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Grand Du Nord
Trainer: Micky Hammond Race type: Jumps
Age: 4 yr old Description: Bay Gelding
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There can be no denying the prevalence of the French bred horse in British and Irish National Hunt racing. Ever since the turn of the millennium, more and more of our top races are being dominated by the French bred horse.
The real beauties of the French bred horse are their precocity and their agility. French horses are tutored from a very early stage, often from being yearlings and 2yo's to canter, gallop and jump adroitly. This horse is a perfect case in point; he's been broken in, schooled and prepped to be a racehorse already, even though he is only a 3yo. Most Irish store horses are wrapped up in cotton wool until the time of their sale, through the ring, as a 3yo. Combine the active preparation of the typical French horse with the precocious and active French gene pool, and it pretty much explains why French bred horses, tend to come to hand, much sooner than their GB or Irish bred counterparts.
Our Montmartre 3yo gelding stands at a substantial 16.3 hands high. He's already big enough to jump a fence and has been schooled over numerous obstacles at home, both loose schooling (without a jockey) and with a jockey on board too (see two videos of him in the gallery.)
We purchased him in June, for €23,000, from the Arqana Lumet Show Sale and we've brought him across to Micky Hammond's Middleham yard, to summer and strengthen, and then to prep for junior bumpers (National Hunt Flat races.) Our gelding hails from the Grade 1 and Grade 2 French winning family of LOUPING D'AINAY and SIRENE D'AINAY, and being by Montmartre, the sire of Labaik, Bigmartre, Petite Parisienne and Capitaine, no less, he is very much bred to excel over hurdles and fences; we can't wait to see his schooling and tutelage being used, as he matures and progresses, through the variety of disciplines that National Hunt Racing has to offer. Read about his sire here: https://www.agakhanstuds.com/Horse/200500303/en
This 3yo gelding affords his owners a long-term project, but offers almost immediate NH action and therefore sits as a great opportunity for the first time National Hunt owner, to "jump aboard!"
Trainer update (8th December): We saw him this morning at our owners' stable visit. Micky couldn't be more pleased with him. For a 3yo gelding who stands at 16.3hh, he's taking everything in his stride. He says that the jockeys who have been riding him in his work, report that he is a straight forward ride with a lovely attitude. He already looks like a chaser, with a long stride on him, so as the saying goes, "anything he does in bumpers, or over hurdles, is a bonus." What's a real revelation, is that Micky, is actually having to rein him back, in terms of his preparations. Grand Du Nord (affectionately known in the yard as "Grandad") could be ready to run anytime we wanted, is Micky's sentiments, but the Middleham maestro, is keen to wait until January for a racecourse debut - we can't wait!
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In my last article titled "habits of the wealthy" a key pattern emerged when discussing the attributes of wealthy individuals: planning.
Wealthy people, those who live well within their means, plan to do so and also plan to accumulate resources for future generations. A huge proportion of this activity specifically entails Financial Planning.
Financial Planning is an ongoing process to help make sensible decisions about money that can help achieve one's goals in life. A huge misconception is the thought that Financial Planning is only for those earning six figures and above and that it only or automatically involves pension pots and savings accounts like ISAs.
A friend of mine who is a full-time teacher and a part-time artist has recently asked me if I could help with his financial planning for the next two years. His partner and he are expecting their first child in January; she works as a journalist on a full-time basis and is likely to give it all up to look after their new born which is not uncommon as I did it too just like most women.
A household of two incomes will now survive with one income. The mistake most make is waiting until a major life event occurs before we start thinking forward. Financial planning should be an ever more consistent activity we must undertake throughout our life especially due to the current economic climate.
My friend, let's call him John, had a clear goal: How do we live comfortably on one income for the next two years following the arrival of our bundle of joy if my partner has to become a stay at home mum?
This goal establishment is clear, specific and realistic; it is not 'uncontrollable'. Whereas a goal establishment such as I want to win the lotto or become debt free can be perceived as 'uncontrollable' because it is not time specific and based on random luck. As such, the very first step of our financial planning must be specific, realistic, clear and achievable just like John's.
The second step which is the data gathering will consist, in John's case, of collecting hard facts about his financial situation as well as the partners i.e.: household earnings from employment and self-employment, living expenses, savings and other expenses they both incur periodically.
The next step which is the analysis will then focus on studying the hard facts collected in the previous step. At this stage, one could even play about with a WHAT IF analysis to forecast various outcomes based on different scenarios as life never goes as planned.
For instance, the first scenario will be as per John's established goal (become the only breadwinner to sustain his family for the next two years) and the second scenario could be that John no longer finds teaching fulfilling and wants to spend as much time as he can with his family while providing for them, and decides to work full time from his art gallery at home.
What would be the financial outcome of such decision? It is recommended to have as many variations of scenarios as possible because that is the purpose of financial planning; it prepares for all eventualities.
The fourth step then is what I simply call the budgeting phase. Let's assume John has always been frugal and hardworking and whichever scenario occurs he will have the means to sustain his family financially for the next two years.
However, he still has to budget for the new born expenses (nappies, clothing, Moses basket you name it) in addition to their living expenses to ensure spending is well apportioned to cover the period of 24 months.
The fifth and sixth steps often look at possible tweaks to the budget that could improve spending and allow for savings. An example of this could be: do we ditch TV to avoid paying £145 a year for the TV license? Do we budget for £70/year Netflix subscription? Or do we forgo both and simply spend some time doing free fun activities as a family?
Now that we have extrapolated based on John's goal, I can say mine is to simply make good use of the resources at my disposal to become debt free by the end of 2018. What would be the goal of your financial planning? It doesn't necessarily have to plan over many years.
If you are struggling to do this yourself despite the example above, it will be a good idea to ask yourself how shops like Debenhams, Primark, and M&S have longevity in business through growth in profit. They plan, they cut spending and maximise their revenues.
Again, this doesn't mean they never underperform but they are conscious of the direction of the business performance. Financial planning puts things into motion; it helps visualise the outcome though it does not always mitigate all unfortunate life events. This is a free tool that makes wealthy people wealthy.
To recap, Financial planning should be a necessary exercise for everyone regardless of their income. It is key to write down your ideas; they become clearer on paper and helps towards realising goals. Financial planning not only gives clarity but helps keep focus.


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Yoga Fashion and Natural Beauty
Andrea Kowalski
Flipping cars in high-speed chases, tumbling down stairs, and flinging himself from tall buildings are all in a day's work for Jay Caputo. Yet unlike most professional stuntmen, Caputo doesn't have an injury insurance policy. His yoga practice, he says, is all the insurance he needs.
"My job is sometimes to stand in harm's way and take a beating," Caputo says.
"But yoga has kept me from hurting myself because I'm so much more open—my body can be pushed further before I become injured."
Caputo, 36, has been a Hollywood stuntman for 13 years and an Iyengar practitioner for six. He's doubled for actors Mike Myers, Jason Alexander, Chris Kattan, and Jon Stewart in a wide range of movies and TV shows, including Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman and Robin, Contact, Planet of the Apes, Fear Factor, Dog Eat Dog, and ER.
When he's not on location, Caputo practices with Iyengar teacher Paul Cabanis at studios in Los Angeles, including the B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Institute. Cabanis, who has taught several stunt people over the years, says Caputo has been his most dedicated student. "He's enthusiastic and fearless—a lot of the things people fear he has already faced at his job."
Still, Caputo finds that yoga—especially Paschimottanasana (Seated Forward Bend)—can be just as challenging as anything he does on a movie set. "In practice, you're fully engaged in every moment," he says. The stunts he performs, in contrast, last less than 20 seconds. "There's more fear and anxiety in getting the jobs than in doing the stunts," he jokes.
Well, not quite. In a stunt a few years ago he was doused with chemicals and set on fire; with 15-foot flames licking at his face, he dived off a 20-foot crane into a lake. "I had to lean forward to keep my head out of the fire," he says. Caputo's 22-foot descent to the bottom of the lake, propelled by 20 pounds of diving weights, ruptured one of his eardrums. Unable to move, he waited agonizing seconds until divers could bring him oxygen and escort him to the surface. But thanks to his yoga practice, he was able to stay calm. "Yoga has taught me that fear is a state of mind," he says. "If I'm focused on the fear, I'm not focused on what I should be doing."
With all these benefits from yoga, this stunt man says he'll do it forever. "Yoga is a part of my life now and will always be," Caputo says. "Someday, stunts will be just a fun thing to talk about between yoga sessions."
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If Jay could live anywhere, it would be Disney World, specifically on the Island of Star Wars Land.
If Jay were to start a business, it would be a for-profit radio host for a smooth jazz station 88.8 AM, which would only play at night.
If Daniella were to start a business it would be a reinvented ice cream truck, with coffee and other snacks. She would add a tracking device so customers could follow the truck.
If Maritza could live anywhere, it would be Paris, France or Cape Town, South Africa. Cape Town is the most beautiful place, and Paris' people watching is amazing.
If Martiza were to start a business it would be a wedding venue; where they gift weddings for people who can't afford their own.
If Lauren could live anywhere she would live in Paris because she has always dreamt of it. She has visited there once before and absolutely loved it and then.
If Lauren were to launch a business she would want to own an organization that helps the homeless population redirect their lives by helping build resumes, find jobs based on their strengths, giving them temporary housing and help them find long term housing.
If Giulianna could live anywhere, she would live in Italy because her great grandparents immigrated from there so she has a deep appreciation of the culture and cuisine. She loves traveling, and being in Italy gives her easy-access to the rest of Europe!
If Giulianna were to launch a business, it would be a Café or bakery inspired by her family background! She has a passion for pastries and good ground coffee. She loves that people can connect over a good cup of coffee and wants to be the provider of these experiences.
If Areli could live anywhere, she would move to Peru or Guatemala because their rich culture and colorful textiles inspires her art.
If Areli were to launch a business, it would be a non-profit art center where the community could take free classes and have the resources to fully explore art.
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Last Saturday, we had an invitation for all new BTO homeowners to join us in our exclusive showroom talk. Our Managing Director provided some tips on how homeowners can achieve a semi-imported kitchen. Additionally, a special promo package was awaiting all our guests!
Mr Teh covered topics on what are the usual worries of homeowners who seek to have home renovation and interior design. He provided answers on hidden costs, design matters and workmanship issues. He also imparted some advices on how to deal with these issues.
Moreover, Wilson educated the guests on what are the basic rules in renovating whether a specific structure in the house can be hacked away or not. He has also shared with the guests the different layouts of modern HDB houses today. He specifically zoomed in on how you can improve your kitchen and some design concepts as well.
In the end, all guests walked away better informed than before they joined us. Some went home with the exclusive package we were only offering that day! We will continue to do more showroom talks in the future so please do watch for updates.


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Rorik či Hrørek byl dánský viking ovládající různé části Fríska v letech 841 až 873.

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Měl bratra jménem Harald. Dánský král Harald Klak byl možná jejich strýcem, Godfrid Haraldsson jejich bratrancem. Identita jejich otce je nejistá. Existují různé teorie založené na výkladu primárních zdrojů, hlavně kvůli faktu, že jméno Harald se v pramenech často opakuje, a to bez snahy autorů rozlišit jednotlivé osoby s tímto jménem navzájem od sebe. Harald Klak měl nejméně tři bratry – Anula, Reginfreda a Hemminga Halfdanssona. Kdokoliv z nich mohl být Rorikovým otcem. Několik historiků upřednostňuje Hemminga na základě chronologie, odhadujíce že se Rorik narodil po roce 810.

Počátky ve Frísku
Harald byl vypovězen z rodného Dánska a několik let podnikal nájezdy ve Frísku. Spojil se s Lotharem I., který bojoval proti svému otci Ludvíkovi I. Pobožnému. Frísko bylo součástí Ludvíkových zemí a nájezdy jej měly oslabit. V roce 841 Ludvík zemřel a Lothar udělil několik částí Fríska jak Haraldovi, tak i jeho bratrovi Rorikovi. Jeho záměrem zde bylo ustanovit vojenskou přítomnost svých věrných a zabezpečit tak Frísko před svými bratry a rivaly Ludvíku II. Němci a Karlu II. Holému. Bratři využili ostrovy jako svou hlavní základnu. Rorik si jako sídlo zvolil ostrov Wieringen, Harald pak Walcheren. Oba pak v tuto dobu ovládali Dorestad.

Na počátku 40. let přitahovalo Frísko méně nájezdů než v minulém desetiletí. Vikinští nájezdníci se zaměřili na Západofranskou říši a anglosaskou Anglii. V roce 843 Lothar, Ludvík a Karel podepsali Verdunskou smlouvu a vyřešili tak své územní spory. Lothar severské bratry původně potřeboval na obranu Fríska před vnějšími hrozbami, avšak tyto pominuly a oba tak upadli kolem roku 844 v nemilost. Byli obviněni ze zrady a uvězněni. Rorikovi se podařilo uprchnout, Harald ve vězení zemřel. Dle Fuldských análů vstoupil Rorik do služeb Ludvíka Němce a žil několik let v Sasku. Poté sebral skupinu Dánů, začal plenit severní pobřeží Lotharova království a obsadil Dorestad.

Vládce Dorestadu
Poté, co roku 850 Rorik spolu s Godfridem Haraldssonem dobyl Dorestad a Utrecht, ho císař Lothar uznal za vládce většiny Fríska. Dorestad byl jedním z nejbohatších přístavů severní Evropy. Přijetím Rorika mezi své poddané udržel Lothar město jako součást říše a jeho suverenita zde byla nadále uznávána. Například mince ražené v místní mincovně stále nesly císařovo jméno. Na druhou stranu se Dorestad již nacházel na cestě ekonomického úpadku. Biskup Hunger z Utrechtu musel přesídlit do Deventeru. Roku 854 se Rorik, opět s Godfridem, vydal do Dánska, aby se během tamější občanské války něúspěšně pokusil získat moc.

Godfrid poté v pramenech není zmiňován, mohl tedy zemřít krátce po svém návratu. Rozsah Rorikova území v tuto dobu je nejistý. Dle historika Simona Couplanda sahala jeho moc k řece Waal na jihu. Rorik zde ovládl město Gendt, dále měl spravovat i Kennemerland. Jeho pozdější jednávání s Ludvíkem II. Němcem by napovídala, že východní hranice jeho území se stýkala s Východofranskou říší. Ve 40. letech Rorikovi patřily i ostrovy zeelandské ostrovy, avšak později již nejsou zmiňovány; to by mohlo znamenat, že po svém návratu zde svou moc neobnovil.

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The 37th Virginia Cavalry Battalion was a cavalry battalion raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly in western Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley.

Virginia's 37th Cavalry Battalion was organized in August, 1862, as Dunn's Partisan Rangers. The battalion contained four companies and in November was changed to regular cavalry. Co. E was organized on October 1, 1862. Co. F, from North Carolina, was organized on October 26, 1862. Co. H was organized on January 8, 1863, Co. G was organized February 6, 1863, and Co. I was organized on April 1, 1863. Co. K transferred from the 21st Virginia Cavalry before June 5, 1864. It was assigned to W.E. Jones', McCausland's and W.L. Jackson's Brigade. During April, 1864, it totalled 300 effectives and by June had increased its strength to ten companies. It was involved in various operations in western Virginia and East Tennessee, then saw action in the Shenandoah Valley. The unit disbanded in mid-April, 1865. Lieutenant Colonel Ambrose C. Dunn and Major J.R. Claiborne were in command.

See also

List of Virginia Civil War units
List of West Virginia Civil War Confederate units

References

Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Virginia
1862 establishments in Virginia
Military units and formations established in 1862
1865 disestablishments in Virginia
Military units and formations disestablished in 1865


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Sally Edwards Author/Poet
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June 12, 2016 April 13, 2019 sallyedwardsauthorLeave a Comment on I've always lived with there's a them and Us.
As I sit here days before the release of my second novel I am reminded of the feelings my main character went through in the story and how elements of them still hold true today.As the only disabled pupil in a mainstream school she fought for years to "fit in" and was severely bullied for being different.In addition when realising her sexuality was different from the rest she felt ashamed and hid her true self from her family and friends for a long time.These feelings come to me as I read newsfeeds reporting multiple deaths as a result of a gunman in an Orlando Gay Club and widespread Vilance in France between opposing football fans. When you consider how the worlds geographical borders are crossed more than ever before due to waring nations and ever changing immigration laws, you would think we lived in a world highly educated in the basic principles of tolerance, compassion and understanding. Why then in 2016 am I sat here writing about more people being killed just for being gay, and why are the football programmes filled with stories of opposing fans fighting each other just because they are on opposite sides. At the end of the day it's simple, you should be able to love the person you want to be with whether they are black white, male, female, and have tolerance for others if they choose to follow a difference sporting team than your own.On a more personal level I have spent most of my life being integrated in the mainstream after leaving special school at 13. I found the transition both a step up for my basic education but also feeling like a fish out of water being the only disabled pupil amongst 500 non disabled pupils.The school made countless efforts to make the building accessible but what I really needed was a bridge between "them and me". The fact I had separate lessons due to the building not having a lift put a wedge between myself and classmates and I was made to walk up and down the corridors in my physio therapy calipers whilst the others had fun on the field playing netball and hockey. I am referring back to the late 1980's of course and thankfully I have witnessed how main stream schools have adopted a more inclusive environment and a lot of disabled pupils can now happily attend mainstream school with little or no obstacles .So lots of clear lessons have been learned but even now things are not that easy to be fully integrated. When I first emerged onto "The Scene" I tried so hard to "fit in" be accepted as one of the gang . As most of the socialising happened around going to pubs I found myself drinking too much and getting a bad reputation .I had the mentality of "I need to keep up with everyone to fit in" which of course wasn't true but yet I was hell bent on changing who I really was just to fit in. My body couldn't cope with the amount I was drinking but I didn't care because I had a so local life and found a peer group I finally fitted into.i really had hoped that we had come a long way since the 60's and 70's when gay rights really started to snowball into action, and in some respects we really have.In Uk a gay couple can now legally marry and adopt children amd there are laws within employment to stop homophobia in the workplace.Disabled people are celebrated more and more in the media through sporting achievements and mainstream soap characters. But still there are plenty of nations where it is deemed as illegal to be Gay and in some cases if discovered it is punishment by death, and some countries employ vigilantes who seek out Gay people and torture them if captured….in some countries still today if a young baby is born into a poor family they are deliberately mutilated in some way and put out in the streets to beg for money . Young girls in single figures in years are married off and forced to get pregnant often dying in child birth, why is this ok? In the words of the song…"we're all human" Being gay isn't a lifestyle choice, like a hairstyle or the clothes you wear, it's who we are, just like being born disabled isn't a choice and in the words of Bob Marley, get up stand up..for your rights.. Let young girls be children.
In summing up it is sadly very clear to me that the work of such iconic personalities like Harvey Milk needs to continue yes our generation is very fortunate but we need to keep educating and demanding change. Some may say why as an author/ poet am I speaking out about these issues why not stick to creating my fiction , simple, I'm a human being first and foremost these issues affect me greatly as a disabled female gay person, but more simply as a human being who wants to see more love and acceptance in the world….Love people love….not hate!
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Reagan Howard is Avid Solutions' 100th hire
Nov. 10, 2015 - Avid Solutions, a global provider of automation, industrial IT and smart manufacturing solutions, says it has hired its 100th employee, Reagan Howard, as the team's newest engineer.
From 30 employees in 2004, this marks a growth milestone for the company as it has developed from a small, regional company with two North Carolina offices to an international organization with additional offices in Atlanta, Ga., and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Howard is currently a dual-degree student at North Carolina State University, who will graduate in December with a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering and Bachelor of Science in paper science. She will begin work at the Avid Solutions office in Atlanta next January where her "studies and enthusiasm will be an invaluable addition," says the company.
"Avid Solutions reaching the 100th employee mark is a direct result of the continued expansion of our services," said Craig Davis, engineer with Avid Solutions. "Having been with Avid for more than 24 years, I've seen the company weather a few difficult periods. This employee growth signifies the true strength of the company culture and heightened demand from our long-term clientele."
"I've seen a lot of change at Avid over the years, and I couldn't be more proud to be a part of such an innovative team," said Paul Kautz, an instrument and controls technician and one of the first employees with Avid Solutions when the company started in 1987. "I am looking forward to where the company is heading. The growth we've experienced is a nod to both the reorganization the company made 15 years ago, and the strategic hires made since."
With employees and office locations in North Carolina, Georgia and Brazil, Avid Solutions offers industrial automation and information solutions for customers in a range of industries, including chemical, food and beverage, life sciences, power generation, and pulp and paper.
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Congratulations Shawn Coffey for embodying the spirit of CrossFit and throwing yourself out there and competing in the Midwest Classic at CrossFit Body Tech. You did CFB proud and competed with heart and dignity. Your reps were solid and you showed tremendous sportsmanship. Well done, buddy.
Before enjoying a day with family and stuffing yourself, napping and watching football on Thanksgiving, join us at Beverly park for a fun Co-Rec flag football game. CFB's 3rd annual Flag Football Turkey Bowl will be held at 8:30am at Beverly Park. Libations are welcome and a sense of humor expected. Bring the kids to play also. There is a sign up sheet next to the office and we will pit AM vs. PM again.
Thanksgiving weekend hours: Wednesday November 26-No CF Kids, No Yoga. AM sessions and PM Open Gym are on. Thursday November 27, Thanksgiving-Turkey Bowl at Beverly Park, No sessions at Box Friday November 28, Box officially Closed. However if staff members choose to open up for some time we will inform you publicly via FaceBook or the website. Saturday November 29-Open Gym 9-noon, No scheduled team WOD. Sunday November 30-Open Gym 9-11, No CF Kids.
Saturday November 29 is the Beverly Hills Turkey Trot. This is a fun 5k run through the beautiful streets of North Beverly. What a great way to give back to the community by donating to the 19th Ward Children's Fund and burning some Thanksgiving pie?
If you are interested in competing in the Trodo Games in January 24th at CrossFit Illumine, start building a team for the Trodo Open which will be held here at CFB Saturday December 6. 2 Girls/2 Guys, 3 divisions of scaling Cat 1 (Rx) Cat 2 (Moderately Scaled) Cat 3 (Scaled to each athlete's abilities.) If you want to try a competition and want a no pressure place to try, there is no better program then Trodo to get you feet wet and get a taste of the competition floor. Trodo is open to ALL CFB Athletes.
Also The weekend of January 17-18 the First Annual Icebox Classic will be held at CrossFit 155 in Mundelein. There is a scaled and Rx individual event Saturday and a Team of 2 Rx, 1 girl/1 guy, event Sunday. click here https://s3.amazonaws.com/app.wodhopper.com/wordpress/clients/CrossFit+Carbon/iceBoxClassic.html for more details.
There is a sign up sheet for Rx jump ropes. We have 15 which gets us a discount of 15%. If we get 21 we get 20% offGo to Rx Smart Gear and find a rope, thickness and length. Then place your order on the sheet. We will place the order after we have 10 orders.
CFB celebrated our Grand Opening December 17, 2011 and we want to continue celebrating bringing CrossFit to the Beverly, Morgan Park, and Mt. Greenwood neighborhoods. We are proud of the fact we are the first CrossFit Affiliate on the south side. We hope all our CFB athletes and guests will come and share in our success and raise a glass toasting CFB going into it's fourth year. Saturday December 13, will be the third CrossFit Beverly anniversary/holiday party. Doors will open at 5:00pm and it will be a catered affair by Chucks Southern BBQ with open bar. Feel free to bring a beverage of your liking or drink all of ours.
If you have received a new credit/debit card because of recent retail fraud alerts, or any reason, please check your user profile on MindBody to see if you need to update info. Simply log onto MindBody enter the email and password you set up when you joined CFB and click on "My Info," once into that page select "Billing Information." It's that easy. Thank you.
As always, any questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to reach out. send all correspondence to chris@crossfitbeverly.com.


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Q: Deleting a SQL entry after set amount of day (Set by the user) Hi we have a site that allows us to share passwords. The following used to delete the entry after a set number of days set by the user. This used to work but now no longer delete the entry. if it falls longer than the set number of days.
$sql="DELETE FROM database_name WHERE creation_date < NOW() , INTERVAL days DAY";

Im not sure what could have gone wrong as when googling people are saying its correct.
I have also tried the following
 $sql="DELETE FROM database_name WHERE creation_date < NOW() - INTERVAL days DAY";

A: Not sure how this could be done with pure SQL, however, it is doable with SQL server. You could do this for SQL server from this post:
DELETE FROM tableName WHERE DATEDIFF(day, getdate(), dateColumn) < -1

There is also T-SQL which is an extension that adds some functionalities to SQL where you can create a transaction that would do it. If not, for tasks like this, I always set up a cron job or other similar techniques rather than using SQL

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Oh well. No rest for the wicked!
Anyway here is a link to a handy site that will check the HTML5 support of your browser.
Here is blog post from what looks like a twitters developer. He's telling us to be careful when adding event handlers for events that can fire a lot (like window scroll). The problem is that if you load up the event handler with lots of code then the system will become unresponsive because the event is fired too often.
If you have ever written a device handler (once upon a time you may have written a mouse handler just for fun) then you will know that in your interrupt handlers you should do the absolute minimum (like saving the mouse x and y deltas and nothing else). Then on a timer (or even better when when mouse coords are queried) you should do the CPU intensive(r) processing.
I am pleased to see that these old school skill are being invented by the new school programmers.
All pretty obvious stuff but here's a concise article about the ins and outs of using image sprites.


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El Banco Nacional de los Estados Unidos de Colombia fue el banco central creado durante el primer gobierno de Rafael Núñez para atender las operaciones de crédito del Estado. Funcionó entre 1881 y 1896. El Banco Nacional fue la institución monetaria creada en el marco del proyecto de La Regeneración siendo precursor del actual Banco de la República.

Creación
El Banco fue creado mediante la Ley 39 del 16 de julio de 1880, entrando en funcionamiento el 1 de enero del año siguiente. Bajo los parámetros actuales, no se le definiría como un banco central, ya que no tenía las dos funciones principales que caracterizan un banco de esa índole: ser prestamista de última instancia y ejercer control sobre la oferta monetaria.

Operaciones

La identidad primaria del billete del Banco Nacional quedó definida en la Ley 39 de 1880 (julio 16) según la cual el Banco tenía la facultad exclusiva de emitir billetes pagaderos al portador en moneda corriente –moneda de plata de 0.835-. De acuerdo con esta definición original de la ley, el billete del Banco Nacional se constituía en un auténtico billete de banco, convertible a su presentación por moneda metálica. Con posterioridad a la definición legal del papel moneda cómo "unidad monetaria y moneda de cuenta de Colombia" (decreto 104 de 1886) varios desarrollos legislativos consolidaron la función monetaria de billetes del Banco Nacional. Así, en el mismo año 86, la ley 87 (diciembre 20), indicó el carácter de "moneda legal de la República" del billete del Banco Nacional, prescribiendo que su recibo será forzoso "en el pago de todas las rentas y contribuciones públicas, así como en las transacciones particulares" y señalando imperativamente la prohibición de "estipular cualquiera otra especie de moneda en los contratos al contado o a plazo".

Entre 1881 y 1884 las emisiones realizadas por el Banco fueron moderadas, pero a partir de 1885 se comienza a faltar al "dogma de los 12 millones", lo que crea incertidumbre, inestabilidad y un sentimiento de desconfianza generalizada en la institución bancaria.

Liquidación

En 1894, como consecuencia del conocimiento público de las emisiones clandestinas, el curso forzoso pareció llegar a su fin y la Ley 70 ordenó la liquidación del Banco Nacional, destinando una serie de recursos para la amortización del papel moneda. Sin embargo, el Decreto 42 de 1895 prolongó la existencia del Banco Nacional, el cual, por fin desapareció a partir del primero de enero de 1896; durante ese año, el Banco emitió $5.000.000 adicionales con el fin de cubrir los gastos de la guerra civil de 1895.

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These three theories have had a profound effect on Education and will continue to do so long into the 21st Century. They are learner focused and provide timeless concepts and understandings about the nature of learning and learners.
This is based on the work of Ackermann who in 2004 set about writing a paper on how the ideas and theories of the three great constructivist theorists, Piaget, Vygotsky and Papert are similar, different and how each one's views has impacted on the world of education and will continue to do so.
Piaget captured what was common in children's ways of thinking at different developmental stages and described how this commonality evolved over time. The following are the main ideas gathered from Piaget that are relevant to educators as we move onwards into the 21st Century.
1. A teacher should never direct a child because the child hears and interprets in terms of their individual knowledge and experience and they make it fit their level of understanding. Teachers have no control over this. Whether teachers like it or not learning does not occur as a result of teaching.
2. Knowledge is experience that is deliberately constructed through interactions with the world (people and things). Knowledge is not information—and knowledge construction is not information processing.
3. A good teacher is one who encourages learners to explore, express, exchange and finally expand— their views, from within. Piaget realized children need exceptionally good reasons to abandon their major worldviews, they cannot be moved easily.
Vygotsky added another dimension to constructivism. He believed people learn, prosper and develop relative to others. Vygotsky's theory stressed the positive impact nurturing and well-informed adults have on a child's growing mind. He saw the child's intellectual development as a constructive process. His socio-constructivist theory aligns with the theories of Piaget and Papert.
Vygotsky's theory of cultural appropriation is similar to Piaget's concept that children learn through relating to people and things. The main point of difference between the two theorists is that Vygotsky places emphasis on the way in which the presence of an adult or peer with greater expertise can "speed up" and enhance a child's self-directed learning.
The zone of proximal development is a key concept developed by Vygotsky and is designed to inform educators/adults as to "how far" they can push the envelope of what is known, when helping others. It is social interaction that facilitates how learners best use the psychological tools available to them.
To Vygotsky, inter-personal relations are the precursors, and provide the necessary conditions for the emergence of individual/intra-mental processes. Learners share their experience with others before they master and understand them for themselves. Their development proceeds from socio-centric to egocentric. (Vygotsky, 1978,57).
More than Piaget and Papert, Vygotsky stresses the role of adults as teachers, and cultural artifacts as teaching tools.
Papert used what Piaget learned about children to form the foundation for his rethinking education for the digital age. Constructionism shares the understandings of the Constructivist and then adds "the idea that this happens especially felicitously in a context where the learner is consciously engaged in constructing a public entity, whether it's a sand castle on the beach or a theory of the universe" ( Papert, 1991, p.1).
Externalizing thoughts and ideas is as important to Papert as internalizing actions. To express ideas is to give them shape and form. By sharing ideas they are further shaped and sharpened by others. Papert's focus was on learning through designing and making. Constructionism elucidates how ideas are formed and transformed as they are expressed through different media, actualized in certain contexts and explored by individuals.
Papert may well believe abstract or formal thinking to be a powerful tool but he does not believe it is appropriate in all situations. He believes connectedness is a powerful way of increasing understanding. Being at one with the phenomenon under study is significant to the learning.
George Siemens (2004) coined the term 'Connectivism' to describe learning networks. Stephen Downes has worked closely with Siemen on this theory and has recently published a 600 page ebook, Connectivism.
Connectivism(2012) espouses the view that "knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks". To understand connectivism one needs to understand what constitututes networks.
In Downes (2012) work he identifies three major areas that comprise network theory. They are "knowledge, learning and community".
1. Knowledge considers the cognitive properties of networks. In humans, this knowledge resides in connections between neurons. Connections between humans and their artifacts are societal knowledge. Network knowledge exists as a result of pattern recognition evolving in a network of connections and interactions.
2. Learning is the search for ways in which networks learn. Learning is the making and elimination of relationships between the connections, or altering the strengths of those connections. A learning theory describes how connections are established or regulated. Downes (2012) believes there are probably infinite combinations of ways to learn and for any given person they are extremely complex.
3. Community considers the properties of effective networks. The concept of community defines the conditions needed for effective networks. Networks are effective if they can learn, adjust and avoid torpor.
Education is often depicted as 'making meaning'. What is known and what is learned is developed and distributed across the network. The patterns and regularities in the network – not the descriptions of the patterns, but the patterns themselves, including patterns developed as a result of creation of images, videos and cartoons.
The Industrial Model of education relied upon conformity and knowledge acquisition. In a 21st Century learning community there is no place for conformity. The qualities of creativity and expression are more highly regarded and it is the cooperation of autonomous and diverse individuals within communities that helps them function most effectively, not the collaboration or cohesion required of an Industrial Age community.
Connectivism as a theory explicitly rejects the idea of a body of content that must be acquired or remembered; "to learn in a connectivist course is to grow and develop, to form a network of connections in one's own self. Connectivist learning is a process of immersion in an environment, discovery and communication – a process of pattern recognition rather than hypothesis and theory-formation"(Downes, 2012).
The three theories of learning have in common the understanding that the transfer of knowledge from teacher to a learner is no longer relevant. They all see learning as an active process with the product being the learner focusing on being creative, making, developing ideas that are relevant to their world and reflecting upon their activity in an authentic relevant environment.
Ackermann, E . (2004) "Constructing Knowledge and transforming the World" in M. Tokoro and L.Steels (Eds.). A learning zone of one's own: Sharing representations and flow in collaborative learning environments,Washington, DC. IOS Press, Part 1. Chapt 2. pp. 15-37.
Papert, S. (1991). New York: Basic books. Mindstorms. Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas.
Piaget, J. (1962) Play, Dreams, and Imitation in Childhood. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
Tokoro, M. and Steels, L. (2004) (Eds.). A learning zone of one's own: Sharing representations and flow in collaborative learning environments Washington, DC. IOS Press.
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Sung J. Woo
Paris, at Night
Today was rice day, fifty-pound sacks of white rice in trucks bearing an elephant logo. The same happy elephant appeared on the bags, its head raised to the sky, the trunk curved like an S.
"Elephant," Todd said.
He said it because a laborer was staring at it intently. Which meant he wasn't working.
"That's right," the man said. "I couldn't remember the word."
He was the only other human at the loading dock this morning. The man didn't have a name, just a number, like the rest of the robots.
"Let's get back to it, 8831, okay?"
"Yessir," the man said.
That could be me, Todd thought as he watched him work side by side with his silent mechanical counterparts, lifting, carrying, and dropping bags of rice from the back of the truck to the warehouse. A bad car accident, a bad fall from a ladder, and that could be me.
Or a bad memrip.
AT LUNCH, Todd thought of things he could sell. Everything he owned of any value, he could touch: his grandfather's watch, his grandmother's wedding ring, a gold necklace belonging to some forgotten relative. His car, too, but that was out of the question as he needed it to work.
He got up from his chair and scanned the floor below, the robots still working away, a sea of metallic shoulders rising and falling in unison, strangely beautiful in a way. Over by the forklift sat 8831, his eyes as blank as the piece of bread he was eating.
Two weeks from today was Todd's thirtieth wedding anniversary, and even if he were to pawn the watch, the ring, and the necklace, he knew he wouldn't even come close to having enough for Paris. That's where Sue had wanted to go for as long as he could remember. They didn't have the money to honeymoon there, but that was okay because back then, there had been plenty of time. They were young, both healthy and working, so they would save a little here and there and in a couple of years, they would be walking up to the Eiffel Tower at night arm in arm, find themselves underneath the arch and look up at the beacon that shined on this city of lights.
But then came two sons and three recessions and a second mortgage. A hysterectomy for her, a double bypass for him, and now here he was, nine years short of retirement, supervising a team of robots and a retarded man, thinking about folks who could sell things they couldn't touch, like stocks and bonds and whatever else he couldn't even fathom, people with money who would pay to experience another's most cherished moments.
Silly. That would be Sue's word for it if this were a story she'd overheard. For a trip, a goddamn trip, what a silly thing to do.
But it was more than a trip. It was their life together. There was life and there was death, and it seemed to Todd that if he waited any longer, there wouldn't be a difference between the two.
He opened the filing cabinet and rifled through the folders. In all the years he'd been here, only a handful of human workers had come and gone. All of them were handicapped in some way; they came through the city welfare program, and 8831 was no exception.
Name: Lopez, Manny
Tax Status: Married
Disability: Neural Trauma
Neural Trauma. It was worth a shot.
Manny's wife picked up on the second ring. Todd told her who he was, and after he assured her that her husband was not hurt, he was fine, he was a great worker, he asked her what he wanted to know. She listened without interrupting him, then there was a lengthy silence.
"Why?" she asked.
"Does it matter?"
"I can report you."
"I know."
More silence.
"He did it because he loved me. Loved," she said, hardening. "Not loves."
"I heard you."
Then she hung up on him, and for the rest of the day, Todd replayed the conversation in his mind. Should he have lied to her, made up some story about a sick mother, a dying child? He wasn't good at talking, especially on the phone. People thought he was unfriendly, hostile. A woman once told him his voice sounded like broken stones rattling in a cage.
The horn blared at five, time for the two humans to go home and the robots to be reconditioned and put in standby.
Todd was walking out to his car when Manny touched his shoulder.
"Boss," he said, sounding uncertain. He held out his phone. "My wife, she wants to talk to you?"
THE HOUSE was quiet when he returned, and it seemed to Todd that he wanted to keep it that way. Take small, measured steps, like a thief. He carefully pulled the door shut, holding onto the doorknob and turning it by hand until it locked.
Above, the floorboards creaked, Sue's footsteps as she walked from their bedroom to the bathroom. Then a flush, and the trill of water climbing up to refill the toilet tank. And now the muffled voice of the late-show host on TV, the encouraging laughter of the studio audience, the one-two punch repeating until they cut to commercial.
Todd sat at the dining table and peeked inside the microdome, at the plate Sue had made for him. Pork chops, a bunch of broccoli spears, a hill of mashed potatoes with a well of gravy. He touched the REHEAT button and watched his plate spin slowly, the inside of the dome steaming up.
One thing for sure, my clients never tire of wedding proposals.
The man Todd had met after work was funny, friendly, utterly normal. It didn't seem possible that they were talking about something that could land both of them a minimum of two years in prison.
I'm not going to lie to you, Todd. There's a risk to this. People do get hurt, like your friend Manny. But keep in mind that Manny didn't follow our simple yet extremely important directions. We told him over and over again that he wasn't to consume any alcoholic beverages twenty-four hours before the procedure. We even hired a Portuguese translator to make sure he understood what was required of him. See, this is why Mrs. Lopez still led you to us, because she knows we do good work. Her cousin's a regular sourcer, comes in once a month, has been for years. We don't mess up, Todd. It's the sourcers who mess up. And I can see we'll have a smooth ride, because you're a smart guy.
Though he introduced himself as Richard Gibbons, he also immediately admitted that it was an alias.
In my opinion, Todd? In my opinion, I think it's something the government should regulate. Because let's face it, everybody's doing it. But think how long it took for marijuana to become legalized. Hell, it's still not legal in Alabama.
Todd opened the microdome and took out the plate. The pork had gotten a little tougher, but it still tasted wonderful, his wife's signature flavors of mint and garlic in every bite.
The way I see it, you're getting peak value for something that is going to eventually disappear. I'm not just talking about Alzheimer's. Once you go past sixty, memories fade at an alarming clip. It's what happens because the brain can only retain so much. Like all of our other organs, it's about usage. When was the last time you thought about your honeymoon? Honestly? The less you use, the more you lose. It's the foundation of how our bodies work. The health benefits of memripping, they're not some urban legend. You're cleaning house. You're taking out the garbage and putting in out on the curb, but here's the difference: you're getting paid for that trash.
It was a painless, quick procedure. All you had to do was remember what you wanted to have ripped while the machine was plugged into you. The surgery was completely automated and technologically sound.
Memory is free. Not for our clients, of course, haha! But for you, Todd. Think of all the new memories you'll create with the money you'll have. Our government wants to equate our enterprise to organ trafficking, but nothing could be further from the truth. You grow memory like a crop, and when you want to, you harvest it. Are there people picketing against farmers every time they cut down a bushel of corn? Of course not. It's natural. It's life.
"Todd?"
Sue met him at the sink. She reached for the dish towel hanging off the hook, but Todd angled his body to block her.
"It's just one dish," he said. "You can let it dry."
"You had a long day."
Todd wiped his hands on the towel and turned around to face her. Even though she looked prettier with her makeup on, he also liked seeing his wife like this, right before they went to bed, because only he saw her like this. Nobody else in the world knew this Sue, only him.
Though it was possible that wouldn't be true after the memrip. But was that a bad thing? Was it so terrible to share his love for his wife with someone else?
Todd waited to turn off the kitchen lights, for Sue to switch on the lamp at the landing of the staircase. It was their unspoken routine to retire to their bedroom. There were many other small routines like that one, and now, as he climbed the stairs with her, Todd thought how wonderful it was to know another person so well, that this was comfort, that this was home.
TRIANGULAR BOXES. That was the shipment that waited for him when he arrived at work the following morning. There were blue ones and red ones and yellow ones and green ones, and each contained a like-colored chair from a Korean designer. Todd couldn't see how a box like that could hold a comfortable chair, so he opened one up and sat in it.
"Jesus Christ," he said.
Four auto-adjusting palm-shaped prongs supported him in ways that seemed impossible: his lower back, his love handles, and his neck. If he had his way, he would sit here forever. But he couldn't, as the whistle blew and the robots came to life.
He thought the oddly-shaped boxes might pose a challenge for them, but they didn't miss a step. The robots saw the way the boxes were stacked inside the truck, right side up and upside down, staggered to maximize space, and they replicated the exact pattern in the warehouse.
Manny worked in perfect tandem with his mechanized brothers as the morning turned into afternoon. Like yesterday, he went back to the forklift to eat his lunch, and Todd wondered if perhaps he used to run one of those. He considered asking him but changed his mind. If Manny did so before, he certainly didn't now, so what was there to talk about?
In his office, Todd dug into the brown paper bag of his own lunch and thought that today was very much like yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that. But tomorrow would be different because tonight would be different. If the memrip went according to plan – and he had no reason to believe it wouldn't, because he hadn't had a beer in the last twenty-four hours, hadn't washed his hair this morning, followed everything Gibbons had told him – tomorrow he would call up that travel agent who advertised in the paper and tell her to book the platinum romantic getaway to Paris for two.
For a trip, a goddamn trip, what a silly thing to do.
He could almost hear her say it. But she would be telling him as they were flying over the Atlantic in first-class seats. They'd never sat in those large leather chairs, only walked past them on their way to the narrow discomforts of coach.
Sue had made him the perfect egg salad sandwich, just enough mayo to keep the egg bits and chopped slivers of celery together. As he ate, he took out his flexphoto to watch the twelve-picture slideshow from Uncle Patrick's wedding. Gibbons had given him the paper-thin disposable device, which was programmed to turn on just once. According to Gibbons, the worst thing a sourcer could do was overprepare, try to remember too much and turn an emotional memory into an intellectual exercise.
My client has been waiting seven years for this, Todd.
Each picture only stayed on for five seconds, but it seemed much longer than that when the first one came up. How was it possible that they were both so thin, so young? Sue was in a blue sleeveless dress. She was in attendance because she was a friend of Uncle Patrick's sister. She was nineteen years old, and Todd was twenty. In the picture, they were both in the frame, sitting down at adjacent tables as dinner was being served. They had yet to meet, and somehow that made the moment even more special.
Love at first sight. People say it, but they rarely mean it. My client has gone through sixteen memrips and still has yet to find a real one. That's why he's willing to pay big.
He and Sue dancing, his left hand clasping her right hand, his right arm around her waist, their youthful faces glowing like a pair of full moons.
I know the risk is more on your side, but you have to understand, the destinator also faces dangers. Emotional dangers. The disappointment can be so crushing that they often need to seek psychological and spiritual guidance. This client who'll be installing your memrip, he's got one therapist and two holistic advisors on permanent payroll. So needless to say, he's counting on you.
Their first kiss, and the angle showed Sue's surprise and delight. She was slightly drunk and so was he, but Todd remembered that moment more than any other, the warmth and wetness of her lips, the way they parted as the kiss transformed into a smile.
I know you'll do your best. That's all we ask.
The flexphoto blinked off, and lunch was over.
"READY?" Gibbons asked.
They were in a dentist's office, and from the looks of it, not a very successful dentist. There was a leak in the corner of the ceiling, turning half of the tile brown, and the muzak that flowed out of the speakers was at times staticky.
Todd sat in the chair, his head tipped back and immobilized inside an octagonal metal cage. He couldn't see the machine anymore, but he knew it was there, a black cylinder with a silver arm. At the end of the arm was a clear tube too thin for the naked eye to see, which would enter through his left ear, travel through the auditory nerve, and make its way to his brain.
"You're not gonna feel a thing."
"Okay," Todd said, and soon there was a whirring in his left ear.
Indeed, he felt nothing as the tube burrowed inside. The pills Gibbons had given him were working, too, making his eyes a little dry but calming him.
"And we're in," Gibbons said.
Gibbons slid a flexphoto into a slot in front of the cage, filling Todd's view with blackness. Then the slideshow started again, and this time Todd held nothing back. Uncle Patrick's wedding, thirty-two years ago, meeting his future wife for the first time. Realizing he'll never again remember this moment filled him with regret, and for a second he felt an intense desire to scream, that he didn't want to do this, that his memory was his and no one else's, but then the feeling passed.
Just buyer's remorse, Todd thought, and went back to the task at hand, which was to remember.
At some point, Gibbons said, "The buffer's getting full, so it's going to scrape."
Scrape.
Todd didn't think there were words that could describe it. Clean? Was that what it was, that he felt clean? But it wasn't like washing his hands or taking a shower. Suddenly there was a lightness in him, fresh, impossible pockets of air inside his mind. It wasn't an unpleasant sensation because it wasn't a sensation at all. That was it: whatever this was, it was the antithesis of something, but it wasn't exactly nothing, because the concept of nothingness existed in relation to a somethingness before it. What the scrape did was more than just remove his personal history; it removed the concept of history itself.
This should hurt, Todd thought. Something like this should be painful.
The next photo came into his vision, he and Sue at the bar, waiting for their drinks, but what had he been thinking about just before?
"Don't back up, just see forward, Todd," Gibbons said. "Let it go."
There were two more scrapings, and then they were done. The whirring in his ear stopped, and Gibbons unlatched the harness around his head. Todd rotated his neck left and right and back again, stiff from two hours of stillness.
On the top of the memrip machine was a round clear disc, a petri dish, with just a smidge of gray matter.
PARIS WAS stubborn. While other cities around the world were busy upgrading concrete with organic alloys and replacing old street lamps with compact photon bulbs, this city looked no different than the way it did a hundred years ago. The stone bricks, the gargoyles, the wrought-iron fences, they looked like they'd always been here.
"Are you sure we're going the right way?" Sue asked.
Paris, at night. It was what she had always wanted, wasn't it?
Wasn't it?
These questions, these doubts. If only he could make them disappear.
"I think so," Todd said, walking past signs he couldn't read.
For a while things were fine, and then they weren't. Gibbons found a neurologist who was willing to examine Todd without notifying the authorities. Just bad luck, the doctor had said. You can never tell how these things will go. That's why it's not legal.
Memory is like a million little houses. Taking one out is like lifting a house from a community. Not a big deal, because you can just build another in its place. The community remains unaffected.
But some memories are like skyscrapers. If you're careful, you might be able to take away the first floor of a tall building and leave it standing, but never for long. Sooner than later, walls start to crack. Ceilings leak. It's just a matter of time until the structure groans and loses integrity.
You still have lots of houses, though, Todd. A strong, stable community. That's why you're capable of doing everything else, like your job, like walking and eating and enjoying a movie. But your wife will remain problematic. Even new memories you form with her, they're going to reference this skyscraper because the damage was so extensive.
Just one more street, Todd thought. When he glanced at Sue, he saw the way she was favoring her left leg. Why was that?
He didn't know.
If only they could find their way. How could they be lost, trying to find the tallest structure in the city? It was stupid. It was infuriating.
"Oh my," Sue said, pointing.
And there it was, finally, having hidden behind a row of buildings on this side street. There was no buildup to their encounter: the tower was not there, not there, and then…just there, in its entirety, tall and strong and sharp.
And still far away. It would take another fifteen minutes for them to reach the Eiffel Tower, where Todd would stand with the woman he was supposed to love underneath the arch, holding her hand, and listen to the wind whipping through the girders.
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Norfolk-born star Rupert Everett to take part in Q&A
PUBLISHED: 13:45 21 May 2019 | UPDATED: 14:20 21 May 2019
Rupert Everett in The Happy Prince. Picture by Wilhelm Moser
World-famous actor and director Rupert Everett is coming to Wells Maltings for a one-off fundraising event.
It will raise funds for Burnham Overy Village Hall's play equipment campaign, as well as for Wells Maltings' many community programmes.
The event, which starts at 6.15pm on Saturday, May 25, includes a screening of the 2018 box-office hit The Happy Prince in the building's new auditorium, in the company of the film's lead actor, director and writer.
Mr Everett, who is originally from Burnham Deepdale in north Norfolk and still has relatives in the area, will introduce what has been described as his "passion project", paying tribute to Oscar Wilde with a poignant look at the poet and playwright's tragic final days.
The special screening will be followed by a Q&A session, giving audience members the opportunity to pitch their questions to him in person.
Simon Daykin, director of Wells Maltings arts, heritage and community centre, said: "It will be an honour and a privilege to welcome Rupert Everett to Wells Maltings.
"We offered tickets to this event to Wells Maltings' friends and patrons first and the evening is already a sell-out.
"We are delighted that Rupert Everett will be here and look forward to hearing about his wide-ranging work and celebrated career."
Wells Maltings is on Staithe Street, Wells-next-the-Sea. Box Office: 01328 710885; website: www.wellsmaltings.org.uk.


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Manga / Wings of Vendemiaire
"God's creations need no wills of their own... they should listen to the voice of god."
— The Priest
Wings of Vendemiaire (Vendemiaire No Tsubasa) is the debut manga by mangaka Mohiro Kitoh, who later went on to create the better known Narutaru and Bokurano. It is a two-volume collection of short stories involving six Artificial Humans known as Vendemiaires. It takes place in France both before and after World War I, and starts off when Ray, a young boy, meets Vendemiaire #1 for the first time, and ends the day after Ray dies.
This manga provides examples of:
Ambiguously Human: Vendemiaire #2's master. He has Pointy Ears, and seems to exert some sort of supernatural control over Vendemiaire and his other automatons. He also has a pet crow who apparently has magical powers of its own.
Armour-Piercing Slap: Vendemiaire #5 to Avary
Artificial Humans
Children Are Innocent: Mostly played straight, unlike Kitoh's later works. Subverted with Brumaire.
Book-Ends: The manga begins and ends with the same shot of a road going over the horizon. At the beginning young Ray is coming home with his motorcycle, and at the end Vendemiaire is leaving on a bike after she had sex with old Ray's dead body.
Cool Plane: In order to free Vendemiaire #2 from her cruel master, a stunt pilot enters an air race with his prototype airplane. It doesn't work, and he loses.
In the final chapter, a twin-fuselage jet bearing the names of Avary and Vendemiaire #5 is shown.
Creepy Crows: Vendemiaire #2's master has a pet crow. Like its owner, the crow is implied to have some supernatural powers, as it appears alive and well later on after getting hit by an airplane.
Diagonal Cut: The circus ringmaster breaks apart Vendemiaire #1 with a slash of his whip, and also cuts Ray's hand with it.
Distant Finale
Do Androids Dream?: One of the recurring themes.
Driven to Suicide: Vendemiaire #2 kills herself after Ray fails to free her from her master.
Goggles Do Nothing: For some reason, The Priest wears goggles.
Gonk: Some of the circus freaks (it goes without saying). One looks like a monkey.
Gory Discretion Shot: Brumaire makes Vendemiaire #4 kill a rabbit caught in a trap with a stone. Later, when Brumaire gets caught in a trap, Vendemiaire kills Brumaire with the stone.
Happiness in Slavery: Subverted with Vendemiaire #5.
Hoist By Her Own Petard: Brumaire
Ill Girl: Thermidor
Multicolored Hair: "Sixty-Three", the orphaned trapper guy, has a head of blond hair with a tuft of dark hair on the forehead.
Repulsive Ringmaster: The villain of the first story.
Ridiculously Human Robots
Robot Girl
Royals Who Actually Do Something: Inverted; Milton dislikes violence and does not fight, unlike most other noblemen.
Sinister Minister: The Priest definitely counts, he can also be seen as a Badass Preacher, since he's pretty good at fighting.
Soul Jar: When Milton throws the Priest's bible into the fireplace, the priest catches fire and burns to death.
Steam Punk: Has all the trappings— zeppelins, clockwork automatons, and huge steam-powered trucks.
Surprise Creepy
Theme Naming: In every chapter there is a female character named after a month of the French Republican calendar .
Winged Humanoid: All the Vendemiaires except for one.
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The main source of conflict.
Whip It Good: A whip is the circus ringmaster's favourite weapon, he is seen destroying one of his artificial humans and cutting Vendemiaire #1 in half with it.
You Have Failed Me: The ringmaster destroys one of his automatons (see above) for not having performed well during the show.
Zeppelins from Another World: Chapter 5 takes place on a Zeppelin. However, airplanes are also present.
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TC's Cadets | Teachers College Columbia University
TC's Cadets
The College's master's program for West Point is making its mark on military training
As situations around the world nowadays make abundantly clear, military engagement in the 21st century is as much about breeching cultural divides and building trust as it is about combat.
So when Lt. Col. Todd Henshaw at West Point was looking for a new leadership training program for young Army officers, he didn't ask the Pentagon or turn to a business school or a commercial program like Six Sigma or Franklin Covey's "The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People." Instead, Henshaw chose an unlikely source of military-style style instruction or business management: TC.
Henshaw had some explaining to do to West Point alumni, staff and curious onlookers. "I got a lot of e-mails saying, 'What are we doing messing around with all those liberals down in New York?' he recalls, laughing. "Columbia doesn't let ROTC recruiters on campus. It was almost like we brought somebody home from the wrong side of the tracks."
But, working with Col. Thomas Kolditz, Chair of the Department of Behavioral Science and Leadership at West Point, he approached Warner Burke, coordinator of graduate programs in social-organizational psychology and Chair of TC's Department of Organization & Leadership (and a former Army field artillery lieutenant) for help in designing and teaching a master's program for mid-career Army officers, many fresh from tours of duty in Afghanistan or Iraq.
The program took its first cohort of officers in 2005 and begins its fourth year this fall. After 12 months of full-time study including weekly visits to the TC campus and a six-month internship, participants earn a master's degree in organizational psychology. Most stay at West Point for another two years to train Army cadets, who, in turn, learn to incorporate these concepts into their work with young soldiers on the battlefront. Each of them becomes a new type of leader who is as focused on the psychological and cultural growth of soldiers as on fighting prowess.
On Wednesdays, Burke and his colleagues travel to West Point to teach. On another day (this year it's Mondays), the West Point students come to TC, split up, and take a Group Dynamics course alongside other TC students. This system has brought mutual benefits for both cohorts of students, Burke says. "Our students now really welcome them, and why? It's because the West Point students are mature and experienced. You know exactly who they are when they are walking down the hall. It's been good for both sides. And the military students love coming to the City. That's no small benefit."
The program Burke and his colleagues designed, and now teach, is very different from most traditional military training programs, which tend to emphasize physical as much as intellectual development. Without sacrificing physical training, the officers in this program also learn about psychology, counseling and coaching, adult development, organization development and leadership strategic planning—areas of study that enhance their ability not only to be strong personal role models for those under their command, but to lead large organizations and look more broadly at cultural and political differences, wherever they are serving.
West Point and TC just renewed their contract to collaborate for five more years on the program, which has graduated 20 to 25 officers per year since 2006 and is starting to get attention from other branches of the military. According to Henshaw, after looking carefully at the West Point program, the Navy designed something similar. And one of Henshaw's proudest moments came when two retired, four-star generals, each now working as business consultants, called him for advice. The New York City Department of Education sent a delegation to West Point, led personally by Chancellor Joel Klein, and Henshaw has begun to get calls from businesses that want to adopt the program.
Henshaw believes the program could radically change the military. "I am such a huge fan. If you think about the types of situations that the Army is going to be involved in over the next 20 to 30 years, they're going to be cross-cultural. We're going to need to understand people, understand organizations and institutions, understand markets, change populations, set up micro-societies. The more sophisticated those challenges, the more we will need programs like this. I wish somebody would say, 'Henshaw, just crank it up to 100 [students per year]. Bring in the Air Force, the Navy—bring them all in.'
Published Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008


With support of the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program, we are excited to announce the launch of an on-farm research project that could hold the promise of new rootstock options for apple production – including options with greater disease resistance, tolerance for wet soils, and climate adaptability! Watch this page for regular updates on this project.
Grafting apple trees onto specific rootstocks for size control, early bearing, and pest and disease resistance has been practiced for hundreds of years. Ultimately this practice was formalized in Europe during the mid-1800s with the selection of specific named (or more accurately, numbered) rootstock cultivars. By the 1970s and 80s apple rootstock development peaked with research programs in new regions including Russia and the United States (notably from the Cornell/USDA research station in Geneva, NY).
extremely limited. Practically speaking, the most widely available options are the Geneva selections, the Malling (England) rootstocks, or the Russian BUD rootstock series. This represents rootstocks selected at only 3 locations, optimized for 3 climates, 3 soil types, and common production challenges found in 3 regions.
While good efforts have been made to evaluate the adaptability of rootstocks beyond the original research stations where they were selected, additional screening usually takes place within regions where the apple industry is already well established (and where previous Geneva, Malling, and Russian rootstocks were already successful). This process does little to expand the range of rootstock options for new regions and new climates.
The result is that aspiring apple growers are often forced to artificially re-create optimal growing conditions for the rootstocks available to them. Irrigation systems, drain tile, even the placement of apple trees on elevated beds are just a few of the common ways farmers modify land to sustain non-locally adapted rootstocks.
We believe this approach is fundamentally flawed. Rather than altering land and water to meet the needs of a crop, an agro-ecological approach should call for planting crops that are already adapted to the local landscape and the local climate. This project was launched as with the intention of developing precisely such an option for the maritime Pacific Northwest.
Six species in the Malus genus are native to North America. In the western United States this includes Malus fusca (the Pacific crabapple), a species that is abundant in maritime climates extending from Alaska to Northern California. Unique among apple species, Malus fusca exhibits a wide-range of adaptability to common maritime site conditions: thriving in hydric and wetland soils (including saltwater estuaries), as well as in heavy clay soils, and poorly drained upland sites. It is considered a keystone native species in both high rainfall climates such as coastal mountain rainforests, and in lowland rainshadow environments such as the Puget Sound 'banana belt' where local rainfall averages may total less than 20 inches annually.
For at least two decades a handful of amateur pomologists and backyard orchardists in the Northwest have dabbled with the use of Malus fusca as a rootstock for table apple varieties. Anecdotally, these novelty grafts have been largely successful, apparently thriving even in conditions where traditional apple rootstocks do not, such as wet meadows. Unfortunately there is no actual research demonstrating how widely compatible Malus fusca is with various apple varieties.
Through this project we are establishing a replicated research block of Malus fusca rootstocks, testing more than two dozen apple varieties for grafting compatibility over a three-year period (with additional traits, such as suckering, evaluated in future years).
Continue to watch this page for more project details, updates, and extended information on the ecology of Malus fusca.
We've been working diligently at the farm to prep our research block planting area. The first step was some extensive brush hogging and mowing of an abandoned pasture area. In the weeks and months ahead we will be getting the deer fence installed, laying out the rows, and removing the existing vegetation (replacing it with a native grass/forb understory to support beneficial insects, pollinators, broader biodiversity).
Interestingly, there are several wild Malus fusca in the hedgerow around the planting area so we know the species is well adapted to the site. This removes one variable from the study, although we will maintain a control group of non-grafted Malus fusca trees in the orchard block which will allow us to compare the growth potential against the grafted trees.
Our BCS tractor has been putting in lots of hours prepping ground for the new orchard block. We don't have a huge range of implements but have been successful at prepping the site using an Italian-made R2 Rinaldi Stone Burying Plow. The tool is a reverse tiller (the blades spin in counter rotation to the tractor's direction of travel) with a fence of heavy gauge metal bars that separate rocks, vegetation, roots, thatch and other debris from the soil and pushes it all to the bottom of the plow pan -- leaving a smooth fluffy bed of soil that is rolled by the trailing packing wheel. It's definitely not a plow for ongoing use, but so far it has been good for breaking and prepping new ground.
We should note that we could just plant the new orchard block in the existing pasture vegetation except for a couple of things: The pasture is heavily invaded with wild rose, snowberry and other shrubs to the point that mowing alone wasn't giving us good control of the competing woody vegetation. We really needed a cleaner slate to give small transplanted apple trees a competitive edge. Second, we want to establish a higher quality/higher diversity understory for the orchard consisting of native grasses and native wildflowers such as camas. The aggressive non-native forage grasses dominating the pasture are a barrier to that goal. With the use of a native rootstock for the apple trees and a native seed mix for revegetating the understory, we hope to have a mostly native plant community with all of the associated benefits to soil health and soil biodiversity.
With gracious support from our technical advisor Dr. Carol Miles and her technician Ed Scheenstra at Washington State University's Northwest Research and Extension Center, we've been able to secure scion wood for the following varieties: Amere de Berthcourt, Blanc Mollet, De Bouteville, Brown Snout, Brown Thorn, Bulmer's Norman, Cimetiere, Court Pendu Rose, Dabinett, Domaines, Frequin Rouge, Jouveaux, Medaille D'Or, Mettais, Michelin, Muscadet de Dieppe, Muscat de Bernay, Peau de Vache, Reine des Pommes, Vilberie, and Zabergau Reinette.
Additionally, we are expecting a second batch of scion varieties from Dr. Thomas Chao, the USDA's apple genetic resources horticulturist (sort of a librarian of apple varieties!). Those scion varieties include: Sangre de Toro, Raxao, Blanquina, Teorica, Xuanina, Vedialona, Coloradona, Solarina, De la Riega, Collaos, Perico, Maria Elena, Reineta do Caravia, Repinaldo do Liebana, Pepa, Peil de Sapa, Bedan des Parts, Manchurian, Wickson, Binet Rouge, Calville Blanc, Nehou, Dolgo, Kerry Pippin, and Irish Peach.
In the weeks ahead grafting will begin at a feverish pace when our shipment of 500 rootstocks arrive from the nursery. We are aiming to do 10 or 12 replicated grafts of most varieties, but in some cases limited scion availability will result in fewer grafts of some varieties.
Somehow we survived a full year of this project. With 2018 behind us, there's finally some time to process our thoughts, reflect back on the challenges and accomplishments, and to look ahead.
Malus fusca is tough wood. This matters when you start grafting hundreds of trees. The scions of domestic apple varieties are soft and cut easily with a grafting knife. The rootstocks on the other hand, especially those with some thick caliper take constant knife sharpening, and a lot of pressure. You cut yourself more, you get blisters, your thumbs get sore. It's work.
2018 was bone dry for us. By our measure, the farm got less than 20 inches of rain this year (22 inches is normal – we're in a mountain rain shadow). Keeping irrigation water on the trees was a constant task. At the peak of summer we would water for hours, then scratch the soil surface only to see things were still bone dry. Thirsty rabbits chewed through the irrigation lines. Pity the salmon. Pity the planet. We don't need a hotter, drier climate. In the hedges, the wild Malus fusca trees seemed to be holding on, if there is any reassurance in that.
Plastic is the new pariah. And rightfully so. Plastic tree guards crack and photodegrade faster than advertised, dropping shards onto the soil, blowing away in the wind. Shockingly, stupid plastic tree guards trap and kill little meadow song sparrows that land on the tree stakes, then fall into the tubes where they can't spread their wings, and they die. What a stupid waste. There has to be a better solution to deploy on hundreds of trees that doesn't kill, doesn't pollute, and keeps the voles from gnawing the trees down to toothpicks. By the way, the voles do gnaw the trees down to toothpicks if you take the guards off. They do it as quickly as in a single night without the tree guards in place, despite an abundance of raptors and coyotes.
General trend: Malus fusca likes to sucker. Seeing the tree in the wild, of course, this is obvious. We anticipated a lot of pruning to keep suckers down, and indeed that prediction is proving true. In some of the grafts, the suckers are quite a bit more vigorous and fast growing than the scions -- although there are some exceptions to this (see the comments on French varieties below).
General trend: the pear grafts are all generally not looking great. We knew these were likely a long-shot and indeed, most of them are unhappy and the scions are clearly not thriving.
More surprising, most of the crab varieties are also not thriving: Dolgo, Manchurian, and a few others. One might think these fellow Pacific rim crabapples might find a compatible match with Malus fusca? Not so. The success rates are low for us.
The Spanish varieties are struggling. It's hard to know why. The grafts don't appear to be failures, but the scions are definitely not vigorous.
Which leaves us with the French. Generally these varieties are doing great. Potentially the similarity in climate between our farm and Normandy is giving these varieties an advantage. Growth rates of the scion are typically vigorous (outgrowing the rootstock suckers), and the plants generally look exceptional.
So there's a snapshot update of our 2018 grafting trials. In the year ahead we'll post a full analysis of grafting success by variety. In the meantime, we'll be expanding the orchard with more rootstocks, getting them in place for future grafting.
Thanks to the fellow orchardists who have reached out to compare notes. If you have experience with this great native tree, please connect with us and thanks for reading!
Photo directly above: Excellent 1-year scion growth on Bulmer's Norman, a French variety now widely grown in England!


I just love painting. For me the most exciting moment of each commission is the one, just before the end. All hard work is already in the past, everything went well and each stroke of a brush brings the miniature closer to the finish line. Unfortunatelly all things must come to an end with no exception to this particular moment. It is always short and soon after it's gone. I must say good bye to the fruits of my labour, as these are being sent to the customers. Finishing the Epic 40,000 Titan Legions commission was inevitable, yet it pains my heart to part with it. I had so much great time with the Titans – I will truly miss them.
Other than that, May was a month of Infinity (Yup – once again) while I was given the opportunity to paint a variety of Infinity miniatures at different painting levels. These varried between lvl 3 to lvl 5 and let me experiment a lot. Along with I AM NOMAD giveway campaign I've painted a small Nomad commission, along with another bunch of ALEPH miniatures.
"THE COLONY" Special Project was also finished, further amplifying the feel of parting ways. I should really find a way to fill that hole in my heart as otherwise I might feel a bit lonely.
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As part of the Congress programme, a number of activities, including site visits and training courses, are organised to enrich the participants' experience on Friday 14th June 2019.
Tickets for the excursions and training courses are not included in the Congress Pass, but they can be purchased separately through the online registration. Registration costs include lunch and transport.
An overview of the activities is available below.
Registration: 55 eur / person VAT Incl.
This excursion will visit two geothermal heat plants for greenhouses' uses.
Aardwarmte Vogelaer is a consortium of seven Dutch greenhouse operators in the Westland region. In a depth of 2,400 meters, a thermal water aquifer in sandstone with temperatures up to 90 °C was tapped and is now utilized with injection and production wells.
Koppert-cress is a greenhouse company in Monster. For their climate control they rely on a high temperature aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) system. Koppert-Cress is one of the 2 permit holders in the Netherlands allowed to store heat at higher temperature than the legal maximum of 25°C as a pilot.
This field trip will focus on several aspects of geothermal exploration and production such as geology, possible modern day analogues, heat and hydrocarbon co-production, technology, interference with hydrocarbons, spatial planning, and applications.
After a history of extensive oil and gas exploration and production, the West Netherlands Basin is currently the most prolific geothermal province in the Netherlands.
The Huisman Innovation Tower (HIT) is a 96m high test drill tower, capable of handling 55 m (180 ft) stands and 46 m (150 ft) riser and with the ability to simulate dynamical vessel movements. The HIT is located at the Huisman Schiedam quayside and is used, among others, for demonstration and testing purposes. The rig can be used to drill Ultra Deep Geothermal wells up to 10km deep.
Huisman Geo is building on the extensive experience in designing and building equipment for the Offshore Drilling market, Huisman also designs and delivers equipment for drilling geothermal wells.
Registration (standard): 160 eur / person VAT Incl.
Registration (student): 90 eur / person VAT Incl.
GeoTrainet is the organisation behind the European wide training and certification programme for shallow geothermal installers, specifically designers (those who carry out feasibility and design studies, including geology) and drillers (who make the boreholes and insert the tubes).
The course will offer updates on standards (CEN, VDI 4640-2), regulations, and the market development, and give an overview of the latest technical developments in drilling/BHE, heat pumps, materials, and large-scale installations.
The course is paired with an excursion to a shallow geothermal site. Participants will receive a certification.
This geothermal project is located in the South-Western part of The Hague and is unique because of its location and its project history. It started with a study in 2005, concluding the presence of a water holding sandstone layer in the subsurface at 2 km depth. After several verifications from research institutes a new geothermal project was launched in 2008. A partnership between The City of The Hague, 3 housing corporations, Eneco and E-On Benelux (now Uniper) initiated the geothermal project. At first the project was supposed to deliver geothermal heat to 4000 new residential buildings. In 2010 the wells were drilled. Due to a depth crisis (2008-2011)lots of housing projects were not delivered. In 2013 the project officially went bankrupt. A re-launch was made in 2016 by the partnership 'Haagse Aardwarmte Leyweg'. In 2018 the wells were cleaned and tested and now the permit is in procedure. What is the future for collective heating solutions in cities? What can we learn from this project in a technical sense and in from its business case?


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