. Many gamblers never or rarely visit actual casinos, but risk lottery tickets and Powerball, a game title which involves players picking random figures and matching these to computer generated random picks. Every lottery ticket or Powerball entry plays a role in the progressive-jackpot, the prize for picking the right Powerball figures. The main difference between lottery and casino gambling, however, would be that the profits in the lottery usually lead to school funding and scholarships for college students, whereas the casino keeps the earnings it makes. Many people prefer lottery tickets over casino gambling because of this.
Winning the jackpot is very difficult, but huge amount of money are spent each year by individuals who hope their bet would be the lucky bet. Generally the likelihood of winning the condition lottery is a minumum of one in three million and often more. However gambling hall revenue is continuously growing. The chances indicate that winning isn't impossible, but improbable for many. Still, you will find individuals lucky couple of that do win and encourage others to help keep playing.


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Evenskjer is the administrative centre of Tjeldsund Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway.  The village is located along the Tjeldsundet strait about  south of the town of Harstad.  European route E10 passes just to the north of the village of Evenskjer.  The  village has a population (2017) of 785 which gives the village a population density of .

Skånland Church, one of Northern Norway's largest wooden churches, is located in Evenskjer.  There are also two schools located in the village, Soltun and Skånland.

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New traffic management measures proposed for Dublin's Phoenix Park would include restrictions on commuter car traffic, as well as a bus service inside the park for the first time..
Other measures would involve the closure of side roads to through traffic, a 30km/h speed limit and improved walking and cycling facilities in the 700 hectare green space, which is a majir visitor attraction..
The Phoenix Park Transport and Mobility Options study was requested following controversy over the reopening of side gates to car traffic last summer after Covid-19 restrictions were eased.
The Office of Public Works had announced that the side gates would remain closed to cars to protect the park's status as the city's "green lung".
This was overruled by Minister of State Patrick O'Donovan, who said access was for needed for workers and to stop traffic being diverted into surrounding areas.
A preferred option for dealing with conflicting demands in the park is now understood to have been agreed.
It is understood that under the new proposals, Chesterfield Avenue will remain open for commuter traffic, but alongside a 30km/h limit and pedestrian crossing points.
The side roads would be closed to through traffic by a mixture of cul-de-sacs and road closures, but still allow access for the 2,000 people who work in the park in institutions, such as Garda Headquarters, St Mary's Hospital and Ordnance Survey of Ireland.


Sharing Apps bring no joy!
I have joined Pinterest. I have also joined Cheers, Instagram, Bufferapp and a whole bunch of other ways to share 'stuff'. I'm so bogged down with all this sharing that it brought me to think, why all this sharing?
The Internet is a vast resource and it's been there so long that it has become the lifeline for a lot of people around the world. Thus, it becomes a bit strange that there are so few content creators online and so many content-sharers. Sharing apps such as Pinterest only increase this trend, urging people to simply re-share things they see on the Internet to others, almost as though they were the first to create or discover that nugget of information.
But that in itself doesn't serve any purpose. Surfing the Internet is easy enough that someone looking for a specific information will find it with a little bit of searching themselves. Thus, the concept of others sharing things your way doesn't do much for those looking for original content.
Let me give you an example. I read a lot of RSS. I follow blogs all over the spectrum and they all aggregate into my Google Reader. Anyone interested in the list can go here. But since I follow all these blogs, I don't really need to follow sites like Lifehacker and NetworkWorld on Facebook and Twitter and I don't need people sharing things from these sites to me. It just beats the purpose of having a social network where I interact with real people instead of bots.
Coming back to Pinterest, I like their iOS app for it's looks and usability. But I don't like their idea of a browser bookmarklet or the miriad of 'Pin it' apps in the Google Chrome Store. Why would I share something already on the Internet? People looking for those things will definitely find them.
I'm not sure what this trend is leading to. There should be a lot many more apps to quickly publish videos to Youtube or post tips to Lifehacker instead of just sharing things already existing on the Internet or elsewhere.