SKZ-KFE gGmbH, in the following referred to as KFE, promotes research and application oriented scientific development, especially in the field of plastics technology. Business activities of KFE also include the promotion of further education and advanced training for professionals and executives working in industry, handcraft, trade and authorities in the field of plastics technology in terms of § 14 BGB as well as the organisation and realisation of seminars and conferences within the scope of vocational training and further education for companies in terms of § 14 BGB.
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Due to the inspiration of one of my friends, I've decided to write a post about using a certain resource as a means of comfort here in South Korea as an expat. What may that be?
The internet holds a vast amount of information…as well as resources that are able to help a person no matter where and what walk of life they are on. Being an expat, I've tried to make life as comfortable as possible…trying to find little things to make our time in Asia a little more 'Western' (the region of the world, not the cowboy style).
I've recently stumbled upon some websites that have allowed me to maintain a slight level of 'normalicy' in an otherwise crazy and foreign world. Honestly, I never thought I would write a blog post about this, but due to the encouragement of my friend (thank you Steph), I've decided I would spread the word to other expats out there dying for some good old US of A.
First and foremost…I love cooking and baking. It's a hobby of mine that I've picked up, especially since we've been in South Korea. I love the challenge of making 'Western' food out of my limited resources here in this country. However, there are some basics I just haven't found yet. These have included light brown sugar (the stuff here that they call light brown sugar is actually more like unbleached 'natural' sugar back home), inexpensive chocolate chips (it's 6.00 a bag for hershey's), spices, herbs, flavorings and extracts.
I was randomly given a link one day by a friend (thank you Alissa), and it's changed my world. I not only found all those 'baking' and 'cooking' items, I found vitamins, hygiene items, and everything in between! What site might I be talking about you may ask? www.iherb.com. WordPress isn't letting me put a link to it, because apparently they think this post may have spam qualities. Now that I completely look and sound like an informercial, let me explain. Not only can I find the resources needed to make me comfortable, I can get it with free shipping. Yes I said it, free shipping, to SOUTH KOREA. All I have to do is spend $80 and it's mine! From what I've searched for, this is unheard of with most websites shipping internationally. Thank you Iherb for understanding that not all of us love paying the $50+ shipping.
Next series of business. Where do I get clothes? My husband I are fairly tall (he's almost 6'4″ and I'm 5'8″), so buying pants and shoes are nearly impossible here. Derik has an issue finding long enough sleeves and inseams on his shirts as well…as for me I do pretty good. I've resorted to buy the majority of our clothing (if needed) online at American Eagle because we know the exact sizes we need, and we know that the clothing quality is good. I've always been an avid and loyal AE customer…probably due to the fact I worked for the company for five years through college and beyond. I am quite pleased with them, and they have yet to fail me-even in Korea! Their shipping is INCREDIBLY fast, you can order something on Monday and get it Friday. Unfortunately, you do pay shipping, but it's a flat $50 dollars.
Well, that's enough of me endorsing companies for the day, depending on what people think I may write more of these in the future.


The Riviera Maya of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is kissed by pristine beaches, caressed by calm, turquoise waters and bathed by gentle breezes. This area offers stretches of white sand fringed with palm trees and protected by a chain of coral reefs. Miles of untouched powder white sand as far as the eye can see beckon vacationers in search of quiet and relaxation. Located in the Southern portion of this fantastic destination, just over an hour from Cancun, is the quaint town of Tulum. A once bustling Mayan seaport, a long time favorite for ecologists and hippies for vacation, now a relaxing place to get away from it all for every travel taste. Tulum is graced with white sand beaches and walled Mayan ruins overlooking the sea. It still clings to it's Bohemian roots and offers seclusion and fun for those in search of the perfect beach vacation. The Tulum region can be divided into three sections, all referred to as Tulum. These areas are within minutes of each other via taxi or driver.
Tulum Pueblo is home to most hotel workers and where the stores, supermarkets, bus stations, and various types of lodging are found. This section of town has a definite feel of existing mostly to cater to the Tulum ruins. Tulum pueblo is the shopping center of the town, offers many great restaurants, and has a modest night life.
Tulum Playa is located along the coastline that leads into the Sian Ka'an Biosphere. To the East it has Caribbean white sand beaches. Bordering it's south is an impressive mangrove & wetland reserve. Tulum Playa is where many of the high-end boutique and spa hotels are located.
Tulum Ruinas is the archaeological site where the Maya ruins of Tulum stand. A-mile-long road leading into the ruins is flanked by several restaurants, a commercial area geared to one-day visitors. You are able to view the colorful Mayan pole dancers in this area of the Tulum Ruinas. The ruins of Tulum are a must see attraction for every visitor to the Riviera Maya.


KITTANNING, PA, APR. 26, 2005 - Sintermet LLC (www.sintermet.com), a global manufacturer of Tungsten Carbide, Titanium Carbide, and Ceramic rolls for bar, rod, and wire rolling in ferrous and nonferrous rolling mills, as well as rotary knives, announced that it has appointed Paul C. Fleiner as its new President and COO.
Fleiner comes to Sintermet LLC after having most recently served as Senior Vice President of ÅKERS National Roll, where he held several corporate responsibilities in addition to leading the sales, customer service, and marketing activities for both the company's National Roll and Vertical Seal facilities. He has over 25 years experience in various areas of the metals industry and is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Prior to joining ÅKERS National Roll, Fleiner held various corporate positions in sales, marketing, and international business and development with ASKO, Inc., the former parent company of Sintermet, Inc.


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The Emoji Movie (2017)Where to Watch Online
Hidden inside a smartphone, the bustling city of Textopolis is home to all emojis. Each emoji has only one facial expression, except for Gene, an exuberant emoji with multiple expressions. Determined to become "normal" like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his best friend Hi-5 and a notorious code breaker called Jailbreak. During their travels through the other apps, the three emojis discover a great danger that could threaten their phone's very existence.
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Released July 28th, 2017, 'The Emoji Movie' stars T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph The PG movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 26 min, and received a score of 12 (out of 100) on Metacritic, which assembled reviews from 26 well-known critics.
Want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "Hidden inside a smartphone, the bustling city of Textopolis is home to all emojis. Each emoji has only one facial expression, except for Gene, an exuberant emoji with multiple expressions. Determined to become "normal" like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his best friend Hi-5 and a notorious code breaker called Jailbreak. During their travels through the other apps, the three emojis discover a great danger that could threaten their phone's very existence."
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Long before the 118 Freeway stretched across the San Fernando Valley travelers, natives and padres visited the area using a dusty road that linked a network of several missions.
The two-mile Chatsworth Old Mission Trail, which dates back to the 19th century, was a key connector between the San Fernando Mission and the San Buenaventura Mission via the Santa Susana Pass in what today is Chatsworth. To pass uneven terrain, people had to walk or ride horses.
The unpaved trail stretches south and parallel of the 118 Freeway from the intersection of De Soto Avenue and Rinaldi Street to Limekiln Canyon Trail, linking 23 parcels, owned by several organizations, including Sierra Canyon High School and Los Angeles City Department of Water and Power.
But as a sprawling network of roads and freeways began covering the Southern California the route was abandoned. Occasionally, locals went hiking down the winding trail.
Now, the Chatsworth Historical Society is asking the Cultural Heritage Commission to make the trail a historic site.
From 1769 to 1833, the route was part of the El Camino Real trail, which connected 21 missions, four forts and three towns stretching from San Diego to San Francisco.
Josh Sides, a professor in the Department of History at Cal State Northridge, said the establishment of the missions transformed the Valley.
The mission of San Fernando became agriculturally productive, he added, and that in many ways set a foundation for agricultural history of the Valley that existed until World War II.
Gradually, the route between Mission Hills and Ventura has been altered as the Valley developed. Some sections of the trail became known as San Fernando Mission Boulevard and Rinaldi Street or turned into farmland and orchards.
"The Chatsworth Old Mission Trail is one of the last natural, undeveloped vestiges of El Camino Real in the area," according to an application the Chatsworth Historical Society filed with the Cultural Heritage Commission.
In 1984, the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy awarded a $100,000 grant to the city's Recreation and Parks Department. The grant was used to install directional and explanatory signs and safety improvements along the route. Since the 1980s dedication, the trail has appeared on city maps.
More than 200 years after its first mentioning, the trail may become a historic spot.
The Chatsworth Historical Society suggests using a parcel at 20825 Rinaldi Street for dedication and identification purposes. Its members say the monument will not only protect the trail but will also properly identify its significance.
"This monument has broad cultural and historic significance as it is one of the last natural, undeveloped examples of The El Camino Real, and as such represents our Spanish Cultural Heritage," the application said.
In the upcoming months, commissioners will make a recommendation. Then, the Los Angeles City Council will make the final decision.


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Dying For Sex
Amazon Music Presents SUSPECT: Vanished in the Snow
28 November 2022 - 6 mins explicit
Podcast Series Dying For Sex
For more than three and a half decades, the disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews was a mystery – a riddle neither authorities nor her family members could solve. Jonelle's face had been on milk cartons nationwide. Even the President of the United States had appealed to the public for help. Still, every lead had fizzled. Every person of interest had turned out to be a dead end.
Then, in 2019, Jonelle's remains were unearthed near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. With the discovery came a troubling new question: Had the truth been hiding in plain sight the entire time? From Campside Media and Wondery comes season two of SUSPECT. The team digs into one of the most mind-bending co...
Wondery Presents: Frozen Head
Hosted by Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from the hit show Morbid. When 90-year-old Laurence Pilgeram drops dead on the sidewalk outside his condo, you might think that's the end of his story. But, really, it's just the beginning. Because Laurence and others like him have signed up to be frozen and brought back to life in the future. And that belief will pull multiple generations of the Pilgeram family into a cryonics soap opera filled with dead pets, gold coins, grenades, fist fights, mysterious packages, family feuds, Hall of Fame baseball legends, and frozen heads — lots of frozen heads. From Wondery, comes a story about life, death, and what comes next. Listen to Frozen Head: Wondery.fm/FH_DyingForSex See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Introducing SUSPECT: Vanished in the Snow
For more than three and a half decades, the disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews was a mystery – a riddle neither authorities nor her family members could solve. The residents of her cloistered Colorado hometown had scoured every inch of prairie. Jonelle's face had been on milk cartons nationwide. Even the President of the United States had appealed to the public for help. Still, every lead had fizzled. Every person of interest had turned out to be a dead end. Then, in 2019, Jonelle's remains were unearthed near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. With the discovery came a troubling new question: Had the truth been hiding in plain sight the entire time? Was the man who couldn't stop obsessing over Jonelle's disappearance also the person who took her? From Campside Media and Wondery comes season two of SUSPECT. Former CNN reporter Ashley Fantz and executive producers Matthew Shaer and Eric Benson (Suspect, Over My Dead Body) dig into one of the most mind-bending cold cases in modern history, in an attempt to separate fact and fiction, compulsion from guilt, and true-crime fandom from a motive for murder. Hey Prime Members, you can binge all 6 episodes of SUSPECT: Vanished in the Snow ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today: Wondery.lnk.to/DfS_SuspectS2 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Wondery Presents Against The Odds: Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping
When an entire school bus full of children goes missing from a rural California town, local law enforcement, the feds, and the media mount an enormous manhunt. The kidnappers locked the children and their bus driver in a storage container, burying them alive in a quarry. With no rescue in sight, the bus driver tries to get the children and himself out. This is the story of the largest kidnapping for ransom in American history. This is just a preview of Against the Odds. You can listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, or at Wondery.lnk.to/ATO_DyingForSex See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Amazon Music Presents COLD: The Search for Sheree
Sheree Warren left her job in Salt Lake City on a mild October evening in 1985. She told a coworker she was headed to meet her estranged husband, Charles Warren, at a car dealership. But she never made it, Sheree vanished. When a young mother disappears under unexplained circumstances, police always turn suspicious eyes towards the husband. And although there was distrust around Charles Warren, he wasn't the only suspect when Sheree went missing. She also had a boyfriend, a former cop named Cary Hartmann, who lived a sinister double life. Season three follows two suspects– men who both raised suspicion for investigators. But with two strong persons of interest with competing facts and evidence, it muddied the murder investigation. This season, host Dave Cawley, digs into the lives of these two men, the details of the case and examines the intersections between domestic abuse and sexual violence. The COLD team seeks to answer the question: what really happened to Sheree Warren? Listen to Cold—exclusively on Amazon Music—included with Prime. Download the Amazon Music app now: www.amazon.com/COLD_us_hfd_wiaa_110122. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Amazon Music Presents MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark, and Mysterious Stories
A hiker terrorized for days by two unknown figures… A man stalked through the woods while camping, who barely escaped with his life… two cops who quit their job at a local theater because of unexplained encounters with an alleged demon… These are just some of the unbelievable cases you'll hear on the MrBallen Podcast on Amazon Music. Each week you'll get new inexplicable encounters, shocking disappearances and other strange, dark and mysterious stories. Hey Prime Members, listen to the Amazon Music exclusive podcast, MRBALLEN PODCAST: STRANGE, DARK & MYSTERIOUS STORIES, in the Amazon Music App. Download the app today: www.amazon.com/BALL_us_hfd_wiaa_110122 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Davis Beach Volleyball Player Seeks $800K from Oregon
Andy Berg
A University of California Davis beach volleyball player has filed a negligence lawsuit against the University of Oregon.
According to the Daily Emerald, UC Davis freshman Jane Seslar was hit in the face with a heavy shade umbrella which blew over during a windy mid-April volleyball game.
The complaint alleges that coaches on both sides were aware that the umbrellas were heavy and can become unsecured and blow away. As a precaution the umbrellas were taken down. However, UO assistant coach Janice Harrer put one of the umbrellas back up. It would later blow away and hit Selsar in the face, causing a laceration on her chin that reached the bone.
"Major facial scars on a pretty young woman deserve to be taken seriously," Greg Kafoury, Selsar's attorney, said in an interview with the Emerald. "Disfigurement is the term."
Seslar is seeking $850,000 in damages. UO has until July 13 to respond to the complaint or the case will automatically be found in favor of Seslar, according to court documents.
"We were very sad to hear about the UC Davis student's injury, and we hope she is doing well," UO spokesperson Molly Blancett said in an emailed statement. "Student safety is one of the university's highest priorities. We disagree with allegations in the complaint about what led to the injuries but are unable to provide additional information at this time due to the pending litigation."
The complaint states that the damages are to cover medical costs, as well as "disfigurement, pain, fear, anxiety, symptoms of posttraumatic stress, feelings of increased vulnerability, and interference with ordinary activities."
"She went through a long period of being extremely afraid that the wound would open up 'cause it was so deep and so long," Kafoury said.
Michigan Coach on Leave, Investigated for 'Computer Access Crimes'
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University of Michigan co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss has been placed on leave, as the school's police department investigates a "report of computer access crimes" that occurred in December at Schembechler Hall, the team's football facility.
Alabama Basketball Player Charged With Murder in Shooting Death
Alabama basketball player Darius Miles has been arrested on murder charges in connection with the shooting death of a 23-year-old woman.
Northwestern Initiates Investigation into Alleged Football Hazing
Northwestern University has initiated an investigation into an allegation of hazing within its football program, the school said Wednesday...
Contractor Accused of Stealing $2K Worth of Equipment from Fitness Studio
A contractor hired to remodel a fitness studio in Forest Park, Ohio, instead allegedly stole equipment from the business...
Former Player Reaches $100K Settlement in Kneeling Retaliation Suit
Former Virginia Tech women's soccer player Kiersten Hening, allegedly forced off the team for refusing to kneel before a game, has settled her federal lawsuit against coach Charles "Chugger" Adair, according to Hening's attorney.
Former USC Official Sentenced to Six Months in Admissions Fraud Case
Former University of Southern California senior associate athletic director Donna Heinel was sentenced to six months in prison Friday for using her position to facilitate students' admission as purported athletic recruits in exchange for money.
Texas Fires Basketball Coach Beard Amid Domestic Violence Charge
University of Texas head men's basketball coach Chris Beard was fired Thursday, less than one month after the school suspended him without pay following his arrest on a domestic family violence charge.


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Why are women so unhappy?
2014-08-24 /0 Comments/in Interesting /by Andy Chalkley
According to an NHS survey, women are more miserable than men for almost their entire lives and are happier only after the age of eighty-five. The Sunday Times reports that increasing numbers of British persons are reporting consistent unhappiness. This Health Survey found that women were more likely to report severe problems at almost every age. Twenty-eight percent of women between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four have mental health problems extreme enough to count as a disorder, compared to sixteen percent for men.
Economists Betsy Stevenson and Justin Wolfers in their provocative paper: 'The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness' report that although women's life circumstances have improved greatly over the past few decades by most objective measures, their happiness has declined—both in absolute terms and relative to men's happiness. They state: "measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is found across various datasets… Relative declines in female happiness have eroded a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men." They suggest that 'progress' has been extraordinary. Educational attainment has risen and now surpasses that of males. Women have gained an increased control over fertility. Domestic appliances has freed women from 'domestic drudgery'. Women's freedoms have expanded. they write that: "Female labor force participation has risen to record levels both absolutely and relative to that of men." But here is the catch. They have swallowed the propaganda. 'Working in the house' was not 'drudgery', it was joy. Working in an office is drudgery. Women were pushed into the workforce by propaganda and are now suffering the same problems that were previously suffered by males. This:
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It is not appropriate for Betsy to state: "women's life circumstances have improved greatly over the past few decades by most objective measures." Work is not fun. Work is work. You may enjoy your job, but you will be lucky if you do. Most working people wait all day for the siren so that they can go home to the family and spend time with the children or whatever, which is what women were doing before the brainwashing wave by those males that funded and promoted feminism.
Even the argument about 'increased control over fertility' was a major benefit to males. They could have more sex with reduced consequences. Thus males could put social pressure on females to 'lighten up' and have sex as there were no consequences. Sex was now for male enjoyment rather than procreation. Akerlof, Yellen, and Katz (1996) point out that the 'sexual freedom' enabled by the release of the birth control pill benefited males by increasing the pressure on females to have sex outside of marriage. This significantly reduced women's bargaining power in the sexual marketplace. Previously, a 'shotgun marriage' was expected in the event of an unwanted pregnancy. Sex occurred between inexperienced young couples on the basis that: "If you get me pregnant — you marry me."
Adding to the problem of female unhappiness is the fact that women tend to worry about the well-being of their families. Thus, being away from home and family is not the ideal situation for mothers. It was illogical propaganda from the start. Marxism, feminism, cultural Marxism, political correctness are all logical ideals that entirely have no heart. The logic does not consider thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
Men were under pressure in the workplace. The extreme economic demands placed on males to provide were linked to higher stress among men. Women are now learning that work is not the utopia that was only available to males. The propaganda declared that males were taking all the jobs. The reality was that males didn't really desire to work five days a week. They were forced to provide for a family and had the decency not to require their spouse to do the same. It was also the only way that they were going to get into the knickers of a female. Work hard — get a girl. Feminism gave it away for free.
Maureen Dowd of The New York Times. notes that a number of major studies indicate that "women are getting gloomier and men are getting happier." She poses: "Did the feminist revolution end up benefiting men more than women?" Feminist Susan Faludi had the answer to that: "The woman's movement wasn't about happiness." Perhaps that was why patriarchy was supported by women. Patriarchy pushed the men into the awful state of the workforce and got men to run the nation entirely for the benefit of women so that women could stay at home and play with the children. Some fool suggested that women had been deprived of the opportunity of participation in the awful workplace. Education itself is no excitement. Education persuades one to use neocortex logic to over-ride reptilian instinct, feelings, and emotions. I know. They did it to me. They cooked my brain and gave me an obsession with success. It gave me an obsession with perfectionism and made me analytical in my thinking on any topic. It thus encouraged me to override emotion with logic. I have spent a lifetime attempting to reverse this situation. When I was young, they were only doing this to males. They are now doing it too females.
Many people report that feminism has been stunningly successful. Successful at what? Pushing women into the workforce! Stressing women with the provisioning requirement. Pushing women onto anti-depressants! Making women sexually available! Feminists accuse women who decide to avoid this nonsense and stay at home with their children as "letting down the team." I have taken four months holiday this year. It beats working all year by a long way. Why would anybody want to work when others will do it for them? Men were quite happy working all their lives and giving their income to a wife. Men were dumb enough to give their life's effort to support a woman and children.
Change does not mean progress. Change can give the illusion of progress. Women have not progressed. The feminist propaganda demanded a complete social, moral, and cultural revolution.
"Right to happiness" was never a component of Marxism, communism, nor its rehashed form called feminism. Same rhetoric, different bogey-man. Formerly it was the wealthy oppressing the poor workers then it was males oppressing women — except that is was a lie. In Wales, when mine deaths became problematic, the solution was to ban women and children from working down mines. That was not to oppress women and children it was to ensure that only the males were oppressed. It was no illegal to oppress women and children in mine work. This was not to disadvantage women. When those with the ability to subvert the democratic process engineer a war, it was not the oppression of women that released them from the draft and the likelihood of death by agony with a bayonet wound to the belly on the battlefront.
The frivolous battles for affordable childcare is a child minding service to keep the women oppressed in work. Yet it is considered a win for women.
When young, girls are told that they can fly to the moon and become CEOs. Boys are not told this. We are told to work hard and if we are very lucky we may get a job. Very few males get to the moon or become CEOs but we don't complain about 'glass ceilings'. If a girl doesn't get the job she wants there is an apparent glass ceiling that only she can see. This invisible glass ceiling was apparently created by males which makes me guilty by association. But I have often had women in senior positions above me and they are welcome to it. We suffer from stress in power positions. I'll happily stay as the worker and leave the superiors to the stress punishment. I often say to girls: "You can have all the jobs if you want them. We didn't want them in the first place. Males natural state is to be lazy and cause trouble." So it is perhaps not wise for society not to keep the male populous busy at work just to keep them from causing trouble. You must remember that we are descendants of particularly violent animals. Civilisation has tamed the beast in the man in a process called upbringing. If the 'upbringing' process conducted by mothers and others fails, we have a backup of a jail system. The preferred option is a quality upbringing for males to keep them from troubling the females. We are born with testicles that ache to be used. The civilization process harnessed males energy by tying one man to one woman. The process requires a carefully crafted upbringing by a mother (a woman) with support from an indoctrinated male, to inculcate the young males that they should respect women, never hit a woman, and work to support a woman. This procedure enables women to enjoy womanhood unhindered by the bland drudgery of the everyday work environment. Telling girls that they can be CEOs lines them us for disappointment as they never get to reach what has been deemed 'their full potential'. You can keep your dreams of 'full potential'. I'm going on holiday.
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Why oh why am I even thinking about this?
Update: Glad I did it, but OUCH! Forgotten how hard it is. A PW for 10k by some margin, but fully expected!
1st race of 2010!! Loved it!!:-) great race, great scenery, fab marshalls n goodies at the end Ran together as a team of tutu fairies making it more fun!!


A fearkiller: not as fear-ish or killer-ish as it sounds.
Now that you've read the above definition, forget it.
Forget you ever saw it. The words after it, too.
Back to reality. October, 2014.
We just heard this "fearkiller" word. Let's think about this word.
Cue dramatic music. That guy who does all the trailers that need his moody, throaty voice starts to speak.
We cast some white guy, handsome-ish. Stockyish.
Nope. Just got a call from the Finance guys. Need the actress to be white, too.
Can't you just see that story?
I wish I lived in a world where the first definition would be the one that naturally came to everyone's mind instead of the second movie idea.
The average person in this world would hear the word "fearkiller" and think of, say a doctor or a teacher.
Basically, a world where fear doesn't live in the collective headspace like it does right now.
That's my driver for writing the Fearkiller series.
The word itself is about taking negatives and turning them into a positive—not a super-charged negative.
Fearkiller (Volume 1) is, partially, about a guy who begins the story in the frame of mind that would embrace the second fearkiller idea, then he learns that the first concept is more accurate.
Unfortunately, he committed the unforgivable sin as the first step towards learning this fact. Which was a good character for helping arrive at the positive meaning. He gets to tell the reader everything from the point of view of a true outsider.
All of us are inside the circle, he isn't any longer. He can look in a window and see all of us from points of view we can't see.
Since I put the book out, people have asked me why this guy had to be a killer and the reason is that I needed an outsider to look back at that decade and its unique strain of fear.
As I was writing the first draft of Volume 1 back in April–May 2010, the Tea Party was in its infancy. The ugly energy that swept the GOP to win big in 2010 was ramping up. (They won that election by deploying an insidious, racist, sexist, awful strain of fear.) This was back when Donald Trump still had plenty of listeners when he questioned our president's birth certificate.
Plus, our defense mechanisms to fight all of this weren't as built up as they are now.
This was back when we all still went to bed shocked about the events of the day.
On top of all of the ugly energy from the world stage, we were stressed about jobs and earning money. That energy brought out all sorts of ugliness from people back then.
When I began Fearkiller (Volume 1), all I had was a word that wasn't the word it appeared to be on the surface. I wanted to dig for the meaning. And here we are, I just put the sequel out.
I want to say more and blog more about both Fearkiller (Volume 1) and Notes from Trillionaire Island: Fearkiller (Volume 2) in the next few weeks.
**2018 update: The Fearkiller Two Volume Set is now available. Get both books in one Kindle. I am donating $.50 from each purchase to Rock the Vote.
But thanks for listening to this post. I've been wanting to say this thought about the word fearkiller for a while.
The world has enough negative words.
This word "fearkiller" isn't one of them.


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Contest architecture
Benny Moldovanu, Aner Sela
A contest architecture specifies how the contestants are split among several sub-contests whose winners compete against each other (while other players are eliminated). We compare the performance of such dynamic schemes to that of static winner-take-all contests from the point of view of a designer who maximizes either the expected total effort or the expected highest effort. For the case of a linear cost of effort, our main results are: (1) If the designer maximizes expected total effort, the optimal architecture is a single grand static contest. (2) If the designer maximizes the expected highest effort, and if there are sufficiently many competitors, it is optimal to split the competitors in two divisions, and to have a final among the two divisional winners. Finally, if the effort cost functions are convex, the designer may benefit by splitting the contestants into several sub-contests, or by awarding prizes to all finalists.
Journal of Economic Theory
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2004.10.004
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ALS is going to kill me, but it's also teaching me to savor life
When I was shot in Vietnam and my leg amputated, I thought I'd met my biggest challenge. But Lady ALS is unlike any antagonist I have encountered.
ALS is going to kill me, but it's also teaching me to savor life When I was shot in Vietnam and my leg amputated, I thought I'd met my biggest challenge. But Lady ALS is unlike any antagonist I have encountered. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2BOlI1q
Phil Avillo, York Daily Record Opinion Published 8:00 a.m. ET Dec. 9, 2017
Phil Avillo, York, Pa. December 2017.(Photo: Chris Dunn, York Daily Record)
A malevolent mistress moved in with me permanently more than two years ago. I call her Lady ALS because even some of the most avowed enemies treat each other respectfully.
She has made her presence felt every day. She envelops and is entwined through every fiber of my body. She has wasted my muscles, leaving sacks of skin hanging loosely from my bones. She sleeps with me. She eats with me. She bathes with me. She dresses with me. She writes with me. She reads with me. She will die with me.
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The arrival of Lady ALS made me think of other challenges I've faced. The first time was competing on my high school football and lacrosse teams. In those early days, I had to challenge myself to keep up with my teammates, to run as hard and as fast as they did, and I discovered I loved doing that. College athletics did the same thing for me, pushing me further and further to my physical limits.
Nothing, however, compared with my six weeks of Marine Corps boot camp. At age 17, in my freshman year in college, I enlisted in a Marine Corps officer training program, and the following summer I arrived at boot camp in Quantico, Va. Never had I experienced anything as demanding, yet as fulfilling, as I did during that proving time. I did it again two years later and realized how much I relished the challenges.
Then came active duty as a 2nd lieutenant, trained and assigned as an infantry platoon leader in the First Marine Division. Soon after, I completed air reconnaissance school and deployed to Vietnam as a recon air observer, flying combat missions. The bullet struck me less than six months later, while we were flying low and fast over an enemy position. Doctors amputated my left leg above the knee, and shortly afterwards pseudomonas meningitis struck, a deadly infection that pushed me into a delirious state for several weeks. Following this sequence of events, I decided that if I could meet all these challenges, I could overcome anything.
For nearly 50 years, with the aid of my family, many friends, the Veterans Administration, and Marine Corps, I became a vibrant, physically active member of my community, never dwelling on what I could no longer do, but always looking forward to what I could accomplish. I walked again. I coached on fields and courts for over 25 years. I danced, I skied, I golfed. I competed as a Masters level swimmer. I went back to school and earned a Ph.D. in history and then taught standing at the front of a classroom for 37 years. I walked through many great cities, including San Francisco, New York, Rome, Paris and London. I lived life to the fullest and wholly expected to do so until my death.
But I hadn't counted on Lady ALS.
She is unlike any antagonist I have encountered. Like a wayward lover, she insists on being with me, but defiantly demands her own way. We quarrel with each other. We make up with each other. She recognizes that my anger will flare at her ever more frequently as her presence becomes more and more entrenched. Like an ill-fated lover, I have reconciled myself to her interminable grip.
Reconciliation, how is that possible? This insidious roommate has only one purpose — to kill me.
Yes, I know that emphatically.
What I also know and have come to appreciate is that Lady ALS has offered me a clear perspective of my future. She has entered deep into my soul to remind me of my own mortality. She has promised to deliver me to the destiny of my birth, the destiny for all mortals.
Glimpses of that outcome have appeared to me over my lifetime, having witnessed the deaths of many friends and relatives. But, while they had been reminding me of my final destination without offering any hint of how and when it would occur, ironically, Lady ALS illuminates that path, giving me a wonderful gift with which to prepare for that moment. It is almost as if she has said to me, "All people have their own personal and private apocalypse. Yours differs because you know it is coming, and all who know you know it is almost here. My purpose is not to increase your suffering, but to work closely with you as I ease you away."
She has kept her promise, but it carries a high price. The knowledge of my final journey has been enlightening, yet terrifying. After receiving the diagnosis, my understanding and familiarity with ALS grew considerably, and I feared every loss before it arrived. Most unimaginable to me was the thought of losing the use of my hands and my arms. How would I hold my wife's hand? Wrap my arms around her? My own children? Their families? Frolic with my grandchildren? Hold and read books, the substance of my adult life?
The decline continues. Because of her, I am a quadriplegic, unable to move any part of my body, paralyzed from the neck down. And now, she has begun dismantling my remaining strength above my shoulders. Swallowing, talking, breathing, all will diminish until I am unable to speak, eat, breathe. She has held back, stripping me of my remaining humanity until this very last phase. The pace has quickened.
Given these devastating realities, it appears she has abandoned her promise to provide me with a gentle exit. Not so. She has shown significant compassion by providing me with a pain-free decline. And she forced me to reach deeply into myself to locate once again the strength to carry me through the last days of my life.
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Few abilities are left me, but I still have my voice, and it has become my vehicle for dictating this entire narrative. A more amiable and helpful friend, Dragon Diction, whom I call Dragon Lady, transcribes my speech into these words. She also helps me read and watch all things digital, as well as stay in touch through email with friends and relatives. I retain my mind and my eyes and my ears. Finally, my taste remains: while my ability to eat solid foods has ended, I can still appreciate a glass of wine every evening, and every night I enjoy four or five pieces of dark chocolate, savoring each as it melts in my mouth.
I celebrate what I do have. I live in every single moment, taking nothing for granted. My heart is filled with gratitude for the life I have been privileged to live.
Still, I am not a solitary figure who has reached this place alone. Many other sources have fueled my inner strength over the entirety of my life. These include institutions such as the Veterans Administration, Philadelphia ALS Association, Penn State Hershey Medical Center's ALS clinic, and the Paralyzed Veterans of America, each of which has provided extraordinary support.
On the personal level, our many friends around the country and in York County where we have lived for over four decades, as well as the York College of Pennsylvania community, have rallied individually and collectively to temper this storm. They continue to do so.
I am most grateful for my family. Three children and their spouses, and six glorious grandchildren provide my wife, Linda, and me with great joy.
But no one has provided me with more inner strength beyond my ability to comprehend than Linda, to whom I've been married 49 years. Her strength has revealed itself every day in her total devotion to me and our family. After all, as she is fond of telling people, when she met me in the Philadelphia Naval Hospital I weighed about 130 pounds, was missing a front tooth and a leg, and was going bald. She has continued her dedication every day, every week, and every year since. She is now, and she has always been, the great love of my life.
In the time since that insidious Lady ALS has become my second and most unwelcome lover, the true love of my life, Linda, has continued to brighten my world and inhabit my soul. Together, Linda and I turn our eyes and our hearts to the love we share day-by-day, hour-by-hour, for all the remaining moments we have together.
Philip J. Avillo is a retired professor of history at York College of Pennsylvania.
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On December 10, Bloodkin will welcome a host of guests at their seventh annual Bloodkin & Friends event in their hometown of Athens, GA, including former Widespread Panic drummer Todd Nance.
This will be the first public post-Panic appearance for Nance, who officially left the group early this year. Nance will join his fellow Athens residents for the show, which will also feature Jerry Joseph and many more.


Many of the prospective students around the world focus their attention on United Kingdom and United States when it comes to taking up an MBA program from an international study destination. No doubt, they're of the highest quality and provide a practical real work setting experience to the students, but that is not to stay that other popular study nations of the world are any lesser of the providers of global education. Europe, especially Italy, has gained a global reputation as being one of the hot spots for students to pursue an MBA degree in a specialization of their choice. What more can an eager student want than to learn the finesse of managerial skills in English (the global business language), while learning a new language (Italian) at the same time and availing the long term benefits that wait in vicinity. Add to that each place coming alive with the history attached to it, a vibrant food culture, and panoramic scenery; you wouldn't want to miss the chance, would you? Proceed further to get information about the MBA programs in Italy: the course structure, the admission requirements, and the application procedure.
The MBA programs offered in Italy with their elaborate theoretical and practical approach provide the students with an international learning experience and the degree, which is recognized by employers on a global scale.
MBA programs are offered by many universities and private business schools in Italy and are generally of 1 year duration. The unique program model not only imparts the students with theoretical and practical concepts of international management, but blends creativity with solid entrepreneurship and harnesses decision making and management concepts. The regular full time and part time program is generally divided into three stages: the first consists of core curriculum which is compulsory for every student; in the second stage each student can choose elective subjects according to individual interest; and in the third stage students get a chance to make use of all the knowledge by working on a business project or internship. That's not all; these programs are tailor made to suit the needs of the adults who're working or for whom time or money is a constraint as there are full time MBA, part time MBA, executive MBA, distant leaning MBA, and online MBA programs that are on the offer. And for a student to be eligible for an MBA program in Italy, he/she must hold a 1st cycle degree (bachelor's degree) from Italy or an equivalent qualification of 3 years duration from an overseas country plus work experience and motivation to go the distance.
Quantitative Methods for Managers; Applied Microeconomics; Strategic Management; Financial Accounting; Corporate Finance; Marketing Management; International Business Management; Managerial Accounting; Operations & Supply Chain Management; International Political Analysis; Macroeconomics and Global Markets; Organization & Human Resources Management; International Marketing; Strategic Innovation; Business Planning and Venture Finance; Managing in Emerging Markets; New Product Development; Valuations; Financial Derivatives; International Marketing Research; Business Negotiations; Risk Management; E-Commerce and Internet Marketing; Foreign Language – Italian.
Students are required to submit original or certified copies of the transcripts of grades and other related documents acquired from the college or university in which they have successfully completed the course. Details like grades in individual subjects, the type of degree, date of graduation should all be covered in the documents.
Students should convert the marks or grades obtained in the previous qualification according to the grading system that is followed in Italy. College or university authorities can be contacted by the students for the same.
The certified copies of the transcripts and related documents should be certified by a person or authority that is recognized by the law of the student's home country. It would help if the students can submit the documents translated in Italian language from a qualified and recognized translator or authority, along with the ones in original language of course.
Most of the MBA programs in Italy are offered in English language; therefore, it is necessary for the students to be proficient in all forms of English language: reading, writing, speaking, and understanding. If English is not any student's first language, he/she must appear and clear an IELTS or TOEFL exam organized in the student's home country.
Passing the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is a must for a student to be eligible for an MBA program in Italy. Although there's no terms on the minimum score required for admission, a high score is expected out of the student.
On a general basis, the universities and business schools in Italy prefer their students to have a few years of work experience. Although, freshers with exceptional academic background, test scores, and strong personality are also admitted. Those who're experienced are required to submit a detailed CV and work experience letter or certificate.
A letter of recommendation or reference from the people, whom the student knows professionally or academically, also needs to be provided to the university or college authorities. Two are recommended.
Finally, all students have to clear a personal interview conducted by the university or college authorities to secure an admission.
Students should begin with the university or college searching well before the closing dates of receiving the applications.
Applications can either be filled online or be downloaded and used as regular forms; either way, the supported documents and transcripts will have to be airmailed to the university or college.
It will take a month or two for the university or college authorities to get back to the student on the validity of the application and the documents.
The tuition fee for an MBA program varies according to the type of program (full time, part time etc) and university or business school. However, students can expect a fee structure of anywhere between € 20,000 and € 40,000. Financial aid, scholarships, and fee waivers are also provided.


All first graders and some third graders picked up litter around the school in honor of Green Up Day. Green Up Day was started by Vermont Governor Deane Davis in 1970. Green Up Day is the first Saturday in May. Its main goal is to have everyone volunteer time to keep Vermont clean. Both classes filled up two or three bages to the brim. We at CES really appreciate all their hard work these students!


Exceler8 Baas Framework™ is well suited for mobile first start-ups who wish to get to MVP stage fast, without compromising architectural scalability. We call it a framework, as contrary to other BaaS services, it does not lock you into a particular infrastructure or service provider.
Our DevOps practice will ensure that it runs on the cloud infrastructure of your choice and will ensure a state of the art software pipeline, enabling developers to push new features to market fast. Our UX & Front-end Solutions practice will ensure a great user journey on the channel of your choice.
Backend as a service (BaaS) is a cloud computing service model that serves as the middleware that provides developers with ways to connect their Web and mobile applications to cloud services via application programming interfaces (API) and software developers' kits (SDK). Compared to other service models in the cloud computing environment, BaaS is rather new and there is a limited number of available providers.
Backend as a service is also known as mobile backend as a service (MBaas), BaaS features include cloud storage, push notifications, server code, user and file management, social networking integration, location services, and user management as well as many backend services. These services have their own APIs, allowing them to be integrated into applications with relative ease. Providing a constant way to manage backend data means that developers don't have to develop another backend for each service that the applications use or access. Some BaaS features are similar to those of other service models like SaaS, IaaS and PaaS, but BaaS is unique in specifically addressing the needs of Web and mobile applications.
Although BaaS features a lot of benefits, it is also important to take the construction of the user-interface (UI) into consideration because it is in direct communication with end users. The UI's job is to connect the application to any third party or proprietary APIs connected to the backend. The key downside to BaaS services is vendor lock-in. Exceler8 Baas is a framework in the sense that it is comprised of a number of docker containerized micro-services built with robust and mainstream tech stacks ensuring as much flexibility in regards to choice of infrastructure (own private cloud, public cloud or hybrid).


Over the weekend I made several attempts at making a Habanero salsa that wouldn't blow my head off. You can easily adjust the heat by roasting more Habaneros and adding in till you get the heat you want. This is now my favorite salsa. Already ate a pint of it and it's only Tuesday.
Roast first 9 ingredients in oven or on grill. Peel and boil sliced carrots. Add everything to a food processor or blender and remaining ingredients. Blend till desired texture. Makes about 3 pints.


That's rather fetching, isn't it?
It's hard to believe it really, but Toyota's family SUV, the RAV4, has been around a long time. Today, the 5th-generation model has received its big reveal ahead of the New York Motor Show, where it'll be shown to the public for the first time. The new RAV4 sits on new Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA), and as a result, enjoys a raft of evolutionary improvements that will make it more compelling than ever.
The RAV4 may have been the king of mid-sized crossovers through the 90s and early 00s, but nowadays it faces stiff competition from all sides. Not only is there the Honda CR-V to contend with, but there are newer options in the segment in the form of the Hyundai Tucson, Kia Sportage, and Mazda CX-5. But we'd say that the new RAV4 has the chops to dominate the pack, even if evaluated from just looks.
We're pleasantly surprised with the design language that Toyota's gone with with the 5th RAV4, as it has the right hints and nods towards its all-conquering Land Cruiser models, while remaining entirely contemporary. This is a big, beefy SUV, and it won't let you forget it.
The dark body cladding is generously applied throughout the lower half of the car to emphasise its all-terrain capabilities. The new RAV4 is now 5mm shorter than the outgoing car, though it sits on a 30mm longer wheelbase. As a result, Toyota claims that cabin packaging has been greatly improved, to the benefit of passengers throughout.
Further to the benefit of passengers it the cabin, which looks absolutely lovely. Cubby spaces are aplenty, and there's an electronic parking brake in here that frees up enough room for side-by-side cupholders. There's also a standard 7.0-inch touchscreen infotainment unit with Apple CarPlay and Amazon Alexa, with an 8.0-inch unit available optionally. Worth noting though, Android Auto is not offered on either system. Boo.
Under the bonnet, you'll find one of two Dynamic Force engines. Either a 2.5-litre four-cylinder petrol mill with an eight-speed automatic or a 2.5-litre petrol-electric hybrid that uses a CVT gearbox is employed, though power goes to all four corners through one of three all-wheel drive systems. There will be a total of five petrol variants and four petrol-electric hybrid variants on offer of the RAV4.
For Australia, we'll get both of the aforementioned drivetrains as well as a 2.0-litre petrol 4-pot, which will be offered with both the 8-speed direct-shift automatic as well as a manual.
There's AWD-i for the hybrid models, a typical on-demand all-wheel drive system (where 100% of the power gets sent to the front wheels until wheel-slip is detected), as well as a new system called 'Dynamic Torque Vectoring All-Wheel Drive with Rear Driveline Disconnect.' DTVAWDw/RDD (yes, we're being facetious) can send up to 50% of the power to the rear when needed, and then move the power left to right depending on where it's most effective. And to reduce fuel consumption, a clutch can disengage one of the axles (either front or rear) when not needed.
A statement released by Toyota Australia has detailed that the new car will come as standard with a raft of advanced driver assistance systems, including things like a pre-collision system, pedestrian detection, autonomous emergency braking, "all-speed" radar cruise control (presumably meaning it can crawl in traffic jams), as well as lane-departure mitigation and high-beam assist.
Toyota Australia has reiterated that the RAV4 is set for a 2019 launch, though we expect to see it come sooner rather than later. The RAV4 is one of the company's most popular offerings in our market, with over 20,000 units delivered in 2017 alone. And rather than slowing down, the RAV4 achieved record monthly sales in both January and February of this year, culminating in the highest sales for the first two months in the 24-year history of the nameplate. Impressive stuff.
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DR. ELAINE INGHAM, WOMEN WORKING IN THE WORLD OF PLANTS #3
This week, in the midst of chaos and questioning, Cultivating Place's Women's History Month interviews get to the very basics of horticultural work with soil.
The soil world is integral—foundational—to the plant world. Since the 1980s, mainstream academic soil science has been transformed into a search for biological discovery. It is a fundamental shift from a science that seemed blindered by theories of the Green Revolution from the 1920s through the 1970s. The term Green Revolution refers to innovations intended to increase food supply around the world specifically through introductions of new, often dwarfed, sometimes genetically modified, varieties of cereal and grain crops developed for high yield, along with introductions of synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides, often derived from the chemical byproducts of World War II.
The Green Revolution asserted increased production of and reduced pest and disease damage to crops managed with these manmade inputs over traditional agricultural methods. Beginning in the late 1970s, however, more voices started questioning the long-term results and benefits versus serious disadvantages of these methods. Many of the voices raised in opposition were women's voices, among them Dr. Elaine Ingham, founder of Soil Food Web, Inc.
Elaine's work in microbiology at the Colorado State University, Fort Collins in the late 1970s through 1980s began illuminating the incredibly complex living systems at work in healthy soil. Elaine's work is strongly associated with the concept of a "soil food web." She shares more about it in our conversation today.
Join us again next week when we speak with Christin Geall of Cultivated by Christin, about her new book on life, flowers, and the Elements of Floral Style out this month from Princeton Architectural Press.
There are soooooo many ways people engage in and grow from the cultivation of their places.
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- LEAH PENNIMAN, SOUL FIRE FARM & FARMING WHILE BLACK
Thinking out Loud this week...
Oh mercy – hello to you all wherever you might be listening from – your desk, your living room, your garden, a drive or a walk. What a crazy crazy week. am I right? How are you? I hope you are all holding up in your own ways – holding each other up in as many ways as you can and are able – I'm thinking here of my conversation a few weeks back with Amy Merrick and her description of the supportive crowd of life that is a wildflower meadow and how they hold one another up….think and breathe as supportively as we can I think is a very good mantra just now.
When I recorded my notes to you last week, I will still in the midst of my March book tour, and meeting so many wonderful warm interesting gardening folk at the Ecological Landscape Alliance annual conference at the University of Amherst, at Long Hill house and garden, under the care of the Trustees of the Reservation in Beverly Mass, at Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum, and then at Blithewold house and garden in Bristol, MA on Sunday the 8th…
All my scheduled speaking dates from March 10ththrough the middle of April more or less have been canceled and postponed to a later date, which is the safe and respectful thing to do I believe.
I can't imagine how many things have been canceled in your lives as well.
I want to say right now that to meet the hundreds of you that I did meet was such sublime joy and affirmation. The conversations, the sense of connection and the sense of affirming empowerment from being in community with other like-minded gardener and plant loving people was a ballast for the storm that is now upon us. There were those of you who hugged me, who cried when describing the meaning of these conversations to you and your sense of yourself and your life. It is no exaggeration to say that I cried more than once myself. I love what I do – speaking to people of such scope and range and thought and amplifying their voices and work out into our growing world, but as I joke when I speak to groups in person – I mostly conduct my conversations on my own sitting in a recording studio with Matt on the other side of the glass from me running the board for the recording. I rarely meet you all in person – so to look out at sea of faces and feel the connection in person is something different all together. I am sorry to not get to so many of these interesting conversations in person over the next 6 weeks, but you will keep hearing from me every week, as usual. So there's that. I would love to hear from you at any time – please reach out on Instagram or Facebook and just check in.
Because while so much has been canceled, I think I'd rather focus on what has not been canceled. Spring has not been canceled- the redwing blackbird and pussywillows in the hedgerow reminded me of that just this morning. Kindness, and care, compassion and humanity have not been canceled in any way no matter the prescribed 4 – 6 feet of social distancing suggested. The trees leafing out, and our ability to center ourselves in the fresh air of each moment and remember what is valuable to us and to those we love – including the trees, the bees waking to the season, the sharing of a flower or an herbal bundle for healing - these have not been canceled.
Another thing that was not canceled, even though it was adjusted and adapted to in this ever-shifting moment we find ourselves - was my conversation with the writer and gardener Jamaica Kincaid at the New York Botanical Garden on Friday the 13th.
While the hundreds of you registered to attend that day were not able to be there in person with us, the New York Botanical Garden found another way. Under the creative and resourceful leadership of an amazing crew of women including President Dr. Carrie Ribora Barratt, Vice President for Continuing and Public Education, Barbara Corcoran, and Director of Adult Education, Lisa Whitmer, the NYBG pivoted on a dime and rounded up videographer Kate and others to record and tape me and Jamaica in conversation talking about the book and the role of horticulture and gardening in our time – and historically.
As I wrote in The Earth in Her Hands - Women have been the carriers and sowers of seeds and the tenders of seedlings for a very, very long time, although for a great deal of that time these same women did not have the time or the means and ways necessary to document that history fully - if at all. There is no telling the whole story of women making their lives with plants or women making the lives of plants a broader field. I can't even superficially acknowledge all of the women in plants who've cultivated this territory before us, except in so far as the compost-rich soil they left behind in a diversity ways is what germinated the seeds that became these vibrant women I'm writing about today.
Likewise, I cannot tell the whole story of women in plants today. I can tell a partial story for a few (75 to be exact) of them and hope that together, interwoven, they prismatically reflect the broader story of women growing this world through their work with and in plants.
Here's one example of how this conversation helps to shed light where it might not have been so bright previously: to each woman I interviewed for the book I asked the same set of questions. Among these questions was one asking for women who had inspired or informed their own way of growing/gardening. Jamaica Kincaid offered out the name of Sacajawea, the Indigenous woman who led Lewis and Clark in their Western collecting expedition for Thomas Jefferson.
While Lewis, Clark and Jefferson were the ones to claim credit for the many plant "discoveries" and "introductions" precipitated by the Lewis & Clark expedition, it would have been Sacajawea's knowledge, guidance, and intuition upon which this ALL relied and yet she got very little to no credit or benefit to speak of.
The citing of Sacajawea was one of my favorite responses to this question. While on tour talking about Jamaica Kincaid's work and her choosing Sacajawea as woman of inspiration the world should know more about, another woman in plants, Mary Ann Newcomer, of Boise, Idaho was delighted to share with me that an Idahoan botanist friend of hers, Edna Rey-Vizgirdas, working with another botanist Wilson and others, had recently studied the lewisias (also known as bitter roots) of Idaho, which "were previously considered to be part of the CA species, Lewisia kelloggii, and determined them to in fact be different. Edna was given the honor of choosing the name for the newly identified and described species, which she says was "one of the highlights of my career! And the name is now: Lewisia sacajaweana B.L. Wilson & E. Rey-Vizgirdas.
While this is perhaps not a perfect next step in the naming of things, it's a good step in the right direction.
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Believe it or not, in the almost-seven years that we have been together, it is only at these times that we are most peaceful and harmonious. We probably have already adjusted to the life of being married. It is also probably because we both individually decided to stop worrying. Throw all worries up in the air. We only have one life to live. We better live it! We are enjoying each other's company more than the world. We stopped looking at each other as the enemy. In this world, all we got is only each other.


SunPower has again set a new solar power panel efficiency record, as validated by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). After achieving 22.8 percent efficiency for its X-Series solar panel earlier this year, SunPower has reached 24.1 percent efficiency – surpassing the previous world record for the highest efficiency of a solar panel using silicon cells.
"With greater efficiency, we can fit more watts on the roof with the outstanding reliability of the SunPower X-Series solar panel," said Peter Cousins, SunPower senior vice president, research, development and deployment. "SunPower's world record efficiency panels offer customers the best value for energy and superior aesthetics due to our unique architecture."
NREL rigorously evaluates renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies and maintains the industry's accepted chart of records. This module was made using laboratory solar cells of 25 percent mean efficiency and builds on the commercially available SunPower X-Series architecture, pushing the design to the next level.
"SunPower's X-Series panel was tested by our lab under standard test or reporting conditions," said NREL scientist Keith Emery, manager of the PV cell and module performance laboratory. "The module measured 11310.1 cm2 (aperture area) and had a power of 272.5 Watts. We recorded 24.1 percent efficiency, which is a new record for silicon module efficiency."
SunPower has a proud tradition of raising the bar on efficiency. In February, NREL tested and verified that a SunPower® X-Series solar panel reached 22.8 percent efficiency – a new world record among panels in production. Compared to conventional solar panels with efficiencies that range from 15 to 18 percent, a SunPower X-Series solar panel produces up to 70 percent more energy in the same space over the first 25 years.


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On Thursday 12th June, our 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Year Rounders teams all played matches against Redruth School at home.
All the girls played superbly with every team securing a victory. The 1st Year Rounders team had an astounding game, with all girls scoring at least 3 rounders each. Some excellent fielding by all the girls and outstanding hitting from captain Rebecca resulted in the girls winning 37 ½ – 4 ½.
Some of the top scorers were B. Cole, A. Ellis, F. Cameron-Webb, A. Pryor, M. Shields, E. Becconsall, A. Bebb and R. Trew.
Well done to all the girls who represented their team.


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My god, it's amazing. When the trailer started, with the helicopter, I imediatly thought Lego GTA.
Yeah, the trailer was epic.
Wait, what happened to the ground? IT's all… lumpy.
That's what I hate about Lego games! only certain things are made out of Lego's, it annoys me so much. If I made a Lego game everything would be made out of Lego's.
hey brad what's up i believe we have spoken before about pencil-in-demo issue if you don't remember that's fine i just wanted to inform you that lego games are really a heck-of-a-lot-of-fun after reading this (first impression) post i thought i should give you the heads up well talk to ya later bye brad.


Drug overdose deaths have more than doubled nationwide in the last 16 years, but not in New Jersey.
While both Pennsylvania and Delaware have seen rates climb since 1999, New Jersey's overdose death rate has remained steady over the years, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control study comparing rates during the period.
Heroin is the main culprit, tripling as the cause of death, but natural and semisynthetic opioids, like Oxycontin, are right behind, followed by synthetic opioids. Methadone is the one drug where there has been a decrease.
Today, non-Hispanic whites are dying from overdoses at 3.5 times the rate of 16 years ago.
The age group with the greatest percentage increase in overdose mortality is now aged 55 to 64.
Pennsylvania's rate of OD deaths puts the Keystone State at number five in the nation for drug deaths. Delaware makes the top 20 list for OD deaths. New Jersey's rate, on the other hand, has remained fairly level.
And drug mortality is down in 19 states.
Pennsylvania's drug deaths are way up over 16 years, New Jersey's remains about the same, and some state have managed reductions.
Dr. Priya E. Mammen, an emergency medicine physician at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, sees the heroin and opioid crises in real-time.
"Overdoses are more intense and more frequent," says Mammen, a member of Philadelphia's Task Force to Combat the Opioid Epidemic. She's been in practice as an ER doctor for a decade.
Today she sees patients who require multiple doses of naloxone, an antidote, because they have ingested other drugs or alcohol at the same time.
Philadelphia's heroin is known for its cheapness and purity, far cheaper than prescription opioid pills, she said, adding that she knows from sharing local data with other ER doctors that pill deaths are down in the city, while heroin mortality is up.
Locally, emergency room physicians used data they shared to develop their own protocols to reduce a reliance on pain pill prescriptions, years before similar guidelines were adopted nationally.
Mammen added that when new product hits the street, users often have adverse reactions because it may have additives and is not what addicts are accustomed to using.
While she has seen patients in North Philadelphia and South Philadelphia, one constant is that heroin is a particular problem among the city's white population.
She surmises that the increase in mortality among an older population from 16 years ago is due to its experience with chronic pain, which can lead to a pill dependence that outlasts their initial pain problem.
•	The age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2015 (16.3 per 100,000) was more than 2.5 times the rate in 1999 (6.1).
•	Drug overdose death rates increased for all age groups, with the greatest percentage increase among adults aged 55–64 (from 4.2 per 100,000 in 1999 to 21.8 in 2015). In 2015, adults aged 45–54 had the highest rate (30.0).
•	In 2015, the age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths among non-Hispanic white persons (21.1 per 100,000) was nearly 3.5 times the rate in 1999 (6.2).
•	In 2015, the percentage of drug overdose deaths involving heroin (25%) was triple the percentage in 1999 (8 percent).
• In 2015, 21 states had age-adjusted drug overdose rates that were statistically higher than the national rate.
•	Other states with rates that were statistically higher than the national rate of 16.3 per 100,000 included Rhode Island (28.2), Pennsylvania (26.3), Massachusetts (25.7), New Mexico (25.3), Utah (23.4), Tennessee (22.2), Connecticut (22.1), Delaware (22.0), Maine (21.2), Maryland (20.9), Michigan (20.4), Nevada (20.4), Indiana (19.5), Louisiana (19.0), Arizona (19.0), Oklahoma (19.0), and Missouri (17.9).
• Deaths from drug overdose involving heroin tripled nationwide from 8 percent in 2010 to 25 percent in 2015.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has made substance abuse a centerpiece of his last year as governor. He signed reforms into law last month, limiting the dispensing of opioids and expanding treatment.
Tom Wolf, the governor of Pennsylvania, has talked up reforms, but has not made headway with the state legislature and reforms have stalled.


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Cantonese Anthem: Locus Iste (此乃上帝之殿)
Instrumentation: 4-part mixed chorus (S.A.T.B.) and organ
Duration: ca. 4'30"
Language: Cantonese Chinese
Première Artists: The Choir of All Saints' Cathedral, Hong Kong
(Conductor: David Ho-yi Chan)
Remark: With sponsorship from CASH Music Fund, this piece is commissioned by All Saints' Cathedral, Hong Kong for the 90th anniversary of construction of the current church site
(By the courtesy of the Choir of All Saints' Cathedral, Hong Kong)
Score Preview: Contact the Composer
Text in Original Language:
這座聖殿是神之所創建,
是深奧莫測奇妙無比,
完美無缺。
願榮耀歸於聖父、聖子、聖靈,
起初如此,現今如此,將來亦如此,
永世無盡,阿們。
Since the missionaries from Europe and the United States came to evangelise in China, the translation of early hymns has been primarily literal. In the past twenty years or so, attempts have been made to translate with reference to the Cantonese dialect. Although not numerous, there have also been original creations of Cantonese spiritual songs that are influenced by pop culture.
Tones and their contours in Cantonese have been presented major obstacles in composing Cantonese choral works. As traditional sacred choral works from the West carry deep artistic nuances, it is not possible to perform with Chinese translation. As a result, the creation of Cantonese choral works mostly stops at only aiming for the melody to fit into the tonal inflection of Cantonese, but not other choral parts. The remained few choral works achieve the goals with parallel writings in music, but which destroy the space and lyricism between melody and harmony. There are also very few works with different choral parts simultaneously singing to different words, but which are difficult to differentiate clearly. The truth is, when phonetics and semantics are distorted, the audience will find it hard to appreciate.
The anthem for mixed voices This Place (Locus Iste) is commissioned by All Saints' Cathedral, Hong Kong in 2018 with sponsorship from CASH Music Fund. Premiered at the anniversary service of the Cathedral on All Saints' Day on 1st November 2018, it is written to commemorate the 90th anniversary of construction of the current church site. Based on the fruit of labour of predecessors, the composer has used counterpoint, rich harmonic syntax and an array of stratified treatments on text in order to compose a choral work that:
matches tonal inflections for all voice parts;
has audible texts for the audience;
is of a reasonable level of difficulty; and
derives melodies according to the linguistic tones of the adapted biblical text (albeit with just a little more tonal and rhythmic considerations), and connects them by building the musical structure coherently.
In order to facilitate bilingual presentation in churches, the composer has arranged the English version on the basis of the Cantonese version. All glory, honour and blessing be to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, world without end. Amen!


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New Milton Street MPD Gallery
A new gallery of photo's of Milton Street MPD, taken at the Kyle Model Railway Show a couple of weeks back can be found here
Exhibition Diary Page
We have created an Exhibition Diary page where 12AD's layouts will be on show.
If you would like to enquire about booking one of our layouts for your exhibition, please contact us using the form below...
New Announcements
There is nothing like a deadline to focus the mind. As mentioned in the previous post, Keith's un-named and un-built has been invited to the Kyle Model Railway show in May 2016. More details will appear in the New Layout Projects page.
Joe has decided to return to 4mm modelling after a brief fling with 7mm. A new layout is in the planning and details will again appear in the New Layout Projects page in due course.
Kyle Show Report & Latest Updates
Milton Street MPD was well received over at the Kyle show last weekend, which has resulted in an exhibition invite plus another potential invite.
The confirmed invite is to the Maryport Model Railway Show, to be held next April in Maryport, Cumbria. More details nearer the time.
At the Kyle show we received an invite to next years show for Keith Brown's as yet un-named layout. Un-named and un-built. Nothing like a deadline, see the New Layout Projects page for more info.
Due to personal reasons, Joe has decided not to pursue his proposed 7mm layout, Cold Blow Lane, see a forthcoming announcement for his latest project.
We are now just over a month away from the extended Eaglesham appearance at the Perth Model Railway Exhibition, 27th & 28th June 2015. The extensions are coming together very nicely with us just doing the final detailing and scenery touches.
If you haven't been to the Perth show before, come along, it is a fantastic show with a wide range of layouts and traders, along with demonstrations. It's a big show with small show friendliness!
Milton Street at Kyle Exhibition 17/18 May 2015