Years ago, our group of friends decided there needed to be a holiday to brighten up the long stretch of late winter. The days are dreary and cold, and it's a long time between New Year's and Easter, when we drink a lot and eat a lot, respectively. So we created our own holiday, one that dispenses with the formalities of any religious or political trappings, and focuses on the best parts: getting together with our best friends, eating decadent food, drinking as much as we want (during the day-- gasp!), and just hanging out and having a good time. Everyone brings a movie to share, and we watch whatever is brought, no questions or complaints. Oh, and then we do it all again the next day. We dubbed this celebration of food and friends the Weekend of Eat, and it's always the last weekend in February. I invite all my friends around the globe to celebrate the Weekend of Eat with their loved ones-- it's all of the fun, and none of the obligation, of your typical holiday.
This wonderful picture was put together by a very creative trio who make magic with the camera-- my friend Chad, my sister Melanie, and my brother-in-law Andy. I'm sure I'll be sharing more of their work in the future.
think all weather is best!
click here for other skies.
This stripped-down picture of crows in a tree barely looks like a photo... but it does look a lot like the wallpaper I want for our entry hall!
Three employees share a story and a laugh at Village Books, the best li'l bookstore in the whole wide world! Well, according to me, anyway. See previous Village Books-related posts with Heliconia Growing, Garth Stein at the Chuckanut Radio Hour (which is put on by Village Books), and The Village Green.
"Libra" by Mexican sculptor Sebastian graces the sidewalk outside the Whatcom Museum Lightcatcher building. Nineteen of his pieces will be on display in Bellingham until the end of the year at which point they will begin a Canadian tour.
The sun sinks behind Orcas and Lummi Islands.
Beyond them lies Vancouver Island and British Columbia's capital city, Victoria. It is easy to forget that a good chunk of Vancouver Island actually lies south of our beautiful Bellingham.
Fore more Skywatch Friday photos click HERE.
I thought it would be interesting to compare last February to this one, so I posted two pictures today. Can you guess which is which?
"Turn" by Lee C. Imonen is one of many interesting sculptures at Big Rock Garden Park. When I took this, it reminded me of a dinosaur's skeletal spine. Looking at it now, the angle isn't as obvious, and it could be a weathered, rickety bridge.
Delicate branches shade a brick wall at Western Washington University.
The old boardwalk at Boulevard Park connects the park to a small point farther south on the bay. A new portion of the boardwalk was completed several years ago to continue the boardwalk south to Fairhaven. Plans are in development to extend the boardwalk from Boulevard Park north to the site of the now defunct Georgia Pacific plant in downtown Bellingham.
In honor of the Vancouver Games, I'm posting one last shot of our Peace Arch in Blaine, Washington. This picture, like the last two I posted, was taken at the Olympic torch run. It was difficult to take the shot without getting masses of people in it! That's why the bottom is cut off, but I decided it turned out nice enough anyway.
We 'Hamsters have been expecting to be inundated with travellers for the Olympics, as we are only an hour south of Vancouver. However, as far as I can tell there hasn't been a discernible difference. Maybe that will change, but either way it's fun to be close.
Click here to see other skies.
For our City Daily Photo friend, Amir Sadeghi, who was arrested in Tehran February 8 for posting pictures on his blog of the brutal police clampdown on protesters December 7. Please keep him, and the 55 other photographers and journalists who have been arrested in Iran, in your prayers.
Here's a shot of the Peace Arch just as we were arriving in the pre-dawn hours to wait for the torch run. It was, naturally, one of the coldest mornings all winter (which won't mean much to you midwesterners and New Englanders... and perhaps even the Floridians this year!) and it was quite misty and atmospheric.
The Peace Arch was built in 1921 to celebrate over 100 years of peace between Canada and the United States. It stands astride the Canada-US border, so if you pass underneath you go from one country to the other. On the US side is inscribed "Children of a Common Mother" and on the Canada side it says "Brethren Dwelling Together in Unity."
On a wistful note, I wish our southern border was as open, friendly, and peaceful as this one.
...is right behind that guy. Well, anyone could get a picture of the Olympic torch, but how many people have a picture of that face?
That's okay, he was just doing his job-- and taking it very seriously, I might add. Anyway, everyone else was in very high spirits for the Olympic torch's only visit to US soil for the 2010 games. The torch-bearer for this run was Washington state's Philip Mahre, a skier medalist from the 1980 and 1984 winter games. He picked up the torch at the US-Canada border at the Peace Arch in Blaine, WA, and carried it south and then back north into Canada in a loop that lasted about two minutes. And there you have it, the torch's somewhat anticlimactic visit to US soil.
I have such a good picture to show for it.
So here I am, posting two rainbow-hued photos in a row. This mural in downtown Bellingham is a contemporary take on a well-known old painting, "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci. This version is by artist Connie Porter. I walk by it often, and it always brightens my day.
This dog had pretty well tired himself of swimming after the tennis ball and came over to say hello. Concerned that his dog would shake himself dry on us, the owner threw the ball again in an attempt to draw him away. The dog stood for a moment and eyed the floating ball with tired eyes, but after some coaxing performed the duty he knew he must.
The Lighthouse Suite at the Hotel Bellwether stands watch over the Bellingham Marina.
A stand alone unit, the suite has two living floors and a private observation deck on the third floor. This hotel "room" is 900 square feet - about 200 more than our first house!
This statue of a fisherman at Zuanich Point Park is in honor of those we've lost at sea, and a physical prayer that all others will return safely home. The softly lit islands in the background are Lummi on the left and Orcas on the right.
does it matter where they go?
Who cares about a groundhog's shadow?
It has rarely dipped below freezing here all winter. Now with the early arrival of birds and blossoms, it not only feels like spring, it looks like it too.
This ancient remnant of railroad trestle through Whatcom Falls Park is all that remains to remind us that trains ever ran through town. This Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific track, built in 1916, used to connect Larson's Mill to Bellingham Bay. The only current train route is around the edge of the bay.


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The long-running garage project of BXR Motors, or perhaps more accurately the indefatigable Neal Bailey, the Bailey Blade XTR is a garage project no more.
The car isn't complete yet, unfortunately, but it should be in about five months--just in time for the 2013 SEMA show.
Without disclosing the specifics of the funding, Bailey has confirmed via a video update (above) that the project now has some real money behind it, thanks to months of work developing an investor proposal.
Years in the making, the Bailey Blade XTR has been featured on Jay Leno's Garage and all around the web. Along the way, Bailey took the opportunity to turn the build process into something of a teaching experience, showing how to do some of the work necessary to build the car.
Bailey has also generated a massive amount of video coverage of the project himself, with (as of today) 87 installments published.
So it looks pretty fierce, and it's definitely the result of some serious thought and effort in the design phase--but what can we expect of the Blade XTR once it's finally finished? Some rather impressive performance, according to the preliminary spec sheet.
A 5.0-liter "Aluminator" V-8 engine force-fed by a 2.8-liter supercharger--or perhaps a twin-turbo setup, 2,600-pound curb weight biased 55 percent toward the rear, a body made of carbon fiber and kevlar, and a steel/composite chassis will form the basic outlines of the Blade XTR's performance. Acceleration to 60 mph is expected to take just 3.2 seconds, and while top speed isn't yet claimed, the XTR will feature active aerodynamics, so it may be able to produce both downforce (for handling) and low drag (for speed).
In other words, we have at least one very good reason for looking forward to this year's SEMA show. Good luck, Neal!


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Home » News » Announcements » Raven Distribution is the new Ares Games partner in Italy
Raven Distribution is the new Ares Games partner in Italy
Ares Games announces a partnership with Raven Distribution for the Italian market. Raven will be the distributor of Ares Games in Italy and will also publish the Italian edition of some of the titles published by Ares in English language.
Starting in April, Raven will offer to Italian customers all the products available in the Wings of Glory (WW1 and WW2) and Galaxy Defenders lines, and in May, it will also start to distribute the Sails of Glory line. Some of the new Ares Games releases will be shown at the Raven Distribution's booth during PLAY – The Game Festival 2014 (April 5th-6th), in Modena.
Moreover, this Summer Raven Distribution will distribute "Dino Race" - the new game in the Ares' Family Games line - and will publish the Italian edition of the eagerly awaited "The Battle of Five Armies".
"Raven Distribution is a company with a deep knowledge of the Italian market and a special attention, just like Ares, to thematic games. Raven has both publishing experience and the skill to handle miniature games, providing the best combination to distribute our products in Italy", said Christoph Cianci, CEO of Ares Games.
"This partnership is an important step for the diffusion in Italy of beautiful games created by Italians," said Roberto Petrillo, president of Raven Distribution, "and we are sure that this sinergy is the right key to our country, joining the great experience and editorial skill of the Ares Games' staff with the capabilities of the longest-lasting Italian distribution company in the hobby games market."
To know more about and contact Raven Distribution, visit the website www.raven-distribution.com.
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Tales of Evil horror and adventure game now releasing in US stores
Ares to distribute the horror and adventure board game Tales of Evil
Ares to distribute Italian roleplaying games "Lex Arcana" and "Brancalonia"

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Public Service Internet jobs: 24/02/2019 was originally published in Product for the People on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.


Below is information about our elected officials and how to contact them. We've also included web links to statewide Codes and Policies and Frequently Asked Questions from the State General Assembly website.
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This site is being maintained and developed by Dr. Stuart Eydmann, and was established during his term as Traditional Artist in Residence 2013/14, in Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh.
It captures and maps information in variety of media surrounding the role of the fiddle in the Scottish folk music revival of the middle decades of the twentieth century. It is a kind of public, research scrap book.
The blog is a bit wider in content but does not stray too far from fiddle-related matters. The site is a test for a possible larger project on aspects of the instrumental traditional music revival.


The model Chicago baby is a pair of low sneakers for baby edited by Kickers made in leather. These white low sneakers have a nylon mesh lining, caoutchouc sole and shoelace clothing and Zip. The model Chicago baby has a flat heel. These low sneakers in leather upper are perfect for autumn/winter season, don't wait to buy them and enjoy free returns.


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First, the question of whether or not you should be able to enroll a child in private school is generally governed by the custody arrangement held by the parties. For example, in most circumstances, the parties share joint legal custody of their child which means that they share equal decision making authority concerning the important issues related to their children's health, education, safety, and welfare. In addition, one parent is the designated parent of primary residence (or custodial parent – the parent with whom the children reside for the majority of the time) and the other parent is the designated parent of alternate residence (the non-custodial parent). In most cases, if the non-custodial parent does not consent to enroll the parties' child in private school, the custodial parent, the parent seeking to enroll the child in private school, must file a motion with the Court for consent to do so. The decision as to whether the parties' child should be enrolled in private school would then be governed by a best interests standard. In other words, the Court would be tasked with deciding whether enrolling the parties' child in private school is in the child's best interests.
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Ability of non-custodial parent to pay.
Past attendance of one or both parents at that or a similar private school.
Whether children were attending private school pre or post divorce.
Prior agreement of non-custodial parent to pay, to send children to private school.
Religious background of the parties, their children.
Are special educational, psychological and/or special needs of child met, advanced by such private schooling?
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docker image with nginx

## Legacy Support
PHP7.0 was removed from this image because maintaining different versions in ipunktbs/php and a single nginx version is
easier than creating different versions of this image.

The following Feautures have been removed because of this:
- artisan migrate & artisan db:seed: Required PHP
- initscript & startscript: Used to prepare for php
- Reown Storage: Used to prepare for php
- wait for database: only done to prepare for artisan migrate & artisan db:seed
### Replacing those functions
To use these functions in the future create a start-once / restart:never container running the given command.
Waiting for the database is not required. A healthcheck should be used instead where the application can decide itself
what conditions to check.

## Parameters
### PHP\_PASS
Defaults to: `backend`
Set the `fastcgi_pass` for php files
### BACKEND\_HOST
Defaults to: `phpfpm:9000`
This host is added as `upstream backend`. Can be used, for example, for `PHP_PASS`
### BACKEND\_MAX\_FAILS
Defaults to: `0`
Set the maximum fails before the backend host is marked as failed
### DNS\_RESOLVER
Defaults to: `cat /etc/resolv.conf | grep nameserver | awk '{ print $2; }'` - first `nameserver` entry in /etc/resolv.conf
Set the dns server which is used to resolve the hostname
### DNS\_VALID
Defaults to: `10s`
Sets the amount of time a dns resolution for a host is cached.
### PHP\_REMOVE
Defaults to `FALSE`
If set to `TRUE` it removes the php configuration from the laravel.conf nginx config. Allows to start
the server without a php-fpm to connect to
### PING\_ENDPOINT
Defaults to `FALSE`
If set to `TRUE` it adds `/ping` as endpoint to the php-fpm ping function
### CACHE\_DIRECTORY
The CACHE\_DIRECTORY parameter will create the given directory and set it's
permissions to 770 for www-data. This is ment to be used as cache path in your
nginx configuration file.
### USER\_ID + GROUP\_ID
Makes the nginx and php-fpm run under these ids. Useful when using the image
for local development

## Available includes

### /etc/nginx/include/harden-http-poxy.conf
Prevent the httpoxy vulnerability
### /etc/nginx/include/cors-options.conf
Set up answering an option request with a 204 CORS Header
### /etc/nginx/include/cors-php.conf
Add CORS Header for php scripts
### /etc/nginx/include/proxy-https.conf
Notify fastcgi of https usage despite ssl/tls termination at a loadbalancer.
Uses the X-FORWARDED-PROTO http header for detection.
### /etc/nginx/include/proxy-ip-rancher.conf
Sets up nginx to extract the real client ip from the X-Forwarded-For header. The
configured internal network address is 10.42.0.0/16 which is used by the rancher
managed network

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If you are thinking about building a brand new swimming pool, you have likely considered all the required maintenance associated with it. Moreover, if you want to keep your pool in clean, working order, proper maintenance is essential. You would hate to put in a pool just to find that it is ruined after months of improper treatment.
Keeping your pool balanced means that you are working to maintain the water's pH balance with chemicals. Sodium hypochlorite will raise the pool's pH while granular acid will lower it. It is important to test the water's balance once a week. You should also provide additional treatment for your pool following a storm, intense heat or growing algae.
There are additional chemicals you must add to the pool to kill things like algae and bacteria. Chlorine is the most popular chemical used to do this. It comes in the form of liquid, tablets and a powdery substance. The tablets are often a better choice because they dissolve slowly over time and do not require much maintenance.
You should always skim the surface of the water two or three times a week. Pick up leaves, debris and large pieces of dirt that have made their way into the pool.
You should also brush down your tiles and sides of the pool regularly. This will keep algae from growing on the walls since trying to get rid of algae can be a difficult endeavor once it sticks on the walls.
You should ensure that you do not have plants, bushes and trees too close to the pool. This will stop branches, leaves and other debris from falling into the pool. If you do not plan to renovate the rest of the landscaping, you might consider at least trimming back the plants.
Your pool's vacuum system must be emptied and examined for maintenance on a regular basis since it picks up many of the items you either do not see or cannot reach.
You should be prepared to dedicate at least four hours a week to pool maintenance. This is a large time commitment for many families, but the summertime hours spent in the pool will make it worth your while.


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Q: Google doc HTML Service sidebar to get info from spreadsheet I'm trying to build a user interface in html service available directly in a doc, in this sidebar i have a form with an input text, that when i submit it retrieved information from sheet for that numberID. It's quite easy to display and to submit form by following the google tutorial.
But, i have a problem.
After retrieving information for numberID want to create new paragraph in doc with that info.
I saw they changed the "google.script.run" for "google.script.host" I tried to
here my sample code:
Script code:
        /**
     * Crea una entrada de menú en la interfaz de Google Docs UI cuando se abre     el documento.
     */
    function onOpen(e) {
      DocumentApp.getUi().createAddonMenu()
          .addItem('Inicio', 'showSidebar')
          .addToUi();
    }
/**
 * Se ejecuta cuando el add-on se instala.
 */
function onInstall(e) {
  onOpen(e);
}

/**
 * Abre una ventana lateral en el documento con el interfaz de usuario del     complemento (addon).
 */
 function showSidebar() {
  var ui = HtmlService.createHtmlOutputFromFile('Sidebar')
      .setTitle('Generar ficha empleado')
      .setSandboxMode(HtmlService.SandboxMode.IFRAME);
      /* .setWidth(400); // se puede poner un tamaño de addon */
  DocumentApp.getUi().showSidebar(ui);
}

/**
 * Retrieve info from sheet
 */
function getInfo(id) {
  var sheet =     SpreadsheetApp.openById('SHEET_ID').getSheetByName('categories');
  var data = sheet.getDataRange().getValues();
  var myArray = [];
  for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
    if (id == data[i][0]) {
      for (j=0; j<data[i].length; j++) {
        myArray.push(data[i][j]);
      } // end for j
    } // end if
  }
  Logger.log(myArray);
  return myArray;
}

/**
 * Insert new paragraph with parameter
 */
function createDocument(iData) {

   var doc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
   var body = doc.getBody();
  // Access the body of the document, then add a paragraph.
  doc.getBody().appendParagraph('Datos de entrada');

  table = body.appendTable(iData);
  table.getRow(0).editAsText().setBold(true);
}

Html code:
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <base target="_top">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/script/css/add-ons1.css">

      <form id="myform">

          Buscar usuarios
          <input type="text" class="width-100" id="user-text" rows="10"/>

          <button class="blue" id="run-translation">Insertar</button>

          <button id="borrar-form">Borrar</button>

      </form>

      Crear Plantilla

I dont´t know how to create document with the info from sheet.
Where and How i can call the function createDocument ?

A: I got it, i solved it like this:
the fasted solution for me is just adding a new google.script.run into de onSuccessRead event, as shown in the next code:
 /**
     * Evento submit del formulario
     */
    $('#myform').submit( function(e) {
        // Evita que la app sirva una nueva página después del submit
        e.preventDefault();

        var theID = $('#user-text').val();

      function onSuccessRead(info) {

        var div = document.getElementById('infoDiv');
        div.innerHTML = 'Usuario: ' + info[0] + '
 Nombre: ' + info[1] + '
 Area: ' + info[2] + '
 Email: ' + info[3] ;

        // ejecutamos la funcion para escribir en el doc la informacion recuperada.
       google.script.run
            .withSuccessHandler()
            .withFailureHandler()
            .createDocument(info);
      }

      function onErrorRead(error) {
        var div = document.getElementById('infoDiv');
        div.innerHTML = 'ERROR: ' + error.message;
      }

     // ejecutamos la función de obtener la informacion del cliente
     google.script.run
            .withSuccessHandler(onSuccessRead)
            .withFailureHandler(onErrorRead)
            .getInfo(theID);
     Logger.log(info[3]);

     // ejecutamos la funcion para escribir en el doc la informacion recuperada.
     //google.script.run
       //     .withSuccessHandler()
         //   .withFailureHandler()
           // .createDocument(nombre);

});

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Last year, I introduced you to Stanley Rondeau whose great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Jean Rondeau was a Huguenot silk weaver who came to Spitalfields in 1685 as a refugee fleeing religious persecution in Paris. Jean's son prospered in Spitalfields, becoming Sexton at Christ Church, having eleven children, building a new house at 4 Wilkes St and commissioning designs in the seventeen forties from the most famous of silk designers, Anna Maria Garthwaite, who lived almost next door, in the house on the corner with Princelet St.
Since Anna Maria Garthwaite's designs were exceptionally prized both for their aesthetic appeal and their functional elegance as patterns for silk weaving, hundreds of her original paintings have survived to this day. So yesterday, Stanley & I went along to the Victoria & Albert Museum in Kensington to take a look at those done for Stanley's ancestor Jean the Sexton, two hundred and seventy years ago. We negotiated our way through the labyrinths of the vast museum, teeming with school children, with a growing sense of anticipation because although Stanley has seen one of the designs reproduced in a book, he has never cast his eyes upon the originals. And up on the fourth floor, we entered a sanctuary of peace and quiet where curator Moira Thunder awaited us in a lofty room with a long table and large flat blue boxes containing the treasured designs that were the objects of our quest.
Moira – chic in contrasting tones of plum and navy blue, and with a pair of fuchsia lenses which hinted at a bohemian side – welcomed us with scholarly grace, and duly opened up the first box to reveal the first of Anna Maria Garthwaite's designs. Drawn in the wide margin at the top of a large sheet containing an elaborate floral number, this design was the epitome of restraint with a repeated motif that resembled a bugle flower in subdued tones of purplish brown, labelled "Mr Rondeau, Feb 5 174 1/2," and intended as a pattern to be woven into the body of a vellure used for men's suiting.
Mr Rondeau of Feb 2011, instinctively drawn towards his own name revealed before him, leaned forward to touch the piece of paper – which caused Moira's eyes to pop, though fortunately for all concerned the priceless design was protected by a layer of transparent conservator's plastic. Once smiles of amelioration had been exchanged after this faux-pas, Stanley enjoyed a quiet moment of contemplation, gazing with his deep-set chestnut eyes from beneath his bushy white eyebrows upon the same piece of paper that his ancestor saw. I think Stanley would have preferred it if "Mr Rondeau" had been written beside the fancy design below, because he asked Moira whether the other design for Jean Rondeau in the collection was more colourful but, with an unexpectedly winsome smile, Moira refused to be drawn.
Yet while Stanley's curiosity was understandably focussed upon those designs attributed to his ancestor, I was enraptured by the myriad pages of designs by Anna Maria Garthwaite, whose house I walk past every day. Kept from the daylight, the colours in these sketches remain as fresh as the day she painted them in Spitalfields three centuries ago. The accurate observation of both cultivated and wild flowers in these works suggests they were painted from specimens which permits me to surmise that she had access to a garden, and picked her wild flowers in the fields beyond Brick Lane. I especially admired the sparseness of these sprigged designs, drawing the eye to the lustrous quality of the silk, and Moira, who worked as assistant to Natalie Rothenstein - the ultimate authority on Spitalfields silk – pointed out that weavers rarely deviated from Garthwaite's designs because they were conceived with such thorough understanding of the process.
And then, Moira opened the second box to reveal the second design by Anna Maria Garthwaite for Jean Rondeau, which Stanley had never seen before. Larger and more complex than the previous, although monochromatic, this was a pattern of pansy or violet flowers divided by scalloped borders into a repeated design of lozenges. Again drawn in the margin, at the top of a piece of paper above a multicoloured design, this has the name "Mr Rondeau" written in feint pencil beside it. It was a design for a damask, either for men's suiting or a woman's dress, which Moira suggested would be appropriate to be worn at the time of half-mourning. A degree of formalised grief that is unfamiliar to us, yet would have been the custom in a world where women bore many more babies in the knowledge that only those chosen few would survive beyond childhood.
Moira took the unveiling of this second design as the premise to outline the speciality of Master Silk Weaver Jean Rondeau, who appears to have built his fortune, and company of fifty seven employees, upon the production of cheaper silks for men, unlike his Spitalfields contemporary Captain Lekeux – for whom Anna Maria Garthwaite also designed – who specialised in the most expensive silks for women. In reponse to Moira's erudition, Stanley began to talk about his ancestor and the events of the seventeen forties in Spitalfields with a familiarity and grasp of detail that made it sound as if he were talking about a recent decade. And as he spoke, with the unique wealth of knowledge that he has gathered over a lifetime of research, I could see Moira becoming drawn in to Stanley's extraordinary testimony, revealing new information about this highly specialised milieu of textile production which is her particular interest. It was a true meeting of minds, and I stood by to observe the accumulation of mutual interest, as with growing delight Moira and Stanley exchanged anecdotes about their shared passion.
Recently, Stanley visited the Natural History Museum to hold the bones of his ancestor Jean the Sexton which were removed there from Christ Church for study, and by seeing the designs at the Victoria & Albert Museum that once passed before Jean's eyes in Spitalfields, he had completed his quest. But there was a surprise in store, when Moira revealed that there were other textile designs from the nineteenth century commissioned by another Mr Rondeau who might be a descendant – but due to a forthcoming refit of the department Stanley would have to wait until 2012 to see them.
"It was a big day," Stanley admitted to me afterwards, his eyes shining with emotion, as he began to absorb the reality of what he had seen. "I'll wait a year, and then I'm going to come back," he added with grin of determination. It was a cliffhanger, because who knows what extravagant designs of high-flown Victoriana Mr Rondeau of the nineteenth century might have commissioned, in contrast to the understatement of his eighteenth century predecessor? But whatever Stanley Rondeau discovers, I have no doubt that the gracious Moira Thunder will be waiting to greet him upon his return to the V&A.
Stanley Rondeau sees the design commissioned by his ancestor in the seventeen forties for the first time.
Design for a vellure for Jean Rondeau, by Anna Maria Garthwaite, Spitalfields, February 5th, 1741.
The full page with Jean Rondeau's design at the top.
Design for a damask by Anna Maria Garthwaite for Jean Rondeau, possibly for half-mourning.
Anna Maria Garthwaite's catalogue of designs.
Designs by Anna Maria Garthwaite for Spitalfields silks from the seventeen forties in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum.
With grateful thanks to Moira Thunder of the Victoria & Albert Museum for making this possible.
These designs are beautiful and it's amazing that the images have retained their color.
I am very jealous! I am also, of course, very grateful to you both for giving me and others the chance to see these.
Please keep writing about the Rondeau's, it is really interesting. Seeing pictures of the designs that I will probably never see in real life brings my family history alive.
I'm related to Jean Rondeau, John (The Sexton) Rondeau and Stanley Rondeau. I'm also eagerly awaiting next year when the "Victorian Rondeau" is revealed.
Claire commented on another of your stories about Stanley Rondeau saying she was related to Ellen Rondeau (1885-1960). Claire, if you're reading this, please contact me using the link to my web site. Ellen Rondeau was my great grandmother.
Wonderful to read this, especially out here at the edge of the world, Vancouver BC, where anything 150yrs old is ancient. I greatly enjoy your posts.
These silk designs are truly beautiful and so vivid.
This post captures the excitement of someone coming into physical contact with their heritage. I share Stan's Rondeau roots, so this has made my day. Thank you very much.
Dear Gentle author, thank you from the Huguenot descendants of distant Australia for that sensitive and moving tribute to Anna Maria Garthwaite and to the silkweavers of Spitalfields. Many of our ancestors were silkweavers who worked so hard, and for little reward, to produce these beautiful fabrics. Merci bien, cher ami.
Stanley, You are to be commended for all the research you have done regarding the Rondeau family. My ancestor was Susannah Rondeau 1791 – 1821 who married Andrew Larcher 1791 – 1868. I wonder if you have any information on the Larcher family, also silk weavers from the area? Or can point me in the direction to begin some research.
John Rondeau and I are 1st cousins seven times removed. I hope some day to see some of his work. Thank you Stanley.
Hello, was so pleased to see your blog in regards to your family's heritage and the beautiful Huguenot designs shown. We live in the area of Manikintowne, Virginia, the original settlement of over 160 Huguenot families in the early 1700s, Abraham and Sallie Michaux, along with their descendants are buried in the Michaux St. James cemetery across from our now restored chapel, presently being used as a community center, and many Huguenot homes still existant. We have become interested in perhaps replicating, patterns of Huguenot textiles, as I researched so many of the original settlers hereabouts were from the Spitalfields area of London. If you were in knowledge of any source, or families such as yours, who have left pattern collections, how wonderful it would be to show a display of them in our Huguenot History collection. We have a wonderful curator of documents at the Virginia State Library, and a lovely early textiles collection of fabric and clothing located at our Valentine Museum in downtown Richmond. It would be most intriguing to have a display or have a block printing done of early Huguenot textiles, fabrics, household textiles etc. wherein we may give homage to our earliest settlers here. It's a beautiful rural area that we live in, and while the first settlers here had a most difficult time, building their lives, here, as their skills were less in farming, than in textiles, we see how well, they acclimated and became citizens of some note, and pride. My husband and I will be coming back for a visit in June, and are looking forward to exploring the Spitalfields area, and revisiting the V&A remembering how very much we especially enjoyed our time there. Have you considered working with a fabric company to recreate your family's legacy designs? Must be very exciting! And should you have any ideas in regards to our linking American Huguenot heritage and the silk weavers of Spitalfields it would be grand to hear from you. Take care, and wish you well. LeeAnne Tetrault, 4053 Old River Trail, Powhatan, Virginia 23139 USA.
Did Stanley return to the V&A in 2012? Would love to know the update!


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Marlins tip Expos at ?'home?'
CHICAGO ?— Chased out of Florida by Hurricane Ivan, the Marlins were forced to play a home game on the road and still cut their gap in the NL wild-card race.
Florida rallied with six runs in the bottom of the eighth inning, taking advantage of four Montreal errors to beat the Expos 6-3 U.S. Cellular Field.
A small but spirited crowd announced at 4,003 transformed the home park of the Chicago White Sox' into a foul-ball chaser's paradise. With the upper deck closed, most of the fans who spent $15 for a ticket — $5 going to hurricane relief — sat behind the dugouts and close to the field. There was a loud pro-Expos contingent, some dressed in Chicago Cubs attire.
"It'll sort of be like an exhibition game crowd," Marlins manager Jack McKeon said.
Florida, two games behind wild-card leading San Francisco, will play the Expos at U.S. Cellular again on Tuesday. The defending World Series champions hope to finish the five games with the Expos at Pro Player Stadium, weather permitting.
Before Monday, the previous NL game in an AL ballpark was in 1946, when the Boston Braves played several games at Fenway Park because a paint job on the seats at Braves Field had not dried, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
The Expos, who know something about moving around after playing a portion of their home schedule in Puerto Rico the last two years, got two runs in the first off Josh Beckett on Tony Batista's RBI grounder and a Terrmel Sledge triple.
Sun-Wood Kim blanked the Marlins for seven innings before Florida broke through against the bullpen.
Florida rallied in the eighth with help from errors by reliever Gary Majewski (0-1), Batista at third, Juan Rivera in right and Endy Chavez in center.
Batista made an error on Miguel Cabrera as the first run scored, Mike Lowell's sacrifice fly tied the score, and Florida took a 4-2 lead when Rivera couldn't catch Alex Gonzalez's shallow fly. Pinch-hitter Lenny Harris followed with a two-run single.
Batista homered in the ninth. Matt Perisho(5-2) was the winner in relief.
It was supposed to be a short trip across town for the Marlins, who played four games over the weekend at Wrigley Field.
But they had to leave their downtown Chicago hotel Sunday and move to one 25 miles away in suburban Arlington Heights, making their trip to Chicago's south side an hour by bus. But that's a small inconvenience for a team playing three doubleheaders in a span of 11 days as it tries to return to the playoffs.
Because it was forced to play one "home" game at Wrigley Field after Hurricane Frances caused the postponement of a three-game series, Florida wanted to make Monday feel as Marlin-like as possible.
Billy the Marlin threw out the first pitch, and the Marlins brought in their own public address announcer and scoreboard videos with player montages. A large plant with a sign on it greeted Florida's players as they walked into the clubhouse: "Welcome To Your Second Home, Marlins."
McKeon took over the office of White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, who last year was the Marlins' third-base coach.
Most of Guillen's memorabilia lining his office walls and shelves is from his own career, but there was one big picture of the Marlins celebrating.
"I'll see if I can't smoke this up good," McKeon said, puffing on a cigar.
McKeon insisted the travel hassles were no big deal.
"It's an unusual situation. We couldn't control the hurricane or the will of God or what he wanted to toss our way," he said. "We have to accept it, go on and think nothing about it. A regular day."
The Marlins were as loose as ever as they did their pre-game stretching, joking and clowning.
"This team has learned to roll with different scenarios, not to let it affect it," general manager Larry Beinfest said. "It's a little bit weird. It feels like we're in a totally different place because we switched hotels, switched leagues and switched stadiums."
The Expos know more about moving around than any team in the majors. They've been on the verge of leaving Montreal and have played portions of their home schedule the last two years in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Notes: Beckett's single in the fifth was the first hit ever by a pitcher at U.S. Cellular Field, which opened in 1991.


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cognacvineyards
From green to translucent, the veraison
When the berries become translucent, we call it the "veraison". It usually allows to determine the harvest date, about 40 days later. End August/beginning september is the time of ripening process.
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Hail, frost, the vine and the winegrower
Nature remains the boss and knows how come back as a reminder of anyone who would forget it. Obviously, the winegrowers don't belong to this category. They daily work with it and have the memory of at least one painful event. Hail storms last year, unexpected frost on may this year, belong to theses bad memories. In fact, how protect vines and then harvest from climate disasters ? Is it only possible ? What winegrowers feel face to theses moments ? Living in Cognac has met Nicolas, winegrower and deeply involved in Professional Organization on climate subject.
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Winter weather in cognac vineyards
Strolls & getaways
Since this first days or this new year, winter is there in cognac region, with its white mornings, frozen fields and vineyards, frozen grass glittering in sun like today, in short, a "temps de saison" as we say in french. And an opportunity to take photos and share them.
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Distiller, full-time job in wintertime
He/she wakes up early morning, generally between 4 and 6, each day, during the distillation time. As for a single-handed round world race, he/she crosses non-stop several weeks or months depending from the quantity of vine to be distilled. Even if modern facilities such as computer controlled devices, and gaz heating allow to sleep at home and no more in the distillery, the distiller takes great care of each distillation, trusting on his/her five senses.
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November in the heart of a golden autumn
November is the kick off month for distillation. After the harvest time, distillation is a magic moment as well. In the vineyards, last fireworks in golden and brown colors take place before winter, a great inspiration for pictures… and many business travels this month, visits in museum, so as a stroll in Pays Basque for week end, as we love this place.
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October means harvest month in cognac
October month is very busy in cognacvineyards. Harvest time is on. Depending of the previous seasons, harvest begins early october or mid october, but always in this month. We felt really good as living a never-ended summer, and the morning mist gave the landscape a fairytale atmosphere… Continue reading October means harvest month in cognac
Cognac harvest days, the crunch time
After a year of hard work, hoping that the weather conditions would be nice enough till the cognac harvest time, the single most important decision of the winegrower is to choose the right day to begin harvest. It looks like a very subtle balance betweeen professionnal skills and intuition, and requires a fair amount of experience. Needless to say that it's a nerve-wracking period, especially when the weather has played unkind tricks like this year in cognac vineyards.
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September in cognac vineyards, the indian summer
As for many of us, september means "back to work". Fortunately we live in a so lovely countryside in Charente, that with sunny and warm weather, it seemed to be still holidays time in cognac vineyards … A lot of nice things to do and to see, and first of all, the famous "circuit des remparts d'Angoulême". A race in the town for classic and vintage cars, and the opportunity for a car stroll the day before in cognac vineyards and charente landscape for many drivers, a lot of them coming from abroad each year. Continue reading September in cognac vineyards, the indian summer
From Miami to cognac vineyards
Let me tell you the true story of a sleeping beauty in cognac vineyards and of two princes of design, elegance, and creativity coming for Miami. For Pierre and Max, it has been love at first sight for this 15th century manor left to rot for a too long time.
"In twenty years when I look back on this chapter of my life, I hope I will remember most the regular walks we take around the Logis with our three dogs, and our cat Nelson. We walk, the dogs unleashed and totally free, for hours-on-end and pass through forests and farmland, by lakes and rivers, and rarely see anyone. The communal destination-of-choice is a source which was framed in carved limestone over 600 years ago and where today the dogs love to swim. And then I think, "Where else in the world in 2010, and only 2 hours from Paris by train" ?
This poetic words, Max wrote them in the agenda he created to highlight "the best of Charente". Since 2010, 7 editions have beeen printed for the new year, each of them with a special tone : stone of Charente, gastronomy and cognac, roman art, skilled artisans, history and so on…
Belgian native, Pierre worked for a long time in States and felt the desire to return back in Europe, and Max, american citizen, who studyied for a while in Firenza, dreamed to live on the old continent. One day, they left their superb property of Miami and travelled a lot, mainly in Italia and South France, to find their new restling home : need of wide space for their animals, and sun for them. The quest finished as they passed the imposant front porch of the Logis : it was there and nowhere else.
They did not know anybody when they arrived, they are famous nowadays, here and not only. Max and Pierre have restored the manor in a magistral manner, in a total respect of the architecture and with a mad skill for interior design. Working with local crafstmen, they used simple, rough material found on the site : wood, steel, old farm tools… an incredible mix of modern design and re-interpreted old materials. After 3 years and half of hard work, the Logis recovered his past beauty..The result is so successfull that Pierre and Max opened a boutique in the barn, called "Sortie de grange" featuring decorative objects, antiques, lighting, gifts, fabrics and finds.
And in the outbuildings, overlooking the nice courtyard, they have nestled their B&B, 3 stunning bedrooms, and a guest cottage, each of them named after a former owner of the Logis. International livestyle, design, tourism and architecture media regularly publish on Logis de Puygaty and their gifted owners.
Max always thought that Charente, which is the adminstrativ area of Cognac region but not only, was not enough known. During 7 years, he edited a luxury agenda called "Best of Charente" to highlight the hidden facets of the region. Max is one of the best ambassadors or Charente in the world. " There is, here in Charente, a heritage which must be know all around the world. To make it known, I have had the idea of the agenda"
Who hasn't dreamed of such a place ?
Good new, you can spend a few days in Logis de Puygaty, so kindly welcomed by Max and Pierre and their good fellows, Farouk, Jackie, Alzane the dogs and Nelson the cat.
You will discover a discret lifestyle, the location is utterly serene and peaceful, and you never forget the stunning welcome of Pierre and Max. The guest book speaks for them.
Thank you so much Dear Max.
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http://www.logisdepuygaty.com/
Musical july in cognac
After a grey and rainy june, rather unusal for the season, july came with sun and heat in its luggages.
First musical moment of the summertime in the region, the Cognac Blues Passion Festival. International blues, rock-pop headliners came in Cognac, such as emerging young artists, playing in the starry night. Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithfull, The Cranberries…. were present for this edition. It means for me that holidays are not so far right now. Continue reading Musical july in cognac


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NCAA will not renew EA Sports contract
According to a recent press release from the NCAA itself, the organization will not be renewing its contract with EA Sports. No specific reason is cited, but the complete text can be found below.
The NCAA has made the decision not to enter a new contract for the license of its name and logo for the EA Sports NCAA Football video game. The current contract expires in June 2014, but our timing is based on the need to provide EA notice for future planning. As a result, the NCAA Football 2014 video game will be the last to include the NCAA's name and logo. We are confident in our legal position regarding the use of our trademarks in video games. But given the current business climate and costs of litigation, we determined participating in this game is not in the best interests of the NCAA.
The NCAA has never licensed the use of current student-athlete names, images or likenesses to EA. The NCAA has no involvement in licenses between EA and former student-athletes. Member colleges and universities license their own trademarks and other intellectual property for the video game. They will have to independently decide whether to continue those business arrangements in the future.
It's worth noting that EA can still licence individual teams and athletes for use in future games, but the NCAA name is off limits. Without such a deal, companies like EA and 2K cannot use the NCAA acronym anywhere in a new release. This decision could have a drastic effect on future college sports releases, as the brand carries a lot of weight.
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The 367th Fighter Squadron is a "reverse" associate United States Air Force unit, stationed at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida, where it operates and maintains the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons of the 482d Fighter Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command.  Its parent is the 495th Fighter Group at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina.

The squadron was first activated at the beginning of 1943.  After training in the United States, it moved to England and entered combat in the European Theater of Operations.  The squadron earned the Distinguished Unit Citation and the French Croix de Guerre with Palm during its combat missions.  After VE Day, the squadron returned to the United States, where it was inactivated on 7 November 1945. The squadron was reactivated in October 2015.

History

World War II

The 367th Fighter Squadron was activated on 1 January 1943 at Richmond Army Air Base, Virginia as one of the original squadrons of the 358th Fighter Group.  The squadron initially began training with the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk. Later that year, the unit replaced its Warhawks with the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, which it flew for the remainder of the war.  The squadron left Richmond in September 1943 for the port of embarkation. It sailed for England on the  on 8 October.

The 367th arrived in England during October 1943, where it began operations with Eighth Air Force on 20 December 1943, but was transferred to Ninth Air Force in February 1944.  The unit engaged primarily in missions escorting bombers attacking targets on the continent of Europe until April 1944.   The squadron dive bombed marshalling yards and airfields and attacked enemy communications during April and May from its new station, an advanced landing ground at RAF High Halden, to help prepare for the invasion of Normandy.

The squadron escorted troop carrier formations on D Day and the following day as the formations dropped paratroopers on the Cotentin Peninsula.  For the remainder of June, it attacked rail lines, troop concentrations, bridges and transport.  The squadron moved to France in July and, from its base at Cretteville, took part in operations that resulted in the Allied breakthrough at St Lo. The squadron continued to fly escort, interdiction and close air support missions during the Allied drive across France and into Germany.

The squadron received a Distinguished Unit Citation for its actions between 24 December 1944 and 2 January 1945, when it supported Seventh Army, attacking railroads and rolling stock, other vehicles and enemy artillery formations.  It also destroyed numerous Luftwaffe fighters while defending against Operation Bodenplatte, an attack concentrating on forward Allied air bases in an attempt by the Luftwaffe to attain air superiority in the area of the Battle of the Bulge.  In March, the squadron attacked German forces attempting to withdraw across the Rhine River, destroying motor transport and hampering the withdrawal efforts, earning a second Distinguished Unit Citation.  The following month, the squadron attacked enemy airfields near Munich and Ingolstadt, engaging aircraft and supporting the advance of ground forces in the area, earning a third award of the Distinguished Unit Citation.  The squadron was also awarded the French Croix de Guerre with Palm by the Government of France for its assistance in the liberation of France. The squadron was credited with the destruction of 49.5 enemy aircraft during the war.

The squadron remained in Germany after VE Day until July 1945, when it returned to the United States, where it was inactivated on 7 November 1945.

Associate unit
The 367th Fighter Squadron was reactivated at Homestead Air Reserve Base during a ceremony on 23 October 2015, replacing Detachment 93 of the 495th Fighter Group.  Under the "Total Force Integration" program, the squadron, a regular unit, will operate and maintain the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft of the 482d Fighter Wing of Air Force Reserve Command as an associate unit.

Lineage
 Constituted as the 367th Fighter Squadron (Single Engine) on 20 December 1942
 Activated on 1 January 1943
 Inactivated on 7 November 1945
 Redesignated 367th Fighter Squadron
 Activated c. 23 October 2015

Assignments
 358th Fighter Group: 1 January 1943 – 7 November 1945
 495th Fighter Group: c. 23 October 2015 – present

Stations

 Richmond Army Air Base, Virginia, 1 January 1943
 Camp Springs Army Air Field, Maryland, 20 April 1943
 Millville Army Air Field, New Jersey, 29 May 1943
 Philadelphia Municipal Airport, Pennsylvania, 16 June 1943
 Richmond Army Air Base, Virginia, 13 August 1943 – 25 September 1943
 RAF Goxhill (Station 345), England, United Kingdom, 20 October 1943
 RAF Leiston (Station 373), England, United Kingdom, 4 December 1943
 RAF Raydon (Station 157), England, United Kingdom, 21 January 1944
 RAF High Halden (Station 411), England, United Kingdom, 13 April 1944
 Cretteville (A-14), France, 4 July 1944
 Pontorson (A-28), France, 14 August 1944
 Vitry-le-François (A-67), France, 15 September 1944
 Mourmelon-le-Grand Airfield (A-80), France, 16 October 1944
 Toul-Croix de Metz Airfield (A-90), France, 20 November 1944
 Mannheim-Sandhofen Airfield (Y-79), Germany, 8 April 1945
 Reims-Champagne Airport (A-62), France, 23 June 1945 – 10 July 1945
 La Junta Army Air Field, Colorado 3 August 1945 – 7 November 1945
 Homestead Air Reserve Base, c. 23 October 2015 – present

Aircraft
 Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, 1943
 Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, 1943–1945
 General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, 2015–present

Awards and campaigns

See also

 List of United States Air Force fighter squadrons
 General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon operators

References

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

External links

Fighter squadrons of the United States Army Air Forces
Fighter squadrons of the United States Air Force
Military units and formations established in 1942
Military units and formations in Florida

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It's worth noting the difference between "jargon" and "industry terminology." The latter includes words that are specific to a product or function. For instance, if you're talking about transportation and logistics, you'd be remiss if you didn't talk about "global supply chains" or "RFID technology." But those are real things, not made-up words or terms. That's a big difference.
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From 1 April 2015, CCGs were able to take on greater commissioning responsibility for GP services. The primary care co-commissioning arrangements are part of a series of changes set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View to deliver a new deal for primary care. These changes were put in place to give patients, communities and clinicians more involvement in deciding local health services.
NHS Warwickshire North CCG hold a Primary Care Commissioning Committee bi-monthly and meet in public. The role of the Committee is to make decisions on the review, planning and procurement of primary care services in the area. All are welcome to attend and observe the meeting.
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NAHL Draft: Cats Plus Five
BISMARCK, ND – The Bismarck Bobcats have bolstered their 2011-12 roster, adding five up-and-coming players in Thursday's 2011 NAHL Entry Draft.
Open to any player worldwide born in 1991 or later, the 2011 Draft is the final step for teams to build their protected roster lists to 30. The Cats entered Thursday's draft with 15 returners and 10 signed tenders, giving them room to the space to select the following players:
Prev. Team
Bryce Anderson
Wisconsin Wilderness (SIJHL)
Jordan Aamot
Grand Forks Central HS (ND)
Grafton Park River HS (ND)
Anders Franke
Elk River HS (MN)
Nick Turbitt
Spring Lake Park HS (MN)
Following the draft, Bobcats head coach Layne Sedevie reflected on each of his selections.
Anderson (2010-11: 55 GP, 9 G, 43 A): "Bryce is a high-end defenseman that came highly recommended from [former Bobcats head coach and current Fargo Force associate head coach] Byron Pool. He was a 50-point guy in the SIJHL this past season, so we look forward to the skill level we know he brings to the table."
Aamot (2010-11: 22 GP, 11 G, 30 A): "Jordan is yet another of our pre-draft camp success stories. I hadn't had a chance to see him until he signed up for our Prior Lake (MN) Pre-draft Camp last week, and what we saw was really impressive. The guy can fly. He's a strong special teams performer and he comes from Central, one of the all-time great high school programs in North Dakota."
Callahan (2010-11: 27 GP, 17 G, 16 A): "Even though he's a young guy, who doesn't turn 17 until August, we know that Ryan is ready to be a stud right now. His size (5'10" 180 lbs) for someone who isn't even a junior in high school shows some great up-side and Ryan is a guy who can be a monster in this league."
Franke (2010-11: 11-14, 2.76 GAA, .902 SV%): "Anders is a talented young goaltender who played well in a really tough region in Minnesota (7AA, featuring state runner-up Duluth East). He's got a very bright future in junior hockey and being able to select him really solidifies our goaltending situation going forward."
Turbitt (2010-11: 27 GP, 31 G, 26 A): "Nick comes highly recommended to us, and at 6'1" we see him as the kind of power forward to fill the shoes of Matt Gates (Alaska-Fairbanks) and Emerson Auvenshine (UMass), who are both heading off to college this fall. He was a top-end scorer in Class A in Minnesota this year so we know that he brings a lot of talent offensively."
Anderson (Grand Forks), Aamot (Grand Forks) and Callahan (Grafton) are all North Dakota natives, joining 2010-11 returners Bryce Schmitt (Minot), Tyler Richter (Bismarck), Danny Ray (Grand Forks), Dan Kovar (Bismarck) and Grant Mindt (Bismarck) and 2011 tender Jeremy O'Keefe (Grand Forks) as representatives of the Peace Garden State on the 30-man protected list.
Sedevie admitted to major differences between this year's entry draft and that of 2011, which saw the Cats draft 16 players—11 of which were on the opening day roster.
"First of all, when you're only taking five guys instead of 16, your margin for error is much smaller," said the second-year head coach, "so there's more pressure. But after going through my first draft last year just weeks after taking over for Byron as opposed to having all spring to prepare for my own draft, this year was a lot more comfortable and I feel great about the give guys we did select."
Sedevie and assistant coach Adam Gill can now catch their breaths before the team's open camp, scheduled for July 15-17 at Arctic Edge Arena in Canton, Mich. Players interested in attending the 2011 open camp can sign up right now at http://www.BismarckBobcats.com.
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O Primeiro Concílio de Toledo reuniu-se em Toledo, a capital do Reino Visigótico (moderna Toledo, na Espanha), entre 7 de setembro de 397 até o ano 400. O objetivo principal do encontro era condenar o priscilianismo e defender o Credo de Niceia. O próximo concílio só se realizaria 127 anos depois. Dezenove bispos hispânicos participaram: Paterno (Braga), Marcelo, Afrodisio, Alaciano, Jocundo, Severo, Leonas, Hilario, Olimpio, Floro, Orticio, Asturio, Lampio (Barcelona), Sereno, Leporio, Eustoquio, Aureliano, Lampadio y Exuperancio de Galécia, (Caldas de Reis).

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Mick Schumacher Completes Alfa Romeo Seat Fit Ahead Of Eifel GP F1 Debut
Bhargav Gopal
The much anticipated F1 practice debut of Mick Schumacher, has taken a further step forward. After enduring testing sessions in the 2018 Ferrari car at Fiorano, the young driver has flown down to Switzerland.
Alfa Romeo's factory and headquarters are in Hinwil, Switzerland. And naturally, that is where all mechanics and data analysts assist the current and future drivers.
The racing team yesterday shared a post on their Twitter handle, with Mick Schumacher successfully getting a seat fitting done before next Friday's practice session.
Mick Schumacher edging closer to 'dream debut' in front of home crowd
It only seems like a matter of time before Mick is driving the Alfa Romeo C39 at Nurburgring. The build-up to seeing the son of legendary driver Michael Schumacher, is immense.
Mick has been vocal of the support and opportunities that he has received. From his current team, Prema Powerteam to the Ferrari Drivers Academy. And now of course, Alfa Romeo Racing.
Fellow academy graduate Callum Ilott will also race on the same track as Mick. He will drive the Haas VF-20. There is hence, widespread excitement to see these young drivers in action.
Schumacher's future lies in Formula 1 next season
The talk of Mick's step up to the top division has been ongoing for some time now. Earlier in September, Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto had acknowledged that he was ready to drive in F1.
His uncle, Ralf Schumacher, among many other pundits have discussed his promotion. And at a time where teams like Haas and Alfa Romeo are scouting fresh drivers, it makes sense.
Alfa Romeo, previously known as Sauber F1, was the same team that gave Charles Leclerc his chance. Although there is still a long way to go, one can envision Mick's development on similar lines.
Formula One F1 – Russian Grand Prix – Sochi Autodrom, Sochi, Russia – Prema Powerteam's Mick Schumacher celebrates winning the formula 2 race on the podium Pavel Golovkin/Pool via REUTERS
Mick Schumacher is the current F2 Championship leader with 191 points. After last week's race win in Sochi, the young driver was of course, appreciated for his technical driving skills.
But what stood out was his attitude towards recognizing the entire team's efforts for his victory. He made it a point to appreciate them and not just focus on himself.
He looks like the complete package, ready to take the next step. And he will hope his career will be as successful as his seat fitting with Alfa Romeo.
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Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was an English composer, pianist, music critic, and writer about music mainly associated with large-scale works for the piano lasting several hours and requiring virtuosity and stamina well beyond anything in the standard repertoire. He also wrote songs, chamber and orchestral works, piano concertos, and symphonies for organ. Most of his works are characterized by a highly ornamented impressionistic style and formal structures like variations and fugues, and rely on an individual style derived from his self-study of the music of composers whose music he championed all his life (Liszt, Alkan, Busoni, Medtner, Godowsky, Reger, Skryabin, Szymanowski).
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David came to permaculture as a country person living in the city. After his PDC in 1991, he started by permaculturing his back and front yards in West Preston, Melbourne. He has been developing Murrnong, just on the edge of Violet Town, since 1996. Along the way he has done permaculture design and development work across North East and North Central Victoria. Through these various projects he developed skills and expertise in design and development for home self-sufficiency, farm planning, farm scale tree and shrub landscaping, farm forestry, homestead orchards, tree crops, ecological building and energy efficient retrofit of existing buildings, and even a dabble in publishing when he conceived the Permaculture Calendar.
David Holmgren
David co-originated the idea of permaculture with Bill Mollison back in 1976, and wrote Permaculture One as his honours thesis. As well as being a highly capable practical person – gardener, builder, environmental engineer – his impressive list of publications have provided much of the intellectual and practical foundation of permaculture. His most recent book, RetroSuburbia, is a pleasure to read and is a very helpful companion to this PDC.
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Beck has been practising permaculture since completing her PDC in 1994. In that time she has been doing permaculture in rural and urban areas, and on community projects such as Gravel Hill Gardens in Bendigo. She lives near Heathcote in central Victoria on a 40-acre permaculture farm with food forests, milking and meat goats, poultry and other food systems, as well as areas of native vegetation.
She has a special interest in animals in permaculture, and in ecological systems. She has written for various publications including Permaculture Activist, Pip Australian Permaculture magazine and Earth Garden's City Permaculture. Beck loves tutoring on PDCs and also runs Accredited Permaculture Training. (Her website includes the blog of her 2015 visit to the very hardy original wild apple forests of Kazakhstan.)
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Note: in the first half of 2023 Joel is taking a break from teaching, and won't physically be part of this year's PDC. He has made his teaching resources available, and is available to David for discussion and support on his specialist areas.
Joel Meadows is an environmental educator, energy auditor, building designer, sustainable transport consultant, illustrator, maker of things of steel and wood, grower, cooker and preserver of food, avid gardener and musician. Joel has studied Sculpture, Blacksmithing, Renewable Energy Technology and Permaculture, he has worked for private, government and not for profit organisations and runs the Green Hand Institute.
Joel illustrated the second edition of David Holmgren's 'Principles' book and 'The Rocket Powered Oven' e-book with Tim Barker. Joel lives with his family on the fringe of Castlemaine – Central Victoria, where he continually works on his permaculture business, property and ideas.
Joel did a pdc in 1999, and an advanced permaculture principles course with David Holmgren and Su in 2007.
Richard Telford
PDC (2000). Diploma of Permaculture (2010). From 1998, Richard spent seven years living in two permaculture designed intentional communities. In 2001 he collaborated with David Holmgren on the design of the Permaculture Design Principle icons and has since produced many of his other titles, using skills he developed as a graphic artist.
In 2008 he launched permacultureprinciples.com and produced the Permaculture Calendar with David Arnold to illustrate the design principles and convey the foundations of permaculture to a wider audience. He now co-directs a permaculture book distribution enterprise, available through melliodora.com
In 2008 he bought a small run down home on 580m2 in Seymour, rebuilding it as an urban demonstration of low-impact living with his family. Since 2010 Abdallah House has become a local attraction and a small scale 'permaculture playground' where ideas can be put into practice.
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Valentine's Day is fast approaching and if you are looking to treat that special someone or even your self to a special treat you will not go wrong with this SCRUMPTIOUS NO-BAKE CHOCOLATE TART!
Best of all it only has 4 ingredients – YES you are reading this right. All you need is biscuits, butter, cream and chocolate.
Put these together and you have the most amazing delicious chocolate dessert.
This very easy chocolate tart is a joy to make. It's a no-bake recipe so forget about turning on the oven! It just needs to chill in the fridge for 3 hours or overnight if you have the time.
I used bourbon biscuits for the base, but you could use any chocolate biscuit. Oreos would work really well too. The chocolate tart filling is so simple only 2 ingredients, cream and chocolate.
The cream is gently warmed to near boiling and poured over chocolate pieces. Add this filling to a crumbled biscuit/butter base and VOILA you have the most delicious No-Bake Chocolate Tart.
Serve simple as is with a dusting of cocoa powder and a dollop of cream OR decorate with some fresh berries and grated chocolate.
As I mentioned above you can change the biscuits you use for the base.
Put the bourbon biscuits into a food processor and blend until mixture looks like bread crumbs.
Melt the butter in a microwave and pour over the crushed biscuits.. Mix until it looks like damp sand!
Press the butter/biscuit mix mixture into the pan using your fingers.
Leave in the fridge while you prepare the delicious chocolate filling.
Pour the chocolate filling over the biscuit base and return the fridge. Leave to chill for at least 3 hours or overnight.
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This looks delicious and so easy! It's the perfect combination. I know hubby would be super excited to see this after work!
loveee this no bake chocolate tart. I love chocolate flavor anything..lol. love your decoration too.
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Preferred Reporting Items for Studies Mapping onto Preference-Based Outcome Measures: The MAPS Statement.
Petrou S., Rivero-Arias O., Dakin H., Longworth L., Oppe M., Froud R., Gray A.
'Mapping' onto generic preference-based outcome measures is increasingly being used as a means of generating health utilities for use within health economic evaluations. Despite the publication of technical guides for the conduct of mapping research, guidance for the reporting of mapping studies is currently lacking. The MAPS (MApping onto Preference-based measures reporting Standards) statement is a new checklist, which aims to promote complete and transparent reporting of mapping studies. The primary audiences for the MAPS statement are researchers reporting mapping studies, the funders of the research, and peer reviewers and editors involved in assessing mapping studies for publication. A de novo list of 29 candidate reporting items and accompanying explanations was created by a working group comprising six health economists and one Delphi methodologist. Following a two-round modified Delphi survey with representatives from academia, consultancy, health technology assessment agencies and the biomedical journal editorial community, a final set of 23 items deemed essential for transparent reporting, and accompanying explanations, was developed. The items are contained in a user-friendly 23-item checklist. They are presented numerically and categorised within six sections, namely: (1) title and abstract; (2) introduction; (3) methods; (4) results; (5) discussion; and (6) other. The MAPS statement is best applied in conjunction with the accompanying MAPS explanation and elaboration document. It is anticipated that the MAPS statement will improve the clarity, transparency and completeness of reporting of mapping studies. To facilitate dissemination and uptake, the MAPS statement is being co-published by seven health economics and quality-of-life journals, and broader endorsement is encouraged. The MAPS working group plans to assess the need for an update of the reporting checklist in 5 years' time.
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AT&T confirms hacking incident, blames vendor employees but is not forthcoming on specifics
Joseph Mayton, Tech Times 16 June 2014, 03:06 pm
American wireless carrier AT&T is confirming that over a two-week period in April it experienced a data breach. While the security hack was not large, at least according to initial reports, the company has publicly disclosed the breach due to California law requiring companies to do so for any security issue that affects more than 500 customers or users.
But even as AT&T does publicly admit to the security breach, it is unclear why the company took two months to inform the authorities and the public about what occurred. It appears a number of Social Security numbers have been taken by the hackers, but it is unclear if they have attempted to use them or steal a person's identity.
AT&T said it was an inside job, meaning one of the company's vendors appears to be responsible for the hack, which occurred between April 9 and April 21. The company's note to affected customers says it believes the unauthorized employees sought access codes to unlock AT&T phones in the secondary market so they can be activated by other providers.
"We recently determined that employees of one of our service providers violated our strict privacy and security guidelines by accessing your account without authorization," the company said in a published note. But that note was not sent to all AT&T customers.
The company has not spoken in depth about the breach, and did not respond to an inquiry from Tech Times by press time. It is unclear how many users were affected and the company has not directly spoken to its customers over what the breach means or if they were affected.
What the company is saying is that three contractors at an unnamed service provider went into AT&T personal records, which include Social Security numbers and birth dates. The result has seen AT&T scramble to counter any problems its users may have over the breach, including removing devices from the network to ensure they are safe to use and be resold. It also is providing for a free year of credit monitoring for affected customers.
It is the latest security breach to hit American tech companies, with eBay recently reporting that it had a massive data breach hit tens of thousands of its users earlier this year. EBay was slow to inform the public and its users over the security breach, which has led to a number of states investigating the response and the company's overall security efforts.
AT&T stated that the breach has had "no impact to your AT&T mobile device(s) in connection with this activity."
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8 Things You Should Care About if You Care About Racial Justice
When you think of the term "racial justice," what comes to mind? Maybe you think of the iconic images of the civil rights movement, or athletes peacefully kneeling, or perhaps citizens taking to the streets, chanting for change.
As important as these images are, the fight for racial justice most often plays out across the dozens of mundane ways that people of color routinely experience racism every single day. These aren't usually the sorts of events that make the news or stir up crowds: they're just a fact of everyday life for people of color, a persistent form of discrimination that many white people may not recognize or understand, simply because they've never had to face that sort of treatment themselves. Racism infects every corner of American life, from grocery shopping and voting to the movie industry and climate change. If you care about racial justice, then you need to care about these eight things.
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"Food Deserts"
Studies have shown that the availability of supermarkets decreases as a neighborhood poverty increases. But even at comparable levels of poverty, African American neighborhoods have the fewest number of supermarkets. Overall, only 8% of blacks live in a community with one or more grocery stores, compared to 31% for whites. The lack of good food and the scarcity of supermarkets has a serious impact on the health of communities of color.
Climate And Environmental Justice
All communities around the world are dealing with the impacts of climate change, but so-called "frontline communities" (most frequently communities of color, indigenous communities, and low-income communities) have been, and will be, hit the hardest. After all, they already live in the most vulnerable and, in some cases, least-desirable areas. It's no coincidence, for example, that African Americans are way more likely to have a power plant or toxic facility in their neighborhood. These communities are most vulnerable to environmental damage and the worst effects of climate change for one big reason: they were planned that way.
Like we were saying, cities were not created equal. Urban and suburban racial segregation didn't happen organically: it was most often the result of intentional planning. Those highways weren't blasted through black neighborhood after black neighborhood by mistake. The fact that public transportation is so often inaccessible by communities of color isn't a fluke. And prospective black homeowners didn't simply face bad luck when they were turned away by mortgage lenders: it was intentional redlining.
Vacationing While Black
An experiment showed that Airbnb hosts were 16% less likely to accept guests with African American-sounding names. Even in this sparkling new, app-driven economy, racism rears up. Ask yourself: can you imagine having your vacation put on hold just because of your name? Acknowledging that this problem had become widespread, Airbnb recently teamed up with our friends at the NAACP to fight racism on its platform.
Voter ID Laws
Is it just a weird accident that the voter ID laws passed by so many states make it hard for people of color, in particular, to vote? No. A federal appeals court struck down North Carolina's law last year, saying, memorably, that it targeted African Americans with "almost surgical precision." As it turns out, some of our leaders really don't want people of color (among others, like the poor) to participate fully in our democracy. As our friends at Demos put it, racism is destroying the right to vote.
Consider this: people of color make up 37% of the US population—and 67% of the prison population. That's hard to fathom, until you think about how African Americans are more often stopped and searched than whites and how they're arrested more often for things that whites often get away with. And how, once they're arrested, they are more likely to be convicted. And how, once they're convicted, they're more likely to serve longer sentences. So suddenly, what started as a fact of everyday street-level racial injustice, becomes, when multiplied across street after street, city after city, the epic national problem of mass incarceration. (A side effect of mass incarceration? Millions of Americans who have been convicted of felonies can no longer vote. Our friends at the Say Yes to Second Chances campaign are working hard to restore the ability to vote to about 1.6 million nonviolent former felons in Florida.)
It's not only that communities of color have less access to adequate healthcare, or that people of color are treated differently even once they find the medical help they need. It's that racism itself can make people of color sick—more than 700 studies have been published since 2000 about discrimination and health which, taken together, establish a connection between racism and the toll it takes on the physical, mental, and emotional health of those who experience it. Maybe it's no surprise that more than 100,000 black people die prematurely each year.
School Segregation
Yup, Brown v. the Board of Education was decided back in 1954. No more "separate by equal," right? Well… not exactly. In some areas, schools are more segregated now than they were in the 1960s. This is a problem that actually never went away—today many kids attend chronically underfunded segregated schools with inexperienced teachers in crumbling buildings. This comes back to urban planning and public policies that create the segregation we see in neighborhoods and cities. We have to do better.
We MUST do better. Here's how you can help:
Watch the amazing video below from our friends at Demos about the roots of systemic racism.
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Start a conversation. Once you know the truth, it's hard to keep it to yourself. So tell a friend, a sibling, a roommate, your kooky uncle…that systemic racism is real, and we all need to be fighting to end it.
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Working Time, Dinner Time, Serving Time: Labour and Law in Industrialization
Douglas Hay, Osgoode Hall Law School of York UniversityFollow
University of Oxford, Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History, Number 164
coercion; contract of employment; labour law; industriousness; punishment; work time
Many economic historians agree that increased labour inputs contributed to Britain's primary industrialisation. Voluntary self-exploitation by workers to purchase new consumer goods is one common explanation, but it sits uneasily with evidence of poverty, child labour, popular protest, and criminal punishments explored by social historians. A critical and neglected legal dimension may be the evolution of contracts of employment. The law of master and servant, to use the technical term, shifted markedly between 1750 and 1850 to advantage capital and disadvantage labour. Medieval in origin, it had always been adjudicated in summary hearings before lay magistrates, and provided penal sanctions to employers (imprisonment, wage abatement, and later fines), while giving workers a summary remedy for unpaid wages. The law always enforced obedience to employers' commands, suppressed strikes, and tried to keep wages low. Between 1750 and 1850 it became more hostile to workers through legislation and judicial redefinition; its enforcement became harsher through expansion of imprisonment, capture of the local bench by industrial employers, and employer abuse of written contracts. More work in manuscript sources is needed to test the argument, but it seems likely that intensification of labour inputs during industrialisation was closely tied to these legal changes.
Hay, Douglas, "Working Time, Dinner Time, Serving Time: Labour and Law in Industrialization" (2018). Articles & Book Chapters. 2700.
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