a perennial woody deciduous member of the Crataegus genus in the family Rosaceae.
Fruit - raw or cooked. A dry and mealy texture, they are not very appetizing[K]. The fruit can be used for jams and preserves. The fruit pulp can be dried, ground into a meal and mixed with flour in making bread etc. The fruit is about 1cm in diameter. There are up to five fairly large seeds in the centre of the fruit, these often stick together and so the effect is of eating a cherry-like fruit with a single seed[K].
Young leaves and young shoots - raw. A tasty nibble, they are nice in a salad[K]. Young leaves are a tea substitute.
A good hedge plant, it is very tolerant of neglect and is able to regenerate if cut back severely, it makes a good thorny stock-proof barrier and resists very strong winds. It can be used in layered hedges.
The plant is often used as a rootstock for several species of garden fruit such as the medlar (Mespilus germanica) and the pear (Pyrus communis sativa).
Wood - very hard and tough but difficult to work. It has a fine grain and takes a beautiful polish but is seldom large enough to be of great value. It is used for tool handles and making small wooden articles etc. The wood is valued in turning and makes an excellent fuel, giving out a lot of heat, more so even than oak wood. Charcoal made from the wood is said to be able to melt pig iron without the aid of a blast.
Hawthorn is an extremely valuable medicinal herb. It is used mainly for treating disorders of the heart and circulation system, especially angina. Western herbalists consider it a 'food for the heart', it increases the blood flow to the heart muscles and restores normal heart beat. This effect is brought about by the presence of bioflavonoids in the fruit, these bioflavonoids are also strongly antioxidant, helping to prevent or reduce degeneration of the blood vessels.
The fruit is antispasmodic, cardiac, diuretic, sedative, tonic and vasodilator. Both the fruits and flowers of hawthorns are well-known in herbal folk medicine as a heart tonic and modern research has borne out this use. The fruits and flowers have a hypotensive effect as well as acting as a direct and mild heart tonic. They are especially indicated in the treatment of weak heart combined with high blood pressure, they are also used to treat a heart muscle weakened by age, for inflammation of the heart muscle, arteriosclerosis and for nervous heart problems. Prolonged use is necessary for the treatment to be efficacious. It is normally used either as a tea or a tincture. Hawthorn is combined with ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) to enhance poor memory, working by improving the blood supply to the brain. The bark is astringent and has been used in the treatment of malaria and other fevers.
The roots are said to stimulate the arteries of the heart.
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A very easily grown plant, it prefers a well-drained moisture retentive loamy soil but is not at all fussy. Once established, it succeeds in excessively moist soils and also tolerates drought. It grows well on a chalk soil and also in heavy clay soils. A position in full sun is best when plants are being grown for their fruit, they also succeed in semi-shade though fruit yields and quality will be lower in such a position. Most members of this genus succeed in exposed positions, they also tolerate atmospheric pollution.. A true woodland species, it grows well in quite dense shade.
A very hardy plant, tolerating temperatures down to at least -18°c. Hybridizes freely with other members of this genus. Closely allied to C. monogyna, it often hybridizes with that species in the wild when growing in its proximity. There are many named forms selected for their ornamental value. Seedling trees take from 5 - 8 years before they start bearing fruit, though grafted trees will often flower heavily in their third year[K]. The flowers have a foetid smell somewhat like decaying fish. This attracts midges which are the main means of fertilization. When freshly open, the flowers have more pleasant scent with balsamic undertones. Seedlings should not be left in a seedbed for more than 2 years without being transplanted.
An important food plant for the larvae of many lepidoptera species.
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JULY 3, 2018 – As we celebrate Independence Day, it reminds me that none of us do life alone. We live in communities and we work in community. Every day, each one of us collaborates with others in some way. The definition of Collaboration is the action of working with someone to produce or create something.
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Collaboration is at the heart of everything FRCA does. From the work with families; as family development workers partner with individuals to set and meet goals; to technical assistance and training with our centers to raise the quality of work accomplished in communities; to helping to facilitate conversations with diverse stakeholders around the state in addressing solutions for our communities; we are constantly working on collaboration. We also work with policymakers to help inform policies and raise awareness for funding these important initiatives in our state. And we are continually working with our partners in the philanthropic community and donors to make sure this important work is sustainable. FRCA is focused on collaborating to make a difference in all that we do. And collaboration over time leads to Collective Impact.
Collective Impact is another buzzword in our work that references a simple concept that is very difficult to execute. Collective Impact is a framework to tackle deeply entrenched and complex social problems. It is an innovative and structured approach to making collaboration work across government, business, philanthropy, non-profit organizations and citizens to achieve significant and lasting social change. (www.collaborationforimpact.com/collective-impact)
Right now we have begun a partnership with Harvard's Center on the Developing Child, Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) to test, refine and test again our tools, practices, and resources to improve family support. Currently, we are in the second phase of work. The aim of this second pilot is twofold: first, to learn more about the way in which families at three different family resource centers do or do not enter in the Family Development Pathway, and; secondly, to garner some evidence about the efficacy of Motivational Interviewing training for those staff engaging with families. Specifically, the FDP refers to a cluster of services including use of a common screening tool, motivational interviewing-based coordinated case management, and administration of the Colorado Family Support Assessment 2.0. FRCA believes that through use of these strategies, caregivers involved in the Family Development Pathway will experience increased readiness to change, and increased self-confidence, altogether leading to positive movement within goal setting domains and improved self-reliance.
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The mountain terraces in the cordilleras of northern Luzon, Philippines, were included in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list in 1995. Propitiously, there was no mention of the word rice in the citation of the inclusion. It well may be because, when the Spanish explorers went up the cordilleras in the 16th-17th centuries, they made mention of the existence of terracing. However, no mention of rice was made.
There are two known methods of cultivation in Ifugao land. One of these is the universal slash and burn gardening method also known as swiddening while the other method grew out of this early technology with the dry field cultivation or taro (Colocasia esculenta). This transpired because some varieties of taro are grown in wet areas in catch basins along mountain streams. The elderly Ifugao preferred these varieties. This type of taro cultivation, both dry and wet, can still be seen in the southern cordillera ranges, especially in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, among the I'Wak and Ikalahan peoples. The Ikalahan are the same group as the Kalanguya, which is one of the subgroups of Ifugao that live in the southern part of the province. The people known as Ifugao are actually not only one group but made up of several. There are two major groups: the Tuwali, and the Ayangan. A third group exists called the Kalanguya, whose language is somewhat different. Originally, the staple of the Ifugao people were root crops, taro being one of the oldest and the one most relevant in their rituals, even having a ritualistic name. Rice came much later and became a hugely prestige crop.
The earliest evidence for the existence of rice in the Philippines is between 2510 and 2130 BC, dated by finding the husk of rice embedded in pottery excavated from the Manga site in Andarayan located in the Cagayan Province. Rice is a crop harvested in the lowlands since it requires flooding to grow. Another peculiarity is that it needs to adapt to higher elevations. This is the reason that the yield of rice diminishes as the elevation of the fields go higher. The agricultural technology of rice in Ifugao is basically adapted to the lowland of the mountain terraces, with some forms of adaptation that must have taken a great deal of time to develop.
As early as 1545 to 1000 BC in the present town of Banaue, there is evidence of residential occupation in the area. By the seventh century, through the time period between 1195 to 1380 AD in Bungahalian and Nabyun, respectively, the presence of terraces have been reported, but between 1486-1788 AD in Bocos, Banaue, there was definitely a rapid expansion of terraces with the rise of rice cultivation.
The Ifugao terraces are not actually carved out of the mountain side, rather, these are stone or earth walls which have been developed slowly by geological means; as the space between the wall and the mountain side fills up with different layers of rubble, grades of soil and water impervious clay beneath layers of organic soil to present water loss in the paddy fields thus created. The above the system of terraces also have forests to serve as watersheds from which irrigation ditches are constructed from field to field, which allows the water to drain off to rivers below. The terraces are fragile in construction so much that no draft animal, like the carabao, can be used to plow the field. Instead the soil is cultivated by hand using wooden spades. Rice is planted at the beginning of the year and harvested around June, opposite to methods of lowland rice cultivation.
The fragileness of the environment and the human agricultural technology is reflected in the Ifugao cultural attempts to control it through means of numerous rituals they associated with cultivation, of which, for rice alone there are at least twenty-two. This is not surprising since, the Ifugao traditional religion has a pantheon of deities numbering at least two thousand.


Get your oven up to 160 Celsius. Into an oven-safe stew pot put the slug of oil then add the onions, garlic, celery and carrots then fry them over a medium heat until the onions begin to colour. Put the shoulder of lamb into the pot, add the stock, wine, lemon zest and rosemary. Then put a lid on it, stick it in the pre-heated oven for 2.5-3 hours, then carve it up and nosh with great delight. We served this with [link2post id="647″]baked potato mash which was just lovely.
Isn't that simple? It was a totally brilliant dish, especially satisfying as we just made the recipe up. Having a really good bit of lamb was undoubtedly the way forward. Mr T used to cook brilliant pot-roast lamb back in Oxford, a dish I had missed. This will be a regular dish on the menu.
May I humbly suggest the addition of some anchovies – half a reputable tin – and also the substitution for orange instead of lemon peel?
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On his side, he's got a few shambling corpses, an inept thief, and a powerful death wish. But he's up against tough odds: angry mobs of adventurers, a body falling apart at the seams – and a team of programmers racing a deadline to hammer out the last few bugs in their AI.
Long time no see! Sorry, guys, between a computer crash for one of us and the other starting school, we've been a little preoccupied. But we're back – or at least one of us is – continuing her trend of steadfastly ignoring the pile of paranormal romance galleys sitting on her e-reader to indulge in something completely different.
Full disclosure: I love Zero Punctuation. So when I heard its creator had written a book set in an MMORPG starring a reluctant undead hero, I was psyched. I ordered it a month or so ago, and since then I've read it twice, each time with exactly the same level of eager anticipation.
In short, unexpected and amusingly subversive. From a zombie horde that demands musical theater in return for their service, a village that enjoys being pillaged, and an evil black magic-wielding overlord who treasures his model train set, the jokes in Mogworld almost always arise from an unexpected twist on a familiar situation. SCORE.
It should be obvious by now, but humor has me wrapped around its metaphorical finger. I'll forgive murder from a book that actually makes me laugh, and as I said earlier, Mogworld made me laugh a lot, so let's not kid ourselves: I'll be recommending this no matter what. That being said, Mogworld wasn't a flawless book, and I'm not going to deny that. It's probably not for everyone, which is why I wish Kay had time to go over this one too, because this is the exact sort of situation in which a dual-perspective would be beneficial.
I suppose the primary question here is the crossover appeal – in other words, is Mogworld a book non-gamers could enjoy? I think so, but I'm also a gamer. I've played Warcraft, and admittedly, that familiarity did help. Being set in an MMO, Mogworld comes with a certain amount of in-jokes and parody, but as far as I'm concerned, that only adds another layer to jokes and content that can stand on their own.
The real, potentially polarizing issue here, I think, is the sharp edge to Croshaw's humor and characterization. The key difference here between, say, Yahtzee's humor and that in the clip above is the tone. Where Python has a sillier feel, Croshaw's jokes are biting and mean-spirited. I didn't mind – much – but that's not everyone's cup of tea. Similarly, the characters, while entertaining, are almost universally unlikable, and Croshaw doesn't go out of his way to change that.
His protagonist, Jim, along with being a rather blatant author avatar, is unabashedly cowardly, self-serving, and disdainful of the people around him. But to be fair – and in keeping with the mean-spirited tone – he's almost entirely surrounded by idiots. His associates, fellow undead minions Meryl and Thaddeus, are a relentlessly cheerful, empty-headed nationalist and a delusional, self-righteous zealot, respectively. Every other significant character he encounters runs the gamut from pompous jackass to sociopathically, murderously insane, to just plain stupid.
While you can understand – and be amused by – Jim's attitude and suicidal mission, it's very, very difficult to actually care or empathize with him, and the same goes for most of the other characters. They all have a specific trope to embody and while Croshaw does an outstanding job of getting comedy out of these tropes, nearly everyone remains steadfastly one-dimensional until the very, very end of the book.
The exception to this rule has to be the programmers though, who, in their brief appearances (in bits of emails and instant message conversations), easily establish themselves as the most relatable characters. Their exchanges are some of the funniest in the book, as they deal with workplace drama and sentient AI and that guy around the office who doesn't know how to do a damn thing and yet somehow manages to stay employed. Don't you hate that guy? Also, fangirl moment here: I loved the Silent Hill references in their names.
We need to talk," I said.
Plotwise, though, Mogworld is a bit of a mess. It may be my short attention span, but by the time I got halfway through I forgot exactly why, how, and what steps were taken to get the characters there. Mostly why. The road is…winding, to put it simply – it reads like a series of random encounters and side quests, which work in the MMO context, but less so in a literary one.
The whole premise of the book lends itself to this strange combination gaping plot hole/running gag that can be funny or frustrating, depending on the kind of a mood you're in. The idea is that Jim has no desire to be the hero, and his only wish is to die, yet, being the protagonist, it's necessary that he both survive long enough for the story to play out, and keep up with the overarching plot. This leads to more than a few lucky (or the opposite) instances of Jim literally running into the bad guys, or conveniently placed allies, or just instinctively running away from the death he so desires (which he later berates himself for). It's not a lack of resolve – you know he really does want to kill himself and genuinely has no interest in being the hero – but you have to grin a little at the ways in which Croshaw allows Jim to survive and forces him to participate so that we, you know, have a book to read.
The writing is pretty decent; the dialogue is impeccable. Croshaw has background in dialogue writing for games and it shows; he even manages to give a sense of timing to the conversations and Jim's comebacks, something crucial to good humorous exchanges. He does lean a bit heavily on similes, using them to (almost desperately) squish in amusing observations, like he's not allowed to relate anything without some sort of humorous slant. Calm down, dude, you can go two or three sentences without making us laugh.
Other reviews have criticized Mogworld for running out of steam as the book wears on, and while I can understand, and to a degree, agree with this complaint, I also have to say that I was never once bored. The plot may drag a bit now and then, but the humor doesn't, and by the times things turned serious, I was involved enough in the world and plotline to just enjoy the ride.
I also understand the complaints about the cover summary giving too much away – the ones that say that it takes some of the piss out of the plot, and again, I agree, but I can also see why he did it. I mean, that twist was a large part of the reason I read Mogworld in the first place, plus it covers Croshaw a bit more re: Matrix comparisons.
As far as the rather controversial ending goes, without being too spoilery, I absolutely was not expecting Croshaw to play things as seriously as he did, but it didn't bother me. I mentioned earlier that it took a long time to actually care for the characters, but you know what? When it mattered, I did. I cared enough that I found the ending extremely depressing, yet (because I'm a masochist and misery junkie and lover of tragedy), very satisfying.
Thank God for that epilogue, though.
All in all, Mogworld is on the top of our DO READ list. It's funny, it's unique, and did I mention funny? Because that's a huge selling point. But it's also unexpectedly…weighty, in the most satisfying way possible, and I couldn't recommend it enough. READ THIS NOW GUYS. We need more Yahtzee books.


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Why can't cryogenic propellants be storable, at least on the ground, via refrigeration?
Cryogenic fuels (liquid hydrogen, liquid methane)1 and oxidisers (liquid oxygen)2 are the rocket propellants of choice where raw performance is the overriding concern, due to the very high performance (by chemical-rocket standards) produced by rocket engines burning cryogenic propellants. However, they come with the disadvantage that, having boiling points well below room temperature (or Space Coast outdoor temperature, or, for that matter, even Plesetsk-in-winter temperature), they start to evaporate as soon as the rocket is fueled; to keep the tanks from bursting from the accumulation of gas produced thereby, the boiled-off propellant is vented through relief valves, and, thereby, lost to the rocket. Insulating the rocket helps somewhat, especially for liquid hydrogen, which has the lowest boiling point of all cryogenic propellants (hence the ubiquitous orange foam insulation seen on essentially all hydrolox rockets and rocket stages), but the boiloff eventually occurs even with insulated tanks.
As a result, cryogenic rockets are best launched as soon as they're fully fueled (in order to minimise the amount of propellant that boils off before launch), and cryogenic upper stages generally aren't good for more than a week or so, tops, in space, before enough of the propellant has boiled off to drop the stage's Δv budget below that of an upper stage using so-called "storable" propellants3 (or, in some cases, a solid-fuel motor).
On the other hand, it is obviously possible to chill liquid hydrogen and methane and oxygen to well below their boiling points (as evidenced by the fact that you have the cryogenic propellants available in liquid form to put in the rocket in the first place), via one or more refrigeration methods. If one could somehow keep the propellants refrigerated to sub-boiling temperatures even once they've been loaded into the rocket, it would be possible to greatly reduce, or even completely eliminate, the problem of propellant boiloff.4 This shouldn't be too hard for first stages, where, after fueling, the only sitting around they do is on the pad; the fuel and oxidiser tanks could simply be plumbed into fixed refrigeration plants via a couple more umbilicals, with valves being closed to isolate the tanks from the ground infrastructure as part of the ignition sequence, and the umbilicals then separating at liftoff:
This would be harder for upper stages, as, in order to keep their propellants refrigerated until it came time to use them, they would have to carry (potentially-heavy) refrigeration equipment with them (although this could potentially be mitigated to some degree by jettisoning the refrigerators prior to the stage's final burn, when they'd no longer be needed); where refrigerated propellants would really come into their own in space would be for an orbiting cryogenic propellant depot, as the refrigeration machinery could (again) stay on the piece of infrastructure that isn't going anywhere (here, the propellant depot), with client spacecraft reaping the benefits of stored cryogenic propellants without having to pay the weight penalties of refrigeration equipment. Admittedly, refrigeration does require an external source of energy, but solar energy is essentially free for an orbiting spacecraft, with rechargeable batteries to cover the periods of shadow time.
1: Liquid ethane, ethylene, and propane are also cryogenic (although nowhere near as deeply so as liquid methane), but, to the best of my knowledge, have not actually been used in any mass-produced rocket engines.
2: Liquid fluorine is also cryogenic, and is actually a somewhat-better-performance oxidiser than liquid oxygen, but is somewhat more expensive and difficult to handle, results in engines with more spectacular failure modes, and can only realistically be used as an upper-stage oxidiser (due to the vast amounts of hydrogen fluoride it produces with all common rocket fuels); for these reasons, it is not generally used as a rocket propellant nowadays.
3: In practice, this generally means room-temperature hypergolic propellants - generally hydrazine and/or one or more of its derivatives (for the fuel) and dinitrogen tetroxide (for the oxidiser).
4: As well as the related problem of thermal expansion of chilled liquid propellants; all liquid rocket propellants (even those that are liquid all the way up to, and past, room temperature, like RP-1) expand with increasing temperature, which has led some rocket surgeons to chill these propellants almost to their freezing points in order to densify them and let more propellant be packed into the tanks. If the rocket then has to sit around on the pad absorbing heat, the propellants warm back up and expand, and some quantity thereof has to be drawn from the tanks to keep them from bursting, negating the performance advantage of chilled propellants.
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$\begingroup$ Estimate cost and development time of recovery hardware versus cost of lost propellants? $\endgroup$ – Russell Borogove Jun 5 '19 at 23:03
$\begingroup$ @RussellBorogove: What "recovery hardware"? $\endgroup$ – Sean Jun 5 '19 at 23:05
$\begingroup$ The return lines in your diagram and whatever they interface with. $\endgroup$ – Russell Borogove Jun 5 '19 at 23:10
$\begingroup$ There are problems with having a rocket sitting on the pad full of cryogenic fuel for any length of time beyond just the fuel boiling off. Parts of the rocket will get colder than they are meant to be; ice will build up in all sorts of places and probably more. All of these can be avoided by insulation, or the odd heater, but that's all more mass. $\endgroup$ – Steve Linton Dec 14 '19 at 19:27
I performed a feasibility study for a Soyuz launch site on Christmas Island many years ago in support of the Asian Pacific Space Center. One of their press releases talking about the project is here: https://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/christmas/
As part of that investigation I discussed the feasibility of adding enough refrigeration capacity to prevent boil off with the contractor (BRPH Construction who installed a fair amount of the Kodiak Island launch facility) who was preparing a bid for me and was told that it was a bad idea from a couple of aspects. First, the cost of producing and storing the refrigerated products is minimal if one can produce just what you need, just before you need it, just based on a pure energy use basis. Second, prior customers had questioned how to maintain purity of propellants if they were kept refrigerated below the boil off temperature, particularly the LOX which was cold enough that it would have a habit of condensing LN2 from the atmosphere if there was any leak, thereby diluting itself. It turns out to be overall cheaper to guarantee delivery of high purity LOX if one is constantly boiling it off at a low level to ensure nitrogen doesn't get back into the cryogenic storage.
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$\begingroup$ Sounds like quite an interesting place and task! With the boiling point of oxygen (~90 K) 13 degrees above that of nitrogen (~ 77 K) isn't there enough of a temperature range to store non-boiling LOX without condensing nitrogen? $\endgroup$ – uhoh Dec 14 '19 at 11:07
$\begingroup$ Excellent point, I wonder if I've misinterpreted their concerns and it was condensation of something else like moisture that they were more worried about. $\endgroup$ – Terrance Yee Dec 14 '19 at 11:17
$\begingroup$ having helped move stuff on and off Christmas Island via it's... interesting lack of wharf infra structure slightly boggled over the thought of getting a launch site built there, would have been an interesting study to prepare. $\endgroup$ – GremlinWranger Dec 14 '19 at 13:08
$\begingroup$ True, the cost of dredging to harbor and expanding the dock/port capability was one of the early investments needed to make that situation work. Starting with a somewhat clean sheet of paper was an advantage in some ways though as we could design for just what we needed. The RocketLabs USA facility looks similar to the level of infrastructure we had in mind (although the size of the LV and storage tanks were very different of course). $\endgroup$ – Terrance Yee Dec 14 '19 at 18:31
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One night last week I got home from work to find my home much cooler than usual. I searched the house for open windows and, after finding none, proceeded to play with the thermostat. Minutes passed, the house maintained its chilly demeanor, and the fans that should bring in warm air from the furnace refused to clicked on.
At first, I was angry. I thought perhaps the gas company had erroneously turned off our service, or maybe the household accountant had forgotten to pay the bill? It was a near-freezing evening and I had a small child in the house. I was irritable and slightly furious at the thought of my poor little one freezing through the night.
I managed to reign in my anger, and my interaction with the gas company phone representative was actually quite pleasant and productive. I wrapped up my son in layers of pajamas and a few blankets, and the gas company sent out someone the next day to solve our furnace issue. Our house is apparently well insulated as the temperature actually only got down to about 64 degrees F inside.
Fast forward a week, and on my way to work I was listening to the BBC radio crew discuss what is happening in the Congo right now. I was awestruck and dumbfounded by what I heard. The displacement of more than 1.7 million people? The stories were heart wrenching and almost unbearable to listen to; kids starving and dying, families literally ripped apart.
I recall being a teenager and learning about the Rwandan genocide. I remember, then too, being gob smacked by the images and the accounts of tragedy. I felt so helpless about it, and I found myself, for a while, constantly wondering what could be done. The same is true decades later during the recent civil war in Syria.
Although I do attempt to educate myself about politics, I'm afraid I am no expert in foreign affairs and I do not claim to understand the circumstances by which any of these conflicts have taken place. There are much more intelligent people out there who can understand and explain that part so much better than myself.
What I do recognize, is the humanity.
When I stop for a moment and try to put myself in the shoes of someone who has just lost literally everything (granted, I understand that I can never really know how someone feels or thinks), I feel my soul ache. I begin to see the gaping yawn of hopelessness, and I still can't imagine experiencing it real life, rather than from the safety of my pretend perspective.
This is not a movie. This is not a story. This is happening in real life, to real people.
I tend to believe that life exists on a knife's edge as it is. However, when confronted with the pictures and reports of what some of these people have experienced, I feel that knife getting thinner and thinner.
Meanwhile, I get frustrated with my electric kettle because I need to get to work. I need coffee now, and 2 minutes just seems too long to wait.
…until I remind myself of what others are dealing with.
I am grateful for the kind and decent human beings of the world who are working to help the people in places like the Congo, Rwanda, and Syria. They are heroes. I am hoping that they can forge a way for peaceful resolutions and avoid further catastrophe.
I am grateful for the place I was born. No country is perfect and I certainly would not contend that mine is, but I have had rights and opportunities opened to me here that I may not have had in other places. I live in a place that allowed me to get an education and give my son a more secure childhood than I had. Sometimes I contemplate chance itself and the fact that I could have been born anywhere, perhaps into great wealth, but most likely into even greater poverty.
It is complete happenstance that I ended up where I am, and it is a privilege to live my life for this reason alone.
I am most grateful for the people I have had the honor and privilege of knowing.
My husband: He is an idealist. He is the one who reminds me what the best qualities of human beings are. And he makes me laugh. Considering my relative hermitage, outside of work, he is the one I could be around 24/7.
My son: The kind of care I have for my child is like no other I have felt before. I never thought I could move mountains; I'm still not sure can, but now I'm willing to try.
My father: He is a brilliant man. We don't always see eye-to-eye, but he challenges me to see and appreciate different perspectives. He is sweet and benevolent, in his own way.
My grandparents: The glue of our family, the people who gently and consistently keep tabs on their children and grandchildren. They have raised more children than they asked for, with love, kindness, and grace.
My friends: I only have a few close ones, and they live very different lives from myself, but they are people whom I trust implicitly. I do my best to be worthy of such alliances.
You: I am still flabbergasted that anyone would be interested in what I have to say out here on the web. I am so grateful to all the folks who have read anything here on Cozy and Sage. I am thankful for all the connections that I have made here in the blogging community as well. Thank you for being part of this relatively new and exciting writing journey!
Wishing all peace and warmth; stay cozy!
*This post was inspired by, and written for, The Blessed Project by Susie Lindau. Thanks so much for hosting this wonderful project, Susie!
I thoroughly enjoyed your project and LOVE how you contrasted all of the strife of daily life for you and for others. At the end of the day, it's the people in our lives that make life an amazing experience.
Thanks so much for participating! I'll link up your post on Wednesday!
Thank you for your kind words, allowing me to participate, and the opportunity to explore what I truly am thankful for!


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Hands Off My Macguffonium (Agents of SHIELD episode 3) - That science don't love you!
So, I'm not sure how I feel about this episode, to be honest.
First all, of course, all the yay for the snark. And Melinda-senpai. And Coulson is always wandering around in unlikely spaces with his suit. And to be honest, I rather like the cheesiness of the gravity effects.


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Sleeping Dogs Combat Trailer
It's been a LONG time since we've had a good Hardboiled-esque Hong Kong cop drama game, and developer United Front Games agrees with us. This morning we have a new video showing off some gameplay of the August-slated SquareEnix title, Sleeping Dogs. Despite hitting in just a few months, we've not heard a ton on this one…or have we? Let's read up before we take a peek at that video.
A deep array of combat moves and upgrades awaits Sleeping Dogs players who step into the shoes of undercover cop, Wei Shen. New bone-crunching kicks and devastating combos unlock as players earn face amongst their peers and respect from those who would challenge them. In Sleeping Dogs, the city itself doubles as an arsenal of deadly weaponry as real-world items from phone booths to TV sets, engine blocks to combat fish deliver a vicious and violent end to all who stand in your way.
Developed by United Front Games in collaboration with Square Enix London Studios, Sleeping Dogs is a gritty and visceral open world cop drama set in the vibrant city of Hong Kong. Taking the role of undercover cop Wei Shen, players are tasked with taking down one of the world's most fearsome criminal organizations from the inside. Offering players an island packed with action, every street corner, market stall, harbor dock or city skyscraper can become an opportunity for intense shoot-outs, adrenaline-fuelled street races and intense, brutal martial arts combat. Featuring one of the most intuitive and imaginative combat systems, Sleeping Dogs empowers players to perform an extensive set of martial arts moves, singlehandedly taking on numerous opponents. Players perform bone-crunching kicks and combos, vicious counters and a cinematic set of environmental takedowns making use of countless real-world items from circular saws to phone booths, incinerators to refrigerator doors.
I saw this game last E3 when Activision was still at the helm! ( This title was to be a sequel for the True Crime series. ) Well, from what I saw, let me tell you that Activision's loss is Square's gain. Sleeping Dogs will hit shelves on August 14th for the PS3, 360, and PC – we'll let you know how all this face-smashing plays in our E3 playtime. Stay tuned!
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Krisztina Medveczky (born 14 April 1958) is a retired Hungarian gymnast. She competed at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and finished in third and fourth place in the team competition, respectively. Her best individual result was ninth place on the balance beam in 1972. She won another bronze team medal at the 1974 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

At the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, she met a researcher in pharmaceutical chemistry. They soon married and she followed him to several countries, including the UK and Australia. They have three daughters, Adrienn, Alexandra and Bettina, who live in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia.

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Depending on what country you come from, you may or may not be familiar with nameday calendars. The Slovak one is not an exception. Like some of our European neighbours, Slovaks have assigned people's first names to every day in their calendar. Why? Well, there are several explanations for that, but one is so typically … Continue reading Silvester is here again!


This sassy, spirited baker is fine with heat but is her fake fianc too hot to handle Bakery owner Willow Dalton s friendship with Zane Walker has always been a bit complicated Now a scrumptiously hot A list actor, Zane s always had a reputation as player He s arrogant, and he s definitely not boyfriend material Sure, he did Willow a favor by agreeing to take her virginThis sassy, spirited baker is fine with heat but is her fake fianc too hot to handle Bakery owner Willow Dalton s friendship with Zane Walker has always been a bit complicated Now a scrumptiously hot A list actor, Zane s always had a reputation as player He s arrogant, and he s definitely not boyfriend material Sure, he did Willow a favor by agreeing to take her virginity before college, but is that reason enough to go along with a fake engagement a decade later even if it comes with a real diamond ring Zane should have known better Nothing involving Willow has ever been easy Still, he knows her better than anyone, and becoming America s hottest new leading man means cleaning up his reputation An engagement to curvy, sass mouthed Willow is the perfect PR move provided no one gets hurt Now Zane and Willow s little white lie has turned into an irresistible recipe for sweet temptation And soon no one will be able to tell the difference between their fake engagement or the real thing including them.
My emotions throughout reading this book: Annoyance. Annoyance. Annoyance. 10x magnified as the book progressed.But anyway, this is just an unpopular opinion. So. move along people. Nothing to see here.
Within the first 10% of the book, I was bored. I was hoping it would get better but the story never took off. There was no conflict. No drama. The protagonist was annoying. Their friendship was inconceivable. The story was unbelievable. I so wanted to put this book on my did-not-finish shelf but felt like I owe it to the author/publisher to finish it. I would like to thank NetGalley and Montlake Romance for supplying a copy of Melissa Foster's "The Real Thing" in exchange for an honest review.


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The girls cross country team placed 4th at the Blackbird Invite on Saturday. They were led by Laura Meade and Olivia Wheeler.
Delaney Krogh and Courtney Dicarlo placed 1st and 2nd in the Freshmen race.
The freshmen boys team placed 3rd. Alex Tabano placed 1st in the race.


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Peninnis Lighthouse is situated on Peninnis Head, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly.

History
The light was built to replace the lighthouse in the centre of the island of St Agnes and helps vessels to enter Hugh Town harbour, via St Mary's Sound. It was first lit in 1911, is circular,  tall and consists of a black steel open lattice foundation, white gallery and black–domed top.

Initially, the lamp used was an incandescent burner which was powered by oil gas; the fuel was kept on site in four pressurised tanks (with a total capacity of 700 cubic feet), which the local Trinity House vessel would keep replenished. It was classed as a 'semi-watched' light (i.e. it did not require the full-time attendance of a keeper). The rotating third-order optic was driven by clockwork; it displayed a white flash every 20 seconds and its beam had a range of .

In 1922 the lighthouse was converted to automatic acetylene operation. (Acetylene was used to drive the rotating optic as well as fuelling the lamp). It was converted to electricity in 1992.

In late 2011, the year of its centenary, the lighthouse was updated, and at the same time downgraded (its visible range being reduced from 17 to  in accordance with the Trinity House 2010 Aids to Navigation review). A single-tier LED lantern, mounted on the exterior rail of the structure, now provides the light; within the lantern the old revolving lens still remains in situ, but it is no longer in use.

See also

 List of lighthouses in England

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UI students, faculty find stress relief boarding horses at local ranches
Members of the University of Iowa community are enjoying the closeness of local farms and ranches where they can board their horses while school is in session. The boarding opportunities allow students and faculty to keep their companions close.
Jerod Ringwald
A horse named Kid sits in a stable at Wind Reach Farms in Iowa City on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Wind Reach Farms rides, trains, and boards horses in eastern Iowa.
Kate Perez, News Reporter
After a long day of classes at the University of Iowa, Katie Pribyl joins a small but close-knit community of faculty and students who board horses throughout the Iowa City area in visiting their beloved companions.
Pribyl, a first-year student, has been riding horses since she was 6 years old. Being from Glenview, Illinois, she said one of her first concerns when moving to Iowa City was where to keep her horse, Milo. She's had Milo for over a year.
"The first steps were researching barns in the area, so I could move my horse down here to be with me during school," Pribyl said. "We visited a couple of times to visit barns and get to know the owners, ask questions."
Pribyl decided to board her horse at 7A Ranch and Boarding Stable located in Oxford, a 20-minute drive from Iowa City.
"It was the closest. The facility was really nice, the owner was really nice, and I thought it was a good opportunity for us to take advantage of," Pribyl said. "It's like paying monthly rent, on an apartment, but for a horse."
Despite being a full-time student, Pribyl is usually able to get out to 7A Ranch multiple times a week, she said.
"I try to get out at least five to six days throughout the week to at least see him," she said. "I don't necessarily ride every day just because I don't have time or it's not what we feel like doing that day. I've been really lucky with my class schedules. I'm able to get out there often."
Pribyl shows horses in different competitions that require hours of training and work, she said.
"It's important for me to have him here so that I can put in that work so that we can compete over the summer and he's not sitting at home, forgetting everything that we've worked for," Pribyl said.
Mary Trachsel, UI associate rhetoric professor, also boards her two horses, Rabbit and Loretta, at 7A Ranch and Boarding Stable.
Bill Coester pets a horse at Wind Reach Farms in Iowa City on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Coester rides, trains, and boards horses in eastern Iowa. (Jerod Ringwald)
"I've had Loretta for nine years and Rabbit for three," Trachsel said. "I have always boarded these two horses because I live in Iowa City. It's the only way I can have horses."
Trachsel goes to the ranch often and rides, but work keeps her from spending as much time at the barn as she'd like, she said.
"That's why I'm happy to board my horses," she said. "The barn owner sees to their day-to-day keep when I can't be there. I don't have to worry about going on vacation."
While horses are expensive, Trachsel said they are a priority for her, and the investment is worth it.
"I feel confident that my horses are well cared for," Trachsel said. "I don't have the hassle of buying and hauling hay, fixing fences, et cetera. When I want to clean stalls, I can. If I don't have time, I don't worry."
Bill Coester, owner of Winds Reach Farm in Iowa City, currently has around 25 horses boarded on his farm, where university and community members can board horses. He said he has kept the number of horses he boards relatively small in recent years, to handle the amount at hand.
"I've kept things small just because it's what I can deal with," Coester said. "There's always a demand and I think the facility can hold a lot more than we do at this point and handle a lot more, but it's more of what I can oversee and do with the operation."
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Coester said he has seen an increase in the demand for boarding and training since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Since the pandemic situation, there's a lot of interest in getting out and [riding] with the horses," he said. "The winters here are somewhat brutal or can be, and we do have an indoor riding facility, which is nice."
Winds Reach Farm is primarily a private training stable, but also has boarding and events on the side, Coester said.
"We concentrate in dressage and combined training. It's our main emphasis and work, but we have some 100 jumper activities," Coester said. "We hold clinics and little shows throughout the year. [It] keeps people inspired and going."
For people like Pribyl, having a horse nearby is the perfect escape from daily life.
"It's a great stress reliever to be able to get away from school and have an animal that I can hang out with and work with that's away from people and education," Pribyl said.
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Estimating predation rates of restocked individuals: The influence of timing-of-release on metapenaeid survival
Poh, Brian
(Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, 90 South St, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150, Australia
); Tweedley, James R.
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(Rivers and Estuaries Division, Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, Western Australia 6983, Australia
); Loneragan, Neil R.
Abstract The success of aquaculture-based enhancement programs is greatly influenced by the survival of released individuals. Immediate post-release mortality through predation is one of the greatest obstacles to the success of releases, and the choice of a release site or time-of-release can be critical in maximising survival. This paper develops a quantitative method of estimating predation rate to inform release programs, and describes its use in determining whether hatchery-reared Western School Prawns Metapenaeus dalli should be released into the Swan-Canning Estuary in temperate south-western Australia during the night or day. Fish faunal composition was determined during the day and night, both before and after the release of ∼130,000 postlarval M. dalli. Far greater numbers of species and individuals were recorded at night. Stomach contents of 16 abundant teleost species were estimated volumetrically (%V) and any postlarval M. dalli counted. Although diet varied among species, diel phase and size class, crustaceans (including M. dalli ) were a key dietary component (>10%V) of 12 species. The data on the abundance of these fish species and the number of M. dalli they consumed were combined and bootstrapped to estimate the total relative number of M. dalli consumed at the time-of-release. The results indicated that while six species consumed M. dalli , two species, Ostorhinchus rueppellii (Apogonidae) and Atherinomorus vaigiensi s (Atherinidae), were responsible for ∼99% of the predation, and that the total number of postlarval prawns consumed was 288% higher at night than in the day. These findings suggest that releasing M. dalli during the day will greatly reduce predation and consequently allow a greater survival rate at this release site. The simple methodology developed here could be readily employed to inform release strategies for other species. Highlights Fish community sampled before and after both day and night releases of M. dalli . Daytime releases greatly reduced overall predation risk in this system. O. rueppellii and A. vaigiensis were the most voracious predators overall. Methodology readily/easily apply to any system to better inform release strategies. Graphical abstract [DISPLAY OMISSION]
Dietary composition . Release program . Release strategy . Stock enhancement . Survival.


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Job growth is up, unemployment also is up and oil prices are down (for now). In other words, it's time for some Friday Feedback. Almost all of this week's email concerned my post-mortem on Tuesday's election. The response was far too overwhelming for comprehensive coverage in this space (perhaps an online blog w/ a comment section is in our future), so I'm just going to print a handful of reader sentiments in their entirety. First up is Sam, who was particularly interested in my contention that folks should split their presidential and legislative votes along party lines, so as to avoid a power concentration that removes checks and balances on fiscal discipline:
"I think it's a structural issue more than a voting issue. Individual voters make individual decisions about their state's Congressional candidates (the only candidates they can vote for) at the state level, winner-take-all. It is impossible to 'split the vote' strategically on a national level when we are presented with only one or two Congressional candidates on our individual ballots.
I see a similar structural challenge in the VC industry. I had the chance a couple weeks ago to hear Mark Heesen (NVCA) and Promod Haque (Norwest Venture Partners) reflect on the state of the VC industry. Both believe at a macro level that there is still too much new money flowing into the industry relative to the number of companies that can appropriately absorb those dollars. They worry that at a macro level the industry will underperform, and will end up in an extended period where the private equity class goes out of favor with investors.But what can be done to prevent that possible future?Very little that I can see. The root challenge is that VC investment 'votes' don't happen on the macro level. They happen with individual LPs making individual bets that the GPs they are funding will perform for them. Structurally, about the only thing you can do is add up the money, fund by fund, and there you have the national picture."
Charlie adds: "I think your view that fiscal responsibility as a loser is a bit myopic.At 31 years old, I have lived through 3 short decades of both Democrats and Republicans hoping for better schools, health care, jobs, etc. Each has his methods for achieving the greater goals. However, neither party has been able to implement their systems for change because of bipartisanship. With Republicans in a commanding position, they might finally be able to implement some of the programs they have promoted over the years. If money is spent on high return investments like improved education and healthcare, then it is responsible.We should make any ethical investment where our return is higher than our cost of capital.If funds are spent elsewhere, then you are correct. I for one am excited to see some programs and strategies implemented, not just debated again in 4 years. If they don't work, then everyone can vote for Hillary in 2008."
Other folks took me to task for suggested that Erskine Bowles' connections to Forstmann Little & Co. had any significant impact on his Senate loss. Brent writes: "As a North Carolinian, I can assure you that Erskine Bowles connection with the Forstmann Little litigation had zero impact on the election. Burr won the race on the coattails of Bush. If you look at all of the recent Senatorial races in NC, the Republicans have always won in presidential years. The only times Democrats have won (Edwards and Sanford) have been during off years." My father, a North Carolina resident (and voter) for just over a month adds: "No mention in any of the ads I saw in NC in Bowles v. Burr about venture capital or the Connecticut business — in fact I did not even know that Bowles had been part of Forstmann's group. Issues here were the 'values' stuff, breast cancer research (a real red herring) and tax and spend rhetoric. There also were lots of negative ads linking Bowles with Clinton."
Finally, three quick unrelated notes. First, VC and private equity firms in need on interns have until next Tuesday to let me know via email. We have 10 interested groups so far, but I'd really like to increase the number substantially. Second, a few of you have asked about linking to the PE Week Wire via personal websites/blogs. It can, indeed, be done. Just let me know that you're interested, and I'll show you how to do it. Finally, more info on Tom Fogarty's split with Three Arch Partners is available here. Not an amenable departure.
– Dan Primack
Celanese Corp., a U.S. holding company for German chemicals maker Celanese AG, has filed to raise $750 million via an IPO of common stock on the NYSE. Celanese was acquired earlier this year for over Euro 3.2 billion by The Blackstone Group, which owns a 92.6% pre-IPO interest. www.celanese.com
Transamerica Finance Corp., a subsidiary of Aegon NV (NYSE: AEG), has sold its maritime container leasing business for $1.2 billion to TAL International Group Inc., a newly-formed company controlled by private equity firm The Jordan Co. TAL International also counts UK-based Klesch & Co. Ltd. as an investor. www.aegon.com
Forstmann Little & Co. has completed its acquisition of IMG, a New York-based sports talent and marketing agency. The selling party included trusts established by IMG founder Mark McCormack, and the family of IMG Vice Chairman Arthur Lafave. No financial terms were disclosed, except that senior IMG management will retain a small equity position. IMG was founded in the early 1960's by McCormick, who passed away in 2003 at the age of 72. It now features around 2,200 employees and 60 offices in more than 25 countries, and clients such as Tiger Woods, Peyton Manning and Derek Jeter. www.imgworld.com
BioMimetic Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Franklin, Tenn.-based drug company focused on musculoskeletal disorders, has raised $25.7 million in Series C funding. InterWest Partners led the deal, and was joined by fellow new investors CMEA Ventures and MC Life Science Ventures. Return backers included Burrill & Co., Novo AS, Holden Capital and MB Venture Partners. www.biomimetics.com
WMetromedia International Group Inc. (OTC BB: MTRM), a Charlotte, N.C.-based owner of communications businesses in Russia and the republic of Georgia, has entered exclusive negotiations to be sold for approximately $300 million. The acquiring group includes Emergent Telecom Ventures, First National holding, Capital International Private Equity Fund IV and Baring Vostok Capital Partners. www.metromedia-group.com
Sun Capital Partners has agreed to acquire the Performance Fibers business of Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON). No financial terms were disclosed. www.honeywell.com
Medtronic Inc. (NYSE: MDT) has acquired Angiolink Corp., a Taunton, Mass.-based medical device company focused on wound closure for vascular procedures. No financial terms were disclosed. Angiolink has raised approximately $21 million in total VC funding since its 1999 inception, from investors like BioVentures Investors, JHK Investments and IDP Investments. www.angiolink.com
Symbiot Business Group, a Nicholasville, Ky.-based consolidator in the property services market, has agreed to merge with Snow Management Group, an Eire, Pa.-based provider of snow management services. The combined company has received an investment from Comerica Bank and vSpring Capital (an existing Symbiot investor). www.symbiot.biz www.snowmanagementgroup.com
MarketAxess Holdings Inc., a New York-based operator of an online securities exchange website, will begin trading on the Nasdaq under ticker symbol MKTX. The company priced five million common shares at $11 per share, for a total IPO take of approximately $55 million. It originally had filed to sell a total of nine million shares (three from the company, six from existing shareholders) at between $16 and $18 per share, but later reduced the offering to five million shares (all from the company) offered at between $8.50 and $10.50. MarketAxess has raised approximately $125 million in venture capital funding since its 2000 inception, with significant shareholders including Banc of America Technology Investments, BancBoston Capital, JPMorgan Partners, Credit Suisse First Boston and DB Capital. www.marketaxess.com
TeamSystem SPA, an Italy-based provider of accounting, tax and payroll management software, has canceled plans to float an IPO on the Milan Stock Exchange. The company is controlled by UK-based private equity firm Palamon Capital Partners, which now may look for liquidity via the M&A markets. www.teamsystem.it
Iowa Telecommunications Services Inc., a Newton, Iowa-based provider of wire-line communications services in rural Iowa, has set its IPO terms to approximately 15.79 million common shares being offered at between $18 and $20 per share. The company hopes to list on the NYSE, and trade under proposed ticker symbol IWA. Selling shareholders include ING, BancBoston Ventures and TIAA-CREF. www.iowatelecom.com
Compagnie Generale de Geophysique (NYSE: GGY), a France-based provider of land and marine seismic services, has received an $85 million investment from Onex Partners, in the form of convertible subordinated notes. www.cgg.com
Todd Davis has joined Paul Capital Partners, where he will source healthcare investment opportunities for the Paul Royalty team. He previously served as a partner with Apax Partners, focused on biopharmaceutical deals on the East Coast. www.paulcap.com
James Still has been hired as a managing director with Boenning & Scattergood, a West Conshohocken, Pa.-based I-bank focused on the middle-markets. He previously was owner of middle-market advisory RDC Advisors LLC. www.Boenningib.com
Rory Radding has joined Morrison & Foerster LLP as head of its New York-based intellectual property and patent group. He previously served as a senior partner with Pennie & Edmonds. www.mofo.com
Ramana Jampala has been hired as a partner with SAS Investors, a New York-based venture capital firm. He most recently served as a strategy lead with now-defunct Viant Corp. www.sasinvestors.com
Let's Make A Match
Looking for a summer intern? If so, the PE Week Wire is here to help (again). For the third straight year, I'm setting up a system that will connect private equity firms with the best and brightest from b-schools throughout the nation. It's actually more of a targeted resume drive than a placement process (since I don't screen the applicants, or get paid), but best and brightest still applies since the applicants will be Wire readers. The way this works is as follows:
1. If you are a private equity firm looking for a current b-school student to intern/work with you this summer, please send me an email that includes your firm name, firm type (i.e. VC, buyout, turnaround, etc.) and internship location (Boston, San Fran, London, etc.). I will then contact you with further information. Your firm name will not be released via the Wire or to prospective student employees. Instead, I will set up an anonymous email account for you, to which interested b-schoolers will be directed. You are under no obligation to hire, or even to contact, interested students.
2. Next week, I will publish a list of summer internship opportunities. Please note again that I will not publish firm names (those stay confidential). Instead, I will write things like: "Healthcare-focused VC – New York." Each listing also will have an anonymous contact email address, to which current b-schoolers can send their CVs.
3. B-schoolers: Please do not send any resumes or CVs to me. I will delete them, for I have too many emails already (so says my system administrator). You may, however, forward this email around. In doing so, please remind your friends that they should really subscribe to this nifty free service known as the PE Week Wire.
So please get in touch with me soon if you're looking for some summer help. Thanks.
Linux NetworX Inc., a Bluffdale, Utah-based provider of Linux cluster systems, has raised $40 million in Series B funding. Oak Investment Partners led the deal, and was joined by fellow new investor Tudor Ventures. Ed Glassmeyer, founding general partner of Oak, will join the Linux NetworkX board of directors. www.linuxnetworkx.com
Thomas Fogarty has left Three Arch Partners, the Portola Valley, Calif.-based VC firm he co-founded in 1993. Mark Wan, also a Three Arch co-founder, confirmed the departure, but declined further comment. www.threearchpartners.com
GNC Corp., a Pittsburgh-based provider of nutritional supplements, has withdrawn plans to raise $345 million via an IPO on the NYSE. The company cited "current market conditions" in its withdrawal filing with the SEC. GNC was acquired in 2003 for approximately $750 million by Apollo Management. www.gnc.com
ReliOn Inc., a Spokane, Wash.-based provider of fuel cell solutions for backup power applications, has raised $25 million in Series B funding. Oak Investment Partners led the deal, and was joined by Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, Wall Street Technology Partners, Chrysalix Energy, Buerk Dale Victor and former parent company Avista Corp. (NYSE: AVA). www.relion-inc.com
Symphogen AS, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based biotech company, has raised $25 million in Series C funding round. Return backers include Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, Scandinavian Life Science Venture, Novo AS, LD Pensions and Vaekstfonden. Symphogen CFO Thomas Feldthus says that the company is still speaking to investors, and could re-open the round for an additional $5 million to $10 million. www.symphogen.com
Whitehill Technologies Inc., a British Columbia, Canada-based provider of document composition and data transformation software, has raised Cdn$4.1 million in Series B funding from the GrowthWorks Canadian Fund. www.whitehilltech.com
Chimerix Inc., a San Diego-based developer of orally-administered antiviral therapeutics, has raised $11 million in Series C funding. Frazier Healthcare Ventures led the deal, and was joined by return backers Sanderling Ventures and Asset Management Company. Among the diseases targeted by Chimerix are smallpox, cytomegalovirus, drug-resistant HIV and viral hepatitis. www.chimerix.com
Metreos Corp., an Austin, Texas-based provider of enterprise software applications for IP communications, has raised $3.8 million in Series A funding. Hunt Ventures and Gefinor Ventures co-led the deal, and was joined by seed-stage backer STARTech Early Ventures. www.metreos.com
Wellspring Capital Management has completed its previously-announced acquisition of International Mill Service Inc., a Horsham, Pa.-based provider of slag processing, metal recovery, materials handling, scrap management and surface conditioning services to the North American steel industry. The selling shareholder group was led by GSC Partners, which initially invested in IMS in 1999, and became majority shareholder in 2001. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. www.ims.biz.com
Tailwind Capital Partners has agreed to acquire Aircast Inc., a Summit, N.J.-based provider of orthopedic devices and vascular systems. No pricing details were disclosed for the deal, which will include debt financing from Credit Suisse First Boston and Wachovia Securities. www.aircast.com
Oak Hill Capital Partners part of a consortium that is close to buying General Electric's off-shoring operations in India (a.k.a. GE Capital Services), according to the Business Standard. GE Capital Services is seven-years-old, and currently employs over 12,000 people throughout India.
Sonus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: SNUS) has agreed to acquire Synt:em, a Nimes, France-based drug development company. The deal could be worth up to $30 million in Sonus common stock, including an initial $10 million payment, and an additional pair of $10 million payments based on certain clinical milestones. Synt:em has raised nearly $30 million in total VC funding since its 1995 inception, from firms like Apax Partners, 3i Group, Banexi Venture Partners, BankInvest and Lombard Odier. www.syntem.com
Baker Tanks Inc., a Seal Beach, Calif.-based portfolio company of Code Hennessey & Simmons, has acquired Cameron Environmental Inc., a Torrance, Calif.-based provider of water and air filtration services. No financial terms were disclosed. www.cameronenvironmental.com www.bakertanks.com
Portec Rail Products Inc. (Nasdaq: PRPX) has agreed to acquire Kelsan Technologies Corp. for Cdn$20 million in cash. Kelsan is a British Columbia, Canada-based developer of friction control solutions at the wheel/rail interface. It has received venture capital from Discovery Capital, The Future Fund, GrowthWorks and the National Bank of Canada. www.kelsan.com
Ninetowns Digital World Trade Holdings Ltd., a Beijing-based provider of software that enables the streamlining of the import/export process in China, has filed to raise approximately $168.62 million via an IPO of American depository shares (ADS) on the Nasdaq under proposed ticker symbol NINE. Shareholders include AIG Asian Opportunity Fund, CFM Greater China Fund, China Equity Associates, Huitung Investments, UOB Venture Ltd. and Titan Venture Capital. www.ninetowns.com
Greenfield Online Inc. (Nasdaq: SRVY), a Wilton, Conn.-based provider of online survey solutions to the global marketing industry, will offer six million common shares in a secondary offering. Existing shareholders like Insight Venture Partners, UBS Capital and MSD Ventures will sell 1.5 million shares, while the company itself will offer the remaining 4.5 million shares. www.greenfield.com
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP announced that Richard Morrissey, currently head of the firm's European private equity practice, has also been named head of its European mergers and acquisitions practice. In other firm news, Dominique Bompoint has joined as a Paris-based partner. He previously was a senior partner in Clifford Chance's M&A practice. www.sullcrom.com
Fernand Kaufmann has joined the board of Diversa Corp. (Nasdaq: DVSA), a San Diego-based genomics company. He previously served in a variety of executive positions with The Dow Chemical Co. – including as head of its VC investment and biotech development efforts – until his retirement in April 2001. www.diversa.com
Not much private equity news this morning, since no one would really be paying attention anyway. Instead, all (buck)eyes remain locked on Ohio, where Kerry supporters are hoping against hope for a jumpstart from those 140,000+ provisional ballots, overseas ballots and military ballots. Stranger things certainly have happened – and I do agree with the principal of counting every vote before declaring victory or defeat – but all smart bets have to be on President Bush sticking around Pennsylvania Ave. for another four years. While we wait for the definitive word, however, a few electoral observations of relevance to this space:
Winner: The National Venture Capital Association, which made over $842,000 campaign contributions via its political action committee (VenturePAC). Of this total, approximately $542,000 went to GOP candidates or causes. In the Senate, VenturePAC-supported candidates won 23 of 26 races, although its largest contribution went to loser Tom Daschele of South Dakota. On the House side, VenturePAC picked correctly in 140 of 146 races, although the group did also back a small handful of folks who never made it out of the party primaries. The largest VenturePAC House contribution went to winner Richard Baker of Louisiana, but the bigger surprise were a pair of late checks to Tom DeLay of Texas and Barney Frank of Massachusetts. The NVCA traditionally avoids particularly polarizing candidates, but apparently didn't mind so much this time around. More in depth analysis of the VenturePAC results in the next print edition of PE Week.
Loser: PE Week Wire readers, who supported John Kerry in this race by a 52%-46% margin. Some Bush supporters already have written in to (a) Gloat and (b) Suggest that our unscientific poll was intentionally rigged by yours truly. I don't mind the former, but the latter is unfounded and absurd. Most U.S.-based PE Week Wire readers are based on either the East Coast or West Coast, which were both stayed blue yesterday. More specifically, they are concentrated in pro-Kerry cities like New York, Boston and San Francisco, plus some inliers like Chicago. Temper that with the "investor class" and rich folk tendency to vote Republican, and you get our results. I never said they were perfect, but they certainly were not manipulated.
Loser: Fiscal responsibility on the federal level. Any time one party controls the executive and legislative branch, there is a tendency to spend without reflection (see the past four years). It is not coincidental that the Democratic White House and Republican Congress of the mid-to-late 1990s oversaw a booming economy. I really do wish that more folks would split their vote.
Toss-Up #1: Forstmann Little & Co., the New York-based buyout firm that seems to slowly be winding to a close. Firm honcho Ted Forstmann certainly must be pleased that his preferred Republican Party did so well nationally, but we must wonder if the Erskine Bowles loss stung at all. It is far too early to tell why Bowles, a former partner with Forstmann Little, lost his Senate race in North Carolina, but the bad press related to Forstmann's breach of contract with Connecticut could not have helped.
Toss-Up #2: Embryonic stem cell research, which won an important battle in California, but may have lost the national war with President Bush's apparent reelection. Golden State residents passed Prop 71 by about a 59%-41% margin, which means that up to $3 billion in state bonds could be issued to fund embryonic stem cell research in California labs. There still are questions about the legitimacy of that $3 billion figure, but there is little question that California will become the national leader in this extremely-promising area of medical research. It also means that the funding gap between labs and VC is partially filled, which is one reason that VCs pumped so much money into the "Yes on 71" campaign. Nationally, however, President Bush says that he plans to maintain his current limitations on federal funding for ES cell research, which are tantamount to a ban (even though Bushies hate that word). So head West young researchers, for that is where the riches lie (apologies to the Harvard Med School, but even your stem cell center can't compete with $3 billion).
Too Important, Too Late: Supreme Court. Had Rehnquist gotten sick a few weeks earlier, this would have become the dominant campaign issue, even overshadowing Iraq.
That's it for now, but please feel encouraged to write in with reactions, Wednesday morning quarterbacking and how you feel the results (particularly from a private equity perspective). We should know more tomorrow.
Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners have joined the investor consortium that has agreed to acquire UK drug company Warner Chilcott PLC (Nasdaq: WCRX) for $2.9 billion. The Boston-based buyout firms will join the Warren Acquisition Ltd. bid, which first was put forth by JPMorgan Partners and DLJ Merchant Banking. As of now, Goldman Sachs is still on the outside looking in. www.warnerchilcott.com
U.S. Venture Partners yesterday closed out its ninth fund with $600 million. It declined to accept any limited partner that it felt was subject to FOIA requests. www.usvp.com
Acopia Networks Inc., a Lowell, Mass.-based provider of adaptive resource networking products, has raised $25 million in Series C funding. Goldman Sachs led the deal, and was joined by return backers Charles River Ventures, Accel Partners, STAR Ventures and Vesbridge Partners. The company now has raised around $65.5 million in total VC funding since its 2002 inception. www.acopia.com
Catalytic Solutions Inc., an Oxnard, Calif.-based maker of catalytic coating solutions, has raised $10 million in private equity funding from The SAM Group and Presidio Venture Partners. The company now has raised approximately $72 million in private funding since its 1996 inception. www.catalyticsolutions.com
Dansk Bredband AS, a Denmark-based broadband services provider, has raised approximately $13.5 million in third-round VC funding, according to The Deal. New investors Nef Fonden OG and Energi Fyn Holding AS were joined by return backers ATP Private Equity Partners, Dansk Kapitalanlaeg AS and InnFond PS. www.dbnet.dk
Odyssey Investment Partners has agreed to acquire Pro Mach Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of packaging machinery. The seller is an investor group led by Frontenac Company. No financial terms were disclosed. www.promachinc.com
Thompson Street Capital Partners has acquired Montana Silversmiths Inc., a Columbus, Mont.-based provider of jewelry and accessories for the Western lifestyle industry. Harris Williams & Co. advised Montana on the deal. No financial terms were disclosed.
CrossCom National LLC, a Buffalo Grove, Ill.-based provider of retail communications services, has completed a financial recapitalization. Financial terms were not disclosed for the deal, which sees private equity firm Goense Bounds & Partners take a controlling ownership interest in CrossCom. www.crosscomnational.com
Evolving Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: EVOL) has acquired Tertio Telecoms Ltd., a UK-based provider of operations support systems software solutions to communications carriers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The deal is valued at $40.7 million, including $11 million in cash, $16 million in seller-financed notes and approximately $13.7 million in convertible preferred stock. Tertio-Telecoms had received venture capital funding from Advent International and Apax Partners. Peter Skinner, a partner with Apax, has joined the Evolving Systems board of directors in conjunction with the acquisition. www.telco-tertio.com
Everypath Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based provider of mobile task automation software, has acquired NoInk Communications Ltd., an Indianapolis-based provider of handheld and Web-based software for the medical device and medical equipment markets. No financial terms were disclosed. Everypath has raised approximately $110 million in total VC funding since its 1998 inception, from investors like Sevin Rosen Funds, U.S. Venture Partners, Bay Partners, Amerindo Investment Advisors, Accenture Technology Ventures, Focus Ventures, Raza Venture Fund, Sun Microsystems, Texas Pacific Group, Trident Capital and Wasserstein Ventures. www.everypath.com www.noink.com
Monolithic Power Systems Inc., a Los Gatos, Calif.-based analog and mixed-signal semiconductor company, has set its IPO terms to 5.5 million common shares being offered at between $7 and $9 per share. Investors include InveStar Capital, BA Venture Partners and Acer Technology Ventures. www.monolithicpower.com
Jean-Louis Gassee, a general partner with Allegis Capital, has been named chairman of the board of directors at PalmSource Inc. He originally joined the PalmSource board in May 2002. www.palmsource.com
Finishing That Thought…
Election Day greetings from a frigid Massachusetts, where today's plan is to close my swimming pool, go vote and then watch endless television coverage of Floridians standing in line (will confused tourists think that Space Mountain is just unexpectedly popular today?). All of this has been made possible by the inventors of laptops and cell phones, since it is their ingenuity that regularly frees me from desktop stasis. So while we wait to learn just how poorly our nation runs its federal elections (paging Jimmy Carter, your critics apologize), a few quick follow-ups to yesterday's column:
* Yesterday's discussion of Q3 VC fund-raising data unintentionally omitted the comments of Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture Capital Association. Truth be told, I didn't actually read his talking points until after the Wire was published, so your forgiveness is requested. You might remember that this space recently Mark to task for the following statement on Q3 VC disbursements: "The lower level of activity in the third quarter is not concerning. To be frank, a 25% increase in venture investment would be more alarming." I believed the comment to be disingenuous, and that a 25% increase actually would have been met by boisterous NVCA applause and back-slapping. Such dubiousness was based on 12 straight quarters of interpreting quarterly press releases from the NVCA.
But perhaps I was a bit too harsh on Mark, or perhaps my comments prompted a bit more candor on his part. Either way (more likely the former, but my ego will assume the latter), Mark said the following in regards to yesterday's VC fund-raising data, which showed a 78% increase: "We are now seeing an extremely strong level of interest in the venture capital asset class from institutional investors, and rightly so. However, it is critical at this time that venture firms exercise discipline and stay within the parameters of the fund-raising targets so that those returns can continue. If the industry begins to take more money than can be invested successfully, performance will suffer."
He's right, and the comment has gotten high-profile play in major newspapers throughout the country today. I do wish he had gone a bit further, and told some VC firms with lousy historical returns to quit fundraising all together, and also that some current fund targets themselves are a bit too high, but beggars can't be choosers. Kudos Mark, it was an important thing to say.
* John wrote in yesterday to ask what I thought about non-IPO liquidity options for VCs who invest in the online advertising space (companies like FastClick.com, Poindexter Systems, etc.). I think there are a lot of opportunities John, both from players like Google and AOL, and more traditional Madison Avenue-type advertising firms. Two days ago, I would have added DoubleClick Inc. (NasdaQ: DCLK) to the list, but the company just hired Lazard Freres to explore various options, including a possible sale of the company.
* As first reported here on Sept. 15: Bain Capital has raised $250 million for a new venture capital fund. Some of our competitors are just reporting it now, so redundancy seemed to be in order.
Happy voting.
AFC Enterprises Inc. (Nasdaq: AFCE) has agreed to sell its Church's Chicken brand to affiliates of Crescent Capital Investments. The deal is valued at $390 million, including $383 million in cash and a $7 million subordinated note. It is expected to close by year-end. www.crescentcapital.com
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp., a San Diego-based provider of RF CMOS and mixed-signal communications ICs, has raised $17.6 million in Series C funding. Ridgewood Capital and Palisades Ventures co-led the deal, and were joined by return backers Morgenthaler Ventures, Technology Venture Partners, Australasian Media & Communications Fund, NewLight Ventures and Wasserstein Ventures. The company now has raised over $120 million in total VC funding since its 1990 inception, including an original $12 million Series C deal seven years ago. www.peregrine-semi.com
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) has named Joahnnes Huth as head of its London office, effective once current head Ned Gilhuly returns to KKR's Silicon Valley office early next year. Huth originally joined KKR in 1999, and will work closely with Todd Fisher, who had been considered a finalist for the top job in London. Both Huth and Fisher will serve on KKR's investment and portfolio management committees. www.kkr.com
Voyence Inc., a Richardson, Texas-based provider of network configuration management solutions, has raised nearly $12 million in new venture capital funding. Canaan Partners led the deal, and was joined by return backers InterWest Partners, Sevin Rosen Funds, CenterPoint Ventures, HO2 Partners, STARTech Early Ventures and BancBoston Capital. The company now has raised around $42 million in total VC funding since its 2000 inception. www.voyence.com
NimbleGen Systems Inc., a Madison, Wis.-based provider of microarray products and services for genomics research, has raised $12.75 million in Series F funding. Return backers Baird Venture Partners and Venture Investors LLC co-led the deal, and were joined by new investors Cargill Ventures and Topspin Partners. The company has raised approximately $45 million in total VC funding since its 2000 inception. www.nimblegen.com
Groxis Inc., a San Francisco-based provider of online search software, has raised $12 million in a venture capital funding round led by DFJ ePlanet Ventures. www.groxis.com
MCA Solutions Inc., a Philadelphia-based provider of supply chain software solutions, has raised $6 million in Series B funding. Return backers included Longworth Venture Partners and Battery Ventures. www.mcasolutions.com
Aprio Technologies Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based provider of design-for-manufacturing (DFM) tools, has raised over $10 million in second-round VC funding. Investors included Mobius Venture Capital, El Dorado Ventures and Goldman Sachs. www.aprio.com
Dana Corp. (NYSE: DCN) announced that the sale of its automotive aftermarket business to The Cypress Group has been amended. The deal originally was valued at $1.1 billion in cash, but now will consist of $950 million in cash and a $74.5 million seller's note. It still is expected to close later this month. www.dana.com
Riverlake Partners and Thetford Partners have partnered to acquire a pair of Arizona-based legal services companies: E-Z Messenger Attorney Service Inc. of Tuscan and Hawkins & Campbell Inc. of Phoenix. No financial terms were disclosed. The combined companies will be known as Hawkins and E-Z Messenger Legal-Support Providers LLC (HELP).


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Not all Omega-3 fats are alike. There are three main types of Omega-3s in our diet and each work differently in the body. For example, the plant-derived type of Omega-3 in flax seeds, chia seeds, and walnuts is called ALA (alpha linolenic acid). The other two types of Omega-3 are in fish, seafood, and Fish Oil and are called EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid).
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FDA surveyed 1,000 pregnant mothers in the United States and found that over 20 percent of them had not eaten any fish in the previous month. Those who did eat fish ate far less than the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommendations; 50 percent ate less than 2 ounces a week.
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Source: FDA News Release, 10th June 2014, "FDA and EPA Issue Draft Updated Advice for Fish Consumption"


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