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How does your garden grow? Come and see
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014 1:25 PM
Stevie Chambers works to get her mother's garden ready for the Durango Botanical Society's Gardens on Tour on Saturday. Jackie Skjold's yard spans the front and backyards and includes a water fountain and a castle playhouse built by Skjold's son, Tom Skjold. It also has various color-themed floral areas that Chambers planted, making the garden a true family affair.
JENNAYE DERGE/Durango Herald
Ann Butler
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote a beautiful piece about what it is to succeed.
Part of it read: "To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition."
As the owner of a certified black thumb, I am in awe of people who can make a garden thrive, particularly in our semi-arid climate and erratic growing season. So there's little I enjoy more than getting a chance to see the fruits of their labors. And this Saturday is the best chance to check out great gardens in our area and celebrate those who have made a difference by creating one of Emerson's "garden patches."
Why, you ask? Because the Durango Botanical Society has convinced members and friends to throw open their garden gates and let us in to "ooh" and "aah."
It doesn't matter what kind of garden you like, one of the 11 on the list is sure to delight. And the organizers, Camilla Potter, Tish Varney, Jill Salka, Susan Ostendorp and botanical society Executive Director Cindy Smart, have planned the tour to be efficient, so you don't spend all day in the car. Eight of the gardens are in town, primarily "On the Avenues" in historic downtown and are easily walkable or bikeable. The other three are all on County Road 250.
A few of the highlights include a 100-year-old maple tree, waterfalls and ponds, magnolias (in Durango?), topiaries, fruit trees and berry bushes, a fire pit, a white garden, historic gardening elements, jasmine, xeriscaping and flowers and vegetables galore.
This is also a chance to check out the newly rebuilt Linnaea Farms, which was destroyed during the major mudslides last fall. The community turned out in force to help Marjorie Cristol get back into the flower and goat cheese business.
Tickets are $18 for members and $25 for members. They are available under the tent at Smart Enterprises, 1400 Main Ave. from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, by visiting www.durangobotanicalsociety.com or with cash or check at any of the gardens.
The easiest way to find one of the gardens is to go down East Third Avenue to Patti and Ray Baranowski's at 825 or Jane Gould's at 436; or down East Fifth Avenue to Janet Kenna's home at 1045 or Jaqueline Skjold's at 924.
The tour ends with a great takeaway for all the other gardeners who will be taking the tour or for those folks like me who always want to know more.
Garden histories, pictures and plant lists will be available online, and the botanical society is taking a page from Instagram and allowing folks who go on the tour to post their best photos, too.
The tour runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and finishes with a botanically inspired gourmet ice cream social at the Durango Public Library on the terrace overlooking the society's Demonstration Garden. Those who visit all the gardens on the tour are invited to vote for their favorite and are eligible to win a Dave Claussen sculpture called "Water" to put in their own garden.
Because this is a fundraiser, there will be a silent auction, but one with only two special items. A gicleé of Barbara Tobin Klema's painting "Mariposa," framed by Tom Garcia at Smart Art, and a bouquet subscription from Passion Flower Bouquet Farm, Lisa Bourey's new business, will each go to a lucky bidder.
(Every reader who is a gardener snorted at my lead statement about the erratic growing season because it's the understatement of the year. Old timers say it's safe to plant when Smelter Mountain is clear of snow. But what do you do when Smelter never had any snow on it?)
The National Weather Service is forecasting a bright, beautiful 87-degree day on Saturday.
I can imagine no better place to spend a day like that than in a cool, verdant garden. See you there.
Here's wishing armloads of flowers for the birthdays of Yvonne Portell, Jigger Staby, Amber Lashmett-Levine, Jack Morrison, Chris Scott, Clay Siekman, Sharon Watkins, Arnold Trujillo, Ron Anderson, Paul Mills, Jodie House, Emma Russell, Ricky Hermesman, George San Miguel, Tiffany Mapel, Tyler Erickson, Erin Sparks, Jay Hurtado, Nick Dudley, Ryan Ehrig, Jill Simplicio, Allison Betts, Danette Jenkins, Crystal Willmett, Jonas Grushkin, Clyde Church, Karyn Gabaldon and Sherri Phippen.
On May 15, (yep, still catching up on the busiest month of the year) members of the Reading Club of Durango, both past and present, gathered at the home of President Carol Grenoble for the President's Luncheon. The club has held the event for most, if not all (the records of the early years are spotty), of its 132 years, but this one was special on several levels.
Grenoble's home on East Third Avenue once belonged to Dr. John Haggart (who, as another point of historical trivia, performed the first surgery, an appendectomy, at Mercy Hospital in 1897) and his wife, Lounette (Jackson) Haggart.
Lounette Haggart arrived in Durango as a teenager with her family in January 1881, several months before we even incorporated as a city, and was a charter member of the Reading Club in 1882. She served as the president of the club from 1904 to 1906, so we knew a previous President's Luncheon had been held right where we were sitting more than a century earlier.
The room was decorated in the club's colors of pink and green, and the tables were abloom with colorful flowers, including pink carnations, the club's flower. Thankfully, the ears were not assaulted by the club's song, which is Victoriana in all its "glory."
Grenoble and her husband, David, made gift bookmarks with Lounette Haggart's photo, and madam president decorated them with charms she had picked up on a recent trip to Spain. (That has been a bit of a recent tradition, with bookmarks from Japan, Vietnam and other ports of call showing up at the luncheon.)
After a lunch of onion tarts, artichoke lasagna prepared by Justice Tower and salad, it was time for the main event. Barbershop quartet First Class Delivery, with Carroll "Pete" Peterson, John T. Fox, John Randolph and new lead David Grenoble, serenaded the ladies, particularly the lady of the hour, Beverly Darmour. She celebrated both her 90th birthday and 50th year in the club in 2014. Grenoble had ordered a scrumptious vanilla-pear-almond cake to mark the occasion.
Not to make you feel old, Bev, but holy cow! Five decades in a club, 50 years serving as an officer or on a committee, giving programs and hostessing. That's commitment.
Most of the guests wore hats in her honor – Darmour is known for giving programs in historic garb – and everyone came with a Beverly story or two.
Yours truly spent time at the Center of Southwest Studies researching Darmour's 50 years of membership in the club's scrapbooks, which are archived there. With the help of Linda MacCannell, the professional photographer in the club, I was able to get photos from throughout the years.
Add me to the list of people in love with the digitized Durango Herald at the Durango Public Library, which was, not coincidentally, founded with a lot of help from Reading Club of Durango. The research on Darmour's programs and hostessing was so much easier than microfilm, easier by far.
Congratulations, Beverly, on both landmarks.
These former June brides are hoping their husbands show up with some fragrant roses for their anniversaries – Gisele and Trent Pansze, Beth and Steve Scales, Diane and Darrell Trembly, Penni and Tom Compton, Linda and Carl Curtiss, Diane and Deck Shaline, Cheryl and Tim Birchard, Moni and Jonas Grushkin and Kathy and Randy Black.
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Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes Forums › Dev Announcements and News
State of the Galaxy 5/9/2017
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May 9, 2017 10:47PM edited June 2017
Hello Holotable Heroes!
It's been some time since our last "State of the Galaxy" thread and we figured it was time to talk to you about some of the things going on in the game. Typically these posts have detailed a single, large topic of interest, but in this SotG we will cover a variety of topics that have been trending in the community.
Recent Game Outage
Over this last weekend, some players experienced outages and weren't able to log into the game without Wi-Fi. Simply put, we're very sorry that happened. We have a fantastic team of dedicated people who we often call on to jump in and resolve issues day or night, but unfortunately it took us longer than we would have liked to chase down and resolve this particular issue.
Due to the nature of the problem, we couldn't identify who was affected by this issue. Our options were to reward nobody or reward everybody. We've chosen the latter. We will be sending a package of crystals to the player base's inbox as a "make good" for the outage. Hopefully you'll find a practical use for them (I suspect you will)!
Popup Offers
There were a number of reports over the Daring Droid event of players receiving too many pop-ups with in-game offers. While we do intend to continue to provide offers like these, we've heard you loud and clear and we're in the process of reviewing the way we run this part of the game.
We want to be able to show players relevant in-game offers, but not at the expense of making your experience in game feel like a whack-a-mole of popups. We'll continue to monitor the forums as we roll out our new in-game offers strategy and make adjustments as needed.
Rancor Raid Ties
This issue has been around for a while and, as the community has made clear through the voluminous and exhaustive threads exploring the topic, it's a tough nut to crack. We've considered a number of potential solutions in studio trying to balance fairness, while also rewarding players that have made significant investment in characters.
At the moment, we are gravitating towards using a randomized tie-breaker solution. At a high level, all players would log their damage and, during the calculation phase of the raid, for those players that had the exact same amount of damage we would randomize their ranking. As an example if CG_TopHat, Not-Really-A-Jedi, and CG_Kozispoon all logged 100 damage, we would randomize who took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place (conveniently, in my example CG_TopHat got 1st place…).
Our hope is that this will be a more equitable way to reward players who ascend to the highest tiers of proficiency within a raid. We're still stewing on this change though and don't have a firm date commitment yet. As we make progress on this front, we'll keep you posted.
Clone Helmets
We've heard you. And we aren't ready to show anything yet. But, given the feedback on Gar Saxon we're definitely thinking about helmets... a lot.
Mandalorian Tag
With the introduction of Sabine, Gar Saxon, and the Imperial Super Commando, a number of players have been asking for a Mandalorian tag.
In the past, we've added tags to characters when we weren't fully prepared to have a play experience around the faction. Fundamentally, we'd like to avoid adding factions to the game until we have game relevant interaction between characters with those tags. At the moment, we aren't ready to deploy a Mandalorian play experience. That doesn't mean we aren't considering it for the future; keep on the lookout.
Please continue to raise issues in the forums and we will do our best to respond to them.
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Hello everyone!!! How is everyone today?
What up Shu! How are you bud?!?!?!
What up ya'll!!! Did a bit of cleanup. If ya'll see anything else need cleanup just report. :) have a superfantastic day!
What is your Every Day Carry?
Re: What is your Every Day Carry?
It can be pretty gross. And I have to get on in a building I have dubbed Urination Station to catch the train.
BAMF Genius! I needs to find me some skizzors.
Any survivalists out there? What do you lug around with you on a daily basis?
Sweet TV Shu! We have all tube TV's in our house. I just can't justify buying new if none of them break :(.
Ditto on the Blah Blah Blah.
This is the reason why I don't have one. :( I would not have been on this earth for this long.
I may have to pick up one of these to mess around with this year. Awesome!
Kingman Name Your Marker Giveaway!!!
Re: Kingman Name Your Marker Giveaway!!!
forward them to me. we took out a few but i want to make sure i get them all.
Happy New Year SOC!!!! Hope we all have a great year. Can't wait to see what is in store for this year.
Just in time for the new year! Its like a belated ChristmasHunukaKwanzaFestivus present.
Pssst. You just jinxed us.
Re: Do I get one?
Full EP would be nice. Although so would an updated Hammer.
Happy 4th of July ladies. May all your grills be hot and beers be cold.


New! Entered: 2015-10-26 I think it's fitting that Honey picked the most aloof, difficult wolf in the pack! The other elves are bound to notice. After all that trouble, bringing down a deer will be easy! I loved the description of how she wanted to run away and BELONG at the same time! I hope Honey finds the "Now"!
New! Entered: 2012-03-18 I really enjoyed this. I think I often think of a wolf-bond as an instant, magic sort of thing that just happens, or doesn't. I like that this was written with a struggle and determination, and a very strong wolf personality to go along with it. This brought out so many different emotions, and really shows a great pattern of growth on Honey's part - from simple things like using logic and fairness to reason with Windburn and Blacksnake rather than pouting - and of course, her determination and willingness to try every different approach to breaking through to Mooncrier.
New! Entered: 2011-06-30 Mooncrier is such a good match for Honey - someone to make her grow up ('cuse even though she's hardly the youngest elf around, she often acts it) and challenge her, without having to follow all the elfin rules of tact, politeness and being hurt by Honey's bitter tongue.
New! Entered: 2010-04-09 Fantastic! You make it so easy to feel for Honey. I especially liked her honesty with herself that she feels things, horrible things, toward others in her tribe. Very self-aware, and very honorable of her to try and do something so that she doesn't feel that. I think, too, that Mooncrier is an awesome wolf-friend for Honey. I think she'll teach Honey some lessons... she doesn't seem to tolerate self-pity! Maybe her wolf will call her on it more than some of the elves!
New! Entered: 2010-02-17 I like this unexpected turn in Honey's life, and am really interested to see how she fares with this new goal and outlook.
The relationship Mooncrier and Honey have in your story is very well-written.
New! Entered: 2010-02-06 Three cheers for Honey! I'm really enjoying her slow journey toward self-discovery here. Honey seems like one of those souls for whom things can just never go easy -- but she's capable of learning and capable of changing, and that will always make her a sympathetic character, even when sometimes her motivations and choices aren't so very much. Keep up the great work!! I'm eager to see what comes next for her!
New! Entered: 2010-02-01 You know, I really like to read about Honey. She's becoming something of an anti-hero -- her persistance of convincing Mooncrier and sharing what she feels with the wolf teaches us so much of what's going on inside of her. I really hope she pulls through and that she is allowed in the hunt!
New! Entered: 2010-01-30 Yay, good for Honey! I'm glad that she finally decided to take some control of her life, and get assertive about going after what she wants. I'm really interested to see how this plays out, too -- it's going to be interesting watching her become a hunter!
New! Entered: 2010-01-30 Amazing Ellen. I am impressed how well you develop Honey. She seems so ... weak and strong here at the same time. It's absolutely ... fitting. The dynamic between Mooncrier and Honey is great and it almost seems like the wolf is teaching her a very imported lesson. Fantastic!
New! Entered: 2010-01-29 Oh wow I love this story! How persistent Honey is! And I absolutely ADORED the way that Mooncrier was portrayed! The two make a dynamic pair!


Jackie Mertz's 3-year-old great Dane therapy dog, Bosa, walks up the rows to be. . .
CELINA - Students at Celina Middle School are joined a few days a week by a four-legged friend who's almost as big as they are.
Bosa the therapy dog is a 3-year-old great Dane whom some school staff have described as more of a horse than a dog, but for the kids he visits, this gentle giant is hardly intimidating.
Jackie Mertz is an eighth-grade language arts teacher at the school and is also Bosa's owner and handler. Despite being one of the largest dog breeds, great Danes are commonly known to be lap dogs at heart, and Mertz said Bosa is no exception.
"As soon as we get home he's on either my lap or my husband's lap, and I call him Velcro dog because you can see as long as he's being touched, he's happy," Mertz said, petting Bosa as he leaned against her leg.
Bosa joins Mertz at the school on Tuesdays and Thursdays, visiting different classrooms and sitting in with Mertz's students when she has a class to teach. While the kids learn, they can touch and pet Bosa as he walks around the room - or, occasionally, as he tries to sit on a lap. Mertz even has a dog bed in her classroom for when he needs a rest - Bosa gets tired too, she said, and when he's on his "break," kids know to leave him be.
"I was afraid it'd be a distraction, but it's not. He just kind of goes up and down (the rows of desks) and the kids actually - I think they listen to me more when he's here," Mertz said laughing.
When Bosa goes to meet new kids, Mertz said she asks the kids beforehand if they have dog allergies and can steer Bosa away from them. So far, though, Mertz said she hasn't run into any allergy issues.
Staff have also come to visit her and Bosa to destress, particularly during the more stressful times of year. The beginning and end of a school year as well as the holidays can be stressful for both staff and students alike. Spending time with Bosa can help them decompress.
Bosa originally was not intended to be a therapy dog. Mertz has had several dogs throughout her life, including other big breeds such as English mastiffs. The idea to train Bosa as a therapy dog was first suggested when Mertz brought him in for a casual visit.
"We brought him in one day just to visit, and he was so good with some of the emotionally disturbed kids that my principal said, 'Have you ever thought of making him a therapy dog?' "
Bosa had a particularly good response from a girl who was largely nonverbal, Mertz said. She engaged with the great Dane, wanting to pet him and even wanted to talk to Mertz about him.
"It was just that reaching out that we don't always get from her," Mertz said.
She credits that early interaction between Bosa and the kids as the catalyst to train him as a therapy dog. Seeing how patient he was and how he reacted around the children was important, but the more she thought about it, the more his temperament seemed perfect for the job. She's had dogs all her life, but Mertz says Bosa has a special disposition.
Bosa had already received some training from Celina dog trainer Jackie Jutte, but she had to look into classes with the Miami Valley Pet Therapy Center for therapy dog training. The biggest thing Mertz learned as a therapy dog handler is how her focus must always be on her dog, watching how he reacts to things.
Each day of class offered something different that both she and Bosa had to learn about and were graded on. Mertz was graded for her control of her dog, while Bosa was graded on how he performed in certain situations. He not only had to be good around other dogs, but also had to be good at passing them by. He had to learn different commands and learn to pass up treats - a feat many dog owners could probably attest is not easy.
Though Mertz and Bosa started classes with 12 other handlers and their dogs, they were one of only six who graduated the class. He now wears a MVPTC vest when he visits the kids, and Mertz said he seems to know that when he's wearing the vest, he's working.
Michelle Noll, a Celina Middle School eighth-grader, said she isn't much of a reader, but when she has to do readings for Mertz's class, she likes reading with Bosa.
"He makes me a lot calmer. He makes me feel almost at home," Noll said.
In fact, Bosa and Mertz have inspired Noll to put her pug puppy Frankie into therapy dog training, too. Noll described Frankie as calm, good at training and a good listener. She said she loves children and so could see herself visiting a children's hospital with him someday.
"I've never really known what I wanted to do with my life when I get older, and now I think that would be incorporated," Noll said.


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My summers as a swipe – Part 1, 1966
by Dean A. Hoffman
After my final two years of high school and my first two years of college, I spent the summers working at the bottom rung of the ladder in the horse business. I took care of horses, first on a breeding farm and then on the track.
What I experienced stays with me even today, although these were years in the late 1960s when America was experiencing racial strife and protests over the war in Vietnam.
In harness racing, however, there was nothing but optimism then. There's no such thing as a sure thing in horse racing, but we knew in the late 1960s that harness racing would get bigger and better every year. It had been that way since the end of World War II in 1945.
Courtesy Dean A. Hoffman | Dean Hoffman and his father at Walnut Hall Farm in the early 1960s. The yearling barn behind them burned in 1967.
Courtesy Dean A. Hoffman | This statue of Guy Axworthy stands sentinel over the Walnut Hall cemetery.
Courtesy Dean A. Hoffman | Hoffman with Besta Hanover, one of the breed's top mares with three in 2:00 including Jug winner Best Of All.
In that sense, the late 1960s were a vanished world for harness racing. The scourges of off-track betting, state lotteries, simulcasting, and racinos had yet to give gamblers choices that threatened the basic business model of racetracks.
It was indeed halcyon era.
This is the first in a four-part series in which I relive my education and experiences as a groom (I prefer the old term "swipe" in the headline) over four summers from the distant past.
"Here, boy, you might as well learn the horse business on the end of one of these."
With those words in June, 1966, Ted Woodley, the manager of Walnut Hall Farm, introduced me to four summers of caring for horses, first while in high school and later college.
I was a suburban kid from Cincinnati. I knew a crouper from an overcheck and I knew that straw was yellow and hay was green. But that was about all I knew about the practicalities of horsemanship.
My learning process did indeed begin on the end of a pitchfork. At times I thought it would never progress beyond that point. It seemed that I spent at least three weeks at Walnut Hall Farm cleaning stalls.
I was paired with two brothers from Louisville who were of similar age. We were the greenhorns just there for a summer job before school started. We lived together in a small room above the broodmare barn office. That was just a stone's from the historic stone stallion barn where Volomite and Scotland reigned for many decades. Not far away was the statue of Guy Axworthy near the farm's graveyard of greats.
At time I thought that some of the stalls at Walnut Hall had not been cleaned since Guy Axworthy died at age 32 in 1934. I had come to Walnut Hall with visions of being around famous horses, but the routine of cleaning stalls never seemed to end.
The evenings, however, were mine, and I could roam among the broodmares in the endless pastures. There was Impish, the feminine bay that made history as a juvenile five years earlier. There was the dark Emily's Pride, winner of the Hambletonian just eight years earlier and already the dam of the wunderkind colt Noble Victory.
I secured my summer job because my father knew Ted Woodley, the manager, and dad was also close to Cincinnati owner Sam Huttenbauer, who was close to Katherine Nichols, who owned Walnut Hall. My responsibilities consisted of 12-1/2 days of work every two weeks. Every other weekend I got off from Saturday noon until Monday morning.
For my services, I was paid $75 every two weeks (minus deductions, of course). But the farm provided me with a place to live and I took my meals at the farm's boarding house, a tradition that now seems quaint but then was simply part of farm life.
In fact, my first day gave me an introduction to boarding house etiquette and taught me a valuable lesson on seniority.
Farm hands gathered in waiting room in the boarding house until one of the cooks rang a bell to indicate the food was ready. We waited on ancient couches, a few hardback chairs, and one or two easy chairs. I arrived before lunch and took the most comfortable chair.
I noticed that some of the farm workers looked at me with a smile or slight snicker, but I wrote that off to the fact that I was the new kid on the farm, just a teenager among much older, experienced men.
As I waited, a stooped old man walking with a cane approached me, stared at me with absolute disdain and disgust, then exploded like Mount Vesuvius with a torrent of mumbled profanities. When he began shaking his cane at me, I shot up out of that chair like a Jack-In-The-Box as I heard and saw snickers from others in the room.
It seems that on my very first day, I had committed the unforgivable sin of sitting in the easy chair of George Johnson, a bent-over pensioner who had earned certain privileges with decades of seniority.
From that day forward, I never even got within a few feet of the old man's easy chair and never dared to speak to him. I was much younger, a foot taller, but he always carried that cane and scared the bejesus out of me. I gave him a wide swath.
If I had been smarter, I would have befriended George Johnson because he had lived an absolutely amazing life in the harness horse world and I could have learned so much from him. But then I just saw him as a crabby old SOB to be avoided at all costs.
George Johnson was born in 1879 and spent his entire life with horses. When I encountered him, he was 88 and had been a pensioner at Walnut Hall for almost two decades. But in 1912 he had been among the grooms that accompanied the C.K G. Billings horses for exhibitions in Czarist Russia. Johnson sailed with the Billings' troup to Hamburg, German, then took a train into Russia.
Later in life, Johnson came to Walnut Hall to work as a stationer and in that role he cared for such stalwarts as Peter Volo and his son Volomite and the rugged Scotland.
Eventually, I was experienced enough to be trusted handling broodmares as they were bred or checked for pregnancy. I remember sitting on the tailgate of a pick-up truck that summer leading the mares Beloved and Cheetah Goose behind me. Beloved's daughter Kerry Way would win the Hambletonian that summer and Cheetah Goose had a good son named Bullet Van that roughed it up it with Bret Hanover.
I was also thrilled to find myself working alongside Donnie Miller, a top-notch trainer and driver who had steered Bret Hanover to his freshman record of 1:57.2 just two summer previously. Donnie was experiencing some health issues that kept him away from the racing wars, but he pitched right in with the know-nothings like me to help with the Walnut Hall breeding stock.
Perhaps the most significant friend I made that summer was Phil Straw, a fellow Ohioan who was finishing up his college education at the University of Kentucky. He had fallen in love with harness racing as a young teen, as I had, and made Walnut Hall his home in the summers and later when he was a full-time student at UK. He lived in a little cabin near the foaling barn which he called The Ponderosa.
Inviting me into his abode, Phil pulled out a box that was chock-a-block with harness racing treasures and mementos. He had a shoe worn by Hickory Smoke when he won the Hambletonian nine years earlier. Phil had a photo of him with Adios Butler when the pacer set the world record for pacers on a half-mile track at 1:55.3 in a time trial five years earlier.
I was both fascinated and envious and asked Phil, "How'd you get all this stuff?"
"Wrote the owners," he said simply. "They appreciate it when someone shows a genuine interest in their best horses and they'll usually send you something."
I filed that information away and later that summer I wrote a letter to Norman Woolworth, owner of Meadow Skipper, who was then completing his first season at Stoner Creek Stud in Paris, Kentucky. I admired Meadow Skipper because I knew he was troubled by splints and yet gritted his way past the pain to have a successful race career. At my high school, I competed on both the cross-country and track teams and was hampered by shin splints. (I was also hampered by a lack of speed.) That letter to Woolworth was my paean to Meadow Skipper.
Woolworth responded by sending me photos not only of Meadow Skipper, both also of other stars from his stable. That led to a friendship of almost 40 years with Norman and I was honored to speak at a memorial service for him at the Harness Racing Museum in 2003.
Walnut Hall is truly the grand dame of standardbred nurseries, having been established 1892 with the money Lamon V. Harkness made from his association with Standard Oil. It was a magisterial Bluegrass estate with sweeping and seemingly endless fields of bluegrass.
Other trotting nurseries came and went over the first half of the Twentieth Century but Walnut Hall endured and the business of breeding horses carried on through several generations of Harkness descendants.
It was truly the dominant breeder of that era and its old stone stallion barn housed such legends as Guy Axworthy, San Francisco, Peter Volo, Scotland, Volomite, Guy Abbey, and Demon Hanover. Countless Walnut Hall broodmares contributed immeasurably to the breed.
The stallion roster when I worked there in the 1960s, however, consisted of a now-forgotten brigade of well-bred wannabees. Among them were The Intruder, Storm Cloud, Saboteur, Uncle Sam, Duane Hanover, Coffee Break, Adios Paul, Kimberly Kid, Trader Horn, etc. In retrospect, the stallion roster looked like a losers' convention.
When Castleton Farm, located just across Newtown Pike, stood Good Time, Speedster, Florican. Worthy Boy, Speedy Scot and other prominent stallions, Walnut Hall's line-up played second fiddle.
Perhaps the sudden demise of Demon Hanover chilled farm owner Katherine Nichols' desire to invest heavily in a single stallion. Walnut Hall had participated heavily in the syndication of Demon Hanover for $500,000 in 1958. The intelligent and talented stallion was moved from his base in Ohio to Walnut Hall and ensconced in the stall long occupied by Volomite. (No pressure there.)
Demon Hanover bred one book of mares at Walnut Hall in 1959 and died suddenly that fall. The hopes and dreams — not to mention a lot of money — of his shareholders went into the ground with him. Seldom again was Walnut Hall a force in acquiring the best young stallions in the breed.
The Walnut Hall stallions of the mid-1960s, despite commendable accomplishments on the track left a very limited legacy to the breed.
I came to know them as individuals with the expected quirks in the breeding shed. Coffee Break was small and short-legged, as were many of the get of Good Time. He was so short that he had difficulty mounting mares at time, so a small mound was built into the corner of the breeding shed. Coffee Break would stand there when he mounted mares and, as a result, we called that mound "Mount Coffee Break."
Kimberly Kid, a sensation on the track and considered as "the last of the Volomites," had a weak hip and hind end. When he mounted a mare, David White, a burly son of the Kentucky hills, would put his shoulder under Kimberly Kid's hindquarters to give him support during breeding.
Most of the breeding was done by live cover. Because I began work after the school year was over, much of the breeding season was over. Invariably, miscues occurred in the breeding shed. I recall seeing Duane Hanover breed a maiden mare named Ensign's Delight. She was so startled when she felt the stallion on her back that she collapsed and fell to the ground, almost taking her paramour with her.
Artificial insemination was practiced in the most rudimentary fashion. Stallions were fitted with condoms ("equine breeding bags" sold by a firm in Crestline, Ohio) and the semen was collected. It was then poured into cups and delivered to a mare to be inseminated. I recall assisting in such efforts and riding in a pick-up truck with a cup of semen sitting on the dashboard.
In the evenings after work at Walnut Hall, I loved to walk up to the cemetery were so many legends of the breed rested for eternity, with the statue of Guy Axworthy standing sentinel over them. Stones marked the final resting places of Volomite, Scotland, Peter Volo, Demon Hanover, Guy Abbey, and many important and influential broodmares.
I recall a towering oak with roots at its base that provided me with a comfortable spot to sit and read, looking out over the sweeping Bluegrass pastures.
At the end of August, it was time for me to return to Cincinnati and start my senior year in high school. But I was already planning another summer amid the boundless beauty of Walnut Hall Farm.


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Are we seeing the calm before the storm in the Gulf?
The Gulf states need calm for economic growth and security, but it all depends on what the United States and Iran do next.
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Less than three weeks after US strikes killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, and Iran retaliated with strikes on US forces in Iraq, the war fever in the Persian Gulf seems to have passed. Or there is some powerful acetaminophen in the air.
At least that was my impression following visits to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates this month.
Over the weekend of Jan. 11 in Abu Dhabi, the UAE Minister of State Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber addressed an audience of energy analysts and media as part of Abu Dhabi sustainability week. His message was similar in tone to that of President Donald Trump, who had recently tweeted "All is well." Jaber, who is also CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, said, "I am pleased that geopolitical tensions have dissipated over the past few days, and that wisdom, balance and diplomacy appear to be prevailing."
The rhetoric of de-escalation is welcome, given the recent state of high anxiety, but the risk of escalation remains high. The Trump administration wants to demonstrate to Americans that the president's high-stakes gambles are strategic, the risks are measured and the payoff will be a neutralized Iran without nuclear capability. The Gulf states, particularly the UAE and Saudi Arabia, want to focus on the business of exporting oil and to demonstrate to their customers, investors and citizens that they are insulated from tit-for-tat exchanges between the United States and Iran. The increasingly diversified economies of the Gulf depend on expatriate labor and consumption, tourists and foreign investors. And more than anything, they need to protect their citizens, as the region anticipates possible further backlash by Iran, and there is a general unease about the extent of America's commitment.
The United States and regional desire for de-escalation may sadly be off the mark. Even in a globalized and networked Middle East, we can underestimate our connectivity and interdependence. The trend lines are worrying. The United States is increasing sanctions. Iran will increase enrichment. (Even in early December in Doha, analysts close to the government in Tehran openly discussed enrichment ramp-up as a sound negotiating strategy.) The 2015 nuclear deal — the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — will collapse, and the Iranian regime will go down kicking, lashing out at American targets in the Middle East and perhaps worldwide. The Gulf Arab states will face collateral damage, if not direct attack. President Trump will enforce perhaps his only real commitment in the Middle East — his red line on the attack on US citizens. And even if Trump gets an opportunity to reset relations with Iran, what are the prospects of success, and what kind of Iran will it be with? Either the United States will face an emboldened Iran with more nuclear capacity, or a collapsing Iran with power-hungry and wealthy former commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps competing for authority. Neither scenario is good for regional stability or global markets.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE understand well their reliance on oil exports to the east and the need to develop demand markets for petroleum products in the developing world. From the Horn of Africa, across the Middle East and to Pakistan, the future consumers of oil and petrochemicals will rise in importance alongside current consumer markets in India and China. Keeping the choke points clear from conflict in the Strait of Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb and the Suez Canal has meant a willingness to engage with Iran through intermediaries, or at least not provoke Iran directly. Saudi Arabia refrained from outright accusations or retaliation against Iran for the attacks on Abqaiq and Khurais in September. And after attacks on tankers near the Strait of Hormuz in June and near Fujairah in May, the UAE reportedly sent a delegation to Iran over the summer and released some $700 million in frozen Iranian funds in October. There is also talk among energy insiders in Saudi Arabia about turning a blind eye toward ship-to-ship transfers in the Persian Gulf. Keeping Iran on the brink of collapse — but not in collapse — is the ideal for Abu Dhabi and Riyadh. It is an unsustainable strategy, buoyed by the stalwart nonchalance of global oil markets.
Oil prices have been relatively steady in this period of political tension. The ramp-up of threats and attacks on oil infrastructure and transport, from tankers moving chemicals to attacks on the mother ship of the oil industry in Abqaiq, to attacks on US military forces in Iraq has been gradual and methodical. Oil prices have blinked, but the general consensus is that there is plenty of supply, for now, and that the major Gulf producers and their customers (especially China) are urging restraint. But this is a temporary holding pattern. As the US maximum pressure campaign continues, there will be blowback. And the Gulf states will be the front line.
And instead of drawing the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states together in a confrontation with Iran, US actions have essentially created a flurry of bilateral back channels and side talks. The effect is strengthening bilateral engagements and weakening an already embattled united GCC. Qatar is more firmly in Iran's orbit. The UAE is delicately distancing itself from Saudi Arabia and confrontation with the Houthis in Yemen. And no Gulf Arab state wanted to take credit for US forces launching the attack on Soleimani from their territory. Most importantly, the Saudis and Emiratis know that if Trump tries to secure a new deal with Iran, or a JCPOA part II, they will be excluded from negotiations once again.
But it is hard to envision a return to a pre-2016 status quo with Iran. After the killing of Soleimani, Iran is unlikely to bury the hatchet with the United States. There is simply no trust. Therefore, the Gulf states have decided to hedge, developing their own relationships with regional powers like Russia, and intervening politically and economically where they can promote and sustain markets for their prime export commodities. If this is what burden-sharing looks like, it bears a strong resemblance to a whack-a-mole approach to regional security.
The region is less safe, more vulnerable to miscommunication and misunderstanding of both partner and adversary intentions. The trust between the Gulf Arab states and the United States is waning. Some in the Trump administration may see an inevitable toppling of the government in Iran, but may be unwilling to contemplate a prolonged state of violence or state collapse, and the effects this would have on the region. As long as the administration perceives little risk to global markets and American lives, it is the Gulf Arab states that will pay the heaviest price. The current approach, at least in the attitudes in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi right now, is a return to quiet deal-making and appeasement with Iran that may avert a war directly between Iran and its Gulf neighbors, at least for now. In short, the current trajectory is unsustainable for both the United States and its Gulf partners. Until we see that we need each other and that global energy and commodity markets depend on cooperation among the supply sources and transit ways in the region, conflict is more likely than any new deal or shift in behavior from Iran.
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At Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, verbal orders are accepted only when a patient's life or limb is in danger; otherwise, the physician must write the order, says Judy Street, RN, manager of emergency services.
"I audit the process visually and staff receive verbal counseling if they are not following the standard," she says. "Support from our medical director has been key in making this work."
However, physicians occasionally are noncompliant, and when this occurs, nurses are asked to document this lack of compliance on a quality variance report. "The report allows us to track and identify a pattern of behavior," Street says. "This is reported through our organizational quality assurance process as well."
Once a pattern is identified, the ED medical director is responsible for addressing the problem. In addition, nurses are notified verbally and in writing, with notice sent to physicians, that if standards are not met, the nurse may be subject to formal verbal counseling.
"Physicians are advised they are putting the nurses at risk by not complying," Street says. "Peer pressure is a powerful tool."
Recently when a physician gave a verbal order for a nonemergent task to a nurse, two other nurses asked if the nurse was unaware of the standard. The nurse then turned to the physician and said, "You need to write it.' Throughout the rest of the shift, the nurse made sure orders were written," she says.
Nurses also may report a problem with noncompliance to the ED manager or medical director via voicemail or e-mail, adds Street.
Another nurse was advised that continuing to accept verbal orders could result in corrective action. "The nurse was also told that if further incidents occurred, this would be part of her permanent file as well as reflected in her annual performance appraisal," she says.
If the physician gives a verbal order and the patient is injured as a result of the care ordered, the burden is on the nurse to prove that he or she fulfilled the physician's order accurately, says Penny S. Brooke, APRN, MS, JD, a Salt Lake City-based nurse attorney specializing in health care legal issues.
"The nurse always should read the order back to the physician to verify that the nurse heard the order correctly," says Brooke. When orders are given by telephone, have a second nurse on the line to verify the order, she recommends. "It is always good to document details, such as a verifying witnesses' name, in case you need to refresh your memory at a later date," she adds.
If a verbal order has not been signed by the physician in a timely manner, contact the physician to remind them, advises Brooke. "It is important to document this contact and to take the next steps if the physician does not follow through," she says.
If a physician refuses to comply, go up the chain of command and document this action, says Brooke. "Documentation of the steps taken to have a noncompliant physician sign a verbal order also may be submitted as an incident report," she adds. "Risk management is interested in having hospital policies and procedures followed."
Penny S. Brooke, APRN, MS, JD, Professor and Director of Outreach, University of Utah College of Nursing, Salt Lake City. Telephone: (801) 585-9610. E-mail: Penny.Brooke@nurs.utah.edu.
Judy Street, RN, Manager, Emergency Services, First Hill Campus, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle. Telephone: (206) 386-2592. E-mail: Judy.Street@swedish.org.
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Q: Question about existence of uniformly continuous homeomorphism from a non empty open set to $\mathbb{R} $ This question was asked in my real analysis quiz and I was not able to solve it.

Let $U$ be a non-empty open subset of $\mathbb{R} $. Suppose that there exists a uniformly continuous homeomorphism $ h: U \longrightarrow \mathbb{R} $ . Show that $U=\mathbb{ R} $.

I thought of assuming that $U$ is a subset of $\mathbb{R} $ and then trying to find a contradiction. But I am confused on what property I should use and unable to find a contradiction.

A: Hint : $U$ is a disjoint union of open intervals. The existence of a homeomorphism $f$ with the real  line makes $U$ connected, so $U$ is  single open interval. Any continuous injection on an open interval is strictly monotonic. If $b <\infty$ the $f$ extends to $(a,b]$ by uniform continuity but then $f$ would be bounded above, a contradiciton. Similarly, $a =-\infty$.

A: Since $U(\subset\Bbb R)$ and $\Bbb R$ are homeomorphic, $U$ is an open interval. Suppose that it is an interval of the form $(a,b)$, with $a\in\Bbb R$ and $a<b$ ($b\in\Bbb R$ or $b=\infty$). there is some $\delta>0$ such that$$x,y\in(a,b)\wedge|x-y|<\delta\implies\bigl|f(x)-f(y)\bigr|<1.$$But it follows from that $f$ maps bounded sets into bounded sets. So, if $c\in(a,b)$, $f\bigl((a,c)\bigr)$ is bounded. On the other hand, $f$ is injective and continuous, and therefore it is monotonic. So, you can have $\lim_{x\to b}f(x)=\infty$ or $\lim_{xto b}f(x)=-\infty$, but you can't have both. Therefore, either $f$ cannot take arbitrarily large values or it cannot take arbitrarily small values. In either case, it cannot be a bijection between $(a,b)$ and $\Bbb R$.

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In writing my debut novel, The Home Place, I had to bust some Western mythology to tell the truth.
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Instead, Beck returned home and made a life-changing decision to bust out of the closet.
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There is definitely something about this phenomenal music maestro A.R. Rahman. It takes oodles of dedication, determination and conviction in oneself to reach the position that he enjoys globally. No wonder, he has single handedly managed to take India to places which one just couldn't dream about.
After having got India it's much coveted Oscar award (for The Slumdog Millionaire), Rahman has done it yet again. This time round, his composition 'Infinite Love' has got featured in UN's 'World's Happiest Playlist'. The others who have found a place in the list include the likes of Charlize Theron ( 'Every Teardrop is a Waterfall' by Coldplay), David Guetta ( 'Imagine' by John Lennon), Britney Spears ( 'Kiss' by Prince), and Yoko Ono, Nicole Scherzinger - 'Three Little Birds' by Bob Marley, amongst others.
'World's Happiest Playlist' was just recently unveiled by the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the 'International Day of Happiness' with Stevie Wonder anthem.
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Herman den Blijker (Rotterdam, 21 oktober 1958) is een Nederlandse chef-kok. Naast het runnen van zijn restaurants presenteert hij diverse televisieprogramma's zoals Herrie in de keuken! en Herman zoekt chef voor RTL 4. In 2019 werd bekend dat Den Blijker de overstap zou maken naar Talpa Network. Ook publiceerde hij in juni 2006 zijn eerste kookboek, genaamd Herrie in de keuken!.

Carrière

Culinair
Toen Den Blijker 19 jaar oud was vertrok hij naar Frankrijk, waar hij drie jaar lang cursussen volgde en de basis van het koken leerde. In 1989 ontmoette hij zijn latere zakenpartner David Crouwel bij een wijnproeverij. In die tijd leidde Den Blijker een vrij onregelmatig leven, waarin hij in meerdere keukens voor korte tijd actief was. In 1992 trachtte hij samen met een compagnon tevergeefs zijn eerste eigen zaak in Scheveningen op te zetten.

Michelinster
Succes op culinair gebied begon in 1993, toen hij in Dordrecht met Crouwel aan de praat raakte over een op te richten eigen zaak. Na enige ontmoetingen wist Crouwel Den Blijker over te halen om de plannen te concretiseren. In juli 1993 openden ze hun eerste restaurant. Het heette De Engel en was gevestigd aan de Eendrachtsweg in Rotterdam. In het begin had het duo de grootste moeite de zaak draaiende te houden en dreigde er zelfs een faillissement. Uiteindelijk ontving het etablissement in 1997 een Michelinster die in 2002 weer werd ingetrokken.

Restaurants
Den Blijker is met zakenpartner David Crouwel oprichter en eigenaar van de restaurants De Engel (1993), De Jachtclub Hillegersberg, Zeezout, Rosso, Las Palmas (2007), Hofstede Meerzigt (2007) en Herrie (2006). De restaurants Foody's en Groot Paardenburg werden in 2007 verkocht en ook Zeezout werd verkocht. Crouwel verklaarde dat "slechts een aantal restaurants" eigendom zal blijven van het duo. Ze willen zich meer gaan bezighouden met tv-activiteiten.

Op een gegeven moment was Den Blijker alleen nog betrokken bij Las Palmas. In 2018 verkocht Den Blijker aan de Eindhovense ondernemer en chef Eveline Wu. In september van hetzelfde jaar werd bekend dat Den Blijker het pand van sterrenchef François Geurds over zou nemen. Samen met Nick de Kousemaeker, waarmee Den Blijker werkte bij Las Palmas, begon Den Blijker een nieuw restaurant: Goud.

Palazzo
In het najaar van 2009 werd Den Blijker verantwoordelijk voor het culinaire gedeelte van dinnershow Palazzo. Per eind oktober 2009 bereidde hij 5 maanden lang de gerechten in het Palazzo theater, een concept waarin komedie, illusie, zang, dans en acrobatiek, gecombineerd werden met Den Blijkers gerechten. Den Blijker loste in het 6e seizoen collega kok Ron Blaauw af die gedurende de eerste vijf edities de leiding had over de keuken.
Ook in 2010 had Den Blijker de leiding over de keuken van Palazzo. In april 2011 werd hij opgevolgd door chef Robert Kranenborg.

Televisie
Voor RTL heeft Den Blijker vanaf 2005 een reeks aan culinair-gerelateerde programma's gemaakt. Veelal in samenwerking met Willem Reimers en andere terugkerende zakenrelaties van Den Blijker.

Sinds 1 januari 2020 staat Den Blijker onder contract bij Talpa Network. Voor deze multimediaorganisatie maakt hij nieuwe programma's voor de televisiezenders van de organisatie, voornamelijk op SBS6.
 Herman Helpt Een Handje (2020)
 Crisis In De Tent (2020–2021)
 De Kookklunzen (2021-2022)

In september 2021 deed Den Blijker mee aan het televisieprogramma Het Jachtseizoen van StukTV op SBS6, waarin hij samen met Bram Krikke een duo vormde. Ze werden gepakt na 3 uur en 5 minuten.

In 2023 was Den Blijker een van de deelnemers aan De Verraders.

Boeken
Door de jaren heen heeft Den Blijker, in samenwerking met Jaap van Rijn, een aantal boeken uitgebracht. De boeken hebben als doel om de hobbykok de juiste keuzen te leren maken, zowel in de winkel als achter het fornuis. Den Blijker werkt graag met dagverse seizoensproducten en daarbij hoort het gebruik van goede producten om een gerecht te laten slagen. Ook dat komt in de boeken aan bod.

De boeken van Den Blijker en Van Rijn:

Film
Voor de film Ratatouille uit 2007 sprak Den Blijker meerdere stemmen in waaronder die van de gezondheidsinspecteur. In 2022 speelde Den Blijker een gastrol in de Videoland-film De Kleine Grote Sinterklaasfilm.

Privé
Den Blijker is getrouwd en sinds 11 juli 2008 vader van een zoon.

Trivia

 Den Blijker komt als Herman den Blikvoer voor in een Donald Duck uit 2014.
 In 2019 speelde Den Blijker een gastrol in het persiflageprogramma De TV Kantine.

Externe links
 Officiële website Herman den Blijker

Nederlands kok
Nederlandse kok met Michelinster
Nederlands televisiepresentator
Nederlands horecaondernemer

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Leigh Gallagher, an assistant managing editor at Fortune, has been hired by Google to be a director of external affairs.
She will be based in New York.
Gallagher has been with Fortune since April 2007, first as a senior editor and then as assistant managing editor.
She wrote and edited feature stories covering a variety of industries and help steer editorial direction for Fortune and Fortune.com.
Gallagher also co-chaired the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit and Fortune Brainstorm Tech and acted as executive director of the Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit.
She previously worked for Forbes and SmartMoney magazines.


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I-29 rollover sends four to Altru
Four Fargo residents were taken to Altru Hospital in Grand Forks after a vehicle rollover Friday afternoon on Interstate 29 one mile south of the Reynolds, N.D., exit, the North Dakota Highway Patrol said.
Burnett Pfarr, 31, was driving north about 2:22 p.m. and about to pass a semi-truck when the 2003 Chevrolet Trailblazer drove over the rumble strips on the side of the road. The Patrol said he overcorrected, lost control and rolled into the east ditch. He was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle.
Passenger Glenn Pfarr, 41, also was not wearing a seat belt. But Layce Pfarr, 13, and Anthony Pfarr, 9, were, the patrol said.
Burnett Pfarr was cited for care required.
No information on their conditions was available late Friday.
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Best pair. That was pretty good, although I would of liked to see Akari be more assertive. Anyone know when Secret Flowers ch 6 will be released? Are you guys gonna work on it soon?
Given the delays, SF6 must be a masterpiece.
Thanks for the release, and can't wait for the Secret Flowers ch 6!
Holy crap that was hot as hell.
Hello, sorry but the links are dead for this.
I love Goyac's Chiina x Akkarin~ almost as much as Himawari x Sakurako. Wish there was more!


We are located next door to Go Outdoors (formally CCC's) near Brammel Lane, opposite Armando's Scooters, to gain access hit the button 'Sheffield Hackspace' on the intercom by the green double door.
If you are in any doubt or having trouble finding us give the Hackspace mobile a ring on 07956 464 173 and one of us will gladly assist.
If it's your first time coming to the hackspace, we suggest coming along on a Friday evening between 1800 & 2100 as this will gives us an opportunity to give you a proper tour and answer all your questions. But check the calendar, just in case we had to cancel the session.
The hackspace is very well served by public transport.
Our nearest train station is Sheffield and is within a 20 minute walking distance.
The nearest tram stops are Granville Road and University of Sheffield, but neither are particularly close.
There are a number of routes that run down Bramall Lane (18, 19 & 252), however the bulk of local buses run down London Road (20, 43, 44, 51a, 75, 76, 86, 97, 98 & 798).
Additionally, if you are coming in from Rotherham (a number of members do), you will want to consider the X1 which comes from Maltby (through Rotherham, Meadowhall, Attercliffe & etc) and terminates at Moor Market (about 700m away).
The hackpace is located on a yard where you can secure your bicycle.
There is a limited amount of local street parking available on Randall Street, Hill Street (one side is permit only) and Harwood Street. We also suggest that if you are coming in on a Sheffield United home game day, that you consider taking public transport as Randall Street will normally be closed by the police (for away team coaches). And, other local parking will likely be filled to capacity.
The hackspace moves the Saturday events so that the minimum number of Saturday sessions clash with Sheffield United home games. But sometimes there will be the odd clash which we cannot avoid. Plus, there are FA Cap games which are not scheduled at the start of the season and cannot really be avoided.
Please read signage when parking and (if necessary) getting a relevant ticket for parking. The hackspace is not responsible for any parking fines incurred.
Also, the hackspace is not responsible for any damage to your vehicle incurred while parked on the public street.


Think about what you are passionate about. It might be family, friends, a significant other, a pet, an upcoming vacation, or what you might have for dinner. Different people are passionate about different things. Ask yourself: Why are you passionate about those things? What makes you passionate about them? Now ask yourself if you are passionate about school.
I can think of many things I would rather do than sit in a classroom listening to a lecture. I'd rather be relaxing at the beach, traveling to a new place, or playing Mario Kart with my family and friends. But when I was in college, my education was extremely important to me. I had a tremendous amount of passion, which allowed me to succeed. I had the attitude that nothing was going to stand in the way of getting my degree. In my first year in college I took an Introduction to Sociology class that genuinely interested me. It was easy to be passionate about it because I really liked the subject matter, my professor, and the textbook. I also took Microeconomics. And while I understood its value and importance, I was not as interested in attending and completing the assignments. However, I always knew I needed to find passion in the course if I wanted to be successful and accomplish my goals. One strategy that worked for me was to find situations where I could apply concepts in those less interesting classes to my personal life. For instance, if the lecture and textbook were explaining a Microeconomics concept like total and marginal utility, I would try to apply this to something I could easily relate to. If utility is the satisfaction of the consumption of a product for a consumer, I would think of an example involving Arby's roast beef sandwiches, and blue raspberry slurpees. Making the material meaningful to me allowed me to be passionate about learning something I otherwise would not have been.
There were other activities I enjoyed more than class, but I knew it was important to find a passion for my classes because it was the key to succeeding in them.
It is common to have other things you would like to do more than sitting in class, doing homework and preparing for exams. But you still must have passion for the learning and for the class in order to be successful.
Please note: It is OK to not know what your goal is when you start college. In fact, it is extremely common for students not to know what their goal is or what their major is when they begin college, but there is value in identifying your goal(s) as soon as possible.
More questions to ask yourself: Why are you in college, and why are you taking the courses you're taking? If you can answer these questions with solid logic and understand their purpose and how they fit in to being important to your life, you are off to a great start. However, if you are taking classes at someone else's suggestion and you are not genuinely interested in them, you may want to reconsider. I do not wish it to be misconstrued that I recommend you drop out of college, rather I want you to have a plan and passion to be able to achieve your goals. For many people, higher education is a necessary part of their goals.
I see many students in my counseling office who want to be independent, work a full time job, and/or party (rather than go to college). I also see many students who come back to a few years later with a renewed passion and value for their education.
Monica's goal is to go to a university. She was accepted but couldn't afford it. She enrolls at a community college. She is passionate about attending community college and then transferring to earn a bachelor's degree.
Christina is a high school graduate. She would like to take a year off of school to work and travel. Her parents gave her an ultimatum, saying that if she wanted to continue to live at home, she had to go to college full-time.
Javier completed one year of college then got married in his early 20s. He and his spouse raised four children and he has been working for 20 years in an uninteresting, low-paying job. He always wanted to finish college and now finally has the time to go back to school.
Andy is interested in partying and little else. He knows his college education is important but it is a low priority at this point.
Sometimes we are motivated by a specific desired outcome of performing a task. Some people play a game because they want to win. In education, some students work hard because they want to receive a good grade or transfer to a prestigious university. Parents of younger children may give a monetary reward for each A the student earns. This is extrinsic motivation.
Interest, desire to learn, and enjoyment of a subject are characteristics of intrinsic motivation, or what we call passion. Passion for your education must come from within. If your educational goals (passing a college course, acquiring new skills or attaining a degree) are important enough to you, your motivation can become intrinsic, allowing you to find passion, which will help you reach your goals. Without passion, you may find yourself struggling, withdrawing from courses, earning poor grades, or dropping out. External rewards of ascending to a certain academic level or acquiring wealth, lose some of their appeal if students do not find the work to get there personally rewarding. These students, who truly embrace their work, are intrinsically motivated – passionate while those who are focused mainly on rewards for high achievement and punishment for poor performance are extrinsically motivated. Trophies, medals, money, new clothes or a new car are examples of extrinsic motivators. One could argue, "the end justifies the means"—that it doesn't matter if a students' passion comes internally or externally, as long as they accomplish their goals. However, when the reward is learning itself, the student is on road to long-term success!
I believe one of the best decisions you can make is to attend college if you are passionate about it and it is the right time for you. On the other hand it is better to postpone attending college if you are not passionate about it or feel the time is not right. Please do not misunderstand – I am not discouraging anyone from going to college nor am I encouraging anyone to drop out of college. And I do not expect you to be passionate about every aspect of college. There were some classes and some requirements that I disliked during my own college experience. My concern, however, is students who start college and are not passionate about it. After a few years and a poor transcript, they meet with a counselor saying they weren't in college for the right reasons, weren't serious about their education, didn't know what they were doing, or… "my parents made me go." There are some suggestions in this book that can assist a passionate student to succeed. But all of the suggestions in the world will not help a student lacking passion. In the end, I want you to be successful and I want you to enjoy college, but I believe these are nearly impossible without passion.
There is a scene from the movie Serendipity where Dean's character says, "You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: 'Did he have passion?'" I will leave it up to you to decide if this is true or if it is Hollywood taking a liberty, but either way that quote has stayed with me. You can be successful in college. This textbook is a journey in figuring out how you are going to get there.
Content previously copyrighted, published in Blueprint for Success in College: Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies (by Dave Dillon). Now licensed as CC BY: Attribution.
Next: Chapter 2: What's College For?


Nowadays, We usually see abandoned buildings and objects to no use, however Russian street artist Nikita Nomerz possess a hobby where he transforms old and abandoned objects into colorful creatures and portraits resulting into an awesome street art design on an object that is no longer in use.
He travels around the country to paint awesome street art designs (murals and graffiti) to make them look lively and appealing to passersby.He also paints rotten tree trunks. What's great about him is he uses the defects of this objects/buildings as part of his artwork.


I am now offering fine art prints directly to my followers and collectors. I sell signed and numbered prints of either 100 or 150 editions. They printed on professional quality Satin Photo Paper – 280gsm – printed on a professional Canon Pro-100 series printer. They come individually prepared for framing with mounts, backs included and wrapped in clear plastic bags.
If you find any images on this website or elsewhere which are not in the gallery but which you would like printed as a giclee print contact me via email emmafcownie@gmail.com or via the comments section at the bottom of this page and I will include in the Prints Gallery.
Gosh, your artwork is fabulous! And thank you for swinging by the Ranch and for the follow. We ❤ visitors, especially those who are so talented.
Thank you! I look forward to following your blog.
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The Marin Independent Journal reported in a recent article that Marin county health officials are administering free flu shots to nursing home employees. The article indicates that this action is in response to the results of a recent health survey indicating that vaccination rates for the residents of nursing facilities is high, but the employee vaccination rates are quite low.
This report should probably evoke a head scratch or two because of the simplicity of the study and solution. It makes no sense why the employees are not getting flu shots. Nursing home employees handle the residents' food, medication, linens, utensils, garments, etc. The employees are in constant contact with the residents and their possessions; therefore, germs are almost certain to spread. It is surprising that it took a study to conclude that vaccinations need to be freely given to, if not required of, nursing home employees.
Public Health Officer, Dr. Matt Willis, stated that, "The elderly are our most vulnerable population when it comes to complications from influenza." Elderly people often have weakened immune systems, so a case of the flu is potentially deadly.
Officials believe it is important to emphasize vaccinations now, as they believe that they are at the threshold of flu season in California. There have been four deaths from influenza in the state of California, but California has not yet designated flu activity as widespread. Only two other states have yet to do so. The four individuals who died from influenza were all over the age of 65.
The Department of Health reports that the flu kills an average of 24,000 people each flu season. 90 percent of those who die are over the age of 65. This statistic only serves to highlight the need for vaccinations of both nursing home residents and employees.
Marin residents thus far have tested positive for a strain of the flu labeled influenza A H3N2. Doctors say this is a mixed message. This strain is especially virulent, but for some reason the vaccines are very effective in preventing this strain. What many people do not realize is vaccines not only help prevent infection of the flu, but vaccines can shorten the length of time the illness affects those who are sick. This means that an elderly individual's immune system will hopefully face a shorter fight if he or she is infected.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported last year that U.S. hospital employees have an average vaccination rate of 75 percent versus nursing home employees average vaccination rate of 55 percent.
These statistics point to the fact that nursing homes should place a high priority on making sure employees are getting vaccinated and doing all they can to avoid spreading influenza to the nursing home residents. This might not be the type of nursing home abuse or neglect that most people think of, but its effects can be just as deadly. Nursing home residents and their loved ones need to ensure that the facilities are taking every step possible to prevent flu outbreaks inside the facilities. It would be especially tragic to suffer or die from such a preventable illness.


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Return of the Condor
The Race to Save Our Largest Bird from Extinction
John Moir
Return of the Condor is far and away the best book on the subject. John Moir covered the condor recovery effort for magazines and newspapers for years and his extensive and award-winning journalism, including an investigative piece for Birding magazine, became this fine book. Moir presents a unique insider's view of the remarkable tale of saving a species from the brink of extinction. Down to a population of only twenty-two in the 1980s, the condor owes its survival and recovery to a team of scientists who flouted conventional wisdom and pursued the most controversial means to save it. John Moir's account shows the depth of their passion and courage and details the bitter controversy that led to a national debate over how to save America's largest bird.
Praise For Return of the Condor: The Race to Save Our Largest Bird from Extinction…
"Audubon himself would be delighted to read John Moir's exciting and authoritative account of the difficult, politically fraught but ultimately rewarding effort to save the largest of all the living birds, a great shadow in the sky above the Western range. I certainly was."--Richard Rhodes, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of John James Audubon: The Making of an American
"By the 1980s, the California condor was well on its way to extinction. The saga of this magnificent bird, which had soared above the North American continent at a time when mastodons and saber-toothed cats still roamed the Earth, seemed to be nearing the end. The only thing standing in the way of this grim fate was the dedication of a small group of researchers and naturalists, committed to saving the condor. With eloquence and insight, John Moir chronicles the effort to save this spectacular bird. His book is a remarkable testament to what a few dedicated individuals can accomplish."--Tim Gallagher, Director of Publications, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
"Return of the Condor is an account of cutting-edge conservation biology, but it is also an eminently human story. John Moir's focus is on the problematic intersection between science and scientists, between bird lovers and the great bird itself. The subject mattercomplex and controversial, ultimately heartwarmingdemands a skilled and sympathetic writer, and Moir's chronicle is thoroughly successful in this regard."--Ted Floyd, editor of Birding Magazine, American Birding Association
"John Moir's dramatic account of bringing the condor back from the brink of extinction is a reminder of the fragility of life on our planet and of the capacity of one species, humans, to protect or extinguish all others. Return of the Condor is a powerful tribute to the scientists, politicians, hunters, environmentalists, and concerned citizens who ultimately found a way to work together to ensure the survival of one of the most remarkable species on Earth."--Mark Schaefer, CEO, Global Environment and Technology Foundation, Former president of NatureServe
"A heart-stopping saga of the rescue from the very brink of extinction of one of the grandest of all birds. Starting with page one, I was captured by Return of the Condor. America is the richer for the success of those who fought against all odds . . . and this tale is one all should read."--Thomas Lovejoy, President, The Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, Founder of the PBS series Nature
"Pulling the California condor back from the brink of extinction has been difficult, and expensive. But this fine book by John Moir makes abundantly clear why preserving magnificent beings like our once-more wild condors is one of 21st century society's more important obligations."--Alan Tennant, author of On The Wing: To The Edge Of The Earth With The Peregrine Falcon
"John Moir has written an uplifting and well-researched tale that takes us on the condor's roller-coaster ride to recovery. Equally exhilarating and
heart-breaking, this important story brings complex issues into clear focus and lets us understandwith both heart and mindwhy we need to save this intelligent and majestic bird."--Maria Mudd Ruth, author of Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet
Moir deftly chronicles the efforts of the dedicated biologistswho work to save the California condor from extinction."-- Publishers Weekly
"The passenger pigeon and Carolina parakeet are gone forever, victims of ignorance and exploitation. John Moir eloquently describes the inspired effort to save the condor from the same fate. It is a compelling story that reminds us that human ingenuity and perseverance can ensure the survival of a specieswhen we recognize and value the diversity of life on Earth."--Mark Schaefer, CEO, Global Environment and Technology Foundation, Former president of NatureServe
Lyons Press, 9781592289493, 272pp.
John Moir is a naturalist and science educator, and his articles have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Examiner, the San Jose Mercury News, and The Sacramento Bee, among others.


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La selaginel·la de muntanya (Selaginella selaginoides) és una espècie de planta vascular sense llavors de la família selaginel·làcies.

Característiques
És una herba reptant o ascendent, de ramificacions dicotòmiques i amb les branques estèrils horitzontals i curtes, mentre que les fèrtils són erectes. Les fulles, són totes similars, disposades en espiral, amb 1-5 dents llargues a cada costat. Les fulles esporangíferes són el doble de grans que les estèrils. Tots dos tipus de fulla tenen una lígula que els permet captar l'aigua de la rosada. Els estròbils són groguencs, terminals i solitaris i no estan ben diferenciats de la resta de la branca. Els microsporangis es disposen a l'àpex de l'estròbil i contenen nombroses espores minúscules, en canvi, els megasporangis es disposen a la part inferior i només tenen 3-4 espores.

Distribució
És una espècie boreo-alpina i circumboreal, distribuïda per les zones àrtiques i de muntanya de les regions temperades d'Europa, Amèrica i Àsia, com també a l'illa del Hierro a Canàries. Es troba als dos vessants dels Pirineus, als estatges subalpí i alpí, per sobre dels 1300 m i fins als 2500 m en torberes, molleres, marges herbosos dels cursos d'aigua i matollars d'alta muntanya amb indiferència del substrat. A Catalunya és freqüent a tots els Pirineus, des de la vall d'Aran al Ripollès.

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Dr Sally Howes, National Audit Office – What does 'digitisation' really mean for an organisation?
Dr Sally Howes is the Executive Leader responsible for innovation at the National Audit Office.
She discussed real examples of digitisation from projects in UK government, showing the challenges faced by managers of these projects. Plus she explained what digitisation really means – it's not just data entry!
Sally also emphasised the power of the individual – an individual can make all the difference to a project, both good and bad.