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Daniil Dolzhenko Recognized as Bauer NAHL Defenseman of the Month for December
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Congratulations to Windigo defenseman Daniil Dolzhenko for being named Bauer North American Hockey League Hockey Defenseman of the Month for December, 2022. Per the NAHL announcement: While Wisconsin Windigo defenseman Daniil Dolzhenko, 18, only played in six games during the month of December, he made the most of it picking up five points (2 goals, 3 assists) and a +8 rating. The 6'0/185 lbs. native of Omsk, Russia, recorded at least one point in four of his six games and had one multi-point game. For the season, the UMass-Lowell recruit currently has seven points in 12 games played so far during the 2022-23 campaign. "Daniil's presence in both ends of the ice was a big part of our success this month. He works tirelessly at his game and is being rewarded for that with this award. It's great to see hard work pay off and I look forward to watching his growth continue as we push into the second half," said Windigo head coach Blake Hietala. "I wouldn't be able to accomplish this without my teammates that helped me all the time on and off the ice. We've been practicing hard and finally found the way to get some points and climb in the standings. I think the coaches did really good job of making us better individually and together as a team," said Dolzhenko. "The short-term goal for us would be to get to first place in our division and then win the Robertson Cup. The long-term for me personally would be to go to college and have a strong start and try to go pro after college."
Windigo Sweep Kenai River Brown Bears – Will Schumacher Named Midwest Star of the Week
The Windigo Acquire Veteran Frank Jenkins from Corpus Christi

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BANGKOK -- A nostalgic farmer in northeastern Thailand symbolizes how populism has gummed up the gears of the economy -- a pressing challenge for whatever government emerges from the country's highly anticipated general election.
"When Thaksin Shinawatra was our prime minister from 2001 to 2006, we could sell our rice at much higher prices," said Buadang Nakpornprai. "They aided our lives. I hope the next government will provide better support to farmers," she added.
The 67-year-old Buadang is a typical victim of Thailand's tradition of government handouts. Readily available assistance may have helped growers for brief spells, but it came at a price. "Farmers will not think about increasing productivity or cutting production costs to compete with others," said Chookiat Ophaswongse, honorary president of the Thai Rice Exporters Association.
That pervasive mindset, many argue, is a major reason Thailand produces few high-value-added products and finds itself facing the so-called middle-income trap.
The term describes a situation in which a country loses its export competitiveness once wages reach a certain level, but fails to make the technological progress needed to compete with more advanced economies. The predicament raises tough questions for Thailand's present and future leaders.
Can they summon the political will -- and maintain stability long enough -- to push painful reforms and address long-term issues, from an educational imbalance to a reliance on cheap migrant labor?
It has been a decade since Thailand started trying to restructure the agricultural sector by urging farmers to shift away from only commodity-grade products, to reduce their exposure to volatile prices.
Yet, hungry for votes, past governments adopted contradictory policies, propping up the prices of farm goods and providing cash handouts. The political temptation is powerful: Around 30 million of Thailand's 69 million people are farmers. More than half of the 30 million are poor rice farmers.
Nothing exemplifies Thai rice populism more than the rise of Yingluck Shinawatra, Thaksin's sister, who became prime minister in 2011 after a landslide election victory.
During the campaign, she promised every farmer that their rice would be purchased for 15,000 baht ($470) a ton, 100% above market prices. Later, after her downfall and the 2014 military coup, the rice-pledging scheme became the center of a dereliction of duty trial that prompted Yingluck to flee the country.
Along with the transparent desire to win votes, past Thai governments did hope that aiding farmers would give them enough capital to invest in the future -- either by purchasing better equipment or furthering their education to enhance productivity.
Instead, said Somchai Jitsuchon of the Thailand Development and Research Institute, the giveaways "dragged our agriculture sector behind."
"Farmers didn't think of anything but growing rice and one day, when the scheme collapsed, they had nothing," Somchai said. "They failed to adjust themselves to produce rice at low cost for better competition, or even produce higher grade with higher quality."
This is one reason the stakes are so high in the upcoming election. The long-delayed vote, which is scheduled for Feb. 24 but could be put off again, might be a rare opportunity for Thailand to choose a leadership that would dedicate itself to long-term productivity growth. All three major political camps have presented plans to tackle such issues, though the real test -- implementation -- will only come after the election.
Back in the 1960s, Thailand wooed automakers and other foreign investors to open factories, jumping ahead of neighbors like Indonesia and Vietnam in industrialization. But the tables are turning. From 2010 to 2016, Thai productivity growth on a per-worker basis trailed regional peers, including those two countries and the Philippines, according to the Asian Productivity Organization, an intergovernmental body. The agricultural sector is part of the problem.
Academics say the junta, until recently, was taking the right approach toward farmers.
"The current government avoided taking populist measures and pushed farmers to leave their current work, move to the suburbs and engage in more productive jobs," said Akio Egawa, an associate professor of economics at Momoyama Gakuin University in Osaka and a visiting research fellow at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.
But in the run-up to the election, the junta changed its tune and budgeted 1 billion baht to shore up prices of palm oil, which had fallen due to oversupply. The government also decided to give 14.5 million poor Thais, mostly farmers, one-time cash handouts of 500 baht.
The roots of Thailand's productivity deficit run deeper than farm handouts.
The country has yet to restructure an education system that produces a significant number of graduates ill-suited to the labor market.
"I graduated from a decent college in Bangkok, but I was not able to find any jobs that suited my major," said a 27-year-old with a bachelor's degree in law. He said he gets by with a job on a tech support helpline for electronics.
Foreign investors and even the Federation of Thai Industries say that while many Thais earn bachelor's degrees, they are typically in the liberal arts. Electronics and robotics engineers are sorely needed to promote investment in new, high-tech industries, as the government plans to do under its Eastern Economic Corridor development initiative.
"Very few national and public universities have science programs in rural areas," Egawa said. "And Thai households in the 2010s see less need for their children to receive a college education."
Just as Thailand lacks the skilled labor it needs to escape the middle-income snare, the country is also short on less-skilled workers to drive the labor-intensive export industries that account for over 60% of gross domestic product.
Thailand relies not only on imported consumers -- tourists -- but also workers from neighboring countries. Recently, the Thai government signed a memorandum of understanding with Myanmar that would bring 50,000 migrants to cover a fisheries worker shortage.
"All these issues of rural and agricultural reforms, education system reforms and migrant workers are closely interconnected," said Kobsidthi Silpachai, head of market and economic research at Kasikornbank.
"Because the country did not correctly [push] farmers to work on competitiveness or productivity, less people from rural areas pursued higher education," he said. "This failed to prompt the government [to pursue] education reforms, to have a variety of talent in different professions."
Chronic political instability has not helped. Some say the junta has actually been a positive force, at least in terms of laying some of the groundwork for growth.
Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha's government has taken steps to boost manufacturing and launched a plan to turn the country into a smart digital hub. It is also behind the Eastern Economic Corridor, which is bringing "internet of things" and innovation centers to three industrial provinces home to Asia's largest concentration of petrochemical, automotive, and electronics production.
These moves, often referred to as Thailand 4.0, offer some hope of raising industrial productivity.
The election is expected to be a three-way race involving the pro-junta Palang Pracharat Party, the Thaksin-linked Pheu Thai Party and the urban-establishment-favored Democrat Party. The winner will face an uphill battle to achieve a goal the junta set in 2016, in its 20-year National Strategy Framework.
The framework includes an ambitious plan to join the ranks of high-income countries by 2036. This will require average economic growth of 5% to 6% until then. But for the three months through September, Thailand's annualized GDP grew only 3.3% on the year.
Siam Commercial Bank's Economic Intelligence Center projects the economy will grow by 4% in 2019.
Any slowdown would only make the middle-income trap that much harder to overcome. Thailand is aging, too, which means the only hope for hitting the target is to improve productivity.
The clock is ticking, yet the election looks to be at risk of another postponement. The junta recently hinted that it might delay the vote, though the current provisional constitution says it must be held by May 9.
This prospect has brought pro-democracy activists into the streets of Bangkok and elsewhere -- a fresh reminder of the obstacles the nation has yet to clear.


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Geim becomes first Nobel & Ig Nobel winner
Congratulations to Andre Geim, new Nobel Prize winner in physics. He becomes the first to win, as an individual, both a Nobel Prize (this year, together with Konstantin Novoselov, for experiments with the substance graphene) and an Ig Nobel Prize (in the year 2000, shared with Sir Michael Berry, for using magnets to levitate a frog).
This photo shows Andre Geim at the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony in Sanders Theatre, Harvard University. Geim and his Ig Nobel co-winner, Sir Michael Berry (who had a prior commitment and so could not attend that ceremony) were honored for using magnets to levitate a frog. Here eight-year-old Miss Sweetie Poo tells him "Please stop. I'm bored. Please stop. I'm bored…" Nobel Laureates Rich Roberts (green hat), Dudley Herschbach (white coat) and Charles Clements (black hat with gold band) are visible in the photo. The man sitting next to them (at right, holding a broom to sweep paper airplanes) is Harvard physics professor Roy Glauber. Five years later, in 2005, Glauber was awarded a Nobel Prize in physics. Five years after that, in 2010, Andre Geim also won a Nobel Prize in physics. Photo: Herbert Blankesteijn / Annals of Improbable Research.
This video shows the frog being levitated magnetically (and for more detail and more images, see Andre's web page on the subject):
NOTE: Technically, Andre Geim is not the very first person to have been awarded both an Ig Nobel Prize and a Nobel Prize — but he is the first to win both as an individual. Bart Knols, who (together with Ruurd de Jong) was awarded the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in Entomology (for showing that the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is attracted equally to the smell of limberger cheese and to the smell of human feet) was also one of the hundreds of employees of the International Atomic Energy Agency who together were awarded a Nobel Prize in peace in 2005. That was the same year Roy Glauber was awarded a Nobel prize in physics.
BONUS: The Nobel organization interview of Andre Geim on the day they announced the happy news to him.
Posted by Marc Abrahams on Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 at 9:40 am under Ig Nobel.


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Bringing the Buffalo Home
Last weekend was the first time that Toons Bridge Cafe was selling buffalo meat. Called there Saturday morning and it was great to meet up with owners Toby Simmonds and Jenny-Rose Clarke and also with buffalo farmer Johnny Lynch. There was quite a selection of the meat and, don't worry, the cafe/shop will be open from 11.00am every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Mozzarella and Ballyhoura Mushrooms
By the way, they sell much more than meat. There are some great cheeses on displays, especially the mozzarella and ricotta. They also do local produce and we helped ourselves to some of De Roiste's black and white pudding. Don't forget that they also have a great selection of Mediterranean products, much the same as you see on their olive stalls at the markets, including the English Market.
And if you have time to pause and sip, there is the lovely little cafe.
The Mozzarella came in a plastic bag with its fluid, "the only way to sell Mozzarella" said Toby. We enjoyed that in the classic manner (below), with tomatoes and basil. The following day, the "leftovers" were put to good use, mixed with some marinated Shiitake Mushrooms (from Ballyhoura Mushrooms) and a little salad. The mushrooms added another dimension and we had an enjoyable mix on the plate.
Two fillets were next up and they quickly cooked and were served with pommes boulangères and some greens, not forgetting a lovely Spanish red. Perfect. Next day, we tried the round roast, cooking it slow and low as advised. Very little fat here so the meat could dry out quickly on a higher heat. Served it with roast spuds and parsnips. Very enjoyable.
Aside from buffalo meat having 90% less fat, 67% less cholesterol and 45% fewer calories, the opinion here is that, taste wise, the buffalo meat is not that far away from the more usual beef. After all, Le Buff and Le Bouef are closely related. No doubt, the traditional steak accompaniments, such as onions and mushrooms should also go well with the Toons Bridge newcomers.
The ricotta can be quite versatile but this time we stuck with it as a dessert, copying the lads in the Mills by drizzling it with a local honey and it worked fine. Also had some grilled pears with toasted walnuts on hand but this was really a second dessert rather than a match.
Also got a tip from Karen on twitter to try spinach & ricotta cannelloni. Next time! There are many ways of using all these fantastic buffalo products from Toons Bridge – indeed they had a recipe for Pot Roast with Red Wine available last Saturday. So why not try it and get yourself down to the lovely cafe before meat stocks run out!
Recipe links: http://home.valornet.com/pcwdb/Water%20Buffalo%20Cooking.htm
http://www.epicurious.com/tools/searchresults?search=water+buffalo
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/waterbuffalorossiniw_92152
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/ricotta_cheese
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/mozzarella_cheese
buffalo mozzarella ricotta Toons Bridge
Clonakilty Blackpudding's Sparkling New Home
Colette Twomey Clonakilty Blackpudding's Sparkling New Home When the newly married Edward and Colette Twomey took over a Clonakilty butcher shop in the late 70s, blackpudding was not really one of the attractions for them. But the deal did include a secret spice recipe and the Twomeys soon realised that the pudding was very popular with their customers and quite a few of them were sending it to relatives abroad. The couple were wise enough not to ignore the market and the rest is history. All this came back during A Taste of West Cork event in the company's impressive new facility in their home town. The two of us and a few dozen other paying guests were given a tour of the new visitor centre before being treated to a series of blackpudding based dishes by top chef Peter Clifford. Chef Peter Clifford Why Peter Clifford? Well Peter's father, Michael, was one of Ireland's most famous chefs, holder of a Michelin star, and an early and influential supporter of th
SuperValu's Wine of the Month Talks Back. 19 Crimes. Meet the Characters!
Press release Criminally Good Value at SuperValu 19 Crimes is the Wine of the Month for Only €10 One of the 19 Crimes is imprinted on each cork Named the World's Most Admired Wine Brand 2020 by Drinks International, 19 Crimes is SuperValu's wine of the month for May. A wine, which shares the history of the infamous people who founded the land where its grapes are now grown, 19 Crimes highlights the plight of 165,000 convicts who made the long voyage by sea to Australia between 1788 and 1868, as punishment for committing one of nineteen crimes. 19 Crimes is now available at the special price of €10, reduced from €14, at SuperValu stores nationwide until stocks last. To add some fun and intrigue to our tasting experience, 19 Crimes has developed an interactive app which animates three of the 19 Crimes convicts' infamous true stories. By downloading the app and then hovering your phone over one of these bottles, the character on the label comes to life to s
COBH MUM HAS IRELAND'S 'BEST BANANA BREAD' RECIPE
COBH MUM HAS IRELAND'S 'BEST BANANA BREAD' RECIPE It's official. Gillian Carney from Cobh has Ireland's best banana bread recipe, having been chosen overall winner in a recent nationwide competition to find the many ways to bake this favourite food – conducted by celebrity chef and RTE presenter, Donal Skehan with the support of banana distributors, Fyffes. Gillian initially topped the category for 'Best Ingredient' and then fought off stiff competition from the large volume of entries received to be crowned the overall winner. An avid baker from a young age, the Cork Mum-of-three works as a photographer and content creator and admits she always had an interest in food. "I was baking non-stop with the boys throughout lockdown, whilst also starting my own vegetable patch too," she says. Hugely creative, Gillian filmed her prize-winning banana bread in a video that reveals her passion for baking which can be viewed on her Instagram page @gillybeangirl Commenti


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July 21,2015 - New amenities at Talis Park on schedule for fall completion
Naples Daily News
Submitted by Caffrey & Associates
Developer Kitson & Partners announced Phase II of the Vyne House Clubhouse, a new Sports Complex, and a south entry gate at Talis Park in North Naples are all on schedule for completion this fall. Kitson also announced the extension of Talis Park Drive, the community's primary thoroughfare, to the southern border of the property and the installation of underground utilities and a landscaped streetscape in the new Corsica neighborhood have been completed.
Kitson recently expanded the community's single-family homesite offering by releasing 12 of the 24 homesites in Corsica. Corsica's north-facing homesites offer water and multiple fairway views and are situated adjacent to the new Talis Park Sports Complex. Twenty-three of Corsica's homesites measure 65 or 77 feet and will accommodate residences ranging from 3,000 to 4,500 square feet. One 90-foot site is also available.
The 26,470-square-foot under air, multilevel Vyne House Phase II project is being built by DeAngelis Diamond Construction Inc. Talis Park's residents continue to enjoy dining at Fiona's Market Café, working out at the Core Fitness Center, and relaxing at the Esprit Spa that opened at Vyne House over a year-and-a-half ago.
When Phase II is completed, Vyne House will include 32,052 total square feet under air and 25,065 square feet of outdoor space. The roof trusses have been set and the building will be completely dried in and ready for interior finishing by mid-June. Vyne House Phase II is on schedule to be completed and ready for operational use by the end of October.
Located adjacent to the Great Lawn at Talis Park's Grand Piazza, Vyne House epitomizes the New Fashioned aesthetic Kitson has introduced at the North Naples community. Vyne House consists of a series of lifestyle oriented spaces designed to be used every day, inviting users to come as they are in a relaxed, comfortable format. The buildings are interconnected by covered outdoor walkways and wrapped around multiple courtyards that offer the possibility of outdoor dining and entertaining.
Phase II will introduce Vyne Court, an open-air courtyard that is the centerpiece of Vyne House. In addition to serving as a point of entry, Vyne Court will be used as a social space for hosting events. The upper level will also include formal indoor dining, casual indoor and outdoor dining, a multipurpose room adjacent to Vyne Court, aerobics and cardio workout rooms, and a wine room/board room. The lower level of Vyne House Phase II will host the golf pro shop as well as the men's and ladies' locker rooms. Phase II will also include the completion of a resort style pool with a large pool deck as well as a stately rotunda that will feature an oversized, two-sided fireplace and overlook the 18th green.
The Sports Complex will complete the array of amenities Kitson has designed and constructed to enhance Talis Park's New Fashioned, health-oriented lifestyle. The Sports Complex will feature six lighted Har-Tru tennis courts with directionally focused lighting and pavilions for resting between matches, a tennis pro shop and clubhouse with restrooms and a beverage center, four bocce ball courts, a 50-foot two-lane lap pool, and landscaped areas. A green space will provide a social gathering and event place reminiscent of the community's signature Great Lawn at Talis Park's Grand Piazza.
Filling of the Sports Complex site and installation of the underground drainage systems and pipe work have been completed. The building contractors for the tennis and bocce ball courts, swimming pool, and tennis pro shop and clubhouse will be mobilized in June. Landscaping, lighting, and signage will be addressed in September in advance of a mid-October opening.
The new entry gate at the south end of Talis Park Drive will include a guardhouse and a private entry lane for residents. As part of the entry gate project, Kitson will create a memorable approach to the community's south entrance with significant landscaping enhancements along 1,000 feet of Veteran's Memorial Parkway between the south entry gate and Livingston Road. Construction of the new entry is underway. The guardhouse, entry walls and landscaping, as well as the landscaping enhancements on Veteran's Memorial Parkway, are on schedule for completion in October.
In addition to Vyne House and the Sports Complex, Talis Park's amenities include its golf course that is one of just two Greg Norman-Pete Dye designed golf courses in the world. Known for its lakes and Sea Dwarf paspalum fairways and greens, the course is consistently ranked among the top 20 golf courses in Florida and was ranked No. 91 in Golfweek's 2014 Best Residential Courses.
Kitson recently announced it is offering 14 luxury condominium residences immediately adjacent to Vyne House and the Great Lawn. The new Residences at Vyne House will offer the consummate In the Village lifestyle and put a select group of homeowners literally within steps of every amenity at Vyne House.
Talis Park was named recipient of the Collier Building Industry Association's 2014 Sand Dollar Award for Community of the Year. Developer Kitson & Partners has created a new vision at Talis Park that redefines the Naples country club experience. Talis Park's neighborhoods offer a parklike setting with golf course, preserve and water views, or a maintenance-free environment within walking distance of the community's amenity core. This "In the Park" or "In the Village" approach reflects Kitson's commitment to creating a community where every aspect of country club living is relevant to the residents' daily lives. Carrara's In the Village lifestyle brings a measure of simplicity to luxury living that affords immediate access to Talis Park's amenities.
Talis Park's residential choices range from penthouse style condominiums priced starting in the $700s to luxurious estate residences priced starting at $2.5 million. Completed and soon-to-be-completed furnished models and unfurnished Resident Ready homes are available.
Talis Park's Garden House sales center is at 16980 Livingston Road. Online at talispark.com.
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Promo 3 demonstrates how the head geografts can be blended with other skins -- a jade bubblehead, my fleshling skin for the neck, and then the Forest King skin (not included) for the rest of the body.
It's not perfect, and it'll miss a lot of SSS stuff, but it WILL handle opacity map conversion.
Yeah, I debated about making a bunch of 3DL materials, but I find 3DL skin really hard to get results I'm happy with, and, well, the textures are all there, so.
it WORKS! from my library too, refs must be relative i guess. morphs are perfect. material pose needs some tweaking for 3dl from iray, but do-able. especially bubblehead loses the mask when transposing the shader. tho' with a bit of testing and tweaking, it's fine.
I don't know if file references are relative or absolute.
If references don't work, I THINK you can 'find the file' and make it work anyway, and if nothing else you have all those textures to play with.
i see. so, like i did for kaz42/nobiax's awesome shaders, i can download the huge pack, but install bit by bit only what i need for specific figures/scenes (my laptop is not superperformant, lol). like, no dragon3, still using mildragon2.
In future I'll try to release much more focused packages.
If you can't donate, that's fine. ;) Just reminding people who might be able to but not think of doing so.
No, unlike my Iray shader pack, these are skins specific to figures. It's a little chaotic, this is some of my initial experimenting with texturing (I think I did a good job, but there's a lot of, well, experimenting).
So there are two material sets for Daz Dragon more …If you can't donate, that's fine. ;) Just reminding people who might be able to but not think of doing so.
So there are two material sets for Daz Dragon 3; Fleshling and Fungal.
For Fleshling, I ended up making material sets/textures for a bunch of wildly different things, including octolegs, four arms, millennium dog, millennium cat, Daz Horse 2, etc.
For Fungal, I made a bunch, but not quite as many.
excellent idea, looks very interesting!
- why is the total download so huge?
- 2 promo pix show skins (which?) on the wyvern, does that mean it's a shader fitting any figure/object?
- and to be honest, if i download, can't donate cuz no card, avoiding ppal like the plague, and not even enough to live on.. even your work is worth it.
Thanks very much, Jaye1369! Missed a few small (but critical) data files.
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Several Data files are missing, the downloads do not work as should. If you could fix this issue it would be Great! Thanks!!!
Whew. All four sections uploaded.
Feel free to ask any questions here about usage of the skins/geografts!
And remember, you can always use the geografts as separate elements on Genesis 2 or 3, you just won't have the smooth transition and will have to hide underlaying head.


Modern townhouse in Pembrokeshire with great water views out across to Milford Haven.
Modern townhouse in Pembrokeshire with great water views out across to Milford Haven. Perfect for a family or group of friends, this townhouse is only a short drive from many of the great beaches in Pembrokeshire. Perfect for relaxing and watching the yachts and boats sail around the headland. Sleeps 6 but can sleep an extra 2 with use of the sofa bed.
Open plan living/diner/kitchen area with 2 seater sofas ( one being a sofa bed), dining table and chairs, electric hob, electric oven, microwave, dishwasher, fridge/freezer. Waterside views.
Ensuite: Bathroom with bath and shower over bath, wc and basin.
Small lawn area and patio.
Bed linen, and towels provided.
Cot and high chair provided on request. Please bring cot bedding with you.
Parking: allocated parking for 2 cars, plus parking on road for more if required.
This is a modern midlink townhouse in Pennar, a headland within the huge natural harbour of Milford Haven. This was once a bustling fishing and whaling port and then during the Second World War it was used as a base for Allied American troops. The Sunderland flying boats used to take off and land in the bay. The Haven is one of the deepest natural harbours in the world and is the third largest port in the UK. These days it a modern coastal resort with towns such as Pembroke, Milford Haven and Pembroke Dock which include marinas, quays, plenty of eateries, café bars and shops.
The popular towns of Tenby and Pembroke, with its magnificent castle, are worth a visit. There are also many local attractions including Folly Farm, Heatherton World of Adventure, Manor Farm Wildlife Park, the Dinosaur Park and Colby Woodland Garden.
With Iron Man Wales and Long Course Weekend, Pembrokeshire has become a paradise for cyclists. Follow the country roads out of the town for great cycling. 0.2 miles.


A cradle reaper was used to cut crops such as wheat, oats, and hay and then rake the cut crop into a single row. Pitchforks would then be used to throw the harvested crop into a wagon to be hauled to the farmer's barn for storage. This particular cradle reaper was used on the Snipe Hollow Farm near Elizabeth, Illinois, sometime in the late 1800s.


Anusha Yadav is a Portrait Photographer, Brand Culture design consultant, and a curator of narrative, visual and theme based archives and ideas.
She graduated in Communication Design from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad in 1997. Anusha also began working as an independent photographer in 2006. With 20 years of a career in graphic design and advertising in tow, her photographic works have been published and exhibited in India, Austria, Spain, France, Germany, China, UK, Singapore, Spain, South Africa & USA.
In 2010, Anusha founded Indian Memory Project – The world's first online visual & narrative based archive that traces a personal history of the Indian Subcontinent through images found in family and personal archives. The project has been cited as exemplary around the world, and has pioneered an alternate method in which narratives of the world are curated, told and understood.
In 2013, Anusha founded The Memory Company, a creative consultancy that works on cultural & contemporary art/ design projects, archives and exhibitions related to history and popular culture. Anusha curated the first ever international narrative and image based exhibit on historical criminal investigations from the Indian Subcontinent – 'The Photograph is Proof' at the Format International Photography Festival, 2015 – United Kingdom. In August of 2015, she was invited by The New Yorker, USA, to showcase Indian Memory Project on Instagram.
In inclusion to being a speaker on several esteemed panels across the world, Anusha has been awarded the 'Honorary mention' at the Prix Ars Electronica 2013 awards, an international award for excellence in Cyber Arts & online Media, the L'oreal Paris Femina Women Achievers' Award 2013 and the Innovator of the Year – India Today Women's Summit, 2014. In 2015, Anusha was listed as the top 21 photographers to follow on Instagram.
Anusha lives and works in Mumbai, India.


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Physicists find evidence of new subatomic particle
PALO ALTO, Calif.
"For me it is really an incredible thing that has happened in our lifetime," said Peter Higgs, BSc MSc PhD FInstP FRSE FRS.
For Higgs, it was his day, one in which his name became permanently linked with a fundamental discovery in the field physics -- the Higgs boson particle.
When asked if it was easier to draw than to prove, Tim Barklow, Ph.D., said "Absolutely. We've been drawing these things for decades."
Barklow of the Stanford Linear Accelerator is one of many physicists breathing a huge sigh of relief, now that the fabled particle has moved from theory to fact. They had based all of their standard model on its existence.
"As a layman I would say we have it, but as a scientist, I would have to say, 'What do we have?'" said
It finally emerged after physicists in Switzerland and Chicago collided known particles at close to the speed of light. They had never actually seen a Higgs boson, but what else could give mass to an electron. And how does it fit into our universe?
"If the electron did not have mass, we would not form atoms, we would not have stars or we would not have galaxies. It would be a completely different universe," said Barklow.
Not only did they have to catch a Higgs boson, then they had to prove it to a very high standard. Two teams of scientists, and three trillion collisions each, they had a probability of one in 99.99994 or one in a million.
"Historically, studies of fundamental questions of nature have led to developments which helped mankind. But anything involving the Higgs Field would have to wait a hundred years or so," said Barklow.
And then, maybe they will look back on today, a July 4th, when the smallest of atomic level fireworks made the biggest bang yet.


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Synergia (Hebrew: סינרגיה, "synergy") is an Israeli rock band. The band was first formed by two childhood friends Ron Hoffman (keyboard) and Roy Geffen (guitar). The two used to perform as a cover group in Tel Aviv called "HaTzayadim" (The Hunters). Later on, the two joined forces with guitar player Ariel "Bibs" Branson, drummer Ori Raz (later on to be replaced by Banua Nachaisi and Eitan Raz, respectively) and bass player Iron Shabtai.

The band's first radio hit in Israel was a cover song for another Israeli musician, Shlomo Artzi, though their first album, "Tzo'akim al Ahavah" (Screaming about Love) that year received little success. Yet, their second album, "Margish Acher" (Feeling Different), gained the band the status of one of the leading rock groups in Israel, practically overnight. From this 2006 album the band produced many instant radio hits, most notably "Tir'i Zeh Ani" (Look, It's Me), "Margish Acher" and "Ashem" (Guilty). The album went gold after selling over 20,000 copies.

In 2006 the band won several awards, amongst them "Group of the Year" from Israeli music channel Music 24 and both major popular music radio stations: Reshet Gimel (Kol Yisrael) and Galgalatz. The  song "Tir'i Zeh Ani"  of their second album was also named as "Song of the Year" by Galgalatz.

Discography
 2005 - "Tzo'akim al Ahavah" (Screaming about Love)
 2006 - "Margish Acher" (Feeling Different)
 2008 - "Hishtakfut" (Reflection)
 2009 - "Synergia Akustit - Im Rami Kleinstein" (Synergia Unplugged - feat. Rami Kleinstein)
 2011 - "Chatum ba'Esh" (Signed in the Fire)

External links
Official web site
Synergia on Israstage (English, Hebrew, French, Russian)

Israeli rock music groups
Israeli alternative rock groups
Musical groups established in 2002

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