Parents can honor a child's "personal space" while maintaining supervision and providing guidance.
"Nothin,'" mumbles 12-year-old Jesse as he puts down his books.
"Well, then…how are you?" asks his mother.
Jesse looks happy but heads for his room and closes the door behind him. Can this be the same boy who used to want to share every detail of his day?
Jesse's mother had panicked when her two older children tacked "Keep Out!" signs on their bedroom doors, but now she knows Jesse is not necessarily upset or rejecting her. More likely he's just growing up.
He is becoming more capable and independent every day, and in a few years he will control certain aspects of his life on his own. During this stage of development, he needs and deserves more privacy.
Yet a boy his age also needs plenty of guidance, because adolescence is a time when he can get into the most trouble. At the same time, adolescents push hardest for privacy and this can seem like a huge double bind for adults.
Over-vigilant parents who continually interfere, or parents who do the opposite and withdraw, represent two extremes. Fortunately, there are positive ways to keep up adult input and still let a child develop naturally.
Children have to discover who they are apart from their families in order to establish a healthy and strong sense of personal self.
"When adults show they are open to discussion and willing to do some negotiating, children feel far less resentment when adults do have to interfere," points out Dr. Kipnis.
Instead of making demands such as, "You can't be playing video games for hours alone in your room. Now go outside and play!" he suggests using open-ended statements such as, "When you play video games for hours at a time in your room, I worry about you. How can you help me feel O.K. about this?"—then sitting down to go over the issue and find solutions.
A child grows more confident and responsible each time an adult acknowledges how much he is maturing. When parents say, "You can have all the privacy you show us you can handle," then allow increasing appropriate privacy as the child earns parents' trust, a child can experience autonomy and freedom on the path ahead to adulthood.
"That's right, Son," his father replied.
Steven called back a few minutes later to say he was coming home and bringing some friends. His parents promptly ordered pizza for everyone and had plenty of praise for their son the next day.
When siblings share a room, separate desks and storage areas should be assigned and respected. A child's room is his castle—with the understanding it will never be totally off-limits to parents. Children's rooms should never be locked in such a way that a parent can't unlock them from the other side if necessary, but occasional closed doors allow appropriate privacy. Tree houses, clubhouses, and forts can provide younger children with kids-only spaces away from adults.
Learning to share is essential, but so is learning to respect private property—starting with one's own. When we help children maintain ownership of what is theirs, they grow to respect others' privacy and property as well.
Respecting children's rights to privacy is not the same as relinquishing parental control or losing touch. Stay involved in each child's day-to-day activities, such as sports, hobbies, and Scouting. Extend family boundaries. Make a child's friends feel at home, get to know them, and include them in family activities and outings.
Inadequate supervision can, in rare cases, result in juvenile delinquency. No matter how much teens may decide to go it alone, keep showing an interest in their lives without being overly intrusive and keep on insisting on doing things as a family even if they seem reluctant.
USE STRICTER PRIVACY RULES AWAY FROM HOME.
The Internet should also essentially be considered "away from home," since it opens children up to unpredictable risks.
When quizzed by his grandparents as to what he wanted for graduation from junior high school, Derek asked for a laptop computer with Internet service. The grandparents called his parents to find out if that was O.K. with them.
The result: Derek was asked by his parents to continue using the family computer, kept in plain view, for research, e-mail, and other Internet-supported activities, but was told that his grandparents would happily buy him a laptop minus the Internet service.
Learn when each child is usually in the mood to talk. Sarah finds it hard to talk with either of her parents unless she and the parent are doing something together like gardening or dishes. Her brother Joseph is talkative before bed, so his parents allow extra time for saying good night.
Try initiating conversations rather than asking questions—which can seem like interrogation. "I hope your history teacher liked your great paper!" can lead to a discussion, while "Did you turn in your history paper?" is likely to get a "yes" or "no" response.
Communication patterns start at an early age. For example, parents who attentively, quietly listen whenever their child wants to share with them will build lasting open communication.
Keep adult antennae up for children's conversations that take place around you. Best friends Joe, Steven, and Andy talk openly as they are driven to and from school each day. All three carpooling mothers actively share any overheard information that will help them parent more effectively—for example, news on people or subjects mentioned in passing that could help a parent launch a needed discussion.
Cub Scouting'sBSA Family Activity Book,Supply No.33012A, contains a variety of activities designed to help strengthen a family—whether it is a two-parent, single-parent, or nontraditional family. Activities help family members develop character, learn responsibility, strengthen family relationships, learn through fun and adventure, and handle difficult situations. After completing 10 activities, families may receive the BSA Family Award.
While distancing from parents helps establish one's own identity, no child, even a teen, wants to feel completely on his own. Privacy is something a child desires, not something he wants thrust on him. Timing is everything.
Conscientious adults can continually assess how much privacy each child can handle, encourage the child's independence accordingly, and still provide adult guidance.
Remember Jesse, the 12-year-old who disappeared into his room after school? His mother knew his zipped lip and closed door signaled his need for some space right then.
Writer Diana Lynn lives in Salyer, Calif.
having increased and unexplainable difficulty with friends or family.
changing personal habits for the worse, not eating, oversleeping, or the like.
becoming friends with high-risk children.
continually exhibiting depression, anger, or disrespect.
often leaving clues behind, like opened diaries or letters, that may be calls for help.
showing evidence of engaging in any unsafe, immoral, or illegal activity.


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Portage—Lisgar est une circonscription électorale fédérale canadienne dans la province du Manitoba. Elle comprend une partie de la province au sud-ouest de la ville de Winnipeg, dont la ville la plus importante est Portage la Prairie.

Les circonscriptions limitrophes sont Brandon—Souris, Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette, Selkirk—Interlake, Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia, Winnipeg-Sud et Provencher.

Historique
La circonscription de Portage—Lisgar a été créée en 1996 avec des parties de Lisgar—Marquette, Portage—Interlake et de Provencher.

Résultats électoraux

Source : Élections Canada

Circonscription fédérale au Manitoba

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Zapatista A Caballo En El Estado De Morelos (Zapatista On Horseback In The State Of Morelos)
c1910/1960s. Silver gelatin photograph, two faint "Casasola" stamps verso, caption and date in ink on original "Juan Manuel Casasola" receipt accompanying image, 26.4 x 34.3cm. Minor developing flaws and handling creases.
Stamps include "Bazar de Fotografia Casasola, Paseo de la Reforma no. 422, Colonia Juarez, Mexico 6, DF" and "Fotografia: Archivo Casasola. Instituto Nacional de Antropologia E Historia. Derechos de reproduccion: Juan Manuel Casasola."
"The Liberation Army of the South was an armed group formed and led by Emiliano Zapata that took part in the Mexican Revolution [1910 to 1920]." The group was formed in the state of Morelos and are commonly known as the Zapatistas.
Agustín Víctor Casasola (Mexican, 1874-1928) began his career as a typographer before becoming a photojournalist. In 1920, Casasola was a founding member of the Mexican Association of Press Photographers. His archive is housed at the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology. Ref: Wiki.

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I tried to search for a similar thread, but didn't find one. Happy for this to be merged though!
I want to try and make a drink we make at home called sorrel - it is coloured pink/red because it's made with pink/red flower petals. This is a Caribbean thing though, and I'm stuck in the UK. Is there anything (other than food colouring) that I could use that doesn't have much taste but would seep to make a pink/red colour?
What flowers do you use? You could probably find them dried. Otherwise, a drop of either grenadine or pomegranate juice might work.
We use sorrel flowers. I'm not sure if you can find them outside of places that sell Caribbean stuff. Grenadine sounds like a good idea though.
I can't believe I didn't think of Amazon! Thanks.
I don't drink milk, so I only use it for cooking. Since I don't like to go to the grocery store more than once every three weeks to a month, fresh milk isn't really an option for me.
required two eggs. only had one.
it worked reasonably well. no taste difference.
I've recently been diagnosed with lactose intolerance, and now I need to find a good substitute for the tasty things I can't eat any more. I know there's a lot of lactose-free/vegan versions of ingredients out there, but I'd rather just cut them out altogether than use the really expensive and disappointingly tasteless versions.
Stock + Cannellini beans blended ~= Cream base in veg soup.
Now I just need to find a dairy replacement in Cullen Skink, baring in mind it's usually made with cream instead of milk. I could try a similar trick using fish stock instead of chicken or veg, but I usually just buy my stock. Can anyone vouch for a particular (preferably UK) brand?
I would replace it with soy cream. I find the Alpro brand quite rich in taste but I haven't had dairy products at all in 16 years, so I can't really compare well (I'm slightly allergic to milk).
Hazelnut milk is pretty delicious too.
Stock tip: We keep most of our vegetable peels (onions, carrots, garlic, celery, any herb leftovers, potatoes, mushrooms...) in a ziplock bag in the freezer. When we our bag is pretty full, we take all those frozen leftovers, put them in a pot with water and let it boil for an hour or so. Once we're done we strain the liquid out and freeze it in portions for some intense veggie stock.
3fj wrote: Now I just need to find a dairy replacement in Cullen Skink, baring in mind it's usually made with cream instead of milk. I could try a similar trick using fish stock instead of chicken or veg, but I usually just buy my stock. Can anyone vouch for a particular (preferably UK) brand?
Coconut milk would obviously alter the taste, but I don't think necessarily for the worse?
I've been making meringue lately with chickpea-lake instead of egg whites. Works like a charm, but have to let it rest a bit after taking it out of the oven to get the smell to go away.
I've been hearing about that a lot, and should really try it out. Not because I don't eat eggs, mostly because I want to see if I can get it to work.
I haven't managed to make mousse out of it though, but I haven't managed to make mousse with eggs either so eh.
You could use some gelling agent, either animal gelatin or agar-agar to help keep the volume in your mousse. Mousse also usually has some whipped cream (can be done wth soy milk if necessary) to add volume and structure as well as deliciousness.
PAstrychef wrote: You could use some gelling agent, either animal gelatin or agar-agar to help keep the volume in your mousse. Mousse also usually has some whipped cream (can be done wth soy milk if necessary) to add volume and structure as well as deliciousness.
The problem mainly arises when I try to add the whipped egg-whites/chickpea-lake to the whipped cream, it just sort of falls apart and turns into soup instead.


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A fine win at last for the Sharks and a great team performance. It was the pre-Christmas Sharks back, with great passing, solid defending and excellent team spirit. Everyone played their part in a magnificent 4-0 win, which could easily have been a lot more.
It was a cold, early morning start with a biting wind on an exposed pitch. But the Sharks were quickly into their stride and showing great commitment.
Nile soon opened the scoring, continuing his excellent run of form in front of goal. And although the Predators were physical and up for the fight, the Sharks more than matched them and were creating good chances with Wiktor, Gabriel and Nile combining well up front and Phin, Alejandro and Martin dictating things from the back.
Francis came on for Gabriel and the chances continued for the Sharks. Eventually the second goal came as Martin and Wiktor exchanged passes down the right. Wiktor skipped into the penalty area, dribbled round three Predators and slipped the ball to Nile. Nile controlled the ball well, turned and fired home with his right foot – a great finish to a great move.
The Sharks were deservedly 2-0 up at half time and in control of the game. Rory had been largely untroubled first half, but as ever he was alert to any danger and came off his line confidently when required.
There were definitely more goals in the game for the Sharks especially if they could exploit their pace on the wings and get in behind the Predators.
And that's exactly what they did.
But the Predators came out of the blocks very well after the break and had a few minutes of dominance before the Sharks got themselves composed again and started to exert their authority.
Gabriel came back on for Nile, and the Sharks continued to create chance after chance with superb football. Francis was using his pace to beat his man time and again on the right hand side, with him and Martin combining well and overlapping to excellent effect. Wiktor and Phin were doing the same on the left and another goal looked likely any minute.
It came after great play between Martin and Francis who passed intelligently to Gabriel. He crossed the ball sweetly and dangerously into the penalty area, causing panic amongst the Predators' defence. Uncertain what to do, one of their midfielders stuck his leg out to clear the ball, but it looped off his foot and over his keeper for an own goal.
The Predators continued to press themselves when they could – and the own-goal scorer had a great run and shot that just went inches wide.
But it was mostly the Sharks who were playing the good football, winning the balls in defence and midfield and exchanging passes impressively up front. Francis, Gabriel and Wiktor all went close in quick succession – and Martin was firing in superb corners.
The fourth goal, when it came, was the best of the lot. Alejandro won the ball well in the middle and fed Martin on the right. He passed to Francis who ran round his man and slotted the ball to Gabriel who took it in his stride and slipped it though to Wiktor on the left hand side of the area. Wiktor controlled it first time, steadied himself and calmly stroked the ball into the far corner under the diving keeper. A really superb goal, beautifully worked with quick incisive passing and a cool finish. A passing spectator commented to me on the quality: "What a brilliant goal" he said. "A lovely move. Very impressive.
Impressive it was.
The Sharks were enjoying themselves now and creating some great chances. Nile got away two or three times down the left but just couldn't quite apply the finishing touch. Francis was getting away down the right and he saw a great effort go just wide of the post. Alejandro had a shot deflected over and Gabriel was unlucky not to score as he twisted in the area and fired into a mass of Predator bodies. The Predators fought until the end and didn't let their heads drop despite the scoreline – so all credit to them. But had the Sharks made the most of their chances they could have had another three or four goals.
As it was, it ended 4-0, and every Shark can be proud of their performance. They all played their part in a great game.
And it's heading for an exiting end to the season. As other teams play their final games this weekend, the Sharks have an outside chance of finishing in the runners-up spot and getting promotion. Barnes Eagles, who were steaming up the table, stalled at the weekend with a defeat to Waddon. Their final game is also against Waddon – away – so they might not get any more points. They currently have 25. The Lions currently have 27, with an away match to come against Ashford Town, who have 24 points. If Ashford win that, they'll join the Lions on 27 with all their games played.
That would leave things in the Sharks' hands. With 21 points now, we have two more games to come. A win on Sunday against Target Sports would give us 24 points with our final game to come against Waddon. A win against them would see us onto 27 points and second place thanks to our excellent goal difference.
Of course, it will be a tough ask – and we're waiting for the right results this weekend in other matches, but it's good to be in with a shout as it comes down to the final games of the season.
It could be a cracking final home match against the Champions Waddon on 27th March – with promotion to play for.
But first we need to play well and win on Sunday. Let's hope the boys take some confidence from Sunday's result into the game.
It's all to play for!
Thanks to Kasia for the great photos. She even got told off by the ref this week for wandering onto the pitch in her search of the perfect shots. Now that's dedication!
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Visitors to the CS Department over the summer will have noticed the gradual flowering on our walls of a very impressive group of art works. It's the brainchild of Franco Preparata, whose connections with Brown's art world enabled us to receive on loan a collection of the graphic works of Walter Feldman, long-time Brown Professor of Visual Arts, and his students. Franco and Eli Upfal selected these prints from a huge collection in Prof. Feldman's office; as Eli remarked in a chivalrous email, "The pictures you like are Franco's taste, I'm responsible for the rest…". Franco not only arranged this loan but also shepherded all the artworks through the framing process (with help from his assistant Fran Palazzo), by no means a trivial task. This handsome collection has made our institutional greige walls much more interesting and aesthetically pleasing – thank you very much, Franco!


criminal lawyer, FULTON YEE, disappears, and the search for him is no place for a lady, but unconventional mystery writer VERA MOONACHIE has to find him, because he is churning his files of nasty crimes for her plot and he has the solution to her current mystery.
From the moment she starts her search, Vera is confronted with a hornets nest of fragile egos, including Fulton's trio of feuding ex-lovers. We meet Nancy Branscomb, an editor Fulton met years before when he visited her family's cabin in the Sacramento Delta. We meet Florence Loring, a real estate agent with a past so colorful that she met Fulton when he was defending her in court. And we meet Emma Sawtooth, a haystack-shaped earth mother who runs a writers' group. Vera encounters an athorship dispute based on a notebook. And when Vera picks up that notebook, she picks up the deadliest kind of enemies ---people with something to hide.
People are funny. They love a good fight. Years later Delta people were still talking about Billy Sun's fight with the fire chief.
The story went round that the fire that burned Isleton's Chinatown in 1920 started in the kitchen of Billy Sun's restaurant on the bank of the Sacramento River, because everybody knew Billy brought in illegals from his home in the Chinese province of Guangdong to work in his restaurant kitchen.
The day of the fire, it was hard to see what really happened. People whispered that Harold Ah Tye, angry about a gambling debt, threw a lump of lard on the hissing deep fryer next to his rival, Jum Gai, intending to frighten him. But the fat spattered on the dry wooden wall behind the stove.
A tired old man in a dirty white apron and grease-caked shoes was sitting in the corner near the stove. He saw the fire and yelled. Somebody threw water on the fire, which made it worse, and the restaurant went up in flames.
Shortly thereafter, The Isleton fire crew swung in, pulling a brightly polished wheeled water pumper. They started to unroll a hose.
"The fire's moving fast," Billy insisted.
He broke free of hands restraining him and tried to drag up the equipment. More Chinese arrived. Flames snatched the gold-painted roof braces and caught the underside of the roof, sparks flew in the air; then Billy's storage building located next door caught fire, and next was the big asparagus sheds lining the Sacramento River. The dry wooden shingles from the buildings curled, split, and began to fly in the air and drop on the surface of the river.
Several volunteer firemen left the pumper and gathered round. So did some Chinese. Sensing an argument, they didn't want to miss a single word.
"You've got the equipment! Hook it up!" Billy said.
"Public equipment!" the chief said, jabbing a finger at Billy.
"There could be people inside those buildings," Billy said.
"I can't believe you're going to stand here—" Billy said.
"We can't help you here. We're leaving," the chief said.
He circled his hand above his head for his men to follow him. The firemen looked at each other. Then they pulled the pumper up the street, away from the fire.
The Chinese came out of the warrens of the poor, where the air was thick with the smell of latrines, incense, wok cooking, and the copper stills in which they made their gin. They tried to save their tiny businesses. They stood on the levee road, gasped in the acrid air, and passed buckets of water. Harold Ah Tye ran with buckets of water from the river until he fell gasping in an exhausted heap in the middle of Main Street. They stood and watched the buildings burn to the ground.
That night Billy Sun decided the Chinese needed to establish their own town.
At that point, because of the harsh Alien Land Law of 1913, which prevented immigrant Chinese from owning land in California, the Chinese could only lease the land. The California Legislature didn't get rid of the Alien Land Law until 1952.
Billy Sun chose Swan's Landing, a few miles south, named for the cranes that wintered in the Sacramento Valley. The non-English-speaking Chinese called the town "Swanee." Because the land flooded easily, the landowner leased them the town cheap.
Billy built levees, just like the ones the Chinese were familiar with from Guangdong. He set up a rotation of men. The work required the men to work in waist-deep water, with river currents and parasites. They slowly built up a ring of protection for Swanee. Then they planted pear orchards and asparagus.
Billy Sun wanted a written lease showing their rights to Swanee. He drew up a one-hundred-year lease that included a right of renewal. The document was executed and notarized. There were two copies of the lease; Billy Sun had one copy, and the landowner had the other.
The sand and stone levees worked. They held back the river for five decades, through the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression, through World War II, until the devastating Andrus Island flood in June 1972. The Andrus Island flood howled into the Delta from the North Pacific, made waves twenty-five feet high in the shallow sloughs, released three inches of rain an hour, and dumped a roaring, unstoppable wall of water on the Delta.
The buildings of Swanee withstood the flood, but people had to chop their way out of their roofs. Main Street in Swanee was flooded, and Billy Sun's copy of the lease was washed away and lost.
When researching the information for "MUD BLOOD," I knew that I wanted the story to be set in the Venice Canals of California and the rich farm lands of the Sacramento Delta area of Courtland, Locke, Isleton, Rio Vista, Ryde, and Walnut Grove along Highway 160. I had no idea where the story was going to take us.
Kathy Owens (friend and my researcher) and I made several trips to the Delta and saw the waterways and levees. We talked to the people in the Delta towns with stories lush in history of days gone by. We saw farm land as far as the eyes could see and fishing in the many waterways. The history of the Delta became fascinating as the research stated and the story began to unfold.
The California Delta had been inhabited for centuries by the Indians, when the Spaniards first discovered the area in 1772. The French trappers arrived in the early 1800s, but it was the gold rush in 1848 that hastened the settlement of the Delta. In the mid 1800s the paddle wheeler steamboats brought people to the waterfront towns as the Gold Rush began.
The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, and by the 1920s the automobiles arrived. Chinese workers constructed levees, bridges and cable-drawn ferries. By the 1930s, the steamboat activity in the Delta was fading. The Delta King and Delta Queen were launched in 1927 and taken out of regular service before WWII.
The first crude levees were built by hand by the Chinese in the early 1850s. The Delta's Chinese population emigrated from two areas in Guangdong Province in southeastern China. One group came from Sze Yap, and the other from the Chungshan district. In 1861, the California state legislature passed the Swamp and Overflow Act to encourage levee building for reclamation purposes, with solid constructionto begin in the 1870s.
There are approximately 550,000 acres on some 55 man-made islands that have been turned from swampland into fertile farmland. Once the land became fit for agriculture, the Chinese remained in the Delta to become farm workers and tenant farmers. In 1915, Walnut Grove's Chinatown burned to the ground. Rather than rebuild in Walnut Grove,the Chungsan group moved out and later built themselves a town on land leased from the family of a landowner named George Locke.
California's 1913 Alien Land Act prevented aliens who were not American born from owning land in California. The Act was rigidly enforced against the Chinese in the California Delta. The Chinese could only lease land to build their towns, like Locke. The Act was not delclared unconstitutional until 1952. The results of this harsh land law form the basis for conflict in "MUD BLOOD."
In 1938 the last great steamboat race took place on the Sacramento River. It was part of Sacramento's Golden Empire Celebration, a sixteen mile race--churning the water and hell bent for victory. The Paddle Wheelers were Port of Stockton verses the Delta Queen, a race to be remembered!
Courtland is an adorable little town which bloomed off the banks of the Sacramento River as recreational boaters and commercial fishermen increased in the Delta.
Isleton was "born" in 1874 with the opening of a general store to sell supplies to the Gold Mners boating up and down the Sacramento Delta. Many of the orginal Main Street buildings remain, with newer additions along the more recent section of Main Street. Yet Isleton still feels more like a sleepy river town you'd find in the deep south, along the bayous.
When the Walnut Grove Chinatown burned down in 1915, the Chinese decided that it was time to establish a town of their own and approached land owner George Locke. The town was laid out by Chinese architects and industrious building ensued. The founding of Lockport, later 'Locke', was a reality. Wood structures that housed dens of inequity remain standing - barely. There is the interesting Dai Loy Museum, a former Chinese gambling house, with a fascination collection of artifacts and the original tables where games of chance, such as fan-tan, were interrupted by raids, sending gamblers fleeing out the back. A few doors from the museum is Al the Wop's a wonderful restaurant, which serves hearty meat and potatoes meals; and the bartender may show you how to make a dollar bill stick to the ceiling. The ceiling money collected yearly, funds a community liver-and-onions dinner.
Rio Vista was established in 1856, becoming a mid-way point for mariners and gold miners traveling between the shipping ports of Sacramento and San Francisco. It is still the largest town in the Delta with 3,800 full times residents. Rio Vista has a museum with an eclectic trove of old buggies and a 1900 Chinese noodle-making machine. Still existing are the 19th century tree-lined streets with beautiful Victorian and California Ranch style homes.
The town's major draw is Foster's Bighorn Saloon and Restaurant, a cafe and bar where hundreds of animal heads stare at diners through glass eyes. Glaring down from the walls are stuffed and mounted heads of lions, tigers, bears, impalas, walruses and moose - enough trophy heads to fill an ark, more than 250 in all. The largest landmark, the Rio Vista Bridge, is one of many drawbridges designed by Joseph Strauss, architect of the Golden Gate Bridge. It is situated on the historic Sacramento River with a silhouette of the rolling Montezuma Hills to the south.
Ryde, a tony town established in 1891 and in the 1930''s had many large canneries along its banks. The Ryde Hotel and Restaurant offers visitors a glimpse of the past with photos and memorabilia.
Walnut Grove was established in 1851 and occupies both sides of the Sacramento River. On the west bank of the river, one can view stately old homes reminiscent of southern mansions and a simpler way of life and home to many of the local farming families. After the fire destroyed the Asian section of town in 1915, the Japanese established a separate community. Walnut Grove served as the center of social and economic life for many Japanese agriculture workers in the Delta region until 1942, when they were relocated to internment camps during World War II.
Today only five ferries remain in the Delta, all available for a free ride. The Venice Island Ferry and the Woodward Island Ferry lead to private property, so there is no place to go. Victory II is a free-running ferry from jersey Island to Webb Tract and Bradford Island. The Real McCoy crosses at Cache Slough near Rio Vista. The J-Mac Ferry is a fun free ferry-ride that takes you across the pretty waters of historic Steamboat Slough. The J-Mac ferry runs year round guided by cables: the cruise across the river takes all of three minutes. Ferries have been serving the Delta for over 75 years, but the J-Mac is the newest, built in 1966. This ferry has rarely been "down," except for times of flooding in the area.
Sources of information - Hal Schell's "Dawling on the Delta" and numerous online web sites regarding the Delta.
Poems by the immigrant Chinese detained on Angel Island."
faintly, the whistling of the wind.
If you own a Kindle, you will be happy to know that Mud Blood, Murder in the Sacramento Delta is available in the Kindle Edition. You may go to Amazon Books right now and be reading Mud Blood in minutes!


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No Offence Trilogy from Pages From My Songbook
Kim Wiltshire, Ella Carmen Greenhill, Holly Race Roughan (Director)
As co-curator and co-writer, Pages From My Songbook, which played at The Studio, Royal Exchange, Manchester in July 2013, was an experiment in creating short plays the length of a song, collaborating with writers and musicians to create theatre that felt like a music festival, telling stories in a short time frame. This was a large project that involved over 20 creatives, therefore just the names of the curators and the director are included here.
Pages From My Songbook - The Studio, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, United Kingdom
Duration: 19 Jul 2013 → 20 Jul 2013
http://www.royalexchange.co.uk/event.aspx?id=696
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Wiltshire, K, Greenhill, EC & Race Roughan, H, No Offence Trilogy from Pages From My Songbook, 2013, Performance.
No Offence Trilogy from Pages From My Songbook. Wiltshire, Kim (Author); Greenhill, Ella Carmen (Author); Race Roughan, Holly (Director). 2013. Event: Pages From My Songbook, The Studio, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, United Kingdom.
T1 - No Offence Trilogy from Pages From My Songbook
AU - Wiltshire, Kim
AU - Greenhill, Ella Carmen
A2 - Race Roughan, Holly
N1 - Live Performance
N2 - As co-curator and co-writer, Pages From My Songbook, which played at The Studio, Royal Exchange, Manchester in July 2013, was an experiment in creating short plays the length of a song, collaborating with writers and musicians to create theatre that felt like a music festival, telling stories in a short time frame. This was a large project that involved over 20 creatives, therefore just the names of the curators and the director are included here.
AB - As co-curator and co-writer, Pages From My Songbook, which played at The Studio, Royal Exchange, Manchester in July 2013, was an experiment in creating short plays the length of a song, collaborating with writers and musicians to create theatre that felt like a music festival, telling stories in a short time frame. This was a large project that involved over 20 creatives, therefore just the names of the curators and the director are included here.
UR - http://www.royalexchange.co.uk/event.aspx?id=696
T2 - Pages From My Songbook
Wiltshire K (Author), Greenhill EC (Author), Race Roughan H (Director). No Offence Trilogy from Pages From My Songbook 2013.


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INDEX for
Guyana Foreign Investment
https://photius.com/countries/guyana/economy/guyana_economy_foreign_investment.html
Sources: The Library of Congress Country Studies; CIA World Factbook
<< Back to Guyana Economy
Foreign investment was a key element in the Hoyte government's plan to revitalize Guyana's economy. After two decades during which virtually all foreign companies were nationalized, the government was taking great pains in the early 1990s to convince foreign companies that investments in Guyana would be safe and lucrative. According to a government statement, investments were safe because, "The objective circumstances which led to nationalizations during the 1970s no longer exist and the present government has no plans whatsoever to nationalize investment or property." The government allowed investors to enter any sector of the economy, repatriate their profits, and own 100 percent of companies operating in Guyana. To make investment attractive to foreigners, the government introduced a number of incentives (negotiated on a case-by-case basis), including tax holidays of up to ten years, exemption from consumption and capital gains taxes, duty-free import privileges, and support for investment and tax treaties with foreign countries (to avoid double taxation, for example). The government established the Guyana Manufacturing and Industrial Development Agency (Guymida) to streamline the foreign investment process.
The government encouraged foreign investment in a broad range of activities, including agricultural production, agro-industries, fishing and shrimping (including aquaculture), forestry and sawmilling, mining, petroleum, manufacturing, fabrication and assembly industries, tourism and hotel development, construction, electrical power generation (including hydropower), telecommunications, air transport and airport services, shipping and port facilities, and banking and financial services. By 1991 foreign investors were active in a number of these areas. Several companies from the United States, Canada, and other countries were active in bauxite and gold mining as well as infrastructure projects. British companies had invested in the sugar sector, pharmaceutical products, and airport services, among other areas. Brazilian companies were involved in pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and mining.
Some of the most promising investments were in nontraditional areas. A French company, Amazon Caribbean Guyana Limited, was exporting heart-of-palm to Europe. The company employed 100 people. Six European companies were considering investments in engineering or garment manufacturing. A Trinidadian firm, Colonial Life Insurance Company, purchased the assets of the state-owned logging company, Guyana Timbers. The Japanese Nisshan Suissan company bought another state-owned company, Guyana Fisheries Limited. A United States company, Sahlman Seafoods, operated a shrimp-fishing company.
One activity receiving considerable foreign attention was petroleum exploration. Because fuel was Guyana's costliest import during most of the 1980s, there was great interest in finding domestic sources of oil. An exploration study was completed in 1986, and the results were promising enough to attract a Trinidadian company and a British oil company. Nine petroleum companies were reportedly searching for oil in Guyana's coastal waters by 1990. These companies included Hunt Oil of the United States, the London and Scottish Marine Oil Company of Britain, Broken Hill Proprietary of Australia, and Total from France. The latter company had entered into a joint venture agreement with two small United States companies and was expected to begin drilling test wells in late 1990.
Though foreign investment had begun to flow into Guyana by 1991, many potential investors remained hesitant. One concern was that a change in government could reverse the favorable policies that the Hoyte government had introduced. The Hoyte government maintained that it was planning to change the constitution to remove sections that discouraged potential investors. Other concerns for investors were the lack of infrastructure, the shortage of skilled labor (even though wages were low), and the politicized and strike-prone unions.
Of particular interest to investors from the United States was the possibility that Guyana would become eligible for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Code, Section 936 funds from United States businesses in Puerto Rico. Under IRS Code, Section 936 United States businesses with branches in Puerto Rico were effectively exempt from income tax on income derived from their Puerto Rican subsidiaries as long as those funds remained in Puerto Rico. In 1986 this tax exemption was expanded to include funds made in Puerto Rico but invested in certain countries of the Caribbean Basin Initiative. The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a United States government organization that provided political risk insurance and loans to United States companies, organized a fact-finding trip to Guyana in 1990.
Data as of January 1992
NOTE: The information regarding Guyana on this page is re-published from The Library of Congress Country Studies and the CIA World Factbook. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Guyana Foreign Investment information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Guyana Foreign Investment should be addressed to the Library of Congress and the CIA.
Revised 10-Nov-04
Copyright © 2004 Photius Coutsoukis (all rights reserved)


CHISINAU, February 24. /TASS/. Pro-European opposition leaders have accused the Moldovan authorities of rigging the parliamentary election that has just ended in the country, urging the observers to monitor the vote counting process.
"This election, as we have seen it, cannot be called free and proper. This was the most undemocratic election in the history of the country," the leader of the Party of Action and Solidarity, Maia Sandu, told a briefing after the polling stations closed at 21:00 local time on Sunday. She accused the authorities of using the administrative resources and TV channels that, as she maintained, had smeared the opposition.
"There were manipulations. We saw voters from Transnistria brought in an organized way, they were paid for a vote in favor of certain candidates of the regime. This distorted the results," Sandu maintained.
The leader of the Dignity and Truth Platform party, Andrei Nastase, also urged the observers to monitor the vote counting.
According to opinion polls, the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova, supporting President Igor Dodon and seeking restoration of ties with Russia, is the favorite of the election. Socialists are followed by the Democratic Party of Moldova and Acum (the opposition electoral bloc, which brings together the Party of Action and Solidarity and the Dignity and Truth Platform Party), which criticizes the democrats for failing the policy towards EU integration. Sor Party also has chances to get seats in the parliament.
The voter turnout for the Moldovan parliamentary election was 49.07% when the polling stations closed at 21:00 local time (22:00 Moscow time), the Central Election Commission has said on its website. More than 1.446 million eligible voters cast their ballots.
There was no minimum voter turnout for the election. The election threshold for the parties was 6%, and it was 8% for the electoral bloc. The candidate securing the simple majority of the votes wins in the single-seat constituencies. Preliminary results of the election will be announced late on Sunday.


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'Why Global Warming Is Taking a Break' – worst excuse yet?
Posted: August 21, 2014 by oldbrew in alarmism, climate, Clouds, propaganda, Psychobabble, Uncertainty, weather
Igloo time
[image credit: Ansgar Walk / Wikipedia]
This is worth a look just for the last paragraph, which undermines most of the rest of it. Under the optimistic sub-heading 'Warming to recommence' we find:
'Despite the warming hiatus, Knutti is convinced there is no reason to doubt either the existing calculations for the climate activity of greenhouse gases or the latest climate models.'
"Short-term climate fluctuations can easily be explained. They do not alter the fact that the climate will become considerably warmer in the long term as a result of greenhouse gas emissions," says Knutti.
'He believes that global warming will recommence as soon as solar activity, aerosol concentrations in the atmosphere and weather phenomena such as El Niño naturally start returning to the values of previous decades.' [bold added]
Translation: as soon as the sun, the weather and volcanoes – all natural factors – allow, the world will start warming again. Who knew?
Farsnews report: Why Global Warming Is Taking a Break
Good to hear a warmist trashing his own theory in order to explain the lack of temperature rise this century – without realising it.
Joe Public says:
The equivalent translation is: As soon as the variables return to the values of previous decades, the variances will return to those of the previous decades
Whoda thunk it?
Salvatore Del Prete says:
He is saying the climate is being controlled by natural causes in opposition to the point he is trying to convey which is GHG. Crazy.
tom0mason says:
"'He believes that global warming will recommence as soon as solar activity, aerosol concentrations in the atmosphere and weather phenomena such as El Niño naturally start returning to the values of previous decades."
He has opened a whole new areas in both climatology and mathematics where a chaotic system, governed by many unknown outside forces, will restore itself when old known parameters values are reapplied sometime in the future. His genius should be underestimated.
Kon Dealer says:
Why did they spell his name (Nutty) incorrectly?
'His genius should be underestimated.' – Is there a missing 'not' in that line?
'global warming will recommence as soon as… '
So they admit it has stopped in its tracks. That kills the idea that CO2 is a dominant climate factor.
Over to Josh for a cartoon:
Bill H. says:
What is this warming hiatus? The experimental evidence from ocean temperature data is that the globe is steadily warming.Sure the atmosphere is warming at a much slower rate (a hiatus), but the atmosphere is not the globe. Eschenbach on WUWT seems to realise this, and, made a ludicrous attempt in May of last year to argue that the oceanic warming is insignificant, despite the very clear trend in the data – a case of "hide the incline"
Yes, the distinction between global warming and atmospheric warming ought to be obvious, but a lot of people, especially on AGW theory-hostile blogs like this, are still missing it.
Olbrew,
I prefer the line as is, that way sometime in the future he may appear comparatively good at something.
…naturally start returning to the values of previous decades.
So that's never.
tchannon says:
Bill H, ocean, really?
You are new here, the subject of ocean data has been beaten to death, it's poor.
There was supposed to be better data in Argo but that is also proving a joke.
An indirect mark ought to be tropical storms since surface water heat feeds the things.
I think the most likely situation is we have seen a modal shift back to how it was before the last one, vaguely circa 1980. What this looks like with current systems is new. Others may disagree.
Talkshop tends to major on solar as a causal. One facet of this is UV via the atmospheric window penetrates water, another window and dissipates, hence one solar mechanism. Solar UV output is not well understood nor is there much data.
(sorry about the slow moderation)
If natural factors can overrule human influence now, they are always in control, as they can potentially do the same at any time.
weathercycles says:
The usual moving of the goal posts . Expecting them all to be moved.. ICE , SNOW, ARCTIC, SEA LEVEL .etc
In 10yrs will there be any fossil fuel of any significance left anyway?
The AGW movement is in sinking sand. Give the AGW research money to the folk in the NH who will need it to survive the colder regime and associated decline in food production leading to higher food prices
@ weathercycles 11:40 am
Of course there will. You don't think they'd build Nord Stream expecting less than a decade's use, do you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream
Whilst at uni 3o yrs ago they were saying supply would peak.. and supplies would be gone by now. LOL
I guess they found more..
How will they go with that supply for the NH if we have global cooling and a mauder style minimum.
ICE. gas .frozen pipes etc? Is this a problem?
and if the ARCTIC ice grows>? No more exploration and extraction?
Friggin' awesome piece of engineering
"The second line was laid in 2011–2012 and was inaugurated on 8 October 2012. At 1,222 kilometres (759 mi) in length, it is the longest sub-sea pipeline in the world, surpassing the Langeled pipeline.[4][5]"
thanks for that info'
The Leviathan gas field in the Med – 'the world's largest offshore gas find in the past decade' – will be coming on stream around 2017 too.
Its estimated reserves were upgraded recently to about 22 trillion cubic feet.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/13/israel-natgas-leviathan-idUSL6N0PO08Q20140713
Bill H says: 'What is this warming hiatus? The experimental evidence from ocean temperature data is that the globe is steadily warming'
The hiatus is old news now Bill: it was accepted in January 2013 by James Hansen.
'…no less an authority than NASA scientist James E. Hansen wrote, "The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slowdown in the growth rate of the net climate forcing." Mr. Hansen is the intellectual godfather of the global-warming movement who advised Al Gore on his Oscar-winning climate-scare flick, "An Inconvenient Truth." Mr. Hansen has just acknowledged more than the lack of warming. His words confirm nature, not mankind, played the decisive role in directing global temperatures over the past 10 years.'
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/17/global-warming-takes-a-vacation/
And what is this 'experimental evidence from ocean temperature data' – does it explain 'natural variability' that Hansen refers to but fails to say what the cause might be?
Another prominent warmist scientist discovers natural 'climate change':
'A new paper by Professor Kevin Trenberth from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and colleagues explains:
"The Pacific Decadal Oscillation was in a negative phase before 1976, but became positive from 1976 to 1998, a period coinciding with strong increases in global mean surface temperatures. Then it switched to a negative phase in 1999, coinciding with the pause in the upward trend in global mean surface temperatures." '
http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/08/hiatus-in-surface-warming-is-upping-the-odds-of-uk-cold-winters-say-scientists/
The same professor has been insisting for years, decades even, that it was all about man-made emissions of trace gases. Now when there's no alternative he discovers natural forces. Amazing 😉
Man caused Warming will resume after a period of natural caused cooling.
Maybe after 15 to 20 years!
I'm waiting for the "Man caused" cooling argument to be recycled. pg
Now they've admitted natural cooling exists, they have to accept natural warming also exists.
Why wouldn't it?
And as they don't know the extent of either, their whole theory is sunk.
The climatocrats made a series of predictions. Those predictions failed. Now they are floundering for excuses and calling names and seeking ways to distract people. this is an old pattern of human behavior.
[reply] That of a loser perhaps
39 Guesses About The Global Warming 'Pause' | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) says:
[…] 37) As soon as the sun, the weather and volcanoes – all natural factors – allow, the world will star… […]
List of excuses for 'The Pause' in global warming | Land & Livestock International, Inc. says:
List of excuses for 'the pause' in global warming is now up to 52 | Watts Up With That? says:
The Feynman lectures on physics
BBC News – Global warming slowdown 'could last another decade'


Tremain is part of Australia A squad on their tour of India.
Having been beaten soundly by India B in the final of the just concluded Quadrangular A series in Bangalore, Australia A fast bowler Chris Tremain has said that it is still an invaluable experience and learning for the young touring side.
Tremain is mighty impressed with the likes of Shubhman Gill and other young Indian batsmen that he bowled to and says, the future for Indian Cricket is bright as far as their innate strength, batting is concerned.
Showering praise on young Shubhman Gill's batting, Tremain said, he "hit(s) the ball like no one I'd ever seen before" and added, "They have so much talent over here that you can't fit it all into the one XI, It is a little bit of an eye-opener to see they do have such great options, especially the young guys, and especially in white-ball cricket."
"These kids, from ages 13, 14 are growing up with T20 cricket and a lot of white-ball cricket. Their tactics and the way they play their game is really superior to a lot of countries around the world, because they play so much."
Tremain also says that he has made a conscious effort to try and emulate the ways subcontinent players employ in order to be successful in places like India. He thinks it's important for other players in his side to do so too.
"I enjoy looking at how they approach their game and looking for a way we can adapt when we play against them," Tremain told SEN radio, "I don't think it's as easy as looking at the one game and having a day off and trying to replicate it a day later, it has a little reconnaissance mission this tour and take back all this information about how they play their game."
"And then next time we come over, we've got a good couple of months of preparing and adapting our game to mirror what they can do."


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2	To develop appropriate assessments, and engage with a range of assessments, as required to fulfill programme specifications.
4	Managing the development and delivery of EAP modules, and liaising with PRC University programme managers and deans, and attending relevant programme development events.
5	Liaising with PRC University teaching and other support staff to facilitate student learning.
6	Attending module, programme, school, University and other meetings arising from assigned responsibilities such as examination boards.
9	Such other tasks as may be requested from time-to-time.


They are not many real good forums, for sure no Dino Forum has enough traffic.
completely agree with you.. this forum is of very little help..
This forum is based on the enthusiasm of its members. Its free and does not guarantee a solution for every problem within half a day. You know that only a few thousand of the cars covered by this forum are on the road. You can't compare it with a forum for mass products.
If you don't get a quick reply there might be a reason you don't know. Some people are not online daily. If somebody wants to sell something and does not reply immedately, its mainly his own disadvantage. So its probably no negligence.
So, be patient, contribute yourself and be happy if you get help. Just demanding help is not useful.
I am sorry, but I don't check the forum every week.


If we're lucky, we work in teams and environments where that perspective is at least softened by combining it with a measure of efficiency or impact, but even then we don't fully escape the rat-race-like pursuit of more.
In fact, we usually answer "How are you?" with "I've been very busy." And we wear our 80-hour work weeks like a badge of honor.
This was similar to the mindspace that I too occupied when I stumbled into mindfulness and meditation 18 months ago.
But through the evolution and expansion of my mindfulness practices since then, I've come to learn that an action geared towards less (like sitting, breathing, and not thinking) has the surprising effect of creating some more (calm, clarity and space).
If you've heard or read anything on meditation and mindfulness, that shouldn't sound too unfamiliar. But in this article I'd like to reveal a couple of tactics where I optimized for less, only to get an exponential more on the other side. These tactics span different areas of my life, and each has their individual, contextual goals -- but they are all intertwined and focused ultimately on my experience as I pursue various projects, goals and dreams in life.
I literally stumbled into mindfulness and meditation via a prompt from my therapist who had intervened as my monkey mind was running havoc and jeopardizing most good things in my life. I still work towards mindfulness today because I have experienced significant changes in my life and work as a result of my practice.
So here's how I have managed to gain more in my life as a result of pursuing less in some situations.
Waking early in the mornings has always been one of the easier things for me to do. In fact, I used to believe that I personally needed very little sleep -- until I learned about the real effects of sleep debt over time.
In the past, I would use an early morning start as a way to get a headstart on the day ahead. I can remember during my time at WooThemes, I was at the office before 7am on most days. The rest of the team only arrived from 9am onwards, and most of our remote team would only sign on much later. Those first two hours were glorious though: I could just hack away at my to-do list for two hours straight without anyone or any notifications interrupting my flow.
For any parent reading this, you'll know that babies and toddlers operate on their own schedule, which means that none of my mornings were as predictable or within my control as before. Initially, I completely resisted this change and tried to stick to my previously focused and productive morning routine. I also tried various iterations to this routine, from waking up even earlier to trying to get work done while giving Adii junior his morning bottle.
Suffice to say, by trying to multitask, I wasn't being a great dad and I wasn't doing great work either -- everyone was getting a compromised result.
Fast-forward to today, and my morning routine looks something like this: I wake up at 5am on weekdays. I immediately get a cup coffee and breakfast (the same every morning to avoid having to make a decision). The next hour or so I spend reading, and I then meditate for 15 to 20 minutes. Then from about 6am onwards, I get my two boys ready for school. This means on most mornings I only get to my desk (and work) at 8am.
With the benefit of hindsight and comparison, I can now see how singular and rushed my old morning routine was. Because my goal was to get to work as quickly and efficiently as possible, it meant that any friction or obstacles along the way had a major negative impact on my experience. And a crappy morning would eventually turn into an even crappier day on most occasions.
These days, by the time I get to work I have a sense of space and calm. No rush to do anything specific. No existential fear about not answering yesterday's emails quickly enough.
Instead I find that I'm more aware of the whole day and week's landscape, which has helped me prioritize the things I need to work on (versus the things I can delegate or allow to drop off my radar).
Curiously I have also found that the first hour or so in the morning has not become less productive at all, and I still often manage to do some of my best work in that time (especially when I manage to also prioritize the most important task for the day during this time). For example, it's currently just after 9am as I'm writing this article, and I find the words flowing easily.
In the past, I used to run out of steam later in the day due to being so rushed. This inevitably meant that I either felt that I hadn't accomplished enough on that day, or that I would try working until late in the evening to make up for lost time. We should however all agree that our brains do get tired, and if we continue to push ourselves beyond the point of exhaustion, we end up merely sitting in front of our computers, not getting anything done.
Software makers use often use gamification, notifications, and a combination of instant gratification and FOMO to keep us as engaged with their products as possible.
I'd never given much thought to how the programs and apps I use on a daily basis impact my productivity -- until I read Cal Newport's book "Deep Work: Rules for focused success in a distracted world" earlier this year and was introduced to the concept of attention residue.
I finished the book in a single sitting, and it prompted me to really investigate my work behaviors. I would like to tell you here that it has helped me to do more deep work, yet I don't think I have a consistent workflow to do deep work often enough (even though, my awareness of pursuing deep work is more developed).
The book did however prompt me to do something more radical: I almost entirely switched off my phone without entirely switching it off. My iPhone is now permanently on silent, and has the "Do Not Disturb" feature switched on at all times.
I also disabled all notifications -- badges on my icons, popup notifications or notifications on my lock screen. The only notifications that makes it to my lock screen are from WhatsApp, which I only use for family and close friends. And yes -- I also disabled Slack notifications, which is the primary communication tool we use for Conversio, a team of 14 remote team members.
This has turned my phone into less of an attention-demanding force. I don't get interrupted or distracted as often as I used to. This helped me read 22 books in about ten weeks because I picked up a book when I was bored instead of fiddling on my phone.
I also started writing more, which helped me get more thoughts out of my mind. And most importantly, limiting my phone time has without a doubt helped me sleep better (I have always struggled to fall asleep because I struggle to switch off my thinking mind).
The flipside of this is also true: whenever I now pick up my phone, I can pay attention to the possible interactions that it presents. If an old friend sent me a message on Facebook, I can invest in replying purposefully instead of both reading and replying in a fleeting moment (when the notification of the message popped up).
I don't have any scientific evidence to determine how these decisions have impacted my attention residue. What I do know is that by allowing less external sources to demand my attention, I have been more purposeful to prioritise the most important things to me -- in a way that also brings more clarity to my life.
Consider for a moment that much of your daily communication consists of reading emails, Slack messages, texts, tweets, or comments on your latest Instagram photo.
A big part of our communication is in written form, which means that we need to read in order to respond and interact. Beyond that you are likely reading articles (blog posts) like these, short rants your dad has posted on Facebook, or a firehose of 140 character opinions on Twitter.
Even if you aren't reading books everyday, you are reading a lot.
So I made a simple change: I de-prioritized most shorter-form content, and started dedicating my reading time to full-length books. Mostly classic fiction -- nothing that had a direct tie back to work.
I have now read 40 books this year already. I've worked my way through older classics from authors like Viktor Frankl, Kurt Vonnegut, Truman Capote, Herman Hesse, Marcus Aurelius, and Alain de Botton. By consuming less modern day content, I give my mind a much needed break from the usual written content I consume online.
When I started my training a month later, I also stumbled into mindfulness. The combination of these two things soon had an unexpected impact on the way I led our company.
Since my primary goal was not about work, it meant that the first priority each week was planning my daily runs. Work started to fill the spaces around these more rigid blocks. As a result, I starting giving myself more mental space from my work than ever before. Even catching up on work in the evening -- a usual habit of mine -- wasn't an option after a three-hour long run -- I was just too tired to work.
Working less wasn't part of my plan or intention, but it had a profound impact on our journey at Conversio. For the first time in my entrepreneurial journey, it felt like I wasn't tumbling up and down constantly on the proverbial rollercoaster anymore. And since I felt more grounded in my day-to-day, my leadership style started to reflect this attitude. As a result, the team was doing great work in a stable, safe environment.
The results in 2016 spoke for itself: we 3x'ed our revenue, reached profitability and celebrated with a major rebrand and product update. This was clearly a consequence of the team feeling more stable.
I then stepped into 2017 with the aim of applying all of my ambition towards really growing our business. I started pushing and pulling wherever I saw a gap. I started conversations that proposed new ideas that questioned previous decisions, and recommend brand new directions.
During the first quarter of 2017, I was focused on the wrong things, which made my behaviour erratic and meant that I lumped a lot of stress on our team. The team was confused, felt less secure, and wasn't collaborating at our previous levels.
As these things go, the team eventually managed to pierce my stubborn drive forward and I received the message: things were not as great as they were before.
The only shift here was in my own focus. When I was narrowly focused on work and had no other person goals I was striving for, it created an unbalanced approach that was neither helpful nor healthy for our progress.
When I was working towards a goal outside of work that was just for myself, it gave me more clarity in our mission and helped me be a better leader.
I have an annoying tendency to feel like I need to answer every question in a group setting, simply because I'm the leader.
In many situations, this isn't an inherently bad attitude to have. Afterall, I am the leader, and in many situations I have the context, knowledge and experience to give a valuable answer.
But there's a downside. Many times individual team members will just ask me directly for the answer, which means not involving the team and possibly excluding different perspectives and opinions. Once I've addressed a question, I sometimes shut the conversation down because my answer is deemed as authoritative or final (even when that is not the intention). That's not great for inclusion and collaboration.
In recent months, I have been trying to avoid being the first to answer questions in meetings. Not only has this alleviated some of the demands on my time, but more importantly it means that the team is coming to more collaborative, creative answers on their own.
The truth -- even for startups -- is that most of the time it doesn't really matter whether you finish something today or tomorrow, reach a goal this week or next month, or grow by 5% instead of 10%.
Yes, there are some exceptions to this. But for everything else, you can probably pursue the less obvious choice and route, while not compromising on your goal at all. In fact, you might be surprised that doing less actually helps you exceed your goals and expectations.


The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effect of deicer salt on the growth of barley.
I became interested in this idea when I saw people putting deicer on the roads and sidewalks in the winter. I wondered if the salt dissolved and got into the soil, would it affect how much plants grew. My family and I grew a garden, so salt in the soil could cause problems.
The information gained from this experiment could be of interest to gardeners, farmers, the Department of Transportation employees who salt the roads and homeowners who use deicer on their sidewalks and driveways. If salt damages plant growth, then this study could act as a warning.
My first hypothesis was that the barley plants with more deicer salt would grow more slowly than the plants without it.
My second hypothesis was that as the amount of deicer increased, the percent of surviving plants would decrease.
My third hypothesis was that as the amount of deicer salt increased, the weight of the plants would decrease.
I based my hypothesis on an Internet article called "Sources of Soil Salinity". The article said that salt doesn't affect how plants grow much, unless a high amount of salt is present.
The manipulated variable was the amount of deicer salt used.
The responding variables were the growth of the barley and the survival rate.
To measure the responding variables, I measured the weight of the barley using a triple beam balance and counted the number that survived.
A. Fill all of the cells in both planting trays 1/2 full with potting soil.
B. Add 15cc of water to each cell using the syringe.
C. Place 3 barley seeds evenly spaced into each cell.
D. Cover the barley seeds with a layer of potting soil.
E. Add another 15cc of water.
F. Place a plastic, clear dome over each of the planting trays.
G. Set the timer for the fluorescent light to turn on for 14 hours every day and make sure the light is placed 30 centimeters above the soil.
A. Divide up the cells so you have 3 groups of 24 cells in each tray (a total of 6 groups).
B. Label the first group "no salt".
C. Label the second group "2.25 grams of salt".
D. Label the third group "4.5 grams of salt".
E. Label the fourth group "9 grams of salt".
F. Label the fifth group "18 grams of salt".
G. Label the sixth group "36 grams of salt".
A. Put 2.25 grams salt into a plastic jug, add 1 liter water, label it "2.25 grams".
B. Put 4.5 grams salt into a plastic jug, add 1 liter water, label it "4.5 grams".
C. Put 9 grams salt into a plastic jug, add 1 liter water, label it "9 grams".
D. Put 18 grams salt into a plastic jug, add 1 liter water, label it "18 grams".
E. Put 36 grams salt into a plastic jug, add 1 liter water, label it "36 grams".
A. Every other day add 5cc of salt solution to each cell using the syringe. Use the correct jug of water for each group.
B. At the end of the experiment, uproot and weigh all of the plants in each group using a triple beam balance.
C. Find the total mass for each group, then find the average mass for each group by taking the total mass for each group and dividing it by the number of plants in that group.
The original purpose of this experiment was to determine the effect of deicer salt on the growth of barley.
The results of the experiment were that the groups with more deicer salt weighed less than the groups with less deicer salt.
The group with no salt had an average mass of .25 grams.
The group with 2.25 grams of salt had an average mass of .23 grams.
The group with 4.5 grams of salt had an average mass of .20 grams. The group with 9 grams of salt had an average mass of .17 grams.
The group with 18 grams of salt had an average mass of .12 grams. The group with 36 grams of salt had an average mass of .09 grams.
The group with no salt had 100% surviving and the group with 36 grams of salt had 22% surviving.
The results indicate that my first hypothesis should be accepted, because once the salt concentrations were applied, the groups with the higher amounts of salt grew the least.
The results indicate that my second hypothesis should be accepted, because once the salt concentrations were applied, the groups with more salt had fewer surviving plants.
The results indicate that my third hypothesis should be accepted, because the groups with the more deicer salt have a lower average mass.
After thinking about the results of this experiment, I wonder if a different type of deicer would affect how much barley grows. For example, the Department of Transportation sprays a special type of deicer on the roads. I wonder if that deicer would affect barley. Also, there are a lot of different types of plants that could be tested. I wonder if what the effect of deicer would be on wheat, soybeans, apple trees, or any other type of plant.
If I were to conduct this project again I would have used six different syringes so I would have had one for each group, because the next time I watered the plants, some of the salt could still have been in the syringe from last time. I also would have grown the plants in natural sunlight outside in the summer instead of using an artificial light inside in the winter because that would be more natural. I also would have used more plants in each group and more variations of salt concentrations to discover the smallest amount of salt having a negative effect.


by Albert Camus Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
Make new friends But keep the old One is sliver and the other gold!
Today as Valentines go out, To people near and far, This one I'm sending right to you, To say how nice you are.
There are gold ships, There are silver ships, But there are no ships Like friendships.


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"All Night" is a song recorded by American country music duo Brothers Osborne. It is the lead single to their third studio album Skeletons. The duo's members, T.J. Osborne and John Osborne, wrote the song with Andrew DeRoberts.

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The duo's two members, T.J. Osborne and John Osborne, wrote the song with Andrew DeRoberts, and Jay Joyce produced the track. Describing the song to The Country Daily, John said, "We wanted to write a song that just felt good. We didn't want to think too hard about it. We wanted to write a song that no matter what happened we knew that our fans at our shows were gonna love to sing along to, and that's what we did". The duo also performed the song at the 2020 Country Music Association telecast.

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The song's music video, released on September 30, 2020, was directed by Wes Edwards and Ryan Silver, both of whom have directed most of the brothers' other music videos. In it, a man is depicted sitting at home when he receives a package that features life-sized dancing puppets. This is alternated with scenes of the duo performing the song while under a blacklight, as the puppets appear around them with neon skeletons painted on.

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After quite a bit of hiking uphill, I was suddenly rewarded with this view, which I photographed greedily. I was startled by another hiker, who offered to take my picture and then I ate my lunch before taking more pictures with the sun out and then heading off to the other lookouts... so thats it for now. I'm off to Sibley with Mhari for the night, but I'm sure that there will be more postings on Tuesday.
Here is one of the first stops I made as I hiked up Awausee Trail to a series of wonderful lookouts over Agawa Bay and Valley. It was part of a step-pool sequence in a pretty little stream hurtling down the side of a large, steep hill.
I was having a tough time photographing the sqirrel with a mug in my hand, so I finished up my hot chocolate and put the mug down so I could have both hands free to track the brash, but speedy critter... Little did I know that he had a taste for chocolate and went straight for the mug as soon as I put it down... So I snapped my pictures quick and then took the mug away before he got to much of it. So, then he went up a tree and scolded me.
I was a bit disappointed to wake up to dark skies and fog. But by the time I cooked up hot chocolate and oatmeal, did the dishes and then headed over to the visitors centre to sort things out and buy a map - the sky had mostly cleared.
There was still a bit of light as I reached my campsite. However, the weather was overcast and threatening to rain (which it did about the time it got dark). I spent a bit of time wandering this beach and taking pictures, then hiked to the phone at the visitors centre to call home and M. and Gabe - of whom I was able to reach not one. Then I hiked back, stopping at the bathroom. At which point it had reached full dark and started to rain - so that by the time I got back to the car I was pretty wet. So.. I called it... and slept in my car - why put up a tent if it was going to get wet and then I'd have to pack it up wet.... and so forth... I can say it was the best sleep I ever had, but it was okay.
Just outside of Thunder Bay is the Terry Fox monument from where you can see the sleeping Giant - resting in Thunder Bay Harbour.... but I'm tired... so you'll have to wait for more pictures... maybe in the morning.
Here be a blurry rendition of the moon... one of all the other shots I took without a tripod... truth to tell I don't know which I like better.. but back to packing.
Above, Gabe smiles after a hard day working in the field.
After seeing the picture of St. Andrew's burnt to the ground I googled the event to see if I could find more specific information. Instead I found this intense government report outlining the deficincies in the living conditions on the reserve and recomended remedial activities. While I was somewhat aware of many of the problems that plauged the community in 2000-2001, when I worked there, I certainly did not have the full cross section, nor details. Here is a link to the report.
None of what I've read has surprised me, Kashechewan's problems are exacerbated by some special issues (largely damage done by flooding and lack of road access). However, I was shocked to find out that funding for Kashechewan is based on a population of 1100 people. Even in 2000, there was most certainly 1500 people and since that time the population has incresed, especially after a bill was enacted extending status to many people who had lost it because their father's were not native. I has also failed to make the leap of thought to realize that the changed post-secondary hours would result in poorer attendance. Sigh. I wish that things could turn around a bit for them. They sound like they could use a good engineer/urban planner and a manager. I foudn Mr. Alan Pope's comments on the process and outcome of the community canvas interesting and in light of the decision to rehabilitate the community at its existing location - a bit surprising. The largest challange of a remote community with limited employment and revenue sources is to take the first steps (especially in terms of securing both start up funding and the building a skilled labour pool able to compete in a market that is remote from outside markets). I wish them sucess and hope that the education and health situations are promptly improved. Its strange how little has happened since the initial evacuation.


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Marlins 6, Brewers 4
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W: Ricky Nolasco (5-4)
L: Trevor Hoffman (1-4)
S: Leo Nunez (11)
HR: Prince Fielder (8), Corey Hart (14), Chris Coghlan (3)
MVP: Corey Hart (+.252)
LVP: Trevor Hoffman (-.328)
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Following tonight's loss, the Brewers are on pace to go 65-97, and it's possible they'll find 97 different ways to lose.
Tonight, Dave Bush gave up his patented big inning in the first, allowing three earned runs as the Marlins hit for the cycle in the inning. After that, though, he only allowed three more hits while completing six for his sixth quality start of the season. Those innings gave the Brewers enough time to get back into the game with home runs from Prince Fielder and Corey Hart in a three run seventh.
Unfortunately, that was as close as the Brewers would get. Trevor Hoffman entered a tie game in the seventh and allowed three hits on three runs and two walks. The Brewers scored a run in the eighth and brought Prince Fielder to the plate as the potential tying run with two outs in the ninth, but Fielder grounded out to first to end the game.
The Brewers are now 2-9 when Dave Bush starts.


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Partly cloudy this evening, then becoming cloudy after midnight. Low around 25F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph..
Partly cloudy this evening, then becoming cloudy after midnight. Low around 25F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.
Logan Welch (33) looks for a running lane as the Powder Valley defense closes in Friday.
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One week after enjoying sweet victory in Wallowa, the Joseph Eagles tasted bitter defeat at home Friday night in a crushing 64-6 loss to Powder Valley.
The Eagles (2-3, 1-1) simply had no answer on either side of the ball. After the Badgers (4-1, 2-0) opened with a touchdown on the game's opening kickoff, Joseph answered with a 28-yard TD run by Cayden DeLury to tie the game at 6-6.
But it was all Powder from there.
The Badgers offense showed a good mix of run and pass and scored on their next five possessions en route to a 52-6 halftime lead.
Powder Valley had an answer for the Eagles speedy rushing attack, filling gaps and containing the outside for most of the night.
Powder's a good, hard-hitting, physical team that can throw the ball," Joseph coach Toby Koehn said. "They can run the ball just as well. And our kids seemed pretty flat. Even from the first couple of plays they weren't filling gaps and playing the way I expected them to play."
The Eagles were without junior Caeven Murray, who suffered a broken arm against Wallowa. Koehn said he hopes a cast will be sufficient to get Murray back on the field soon.
"That hurt us, obviously, in our pass defense," Koehn said. "And he's just a good, physical kid. But (his absence) wasn't the deciding factor."
The Eagles host Cove on Friday and Echo on Oct. 14 before wrapping up league play at Pine Eagle on Oct. 21.
"We're still in playoff contention, so the next three games are pretty important," Koehn said.
Friday also was Joseph's first home game with its new scoreboard, which was donated by the local Les Schwab store. Pepsi-Co also contributed installation costs.
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TOWN BACK NATIONAL ADOPTION WEEK
Kirklees Council at Birmingham game
As National Adoption Week (4-11 November) kicks off, Kirklees Council has teamed up with Huddersfield Town to encourage people to adopt one or more of the children in its care.
The Club's support follows an urgent adoption appeal, launched earlier this year by Kirklees Council, which saw the number of children awaiting adoption reduced by more than half. Since launching the appeal, numbers fell from around 90 in January, to 36 in September.
Latest figures from Kirklees also reveal that enquiries from prospective parents soared to its highest levels, up by more than 100% during 2012/13, compared to the same period the previous year. This year was also a record for Kirklees in terms of the number of approved new adopters and for children matched with families, with 34 new adopters approved and 47 children matched with adoptive families during 2012/13.
With Huddersfield Town's support, Kirklees Council is now looking to build on this success during National Adoption Week, by encouraging even more people to come forward and adopt.
Cllr Cath Harris, Kirklees Council's Cabinet Member for Children's Services said:
"It is great news that more people than ever are making the decision to adopt. Although sadly many of the children in our care have experienced some degree of upheaval, we've seen time and again, the transformation in them once placed within a permanent and loving environment.
"But with 36 children in Kirklees still in urgent need of adoption and with numbers set to continue rising both locally and nationally, we simply cannot afford to be complacent. One of our key aims has been to reduce the length of time it takes to approve new adoptive parents. The Government's target is around eight months but we are consistently achieving our own target of six months. We also work closely with local authorities across the country to find the best possible match for both parent and child as quickly as possible.
"Our foster carers do an amazing job but we will always need people who can provide forever homes and we hope that National Adoption Week will prompt even more people to do just that."
Nigel Clibbens, Huddersfield Town's Chief Executive, added:
"As a family-centred, community-oriented club, we are proud to play a part in raising awareness for what is a very important issue; one that we have highlighted over a sustained period of time. Encouraging even one person to adopt and helping to change the life of a young person for the better is a huge achievement and we hope that more people will be inspired to find out more during National Adoption Week."
Representatives from Kirklees Council's adoption team will be at Huddersfield Town's Canalside complex ahead of and at the John Smith's Stadium for their match against Birmingham on Saturday 9 November to answer any questions and provide information about adoption. You can also call the Council's adoption team on 0800 028 3001, or visit www.kirklees.gov.uk/adoption


DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (AP) — A journal made public by the CIA and apparently handwritten by one of Osama bin Laden's daughters offers a glimpse into how the al-Qaida leader viewed the world around him and reveals his deep interest in the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions unfolding in the months before he was killed in a U.S. raid.
He talks about Libya becoming a pathway for jihadis to Europe; of his visit as a youth to William Shakespeare's home in Britain; of how quickly turmoil had gripped the Middle East. The 228-page journal meanders among discussions, thoughts and reflections bin Laden shared with his family about how to exploit the uprisings, what to make of the rapid changes unfolding in the Arab world and when al-Qaida should speak out.
"This chaos and the absence of leadership in the revolutions is the best environment to spread al-Qaida's thoughts and ideas," bin Laden is quoted as telling his family in the document. Bin Laden's wife, referred to as Um Hamza, assures him that a tape he released seven years earlier calling out the rulers of the region as unfit could be one of the major forces behind the Arab Spring protests roiling the region.
The Associated Press examined a copy of the journal uploaded by the Long War Journal to its website. The CIA released it Wednesday as part of a trove of material recovered during the May 2011 raid that killed bin Laden, then took down the files, saying they were "temporarily unavailable pending resolution of a technical issue."
The journal appears to cover conversations between bin Laden and his daughters, Miriam and Somiya, his wife and his sons, Khaled and Hamza — the latter of whom would become a potential successor to lead the group his father founded.
The journal is titled, "Special diaries for Abu Abdullah: Sheikh Abdullah's points of view — A session with the family," which refers to bin Laden by his traditional Arabic name. The conversations took place between February and April 2011, with the journal entries dated according to the Islamic calendar.
In Libya, the uprising would end with Moammar Gadhafi's death months after bin Laden was killed. In Yemen, al-Qaida would gain a greater foothold and remain active amid the chaos of war and famine. In Bahrain, the Sunni-led monarchy would launch a crackdown on the country's Shiite majority. In Syria, the government's lethal response to a protest by schoolchildren in early 2011 would spark mass protests and ignite a war and massive refugee crisis that continues today.
The reflections, jotted at times in blue ink and others in red, refer repeatedly to media reports of what was happening across the region. At one point, they criticize Al-Jazeera TV's broadcast of gruesome images from a deadly protest in Yemen, saying a warning should have been given to shield children from viewing them. However, the Qatari-backed channel is also hailed for "working on toppling regimes" and for "carrying the banner of the revolutions."
Bin Laden appears concerned by the speed of some of the region's revolts, believing that a gradual approach would help avoid the backlash of a counter-revolution as regime figures sought to hold onto power at all cost.
"I am upset by the timing of the revolutions. We told them to slow down," bin Laden is quoted as saying, though it's not entirely clear which countries he is referring to. On Libya, bin Laden says he believes the uprising "has opened the door for jihadists."
"This is why Gadhafi and his son say that the extremists will come from the sea, which will be an area of operation for al-Qaida. This will be the Somalia of the Mediterranean," he is quoted as saying.
Still, bin Laden appears reluctant to issue a statement in support of Islamists in Libya for fear that if Gadhafi is ousted, the U.S. will try to expand its footprint there. Yemen is a primary focus of the journal entries. Al-Qaida's branch there is among its most active in the world and the journal suggests al-Qaida was plotting an assassination attempt against Yemen's embattled ruler at the time, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
In the early pages of the document, bin Laden is asked about his thoughts on jihad, and replies that he first considered it "in secondary school." He says this was a result of his home and school environment. Separately, he describes his father as a pious man.
"There wasn't a particular group that was guiding me, like the Muslim Brotherhood," he is quoted as saying. From a young age, he appeared to be unfazed by worldly spoils, recounting a story about declining a new watch from his wealthy father.
He recalls a summer spent studying in the U.K. when he was 14, including a visit to the home of Shakespeare. His time in Britain left him feeling uneasy and he decided not to return the following summer.
"I saw that they were a society different from ours and that they were morally corrupt," he says. Bin Laden imagines that Saudi Arabia would soon feel the "tsunami" of change sweeping the region. The late al-Qaida chief held Saudi citizenship until the early 1990s, before he was stripped of his nationality by the government.
He talks about wanting to deliver a message to Saudi youth and Saudi rulers: "The flood is coming and it will lead to a change so there is no need for violence."
Michael and Badr reported from Cairo, Salaheddin from Baghdad and Harb from Dubai.


However, this point does bring out the fact that there are a few situations where it's advantageous to be first. In first or early position you get more check-raising opportunities. Furthermore, with a lock in first position you might win three bets by betting and reraising. Finally, you sometimes want to drive players out to make your hand stand up; only raising in early position, before opponents have had the opportunity to call the first bet, can succeed in doing this. Nevertheless, these first and early position advantages are minimal in comparison to the many advantages of being last.
There are times when your positional advantage allows you to win a pot you would not otherwise have won. Most of the time, though, the best hand wins, whether it happens to be first or last. So what we really mean by positional advantage is the extra bets that may be saved or gained by your being in late position a check after your opponent checks, a raise after your opponent bets, and so on. The importance of these extra bets cannot be overemphasized. Never forget that in poker we are trying to win money, not pots. Every decent player wins a fair share of pots, but it is the extra bets you can get into the pots you win and those you can save from the pots you lose that increase your hourly rate and the money won in the long run.
There is little you can do to secure last position from one deal to the next, but when you have it, you should make the most of it. In seven-card stud, for example, you should anticipate the position you will be in from one round to the next. If an ace or an open pair is to your immediate left, that figures to make you last in the next round. You may play your hand a little differently, a little more aggressively, a little more loosely, than you would if you were expecting to be first.
In contrast, when the bettor is to your immediate right, forcing you to act ahead of everyone else, you must tighten up considerably. It is extremely important that you fold almost all marginal hands in this position. The possibility of a raise behind you plus the chance of a reraise from the original bettor is devastating. Furthermore, you can frequently count on being in the same unpleasant position not accidentally called under the gun - for the remainder of the hand. If you constantly call bets with marginal hands in this position, you will have to fold so many of them either later in the same round when the bet is raised or on the next round when the bet is repeated - that you will lose an enormous amount relative to the occasional pots you might win by staying in.
Thus, in five-card draw, if a player to your immediate right in early position opens, you should throw away two aces in most cases. In the same position in lowball, you'd usually have to throw away a one-card draw to a 7,6 and possibly a 7,5, even though these are hands you'd gladly play if you were sure there would be no raises behind you. In seven-card stud if the player to your right raises the opener on third street, you should fold most middle-sized pairs when there are several people behind you who might reraise.
With any of these hands you'd almost certainly call in last position, a fact that underlines another of that position's advantages: You can play more hands. You no longer need to fear a raise from players who have not acted, and in most instances you will probably remain last on future betting rounds as well. Even in seven-card stud, when the bettor to your left happens not to be high on board and thus first to act, the other players will usually check around to that bettor on the following round.


Hidden away in Lancaster's Sun Square, Atkinson's first cafe sits at the foot of an exquisite 1730s Palladian facade in a Landmark Trust building, The Music Room. Choose from Single Origin coffees ground and brewed by the cup, Espresso based drinks and Loose Leaf teas.
J Atkinson & Co – Coffee roasters and tea merchants since 1837 opened the former Priory Hall next door to their tea and coffee emporium on China Street, serving syphon coffee and lever espresso. Since opening The Hall has won awards for BSA Best Flat White, UKBC Heats Best Espresso and Cappuccino and recently has produced semi-finalists in the UK Barista and Latte Art Championship. A must do for any Coffee lover.
We're back open usual hours in Lancaster and Manchester!
Printroom Café & Bar is located in the historic Storey Building on Meeting House Lane and is quickly establishing itself as a popular casual eatery with a passion for local, independent and responsibly sourced produce. Printroom offers a quality coffee selection to satisfy all caffeine connoisseurs V60, filter or barista style using delectable beans from Coffee Quarter neighbours, Atkinson's of Lancaster.
With a relaxing atmosphere and vintage teapots and cups, the Sunbury Coffee House is the perfect place to indulge in the finest teas and coffees.


Mr Grayling said the franchise had failed because Stagecoach and Virgin Trains had "got their bid wrong", overestimating the profitability of the line.
That may help to solve some issues – for example, reducing the friction between the track operator, Network Rail and the train operator.
He told the Commons that Stagecoach and Virgin have lost almost £200m, but there had not been a loss to taxpayers "at this time".
Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell tweeted that he welcomed the move, which he said was implementing Labour's Manifesto promise to renationalise the railways.
Good to see Grayling implementing first stage of Labour's Manifesto promise to renationalise the railways. I think I'm right in saying that he's now nationalised more railways than any Labour minister in 6 decades. Come on Chris, East Coast line today, the whole system tomorrow.
For a government wedded to the benefits of the private sector and to leaving the railways in the hands of private companies, today's decision is a significant blow.
It's also further ammunition for a Corbyn Labour Party committed to renationalising the railways.
Mr Grayling may protest that this is only a temporary measure – but it is still the third time in just over a decade that a private company has had to be stripped of the East Coast Main Line contract.
And while memories of British Rail's stale sandwiches may have faded – strikes, costly commuter fares, cramped carriages and failing companies are hardly likely to endear passengers to the current crop of private rail operators.
After looking into problems with the service, Mr Grayling said he was advised "that there is no suggestion of either malpractice or malicious intent in what has happened".
He added that the firms have paid a "high financial and reputational price" in relation to the East Coast route.