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On Friday, June 1st, 140 seventh grade students at Deer Park Middle School once again gave back to their community and neighborhood by participating in the fourth annual Seventh Grade Spikes Spring Service Project. Back in the 2014-15 school year, DPMS Principal Tim Olietti sought to instill in kids a sense of commitment and service, giving students a chance to do meaningful, hands-on work that contributed in visible and tangible ways to their community. Without a doubt, there are a number of vital lessons to be learned in these service projects: By engaging in these tasks students experience the value of hard work, the benefit of being an active member of their community, and the importance of giving back.
Over the years, many of the projects have varied greatly, while some have remained consistent from year to year. In 2018, projects included washing windows at Deer Park Crossing Senior Residence Facility, painting the dugouts at the Deer Park Sports Complex, removing brush at the park behind Deer Park Library, planting flowers at the City of Deer Parks' Maintenance Shop, painting buildings and bleachers at the Clayton Community Fairgrounds, and clearing trails at Camp Reed YMCA Camp. After lunch, students capped off the day by picking up trash on their adopted road segments along Colville Road and "H" Street. For their efforts, students will be rewarded with the pride gained in helping their community and also by a day of outdoor education and fun at the Camp Reed. Also participating in the project were student leaders from the Deer Park High School Key Club, Deer Park Kiwanis Club, and DPMS faculty/staff.
All in all it was a great day for the Deer Park Middle School and for Deer Park!


1. Flake the tuna and mix all the ingredients together in a bowl.
2. Shape the mixture into 4 patties.
3. In a skillet on medium heat, add 1 tablespoon of coconut oil. Cook the 4 patties until they turn golden. Turn them over and cook the other side until golden.
1. Cook 2 eggs in non stick pan sunny side up. While cooking, mix tuna, Franks and mustard together in bowl or on plate.
1. Add tuna to a large mixing bowl with scallions, bacon, celery, parsley and Mrs. Dash seasoning blend (or salt, MSG, gluten-free seasoning blend of your choice).
2. In a separate bowl, mash an avocado with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice (about a teaspoon) into a sauce that resembles guacamole.
3. Add the avocado mash to the tuna and combine well. A few grinds of black pepper will finish the salad off, add according to your preference and mix one last time.
4. For the cucumber boats, cut the cucumbers into 2-3 inch sections, then halve lengthwise. To make the "boat", simply use a spoon to remove the seeded centers, leaving the flesh and skin of the cucumber intact.


The Baha'ís in Arlington begin celebrating their holiest religious festival at sunset on Sunday, April 20, 2014. It is also the time during which the community will elect a new Local Spiritual Assembly, the governing body for the Arlington Baha'í community.
Shrine of the Bab in Haifa, Israel.
The Festival of Ridvan is a twelve-day period commemorating Baha'u'llah's announcement of His claim to prophethood and his departure from Baghdad in 1863, observed from sunset 20 April to sunset, 2 May. The first, ninth and twelfth days of Ridvan are major Bahá'í holy days on which work should be suspended.* Baha'i elections are normally held during Ridvan. The name derives from the Najibiyyih Garden in Baghdad where Baha'u'llah stayed during this period and to which He gave the name Ridvan (Paradise).
Garden of Ridván outside of Akka, Israel.


about the media Book with a collection of 94 plants borrowed from private window-sills in Arhus.
about the project 'Window-sill' is a collection of 94 plants borrowed from private window-sills in Arhus during the summer of 1998 and on Amager in the spring of 2000. The artists visited people in their homes and asked if they might borrow a pot plant from their window-sill for an exhibition. In return they gave the owners in Arhus a pink begonia and the owners on Amager a red geranium. During the visits they talked with them about their plants, and their comments and stories were subsequently presented together with the collection of plants. Afterwards, they returned the plants to their owners, and the collection now consists of the edited text of the interviews and the photographs of the pot plants they originally borrowed.
about artist and participants Sofie Thorsen lives and works in Copenhagen and Vienna. She studied at Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi in Copenhagen from 1995 to 2001. Since 1997 she collaborates with Elsebeth Jørgensen, and with Jeppe Hein and Lilibeth Cuenca she founded the exhibition forum OTTO in Copenhagen.
Observation, research and documentation play a very important role in Sofie Thorsen's work. Her projects explore the social aspects of architecture, its functions and structures. The artist collects materials and conducts interviews with the inhabitants of selected housing districts and estates.
For the last several years Thorsen has presented her projects as narrated slideshows and detailed drawings of interiors. For her project titled 'Reader' (2000), Thorsen interviewed visitors to the main public library in Copenhagen and subsequently visited her subjects in their homes. She then created a series of sixteen drawings depicting the private spaces within which her subjects settle down to read. She supplemented these drawings with quotes from the interviews and posted them on bulletin boards within the library building.
Thorsen is currently working on 'Village fig.', which explores the formal evolution and transformation of the meaning of suburban housing districts in Europe and South America.
Elsebeth Jørgensen also lives and works in Copenhagen. She recently exhibited her work, together with Pia Ronicke, in Tate Modern. Jørgensen spent time working with the community of Huntly, a small town in North East Scotland.


We listened to your feedback on rodent control and partnered with local pest management company, Orkin Canada, to develop a green solution to managing rodent problems.
First off, it's important to understand that it's common for rodents to become a challenge in communities with substantial growth and development. This is because their natural habitat is being destroyed or disturbed. This approved green initiative will help you reduce the occurrence of unwanted rodents through education and communication, along with an extensive treatment program targeting all homes in Paradise. Both non-chemical and chemical tools will be used as part of this initiative.
Look for places where rodents live. Most rodents live in nests or burrows. Burrows are holes in dirt or concrete from one to four inches wide with smooth edges. Burrows can be found under bushes and plants and will often have an entrance and exit hole.
Look for droppings. Droppings are often found close to garbage. If they're moist and dark, it's a sign that rodents are in the area.
Look for holes and gnaw marks on wood and plastic garbage cans.
Check walls and grass for signs of runways. Rodents run along the same path many times, leaving dark greasy track marks along walks and worn down paths in grass.
Wash away droppings and track marks.
Remove clutter. Clutter gives rodents many areas to hide, sleep and reproduce.
Trim overgrown vegetation. Rodents can use weeds, shrubs, compost piles, and bushes to hide.
Seal cracks and small holes with caulking or screening.
Fill larger gaps and holes with mortar or ready to use cement.
Use weather stripping on doors.
Use caulking around utility lines.
Rodents need only one ounce of food per day. Don't let your garbage be their food.
Bring garbage cans and bags to the curb as close to pick up time as possible.
Use hard plastic or metal cans with tight fitting lids.
Don't put food out for stray cats, pigeons/birds, or squirrels.
Close inactive burrows by filling them with soil and tamping then down with a shovel.
Close burrows in cracked or broken asphalt or concrete with patching concrete.
Rodent baiting is also an option, but is best handled by a licensed pest management professional to prevent poisoning of non-targets.


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Q: How to Uninstall HoloCamera from Windows 10 I'm unable to uninstall HoloCamera from Windows 10 and my sysprep is failing as a result. Build is 1703. Edition is Pro
What I've tried:
    Get-AppxPackage | where-object {$_.name -notlike "*store*"} | RemoveAppxPackage

----also used the -allusers parameter with this PS command
    Remove-AppxPackage HoloCamera_1.0.0.5_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy

Error; see update below.
    dism /online /get-provisionedappxpackages | select-string holocamera

This had no output
    dism /online /get-packages | select-string holocamera

Also had no output
Tried deleting the system folder that contains HoloCamera
Tried deleting HoloCamera registry keys and restarting the computer
Still can't uninstall. Help please!
Update: Ran
    Remove-AppxPackage -allusers HoloCamera_1.0.0.5_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy

did not work. Threw the following error:

remove-appxpackage : Deployment failed with HRESULT: 0x80073CFA. Removal failed. Please contact your software vendor. (exception from HRESULT: 0x80073CFA) error 0x80070032: Appx Deployment Remove operation on package HoloCamera_1.0.0.5_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy from C:\Windows\SystemApps\holocamera_cw5n1h2txyewy failed. This app is part of Windows and cannot be uninstalled on a per user basis. An administrator can attempt to remove the app from the computer using Turn windows features on or off. However it may not be possible to uninstall the app

A: I found a workaround using local GPOs, security policy editor and the registry. This was done in Audit Mode. It won't work for any system that already has a user created. Sysprep was successful after the following steps were performed. It may not have uninstalled the app from the image entirely, but it prevented the app from being installed on a per-user basis, which was causing my sysprep to fail in the first place. In short, it makes sure the app isn't installed for any new user. This is different from the Get-AppxProvisionedPackage method, as that method only covers some of the provisioned apps.
a.  Go into Group Policy editor and go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Store. Enable "Turn off automatic download of updates"
b.  Go into registry: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsStore. Make sure AutoDownload is set to 2.
c.  Windows key + R and type secpol.msc to pull up local security policy editor.
d.  Select Application Control Policies
e.  Right click packaged app rules and select Create New Rule
f.  Click next when the wizard pops up. Select "Deny" as the action and "Everyone" as the User/Group.
g.  Select the app you don't want to install for users under "Use installed package as a reference." Slide marker to "Package name" and click Create
h.  Repeat steps e-h for each app you don't want to install.
I then exited Audit Mode and went back to the OOBE, created my local user and confirmed by running Get-AppxPackage -allusers HoloCamera that HoloCamera wasn't installed for my newly created user; it was only staged (under PackageUserInformation). I did my updates and sysprepped.

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Being Inspired by Blog Series – Kevin Bacon by Eric ,Girly Geek By Lauren ,Admin Hero By Brent & the Answers Community forum of which I have been part from a long time,I decided to put a blog series on our awesome Salesforce Answers Community Leaders.
I hope that Salesforce Community Members,Learners,Aspirants,Experts and others will get motivated and inspired by the Stories of our Community Leaders and will help them know better our Leaders who are addicted to answering their questions.
Special thanks to Eric and Phoebe for helping me for getting started.
only 1.5 year experience in Salesforce (working on it since 2014),He is doing an awesome job in community with around 2500+ Answers.
You can connect with him on Twitter , Success community, Linked In .You can check his blogs on his Website as well.
I'm a Salesforce developer living in Noida, India. . I have a non coding background and have done my engineering with EC (Electronics & Communication) stream at 2013. In my college campus I never thought that I would write code in future and I was pretty much afraid to learn it. I thought I would never ever try a single line of code. After college ended I had no job, just an Engineering degree. Then I came to know about Salesforce and joined Salesforce training on 1 January 2014 in Bangalore. After then I fall in love with Salesforce . I came to know about Salesforce Developer Certification and in first 30 days of my Salesforce training, I successfully completed my Salesforce developer certification in first attempt. After that I looked for Salesforce job but didn't get success .Then I got a job in my core branch in Electronics industry as "Electronics Engineer". But my heart was beating for Salesforce and that time I didn't have any choice. But with my hard work and passion for Salesforce,Finally I got a job as Salesforce Developer with in 20 days of tenure with my core job.
I know my journey in Salesforce in begineer phase(as I don't have as much experience ) but it's a truth that your age and your experience can't stop you from your dream.
When Did You Start Answering?
What Inspired You To Do So ?
Whenever I was stuck in any issue during initial phase of my job,I simply searched question on community and got solution from community. @David inspired me a lot to do something and giving back to Salesforce. It gives me awesome feeling. The community has helped me a lot, and I'm happy to give back. The knowledge that I have learned while doing answers in community is countless. At the time I was not aware about how many amazing solutions were out in community until I started doing this. Hence forth I started sharing my real experience with other community members.
How Do You Feel Contributing To Answers Community?
Most important thing which I like about Salesforce is giving back. There aren't enough words in the dictionary to describe the significance of giving back. And selfishly, when I give my time and energy to others, I just feel better — about myself and my community. And through helping others you can make new connections and people start recognize you in crowd too.
Any Tips For Our Community Users & The Contributors?
One special tip which I got from Jeff May . Please avoid posting code in response to posts. It is very dangerous for any Admin to deploy code into their org that they don't understand. So point them to the Developer Community where they can find documentation and sample code so they learn how to solve their problem. One more suggestion which I always follow is, If you are not sure about any features/functionality then try to solved out issue first in your developer org and then post your answer so it will give your more knowledge in terms of your improvement. And always use your developer org for answers in Community, so it makes no difference if you change your job. Your account is carrying forward with you always.
What Would You Say To People To Inspire Them To Contribute To Answers Community?
Remark : Below are the some Awesome Blogs you should follow whether you are new to salesforce or experienced in Salesforce .


This is a super satisfying light breakfast. The pancakes are from the "Clean and Lean Diet Cookbook" and taste indulgent while being somewhat diet friendly. The fruit salad I serve with them is fresh and tastes like a tropical holiday setting you up for a high-energy day!
Combine all the pancake ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Spray a non-stick frying pan lightly with oil. When the pan is hot, add dollops of batter and cook on each side until browned. For optimum taste ensure that you do not overcook the pancakes. They are cooked perfectly when a light press of the pancake springs back.
For the best fruit salad, make sure that the fruit is perfectly ripe. If the fruit is not ripe when bought, store near bananas, which will accelerate the ripening of fruit as they release Ethylene gas.
Wash the berries and leave them to strain. Dice the Mango and peaches and combine in a bowl. Halve the passion fruit and add to the mango mixture. Add the berries and juice the lime over the fruit. Shred the mint and add to the salad. Mix well and spoon over the pancakes. Drizzle lightly with Agave syrup if desired and serve immediately.
I use Agave Syrup instead of honey or sugar to sweeten as it has a lower Glycemic Index and has less calories than honey for the same volume.
Whilst the pancakes are very light, be careful of how much fruit salad you add as their fruit content will add a lot to the calorie count if you are watching your calorie intake.
This tropical medley really does make the day feel more sunny no matter if you are in fact reaching for your wellies! Bon Appetit!


Salix applied HydraCX in September 2009 to slopes consisting of 6I/J fill material with no imported topsoil covering the surface. The project was monitored each year to see how the vegetation established.
Due to the high stone content on the surface, Salix requested the main contractor to rake the top surface area to expose the fines below. We then sprayed this with HydraCX, our hydraulically applied erosion control blanket. Some areas were nailed and rock netted.
The photos show how the site has developed over the years. In November 2009, two months after Salix applied HydraCX, the area was well vegetated. It then gets battered by the sun and dry conditions during a very dry Spring as you can see from photos taken in June 2010.
Some of the initial species we used in the reclamation seed mix added to the HydraCX have died back adding some nutrient and water retention to the surface allowing colonisation by wind blown species that can tolerate infertile conditions. Our initial seed mix has acted like a "nurse crop" allowing colonisation to take place.
The important factor in successful vegetation establishment on very poor ground, is to get something to take initially, i.e. a nurse crop and then let nature take over and sort itself out over time.
One hour after the works finished at Tamworth we experienced a massive rainfall event. The HydraCX is designed to withstand intense, heavy rainfall without washing off the surface. Therefore, we did not need an erosion control mat or net to prevent erosion of the slope plus the HydraCX spray on erosion control blanket provides far quicker germination and prolonged vegetation aid than standard hydroseeding.


If you thought you knew what fashion influencers were all about, think again. It's time you met Colette LeClair, or Colette Prime as she's known online.
Colette is a self-taught fashion editor who's digital savviness has turned her blogging into a full time business. And of course – she's a Linktree user too!
Meet Colette Prime. She's one helluva stylish web-nerd!
At first look, Colette is a fashion influencer/blogger/model. And an extremely stylish one at that. But Colette's followers know she's a whole lot more than that.
Colette is an Amazon Influencer. That means she connects her followers to products she curates from Amazon Fashion. When they buy, she earns a commission on those products – simple as! All of the apparel in her trend-forward shoots, on her site and in her Instagram feed are her Amazon finds.
And she doesn't work for Amazon – she's an digital entrepreneur using their tools to run her own business. Genius may be her middle name (she's even a chartered accountant to boot..!).
We had the pleasure of jumping on the phone with Colette over in San Francisco. Talking to Colette is one of those experiences where you come away thinking "hells bells, this woman is going places!".
High fashion on a lemonade budget? We're in!
Linktree: Colette, this is your full-time gig now, right? Tell us how you got here!
Colette: "Yes, as of January it's been full-time for a year! But I've been shopping for clothing off Amazon for six years – from when I was a broke college kid. I went to a Southern school where the closest mall was an hour away, so I had a lot of free time and a lot of sorority functions to find dresses for on a budget!
"I went to Coachella and got featured on a blog. My dress was from Amazon - it was $12!"
"I was working as a Certified Public Accountant and for a while did both at the same time. A couple of months into my blog, Amazon invited me onto its Influencer Program. At that time it was only really YouTubers with huge audiences on there – so I was quite surprised. It was new for them to take someone with such a small influence – I probably had 2,000 followers at the time, but the blog had been driving traffic to Amazon and they look at the numbers.
"Yes! When I hit 10,000 followers on Instagram, I remember it was in June or July of 2018, that's when I went full time. Once you hit 10K and you get the swipe up functionality, that's a big deal for sales. Until that point I didn't even have categories on my Amazon storefront until that point.
These days, your store front looks like a department store. It covers all bases. How are you finding those products?
"I don't think anyone would be able to jump straight in there and find these products. I've been doing this for so long that I built up this fine history on Amazon.
"For the first two years, I would probably return half of everything – maybe it was poor quality or didn't match the image. Because of that, you go back to the same brands that you trust and when you find them, Amazon recommends more. So you start to get a really good algorithm – it's like a really good rhythm.
"You start to get a really good algorithm - it's like a really good rhythm."
What does your day-to-day look like now?
"It was challenging in the beginning – my accounting background meant I knew numbers and Excel – I had to go from someone who had no creativity to someone who was full-time doing what I wanted, when I wanted, how I wanted! I just dove into it 110% from the start – I had so much work to catch up on. I did everything I could to learn about photography and fashion. I invested in equipment and the right camera. I started taking my own photos. On weekends I'd spend eight hours in a park taking photos of myself in my clothes.
"Once you help someone shop, you make them feel good about themselves and in return, they go to work and they tell their 10 coworkers about it."
Right from day one, Colette put her audience first when planning her business.
Tell us about your community. I know that it's mostly women and you're quite protective of that – why?
"I really spend time with my followers. At the start I could spend five hours direct messaging one woman, trying to find an outfit for her that she might not even buy. But I figured if I could at least help her and show her that I had the time for her, then we could really build something and it worked.
"Once I find a woman an outfit, she tells her sisters, friends, coworkers. It's been very word of mouth since the beginning. I wanted to post their photos and make them feel like the influencer, because they were the influencer. They were influencing me, I was building my site off their requests so it only felt fair to include them in the process and post them in the dress that I found for them.
"It felt like a community that I had to protect because I built a relationship with them. I took a big risk and they took it with me."
"I wanted to be very clear that if you send me a photo of yourself and I post it, it's not going out to 25,000 random people that you don't know. It's going to be a community of women that are like-minded and are stylish, too.
So you're using Linktree to drive visitors to your Amazon store but also connect them with your blog?
Do you have any housekeeping tips for an Amazon storefront?
Anyone else getting Daenerys vibes?
You're off to Coachella soon – what's the plan there?


Lennox Lewis almost gave away the heavyweight championship of the world on Saturday night.
It was an exciting dramatic fight. But no matter what Lewis says, he was out of shape and overweight for his bout against Vitali Klitschko. His timing was off. He was sucking air after three rounds. Lennox had thought he could win by simply showing up. He looked like anything but the master boxer he takes pride in being.
As the bout progressed, there was more brawling than boxing and the match up came to resemble a toughman contest. Lewis's advancing age might also have been a factor.
Klitschko had an edge in the first round and wobbled Lewis with a straight right a minute into the second stanza. After that round, trainer Emanual Steward told his charge, "He's winning the fight. You've got to take it to him." Lewis did just that, opening up a gaping cut on Klitschko's left eyelid with a glancing right hand early in round three. But by round four, Lennox was exhausted. From that point on, the bout was reminiscent of his 1996 fight against Ray Mercer when, in the late rounds, he had to stand and fight because there was nothing else he could do.
But fortunately for Lewis, Klitschko's eyelid had been ripped open. It was a horrible cut. After six rounds, Dr. Paul Wallace stopped the fight. Klitschko was ahead 58-56 on all three scorecards at the time of the stoppage.
Anybody who draws a parallel between this fight and the Gatti-Ward trilogy is missing the point. Gatti and Ward were in shape to go the distance each time. Lewis wasn't. He rarely threw his jab with authority and fought like the bully in a schoolyard brawl who loses all semblance of technique and simply slugs away.
Meanwhile, no matter how bitterly disappointing the outcome was for Klitschko, the wisdom of the stoppage was confirmed in his dressing room after the fight. Klitschko lay on a table on his back. His wife was holding one of his hands. His brother Wladimir held the other. The doctor who was about to suture the ugly gash was trying unsuccessfully to find a spot on Klitschko's eyelid to put the anesthesia. Wherever he inserted the needle, the skin shredded away. There was both a vertical and a horizontal flap. Cuts of that nature increase the chances of damage to a person's optic nerves and muscles. Anyone with questions on that point should ask David Reid.
In retrospect, Lewis-Klitschko offers an opportunity to evaluate the California practice of stopping the clock while a ring doctor examines a cut between rounds. The rationale for this practice is that it's important for the doctor to probe closely and his examination shouldn't take away from the sixty seconds allotted to the cutman to do his job. Opponents of the practice argue that a good ring doctor can assess damage by watching the cutman in action and that granting an extra thirty seconds between rounds changes the dynamic of a fight.
Three times on Saturday night, the ring doctor ordered the clock stopped while he examined Klitschko's eye. The beneficiary appeared to be Lewis, who looked as though he needed the extra time to recover more than Klitschko. Further discussion on this issue leading to a national standard would be desirable.
Meanwhile, it's hard to ignore HBO's curious use of Bob Costas, who opened the telecast while Jim Lampley and Larry Merchant were kept off-camera for the first fifteen minutes. Bob Costas is a superb play-by-play baseball announcer. He's as good as anyone in the business when it comes to basketball. He's an intelligent articulate interviewer. But Bob Costas is not a boxing expert.
Jim Lampley and Larry Merchant are the best announcing team in the history of the sweet science. They don't need help. It's an insult to boxing, and also to Lampley and Merchant, to begin a telecast with Bob Costas reading from a teleprompter.
Also, it should be noted that HBO's audience didn't see the actual stoppage of the fight. That's because, at the time, Lampley was, as instructed, reading a full-screen promo for Real Sports and On The Record. One expects the New York Post to dispatch seven reporters to the scene to cover Mike Tyson's release from police custody after a five-o'clock-in-the-morning brawl. But one would hope that HBO, which is the standard-bearer for boxing in today's entertainment-driven world, would have a better sense of priorities.
Then again, one never knows what makes for a big story in boxing. Take, for example, "The Samantha Shoe Caper." Tim Smith broke the story on June 11th in the New York Daily News.
"An hour after Arturo Gatti and Mickey Ward went toe-to-toe at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on Saturday night," Smith wrote, "Samantha Davis, the wife of HBO Sports boxing czar, Kery Davis, went toe-to-heel with the Atlantic City boardwalk. The heel of Mrs. Davis' expensive Gucci shoe got stuck in a crack in the boardwalk. She refused to let anyone else dislodge the shoe. After about three rounds of pulling and tugging, 'Shoeless Sam' KO'd the boardwalk. The shoe, heel intact, was saved."
Thereafter, the story spread like wildfire. On June 15th, George Kimball of the Boston Herald published his own eye-witness account. "In the wee hours last Sunday morning," Kimball reported, "long after Gatti and Ward had been trucked off to the local hospital, HBO vice president Kery Davis, his wife Samantha, New York Daily News scribe Tim Smith, and I were walking back from the arena when Mrs. Davis had to go, literally, toe-to-toe with an unforeseen adversary. The heel of one of her Guccis got stuck in one of the cracks in Atlantic City's famed Boardwalk. It took a good five minutes and drew quite a crowd, but the woman Smith promptly christened 'Shoeless Sam' was eventually able to extricate herself."
Never mind that, the same week, Lewis and Klitschko signed to fight on short notice; the Nevada State Athletic Commission enacted a rule requiring MRI testing for all fighters; Joe DeGuardia won an arbitration against Antonio Tarver that will reshape the light-heavyweight division; and Marco Antonio Barrera sued to free himself contractually from his manager and promoter. The Samantha Shoe Caper is a saga teeming with glitz and drama. Gucci footwear is favored by the fashion elite, wildly expensive, and the height of glamour. Moreover, Gucci shoes are known for their "killer heels." This refers to the damage that can be inflicted by a swift kick and also the fact that the heels are murder on one's feet.
Harold Lederman was devastated when he went to the pressroom after the weigh-in and found that the sandwiches and chocolate chip cookies were all gone. "This is horrible," wailed Lederman. "I've been looking forward to those cookies for an entire week." Fortunately, a crisis was averted when someone from the California State Athletic Commission gave Lederman a Three Musketeers candy bar.
Shortly before Lewis and Klitschko entered the ring, Michael Buffer was seen in a panic, frantically running down a Los Angeles street, looking for hairspray. When Buffer finally found a drug store, he ran into Oscar De La Hoya, who was buying hair gel.
Lou DiBella was at home eating spare-ribs just before the fight and got a sliver of pork stuck between his teeth. "Thank God; I had some dental floss in the medicine cabinet," DiBella revealed afterward. "But even then, it took forever to floss it out."
Cedric Kushner lost his cellphone. "You can't imagine the wave of panic that swept over me," Kushner later acknowledged. "But I'm quite resourceful, so I dialed my own cellphone number. An attendant in a washroom at the Staples Center, where I had inadvertently left the phone, answered. And I was able to retrieve the phone with a minimum of inconvenience."
Madison Square Garden president Seth Abraham suffered a momentary crisis while dining at La Grenouille on the night of the fight when he noticed a mealy bug on the rose in his button hole. But Abraham, who earned a reputation as one of boxing's great minds while at HBO, didn't panic. He simply discarded the rose and replaced it with one from the floral arrangement on the table in front of him.


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Dear Jason and Chelsea: The decisions about how to heat your home and how to fuel your transportation needs are among the most important environmental choices you can make. A number of changes happening in the energy sector — and with electric co-ops in particular — are making your electricity cleaner.
Decades ago, coal was the preferred fuel for electricity generation. As investments in environmental upgrades took hold, the energy industry increased the use of low-sulfur coal and found ways to clean the coal and burn it more efficiently. Scrubbers were installed in coal plants to reduce sulfur emissions, but even after these improvements were made, natural gas turbines were still considered environmentally preferable to coal plants. In 1990, utilities depended upon coal to generate more than half of their electricity, but by 2016, that dropped to less than one third.
In recent years, solar and wind generation have taken off and now provide more than 8 percent of utility energy generation. Electric co-ops have installed solar at a record pace, with solar capacity growing more than four times since 2015. Electric co-ops have pioneered community solar programs, where members subscribe to a community project and the co-op installs a large array that is much less costly per kilowatt than smaller rooftop projects. Nearly 200 co-ops offered community solar programs in 2017, and more than 500 co-ops across the country use electricity generated by wind power.
These statistics are national, but the environmental impacts of electricity depend upon where you live and where your electric co-op purchases electricity. Many co-ops publish this information about the sources of electric generation on their websites or in their annual reports. Some include information on carbon emissions.
With all that in the back of your mind, let's get to the decisions you are looking to make: home heating and vehicle purchase.
The heat pump you're considering is a good option. Heat pumps are about 1.5 times more efficient than they were in the 1970s, and they're functioning better in colder temperatures. Heat pumps take care of your cooling needs as well and can do so with about half the energy they required in 1990. The best choice for home heating and cooling depends to a large degree on the climate where you live. In more extreme climates, you'll need more heating or cooling capacity and can justify splurging for the more energy-efficient models.
As our energy supply becomes cleaner, electric vehicles are becoming a better environmental choice across the country. The environmental advantage depends upon how electricity is generated in different locations, and there are other factors to consider when looking at an electric vehicle. The fuel cost of an electric vehicle is, on average, half as much per mile as a gasoline vehicle. Electric vehicles generally require less maintenance, but the batteries eventually need to be replaced. Battery costs are dropping, but potential buyers should note that this will still be a hefty bill. Electric vehicles cost more upfront than their gas counterparts, but the cost is coming down with every new model.
As you make your decision on a heating system and new vehicle, remember there are other things you can do to reduce the environmental impact of your energy use. You can insulate and seal the air leaks in your home. You can set the thermostat a little lower in the winter and a little higher in the summer. You can also check with your local electric co-op to see if it offers a community solar program or additional energy-saving tips.
I hope these ideas help you make your decision.


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Florida Man Genesis: Why So Many People Move to Sunshine State and Into Harm's Way
Miami's streets were bustling and crowded by 1926. Bettmann/Getty Images
By Robin Faith Bachin
Hurricane Ian barreled ashore with winds of up to 150 mph (240 kph) on Florida's southwest coast on Sept. 28, 2022.
The storm's powerful winds and torrential rains reduced entire communities to rubble, killing more than 120 people, including many who drowned in floodwaters resulting from the nearly 18-foot (5.5-meter) storm surge. Bridges connecting Sanibel, Captiva and other barrier islands with the mainland flooded and crumbled, isolating those areas.
Estimates of the economic toll are still preliminary. But as a historian who studies South Florida's cities and environment, I'm certain that the havoc Ian wreaked will make it among the worst storms on record, along with Harvey and Maria in 2017 and Katrina in 2005.
And based on how Florida has responded to similar devastation in the past, I highly doubt that Ian will do much to slow the pace of the state's rapid population growth in the near future.
Snowbirds are changing their routes
Over 22 million people currently live in Florida.
That's about 37% more than the 16 million who resided in the state in 2000. And demographers project that the population will continue increasing, to about 25 million within the next decade.
Florida consistently ranks as the top destination for Americans who relocate to another state.
But many Florida residents spend only the winter months there, returning when the climate warms up back home. In the weeks that followed the storm, analysts were predicting that most of these annual short-term residents – called snowbirds – will not forgo their annual voyage. Instead, many say they'll simply shift their migratory course and land somewhere else in Florida.
South Florida real estate agents are bracing for stronger-than-usual demand for seasonal rentals in Dade and Broward counties on Florida's southeast coast, which escaped Ian's wrath. The extra interest is leading to further spikes in the already overheated real estate markets in places like Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
Today's new and part-time Floridians are drawn by the same factors that have lured settlers and snowbirds for a century: warm weather and waterfront views, along with lower taxes and fewer regulations than in other parts of the country.
Draining the swampland
Early developers didn't let inhospitable environments deter them. In the decades after the Civil War, they transformed the peninsular state's mosquito-ridden, alligator-occupied swampland into hotels, homesteads and farmland.
Florida promoters lured tourists and settlers alike with promises of wealth, land and leisure, whether their sales pitches had to do with citrus and sugar, or sun and sand. Engineers used modern technology to accomplish the large-scale transformation and make way for unprecedented land speculation and development.
Everglades drainage began in earnest in the 1880s when a wealthy Philadelphian named Hamilton Disston created the Okeechobee Land Co. to develop a system of canals that would facilitate "land reclamation."
Disston purchased over 4 million acres the state had designated as uninhabitable swampland in exchange for US$1 million and his promise to transform it. In 1881, The New York Times called this "the largest purchase of land ever made by a single person in the world."
His gambit sparked Florida's first real estate boom.
Disston sent brochures around the country, and to people as far away as Scotland, Denmark, Germany and Italy, that touted Florida's "inexhaustibly rich lands" and an "equitable and lovely climate where merely to live is a pleasure, a luxury heretofore accessible only to millionaires," according to Frank B. Sessa's 1950 history of greater Miami.
Disston and others began selling reclaimed land to railroads, farming interests and land developers. By the early 20th century, inland drainage was giving rise to the sugar, citrus and winter vegetable industries.
The drainage made it possible for the railroad magnates Henry Flagler and Henry Plant to extend their railroads to southeast and southwest Florida, respectively. Train travel greatly expanded opportunities for tourists and new residents by the late 19th century.
This tiny thatched Florida house, photographed in the early 1900s, looks nothing like housing there today.
Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Stormy weather from the start
Attempts to control water on the ground, however, couldn't curtail weather-related hazards. In 1926, a hurricane slammed into Miami, leaving more than 390 people dead and causing property damage of more than $76 million.
A Western Union telegram from Jessie Wirth Munroe, a survivor, read like a text from someone who had endured Hurricane Ian: "We are safe. Water front completely destroyed."
Subsequent storms wrought greater devastation.
A 1928 hurricane killed over 2,500 people just south of Lake Okeechobee, most of them Black farmworkers laboring in the new agricultural town of Belle Glade, which was washed away.
In 1935, a Labor Day storm hit the Civilian Conservation Corps camps in the Florida Keys, where workers, many of them World War I veterans, were building a highway that would link mainland Florida to Key West.
"Clinging to beds, using mattresses as overhead cover, the people of the Keys had watched large rocks roll about like pebbles, buildings crumble like houses of cards, water lift up houses and carry them off," wrote Helen Muir, a journalist who moved to Miami in 1934 and chronicled the city's growth. "The hurricane moved in like a giant mowing machine and leveled everything."
No stopping the newcomers
Yet people kept coming, especially after World War II and the advent of widespread air conditioning.
Many of the close to 3 million people who arrived between 1940 and 1960 were veterans who had trained in South Florida during World War II.
In addition, millions more immigrated from the Caribbean and Latin America as transportation become easier and cheaper.
In particular, people fleeing political persecution and economic instability in places such as Cuba, Haiti and, more recently, Venezuela and Central America have settled in Florida.
Housing construction was booming in Miami in 2002, a few years after Andrew destroyed many homes.
Rebuilding and rebuilding
Though each storm seemed to threaten the population boom, the new arrivals tended to stick around. Civic boosters, business leaders and policymakers have invariably promised to rebuild.
After Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm, slammed into South Florida in 1992, the state imposed a stronger and more uniform building code. The authorities invested in additional storm preparedness efforts after the spate of hurricanes hit the state in 2004.
Could these patterns change after Hurricane Ian?
Windstorm insurance premiums were climbing beyond the reach of many homeowners before it hit. Analysts predict that premiums will continue to rise, making it harder for residents to afford to remain in Florida and even more challenging for new homebuyers to secure policies.
It remains to be seen if the pro-growth mentality and belief in technological innovation that have shaped Florida's history can forestall the challenges of climate change and the increasingly severe storms it brings about in the decades ahead.
Robin Faith Bachin is Professor of History at the University of Miami.
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As I've said, many people move to Florida for all the wrong reasons. Historically there are three groups that in my opinion dominated…
1 – The very wealthy that came a few months out of the year to soak up the sun, party and use their property as a tax dodge.
2 – Criminals "on the lam" wanting to "lie low."
3 – Retirees.
Unfortunately, it seems most people today who end up here are running from something (other than the police) and think they'll find it here.
But in the immortal words of Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx… "Can you get stucco?… Oh, can you get stuck-oh!"
Just my opinion.
"… Unfortunately, it seems most people today who end up here are running from something (other than the police) and think they'll find it here. …"
Oops, what I meant to say… it seems most people today who end up here are running from something (crime, rising cost of living, etc.) or searching for something (jobs, low cost of living, etc.) and think they'll find it here.
Michael Cocchiola says
I don't fear Florida's violent hurricanes. Now, Florida's extremist Republicans… that's a real threat.
Justsayin says
And yet almost six thousand New Yorkers (VERY LIBERIAL STATE) turned in their driver licenses in the month of August for a Florida license. Please square that circle, https://nypost.com/2022/09/20/record-number-of-new-yorkers-swap-to-florida-licenses/
What will you do if the people moving here are more "extremist Republicans"? There is a story today that Miami-Dade may go republican for the first time in 20 years. Why you ask? the Hispanics. Will they be targeted as the "brown extremist" next? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/desantis-popularity-latinos-boosting-chances-first-republican-20-years-rcna53427
JimBob says
"Liberial"—I saw what you did there! Remember, though, many Cubans used to identify as Latinx before they were seduced into republicanism.
"… And yet almost six thousand New Yorkers (VERY LIBERIAL STATE) turned in their driver licenses in the month of August for a Florida license. Please square that circle… "
It's what I like to call the "Real Estate-Go-Round," which I suspect has existed for some time… I will not bother to go into the details. But ultimately it, and almost every other phenomenon related to why people pick up and leave NY is economics driven… it just got too damned expensive to live (or even exist) there. And in that sense I, like so many others, were indeed "replaced." It's not a blue or a red issue… nor black, white, brown or yellow for that matter… just green.
Joe D says
After 30 years of vacationing in Florida, I made the decision to RETIRE here "eventually "….loved the west coastal area, but warm gulf waters intensified storms there, so I looked elsewhere. Central Florida (Orlando area) was bustling, but the central Florida humidity was not my friend. Ft Lauderdale and Miami were exciting, but way too crowded, expensive, and too long of a drive back to the Maryland area to visit family. Decided on Flagler Beach (less commercially developed, less touristy, but close to everything I wanted). St Augustine, and Jacksonville to the north, Daytona's wild ride to the south, and Orlando's nonstop entertainment to the west.
BUT after deciding on Flagler, it took 20 more years to find a poured concrete, elevated, beachfront townhouse I could AFFORD! I love the views, and the ocean breeze ( correct me if I'm wrong, but Flagler is supposed to have the highest ocean breezes anywhere in Florida).
The next concern was storm related….was not interested in having my life and property turned upside down by flooding or wind damage from storms. I chose an elevated group of townhouses (12 ft above sea level with a protected dune in front, and the first living level raised an additional 8 ft more). Poured concrete walls and concrete slab floors and roof completed the storm protection requirements I had. This choice proved to be correct as exemplified by no Matthew damage, and only lost my roof top HVAC cover in Ian.
I AM concerned about the residential expansion ( although I would welcome the additional property tax base, considering my property taxes on a 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath 1150 sq ft town house are now $6000). Property taxes have risen $500 each year. There seems to be a "look the other way" situation, when developers are granted exceptions to the 16 hour evacuation rule (compounded by multiple high rise developments planed and approved)….with appeals by developers all the way to the current Governor's office (Bay Harbor in Fort Myers), to get the evacuation/housing density limits exempted. Flood and storm experts estimated that the Fort Myers developed area in Bay Harbor would take 96 hrs ( not a typo) to evacuate!
The developers apparently offered to build on site "hurricane shelters " on-site as an evacuation alternative. Such a proposal would help if the danger were merely WIND, but inadequate with a 16 ft wall of water.
Do we want the same kind of situation in the Flagler Co area? Some developments have an essentially "one way in and one way out" design (for both security, and protection from water intrusion). The 16 hour evacuation rule was designed to save lives. Who expected in their wildest dreams, we would see waist high water in Orlando?!
Safety of the population should be the TOP priority of planning for the county
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April 2020 Events in New Zealand. NZ Events types include: Concerts & Gig Guide, Exhibitions, Festivals & Lifestyle, Performing Arts, Sports & Outdoors, Workshops, Conferences & Classes in April 2020.
New Zealand Events in April 2020
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New Zealand Military Tattoo
Festivals & Lifestyle - Family Entertainment Events
Central Energy Trust Arena, Palmerston North, Manawatu / Whanganui
The New Zealand Military Tattoo - A uniquely New Zealand experience. New Zealand's biggest military spectacular is coming to Palmerston North City. Don't miss out on this once-in-a-lifetime show celebrating our... More...
Performing Arts - Musicals Events
The Civic, Auckland CBD
From Friday 6 March 2020 to Sunday 19 April 2020
The Book of Mormon, Broadway's smash hit musical written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, is coming to New Zealand next year. The Tony®, Olivier®, Grammy® and Helpmann® award-winning show will begin... More...
Mary Poppins - the musical
Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna, North Shore, Auckland North
From Wednesday 1 April 2020 to Saturday 18 April 2020
The supercalifragilistic musical MARY POPPINS is returning to Auckland next year. Brought to Auckland by the producers of the upcoming production of Les Miserables and previous theatrical triumphs such as Evita,... More...
Jubilee Building - Parnell Community Centre, Parnell, Auckland Central
From Saturday 22 February 2020 to Saturday 24 October 2020
Fresh ideas from clever crafters at Craft Harvest. Come and see the amazing line-up of fresh and original, high quality hand-made craft at Craft Harvest. With new stallholders participating all the time, there's... More...
Auckland Town Hall - Great Hall, Auckland CBD
From Friday 24 April 2020 to Saturday 25 April 2020
Kiwi icons Th' Dudes announce they'll reunite for Th' Bliss Tour, performing six dates across New Zealand in April 2020. With their first Auckland show being sold out in a matter of hours, an additional date has... More...
The Ten Tenors
Concerts & Gig Guide - Pop Events
Following sold out performances throughout New Zealand, The Ten Tenors are thrilled to announce they're returning by popular demand. The charming classical cross-over group will perform a selection of the best... More...
Coatesville Market
Coatesville Settlers Hall, Coatesville, Auckland North
From Sunday 2 February 2020 to Sunday 4 October 2020
Auckland's rural market destination, established in 2007. Full of delight, friendly atmosphere, tranquil setting at the beautiful Coatesville Settlers Hall and Reserve. Home-made with love. Phone: 027-4323317... More...
Today to Saturday 11 April 2020
Soiree feat Basement Jaxx DJ Set, Dr Packer & Dick Johnson
Concerts & Gig Guide - Electronica Events
ASB Tennis Centre, Parnell, Auckland Central
From Friday 3 April 2020 to Saturday 4 April 2020
Endeavour Live is proud to present Soiree - an inner-city gathering in the hearts of Christchurch and Auckland, hosted by iconic electronic music powerhouse duo Basement Jaxx DJ Set, Dr Packer and Dick Johnson. Widely... More...
The Little Big Markets
The Papamoa Pony Club, Mt Maunganui, Bay of Plenty
We are excited to bring to you another season of The Little Big Markets with this summer being our 10 year celebration. We will be hosting our markets across our two sites of Coronation Park and the Papamoa Pony Club... More...
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The Sweet Lemon Cottage - Holiday Home.
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Small Group Waitomo Ruakuri Caves and Kiwi tour from Auckland - Day Tour - Auckland. Starting from $315.00 per person.
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Mount Adams ist ein Schichtvulkan im Kaskadengebirge und nach dem Mount Rainier der zweithöchste Berg im pazifischen Nordwesten der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Bei einigen indianischen Stämmen ist er als Pahto oder Klickitat bekannt.

John Adams, der zweite Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten, ist Namensgeber des Vulkans.

Mount Adams befindet sich im abgelegenen Wildnisgebiet des Gifford Pinchot National Forest, etwa 56 Kilometer östlich des Vulkans Mount St. Helens.

Geschichte

Die erste schriftliche Aufzeichnung über den Berg stammt aus dem Jahre 1805 durch Mitglieder der Lewis-und-Clark-Expedition. Im Jahr 1901 führte der Bergsteiger und Siedler C. E. Rusk einige Gletscherexperten, darunter Harry Reid, auf den Berg. Reid leitete die ersten systematischen Studien über den Berg und benannte den größten Gletscher. Achtzig Jahre später fand die erste offizielle wissenschaftliche Erforschung durch die USGS statt.

In den Jahren 1929 und 1931 ließ sich Wade Dean ein Grundstück auf dem Gipfelplateau (0,8 Quadratkilometer) eintragen. Er war auf der Suche nach Schwefelquellen, baute einen Pfad an und beförderte eine Bohranlage in die Gipfelgegend, mit der er Probebohrungen machte. Nachdem er keine ausreichenden Quellen fand, wurde das Projekt 1959 eingestellt.

Gletscher

Eis (mehrheitlich in Form von Gletschern) bedeckt etwa 16 Quadratkilometer des oberen Gipfels. Das Eis wird durch Niederschläge genährt. Der poröse Fels lässt das Wasser als Quellen außen wieder austreten.

Gletscher bedecken 2,5 Prozent der Oberfläche (während der letzten Eiszeit waren es etwa 90 Prozent). Die meisten der ausgedehnten Gletscher, zum Beispiel Adams, Klickitat, Lyman, Salmon und White, entstammen ursprünglich dem Gipfel.

Geologie

Der Vulkanismus im Gebiet des Mount Adams begann im späten Pleistozän, vor rund 940.000 Jahren. Bis heute lassen sich etwa zwei Dutzend kleinere explosive Eruptionen im Gipfelbereich und an Seitenkratern nachweisen. An den Flanken in einer Höhe zwischen 2.100 und 2.600 Metern befinden sich sechs Lavaströme, wobei der mächtigste vor 7000 bis 4000 Jahren entstand und einige eine Länge von über zehn Kilometern erreichten. Beim letzten Ausbruch vor rund 1000 Jahren entstand eine Tephra-Ablagerung und vermutlich ein kleiner Lavastrom an der Ostflanke. Der Vulkan hat ein Volumen von 350 Kubikkilometern und ist somit nach dem Mount Shasta der zweitgrößte Stratovulkan in der Kaskadenkette. Der Berg besteht aus mehreren überlappenden Kappen mit einem Gesamtdurchmesser von 29 Kilometern in Nord-Süd-Richtung und bedeckt eine Fläche von 650 Quadratkilometern. Mount Adams entstand durch die Plattentektonik des Juan-de-Fuca-Rückens, der an der Küste des Gebietes Pazifischer Nordwesten liegt.

Literatur
 Stephen L. Harris: Fire Mountains of the West: The Cascade and Mono Lake Volcanoes, Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula; 1988, ISBN 0-87842-220-X

Weblinks

 Mount Adams auf Bivouac.com (englisch)

Fußnoten

Berg in der Kaskadenkette
Berg in Nordamerika
Berg in Washington
Schichtvulkan
Yakima County
Vulkan in den Vereinigten Staaten
Geologie Amerikas

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