The optional 135mm Macro Port can be used in place of the housing's original port to shoot extreme close-up photography underwater. The original lens port is removed and the 135mm Macro Port simply threads into the front of the housing for quick and easy installation. The Macro Port is optimized for use with the camera in the 100mm to 135mm focal length range, with or without an external macro lens.
The optional 135mm Macro Port can be used in place of the housing's original port to shoot extreme close-up photography underwater. The original lens port is removed and the 135mm Macro Port simply threads into the front of the housing for quick and easy installation. The Macro Port is optimized for use with the camera in the 100mm to 135mm focal length range, with or without an external macro lens. Ikelite recommends using the 135mm focal length combined with the camera's built-in digital teleconverter function for some incredible macro shots to rival much more expensive DSLR and mirrorless systems.
The lens cannot be zoomed underwater in this installation. The lens can be used at focal lengths wider than 100mm, but may exhibit vignetting (dark shadows around the corner of the image).


I can honestly say that I did not enjoy this book. I saw it at work once and thought it had a beautiful cover, so when it was on offer on kindle, decided to buy it. It's not something I would usually go for - it's more fantasy than anything, with dangerous creatures and hurdles that the narrator faces. Although, if I'm honest I don't really know what happens properly because y'know when you're reading something but not actually reading it? I think that's what I did with this book! I have to finish a book though, and the ending wasn't too bad. However, it's definitely an aquired taste!
Last weekend, I traveled home to celebrate my Great Grandmother's 100th Birthday. Definitely a rare, special occasion - something that you don't hear everyday. Firstly, I should say that it was one of the most beautiful days I've ever had.
We were invited to a lunch buffet with her and every single family member. By this, I mean that half of them, I have not met! It was extremely strange to be in a room surrounded by her children, children's children, and the children's children's children! As well as other cousins, sisters, brothers of everyone in the room. It's easy to get a little lost and confused!
The room that my Great Grandma had hired was beautifully decorated with pink and purple, beautiful flowers everywhere, and her Birthday presents and cards dotted around. This included a card and telegram from the Queen, which was quite amazing to actually hold! The buffet was covered with posh sandwiches, mini-bites, potatoes and salad - followed by desserts and then a huge cake and champagne!
It was such a lovely day, and actually extremely emotional. I spoke with my Great Grandmother, who made me cry; my Grandmother, who also made me cry (all happy tears I may add). It was amazing to be in a room, listening to 100 years of stories and moments. What's more special to me, is that I was there. It could have been very easy to turn it down, what with a huge buffet going on, but no. I had an absolutely fabulous day, and who knows, next year we may repeat it all for 101 magical years!
If you didn't know already, this week is Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2014! It's about talking about Eating Disorders, breaking stigma and misconceptions, simply asking someone how they are.. the list goes on.
I've talked a lot about my present, on this blog, but thinking about it properly, I'm not sure that you know how and why I got to where I am today. This might be a long post, but hopefully if you stick it out until the end, your opinion/perception of Eating Disorders may have changed, and you may feel more knowledgeable and comfortable if you find yourself in a conversation about Eating Disorders.
Rewind to 2011, end of year 11 and I'm doing my GCSE's. I am happy, bubbly and confident, with a great friendship group. I'm getting good grades and looking forward to a summer of relaxing, shopping and spending time with my friends. I should also mention that I'm morbidly obese - did this matter? Not until one tiny comment and I actually acknowledged my behaviour.
I come from a dysfunctional family (who doesn't these days?) and without being extremely personal, my Step dad passed away after months of family trouble. I didn't really realise, but I saw comfort in food. As soon as everyone had gone to bed, I'd hit the fridge and cupboards, binging on junk food. Physically not being able to stop. Was I bothered? Not that I thought. I enjoy food so what was the problem? Well, one of my biggest passions, is music and singing. I was part of a musical society, and auditions were coming up for a part of a young girl. Without sounding big headed, I can sing and perform. There was no reason as to why I couldn't have got this particular part, as I was the only young girl in the society.
I think I will carry those words to my grave. Nevertheless, they were the turning point and I began to lose weight. There was no way on earth that my size would prevent me from doing the one thing I loved more than anything. It was healthy at first - healthy meals, nutritious snacks and always including a treat of fish 'n' chips each week. My dress size decreased and my confidence increased even more! I loved life.
Fast forward to my year 13 prom (2 years later), I'm now underweight and I'm still losing weight. Only now, I'm addicted and can't stop. I'm obsessed with the scales, calories and exercise. I don't socialise, I only go out to work or 6th form and I am always revising for my A-Levels. I spend hours online, researching foods, devising plans to cut more calories out, making excuses for not going here or there. Lying is second nature, hiding in baggy clothes is normal, baths are painful because it hurts to sit for too long, I'm freezing in summer and I can barely sleep because I don't have enough fuel in order to switch off. I don't see how I'll ever eat again because I'll end up that morbidly obese girl again - but it's OK because I'm still losing weight!
God knows how, but I actually passed my A-Levels and got into University to study Psychology. At the same time, a very special friend of mine persuaded me to seek help. It was at this point that I was diagnosed with Anorexia, and I had a choice - wait 6 months at home for treatment, or go to University. I chose the latter because of my friend, and have never looked back. She is my motivation and I'm recovering for her as well as myself. A sort of 'thank you for saving my life'. It was questioned as to whether I've had an eating disorder for a very long time and simply switched coping mechanisms. I guess it just goes to show, you can be ill at any weight.
I was the hardest decision of my life but the best one by far, but it's true what they say 'Your worst day in recovery is still better than the best day when you are ill'. I am recovering alone, which has meant slow and gradual increases and changes. But you know what? I'm getting there! I've put weight on, I've ditched the scales and counting isn't an obsession any more. I received a scholarship for my Uni grade last year, I've traveled the country, I volunteer for a mental health group, I work part time, have the best friends and as you know, I'm volunteering in Thailand this summer! I genuinely didn't think I'd ever be writing that!!
I am living proof that recovery is possible. I'm not there yet but I will be one day, and won't stop until I am! In the mean time, I'm getting my life back each day at a time. Life is too short to starve - I have adventures to be going on, food to be enjoyed, people to see and places to go!
I have a life to be living, without an eating disorder.
Coffee and cake: one of life's most simplest pleasures. It's one of those things you can enjoy as a treat whilst at your Nan's, visiting a friend, enjoying after a shopping trip or just having because you want to.
Coffee and cake: my worst nightmare.
However, I don't want this to be the case any more! So, today I've been to John Lewis for free coffee and cake (sign up to be a member online and they send you free vouchers for cake each month. What are you waiting for?!). One of my best friends at Uni, and myself ventured into Liverpool for a little day trip, to celebrate my Thailand trip by shopping, chatting and enjoying a stop at John Lewis. Cake is something I've not had in years, and it's actually a big deal for me. Therefore, going without having any idea of menu, without obsessing or counting anything is a step I should probably write about.
Not going to lie, it was hard. I still have that voice in my head, screaming at me for doing the wrong thing, for losing control. But then, that's what recovery is, isn't it? Feeling the fear and doing it anyway. Choosing to actively go against that voice until it no longer exists. Choosing to do what you want to do because enjoying life is far more important.
I picked a Bakewell tart. It was delicious.
Please can you help me get to Thailand?
As many of you know from my recent blog post, I am spending a chunk of my summer volunteering in Thailand. However in order for me to do this, I have to fundraise money to get me there. Asking for donations/sponsors is something I usually steer completely clear of as I know how annoying it can be when people constantly ask, but this time I really need all the help I can get.
I have set up a Justgiving account in which donations can be made and I have written about what I shall be doing and why on there. I would be eternally grateful if you are able to donate even the smallest amount - if I found 740 people to donate £1, then I would be there! Obviously, I understand if this is a really cheeky request and you cannot donate!
Also, another cheeky request would be if you could help me by publicising my just giving page. If you are willing to help me by tweeting, sharing on facebook, mentioning me in a blog post or youtube video (anything!!), then I would actually love you forever.
Please, please, please can you help me get to Thailand?


This article refers to the current EASME-DG GROW project in the Textile, Clothing, Leather & Footwear (TCLF) sector. The project aims at boosting the employability and attractiveness of the sector, with a pan-European communication campaign.
The campaign will be designed based on the insights and opinions of the main stakeholders in the sector, including representatives of TCLF-related businesses, VET providers and research centres.
The preliminary assessment phase of the campaign also foresees an online survey addressing the workers, students and jobseekers inside and outside the sector. The survey has been implemented in a easy-to-use online platform and will be available until the 15th of April.


The Myaamia Collection is housed in The Walter Havighurst Special Collections and in the Miami University Art Museum. On November 14, 2002, the Myaamia Collection was established by Miami University and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma as a repository for the Miami Indian historical and cultural materials. The collection has a language component that will reflects the efforts of members of the tribe to revitalize the Miami Language.
The collection is in ongoing development, and already includes original annuity rolls, land grants, letters, and photographs. It is anticipated that the collection will also include tribal archives, historical documents, papers, cassette tapes, compact discs, and other ephemera from tribal members. This collection will be from a unique perspective, the native voice. The text of this collection is in English and Algonquian languages. The items of the Myaamia Collection may span the years of the Miami Tribes existence until the present time.


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This concept of urban symmetry photographs was inspired by the fascinating and remarkable architecture of the city of New York. Everyone has their own idea of New York….what makes this city great? New York is a place where scenes, images, and events can appear at any time. I felt a calling and noticed how the environment where we live is ever changing. I explored the city and visited countless buildings, subways, museums, bridges and historical landmarks. Some of these places were chosen through extensive research and others just by happenstance. At times I would have to revisit locations for the perfect shot and in doing so noticed that some buildings either changed or even disappeared upon my return. Looking closely at some of the photographs you can see these changes that occurred, such as a pigeon standing on a structure or missing bricks in a building. These "imperfections" reflect the realities of life and that which surrounds us.
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All of my photographs displayed in these galleries are available for purchase as highest quality fine art prints and framed prints in LIMITED or OPEN editions.
Each piece is carefully crafted by the best quality on today's archival standards which I've compared from nearly hundred kinds of fine art photo papers and wood frames.
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All things exist and obey balance and New York City is no exception. We deliberately build symmetrical buildings and objects in pursuit of visual balance. At the same time, all forms of life that live in this city are both active and passive, quiet and restless, harmonious, opposite, past and future. We are influenced and affected by this city and are trying to build the balance we are searching for and in doing so have become part of it. We all share this city and its future.
The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets in Midtown, Manhattan, New York City.
Trump Tower, Midtown Manhattan New York
Trump Tower is a 58-story mixed-use skyscraper located on Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
Fulton Street Subway Station, Lower Manhattan New York
Fulton Street is a New York City Subway station complex in Lower Manhattan. It consists of four linked stations on the IND Eighth Avenue Line, the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, the BMT Nassau Street Line and the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line. The last three cross Fulton Street at Broadway, Nassau Street, and William Street respectively; the Eighth Avenue Line station is underneath Fulton Street, between Broadway and Nassau Streets. The station is the eighth busiest in the system, as of 2015, with 21,671,684 passengers.

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Volunteen is a project run by ERVAS. It aims to help young people aged 11 to 25 in the East Riding of Yorkshire to increase life skills, by introducing them to new and enjoyable social activities.
Volunteen enables us to reach many more young people, such as those in care or those with disabilities. Helping us to provide one to one assistance for those who need additional support to volunteer.
Volunteen works with Secondary Schools, as well as a wide mixture of groups from the voluntary, statutory and private sector. Our aim is to ensure that all young people in East Yorkshire have the chance to benefit from volunteering.
The project increases young people's confidence, self-esteem, skills and knowledge. The opportunities they take part in are chosen especially to suit their interest, and will help them to develop as an individual and enhance their future.
To get involved with Volunteen, please email volunteen@ervas.org.uk.


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Call for papers in the Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases.
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of diseases mainly found in tropical and subtropical regions of 149 countries. It is estimated that over 1 billion people are infected with NTDs, with a further 1 billion at risk. Among them, diseases caused by protozoan parasites affect millions of people worldwide, mainly the poorest ones in developing countries. However, such infections have been largely neglected in drug research and development. Most of the current medicines used to treat these diseases are old and have many limitations, including the emergence of drug resistance.
Edited by Prof. Andre G. Tempone (Institute Adolfo Lutz of São Paulo, Brazil) and Dr. Erika G. Pinto (University of Dundee, Scotland), this thematic series aims to build bridges between novel hit or lead compounds and new alternative therapies for neglected protozoan diseases (including malaria). We welcome contributions describing the in vitro and/or in vivo activity of antiprotozoan compounds isolated from natural products (pure and well-characterized substances) and synthetic compounds. Additionally, we also welcome contributions using drug repurposing (or repositioning) approaches, based in approved drugs. The antiprotozoan compounds to be considered as new hit or lead compounds, must be based in strong drug discovery criteria, as: i) potency, ii) selectivity index (or therapeutic index), iii) elimination of interference compounds (pan-assay interference compounds – PAINS), and iv) lack of important structural alerts for known toxic compounds. Contributions describing the mechanism of action (MoA) of drugs, or other active compounds in protozoans are also welcome, using cellular, molecular and/or in silico approaches.
The proposed deadline for submissions is April 30, 2018. The editors invite you to share your knowledge on this exciting subject and submit your manuscript for consideration.
Manuscripts should be formatted according to our submission guidelines and submitted via the online submission system. In the submission system please make sure the correct collection title is chosen from the additional information tab. Please also indicate clearly in the covering letter that the manuscript is to be considered for the "Novel hit and lead compounds against neglected protozoan diseases" series.
If you would like to enquire about the suitability of a manuscript for consideration, please email a pre-submission enquiry to editorial@jvat.org.br.
Drug repurposing has been an interesting and cost-effective approach, especially for neglected diseases, such as Chagas disease.
Considering the high toxicity and limited therapies available for treating visceral leishmaniasis (VL), the drug repositioning approach represents a faster way to deliver new therapies to the market.
Three drugs – pentavalent antimonials, amphotericin B and pentamidine – are currently used for leishmaniasis treatment. They are administered for long periods, only parenterally, and have high cardiac, renal and hepatic toxicities. Therefore, the investigation of new compounds is required. Nitro-heterocyclic derivatives have been used as possible drug candidates to treat diseases caused by trypanosomatids.
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Leishmania spp. Pentavalent antimonial agents have been used as an effective therapy, despite their side effects and resistant cases. Their pharmacokinetics remain largely unexplored. This study aimed to investigate the pharmacokinetic profile of meglumine antimoniate in a murine model of cutaneous leishmaniasis using a radiotracer approach.


Identifying economics' place amongst academic disciplines: a science or a social science?
The miracle of peer review and development in science: an agent-based model.
Evaluating alternative systems of peer review: a large-scale agent-based modelling approach to scientific publication.
Post retraction citations in context: a case study.
Does single blind peer review hinder newcomers?
Data sets for author name disambiguation: an empirical analysis and a new resource.
Research collaboration in groups and networks: differences across academic fields.


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Argentine Farmer Grows 124-Acre Image of Lionel Messi to Celebrate World Cup Triumph
In a distinct way of celebrating country's FIFA World Cup win, an Argentine farmer has grown a 124-acre image of Lionel Messi who took the team to historic win over France in last month's world cup in Qatar. The field in Los Condores i..
Global Economy 'Perilously Close' to a Recession: World Bank
The global economy will come "perilously close" to a recession this year, led by weaker growth in all the world's top economies – the United States, Europe and China – the World Bank warned on Tuesday. In an annual re..
QNB: Regional Recession, Salient Economic Challenges in Euro Area
The economic challenges are salient and the outlook is still rather difficult for the Euro area, said QNB in its weekly commentary considering a regional recession for the Q4 2022-Q1 2023 period to be almost a given. The weekly commentary said tha..
Russian forces shelled and bombed towns and cities in eastern and southern Ukraine on Tuesday, a day after Russia's foreign minister said Kyiv must accept Moscow's demands for ending the war or else suffer defeat on the battlefield. Those de..
Freezone Storage Provider Vs. Mainland Storage Provider: Main Differences Between Both in the UAE
Storage space is a valuable commodity, especially in large countries like the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where the demand for space is high. The UAE is a popular destination for ex-pats, so many people find themselves needing to store items..
Qatar Donates $20 million to a Humanitarian Program Supporting African Countries
The State of Qatar announced its contribution of USD 20 million in support of a humanitarian program "Grain from Ukraine" which aimed at helping African countries to get Ukrainian grain exports. This came in a speech delivered via video ..
GE Gas Power and Shell Collaborate to Pursue LNG Decarbonization Pathways Using Hydrogen
GE Gas Power (NYSE: GE) and Shell Global Solutions, a pioneer in liquefied natural gas (LNG) for more than 50 years, announced today they have signed a development agreement to pursue potential pathways aiming to reduce the carbon intensity of Shell&..
Full Inauguration Speech of Amir HH Sheikh Tamim at Shura Council's Ordinary Session
HH the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani patronized the inauguration of the second ordinary session of the first legislative term, corresponding to the Shura Council's 51st annual session, at Tamim bin Hamad Hall at the Council's headquart..
The Ministry of Municipality Launches the Pet Import Permits Service for Hayya Card Holders
The Ministry of Municipality (Al Baladiya) outlined the guidelines to be followed in order to bring pets into Qatar during the World Cup, in a tweet on 20 October 2022. The Ministry announced the launch of a service: "Issuance of pet imp..


Virat Kohli was understandably chuffed after hitting an unbeaten hundred that powered India past Sri Lanka in the triangular series on Tuesday.
If you get those kinds of thoughts in your mind, you are not going to achieve it. We always thought, look for one boundary an over and keep playing one over at a time and you never know if you need a 100 off the last 10 overs, it's gettable a Twenty20 game. We took it as two Twenty20 games, probably get 120–130 runs in the first 20 and then go for it later.
On planning the chase: We have such a strong lower-order who can hit the ball on merit. We wanted to have wickets in hand and we decided to keep our Power Play and Sri Lanka not taking their Power Play really helped us because we knew that in the end with 10 overs of Power Play to bat during, it's really going to be difficult to control batsmen.
On batting against Malinga: He is a difficult guy to get away, so once you get on top of him you make sure you stay on top. He is one guy they persisted with even when he went for 24 runs in an over because they know he can get them a wicket at any point. I was hitting the ball well and he was bringing it in and that is my natural release shot and probably got the ball in right areas.
On his knock: It has to be the best not the way I batted, but the kind of game we were playing and the kind of situation we were in, chasing 320 in 40 overs.
On what he did in the last few days: I didn't talk to anyone about cricket. I got a call from home and someone discussed cricket and I hung up. I said please don't talk about cricket, We were all staying as relaxed as possible because to be honest we had nothing to lose.
On whether his innings was an answer to the critics: Critics are always going to be there. It is more of proving it to yourself. You take the team through, and it's more for me than silencing the critics. When you are playing in the middle, you don't think about silencing critics.
On the Australian press mocking the Indian team for appealing for David Hussey's run out: It was evident to the naked eye that that's not on. That's not in the spirit of the game. Why shouldn't we appeal for something that's wrong?
It's in the rule-book. David Hussey himself claimed a catch which was I could see , wasn't probably the way it went. He claimed it as well and no one said a thing about it. So one should see themselves before pointing fingers at others and what we did was totally right according to us.


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Texas man who tweeted 'Assassinate AOC' pleads guilty to 11 counts
Garret Miller, of Richardson, Texas, pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting or impeding police, threatening Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and three counts of civil disorder.
Author: Jordan Fischer
Published: 11:10 AM CST December 8, 2022
WASHINGTON — A Texas man accused of threatening Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez entered a guilty plea Monday morning to the final two of 11 criminal counts against him stemming from the Capitol riot.
Garret Miller, of Richardson, Texas, was arrested last year and indicted on 12 counts, including felony counts of obstruction of an official proceeding, assaulting, resisting or impeding police and transmitting interstate threats. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols dismissed the obstruction count against Miller earlier this year. Miller had been scheduled to begin a bench trial Thursday on the remaining counts.
Instead, Miller entered a plea of guilty to three felony counts of civil disorder and six other misdemeanor counts for entering the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6.
Prosecutors initially said they had failed to reach a "meeting of the minds" with Miller's attorney, F. Clinton Broden, on the two remaining felony counts of assaulting, resisting or impeding police and transmitting an interstate threat against Ocasio-Cortez. Broden, a Dallas-based criminal defense attorney and former assistant federal public defender, provided Nichols with a stipulation Miller had agreed to admitting to a misdemeanor version of the assault charge. Prosecutors, however, said they believed they could prove Miller forcibly resisted officers in an attempt to commit another felony – which is, itself, a felony.
After a brief bench trial Friday, Miller indicated his interest in pleading guilty to the remaining counts. On Monday morning, Nichols accepted his plea to both, including the count for making a threat. During his plea colloquy, Miller said when he tweeted "Assassinate AOC" at the congresswoman he intended it to be perceived as a "serious threat of violence."
Nichols set sentencing in the case for Feb. 22 at 2 p.m. Broden said he expected to ask for a sentence of time served since, by the hearing date, Miller will have served more than two years in pretrial detention.
According to an affidavit filed in January 2021, Miller was identified in part through a selfie he posted inside the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6. When another user commented approvingly that he'd made it inside, Miller responded, "Just wanted to incriminate myself a little lol."
Investigators found surveillance footage appearing to show Miller among a crowd that pushed past officers to enter the building through the Columbus Doors. They also found another Facebook comment from him describing hi decision to enter the building.
"We where [sic] going in… No matter what," Miller wrote. "Decided before the trump speech… I charged the back gates myself with an anti masker."
Miller was also charged with threatening a member of Congress for a reply he sent to a Jan. 6 Twitter post from Ocasio-Cortez reading "Impeach." Miller responded: "Assassinate AOC."
Days later, Miller wrote on Instagram about the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt: "We going to get a hold of [the USCP officer] and hug his neck with a nice rope." Miller also said he had a rope in his bag while he was at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Miller's guilty plea came the same day the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments on a request from the Justice Department to overturn Nichols' decision to dismiss a charge for obstructing the joint session of Congress against Miller and two other defendants. Nichols previously ruled defendants must have taken some action with respect to a "document, record or other object" to be charged with obstruction of an official proceeding. No other judges on the D.C. District Court have adopted his reasoning.
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Officers awarded Congressional Gold Medals for Capitol Riot response
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Shooting outside Nationals-Padres game in DC frightens fans, causes panic
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fans at a Major League Baseball game at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. were frightened Saturday when gunshots were heard at the stadium. Many were seen fleeing the ballpark, while others sought safety within the park.
In a tweet at 10 p.m. ET, the Metropolitan Police Department of D.C. said it was responding to the shooting in the 1500 block of South Capitol Street.
Initially, police said two people were shot outside the park, but later said that an exchange of gunfire between occupants of two cars left three people injured.
Police said, "it appears there is no ongoing threat at this time," and that there's an active investigation into the incident.
MPD is responding to a shooting in the 1500 block of South Capitol Street, SW, in which two people where shot outside of Nationals Park. This is currently an active investigation and it appears there is no ongoing threat at this time.
— DC Police Department (@DCPoliceDept) July 18, 2021
The MLB game was in the bottom of the 6th inning when the shooting was reported outside the third base gate.
When the shooting was first reported, the Nationals told fans to remain in the stadium. A message on a large screen at the park said, "Attention fans, the incident is outside the stadium. Please remain inside the stadium at this time."
Fans were then encouraged to exit the ballpark via the "CF and RF gates," according to the Nationals.
"We're working with law enforcement to provide more information as soon as it becomes available," said the team.
A shooting has been reported outside of the Third Base Gate at Nationals Park.
Fans are encouraged to exit the ballpark via the CF and RF gates at this time.
We're working with law enforcement to provide more information as soon as it becomes available.
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) July 18, 2021
Videos shared on social media show fans fleeing the park in the wake of the shooting, scrambling to get to safety.
Hope everyone is safe at Nationals park. I heard a few loud bangs and then a mass exodus. View from my roof pic.twitter.com/MA1B7z83u2
— Jalen Drummond (@jalen_drummond) July 18, 2021
The Nationals said the suspended game was set to resume at 1:05 p.m. ET on Sunday and be completed as a nine-inning regulation game.
"Following the conclusion of the suspended game, the regularly scheduled game will begin within 25-45 minutes and will be played as a nine-inning regulation game," said the team in a statement Saturday. "Tickets and parking passes for the regularly scheduled game may be used for admission to both of tomorrow's games."
Tonight's game has been suspended due to an incident surrounding Nationals Park.
It will resume tomorrow, Sunday, July 18, at 1:05 PM ET. pic.twitter.com/PAGf0uYZ9Y
The Padres responded to the shooting on Twitter, saying, "Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the incident outside of Nationals Park."


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Climate Change & You!
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On SATURDAY 11 MAY at 7.30pm, a community forum, CLIMATE CHANGE & YOU!, will be presented by Peter Boyer, science journalist, Midj Jones, meteorologist and Phil Harrington, industry consultant on climate change and energy at the Delorine Commnity Complex, Alveston Drive, Deloraine.
We have been lucky enough to attract Peter Boyer to speak at this forum. Peter is a very well known science journalist who has written a climate change column for the Mercury in Hobart for the past 5-6 years and was one of the first Al Gore trained presenters.
Phil Harrington will also be a presenter. Phil is an economist, policy analyst, strategy advisor, project manager and team leader with 27 years experience in energy businesses, consulting, state government, federal government and international organisations. Some key appointments included inaugural Senior Executive Manager with the Australia Greenhouse Office, and Division Head at the International Energy Agency in Paris. He established what is now the Carbon & Energy Team at pitt&sherry in 2008 and manages a 16-person team across the East Coast of Australia.
The third presenter is Dr Midj Jones who was a senior meteorologist with the Bureau of Meteorology in Tasmania and has become a strong advocate for action on climate change.
Please put 7.30 on May 11th at the Deloraine Community Centre on your calendar, turn off the TV, and come along to hear these very concerned speakers.
Admission is free. This forum is supported by The Tasmanian Climate Change Office.


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Fourth Avenue is a professional a cappella group based in Dayton, Ohio that has been sharing their high-energy show with audiences since 1993.
It's been great having Matt back in Fourth Avenu
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Fourth Avenue's latest album, Undercover, is out
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July 14, 2021, 8:00 p.m. | Summer Arts Festival | Springfield, OH
We are performing two 45 minute sets (with an intermission) for the Springfield Arts Council's Summer Arts Festival at Veterans Park Amphitheater, 250 Cliff Park Rd., Springfield, OH 45504. Admission is FREE. For more information, go to Fourth Avenue's Event Listing on Facebook or Summer Arts Festival Website
July 15, 2021, 7:00 p.m. | Concert at Wright Station Green Space | Springboro, OH
We are performing two 45 minute sets (with an intermission) at the Wright Station Green Space in Springboro, OH – 115 Wright Station Way, Springboro, OH 45066. Admission is FREE. For more information, go to Fourth Avenue's Event Listing on Facebook.
February 5, 2022, 7:30 p.m. | Festival Concert Series | Port Huron, MI
We are performing two 45 minute sets (with an intermission) for the Festival Concert Series at First United Methodist Church, 828 Lapeer Avenue, Port Huron, MI 48060. Tickets are $12 (for adults in advance), $15 (for adults at the door), $5 (for students), and $30 (for the series – 3 concerts). For more information, go to Fourth Avenue's Event Listing on Facebook or Festival Concert Series Website
Fourth Avenue is a legend in
the a cappella Universe.
Deke Sharon (NBC's The Sing-Off and Music Director of the Pitch Perfect Movies)
ABOUT FOURTH AVENUE
Since 1993, this professional a cappella quartet has been entertaining audiences with concerts that feature a variety of familiar pop, rock, soul, R&B, gospel, and doo-wop favorites from different eras, as well as catchy original music performed with their unique high energy approach. Incredible harmony, audience participation, outrageous humor, and a fully choreographed stage show are all part of the musical extravaganza. They have shared the stage with such national acts as The Beach Boys, The Temptations, Styx, and Three Dog Night.
For an extended bio, click HERE.
1st place and audience favorite at the 1996 Harmony Sweepstake Competition in Chicago.
1998 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award for Best Doo-Wop/R&B Song of the Year for their rendition of "In the Midnight Hour" on the CD entitled Fourth Avenue.
Invited to Ohio Governor's mansion to perform for Jobs for Ohio Graduates ceremony.
Nominated for the 1999 International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions Variety Entertainer of the Year Award.
Chosen for Muse Machine Touring Roster and Greater Columbus Arts Council Artists-in-Schools Roster. Both highly selective programs bring professional artists into schools.
Selected as touring artist for Ohio Arts Council's Fee Support Roster, a program providing federal funding to preferred Ohio touring artists.
2004 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award Nomination for Best Pop/Rock Cover Song of the Year for their rendition of "Fade to Grey" on their CD entitled Scrapbook.
Performed in the Netherlands for Holland America Cruise Line's 130th Anniversary.
Featured in a regional television ad campaign for Safe Auto Insurance in 2003, 2004, and 2006.
Their CD, high energy harmony, was picked as one of the TOP 25 LOCAL CDs of 2007 by the Dayton Daily News.
Performed for Michigan's Governor in 2008 and 2009.
Performed for West Virginia Governor's School of the Arts in 2019.
Jim Brown | Bass
Matt Cunningham | Tenor
Scott Dawson | Baritone
Ryan Holway | Tenor
Scrapbook, 100%, and high energy harmony are available at our shows and on Amazon. Why2K? is only available at our shows. Please click on an image below to go to the Amazon page for that album.
Undercover is a compilation of studio and live cover songs from our previous releases, Scrapbook and high energy harmony along with four live covers not previously released ("Proud Mary," "Send Me," "Stand By Me," and "Something That We Do").
Available at the following:
The Originals is a digital collection of a cappella original songs that appear on our 100%, Scrapbook, and high energy harmony CDs. You will think you hear instruments on the tracks, but all of the sounds including the drums are made by the human voice.
LYDIA'S LULLABIES
Scott, our Artistic Director, composes many of the arrangements and originals we perform in Fourth Avenue. Lydia's Lullabies is a heartfelt album of a Dad sharing his faith with his daughter that features two tracks sung by Fourth Avenue. Half of the proceeds benefit the Dayton Gospel Mission.
Maybe Fourth Avenue is out of your budget, but you still want to book an exceptional a cappella group. The three original members of Fourth Avenue also sing in an a cappella power trio called NexDetour. Click on the video for a sample of NexDetour and the button below to go to the NexDetour website.
Go to NexDetour
Let's make beautiful music together.
Scott4thave@sbcglobal.net
Ohio Arts Council (Fourth Avenue under "MUSIC – ENSEMBLES")
Arts Midwest Touring Fund
Ohio Alliance for Arts Education (Fourth Avenue Page in Directory)
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Noma vs. Chez Panisse
How today's rock star chefs reaffirm and challenge Alice Waters' dogma.
By Emma Marris
Alice Waters and René Redzepi.
Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photos by Sean Gallup/Getty Images and Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images.
This essay was originally published in the Breakthrough Journal. It is reprinted here, in edited and condensed form, with permission.
"If, for some crazy reason, you decide to make this dish, then we'll need to have a talk about the lichen powder." So begins the recipe for "Prather Ranch Beef Encrusted in Lichen," a typical selection in San Francisco chef Daniel Patterson's new cookbook, Coi. Fresh lichen powder, needless to say, is not available at the grocery store. Nor can you order it online. You have to venture into the woods, find the best-tasting lichen, and scrape it off trees. Then you have to turn technology loose on it: clean it, rinse it several times, boil it for one to three hours, dehydrate it overnight, and grind it, before dusting it on a cylinder of grass-fed tenderloin and cooking it sous vide.
Patterson's pal and contemporary, René Redzepi, also has a new cookbook out. Redzepi's restaurant, Noma, was recently voted the world's best by the London-based Restaurant magazine. Redzepi shot to fame by running a fine restaurant using only local ingredients in a place everyone assumed was devoid of interesting local flavors: Copenhagen. Redzepi's recipes are just as exotic, oceanic, deep woods-y, and uncookable as those offered by Daniel Patterson. Think "dessert of carrot and sea buckthorn" and "silken fresh cheese and crispy beech leaves." And as with Patterson's, if you hope to cook from Redzepi's book, make sure to plan ahead: The latter recipe requires you to pickle beech leaves in a vacuum pack with apple balsamic vinegar for at least a month.
The food portrayed in these books takes the locavore ethic far beyond the garden-variety farm-to-table ethos that has become commonplace in recent years, pioneered in the 1960s and 1970s by the creators of the then-revolutionary California cuisine. A meal cooked from the recipes in these cookbooks, or served up at Noma or Coi, tastes deeply wild. Ingredients are dragged straight from the forest or high-tide line to the kitchen, where their wild essences are amplified—think earth, tree, and smoked hay flavors, live shrimp and ants. But though fundamentally new in its aggressive wildness, Patterson and Redzepi's cuisine is nonetheless a reflection of, and a response to, the underlying culinary milieu in which their tastes and creative impulses have been forged and refined.
In 1965, at the age of 19, culinary legend Alice Waters went to France and had a gastronomic epiphany. Once, she ordered trout à la meunière and was treated to the sight of the fish hoisted on the chef's rod, gasping for breath, before it was cleaned, prepared, and served to her. "I think I just absorbed that love of fresh ingredients through osmosis," she told an interviewer. "When I came back to California, I wanted those same foodstuffs here."
Waters came home to Berkeley and opened Chez Panisse, where, together with Jeremiah Tower, she invented California cuisine. Over the years, dishes at Chez Panisse became increasingly simple, showcasing high-quality ingredients with as little mediation as possible. Waters' "Zucchini Ribbons With Lemon and Basil," for instance, consists of cleaning and slicing a raw zucchini and sprinkling it with salt, pepper, basil, lemon juice, and olive oil.
By focusing on the local, Chez Panisse sought to establish itself outside of, and as a challenge to, the industrial food system. Sensitive to the charge that hers was a cuisine for the rich, Waters launched programs to bring organic gardens to schools serving underprivileged youth. More recently, she and Michael Pollan have led efforts to cut federal subsidies to conventional agriculture and to increase public support for organics and farmers markets.
By the 1990s, fresh, local, and organic had moved out of hyperelite circles into the wider world of upscale dining, and even into chain restaurants. Every food prognosticator, from industry consultant Technomic to NPR, is predicting that "local" and "authentic" will be key values in every dining demographic this year. Fast-food chains are jumping on the local and sustainable bandwagons, and sales are soaring at early adopters such as Chipotle. (Not that Waters would approve. In 2010 she criticized In-N-Out Burger, even though it relies on fresh and local ingredients. "It's probably better than any other chain," she said to the Los Angeles Times, "but it's not real or authentic. I'd rather eat from a street vendor in Sicily.")
Today, it is Waters' world: We all just cook in it. So successful was her recipe for authentic food that the values she braided together into Chez Panisse's winning formula—fresh, local, seasonal, sustainable, traditional, and simple—now seem inseparable.
It is difficult not to see the high-tech, highly processed food offered by Patterson and Redzepi as at least in part a reaction against the new culinary mainstream that Waters has created. Not long before he opened Coi, in 2005, Patterson suggested as much in the New York Times:
Alice Waters … has become to us what Beatrice was to Dante: a model of righteousness and purity, reminding us of our past sins while offering encouragement and inspiration on the path to heaven. The only path to heaven. So deeply embedded is the mythology of Chez Panisse in the DNA of local food culture that it threatens to smother stylistic diversity and extinguish the creativity that it originally sought to spark.
Patterson and Redzepi use tools and techniques that are unavailable to the home cook, including Pacojets, which blend frozen things; Thermomixes, which heat and puree simultaneously; commercial-grade food dehydrators; and dry ice. Their claim, embodied in their dishes, is that these nontraditional, advanced technologies can take us closer to the essential experience of an ingredient.
Where Waters' cooking conjures French and Italian pastoral cuisine, the food prepared by her younger counterparts aims to replicate the pasture, or wild nature, itself. A Redzepi dish uses milk skin, grass, flowers, and herbs. "The garnish came from the field, where the cow that had supplied the milk had walked, grazed and defecated," he writes in Noma. "The plate itself was a small closed ecosystem." Similarly, Patterson cooks local matsutake mushrooms with pine needles because the mushrooms grow and are collected in pine forests.
While Waters seeks to return cuisine to its rustic roots, Redzepi and Patterson have no room for even the most modern interpretations of traditional food preparations like pasta puttanesca, beef bourguignon, or steak and eggs. Rather, the new generation revels in being rootless. "We'd made a dish with no reference points in the past nor in other lands," Redzepi writes triumphantly of his dehydrated scallop chips on boiled grains with winter cress, squid ink, and beechnuts.
Both Waters and the young chefs are, of course, serving haute cuisine. The cost of a dinner at Chez Panisse may not quite achieve the same stratospheric price as dining at Coi or Noma, but it is no bargain. Waters' food, though, is routinely described as "unpretentious," which means that rich people can eat it without feeling like Gilded Age robber barons dipping lobster in melted butter.
Like Waters, Patterson and Redzepi shun typical luxury ingredients like foie gras and filet mignon, but they don't tend to attract the label unpretentious. Their ingredients may be modest, or even marginally edible by most cultural standards, but the preparations are not. The person-hours that go into each dish boggle the mind.
In the food world, at least, labor has replaced scarcity as the definition of a luxury good. It's the labor of hand-rearing; of organic farming; of hunting, fishing, and foraging; of dehydrating and canning and pressing and distilling and all the rest. If artisanal is the new gourmet, it is because that which is conspicuously consumed in the former are the hours that highly educated craftsmen have spent bent over a stove, a still, or a deep woods trove of matsutake mushrooms.
It is easier to see that when you read about Patterson scraping lichen off trees, but this labor is part of the luxury offered by Waters too. And that's somewhat problematic for her politics. She cooks peasant food, but only rich people can afford it. Even her recipes can fall flat for the average home cook, since we are generally not cooking with the peak-of-perfection produce that Waters uses.
The conceit that farm-to-table cuisine comes straight to the diner unmediated by the kitchen obscures the enormous cost and expense associated with producing such food in the field and pasture. If nothing else, places like Coi and Noma do us a service by making those costs more apparent.
Whatever its flaws, Waters' philosophy offers a coherent vision of what food is and what it should be. Waters' is a didactic cuisine, a moral project that instructs us on the correct way to procure, cook, and eat food: support the local farmer, treat animals humanely, plant gardens for underprivileged children, luxuriate in vegetables, scorn processed food. It is explicitly value-laden and political.
Inside the test kitchens of the new generation, the culinary philosophies, such as they are, are weirder, more postmodern, and harder to parse. Where the Waters oeuvre tells us how to live, the "cookbooks" of Patterson and Redzepi barely tell you how to make a steak. The proper use of these cookbooks is not to replicate the recipes, much less a whole way of living, but rather to draw creative inspiration and to start thinking and tasting anew. The exhilaratingly odd plates served up in the stark, modern dining rooms of Coi and Noma are elite art, not a lesson in how we should all cook or eat every day.
Still, even as they reject Waters' simplicity and traditionalism, Patterson and Redzepi affirm her other values: fresh, local, seasonal, and sustainable. Yet, by challenging the idea that the six elements of the Chez Panisse recipe are inseparable components of a natural category, the cooking of Redzepi and Patterson also suggests that other combinations of values might be possible—and moral.
The food production methods that Waters champions, for instance, would be nearly impossible to scale up to feed the country, let alone the world. James McWilliams, author of Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, estimates that if the United States' 100 million cows were converted to grass-fed production, it would take half the land in the country to feed them. The solution he proposes is that everybody quit eating so much beef already, and Waters agrees with that. But it doesn't negate the fact that beef is on her menu and in her cookbooks and that her solution to the environmental impacts of beef is to go grass-fed.
Similarly, local is generally quite sustainable on the scale of a few high-end restaurants, but it won't actually be the greener option for every single ingredient. In certain cases, field tomatoes from far away might be better for the planet than greenhouse tomatoes from the neighborhood, and so on. Ingredient by ingredient, these debates are matters for scientists and economists, but it is safe to say that if all people ate like the patrons of these restaurants, not all their ingredients would continue to be sustainable, especially those which are foraged.
If the message from the new generation might not be as clear as Waters', that very ambiguity may be valuable. They begin by teaching us that we can eat well—very well—without relying on the Chez Panisse formula. They hint at other solutions to the problem of ethical, green, appetizing food, solutions that don't rely on an impossible-to-scale return to a romanticized version of our agrarian past. One could imagine a cuisine, for instance, that is sustainable but not local. In fact, one might want to imagine such a thing: fresh-sustainable-innovative-technological-global.
These chefs' food is about the future, a future both highly technological and wilder than our world today, where our relationship to nature is closer and more delicious than ever.
Cooking Environment Food


dispersed in piles along the dusty attic floor.
jutting out from his closet: a landline.
its plastic body twined tightly by its own cord.
sang against my eager finger.
like sunlight filtering through a boarded window.
into the prolonged beep that followed.
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: I wrote this poem after I was cleaning out my grandparents' house. I came across an old telephone landline, and it immediately brought me back to when I was a child. I plugged it in and began playing the messages on its answer machine. Suddenly, I heard my grandfather's voice, and it instantly gave me chills. Anybody watching me would have thought I was trying to contact the dead.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Cord Moreski is a poet/teacher from New Jersey. He is the author of the chapbook Stay Afloat Inside (2016, Indigent Press), and he was a nominee for 2016 Poet Laureate of Asbury Park. His work has be featured in The Yellow Chair Review, Eunoia Magazine, Five 2 One Magazine, and several other magazines/journals. When he is not writing, he teaches middle school reading and language arts in special education. Check out more at moreskicord.wordpress.com and Facebook.