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The Silicon Valley Leadership Group (abbreviated SVLG) is a non-profit advocacy group in Silicon Valley, California, in the United States. Its members are businesses that operate in the valley and its purpose is to influence public policy relating to the valley.

The organization was founded in 1978 by David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, and represents more than 390 Silicon Valley's firms.

History
The group was founded as the Santa Clara County Manufacturers Group (SCCMG) by David Packard in 1978, later becoming the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group. Like the Bay Area Council, it focused on regional politics. In the 1980s, it became the dominant business advocacy group in the Silicon Valley region, eclipsing chambers of commerce such as the San Jose Chamber of Commerce. By 1982, it counted 85 of the region's largest employers as members. In March 2005, it changed its name to Silicon Valley Leadership Group. Carl Guardino served as CEO from January 1997 through July 2020. On July 23, 2020, Ahmad Thomas was named the new CEO effective August 10, 2020.

Issues

San Francisco Bay Area tax measures
The Silicon Valley Leadership Group was a key supporter of Regional Measure 3, a $3 per-trip toll increase per vehicle to cross San Francisco Bay Area bridges, approved in June 2018 by 55 percent of Bay Area voters. SVLG is now a key partner along with the Bay Area Council and SPUR in proposing a $100 billion "mega tax" for November 2020 ballots, to pay for high-cost highway and transit projects paid for over 40 years by a one-percent sales tax increase in all nine Bay Area counties. Like RM3, the mega tax, called "Faster Bay Area" by proponents, would require state legislation to authorize the multi-county ballot tax measure. SVLG also supports another multi-county Bay Area 2020 tax increase, a 1/4-percent sales tax for further improvements to Caltrain service, which would apply in San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties.

Santa Clara sales tax measures
The SVLG has been heavily involved with a number of sales tax increase measures in Santa Clara County; specifically 1996, 2000, and the failed June 2006 measure. In June 2006, SVLG and the South Bay Labor Council outspent their opponents $1.2 million to $50,000 in an effort to raise the county sales tax further. In spite of this huge discrepancy SVLG lost.

At the same time SVLG was campaigning for increasing the local sales tax, they were en route to Sacramento on a lobbying junket to push for two bills - SB 1291 and AB 2218 - that would have exempt companies from state sales taxes for purchasing equipment used in manufacturing and research.

Immigration reform
SVLG advocates immigration reform in the United States, claiming there is a growing lack of skilled labor in Silicon Valley that could be closed by immigration. Specifically, the SVLG advocates increasing the number of H-1B visas and easing access to green cards.

U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office
SVLG has supported San Jose in its bid for a regional patent office. In 2012, the group claimed the confirmation of San Jose as a host of one of the four regional offices a "big win".

Electrification of Caltrain
The Silicon Valley Leadership Group has worked in coordination with local leaders to fund the electrification of Caltrain. In May 2017, the Federal Transit Administration approved a $647 million grant for the project. SVLG CEO Carl Guardino described the confirmation of the federal grant as "the major holidays wrapped into one with a beautiful Caltrain bow around it." In July 2017, a group including Guardino, Caltrain's CEO, elected officials and business leaders celebrated the official groundbreaking of the Caltrain project.

Local philanthropy
Starting in 2004, the Group has sponsored an annual charity "Turkey Trot" run, with the proceeds going to local charities.  The annual target is $1 million of contributions.

References

External links

 Ourpower.org
 Electric Vehicles International (EVI)
 OEMTEK
 How Silicon Valley could become the Detroit of electric cars.
 A car that could save the planet—fast- Silicon Valley's big brains think they can beat Detroit and Tokyo.

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A young broadcasting company has started using a revolutionized way for its customers to watch television. Via small antennae and a cloud storage system, Aereo provides its customers with 30 plus channels of HD quality that can be viewed or recorded from any location at a very low monthly subscription fee. The antenna captures TV signals and streams the feed through a customer's activated mobile or stationary device.
This has caught the attention of future customers; unlike competitors such as Netflix or Apple TV, Aereo can tune into local stations. This requires an Internet connection, something that could be a hindrance to certain consumers. Another downside is that it is only currently available in certain cities, such as New York, Boston and Miami, though Aereo predicts more cities will be added to its grid soon. Despite these good things, it is possible that no one will get to use Aereo's innovative technology.
Many love the cheap and easy access to various channels and networks, but the question if it will last. The American Broadcasting Company (ABC), representing big media companies, is Aereo for illegal use of its programs, essentially for showing ABC's shows without permission and having to pay royalties for them, violating the Copyright Act. Aereo's argument against the accusation is that the antenna that customers control gives them the right to view the shows, and that it is in a totally legitimate way.
During a one-hour-long, oral hearing April 22, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts disagreed with Aereo, claiming "no reason for you to have 10,000 dime-sized antennas except to get around the Copyright Act." Not all the Justices were so blatant, most were more inquisitive and open-minded. But there was no clear indication of how the controversy would be decided.
With nine Justices in the Court, there is no chance for Aereo to win the case via tie, but it is still possible for either side to gain the upper hand.


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On Government Regulation: First, Do No Harm
It stands to reason, even if you're not a doctrinaire libertarian, that before you start thinking of new regulations to solve a problem, it would be better to put a stop to government actions that exacerbate the problem. Jim Henley agrees:
The very first thing the government, at all levels, can do for the environment is stop paying to foul it up....
If you really take climate change seriously, it means that a lot of things are going to change. That means liberals are going to need to resist calls to subsidize outmoded living arrangements.... If people don't want to live in the plains, let the Buffalo have it back - even, heaven forfend, the Sioux. If Florida is too expensive for some people to bear the true cost of living there, so much the better for the ecology of Florida. And if people need to move closer to places work is plentiful, that's a beneficial ecological and social change for a society trying to moderate fossil fuel consumption.
While we're at it, if the existing corporate system depends for its survival on government subsidized Interstates and airports, and a foreign policy that guarantees "safe, abundant, and affordable energy to American economy," then so much the worse for the existing corporate system. And if giant agribusiness plantations out West turn into deserts without subsidized irration water, and can't afford to ship their produce across the country without highway subsidies, I guess people will be growing a lot more broccoli and lettuce on the eastern seaboard.
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Black Guile said...
It's easy to miss how thoroughly structured our economy is by the so-called "real estate" system. Between single-use zoning laws, required setbacks and other "aesthetic" regulations, highways, home mortgage subsidies and lending regulations - that's a huge amount of distortion in how we do our business and HOW WE LIVE OUR LIVES - almost all of which distortion is environmentally harmful.
The messed up thing is, these nuisance laws have the appearance of installing themselves automatically and 'neutrally' at every single level of government. Repealing them all would essentially require super-majorities all the way from the US Senate to the county council.
Matt Jenny said...
Sorry for the off-topic, but Kevin, where do you, as a "environmentally aware libertarian", stand on the whole global warming issue? I am really undecided yet because I find both the Big Government conspiracy theory and the Big Business conspiracy theory not too convincing. Many "right" libertarians say that it's a hoax when people say that humanity is heavily influencing the world's climate. But some "right" libertarian also say a lot of crap. So, I'd like to hear your opinion, if you have one.
Kevin Carson said...
Black guile,
Yes, the market is massively distorted. But the beauty of all these forms of "neutral" laws passed for the common good (after all, the rich man is equally forbidden to urinate in public and sleep under bridges) is that they make exploitation invisible. The slave of antiquity or the medieval peasant had a personalized conception of who was screwing him. But since our exploitation is mediated through a "neutral" legal framework, we just have a pounding sensation in the ass with no clear idea where it's coming from.
I think even global warming skeptics acknowlege in principle that higher CO2 levels would lead to higher temperatures, all other things being equal. And it's my hunch (nothing more) that recent warming trends are at least in part the result of human activity. But as to the steepness of the human-generated increase, and how much of it is natural phenomena like solar intensity, I honestly don't know.
My political approach, though, is simply to apply market principles to energy and transportation consumption. If the costs were internalized in price, the issue would probably be moot, because we'd be getting by on a fraction of our present energy consumption. If human-generated global warming is a serious problem, it's a result of subsidized energy consumption.

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We are super excited to be doing our very first charity live stream! We have partnered with Wizards of the Coast to go a game raising money through Extra Life.
As part of this game we've come up with some ways your donations can directly impact what happens. We're getting super wacky with the game setting and you can really make that even wackier. Our players will be competing against each other in teams of two. When you donate to Extra Life you can gift your favorite team with some special items to help them try and win. Just state the item and team it goes to when you make your donation.
We can't wait to play this game and see what craziness we can get up to for charity! If you can please donate to Extra Life. Every little bit makes a difference.


The other night, I had the most wonderful opportunity to speak to high school students from all over Connecticut who won very special Laws of Life Awards for ethics in action. The students were chosen based on essays they had written from experiences in their life that really taught them to be the best they can possibly be.
I, too, was honored to receive an Ethics in Action Award and be their keynote speaker. During my address I shared with them experiences in my life that helped shape me to be the person I am today, both personally and professionally. I shared many stores of my father that helped define who I am today.
My favorite story that I shared was when I first started working at Bigelow Tea. I had just gotten my MBA and was feeling very excited about working and all the changes I would be able to make (in my opinion, to make the company better). My father walked in after my first three days and asked me how things were going. I looked up at him proudly and stated, "Fantastic! I changed this, I've done this, I've accomplished this."He smiled nicely and then said to me, "I noticed you have some envelopes outside in the out basket," (yes, we did have out baskets back then), "and they're missing some stamps." I said, "Oh, I brought in some bills to mail out." And then he said, "Well, if you don't put stamps on your envelopes, why should the other employees put stamps on theirs? So, why don't you go out there, grab your envelopes and put some stamps on them." And then he looked at me and walked out the door.
I stood there for a minute or two, my head spinning. That wasn't how I anticipated my first business conversation with my father to go, but to this day, almost thirty years later, I never forgot what he said and I never forgot what that stood for.
I really enjoyed having the opportunity to share that with the students and I think that simple little story really resonated with them, as it did me, about the importance of ethics in business and ethics in life.
Spending time with exceptional students at the School for Ethical Education's Ethics Awards Dinner and sharing some special stories in my life made for a memorable evening.


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Please forgive us if you're tired of hearing about the importance of health and wellness. It's no secret that we all should say no to those super-jumbo fries and yes to the treadmill. But even if the idea of physical well-being isn't enough incentive to join the yoga-pants-clad masses, what if we told you there are financial benefits as well?
How Employees Can Save Money on Health Care Costs
Many of the virtues often extolled by health-and-fitness fanatics come with the added bonus of keeping money in your pocket. So subscribing to these money-saving healthy habits is like killing two boneless, skinless birds with one stone.
1) Drink alcohol in moderation. "The problem with alcohol is that most people don't know what a serving is," says Sonya Angelone, a registered dietician nutritionist and a spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. A serving is five ounces of wine (enough to fill half a wineglass), 12 ounces of beer (a regular can or bottle) or a shot glass full of hard liquor. The definition of "moderate" drinking is just one serving per day for women and two for men.
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July 2013 figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics put the average cost of a malt beverage consumed at home at $1.24 per 16 ounces; wine is $9.90 per liter. That's $0.93 and $1.46 per serving, respectively. For a woman who drinks more than moderately -- let's say two drinks per day -- that's $678.90 annually for beer and $1,065.80 for wine. The cost is double that ($1,357.80 and $2,131.60) for a man. And that's without accounting for the extra costs of consuming alcohol at bars and restaurants.
Higher-than-moderate drinking essentially pickles the liver and can contribute to other ills, such as high blood pressure and high triglycerides (a type of fat in the blood). "A beer belly really is a beer belly," Angelone says. "Calories from alcohol tend to be stored more quickly as fat."
2) Eat your veggies … and grains and legumes. Most Americans get too much protein and saturated fat, both of which are associated with poorer health, says Angelone. Meat is usually the biggest contributor to saturated fat intake, which increases the risk of heart disease, the number-one cause of death in the U.S. (That's 597,689 deaths in 2011, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.)
Now, we're not suggesting you switch to a vegetarian diet. Making a healthful change is as easy as bulking up on beans, legumes, grains and eggs, while making meat a condiment, rather than the focus of the meal. "It's like having tomato sauce with ground turkey over spaghetti, instead of a big hunk of meat," Angelone suggests.
The changes will be evident in your grocery bill. In July 2013, the BLS quoted the price of uncooked ground beef at $3.79 per pound; uncooked beef roasts at $4.87 per pound; uncooked beef steaks at $6.43 per pound; pork chops at $3.51 per pound; and fresh, whole chicken at $1.48 per pound. Compare that with eggs at $1.83 a dozen; dried beans at $1.42 per pound; peanut butter at $2.74 per pound; white rice at 72 cents per pound; and spaghetti at $1.31 per pound.
Meanwhile, in the produce section, apples were just $1.41 per pound; bananas were 60 cents per pound; tomatoes were $1.43 per pound; white potatoes were 70 cents per pound; and iceberg lettuce was 93 cents per pound.
So, for the amount of money it would cost to buy a pound of ground beef to make four hamburgers, you could instead get one pound of spaghetti, one pound of tomatoes and one-quarter pound of ground beef to make a pasta dish. Put more simply, that's 2.25 pounds of food for the price of one pound of beef.
3) Say no to tobacco. Most smokers have heard this so many times they could scream, and still the CDC reports that 19% of American adults (or 43.8 million people) were smokers as of 2011. We won't go through the well-known list of cancers and other maladies associated with smoking. But did you know that the 2010 Surgeon General's report put the number of cigarette-related deaths in the U.S. at 443,000 annually? What's more, the CDC reported last year that tobacco use is the single largest preventable cause of death and disease in the U.S.
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Even if you don't quit for your health, do it for your wallet. The national average price of a pack of cigarettes is $6.03, according to the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. So someone who smokes a pack a week spends $313.56 a year. Someone who smokes a pack a day will sink $2,200.95 annually into the habit. Use the American Cancer Society's Smoking Cost Calculator to see how much smoking is costing you.
But the buck doesn't stop there. According to the American Cancer Society, each pack also comes with $35 in health-related costs. That's an extra $1,820 if you smoke a pack a week, and $12,775 if you smoke a pack a day.
Kicking that pack-a-day habit could end up netting you about $15,000 every year.
4) Ride a bike or walk to work. The physical benefits of being active regularly can include improved mood, better-quality sleep, improved mental sharpness, decreased body fat, increased lean muscle mass and improved bone mineral density, among other things, health experts say. To get a handle on just how much you'll save in addition to those perks, check out our handy calculator. For instance, someone making a ten-mile trip to and from work, who also pays $110 a month for parking, will save $10.35 per day by biking, or $227.70 this month alone.
For people who don't believe they have enough time to work out, integrating exercise into the commute (if possible) is a solution. "The recommendation is to accumulate at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity each week," says Jessica Matthews, an exercise physiologist with the American Council on Exercise. "For the person who works five days a week, if you are walking or biking to work all of those days (depending on how far away you live), you're almost certainly meeting that goal."
5) Bring in your lunch. Brown-bagging it isn't just a timesaver at work; it's also a money-saver. Consider the promotion currently being run by Subway restaurants: Get a six-inch sandwich and drink combo for as little as $4. Priced at $5, the tuna sandwich meal isn't bad, right? Yes, until you consider what else that can get you. According to the Cost of Living Index (COLI), just over $4 will buy a 5-ounce can of tuna, a 24-ounce loaf of bread and a two-liter bottle of Coke. That's almost enough to make two similarly sized sandwiches, with bread and soda left over for later (but you shouldn't be drinking soda anyway).
Preparing your lunch at home allows you to cut down on the unhealthy additives and preservatives that can come with take-out foods. "We want to eat as many wholesome, fresh foods as possible," says Angelone. "Packing your lunch is usually more nutritious and of better quality." That means we can choose, say, the percentage of fat in our burgers or the type of cooking oil used, instead of letting a restaurant choose for us.
6) Thirsty? Drink water. The typical 12-ounce soda contains about 150 calories. You'd have to walk about a mile and a half just to burn those calories. Two sodas a day? That's a three-mile hike just to stay even.
Diet soda doesn't seem to be better. According to an article from the Harvard School of Public Health, it's possible that sweetened beverages of either type could drive us to crave other sweet or high-carbohydrate foods. And there have been studies that link artificially sweetened drinks to weight gain.
Sidestep all of that with good, old-fashioned water from the tap. The average price of a two-liter bottle of Coke is $1.57, according to COLI. And if the average American drinks 44 gallons (or 167 liters) annually, as the Associated Press recently reported, that's a cost of $131 each year.
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Before joining the Kiplinger team as Online Community Editor in 2013, Rebecca was associate travel editor at the Huffington Post, where she also handled the travel section's social media. She landed at AOL/HuffPost after earning an MS in journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School, with a concentration in health and science journalism. Prior to that, she covered lifestyle at Jacksonville Magazine, in Jacksonville, Fla., preceded by a stint at American Cheerleader magazine. She holds a BA from the College of William and Mary.
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Crucible Criminal Justice Programs (CCJP) is in search of a motivated, self-driven Senior Cybersecurity Analyst Engineer who works well independently, and is interested in working with Major Automated Information Systems (MAIS). Applicants must have a passion for their work, be innovative, and possess strong verbal and written communication and analytic skills. Candidates are expected to be focused and solution-oriented individuals. They must have experience with Department of Defense (DoD) and/or Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cybersecurity requirements and processes and the evaluation of network security using approved tools and best industry practices. If you are interested in having a direct impact on matters dealing with homeland and national security, this position is for you!
Under the guidance of the program manager, the Senior Cybersecurity Analyst Engineer leads the evaluation of network cybersecurity for major software systems. This individual leverages expertise in cybersecurity to plan and prioritize tasks, to coordinate government participation in cybersecurity test events, to oversee testing, and to analyze test results. The Senior Cybersecurity Analyst Engineer prepares reports of test results to include summaries of demonstration events, final test reports, and makes recommendations to improve cybersecurity.
Demonstrate proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, MS Access and Excel, etc.
Education: A bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field.
Experience: Must have at least 10 years of combined professional experience relevant to cybersecurity for DoD and /or DHS Security Networks, ideally as an IT Security Engineer, CISO, CIO, ISSM, ISSO or similar. A portion of this experience may be satisfied by experience in IT System Administration, software development, administration of a logistics management information system, participation in disaster response operations and/or oversight of computer network defense. Must exhibit a high degree of initiative and critical thinking skills in order to manage multiple priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, detail-oriented work environment. Must possess strong analytical, oral and written communication, and interpersonal skills. Be an excellent technical writer with the ability to develop reports and graphs based on the data analysis. Strong Microsoft Access, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills and knowledge of software tools for penetration testing are a must.
Knowledge of current DoD and/or DHS guidance for cybersecurity testing.
Knowledge of capabilities and procedures for use of cybersecurity ranges, labs and other resources.
Ability to evaluate and assess Security Plans, Security Assessment Plans, Cybersecurity Strategy, Program Protection Plan, Security Assessment Reports, RMF Plan of Action and Milestones, Security Authorization Package and Authorization Decision.
Ability to develop a strategy and budget resources for cybersecurity assessments and authorization in a mission environment with a representative threat capability.
Ability to deliver cybersecurity portions of the TEMP. The TEMP should detail how testing will provide the information needed to assess cybersecurity and inform acquisition decisions.
Ability to develop test plans for cybersecurity testing in OT&E. This includes evaluation of capability to protect, detect, react and restore to sustain continuity of operations. Events should integrate RMF security control assessments with tests of commonly exploited and emerging vulnerabilities early in the acquisition lifecycle.
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Ability to develop an Integrated Evaluation Framework.
Ability to prepare executive briefs summarizing cybersecurity testing plans, progress and results.
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All of Earth is about to see the universe like never before. NASA's next generation space telescope launches this week and hundreds of Marylanders made it possible."Early on, people started talking about the next future big telescope. I've been working on some form of this for 26 years now," astronomer and head of the James Webb Space Telescope Mission Office, Dr. Massimo Stiavelli said.It is NASA's most complex space observatory to date.The James Webb space telescope's mirror, alone, is several times larger than the Hubble space telescope.Inside the Space Telescope Science Institute, Stiavelli leads 300 Marylanders on the mission, developing the systems that run the most powerful space telescope built."It's really thought of in terms of looking at the first galaxies, possibly the first stars that formed in the universe, but over the years, the capabilities of an infrared telescope like this has shown it can do a lot of other things in astronomy," Stiavelli said.Stiavelli said it's been a technically challenging endeavor but well worth the work and the wait. The launch is set for Friday."It's in South America, in French Guiana shrouded in the rocket and ready to go," Stiavelli said.The Maryland team will even help control the telescope from Maryland.Once it's 1 million miles away from Earth, it'll capture the most detailed images of the cosmos ever.The tennis-court-sized sunshield will block the light of the sun to peer back in time to the early days of the Universe. At the same time, it'll be able to search for signs of life on worlds beyond our own."There is a line of things to do in the future, but I'm focused on Webb," Stiavelli said.Live launch coverage begins on Dec. 24 at 6 a.m. The launch is set for 7:20 a.m. You can watch the launch on NASA's YouTube channel.
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All of Earth is about to see the universe like never before. NASA's next generation space telescope launches this week and hundreds of Marylanders made it possible.
"Early on, people started talking about the next future big telescope. I've been working on some form of this for 26 years now," astronomer and head of the James Webb Space Telescope Mission Office, Dr. Massimo Stiavelli said.
It is NASA's most complex space observatory to date.
The James Webb space telescope's mirror, alone, is several times larger than the Hubble space telescope.
Inside the Space Telescope Science Institute, Stiavelli leads 300 Marylanders on the mission, developing the systems that run the most powerful space telescope built.
"It's really thought of in terms of looking at the first galaxies, possibly the first stars that formed in the universe, but over the years, the capabilities of an infrared telescope like this has shown it can do a lot of other things in astronomy," Stiavelli said.
Stiavelli said it's been a technically challenging endeavor but well worth the work and the wait. The launch is set for Friday.
"It's in South America, in French Guiana shrouded in the rocket and ready to go," Stiavelli said.
The Maryland team will even help control the telescope from Maryland.
Once it's 1 million miles away from Earth, it'll capture the most detailed images of the cosmos ever.
The tennis-court-sized sunshield will block the light of the sun to peer back in time to the early days of the Universe. At the same time, it'll be able to search for signs of life on worlds beyond our own.
"There is a line of things to do in the future, but I'm focused on Webb," Stiavelli said.
Live launch coverage begins on Dec. 24 at 6 a.m. The launch is set for 7:20 a.m. You can watch the launch on NASA's YouTube channel.
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Four years ago, a heavyset 26-year-old Miami woman named Rossana Miliani walked into a general store in Bryson City, North Carolina, with an older man whose hair was going gray.
The man told a clerk he was a preacher who traveled to campsites around the nearby Appalachian Trail. Miliani, who had taken a bus from South Florida to North Carolina that morning, looked nervous. The two bought a sleeping bag and walked out.
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Reticulated flatwoods salamander
Species Status Native Imperiled
Federal Status: Endangered
FL Status: Federally-designated Endangered
FNAI Ranks: Not ranked
IUCN Status: VU (Vulnerable)
The reticulated flatwoods salamander is a long and slender salamander that can reach a body length of 5.2 inches (13 centimeters) (Ashton 1992). It has a silvery-gray or black body with white spots that are more distinct than on the frosted flatwoods salamander, Ambystoma cingulatum (Goin 1950 as cited in Pauly et at. 2007). Reticulated flatwoods salamanders also have a small head and a black belly.
The diet of the reticulated flatwoods salamanders primarily consists of earthworms and spiders (Goin 1950, P. Moler pers. comm. 2011).
Flatwoods salamanders migrate to ponds or small puddles to breed from October to January during wet weather. Females lay clumps of eggs among vegetation such as twigs and pine needles. The maximum clutch size for the flatwoods salamander is 35 eggs, which hatch 48 hours after being laid. Larvae metamorphose in 90 days (Ashton 1992, J. Himes pers. comm. 2011).
The reticulated flatwoods salamander inhabits slash and longleaf pine flatwoods that have a wiregrass floor and scattered wetlands (Florida Natural Areas Inventory 2001). This species occurs in Florida counties west of the Apalachicola River (Map Data from: Krysko et al. 2011).
The main threat to the reticulated flatwoods salamander is loss of habitat. Pine flatwoods-wiregrass habitats have suffered rapid loss in the southeast due to agriculture and silviculture (Ashton 1992). Continued loss of habitat could cause extensive population loss for the reticulated flatwoods salamander. An extensive drop of the water table could prevent the necessary inundation of water that eggs require (Palis and Hammerson 2008).
The reticulated flatwoods salamander is protected as an Endangered species by the Federal Endangered Species Act and as a Federally-designated Endangered species by Florida's Endangered and Threatened Species Rule.
Other Informative Links
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Change in Status and Critical Habitat Designation
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Ashton, S.P.,1992. Flatwoods salamander, Ambystoma cingulatum. Pages 39-43 in P. E. Moler, editor. Rare and Endangered Biota of Florida. Volume III. Amphibians and reptiles. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
Florida Natural Areas Inventory. 2001. Field guide to the rare animals of Florida.
http://www.fnai.org/FieldGuide/pdf/Ambystoma_cingulatum.PDF
Goin C.J. 1950. A study of the salamander, Ambystoma cingulatum, with the description of a new subspecies as cited in Pauly, Gregory; Oliver Piskurek; Bradley Shaffer (2007). "Phylogeographic concordance in the southeastern United States: the flatwoods salamander, Ambystoma cingulatum, as a test case". Molecular Ecology 16 (2): 415-429.
John Palis, Geoffrey Hammerson 2008. Ambystoma bishopi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 06 August 2011.
Krysko, K., K. Enge, and P. Moler. 2011. Ambystoma bishopi Goin 1951 Reticulated flatwoods salamander. Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles in Florida.


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Happy New Year, Sunday Stampers. This is my first time participating in Sunday Stamps for 2013 - and it is almost February! The theme this week for Sunday Stamps this week is "cartoons and cartoon-like drawings." I have to admit that generally speaking, I don't usually rate cartoon stamps. They are just not really my thing.
However, flicking through my album, I found these stamps from 1994, which I still quite like. I think I liked them very much back in Year 8, when I got them.
They depict the mythical creature, the Bunyip. The Bunyip from Berkeley's Creek is a classic Australian children's story book and features on one of the stamps. I still get a pang of sympathy for the poor misunderstood Bunyip from Berkeley's Creek when I think about him. Needless to say, this is my favourite stamp of the four from the issue.
I have the stamp pack for these stamps, because I thought stamp packs were cool when I was in Year 8. The first stamp is a representation of the bunyip from Aboriginal myth, the second is one called the "Nature Spirit Bunyip". The last stamp is an artist's interpretation of reported sightings of the Bunyip, so is the depiction of the "Natural History Bunyip".
The more I reflect on these stamps, the more I like them. I love a good mythical creature. Happy Sunday, everyone... and beware of the bunyips out there.
I hadn't heard of the Bunyip before, thanks for sharing :).
Interesting stamps, I like mythical creatures, these are new ones to me too. I now know what to look out for by the billabong.
New to me too! Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
With animals like the duckbill platypus in Australia I can readily believe the Bunyip exists. Fine stamps.
something new for me too, very interesting!
For those who are world weary, it is lovely to think there are still things out there that people haven't heard of and can bring some delight, even the humble bunyip....I'm guessing that those who haven't heard of the bunyip of Australian mythology, must not have had their formative years in Australia. 'The Bunyip of Berkley Creek' is certainly an endearing character.
the name bunyips sounded vaguely familiar. I must have read something as a child as I recall some bits from reading about them on wikipedia.
This has been a fun theme - remembering the comic drawings and shows of a long past childhood!


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Home Language Learning & Music Le mistral gagnant: Rediscovering my inner Francophile in India and Quebec
Susanna Zaraysky
One missing digit
One missing digit (not a finger!) almost kept me from going to India.
En route to Chennai (Madras), I had a rude awakening at the Frankfurt airport: my passport number in my Indian e-visa was missing one number! I hadn't noticed the missing digit when I received the email with my Indian e-visa. The airline check-in people at the San Francisco airport also hadn't noticed the mistake. The German customs official would not let me through customs to my India-bound flight. I only had an hour to sort out my visa before the plane was going to board and I was getting stressed about how to fix my problem without being stuck in Germany or being forced to return to San Francisco.
Indian e-visa logo
My only option was to call the Indian e-visa company in India and ask them to change the e-visa immediately and send me an email with my new visa. I thought I would use the Indian SIM card in my international mobile phone to call the Indian e-visa company. It turns out that my Indian SIM card didn't work outside of India. Instead of the Indian e-visa company, I called the Central Fire Department in Frankfurt! The clock was ticking. I totaled over $70 in international call charges while using my US mobile phone to call the Indian e-visa company in India. My calls kept on getting dropped while I was waiting on hold. Desperate, I called a colleague in India who was able to reach the e-visa company and get me a new visa sent to my email account. I showed the German customs official the screen on my laptop with my new e-visa and he let me through!
When waiting in line at the e-visa desk at the Chennai airport, I read an Indian government tourist brochure warning all visitors to only drink filtered water and for single foreign female travelers not to accept invitations to Indian men's homes. The brochure was a good distraction from my mild worry that the Indian customs official might not have my new e-visa with my complete passport number in the computer system. Luckily, my small worry went away and I got my visa stamped in my passport and headed to the arrivals hall to find a taxi driver holding a sign with my name.
With the exception of some cows standing in the middle of the road and not moving until honked at, the road from the Chennai Airport to Pondicherry in the middle of the night was clear. The ride from Chennai to Pondicherry is around three hours by car. About halfway from Chennai, the taxi driver stopped at a roadside chai (tea) stop. My glasses fogged up as soon as I exited the air conditioned taxi to the warm humid air outside. The chai wallah (tea maker) poured the chai (sweet and spicy milk tea) from one big pot into another and then into the metallic cups. I fell asleep on the ride from the tea stand to the guest house.
It was around 4 or 5am when the guesthouse night watchman opened the door to let me in. He had been sleeping on the floor on just a sheet or thin blanket. My room wasn't ready yet, so he showed me to a bench in the hallway where I could rest. I couldn't fall asleep and walked around the hallway and breakfast area studying the decorations of Hindu gods and goddesses and pictures of what Pondicherry used to look like when it was a French colony (until 1954). Seeing these images reminded me of Vrunda, my Indian friend from my childhood in California, who taught me about some Indian deities.
This may seem like the beginning of a travelogue about a trip that almost went awry, with the stressed out Westerner finding herself and inner peace in a meditation or yoga retreat in an Indian ashram. Or perhaps a story of the traveler who defied the tourist brochure warnings and got diarrhea and then fell in love with a local. It's none of those things.
I did take a couple yoga lessons from an Ayurvedic doctor, but I had no Eat, Pray, Love experience in an ashram, nor was I meditating in a rice paddy. I didn't become a Hari Krishna. I didn't open an information technology company in India.
Yoga classes at 7am in Pondicherry, on a thin mat on cement, by a pile of bricks and wood.
I journeyed to India to have my first entry into Indian life and culture. I wasn't expecting that going to Pondicherry, a former French colony, and staying in two French hotel chains in India would start my re-entry into French culture and prepare me for an even deeper French re-immersion in Canada.
Life works in mysterious ways!
(I did also enjoy my discoveries about India but this post is about reuniting with my inner Francophile.)
In the morning, I was delighted to see the female guesthouse staff come in with jasmine in their braids.
Pondicherry is a walkable town with a waterfront, but the beach mostly has big rocks. Many tourists come to the town for the French architecture and the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. I heard that young Indians, especially university students, flock to the colonial French town for the cheap liquor. (No wonder why I saw more young men in front of the Pondicherry liquor stores than in other places in India.)
The guesthouse was a mix of Indian and French cultures. The breakfast foods included delicious French croissants, Indian dosas (fermented lentil pancakes), curd (yogurt), fresh fruit juice and chai. The owners were a family of mixed French and Indian ancestry. The wife was a French citizen because her great grandfather was from France. She spoke fluent French, had attended French schools and sent her children to a French school in Pondicherry. The eldest son was studying in Paris. I mostly spoke to the family in English.
Across from the guesthouse was the Alliance Française, the French Cultural Institute. On a Friday evening, when young people are usually enjoying a stroll along the waterfront or spending time with friends, I was surprised to see many motorcycles in front of the Alliance Française. The motorcycles were those of the many young people who had come to study French on a Friday night! French was quite a popular subject to study for those who work in tourism to cater to French tourists who come to Pondicherry and to Auroville, a nearby utopian village founded by a Frenchwoman.
There was a big poster for a talk about Patrick Modiano, the French Nobel Laureate.
The poster for the calendar of events was all in English, and not in Tamil, the regional language. One of the listings caught my eye: a film about the Pondicherry Indians brought into French Indo-China. This reminded me of a Vietnamese-Indian Frenchman I had met in California who had told me that his parents were descendants of Indians brought by the French to trade in the Bến Thành market in Saigon, Vietnam. There was also an Indochinese restaurant in Pondicherry but I didn't eat there.
Monument to Indian soldiers who died fighting for France in World War I.
There were French monuments, schools, a bookstore, a French cafe and other businesses catering to French people.
This looks like a mixed Catholic and Hindu religious symbol.
French hotels in Pune and Mumbai (Bombay)
In Pune, there was French music playing in the elevator. But it was the lyrical French music playing in the evenings in the lobby and restaurant in the Mumbai hotel that really hit me.
One evening, the song Le Mistral Gagnant by the French singer Renaud overtook me. I had previously heard the song many times on the Toute Intimité album by the Belgian-Italian singer Lara Fabian.
I had never paid attention to the lyrics or title. I just liked the song. I sat on the circular couch in the lobby, closed my eyes and listened to the music. (video link)
A m'asseoir sur un banc cinq minutes avec toi
Et regarder le soleil qui s'en va
Te parler du bon temps qui est mort et je m'en fou
Te dire que les méchants c'est pas nous
To sit on a bench for five minutes alongside you,
And to watch the sun as it sets,
To talk about the good times that are gone and I don't care,
To tell you that we are not the bad guys
Le Mistral Gagnant, lyrics by Renaud
Over dinner in the hotel restaurant, I was preparing my presentation on language activism for the North American Polyglot Symposium in Montreal (now called the Lang Fest). In between drinking wine, eating cheese and French bread and thinking of my presentation, I stopped to pay attention to the French music, especially when there was a Charles Aznavour or Yves Montand song. The food and music immediately made me happy. They may have helped me write my presentation!
The hotel was trying to be as stereotypically French as possible. Some of the chefs wore big white French chef hats while distributing fresh croissants in the morning. I was jokingly wondering if someone was going to ride around the restaurant on a bicycle, wearing a beret on their head and holding a baguette under their arm.
Montreal and Quebec City, Canada
I left the isolated French environment of the Mumbai hotel to vibrant French-Canadian culture in Montreal and Quebec City.
I was a little hesitant about being in Montreal because I knew that sometimes the French spoken in Quebec could be very difficult to understand. It had been a long time since I had been exposed to Quebecois French. When I first arrived, I barely understood the first person I heard speaking in Quebecois French, because he was speaking very fast and using a lot of slang. Luckily, he was the only person I couldn't understand.
Signs en français
While driving into Montreal from the airport, I looked out the window at the red brick buildings with signs of businesses in French. The first sign to catch my attention was for a dépanneur. In France, a dépanneur is a repairperson, but in Quebec it's a convenience store. The name comes from the verb dépanner which means to get out of trouble. Figuring out what the sign meant was a fun game for a multilingual person like me.
Multilingual and multicultural Montreal
Montreal is the dream city for a francophile who also likes multicultural environments.
Unlike some Chinese stores in California that don't have signs in English, even the little Chinatown in Montreal had all their signs in French as well as Chinese!
Speaking to the Asian cashier in French at a Lebanese shish kabob restaurant with all of the signs in French brought a smile to my face.
In the old part of Quebec City, there was a street with many French bookstores. One of them, Librarie Nelligan, was named after a very famous Quebecois poet, Émile Nelligan. In an age of disappearing bookstores, I was thrilled to see so many French-language bookstores in North America!
I felt very proud of the Quebecois for keeping their French language. I know that it's been very difficult to keep the language alive. Some people might say that the measures that the Quebecois have been taken to keep the language alive are not democratic. Immigrants to Quebec were forced to learn the French language. I heard some people in Montreal complaining that if French-speaking parents want to sent their children to public schools, their kids have to attend French-language schools. If the parents want their kids to go to English-language schools, they have to pay for a private school. One of my anglophone colleagues from Montreal didn't like how he was forced to learn French. I understand that my delight may not be shared by all in Quebec.
French music has had a profound impact on me. Hearing French music in cafes and restaurants in Quebec made me realize that even though I loved a lot of old French music, I actually hadn't been partaking in any French cultural activities for a long time. I sometimes went to a French conversation group, but I usually talked to the same people. I hadn't read a French book in a very long time. I did occasionally watch French movies. But, I wasn't doing anything actively to maintain the language.
Le mistral gagnant
I chanced upon the Southern French restaurant "Le Mistral Gagnant" while walking around Quebec City. The sign caught my attention because it was the same title of the song that I was listening to with my eyes closed in the hotel lobby in Mumbai, India a week prior. I realized that I didn't even know what the title meant. The restaurant owner told me it was the name of a candy from the south of France and also the name of a type of wind in the south of France.
Provençal (Southern French) decor at Le Mistral Gagnant
In between sips of white wine, I relished every morsel of the bread with butter and fish in the tomato and olive sauce. I ordered another glass of wine just to sit and listen to the French music playing in the restaurant.
Later, I read the lyrics of the Mistral Gagnant song and learned it was about a father speaking to his daughter about his memories of childhood and telling her to enjoy life, even when "le temps est assassin" (time is a murderer). He speaks of the French Mistral Gagnant candy as a memory from his childhood. The candy had a paper inside. If the paper said gagnant (winner), the lucky child won a new free candy. The song represented what I had learned about myself. I was like a little child again rediscovering awe and beauty in the world. I came to India to learn about India, but I got a winning bonus: I rediscovered French culture, language and food.
I didn't need a candy wrapper to give me a new candy. I already had the winner inside myself, I just had to make an effort to include the winning formula (French music + language + culture + food) back inside my life.
Mistral gagnant candy
It's beautiful to rediscover a dormant part of yourself. It's like meeting an old friend again that I haven't seen in a long time. But that old friend is myself. I'm really glad to reacquaint myself with the Francophile in me.
Que si moi je suis barge, ce n'est que de tes yeux
Car ils ont l'avantage d'être deux
Et entendre ton rire s'envoler aussi haut
Que s'envolent les cris des oiseaux
Te raconter enfin qu'il faut aimer la vie
Et l'aimer même si le temps est assassin
Et emporte avec lui les rires des enfants
That if I am crazy it is only because of your eyes,
It's an advantage to have two eyes,
To hear your laugh rise up so high,
That it makes the bird's cry fly away,
To tell you to love life,
Love it, even if time is a murderer,
That takes away children's laughter,
And the Mistral Gagnants
I won't let "murderous" time take me away from my own laughter and my passion for French culture!
For a lesson in French about this song, please visit the Français avec Pierre video tutorial.
Thin buttery buckwheat pancakes
To bring me back to my childlike culinary awe, I searched for a crêperie, a restaurant serving both savory buckwheat galettes and sweet white wheat flour crêpes. These are typical foods from Brittany, the provinces on the French Atlantic Coast, where I lived as a foreign exchange student at age 15.
Galette in Montreal
The regional flag of Brittany, Briezh Cafe, Montreal
Even though many years had passed since I had last seen anything that reminded me of Brittany, I was immediately transported back to being a 15 year old exchange student. As soon as I saw the glistening butter on the buckwheat pancakes, I was filled with gastronomic joy, remembering my first meal in Brittany, a galette with egg, emmentaler cheese, mushrooms, and tomato. I could taste the galette in front of me and imagine the first one I had ever had, as though I were in some culinary time machine that kept me in the present moment and took me back to the past simultaneously.
It wasn't just the food that I was missing, it was the entire multi-sensory French experience. In Quebec City, I only had 25 minutes to eat because I was in a hurry to catch my bus back to Montreal. Usually in a restaurant, I might read or talk while waiting for my food, but this time, I wanted to savour every moment of my experience in the restaurant. I felt like each moment of those 25 minutes was precious. I could have easily turned around and started chatting in Spanish with the Venezuelan family seated next to me, but I didn't. I wanted to take in the smells from the kitchen, enjoy the French music and the decorations, many of which were actually written not in French, but in the Breton language.
Indian-French finale
Sugar Sammy, You're Gonna Rire
Like any good story, I need to create some sort of finale to tie my almost ill-fated trip to India and my connection to French culture. When I arrived in Montreal, I read an article about a free show by the Canadian-Indian male comedian, Sugar Sammy, in the Just for Laughs comedy festival. On my last day, I attended the "You're gonna to rire" multilingual comedy show. ("rire" means "to laugh" in French.) Sitting outside in a park in downtown Montreal, I ate Lebanese food and laughed at Sugar Sammy's jokes as he gracefully went back and forth between Quebecois French and English, and even added some words in Punjabi. The bilingual audience laughed at all his jokes, in English and in French. The Punjabi ones went over my head!
You don't have to go all the way to the state of Tamil Nadu in India to get a mix of French and Indian cultures, just watch a Sugar Sammy show.
I am grateful for the opportunity to have traveled to India (both to discover a new country and to reconnect with French language and culture) and to the North American Polyglot Consortium for inviting me to Montreal. Those two places reacquainted me, not with just the French language, but also with myself.
P.S. I did learn my lesson about triple checking my passport number in my travel visas! I don't want to let one digit to keep me away from a linguistic and travel adventure again!
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I'll be scaling back my fantasy ball obligations, so this was my final season of Mock ball. Since this is the biggest, I chose to begin here after a lengthy affiliation.
Rick and Shane before him have done a fine job of keeping this afloat. Wish Rick all the best. He's a rock.
Thanks for the opportunities to compete against some of the best in the fantasy baseball game.
If you're inclined to remain in touch, I am easily reached: edmcgranahan@charter.net, not quite as easy through Facebook.
Say it ain't so, Shoeless Joe's Homeys!!!!!
You will be missed, Ed! Sorry to see you go. Best wishes to you!
Ed, sorry to hear this (even though I am not sure of my own plans). You have been a great owner. A terrific competitor.
Sorry to see you go, too. Best wishes to you.


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Saturday, a "Secession Rally" planned by the Alabama Flaggers, a pro-Confederate battle flag group, is set to take place at the Alabama State Capitol.
"We are rallying for the secession from the United States of America brings (sic) your flags bring your secession flags bring your secession signs," states the event sponsor, Alabama Flaggers' Facebook page.
The event is scheduled in response to Gov. Robert Bentley removal the Confederate flags from a memorial on the grounds of the state Capitol after the mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a black church in Charleston S.C., in June.
Despite being banned from many Confederate flag rallies in the past months for their extreme views, the Southern Poverty Law Center has learned that the Alabama Flaggers extended an invitation to the hate-group the League of the South, and that several members of the League are scheduled to speak at the secession rally.
"The LOS has become increasingly radical in recent years, and even more notably in recent months, as they have eagerly taken on a mantle of victimhood as the Confederate flag has come under fire and begun preparing themselves for an inevitable race war," says the SPLC Hatewatch staff.
As of Thursday, more than 300 people have indicated that they will attend Saturday's 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. event.
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Yadiel Rivera (born May 2, 1992) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball infielder who is currently a free agent. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers, Miami Marlins and Texas Rangers.

Career

Milwaukee Brewers
Rivera was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the ninth round of the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft out of  Manuela Toro High School in Caguas, Puerto Rico. He reached Double-A for the first time in 2014. Rivera was added to the Brewers 40-man roster on November 20, 2014.

Rivera made his Major League debut on September 22, 2015.

On September 4, 2016, Rivera was recalled to the active roster from Class AAA Colorado Springs Sky Sox to back up the injured Jonathan Villar. Rivera was designated for assignment by the Brewers on September 15, 2017. He elected free agency on November 6, 2017.

Miami Marlins
On November 24, 2017, Rivera signed a minor league contract with the Miami Marlins. Rivera's contract was purchased by the Marlins on March 29, 2018, and he was assigned to the Opening Day roster. On July 7, 2018, Rivera hit his first career home run at Nationals Park against Nationals starter Max Scherzer. He was outrighted to AAA on December 10, 2018.

He was assigned to Triple-A New Orleans to start the 2019 season. On August 6, Rivera was designated for assignment. He elected free agency on October 1.

Texas Rangers
On January 10, 2020, Rivera signed a minor league deal with the Texas Rangers that included an invitation to Spring Training. On August 20, 2020, Rivera was selected to the active roster. He made his season debut on August 23. On September 4, Rivera was designated for assignment after going 0 for 5 in 5 at-bats over 4 games. He became a free agent on November 2, 2020.

Houston Astros
On May 8, 2021, Rivera signed a minor league contract with the Houston Astros organization and was assigned to the Triple-A Sugar Land Skeeters. Rivera played in 19 games for the Skeeters, hitting .232/.250/.261 with 8 RBI before he was released on September 16.

Arizona Diamondbacks
On April 1, 2022, Rivera signed a minor league contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks and was assigned to the Triple-A Reno Aces. He was released on June 19, 2022.

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These occurrences took place before the establishment of a school at Brainerd, while Catharine was young, ignorant of the world, without any clear views of morality, and destitute of the knowledge and love of God. Strange that her resolution should then have been so influenced by a sense of character. But she was a chosen vessel of mercy, and a hand, which she did not know, was doubtless extended for her preservation.
Early in the autumn of 1816, a missionary, sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, made his appearance in a general Council of the Cherokees, and offered to establish a school among them. His offer was favourably [sic] received. After consultation, a principal chief took him by the hand and said : " You have appeared in our full council. We have listened to what you said and understand it. We are glad to see you. We wish to have the schools established, and hope they will be of great advantage to the nation." This missionary wad the Rev. Cyrus Kingsbury, who, after commencing the first establishment of the Board among the Cherokees, took up his residence with the Choctaws, was the chief agent in forming the stations of Elliot and Mayhew, and is now the superintendent of the Choctaw mission.
wives, arrived as assistant missionaries, and soon after their arrival, a school was opened under favourable [sic] prospects.
I am here amongst a wicked set of people, and never hear prayers or any godly conversation. O my dear friends, pray for me : I hope you do. There is not a day passes but I think of you and the kindness I received during thee time I staid [sic] with you. It is not my wish to go to the Arkansas ; but God only knows what is best for me. I shall not attempt to tell you what I have felt since I left you, and the tears I have shed when I called to mind the happy moments we passed in singing the praises of God. However, I bear it as well as I possibly can, trusting in our dear Saviour [sic], Who will never leave nor forsake them that put their trust in him. It is possible that I may see you once more; it would be a great happiness to me if I don't go to Arkansas ; perhaps I may ; but if I should go, it is not likely that we shall meet in this world again :--but you will excuse me, for my heart feels what I cannot express with my pen. When I see the poor thoughtless Cherokees going on in sin, I cannot help blessing god, that he has lead me in the right path to serve him.
O may we meet at last in the kingdom of our blessed Saviour [sic], never more to part. Farewell, my dear brother and sister, farewell.
TO MR. AND MRS. CHAMBERLAIN, AT BRAINERD.
where I have spent so many happy hours with you; but it is past, never to return.
Dear friends, I weep; my heart is full; tears flow from my eyes while I write: and why is it so? Do I murmur? God forbid. Ought I not to praise the Lord for what I have received, and trust him for everything? O yes, his ways are best, and he has graciously promised, that "all things shall work together for good to them that love him." But do I love him? Have I that love to him, which will enable me to keep all his commandments? Do I love him with all my heart? O that the Lord would search me, and lead me in the way of eternal life.
I am here amongst a wicked set of people, and never hear prayers, nor any godly conversation. O my dear friends, pray for me: I hope you do. There is not a day that passes but I think of you and the kindness I received during the time I staid with you. It is not my wish to go to the Arkansas; but God only knows what is best for me. I shall not attempt to tell you what I have felt since I left you, and the tears I have shed when I called to mind the happy moments we passed in singing the praises of God. However, I bear it as well as I possibly can, trusting in our dear Saviour, who will never leave nor forsake them that put their trust in him.
go to the Arkansas; perhaps I may; but if I should go, it is not likely we shall meet in this world again:- but you will excuse me, for my heart feels what I cannot express with my pen. When I see the poor thoughtless Cherokees going on in sin, I cannot help blessing God, that he has led me in the right path to serve him.


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Royal Grammar School, Newcastle
Newcastle Royal Grammar School is the North East's leading Independent School.
Take a look through our website to find out more about why there's more to life at RGS!
We understand that it is vital for you keep up to date with everything going on in school.
On these pages, you'll find everything you need to know about the day to day running of the RGS.
Being a member of the RGS is more than being a student at a school. It means being part of a family which includes current students and staff, Old Novocastrians and the wider community.
Want to join the RGS Family? There are plenty of ways you can get involved.
Though schools are primarily about people, they work better in quality buildings. Having occupied its present location since 1906, the Royal Grammar School is very fortunate to have fine core buildings, clustered round a magnificent hall. In recent years, however, the RGS has continued to invest heavily to ensure it has the finest facilities of any school in the north of England. The school is currently well into an exciting multi-million pound building programme which has already seen some exciting new developments take place.
Sixth Form Centre
In January 2020, we opened our new Sixth Form centre - the combination of the old sixth form and old library into a modern, and much larger area. The open-plan style centre comprises individual study pods, a Sixth Form only bank of computers, a space for collaborative working, printing and photocopying facilities and a new coffee bar, serving hot and cold barista style drinks and snacks.
In September 2019, phase three of our ambitious plans to upgrade our facilities was completed when our new state-of-the-art library building opened. The building also includes art studios, maths classrooms, a pastoral suite and an assembly space.
The school has invested heavily to ensure it has the finest IT facilities and all classrooms have interactive whiteboards and projectors. There are 13 computer suites available to students and there is wi-fi accessible across the school. The Junior School also have class sets of iPads for use in lessons.
The school has a dedicated Performing Arts Centre built around an impressive theatre which has professional sound and lighting facilities and raked seating for over 300. There is also a fully-equipped recording studio, a dance studio with ballet barre and sprung floor, a keyboard lab and 10 individual teaching rooms which are used for private music tuition.
See what's happening this term in the PAC.
Our theatre is available for hire by external organisations. This includes use of the school's free car park and the theatre's licensed bar. For further information please contact Jill Graham, PAC Events Manager on 0191 212 8930 or email j.graham@rgs.newcastle.sch.uk
On-site, the school has a state-of-the-art artificial turf pitch, rugby pitch and several play areas. Off-site facilities include a football pitch, three rugby pitches and Jesmond Cricket Ground which is a five minute walk from the school. We also use many other city-based facilities for sports such as football, tennis, indoor climbing, squash, hockey and athletics.
In September 2015, the school unveiled a new state-of-the-art sports facility which includes a new swimming pool; a second sports hall with a climbing wall; a new fitness suite; a weights room; an aerobic dance studio; a new suite of sports offices and new administration and changing rooms to accommodate all the school's foreseeable sporting needs.
The school has a large Science and Technology Centre which houses 15 specialist science laboratories for Biology, Chemistry and Physics, as well as two design and technology laboratories and a teaching kitchen.
In addition to 12 classrooms, the Junior School also have a dedicated art room (with ceramics kiln), an IT suite, a science lab, individual music practise rooms, two library spaces and an exciting new green-screen room for making high quality video footage. The Junior School have also invested heavily in iPad technology. Outdoors, there are two creative play areas with climbing equipment, a dedicated netball pitch and an 80m running track with jumping pit. The Junior School also have access to the sporting facilities in the Senior School.
Our doors are always open for personal tours during normal school days.
To arrange a tour, please contact our Head of Admissions, Ali Perry, at admissions@rgs.newcastle.sch.uk or 0191 2128968
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La Poltrona 41, conosciuta anche come Paimio, è una poltrona disegnata da Alvar Aalto e da sua moglie Aino. Fu disegnata nell'ambito del progetto dell'ospedale di Paimio in Finlandia. La sedia fa parte della collezione permanente del MoMA di New York e del Design Museum di Helsinki.

Storia
Nel 1928 Alvar Aalto e la moglie Aino avevano vinto il concorso per la progettazione del Sanatorio della città finlandese di Paimio, mentre l'edificio era in fase di costruzione, i due coniugi furono incaricati anche della progettazione degli arredi. Inizialmente avevano pensato ad utilizzare i mobili in tubo d'acciaio del Bauhaus (erano in possesso della Sedia Wassily di Marcel Breuer) ma ben presto optarono per il legno. Per cui cominciarono a lavorare con questo materiale, i primi esempi che realizzarono furono esposti nel 1929 in occasione del settecentesimo anniversario della città di Turku. Nel 1933 il sanatorio era stato completato e i progetti sia architettonici che dei mobili furono esposti a Londra. Nel 1934 i mobili erano già in vendita nel catalogo della Wohnbedarf di Zurigo, tuttavia il marketing del prodotto non soddisfò gli autori che decisero di creare una loro galleria espositiva e una ditta di distribuzione, fondarono quindi la Artek.

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I filled my home with fresh spring blooms over the weekend, and it smells divine. So I just thought I'd share some pics of them this week for my photo a day challenge. I'm kicking off with these beautiful ranunculus, hope you like them.


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Fifth Cub of Brno's Polar Bear Cora Moves to Germany
BD Staff September 21, 2018 Fifth Cub of Brno's Polar Bear Cora Moves to Germany2018-09-21T08:48:38+02:00 Family and Kids, News - Archived
The polar bears of Brno Zoo are sending their fifth cub out into the world. Photo credit: Zoo Rostock.
Brno, Sep 21 (BD) – The young female polar bear named Noria left Brno on September 15, and has since had her first introduction to visitors to the zoo in Rostock, Germany.
Photo credit: Zoo Rostock.
According to the zookeepers, Noria enjoys the swimming pool and all the water features in Rostock, just like she did in Brno. The Brno native has already met her future husband, Akiak. "As the Germans remarked, it was not love at first sight. Akiak is much bigger than Norinka, but they will give them as much time as they need," explained Brno Zoo spokesman Michal Vaňáč.
Noria was born on November 21, 2015. She is the fifth cub successfully raised from her mother Cora. Raising polar bear cubs in captivity is an important achievement for a zoo.
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A centuries-old tradition since 1982.
The Sealaska Board of Trustees last year decided to postpone Celebration 2020 to 2021 because of the pandemic. The trustees will make a decision in December or January on whether Celebration will be held in 2021 or 2022. The decision will be based on the scientific evidence to ensure the safety of all participants.
For four days every other June, the streets of Juneau fill with Native people of all ages dressed in the signature regalia of clans from throughout Southeast Alaska and beyond. There is traditional song and dance. Arts and crafts. Food. And people speaking local Native languages. This is Celebration, our biennial festival of Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures.
Celebration is one of the largest gatherings of Southeast Alaska Native peoples and is the second-largest event sponsored by Alaska Natives in the State of Alaska. The event draws about 5,000 people, including more than 2,000 dancers. Thousands more watch the event online. A 2012 study showed each Celebration generates an estimated economic impact of $2,000,000.
Time-honored customs made new
Prior to European contact, the peoples of the Northwest Coast held many traditional ceremonies in which singing, dancing, formal oratory, and feasting took place. As the economy of the region changed to one based on cash rather than trade and sharing, some Native traditions floundered. Dance, song, traditional oratory, and knowledge of clan protocol were in danger of being lost to history. Realizing this, Native elders created Celebration as a way to bring Native people together to showcase and preserve their traditions and customs.
Celebration is a new tradition. During earlier times, a clan from one moiety would always host a clan from the other moiety. An Eagle clan, for example, might host a Raven clan and, then, the reverse would occur in order that balance, reciprocity, and respect be maintained. Those who danced together as either hosts or guests were from one clan, one side. Now, clan members have scattered in order to pursue careers and personal interests, and the formal system of reciprocal obligation has become more difficult to maintain although traditional ceremonies are still a vital part of Northwest Coast culture. At Celebration, some clan members still gather as single-clan Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian dance groups but most groups at Celebration represent combinations of many clans.
As times have changed, the peoples of the Northwest Coast have adopted revitalized festival traditions while continuing to maintain the old. Although Celebration follows the pattern of a traditional ceremonial it is not a potlatch or memorial party. Adoptions, name giving, memorial services, and other events that are a proper part of those traditional gatherings are not part of Celebration and are observed at other times.
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