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The unspoilt landscapes of Australia produce a wide variety of fresh and tempting produce. Since the country is so far away from anywhere else, with the exception of New Zealand, all produce is grown locally, giving farmers ultimate freedom and innovation which shines through in the food.
With unparalleled weather, hours upon hours of sunshine, outstanding natural beauty and a casual outdoor dining lifestyle, you'll be hard pushed to find anywhere else in the world that even challenges with Australia when it comes to dining.
The unbeatable quality and wide variety of produce found in Australia is one of the main reasons for the country's culinary creativity. Thanks to the various climates – ranging from tropical forests to arid deserts – and the varying temperatures of humidity and cool breeze, there's almost nothing Australia can't grow or produce on its own diverse soil. Not only that, but the country is also home to several ingredients which you won't find anywhere else on the planet, resulting in recipes and dishes which many nations can't even begin to create.
Salmon and oysters are in abundance throughout the waters of Tasmania, whilst barramundi is plentiful in the Northern Territory. You'll find bountiful black truffles and venison meat in Western Australia, as well as a surprising array of tropical fruits in Queensland. Whatever you're looking for in Australia, you're sure to find it.
Australian BBQs
Forget the classic English roast dinner on Christmas day, instead in Australia this festive day is the perfect excuse to get out the barbie and tuck in to delicious grilled meats and seafood on the beach. It's not just Christmas day either – all throughout the year the BBQ's are out and the smoke is billowing. The Australian BBQ is all about slow cooking, especially tough cuts of meat, and allowing the food to soak up the smoky fragrance and rubbed spices and herbs until they become moist and practically falling apart. Having a delicious BBQ isn't only about the food though – instead it's a great way to leisurely spend time with family and friends, cooking and dining on lamb chops, steak and sausages (or snags, as the Australians say) over a chilled beer or glass of wine.
It's not just the typical cuts of meat either. Emu is a regular on Australia's menus, offering a virtually fat free treat either served cold, on a pizza, or even in a pie.
Other Australian treats
The Australians do any kind of dish well thanks to their fresh produce, but there are a few treats that regularly fall into their diet. Sling a chunk of beetroot on your burger and it'll automatically become an Australian delicacy, whilst sweet tooths are satisfied with Tim Tams (kind of like a Penguin bar), pavlovas and Lamingtons - the national cake of Australia consisting of a light sponge coated in chocolate and desiccated coconut.
Why not wash all that down with a glass of exquisite wine? The fourth largest exporter of wine in the world – with more than 750 million litres exported internationally each year – Australia's wines are just as diverse as the food served on your plate. Wine is produced in every state across the country, however the majority of wine regions are found in the cooler, southern parts of the country, where a Mediterranean-like climate creates ideal conditions for growing a variety of grapes.
The country's most famous wine is Penfolds Grange, which has won a staggering number awards and over 50 gold medals. The wine won first prize in the Syrah/Shiraz category in the Paris Wine Olympics and was given the title of Red Wine of the Year by Wine Spectator magazine which rated the vintage 99/100.
New South Wales is home to Australia's oldest grape growing region – Hunter Valley, a beautiful landscape painted with verdant vineyards and rolling hills. Hunter Valley Semillion is regarded as the iconic wine of the region, but there are many other varieties available, including Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Verdelho.
Just a short drive from Melbourne, Victoria you'll find Mornington Peninsula, peppered with prosperous vineyards which you can explore on tours, and cellar doors where you can sample the local wines. The hallmark wine varieties here are Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
Further north of Mornington Peninsula lies Yarra Valley, a wine region home to over 80 different wineries, ranging from quaint family-owned businesses to huge estates. Thanks to its relatively cool climate, Yarra Valley is able to produce some of Australia's finest Pinot Noir and sparkling wine.
Ultimate winery experiences
Australia boasts over 2,400 wineries which together produce more than 100 different grape varieties. Much more than your standard bodega where you can sample the locally-produced wine, the wineries on this list offer complete gastronomic experiences, with restaurants, events, artwork, private tasting sessions, behind-the-scenes tours and workshops, all in some of Australia's most beautiful locations.
Wyndham Estate
Located in Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Wyndham Estate is one of the country's oldest vineyards, which became home to Australia's very first commercial Shiraz vineyard in 1830. This historic winery is entirely dedicated to creating full-bodied, rich and robust wines which it exports to 65 countries worldwide.
Here you can explore the Dalwood Heritage Trail which passes through various vineyards before ending at the 180-year-old house which belonged to one of the founding fathers of Australian wine production. The trail includes the option to join in with a wine-tasting master class, wine sampling at the cellar door and a lecture on the Hunter River conservation project.
Established in 1928 in Bilbul, New South Wales, De Bortoli is now in its fourth generation and currently produces a huge variety of wines, including Merlot, Shiraz, Riesling and Pinot Gris, to name but a few. The winery invites visitors to see how premium wines are produced as part of a behind-the-scenes tour, followed by mature wine tastings straight from the barrel.
After the tour you can continue on to sample the best of the most recent vintage at the cellar door which pairs wonderfully with the locally-produced mature cheese. If you're after something more than a bit of cheese, you can dine in the onsite restaurant which reflects the family's rich Italian heritage.
Montalto Vineyard & Olive Grove
Thanks to the region's natural topography and mild climate, the Montalto Vineyard and Olive Grove specialises in producing premium cool climate wine, such as Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Known for its welcoming ambiance, intimate cellar door, beautiful grounds and acclaimed restaurant, this winery is the perfect place to while away a sunny afternoon in Australia.
The winery is dedicated to wine education and offers several workshops, lectures and chats about its wine and vineyards. Visitors can choose to tour the vineyards and wine-making sections of the estate or explore the entire grounds which include a sculpture walk, wetlands and an olive grove.
Food and wine festivals
With such top quality ingredients and incomparable resources, it's no surprise that Australia hosts a number of food and wine festivals each year. Whether you want to try some fresh seafood, indulge in seasonal vegetables or sip on locally-produced wine, Australia offers the perfect collection of foodie festivals to tantalise your taste buds, invigorate your imagination and satisfy your appetite.
Melbourne Food & Wine Festival
For more than 20 years, the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival has been pleasing food and wine lovers in their thousands through a world-class programme of culinary events. This festival is held over three weeks every March and boasts more than 200 activities, held in various venues throughout Victoria. Here you can explore bustling food markets, sample fresh seasonal produce, dine in award-winning restaurants and watch celebrated chefs show off their skills.
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Q: How to grep a vector and return a single TRUE or FALSE? Is there a grep function in R that returns TRUE if a pattern is found anywhere in the given character vector and FALSE otherwise?
All the functions I see return a vector of the current positions of each element found.

A: grepl is what you are looking for
grepl("is", "This is grepl test")
[1] TRUE
grepl("is not", "This is grepl test")
[1] FALSE

A: possibly a combination of grepl() and any()?
like
> foo = c("hello", "world", "youve", "got", "mail")
> any(grepl("world", foo))
[1] TRUE
> any(grepl("hi", foo))
[1] FALSE
> any(grepl("hel", foo))
[1] TRUE

your questions a little unclear as to whether you want that last example to return true or not

A: Perhaps you're looking for grepl()?
> grepl("is", c("This", "is", "a", "test", "isn't", "it?"))
[1]  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE

Where the first argument is the pattern you're looking for, the second argument is the vector against which you want to match, and the returned value is a Boolean vector of the same length describing whether or not the pattern was matched to each element.

A: Are you looking for "any"?
> x<-c(1,2,3,4,5)
> x==5
[1] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE
> any(x==5)
[1] TRUE

Note that you can do this for strings as well
> x<-c("a","b","c","d")
> any(x=="b")
[1] TRUE
> any(x=="e")
[1] FALSE

And it can be convenient when combined with applies:
> sapply(c(2,4,6,8,10), function(x){ x%%2==0 }  )
[1] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
> any(sapply(c(2,4,6,8,10), function(x){ x%%2!=0 }  ))
[1] FALSE

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Christine has been with the Lawson Foundation as Program Director in the areas of early child development and healthy active living since 2012. Her M.Ed and background as an elementary school teacher in American schools in Latin America raised but did not answer her questions about children's readiness for school and family influences on child development. The 1999 Early Years Study (Mustard and McCain) first exposed her to the science of early child development and the potential of public policy to provide all children with a healthy, equitable start in life.
Christine's first work in ECD was with Pueblito Canada managing a variety of CIDA (former Canadian International Development Agency) funded early child development projects in Latin America in collaboration with local community partners. Projects included early childhood educator training in Brazil and Nicaragua, development of child and family support services in the bateyes of the Dominican Republic, indigenous early childhood education programs in Chiapas, Mexico, circus arts for youth at risk in Mexico City, and country and regional ECD policy development across Latin America. She also worked on behalf of Pueblito with the international Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development (CGECCD).
Following her international work, Christine had the great fortune to work for the Council for Early Child Development (formerly funded by the Lawson Foundation) under the leadership of the late Drs. Fraser Mustard and Clyde Hertzman. As National Projects Lead, she supported the Council's mission to put science into action in Canada through knowledge sharing events and networking with sector stakeholders. She provided staff leadership to the formation of a national network of thought leaders to foster dialogue and share resources between the education and early learning & care sectors. Before joining the Lawson Foundation, Christine held a brief contract at the Ontario government to support the transfer of child care licensing from the Ministry of Children and Youth Services to the Ministry of Education's Early Years Division. She helped coordinate the Early Years Division's first child care gathering with First Nations in Ontario.
Christine is currently pursuing her PhD in early learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/ University of Toronto.


The attainable speeds listed in the product table are guideline values and are valid under certain conditions. For additional information, refer to Attainable speeds.
As there is no friction generated at the seal lip, the attainable speed of a sealed bearing is equivalent to a same-sized open bearing.
The values listed for oil-air lubrication should be reduced if other oil lubrication methods are used.
The values listed for grease lubrication are maximum values that can be attained with sealed bearings or open bearings with an appropriate fill of a suitable, high-quality, soft consistency grease. For additional information, contact the SKF application engineering service.
If, in order to increase system rigidity, single bearings are adjusted so that a heavy preload results, the attainable speeds listed in the product tables should be reduced. For additional information, contact the SKF application engineering service.
If bearing sets with two or more bearings mounted immediately adjacent to each other are used, the attainable speeds listed in the product tables need to be reduced. Values for the maximum rotational speeds in these cases can be obtained by multiplying the guideline value listed in the product tables by a reduction factor (dependent on the bearing design, preload, and the bearing arrangement) listed in table 1.
If the calculated attainable speed is not sufficient for the application, precision-matched spacer rings in the bearing set (fig. 1) can be used to increase the speed capability.


Open June to September, this campground on 150 feet of private sandy beach on Okanagan Lake offers two-bedroom self-contained cottages. The resort provides barbecue facilities, boats and boat launches, tennis and a variety of water sports.
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Barre est une ville (town) américaine de l'État du Vermont, située dans le comté de Washington. Au recensement de 2010, elle comptait . Elle est populairement appelée Barre Town pour la distinguer de sa voisine homonyme qui a le statut de city.

Géographie
Barre se trouve au centre du Vermont, au sud-est de la capitale Montpelier. Son territoire de  forme un quadrilatère au milieu duquel est enclavé la ville homonyme de Barre et est limitrophe au sud et à l'est du comté d'Orange.

Municipalités limitrophes

Communautés locales
Barre comprend quatre communautés non incorporées qui forment des Census-designated places (CDP), toutes situées dans le sud-est de son territoire : East Barre, Graniteville, South Barre et Websterville.

Histoire
Fondée à la fin du  sous le nom de Wildersburgh, elle est rebaptisée Barre par les habitants en l'honneur d'Isaac Barré (1726-1802), un militaire et homme politique irlandais d'origine huguenote. En 1895, une partie de son territoire en est détachée pour former une nouvelle municipalité appelée également Barre mais avec le statut de city.

Démographie

Économie
Tout comme sa voisine homonyme, Barre est connue pour ses carrières de granite qui ont fait sa fortune.

Personnalités liées à la ville
 DeForest Jarvis, médecin, est décédé en 1966 à South Barre.
 Miranda July, actrice, chanteuse et réalisatrice, née à Barre.

Town au Vermont
Localité dans le comté de Washington (Vermont)

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Location: Brooklyn, NY
The School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Pratt Institute invites applications for the position of Chair of the Department of Humanities and Media Studies. The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader as well as an established scholar and/or creative practitioner; they will have considerable administrative experience and will have earned the rank of associate or full professor with tenure. Reporting to the Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Chair advises a diverse group of faculty in the development of the curriculum and oversees day-to-day operations of a vibrant, collegial, and multidisciplinary department of 20 full-time and more than 50 part-time faculty.
The Department of Humanities and Media Studies (HMS) is an innovative and multidisciplinary department with graduate programs in Media Studies (M.A.) and Performance and Performance Studies (M.F.A.). At the undergraduate level, the department offers a core curriculum of required courses in the humanities to the entire Institute and minors in Literature and Writing, Cinema Studies, Media Studies, and Performance and Performance Studies. The department also offers elective courses and courses for Institute-wide minors in The Book, Black Studies, and Social Justice and Social Practice. The department is known for an extensive range of innovative studio writing courses and writing workshops, working across the disciplines of an art and design school, and is further distinguished by a program in Architecture Writing that integrates and cross-links courses in the humanities and architecture.
The Department Chair will mentor and oversee a faculty drawn to Pratt by the opportunity to work in the multidisciplinary environment of a top-rated and internationally recognized school of art, design, architecture, and information, and to teach students who are highly creative and academically prepared. The chair will embrace the department's intellectual and creative mission of engagement in socially informed humanities as well as its multidisciplinary approach to scholarship and creative practice, both in themselves and in their co-evolution with each other and with their art and design school environment.
Located on Pratt's historic 25-acre campus in the culturally diverse neighborhood of Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, Pratt draws students from diverse cultural and geographic backgrounds. We are committed to advancing diversity and inclusion in our curriculum as well as in the ranks of our faculty, students, and staff and seek applicants who can contribute to the furtherance of these goals.
Encourage and advance a vision for the Department
Supervise Assistant Chair and Assistant to the Chair
Appoint and direct program coordinators supporting academic degree programs
Oversee teaching assignments and course scheduling
Oversee faculty recruitment, evaluation, and development
Convene departmental faculty meetings
Oversee curriculum development and revision
Administer the department's budget
Advance collaboration between HMS and other SLAS departments
Participate in divisional and Institute committees as assigned by Dean
Carry out special projects and assume other related duties as required
A Ph.D. or M.F.A in a relevant discipline is required.
Applicants must have a minimum of 7+ years college-level teaching experience in a relevant discipline and must have earned tenure and be at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. The candidate must have a record of scholarly and/or creative accomplishments and at least two years of administrative experience, preferably at or commensurate with the chair level.
Strong administrative, communication, and interpersonal skills, and the capability to work in a dynamic environment in which collaboration across academic departments and Schools, as well as across Institute offices, is required.
The ability to balance the day-to-day administrative duties of the position with the intellectual and creative challenge of leading faculty, coordinating the work of curriculum development, and furthering the strategic vision of the department.
Experience working with a unionized faculty is a plus.
Salary is commensurate with education and experience.
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- Her stretching routine every time she wakes up from a long nap. She starts by stretching each arm high above her head and then rubbing her hair. Then her neck and back, then straightens out her skinny legs so we can see her wrinkly 'baby elephant' knees.
- Olivia does not get sad. She gets angry or bugged. When this happens her face will turn bright red and she'll let out a yell. We call this alter ego 'Raquel'. You don't want to be too close when Raquel comes out because she is the evil personality.
-Baby has a seat that detaches from the swing and has two runners on the bottom that allows it to rock. Sometimes we'll slide her in it down the stairs (carefully holding on, of course) and sing the song from the movie Cool Runnings, except it goes like this "babiiiies, we have a newborn bobsled team!" We think it's pretty funny, but sometimes Raquel comes out and puts a stop to the activity.
- Olivia suffers from narcolepsy (aka, she's a newborn) and it is quite the feat getting her to stay awake during feedings. We have found that the best cure is a popsicle to the back. Gets her sucking again every time.
- My favorite time of the day with our little girl is when she wakes up next to me in bed for her 8:30am feeding. She starts making sounds and I'll open my eyes to find her staring at me like she is just waiting for me to wake up. Her eyes are a beautiful dark blue and she always looks like she is much more intelligent than we are giving her credit for.
- She is still so tiny! All of her newborn clothes are still too baggy on her. I thought she could get by in 0-3 months after the first week, but I had to go get more tiny onesies so she wouldn't drown in the ones she has.
-I suffer from just a slight overproduction of milk :/ Olivia hasn't learned yet how to moderate her eating, so she often ends up choking. When this happens, it's time to pull out the video camera because she could win an Oscar for her act of her harrowing experience with choking. According to her splayed arms, gasping breaths, and watery eyes, Olivia is living her last moments on earth. After a quick burp she returns to her normal, hungry self and will eat, unscathed for another 5 minutes...until she drinks too quickly and thinks she is on the brink of death again.
- She is such a good baby, she eats well, sleeps from midnight to 5 most nights and then again until 8:30, takes a late morning nap so I can shower and make lunch, and loves her carseat, swing, stroller etc. She still can't get the hang of her bassinet though so I am naughty and put her in bed next to me for the second half of the night. I wish I could bottle up her smell for when she gets bigger and loses it. I could smell her all day. Love love love.


Abstract: The potential use of plants as antimicrobial agents in medicine has not been fully exploited. The present study was carried out to investigate the synergic interaction of dichloromethane/methanol extracts from Punica granatum (PG), Thymus vulgaris (TV), Commiphora molmol (CM) and Achillea fragrantissima (AF) with tetracycline against Gram positive (Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923 and Bacillus megaterium ATCC 14591) and Gram negative (Escherichia coli ATCC 25922, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853 and Klebsiella pneumonia ATCC 700603) bacterial strains. All extracts had a significant antibacterial activity against all tested bacteria within concentrations range of (0.1-50 mg/disk). The lowest Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) recorded was 1 mg mL-1. The recorded MICs values of PG and TV against Gram negative bacteria were higher than those against Gram positive strains. Combination of PG, TV, or CM with tetracycline achieved synergetic interaction against tested bacteria as indicated from fractional inhibitory concentration and confirmed by time kill assays. CM, PG and TV significantly increased the Post Antibiotic Effect (PAE) of tetracycline from 1 h to 3, 4 and 5 h, respectively. The results suggested the use of these plants in extending the lifetime of fading antibiotics.