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New Clues to the Ancient History of the UAE and Oman Uncovered by NYUAD-Sponsored Team
Unusually heavy winter rains helped to reveal new insights into how the region's ancestors lived
A team of researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), the Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, and Michigan State University have uncovered exciting new details about the prehistory of the UAE and Oman at Bat. The archaeological site of Bat is an oasis settlement and necropolis located in the arid piedmont of the Hajar Mountains in the Sultanate of Oman, where the Bat Archaeological Project (BAP) has carried out field research since 2007.
Heavy rains this winter revealed new patterns of ancient life at the site in Oman. Working in collaboration with the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism in Oman, researchers discovered a new settlement area away from the center of the site. Despite being far from any oasis, homes appear to have been organized around an above-ground water source - the first time such a settlement pattern has been observed and a finding that will force researchers to think afresh about how the environment shaped ancient civilization in the region.
The project was co-directed by Humanities Research Fellow at NYUAD Eli Dollarhide, and Visiting Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut and Consulting Fellow at the Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania Jennifer Swerida, and Research Fellow at the University of New England and Research Fellow at Michigan State University Charlotte Marie Cable. Scholars, site representatives from the Management Office of the Site Asma bint Rashid Al Jassassi, and students from across the globe took part in this interdisciplinary project.
"Our research shows that even 5,000 years ago, people living in ancient southeastern Arabia were using and controlling their environments in creative ways. There are many lessons about sustainability that we can learn from the past."
Humanities Research Fellow at NYUAD Eli Dollarhide
With the assistance of a specialist from the New Bulgarian University, Professor Petranka Nedelcheva, the BAP has begun a new study of stone tools from the site, which are the oldest type of artifact found in the region. Some of these objects, which include scrapers, knives, and sickles, are over 8,000 years old. Other artifacts found at Bat this year, such as pottery and carnelian beads, identify the connections between this prehistoric site and its ancient neighbors, in Arabia and beyond. The study suggests that even in prehistory, Southeastern Arabia was part of wide trade networks that spanned across the Arabian Peninsula, the Middle East, and South Asia.
In addition, the project is using a botanical survey of plants growing around Bat to add to the body of evidence about climate change in the region and help scholars and the public envision how the ancient landscape might have looked.
"Archaeological sites, like Bat, show us that Southeastern Arabia has long been a vital link in regional and global trade networks. Today, these sites offer a way to connect past and present communities in the region."
Research Fellow at the University of New England and Research Fellow at Michigan State University Charlotte Marie Cable
The excavations at the site explore the Umm an-Nar period, a time during the Bronze Age when the modern-day Oman and UAE were known as "Magan." The Bat Archaeological Project's recent research has been key to improving understanding of ancient people's choice of location, their living environment and use of natural resources.
The research is funded by the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism in Oman and the NYUAD Institute, in partnership with the Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, the Center for the Study of Human Origins at NYU New York.
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Despite the fact that huge numbers of people see an ENT doctor (ear, nose, and throat) each year, most people couldn't tell a great doctor from a bad one. All they know when they're looking for such a doctor is they're having an issue with their sinuses or something else in their head, and they need to see a specialist to have it resolved. Even in a big city like Houston, people have a difficult time finding a quality Houston ENT. Fortunately, finding a great ENT doctor really isn't all that hard. All you have to do is look for one with the following five qualities.
1. Experience. The first thing that you'll want to look for in an ENT doctor in Houston is that they're experienced. The last thing you want is somebody who's fresh out of med school poking around in your sinuses, your mouth, and your ears. If given the choice, everyone would choose an experienced ENT doctor over an inexperienced one, so make sure you make the right decision.
2. Strong Track Record of Success. The second thing you'll want to look for in an ENT doctor is a strong track record of success. This means that they can show you how many patients they've helped over the years. Finding an ENT doctor with a strong track record of success simply means finding one that's done good work throughout their career.
3. Sterling Reputation. It's never a bad idea to choose an ENT doctor with a sterling reputation. It's not hard to do some sleuthing online to figure out which ENT doctors have great reviews from their past patients and which ones do not. Using this information you can start to sift through all of your options, only considering those that have far more positive reviews than negative ones. Given how negative the Internet can be, there's of course going to be some negative reviews on each doctor, but the more positive ones they have the better.
4. Variety of Treatments. Fourth, you'll want to find a Houston ENT that offers a wide variety of treatments. This basically means that whatever ailment you're suffering from, they're going to have a treatment that should help resolve the issue. For example, if you're dealing with sinus issues that simply won't go away, no matter what medication you take, then they should offer balloon sinuplasty, a procedure where tiny little balloons are placed inside your sinuses and then inflated to open up the passages.
5. Affordable Prices. Finally, don't be shy and ask what they charge for various services. It's possible that your insurance is going to cover most of your costs, but there's still no need to overpay just for the sake of it. Compare some prices and pick one that's reasonable.
Kaplan Sinus Relief is easily one of the best ENT doctors in Houston. Dr. Kaplan brings all of these five things to the table and more. There's a reason why he's quickly becoming one of the most sought after ENT doctors in the city.
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Spring is the perfect time to hunt for waterfalls, especially Glory Hole Waterfall, in the Natural State. Spontaneous rain showers ensure lots of water flowing in creeks and tumbling over waterfalls.
If you've followed any of our family's hiking adventures, you know we love the thrill of chasing a waterfall. Sometimes we find them; sometimes we don't. There have been times where we've gone back multiple times to find the elusive big fall.
The sense of accomplishment in finding what we're looking for is like nothing else I've experienced. It always feels so good when we start to hear the roar of the falls because we know we're close.
Where is Glory Hole Falls, Arkansas?
The hardest part of finding Glory Hole was figuring out where the trailhead began; even that wasn't too difficult, though. You can find the parking area for the trail right along the highway between Fallsville and Edwards Junction, almost 14 miles south of Boxley Valley. Explore the Ozarks has detailed location instructions.
If you have a four-wheel-drive vehicle, you can drive about ¼ mile down the trail and park there. We decided to hike since it was such a beautiful day.
Glory Hole Waterfall Trail is about a 2-mile trek, round-trip. While it is a moderate trail, the kicker is that over half of it is downhill; meaning that on the way back, it's mostly uphill. Just carry lots of water, take your time, and you'll be fine.
We decided to park near the highway, so the first part of the trail seemed more like a road because it is. It's actually a Jeep/four-wheel-drive road.
Once we got past that road, we came to a fire pit and a fork in the trail. Going right, we saw a sign that said something about steep cliffs and taking caution. That trail to the right started our journey down the hill. The trail got quite rocky but still wide enough almost to be a road.
At the bottom of the hill, we came to the most beautiful creek, all sparkly in the sun. It was Dismal Creek, the creek that forms Glory Hole Falls.
We could have kept going on the narrower trail, but we decided to follow a footpath right along the creek. This gave us time to get Zeke (our youngest) out of the pack and take a breather, let him and the boys play in the water just a bit.
All along the creek are several smaller falls and overhanging cliffs and rock ledges; it's such a beautiful area to explore. Here and there were mossy areas with bright green moss and patches of purple violets. The trees were just starting to bud, so most of them were still leafless. However, the dogwoods were just beginning to form their white blossoms, as well. It was breathtakingly gorgeous, even without leaves on the trees.
Finally, not too far down the creek, we made it to Glory Hole Falls. All of a sudden, there was a big hole in the rock where the creek has basically drilled a hole through the rock ledge. It falls a little over 30 feet to the bottom, where you can walk right up to the falls and stick your hand in it.
We made our way to the bottom to find both the waterfall and a part of the forest filled with huge boulders and tall trees as far as the eye can see. We had the entire place to ourselves for most of our time, quite the rarity when hiking anywhere it seems. But we soaked up every minute of the wondrous serenity of that place.
It was just what we needed and made the hike back up the mountain worth every deep breath.
Glory Hole Waterfall itself is mesmerizing. I probably could have stood and just stared both down into the fall and up into the hole for quite a long time. Water is a powerful thing. Nature never ceases to amaze me; as I stood there, I couldn't help thinking how lucky I am to live in such a place as this where there are so many beautiful places to find and explore.
Keep your kids close, especially as you get closer to Glory Hole. There is a steep cliff's edge, and the waterfall itself is quite treacherous. Exercise caution when exploring, with or without kids.
There are no restrooms and no water stations. You are on your own. I recommend carrying extra water (plenty of water), snacks for fuel, and maybe a roll of toilet paper too.
The trail is not accessible. It's a rougher trail and pretty much uphill on the way back to your vehicle.
Dogs are allowed, as long as they're kept on a leash.
The trail is pretty secluded, at least during the week. We hiked on a Wednesday, and people were few and far between. I think we ran into three couples while we were hiking. We had the waterfall all to ourselves.
Wear good shoes. The trail can get a little rocky in places, so it's best to have good shoes to protect your feet and keep you going.
Have you hiked to Glory Hole Waterfall? What was your favorite thing about this magical place?
Arkansas Women Bloggers member Mel Lockcuff is a wife and homeschool mom to 3 boys, a family lifestyle blogger, freelance writer, and lover of the outdoors. She's the owner and writer behind Adventures of Mel, where you'll find adventures in family, food, crafts, DIY, outdoor living, travel, and more. Mel's work has also been featured in 66TheMotherRoad Magazine, as well as with Only in Arkansas, Visit Rogers Arkansas, Rhea Lana's, and Great Day Farms. Mel and her family live on a small 1-acre homestead in Northwest Arkansas.


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A lesson from Seattle for Copenhagen: Vigorous Activism Can Defeat the Denialists by Patrick Bond
Crossposted with permission from www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/
by Patrick Bond
Socialist Project | The Bullet
Preparations for the December 7-18 Copenhagen climate summit are going as expected, including a rare sighting of the African elites' stiffened spines. That's a great development (maybe decisive), more about that below.
While activists help raise the temperature on the streets outside the Bella Centre on December 12, 13 and 16, inside we will see global North elites defensively armed with pathetic non-binding carbon emissions cuts (U.S. President Barack Obama's promise is a mere 4% below 1990 levels) and carbon trading, but without offering the money to repay the North's ecological debt to the global South.
The first and third of these are lamentable enough, the second is the most serious diversion from the crucial work of cutting greenhouse gas emissions. A nine-minute film launched on the internet on December 1, The Story of Cap and Trade [watch the film at the end of this article], gives all the ammunition climate activists need to understand and critique emissions trading, and to seek genuine solutions.
Another important diversion emerged on November 20, when hackers published embarrassing emails from the University of East Anglia (UEA) Climate Research Unit. What I've understood from Guardian's George Monbiot and EnviroKnow is roughly this:
The UEA researchers were silly egocentric, ultracompetitive academics who were at times sloppy – an occupational hazard true of most of us – only in this case there is a huge amount at stake so their silliness is massively amplified.
But a few academics who are silly about their work ethos do not reverse the universal understanding that scientists have regarding climate change.
People who want to distract the world from getting to the root of the climate crisis may well have a field day with the UEA emails scandal, which should in turn compel the rest of us to redouble our efforts to achieve real action to stop climate change.
The unapologetic UEA researcher Phil Jones seems to think that because climate denialists have been a pain in the arse (since 2001), it was okay to hide scientific data (paid for by taxpayers), and to avoid wasting valuable time addressing the loonies' arguments: "Initially at the beginning I did try to respond to them in the hope I might convince them but I soon realised it was a forlorn hope and broke off communication."
Hucksters for Status Quo
Where I live, Durban in South Africa, we've had dreadful experiences with two kinds of life-threatening denialisms: apartheid and AIDS.
Dating back many decades, apartheid-denialists insisted that black South Africans had it better than anywhere else in Africa, that anti-apartheid sanctions would only hurt blacks and not foster change, and that if blacks took over the government it would be the ruination of South Africa, with whites having all their wealth expropriated etc.
From around 1999-2003, AIDS denialists very vocally insisted that HIV and AIDS were not related, that AIDS medicines were toxic and would do no good, and that the activists' lobby for the medicines was merely a front for the CIA and the big pharmaceutical corporations (denialist-in-chief Thabo Mbeki is now being widely cited for genocide involving 350,000 unnecessary deaths due to his presidency's withholding of AIDS medicines).
In both cases, as with human-induced climate change, the denialists' role was to entrench the status quo forces of state and capital. They were, simply, hucksters for vested interests.
In both cases they were defeated, thanks to vigorous social activism:
During the 1980s, the United Democratic Front, the African National Congress and other liberation forces found that the apartheid denialists' main damage was in opposing pressure for sanctions and disinvestment to be taken against the racist South African regime. So we intensified our efforts and by August 1985 won the necessary breakthrough when New York banks withdrew lines of credit to Pretoria, thus forcing a split between Afrikaner state rulers and white English-speaking capitalists. Within a few days, the latter travelled to Lusaka to meet the exiled ANC leadership, and then over the next eight years helped shake loose Afrikaner nationalism's hold on the state. Indeed today in South Africa you will search long and hard to find a white person who admits they ever defended apartheid.
The Treatment Action Campaign found that a mix of local and internationalist activism was sufficiently strong to pry open Big Pharma's monopoly on intellectual property rights and also overthrow opposition by the U.S. and South African governments, a story worth revisiting in more detail in below. In short, by 2003, the coterie of AIDS denialists surrounding Mbeki lost to street heat, ridicule and legal critique, so today nearly 800,000 South Africans and millions more elsewhere have access to AIDS medicines.
We'll look back at the climate denialists and judge them as merely a momentary quirk in human rationality, ultimately not in the least influential. The real danger comes from fossil fuel firms which, like big tobacco corporations decades ago, know full well the lethal potential of their products. Their objective is to place a grain of doubt in our minds, and for that climate denialists are rather useful.
The fossil fuel firms – especially BP, Shell, Chevron and ExxonMobil – not only fund denialist think tanks and "astroturf" outfits, such as the Global Climate Coalition (i.e. fake green groups). They support members of the U.S. Congress – such as Rick Boucher from Virginia – who energetically sabotage legislation aimed at capping emissions (Congress' offsets, carbon trading and other distraction gimmicks mean there will be no net U.S. cuts until the late 2030s). They also work with mainstream "green" groups – the World Wide Fund for Nature comes to mind – to halt environmental progress.
These corporations are far more insidious than the email hackers. I hope we aren't further distracted by the UEA affair and that this is a quickly forgotten little episode of dirty academic laundry meant for the dustbin of our sloppy movement where it belongs, so we can make the movement stronger, more transparent, more rigorous, more democratic and much more militant in trying to defeat the fossil fuel industry.
Seattle, 1999
One way to do so is to flash back to Seattle a decade ago, when the World Trade Organisation (WTO) mobilisations on November 30, 1999, taught civil society activists and African leaders two powerful lessons. Veteran anti-apartheid and social justice activist comrade Dennis Brutus from South Africa – who turned 85 years old on November 28 – reminded us of two lessons from one of the most eventful weeks in his amazing life.
First, working together, African and global South leaders and activists have the power to disrupt a system of global governance that meets the global North's short-term interests against both the global South and the longer-term interests of the world's people and the planet. Second, in the very act of disrupting global malgovernance, major concessions can be won.
Spectacular protests against the WTO summit's opening ceremony is what most recall about Seattle, 1999: activists "locking down" to prevent delegates entering the conference centre, a barrage of tear gas and pepper spray from hundreds of riot cops, a sea of broken windows and a municipal police force later prosecuted for violating U.S. citizens' most basic civil liberties. (See David and Rebecca Solnit's excellent new book, The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle.)
That was outside the convention centre. Inside, when negotiations belatedly got underway, African leaders quickly grew worried that further trade liberalisation would damage their tiny industrial sectors. The damage was well recognised, as even establishment research revealed Africa would be the continent to suffer the worst net losses from corporate-dominated free trade.
The U.S. trade representative, Charlene Barchefsky, repeatedly insulted African elites who raised this point. With the exception of South African trade minister Alec Erwin, who enjoyed an insider role to promote South Africa's self-interest, delegations from the Organisation of African Unity (OAU, since renamed the African Union) were soon furious.
As OAU deputy director general V.J. McKeen recalled: "They went out to a dinner in a bus, and then were left out in the cold to walk back… When we went into the room for our African group meeting, I mean, there was no interpretation provided… so one had to improvise. And then even the microphone facilities were switched off."
Tetteh Hormeku, from the African Trade Network of progressive civil society groups, picks up the story:
"By the second day of the formal negotiations, the African and other developing-country delegates had found themselves totally marginalised… [and threatened] to withdraw the consensus required to reach a conclusion of the conference. By this time, even the Americans and their supporters in the WTO secretariat must have woken up to the futility of their 'rough tactics'."
AIDS Campaign
By walking out, the Africans' strong willpower earned major concessions in the next WTO summit, in Doha, in November 2001. At the same time as the global justice movement began widening into an anti-imperialist movement in the wake of the USA's post-9/11 re-militarisation, African activists delved deeper into extreme local challenges, such as combating AIDS. In Doha, African elites joined forces with activists again.
On this occasion, the positive catalyst was a South African government law – the 1997 Medicines Act – which permitted the state's compulsory licensing of patented drugs. In 1998, the Treatment Action Campaign was launched to lobby for AIDS drugs, which a decade ago were prohibitively expensive – $15,000 (U.S.) per person per year – for nearly all South Africa's HIV-positive people (roughly 10% of the population).
That campaign was immediately confronted by the U.S. State Department's attack on South Africa's Medicines Act, a "full court press," as bureaucrats testified to the U.S. Congress. The U.S. elites' aim was to protect "intellectual property rights" and halt the emergence of a parallel inexpensive supply of AIDS medicines that would undermine lucrative Western markets.
U.S. vice-president Al Gore directly intervened with South African government leaders in 1998-99, aiming to revoke the Medicines Act. Then in mid-1999, Gore launched his presidential election bid, a campaign generously funded by big pharmaceutical corporations, which that year provided $2.3-million to the Democratic Party.
In solidarity with the South Africans, the U.S. AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACTUP) began protesting at Gore's campaign events in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. The demos soon threatened to cost Gore far more in adverse publicity than he was raising in Big Pharma contributions, so he changed sides.
As pressure built, even during the reign of president George W. Bush and his repressive trade representative Robert Zoellick (now World Bank president), the WTO's Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights system was amended at Doha in late 2001 to permit generic drugs to be used in medical emergencies. This was a huge victory for Africa, removing any rationale to continue to deny life-saving medicines to the world's poorest people.
In 2003, with another dreadful WTO deal on the table in Cancun and 30,000 protesters outside, once again the African leadership withdrew from the consensus, wrecking the plans of the U.S. and Europe for further liberalisation. The WTO has still not recovered.
Main Lesson
These are the precedents required to overcome the three huge challenges the North faces in Copenhagen: 2020 greenhouse gas emissions cuts of at least 45% (from 1990 levels) through a binding international agreement; the decommissioning of carbon markets and offset gimmicks; and payment on the vast ecological debt owed to victims of climate change. Realistically, the adverse balance of forces currently prevailing will not permit victories on even one, much less all three. What response is logical?
In Barcelona, in early November, African negotiators boycotted the pre-Copenhagen talks, making good on African Union leader Meles Zenawi's September threat, because the North had put so little on the negotiating table.
Indeed, that is the main lesson from Seattle: by walking out – alongside mass action by civil society protesters – and halting a bad deal in Copenhagen on December 18, we can together pave the way for subsequent progress.
Two years after Seattle's failure, progress was won through African access to life-saving medicines. We must ensure it doesn't take two years after Copenhagen's failure for Africa to get access to life-saving greenhouse gas emissions cuts and to climate debt repayment, alongside the demise of carbon trading – but those are surely the battles just ahead. •
Patrick Bond directs the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society.
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Bloodshot #25: Bloodshot's anniversary issue which marks the end of this series (for now) and throws a couple of curveballs into what we thought about the nanities in his blood and who exactly is in control. Makes me curious about his upcoming appearance in The Valiant.
Astro City 17 & Tooth & Claw #1: A Kurt Busiek Two-Fer. First, Astro City continues to take comic book tropes and conventions, then proceed to turn them on its ear. I thought I had this story pegged then midway...BAM! Tragically Mind Blown.... What is the best way to describe Tooth and Claw? OK take Tellos' settings, add a BattleChasers air of intrigue, then throw that convention out because the last 12 pages makes it something you haven't read before in that setting. Magical political intrigue with a great disaster as the backdrop makes issue 2 a must read.
Heralds: Take one messed up herald of Galactus, an all star grouping of some of Marvel's best superheroines, & a waitress WAAAY out of her depth and stir. Kathryn Immonen takes an impromptu b-day party for Emma Frost and turns it into the spiritual successor to Nextwave.
I give Brett White credit. He sticks his neck and heart on the line for books he loves. And I have to agree that Greg Pak has done a good job with Storm.
I been waiting for this for a couple of years. This is the most TV adaptable of Warren Ellis' works and one in which you could have 1 or 2 core characters and a different slate of actors/actresses for each episode. That was how the series was written and that went over awesome!!! Can you tell I highly recommend reading Global Frequency yet?
-The winner of our "open mouth, insert foot" award goes to... Daniel Handler!
Ah I feel cleansed... Still I going to look at The Simpsons/Futurama Crossover again before heading back to work. Folks thanks for reading and until next time, Keep Fantasizing!


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517 | To John Pownall
Boston, Decr 16, 1766
I find so much matter for my public letters upon my hands, that I scarce know where to begin. As it will be some time before I can get thro all the business that lies before me, I have thought it might be of some Service to give you in a friendly letter a short Capitulation of the business of the late adjourned Sessions, which in its last Stage lasted but six days.1
I kept up the Resolution I had formed at the first opening the Session of not letting a word drop from me that could be made the Subject of Controversy: but that did not save me from abuse, as has been allready shewn in the answer to my Speech, where, as they could not find anything to quarrel with in the Speech then delivered, they went back to a speech made 5 months ago, which they had before fully answered.2
Upon the meeting after the adjournment, I made no Speech to them, but left them to pursue their Business in their own Way. The bill for the Compensation passed without difficulty, tho' not without opposition. The opposition arose chiefly from the Instructions of Towns who thought that the Town of Boston ought to have paid these Compensations, & that the Rioters ought not to be indemnified: but it went no further than in meer votes, when the Event was quite secure.
Before the House sent up the Bill, they passed & sent up a vote for dismissing Mr Jackson from the Agency. Of this I have fully informed Mr Jackson,3 & should not have mentioned it here, but as it appears ^to be^ introductory of a great Innovation, which may hereafter require serious consideration: I mean the appointment of a distinct Agent for the House. This has been often attempted in times of distraction, but has allways been prevented by the Council as well as the Governor, except in a very few partial instances. Nor will it be warranted by the Example of the Assemblies in the royal governments for these two distinctions: 1 The House in the Royal Governments is the only representative of the People, & is separated by a Line from the Governor & Council who are both appointed by the King; but here the Council is a select Representative of the People, as the House is a general one, & the Governor, tho' appointed by the King, is so obliged to have the advice of the Council in allmost evrything he does, that He is of a more popular cast than a meer royal Governor 2. The Govr, Council, & House, in the meer royal Governments make only a Legislature; but here they are both a Legislature & a Corporation, & in the last Quality their junction is absolutely necessary, as especially in all business in which their Charter is concerned. There is much to be said upon this Subject: at present I need only add that this Innovation, if it should take place, will give great trouble at home.
As a specimen of the uses which this new Agency is to be put to, The House have sent two Letters to Mr Debert,4 without communicating the Contents of either of them to the Council or to me. In the one ^of them^ is a vindication of their Proceedings in the former Session, laying all the Blame Upon me, &c. It wont suit with the size of this Letter to enter upon this Subject now: but I shall justify myself fully hereafter by laying open the secret cabals of the faction which consists of a few desperate & wicked People, against whom only, what has the Appearance of severity in my Speech, was directed; altho' the House has been so weak as to suffer these People to apply it to the House.
There is another Letter to the same, on the hardships of Trade; the chief part contains directions for him to apply for the abolishment of the Naval Office, upon the commonplace Suggestion, that it is become unnecessary by the Establishmt of the Custom house, where all the Business belonging to the Naval Office may be conveniently done. This cuts two ways, by lopping off a branch of Loyalty & by coming home to the Govr himself. It was said in the House, that this would be considered as a personality, as his majesty had lately appointed the Govrs. Son to the Office. Otis replied, If the Govr has so much merit with the ministry, he may easily procure another as good a place for his son.
Tho' I might safely trust this business with the ministry & the Parliament without interposing any Offence defence, yet the Office lies open to another Way of Attack, in which it is not quite so defencible: & this arises from an oversight in a late act of Parliament. In the act for establishing the present ^fees^ for the late Custom house Officers, untill orders shall be given therein, the Naval Office is omitted.5 Perhaps it was supposed to be included in the general Words: but you may be sure it will never be so understood by an American Jury. It is therefore in the power of the People here to demolish this Office by tendring the fees mentioned in an obsolete Act of Parliament Assembly, all which would not be sufficient to provide a Room, Fire, Paper & Penns. I dont know that just now this is intended, but evry mischief of this kind, may be expected, & ought to be provided for.
I have wondered much, that, when the Naval Office has so good & natural friends in the American Offices at London, that no Care should be taken of it in the bill which was designed to quiet the Crown Officers in the perception of their Fees, & was surely not intended to leave the Naval Office exposed to those dangers, which the Custom house ^officers^ were to be protected from. If it should be said that this or that naval Office is in no danger, let it be considered that if one Naval Office is demolished, how catching may be the Spirit, & how soon may it run to others. Tunc tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.6 I could wish therefore that those who have a patronage of or an intrest in the naval Offices would procure a clause to be inserted in some act of next Session to extend the late Act concerning the fees of the Customhouse Officers to those of the Naval Officers. It is much better to prevent mischief than to remedy it: And if the first of these is not done, I believe there will be occasion for the other.7
In the Summer having recd 7 acts of Parliament relating to America, I laid them before the Council, & consulted them which would be proper to be reprinted here for the use of this Province, as has been usual with Acts of Parliament extending to America. The Council advised that 4 of them shd be printed here in such a manner that they may be bound up in the Law Books.8 The House sent up a Message to the Council to desire to know by what Authority they had ordered Acts of Parliament to be bound up in their Law Books, & askt them if they had any act of Assembly to warrant their so doing.9
In the interval of the Adjournment of the genl Court,10A Ship was drove in here by stress of Weather, having two Companies of Artillery on board.11The Commanding Officer applied to me for Barracks, &c. I laid his request before the Council; the Act of Parliament was read; & they advised me to order the Commy12to provide fuel & candle being all they asked, at the Castle Barracks. The House sent a message to the Council to ask whether the Govr, or the Govr & Council had given any orders for providing for the Troops, & what.13
The Council let both these messages lie untill I came into Council, & then laid them before me. I told them that it was not their business in their legislative Capacity to give an ansr to Questions concerning what the Governor had done in the privy Council: that if the House had any such enquiries to make, they should enquire of me. The Council made one answer to both messages to this Purpose: upon which the House being desirous14to rise postponed this business till next Session; when I & the Council are to be arraigned for first printing an Act of parliament & then paying obedience to it. Mr. Otis upon this occasion made a speech, wherein he said that he would as soon vote for the Devill as he would for such Councellors as were betraying the liberties of their Country by inserting Acts of parliament into the provincial law books. He also said that the Council had got the disease of Mary Magdalen, had 7 devils in it, which must be cast out before it could recover.15 But He wont have that trouble for some of the most respectable of them have declared that they will resign their Seats if this Government is not supported.
Otis also took occasion to make a violent Speech against me filled with personal invectives & idle Stories taken out of his own newspapers, which never had credit enough to deserve a serious answer.16 However I had intended, with good advice, by a message to the House to call him to an account for it. But the House desiring to rise before I could sufficiently inform myself of it so as to form my message, I knew not how to continue the Session, only for a personal dispute of my own; & thereby appear to break thro' the moderation & Temper which I had exercised thro' this Session. But I shall find it necessary next Session to make this Complaint.17
I have wrote a long letter: but it is the Epitome of a great deal of Business, which when extended, will take up much more paper. But I thought it necessary to advise you of these Matters, that if any of them should be brought upon the Carpet, you may make use of this short account untill I can prepare a longer & more particular one.
I am &c.
J. Pownall Esqr
AL, LbC BP, 5: 176-180, 146-147.18
Minor emendations not shown. A broadly similar letter was sent to Richard Jackson on 15 Dec., BP, 5: 171-176. No enclosures have been found for either letter.
FB's handling of the Stamp Act controversy was now the subject of extended discussion in the province newspapers. It was inevitable that the Whigs would try to make political capital out of what the governor had said in favor of implementation of the act, but, as this letter indicates, FB was taken aback by the virulence of the onslaught in the Boston Gazette during the winter of 1766-67. Sustained criticism commenced with "Paskalos" (Dr. Joseph Warren) on 10 Nov.; "Hampden" (James Otis Jr.) on 14 Nov. and 1 Dec.; and "A. A.," on 17 Nov. FB was ably defended by "Philanthrop" (Jonathan Sewall) in the Boston Evening-Post, 1 Dec. 1766 and 12 Jan. 1767; and having "done Great Service to the Governor" John Cushing anticipated that "Philanthrop" would turn the tables on the radicals' vilification of his friend, TH. Cushing to TH, 10 Feb. 1767, Mass. Archs., 25: 159, in Hutchinson Transcripts, 1: 143.


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Hundreds run in 36th annual New Year's Day Hangover Fun Run
Hundreds participated in the 36th annual New Year's Day Hangover Fun Run at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow. (Jan. 1, 2013) Credit: Brittany Wait
By Brittany Wait January 1, 2013 3:13 PM
Wearing patriotic 2013 glasses and a running medal, Mike Ogazon passed dozens of runners, shaking a rattle and shouting "Happy New Year!"
Ogazon was among the hundreds Tuesday to run in the 36th annual New Year's Day Hangover Fun Run in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow.
"My New Year's resolution is to keep running to stay healthy and lose weight," said Ogazon, 71, of Garden City. "I also ran in the New Year's Eve Dash 5K [at Eisenhower Park] at midnight last night."
Fred Haslett, president of the Long Island Road Runners Club, which was formed 34 years ago and has 500 members, said the New Year's Day 5-mile run began in 1977.
"It started as a loose bunch of friends showing up New Year's morning to shake the bugs out after New Year's Eve and go for a run to start off the year right," said Haslett, 59, of Cedarhurst. "Last year, we had 300 runners. It's a free fun run and it's a great way to start the year off."
About 250 runners took off at the start of the banana loop at Field 2 and chose to either run, jog or walk between 1 to 5 miles.
"People have resolutions," Haslett said. "They want to lose weight. Well, this is the time. It's New Year's Day. We set up a 1-mile loop so people can run a mile, walk a mile or run all five miles."
During a morning run 18 months ago, Ray Costanzo, felt a sharp pain in his chest. He later found that he had two arteries nearly clogged and it was time to radically change his lifestyle.
"I had a problem with my heart. I almost died," said Costanzo, 57, of Sound Beach. "After that, it gave me a new perspective on life, so every chance I get I'm gonna be out here doing something healthy and embracing life."
Costanzo, of the North Country Road Warriors in Wading River, said it was his first time running on New Year's Day, but it felt exhilarating to get some exercise and kick off the year with a bang.
"I figure it's a good way to start the year, especially after a little bit of partying last night," Costanzo said. "It's a good healthy way to start out the new year."
Rose James and 15 others represented the Long Island chapter of Black Girls RUN!, a national running club to fight obesity and promote a healthy lifestyle in black women.
"I wanted to feel good about myself, so I started running a year ago," said James. 64, of Uniondale. "It's just a good feeling to run and I wanted to start the new year off right."
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The learning area of occupations and technology contributes to development of learners in acquiring knowledge and understanding basic skills essential to their lives. Learners will be alert to changes and able to apply knowledge about living, occupations and technology to their work with creativity and competitiveness in Thai society and the world community.
But in fact, the learners in many schools especially in the remote area cannot reach the main goal of the curriculum. So the school and the teachers should try to find many ways to help them including developing the local curriculum. This research is one of many ways to help the students to improve their practical skill and their creative idea by studying the subject "Setting the small park with two hands";using various learning resources in the community.
The purpose of the research.
1. How does the fundamental data for development of the local curriculum on "a beautiful small park with two hands" for Mattayomsuksa VI students?
2. What are the compositions of a local curriculum on "a beautiful small park with two hands" for Mattayomsuksa VI students?
3. How to use the local curriculum on "a beautiful small park with two hands" for Mattayomsuksa VI students?
4. Are the results of the evaluation and curriculum improving after learning difference than before learning? What is the level of student satisfaction with the local curriculum?
The sample of this study comprised 33 Mattayomsuksa VI students at the Non Han Wittayayon School who were studying during the first semester of the 2012 academic year for 40 hours. The research instruments include 1) the local curriculum on a beautiful small park with two hands, 2) questionnaires and interview forms for group discussion, 3) a learning achievement test, 4) assessment forms for work-ability on landscaping and 5) questionnaires on students' opinion regarding the use of the local curriculum. The data were analyzed by percentage (%), mean (), standard deviation (S.D.), t-test dependent and content analysis.
1) The results of study of fundamental data indicated that students and relevant persons want to develop the local curriculum on "a beautiful small park with two hands", in the form of learning development from environment to construct the knowledge. The knowledge was used for design and improving the area around the school. In addition, the learning activities and evaluation were assessed by a teacher and a landscaping expert.
2) The results of the local curriculum development indicated that the developed local curriculum consisted of the following elements: concept, principle, objective, course description, learning outcomes, subject, curriculum structure/studying time, unit, instruction guideline, learning activity, educational media and resource, learning evaluation and measurement, and lesson plan. The content of a local curriculum was separated into 5 units: 1) observation data, 2) inspiration building, 3) cooperative design, 4) story building in a small park and 5) public relation. The curriculum was suitable and the index of item objective congruence (IOC) value of each item ranged from 0.80 to 1.00.
3) The results of the curriculum implementation indicated that mainly students in experimental group were active, interest in learning activities and cooperative designs on landscaping.
4) The results of the evaluation and curriculum improving indicated that the learning achievement of students after learning was higher than before learning with a different statistic at a significance level of .05. The student satisfaction with learning activities of the local curriculum was at high level.
Students learn and practice the basic knowledge about small park design from video, practice, worksheets, knowledge sheets and learning resources on the network (www.kruaree.in.th).
Student inspiration was build using the lectures from local resource persons, the study on small park patterns, small park-pattern analysis, plant type, materials and small park equipment from the local learning resource.
Students to cooperate in the design of a small park by the school as a learning resource in the facility landscaping.
The story building in a small park.
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Plans to create a food hub on the first floor of The Brunel shopping centre in Swindon Town Centre have been announced.
To be called The Crossing the new development will provide 16,000 sq ft of new food service space over seven outlets and two kiosks and will create a new heart for the shopping centre.
The development will also incorporate a brand new play zone, an event space, charge points for mobile devices, free super-fast Wi-Fi plus a click and collect point.
It is hoped that, subject to planning permission, The Crossing, will open in Spring/Summer 2016.
It will be located in the area around the existing link bridge between Brunel Arcade and Brunel Plaza on the first floor of the shopping centre and will benefit from a direct link from Canal Walk via a new escalator entrance.
Kevin Gwilliam, General Manager at The Brunel said, "We are always looking at how we can enhance the shopping experience for our customers and for some time we've recognised that the town centre needed more places to eat and to relax. Not only will The Crossing be offering good quality modern and fresh fast food there will be new facilities too. We know this development will be of great benefit to town centre shoppers as well as those who work and live close by".


We're six and a half weeks in, which also means we're halfway done with Fullstack Academy. It's still a little crazy to think about, and I've been having a little bit of trouble processing this in its entirety. In some ways, I feel like it was a week ago that we started, fresh-eyed, strangers to each other and the enormous world of programming, and eager to absorb the firehose of information that was about to be thrown at us.
It's been a slightly crazy week. I missed two days of class to attend Node.js Interactive North America, which was enormously fun and educational but also meant that I had two days of class to catch up on, in addition to staying on top of what we were learning every day. I've spent most of this weekend doing some preliminary review for our upcoming Junior Phase checkpoint. (Basically, our "final" exam.
With a CS Saturday about functional programming, immutability, and Git under our belts, we're officially halfway through Junior Phase. Um, what? Yeah, so, that's a thing. The Week By the Numbers: Cups of coffee had: 5.5 Miles ran: 4 (ugh) Current length of to-do list: 37 Hours I've spent snuggling with/walking dogs: 3 For most of the immersive so far, I felt like I was at least sort of staying on top of things – I may have been struggling to tread water, but my head was still above the surface.


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Q: Is this graph Hamiltonian and how to prove it is not? How to prove this graph is not Hamiltonian (does not contain a Hamiltonian cycle)?
I have already tried removing some vertices from the graph, but I cannot get more than 7 connected components after 7 removed vertices.
Another way was to try to prove it by contradiction, and to assume it has Hamiltonian cycle. The problem is it seems too complex and I have no idea how to try and contradict it.
The actual question was to check if this graph is Hamiltonian, and if yes to draw the cycle, if not to prove it is not Hamiltonian. It is obvious that there is no Hamiltonian cycle, but how to prove it, because removing vertices does not work?

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Glass heroes – From roasting peanuts in a concrete mixer to leading the way
Pic's Peanut Butter founder Pic Picot, Head of Marketing Caitlin Attenburrow and Head of Operations Heath Bowman with the 1L refillable Perfit jars.
Nelson-based peanut butter specialist and Glass Packaging Forum members Pic's Peanut Butter has one of those great Kiwi can-do origin stories, a philosophy based on community, and some enviable sustainability chops to boot. From selling refillable peanut butter jars at the local market to having an international presence, being Climate Positive and diversifying into a Nelson tourist attraction, the story of Pic's is a fascinating one. We chatted to Head of Marketing Caitlin Attenburrow and Head of Operations Heath Bowman to find out more.
Pic's has a great story behind it. Tell us a bit more.
About 15 years ago Pic (Picot) was eating some 'health style' peanut butter and saw on the label that it had sugar in. He rang up the company and asked how they can sell peanut butter with sugar in it and call it 'health style'?
The company explained it was what the consumer wants. Pic didn't believe this was right, so he bought some peanuts, roasted them, ground them up in his blender – which he blew up in the process – and added some salt.
At first Pic just made it for his friends and family but one day a boy asked to buy some of his peanut butter, and he had a light-bulb moment that there could be something to this peanut butter thing. He first started selling at the Nelson Farmers' Market, roasting peanuts in a concrete mixer with a gas burner under it.
That's how it started and we've kept a very similar philosophy of roasting our own peanuts and making our peanut butter with just peanuts and salt to this day.
Where did Pic see the business going in the early days?
At the time Pic had a launderette down at the port, but he has macular degeneration which means he's nearly blind, so he was having to step back from the launderette. He thought that if the peanut butter business could make at least the same as what the launderette was earning he'd be OK – that's all he really set out to do.
People really loved the peanut butter and kept coming back so he took the plunge and put in his retirement savings to get the first factory going. He set it up in the old meat works in Nelson, hired a few employees – three of which are still with us – but quickly outgrew that factory, so in 2012 built a new one just down the road.
Not long after we added extra shifts and commissioned an extra factory down the street and eventually built Peanut Butter World, now we have everything on one site.
You use glass for a lot of your products. Why is that?
We use a mixture of glass and plastic jars here at Pic's. We use glass for our 380g jars and 1kg refillable Perfit jars, which we use for our return scheme. We like that glass is infinitely recyclable and is really good for reuse too.
The business has a real point of difference with Peanut Butter World and its tours. Tell us more about it.
In February 2019 we had a big opening for the public and had around 5,000 people through that first day – it was incredible. We had tours at the old factories, but they weren't anything like they are now.
Pic always says he would rather have an in-depth conversation with one person than put up a big billboard. With that comes a lot of transparency. For example, in the early days he would put the recipe for making the peanut butter on the back of the jar.
Taking people on that journey; showing them how important roasting is, how simple the ingredients are, and the history of Pic's is how we market ourselves – it's very personal, which people really connect with.
We don't think of ourselves as a tourist attraction, but we are actually a Qualmark Gold-accredited tourist attraction.
Pic's is still sold at the Nelson Market, is that something of a nod to the company's origins?
That's right and it's a way to keep in contact with the Nelson shoppers who supported us from day one.
It's also where we do the bulk of our 1kg jar returns. The returns have been running since Pic started but the jars have changed so we can sterilise them more easily to meet food safety requirements. It's not a refill on site system, but customers get a credit when they return the jar.
Some jars come back with chips and cracks so we recycle them and put new ones in here and there and we currently we get about a 65% return rate for refill. There is a bit of volume in it but it's local only with some local shops selling them.
We would love to scale it up but the logistics of returning dirty glass jars halfway across the country doesn't stack up. It's not just the weight of the empty jars but the fact you are putting dirty jars into cardboard boxes because you would need new boxes for the clean jars – it becomes unsustainable.
What we would like to do to improve the system is make the containers refillable on site by the customer. It's a project we may look at over the next year or so.
What does the future hold for Pic's?
Pic is really interested in how we can make the business better for the next generation. He's had this amazing phase of growth but now he's really focused on how we can be a good company for the planet and leave a good legacy.
We started measuring our carbon emissions a few years ago and were certified Climate Positive for the first time in 2020 by local social enterprise EKOS. This means we offset the emissions we can't reduce to 120%, so we are drawing carbon out of the atmosphere by running our business.
We also focus on reducing our carbon emissions over time, and in our second year of measurement we reduced them by 13% year-on-year.
To encourage other businesses to become Zero Carbon and Climate Positive, we have also teamed up with our local business community in Te Tauihu. We are part of a group that our friends down the road at Chia Sisters started, 'Businesses for Climate Action' with a mission to lead the Top of the South to be Zero Carbon.
We're started trialling peanut growing, in 2020, in Northland in partnership with the Ministry for Primary Industries Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures and The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research. We're trialling three locations – Ruawai on a kumara farm, Pouto Peninsula near Dargaville, and in the Kai Iwi Lakes district.
If successful, peanut farming could bring new employment opportunities to the Northland region, alongside potentially making a very real difference to our carbon footprint. Wouldn't it be great if one day we could make a New Zealand grown peanut butter?
The main thing for us going forward is not just having growth but sustainable growth across our three priority markets, New Zealand, Australia and China.
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When it comes to commercial cleaning services Boston businesses have a lot of options.
There are the huge companies that provide services to thousands of different clients scattered over hundreds of miles throughout the metropolitan area. Then there are the smaller, private crews that service just one or two businesses.
Which is better? It depends on what your company's need are.
When you hire a gigantic, national or even multinational cleaning company, it's easy to get lost in the shuffle. When your business is only one of hundreds or thousands that the megacorp services, it's hard to get the personalized service that you expect.
And when you have an issue or complaint, it's often nearly impossible to get somebody to listen to you. Instead, you may find yourself having to live with the problem for months before anybody gets around to correcting it.
All Bright Janitorial Services is a local, privately owned business that works with a limited number of companies. We keep our roster small because we want to provide our customers with the kind of attention to detail and one-on-one service that they deserve.
At All Bright, we genuinely listen to our clients each and every day. This allows us to respond quickly whenever there is an issue or a concern. Our highly trained, professional cleaning crews work to exceed our customers' highest expectations, not just barely meet the lowest minimum standard.
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What aspects of our life has fintech touched?
Before the Wright brothers came up with the airplane, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin had taken to the skies with his airship or balloon. The airship was the culmination of man's wish to fly, but Zeppelin had one problem.
The airships did have technical problems and the airplane did come up on top, but the biggest issue for Zeppelin was that he was always hamstrung for money. Being the pioneer, his venture was risky and most did not want to touch it.
If you are active on social media or have browsed the news channels, the chances are you have heard about the Modobag - the world's first motorized, rideable luggage.
The idea of a rideable luggage is super fun, but there are risks associated. For starters, we do not know if airports around the world would like people zipping around in motorized luggage. Secondly, the product is not very light and thirdly it will cost about $1500 when it retails, which is about Rs. 1 lakh. However, what is interesting is the source of funds for the startup.
The startup has turned to the hugely popular crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to raise money. From a flexible target of $50000 that it wanted to raise, the startup has raised about 500% more at $244,344. About 5-6 years earlier the startup would have found it difficult to raise money from your sources of finance like angels and VCS. With crowdfunding hundreds of startups are now making products from smart ideas by asking contributions from the public or the crowd. All may not be winners, but some ideas can surely be revolutionary.
Crowdfunding is one part of what we today call as fintech, which is primarily the marriage of finance and technology. Most of the time we do not realize the extent fintech has started affecting our lives - both directly and indirectly.
Payments - These are the firms developing the next generation of payment systems. These include startups and even non-payment tech companies like Facebook, Apple and Samsung. From inward remittances, processing salary, direct debits, electronic funds transfer to cheque imaging, the payments industry is seeing rapid transformation.
Mobile payments - This is perhaps the most visible form of fintech. Not related to debit or credit card, cash, cheque or drafts, the solutions in the mobile payments space specialize in cashless transactions. The ubiquitous mobile has become a great tool to pay for services and products and mobile wallets are a good example of this.
Insurance- India has huge parts of its population without any form of insurance. Traditional systems have meant insurers find it hard to reach and offer the right product beyond a certain threshold of people. Fintech is playing a crucial role in risk assessment, coming up with the right product and enabling greater reach. Much of this is happening in the back-end and hence not very visible.
Crowdfunding - As evident from the Modobag, crowdfunding mobilizes small contributions from the public towards the larger goal of raising a certain amount. Crowdfunding has proved to be a great vehicle to raise money for arts, social cause and even idiosyncratic business ideas.
Alternative lending - This is hugely exciting segment of fintech and one that is creating the maximum buzz. Aspects like peer-to-peer lending that connects an individual borrower with an individual lender have seen a lot of attention. The segment is quickly catching the fancy of people around the world and has proved to be quite a revelation.
There are other fintech systems like in consumer finance that include investing and the entire game around robo-advisors, enterprise finance, Bitcoin and in Forex that are having a profound impact on how we go about our lives. As a segment, fintech is about half a decade old, but has made rapid strides. We may not realize it, but fintech is quickly having an indelible and profound impact on our lives.


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I greet you today with momentous news! If you recall, back in March, I sold my first story. I'm still giddy about it, some six months later. And I'm even more excited to tell you that, today, you can read it!
That's 16 fantastic tales of immortality, brain-to-computer-uploading, life-extension, and brain transplants. Including one by yours truly. And there's some great authors in that list. Award winners, best sellers, workshop grads, old salts and fresh meat alike.
And while you're at it, please feel free to show some support for Bundoran Press in general, and browse their growing list of Science Fiction and Fantasy titles.
And let's all celebrate and do a happy dance today, shall we?
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The Royal Tern is part of the same family as the gulls. This species measures around 50 cm (20 in.) long, which is considered large for a tern. It has a black cap with a crest during breeding season. The under parts are white, and the wings and back are light grey. The wing primaries are black. The orange bill is large relative to the head size, and pointed. The legs and feet are black. Outside the breeding season the cap is white with some black spots, but the black crest remains. Both sexes are similar.
This bird species is called 'Royal' for its impressive size and appearance. The name 'Tern' comes from Old English 'Stearn' to design that species. The Latin name 'Thalasseus' means 'fisherman' and 'sea', in reference to the bird feeding behavior. The name 'maximus' means 'the greatest', in reference to the size of the bird.
The habitat of the royal tern is strictly salt water along the coasts in sheltered bays, lagoons, mangroves or marshes. It will be found inland only after severe storms.
As an opportunistic feeder, the royal tern diet consists mostly of small fish, but also includes crustaceans and other small marine animals. It hunts its prey by flying low over the water surface with its bill pointed down, and dives to seize it.
Royal terns nest in colonies, and the nest is usually built in a scrape on the ground. One leg is laid, and the parents are very defensive of their young. The chicks will gather in a 'creche', which can number in the hundreds. Parents are able to identify their own young in that crowd and will only feed them. Parental care extends for several months.
The royal tern breeding range extends along the USA east and west coasts down to those of South America except along the Andes, and also along the east coast of Africa. There is some partial migration from the northernmost USA coast range, but it is mostly a year-round resident.


With Spring just around the corner, I thought I would start doing a preview of some of my favorite Lookbooks for the upcoming season. ASOS was released a couple of days ago, and I picked out some of my favorite looks (there were quite a few)to share with my readers. In their look book I saw a great deal of 90's flashback with a hint of retro feel when it comes to the accessories. Bags, shoes, and eyewear resemble those that were worn during the 50's; while shorts, tops, and dresses used fabrics and motifs many of us 90's kids were used to seeing.


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Former CCSO bookkeeper charged with theft, forgery, computer fraud
by J.D. Bailey on 08/02/22
A former Columbia County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) bookkeeper is awaiting trial for theft, forgery, and electronic fraud after a recent audit of the county found financial discrepancies in department.
The accused former CCSO worker, Cassandra N. Atkinson, was arrested June 6 after a months-long investigation into the matter, according to Columbia County Sheriff Mike Loe. The Magnolia resident is alleged to have stolen just north of $32,000 over a 21-month period while employed as an office clerk at the local law enforcement agency. The 42-year-old has been charged with theft of property over $25,000, forgery, and computer fraud, according to CCSO records.
The matter was brought to the public's attention this week during a Columbia County Quorum Court discussion on the county's audit findings from two years ago. According to Loe, the alleged criminal activity was discovered last fall.
"We had an audit in September of 2021, and it showed the bookkeeper had embezzled funds starting in September of 2020," he said Monday. "On September 15 of last year, (Atkinson) was terminated immediately -- by me."
The county sheriff also noted that the proper authorities were contacted last fall, as soon as he was notified of the audit issues.
"I notified the prosecuting attorney's office, I notified the Arkansas State Police criminal division, and I notified the county judge by phone when that happened," Loe added.
Any arrests in the matter were delayed until February -- after the 2021 audit's final results were completed, according to the sheriff. Once the state's audit procedures were finished, the Arkansas State Police investigation began, and Atkinson was taken into custody in early June.
Loe stated Monday that, after meeting recently with the local prosecuting attorney, a trial for the former CCSO employee should be underway next spring.
"I anticipate it will be in March, April, May -- or somewhere around then," he added.
Further public comments on the matter this week were limited, but Columbia County Circuit Court records show that Atkinson's first appearance in court was held on July 27.
According to a court filing from 13th Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney Jeffrey Rogers, the former CCSO office clerk is alleged to have stolen a total of $32,478 from the county's law enforcement office from Jan. 1, 2020, through Sept. 15, 2021. The prosecutor, in his arrest warrant request, accused Atkinson of swiping funds from the law enforcement agency's fine and bond accounts, then covering her tracks via CCSO's internal computer system.
"The defendant, who was in charge of receiving, receipting, crediting, and depositing money for bond and fines due to the Columbia County Sheriff's Department, forged accountings, receipts and deposit slips for funds and payments; however, instead of depositing the payments into the proper bond and fine accounts with the Sheriff's Department, she stole and kept for her benefit the amount stated above," the warrant letter said. "Additionally, the defendant used the Columbia County computer system used for maintaining and accounting of such funds to conceal the theft of the payments and fraudulent accountings."
In all, Atkinson is facing three felony counts for her alleged actions.
She is currently out on bond, according to Loe.
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Our hand crafted penguin family trinket box makes for a lovely little keepsake. The penguins on their base stand at 2 1/2" tall, is made of hand painted, glazed resin which opens in the middle to reveal a hollow inside. But, wait there's more. There's a cool bonus f trinket treat inside! Open your penguin family trinket box and you'll find a mini ceramic, hand painted fish. Very elegant, adorable and fun.


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It's time to play! Whether your princess is going to the playground, on a picnic, or heading back to school, she will be able to do everything she wants to do in her fun, loose fitting, cargo style Playground Pants! Mix and match prints and solids to create your own unique pants. With or without working pockets, these pants are easy to sew and fun to make! Pair it with a cute crop top (like the Popsicle Top) for a casual look, or make them from flannel for a cute Christmas and holiday look! This digital PDF pattern is also ideal to make cargo style pants for boy dolls!
These comfy play pants are easily made from 1/4 yard of cotton fabric or lightweight denim and 9 inches of 1/4 inch elastic. (You can also use a fat quarter!). Mix and match your fabrics to create a different look each time. The elastic waistband makes these pants easy for little hands to dress their dolls and the easy construction is perfect for even younger seamstresses to learn to sew.
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I had the pleasure to test these pants for "Oh Sew Kat" and was it a fun pattern. Very easy to read instructions, pictures are fantastic and they sew up quickly. The real working pocket is such a great addition. I can't wait to sew a few more pairs up soon.
So easy to do up and so fast. With or without the pocket! Will work for boys and girls. Very, very cute.