Hit up the farmer's market for the next month, and you're going to run into what's arguably the best produce of the year. Right this moment, a handful of fruits and vegetables are either at their most tender and green, or they're making a brief showing before they disappear until the following spring. If you want to enjoy it while you have the chance, here's what to look for and how to prepare it.
What you need to know: Fava beans (shown above) have a buttery texture and a sweet, almost pea-like flavor. They're at their peak from April to July, and are most young and tender at the beginning of the season. They're most commonly shucked out of their pods, blanched, and then peeled to reveal tender, bright-green beans, but if favas are young enough, they can be eaten whole, too. When shopping for favas, select firm, heavy pods that aren't too bumpy and don't have many markings; store them in your refrigerator's crisper for up to a week.
How to enjoy them: Shuck beans out of their pods, blanch, peel them, then toss them with a light dressing of lemon juice and zest, olive oil, garlic, and pecorino cheese. If your fava beans feel firm, young, and tender, go for an even easier preparation that utilizes the whole vegetable. Grill the pods with chile and lemon, or, if you love intentionally overcooked vegetables like I do, braise them low and slow in lemon juice and oil.
What you need to know: Frozen peas sure do come in handy, but there's nothing quite like the toothsome snap and the sweet juiciness of a freshly-shelled English pea. They're at their best during the month of May, and you can eat them raw, blanched, stir-fried, or sautéed. Look out for shiny, firm, vivid-hued pods that are heavy for their size, and store them, covered, for up to three days in the coldest part of your fridge.
When shopping for peas, remember that one pound of peas in their pods will only yield one cup of shelled peas (the pods, while inedible, can be saved to flavor stock). When shelling peas, resist the urge to do them ahead of time, and shell them immediately before you're ready to cook or use them for the freshest results. Shell peas by breaking off the stem of the vegetable and pulling the string down the length of the pod, then pressing each pod between your fingers to open it, revealing individual peas.
How to enjoy them: The very easiest way to eat freshly-shelled peas is to toss them with mint, onion, and a light vinaigrette. (Hey, if you're going to spend all that time shelling, you deserve to make up for it with a simple preparation!) Another easy way to get your pea fix is with this easy vegan pea soup, which tastes decent with the frozen variety but even sweeter when made with fresh peas. You can't go wrong with a buttery pea and onion preparation, either.
What you need to know: Strawberries are so popular today that they're available almost everywhere year-round. But if you don't savor them right now, you'll miss out. April through August is when they're at their very sweetest and most aromatic. When buying them, look out for firm, plump, and shiny specimens that have their stems attached and are free of mold; most importantly, keep your eyes peeled for a saturated red color, as they won't ripen further once they've been picked. They'll keep for at least three days, but you can also give berries a hot bath to prolong their life.
How to enjoy them: You probably don't need to be told how delicious strawberries are on their own. But if you want to enjoy them in other ways, you could always make a batch of chocolate-covered strawberries as a gift or make a strawberry shortcake for dessert. For something less predictable, I like to use strawberries in savory applications, swapping them out in any recipe that would normally call for a fresh tomato (like in the strawberry Caprese salad pictured above).
What you need to know: The arrival of the scallion-like greens known as ramps are a sure sign that spring has arrived. Ramps have a six-week season beginning in April, and because they only grow in the wild, they must be foraged, so you're unlikely to find them at supermarkets. These greens can be scarce and pricey, but they're prized for their flavor, which is robustly garlicky and pungent when eaten raw, and mellow and onion-like when grilled or sautéed. When shopping for ramps, look for perky green leaves and a firm purple stem and white bulb; the roots should be intact as well. Ramps have a very brief shelf life, so they should be consumed within a day or two of purchasing.
How to enjoy them: Because they have such an assertive personality, ramps are often best prepared in simple ways. Pickle them whole, or tear the leaves into a salad. They're also fantastic fried with eggs, as I can attest to the other day, when I sautéed them in bacon and served them alongside levain bread. You can also grill them until they develop a nice char.
What you need to know: Springtime is the best time to enjoy asparagus in its grassy, vegetal, crisp glory. It's at its peak from April to July, and tastes delicious both raw and cooked. Look for odorless stalks that are firm yet tender; woody stems will mean a tougher, more fibrous experience. Keep an eye out for compact tips, and avoid any fernlike growth at the tops of the plant. Store asparagus upright in the refrigerator in an inch of water, and it should keep for at least three to four days.
How to enjoy it: If you buy fat varieties of asparagus, they're great for shaving into noodles and tossed with grated lemon zest and parmesan; I also like to steam them and serve them lightly dressed with a bit of grated egg (you can also freeze steamed asparagus to consume later). Skinny versions are particularly fantastic when tossed with olive oil and balsamic vinegar and thrown on the grill (or in the oven for roasting).
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La batalla de Siffín enfrentó a los partidarios del cuarto califa del Islam, Alí ibn Abi Tálib con los del gobernador de Siria Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyán y, como consecuencia, los musulmanes quedaron divididos en tres grupos: suníes, chiíes y jariyíes. La batalla tuvo lugar en Siffín, una llanura junto al Éufrates medio cercana a la actual ciudad siria de Raqqa, en el año 657, en el marco de lo que en árabe se llama Al-Fitna al-Kubra o «gran guerra civil».

Antecedentes
El año anterior había sido asesinado el califa precedente, Otmán. El vacío de poder fue aprovechado por los alíes (partidarios de Alí) para nombrarlo califa. Alí era primo y yerno de Mahoma, y desde la muerte de este había reclamado su derecho a sucederle, organizando en torno a sí una facción, llamada en árabe shi'at 'ali, «partido o facción de Alí» (de donde procede el término «chií»).

La elección de Alí fue contestada por varios grupos, oponiéndose con especial fuerza Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyán, gobernador de Siria y miembro del clan de los omeyas, como el califa asesinado. Muawiya acusó a Alí de complicidad en la muerte de su predecesor, por haberse negado a castigar a los autores del crimen, y reclamó que su sangre fuera vengada de acuerdo con la costumbre árabe. El bando contrario insistía en la supuesta impiedad de Otmán, lo que justificaría el asesinato. Bajo estas consideraciones formales latía también un conflicto territorial, pues estaba en juego la preeminencia de Siria o de Irak (bastión de los alíes) en la dirección del Estado islámico.

Durante varios meses, Alí y Muawiya intercambiaron emisarios y entablaron negociaciones infructuosas, en las que Muawiya llegó a proponer la división del Estado islámico en dos califatos y Alí dirimir la cuestión con un duelo entre ambos, para evitar la guerra. Todo esto no hizo sino aumentar la tensión; la guerra parecía cada vez más inevitable.

La batalla
Alí tomó la iniciativa y se dirigió a Siria con sus tropas. El ejército sirio salió a su encuentro, lo que ocurrió en Siffín en el verano del 657. Durante una semana, ambos bandos se resistieron a entablar batalla abierta: se producían escaramuzas entre destacamentos que regresaban al campamento respectivo al caer la noche. Finalmente, unos y otros se prepararon para el choque frontal.

La batalla empezó el día 8 del mes de safar del año 37 de la Hégira (26 de julio del año 657). Según las crónicas, los heraldos de Alí se presentaron ante las tropas de Muawiya, exhortándolas a abrazar la verdad y reconocer el califato de Alí, a lo que los de Muawiya respondieron: «Queremos venganza por la sangre de Otmán. Entregadnos a sus asesinos si defendéis la verdad». La tradición afirma que, para evitar la batalla, Alí volvió a retar a Muawiya, primero, y, tras el rechazo de este, a su general Amr ibn al-As, a un combate singular que zanjara el asunto.

Durante tres días, los dos ejércitos combatieron con fiereza. La batalla estaba en su apogeo cuando las tropas de Muawiya depusieron las armas y, clavando hojas del Corán en la punta de sus lanzas, dijeron que debía cesar la lucha fratricida y someterse el disenso al juicio de Dios, es decir, al dictamen de un árbitro justo y piadoso. Se trataba de dirimir la cuestión de si podía admitirse el asesinato de Otmán y, por tanto, si el gobernador de Siria tenía o no derecho a vengarse. La tradición chií afirma que actuaron así porque su derrota era inminente.

Aunque Alí quería seguir el combate, la mayoría de los alíes, entre ellos Málik al-Ashtar, su principal general, estuvieron de acuerdo con la propuesta, lo que obligó a Alí a aceptar el arbitraje. Ante esto, un grupo de combatientes se rebeló diciendo que era un sacrilegio dejar en manos humanas el juicio divino y que había que continuar combatiendo hasta que Alá diera la razón a unos u otros. Este grupo abandonó la batalla, y de ahí el nombre de jawariŷ («los que se salieron») que se les dio.

El árbitro, Ashas ibn Qays, dio la razón a Muawiya, cuyas tropas le proclamarían califa al año siguiente. Los alíes y los jariyíes continuaron combatiendo a Muawiya, pero se desgastaron también en una cruenta lucha entre ellos que a la larga cimentó el futuro califato omeya, establecido definitivamente, con capital en Damasco, a la muerte de Alí en el año 661.

Consecuencias

La batalla de Siffín dividió a los musulmanes en tres grupos que convivirán y se enfrentarán a lo largo de toda la historia del Islam. Los alíes o chiíes (partidarios de Alí), los jariyíes y el resto, que por ser el grupo más numeroso se darán a sí mismos el nombre de suníes, que podría traducirse por «tradicionalistas» u «ortodoxos». La división en principio fue política, aunque cada grupo acabará desarrollando importantes diferencias doctrinales con los demás, especialmente los chiíes. Por esta razón se suele utilizar el nombre de alíes para referirse a ellos en estos primeros momentos en que desde el punto de vista doctrinal no se diferencian de los demás musulmanes.

En cuanto al conflicto territorial subyacente, la lucha entre Siria e Irak, marca, en primer lugar, la práctica desaparición de Arabia de la escena histórica. La península arábiga había permanecido durante siglos casi al margen de los acontecimientos del área, para irrumpir de repente y con fuerza debido al islam y su expansión, y volver a desaparecer con la consolidación del califato omeya y el traslado del centro político del imperio islámico desde Medina a Damasco. La Meca permanecerá como centro espiritual. Por otro lado, la lucha entre Siria e Irak continuará, y a la vuelta de un siglo una revuelta iraquí acabará con el poder omeya y trasladará la capital a Mesopotamia.

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House of Koko, a popular cafe and coffee shop in the Chapel Allerton district of Leeds, West Yorkshire, has been sold via Christie & Co to a local business owner in the licensed sector off an asking price of £75k for the leasehold.
Comprising an open plan dining area for up to 22 covers and an outside terrace for 30 covers, House of Koko serves the high levels of passing trade and local young professionals in the busy city. Situated within an urban residential area close to the city centre, the cafe sees strong footfall.
Previous owners, Chris Ball and Shanshan Zhu decided to sell the leasehold of House of Koko as they are planning to move to Bali. They said, "Following the sale of House of Koko, we would like to take this opportunity to thank Business Agent, Sam Ashton and the team at Christie & Co for their efforts in successfully selling our former business. After many years of successful trade and good memories, we are now moving on to the next chapter of our lives and wish the new owner all the best.
Sam Ashton, Business Agent at Christie & Co who handled the sale, commented, "I thoroughly enjoyed the marketing and sale of this business. We achieved lots of interest from a handful of parties within weeks of marketing and within one month we agreed a deal with an offer over the asking price, which is a great result.


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Eddie Marotta '19 knew he wanted to attend John Carroll after hearing stories of his great-grandfather's experience at the University. Eddie Arsenault '40 grew up in Waterville, Maine, and moved to Ohio to play football and hockey at John Carroll in 1938. He was a two-time captain for both teams, and was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame in 1967 before passing away the same year.
"I am his namesake, and after hearing the stories of his John Carroll career and the respect those people had for him as a person, I always knew I wanted to attend John Carroll," Marotta said.
When he got to University Heights, Marotta studied communication with a concentration in digital media. The rigorous coursework and extracurricular opportunities at John Carroll gave him a personalized experience.
Outside of class, Marotta was involved in extracurriculars that allowed him to be around Blue Streak athletic teams and apply his coursework in a field he was passionate about. He was an employee of the sports information department, social media intern for John Carroll football, and sports director for WJCU 88.7 FM.Each of his experiences have been driving forces to his early success in his post-graduation role as a media relations intern with the New England Patriots.
Many of the obligations I've had within the Patriots PR department were things I had already done in sports information. Chris Wenzler and the sports information department contributed greatly to everything I find myself doing after graduation.
In his role, Marotta is responsible for a multitude of things. He attends and transcribes press conferences and open locker room periods, and takes players to and from their media obligations. On game days, he can be responsible for setup and teardown of the press box, finding significant statistical notes, attending and facilitating questions during post-game press conferences and operating the scoreboard during games.
Marotta grew up a fan of the Patriots and always dreamt about being a part of the organization, so the opportunity to work alongside fellow John Carroll alumni in Foxborough, Massachusetts has been a dream come true for him.
"John Carroll is extremely respected in New England, and those alumni make it a point to develop relationships with others that have gone to the University," Marotta said. "The warmth and welcome I've gotten just from going to John Carroll has been nothing short of spectacular."
Marotta credits John Carroll for making him into a well-rounded, confident individual, both personally and professionally.
John Carroll is rigorous, but provides ample opportunity for students to gain experience in and out of the classroom. This translates to almost every scenario you may find yourself in while in the workplace. Because of the experience I gained at John Carroll, I go into work every day confident and prepared to be successful when faced with whatever challenges may arise.
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An accessible scientific explanation for the traditional rules of voice leading, including an account of why listeners find some musical textures more pleasing than others.Voice leading is the musical art of combining sounds over time. In this book, David Huron offers an accessible account of the cognitive and perceptual foundations for this practice. Drawing on decades of scientific research, including his own award-winning work, Huron offers explanations for many practices and phenomena, including the perceptual dominance of the highest voice, chordal-tone doubling, direct octaves, embellishing tones, and the musical feeling of sounds "leading" somewhere. Huron shows how traditional rules of voice leading align almost perfectly with modern scientific accounts of auditory perception. He also reviews pertinent research establishing the role of learning and enculturation in auditory and musical perception.Voice leading has long been taught with reference to Baroque chorale-style part-writing, yet there exist many more musical styles and practices. The traditional emphasis on Baroque part-writing understandably leaves many musicians wondering why they are taught such an archaic and narrow practice in an age of stylistic diversity. Huron explains how and why Baroque voice leading continues to warrant its central pedagogical status. Expanding beyond choral-style writing, Huron shows how established perceptual principles can be used to compose, analyze, and critically understand any kind of acoustical texture from tune-and-accompaniment songs and symphonic orchestration to jazz combo arranging and abstract electroacoustic music. Finally, he offers a psychological explanation for why certain kinds of musical textures are more likely to be experienced by listeners as pleasing.
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You do not have to be a musician or composer interested in the cognition of music to appreciate this book.—Quarterly Review of Biology— Huron's book is a remarkable achievement, intertwining encyclopedic knowledge of auditory science with a deep understanding of voice-leading theory and practice. Fascinating and novel questions, insights, and perspectives fly like sparks from the pages. It is hard to imagine a reader who would not be provoked, engaged, or inspired by the breadth of his endeavor. —Journal of Music Theory— The greatest strengths of Voice Leading are both its extensiveness and its comprehensibility... Voice Leading is thus ideally suited for a broad audience lacking prior knowledge of empirical research on music perception, a convenient read for musicians, music theory scholars and teachers, and a general audience interested in music's psychological background. —Music Theory and Analysis— Huron has written a brilliant and eminently readable synthesis of decades of empirical work on the cognitive and auditory principles that underlie polyphonic compositional techniques. This book is an ideal entry point for musicians interested in the field of music cognition, as Huron carefully leads the reader through the process of investigating musical knowledge through scientific experiments. —Ian Quinn, Professor of Music, Yale University— Everyone, whether beginning college music students, experts in music theory and auditory science, or interested members of the general public, could find the book readable and interesting. —Journal of Music Theory— In this captivating book, David Huron provides a compelling account of the extraordinary capabilities and intricacies of the human auditory system, and how they are artfully navigated and exploited in the practice of multipart music composition. Drawing on over a half a century of interdisciplinary research on human audition, Huron demystifies and expands upon the traditional rules of voice leading, linking them to perceptual and cognitive principles freighted with rich aesthetic and evolutionary significance. This book is a revelation. —William Forde Thompson, Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise, and Training, Macquarie University— the historical commentary on musical composition throughout anchors the volume within a social context. —Kasey Fowler-Finn, Quarterly Review of Biology— David Huron, at Ohio State University, has pursued during his remarkable academic career a musicological study on voice leading from perceptual and cognitive standpoints, which he has now synthesized in a lucid book. —Gilberto Bernardes, Portugese Journal of Musicology— David Huron's book on voice leading is the state-of-the-art account of the psychological principles that govern the perception of individual voices in a piece of music. —Fabian Moss, Music Theory and Analysis—
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Myrtenordningen (Myrtales) är en ordning av trikolpater där den är placerad i undergruppen rosider. I nyare klassificeringssystem ingår följande familjer i Myrtales:
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Alternativt kan Memecylaceae ingå i medinillaväxterna.

I det äldre Cronquistsystemet ingick ungefär samma familjer. Skillnaderna är att Vochysiaceae ingick i den äldre ordningen Polygalales och att tibastväxterna (Thymelaeceae) fanns i Myrtales. De ingår numera i Malvales. Tidigare var familjerna Sonneratiaceae, sjönötsväxter (Trapaceae) och granatäppleväxter (Punicaceae) fristående familjer, men de ingår nu i fackelblomsväxterna. Däremot ingick de numera fristående familjerna Psioxylaceae och Heteropyxidaceae i myrtenväxterna och Memecylaceae i medinillaväxterna

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The Chase's Paul Sinha says he 'likely' has coronavirus
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The Chase's 'The Sinnerman' says that he didn't self-isolate soon enough as he opens up about coronavirus fears.
Paul Sinha has revealed that he thinks he has coronavirus, claiming that he started social distancing 'a few days too late'.
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The Chase star - known as the 'Sinnerman' - announced the news in a statement to Twitter, saying: "Although I cant be sure and i cant be tested it seems likely i have Coronavirus (sic)," he shared.
"Started social distancing a few days too late. Anyone upsets me; I'll be around to sneeze in your home."
Although I cant be sure and i cant be tested it seems likely i have Coronavirus .Started social distancing a few days too late. Anyone upsets me; I'll be around to sneeze in your home
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Many of Paul's fans rushed to offer their support, with one writing: "All the best mate, get well soon".
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Another added: "Get well soon bud. Thinking of you <3 x".
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Tom Hanks updated fans on his condition last night, revealing that he and his wife Rita Wilson - who was also diagnosed - were feeling better.
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He wrote: "Hey, folks. Two weeks after our first symptoms and we feel better. Sheltering in place works like this: You don't give it to anyone - You don't get it from anyone. Common sense, no? Going to take awhile, but if we take care of each other, help where we can, and give up some comforts... this, too, shall pass. We can figure this out. Hanx."
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A celebration of local food and drink is taking place in Budleigh Salterton this autumn.
The inaugural Budleigh Salterton Food and Drink Festival is set to take place from Friday, October 11, until Sunday, October 13.
The festival is an initiative of business networking consortium Budleigh in Business and organised by Simon Blissett who runs the fish and chip shop.
It follows on from the success of Active Budleigh which celebrated all the activities that are available in and around the town.
The event is designed to showcase locally sourced food and drink on offer in the town. It will include cooking demonstrations, a beer festival and food stalls. And the Budleigh Kitchen will also be taken over by businesses to offer their dishes.
There will also be family entertainment including face painting, balloon sculpture and live music in the evenings.
The event will also see the launch of a Budleigh Buy Local campaign, along with a support package for local retailers, businesses and producers, which is designed to raise awareness of local businesses and encourage the public to use them.


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There is a growing desire to know how products are made, where the components come from, what is the carbon footprint of the product you hold in your hands. So far, this has translated into efforts around the responsible sourcing of mined products and in consumer good companies claiming that their products were responsibly sourced through traceability, supplier codes of conduct or going through the Bettercoal assessment.
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Happy Silly Tuesday, yes, but on a more serious note when Toronto had its last garbage strike it was the poor neighbourhoods that were used as temporary dumping areas. This popular basketball court was taken away without a moment's thought or public consultation. You can rest assured the wealthy parts of town weren't similarly affected.
Our daughter and son-in-law are expecting twins. Spencer will have either two brothers, two sisters or one of each. We'll find out later. EXCITING! (Better than winning the Stanley Cup!) I put this little ditty together for them.
I was flying over cultivated fields in fall and looking down, I was amazed how abstract the view below me looked.
the last ice masses of winter sit thawing in the spring sunshine near 7 sisters dam in manitoba, canada.
in about one month, it could be bikini weather at this location, so the change from spring to summer can take place quite quickly. at least for this year, we certainly hope it would hurry up a bit more!
this rare and spectacular species calls manitoba its favourite habitat. the pixelated bison can be seen every winter grazing on thick, tasty ice on the mighty red river -with this fella's herd ranging just south of the forks in winnipeg, canada. you can see just how thick the pixelated bison's graze ice can be... that crack beneath his feet has a white "shadow" along its length - this is the cross-section of a crack extending the full depth of the ice. the pixelated bison love it!
interesting lights from some aurora activity seen off shores of lake winnipeg in wee hours of oct 14.
Hurrying through the subway station.
Taking photos along Lake Erie, Ontario in winter is an experience. It seems like you're on another planet!You just stand there in awe and gaze at its beauty! Without the sun it looks desolate but when the sun is shining it takes your breath away!!
Although I have given this image a gentle name it is actually an abandoned phosphorous plant near Gatineau used during the war.
A sculpture installation located in Toronto's financial district.
Most of Wendy's flowers have finished for the season. A few yellow and red roses are still trying to bloom, but now we just have to cut back, divide some perennials, and rake the leaves...again. But I love fall.
Honest Ed's bargain store (previously featured here has been torn down, and something new is coming to take its place. Maybe I should post more shots of Honest Ed's from when it still was standing. I probably have a few interesting shots.
Anyway, I liked the cranes here. I seem to have a thing for them.
I am really in love with these wonderful flowers... they are very beautiful under the sunshine. They make me feel happy and grateful.
After a research I found out the name of this plant is poison-hemlock which can be fatal if just a small amount is ingested.
Lucky me, I don't have a habit of eating flowers whenever I see a beautiful one!
But in my country (Iran) we do have a habit of brewing some special flowers. I thought its a good idea to educate people who don't know about this plant.
I had to further soften all the edges as the negative has deteriorated quite a bit.
some negatives last longer. It depends on who developed the negatives for me.
I usually sent the negatives out for developing while I printed my own b&w photos.
since spring is a tad late this year... and cabin fever may set in, it was time for a stroll in front of the 7 sisters hydro-electric dam in late spring. this scene reveals a vast array of icy chunks and curtains. these are quite blinding in the bright sun, and many of these ice chunks are the size of small cars. the ice brings very interesting detail in cross section. the icy curtains are a few storeys tall.
It was held this posture for almost half an hour!
Couples enjoy the onset of nightfall from Toronto Island, finally in the aftermath of serious flooding that occurred earlier this year (hence the sandbags), in which many residents were affected and it seemed for a time they would lose their island homes.
This was my first time seeing Niagara Falls and was amazed by its sheer power. I was then amazed to get a different PoV and notice people standing at the base of the Falls and noting the sheer scale of it. I had to capture this. This was a particularly windy day and many of the spectators got soaked by the blowing mist. We went down there on a later date when the wind took the mist in the opposite direction and kept us fairly dry.
What a surprise to discover (in august of course) a wonderful collection of various plants in a beautiful park (1100 acres) ! One of the charms of Winnipeg, too little known.
"St. Regis Hotel est. 1911", Winnipeg - by Charlie Johnston - Mural of the year 2003.
Parkdale is a west end section of Toronto where plenty of Victorian era buildings, both commercial and residential, have been preserved and lend old world charm to a rapidly growing city.
Occasionally I see tiny houses in the neighbourhoods of Toronto, like this one.
The Distillery District in Toronto, a good place for people watching.
The current condo tower trend is to have odd angles and off center design elements. It breaks up the monotony of identical skyscraper mentalities, and thus I do not mind.
Although I feel my soul is 48, I can rejoice watching butterflies and the beautiful details of the world, from an eyes of an 8 years old kid!
And... I strongly believe in the existence of the good things. Because I have faith. That's why I'm still alive and I like to be!
En attente à l'aéroport d'Inukjuak, dans le Nunavik (Québec), deux avions d'Air Inuit et un magnifique coucher de soleil.
I feel that I'm definitely more than one person and that's inordinately challenging and exhausting. Because I'm aware of all of myselves at the same time. Not like the bipolar people who don't know when and why they turn to their other personality.
This is a different and larger view of a building facade in Kitchener Ontario that I posted an image of previously.
Un point de repère de l'histoire des Granbyens a été démoli.
Cette église catholique se souvenait de plein de baptêmes, de mariages, de funérailles et de cérémonies. Si ma mère voyait ça, elle serait bien triste. Elle y a chanté pendant plusieurs années.
B&W sepia toned photo, then using Dr. Martin's Airbrush watercolours which I used to paint the B&W image. A drop of red, half yellow and 2 sepia with water for the face paint, it can be applied either with a long q tip type stereo cleaner, but not a q-tip as it can easily scratch. It can be applied by an airbrush and small lines of the eyelashes with a 00 paint brush.
Reworked eyebrows, lashes, lips, in effect I use a lot of Hollywood retouch procedures in a more modern method at this time.
The granite ridges just north of Kingston, ON provide great hiking and spectacular vistas in Fall.


China on Tuesday accused foreign human rights organizations of exaggerating recent clashes between Tibetan demonstrators and police in southwestern China.
Tibetan advocacy groups and witnesses said Monday that police in Sichuan province opened fire on several thousand unarmed Tibetan demonstrators in a county called Luhuo by China and Draggo by Tibetans.
But foreign ministry spokesperson Hong Lei on Tuesday called those reports "hyped", saying the clash involved only "dozens of protesters." He said the unrest started when protesters began destroying stores and attacking police with rocks and knives.
The organization Free Tibet said one person was killed and at least 30 others wounded, while the International Campaign for Tibet said three were killed and nine wounded.
China's official Xinhua news agency quoted local officials as saying one person was killed and five police officers wounded when a clash broke out over the presumed self-immolation of a monk.
Several reports from international news organizations said the situation had calmed on Tuesday.


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There are plenty of books about Beeching, but only one has been completely updated to mark 50 years since the Beeching report was published.
In The Great Railway Conspiracy, David Henshaw tells the story of Britain's railways from the late 1940s to the present day. Was there really a conspiracy to humble the rail industry in the 1960s? Leaving the way open for profiteering by car manufacturers, road builders and other member of the so-called 'road lobby'?
A sorry tale emerges of lost opportunities, deliberate running down of busy services, 'cooked' account books and opportunistic intervention by road groups. These pressures left the railways struggling by the early 1980s. Fortunately, the tide was soon to turn, and today passenger numbers are higher than they have ever been, with most lines bulging at the seams, including many that were saved from the Beeching holocaust by political expediency, dedicated campaigners, or – in a few cases – sheer luck.
Henshaw makes the point that without the deliberate run-down of the 1960s, the railway map would look very different today, and the railways even busier than they are. Many lines have reopened in recent years, and these are all identified and discussed, together with potential reopening targets for the future.
First published in 1991, 'The Great Railway Conspiracy' was reprinted in 1993, and completely revised in 2013. Only the 3rd edition has this cover. Railway enthusiasts will recognise Bombardier's Class 172. But full marks if you spot that this is Tavistock station, taken from a 1972 photograph. This was four years after closure. Tavistock, of course, is high on the potential reopening list, either as a branch line from Plymouth, or as a major stop on a reopened inland trunk line linking Plymouth with Exeter. Will we see this? Henshaw puts it at No. 4 in his top 30 targets in Chapter 10.
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What a super group! I loved all their music from the old time to the folk rock. I had the pleasure of meeting them once, and got to back Charlene Darling ( Maggie Peterson) on several songs last summer at an event in North Alabama. She is still a pretty , and kind lady.Doug will be greatly missed.
Thanks Ken. I agree. And underappreciated. Thanks for writing, and keep picking!
Thanks for the song connection. I always appreciate the music you select.
It's me, its me it's Ernest T. Loved those Darlings and poor Charlene always chased by "he's a nut" Ernest T Bass.
Your love and knowledge of not only the music but the history just tickles my fancy.
I'm sorry for the loss you feel as your American Idols, leave us. I've a feeling that someday on the other side you'll be right there among them picking for the angels.
Life is short, usually better than we expect, full of hardship, and worth the ride. Thanks, Joni.
Wish I lived close enough to have a chance to hear you and your group play. My favorite bluegrass song is "Orange Blossom Special". We have a weekly music session here in Georgetown every Thursday night and some of the musicians are "Nashville Quality". One in particulae is great on all the instruments. His name is Laris Misledine and he dedicates Orange Blossom Special to me at each session. When he Picks the fiddle string for the train's bell you almost want to move back from the train track; it comes alive.
I enjoyed your last blog and meant to reply in regard to you watching Ken Burns, Civil War. It was spectacular,wasn't it? I bet you really enjoyed Jay Unger and Molly McGee's music in the back ground. I'll never forget the letter from that Confederate solider to his wife just before he was killed in battle, when he said, " That cool breeze that blows by your cheek, when you are working in the garden, That will be me." What a beautiful thought.
Keep the blogs coming; I look forward to each one.


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The men who made the outdoors great
The year is 1932 and a camp fire is heaped high in the woods beside a loch 10 miles north of Glasgow.
Hanging above it on blackened ironwork is a large can labelled Rodine Rat Poison.
Around the flames perhaps 20 figures huddle, their faces reddened and shadowed. Their clothes are patched and layered – it is May and the nights are cold.
Some have schoolboy crops, some can't afford a barber. All are lean, most are young. Those with blankets draw them closer. Others use the "travelling man's duvet", scrunched-up newspaper stuffed down their jackets. They dip tin mugs in the can to draw out tea, the poison long since rinsed away. One starts to sing – Home On The Range, the popular cowboy tune – and a harmonica joins in. Later they will sleep in the open, on the ground, near the fire.
These men and boys have walked or cycled here from the city or Clydebank in search of fresh air, freedom and radical talk, and this fire is to become famous. It was the alma mater of people who changed Scotland's attitude to the outdoors – writers and talkers, planners, outdoor educators, mountaineers and the founders of renowned climbing clubs.
Those who knew it said it was always burning, day and night, the dubious tea can boiling. It became known simply as the fire that never went out. Now, more than 70 years after the last embers cooled at the fire by Craigallian Loch, on the West Highland Way at Carbeth, a permanent marker is to be placed there.
The names of a handful of "fire-sitters" are known, including Jock Nimlin, an influential climber, National Trust For Scotland stalwart and journalist who wrote about the fire and its Rodine kettle. It is thanks to his journalism, and the autobiography of climber and broadcaster Tom Weir, that we know men from the fire undertook long and difficult journeys across hills and glens, mostly on foot, to get to the mountains and crags they loved
Some stories come from men such as Iain and Willie Grieve, passed down by their fire-sitter father Bob, later Sir Robert. They say the sitters were central to the outdoors movement that defied landowners and opened up the countryside to ordinary people, like a Caledonian wild west, and were even involved in the occasional gunfight with gamekeepers. Scott Valentine, a climber from Bearsden, says his grandfather Tom was one of the Craigallian weekenders. "He spoke fondly of his experiences around the fire," Valentine says. "He would pass by en route to the hills and take a brew while enjoying the craic or debating the pros of Socialism, Clydesider style."
But we can only guess who most of the men were, when the fire began, and when and why it ended. If any of the original sitters are still alive, they will be in their 90s or older. So far none has contacted the Grieve brothers through their Craigallian Fire memorial website. We look as though through the smoke of the fire itself at a past just beyond our grasp.
It is thought the fire lasted from the late 1920s to perhaps the mid-to-late 1930s. Most of Bob Grieve's companions were industrial workers or jobless, and the talk was of Socialism and Communism. Grieve and others said many of the Scots who fought on the Republican Government's side in the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939 had been fire-sitters.
The rest may have included at any time Nimlin, Weir and other early members of the tough, notorious Creagh Dhu Mountaineering Club – Johnnie Harvey, who in 1932 founded its Glasgow rival, the Lomond MC; Ian McHarg, later an influential professor of town planning in the United States; and Grieve's friend, Malcolm Finlayson, who would become a police chief superintendent and shoot murderer James Griffiths in 1969, after the gunman went on a deadly rampage in Glasgow.
Bob Grieve, who died in 1995, went on to become a civil engineer, the first professor of planning at Glasgow University and chairman of the Highlands And Islands Development Board, but he always remembered the fire. "He had a humble upbringing in Maryhill, one of six children in a family that hovered on the edge of dire poverty," says his son Willie, 62, when we meet at the site to briefly relight the fire. "But the fire was hugely significant for him because it was here and around here that he met the people who developed his ideas and made him who he was."
The Grieves have raised £5000 for a stone memorial on the site, including a substantial donation from the John Muir Trust. The stone base is in place and a grand unveiling is planned next month.
The choice of site is obvious enough. It's a hard evening or morning's walk from Glasgow and Clydebank. It has a burn, was sheltered by woods and city people already used the area: the Carbeth huts holiday homes sprang up about the same time.
The fire was, of course, part of the movement of Glaswegians into the hills and woods around the city in the years after the First World War, a movement reflected in other cities in Scotland. In his biography of Nimlin, IDS Thomson says expanding public transport, more private cars and lorries to "tap" lifts from and mass-produced bicycles were key to the movement, inspired by walking columnists such as Tramp Royal in the Evening Times and Hobnailer in the Daily Record.
Historian and hillwalker Richard Oram of Stirling University traces the roots of the movement to the outdoors image of the Victorian royal family and upper classes. "There was an image of the superior physical state of the ruling class," he says, "and a lot of this was based on their involvement in outdoor activities. People expected the Victorian gentlemen to be able to walk for miles, with high-status people going on huge tours.
"Poets like Wordsworth and Byron would walk more than 20 miles a day across rough country, and this was seen as a demonstration of their physical advancement."
Oram believes such ideals filtered down, and churches helped pass them to the "lower orders" in part to prevent working men with time and money on their hands spending both in pubs.
He also says the First World War had a profound effect on men who would have been the older fire-sitters. In the army, large groups were cooped up with time to talk and a sense of ill-treatment: ideas of social justice would find fertile ground.
Former seaman and engineering industry worker Lawrie Travers is 91 years old and until recently still stepped out in the Campsie Fells. He has also kept busy working as a volunteer on the tall ship Glenlee at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow. Originally from Partick, he took to the hills in his teens when the Craigallian blaze still shot sparks to the heavens.
He agrees cheap public transport was an influence. "It was a 2d [2p] tram ride to Milngavie, or you could get the bus out to Blanefield, and then you had the freedom of the open country," he recalls.
And although Oram says churches pushed people into the outdoors, Travers suggests that, by the 1920s, with greater social freedom, more people would cock a snook at religious convention and instead take to the open air on their day off.
So, as the athletic ideal of the upper classes filtered down, it met rebellion and ideas of social justice in the men around the fire. "They would have asked themselves why these healthy and exciting outdoor pursuits should be reserved for the elite," says Oram.
With no money for long-distance trains, expensive boots, thick tweed or accommodation, and unable to negotiate access to private estates – as gentlemen climbers could – getting into the mountains would have been tough.
But a fire like Craigallian, warm enough to keep the night chill at bay, where people would talk of defying landowners and reclaiming the land, would have been a starting point.
From the fire, the Southern Highlands were within walking range. Glen Coe was a hitch-hiking target. Some isolated cottages welcomed visitors, letting them sleep in byres and stables – Travers recalls one winter night in a stable when the heat from horses below was a welcome bonus.
But there were conflicts, too, when estate workers would prohibit men heading for the mountains. On one occasion, when Nimlin planned to camp on a property, he was met by obstructive estate workers. He kept going all night until they were too exhausted to follow him, then lit his fire.
Willie and Ian Grieve believe returning Spanish Civil War veterans brought a new edge to things: their father said many kept their weapons, and an exchange of shots with gamekeepers was not unknown. Thomson records a rifle kept by Creagh Dhu members at a bothy near Glencoe, and Creagh Dhu old timers tell me it is probably still buried there.
Travers has his own recollection of guns in the hills in the 1950s, when he was the organiser of the Lomond club bus. Creagh Dhu members were allowed to fill empty seats. On one occasion they shot a hind and stashed the meat on the parcel rack.
"A woman came to me and said she had blood on her clothes, and it had come from above. I wondered what on earth was going on," he recalls. "I didn't know I was running a bus for the shooting club."
They called it the fire that never went out but eventually it did – for ever. No-one is quite sure why. The owners of the site at the time have no descendants and it has changed hands twice since the 1930s and its end some time after 1935 has several possible explanations.
Tom Weir's friend, fire-sitter, Lenzie butcher and ornithologist Matt Forrester wrote that the sheer popularity of hillwalking was to blame. "With the enthusiasm came the camp followers, the litter louts and despoilers," he wrote.
"The fire was banned. The land proprietor forbade it under penalty of law. For a while the notice board was disregarded. A few hard cases persisted with the fire, but its day was done -"
Others ascribe the end to the loss of men to Spain in 1936, but at least one younger sitter, Ian McHarg, recalled veterans at the fire talking about the civil war, dating its end to perhaps 1938. Nimlin wrote of an attempt, probably in the 1940s, to revive the fire. The police were called, two men were taken to court, and although one – in true rebel style – called the magistrate a "tinpot Mussolini", there were no more revivals.
But in a metaphorical sense – and it always was a metaphor for something greater – the fire lit in the 1920s is still burning. Grieve, Nimlin and Weir influenced everything from climbing ethics to national park policy.
The Lomond Mountaineering Club, started by fire-sitter Johnnie Harvey in 1932, is still home to the spirit of good companionship, individualism and readiness for a good argument, as is the Creagh Dhu. There is also a link between the fire-sitters and modern Munro-bagging. It took off when Hamish Brown published his magical account of the game, Hamish's Mountain Walk, in which he made the first non-stop trip around the 279 hills – as the list stood at the time – higher than 3000ft in Scotland.
Munro's table of mountains over 3000ft was published in 1891, and in the 77 years before Brown's book, 200 people climbed them all. Seven years after the book, that number had doubled. Now there are 4000-plus people who have climbed all the Munros.
Brown, now in his 70s and living in Fife, knew many fire-sitters, and as a young man lived the same rugged life of dossing and tramping the hills, inspired by them. "It was the ethos of people like Tom Weir," he says. "We didn't have the gear in those days. The spirit of going out and roughing it was very strong. After talking to them you didn't have any doubts about sleeping in haystacks and under bridges.
"I believe the tougher the introduction people have to the outdoor world, the more likely they are to stay interested."
Those fire-sitters, with their newspaper bedding and rat poison kettle, their tussles with gamekeepers and marathon walks, had the toughest of introductions. And perhaps that's why their passion for the hills lives on.
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By Ryan Stellabotte on	 October 25, 2009 Fordham Magazine, Fordham's New York
Above: Peter Madonia, FCRH '75, stops outside Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Belmont. Every weekend, he returns to the Bronx's Little Italy to shop and eat, and to look in on the bakery his grandfather established in 1918. Photos by Bill Denison
Peter Madonia's eyes light up: Driving down Arthur Avenue on a Thursday afternoon in June, he spots a free parking space directly across the street from the bakery his grandfather established in 1918. Good luck finding that spot on a Saturday, when Belmont is bustling with scores of New Yorkers and suburbanites back in the Bronx's Little Italy to shop and eat the way their parents and grandparents taught them.
"This used to be a neighborhood where everyone did what my grandmother did," Madonia says. "In the morning she went out and she bought whatever they were eating that night: fish or meat, vegetables, bread, whatever else they needed, and then she came home to prepare the meal. And that went on for years here, up through the '80s."
Nowadays, the Italian-American population of Belmont is small, but the community's old-world flavor remains rich and strong as espresso. People flock here for the quality, variety, and value of the food available. And not least for the authenticity and tradition: Belmont is home to a remarkable number of businesses still run by the families who started them, in some cases more than 90 years ago. "It's all the pieces of it that make it special," Madonia says. "It's the neighborhood, it's the history, it's the milieu."
Frank Franz, FCRH '75 (right), president of the Belmont Small Business Association, talks with Madonia and Gil Teitel (left) outside Teitel Brothers grocery store, which was founded in 1915. Note the Star of David mosaic near the threshold. Gil Teitel's father, Jacob, installed the Jewish star outside the store during the Depression.
Although he grew up working in the bakery, Madonia didn't always appreciate the value of the family business. "I hated it when I was kid," he says. "I wanted to break out." So after graduating from Fordham University in 1975 with a B.A. in anthropology and political science, he earned an M.A. in urban studies at the University of Chicago.
When he returned to New York in the late 1970s, he went to work as chief of staff for Deputy Mayor Nat Leventhal and before long advanced to deputy commissioner of the New York City Fire Department. In 1988, however, his older brother, Mario, who had been running the family bakery, was killed in a car accident. Amid the grief, Madonia decided to help his father keep the bakery alive. "It was hard," he says. "It's not the way you want to wind up in a business."
The bakery thrived nonetheless, and by the mid-1990s he had taken in a partner. He also kept in touch with his former colleagues in city government and, in 2001, became a policy adviser to Michael Bloomberg, who was running for mayor. Following Bloomberg's election, Madonia was named chief of staff, a position he held till late 2005, when he left City Hall to accept a new job, as chief operating officer of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Madonia Brothers has been selling bread, biscotti, and cannoli on Arthur Avenue for generations.
As gratifying as Madonia finds his work these days, the 13 years he spent running the bakery on a daily basis taught him to recognize "the intrinsic value of a family business and an institution that has history." He especially relished the daily exchanges with customers. "What a positive thing it is for people to say, 'Thank you, I love your product. I put this on my dinner table.' That's their house," he says. "You go home with them."
Time is elastic on Arthur Avenue, and it doesn't take Madonia long to get back into the old-world rhythm of the place. He meets Frank Franz, FCRH '75, president of the Belmont Small Business Association. They walk and talk with Gil Teitel, third-generation owner of Teitel Brothers, the gourmet grocery that's been selling imported olive oil, tomatoes, cheeses, and other goods on the corner of Arthur Avenue and 186th Street since 1915.
Two storefronts down is Coseza's Fish Market, where imported branzino and orata rest on ice among local bluefish and croakers. "He has to be half an economist in order to buy and price," Madonia says of John Cosenza, son of the store's current owner. At Biancardi Meats, Madonia looks in on his friend Sal Biancardi, who, like Madonia, has worked both on and off the avenue. He returned to the family-run butcher shop in 1997, after 11 years as a currency trader for Morgan Stanley.
Madonia greets Sal Biancardi (above, left) of Bacardi Meats.
From Biancardi's it's on briefly to Madonia Brothers Bakery. The pungent, savory smell of house-cured sausage and sopressata is replaced by the warm aroma of freshly baked bread and cookies—the traditional pane di casa and the onion and olive breads; the biscotti, pignoli, and cannoli "filled while you wait."
Joseph Migliucci of Mario's Restaurant prepares pizza the way his father taught him.
Next stop is the famed Arthur Avenue Retail Market, a landmark in Belmont since 1940, when Mayor Fiorello Laguardia sprearheaded the construction of the building as a shelter for the pushcart vendors who had been selling their goods out in the street. One door down from the market is Mario's Restaurant, which started as a pizzeria in 1919 but offers a broad range of classic Neapolitan dishes. Chef and owner Joseph Migliucci greets Madonia. "I'll make a pizza. You want some pizza?" Ten minutes later, the perfectly cooked pie arrives: The crust is pleasantly chewy, the tangy sauce blending with the fresh mozzarella and basil in a remarkable balance of flavor.
Orazio Carciotto makes the house specialty at Casa di Mozzarella.
Madonia walks off the late-afternoon snack by heading to the Casa di Mozzarella, on 187th Street, just east of Arthur Avenue. His friend Orazio Carciotto is in the back of the store making the house specialty. He forces a hunk of curd through a sieve into a stainless steel bowl. After a little hand-mixing, he adds several small pots full of boiling water and thrusts his hands back in to knead the mixture until the mozzarella begins to form. Using a wooden paddle, he tears and stretches the cheese till it shines and, in a series of deft movements, folds the product into a ball or braids it into knots. "People ask, 'How much water?'" he says. "I tell them I know when it's right."
Since 1935, Mario Borgatti has been making fresh pasta cut to order at Borgatti's Ravioli & Egg Noodles.
The last stop of the afternoon is Borgatti's Ravioli & Egg Noodles, which has been making fresh pasta cut to order for approximately 75 years. There's a hand-operated pasta machine behind the counter. "When we opened the store in 1935, it was already used," says Mario Borgatti, 92. He taps the wheel. "Still works. Even in blackouts."
Madonia says goodbye and walks across 187th Street toward Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, the spiritual and cultural center of the neighborhood since 1907.
"In a city like New York, there are lots of ethnic neighborhoods, but very few that have kept the heritage even after the people moved to the suburbs. We were able to do it both through the church and the commercial venue.
"People might say, 'You're stuck in a time warp,'" he says. "Maybe. I don't know. Somebody likes it."
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On May 1, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its final rule (Final Rule) on "Information Blocking" as part of the 21st Century Cures Act. The Final Rule applies to the following (ONC refers to each one as an "Actor"): (i) health care providers, (ii) health IT developers subject to ONC's Health IT Certification Program, (iii) health information networks (HIN), or (iv) health information exchanges (HIE). With the initial enforcement date fast approaching (November 2), we explain the rule below.
What is Information Blocking?
"Information Blocking" is generally a practice that, except as required by law or covered by an exception, is likely to interfere with access, exchange, or use of electronic health information (EHI), and the Actor has actual knowledge, or in the case of Actors who are health IT developers, HINs or HIEs, should know, that the practice is unreasonable and is likely to interfere with, prevent, or materially discourage access, exchange, or use of EHI.
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Hospital policies or procedures that require personnel to obtain an individual's written consent before sharing the individual's EHI with unaffiliated providers for treatment purposes even if obtaining such consent is not required by state or federal law.
Contractual arrangements that prevent sharing or limit how EHI is shared with patients, their health care providers, or other third parties.
Patients or health care providers become "locked in" to a particular technology or health care network because their electronic health information is not portable.
A health care provider has the capability to provide same-day access to EHI in a form and format requested by a patient or a patient's health care provider, but takes several days to respond.
Are there any exceptions to the Information Blocking rule?
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Preventing harm exception. It will not be information blocking for an Actor to engage in practices that are reasonable and necessary to prevent harm to a patient or another person, provided certain conditions are met. This exception aligns well with existing HIPAA rules.
Privacy Exception. It will not be information blocking if an Actor does not fulfill a request to access, exchange, or use EHI in order to protect an individual's privacy, provided certain conditions are met.
Security Exception. It would not be information blocking for an Actor to interfere with the access, exchange or use of EHI in order to safeguard the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of EHI, provided certain exceptions are met.
Infeasibility Exception. It will not be information blocking if an Actor does not fulfill a request to access, exchange or use EHI due to the infeasibility of the request, provided certain conditions are met.
Health IT Performance Exception. It will not be information blocking for an Actor to take reasonable and necessary measures to make health IT temporarily unavailable or to degrade the health IT's performance for the benefit of the overall performance of the health IT, provided certain conditions are met.
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The Fees Exception. It will not be information blocking for an Actor to charge fees, including fees that result in a reasonable profit margin, for accessing, exchanging, or using EHI, provided certain conditions are met.
Licensing Exception. It will not be information blocking for an Actor to license interoperability elements for EHI to be accessed, exchanged, or used, provided that certain conditions are met.
When does this rule go into effect?
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I will first of all state that it is an honor to correspond with you. I have been practicing Kung Fu of several styles both for performance and application sparring for a little over 14 years now.
I am glad that you practice combat application in your kungfu training. Without combat application, kungfu ceases to be kungfu. It becomes gymnastics or a demonstrative sport, which has its benefits too, but it ceases to be a martial art. Unfortunately the majority of kungfu practitioners today, including masters, are incompetent in kungfu combat application, but they lack the honesty and courage to admit it.
Many resort to borrowing techniques and methods from other martial arts, like Taekwondo and Kick-Boxing, to rectify their lack of kungfu combat application. Some may have become formidable fighters using these borrowed techniques, but they still cannot use kungfu for combat. Some even go to the ridiculous extent of saying that kungfu forms cannot be used in combat, and that using Kick-Boxing is kungfu.
Though you have not stated it, I suspect that you are one of those who use other martial art techniques, probably Kick-Boxing, instead of kungfu in your sparring. Your attempt to rectify the inadequacy of kungfu combat application is admirable but your action is mis-directed. You should attempt to use kungfu forms for sparring instead. You have spent 14 years practicing kungfu forms. It is worth to spend one whole year to learn and practice genuine kungfu combat application, so that what you have learnt all these years will not go to waste.
I have posted a lot of videos on my website , not only showing but also explaining secrets that masters in the past kept only for their top students. By following and practicing the examples shown in the videos, you can attain a reasonable level of kungfu combat application.
I would like to share a very important point that kungfu practitioners who attempt free sparring may not know. They think that by attempting free sparring, they can defend themselves. They don't. They may be able to hit others, but they still cannot defend themselves.
And many have the perverted view that one must be willing to take some hits and kicks to learn a martial art. It is certainly not true. In fact a main reason why any person learns a martial art is not to be hit at all. The big irony is that not only many martial artists cannot defend themselves despite their training, they become more unhealthy due to sustained injuries in free sparring.
The above is taken from Question 1 of January 2008 Part 3 of the Selection of Questions and Answers.
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6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Isabella Williams (formerly Graham), of 12, Model St., Murton Colliery, Co. Durham. Killed 28 September 1916. Aged 34.
Born Thornley (Durham), Enlisted Sunderland, Resided Murton Colliery.
The photo of Private Graham has been kindly provided by Elaine Miller (<emiller@sky.com>) of the Murton Heritage Society.