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New digital-only banks, such as Monzo, Starling and Atom seeking to break into the UK market will find the acquisition of customers a slow and challenging process, as consumers remain unconvinced that pure digital banks offer significant benefits over traditional rivals, according to financial services research and insight firm Verdict Financial.
Monzo, Atom and Starling Bank apps.
The company's latest report states that the hype surrounding financial technology – or fintech – over the last few years has failed to excite the UK public, with 61% of consumers having never heard of the concept, and only a fifth claiming to have used a fintech provider in the last 12 months.
"The new generation of mobile-only banks will have its work cut out to achieve a viable scale. Only a small minority of consumers strongly agree that these providers will offer better service, rates, or security than they receive from their existing banks, and well over half would prefer to avoid banks that lack a track record or do not have a high street presence.
Verdict Financial's report also says that, despite the current focus on online and mobile banking, branches remain an essential service channel. Although online is growing in significance as an acquisition channel, more than half of current accounts opened between 2013 and 2016 were arranged in-branch.


Throughout 2012 Karamel will be hosting a variety of evenings showcasing the delicious food and joyful music of Brazil.
To wet your appetite Karamel will be holding a Feijoada evening on Saturday 17th December 2011 with food prepared and served by guest chef Ricardo Arnostti.
Feijoada is a Brazilian speciality, a rich dish of black beans cooked with succulent cuts of pork. It will be served alongside Brazilian style rice, farofa (mandonica flour lightly fried with bacon), greens, oranges and Brazilian fejioada chilli sauce.


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These beautiful words by Horace; "A picture is a poem without the words" come to me every time when starting a new property project and it gets me excited.
In the property business we talk a lot about 'return on investment' (ROI), gross development value (GDV), and the numbers of rooms or units. We are trying to minimise cost by investing only in what's necessary rather that looking for opportunities to raise the value through selling the dream - not just bricks and mortar.
We are looking to maximise our profit by making sure we squeezing as much as possible from every square foot by reducing dead space and creating open plan living areas. We are using 2D drawings to present it to the planning committee and to investors and potential buyers. But does this really show the full potential of your development?
Can you occupy a person's mind space long enough to make them fall in love with your project, just with flat black lines on an A1 sheet of paper? Can they actually size up an apartment by looking at drawing in scale 1:50?
The beauty of using 3D modelling and CGI lies in building your apartments in a 'virtual space' firstly. You can place yourself inside the living room or bedroom and experience your work in 1:1 scale. You can play with finishes before the schedules are done and signed off.


Avoiding disasters by including Legal subject matter experts in agile/lean teams.
"I suggest you should rethink that" I replied.
Within a transformation program having legal subject matter experts (SMEs) work with the technologists also brings benefits. Let's look at a few agile principles and see how they fit into work streams with a legal element. Once you start to think about this as a proposition you may start wondering what aspect of technology does not have a legal element. Purchasing software, infrastructure, hardware and technology services in general have huge contractual considerations.
More often than not the contract comes at the very end of a work stream. The final stage before a major new system is installed or new network provision or new software or hardware installed. It comes as a massive 300 pages of closely typed obscure, dense, dry and difficult text. These immense boilerplate documents do not encourage reading let alone understanding. The stakeholders open it and then quickly fire it of to the legal department to check out. Here lays danger and disaster. Here are three real life examples where involving a legal expert using agile and lean principles in the management of a program would have avoided problems.
On moving into a new building and in receipt of some VC funding the company saw a chance to upgrade their IT infrastructure. They purchased a managed service for all their internal network. It aimed to provide virtualisation for the main office, the international centres and the field offices. While it was being implemented they continued to use the old servers in the old building.
Two years later they called in a consultancy in to look at their whole technology systems. The new virtual network was still not up and running. The about to retire very senior director, who had taken ownership for this purchase, and the operations director under who's watch it occurred on both started to get very twitchy when this work stream came under inspection.
"It is not in place yet, but we are pressing the suppliers" … "and we were very smart because we put a clause in the contract saying they did not get paid a penny until we were satisfied with the performance of the new network." said the purchasing director.
"Oh not too bad then." said the consultant "Their specification is really bad and they are charging you a fortune for the hardware that the VS resides on. Revise the specification to reflect what we are discovering about how your employees work. It would be much better for you rent functionality on their your suppliers hardware rather than leasing your own and having them run it.
They have have stitched you up like a kipper. As they have not been able to provide a working solution it is time to ditch them. Get legal to start the process".
Legal came back saying that the contract still stood even though the supplier had failed to deliver. How is that possible?
"There is no delivery date specified in the contract" says legal.
This was a £4m project and doomed for many reasons that were outside the scope of the legal department. Yet if legal had been operating within a framework of agile principles. If it had taken an iterative approach to forming the contractual relationship the consequences of shipwreck could be avoided. By breaking the whole contract into a series of requirements and having a user story for each requirement; segments that make sense can be delivered.
will allow each story to be evaluated in relation to other segments and its dependencies made visible and tested.
Once broken out of a single large waterfall document and into iterations segments be easily be seen by the business. If one of the iterations was limited to completion dates it would be clear to the procurement team that 'delivery date = 0'. By delivering this iteration the procurement team would see very easily that no completion date was set. They would be able to make a judgment on the consequences of this and ask for that to be changed.
The clause of 'non payment until satisfaction with the performance of the new network' appears to be good one for the purchaser. If a legal subject matter expert had been a part of the team they may have pondered what would happen if satisfaction is never met. The technical members could express what satisfaction looked like.
IT struggling along with the old servers has consequence; emergency call outs to reboot the system being one of them. The costs of not achieving satisfaction (i.e. continuing to pay for the old premises) were another aspect that could have been brought into the frame of reference. Considering these events would have improved the overall value of the contract.
Each part of the story could be dealt with by legal as a separate iteration and delivered to the team. Being small and digestible the techies could envisage the consequences of the several parts. Not having the virtual network would impact other parts of the program such as rolling out software updates.
Yes there is a cut off point in contractual negotiations, at the point of signing. The pressure to get this point takes on a frantic urgency as it is approached. The urgency can be allayed by not leaving it until the end, but instead running the process along with the program and with a desire to deliver elements of value early and often.
The company recognised a need for a fast internet connection, the IT department trawled the suppliers. They did a detailed comparisons on many products in the market. They recommended a perfect fit for the needs of the company. A cable connection was leased for three years.
Everything was fine but the business grew and needed more capacity. Over the two years fibre products had changed so an ideal solution was to swap deals. The original supplier had new products that could use the existing fibre and give 50 times more capacity.
Having a legal SME as a part of the team that looked at the business need and ways of fulfilling that need would have made them aware that changes to requirements are very likely. No supplier likes changes and uncertainty which is why auto renewals are built in. When a renewal takes place the legal team has the opportunity to look at the arrangement anew. An agile approach would be to invite change from the business.
The legal SME would more than likely highlight the effect of change if they understand the reasons for it. They may suggest cancellations become automated on the earliest possible dates. They may look to add flexibility to the contract. They may propose a different course of action such as building upgrades into the lease.
A legal team embracing change will find opportunities to reduce waste. More importantly they will begin to understand that the business is agile and that change and the ability to respond is important. They will also see the benefits of change as it affects their work how eliciting change gives legal products more value. The inefficiencies of the waterfall method for producing large documents will become apparent.
A company wanted to port all of their hosting to the cloud but had a recent three year contract with their provider. No problem they bought the contract out for £1.5m. New contract signed for the release from the existing contract in thirty days. Thirty days go by and the supplier sends a £500k invoice for the next quarter .
"OK pay up" says the supplier.
"You did not ask me to write that in, you never mentioned a handover period!" says legal.
The cloud has many advantages, distributed storage and compute give a lot of benefits but moving from a traditional hosted environment to a cloud environment is for most companies an unknown. The biggest unknowns they face are the amount of work effort required and the time the migration will take.
Yes we can do it say the developers, yes it will bring benefits and substantial cost savings. How long will it take, we are unable to make an estimate until we have completed some stages say the developers. The business as a whole and legal in particular were not aware of this conversation.
What have the legal department and the developers got in common in any event? Well quite a lot really because this change involves two sets of contracts one with the old supplier and one with the new supplier. If a SME from legal was a part of one of the developer teams on this project they would see how the change was being planned and how it was emerging.
The change might start with feasibility installations over different suppliers, this gives the legal SME a view of the velocity of the project. By being a part of the team the legal SME will also see that this migration is made of many parts.
As the project delivers something the time and work effort can start to be estimated as "Working software is the primary measure of progress." At this point the legal SME may start proposing a framework for contractual negotiation that fits with incremental releases. With this in mind they may approach both the incumbent and the new supplier. The incumbent may refuse to provide any flexibility, but at this stage the project does not demand total buy out, it may just be a small change in scale.
If the incumbent is not being flexible on reducing scale then legal can return to the team and point out that the port will need to be big bang. Migration dependant on being able to move everything all at one. This will influence the team's approach, they may choose provide a series continual releases into a mirror of the final deployment.
A desire to rationalise dependency management, to provision and configure all the constituents of the stack.
The requirement for reproducible deployments so that the whole application can be erased and then accurately reproduced.
The ability to create multiple instances of the same application and significantly to recover from failure at any point during provisioning.
I am not suggesting that every work steam has a legal subject matter expert included as a member of the team. However if it involves high value contractual agreements it is madness not to have them involved. The team will benefit from understanding the implications of what the business is committing to. The legal SME will benefit from knowing what are the important dates, dependencies and critical issues.


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The all-new Ford Focus RS accelerates from standstill to 62 mph in 4.7 seconds, and can achieve a top speed of 165 mph. This makes it faster than the V8 Mustang and supercharged V8 Falcon XR8, which achieves the 62 figure in about 4.8 seconds and 5.0 seconds respectively.
The AWD hot hatch gets power from a 2.3-litre four-pot Ecoboost engine that generates 345 bhp at 5900 rpm, with a redline of 6800rpm. Maximum torque of 324lb-ft is delivered between 2000 and 4500 rpm, but an overboost function can push this up to 346 lb-ft, for up to 15 seconds.
New with the third-generation Focus RS is the Ford Performance AWD system that engages dual electronically-controlled clutch packs to control the car's front/rear torque division, and can adjust the side-to-side torque distribution on the rear axle. To use it, the driver engages the Launch Control from the cluster menu, gets into first gear, applies full throttle and releases the clutch. Torque is then distributed through the AWD system, while the system manages the traction control and sets the dampers.
This Focus RS brings slightly modified exterior styling, delivering "enhanced aerodynamics and cooling". Significant changes are the more aerodynamic front splitter, rear spoiler and new underbody features.


Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers, while serving as a freshman legislator, regularly oversaw production of promotional mailings that advertised over-the-phone sports handicapping services and an offshore casino, Atlanta Unfiltered has learned. Two Atlanta-area printing companies worked closely with Rogers between 1998 and 2004 to produce the promotional booklets, called Schedules USA, according to a former employee and former owner. Previously, Rogers has said his role in the handicapping industry was limited to voice and television work reading scripted promotions.


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Cloud Services Provider Infrascale to Purchase Eversync Solutions
Written by Michael Cusanelli
Cloud powered-data protection provider Infrascale has announced its intentions to purchase fellow cloud services provider Eversync Solutions this week, furthering the company's push into the growing cloud backup and recovery market.
Cloud powered-data protection provider Infrascale has announced its intentions to purchase fellow cloud services provider Eversync Solutions, furthering the company's push into the growing cloud backup and recovery market. The agreement to acquire Eversync was made possible when Infrascale obtained an additional $16.3 million in Series B funding from investor Carrick Capital Partners with additional advising from DH Capital.
"I think a really important thing for our channel to understand is that we're already a profitable company," said Ken Shaw Jr., founder and CEO of Infrascale, in an interview with The VAR Guy. "For us, the capital allows us to do new and exciting things around technology and R&D and bringing new products to markets for our partners."
The funding will allow Infrascale to support its own growth and accelerate its go to market strategy, while expanding its product portfolio through the acquisition of Eversync. Infrascale plans to use the acquisition to gain a foothold in the rapidly expanding world of cloud backup and recovery, which exceeded $2 billion in 2013, according to IDC. The exact amount of the acquisition was not disclosed.
"Infrascale is a cloud native company; we grew up in the cloud and we do backup to the cloud exceptionally well," said Shaw. "Eversync has grown up focusing on building de-duplicating backup appliances on-premise with cloud integration. By putting the two together you get a really powerful hybrid data protection solution that allows companies to do disk-to-disk-to-cloud [backup]."
Cofounder and managing director of Carrick Capital Partners Marc McMorris is scheduled to become an active member of Infrascale's board as part of the investment deal. CTO of Carrick Capital Partners Steven Unterberger will also serve as a board observer.
"Trends in BYOD and the increasing number of remote and mobile workers create a long-term market opportunity that will continue to unfold over the next 10 or more years as companies evolve in the way they procure and use technology," said McMorris in a prepared statement. "Infrascale's ability to deploy in a private, public or on-premise environment and the superior security of their architecture is a unique combination that makes them the pre-eminent company in their category."
Infrascale currently offers its customers access to its cloud-native platform for backup disaster recovery and archiving of resources. The company says its acquisition of Eversync will expand the Infrascale's data protection portfolio by extending compatibility to include the most widely used operating systems.
"It's not only an alignment of technology and people but it's an alignment of view and vision where the technology is going and where the channel is going with it," said Shaw.
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Comic By Award-Winning Black Cartoonist Pulled From Newspapers After Readers Deem It 'Offensive'
Shannon Melero
Screenshot: Instagram
A so-called "inappropriate and offensive" comic panel was removed from several newspapers after readers complained about the funny and entirely uncontroversial column. The image depicted two women at a grocery store, one Black wearing a face mask and a shirt that read, "I can't breathe." The other, a white woman with blue eyes, told the Black woman, "If you can't breathe, then that silly mask off!"
Though the investigative team at Jezebel is still working to find the portion of the comic that is inappropriate and offensive, according to NBC News the comic, which was provided by Six Chix, a rotating team of creators that provides comics for over 120 newspapers, was deemed offensive by some newspapers with one newspaper running an apology in place of Six Chix's comic that week. Instead of explaining to their readership the nuance behind the comic and making a path for dialogue, many papers that syndicate Six Chix are running away from something that might make their white audiences uncomfortable.
The person responsible for the comic is award-winning cartoonist Bianca Xunise who said on Twitter she was not apologizing for the comic. Xunise also explained the impetus behind the strip on Twitter, writing that "white people see issues that [sic] effect black people as trivial" using the cartoon to explore the ridiculous comparison some white protestors have made between mask-wearing and oppression.
Screenshot: Twitter
The Oregonian, one of the papers that received complaints after running the strip, published a response from a reader in a letter from the editor.
Q: (Today's comic) was offensive on SEVERAL levels. The scene is a black woman wearing an I can't breathe T-shirt and wearing a mask. The other person in the scene is a white woman saying if you can't breathe take off that silly mask. They are pushing carts, so they are obviously in a store of some type. I know there's controversy about wearing masks, but this is a state requirement not a recommendation! So this is ridiculous. Compound that with the much more egregious attitude of the white woman minimizing the "I can't breathe" statement and turning this Black Lives Matter statement into something to be seen in a comic strip. (It) is Indefensible!"
Instead of putting in any time or effort to write a thoughtful answer, the editor responded with a comment on "Karens" and a quote from Six Chix, allowing the collective to explain the nuanced humor behind the column without the paper putting its full editorial weight behind the column.
A: Most commenters misread the intent of the cartoonist, Bianca Xunise, and felt the comic was racist and was minimizing the Black Lives Matter movement. Some readers were not familiar with the "Karen" meme. For the uninitiated, a "Karen" is an insufferable, rude, officious and in some cases racist middle-aged white woman (depicted here as the second shopper). I asked the syndicate that provides this strip for a response and here is what I received from editors there:
"Bianca Xunise is a celebrated African-American cartoonist and only the second Black woman to be nationally syndicated in the US— one of three Black women syndicated today.
"Bianca created the July 28, 2020, Six Chix cartoon to be a joke commenting on how Black issues are often disregarded as a personal problem and not a systemic issue. She is shedding light on two pandemics happening in the US right now: one on race and another on COVID-19, and both are not being taken seriously while they are both destroying lives.
"Many Americans are experiencing a lack of compassion for both civil rights and community health, and this cartoon is an important part of any dialogue about both issues."
This is probably why millennials are trying to kill newspapers.
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I am not sure why so many people are claiming this could be interpreted as a conservative cartoon making fun of BLM and people who wear masks. It's very clear from the facial expressions with whom you're supposed to sympathize, and it ain't the white anti-masker.
Maybe people ought to ask themselves why they assumed they were supposed to be sympathizing with the white woman.


I hope that's right. It didn't seem as hard to work out as I thought it might.
Heh I feel good now because my friend at school (another maths teacher) couldn't do it.
I got the same answer too, but i don't think my way was quite the right one to be honest, but it worked anyways.
Find a way to get a list of 100 consecutive non-prime numbers.
And if anyone has any other brain teasers they would like to share it would be good to post them here too.
...Get a book and write them down?
Maybe it's because I'm studying programming in C, but that really looks like a question my teacher would make and I'd have to make a program for that, rather than a math problem to solve.
There is a method to it You have to think outside the box somewhat.
Woo this one took me a lot longer to think of the answer. There is no way anyone I teach could even understand the answer, let alone think of it.
I would multiply together all of the numbers from 1 to 101. This would leave you with a number that is divisible by all of the numbers from 1 to 101. Call this answer N. Then N+1 must be a prime number - but I would start my list of numbers from N+2. This must be even. N+3 would then be divisible by 3 because N also is. N+4 would be divisible by 4 because N is. This would continue all the way up to the end.
Nice answer Brain, it would already be enough to take all prime numbers from 1 to 101 and multiply them to get your N though.
I was thinking that STL but I decided it would be more effort to try and figure out which of those numbers were prime numbers!


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Raymond Pun named winner of Emerald Research Grant for "Mapping Collaborations"
CHICAGO—Raymond Pun, First Year Student Success Librarian at California State University, Fresno was named the 2017 winner of the Emerald Research Grant, administered by the Business and Reference Services Section of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA).
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David Wright wins NoveList's Margaret E. Monroe Award for library adult services
CHICAGO— David Wright, Readers' Services Librarian at Seattle Public Library, was selected as the 2017 NoveList's Margaret E. Monroe Library Adult Services Award winner for his outstanding contributions to readers' advisory and adult services.
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"The Jacket from Dachau" Libguide wins award for excellence in reference services
CHICAGO—"The Jacket from Dachau: One Survivor's Search for Justice, Identity, and Home" Libguide was selected as the 2017 winner of the ReferenceUSA Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Services for its well-organized and accessible presentation of information about the Holocaust.
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Brian E. Coutts named winner of RUSA's Isadore Gilbert Mudge award
CHICAGO—Brian E. Coutts, Professor and Head of the Department of Library Public Services at Western Kentucky University, was selected as the 2017 winner of the Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award, RUSA's highest honor, for his distinguished contributions to reference services and librarianship.
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RUSA Winter Online Learning
CHICAGO - Don't miss! 2/23/17 – [Webinar] "Show me the money: Growing grants-related services in the library"
Pinpoint resources of interest to diverse grant-seeking communities. Identify potential partnerships for grant-seeking support and instruction on campus and in the community. Identify workshop ideas that can be adapted at other institutions.
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RUSA's 2017 Annual Conference President's Program Keynote Announced
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'The Underground Railroad,' 'Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,' receive 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
ATLANTA - The American Library Association selects "The Underground Railroad," by Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday, Penguin Random House LLC, as the winner of the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," by Matthew Desmond, published by Crown, Penguin Random House LLC, as the winner of the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The selections were announced this evening during the RUSA Book and Media Awards Ceremony and Reception that are part of the ALA Midwinter Mee
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Readers' advisory experts announce 2017 Reading List: Year's best in genre fiction for adult readers
ATLANTA—The Reading List Council has announced the 2017 selections of the Reading List, an annual best-of list comprised of eight different fiction genres for adult readers. A shortlist of honor titles, up to 4 per genre was also announced. The list was announced today during the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting held in Atlanta.
The 2017 selections are:
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Readers' advisory experts announce 2017 Notable Books List: Year's best in literary fiction, nonfiction and poetry for adults
ATLANTA—The Notable Books Council, first established in 1944, has announced the 2017 selections of the Notable Books List, an annual best-of list comprised of twenty-six titles written for adult readers and published in the U.S. including literary fiction, nonfiction and poetry. The list was announced today at the Reference and User Services Association's (RUSA) Book and Media Awards ceremony during the American Library Association's (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta.
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Dartmouth Medal for excellence in reference awarded to "Encyclopedia of Embroidery from the Arab World"
ATLANTA-- The winner of the 2017 Dartmouth Medal for most outstanding reference work, an annual award presented by the expert reference and collection development librarians of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), is the "Encyclopedia of Embroidery from the Arab World" published by Bloomsbury Academic and edited by Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood. The winner was announced at the RUSA Book and Media Awards ceremony on Sunday at ALA's Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta.
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TCADP November 2016 Alert: Fewest executions in two decades
November 1, 2016 Kristin
In this edition:
Scheduled executions: Texas will end 2016 with fewest executions in 20 years
Announcements: Register today for the TCADP 2017 Annual Conference; join us at the State Capitol next year for the 2017 Faith Leader Advocacy Day on the Death Penalty
In case you missed it: Part II of Fair Punishment Project report cites systemic problems in Dallas County; Texas Catholic Bishops issue powerful statement against the death penalty; national momentum for abolition
Featured events: Membership meeting in San Antonio; Lighting the Star in El Paso
"Harris County has sent 126 men and women to be executed since the death penalty was reintroduced in 1974 – more than any other county or state, aside from Texas itself. My client, Alfred Dewayne Brown, could have been No. 127."
– Attorney Brian W. Stolarz, in an opinion piece published by the Houston Chronicle on October 22, 2016. His client, Dewayne Brown, was exonerated and released in June 2015. Brian will serve as the keynote speaker at the TCADP 2017 Annual Conference in Austin.
Scheduled Executions
The State of Texas is scheduled to execute John Battaglia on December 7. He received a last-minute stay from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on March 30, 2016 to give his attorneys more time to develop claims he may be mentally incompetent for execution. More information on his case will be provided in our December Alert.
The State of Texas has put seven people to death in 2016; eight individuals have received stays. This is the lowest number of executions in Texas since 1996. There have been 17 executions nationwide, including seven in Georgia.
There are currently five executions scheduled for 2017; all involve cases in North Texas.
Attend a vigil in your community on the day of executions. Information and updates on cases are available on our website and through Facebook and Twitter.
TCADP 2017 Annual Conference
The TCADP 2017 Annual Conference will take place on Saturday, February 18, 2017 at St. David's Episcopal Church in downtown Austin. The theme – Moving to Higher Ground – promises reflection on how far we've come and direction as to where we still need to go to fulfill our mission to end the death penalty in Texas. Attorney Brian Stolarz will join us that day to deliver the keynote address during our Annual Awards Luncheon.
Online registration is now open! Take advantage of pre-registration rates between now and February 8, 2017. Sponsorship, vendor opportunities and program advertisements are also available.
2017 Faith Leader Advocacy Day on the Death Penalty
Join TCADP and Texas Impact at the State Capitol in Austin on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 for our second Faith Leader Advocacy Day on the Death Penalty. Together, we will make sure legislators hear the loud and growing chorus of voices in opposition to the death peanlty. Register online today!
Part II: Too Broken to Fix
On October 12, Harvard Law School's Fair Punishment Project released Part II of its report, Too Broken to Fix: An In-depth Look at America's Outlier Death Penalty Counties, which examines how the death penalty is operating in the handful of counties across the country that are still using it. The two-part report analyzed 10 years of court opinions and records from 16 "outlier counties." Part II includes Dallas County, where juries imposed a total of eight death sentences between 2010 and 2015. There hasn't been a new death sentence in Dallas County since 2013, however. Learn more.
Catholic Bishops call for an end to the death penalty
On October 10, the Texas Conference of Catholic Bishops released a statement calling for the abolition of the death penalty, denouncing its effects not only on victims and others immediately affected, but also on society. The Bishops declared that "Our call to abolish the death penalty is not a call to deny justice. On the contrary, it is a call to the whole community to recognize that the death penalty does not fulfill justice, nor does it console the inconsolable." Read coverage from the Austin American-Statesman. Download English and Spanish versions of the statement.
National momentum for abolition
In response to the latest information from the Pew Research Center and with U.S. executions at their lowest number in 20 years, the decline of the death penalty has made national headlines. The New York Times' Editorial Board recently stated, "the signs of capital punishment's impending demise are all around." On October 23, Joe Palazzolo of the Wall Street Journalcommented on the drastic changes in Texas, where "the Court of Criminal Appeals halted executions this year over questions about testimony by psychiatric experts and physical evidence." One thing is for sure: the death penalty's days are numbered.
The Third Annual Lighting of the Star on the Mountain will take place on Sunday, November 27th from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM in the parking lot of the Center for Careers & Technology (1170 N. Walnut Street), in solidarity with Cities for Life, Cities Against the Death Penalty. For more information, contact Pat Delgado at phdelgado@hotmail.com.
The Organization for Faith, Education, and Community at Stephen F. Austin State University will host a one-day interfaith dialogue on injustices and its effects on local communities on Friday, November 4th from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The conference will explore how different faiths understand and respond to issues of injustice.
The conference will feature two keynote speakers: Father Pat Delahanty, Chairman of the Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (and one of Kristin's mentors), and Wen Stephenson, author and journalist. For more information and to register for the conference, please visit https://faitheducationcommunity.org/conference/.
Tonight, November 1st, TCADP will host an organizing meeting at Travis Park United Methodist Church in the Labyrinth Room. Join us to learn more about TCADP's current initiatives, plan future activities and public education events, and meet other members in the area. The meeting will begin at 6:30 PM. For more information, please contact Chris Hockman at sanantonio@tcadp.org.
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Cloning and expression analysis of candidate genes involved in wax deposition along the growing barley (Hordeum vulgare) leaf
Richardson, Andrew and Boscari, Alexandre and Schreiber, Lukas and Kerstiens, Gerhard and Jarvis, Mike and Herzyk, Pawel and Fricke, Wieland (2007) Cloning and expression analysis of candidate genes involved in wax deposition along the growing barley (Hordeum vulgare) leaf. Planta, 226 (6). pp. 1459-1473. ISSN 0032-0935
The aim of the present study was to isolate clones of genes which are likely to be involved in wax deposition on barley leaves. Of particular interest were those genes which encode proteins that take part in the synthesis and further modification of very long chain fatty acids (VLCFAs), the precursors of waxes. Previously, it had been shown that wax deposition commences within a spatially well-defined developmental zone along the growing barley leaf (Richardson et al. in Planta 222:472–483, 2005). In the present study, a barley microarray approach was used to screen for candidate contig-sequences (www.barleybase.org) that are expressed particularly in those leaf zones where wax deposition occurs and which are expressed specifically within the epidermis, the site of wax synthesis. Candidate contigs were used to screen an established in-house cDNA library of barley. Six full-length coding sequences clones were isolated. Based on sequence homologies, three clones were related to Arabidopsis CER6/CUT1, and these clones were termed HvCUT1;1, HvCUT1;2 and HvCUT1;3. A fourth clone, which was related to Arabidopsis Fiddlehead (FDH), was termed HvFDH1;1. These clones are likely to be involved in synthesis of VLCFAs. A fifth and sixth clone were related to Arabidopsis CER1, and were termed HvCER1;1 and HvCER1;2. These clones are likely to be involved in the decarbonylation pathway of VLCFAs. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR confirmed microarray expression data. In addition, expression analyses at 10-mm resolution along the blade suggest that HvCUT1;1 (and possibly HvCUT1;2) and HvCER1;1 are involved in commencement of wax deposition during barley leaf epidermal cell development. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00425-007-0585-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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A food and wine pairing, or actually in this case, a food and Japanese sake pairing. At Septime, the drink is a common choice for "dishes through which the merits of blandness are celebrated", our new book explains.
How Septime made 'blandness' a thing of beauty
The restaurant set out to destroy the old French dining order using simplicity and restraint
Bertrand Grébaut and Théophile Pourriat love food, but are less keen on the sometimes arbitrary rules of modern gastronomy and haute cuisine. Over the past ten years, they've simplified Parisian dining and made it more enjoyable and accessible, via Septime, their small, perfectly conceived restaurant in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, La Cave, their even tinier, bustling wine bar, Clamato, their crowded seafood spot; and D'une île, the pair's charming countryside guesthouse.
At all these places you'll find great wine without having to deal with pretentious sommeliers, carefully foraged and presented wild ingredients, free from hippy stylings; and artfully prepared dishes, free from cloying, obsequious deference to the old ways of doing things.
In their new book, Septime, La Cave, Clamato, D'une île, Pourriat and Grébaut set out their success story to date, include recipes for some of the best dishes served at their highly acclaimed establishments, and offer insights into just what they like - and dislike - when it comes to food.
Bertrand Grébaut and Théophile Pourriat before service. Photograph: Alexandre Guirkinger
Some preferences, such as sustainable seafood and natural wines, are very much on trend at the moment, other peccadilloes take a bit more explaining. Consider, for example, their take on something most of us seek to avoid: blandness.
"To say that food is bland often means that it lacks character. However, in many cases we personally prefer a controlled blandness to overly exuberant expressions of flavour," they write in their new book. "We prefer subtle to flashy, complementary tones to strong contrasts, delicate crystalline wines to extracted (concentrated) and woody bottles.
"When the produce is good, we try not to adulterate it or mask its taste by over-seasoning it. We use a minimal amount of salt, stock (broth) or delicately infused light jus rather than reductions, which saturate the flavours and make them bitter, and we sweeten desserts sparingly," the pair go on. "For example, we serve raw scallops, brined in seaweed, with fresh almond milk, which we accompany with a subtle white Savoy wine, seeking a symbiotic rather than contrasting pairing of food and wine.
Blandness is one of our leitmotifs. It's a sign of restraint, discretion and finesse. It's also a way of eating and drinking more lightly. It's an all-encompassing philosophy that breaks with the way that food has been served in the past. Aesthetically, it's more understated and the service is less pompous and demonstrative and more modest. We are more willing to be in the background; we try to avoid the caricature of the all-powerful chef or restaurant manager. We're particularly inspired by wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic and spiritual concept derived from Buddhism, which incorporates the principles of simplicity and austerity (wabi) and the alteration by time as seen in the patina of objects (sabi). These principles of plenitude, modesty and respect for natural phenomena perfectly match our vision of the world in reaction to current overconsumption."
Septime, La Cave, Clamato, D'une île,
To find out more about how the pair reframed blandness as the acme of good tastes, as well as access recipes and wine pairings that best exemplify this approach, order a copy of Septime, La Cave, Clamato, D'une île here.
Septime, La Cave, Clamato, D'une île (Signed Edition): Bertrand Grébaut and Théophile Pourriat, with Benoit Cohen
French cuisine for today's kitchens. An evocative, intimate food monograph by the duo behind one of the most acclaimed restaurant collections in France – the Michelin starred restaurant group that has moved French cuisine from the ceremony and grandeur of haute cuisine to a lighter, fresher and more approachable style of cooking
This much-anticipated debut book celebrates ten years of chef Bertrand Grébaut and partner Théophile Pourriat's success. Its highly inspiring recipes demonstrate how they have moved French cuisine away from the ceremony and grandeur of haute cuisine. By introducing an air of simplicity and modernity to their cooking, they gained a legion of admirers, not only for their much-praised Parisian restaurant Septime but for their work in all four of their premises featured in the book. With a preface by acclaimed chef Alain Passard and natural winemaker Thierry Puzelat.
Bertrand Grébaut attended the famous Parisian culinary school Ferrandi. He then trained with the 3-Michelin-star chefs Joël Robuchon and Alain Passard and, in 2011 at the age of 30, in partnership with his high-school friend Théophile Pourriat, he opened Septime in the 11th arrondissement of Paris (currently #15 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list). This was followed by La Cave (a tiny, bustling bar specialising in natural wines), Clamato (a crowded seafood-oriented spot), and their charming countryside guesthouse D'une île. With a preface by Alain Passard, legendary chef and owner of the three-Michelin-starred restaurant L'Arpège in Paris, France, and iconic natural winemaker Thierry Puzelat from Clos du Tue Bœuf.


This is a thread dedicated to the weird and wonderful videos found on the internet. You know the ones. The ones that are either hilarious, dead weird, or both, that go semi viral on twitter and in whatsapp groups all over the place.
Number 1: Perhaps the GOAT mad video. A gang of scals off their barnet in someone's kitchen. This is actually the extended version this. Listen to the words; absolute poetry.
Number 2: Road rage at its finest.
Honourable mentions go to the crack head "in the entry" and Ronnie Pickering. If you know, you know.
I'd have called this one the back, sack and crack flip if I uploaded it.


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'Women deserve to be paid less', according to Polish representative in the EU
Weaker,′ ′smaller,′ ′less intelligent′ women deserve less than men, according to Korwin-Mikke - dw.com
Mr Korwin-Mikke reminds us that equality is far away from being a reality in Europe.
by Veronica Manzanares Alberola (article) and Parasshuram Shalgar (video)
4 March 2017 at 05:05 Updated on 17 May 2017 at 16:06
This might be the first time that some hear his name, but Mr Janusz Korwin-Mikke is well known in the institutions, especially for his polemic comments.
He is not happy with only considering Women to be inferior to me and even questioning women's right to vote as, in his own words, 'women are less hammered into politics than men.' the MEP also said in 2013 that Adolf Hitler was not aware of the holocaust as this had been organised by Himmler. In 2015 he was suspended for ten days as he made a Nazi salute and, in 2016, he was suspended again (assistance and revenues) because he compared the new immigrants that arrived in Europe to "excrements".
Does equity exist?
The problem in Europe is not only that some people have retrograde ideas. The real problem is that our institutions seem to ignore the fact that equity is utopia. Although 37 percent of MEP are women, some countries are far from respecting equality, even in their own national parliaments.
Shall we mention that among the European countries (not EU) with a higher percentage of women in the legislative constitutions we have Norway, with a 39.1% or women in the Lower House, Spain (39.1% of the 350 members in the Lower House and 38% of the total of 266 members of the Senate) or Belgium (38% of the 150 and 50% out of 60) and the countries with the lower percentages are Latvia (16.0% out of 100 members in the Lower House), Malta (12.5% of the 72 members of the Lower House), Liechtenstein (12.0% of te 25 members of the Lower House).
Sexism, Europe's remaining ulcer
Since the 1st of January 2017, 19 women were killed by their husbands and boyfriends in Spain. In addition to that, a baby was killed by her father when he jumped from the hospital's window with the child. Both died. In Germany, a Spanish man killed his sons in revenge. He told his Russian-born wife (they were separated) that he would do this as Jose Breton killed and burnt his own children as he did not accept that his wife wanted to get divorced.
There are several types of violence
This is awful, but it's even worse to think that some countries do not even have a register of sexist violence against women, or that teenagers consider it "normal" to control their partner's phones or ask them where they are all they time. That's what they call "caring" nowadays.
However, there are also other "hidden" kinds of violence.
Non-physical violence, but they hurt, sometimes even more than being punched. As some examples, let's mention the following: not receiving the same salary than a man for the same job; finding in the dictionary that, as a woman, you are the 'weak gender', not being able to go out without being the subject of obscene comments in the street; or having to pay extra VAT for sanitary products.
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A Pavement Management System (PMS) is a decision making process or system that helps public works personnel make cost-effective decisions concerning the maintenance and rehabilitation of their jurisdiction's pavements for which they are responsible in a systematic way.
Many people refer to a set of software programs as the Pavement Management Program. This is really a misnomer, since the software does not manage pavements or make decisions. The personnel in the organization manage pavements and make decisions; the software only assists in information management and decision support. Pavement Management Programs provide a means to organize the massive amounts of data that develops about a pavement network. When the data storage and analyses are automated, a PMS stores data, retrieves data, makes multiple complex calculations quickly and efficiently, and provides results in easily understandable reports.


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A service designed to help people with unmet transport needs in rural areas. In particular residents or groups of people who have difficulties in accessing employment, services or facilities due to lack of transport provision.
Who is the service for?
How will the service work?
What transport options are available?
Does the service include current commercial or supported bus services?
Is there a Community Transport Strategy for the East Riding of Yorkshire?
How do I find out more?
What is the Wheels to Work Scheme?
The service is designed to help people with unmet transport needs in rural areas. In particular residents or groups of people who have difficulties in accessing employment, services or facilities due to lack of transport provision.
The service will aim to help residents with transport needs to identify and use existing bus networks, where these may be appropriate. It will also assist communities who want to actively assess and evidence local demand for improved bus or Community Transport services, through local travel surveys etc.
The service will put residents with unmet transport needs in touch with Community Transport providers who may be able to assist them. By understanding the needs and looking at possible service amendments or enhancements it may be possible to find a solution that is feasible and affordable for both parties.
A range of options may be available, depending on the circumstances involved. Community Transport Operators now cover all of the East Riding, providing both individual and group transport options. A Car Sharing scheme and a 'Wheels to Work' moped loan scheme also operate across the area.
The East Riding of Yorkshire Parish Toolkit
With help communities can identify the actual issue and implement a workable solution that best fits their community. The East Riding of Yorkshire Parish Toolkit can show communities how they could tackle a transport issue in their community in a straightforward and practical way.
If you feel your community, organisation or group might have an unmet transport need in your parish and you would like some help to define the issue and look at realistic solutions then the Toolkit might be able to help:
The East Riding of Yorkshire Parish Transport Toolkit Revised October 2015 (pdf 2mb opens in new window)
For further information, please contact the Rural Team on:
Telephone: (01482) 391691 or
Email: rural@eastriding.gov.uk
It will not deal with queries or complaints about the frequency or standards of existing commercial or supported bus services. Queries of this nature should be directed to the bus operator or to the council's Passenger Transportation Unit.
The East Riding of Yorkshire Community Transport Strategy 2013-2016 has been designed to help the many rural communities and individuals who do not have a private car or live in an area with appropriate public transport to attend essential services and social activities that they would otherwise find difficult to access.
The strategy sets out a clear vision for consolidation and growth of community transport in our area. This vision is based on detailed analysis of the East Riding of Yorkshire Community Transport Operators Network's current level of provision, and to further extend its services to the 'hardest to reach' groups and individuals in our communities.
The three main objectives of the Community Transport Strategy are to:
clearly define the role of community transport in the East Riding's public transport mix and establish the scope for sustainable expansions of the sectors' services over the next five years
identify new markets for community transport services based on analysis of local needs, and develop a strategy for reaching and meeting those needs
ensure a sustainable future for community transport operators through developing a balanced not-for-profit business model based on social enterprise activity and other more traditional funding mechanisms:
The East Riding of Yorkshire Community Transport Strategy 2013-2016 (pdf 1.98mb opens in new window)
For further information, please contact the Rural Team on
(01482) 391691 or email rural@eastriding.gov.uk
To find out more you can contact the Rural Team to ask for advice and assistance about unmet rural transport needs:
In person, registering your request at one of East Riding of Yorkshire Council's Customer Service Centres
By telephone, through ringing the council's Rural Team (01482) 391691
By completing the online 'contact us' form on the right hand side of this page.
The Wheels to Work Scheme is a vehicle loan scheme which aims to help people aged 16 years or older living in rural areas, get to work or training. If you are eligible we will provide you with a 50cc, 110cc or 125cc scooter for up to a year.
In addition, a fleet of new e-bikes are available, funded by the Department of Transport as part of the Get Active East Riding programme. E-bikes are available to East Riding residents aged 16yrs or older to access work or training or be more active.
For more information visit the Wheels to Work Scheme page.


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Rubio's anti-Huawei proposal 'ridiculous'
The Chinese Foreign Ministry Thursday strongly criticized legislation proposed by US Senator Marco Rubio to prevent Huawei from seeking damages in US patent courts, and Chinese experts said Rubio's proposal was ridiculous and totally against the spirit of the law always touted by US politicians, including Rubio himself.
China strongly opposes US abuse of its state power to suppress Chinese companies, and urges the US to stop its wrongdoings and treat those companies fairly, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said at a routine press conference on Thursday.
The US has been praising itself as a country under the rule of law for very long time, and now it unexpectedly has a situation where a US senator is proposing an act to contain foreign companies from defending their legal rights in the US, so it is not surprising that this has shocked people inside and outside the US, Lu said.
"We know there are some US politicians who are trying to crack down on foreign companies by any means, but we didn't expect that these people would dare to play and manipulate laws to serve their purposes. To be honest, this will harm the US image as well as US companies," Lu further said.
China will continue to take necessary measures to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises, said Lu.
Rubio submitted to the US Congress on Monday an amendment to the "2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020," which calls for forbidding companies in certain US government watch lists, including Huawei, to seek relief under US patent law, such as filing legal proceedings for patent infringement, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
The US always sees itself as a nation subject to the rule of law. However, it is unbelievable to see such a ridiculous move of trying to pass legislation to obstruct other countries' enterprises from protecting their legitimate rights and interests, Lü Xiang, a research fellow on China-US relations at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, told the Global Times on Thursday.
"Congress is unlikely to pass Rubio's legislation as it is ridiculous and totally against the foundation and spirit of the law in the US," said Lü.
Many US web users also expressed their opposition on Twitter and Facebook. "You want China to respect US patents but the US would deny China's patent? Senator Rubio, this is really dumb," said one named "Basel Barakat."
"This amendment undermines the US patent system…we are shooting ourselves in the foot to fight a single private company," said another netizen named "Pierre B."
Rubio is known for his strong anti-China stance. In February, several Republican US senators, including Rubio, asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to invite the regional leader of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen to speak before a joint session of the US Congress, which was seen as a move to anger Beijing.
Rubio is a member of the Tea Party, which is one of the most right-wing and conservative movements in the US, Tao Wenzhao, a research fellow at the Institute of American Studies of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times.
Rubio's interest groups influence his behavior. These groups "kidnapped" US interests and damaged the healthy development of US-China relations for their own benefit, said Tao.
"China should pay attention to the rising protectionism and growing anti-China voice in the US caused by radical acts by people like Rubio," Da Wei, director of the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations' Institute of American Studies in Beijing, told the Global Times on Thursday.
Source:Global Times
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Russian princess Anastasia Potapova stays focused after beating Kerber
by JOVICA ILIC | VIEW 4375
The three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber got the opportunity to kick off 2019 Roland Garros action at Philippe-Chatrier but her campaign in Paris was a rather short one, losing in the opening round to Anastasia Potapova 6-4, 6-2 in an hour and 13 minutes.
The Russian tennis princess is a former junior no. 1 at the age of 15 and Wimbledon champion, struggling with injuries that plagued even faster progress through the rankings. Despite that, she is one of the best players born around 2000 and this was a perfect Roland Garros debut, controlling the pace from start to finish to secure the first win in Paris and the first overall against the rivals from the top-10.
An 18-year-old served at only 49% but managed to defend break points nicely, erasing three out of four and hitting 28 winners with 21 unforced errors to keep the pressure on Kerber who couldn't endure it. Withdrawing in Madrid and skipping Rome, Kerber was far from her best and Potapova took full advantage of that, winning more than half of the return points and converting six out of ten break chances to march into the second round.
Potapova broke in game two after a backhand error from Kerber who broke back in the very next game when the Russian netted an easy backhand. A left-handed German suffered another break in game six after a deep return from Potapova who couldn't cement the advantage, spraying another backhand error a few minutes later to hand the break to Angelique.
Returning at 5-4, Anastasia grabbed five straight points and a crucial break that delivered the set for her after 37 minutes, moving Kerber from the comfort zone and forcing an error that propelled her closer to the finish line.
With the momentum on her side, the youngster broke in the second game of the second set when Angelique placed a forehand long and once again at 3-0, racing towards the finish line. Kerber pulled one break back to reduce the deficit to 4-2 although that was all we saw from her, playing a loose forehand in game eight to get broken again and send Potapova into the second round.
"I want to thank all the people who came to support me, I enjoyed every second on the court. The new Philippe-Chatrier Court has an amazing atmosphere and I played with a lot of confidence, I want to thank my coach for that, he is there to support me all the time and to tell me the right things.
My goal was to stay focused on my game and movement, not trying to think about the big court or my great opponent. I'm here to play my best and that's what I did. I respect Angelique's game a lot and was looking forward to this match because she is one of my idols, I looked at her when I was younger.
I live for wins like this one, for the emotions and moments they bring and will do everything to experience that again and again in the future. At the moment, I only want to think about my next match and stay focused on my game and improvements I can make".


It's hard to believe that it is time for our year end entry, but the calendar doesn't lie. It was a busy year for us in which Dominique graduated from high school, we trained for and ran several races including the Vernonia Marathon, and of course we did some hiking.
We were able to get 52 days' worth of hiking in this year. We stared off slow while we trained for the marathon having completed only 5 hikes before the end of April. We did however take a map reading and route finding class through the Chemeketans, a local hiking/climbing club which was extremely helpful and a lot of fun. We cranked up the hiking in May and only slowed down at the end of October when the weather began to turn ugly. We managed to expand the area we've hiked in by taking hikes further to the North (Goat Rocks Wilderness, WA), South (Mt. Scott), and East (Lookout Mountain in the Ochoco Mountains) than we had before. Below is a map showing all the locations for the trailheads we visited as well as a link to an interactive version.
My favorite statistic though has to be that 65% of our hikes (15 out of 23) during summer involved us either walking on or next to snow. The rest of the year only 10% (3 out of 29) of our hikes involved a close encounter with snow.
As much as I am a numbers junkie they are just quantitative data without a story, and the story is the reason we head out. We tried really hard this year to time our hikes to maximize the sights each area had to offer. Having learned from our past experiences and keeping an eye on trip reports from other hikers (A big thank you to the folks at Portlandhikers.org) we were better able to plan when to go where. We visited a wildlife refuge, 2 county parks, 3 state parks, 1 memorial forest, 1 state forest, and 11 different national forests. In the national forests were 14 different designated wilderness areas, a national volcanic monument, a national scenic area, and a national park.
We started and ended our year at the Oregon Coast as has become our tradition. Rivers, creeks, and waterfalls dominated the early part of the year followed by wildflowers and mountains and finally lakes. The variety of vegetation, terrain and natural features we were lucky enough to visit was amazing.
One of the new things we did this year was backpacking. We took five overnight trips. The first few were single night excursions to get used to our packs and equipment followed by two longer trips. The first of which was a 4 day/3 night stay in the Goat Rocks Wilderness. It quickly became the favorite place that we have visited.
The second extended trip was a 3 day/2 night loop around the South Sister. We had originally planned on an extra day/night but wound up cutting it short when smoke suddenly filled the area. It turned out to be from a fire over 40 miles away but not knowing that at the time we packed up camp and experienced our first night hike.
Hands down the most exciting thing that happened this year was our first bear encounter on our way down the Zig Zag Mountain trail. It sure got the adrenaline pumping even though it didn't threaten us at all and in fact turned and ran as fast as it could in the other direction. I failed to get a picture of it but here are some of the other critters I did manage to get photos of.
Looking ahead to next year we hope to continue to add to the areas we've visited. There are still a number of destinations we have yet to make it to including the Wallowas, Mt. Rainier, the Olympic Peninsula, Steens Mountain and the Indian Heaven Wilderness. Someday we'll also get down to northern California. One thing is for sure, we won't run out of new options any time soon. Happy Trails!
It has become a tradition to finish off our hiking year either on the Oregon Coast or in the coast range. This year we targeted a pair of shorter hikes to keep the tradition alive. For the first of these two hikes we traveled to Cascade Head just north of Lincoln City in order to visit Harts Cove where a waterfall spills into the Pacific Ocean. We parked at the Cascade Head Upper Trailhead along road 1861 at a sign post for the Nature Conservancy Trail. A trail here led off for a mile to Cascade Head's upper viewpoint which we had visited before. In order to find the Harts Cove Trailhead we walked another .9miles down road 1861 where a large parking area with plenty of signs marked the start of the trail. We could have driven here but were contemplating hiking to the upper viewpoint later if the sky cleared so we decided to park at the upper trailhead.
One of the signs warned of difficult hiking conditions on the trail which piqued our interest.
The trail started out by diving fairly steeply downhill through the forest for the first half mile then descended more gradually to a bridge across Cliff Creek.
After crossing the creek the trail turned back toward the ocean along a ridge. We could hear a number of sea lions on the rocks below but could only get small glimpses of them across the water through the trees.
As the trail wound around the ridge end there was a bench that offered an obstructed view across Harts Cove to a meadow which was where the trail would end. The trail then bent back leading us around the cove. We crossed Chitwood Creek which appeared to have once had a bridge but it was now in pieces further down the creek.
We had been in clouds and fog for most of the hike but as we came out of the forest into the meadow we could see clearer skies out over the ocean. The trail was steep here also and muddy making it a bit slick.
The sea lions could still be heard across the way below Cascade Head, and now we could see them better.
We followed the trail down and around to the left toward Harts Cove so that we could get a view of Chitwood Creek's waterfall. We were surprised to find a handful of flowers in bloom including a number of Salal bushes.
The waterfall turned out to be very picturesque as it fell down into the surging ocean.
There was a nice open spot below a tree where we stopped for a snack and to remove some of the unnecessary layers of clothes we had on. While we were resting there Heather spotted a hummingbird that was interested in my orange jacket. It was zipping about, landing occasionally and then darting back into the air. I was snapping pictures frantically trying to get some sort of picture before the hummingbird disappeared. I wasn't sure if I'd managed to get anything until we got home, but I wound up getting lucky with a single shot.
As we headed back up the steep trail we noticed that Haystack Rock near Pacific City was shinning in full sunlight.
We returned the way we'd come and decided to skip the upper viewpoint because it still appeared to be enveloped in the clouds. This hike had been 7.6 miles which included the unnecessary 1.8 miles due to parking at the upper trailhead.
Our next stop was Drift Creek Falls which is located in the Siuslaw National Forest between Hwy 18 & Hwy 101 along Drift Creek Camp Road (Road 17). There was a good sized parking area and restrooms at the trailhead.
The trail leads down through the forest crossing two creeks on footbridges.
At the .7 mile mark the trail forks at a sign for the North Loop, a longer loop option which we planned to take on the way back from the falls. A third of a mile later we came to the other end of the North Loop.
Just a short distance later we arrived at the suspension bridge over Drift Creek.
The bridge passes over the creek very close to the falls allowing for some nice views.
The trail continues on the far side of the bridge down to Drift Creek where we could get a different perspective.
After enjoying the falls for a bit we headed back, this time taking the North Loop which would add about .7 miles to the return trip. This 1 mile section of trail climbed up and wound back through the forest. Aside from the trees and a few mushrooms there wasn't much to see, but the trail was nice and good for a little extra exercise if wanted.
By taking the North Loop back we wound up with a total of 3.9 miles showing on the Garmin. These two trails were close enough (30 minute drive) and short enough to do in a day but they were also nice enough to stand on their own. As far as the cautions at the Harts Cove Trail we didn't experience anything that we found too hard or scary but some of that is subjective and the trial was steep in places and the wet conditions caused a lot of mud which was slick at times. We will most likely be back to the coast sometime next month to kick off our 2015 hikes, but until then Happy Trails!


A vivid exploration of the history of a very powerful and long lasting idea: building European worlds outside of Europe. Veracini outlines how the founding of new societies was envisaged and practiced and explores the specific ways in which settler colonial projects tried to establish ideal and regenerated political bodies.
LORENZO VERACINI is Queen Elizabeth II Fellow at the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Israel and Settler Society (2006).


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AN 18-YEAR OLD former Ateneo de Manila coed yesterday testified in court she was with Francisco Juan Larrañaga in a bar in Quezon City when the Chiong sisters were abducted on July 16, 1997.
Lourdes Pacita Montalvan said she, Larrañaga and a couple of friends went to R & R bat at Katipunan Road in Quezon City at about 10:00 p.m. that day.
"I was never far from Paco (Larrañaga," Montalvan said, adding they shared the same table.
She said she left the bar at about midnight. Larrañaga, who she described as a "friend" was left behind with his other friends, the witness said.
Montalvan, a native of Bukidnon, studied at the Ateneo de Manila University last year. She rented a unit in the same condominium in Loyola Heights, Quezon City where Larrañaga used to stay.
She rented Unit 501 of the Loyola Heights Condominium in Quezon City. Larrañaga occupied Unit 601.
She said she first met Larrañaga "in the middle of June 1997 through a common friend Anton Pages."
After their meeting, she said, she would usually see Larrañaga "four times in a day" in various parts of the condominium.
She also used to go to his room. Asked by the court how many times she did that, she said, "I lost count." Sometimes, she said, she went to Larrañaga's room alone at night.
The revelation sent the judge wondering aloud.
"Is that proper behavior for a school girl?" Judge Martin Ocampo asked.
Defense lawyer Sisinio Andales stood up and reminded the judge not to ascribe malice in the testimony.
"I was just wondering," Ocampo said.
In her testimony, Montalvan said, she visited Larrañaga in his room on July 16, 1997 at 7 p.m. In the room, she said, she met Larrañaga's friends "Richard and Charmaine."
The witness said she stayed there until 9:30 p.m. She returned to her unit "to fix supper" after they had decided to go out later in the night.
At around 10 p.m., she said, a certain Jheanessa Ann Fonacier picked her and Larrañaga up. They then picked up another friend, Maharlika Schulze, and proceeded to the "R&R" bar along Katipunan Road, Quezon City.
Montalvan said she shared the same table with Larrañaga until she, Fonacier and Schulze decided to leave the bar at around midnight.
"There were more than 10 friends of Paco in the bar with us," she told the court.
Asked by Larrañaga's lawyer Teodoro Villarmia why the group dined out, Montalvan said, "Paco was leaving for Cebu the next day and another friend arrived."
Larrañaga, she said, was scheduled to take the last Manila-Cebu flight of Philippine Airlines on July 17, 1997 as he still had to take his exam in a culinary arts school.
Montalvan took the witness stand in place of Margarita Larrañaga, mother of the accused, at the request of the defense panel.
The witness had to go back to Cagayan de Oro where she is presently studying. From Ateneo de Manila, she transferred to Xavier University where she is a second-year Philosophy student. She moved to the Cagayan de Oro school after she was placed on probation by Ateneo officials for low grades.
Prosecutors immediately got the chance to cross-examine, and it was Prosecutor Teresita Galanida who grilled the witness for over two hours.
For most part, Montalvan remained confident under pressure, and seemed comfortable explaining alleged inconsistencies in her testimony.
She said she offered to testify on her own "because Paco (Larrañaga) was really in Manila on July 16, 1997," the date the Chiong sisters were ravaged in Cebu.
Larrañaga, Josman Aznar, Rowen Adlawan, brother James Anthony and James Andrew Uy, Ariel Balansag and Alberto Caño are accused of abducting and killing Jacqueline and Marijoy Chiong, and killing Marijoy.
On cross-examination, Galanida probed deeply, hoping to find weaknesses in the witness' testimony and catch her off-balanced.
The prosecutor hammered on Montalvan's claim she first knew that Larrañaga was involved in the Chiong case on Sept. 15, 1997.
The accused reportedly came to her room to tell her about the crime.
"The information (against the Chiong suspects) was filed on Sept. 16, does that mean Paco already knew he was one of the accused," asked Galanida.
The witness said Larrañaga knew he was implicated in the crime when some men went to the Center for Culinary Arts, Manila and tried to arrest him.
Galanida also kept on pounding on apparent disparities between Montalvan's affidavit, which she executed on Oct. 2, 1997, and her open court testimony yesterday.
In her testimony, she said she met "Richard" and "Charmaine" in Larrañaga's when she went there. There was no mention of "Charmaine" in her affidavit.
Montalvan could not give a clear, coherent answer when asked why she failed to mention the presence of the woman in Larrañaga's room.
As Galanida pressured the witness, defense lawyers gave Galanida a tough time by interposing objections to most of her questions.
At one point, she banged documents on the prosecutors' table in exasperation and complained to Judge Ocampo. "This is already harassment," she wailed.
"Then do not ask kilometric questions to the witnesses... you throw simple and concise questions," defense lawyer Sisinio Andales lectured the lady prosecutor.
"Do not teach me how to propound questions. I know how to construct questions on cross-examination," Galanida snapped back.
Defense counsel Eric Carin said they were just giving Galanida a dose of her own medicine.
Meanwhile, Teodoro Villarmia's odd courtroom tactics earned the ire of the judge.
Villarmia was repeatedly warned not to answer for the witnesses. The lawyer would first make the objection and then somehow manage to coach the witness.
"I'll hold you in contempt pañero and I'll send you to jail. Don't answer for the witness," judge Ocampo warned him for what could have been the last time.
Villarmia knew the judge was not joking. He promised not to do it again.


Beeing in the mood for creating new cards, I found through my crad stuff some paper with sonwmans and I thought why not?! So, with my brand new circle cutter I cutt the snowmans. I choose a simple layout, printed some sentiments and look what I got.
The snowmans are pretty abstract but I ind them very cute. My friends know I'm addicted to abstract stuff so they will understand and appreciate the cards when they will receive them.
So... it's december ... and Saint Nicholas is comming soon ... and after that it's Christmas... the time will pas so quickly that soon it will be New Years Eve. For me, this is how december will pass. Last year... by this time... I was making my first cards for saling. They were pretty simple but I enjoyed making them.
In the town were I live, it's very difficult to find supplies, so I had to improvize. In february this year I got a scholarship and I went to Holland. First thing I looked in that new town (Groningen) was the supply store. Imagine how wonderfull it was for me to find such a store. A good part of my scholarship was spent in that store. It was super fun to see all those wonderful things for creating cards.
Now I am working 8 hours per day and I find it difficult in the evening to find the necessary energy for creating cards. But... I have to try it harder because I have to send card for Christmas and they have to be made by myself.
So... this was my last year collection... maybe they can inspire you.
I wish you a wonderfull week-end... and see you at my next post.


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By Lady C 👄👒
Hannah's pov ✍
I honestly don't understand what's going on yet..
Nina is Sofia's twin?, And her real name is Zina.. no wonder she always mumbles that name in her sleep..
"Are you okay?" Harry asked snapping me out of my thoughts
".. yeah, I.. I'm just confused at the whole thing" I admitted
"Yeah, me too.. but I'm sure we'll get answers in due time" he said rubbing circles in my back.
"Yeah.." I muttered looking into the room through the glass walls, Sofia was still sleeping, with Nina by her side.. I watched as Nina took her hand in hers and kissed it softly..
"They must have been really close.." I said
"So it seems" he added
"Do you want to go in?" He asked..
I really want to, I mean that's my best friend in there.. I really want to go in there and scold her till she wakes up.. I really want to brush back her hair, and cuddle her like she used to do for me..
I looked at Nina and a tear rolled down my cheek,
"No.. I'll just wait here" I said wiping it with my palm
"Okay.." he said
Then we started hearing noises.. mum rushed towards us with Sona hot on her heels..
"Where's she?" Mum asked tearfully
"In there" I said pointing into the room
Without a word, she walked into the ward with Sona..
I and Harry followed..
"My angel.. what happened to you?" Mom said rushing to her side..
"Sofia.. it's me your mum, open your eyes pumpkin" mum said brushing her hair from her face.. Sofia stirred a bit but didn't open her eyes
"Who are you?" Nina asked hoarsely
"I'm supposed to be asking you" mom snapped back
"I'm her sister, her twin.." Nina replied staring intensely at my mom
"Uhh?" Sona mumbled
There was a sneeze and all eyes turned to Sofia.. as she fluttered her eyes open.. the door suddenly opened and a couple rushed in..
Sofia's pov ✌
My eyelids opened and the first person I saw was Hannah's mum staring down at me tearfully..
I turned to the side and Nina smiled I smiled back and raised my hand to her cheek..
"My baby sister.." I said softly and tears fell from her cheeks..
"You remember me?" She asked pointing to herself
"Of course I do.. I remember everything now" I said smiling
"..z..Zina?" I turned to see mum looking at me with mix feelings..
Tears fell from her eyes and from mine..
"Ama, Apa." I said as tears rushed down from my eyes.. I sat up and they both rushed towards me.. embracing me in a long heart melting hug..
"Zina... Zi.. my baby.. 😭😭😭, I'm so sorry, i.. I'm so sorry, I should have listened to you" mum said rocking me back and forth..
"It's okay ..mum, I'm so happy you are here now" I muttered
"Zina.. our little princess.. I thought I lost you, I'm so happy" dad said.. withdrawing from the hug..
"Me too dad" I said
".. it's okay mom, stop crying" Nina said hugging mom from behind
Mum stiffened and turned to face Nina
"..d.did you just call me mom?" She stuttered
"Yes mom.. I did" Nina said
".. thank you.. my two angels.. I love you both so much.. I'm so sorry" mom said hugging us to herself..
"And I love you all" dad said Joining the group hug
We withdrew after few minutes and mom wiped her face with her face towel
"Aigoo.. my princess is all grown up now.. look at you, you haven't changed a bit, you look so beautiful.." mom said Cleaning my eyes with her thumb..
"I love you so much" she said kissing my forehead..
"I love you too mum" I said
".. I guess we all have a lot of catching up to do" Nina said Cleaning her cheek
"Yeah.. " I said..
I looked around and noticed the others already left maybe during our little family reunion..
I told mum about how the Shùs saved me and adopted me..
How they took care of my daily needs and trained me like their own child..
Some minutes after, my parents left to go have a word or so with Hannah's parents..
Hannah walked in with a dull expression and smiled when she saw me, I smiled back and blinked back the tears that threatened to fall..
She was trying too hard to be happy, I know she is but deep within, I know she's a bit sad
"Nina can you please give us a sec?" I asked looking at Nina..
"Okay" she mumbled and stood up, then walked out..well, after glaring at Hannah..
Once the door closed behind her, Hannah walked to my side and sat on the bed and just stared at her fingers
"Well.. aren't you going to say something?" I asked with a little laugh after the long silence
"Uh.. I don't even know what to say" she mumbled
"Since when did you run out of words for me?" I asked raising my brow
"Well since you regained your memory, " she said turning her head to look at me..
"It's a good thing though, I'm happy for you.. I mean that's what we've always wanted right?" She asked and I nodded
"It's just.. I .. I never thought Nina was your twin, I mean apart from little features, you don't look alike..plus you're sweet, amazing, caring and all.. but Nina is all ...you know.. Nina" she said and I chuckled
"Nina can be all of those things you know, well she is.. she's just jealous of you.. I guess.."I said brushing down her hair
"Yeah right" she mumbled and I chuckled
"But we are still best friends right?" She asked looking down at the mattress
"Of course, we are still sisters and bff, why wouldn't we be?" I asked surprised
"Well, because you're rich?" She asked
"Huh?.. I Haven't even thought of that.. Hannah nothing can ever take your place in my life.. not Nina,not my parents, not money.. absolutely nothing.. you're my sister and my best friend.. nothing will ever change that.. okay?" I asked
".. okay" she said with a smile and hugged me..
"I love you sof" she said and I could feel her choking up
"I love you too Hannah.. now don't cry on me woman! We don't want your sparkling to cause a huge commotion now, do we?" I asked playfully
She withdrew with a smile and shook her head
"No we don't" she said
"Good girl, now stop crying.. and help me out of this bed.. I still need to laugh at Luke" I said and she laughed heartily
"Seriously?" She asked
"Yeah.. gosh he looks so hilarious.. you did a good job baby" I said giving her a thumbs up.
"Really?" She asked
"Yeah, high five" I said raising my hand and yelled when she highfived
"Gosh!.. Hannah, that's so painful, I thought you've learnt how to use your strength?" I asked nursing my hand
"Sorry, I guess I was just so excited" she said.


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Raikunjärvi är en sjö i kommunen Kangasala i landskapet Birkaland i Finland. Arean är  hektar och strandlinjen är  kilometer lång. Sjön   Den ligger omkring 25 kilometer öster om Tammerfors och omkring 140 kilometer norr om Helsingfors.

Källor

Insjöar i Kangasala

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The devil is in the details & we dive right in when Martin aka Wimpy returns from the Snappy Sprint & shares his experience from his recent trip. And in light of KeepPass getting an audit by the EU, was ask our Virtual LUG to sound off on the projects they'd audit if given the means & why. Plus great updates from all around open source & the Starbound server challenge!


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Instead of purchasing a pre-made feeder, you can find a variety of bird feeder plans for hopper and platform feeders that will be just as effective and much easier on your wallet. For the cardinal, my favorite is the type pictured here which is a hopper style feeder with suet holders at each end of the hopper.


Western Digital has revamped the Raptor line of 10,000RPM high-performance hard drives by unleashing the VelociRaptor. But does the performance boost justify the cost?
On paper, the VelociRaptor sounds fantastic (well, as long as you overlook capacity). You have a 300GB (twice the capacity of the largest Raptor) SATA drive that supports a transfer rate of 3Gb/s (backwards compatible with 1.5Gb/s). At the heart of the VelociRaptor are two platters rotating at 10,000RPM. These are backed up by 16MB of cache. The manufacturer's claim that the drive is capable of read and write speeds of 120MB/s or greater. The drive also boasts fast seek times of 4.2ms for reads and 4.7ms for writes. That's all impressive stuff.
Note: This review is based on VelociRaptor drives that I purchased, not review samples.
Now if you compare these results to those from a WD Raptor drive then you find that the VelociRaptor is 32MB/s faster when reading, nearly 32MB/s faster at writing and has an access time advantage of 1.1ms.
Sure, the VelociRaptor is faster, but now the advantage is nothing to write home about.
I then tried a couple of other tasks, such as loading game levels and loading and saving photos in Photoshop CS3, and again, while the VelociRaptor did have an advantage, these were small (the times for the SpinPoint F1 and VelociRaptor were sometimes so close it was too close to call).
Another problem with the VelociRaptor is down to the fact that it's a 2.5" drive made to fit a 3.5" bay through the use of a caddy called an IcePak. The layout of data and power connectors on the back of the drive means that it won't fit into any sort of caddy or hot-swap mechanism. For most people this isn't a problem, for others it will be.
A note about capacity: 300GB might not seem all that big, but don't for get that this is a 2.5" drive and not a 3.5" drive, so in reality the data density is pretty good.
Heat isn't a problem, although I wouldn't like to run it without the IcePak given that during normal running the IcePak is hotter than the drive. On hammering the VelociRaptor the drive stayed at around 35°C/90°F while the IcePak got up to 45°C/113°F. What I can say without a doubt is that the VelociRaptor runs much cooler than the old Raptors.
When it comes to noise, the drive isn't that noisy. Yes, it has that distinctive Western Digital click-click-click when accessing data, but it's nothing to be worried about.
While I like the VelociRaptor, it's hard to recommend the drive when a SpinPoint F1 offering three times the capacity at two-thirds of the cost can come so close to it in terms of performance. The problem is that it's hard to find a situation where the VelociRaptor really stomps the competition in Godzilla or Cloverfield fashion.
That said, a RAID 0 or RAID 5 array of VelociRaptors would still be very neat!
Thoughts? Anyone already got a VelociRaptor?