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Bond movie halted by Daniel Craig's ankle injury - report
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Bond star Rami Malek is also said to be in talks to star in a new Denzel Washington thriller.
The new Bond movie has reportedly been put on ice to allow Daniel Craig to recover from an ankle injury.
The 51-year-old suffered the injury while filming in Jamaica, according to The Sun, and a shoot planned for Pinewood Studios near London, which had been scheduled for this weekend, has been cancelled.
Craig and the Bond producers have yet to comment on the story.
Filming on Bond 25 began last month, with Rami Malek confirmed as the new Bond villain. Cary Joji Fukunaga is directing the latest 007 film, a role he accepted after Danny Boyle exited the next 007 instalment.
Reports suggest the first round of filming in Jamaica has wrapped and Craig, Naomie Harris, Lea Seydoux, Lashana Lynch and Ana de Armas are now on their way to Britain, to link up with Malek and Bond regulars Ralph Fiennes and Ben Whishaw.
Bond 25 isn't the only project Malek is busy with; he's also said to be eyeing up a part alongside Denzel Washington in Warner Bros. crime thriller Little Things sources.
According to Variety, the Oscar winner, who took home a gold statute earlier this year for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury in Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, looks set to star in John Lee Hancock's new film as a LASD detective.
The plot follows Washington's burned-out Kern County deputy sheriff, who teams up with Malek's character to reel in a wily serial killer.
Filming is due to kick off in the fall time when the 38-year-old wraps on Bond.

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READ Famous People Buried in Vienna
List of famous people buried in Vienna, listed alphabetically with photos when available. Celebrities are often buried in the highest caliber cemeteries, mausoleums and tombs, which is why we've created this list of celebrities buried in Vienna. If you're ever visiting Vienna and want to check out historic graves, then use this list to pinpoint exactly which burial locations you want to see.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Dec. at 35 (1756-1791)
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Ludwig van Beethoven Dec. at 57 (1770-1827)
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Franz Schubert Dec. at 31 (1797-1828)
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Schubert 's life ended at 31 but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works, seven ...more
Johannes Brahms Dec. at 64 (1833-1897)
Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. In his lifetime, Brahms's popularity and ...more
Johann Strauss II Dec. at 74 (1825-1899)
Johann Strauss II, also known as Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, the Son, Johann Baptist Strauss, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed ...more
Arnold Schoenberg Dec. at 77 (1874-1951)
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Hugo Wolf Dec. at 43 (1860-1903)
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György Ligeti Dec. at 83 (1923-2006)
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Falco Dec. at 41 (1957-1998)
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Carl Czerny Dec. at 66 (1791-1857)
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Christoph Willibald Gluck Dec. at 73 (1714-1787)
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Franz Werfel Dec. at 55 (1890-1945)
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Theodor Herzl Dec. at 44 (1860-1904)
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Gustav Klimt Dec. at 56 (1862-1918)
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Viktor Frankl Dec. at 92 (1905-1997)
Viktor Emil Frankl, M.D., Ph.D. was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of existential analysis, the ...more
Wolf Albach-Retty Dec. at 61 (1906-1967)
Wolf Albach-Retty was a Vienna-born Austrian actor. He had a daughter with German actress Magda Schneider named Romy Schneider. Albach-Retty was the son of actress Rosa Albach-Retty and K. u. K. ...more
Antonio Diabelli Dec. at 77 (1781-1858)
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Franz Schmidt Dec. at 65 (1874-1939)
Franz Schmidt was an Austrian composer, cellist and pianist.
Alexander von Zemlinsky Dec. at 71 (1871-1942)
Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher.
Carl Millöcker Dec. at 57 (1842-1899)
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Antonio Salieri Dec. at 75 (1750-1825)
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Karl Schönherr Dec. at 76 (1867-1943)
Karl Schönherr was an Austrian writer of Austrian Heimat themes.
Princess Isabella of Parma Dec. at 22 (1741-1763)
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Maximilian I of Mexico Dec. at 35 (1832-1867)
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Hans Moser Dec. at 84 (1880-1964)
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President Trump's expected move to direct the U.S. Trade Representative to open a 301 investigation into China's violation of U.S. intellectual property rights—especially through forced technology transfer—signals a tougher trade stance, write David Dollar and Ryan Hass. But it's not yet clear how serious U.S. actions will be. This piece originally appeared on Fortune.
President Trump is expected to direct the U.S. Trade Representative to open a 301 investigation into China's violation of U.S. intellectual property rights, especially through forced technology transfer. This signals a tougher trade stance on the part of the administration, but it will be some months before it is clear how serious U.S. actions will be.
High-tech U.S. companies cannot currently do business in China unless they form joint ventures with local partners and turn over key technology to those partners. In sectors such as cloud computing, Chinese law also prevents the use of the foreign brand name, which would put U.S. firms at a disadvantage in the future if China ever does open up. American companies agree to these technology transfers because it's the only way they can access the second-largest market in the world, rapidly on its way to number 1.
The list of companies operating in such ventures is essentially the roll call of top American technology firms. Intel has agreements with two Chinese chipmakers in order to get access to the market for smart phones and tablets. IBM and Advanced Micro Devices have both licensed chip technology to Chinese partners. Qualcomm has a similar partnership. Automakers have to share their technology with local partners in order to produce and sell there.
Companies that agree to operate through these joint ventures are basically betting that they can invent new technologies faster than the Chinese partners can appropriate the existing technology; otherwise, they are partnering themselves out of existence. From China's point of view, these technology transfers are part of an industrial policy, "Made in China 2025," aimed at making the country the technology leader in 10 priority sectors: new advanced information technology; automated machine tools and robotics; aerospace and aeronautical equipment; maritime equipment and high-tech shipping; modern rail transport equipment; new-energy vehicles and equipment; power equipment; agricultural equipment; new materials; and biopharma and advanced medical products. These sectors will be supported by financing from state-owned institutions and protected from open competition.
The U.S. faces a number of challenges in taking on these industrial policies. For one, the Chinese restrictions on import of services and inward investment are mostly legal under its World Trade Organization (WTO) accession agreement. When the Clinton and Bush administrations negotiated China's entry into the WTO, they left the country wide latitude to restrict trade in services and inward investment. The expectation was that China would gradually liberalize these areas over time. The U.S. thought that joining the WTO was the beginning of China's opening, but it turned out to be the end. There has been no significant opening of these areas since accession in 2001. President Xi Jinping, in particular, seems very wedded to the industrial policies and the China 2025 goals.
By launching the 301 investigation, the U.S. is signaling that it will take a unilateral approach to dealing with China's behavior. The investigation is likely to determine that China is pursuing unfair trade practices. The dilemma, then, is what to do about it.
The U.S. has been negotiating with China on similar issues for years, and it is unlikely that China will change course easily. The Chinese economy is not as export-dependent as before, and not that U.S.-dependent. China's exports to the U.S. are about 5 percent of its GDP, but the value added in the exports is more like 3 percent because China's exports have a lot of imported content from Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. A serious trade war would be a problem for China, but not such a great one that China is likely to buckle to under pressure. The fact that the Chinese delegation to the Comprehensive Economic Dialogue in July came with so little to offer suggests that the leadership is resigned to poorer economic relations with the United States. Standing firm in negotiation and punching back against any U.S. punitive measures will be better for Xi Jinping politically in the next few years. Historically, China has always responded to trade measures with proportionate retaliation.
Even if China is not likely to change its behavior, the U.S. may proceed with punitive tariffs—section 301 gives the president broad authority to respond to unfair trade practices. The problem here is that anything small, such as tariffs on just a few items, is just symbolic, and anything large will be disruptive to the U.S. and world economies. Given modern value chains, the "Chinese" products that the U.S. imports have a lot of value added from U.S. firms and allies, such as Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. The U.S. does not export that much to China, but many large multinationals earn substantial profits producing and selling in China. It is likely that there will be significant corporate resistance to large-scale protectionism.
If the U.S. does take protectionist measures, such as an across-the-board import tariff on Chinese products, we can be sure that China will retaliate.
American companies would like the U.S. government to negotiate market opening in China, but most do not want a trade war. If the U.S. does take protectionist measures, such as an across-the-board import tariff on Chinese products, we can be sure that China will retaliate. It may initiate a WTO case, which it would be likely to win because its practices are in line with its WTO commitments, but that would play out over years. It is also likely to retaliate by shifting its purchases of products from aircraft to soybeans and by closing the door more tightly on opportunities for U.S. high-tech firms.


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McClure's Landing road off Hwy 105 was still blocked off by the city on Thursday morning. Will keep checking. Surely there's 5 to 6 inches of ice at McClure's.
Talked with someone from Superior Parks and Rec, who said the guys will open up the road when they're sure the ice is thick enough. Thick enough for what, I ask? If it's 5 inches around Boy Scout Landing, it's gotta be at least that thick at McClure's, where there's no current. She said it would be "soon."
Its open! I saw it yesterday on the way home from the St.Louis River. I may check it out soon and Ill give the 411.
Yup, saw it open like you did on the way home from Boy Scout. May have to give it a try this weekend. I'll be bringing buckets and a hand auger, though, if I do. Hate trying to climb back up that darn switchback trail on the way out, and with no snow trying to muscle the Fish Trap II would be heart attack city.
I'm thinking of mounting little hinged flaps to the back of the skis I mouned underneath the Trap. Moving forward, they'd just bounce along, but if the trap started sliding backward in the snow, they'd dig in. Hmmmm.


Who is Father of the German shepherd Dog Breed: A German breeder Max von Stephanitz is behind standardizing this breed. In 1889, At a dog show in Western Germany, Max got attracted to a wolf like canine with yellow-black markings. The dog's intelligence and disciplined conduct won over the breeder who purchased it and changed its name from Hektor Linkshrein to Horand von Grafrath. This led to formation of the German Shepherd Dog club by Mr. Max Stephanitz. He also laid down the guidelines for regulating the breed.
Is the name German Shepherd Or Alsatian? After the world wars U.S and most parts of Europe did not want to be linked with anything German. This sentiment permeated upon the German Shepherd dog breed too. Hence the American Kennel club in 1917 named the breed Shepherd dogs conveniently dropping the word 'German' and it remained this way till 1930. While the English began calling them Alsatian wolf dogs and this name was extensively used till 1977. The moniker was so widely accepted in Europe that most people till today use the name Alsatian instead of German Shepherd.
German Shepherds are the Third Smartest Dog Breed: To be able to make it to the top list of the most intelligent dog breeds, a dog must be able to understand a new command after just five repetitions and follow the command given to them 95 percent of times. Border Collies top this list.
GSDs were the First Guide Dog for the Blind: Mrs. Harrison Eustis founded 'The Seeing Eye' in 1929 in Switzerland to train German Shepherds as guide dogs for blind people.
GSD Coat Colors: The American Kennel Club recognizes eleven colors for the breed: Black, white, black & tan, black & cream, black & red, black & silver, blue, grey, dark brown, and reddish brown.
There is A Play with six German Shepherd Actors: Dutch Director Whim Schipper in the mid eighties planned and organized a play with six German Shepherds that underwent drama lessons in Amsterdam. This play was called Going to the Dogs and was based on a run-of-the-mill family plot.
Hollywood star GSDs Strongheart & Rin-Tin-Tin: Strongheart a German Shepherd canine star featured in six films and has a star on the Hollywood walk of Fame.
German Shepherd Rin-tin-tin too became famous as a Hollywood star although after Strongheart. Rin-tin-tin was rescued from the World War I battleground by an American soldier named Duncan Lee. He later trained the dog to act in silent films. Rumour has it that Warner Bros would release a Rin-tin-tin film whenever it was facing financial troubles since the dog was hugely popular with the audience and could easily draw a large crowd.
The rise of the GSD in Germany: Von Stephanitz's did his best to maintain his dogs' popularity in Germany amid industrialization. He focused on getting the hard-working breed inducted into police force and other services. Soon the breed was accepted as guards and messengers due to their intelligence, agility and ability to work tirelessly.
The Spread of the German Shepherd during World War I in the West: World war I saw the many uses of this dog breed to the Germans. These dogs were used for delivering messages, guarding, and bringing first-aid to injured soldiers post battle. Also these canines gave company to dying soldiers till they breathed their last.
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American soldiers during their combat with Germans in the war were greatly impressed by the breed's demeanour & brought some of the dogs to their own country. The breed soon became a favorite there. Till date GSD is a very popular breed in the United States according to American kennel club. They are a favored family, guard, show, police, military and service dog.
Dwarfism in German Shepherds: Pituitary Dwarfism can afflict some German Shepherds. Although this condition isn't a common one. A dwarf GSD remains a puppy forever in terms of its fur quality and size.
These facts shed light on how the breed actually originated and later spread almost to every part of the world. All the above important info and interesting trivia regarding the breed is a testament to the breed's popularity and unique abilities.
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If you're looking for classroom library organization ideas + a FREE editable introductory PowerPoint activity you can use with your own class on the first week of school, check out this step by step setup for 2nd and 3rd grade teachers all about organizing your classroom library by genre.
When it comes to classroom library organization there are so many questions! How should you sort your books? What types of book bins should you buy? How do you keep track of all of your books? How can you get students to actually put books back in the correct place? What books should you have in your library in the first place? & Where exactly are all of these books coming from?
Spoiler alert: You're buying most of them.
Win, win, win, win, win, win!
Clear plastic shoe bins work great for paperback chapter books, magazine holders can be a good "book box" option for individual students, and sticky return address labels (80 per page) are perfect for labeling books (just double check to make sure you purchase the correct ink jet or laser printer option). Plastic crates or thicker plastic bins work well for picture books.
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Do the kids really put the books back in the correct bins?
This article originally appeared at the I Want to be a Super Teacher blog. You can find the original post HERE.


Kate Hackett's ceramics. Robin mugs £12; robin plate £28; Jenny Stacy fairies £10 each.
Finding a special gift for the people you love can be challenging. As I get older I get more and more fussy (discerning is a polite word for it!) I want to find something that is just right. Something that expresses my love for them and tells them I have been listening. I know that this is a gift they will appreciate.
In my family we do stockings for each other and so there are little special gifts to find to put into those too. And by special I do not mean expensive.
I used to think that the ideal is to make everything you give. Some people achieve this and I take my hat off to them. But for most people there's no time for that. We have to rely on what's in the shops or online.
I think Handmade Happiness has some very special gifts. Handmade but not, for the most part, expensive. And selected by someone who is very fussy/ discerning - me!
Brenda Tilbury is always on the lookout for interesting seedheads, lichen, berries and fir cones as she walks her dog. She makes these into the lovely, natural wreaths you see pictured. These should, she says, last forever as long as they are not crushed.
I am delighted to offer Brenda's work for sale in Handmade Happiness. And in the last week all four of Brenda's wreath's - all that I had - sold. This included a Christmas wreath which smelled divine due to cloves, cinnamon bark and star anise mixed in with the local foliage. I look forward to having more of those soon.
Now I have another incentive to walk in the early mornings. I'd like to find some interesting bits for Brenda and then there's feathers... Another maker needs feathers. What are they making with feathers? Check back soon to find out.
Needlefelted piece by Jenny Stacy.
I just heard about a book called 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying' by Marie Kondo. She advises holding each one of your possessions and asking yourself if it brings you joy. If it doesn't you can get rid of it.
I admire this idea but realistically I could never put it into practice. My generation is too heavily influenced by the 'waste not, want not' school of thought. I admire Marie but I also admire women who made rag rugs out of clothes too worn through to wear any more and who can make a whole week of meals out of one chicken.
I'd like to be more like Marie. As she says when you discard things all that is left is things you really treasure. But I suspect that my boxes of 'treasure' - like the tiny scraps of fabric used to needlefelt and the boxes of pretty pictures and scraps of painted papers I use for collage would not be tolerated in her world!
I'm always drawn to articles in magazines that advise you to 'de-clutter' and change your life. But so often their idea is buy storage furniture or buy lots of plastic boxes and put things in order.
As Marie Kondo says 'this just creates the illusion that the clutter problem has been solved.' I prefer her method of asking yourself what really brings joy into your life.Then you can decide what to chuck and what to save for that rag rug or mixed media project!!
I'm experimenting with a smaller doll as I have said I'll have more dolls in the shop by the end of next week.
This is a 5 part doll. I start by drawing the shapes on an opened out cereal box - this is why I could never do a kit of my designs! Then I cut out all the pieces twice in fabric and sew them together leaving gaps for arms and legs.
The doll you see is not going to be sold. Making her has shown me the faults in the design. Because the stuffing may shift I've decided to sew the tops of legs and arms before attaching them to the body to stop this happening. So hopefully the next doll and dolls following will be more saleworthy.
I'll finish this particular doll and give her to my little grandbaby, Juno, who has been staying this week with my daughter.
Having Juno in the shop is delightful. She totters around on her 16 month old legs and can be amused for whole minutes at a time puting my handmade buttons into different gift boxes and tipping them out again. Now she has gone home my whole attention is once more focussed on the customer and today, Saturday, promises to be a busy day.
Doreen Arnold delivered dozens of the white crochet snowflakes she makes to the shop yesterday. She also brought in some angels which I haven't seen before.
With her permission I glittered the angels this morning. Three with white glitter and one with silver glitter - on both sides. What my picture doesn't convey is the way they sparkle with the light catching silver and white.
It's been a week of indecision. With this needlefelting I can't decide whether brooches or Christmas decorations would be the best use for these pieces. I can picture them sewn to torn sari silk ribbons at intervals - maybe three ribbons between each with more torn bits hanging down as a lush Christmas garland decoration.
Or they could just have loops of sari silk ribbon to hang them from the tree or they could have a brooch back sewn to them. Or they could be sent in a parcel to Bee. I sent Bee Mellor, my Two Birds jewellery collaboratrice, a parcel last week but now I keep seeing other things I wish I'd sent so a second parcel seems bound to follow!
As people come in to see what Christmas presents they could buy at Handmade Happiness I am filled with a sense of urgency. But that indecisive mood means I don't know where to focus my making. Fairies, yes, I've made some more of them. People would like smaller dolls - I've just drawn a pattern for them. Jewellery because I haven't got enough jewellery and those handmade buttons - I never seem in the mood to make those these days but they do sell well. So FOCUS is my message to self. Is it the time of year? Do any of you also feel indecisive at the moment?
My grandbaby and her mum are coming to stay this week which will be lovely. You may meet them if you visit the shop.
This week Christmas crept into Handmade Happiness. Kate Hackett brought in her tree decorations (they are all £3) and robin mugs (£12) and a robin serving plate (£28). These decorations can also be tied on to a gift or hung round a bottle. The backs are easy to write on with felt tip.
Sue Inglis brought in her latest knitted Christmas designs and special Christmas cards and gift tags. Pictures to come.
It's only October so I don't want to go all out for Christmas just yet - it annoys me as much as anyone to see big Christmas displays in supermarkets too early. But you will notice that gradually Handmade Happiness will have a slow build up of Christmas things from now onwards.
In the last two weeks I've noticed people are looking for gifts. They know that if they see the perfect thing now they have to buy it because the next time they come in that one-off handmade gift will possibly have been sold to someone else.
I'm making every afternoon in the shop right now. For some reason customers tend to come in during the morning. In the afternoon people browse rather than buy. Yesterday was so cold that I had the heater on and a scented candle burning. I'm making decorations and brooches right now. Next on the list is smaller dolls.
One of Jill Denton's hooked pictures.
Some of the things I came home with are pictured.
I was so impressed with the colourful exhuberance of Sue Dove and Jill Denton's exhibition area. Cards and postcards showing their embroidery and rag rug work are shown above.
I fell for colour again when I bought this skein of sari silk pieces and I love Liberty fabrics and one stand was selling bags full of assorted scraps.
Michala Gyetvai stitches into wool creating energetic pictures with lots of movement. Pictured above are two of her cards.
If I had a degree in computer science I could work out what is currently wrong with my emails. They don't send. My email address (which I've had for probably 15 years) is 'not recognised'. Therefore no pictures today.
Frustrating, but those of us with no specialised technical knowledge are used to this. I find the whole computer thing boring so I rely on the machine sorting itself out or another human being telling me what to do.
Currently I'm being urged to join Instagram but right now it just feels like another thing to go wrong.
Talking about joining up, can I take this opportunity to say I ignore anything emailled about Facebook or Linked in. So those friend requests... I realise I seem to be being rude but actually I don't want to belong to Facebook or Linked in. Their emails just clutter up my inbox. In a mad moment because someone I know asked me to I joined but instantly regretted it because those emails keep pinging in several times a day and actually life is too short. I want to do what I enjoy and time is precious. Let's not waste it when we don't have to!
Love the movement and energy in Michala Gyvetvai's pieces.
Close up of that interesting gold flecked yarn I showed yesterday.
Michala Gyvetvai's work reminded me of Van Gogh with those urgent patterns full of energy and movement. Click on her pictures to go to her website.
There were other artists whose work I want to share but I didn't feel comfortable taking photos of the young students' work. Amy Tang is one of those whose exploded rose theme was so pretty and delicate. I think we'll hear more of her in the future.
My favourite exhibition area was occupied by Sue Dove and Jill Denton. Bright colours, naive pictures in embroidery and using rag rug techniques.Deceptively simple but the impact was strong and just to see it was uplifting. Pictures tomorrow.
I came away thinking how important it is to be yourself in your art. Not to make what you think will sell or to be influenced by anyone else but just to do your own thing. No compromise. Be the best 'you' that you can be. And working with passion and energy, sometimes at speed,maybe gives something extra to the finished work.
Gold flecked yarns. Love the green/blue on the right.
Colourful felt on the Felt Creative stand.
My brain is teeming with images of the Knitting and Stitching show.
I saw so much talent (more pictures tomorrow).
There are three rooms, one with all the traders in selling things to make with, a smaller room with makers and guilds showing their wares and best of all, a vast area showing student work and the work of interesting and well known designers and artists.
I bought things and I chatted. I was inspired, shocked, and excited by some of the art. I'll try to explain more tomorrow.
Layers - I like the subtlety of printed chiffon over wool bottom right.
My favourite - gold over velvet.
Pretty old lace, needlefelted into tatters.
Yesterday afternoon in the shop I had fun trying out different fabrics and seeing how they needlefelted and needlefelted in layers. Love the idea of gold over red velvet for tree decorations!
Thursday night's workshop on making Christmas decorations has been cancelled. Not enough people were interested in doing it to make it worthwhile. So apologies for that.
Of course, life being what it is, as soon as I had cancelled it a woman came into the shop asking if there was still space for her and her husband to attend. But to be honest I am very tired right now and will be glad to have a workshop-free week.
The shop is now back to being open 5 days a week as my little grandaughter has started at nursery so I no longer need to look after her on Tuesdays. I miss her but my daughter brought her down last week and Juno seems to love being in the shop.
I wonder if she'll be able to weave. A teacher told me she tried a weaving activity with her small charges and none of them were able to do it. She reckons they are so used to the up down motion of pushing a button that the more intricate over and under action was alien to them.
This reminded me of being on a train recently and seeing a platform full of people with their heads bent down looking at their phones. Will one day babies be born with heads locked in this position?
So my cut price finds on Sunday were (pictured) a Neom candle which smells gorgeous and is called 'Happiness.' (I'll burn it in the shop.) Rose and olive oil soaps from France. A lavishly illustrated Italian cook book by Tessa Kiros and a very soft wrap.A bit of international luxury at bargain prices. Ideal!
Talking of shopping I needed to get some clothes for my Mum yesterday and I was dismayed by the harsh colours and rough feel of the things I saw. Those blacky-brights don't suit most people so why are they offered? And I'd like soft cottons and machine washable 'superwool' but all I can find is synthetic fabrics. Is it me?
Thursday night is Christmas decorations workshop night. I'm puting together a few examples as pictured. The fabric at base is the start of a fabric decoration because some people prefer sewing to cutting and sticking so I hope to have four or five different designs for inspiration. Now I must hurry to the shop.
Currently in the window of Handmade Happiness. Details below.
Cashmere matinee jacket and cashmere baby bonnets.
Fairy by Jenny Stacy £10 riding a sheep made by Sue Inglis.
Buttons £1 each and textile bracelet £15 by me; spotty vessel £9.50 by Niloo.
Mohair yarn £3.95; Pierced nightlight by Samantha Robertson £14; Mice by Sue Inglis £6.50.
White bowl £12 by Justine Jenner; Liberty fabric necklace by Kate Box; Embroidered picture £29.50 by Sheila Barrow.
Kate Hackett jug £18; kaleidoscope by Frank Higgins £93; Felt spec holder by Sheila Barrow £15.
I just sat down and drew out the designs for next week's workshop on making Christmas decorations. I've had a mental picture of what they would look like and I've been thinking of how, practically this can be achieved within two hours and the answer came to me in the night -use a stapler. I'll do a prototype on Sunday and show you what they'll look like.
The Christmas fairy workshop was well attended by 11 makers. I did a previous fairy workshop which attracted 14 but that did feel almost too crowded.As usual everyone made a different looking fairy. Each individual put their own stamp on their creation.
This week I was reminded of the inspectors that come round shops looking for breaches of copyright. Knitting companies are trying to stamp out the practice of people selling anything made from a knitting pattern. I think it is an impossible task.
Apparently the same company that checks shops have paid for a licence before playing any music or having the radio on is also looking out for knitted goods. I wonder if they'll patrol craft fairs as well?
Knitting is a slow, laborious process. Very few people can make up any one pattern more than once or twice.I could understand knitting pattern designers anxiety if someone was reproducing their work in a factory and making hundreds of items. But to target (and fine) shops for selling individual hand knitted items seems like overkill.
Personally I would like to have background music playing in my shop. But I'm not paying £200 plus annually for that luxury so apologies that it's always quiet in Handmade Happiness - unless you happen to come in when I'm singing. Nobody can fine me for singing - however much they may want to!!!
Thank you to Carol Smith for taking these photos of some of the fairies people made at the workshop last night. Next week we'll be making Christmas decorations. Photos coming soon.


A proposed new ethanol production factory will be buying cassava at -30 cents a kilo when it commences production in January 2010.
According to Viliame Vosarogo of the Energy Department the current cassava price is 40 to 45 cents a kilo for good cassava only.
He says cassava quality will not matter with the ethanol factory.
Vosarogo who will be leading a team to China next week to see a factory there told Radio Fiji News that the 15,000 hectares is required to sustain the factory and this amount surpasses the amount planted for local consumption and export.
He said the factory which will be specially designed for Fiji will require 1000 tons of cassava a day to operate with one shift of workers.
If there is a requirement to have two shifts a day then the factory will require 2000 tons of cassava a day. Vosarogo said the construction of the factory will only take a few months and the factory running by January, 2010.
He adds farmers should now be planning to prepare for planting.
He said one problem will be is the planting material and farmers should be looking at that now.
When asked about assistance especially with machines, Vosarogo said machines will be used where the land terrain is difficult.
Vosarogo said 15,000 hectares is not much if all squatters in Suva and the other urban centres go back to the village and plant one acre each, they will not only plant the acreage required, they will also be earning money.


There's just something about wearing a suede biker jacket that makes you look so cool and chic at the same time! Rock this jacket with my booties, pumps, or sneakers. This jacket can be worn so many different ways to dress an outfit up or down! It's definitely a closet staple and if you don't have one you should get your hands on it ASAP, because a biker jacket is the #1 must-have for every fashionista!


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Unbounded by Alon Goldshuv
Alon Goldshuv's debut album Unbounded showcases a unique concept of instrumental duets centered around the electric bass guitar. It features some of the top musicians in the jazz and world music scenes, who are backed up by a single bass track only, in a way that challenges the bass guitar's traditional roles and boundaries.
Aside from the opening and ending tracks, both of which are bass solos, the rest of the album has a focus on the bass guitar sound and its relationship with a variety of lead instruments. This relationship is intensified by explicitly excluding percussive instru- ments from the entire album. While the bass is the connecting element between the tracks of the album, the music and sound of each track is arranged in a way that still sends the lead instrument out front. World class touring musicians create a spectacu- lar collection of sounds played on a variety of instruments such as the violin, saxo- phone, trombone and flute.
Alon has been recording and performing for nearly 20 years in the Israeli jazz scene, while also touring as a part of various musical groups in small venues around the world. In the past he recorded a number of solo albums, which were not officially pub- lished. This album was released in December 2013 and a national tour is expected to start around mid 2014. Get a taste of this inspiring album on various major digital music distributors (such as iTunes, Amazon) or through the artist's page on Facebook and CDBaby.
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The Village of Buffalo Grove owns and operates two municipal golf courses. Both courses have restaurants open to the public. Resident discounts are available at either golf course, so stop by and enjoy! Contact the Buffalo Grove Golf Course at 847-537-5819 or The Arboretum Club at 847-913-1112.


Protiviti Capability Centre Technology team works on cutting-edge technologies (such as Microsoft .NET and SharePoint) to provide innovative solutions to our customers throughout the globe. Our Product Development Team (Risk Technology Team) is involved in Design, Development, Testing and Implementation of our world-class GRC solutions to more than 200 customers. Our Technology Services Team (Protiviti Software Services) helps companies set IT strategy in alignment with needs of their organization, establish IT governance, and manage IT processes efficiently and effectively.


EDMONTON - A labour dispute involving Alberta jail guards and security staff is spreading, with provincial sheriffs picketing outside courthouses in Edmonton, Calgary and Lethbridge.
The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees says some court clerks and social workers have also walked out in solidarity with jail guards, who are off the job at 10 correctional facilities.
"Workers are showing support and solidarity with correctional police officers across the province," union president Guy Smith said on the picket line Monday outside the massive new $580-million Edmonton Remand Centre.
"The corrections officers at the Edmonton Remand Centre are facing a litany of health and safety concerns which they continue to raise, and which have been ignored by the government, and which actually forced the wildcat strike."
The illegal walkout began Friday after two guards at the jail were suspended when they complained about safety at the facility, which started taking inmates for the first time earlier this month.
Alberta Justice spokeswoman Christine Nardella said police and managers are maintaining security at the correctional facilities. She said there have been no disturbances involving inmates.
Nardella said police and managers are also dealing with security at the courthouses and the plan is to keep the court system working as well as it can.
"We are getting a lot of good help from the RCMP and local police agencies to help us transport inmates to and from court and the remand centres. As far as we are able, we will maintain court operations," she said.
At the Edmonton courthouse, however, the dispute forced cancellation of family law hearings and delayed some trials.
Defence lawyer Deborah Hatch said the already burdened court system can't operate properly with such disruptions. She said the clerk who was to staff a trial she was to be involved in Monday was out on the picket line.
"It is absolutely not business as usual. There are jury trials that are supposed to start this morning. There are other types of trials in provincial court and Court of Queen's Bench. We don't have the people to function," said Hatch, former president of the Edmonton Criminal Trial Lawyers Association.
"Even one day of this will bring this system really to its knees."
The union and the government said there were no immediate plans for any face-to-face talks to resolve the dispute.
On Saturday, the labour board ruled that the strike by workers at Edmonton Remand Centre was illegal and ordered them back to work. That order was later expanded to include nine other correctional facilities in the province.
Over the weekend the government served some of the guards with court orders to return to their jobs.
Just days before the Edmonton Remand Centre opened, the union said it found five pages of design flaws after touring the facility. Union leaders asked the province to delay the transfer of prisoners from the old remand centre until changes were made.
The union has declined to release detailed information about its concerns, citing safety reasons.
The Alberta government said the facility was deemed safe by occupational health inspectors.
Deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk has said the union has presented a list of 10 demands that must be met before the guards will return to work, but he said health and safety is only one of the items on the list.
Lukaszuk said the union is in the middle of collective bargaining and he suggested it might be using the strike as a pressure tactic.
Smith said that isn't true.
"This has nothing to do with contract negotiations," Smith said. "This has everything to do with health and safety for the correctional police officers on the front lines."
Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour, called on Premier Alison Redford to get involved to help resolve the dispute.
McGowan said the union's safety concerns should have been dealt with properly by the government weeks or months ago.
He accused Lukaszuk of using bullying tactics instead of properly managing the situation.
"We need cooler heads to prevail, and that is not going to happen as long as a hot-head like Thomas Lukaszuk is involved in the process," McGowan said.
Lukaszuk was expected to make a statement about the strike on behalf of the government later Monday afternoon.


One of the special projects dedicated for Rio 2016 is making all the staff who is working in the public services especially in the field of transport in order to be capable of identifying suspicious activities or behaviors if any at the time of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games and Rio Summer Olympics 2016. The project has already given training for nearly 500 people. The training includes the lecture as well as long distance courses of education for all the big events of the Rio 2016 and it is being coordinated by special secretariat of security of Ministry of Justice.
At the time of Rio 2016 Olympic Sports, the city Brazil will even be protected by IANT (Integrated Anti-Terrorism Centre) in coordination with the federal police along with the security officials participation from different countries like, USA, Belgium, Canada, France, Argentina, the UK, and Paraguay.


Situated about seven miles to the South of Kendal, Preston Patrick is a dispersed area of small hamlets and farms, and one of the older parishes in the South Lakes area. The area's history dates back to the 12th century when Thomas de Wyrkington founded an abbey of Premonstratensian canons between today's Preston Patrick and Holme. The site was eventually abandoned in favour of Shap Abbey. The name "Preston Patrick" is derived from "Priest's town" or "Priest's farm", and from Patrick de Curwen, an earlier owner of the manorial area.
Above. Old photo of the hall.
After the dissolution of the monasteries, during the reign of Henry VIII, Thomas Preston, the then holder of the manor of Preston Patrick, purchased Furness Abbey from the crown, this purchase also including vast tracts of lands. He then quit Preston Patrick Hall in favour of the more comfortable lodgings at the abbey. From this time on, he made sure that the family name was altered slightly, so that in documentation, any Preston was to be known as a Preston of the Manor and the Abbey. No doubt a show of wealth and familial significance. In the 16th century, the hall and the manor passed to John Preston of Preston Richard and Nether Levens Hall, by way of marriage to Ellyn Curwen.
The hall as it is to be seen today was largely built in the late 14th century. It resembles Selside Hall near Kendal, with its twin wings, each of two storeys, and large connecting central hall.
Indeed, both wings, front and back, and an element of the extension to the left of the building are all dated to the late 14th century, with elements of both the ground floor and the first floor of the central hall also dating from this period. The central hall contains elements of some rebuilding work from the late 15th and early 16th centuries, as well some further rebuilding and redesign from the 17th century. The hall block was probably heightened during this latter period of rebuilding, and remains open right the way to the roof timbers.
Above. Floor plan of Preston Patrick Hall.
The basement in the right hand tower is vaulted, whilst the basement in the left tower is joisted. Whether this indicates two periods of building is unclear, but could just mean that the left tower was repaired at a later date using newer building methods.
Above. Machel's sketch of Preston Patrick Hall.
The right hand tower contains a room once used as a manorial courtroom on the first floor. This room is entered through a doorway at the top of a later flight of stairs, which clearly was once a window. The sandstone heads still remain in place. The courtroom was used to pass judgments on local Quaker preachers when the breakaway religion was first finding its feet. When the hall was being altered, a hidden staircase was discovered built into the wall, linking the house to the courtroom.
Some documentary evidence seems to suggest that the site was surrounded by a curtain wall, and that there was also an additional tower.


Our new address is "6 Commerce House, Flood Street, Galway".
All future events should be considered as being on in the Flood Street space and for anyone who has been using our Lo-Lo app to find out if the Labs is open, it should be operational again next week!
Previous PostPrevious Galway Python User Group: October 10th @ 8pm!


Jackpot started life as a logo on a t-shirt... To promote the t-shirts we started making peanut butter. The T's sold ok, but people preferred the peanut butter. Hey ho. We grabbed some traditional machines from the US, came up with the recipe with the help of a chef, and created Jackpot. We double roast premium US nuts, to really bring out a punchy peanut flavour, before churning fresh every week. Just a little salt and rapeseed oil in the mix and that's all.


You've probably heard of light-emitting diodes, a type of energy-efficient light. While they're good for practical reasons—say, illuminating a room or a passageway—they can also add a little bling to clothing. To incorporate LEDs into your favorite accessories, you'll start by creating a basic circuit from a battery, two pieces of wire, and an LED. You'll then modify this circuit so that you can turn it on and off using fasteners like buttons, zippers, laces, hooks, and buckles. If you're interested in trying this with a class or camp, check out the related links.
Engineering is Elementary (EiE)'s newest after school learning unit called "Sky's the Limit." This hands-on unit, targeted for grades 3-5, focuses on the field of aeronautical engineering and includes 8 lessons that are 45-minutes each. The free program also includes an educator guide, engineering journal, and online resources that support both the educators as well as the students. Download the unit for free to provide students with an interactive lesson on engineering.
If you love waffles as much as we at Bedtime Math do, then you'll love discovering how much math a waffle has to offer. In this video we show three games that you can play on your waffles. They'll help you build speed with your math facts as well as your spatial skills. All you need is an appetite for waffles and for numbers.
Learn more at Science Friday.
Renewable resources are natural resources that naturally replenish themselves, such as fish and trees. Humans can use renewable resources again and again if we manage them properly. But if we don't give these resources an opportunity to reproduce, we can exhaust them quickly, especially as our demand grows. The tragedy of the commons theory asserts that individuals acting in their own best interest may deplete a shared resource at the expense of the interests of the whole group.
Do you want to code a snowflake?
In the tutorial, female tech role models including Microsoft engineer Paola Mejia and app developing model Lyndsey Scott talk participants through basic programming concepts.Then the fun begins as new students write code to move Anna and Elsa around and etch patterns onto the ice. The program uses colorful, simplified blocks of code that snap together like virtual lego pieces.
Find out further at Mashable.
Check out these fun 19 Spooky STEM Projects for Kiddos This Halloween at Buzzfeed!
Computer science is a hot skill that is growing in demand in the workforce, & unfortunately, not many youth get to participate in computer science activities.
What's it like to be standing on the surface of Mars? What about floating outside a Space Shuttle or walking the surface of a massive asteroid? Well, the Space Place can't take you to these places, but we've got the second best option—3D images of them! Pick up a pair of red-blue 3D glasses and take a look at our latest image gallery. It's got pictures from all around our solar system and from right here on Earth, too.
Mastersindatascience.org provides a comprehensive guide to the growingfield of data science. The website features in-depth guides to how datascience is used in various industries, a comprehensive directory of datascience and related graduate degree programs, and more. The ultimate STEM guide is a resource to increase a child's interest inSTEM-related fields.


n.obs. A collective noun for any set of memory bits. This is extremely archaic and may no longer be live jargon; it dates from the days of ferrite-core memories in which each bit was implemented by a doughnut-shaped magnetic flip-flop.


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Toponymie
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dans la voïvodie de Mazovie
 Lasek, village du powiat de Gostynin
 Lasek, village du powiat de Grodzisk Mazowiecki
 Lasek, village du powiat d'Otwock

de la voïvodie de Basse-Silésie
 Lasek, village du powiat de Środa Śląska

de la voïvodie de Couïavie-Poméranie
 Lasek, village

de la voïvodie de Petite-Pologne
 Lasek, village du powiat de Nowy Targ

de la voïvodie de Łódź
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Le Lasek (Laser-assisted sub epithelial keratomileusis) est une technique chirurgicale de l'œil (voir Lasik)

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WSIL -- Warm, dry, and windy weather sticks around through the afternoon. Despite the ominous skies at times, no rain is expected until later on this evening. Temperatures will warm to around 80 this afternoon with south winds gusting over 40 miles per hour.
A strong cold front will approach this evening and with showers and storms likely developing ahead of the front. An isolated strong storm or two with strong gusty winds can't be ruled out, but the risk of severe weather is small.
Chief meteorologist Jim Rasor will have all the details on when the rain moves out and when the next chance of rain arrives coming up tonight on News 3.


At the Jordan Law Center, our legal team recently settled a car accident case for $95,000. At the time of the accident, our client was driving down a major six-lane roadway when another vehicle suddenly pulled out in front of him.
The driver of the other car had been waiting to make a left turn, but had illegally passed another car in front of him, who was waiting to turn left, and then turned in front of our client's vehicle. The actions of the other driver caused a terrible collision that knocked our client unconscious, causing a devastating head injury.
Our client was transported to a local regional hospital. However, due to the severity of the injury he sustained, he had to be transported to a level 1 trauma center to receive more serious medical care. After going through several months of therapy, our client was ultimately diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury by medical professionals.
Initially, the insurance company for the other driver denied liability and claimed our client was to blame for attempting to make a right hand turn. Through our investigation, we were able to show that such action never occurred, and that our client had no role in causing the car accident.
The insurance company made an extremely low offer to our client for this case, so we filed suit against the other driver and his employer. After we filed the lawsuit on behalf of our client, the insurance company quickly changed its mind and paid us over 15 times what had been previously offered to resolve the case.
This particular case illustrates the power of going to Court, holding the insurance company's feet to the fire, and letting a jury decide what a case is worth. Our legal team is willing to be aggressive in situations like this, and we do everything in our power to help our clients obtain fair results for their personal injury cases.
Call our lawyers today if you or a loved one have been injured in a serious car accident. We are dedicated to helping clients resolve their legal disputes, and we will use our skills and experience to pursue the justice you deserve. Let us review the details of your case today.
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The latest supermarket share figures from Kantar Worldpanel in Ireland, for the 12 weeks ending 23 December 2012, show Dunnes increasing its share from 23.9% to 24.3% and posting sales growth of 1.9% − well ahead of the market growth rate of 0.3%.
Among the other retailers, Aldi continues to post exceptional sales growth of 30% and its share has overtaken Lidl for the first time, becoming the fourth ranked grocery retailer in the state. Despite this milestone there is evidence that shoppers have again shifted some of their spending back to traditional supermarkets over Christmas. Aldi and Lidl achieved a combined 12.6% market share in October, with this dipping to 11.9% in the latest month.
Elsewhere, Tesco and SuperValu have both performed broadly in line with the market, with Tesco holding market share at 27.8% and SuperValu dipping marginally to 19.5%.
Superquinn has performed behind the overall market, but a reduction of the sales decline has resulted in a better Christmas for the retailer compared with 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Grocery inflation stands at 5.0%* for the 12 week period ending 23 December 2012, ahead of the 4.2% in the previous period and the highest since the 5.6% seen in May 2011.


A paint device for rendering using the VML pseudo-standard.
The WVmlImage is used by WPaintedWidget to render to the browser using the Vector Markup Language (VML) (to support graphics on Internet Explorer browsers).
The current implementation has only limited support for clipping: only rectangular areas aligned with the X/Y axes can be used as clipping path.
Create a VML paint device.
If paintUpdate is true, then only a VML fragment will be rendered that can be used to update the DOM of an existing VML image, instead of a full VML image.
Finishes painting on the device.
This method is called when a WPainter stopped painting.
The arc describes the segment of an ellipse enclosed by the rect. The segment starts at startAngle, and spans an angle given by spanAngle. These angles have as unit degree, and are measured counter-clockwise starting from the 3 o'clock position.
The arc must be stroked, filled, and transformed using the current painter settings.
Draws sourceRect from the image with URL imageUri and original dimensions imgWidth and imgHeight to the location, into the rectangle defined by rect.
The image is transformed using the current painter settings.
The line must be stroked and transformed using the current painter settings.
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The text must be rendered, stroked and transformed using the current painter settings.
If clipPoint is not null, a check is performed whether the point is inside of the current clip area. If not, the text is not drawn.
This returns font metrics for the current font.
Throws a std::logic_error if the underlying device does not provide font metrics.
The device height, in pixels, establishes the height of the device coordinate system.
Initializes the device for painting.
This method is called when a WPainter starts painting.
Returns the bounding rect of the given text when rendered using the current font.
If maxWidth != -1, then the text is truncated to fit in the width.
If wordWrap = true then text is truncated only at word boundaries. Note that in this case the whitespace at the truncated position is included in the text but not accounted for by the returned width (since usually you will not render the whitespace at the end of a line).
Returns whether painting is active.
Returns the painter that is currently painting on the device.
Indicates changes in painter state.
The flags argument is the logical OR of one or more change flags.
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St. Isabella Parish provides safe space for teen talk
Members of the St. Isabella Parish Youth Council scrub cars to raise revenue for a retreat to help prepare student leaders for creating, coordinating and carrying out a host of events that annually attract up to 200 high school students from throughout Marin County. (Photo by Lidia Wasowicz/Catholic San Francisco)
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St. Isabella Parish in San Rafael is providing a safe space for teens to open themselves to God without preaching, proscribing or proselytizing.
Through its half-century existence, the Parish Youth Council has revised its membership – from churchgoers' children to Catholic adolescents to all high school students – but retained its mission — to respond to the needs of the young with Christian values.
The resulting commingling of compassion, companionship and conversation annually attracts, by word of mouth, a diverse mix of 150 to 200 freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors from Terra Linda, Marin Catholic, St. Vincent de Paul, Branson, San Rafael and other high schools.
"I expected it to be more like Sunday school, but it's completely different – a lot more community oriented and, even with religious undertones, not pushing religion down your throat," said Joseph Hansen, 17, one of 22 student officers who create, coordinate and carry out the agenda with support from adult faculty, many of them graduates of the group.
"If you're not Catholic or have no faith, you are not going to feel left out."
The youth – believers, doubters, seekers – meet every Monday from October to May in groups of 10 to 20 in private homes to talk truthfully and trustingly about such teen-themed topics as the stress of success, technology's influence on and interference with daily life and bullying, said PYC director Shane Graham.
The entire assembly gathers for special occasions, including monthly Mass, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and other holiday extravaganzas, beach trips, scavenger hunts, trivia evenings, speaker nights, living Stations of the Cross during Lent and the much-anticipated three-day year-end retreat, dubbed Challenge Weekend, in Occidental.
Criteria for participation include attendance and assistance in at least one Mass and one outreach project.
Those qualified but unable to afford the $190-$210 trip can "earn a scholarship" by helping with community service or fundraising, Graham said.
That some find jobs solely to pay for the weekend and the $85-$100 yearly dues shows the immeasurable value of the program, he said.
"It's definitely worth it," said Jessie Perlite, 17, who works at a pizza restaurant and splits the cost with her parents. "I was shy, but I've come out of my comfort zone, become more outgoing and confident and met a lot of cool people with different perspectives."
Fellow Catholics Carina Valceschini and Marcus Zeidan, both 17, echoed her appreciation of newfound PYC-inspired capabilities: To open up about festering personal problems, shed awkwardness, give and receive empathy, enliven fading faith.
"You can talk about what you're feeling and know you're not alone," said Sofia Bahreyni, 16, who subscribes to no religion. "A bunch of other people are going through the same things and are there to support you."
In a show of support, two-dozen volunteers forsook sleeping-in on a recent Sunday morning to sell sweets and wash cars. Proceeds will finance a training retreat for student leaders.
"PYC provides a safe place for teens to share thoughts and seek support from each other and God," said Sissy Ratto, faculty member since 2008.
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First Look Inside 520 Park, Home of NYC's Priciest Apartment
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The eagle eyes over at BuzzBuzzHome spotted that the full website for 520 Park Avenue is live, baby. That means the very first renderings of the Robert A.M. Stern-designed apartments, which will be full-floor at a minimum. Building 31 apartments over 54 stories, Zeckendorf Development plans to ask $130 million for the penthouse of the classic-looking tower—whose entrance will sit on 60th Street between Park and Madison avenues. That's an ask that will handily best the current most expensive property in New York City, which is a combo in Battery Park City that wants $118.5M.
520 Park's new site holds the first looks at the streetside entranceway, the lobby, the "salon," the garden, the curving staircase that will grace the foyers of multi-floor residences, the master baths, and the views, as well as the tower in the context of its neighbors on the Upper East Side and in Midtown East. As for pricing, single-floor units reportedly start at $16.2 million, duplexes at $67 million. Sales at the self-proclaimed next 15 Central Park West were slated to launch this fall, but are not apparently kicking off in early 2013.
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Brooke Borel is a science journalist, scientist,and author.

Borel most famous work is Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World. She has also written about biotech in agriculture and pesticides used on cannabis. She became most noted for writing the history of the bed bug for Popular Science,  the Atlantic, FiveThirtyEight, BuzzFeed News, The Guardian,  Scientific American, and Undark Magazine.

She is a contributing editor at Popular Science and editor-at-large at Undark. The Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have supported her work. Brooke borel is not only an author, journalist, and editor, but she also teaches writing workshops at the Brooklyn Brainery and New York University. Her work began after a college experience living in New York. She later decided to begin studying bed bugs.

Her list of narratives include: Popular Science, Undark, BuzzFeed, and On Earth. She also has a list of features including: Quanta, NOVA Next, and Undark. Her essays include: FiveThirtyEight, The Guardian, and Aeon Magazine. She also has magazine packages with popular science. Her infographics are shown in both Popular Science and Bicycling magazines.

Her most famous work "Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World" was published in 2015. The book discusses what bed bugs are, how to get rid of them, where they come from, and more introductory information.

See also

 Bedbugs (musical)
 Evertune
 Nicholas A. Peppas
 Women in journalism

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Articles Brooke Borel wrote, or talks she gave

 On her bedbug work
 Articles Brooke Borel wrote, in Scientific American
 Brooke Borel's TED talks
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 Brooke Borel, on sex in sports
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The Campbell Plateau is a large oceanic plateau south of New Zealand and the Chatham Rise. It originated in the Gondwanan breakup and is part of Zealandia, a largely submerged continent. The above sea level parts of the plateau — the Bounty Islands, Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands and Campbell Island — form part of the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands which were declared a World Heritage Site in 1998.
Large parts of the Campbell Plateau lie less than 1000 m below sea level.  It rises to 500 m at the Pukaki Rise and emerges above sea level at the Auckland and Campbell Islands.

Covering an area of , the Campbell Plateau has a gently undulating bathymetry with major rises trending east-west: Campbell Island Rise, Pukaki Rise, and Bounty Island Ridge.  There are two near-parallel rises on the western margin: Stewart Island–Snare Island Rise and Auckland Island platform.  The continental slopes are steep on western and southern margins while the northern margin slowly falls into the Bounty Trough.

Geology
The Campbell Plateau is a roughly triangular, cratonic microcontinent which formed during the break-up of Gondwana around 80 Ma.  Large parts of the plateau are made of Palaeozoic or older granites overlain by much younger shield volcanoes who form the Auckland and Campbell Islands.

The Campbell Plateau is made of continental crust, but, as such, is unusually thin.  The reason for this is debated, but there are two likely candidates: either an Early Cretaceous extensional event or the Late Cretaceous break-up between New Zealand and Antarctica.  Cretaceous extension between the South Island and the Campbell Plateau created the Great South Basin in which 8 km of sediments have since accumulated.  The Bounty Trough was created during the same process.  The Campbell Plateau can have been affected by this extension or an earlier event.

The islands are composed of continental rocks.  The western islands, Auckland, Snares, and Stewart, have a 100–120 Ma-old Middle Cretaceous basement made of granites.  On Snares and Stewart islands schists of similar age suggest metamorphism ceased about this time.
The basement of Campbell Island and Fiordland are both made of Palaeozoic schists.
Bounty Islands are made of 189 Ma-old granodiorite and Precambrian-Cambrian greywackes have been dredge near the island.
The Antipodes Islands, in contrast, are composed of Quaternary alkaline olivine basalts.

Most plate-tectonic reconstructions place the Campbell Plateau together with the Lord Howe Rise, the Challenger Plateau, and the Ross Sea before the break-up of Gondwana.  These four structures have similar crustal thickness and underwent the same pre-break-up process of crustal thinning and underplating during the Early Cretaceous or Jurassic.
The southern margin of the plateau was located next to the continental shelves of the eastern Ross Sea and Marie Byrd Land.

There are two systems of magnetic anomalies on the Campbell Plateau: the Stokes Magnetic Anomaly System (SMAS) and the Campbell Magnetic Anomaly System (CMAS).  The origin and relationship of these anomalies remain unclear.

Biogeology
The islands are important breeding centres for both endemic and circumpolar species, including the royal albatross, crested penguin, and Hooker's sea lion.

The southern part of South Island (Fiordland, Southland and Otago) can be considered part of the Campbell Plateau, both biologically and geologically.  Endemic taxa include the spider genus Gohia, the frog species Puhuruhuru patersoni, and nine genera of beetles. The order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) also link the southern South Island to the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands.

Macquarie Island is biologically but not geologically related to the Campbell Plateau.  The island is made of oceanic crust that formed at the Macquarie Triple Junction.  This triple junction was originally located adjacent to the Campbell Plateau but is now isolated south of it due to sea floor spreading.  The plateau and the island share several endemic taxa, including six beetle species, a fly genus (Schoenophilus) and a vascular plant genus (Pleurophyllum).  Further support for this connection comes from the aralia genus Stilbocarpa and possibly the cormorant.

Oceanography
South of the Campbell Plateau, the eastward-flowing Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is bounded by the Antarctic Polar Front (APF) and the Subantarctic Front (SAF).  It reaches New Zealand with an average volume of c. 130×106 m3/s.  South of New Zealand it is partly deflected in the Tasman Sea as a broad, weak flow.  The main part of the ACC, however, passes around the Macquarie Ridge together with the SAF and then flows north along the eastern margin of the Campbell Plateau.  At 55°S and 50°S the ACC turns eastward again.  There is, however, a wind-driven Ekman transport of surface water across the Campbell Plateau.
At the Subtropical Convergence the Southland Current rounds the South Island and flows north-east along the island's east coast.  From there it entrains Subantarctic and subtropical waters across the north-western Campbell Plateau before branching over the Chatman Rise north of the plateau.

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External links
 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand entry on the Campbell Plateau

Geography of the New Zealand seabed
Plateaus of the Pacific Ocean
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Duck Donuts is a North Carolina shop that opened July 13, 2019 in Addison, Texas.
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Duck Donuts opens in Addison in July 2019.
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Jul. 12, 2019 8:45am Last Update: Jul. 13, 2019 9:45am
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It's good that Russ DiGilio, the creator of a fast-growing doughnut shop, has a sense of humor.
He's the founder and CEO of a company with "a tremendous fanbase, all over doughnuts," he says, laughing. DiGilio spent 30 years in healthcare and planned to end his career doing just that. But that sense of humor gets serious: Duck Donuts has blossomed into 80+ shops, with 145 more stores expected to open across the country eventually.
"I still scratch my head over it sometimes," he says.
Duck Donuts starts with just one option: a vanilla-cake doughnut. Then, customers choose their own doughnut coating, topping and drizzle. (Pictured here: maple icing with bacon on top)
Duck Donuts opens its first North Texas shop in Addison on Saturday, July 13. Its remodel took longer than expected — it was initially going to open in late fall 2018 — but managers Sunny Bassi and Jesse Bassi hope it'll be worth the wait.
Customers watch their doughnuts get iced as they walk down the line at Duck Donuts.
Duck Donuts is a made-to-order shop where every step happens in front of the customer, starting with a single option: a vanilla-cake doughnut.
"You watch us mix the batter, drop it in to the fryers," the CEO says. Customers can press their noses against the Plexiglass (or, y'know, get close) and choose a coating (like cinnamon sugar, glazed, chocolate, peanut butter and more); a topping (sprinkles, chopped peanuts, shredded coconut, or bacon pieces, casual); and a drizzle (hot fudge, marshmallow, salted caramel and more).
The Addison shop is located near Belt Line Road and Marsh Lane. PR manager Kristin Kellum says patrons can possibly expect "a line, out the door, all day," if other openings are an indicator.
The blueberry icing and powdered sugar on top of a vanilla-cake doughnut makes this Duck Donuts treat taste like a blueberry pancake.
The company was created because DiGilio and his family members were vacationing in North Carolina and lamenting the lack of a great doughnut shop. "I've always been a bit of an entrepreneur," he says, and "I thought, You know what? For fun, let's try to figure this out and make something of it."
The first stores opened in 2007, and at first, they struggled, he says. The company is named for Duck, North Carolina, a small town in the Outer Banks where the DiGilios take vacations. The regulars were around only seasonally, and it took a few years for Duck to establish a name. Once it did, however, the company turned into a franchise in 2013.
When Duck Donuts' first franchise opened in Williamsburg, Virginia, DiGilio says it drew TV cameras and fanfare. "It was craziness, over a doughnut shop."
Store Manager Sunny Bassi (left) will operate Duck Donuts in Addison for owner Dr. Gary Bhatti, her brother.
The Addison shop is owned by North Carolina resident and ex-military man Dr. Gary Bhatti. He visited the North Carolina shop before it was a franchise, then signed on to open his own shop in North Texas when DiGilio began growing the business. Bhatti asked his sister Sunny Bassi and her husband Jesse Bassi to run the first North Texas shop, which was a significant change for both of them: Jesse operates gas stations in North Texas and Sunny resigned her position as a medical assistant with Baylor Scott & White.
After one day of dipping doughnuts at the Houston restaurant, Sunny says she was in.
"When I first heard about it, I didn't get the concept," she says. "I thought it was just a doughnut shop. It's so much more than that." The shop tries to differentiate itself with its made-to-order model and special vanilla-cake recipe.
The interior of Duck Donuts on Friday, July 12, 2019 in Addison. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)
Doughnuts fall out of the frier at Duck Donuts on Friday, July 12, 2019 in Addison. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)
A vanilla doughnut iced with chocolate and marshmallow icing and gram cracker crumbs at Duck Donuts on Friday, July 12, 2019 in Addison. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)
A doughnut is iced with flavored icing at Duck Donuts on Friday, July 12, 2019 in Addison. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)
The exterior of Duck Donuts on Friday, July 12, 2019 in Addison. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)
Duck Donuts opens in Addison also sells doughnut sundaes: a choose-your-own doughnut dolloped with ice cream and toppings like chocolate sauce and sprinkles.
While 90 percent of the customers buy doughnuts, the company also sells coffee.
Customers can also consider two seriously stacked doughnut options: a doughnut breakfast sandwich, made with egg, bacon or sausage and cheese; or a doughnut sundae. Because who's counting calories anyhow?
Actually: Calorie counts are listed on the menu. You don't need to know.
Duck Donuts opens at 3765 Belt Line Road, Addison, on July 13, 2019.
Editor's note: This story was originally written Sept. 5, 2018. It was revised July 12, 2019, before the opening.
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2018: A good year for our investments and partnerships
Tūwharetoa Settlement Trust's investments and partnerships performed well throughout the 2017/18 financial year, with the establishment of the Te Pūia Tāpapa Fund, the formation of the Tūwharetoa Gondola Limited Partnership and sale of forestry rights for the Taurewa, Waituhi and Pureora South Forests placing the Trust in a strong position.
Establishment of the Te Pūia Tāpapa Fund
Ten Ngāti Tūwharetoa commercial entities formed Tūwharetoa Hau Rau (100 Winds), a Limited Partnership, specifically to join a group of 25 other Iwi and Māori organisations to establish Te Pūia Tāpapa Fund.
The Te Pūia Tāpapa Fund aims to pool its financial resources to increase Māori investment in a broad scale of assets, alongside large investors such as the NZ Super Fund and the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC).
The 10 partners in Tūwharetoa Hau Rau have committed a combined total of $20 millon to Te Pūia Tāpapa Fund and will be represented on the board of Te Pūia Tāpapa Fund by Debbie Birch (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Hauiti, Ngāti Rangi).
Te Pūia Tāpapa Fund has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the NZ Super Fund. Under the MOU, Te Pūia Tāpapa Fund and the NZ Super Fund will be preferred partners, committing to full and open dialogue over investment opportunities. The Fund will help the Māori groups further diversify their portfolios and access larger scale direct investment opportunities than they could achieve on an individual basis. Iwi and Māori groups will have an increasing economic base, with potential to grow land, capability and capital.
$25 million gondola project
Ruapehu Alpine Lifts (RAL) has launched a project to build a $25 million gondola to replace the chairlift between the Top of the Bruce and Knoll Ridge café. As part of its funding, RAL issued a bond offer with a guaranteed minimum return and a share in the upside of any increase in passenger numbers. To participate in the bond offer, six Ngāti Tūwharetoa commercial entities have formed Tūwharetoa Gondola Limited Partnership, with a total commitment of $7.5 million.
The new gondola was officially opened in July 2019.
Sale of forestry rights green light further investment opportunities
Following approval from the southern Forest Hapū Cluster Trusts, the sale of forestry rights for Taurewa, Waituhi and Pureora South Forests to Lake Taupō Forest Management Limited (LTFM) was completed in June 2018.
This means that LTFM, the largest forest owner and operator in the Ngāti Tūwharetoa rohe, now owns the trees on these blocks and is responsible for all operations including new planting and harvesting. This transaction has enabled Tūwharetoa Settlement Trust to reduce our heavy exposure to the forestry sector, and to provide funding for other investment opportunities.
To learn more about the Trust's 2017/18 financial year highlights, please view the Annual Report.


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