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Amazon stock has risen more than 388% in the past five years and added 17.36% since July 2020.
Amazon's market share has risen from 34% in 2016 to a projection of 50% in 2021.
The sale of edible groceries in Amazon is expected to grow 84.14%, from $14.5 billion in 2021 to $26.7 in 2026 at a CAGR of 13%.
Touted as the world's fifth most expensive stock, Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) added 1.53% on July 22, 2021, from the previous day to close at $3,638.03. Pre-market trading as of 6:02 am GMT on July 23, 2021, saw AMZN gain 0.52% to trade at $3.655.93. The stock has risen more than 388% in the past five years and has added 17.36% since July 2020.
In the past year, Amazon's market capitalization has increased 18.16% to $1.835 trillion. By 2022, Amazon's market share in the US e-commerce platform is projected to reach 50% from 47% in 2020.
Amazon's market share has risen exponentially from 34% in 2016 to a projection of 50% in 2021. Q2 2021 earnings are scheduled for release on July 29, 2021.
Sale of edible groceries
This increase is expected to be powered by the strong sale of edible groceries expected to grow 84.14% from $14.5 billion in 2021 to $26.7 in 2026. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of Amazon's sales was 13%. Market research in the US also shows that Amazon's beverage business (like online food) will also grow close to 100% in the next 5 years and surpass market leaders like Walmart.
The fiscal year 2021 saw Walmart's revenue jump 6.72% to $559.15 billion from $523.96 billion in FY 2020. The forecast for Walmart's CAGR is expected to reach 14.1%, with the online sale of groceries expected to reach $19.5 billion by 2026. This growth in online retail sales from both Amazon and Walmart was boosted by the pandemic shopping.
Alibaba leads the pack with a CAGR projection of 10.7%. The sale of food and beverage (online) is expected to rise to $34.2 billion in 2026 from $20.6 billion in 2021 (see figure 3).
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Amazon's share price shot up after the EU appealed the €250 million tax case that the online retailer had won. The EU, whose capital is in Brussels, had hoped to win in a similar move that the Irish government pulled against Apple when the giant tech company was ordered to repay €14.3 billion in tax.
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In the past month, Amazon's share price has grown 3.78%, buoyed by Jeff Bezos's space-flight on July 20, 2021, which saw his net worth gain $1.1 billion. Bezos owns an 11% majority stake in Amazon.
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AMZN's EPS estimates are projected to decline 22.80% to $12.19 from 15.79. However, revenue is expected to increase 5.95% from $108.52 billion to $114.98 billion.
AMZN has formed a rounding top, with the price headed towards an upward breakout of the recent high around 3630.0. The volume is rising on the buy-side, indicating the rising strength of the uptrend.
The stock found support at $3122.35 on May 11, 2021, after a sharp decline. There is a strong buying momentum with the rising 14-day RSI at 58.18. Failure of the uptrend to get above 3630.0 may pull prices back to $3611.89.
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Please see below for specific session dates and times based on your age group.
Additional dates may be added as determined necessary.
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For the 2019 / 2020 season, we will field teams at 12U, 14U, 16U and 18U.
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Makeup Tryouts
Monday August 5, 2019: 5:00 pm
Monday August 12, 2019: 5:00 pm
All players should arrive a little early to stretch and be ready to try out at the start time.
Location: Chanhassen, Lake Ann Park, Fields 4, 5, 6 Click here for map
Tryout Fee: $ 15, payable online (via credit card) or in person at the session (cash or check payable to MN Vortex)
Please note: It is our intention that the above dates are the only tryout sessions offered. However, if deemed necessary, additional callbacks or a make-up session may be utilized. For extenuating circumstances related to the above dates, a player should contact Mike Carter at or the tryout coordinator at
The Minnesota Vortex strongly supports multi-sport athletes. While the Vortex and A's programs provides the opportunity for year round training, we also know the importance of well rounded, confident athletes and citizens. Therefore our off-season work consists of individual instruction, clinics, dome ball and team practices but also takes into consideration the young athletes 2nd sport and other community based commitments. During the primary softball season you are expected to make softball your priority sport and are expected to attend all scheduled practices and games. The Vortex was born out of great community players who desire to compete at the highest level. The MN Vortex teams play at the highest levels of competition available and appropriate to each team. Each Vortex team expects to play several local and regional tournaments and we expect to qualify for out of state National Tournaments.
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Q: Python and Unicode: How everything should be Unicode Forgive if this a long a question:
I have been programming in Python for around six months. Self taught, starting with the Python tutorial and then SO and then just using Google for stuff.
Here is the sad part: No one told me all strings should be Unicode. No, I am not lying or making this up, but where does the tutorial mention it? And most examples also I see just make use of byte strings, instead of Unicode strings. I was just browsing and came across this question on SO, which says how every string in Python should be a Unicode string. This pretty much made me cry!
I read that every string in Python 3.0 is Unicode by default, so my questions are for 2.x:

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*Should I do a:
print u'Some text' or just print
'Text' ?

*Everything should be Unicode, does this mean, like say I have a tuple:
t = ('First', 'Second'), it should be t = (u'First', u'Second')?
I read that I can do a from __future__ import unicode_literals and then every string will be a Unicode string, but should I do this inside a container also?

*When reading/ writing to a file, I should use the codecs module. Right? Or should I just use the standard way or reading/ writing and encode or decode where required?

*If I get the string from say raw_input(), should I convert that to Unicode also?
What is the common approach to handling all of the above issues in 2.x? The from __future__ import unicode_literals statement?
Sorry for being a such a noob, but this changes what I have been doing for a long time and so clearly I am confused.

A: IMHO (my simple rules):

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*Should I do a:
  print u'Some text' or just print 'Text' ?

*Everything should be Unicode, does this mean, like say I have a tuple:
  t = ('First', 'Second'), it should be t = (u'First', u'Second')?

Well, I use unicode literals only when I have some char above ASCII 128:
   print 'New York', u'São Paulo'
   t = ('New York', u'São Paulo')

*

*When reading/ writing to a file, I should use the codecs module. Right? Or should I just use the standard way or reading/ writing and encode or decode where required?

If you expect unicode text, use codecs.

*

*If I get the string from say raw_input(), should I convert that to Unicode also?

Only if you expect unicode text that may get transfered to another system with distinct default encoding (including databases).
EDITED (about mixing unicode and byte strings):
>>> print 'New York', 'to', u'São Paulo'
New York to São Paulo
>>> print 'New York' + ' to ' + u'São Paulo'
New York to São Paulo
>>> print "Côte d'Azur" + ' to ' + u'São Paulo'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1:
     ordinal not in range(128)
>>> print "Côte d'Azur".decode('utf-8') + ' to ' + u'São Paulo'
Côte d'Azur to São Paulo

So if you mix a byte string that contains utf-8 (or other non ascii char) with unicode text without explicit conversion, you will have trouble, because default assumes ascii. The other way arround seems to be safe. If you follow the rule of writing every string containing non-ascii as an unicode literal, you should be OK.
DISCLAIMER: I live in Brazil where people speak Portuguese, a language with lots of non-ascii chars. My default encoding is always set to 'utf-8'. Your mileage may vary in English/ascii systems.

A: I'm just adding my personal opinion here. Not as long and elaborate at the other answers, but maybe it can help, too.

print u'Some text' or just print 'Text' ?

I'd indeed prefer the first. If you know that you only have Unicode strings, you have one invariant more. Various other languages (C, C++, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Lua, …) sometimes encounter painful problems because of their lack of separation between code unit sequences and integer sequences. I find the approach of strict distinction between them that exists in .NET, Java, Python etc. quite a bit cleaner.

Everything should be Unicode, does this mean, like say I have a tuple:
t = ('First', 'Second'), it should be t = (u'First', u'Second')?

Yes.

I read that I can do a from __future__ import unicode_literals and then every string will be a Unicode string, but should I do this inside a container also?

Yes. Future statements apply only to the file where they're used, so you can use them without interfering with other modules. I generally import all futures in Python 2.x modules to make the transition to 3.x easier.

When reading/ writing to a file, I should use the codecs module. Right? Or should I just use the standard way or reading/ writing and encode or decode where required?

You should use the codecs module because that makes it impossible (or at least very hard) to accidentally write differently-encoded representations to a single file. It is also the way Python 3.x works when you open a file in text mode.

If I get the string from say raw_input(), should I convert that to Unicode also?

I'd say yes to this too: In most cases it's easier to deal with only one encoding, so I recommend converting to Python Unicode strings as early as possible.

What is the common approach to handling all of the above issues in 2.x? The from __future__ import unicode_literals statement?

I don't know what the common approach is, but I use that statement all the time. I have encountered only very few issues with this approach, and most of them are related to bugs in external libraries—i.e., NumPy sometimes requires byte strings without documenting that.

A: The fact that you were writing Python code for 6 months before encountering anything about Unicode means that the Python 2.x ASCII default for strings didn't cause you any problems. Certainly for a beginner to try to grasp the idea of Unicode/code points/encoding in itself is a hard issue to tackle; therefore, most tutorials naturally bypass it until you get more of a grounding in the fundamentals. That's why in a book like Dive Into Python, Unicode is only mentioned in later chapters.
If you need to support Unicode in your application, I suggest looking at Kumar McMillan's PyCon 2008 talk on Unicode for a list of best practices. It should answer your remaining questions.

A: The "always use Unicode" suggestion is primarily to make the transition to Python 3 easier.  If you have a lot of non-Unicode string access in your code, it'll take more work to port it.
Also, you shouldn't have to decide on a case-by-case basis whether a string should be stored as Unicode or not.  You shouldn't have to change the types of your strings and their very syntax just because you changed their contents, either.
It's also easy to use the wrong string type, leading to code that mostly works, or code which works in Linux but not in Windows, or in one locale but not another.  For example, for c in "漢字" in a UTF-8 locale will iterate over each UTF-8 byte (all six of them), not over each character; whether that breaks things depends on what you do with them.
In principle, nothing should break if you use Unicode strings, but things may break if you use regular strings when you shouldn't.
In practice, however, it's a pain to use Unicode strings everywhere in Python 2.  codecs.open doesn't pick the correct locale automatically; this fails:
codecs.open("blar.txt", "w").write(u"漢字")

The real answer is:
import locale, codecs
lang, encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()
codecs.open("blar.txt", "w", encoding).write(u"漢字")

... which is cumbersome, forcing people to make helper functions just to open files.  codecs.open should be using the encoding from locale automatically when one isn't specified; Python's failure to make such a simple operation convenient is one of the reasons people generally don't use Unicode everywhere.
Finally, note that Unicode strings are even more critical in Windows in some cases.  For example, if you're in a Western locale and you have a file named "漢字", you must use a Unicode string to access it, eg. os.stat(u"漢字").  It's impossible to access it with a non-Unicode string; it just won't see the file.
So, in principle I'd say the Unicode string recommendation is reasonable, but with the caveat that I don't generally even follow it myself.

A: No, not every string "should be Unicode". Within your Python code, you know if the string literals needs to be Unicode or not, so it doesn't make any sense to make every string literal into a Unicode literal.
But there are cases where you should use Unicode. For example, if you have arbitrary input that is text, use Unicode for it. You will sooner or later find a non-american using it, and he want to wrîte têxt ås hé is üsed tö. And you'll get problems in that case unless your input and output happen to use the same encoding, which you can't be sure of.
So in short, no, strings shouldn't be Unicode. Text should be. But YMMV.
Specifically:

*

*No need to use Unicode here. You know if that string is ASCII or not.

*Depends if you need to merge those strings with Unicode or not.

*Both ways work. But do not encode decode "when required". Decode ASAP, encode as late as possible. Using codecs work well (or io, from Python 2.7).

*Yeah.

A: 1/2) Personally I've never heard of "always use unicode". That seems pretty stupid to me. I guess I understand if you plan to support other languages that need unicode support. But other than that I wouldn't do that, it seems like more of a pain than it's worth.
3) I would just read/write the standard way and encode when necessary.

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Zimbabwe's ruling party promised Robert Mugabe that he would not be prosecuted if he resigned, a party official said.
"Prosecuting him was never part of the plan," ZANU-PF chief whip Lovemore Matuke said.
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As Zimbabwe prepared to witness the swearing-in of new president Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday morning, its citizens circulated on social media a new photo showing what appeared to be Mr Mugabe at the end of his 37-year rule.
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A dejected-looking Grace Mugabe, who just days ago had been poised to replace Mr Mnangagwa after his firing as vice president and even succeed her husband, looks off camera. Mr Mugabe's eyes are closed.
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According to protocol, Mr Mugabe could even be present at the 75-year-old Mnangagwa's swearing-in on Friday morning at a 60,000-seat stadium after making a triumphant return to the country. He fled shortly after his firing, claiming threats to his life.
Mr Mnangagwa's speech upon his return on Wednesday night outside ruling party headquarters promised "a new, unfolding democracy" and efforts to rebuild a shattered economy. But he also recited slogans from the ruling ZANU-PF party, unlikely to reassure the opposition.
The opposition party MDC-T, which supported Mr Mugabe's removal, said it had not been invited to the inauguration. Spokesman Obert Guru said the party was closely watching Mr Mnangagwa's next moves, "particularly regarding the dismantling of all the oppressive pillars of repression."
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Mr Mnangagwa, a former justice and defence minister with close ties to the military who served for decades as Mr Mugabe's enforcer, remains on a US sanctions list over allegations of violently cracking down on opponents.
He fled Zimbabwe after being fired on November 6 and was in hiding during the week-long political drama that led to Mr Mugabe's resignation. His appearance on Wednesday, flanked by heavy security, delighted supporters who hope he can guide Zimbabwe out of political and economic turmoil.
Mr Mnangagwa will serve Mr Mugabe's remaining term until elections at some point next year. Opposition lawmakers who have alleged vote-rigging in the past say balloting must be free and fair, a call the United States and others have echoed.
Mr Mugabe's resignation was met with wild celebrations by people thrilled to be rid of a leader whose early promise after taking power at the end of white minority rule in 1980 was overshadowed by economic collapse, government dysfunction and human rights violations.
On Thursday, an editorial in the privately run NewsDay newspaper said Mr Mnangagwa has "an unenviable task" and that he should set up a coalition government that represents all Zimbabweans.


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(Jane C. Walker)
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(Edward P. Crapol)
The first vice president to become president on the death of the incumbent, John Tyler (1790-1862) was derided by critics as "His Accidency." Yet he proved to be a bold leader who used the malleable executive system to his advantage. In this biography of the tenth President of the United States, Edward P. Crapol challenges previous depictions of Tyler as a die-hard advocate of states' rights, limited government, and a strict interpretation of the Constitution.
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Crapol also highlights Tyler's enduring faith in America's national destiny and his belief that boundless territorial expansion would preserve the Union as a slaveholding republic. When Tyler, a Virginian, opted for secession and the Confederacy in 1861, he was stigmatized as America's "traitor" president for having betrayed the republic he once led. As Crapol demonstrates, Tyler's story anticipates the modern imperial presidency in all its power and grandeur, as well as its darker side.
John Tyler: Champion of the Old South
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Presidencies of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler
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Wearied by the hotly contested "Log Cabin and Hard Cider" campaign that unseated the Democratic incumbent, Martin Van Buren, Harrison succumbed to pneumonia after only one month in office, the first chief executive to die in the White House. His death precipitated a governmental crisis, which Vice President John Tyler promptly resolved--to the consternation of his Whig Party--by claiming the office and title of president, thus setting a precedent that only later was codified in the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution. Instead of the pliable Harrison, the Whigs confronted in Tyler a tenacious defender of presidential prerogative and a formidable foe of their plan to establish congressional supremacy over the executive branch. Threatened with impeachment, repeatedly exhorted to resign, banished from the Whig Party, abandoned by his cabinet, and burned in effigy, Tyler stood firm and maintained the integrity of the presidential office. Peterson argues that the Tyler administration deserves more credit than it has received for what was accomplished--and preserved--under difficult circumstances.
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Could it be time for young Australian women to shine? Are these two poets [Campbell and LK Holt] among the bright young things of a Generation of '08?'
From Gus Goswell, Cordite Poetry Review, June 2008:
'These latest releases from John Leonard Press are further evidence of this newish publisher's determination to make room for new poetic voices in Australia. . . Campbell is an excellent exponent of free verse. She understands its limitations and potential, and so exploits it to great effect in many of her stronger poems. . . Campbell's best free verse, on display in 'Asthma', 'Recurring', 'Forget' and elsewhere, is free verse that guides the reader through each stanza, elucidating intended meanings and soundings; her punctuation and use of enjambment (which, both within and between stanzas, often replaces formal punctuation) acts as a guide to the ear and mouth as well as the eye.
The ten poems that comprise the title sequence that closes the book distil many of themes and ideas found in the earlier pages of the collection. In these poems we recognise the echo of her epigraphs as Campbell explores another past – not as historian, although her subject is historical, but as the poet she has shown us she is capable of being.
Campbell and Holt are both capable of great insight. Both books prove that their authors have the special capacity for speaking authentically about themselves, their subjects and their readers. It's a pity that first collections struggle to get enough coverage outside poetry circles to draw many new readers towards poetry because, in different ways, both Man Wolf Man andLetters to the Tremulous Hand give something new to Australian poetry. There is in both an undeniable determination to say something about the world we live in now, however hidden beneath layers of the past. Their next books, if they choose to share their words with us again, may well be books that inspire a change in how our poets are received and read.'
From Robert Adamson, The Age, 'Favourite Literary Encounters of the Year'. December 13 2008:
Elizabeth Campbell, in Letters to the Tremulous Hand (John Leonard Press), writes of a 13th-century monk who was a copyist in Worcester and wrote with a tremor in his hand. It was enchanting to be taken back by a brilliant illuminator such as Campbell to the point of these ancient illuminations.
From Jen Webb, Review essay: Poetry in Australia and the John Leonard Press, http://www.textjournal.com.au/oct08/webb.htm, 2008:
'The book [contains] intelligent, observant pieces that make me think of one of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's definitions of the form: 'Poetry should still be an insurgent knock on the door of the unknown' (Ferlinghetti 2000). Her many horse poems gesture in this direction, such as these lines:
Horses are never wrong.
She sucks the world in through her eyes.
She is Yes or
In these small lines Campbell conjures up the essential otherness of the horse who, unlike us, lives outside representation and ethics, right or wrong, yes or no.
The Tremulous Hand himself doesn't appear until page 48 (of 64 pages), and comprises a sequence of poems that weaves in and out of sensation, history, concept and story. . . . the poetic person is very present in these pieces – an insistent voice, one that does not become obscured by language and poetic structure but remains in the images, the tone, the accent and the sense.'
From Sandra Burr, Text Journal, October 2008, www.textjournal.com.au:
[In] Campbell's horse poems there is something much darker, deeper, more confronting and appalling here than conventional horse love. Horses seem to be a locus of loss and longing for Campbell. Her grief at what she sees as the unbridgeable divide between humans and horses is expressed in 'Recurring' when she says of her runaway mare: 'she doesn't need that love/ and you couldn't take her weight.
Each word has been selected and placed on the page with infinite care . . . [this is] her great strength as a poet.


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Taste of the Wild/Step Outdoors events upcoming
This delicious looking rattlesnake sausage in the foreground and gator bites in the background are just two of several delicacies being offered at Taste of the Wild at Steelstacks next weekend. Contributed photo
How would you like to sample some rattlesnake sausage, wild boar belly sliders, gator bites and mini elk kabobs? Well you can if you visit the "Taste of the Wild" culinary event at Steelstacks in Bethlehem. This event takes place June 2, from 6-8 p.m.
These are but a few of the delicacies offered that coincides with the free, "Step Outdoors" program June 3-5 at Steelstacks: You'll be able to enjoy a variety of game and fish inspired hors d'oeuvres crafted especially for the event by ArtsQuest Center Executive Chef Michael Hoffman. Such unique treats like rattlesnake Sausage with Peppers and Onions on a Pub Roll; Mini Elk Kabobs with Red Onion and Cherry Tomato and Bell Pepper; Pomegranate Glazed Wild Boar Belly; Sliders with Napa Slaw; Gator Bites with a Cajun Aioli; Crusted Walleye and Steak Fries; Mozzarella Stackers; Spanakopita; & Rustic S'mores.
Proceeds from Taste of the Wild, presented in partnership with the Wildlands Conservancy, go to support Step Outdoors Lehigh Valley. Tickets for the event, which also provides unique opportunities for guests to meet the education animals and staff of Wildlands Conservancy, are $38 for ArtsQuest Members and $40 for the public. They are on sale now at www.steelstacks.org or call 610-332-3378.?
While enjoying these treats, you can get up close and personal with birds of prey like an owl or hawk, reptiles and mammals from the Emmaus-based Wildlands Conservancy. Wildlands Conservancy educational staff will also be on hand to share information on the animals, their habitat and conservation success stories. The evening also includes a cash bar, as well as the sounds of the Steve Kimock Band performing live on the Levitt Pavilion stage at 7:30 p.m.?
As for the Step Outdoors program, it's filled with dynamic presentations and hands-on activities designed to introduce children and their families to the wonders of the world around them. Activities include archery, biking, birding, fishing, visual arts, wildlife presentations and more. This year, guests will enjoy activities and presentations by more than 25 different organizations focusing on conservation, wildlife and outdoor recreation. For more information on Taste of the Wild and Step Outdoors, please visit www.steelstacks.org.
In addition, it's also the return of the high-flying Keystone DockDogs competition which takes place June 3, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., and June 4, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., feature athletic hunting dogs that perform high-flying feats as they leap into a 40-foot swimming pool set up on SteelStacks' Air Products Town Square.
During the competition, dogs will compete in categories designed to showcase the highest leap, longest jump and quickest retrieve.
New this year are the DockDogs' K9 Aquatics, where festival attendees can bring their own dogs and try three DockDogs disciplines: Big Air, Speed Retrieve and the Extreme Vertical jump. Public jump times are 9-10 a.m. both days.
At Step Outdoors, children can enjoy presentations and activities by more than 25 local and state groups and activities like archery, biking, gardening, art & nature activities, hiking, nature photography, bluebird box building, fishing activities and more. Throughout the weekend, organizations like Hawk Mountain, Wildlands Conservancy and Bear Mountain Butterfly Sanctuary also offer a great mix of presentations featuring live wildlife.
Families looking for unique experiences that tie art to the outdoors will want to check out the Banana Factory Arts Center's tent, where kids work with the staff to create a nature-themed collage or make their own paintbrushes out of twigs, dried flowers and other materials. In addition, the Banana Factory is offering fee-based workshops both days including the opportunity to make a Kokedama moss-wrapped hanging plant or a Glass Jar Biosphere, filled with rocks, water plants and ghost shrimp.
For more information on the festival, visit www.steelstacks.org/stepoutdoors.
FISH FOR FREE DAYS
In an attempt to lure folks and kids into the life-long sport of fishing, the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission is allowing two Fish-for-Free Days.
Sunday, May 28 and Tuesday, July 4, 2017 have been set as designated days when residents and nonresidents may fish without a fishing license. However, all other fishing regulations still apply as to fish size and creel limits.
Trout, stripers, bluefish on weekend menu
Stripers like these are hitting at the Jersey shore. Photo by Lee Haller
Willie from Marx's Bait & Tackle in Cementon reports the Lehigh River is fishing good for trout. The river is a little high but water clarity is good. Locals are using spinners, fatheads and nightcrawlers for trout. One customer took a 20 incher, another nailed a 19 incher at the falls area while one regular customer landed a 24-incher in the Walnutport stretch of the river. Good large trout catches are coming from the Little Lehigh after last weekends junior/adult fishing contests held on the Lehigh Parkway stretch of the creek. Willlie is also receiving decent leftover trout reports from the Monocacy Creek. He also reminds trout anglers that Lehigh River Stocking Associations' Lunkerfest postponed last week because of rain and high, fast water, is being held this weekend. Same place, time and rules as we listed in an earlier column.
Willie says anglers are buying lots of big shiners for Leaser Lakes' catch-and-release muskies. And up at Mauch Chunk Lake, he's been hearing about good perch and pickerel catches.
If you want big fish, head to the Delaware River. According to Brinkman's Bait & Tackle in Philadelphia, stripers are being caught at the Burlington Bristol Bridge and above. Regular customer Dave picked 38 and 34-inchers with chunked bunker right below the turnpike bridge. Off Buoy One, a group of guys fishing eels, white perch and chunked bunker picked up 5 slot fish and 39 and 32-inch throwbacks. They also had 11 smaller fish with a ton of catfish. JR fishing above Trenton caught several nice 20 to 30-inch stripers on bunker, clams and plugs. Further down-river, Pete had a great day fishing Petty's Island with 32 stripers in 2 days but only 2 slot fish. The remainder were small. He did best with bloodworms and bunker. Down at the airport several slot fish have been caught with tons of smaller fish on bloodworms. Fishing up the Raccoon Creek one fisherman had three stripers 37,34 and 28 inches and some catfish 5 to 14 pounds. He did best with live eels but also had fish with bunker and shad strips. Down the river in Delaware state waters, there have been some 30 to 45-inch bass caught with live perch, eels and bunker heads. These fish are being caught from the Commodore Barry Bridge down to the Delaware Memorial Bridge.
Above Trenton, the striper fishing has still been very good. At Lambertville one fisherman with top water plugs picked up six fish (24-31 inches) Tuesday evening with poppers and darters. At Upper Black Eddy area of the Delaware River, a fisherman picked up a 31-inch striper with a live minnow. At the Water Gap, Kevin said there have been fish 24 to 38 inches picked up with live eels and live trout. Kevin has still been crushing the shad in the evenings with small darts and spoons. Up at Narrowsburg to Callicoon, they have also been doing very good for shad fishing late in the days. Mr. D was up to Narrowsburg Tuesday catching 19 shad and a 19-inch walleye all with spoons. Jimmy up above Callicoon, had a couple great evenings with 15 to 25 shad each night all with fly rods.
At the shore, there's been tons of bluefish up and down the coast. Mixed in have been some decent stripers. LBI has been one of the hot spots for bluefish. They have been hitting metal, poppers, bucktails, shad bodies and crankbaits the best. Most of these fish have been six to 15 pounds. Lew had a couple fish 10 to 15 pounds with chunked bunker. Frank picked up over 30 bluefish on Tuesday with 4 keeper stripers mixed in. Bunker heads, 3-ounce Gator spoons and 2 ounce white bucktails with 6-inch grubs were working best. Fred at Sea Isle, had a great day in the wind on Monday catching 17 bluefish and 6 small stripers all with bucktails and 2-ounce metal spoons and jigs. Russ at Brick, NJ, had a couple bluefish on Deadly Dick lures over the weekend. Frank fishing bait at Atlantic City had a few bluefish and a 26-pound striper Saturday morning. A few other guys in the back bay of Atlantic City with smaller metal jigs have been catching 10 to 20 bluefish a day. Most of these fish have been 3 to 8 pounds. If you're looking strictly for stripers, the hot spot has been up in the Raritan Bay. These fish have been hitting a little bit of everything. The bait guys have been snagging and dropping bunker either to catch bluefish or stripers 20 to 40 pounds. The guys trolling have been using Mojo rigs, umbrella rigs and bunker spoons. These guys have been catching quite a mix of bluefish and stripers 15 to 30 pounds. There was a 50- plus pound fish caught late last week. Off the jetty at Long Beach Island, a few smaller bass were hitting live eels, bucktails with grubs or shad bodies and SP minnows. I even had some good reports of weakfish hitting flukes, saltshakers, bucktails and bloodworms. One fish I did see was 11 pounds caught off a jetty at Cape May point.
From the Fisherman Magazine comes word that New Jersey's fluke season will get underway (barring any federal intervention) on May 25 with a three fish at 18-inch size limit running through September 5. In a unanimous vote by the New Jersey Marine Fisheries Council on May 17 at Avalon Community Hall, New Jersey's 2017 limits also provide a two fish at 16-inch bag limit for surfcasters at Island Beach State Park, while allowing three summer flounder at 17 inches for those fishing west of the COLREGS on Delaware Bay. The fluke drama isn't over yet as there are plenty of bureaucratic moving parts that could still muddy the waters – but anglers, captains and tackle shops can mark Thursday the 25th on the calendar as the Memorial Day kickoff to the season as per state officials. Until next Thursday's NJ flatfish opening (don't forget Delaware is already underway at 17 inches, so is New York at 19 inches), big drum are hitting at the Coral Beds and off the Villas, tiderunner weakfish are running from Cape May up into the upper reaches of Barnegat Bay, big stripers are on clams and bunker chunks on the beaches while also whacking trolled baits out to the fence in Ocean and Monmouth County, and big "Dream Boat" bluefish can be found just about anywhere you look.
Proposals in the offing that will affect hunting fees
A proposal to change special hunting fees and a license increase is forthcoming. Photo by author
According to the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs the following bills that may become law, will be presented by two state representatives. The first of which would make veteran senior sportsmen happy.
SR Bryan Cutler says that his HCO1948 would allow any hunter who had purchased a lifetime resident hunting license prior to July 1, 2017, to continue hunting species that may require a permit, previously included under their current license without incurring the additional fee. This references, in particular, the passed license fee to hunt pheasants in the state.
Said Cutler, "In the near future, I intend to introduce legislation to amend Title 34 with regard to special licenses and permits, providing for permit exemptions for senior lifetime license holders."
"As you may know, the PA Game Commission recently passed a regulation requiring pheasant hunters to obtain a $25 permit to hunt pheasants. It was brought to my attention by a senior resident in my district who had obtained a senior lifetime resident hunting license that he would now be required to pay additional fees to hunt pheasant, which had previously been included in the lifetime resident hunting license. This legislation will allow any hunter who had purchased a lifetime resident hunting license prior to July 1, 2017 to continue hunting
pheasant, or any other species that may require a permit, previously included under their current license without incurring the additional fee, as they had expected upon purchasing their license.
SR Barry J. Jozwiak, former Berks County Sheriff, will try for a hunting license fee increase.
Jozwiak says, "In the near future, I intend to introduce legislation that would increase certain hunting license fees issued by the Pennsylvania Game Commission. The legislation will provide for the following increases:
Adult resident hunting $19 to $29
Bear hunting resident $15 to $20
Bear hunting nonresident $35 to $40
Antlerless deer resident $5 to $10
Antlerless deer nonresident $25 to $40
Archery deer resident $15 to $20
Archery deer nonresident $25 to $40
Muzzleloader deer resident $10 to $20
Muzzleloader deer nonresident $20 to $40
Adult nonresident hunting $100 to $150
Seven-day nonresident small game $30 to $50
Adult resident furtaker $19 to $29
Adult nonresident furtaker $80 to $100
Migratory game bird resident $2 to $5
Migratory game bird nonresident $5 to $10
Special wild turkey resident $20 to $25
Special wild turkey nonresident $40 to $50
New categories of licenses:
Senior nonresident hunting $100
Senior nonresident furtaker $80
Senior nonresident combo hunting and furtaker $150
Ultimate outdoor combo (bear, archery, muzzleloader, furtaker, migratory game bird, special wild turkey) resident $110
It has been common knowledge among sportsmen that the Pennsylvania Game Commission is in need of a license fee increase to help fund their various programs one of which is the stocking of pheasants. So, if these bills are passed, it will be interesting to see if the latter license fee increase will be approved.
CABELA'S KAYAKING/BOWFISHING EVENT
Cabela's Hamburg is hosting another event weekend on May 27 and 28 at their store. The following is on tap for the two-day learning experience:
Kayak Experience Weekend
Lower parking lot at the pond.
If you have ever had the urge to try out a kayak and get involved with this family outdoor adventure you do not want to miss this weekend. Cabela's Outfitters will be on hand all weekend to get you started on the right foot with a proper introduction to kayaking and what you will need to get started. Everything from the kayak and paddle to the proper PFD as well as the best method for transporting. You will be able to take a kayak for a "test drive" in Cabela's on-site pond, the best way to see if kayaking is for you.
Bowfishing With Rich
Front of store
It's that time of the year to break out the bow and try your hand at bowfishing. Whether you are new to the sport or simply want to pick up some great tips and techniques this is a seminar you don't want to miss. Join outdoorsman Rich Yoder, and receive hands on instruction with bowfishing in front of the store. Cabela's will have a tank set up where you will be able to practice shoot at fish targets in the water. This takes in the water refractory situation on fish in the water.
Trout fishing contests and adaptive fishing session set for this weekend
There will be 100 trout of this size stocked for the upcoming Lehigh County Fish & Game Protective Association for this weekends trout derbies in the Little Lehigh. Photo by author
This weekend (May 13 and 14) brings several trout fishing events that appears will require rain gear judging from the weekend weather forecast.
On Saturday, May 13, the Lehigh County Fish & Game Association will hold its annual Junior Trout Derby on a stretch of the Little Lehigh Creek in Allentown's Lehigh Parkway. Then Sunday, May 14, the derby will he held for adults in the same stretch of creek.
For both contests, approximately 2,500 trout, including 100 trout that will be 18 inches or longer. The stream will be stocked from the Police Academy bridge downstream to the Robin Hood bridge.
The Junior Derby is for kids ages 15 and under and will cast off at 10 a.m. and run until 5 p.m. The adult derby begins at 9 a.m. and concludes at 5 p.m. on Sunday, May 14.
Registration is $5 for juniors and $10 for adults. While registration can be done on site, pre-registration can also be done at Archery at the Glen on Auburn St., in Allentown. Prizes will be awarded for the largest trout caught.
LEHIGH RIVER LUNKERFEST
The Lehigh River Stocking Association says they're stocking 1,400 trout that range from 14-28 inches with more than a dozen exceeding 20 inches in the Lehigh River in the Bowmanstown stretch of the river. They will also stock ten, 26-inch trophy trout for this contest.
Lunkerfest official boundaries run from the confluence of the Lehigh River and Lizard Creek to the bottom of the island just below the East Penn Boat Ramp. This section of the river is .9 miles long and contains exceptional trout water. LRSA extended the contest area two years ago to enable anglers to fish a wider variety of exceptional trout water. The organization will also stock a kids pond with trout for ages up to 12. LRSA memberships and raffle tickets will be available at sign-up. Food, drinks, and bait will be available for purchase. There are picnic tables and bathroom on site. But alcohol is not allowed. The LRSA plans to give away free prizes of rods, reels, fishing equipment, guided trips, art work, gift certificates and more. Sign-up for Lunkerfest begins at 7:00 a.m. Wristbands will be given to participants to wear during the contest. For safety reasons, the LRSA may postpone Lunkerfest if river flows are greater than 1700 CFS at Lehighton, as reported on the USGS website the day before the contest. Please check our Facebook page for any changes. As of now, high water date will be May 20.
Contest fishing begins at 8:30 am and runs until 3:00 pm. All Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission regulations apply. Wading and boat fishing is permitted. All legal baits, lures, and flies are allowed. Any fish, with or without a tag, caught during Lunkerfest within the contest boundaries is eligible for prize consideration. Each fish caught must be brought to the measuring table to be considered for a prize. Fish length determines prize categories. For example, the angler with the longest fish gets the first opportunity to choose from the prize selection. The angler with second longest fish gets to choose second, etc.. Ties in length will be decided by weight at the time of measurement. The LRSA will award fish prizes and announce raffle winners at 3:00 PM.
LEASER LAKE ADAPTIVE FISHING CLINIC
Good Shepherd Rehabilitation has partnered with the Leaser Lake Heritage Foundation in hosting an Adaptive Fishing Clinic at Leaser Lake on Sunday, May 14, Mothers Day. The event is free and open to persons with disabilities who are interested in learning about adaptive fishing techniques and equipment.
Good Shepherd recreational therapists will be on hand to teach participants fishing techniques, equipment handling and knot tying.
Bait and adaptive fishing equipment will be provided but patrons are encouraged to bring their own fishing poles.
The event will be held at the westernmost parking lot where the docks, kayak launch and dam are located. For more information, call 888-447-3422.
Powassan tick disease may be worse than Lyme
The Powassan tick disease is carried by the same tick that carries Lyme disease. Photo courtesy of CDC
Spring gobbler hunters beware. There's a new rare, potentially deadly tick-borne disease that has been identified in Pennsylvania by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). And the agency says it could be worse than Lyme disease.
CDC says the same tick that carries Lyme has caused Powassan, or POW for short. The agency says the virus can affect the nervous system, your memory, your thinking and your balance.
So far the disease, says CDC, has killed one Minnesota woman after her brain swelled, which caused her death. To date, there has been but one case in Pennsylvania, 20 in Minnesota, 16 in New York, 15 in Wisconsin, 8 in Massachusetts, 3 in New Jersey, 2 in Maine, 1 in New Hampshire and 1 in Virginia.
The disease is far spread. Most cases have been reported from northeastern states and Great Lakes, but has spread to Canada and as far as Russia. And most cases occur in late spring, early summer and mid-fall when ticks are most active.
Signs and symptoms of this infection can include fever, headache, vomiting, weakness, confusion, seizures and memory loss, according to the CDC. Plus, long-term neurologic problems may occur. The agency says there is no specific treatment but people with severe POW often need to be hospitalized to receive respiratory support, intravenous fluids or medications to reduce swelling in the brain.
With this mind, it pays now more than ever to guard against this disease by the usual methods such as spraying clothes with a good tick repellent, wearing long sleeves and pants which turkey hunters always do, and doing tick checks after spending time outdoors. The CDC says to avoid bushy and wooded areas, but that's not possible when spring gobbler or coyote hunting.
The Lehigh River Stocking Association is once again holding their annual Lunkerfest this Saturday, May 13 at the East Penn Boat Launch in Bowmanstown.
The LSRA says they're stocking 1,400 trout that range from 14-28 inches with more than a dozen exceeding 20 inches. They will also stock ten, 26-inch trophy trout for this contest.
Contest fishing begins at 8:30 am and runs until 3:00 pm. All Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission regulations apply. Wading and boat fishing is permitted. All legal baits, lures, and flies are allowed. Any fish, with or without a tag, caught during Lunkerfest within the contest boundaries is eligible for prize consideration. Each fish caught must be brought to the measuring table to be considered for a prize. Fish length determines prize categories. For example, the angler with the longest fish gets the first opportunity to choose from the prize selection. The angler with second longest fish gets to choose second, etc.. Ties in length will be decided by weight at the time of measurement. The LRSA will award fish prizes and announce raffle winners at 3:00 PM.
Pennsylvania Game Commission adopts big game hunting seasons for 2017-18
Aside from deer and bear, the PGC will accept elk license applications until July 31 for 118 tags. Photo by Nick Hromiak
At their recent meeting, the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners adopted the deer hunting seasons for 2017-18. They proposed a split five-day antlered deer season (Nov. 27-Dec. 1), a seven-day concurrent season (Dec. 2-9) in 20 Wildlife Management Units and retained the two-week (Nov. 27-Dec. 9) concurrent antlered and antlerless deer season in WMU's 2B, 5C and 5D. DMAP permit holders will continue to be able to harvest antlerless deer from Nov. 27-Dec. 9 in WMUs 1A, 1B, 2A/C/D/F/G/H, 3A/B/C. 4A/B/C/D/E. 5A and 5B. Fees for DMAP permits are $10.90 for residents and $35,90 for nonresidents.
Antler restrictions will remain the same this season for adult and senior license holders with the "three-up" on one side (not counting a brow tine) ruling in WMUs 1A/B, 2A/B/D, and three points on one side in all other WMUs. Exempt from these restrictions are mentored youth hunters, junior license holders, disabled hunters with a permit to use a vehicle as a blind and resident active-duty military on leave.
Modifications include moving the statewide archery bear season to the next-to-the-last-week of the archery deer season; changing the firearms deer season in WMUs 5A and 5B to bucks-only from the opening day through the first Friday; opening a conservative mid-week fall turkey season in WMU 5B; reducing the season length in WMUs 4A/B/E; eliminating the post-Christmas segment of the ruffed grouse season to improve adult survival due to recent population declines; restoring an extended black-bear in WMU 3A; opening of the Central Susquehanna Wild Pheasant Pheasant Recovery Area to a youth-only pheasant hunting season; opening WMU 5A to put-and-take bobwhite quail hunting given the lack of wild quail in the area and the low likelihood of quail reintroduction being initiated there soon.
In addition, the PGC Board approved a statewide allocation of 804,000 antlerless deer licenses, up from 748,000 licenses in 2016. The following allocations are for the more popular local WMUs Lehigh Valley hunters travel to. Allocations from the previous license year are in parenthesis:
WMU 3B: 30,000 (28,000); WMU 3C: 42,000 (36,000); WMU 3D: 25,000 (25,000); WMU 4C: 29,000 (25,000); WMU 4E: 27,500 (25,000); WMU 5B: 57,000 (50,000); WMU 5C: 70,000 (70,000); and WMU 5D: 30,000 (30,000).
If you would like to apply for an elk tag, the board issued 118 elk licenses (25 antlered and 93 antlerless) for the 2017 hunt. As customary, the licenses will be awarded by lottery so you must enter the drawing by July 31. Elk applications are $10.90 and only one application may be submitted each license year.
For those sportsmen who plan their vacations around the big game hunting seasons, the antlered/antlerless archery deer season in 2B, 5C and 5D is Sept. 16-Nov. 25 and Dec 26-Jan. 27 2018; statewide the same runs Sept. 30-Nov. 11 and Dec. 26-Jan, 13; Deer (antlered/antlerless rifle) WMUs 2B, 5C, and 5D, Nov. 27-Dec. 9; antlered only (rifle) in all other WMUs is Nov. 27-Dec. 1.
Black bear (WMU 5B archery) Sept. 30-Nov. 11; WMUs 2B, 5B, 5C and 5D (for muzzleloader) Oct. 14-21; WMUs 2B, 5B, 5C and 5D (special firearms) Oct. 19-21 for junior/senior/disabled license holders the latter who have a permit to use a vehicle as a blind, active duty military; (rifle) WMU 1B, 2C, 3A, 4B, 4C, 4D and 4E, Nov. 29-Dec. 2.


Some of those Sanders delegates just wanted a sandwich - Denverite, the Denver site!
Jul. 27, 2016, 4:20 p.m.
I've heard 1,000. I've heard 200. Some number of delegates loyal to Bernie Sanders walked out of the convention after Hillary Clinton was nominated Tuesday evening. Not all of them were protesting, though.
The Colorado Independent's Corey Hutchins has an inside account.
Some of the delegates were angry or heart-broken.
Sanders delegates marched out and occupied a media tent. Some wore bandanas or tape over their mouths to show their voices had been silenced.
"We had to do something to show the world and all those who voted for us and donated to us that the Colorado Bernie delegates are not just rolling over and letting them portray us as a Hillary state," Kona Morris, another protest participant, said.


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Baskin-Robbins Australia has appointed a new General Manager.
Replacing David Jordan who has occupied the role since February 2014, Ben Flintoff will now take up the position.
Ben Flintoff has been with Baskin-Robbins for over five years and has spent the last two and a half years as National Operations Manager for the Australian arm of the ice cream chain.
Flintoff has a combined 15 years of retail experience, working for other food chains including Noodle Box. He was formerly the owner of Brisbane City Catering and BB's Café Warf Central in Brisbane.
Flintoff said he was excited about his new position.
"I am very passionate about Baskin-Robbins Australia," Flintoff said.
"It is a fantastic brand which brings so much pleasure to so many Australians and I look forward to leading its development over the coming years," he stated.
Baskin-Robbins was established in the US in 1945 and its Australian branch is managed by Palm Oasis Ventures, a joint venture between the Galadari Brothers and Dunkin Brands International.
There are currently 88 Baskin-Robbins ice cream stores Australia-wide.
Gelatissimo will be launching eight new gelato flavours across July and August 2016.
Herb producer, Gourmet Garden, is now selling a new product range called 'Finishing Drizzles'.
HERE's our top ten list of national and international news briefs.


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The Best Western Kings Manor Hotel is one of the most idyllic places to stay in Edinburgh, enjoying a quiet location in the capital cities eastern suburbs. Despite this calm and peaceful setting, you'll still have easy access to Edinburgh's many attractions, shops, bars and restaurants, which are just 20 minutes away. The hotel itself is a delightful 160-year-old building, boasting a rich history as it was once used as a convent.
The Best Western Manor Hotel Edinburgh places you only half a mile away from Musselburgh picturesque harbor and the golden sands of Portobello Beach, whilst Edinburgh Castle is just a 20 minute drive from the hotel. The Scottish National Gallery is also just 20 minutes away and stands as a neo-classical building with one of the world's greatest collections of fine art…truly the best way to spend a rainy day. On a finer day, head to the Royal Botanic Gardens and enjoy the lavish landscape and greenhouses.
With the second largest hotel-based leisure club in the city, there's more than enough room for relaxation at the Best Western Kings Manor Hotel in Edinburgh. This three-star spot has 100 en suite bedrooms, including twin/double rooms, club rooms and rooms with wheelchair access. When it comes to dining, the Best Western comes out on top yet again thanks to it superb cuisine. Whether you're looking to enjoy a particularly special evening meal, an informal bite or a leisurely lunch, you'll be well catered for. Choose either our contemporary (and recently refurbished) Lauders Restaurant for an impressive a la carte Menu, the Options Bistro for popular classics/inventive modern dishes in a relaxed setting, or Bar Zest for a drinks and moreish bar snacks. What's more, children under 12 stay for free when visiting with 2 adults – proving the cherry on top of the cake.
Pets allowed with Restrictions, 10GBP per pet per night
Breakfast available, nominal fee
Indoor pool Heated Children access to the main pool is from 9am to 7pm Monday to Thursday and 8am to 8pm Friday to Sunday.
Exercise facility, open from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Please note children under 16 years are not allowed to use the gym, sauna, steam room or spa.
Physically challenged services
Inter corridor
Late check out nominal fee
Electric car charging available to residents
Breakfast available for 11GBP fee, Monday to Friday 7 a.m. to 10 a.m., Saturday 7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and Sunday 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Auto recall elevators
Private bath or shower
Room service, 24 hours
Shaving socket available
Physically challenged rooms/facilities available One room available
1.00 mile(s) from Fort Kinnaird retail Park
3.00 mile(s) from Edinburgh Castle, second most popular atraction in UK. Scottish Crown Jewels, St Margarets Chapel, Mons Meg and great views!
3.00 mile(s) from Palace of Holyrood House, the Royal residence in Scotland. Historic Palace dating back to 12th Century. Also Houses Royal Paintings Gallery
3.00 mile(s) from Dynamic Earth, our Dynamic Earth takes you on a journey through our planets past, present and future, with interactive exhibits and impressive technology, including a 4D and 3D experience. Beginning with the Big Bang, children and adults alike can witness the creation of the Earth
3.00 mile(s) from Hibernian Football Club, home of The Green team of Edinburgh
4.00 mile(s) from Royal Scottish Museum, following its £20 miliion revamp now Scotland busiest visitor attraction. A great day - or two days- for all the family
4.00 mile(s) from Heart of Midlothian Football, if you don't support the Hibbees you have got to support the Jambos ( Heart of Midlothian FC)
4.00 mile(s) from Murrayfiled stadium, Scotlands national rugby stadium home of the Autumn Internationals and six Nations. Also Home of Edinburgh Rugby
4.00 mile(s) from Royal Yacht Britannia
4.00 mile(s) from Former Royal Yacht Britan, Brittania carried the Royal Family and acted as a floating Embassy for nearly 50 years. A visit offers an insight into the Formal grand salons as well as the private apartments
5.00 mile(s) from Edinburgh Zoo, for a great day out, you can't beat Edinburgh Zoo. Our world-class attractions and our extensive animal collection will provide you and your family with memories to last a lifetime! Explore some of our top attractions below, then come see them for yourself...only at Edinburgh Zoo.
6.00 mile(s) from National Museum of Scotland
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Lauders Restaurant, on premises, Full Service, International, open for: breakfast, lunch, dinner, Modern Scottish. A la Carte menu for lunch and dinner
Options Bistro, on premises, Full Service Restaurant, International, open for: lunch, dinner Contemporary European
1 mile(s) from Musselburgh
4 mile(s) from Dalkeith
3.00 mile(s) from Edinburgh City Centre shopping
12.00 mile(s) from Edinburgh Airport
55.00 mile(s) from Glasgow International Airport
55.00 mile(s) from Newcastle Airport
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Michael J. Clark
I teach my students to more deeply understand and appreciate literature through critical analysis. By sharing my enthusiasm, I encourage students to become lifelong readers, writers, and learners.
As an interdisciplinary instructor, I have experience teaching Italian language courses, first-year composition courses, theatre history courses, and literature survey courses. Through intertextual readings, formative assessment, and student-centered discussions, I guide students in the critical analysis of literary, theatrical, and medical traditions. My assignments challenge students' assumptions about medieval and early modern cultures and foster experiential learning through applied research. My pedagogy reinforces the pertinence of Renaissance studies to students' lives and the transferable value of literary analysis, and I have cultivated a philosophy of lifelong learning. I believe that students learn more effectively through entertainment; therefore, I regularly incorporate performance in my course design and encourage students to examine drama from multiple perspectives: reader, audience, and performer. In recognition of my pedagogical achievements and enthusiasm, I have been honored with teaching awards in foreign language, composition, and literature.
Teaching Awards
Professional Development Award, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020
Erika Lindemann Teaching Award in Composition and Literature, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019
Literature Teaching Award, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016
Foreign Language Teaching Award, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016
Engaged Instructor Award, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015
Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013 – Present
English 105: English Composition and Rhetoric
English 105i: Writing in Health and Medicine
English 125: Introduction to Poetry: Comparative World Poetry
English 126: Introduction to Drama
English 225: Shakespeare, Teaching Assistant
Italian 101: Elementary Italian I
Italian 102: Elementary Italian II
Italian 203: Intermediate Italian I
Adjunct Instructor in Performing Arts, Elon University, 2020
Drama and Theatre Studies 301: Theatre History and Literature I
Graduate Teaching Exchange, Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici, 2017 – 2018
Italian 101: Italian Language Elementary I


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Porous polymer offers methane storage solution
By Patrick Hughes2019-07-12T15:29:00+01:00
Cheap-to-make material exceeds US targets for natural gas storage thanks to flexible structure
A new porous polymer can store methane with a capacity 25% greater than the US Department of Energy's (DOE) targets for natural gas storage materials, and could be produced for as little as $1 (£0.80) per kilogram.
As a fuel source, methane is preferable to petroleum as it is cheaper, burns cleaner and is more evenly distributed around the globe. But due to methane's low energy density it must be compressed or liquefied in order to become economically viable. Using porous materials to reversibly adsorb methane is a promising way to store and transport the natural gas; however, the highest performing materials to date require complex and expensive syntheses with little in the way of scale-up potential and have fallen short of the targets set by the DOE.
Source: © Vepa Rozyyev et al/Springer Nature Limited 2019
The porous polymer costs just $1 per kilogram to synthesise
Now, a polymer named COP-150 could change that. The substance contains pores that are shaped by a backbone of three benzene rings which are linked together by flexible ethylene bridges. It's these bridges, researchers believe, which allow the pores to take up more methane by enabling them to swell and expand under higher pressures – an effect known as breathing.
To measure the storage capacity, a team led by Cafer Yavuz at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Mert Atilhan from Texas A&M University at Qatar subjected a small amount of the polymer to pure methane gas under varying conditions of temperature and pressure. They found that at 273K and 0.01GPa, the material showed a working capacity of 0.625g g-1; 25% higher than the target set by the US department of energy and the highest capacity of any porous material to date.
The flexible material can be made at room temperature using cheap starting materials which require no prior purification, leaving the product with a rough cost of $1 per kilogram – a price which could fall further if the process was scaled up.
V Rozyyev et al, Nat. Energy, 2019, 4, 604 (DOI: 10.1038/s41560-019-0427-x)
Electrolyser selectively consumes carbon dioxide in unpurified flue gas
Method tackles kinetic and thermodynamic hurdles
Entropy measurements can gauge health of lithium-ion batteries
Non-destructive technique for battery diagnostics
Previous models failed to consider upstream carbon emissions and air pollution


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BLACKCACKLE: Fiction by Clare Fisher
MORE THAN NOT-SWEEPING
Behind us there were sand dunes, and on the sand dunes were tufts of brown grass which made me think of those almost-bald men who thought that if they schuzzed up their few remaining hairs with wax or gel, no one would think of them as the men who were almost bald. I didn't know how schuzzed was spelled – the 's' was pronounced more like a 'j' — or whether spelling rules existed for words that existed only in hair salons many miles from any dictionary. I asked K what she thought, but she looked at me as if her life was ruined and I was the cause, and although I knew that such looks were her brain's attempt to relieve her from the truth, i.e. the ruin was larger and more complex than we'd ever know, and that thinking that I knew what everyone thought was another such attempt, I began to feel like I'd swallowed something which ought never to be swallowed — like sand. I coughed and coughed.
'Why are you Not Sweeping?' Senior Leadership yelled through the rolled-down window of her Jeep, whose wheels were doing to the sand what those imaginary bald men had been doing to their hair. My throat ached — evidence that the sand was as real as it was metaphorical: small comfort.
My broom, it's true, was on the ground, but I'd no idea how it had got there.
'I've swept 25 litres in the last twelve minutes!' K waved her broom triumphantly; it looked unbearably wet and sorry for itself.
'That's — ' Senior Leadership was nearer to the ground than us, and yet, when she looked at us, she looked downwards. Whether this was a cause or a consequence of her position, I would never know. '— Satisfactory.' She licked her lips and swallowed, as if in physical discomfort. 'But satisfactory is not good enough; nor is good good enough; you might be expecting me to say that outstanding is good enough, but that is exactly the sort of attitude that results in people forgetting that if they stop sweeping whilst they are being paid what I should remind you is above average wage for sweeping, they will soon, if they do not get a hold of their attitude, not be a sweeper, and therefore no longer a person, at all.'
Her cart's wheels szujjed the sand again; I coughed, again; again, everything felt like sand. No. I felt like sand. I felt like an egg timer whose internal sand is clumping together, refusing to do what some human has decided it has been put on this earth to do.
'Hurry,' K shoved my broom at my chest, 'I can see right through your foot.'
I looked, and whilst there would have been a time when I could've told myself that the translucency of my toes was a Senior Management construct designed to discourage idleness, that my personhood was in no way contingent on my ability to sweep or not, such an idea was now as difficult to access as the almost-bald man's hair, and as I reached for the broom, I was sure, absolutely sure, that it really was what I'd been put on this earth to do.
Forty two minutes later, sand splattered the back of my neck. '75 litres already.' Senior Management flung a Gold Star out of her window. 'Good,' she said, 'But not quite good enough.' Then, she left.
'I did 30 litres in 27 minutes yesterday,' said K, 'and she didn't even give me a Special Mention.' Her lip was wobbling, as if she might cry, and that thing happened when she looked not like my Chosen One, my companion, my love, etc, etc, but like any random person; I juggled the star in an attempt to forget this.
'It's all made up,' I said. The star was silky soft against my cheek, yet I squeezed it and squeezed it, determined to find out what filled its soft, round belly. 'None of it means anything.'
'Then why are you smiling so much?'
'I'm not.' Pressing the star to my skin made my 'I' feel real in the way my toes now did.
'Sometimes, I think —' she was now crying whilst sweeping, which was an extreme form of feeling whilst sweeping, which was even worse than thinking whilst sweeping, which was the number one cause of people no longer being sweepers and therefore persons —'that no matter how hard I try, I'll never be Good, not even for a minute, there's some trick to it I'm missing and only no one will tell me what it is, not even you, even though we are meant to tell each other everything.'
I wanted to tell her that there was no secret, or if there was, I didn't know it; but I was squeezing the star, which was suddenly the most important thing, more important than sweeping, or Senior Management, or men who refused to see that other people might see them as bald. I dropped the broom and, with both hands, I squeezed and squeezed; the tide lapped at my ankles, then, at my knees; finally, my palms began to hurt, and I opened my eyes, and I saw a flaccid rubber thing in my palm that did not look like it had ever been anywhere near any star. Then, I looked up, past K, at the other sweepers; they swept the water back into itself only for it to lap back towards them, and they did not look like people, but like those thin metal hair grips that almost-bald men wore in their dreams.
'No more rewards for you.' Senior Management was back. 'They go straight to your head.'
'What about — '
Senior Management stepped on the accelerator as K said 'me'.
Then came an announcement that anyone who swept more than 56.5l of water in the next 25 minutes would win an extra Happy Hour. K picked up her own broom, and mine. She swept 59.2 l of water in 25 minutes, but because she used my brush as well as her own, this was recorded as only 29l each, and so the extra Happy Hour was awarded to T, who did not attempt to hide his smugness as he scarpered over the dunes.
'Oh well, we've only forty five minutes left,' said K, now brushing the sea in the manner of a human who was far better acquainted with the word 'tired' than was sensible. 'What shall we do after our shift?'
I looked at the place where the water met the sky; I suppose it's what, in the time before The Ruin, might've been called the horizon. For a moment, I saw that world, the one in which there was more to life than sweeping and not sweeping, by which I mean less, by which I mean, in this other world, such words did not exist; whether this world had anything to do with bald heads, I cannot say. I thought I was going to tell K all about it, but when I tried, I said, 'Let's watch TV.' I said, 'takeout,' I said, 'fuck then takeout whilst watching tv.' I said, 'why is it that the closer you get to the end of something, the slower time moves?'
'Sweep,' she said, 'it'll go faster.'
And I did. I swept with one hand whilst clutching the deflated star in the other; soon, we were on the dry side of the dunes, rubbing our bodies against each other, as if they and we would never sweep, ever again.
Clare Fisher is the author of the novel, All the Good Things (Viking/Europa) and the short story collection, How the Light Gets In (Influx Press). Her work has been translated into six languages, has won a Betty Trask Award and been longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Edgehill Short Story Prize. She is now studying for a practice-led PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Leeds, where she teaches Creative Writing and is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. Her short fiction has recently been published in A Queer Anthology of Wilderness (2019), The London Magazine, 3am Magazine, and elsewhere. Twitter: @claresitafisher website: www.clarefisherwriter.com
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Meet the people governing the work of the RSM.
The Royal Society of Medicine was established in 1805 and granted a Royal Charter by His Majesty King William IV in 1834.
Further Supplemental Charters were approved in 1907 and 1999. In 2020, the Privy Council approved further changes to the Society's Charter and By-Laws. It is through this Royal Charter and the By-Laws that the RSM is governed.
The RSM Council is the governing body of the RSM. It is responsible for ensuring that the RSM has a clear strategic plan in accordance with the Royal Charter and holds the Executive Team to account.
The Council is currently made up of ten elected members and up to three appointed members. As the RSM is a registered charity, these Council members are also Trustees. Collectively they are responsible for the financial, legal and business operations of the RSM.
Council meets at least four times a year and is governed by the Charter and By-Laws. The Dean and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee also attend Council.
Terms of Office
The President's term of office is three years and, from 1 October 2020, Trustees serve a three-year term. These terms can be extended in extremis by Special Resolution of Council.
Professor Roger Kirby
President (2020-2023)
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Dr Claire Bayntun
Vice President (2020–2022)
Mr Hamish Thomas
Vice-President (2021-2024)
Professor Linda Luxon
Honorary Treasurer (2019-2023)
Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones
Trustee (2021-2024)
Dr Elizabeth Haxby
Trustee (2018–2022)
Dr Melita Irving
Dr Stephanie Kaye-Barrett
Dr Hélène Menagé
Mr Richard Murley
Dr Hiten Patel
Trainee Council representative (2021-2024)
Professor Nik Patel
Chair of Academic Board and Trustee (2019-2022)
Dr Samantha Shinde
The Senior Management Team is responsible for the day-to-day management of the RSM and leading on the strategic objectives of the organisation.
Michele Acton
Neville Carter
Director of Engagement
Nigel Collett
Michelle Gordon
Richard Whitley
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Professor Humphrey Scott
Dean of Education
Joanna Rose
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The Academic Board is responsible for delivering the academic and learning functions of the RSM by ensuring the Education Strategy is delivered through the RSM's network of Sections. The Board's remit also includes improving education initiatives and programmes.
The Chairman is elected by the members of the Academic Committee and, upon election, becomes a Trustee. The Board is currently chaired by Professor Nik Patel and comprises the Presidents of Sections and ex officio members. For a full list of all members of the Academic Board, email events@rsm.ac.uk


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