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Duzan Riding Academy offers a variety of camps for all levels of experience and interest. Campers ride daily on our safe school ponies and horses–under the supervision of our regular experienced lesson instructors. Hands on emphasis is on horse care, education, and fun- of course! All riding instruction is based on hunter style in an English saddle- with handle if needed! Camps are kept small in numbers to provide a quality, individualized experience for your child. Each camper will be assigned their own horse for the week, and will leave with a photo with their horse, a camp t-shirt, and workbook.
Duzan Riding Academy is a United States Pony Club Licensed Riding Center. Members of our Pony Club earn certifications in Horse Management and in Riding (Huntseat Equitation, Show Jumping, Dressage, and Eventing). They attend Rallies (shows) where they compete individually and in teams in various disciplines. They compete annually in a Quiz Rally to show off their knowledge of horses.
Mini Clinics are a fantastic way for our riders to gain a broad education in horsemanship and horse care. Each mini clinic features a different topic. Every fifth mini clinic is a jeopardy style competition complete with a prize basket for the winning team. Topics include internal systems of the horse, braiding, leg wrapping, first aid, daily care, nutrition, lunging, and more!
Looking for something different? Our birthday parties are a rearing good time, and can be customized to your desire! Typical activities include pony rides, glitter horse shoes, grooming lesson, feeding horse treats, feeding the chickens and bunnies, and an equine colors and markings scavenger hunt. If there is anything you would like, just let us know! Our enthusiastic instructors and helpers are sure to party right along with you. We can set up tables outside or you are welcome to use our heated/air conditioned lounge to host your party.
Horse showing is a chance to show off your hard work, and yet another opportunity to build a relationship with your horse. We create a low pressure, enjoyable, lightly competitive environment for our riders to compete. Horse showing should never be looked at as the "end all, be all" of riding horses, but should be looked at as one rung on a long ladder of education. Duzan Riding Academy offers four different types of competition- local shows, nationally rated shows, interscholastic equestrian team, and our own schooling show series.
Riders in grades 6-12 are invited to be members of the team. Showing with the Interscholastic Equestrian Association (IEA) is a great way to add that "team" aspect to horseback riding. The girls become very close and are super supportive of each other. You don't even have to own a horse! Show up in just your horse showing attire. We visit various barns that host shows, and you ride the horses that they provide. What a great way to advance your horsemanship and riding skills! What a true test of a rider!
Your equine partner will thrive on a regular schedule including quality feed three times daily and frequent turnout in our all weather paddocks and grass pastures. Our mission is to provide the best possible care by going beyond the boarding industry standards. We are dedicated to the individualized are of your horse. We strive to provide a relaxing, knowledgeable, and enjoyable atmosphere for horses as well as their human companions whether your goal is to compete with your horse or simply to enjoy him as a pet.
We offer lessons for students whether you own a horse or not. If you do not own a horse, you can borrow one of ours! Our school horses are extremely safe, and there is something for every age and level. We start our youngest students on our experienced ponies, which come in all shapes, sizes, and colors! Then riders may advance to horses as they progress through the levels. Each horse has it's own set of tack and equipment provided.
Welcome to Duzan Riding Academy!
The team at Duzan Riding Academy is honored to announce that we are now a United States Pony Club Licensed Riding Center and a United States Hunter Jumper Association Recognized Riding Academy. We are proud to be an active member of these associations and excited to have their endorsement as we continue to produce well rounded equestrians through top notch instruction.
The farm is located approximately 2o minutes from Delaware, Dublin, Powell, and Marysville. Molly Duzan started Duzan Riding Academy in the Spring of 2009 at a small 10 stall barn in Delaware, Ohio. The business grew rapidly, and as her students progressed, Molly recognized the need for a larger facility to accommodate her clients and their advancing education. Molly moved her business to the current facility in Ostrander, Ohio in November of 2011, and purchased the 23 acre property in May of 2012.
The facility was built in 2007 and includes a 200′ x 90′ insulated indoor arena, 250′ x 125′ outdoor arena, quality constructed stalls, trails, jump field, comfortable viewing areas, permanent restrooms, and numerous other amenities for the comfort of horses, riders, and families.
Molly's program is based in the hunter/jumper and huntseat equitation disciplines, with emphasis on safety, sportsmanship, horsemanship, responsibility, and teamwork. More advanced riders will gain exposure to dressage and cross country as well. Molly, along with a superb team of instructors, school horses, and stable hands work to create an environment that is enjoyable and conducive to learning for all ages. Duzan Riding Academy offers something for everyone from the beginner rider participating in a weekly group lesson, to the avid competitor showing at the national level. Various programs compliment the lesson program so that students are able to gain a well rounded education and benefit from all that riding and horse involvement has to offer. Please navigate through our site to discover the best fit for you!
*To inquire about lessons, please see the lesson page on this website for how to get started.


Curing Sausage with Celery Juice - An Experiment!
Holiday Beef Summer Sausage - DONE!
Pastrami Log & Hot-Pepper-Cheese S.S.
Here we go! Learn and/or share the wonderful world of curing!
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Ready to try some Dry Curing!
Time for more Kielbasa on the MAK!


Before making any financial decision pertaining to your vehicle, you must ask a few important questions. This is especially true when you are looking at car warranties for yourself. The right choice of a warranty can make all the difference when it comes to dealing with repair costs, especially those involved with an older vehicle or a vehicle that is no longer covered by the original warranties.
How reliable is the warranty provider?
The reputation and trustworthiness of a car warranty dealer is perhaps the most important consideration that you must keep in mind before choosing a product from the dealer. There are a few dealers out there; unfortunately, who will sell you a product but then put you through a lot of trouble when it is time to reimburse your claims or repair costs.
• The mileage restrictions that apply and so on.
It therefore becomes extremely important for you to go into details as far as the coverage is concerned. Specific components, and more importantly the components that may be exempted, will make all the difference to you as a consumer.
Two distinctions need to be made here – 'per repair' and 'per visit'. If the deductibles come into play on a 'per repair' basis, then you are looking at a particular amount being applied for a particular component that has been serviced or repaired.
Whereas, on a 'per visit' framework, you will be charged a particular amount for every visit that you make to the repair facility, regardless of the work that has been done.
Who is supporting your plan?
There are quite a few big names in the auto insurance industry which administer car warranties. It may be a good idea for you to find out who is behind a particular warranty plan that you are considering or have purchased already. Doing independent research on these insurance companies can give you a better idea about the dependability of a particular warranty plan or a dealer itself. Established companies will obviously have a better track record than 'fly by night' operators.
Asking a few important questions pertaining to the insurance companies and the financial angles of car warranties will certainly give you a product that will fully satisfy you.


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BlogPoll Roundtable 3.2: Storylines Emerge
September 18, 2007 by Tony (el Kaiser) 2 Comments
Peter at Burnt Orange Nation asks the questions. We've got the answers.
1. Handicap your team's chances to win your conference championship. If your team is not the favorite, who is?
The obvious answer is that Ohio State probably has a one-in-three chance of being the Big Ten Champion. Most people would say it's a three-team race: OSU, Penn State and Wisconsin. Personally, I think it's a mistake to count Michigan out at this point. Sure, Michigan is running on fumes at the moment but you never know when they'll fill up the tank and be the team we thought they'd be. They've got Penn State and OSU at home so you never know.
But right now, I think Ohio State has as good of a chance as anyone. All four teams play each other, so someone's got to lose. Assuming we get out of Happy Valley with a victory, I like our chances. But I'll still peg our chances at 33% for now.
2. Outline the (realistic) best case and worst case scenarios for your team.
Best Case: As an optimistic Buckeye Fan (which I unabashedly am), this one is easy — we roll into Happy Valley at 8-0, the defense plays lights out and shuts down Morelli and company, then the D stands tall again against Pajamas Hill and the Badgers in Columbus. Illinois might be a trap game, but I think we get past them as well. Best Case scenario dictates we go into the Little House 11-0 and looking straight into a Vortex of BCS Doom.
Worst Case: The next five games should be a fairly uneventful cake walk, but Purdue could prove onerous. The last four games could be ugly. At Penn State, at night, during a white-out could spell trouble. We could then be hung-over after a hard fought loss to Penn State to run into the Wisconsin Juggernaut. Then the Worst Case Scenario POSSIBLE is losing to Michigan at the end of the year. I shudder to think what that would do to Buckeye Nation. 8-4 would make the Sweatervest weep.
3. We're only three games in to the season, but teams and storylines are starting to take shape. Compare your team to a character or theme from a fable or children's tale.
I'm going with Jack and the Bean Stalk here. We've got Beanie Wells (magic beans, yo!), The Giant, a hulking, slow moving legacy of the three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust mentality instilled by Bo and Woody that the Buckeyes (and the Big Ten) are trying to desperately leave behind. The Buckeyes are Jack, nimble enough to go for the gold and leave the legacy of a bygone era in the dust.
4. Imagine you're the coach of your team. Give three specific changes you'd implement immediately which you think would have the biggest impact on improving the team.
This is a tough one. It's easy to sit in the easy chair and moan about the play calling, but there could be some more imagination there. We're trying to run the ball up the gut too often. I think we should probe the A gap once and while, but not with Maurice Wells. I'd let Beanie pound between the tackles and leave it at that.
I'm not a fan of gimmick plays, but when you've got a speedster like Ray Small, you've got to figure out a way to get him and his lightning speed involved in the game. An end-around here, and double reverse there couldn't hurt.
After watching the special teams play, I'd make the long snappers do nothing but practice their snaps all this week. There is no excuse for a long snap not being long.
5. USC, LSU/Florida, and Oklahoma have established themselves as the frontrunners in the early going. Which other team or teams are you eyeballing as potential BCS party crashers?
Not sure if anyone is crashing USC and Oklahoma's party. LSU and Florida probably cancel each other out. I guess Cal or Oregon have a chance to pull the upset in the Pac 10 but I don't see it happening. The Big East has some interesting story lines, but they don't seem to care much for defense, which is their weakness. Hawai'i is the sexy choice, but anyone with speed on defense (read: the teams listed above) would have Colt Brennan for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
How would you MotSaGers answer these questions?
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Arkansas Buckeye says:
I love my Buckeyes. I hate the SEC. That being said, I don't think I can handle a New Year's Day thrashing. Call me unfaithful, but I don't want any part of the Gators or LSU this year.
sportsMonkey says:
AB – I think (as of the third week in Sept!) that there will be three to four teams fighting it out for the title shot – USC, Oklahoma, and the winner of LSU/Fla.
Odds are that if OSU wins the Big Ten, they'll play USC in the Rose (or Cal if USC goes to the title game). Either way, the winner of the Big Ten will probably play a Pac 10 team on Jan 1, like the good ol' days.
There is a possibility, though, that the Bucks co-tie or come in second (or worst) in the Big Ten. 2nd and 3rd places do play against SEC #2, so if OSU doesn't win the big ten and Fla the SEC, watch the powers that be clamor for an OSU/Fla rematch in some unnamed BCS game.
Get it? In other words, if OSU wins the big ten, its roses, baby. If not, they'll probably play the Fla/LSU loser.
And Kaiser will kill me for not mentioning the least likely possibility, that LSU and Fla take turns beating each other, USC drops a late game, and OSU sneaks in to play OK for the title.
Crap! It's only Sept. and I'm postulating bowl possibilities! I'm going to the dark side to be with Mandel and Forde!!! Heeellllpp!!!

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Now here's an interesting innovation. A can that automatically cools your beverage, without electricity, just by pushing a button on the can. That's what West Coast Chill claims happens when you push a button on a can of its energy drink.
An activation button on the can allows the beverage to drop 30 degrees within minutes. The Chill Can does not require any energy and eliminates the need for any refrigeration.
The chilling process uses CO2 reclaimed from the atmosphere, and activated carbon ascertained from a renewable vegetable source. The patented Microcool® technology won the EPA's Stratospheric Award. West Coast Chill also plans to distribute recycling bins to recapture the cans for reuse in an effort to reduce their carbon foot print.
West Coast Chill Pure Energy Drink is scheduled to launch the end of the first quarter of 2012. It will be available initially in certain selected convenience stores in Southern California and Las Vegas.


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CEB entrepreneur shines at climate tech competition with air pollution sensor network
As one of three winners of the Women4Climate Tech Challenge, Lorena Gordillo-Dagallier secures funding and support to pilot her project in Stockholm and Lisbon
By Eleanor Hall
Lorena Gordillo-Dagallier, a second year PhD student with our Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies (Sensor CDT) is one of three winners of the Women4Climate Tech Challenge, announced at the final yesterday evening.
As a winner, Gordillo-Dagallier has been awarded the opportunity to pilot community-driven air quality monitoring project, open-seneca, in Lisbon and Stockholm, with full support and funding.
Open-seneca is an initiative working to highlight and install mobile air quality sensor networks throughout cities. The project evolved from the team challenge of Gordillo-Dagallier's Sensor CDT cohort, and is run by a team of six students who work on the project in their spare time, around their PhDs.
"This is such an exciting opportunity to work closely with the cities of Lisbon and Stockholm in engaging citizens in the fight for clean air."
Lorena Gordillo-Dagallier
The mobile sensor network takes a unique approach in involving 'citizen scientists' to capture and record air pollution data across the city. With small sensors that can be attached to pedal bikes, motorbikes and scooters, as well as cars, the volunteers are able to easily track pollution levels as they go about their day-to-day lives.
The aim of the initiative is to raise awareness within communities about personal exposure to particulate pollution while creating pollution maps that can be used to inform policy and urban development.
"We all hear every day about the problems of air pollution and climate change," says Gordillo Dagallier. "However, most people do not see it as a personal issue and there is a lack of motivation for change. I used to be one of them. But now I am aware, and I want to raise awareness around me."
In addition to providing sensors, the initiative also aims to educate communities through a series of practical workshops in the hope to drive behavioural change and change attitudes.
Open-seneca has already established pilot projects in Nairobi, Kenya, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Nairobi project is supported by volunteers in Nairobi Makerspace, and in Buenos Aires, the project is driven by policymakers in the Argentinian government, who are keen to provide data-led arguments encouraging citizens to change their habits.
"In Argentina, the government have been taking the sensors to different cities, so now they are also in Mendoza and this week they announced that they are starting to map Córdoba," says Gordillo-Dagallier. "So they are moving the sensors from city to city to expand their network.
"Having the backing of the Ministry of Environment has shown has the need for this sort of solution. It is the first time these cities are mapped, there was no air quality information available before. It's also very exciting to see that Argentina is really pushing for citizen participation."
The project is particularly powerful in places where there is currently no air quality mapping infrastructure.
"While we were in Kenya at a UN Environment Assembly I met a member of the Argentinian government and they were telling me they don't have any data available; they have no way of knowing the quality of their air, so anything we can do to measure that is really helpful."
As the sensor networks have been active throughout this year, the project has also been able to monitor the impact of city lockdowns, introduced to control the spread of COVID-19, on air pollution.
"It's interesting because we can see how the changes in lockdown measures in the city and on transport have improved air pollution in certain areas.
"We're currently working on two papers, one for Buenos Aires and one we are co-authoring on the Nairobi project with a PhD student at the department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, who previously worked in Nairobi. We are finding that the improvements in air pollution during lockdown are not equally distributed. More research is needed but it looks as though in some of the poorer areas where people still had to travel to go to work and in areas where a lot of solid waste is burnt, the pollution hasn't improved."
The data from the projects has the potential to inform so-called 'green recovery' policies looking to ensure any environmental benefits caused by COVID-19 lockdowns can continue as restrictions are lifted.
A sensor-building workshop in the Nairobi Makerspace
The Nairobi Makerspace team helping volunteers attach the mobile sensor to a bike
Volunteers in Buenos Aires attach the sensors to bikes before setting out to map air quality in the city
The Argentinian Secretary for Environment and Sustainable Development (right) and Ambassador for Argentina (left) join as cycle volunteers for the project
Gordillo-Dagallier (lower) receives the news from Lisbon and Stockholm that she is their chosen winner
The Women4Climate Tech Challenge is a joint initiative from the VELUX Group and C40, alongside four C40 host cities: Lisbon, Los Angeles, Stockholm and Tel Aviv-Yafo. Its main aim is to support and promote diversity and inclusion in technology, innovation and the built environment sectors.
Along with nine other finalists, Gordillo-Dagallier was due to pitch her solution live in Lisbon, Portugal, in May this year, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event took place virtually last night.
"The W4C Tech Challenge competition was fierce, with a lot of very high-level applicants. However open-seneca combines two of Lisbon's core values: citizenship engagement and sustainability. By collecting and sharing data on their own exposure to air pollution, we will empower citizens to think about air quality and what each one of us can do to improve it. We're excited to have the opportunity to pilot this technology so we can in the near future, use this data for better informed decisions."
Fernando Medina, Mayor of Lisbon
Following pitches from the ten finalists, each of the four cities could choose a project to support and pilot. Both Lisbon and Stockholm chose to work with Gordillo-Dagallier, so she is one of three winners announced yesterday evening.
The pilots established so far have been in cities with no existing air pollution monitoring, but the challenge in Lisbon and Stockholm, two of the greenest cities in the world, will be a little bit different.
"They already have an established air pollution monitoring network, so for this case, it's more about getting citizens involved and complementing this current network," explains Gordillo Dagallier. "Stockholm and Lisbon are considered the greenest cities, so they are very aware, but they still don't have very granular data. They have stationary reference stations around the city but they don't know street-by-street level, which areas are having problems and where they need to prioritise resources.
"There's also the link between citizens and decision-makers which is where we would want to focus. We would like citizens to be engaged in the search for solutions and suggest and try solutions themselves."
"By gamifying air quality measurement and pairing it to bike commuting, we are confident that open-seneca has the potential to increase the well-being of our citizens. We strongly believe that involving citizens can help raise awareness on the impact of air quality and the need to rethink the design and mobility modes in our cities."
Anna König Jerlmyr, Mayor of Stockholm
Gordillo-Dagallier and the other successful entrepreneurs will now see their innovations brought to life in their host cities, with $50,000 in funding to be split amongst the winning projects and used to support their experimental phase in each city.
"It was a very rewarding experience to get to work with other finalists in preparation for the final pitch and see everyone deliver such inspiring pitches today," said Gordillo-Dagallier.
"I thank the C40 Women4Climate team for bringing us together and all the support we've received over these past months. Having open-seneca as one of the winning projects of the C40 W4C Tech Challenge 2020 has only been possible thanks to our very passionate team and all the support received from the university, especially the Sensor CDT, the Centre for Global Equality, and our partners all over the world. Thank you to you all."
Lorena Gordillo-Dagallier (second from left) with members of the Nairobi Makerspace open-seneca team
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Repeated, prolonged, marine heatwaves have killed 99 percent of Japan's largest coral reef and 50 percent of the largest network of reefs on the globe, Australia's Great Barrier Reef. As a result of loss of vital habitat and rapacious fisheries, Australia's fish stocks, especially large fish, plummeted by 36 percent.
Corals are now covered in algae because a 9-month long marine heatwave in 2016 killed an additional 30 percent of the Great Barrier Reef.
So, what can each of us do?
The single biggest thing that you can do, right now, is to switch your diet to a whole-food, plant-based diet. Animal agriculture directly contributes to more climate-damaging greenhouses gases than the entire global transportation sector. Moreover, animal agriculture runoff is fertilizing giant algal blooms, which decompose, remove oxygen from the ocean, and result in lifeless zones. There are an estimated 530 expanding dead zones in our oceans.
Two World Bank advisers reported that eating meat from 70 billion farmed animals, including accelerated tropical deforestation to grow more animal feed, annually contributes 51 percent of all climate-damaging greenhouse gases.
Under the sea it's even worse. Trawl fisheries are irreparably bulldozing an area of the ocean floor and cold sea coral gardens equivalent to 150 times the area looted in ancient forests each year. I emailed my colleague, fisheries professor Daniel Pauley and asked, "How many sea creatures are destroyed annually?" He responded, "A quick guess is 10-100 trillion per year." Horrific.
This much we do know. Humans are removing everything large from the sea and it's accelerating. Nothing like this has ever occurred in the previous five other mass extinctions. It's unprecedented in 1.1 billion years of reproductive evolution.
It's time to immediately take corrective action. By switching your diet, you are choosing to switch-on your compassionate genes. Since the human condition is based upon relationships and the communities we live in, your decision to go plant-based will influence your family and friends. Change begins with each person, and like a rock landing on a calm pond, it ripples forth.
Plant nutrients within apples help prevent the onset of cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease.
Kudos to the Aussies: 11.2 percent of the Australian population, or, 2.1 million people, have embraced veganism.
My medical colleagues have shown that low-fat, whole-food, plant-based diets successfully reverse heart disease, depression, arthritis, and even migraines.
Migraines afflict 38 million Americans. Those suffering from migraines have a higher abundance of mouth bacteria that reduce compounds such as nitrates into nitrites, which can be converted into nitric oxide. Increased nitric oxide in human blood serum is linked to migraines. Foods like hot dogs and processed luncheon meats are laced with nitrates. It's all the more reason to switch your diet.
So how do you achieve switching your diet to low-fat, whole-food, and plant-based? Is it an all or nothing process? Does it mean that you must give up your favorite food forever? No. Small steps indeed matter.
I would suggest dialing back your favorite meal to once a month and recommend following a plan. Lani Muelrath's The Plant-Based Journey is a terrific step-by-step guide for transitioning to a healthy lifestyle. It's a practical guide to help set up your plant-based kitchen. Muelrath helps unravel previous practices of eating and thinking.
"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all the natural disasters, and all the automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital," warned Dr. Neal Barnard, the founding president of the vegan and animal rights activist group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
Researchers in Asia found that eating red meat, chicken and fish increased diabetes rate by 23, 15 and 7 percent, respectively.
Nature's low-fat, whole food, 100 percent plant-based, seedy, nutty, salubrious organic bounty.
At the end of the day, adults and children want more fun. Fun can only be savored if you and your family are healthy. Maintaining health, therefore, is crucial to your existence. That's why it is so important for you and your family to adopt a whole-food, plant-based diet.
Join the fastest growing movement; become a vegan and save the world!


Corporate boards wary of the #MeToo movement and other recent ethical scandals think they're getting a better grasp of their company's culture among rank-and-file employees, according to an annual poll released Dec. 6.
Nearly half of the board members surveyed, or 45 percent, said they understand the "mood in the middle" levels of their company, the poll from the National Association of Corporate Directors found. That's up from 35 percent in 2017.
Directors' understanding of the "buzz at the bottom" also improved, from 18 percent in 2017 to 27 percent in 2018. NACD polled more than 500 directors at publicly traded companies as part of its latest corporate governance survey.
Boards are paying more attention to culture in lower ranks because it could show warning signs for corporate scandals, NACD's research director Friso van der Oord said.
"I think MeToo has played into that," he told Bloomberg Law.
Revelations of sexual harassment in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and elsewhere have led to a culture where employees are more willing to speak out about cultural failings, he said. Take, for example, the recent walkout by Google employees protesting how the tech giant handled sexual misconduct allegations against some of its top executives.
Google employees also recently protested against a project to develop a censored search engine for China.
The vast majority of directors surveyed by NACD, at 88 percent, said they have a solid understanding of the "tone at the top" of their companies. That figure was relatively unchanged from last year.
U.S. regulators found in 2015 that the carmaker rigged its vehicle software to cheat on emissions tests. Volkswagen dismissed both high-level executives and engineers in the wake of the scandal.
Boards told NACD they're assessing corporate culture by reviewing employee engagement surveys and whistleblower reporting. They're also looking at comments on social media or job review sites.


Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.
Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
Politicians need citizens who will permit them to behave reasonably.
Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed often and for the same reason.
Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.
Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.
Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.
Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.
Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new.
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.


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News that Australia is about to cease licensing wheat exporters, and Canada is planning to abandon its single desk for wheat and barley exports, has revived debates about whether farmers should cooperate or compete.
Cooperation in the form of sharing major equipment, bulk-buying inputs such as seed, fertiliser and fuel, and aggregating commodities like wheat or wool to reduce freight costs, have long been a feature of agriculture.
But there has also been a lot of cooperation in the marketing of commodities. Sometimes this was because there was little or no alternative, but more often it was due to the perception that farmers needed to cooperate to avoid being exploited.
For over a century, from Europe and Japan to America, New Zealand and Australia, cooperatives and other farmer owned entities sought to retain control over the marketing of their produce.
But whereas they all began as voluntary organisations with a clear purpose, over time many gained the backing of legislation and their purpose became confused. Quite commonly, cooperation gave way to compulsion.
At one time Australia had numerous so-called marketing boards with the power to compulsorily acquire and sell farm produce, from the lamb marketing board in Western Australia to which lamb producers in the state were obliged to sell their lambs, to the Australian Barley Board which controlled barley grown in South Australia, and the Australian Wheat Board which bought and sold all wheat in Australia.
A lot of voluntary cooperatives were discontinued as they lost relevance, with commercial providers concentrating on what they were good at replacing farmers trying to do something they were not good at. But farmers also became more commercially aware and saw that when others made a profit, it was not necessarily at their expense.
Legislated versions have been heading the same way, although the process has been slower and there are many willing to defend the status quo. It is only a few years since ABB and AWB were privatised and lost their monopolies amid much gnashing of teeth. Now, only the NSW rice industry clings to an enforced cooperation model with all rice grown in the state automatically vested in the NSW Rice Marketing Board.
The same trend is occurring in Canada. The Canadian government has said it will allow wheat and barley growers to sell their crops to whoever they choose, when they choose, from 1 August 2012. Again, there is a lot of teeth gnashing.
It is curious that cooperation should have been made obligatory in the case of wheat and barley when canola, oats, pulses and myriad other crops faced no such constraint. Nobody could seriously argue that growers are capable of marketing their canola crops but incompetent when it comes to wheat and barley, and only ardent socialists would argue for collective marketing of them all.
A clue to the explanation can be found in the Canadian dairy industry, which is still highly regulated. The Canadian Dairy Commission manages price support, market sharing quotas and production targets reminiscent of Australia prior to 2000, in order to "stabilise revenues and avoid surpluses". Imports are also limited to 5% of the market. Widely known as "orderly marketing", this keeps dairy product prices up and allows Canadian dairy farmers to stay in business despite an average herd size of just 50 cows.
What it illustrates is that government intervention in agriculture in the name of cooperation and orderly marketing is invariably at the expense of consumers and often at the expense of those wishing to become farmers. The only certain beneficiaries are established farmers who would otherwise find it difficult to compete.


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Author:Paul T. Frankl
Editor:Christopher Long, Aurora McClain
Publisher:DoppelHouse Press
Date:October 2013
Paul T. Frankl Autobiography
Viennese émigré Paul T. Frankl was a pioneer of early modern design in America, known for his "Skyscraper" furniture of the 1920s and later for the work he did for Hollywood celebrities such as Fred Astaire, Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. His autobiography, thought for decades to be lost, was written at the end of Frankl's long career and is a vivid account of his early life, his rise in the profession, and his many travels in search of ideas and forms. What will now be known as Frankl's last book is written in a captivating style befitting the personality of a gentle and cultured man who revolutionized and advocated for American modernism.
This edition, hand-sewn with a printed linen cover, won a design award in Austria and is introduced and annotated by modern design scholar Christopher Long, author of Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design (Yale 2007). The book includes a remembrance written by his daughter Paulette Frankl as well as many previously unpublished photographs and drawings.


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A rocket stove is an efficient and hot burning stove using small-diameter wood fuel. Fuel is burned in a simple combustion chamber containing an insulated vertical chimney, which ensures almost complete combustion prior to the flames reaching the cooking surface.  Rocket stove designs are most often used for portable stoves for cooking but the design is also used for large, fixed stoves in institutions, and to make rocket mass heaters for heating.

In field tests in India, rocket stoves used 18 to 35 percent less fuel, compared to the traditional stoves, and reduced fuel used 39-47 percent, compared to the simple, traditional, open, three-stone fire.

History
A precursor to the rocket stove was the Argand lamp, which was patented in 1780. This was a major development of the traditional oil lamp, which introduced a glass chimney above the flame to increase air-flow. As well as being used for lighting, this design was also used for cooking and for heating water due to its "affording much the strongest heat without smoke."

Larry Winiarski, Technical Director of Aprovecho, began developing the rocket stove in 1980 based on a VITA stove, designed by Sam Baldwin, and rediscovered the principles of the systems developed by the Romans in hypocaust heating and cooking systems. A stove was designed to make tortillas based on the principles of the rocket stove and won an Ashden Award in 2005. Aprovecho won the same award in 2006 for their rocket stoves. Aprovecho rocket stoves were sold in Lesotho, Malawi, Uganda, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia.

Efficiency
Many developing countries use traditional wood fuel stoves without proper ventilation, which produces indoor concentrations of smoke particles "typically 10 to 100 times the long-term levels recommended by the World Health Organization." Chronic exposure to these particles are linked with disease. Rocket stoves are better at combusting the fuel, thus using less fuel and producing less smoke, carbon monoxide, and soot.

In rural Kenya, a comparison of traditional three-stone stoves and rocket mud stoves (RMS) showed that RMS use resulted in a 33% reduction of carbon monoxide production in the kitchen and a 42% reduction in "personal" carbon monoxide production, which was measured with data loggers placed on clothing.

See also
 Beverage-can stove
 Dakota fire pit
 Energy poverty and cooking

References

External links

 Aprovecho Research Center: Open source and accessible research group.

Fireplaces
Stoves

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Tutankhamen - Amenism, Atenism and Egyptian Monotheism
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King Tut brought the entire world to its knees in admiration of the masterful skills of Ancient Egypt. No other discovery from that land has thrilled the world more than the discovery of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen. Riches and unknown wonders were revealed to the modern world that were only suspected in history. This manuscript about Tutankhamen is by the world's foremost Egyptologist in his era, and he was probably one of the first to scientifically and critically examine the tomb, the mummy, and the artifacts.
Wisdom of the Egyptians
The influence of Egyptian beliefs and religion, and literature, and arts and crafts on the civilization of other nations can hardly be overestimated. In one of the least known periods of the world's history the Egyptian proclaimed the deathlessness of the human soul, and Egypt has rightly been named the 'land of immortality'.
Miracle in Stone : The Great Pyramid of Egypt
It is always an interesting footnote to history that most major religions of today and of antiquity have a link back to Egypt, the Plains of Gizeh, and/or the Great Pyramid. Whether it be that link of Jesus to Egypt, the Jews and Egypt, or August Caesar, there has indeed been a connection and correlation between these and Egypt.
Secrets of Egyptian Spellcasting
Magick has been with us since the beginning of time. When man first became aware of himself and his surroundings, he looked up into the heavens and saw the ultimate energies that permeate the universe. The first priests and shamans realized that this universal energy also courses through the very being of all that inhabit this universe, and the infinite number of universes that make up creation.
Egyptian Conception of Immortality
From the beginning of its history--that is, from about 4500 B.C.--we can trace the development of a religion one of whose most prominent elements was a promise of a life after death. It was still a great religion when the Christian doctrine of immortality was enunciated. In the early centuries of the Christian era, it seemed almost possible that the worship of Osiris and Isis might become the religion of the classical world; and the last stand made by civilized paganism against Christianity was in the temple of Isis at Philae in the sixth century after Christ.
Story of Ancient Egypt
In shape Egypt is like a lily with a crooked stem. A broad blossom terminates it at its upper end; a button of a bud projects from the stalk a little below the blossom, on the left-hand side. The broad blossom is the Delta, extending from Aboosir to Tineh, a direct distance of a hundred and eighty miles, which the projection of the coast-the graceful swell of the petals-enlarges to two hundred and thirty.
LEGENDS OF BABYLON and EGYPT IN RELATION TO HEBREW TRADITION
Though the resemblance of early Sumerian tradition to that of the Hebrews is striking, it furnishes a still closer parallel to the summaries preserved from the history of Berossus. The huge figures incorporated in the latter's chronological scheme are no longer to be treated as a product of Neo-Babylonian speculation; they reappear in their original surroundings in another of these early documents, the Sumerian Dynastic List.
Spell of Egypt
Enter pristine Egypt of 1911 through the eyes of this author and relive the impressions of ancient Egypt, before World Wars, before Industrialization, before the Modern Era. Mildly illustrated with images from the area of Egpyt the author is revealing. Feel the romance that Egypt holds over the world and awe of Egypt the author feels. Egypt holds a spell over all people of every civilization.
KYBALION : Study of Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
We take great pleasure in presenting to the attention of students and investigators of the Secret Doctrines this little work based upon the world-old Hermetic Teachings. There has been so little written upon this subject, not withstanding the countless references to the Teachings in the many works upon occultism, that the many earnest searchers after the Arcane Truths will doubtless welcome the appearance of this present volume.
Treasury of Ancient Egypt
The resident official, travelling from place to place, spends a great deal of time seated in railway stations or on the banks of the Nile, waiting for his train or his boat to arrive; and he has, therefore, a great deal of time for thinking. I often try to fill in these dreary periods by jotting down a few notes on some matter which has recently been discussed, or registering and elaborating arguments which have chanced lately to come into the thoughts. These notes are shaped and "written up" when next there is a spare hour, and a few books to refer to; and ultimately they take the form of articles or papers, some of which find their way into print.
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With Three Hundred and Nine Illustrations : As regards the practical side of Archaeology, it ought to be unnecessary to point out that its usefulness is strictly parallel with the usefulness of public museums. To collect and exhibit objects of ancient art and industry is worse than idle if we do not also endeavour to disseminate some knowledge of the history of those arts and industries, and of the processes employed by the artists and craftsmen of the past.
Egyptian Secrets
This strange book goes in and out of print with nearly every generation. While appearing to be a book of long forgotten secrets and magic by its title, it is really a catalog of old remedies used for ailments throughout the centuries. It is not known how old the writing is or how old the remedies included are. It is even disputed that Albertus Magnus (aka Saint Albert the Great) of the 13th century is truly the author. This version is from an old book printed in the United States under the title Egyptian Secrets.
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The Great Pyramid has lent its name as a sort of by-word for paradoxes; and, as moths to a candle, so are theorisers attracted to it. The very fact that the subject was so generally familiar, and yet so little was accurately known about it, made it the more enticing; there were plenty of descriptions from which to choose, and yet most of them were so hazy that their support could be claimed for many varying theories.
Origin and Significance of the Great Pyramid
One of the most profound mysteries of the world towers above the desert sands of Egypt
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Home International Rugby League News International Series / Test Match Semi final confirmed for Rugby League U19s European Championship
Semi final confirmed for Rugby League U19s European Championship
England will play Wales and France face Scotland in the semi finals of the U19s European Championship at the Makis Stadium in Belgrade on Wednesday, whilst the ranking semi finals for the plate will also be played.
In the opening fixtures, Wales set a record score for their international sides with a 90-0 shellacking of Ukraine, scoring 15 tries and as many goals. Warrington full back Lewis Hall led the way with a try and 13 conversions for a 30 point haul.
"We were professional with everything we did and it was good to get the nil," said Wales U19 head coach Anthony Walker. "We know we've got a big challenge ahead with England, there is a real rivalry, I think it'll be a close game."
England overcame hosts Serbia, also without conceding a point with an 11-try, 64-0 exhibition; centre Rob Crompton from Leigh Miners and full back Chris Teare of Wath Brow both claiming hat tricks.
Head coach Allan Coleman commented: "We've set a target to just focus on one game at a time. We're happy with that performance but we know we can be and will need to improve if we want to go further into the competition and have a chance of winning the championship."
Scotland fought off a spirited Irish challenge, leading 18-0 at the break and holding on to triumph 28-18 after the Wolfhounds had drawn level; Charlie Emslie and winger Fergus Simpson with the clinching Bravehearts scores.
"I never doubted that we were going to win the game," said Scotland head coach Danny Addy. "We killed ourselves throughout with penalties, giving them away when we had the ball. Credit Ireland, they pushed us to the very end of the game,"
Pre-tournament favourites France put in a commanding performance, beating Italy 70-0 , Saint Esteve XIII Catalan stand off Arthur Morgue leading the way with two tries and nine goals. General manager of the young Tricolours, Florian Chautard commented: "It was a good win for us but we are a little disappointed with the first half performance as everyone was trying to break the gap to score, not playing in the structure like we'd trained. Once we got it right we were hard to hold."
Ireland, for whom two-try Sam Cullen was impressive, now come up against the Italians in the Shield. Wolfhounds U19s head coach Wayne Kelly noted: "I said before that whatever the result, I'm so proud of these boys and they've come a long way from where they started. Small margins defined the outcome."
His counterpart. Italy's Salavatore Pezzano said: "I think my players played well but there were too many errors in the tackle and not enough attention to complete the set against a side who were very good with the ball."
Hosts Serbia take on Ukraine in the other plate semi, their head coach Neil Bijorac confirmed: "We've come up against a strong England team and the ruck speed hurt us in the first 15 minutes. There's plenty of things we can take forward into the next game, so we'll work on it and see what we can come up with."
Ukraine's head coach Ihor Yurkin added: "We conceded a lot but we can take positives from the character of the team who kept playing and were struggling at the end because of the effort put in."
Matches will again be live-streamed on – http://www.sportuzivo.tv/v2/
Round 2 fixtures – Wednesday 8th August
Match 5 – Ranking Semi-Final – Serbia vs Ukraine – 2pm (Pitch 1)
Match 6 – Cup Semi-Final – England vs Wales – 4pm (Pitch 1)
Match 7 – Ranking Semi-Final – Ireland vs Italy – 5.30pm (Pitch 2)
Match 8 – Cup Semi-Final – Scotland vs France – 6pm (Pitch 1)
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%% CS294A/CS294W Self-taught Learning Exercise

%  Instructions
%  ------------
%
%  This file contains code that helps you get started on the
%  self-taught learning. You will need to complete code in feedForwardAutoencoder.m
%  You will also need to have implemented sparseAutoencoderCost.m and
%  softmaxCost.m from previous exercises.
%
%% ======================================================================
%  STEP 0: Here we provide the relevant parameters values that will
%  allow your sparse autoencoder to get good filters; you do not need to
%  change the parameters below.

inputSize  = 28 * 28;
numLabels  = 5;
hiddenSize = 200;
sparsityParam = 0.1; % desired average activation of the hidden units.
                     % (This was denoted by the Greek alphabet rho, which looks like a lower-case "p",
		             %  in the lecture notes).
lambda = 3e-3;       % weight decay parameter
beta = 3;            % weight of sparsity penalty term

%% ======================================================================
%  STEP 1: Load data from the MNIST database
%
%  This loads our training and test data from the MNIST database files.
%  We have sorted the data for you in this so that you will not have to
%  change it.

% Load MNIST database files
mnistData   = loadMNISTImages('mnist/train-images-idx3-ubyte');
mnistLabels = loadMNISTLabels('mnist/train-labels-idx1-ubyte');

% Set Unlabeled Set (All Images)

% Simulate a Labeled and Unlabeled set
labeledSet   = find(mnistLabels >= 0 & mnistLabels <= 4);
unlabeledSet = find(mnistLabels >= 5);

numTrain = round(numel(labeledSet)/2);
trainSet = labeledSet(1:numTrain);
testSet  = labeledSet(numTrain+1:end);

unlabeledData = mnistData(:, unlabeledSet);

trainData   = mnistData(:, trainSet);
trainLabels = mnistLabels(trainSet)' + 1; % Shift Labels to the Range 1-5

testData   = mnistData(:, testSet);
testLabels = mnistLabels(testSet)' + 1;   % Shift Labels to the Range 1-5

% Output Some Statistics
fprintf('# examples in unlabeled set: %d\n', size(unlabeledData, 2));
fprintf('# examples in supervised training set: %d\n\n', size(trainData, 2));
fprintf('# examples in supervised testing set: %d\n\n', size(testData, 2));

%% ======================================================================
%  STEP 2: Train the sparse autoencoder
%  This trains the sparse autoencoder on the unlabeled training
%  images.

%  Randomly initialize the parameters
theta = initializeParameters(hiddenSize, inputSize);

%% ----------------- YOUR CODE HERE ----------------------
%  Find opttheta by running the sparse autoencoder on
%  unlabeledTrainingImages

%  Use minFunc to minimize the function
addpath minFunc/
autoencoderOptions.Method = 'lbfgs';  % Here, we use L-BFGS to optimize our cost
                                      % function. Generally, for minFunc to work, you
                                      % need a function pointer with two outputs: the
                                      % function value and the gradient. In our problem,
                                      % sparseAutoencoderCost.m satisfies this.
autoencoderOptions.maxIter = 400;	  % Maximum number of iterations of L-BFGS to run
autoencoderOptions.display = 'on';

if exist('opttheta.mat','file')==2

    load('opttheta.mat');

else
[opttheta, cost] = minFunc( @(p) sparseAutoencoderCost(p, ...
                                   inputSize, hiddenSize, ...
                                   lambda, sparsityParam, ...
                                   beta, unlabeledData), ...
                              theta, autoencoderOptions);
save('opttheta.mat','opttheta');
end

%% -----------------------------------------------------

% Visualize weights
W1 = reshape(opttheta(1:hiddenSize * inputSize), hiddenSize, inputSize);
display_network(W1');

%%======================================================================
%% STEP 3: Extract Features from the Supervised Dataset
%
%  You need to complete the code in feedForwardAutoencoder.m so that the
%  following command will extract features from the data.

trainFeatures = feedForwardAutoencoder(opttheta, hiddenSize, inputSize, ...
                                       trainData);

testFeatures = feedForwardAutoencoder(opttheta, hiddenSize, inputSize, ...
                                       testData);

%%======================================================================
%% STEP 4: Train the softmax classifier

%% ----------------- YOUR CODE HERE ----------------------
%  Use softmaxTrain.m from the previous exercise to train a multi-class
%  classifier.

%  Use lambda = 1e-4 for the weight regularization for softmax

% You need to compute softmaxModel using softmaxTrain on trainFeatures and
% trainLabels

softmaxOptions.maxIter = 100;
lambdaSoftmax = 1e-4; % Weight decay parameter for Softmax
trainNumber = size(trainData,2);

% softmaxTrain ĬÈÏÊý¾ÝÖÐÒÑ°üº¬½Ø¾àÏî
softmaxModel = softmaxTrain(hiddenSize+1, numLabels, lambdaSoftmax, [trainFeatures;ones(1,trainNumber)], trainLabels, softmaxOptions);  % learn by features
%softmaxModel = softmaxTrain(inputSize+1, numLabels, lambdaSoftmax, [trainData;ones(1,trainNumber)], trainLabels, softmaxOptions);  % learn by raw data

%% -----------------------------------------------------

%%======================================================================
%% STEP 5: Testing

%% ----------------- YOUR CODE HERE ----------------------
% Compute Predictions on the test set (testFeatures) using softmaxPredict
% and softmaxModel
testNumber = size(testData,2);

% softmaxPredict ĬÈÏÊý¾ÝÖÐÒÑ°üº¬½Ø¾àÏî
[pred] = softmaxPredict(softmaxModel, [testFeatures;ones(1,testNumber)]);  % predict by test features
%[pred] = softmaxPredict(softmaxModel, [testData;ones(1,testNumber)]);  % predict by test raw data

%% -----------------------------------------------------

% Classification Score
fprintf('Test Accuracy: %f%%\n', 100*mean(pred(:) == testLabels(:)));

% (note that we shift the labels by 1, so that digit 0 now corresponds to
%  label 1)
%
% Accuracy is the proportion of correctly classified images
% The results for our implementation was:
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% Accuracy: 98.3%
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Space Fact - 1
Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian American woman to travel into space not once but twice on missions for the NASA in the USA. Her first trip was in 1997 and lasted 16 days. She travelled 6.5 million miles orbiting the earth 252 times.
Unfortunately, Kalpana and six other astronauts died on Feb. 1 - 2003 when the space shuttle Columbia exploded 16 minutes before landing. This was her second mission. Kalpana studied at the Tagore Bal Niketan School in Karnal - Haryana.
Astronauts in space must eat slowly to keep their food from flying off the spoon and floating away. Most food comes in sauce and gravy so that it sticks to the utensils. Salt and pepper are also in squeezable liquid form.
The fuel used in a rocket is extremely explosive and needs special storage. The rocket tanks have to be kept very cold so that the fuel does not evaporate away. If an ice cube had been sealed in a rocket tank of the space launcher Saturn V, it would have taken eight years to melt.
Astronauts sometimes go on spacewalks, not for the exorcise, but to retrieve and repair satellites and other orbiting scientific equipment. When they spacewalk, they are anchored to the space vehicle in which they travel, else they will just float away and might become satellites of some object in space.
Although it is one of the biggest planets in the Solar System, the density of Saturn is only 70% that of water. If we drop it in a giant bowl of water, it will float!
Jupiter's Great Red Spot, also known as THE EYE OF JUPITER, is a permanent hurricane. It is so huge that three earths can fit into it. This whirlpool of gases spins on its axis in an anticlockwise direction and revolves along with the rest of Jupiter's cloud bands.
Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies a belt of tens of thousands of tumbling lumps of rock metal fragments that revolve around the Sun. These are the asteroids. Ceres, the largest asteroid, is about 945 km across (half the size of the moon) while the smallest ones could just be one km across.
You would weigh so little on a very small asteroid that you would not need a rocket to launch you into space. You can just jump and never come down!
The Sun derives its energy from a reaction similar to that of a hydrogen bomb. Two atoms of hydrogen fuse to form one atom of helium. The Sun uses four million tons of hydrogen fuel every second. Yet it has enough to keep shining for five billion years more.
Space Fact - 10
Did you know that stars die too? Once stars run out of fuel, they begin to die. First, they swell in size to form giants, then they shrink into dwarfs. Just a teaspoonful of material from a dwarf star weighs many tonnes.
When really big, heavy stars die, they swell into enormous super giants that blast themselves apart in a mighty explosion called supernova. They continue collapsing under gravity until nothing is left, just an area of space with enormous gravity that swallows up anything near by, even light. This is calleda black hole.
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So, my love for matte liquid lipsticks is a known fact! And I'm also aware the kind of adverse effects it tends to have on my delicate lips! Scrubbing & moisturising my lips is the only way out but given how time consuming the process is.. I seldom got around to do it!
Until recently when I discovered about this miraculous product called "Scrubilicious" by @myglamm. And you know what the best part is.. it moisturises and scrubs my lips at the same time! What's more unique about this product is the fact that it leaves a subtle tint on my lips which enhances the color of any lipstick that I apply on top of it!
What I love the most about this product is that it's extremely handy, mess free and that it instantly preps my lips for any sort of lipstick application by creating a smooth base. All I have to do is swipe it on my lips (just like a lipstick), Scrub it lightly and then wait a minute for the salts to work their magic which eventually dissolve in no time, thus creating smoother fuller looking lips! It's that simple! No need to rub it off!


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Challenging prohibition of private dentistry during the Covid pandemic
by Private Dental Practitioners UK
Lawyers: JFH Law
Private Dental Practitioners UK
Crowdfunding on behalf of dentists unable to work during the covid pandemic
pledged of £100,000 stretch target from 426 pledges
I am the owner of a private dental practice that stopped treating patients face to face on the 25th March 2020 at the direction of the CQC.
From 25.03.2020 the CQC adopted the guidance of the CDO and prohibited all private dentists from performing routine and emergency dental treatments in England. NHS providers were allowed to continue working from appointed Urgent Dental Care Centres or hospital clinics during this period. It is our view that the CQC were wrong to adopt this guidance and were acting outside the scope of their authority.
We are raising funds to initiate a legal challenge to a) ensure that private dentists can return to work without fear of arbitrary enforcement action by the CQC b) to compensate private dentists for the enforced period of closure.
What are we trying to achieve?
We feel that none of the bodies representing the profession have sufficiently protected the interests of private practices and private associates. We want to ensure that private dentists can return to work immediately and safely, without fear of regulatory action being taken against them. We also want those dentists to be compensated for the period that they have been wrongly instructed to close.
However, our primary goal is to be able to return to work to provide much needed dental care to our patients, many of whom have not been able to access dental treatment during this period, or have been offered limited treatment that has resulted in irreparable damage to their long term oral health
What is the next step in the case?
We will instruct JFH Law, a law firm who specialise in dental legal cases to take matters forward and to seek the advice of a leading QC as to the merits of any action.
How much we are raising and why?
We want to raise £50,000 at this stage to allow sufficient funds to instruct lawyers, obtain the QC's advice and draft any necessary letters before action to the CQC for the judicial review of their actions and/or civil case. We are asking for individuals to make an initial contribution of £100; although all donations are welcome.
We appreciate and thank you for your support. This will not be possible without the support of the profession.
Got get them!
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Keep the pressure up
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Making a gift of coffee during the Holiday Season has a flavor far beyond the brew itself. Coffee, like food, is the gift of a sensory experience. In many ways, it is a gift of time also, for it invites a pause in the day to savor both the sip and the moment.
Like most people, perhaps you like to have all your Holiday gifts wrapped and ready ahead of time, especially those you need to send by mail. If coffee is on your shopping list, rest assured, there are simple guidelines you can follow to ensure freshness as your package journeys to your beloved giftee.
Fresh-roasted beans. Fresh-roasted beans. Fresh-roasted beans. Supermarket coffee just does not cut it. Coffees that sit on store shelves and in storage rooms for weeks are already going stale by the time they make it to the checkout line. If you purchase your coffee at a store, you're better off shopping at a small, local store that will have a smaller inventory and frequent product turn-around. If Brown & Jenkins is your preferred brew and you live near Jeffersonville, the Vermont Maple Outlet is the place to go.
Likewise, purchase coffee from a company that is known for its small-batch, roasted-to-order coffee. Ideally, your coffee should be roasted the same day it is shipped to you or delivered to a local store.
Purchase whole bean coffee and do not pre-grind it. Grinding coffee releases some of the compounds and oils that contribute to the fullness of its flavor.
Avoid buying weeks ahead. Coffee should be last on your list as you make your rounds to gather gifts. Of course, waiting may not be ideal if ordering online. In this case, you may need to store the beans for several days or send your gift earlier. An early gift can be an uplifting surprise as the Holiday Season can be both a joyous and stressful time.
One of the best alternatives when offering coffee as a gift is to find a small, freshness-dedicated coffee roaster that offers Coffee Gift Cards or Certificates. Some have a print option, allowing you to print out and send the gift card along with other gifts exactly on your desired schedule. We like to combine coffee gift cards with a mug, a gourmet chocolate box or a new book.
If you plan on spending time with people you believe would enjoy a gift of coffee this Holiday Season, send a Coffee Gift Card ahead of time, for a personal touch, and bring a bag of fresh roasted coffee as a hostess gift when you meet. Double pleasure!
To store coffee you need to set aside for a while before gifting (as this is sometime inevitable), leave it in its original bag and store in a dark, cool cupboard. Do not refrigerate it as moving it from this environment to ambient air can promote moisture that will compromise freshness and flavor and may even lead to mold depending on how long the bag travels.
If you plan on wrapping your gift of coffee, we recommend placing it in a box and wrapping the box, not the coffee bag. This will minimize the risk of ripping or puncturing the bag when unwrapping. A specially selected coffee from an artisan roaster lends itself to a minimalist approach. For example, attach a charm to the bag (without making a hole) or secure it to a larger gift with a colorful bow. There is something utterly heartwarming about that natural look.
Most of all, coffee is the perfect inspiration for your Holiday wishes. Use blank cards this year and allow thoughts of savored moments and warmth shape a personal message for each person, whether your gift to them is coffee or something else.
Happy Holidays. We raise our cup to you!


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LinkedIn's Azure move is less about scale and more about the speed of innovation
by Mary Branscombe in Cloud on December 10, 2019, 4:02 AM PST
LinkedIn isn't moving to Azure because it needs to, or because it's owned by Microsoft: it's moving because Microsoft can invest in technologies that even a business as big as LinkedIn can't build for itself.
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LinkedIn is so invested in running its own data centres that it started its own version of the Open Compute Project (OCP) based on the 19-inch rack, Open19. It's also been contributing significant amounts of code to Microsoft's SONiC network operating system to support features it needs for its own data centre network. But now it's planning to move to Azure.
A few months after the initial announcement, TechRepublic sat down with LinkedIn CTO Raghu Hiremagalur to ask why the company is switching to the cloud, and what progress has been made so far. And no, he says, it's not because Microsoft owns them or is pressuring them -- it's about the opportunity to scale using new hardware and services that LinkedIn could never build for itself.
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For one thing, while Open19 has been in large part about how to simplify and reduce the costs of operating a data centre, moving to Azure takes away the need to build out new data centres.
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A decade ago, LinkedIn's problems were all about keeping its website available as traffic grew, and it spent several years focusing on moving to microservices and just having enough capacity to serve members. Then it began to think about scaling the network and building an active-active data centre architecture. In the last three years, that's shifted to trying to build data centres the way the hyperscale clouds like Azure do, with the network changing to suit the needs of the applications that run on it rather than asking the application developers to work with the available infrastructure, bandwidth and latency.
But it's been doing that in mid-sized data centres rather than the giant data centres of hyperscale cloud, and the problem was more likely to be running out of space than running out of power. LinkedIn has about 250,000 servers in five data centres -- and that number has been growing by a third every year. It also has 20 points of presence and peers with 4,000 networks, but that doesn't compare to Azure.
"We're in west US, east US, Singapore and Texas; they're literally 57 regions," Hiremagalur explains. "Being able to ride on Microsoft's backbone is an immediate plus: it's probably one of the best networking backbones there is from a from a private backbone standpoint, and they have 160-plus edge locations with Azure Front Door. So our ability to serve our members is going to be way better than where we are today, because we'll be able to terminate their sessions close to where they are."
LinkedIn is doing more than using Azure connectivity, says Hiremagalur: "Our plan is to move all our workloads -- production, offline compute, current compute -- to Azure. At some point in the future, we do not want to operate data centres."
That isn't because LinkedIn couldn't keep growing its data centres: at least for the next five years, Hiremagalur doesn't see any problems scaling its networking, data centre capacity, power or the other infrastructure requirements.
LinkedIn isn't moving to the cloud because it needs to. But it's worth going through what could be a fairly disruptive migration of complex workloads for the opportunity Azure offers -- agility.
"Whether it's elasticity and capacity, or leveraging Azure investments with their edge infrastructure with Azure Front Door, or their networking backbone, or the work that they're doing in custom silicon, and the data centre and networking stuff that they're doing with accelerated networking and FPGA and storage innovation... Those are all things we would want access to over time," says Hiremagalur. "And those are not things that we would independently invest in ourselves -- it doesn't make sense for us to independently invest in those ourselves."
LinkedIn will also adopt cloud AI tools like AzureML. "The Azure capabilities with the stuff that they're doing in the AI space are amazing. The level of GPU compute that they have, we would definitely benefit significantly from," Hiremagalur says.
Multi-year migration
Being part of Microsoft means that LinkedIn gets an advanced look at what's coming on Azure. Hiremagalur wants to get started on a migration that will take several years to be ready for that. "Considering the amount of time that we think it will take for us to move our workloads into Azure, we wanted to kick off the process now, and be ready to leverage all that goodness, when all of that is ready for us."
Meanwhile, LinkedIn will carry on with its own product development, but at the same time it will be preparing for the move -- and thinking about what it can stop doing once it's running on Azure.
"By and large the interfaces that our infrastructure building blocks, like storage indexing, offer to the rest of the engineering organisation need to remain constant or at least very similar, so our infrastructure teams will be doing the heavy lifting of adapting our infrastructure building blocks to run on the public cloud," Hiremagalur says.
But he doesn't want to end up with a copy of LinkedIn's current infrastructure, just in the cloud. "This is an opportunity for us to disaggregate compute and storage. We have the opportunity to leverage elasticity at extreme scale to work with the diurnal workload patterns that LinkedIn has [with most users logging in during working hours]. Those are things that we want to start leveraging on our way to Azure."
LinkedIn uses very large graph databases; there's a lot of Kafka (which was developed at LinkedIn and was handling over a trillion events a day there by 2015), and the Samza stream-processing systems built on top of Kafka such as offline compute and machine learning. It's very network intensive: for every byte of data that comes into a LinkedIn data centre from user activity, about 1,000 bytes of east-west traffic is generated inside the data centre (analysing that information for the LinkedIn graph and machine-learning systems like recommending people you might know).
"We will be able to leverage this aggregation of network and storage at massive scale, along with the ability to scale compute and storage independently. We are a very data-heavy system, so being able to manage those two things as two separate units is also a big plus for us," says Hiremagalur.
"The lower the latency of the network, the more you can do with graph database traversals," he points out. "The ability to traverse our graph in very interesting ways requires, obviously, very good, very well-architected distributed systems, but also networks that are top notch. I'm looking forward to the ability to have serverless at scale for these kinds of workloads and not having to worry at all about how these things spin up and wind down. Those things are amazing candidates for serverless compute."
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That's an architectural change that LinkedIn would have been looking at whether it moved to Azure or stayed in its own data centres. But the move means there will be infrastructure areas that LinkedIn can hand over to Azure completely.
"Operating a large-scale workload on a public cloud is different from managing stuff ourselves, where we have 100 percent control on literally everything. So we'll have to learn to operate a site in a very stable way with those changes," Hiremagalur says.
Instead of thinking about hardware and service failures, engineers will have to plan for upgrade cycles they're not in control of, Hiremagalur explains. "We're having to learn about responding to signals that Azure will serve us and figure out how to move or pause workloads. The way we manage security is going to be different. The layers of the stack that we have 100% control on will just shrink: we don't control the network, we don't control the disparate data sets. So the way we think about infosec needs to evolve, the way we think about perimeter security needs to evolve."
That's the usual cloud migration story -- you're not moving an application to a different server, you're moving what you need to get done to a different kind of abstraction. Once you've done the work, the reward is that you get to focus on higher-level problems.
"I see this as us having the ability to focus on areas where we deliver unique value and leaning on our counterparts in Azure, to do things that they do at extreme scale and do very, very well," Hiremagalur says. "I visualise this as a rise in sea level: the things that go underwater for us are things that we just lean on Azure for. The rest of this is stuff that we continue to do, and we can focus a ton more on."
On-prem is the new mainframe
The Open19 initiative isn't going away, Hiremagalur says. "We've already had a lot of value from it: we've deployed it on our data centres, we've contributed a bunch of technology to OCP already and we will continue to collaborate with them."
But apart from giant organizations like Facebook who run their own cloud, Hiremagalur also expects more and more companies to move to public cloud over time for a lot of their workloads, because their own developers will demand it.
"If you don't have access to innovations that are happening in the public cloud in the next five to ten years, your company may be perceived the same way as companies that run on mainframes -- and no company wants to be in that position."
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Time for a Juice Journey, a Jamba Juice Journey!
This article is sponsored. Yep, dad is getting paid. BAM. Benjamins. And Juice. Is there anything better?
Remember a few months ago when I won a $250.00 gift card to Jamba Juice? Remember how much fun we had thinking of ways I could spend $250.00 at Jamba Juice. Well, here are a few things I did.
Granted, it was the middle of the workday on a Tuesday, so there were only two people there. But those people we're very appreciative of their free Jamba Juices.
Look how happy they look!
Jamba Juice for my office!!
The next thing I did was buy Jamba Juice for my whole office! They too were very appreciative, yet less willing to have their picture taken. So instead, pretend like these are the people in my office, and not the cast of The Office on NBC that in no way endorses my blog, or Jamba Juice, even though they should, because Jamba Juice is pretty dang tasty!
Jamba Juice as Household Currency!!
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I posted on the Ask Your Dad Facebook page, and on Twitter about all the fun stuff I was doing with my Jamba Wealth and lo-and-behold the good people at Jamba Juice took notice! They had their own idea. Why not try every single Jamba Juice on the menu and let you all know what I think! In return, they are sponsoring a series of posts on Ask Your Dad, a percentage of which will go to my charity driver for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society!! (See the sidebar if you want to donate).
Here is the coolest part. You too can participate in my #JuiceJourney (like it, I made up the hashtag) and get free juice! All you have to do is download the new Isis Mobile Wallet App for your Android Phone and stop by any Jamba Juice! They're doing this until they give away 1,000,000 Jamba Juices!!
If you take a picture of yourself with your free Jamba Juice, tweet it or instagram it with the hashtag #JuiceJourney and I will add it to my weekly updates!
Click here or the image below to find out more! And stay tuned to my social channels and Ask Your Dad for my weekly updates as Duchess, Stevie and I work are way through the Jamba Juice Menu!


Two men have been arrested for the shooting death of a man in Aarhus, but police haven't ruled out that the fatal would may have been self-inflicted.
A 23-year-old man was shot and killed on Monday evening in an apartment in Aarhus, Denmark's second largest city.
East Jutland Police said that two men, aged 22 and 25, have been arrested but much remained unclear as of Tuesday morning.
"We cannot rule out that he did it himself. But neither can we rule out that he was murdered. We are investigating both possibilities," spokesman Per Bennekov told news agency Ritzau.
Police said that the man was shot in the back of the head with a handheld revolver. None of the three men have any known gang connections and their relationship was described as friendly.


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Toy sellers skeptical of Toys 'R' Us execs' comeback plan
Toys 'R' Us is making a comeback — but not everyone wants to play.
Former senior executives of the bankrupt retailer are trying to revive Toys 'R' Us and Babies 'R' Us brands' stores through a new entity called Tru Kids Inc.
The company announced the plan Monday, confirming an exclusive Jan. 24 report by The Post — and drawing sneers from toy sellers who say they were misled by some of the same executives when they were working for Toys 'R' Us, including Tru Kids Chief Executive Richard Barry.
"I'm certainly skeptical when I read a statement like 'new management team,' " said Jay Foreman, chief executive of Basic Fun, which lost roughly $6 million in the bankruptcy. "These are the same leaders and same financial partners that were around for the demise of the company."
Toymakers like Basic Fun, which sells popular toys such as Uncle Milton's Moon in my Room and Lite Brite, said they were encouraged by executives, including Barry, to put their worries aside during and after the bankruptcy and continue to ship merchandise to Toys 'R' Us.
Later, they were told they would get just pennies on the dollar — or nothing at all — for their loyalty, they said.
"We first need to get paid for [a] portion of the over $17 million TRU owes us before we consider doing any business with them," Isaac Larian of MGA Entertainment, maker of L.O.L Surprise, told The Post about doing business with Tru Kids.
"I'd listen to Richard's pitch and plans but would not open my doors to their development team until I learned more," Foreman added.
In an interview with The Post, Barry apologized for any losses by toymakers before insisting that vendors were open to the new company.
"We fully appreciate the impact of the bankruptcy and for that we are very sorry," Barry told The Post. "What I'm hearing from vendors … is that they value what TRU brought to the consumer," he added.
Indeed, some toy sellers say they are eager to learn more, including Wicked Cool Toys Co-president Michael Rinzler. "It's the early days in understanding what they are trying to do," he said "We separate the financial side from the emotional side."
But toy consultant Richard Gottlieb said the company may have its work cut out repairing bridges it burned back well before the bankruptcy.
"The challenge for Tru Kids will be to overcome the hard feeling built up over decades of suppliers being bullied by Toys 'R' Us," Gottlieb said. "Right up to the end, the company was threatening toy companies with delistings if they did not provide sufficient credit."
Tru Kids is owned by a group of hedge funds that owned Toys 'R' Us secured debt, including Solus Alternative Asset Management and Angelo, Gordon & Co.
The new entity owns the licensing rights to Toys 'R' Us, Babies 'R' Us and about 20 other established consumer toy brands.
Barry said he and his team have been working "24/7" to bring the toy retailer back to markets where it disappeared, including the US, the United Kingdom and Australia. The company currently operates in 30 countries around the world with 900 stores and has $3 billion in sales, he said.
"The brand is healthy and happy," he said.
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For 1st time, female soldier set to join a Green Beret team
FILE – In this Jan. 4, 2020, file photo a sign for at Fort Bragg, N.C., is shown. A female soldier has graduated from the Army's elite Special Forces course and will for the first time join one of the all-male Green Beret teams. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, a female soldier has graduated from the Army's elite Special Forces course and will join one of the all-male Green Beret teams, capping a yearslong campaign to move women into the military's front-line combat jobs.
The unidentified woman is one of three female soldiers who have been going through the Army Special Forces qualification course at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. She graduated Thursday and donned her Green Beret, along with about 400 other soldiers. Defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters have confirmed that she is a member of the National Guard.
Lt. Gen. Fran Beaudette, commander of Army Special Operations Command, presided over the ceremony and was able to say, for the first time, that "our Green Beret men and women will forever stand in the hearts of free people everywhere."
""From here, you will go forward and join the storied formation of the Green Berets where you will do what you are trained to do: challenge assumptions, break down barriers, smash through stereotypes, innovate, and achieve the impossible," he said.
The Army does not release the identities of its commandos or disclose to which special forces group they will be assigned.
The more than 6,700 Army Green Berets are highly trained commandos who usually work in 12-person teams. They are often used for specialized combat and counterterrorism operations and to train other nations' forces in battle skills. Many work with Afghan forces fighting the Taliban or are training troops in up to 60 countries.
The path to becoming a Green Beret consists of several phases, beginning with a grueling assessment and selection phase where commanders believe they can identify soldiers who cannot make the grade or do not belong. The bulk of those who try out fail. Some who get injured or fail are allowed to return and try again.


Steep cliff lines, curvy roads, flowing fjords, raw beauty, shipwrecks, wonderful waterfalls, and captivating bird life. …Sound like fun? Then Iceland's Westfjords may be your perfect Iceland wedding location or heavenly honeymoon spot!
You could spend days driving through these magical fjords adventuring! Very easily, you could spend a day discovering the beautiful beaches within the Westfjords such as the beautiful Rauðisandur golden sand beach. Waterfall hunting as an additional day is so much fun! Then heading to the High North area of the fjords hiking and bird watching around the cliffs of Bolafjall.
Hot spring and warm geothermal pools are throughout the Western Fjords as well, ready to be discovered by you! Yet another day, can be spent exploring the many fishing villages throughout the area such as the Djupavik herring factory ruins or the famed village of Ísafjörður! Do you remember the amazing hotel we featured a few years ago that is tucked within that amazing little town? If you cannot recall, feel free to back here to explore that Iceland wedding post!
One of the many waterfalls found within Iceland's Westfjords is the famed, Dynjandi Waterfall. There are many levels of the waterfall you can explore so take your time to discover every inch! Maybe even plan a picnic? The view from the midpoint and the top of the waterfall is quite unforgettable too!
I usually get an email every month from a couple wondering if they can hold their Iceland wedding or elopement in a castle… I sadly always have to respond letting them know there are no castles in Iceland (and maybe they should try Scotland). But! There is a gorgeous ruin of an old farm house that resembles the closest thing to a "Castle" in Iceland.
We would love the opportunity to plan your Iceland Adventure Wedding here in the Westfjords. Feel free to contact us for more information on making that idea your reality! In the meantime, enjoy a few photos of the fabulous Icelandic Westfjords below.


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Adnams New 'green' Brewery
It has an inshore, whitewashed lighthouse, famous beach huts painted in pastel shades, attractive Georgian and Victorian buildings, a clutch of fine pubs and the North Sea on its doorstep.
But Southwold in Suffolk may soon become better known as the town with Britain's first "green" brewery. Global warming and dwindling supplies of oil could combine to change the way beer is brewed. In an attempt to grapple with the urgent need to conserve energy, Adnams, the regional brewer based in Southwold, has designed a new brewhouse that will come on stream in 2006 and will be highly energy efficient.
With world oil prices set to rise inexorably, the efficiency of breweries will be a major consideration in the years ahead. As Adnams' managing director Jonathan Adnams says, in conventional ale breweries a lot of energy goes up the chimney. That may not be possible or permissible in the near future.
The European Union has intervened with a new draft directive that will demand that industries waste as little energy or raw materials as possible. A EU working group is already drafting a proposal that will determine how much energy can be used and how much waste is involved in producing one hectolitre of beer.
Time is not on the side of breweries. If the directive is approved, all industrial companies will have to comply by 2007. If they refuse, they will face sanctions and even a ban on production.
Breweries heady with the delightful aromas of malt and hops could become a thing of the past, along with open fermenting vessels where yeast occasionally gushes over the tops and on to the floor.
Ale is traditionally made by a simple mashing regime known as "infusion". But, as Jonathan Adnams says, the traditional mash tun produces the sugary extract known as wort, runs off the wort and then rinses the grain with a shower of hot water to wash out any remaining sugars. Different temperatures are required and the mash tun method could not be described as either energy efficient or cost effective.
The new Adnams' German-built brewhouse will use a system based on a mash conversion vessel that will produce the sugary wort. The wort will be pumped to a second vessel called a lauter tun that will filter it, leaving behind the spent grain. A third vessel will heat the wort so that when it reaches the copper whirlpool, where it is boiled with hops, the liquid will already be at boiling temperature, which again means less energy will be required: in a conventional copper, the wort has to be brought to boiling point.
As the mashing vessel does not have to filter the wort and grain, it can be utilised with greater efficiency to produce more brews a day - four brews every 16 hours in the case of Adnams. The new equipment will also reduce the risk of oxidation, which means removing the risk of stale or "off" flavours in the finished beer.
Adnams' ancient wooden fermenting vessels have already been sidelined and replaced by new stainless steel vessels. They are enclosed to trap the carbon dioxide created as yeast turns malt sugars into alcohol and gas, but they are traditional square vessels: Jonathan Adnams says that beers made by warm fermentation - as opposed to cold-fermented lagers - produce the best aromas and flavours in square vessels rather than upright conicals. Annual production at Adnams will rise from 110,000 barrels a year to 150,000 when the new brewhouse is in operation. 2.5 million has been invested in the equipment. That indicates great faith in the future of the cask beer market, but as well as the brewhouse, Adnams is also building a new warehouse in a disused gravel pit in the neighbouring village of Reydon. The aim to is keep heavy goods vehicles out of the narrow streets of Southwold.
The complex will be 12 metres below ground to avoid being a blot on the landscape. It will have a grass roof that will help insulate the building. Walls will be built or painted with chalk, hemp and lime to further keep the complex cool. Rainwater will be recycled to wash vehicles and provide showers for the staff, and will then be run into surrounding reed beds. Solar panels will provide natural energy.
"We will become the industrial version of the Eden Project," Jonathan Adnams says. "We want to do business in a sustainable way. The warehouse will in effect be a giant Thermos flask."
In total, Adnams will invest 10 million on its brewhouse, warehouse and new branding for it beers. It has already added Explorer, a cask and bottled beer that uses American Chinook and Columbus hops for a quenching citrus aroma and flavour.
Flagship has been brewed to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Nelson's death at Trafalgar. It is made with the new English hop, Boadicea, which needs far fewer pesticides and fertilisers than conventional varieties. Flagship is also brewed with a small amount of wheat malt and the new brewhouse will enable Adnams to make a fully-fledged wheat beer if it decides to go down that route.
For beer lovers, the most important consideration is that Adnams' beers, tasted in the convivial pubs of Southwold, are as good if not better than ever. But a quiet revolution is underway in the town's brewery.
As our planet is ravaged by earthquakes, floods and hurricanes, and supplies of oil begin to dry up, the way in which Adnams makes its beers could be a harbinger for all British breweries in the years ahead.


The magnetic field plays a dominant role in the solar irradiance variability. Determining the contribution of various magnetic features to this variability is important in the context of heliospheric studies and Sun-Earth connection. We studied the solar irradiance variability and its association with the underlying magnetic field for a period of four years (January 2011 - January 2015). We used observations from the Large Yield Radiometer (LYRA), the Sun Watcher with Active Pixel System detector and Image Processing (SWAP) on board PROBA2, the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), and the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The Spatial Possibilistic Clustering Algorithm (SPoCA) is applied on the EUV observations obtained from the AIA to segregate coronal features by creating segmentation maps of the Active Regions (ARs), the Coronal Holes (CHs) and the Quiet Sun (QS). Further, these maps are applied on the full-disk SWAP intensity images and the full-disk HMI line-of-sight (LOS) magnetograms to isolate the SWAP coronal features and photospheric magnetic counterparts, respectively. We then computed full-disk and feature-wise averages of EUV intensity and LOS magnetic flux density over ARs/CHs/QS. The variability in these quantities is compared with those of LYRA irradiance values. Variations in the quantities resulting from the segmentation, namely the integrated intensity and the total magnetic flux density of ARs/CHs/QS regions are compared with the LYRA irradiance variations. We find that the EUV intensity over ARs/CHs/QS is well correlated with the underlying magnetic field. In addition, variations in the full-disk integrated intensity and magnetic flux density values are correlated with the LYRA irradiance variations.


That took care of plotting information in ascending order. What if we wanted to plot it in reverse – in descending order?
Do the reverse of the last exercise – plot the marital status column in descending order. Remember to use ggplot(), geom_bar(), coord_flip(), and fct_infreq().