Four Sandhill Cranes take off in formation from a corn field near Kearney, NE. Over 500,000 cranes can populate this area in winter as they feed on grain in the fields to bulk up for migration.
Sandhill Cranes flying out from their overnight roost in the Platte River near Kearney, NE. At 23F there was some condensation mist over the River.
This Whooper Swan on frozen Lake Kussharo, Hokkaido is using its neck to nuzzle into its natural down comforter. The hot spring feeds into the lake making a warmer, melted strip of water at the shoreline.
This livestock water trough stands in front of hills displaying a full palette of yellows. On the Carrizo Plain in San Luis Obispo County, CA.
This snow monkey (Japanese Macaque) has leaned in on the edge of the onsen hot spring pool for a drink.
How Big Is My Fish?
A Steller's sea eagle taking it all in near Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan.
These two red crowned cranes are performing the characteristic unison dance which they will do many times to strengthen their life long bond.
This Red Crowned Crane is one of about 1000 resident cranes near Tsurui, Hokkaido, Japan and one of only about 2750 cranes worldwide. The red crown is a patch of bare skin that becomes even brighter during mating season. In Japan, the red crowned crane represents luck, longevity and fidelity.
A northern red fox looking back at something of concern along the shore on the Notsuke Peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan.
Mom and child snow monkeys cuddle near Shibuonsen, Nagano, Japan.
A hawk takes off from his perch and maneuvers though the grasses as he passes by.
The light and clouds play late in the day at the corner of a marsh in the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge.
Lucky timing on my part to catch the Valley of Goblins, UT after a significant snowstorm.
The view out from inside of Double Arch in Arches National Park.
The last light of the day sinking behind Turret Arch in Arches National Park.
Especially after a snowfall, there are wonderful scenes to photograph in Arches National Park besides the arches.
Morning light on the area in Arches National Park called Park Avenue after the tall rock formations that resemble the tall buildings of Manhattan.
The classic buck rail fences of Grand Teton National Park.
These two penguins seem lost in the vastness of Antarctica.
The light in Antarctica seems to always be fantastic.
This chinstrap penguin is contemplating his jump down as he descends the rock outcropping to find more pebbles for the nest.
The two signatures for me at Grand Teton National Park: the jagged mountain peaks and the buck rail fences.
The less photographed Thomas Murphy barn on Mormon Row in Grand Teton National Park.
A worker at the old Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo taking a break.
A pronghorn, arguably the fastest animal on earth, looking attentive in front of the Grand Teton mountains.
Ready to store the grain against a foreboding sky in Swan Valley, ID.
It was very grand on this day at Schwabacher's Landing.
At over 11,500 ft this graded dirt road gives a wide open view to the White Mountain area of the Sierra Nevada just above the Patriarch Grove of Bristlecone pines. The truck in the middle appears pretty small in this vast scenery.
It's always good to get out on a beautiful fall day and get off the beaten track a bit. This sagebrush, in full bloom, was found beside a dirt road in the scrub area off US395 near Tom's Place.
Nothing finer than being in the eastern Sierra looking upstream at the Hot Springs Creek with the Sierra Nevada mountains as a backdrop. A simple, unassuming bridge in the middle of weeds and sagebrush but one of my favorites.
This Bristlecone Pine is leaning toward the center of the Milky Way - our galactic core. Maybe good advice for all of us since the Bristlecone Pine can live thousands of years. From the Patriarch Grove in the White Mountains of California.
Another sunset at the always intriguing Shark Fin Cove near Davenport, CA.
4 strollers enjoying a blustery day on the beach at Ocean Beach, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
This is where you get your hair cut if you're a sheep on this farm in New Zealand near Ocean Beach. Not sure of the frequency of the haircuts as we saw some "fluffy" sheep and some sheered sheep during the winter. Felt a bit sorry for the sheered ones given the relatively low winter temperatures.
Long exposure of the sky above the beach at Kairakau, New Zealand.
Not many sheep in this field near Otane, New Zealand but there were thousands in nearby fields.
A cloudy sunset on a deserted beach on the east coast of the northern island of New Zealand.
An amazing monument at the Russian Cosmonaut Museum in Moscow, Russia. It is 350 tall, clad in titanium plates and depicts a rocket trailing exhaust and supported by Soviet era bas relief art.
A sunset in Russia on Lake Onega at about 62 degrees north latitude. Big skies and awesome color.
It truly was like a bay window view of the heart of Las Torres del Paine in Chilean Patagonia. The view is across Lago Nordenskjold to the very impressive Paine massif.
Walking across a gravel peninsula from the glacier boat debarcation point, you can take in the full scale of Patagonia and Grey Lake after having just seen Grey Glacier which occupies 100 square miles and is at least 100ft thick.
The front of the Perito Moreno glacier in Argentina from Argentina Lake. The face of the leading edge of the glacier can be as high as 240 feet.
This guanaco (sounds like "wanaco") was seen in Chilean Patagonia in the Las Torres del Paine national park. Guanacos, the original wild version of the domesticated llama and alpaca, number about 400K.
A bald eagle near Tenakee Springs, AK locks in on a food source below.
The almost constant rain and moisture in Oysterville, Washington has added a lot of character on these window frames and siding of the Oysterville Sea Farm.
A group of birds fly through the setting sun at Cannon Beach, OR.
Pretty sure about letting sleeping dogs lie so we did the same with this cat. A beautiful cheetah taking an afternoon rest near Little Vumbura Camp in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. A shot from 2009.
This little guy might be pretty big by now. This shot of a lion cub from 2009 hanging out under the trees as Mom sleeps nearby. Near Little Vumbura Camp in the Okavango Delta of Botswana.
A segull perches on a rock along Cannon Beach, OR.
Two zodiacs launched from the M/V Ushuaia on a Muench Workshops photo tour of Antarctica show the scale of the mountains and the glacial ice in Neko Harbor, Antarctica.
This huge iceberg is just floating around in the sea near the opening to Neko Harbor, Antarctica. The scale of Antarctica is always impressive.
The Sarah W. Verwork resting in a harbor on Cuverville Island, Antarctica. This 54 foot yacht regularly crosses Drake Passage between the tip of South America and Antarctica and sails to South Georgia Island as well as the Falklands. These expeditions are probably for the more hearty adventurers.
A bald eagle perched on a sign seems to be protecting his marsh in the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge.
A bald eagle eyeing me intently from his perch in the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge.
Backlit waves crashing against the rocks late in the day at Gray Whale Cove, CA.
At least part of it. A view across the Lago Nordenskjold to Las Torres del Paine.
Chasing humpback whale flukes on a snowy day in Bancroft Bay, Antarctica. Although summer, the black and white version makes this seem a cold and ominous scene.
Night falls over the Klamath River just outside Klamath Falls, OR.
Two bald eagles dreaming of their next meal in a wetlands field in the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge.
A bald eagle watching for its next meal atop a power pole on Township Road outside of Klamath Falls, OR.
A great blue heron skims just above the water surface at Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
This bald eagle at his rightful position at the top of a power pole along Township Road near the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge next to Klamath Falls, OR.
This Chinstrap penguin seems to be our welcoming party at Hydrudga Rocks, Antarctica. Seems to have a smile on his face and is glad to see us. None of the penguins in Antarctica exhibited fear of us. Mostly they went about their business and, if necessary, waited for us to be clear of their path.
3 Gentoo penguins standing out in the cold on Cuverville Island, Antarctica. Actually, it was summer so the temperatures were around 32F, probably very comfortable for these guys.
Two chinstrap penguins serenading a third lying on a nest. Near Two Hummock Island, Antarctica.
The famed Las Torres in Las Torres del Paine national park in Chile.
The Perito Moreno glacier in Argentina is one of 48 glaciers in the area. Combined, the glacial area is the 3rd largest body of freshwater in the world. The cool thing about Perito Moreno is the catwalk system that allows you to walk the length of the glacier face. Cool AND cool.
The path towards the Dos Cuernos (Two Horns) that join with Las Torres (the towers) in Torres del Paine national park in Chile.
These Gentoo penguins inhabiting a nice bit of real estate overlooking Neko Harbor, Antarctica. Hidden dangers though as minutes before this photo an iceberg calved into the bay creating a tsunami wave that sent the little Gentoos running for higher ground.
Several colonies of Gentoo penguins hanging out on a grey day on Cuverville Island, Antarctica.
Sailing into Neko Harbor, Antarctica. It looks like an icy and forbidding landing spot.
Antarctica! could use some more exclamation points. It was that good. On this afternoon as we cruised into Neko Harbor we had several hours of landscape shots like this from the deck of the Ushuaia. Almost unbelievable.
A south pole skua makes off with a Gentoo penguin egg from a colony on Cuverville Island, Antarctica.
A penguin stands alone atop an iceberg under a light snow in Bancroft Bay, Antarctica.
This small bird has found a large icy perch in the even larger expanse of Antarctic waters. Shot near Lemaire Island, Antarctica.
A great time chasing whales in a zodiac in the snow near Cuverville Island, Antarctica.
A Gentoo penguin "porpoises" beside our Zodiak as we head back to our ship after a landing at Cuverville Island, Antarctica.
This bare tree is leaning, possibly due to the activity of the beavers that have remade this stream to suit themselves. Shot above Lundy Lake in the eastern Sierra.
The entrance to a ranch tucked up against the White Mountains in the Chalfont Valley of the eastern Sierras.
A small wooden bridge off Highway 395 in Coleville, CA .
Found this old VW bus in Benton Hot Springs apparently still waiting repair. Looks like you would have to dig it out first, then repair. Love the spider web-like broken windshields too.
The Hot Creek River flowing through the Owens Valley in the eastern Sierra of California.
Bristlecone Pines, the oldest living things on earth, grow in strange, intertwined ways. This branch crossed in front of the trunk of another tree and may be held hostage by its bark for 3-4 thousands years, the possible lifetime of these trees. From the Patriarch Grove in the White Mountains of California - one of the coolest places to explore anywhere.
A small pine trying to grow from a crack in the granite rock at Olmstead Point in Yosemite National Park. Come back in 50 years and check it out.
A view upstream of the middle fork of the Flathead River in Glacier National Park. Early fall evening beside Highway 2 with great light and clouds.
A jumble of logs along the North Fork of the Flathead River in Glacier National Park.
A bend in the north fork of the Flathead River just inside the western boundary of Glacier National Park.
An old truck too. Both have been sitting in the old mining ghost town of Warren, ID since around 1930. Abandoned after the gold ran out.
You can't help taking the easy photographs along with the difficult ones. This shot of Lake Sherburne in the eastern portion of Glacier National Park is one of those shots you just can't help but take.
This row boat seems ready to go but may have had its last row for the season as everything at Swiftcurrent/Many Glacier is closed up for the coming winter.
A long exposure of Bowman Lake in Glacier National Park.
The North Fork of the Flathead River flowing through the western portion of Glacier National Park.
An old cabin outside of the historic town of Benton, CA. A gold and silver mining town starting in the 1850's was also a Wells Fargo stagecoach stop. It is now a small tourist town kept going by the Benton Hot Springs and the Paiute marijuana trailer.
The Dana Fork of the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park streams along in late summer thanks to the abundant snow in winter.
Wildflowers doing well at 10,000+ ft. around Rock Creek Lake in the eastern Sierra of California.
This bristlecone pine stands atop a hill in the Patriarch Grove of the White Mountains. The grove is at 11,300 ft so this bristlecone fights the winter cold, snow and wind at around 11,500 ft. and still thrives in the poor soil.
This bristlecone pine resides at about 11,000 ft. in the Patriarch Grove of the White Mountains. Amazing trees that can survive the altitude, poor soil, and brutal winters for thousands of years. Perhaps the twisted growth patterns are the result of these struggles.
A human could see around 30,000 sunsets in a lifetime. An old bristlecone pine may have see as many as 1.5 Million. Just another day for these bristlecone pines at the top of the White Mountains range in California.
I took the one to the right but now want to go back and take the one to the left. Dirt roads are special and usually more interesting. In the wide open high country southeast of Mono Lake on the way to Benton, CA.
A low angle shot of an ancient Bristlecone pine in the Patriarch Grove of the White Mountains. Additional perspective is that this tree may already be 1000 years old and could live to be 4000 years old. Bristlecone pines are the oldest living things on earth.
Sagebrush color along the Hot Creek stream in the Owens Valley of the eastern Sierra.
Looking down at the valley of Lermoos (in Austria) from the highest point in Germany, the Zugspitze, at almost 10K feet.
We couldn't hear Julie Andrews singing, she was over in Austria, but this field near Ettal, Germany in Bavaria made us think of her.
This moose is locked in on my presence while it forages on a winter day in Grand Teton NP.
A panorama shot of Sunset Point in Bryce Canyon this past January during 10 days of heavy snowfall.
A young Japanese man working on a painting of the Nezu Shrine in Tokyo, Japan on a autumn afternoon in 2007.
A photo from April 2015 of a bald eagle grabbing lunch in Alaska near Sitka, AK. Shot while on a photo tour with Juan Pons on the awesome yacht Northern Song.
Gulfoss waterfall in Iceland on a stormy day in September, 2015.
Another shot of the Dusty grain elevator in Dusty, WA in the hear of the Palouse.
A yellow railing casts a shadow on the a bridge over the Mosel River near Traben-Trarbach, Germany.
The Palouse Fall gorge was created at the end of the last ice age as periodic floods washed away soils in this area of Washington state.
A barn amid the sculpted hills and fields of the Palouse.
Sunset at the granary in Dusty, WA in the Palouse.
A railroad trestle bridge over the Snake River at the confluence of the Palouse River.
Early spring is the time for roses. This one is in the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden, voted the top rose garden in the US in 2010. This rose is a Mardi Gras.
Shellburg Creek Watefall, OR, behind a tree.
A split tone colorization of the beach at Limantor in Drake's Bay, CA.
Long exposure in black and white of two table rocks along Limantour Beach at Drake's Bay.
The hull of the Point Reyes has seen better days as it sits grounded on the banks of Tomales Bay near Point Reyes National Seashore.
Bowling Ball Beach on the north coast of California is home to these round concretions that first form inside sedimentary rock. They work themselves free over time and have collected on the beach.
Spring flowers blooming at the overlook to the shoreline of Point Reyes National Seashore.
A stand of trees on the way to Yellowstone National Park in the winter.
A late season storm at Jackson Lake in Grand Teton National Park.
The flow from Mammoth Hot Springs eventually spills down the side of the hill creating many different levels of travertine pools.
A bison in Yellowstone National Park resting as the spring wind blows.
An old gate trying to block the winter snow from moving on.
This bison in Yellowstone National Park wanted to cross the road near Cooke City. He proceeded to amble down the road for a couple of miles - obviously easier than working through snow.
The National Elk Refuge outside Jackson, WY. Currently about 8800 elk are wintering there. Sleigh rides are available to get up and close with the elk.
A fence line in Grand Teton National Park.
Mormon Row barn in Grand Teton National Park waiting through another gray winter day.
On a day in Grand Teton National Park, the clouds and fog obscured any view of the mountains, So, shoot abstracts in B+W.
Who knows how long this stump lived overlooking Bryce Canyon or how long it will remain as a show of defiance to the elements.
This cactus has adapted well and thrives in the dry Valley of Fire just north of Las Vegas, NV.
On a cold January afternoon, this old tree appears all worn out as it looks over Bryce Canyon.
Bryce Canyon has a number of prominent features that people have ascribed names or resemblances to. In this photo there is "Sunken Ship" in the back right as well as "Boat Mesa" in the back left.
Shot in 2016, this is a B+W version of Horsetail Falls doing its reflective thing against the wall of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
Last light of the day in Monument Valley, UT/AZ.
This small river running through White Canyon must have been bigger at one time to cut through the rock as it has. This joins the Colorado River about a mile downstream at Hite which then flows into Lake Powell.
Just after a storm passed through, fresh snow in south central Utah makes for some spectacular scenery.
Tracks of OHVs heading towards Dumont Dunes near Death Valley, CA.
Footprints along the crest of a sand dune at Mesquite Dunes near Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley National Park.
Photographers waiting on the light and the sunset at Mesquite Dunes near Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley, CA.
Sunset from Dante's View overlooking Badwater in Death Valley National Park.
Believe it or not, Dumont Dunes, near Death Valley, is certified for Off Highway Vehicles.
A panorama from Artist's Point in Monument Valley, AZ/UT.
Capitol Reef National Park has the Hickman Natural Bridge (pictured). I guess they moved all the arches to Arches National Park.
As much as they have been photographed, you still can't help but shoot the Mittens (West and East) in Monument Valley - especially at sunset.
Clouds over the hoodoos at Sunset Point in Bryce Canyon indicated more overnight snow was coming.
A bend in the Colorado River as it winds its way down to Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon dam near Page, AZ.
A large snow accumulation near Inspiration Point in Bryce Canyon National Park.
Up on a mesa in southern Utah after a snowstorm.
The eastern section of the San Francisco Bay Bridge from Treasure Island to Oakland.
You can just see its fin. Near Davenport, CA.
The sun setting at the end of the day on the coast near Davenport, CA.
Another image from Shark Fin Cove near Davenport, CA where the rock resembles a shark's fin.
Broadway, one of the main aisles in the main cell block in the closed prison of Alcatraz.
Care For A Dip On Route 66?
A graffiti painted pool at an old KOA campground at Two Guns on the old, historic Route 66.
A rainy day at the Cantor Art Center where the Rodin collection is exhibited.
You Wanna Stop for Coffee?
Another shot of the Twin Arrows Trading Post along historic Route 66 in Arizona.
Two sandhill cranes gliding in for a landing in a marsh at Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico.
A wind blown sand dune in White Sands National Monument in New Mexico.
A winter sunset in silhouette at the Very Large Array radio telescopes near Magdalena, New Mexico.
A sandhill crane flying over Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge, NM.
A sandhill crane drinking at sunset in the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico.
Snow geese taking flight at sunrise in Bosque del Apache, NM.
White Sands National Monument in New Mexico can also boast of magnificent skies as well.
A morning blast off of snow geese (not crows) from a small marsh just north of the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. Regular visitor to Bosque, Jim Palmer (jimpalmerphotogrpahy.com), estimated between 10 to15 thousand snow geese in the Bosque area in early December this year.
A gaggle of snow geese in the early morning at Bosque del Apache, NM.
A cloudy day at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico.
A backlit photo of sandhill cranes posing and feeding at sunset at Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico.
An evening fly in of sandhill cranes to one of the marshes in the Bosque Del Apache wildlife refuge near Socorro, NM. Thousands of sandhill cranes and snow geese gather in this area from November through February.
A night shot of one of the radio telescopes in the Very Large Array located near Magdalena, NM. The radio telescopes are all on railways (as you can see in this photo) so that they can be moved and configured for different listening parameters.
Although this looks like a warm day, it was quite chilly prior to a storm coming in later in the day. No one was at Tenaya Lake in Yosemite National Park since it was one of the last days Tioga Pass road was open for the season.
This was taken on one of the last days that Glacier Point road in Yosemite National Park was open. There were only 4 cars in the parking lot - a huge contrast to summer crowds. The clouds shown multiplied later and produced a bit of snow as I left the park. There has also been snow since then resulting in the road being closed for the winter.
Mono Lake on the night of the super moon, November 14, 2016. A bright night that lit up the snow on the tops of the Sierra Nevada mountains of Yosemite National Park.
A stylized photo of the river grass that grows along the bottom of Hot Creek in the Owens Valley of the eastern Sierra.
A tufa structure in Mono Lake glows at dusk.
A panoramic view down to Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra. Long a sentinel of the fight for water between southern California and northern California, Mono Lake is still well below the level agreed to in 1994 and about only half of the volume of what it was in the early 1900s. It remains a habitat for millions of birds and exotic algae and brine shrimp due to its high alkalinity. The tufas that have formed in the lake make it a draw for tourists.
Hot Creek in the Owens Valley of the eastern Sierras, runs a bit warm due to the hot springs from the Mammoth thermal basin that are upstream. As a result, I believe, there are long, long strands of river grass thriving in Hot Creek.
A photo from March, 2016 taken in the town of Ulan-Ude, Russia. The windows reflect some warmth of a coming spring against a wall of windows and two trees that reflect the harshness of the winter just passed.
The Heart Spring pool in Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful Geyser basin. Like many of the springs in the geyser basin, Heart Spring's water temperature is just below the boiling point.
The flow of hot water after the Grand Geyser in the Yellowstone Geyser basin does its thing.
A bale of barbed wire on an old fence in the historic Mormon town of Chesterfield, ID. Chesterfield lies exactly on the main route of the Oregon trail.
A woman walking the streets of Irkutsk, Siberia reflected in the puddles of melted snow. A long winter is ending.
The Abyss pool in the West Thumb thermal basin of Yellowstone National Park..
A panorama shot of the Tetons as a morning storm begins to clear.
A nice stand of color off a back road near Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.
On recent trip to Wyoming, I drove up the east side of Lake Tahoe in route. I just caught a glimpse of some water through the trees and discovered a small pond just off the road with some great autumn reflections.
The roots of a tree at Lake Tenaya in Yosemite National Park.
An earthwork sculpture made by Robert Smithson in 1970 on the edge of Great Salt Lake near Salt Lake City, Utah.
A view from McWay Fall/Julia Pfeiffer State Park north towards Big Sur.
One of the barns on Mormon Row in Grand Teton National Park.
On a recent trip to Oregon to shoot waterfalls, I found Butte Creek Falls after a stop at the somewhat remote Abiqua Falls. Almost missed this but was rewarded with a number of good shots at this also remote waterfall near Silverton, OR.
An evening walkabout in The Mission in San Francisco.
A view of some private property with a very nice public view of some aspens in fall color. Near Wells, NV.
A barn on the famous Mormon Row in Grand Teton National Park swirled in fog.
The Painted Hills, one of the seven wonders of Oregon, are layered soils left behind from the days when this area was actually a flood plain. The red colored soil comes from the era when the flood plain was warm and humid. There are also fossil remains from that same ear of camels, early horses and even rhinoceroses.
A stand of color from 2015 around North Lake near Bishop, CA.
A coffee house in The Mission district of San Francisco, CA.
This shot of Upper Yosemite Fall cost me some blood. This backwater area created by a previous higher flow of the Merced River was swarming with mosquitos.


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Halifax Teen Fundraising For Lebanon – GNSOTD Tue, Aug 18th 2020
Posted on August 18, 2020 by Richard Huskisson — No Comments ↓
Jaden Lawen was shocked when he first heard about the deadly explosion in Beirut. He was on a group chat with many friends that he has in Lebanon. His friends posted pictures and videos of the wreckage left over by the explosion, which killed at least 178 people and left thousands more with injuries. The 17-year-old student at the Sacred Heart School of Halifax, was born in Canada, but he spends most of his summers in Lebanon.
That's because he has plenty of family back there too. That is who he was worried about when he learned of the explosion. And for good reason, several of his friends were injured and one of his distant relatives is lucky to be alive. "My aunt's in Lebanon right now, so the first thing I do is text my aunt, and say, 'Are you OK?'" said Lawen. "I was in shock. I was like, this did not just happen."
Jaden would normally have been in Beirut in August, but because of the Coronavirus he was home instead; a lucky break for him. But it also meant he couldn't go over to help with his own hands. So he found something else to do instead.
He partnered with the Canadian Red Cross to start a fundraiser in order to help with Red Cross efforts on the ground in Lebanon. It turns out that there is a strong Lebanese community in Halifax, and also that the people of Halifax remember their own harbour explosion of 1917 very well. "In school, we always learned about the Halifax Explosion, but there weren't really any videos of what actually happened," Lawen said. "This was like a current-day Halifax Explosion … it's just really heartbreaking, and it really hit home."
These two elements have led to an outpouring of charity which has already raised over a million dollars in other charity efforts; but for Jaden, who's own page with the red cross, called Halifax to Beirut with Love, was only started on Saturday has already topped his original goal of $20,000.00! He did that in 48 hours. Now there's a new goal of $40,000.00 which should be very achievable now that the news has started to pick up his story. "Just the support from Halifax is unbelievable. The amount of people that have been reaching out to me, saying, 'Anything you want me to do, I can help with,' it's just been amazing," said Lawen.
That first 48 hours was almost entirely social media driven, with Jaden using his own accounts like his Instagram to spread the message. What an incredible turnout of compassion and charity. It's your Good News Story of the Day which you can find here.
Rebecca McLeod, a philanthropy associate with the Canadian Red Cross, said she's thankful for all of the community support they've received since the explosion happened. She also added that donations have come through Jaden's portal from as far away as Australia; just proving the reach of social media. If you want to show that power then share the message of love on your own social media.
Story and Image from CBC News.
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The unfortunate truth is that they won't all call. Honestly, there is no sure way to tell how many people will call if you haven't done this type of marketing before. Think of it this way: What would happen if they did all call? You may not be able to handle all of them, but you would handle as many as you possibly could, right?
In this scenario, direct mail marketing would maximize your income for that time period providing you close all those callers! You can also explore the idea of expanding your operation to handle the number of leads you create.
What if you didn't send as much direct mail as you could in the beginning? Say you can afford to send 4,000 direct mail pieces every two weeks, but you think you will get too many calls to handle them all. So instead, you send 2,000 and the response is decent. However, you still have some down time and have to "manufacture" sales.
You saved $400 in marketing money, but had enough down time where you could have closed quite a few more sales than you did. The question now is "Which gives me more money in my pocket — saving $400 on marketing or closing more sales?" More than likely the answer is to send more direct mail and close more sales.
Hopefully you have more than one way to recruit new customers. So how do you know which ones are working and which aren't? Set up a system to track the results.
For example, say you start a direct mail campaign for your business. The first week you send out 3,000 postcards and get 30 calls. Did all of these leads come from the postcards? Probably not — because the week before you got 8 calls and hadn't sent any postcards yet. So how do you know who responded to the direct mail?
The answer: ask them. "How did you hear about our company?" The hard part is making sure all employees who answer the phone remember to ask the question every time. The fewer prospects who answer this question, the less accurate your information will be when making future marketing decisions.
Now let's assume that you have been direct mailing for a while and you have a good number of calls coming in. If you ask the question "So how did you hear about our company?" they may respond, "I got your postcard in the mail." But, by now, you have sent direct mail to four different lists, three times each. How do you tell which list and mailing this customer was from?
The answer: Put a marketing code on your direct mail that tells you which postcard they received and when it mailed.
Give each list a name and work the date into your marketing code as well. And the only thing your employees have to ask is, "Would you mind reading me the marketing code above your address?" This code gives you all the info you need and helps keep your direct mail results tracking as accurate as possible.
Try not to operate off assumptions about "how to market" if you haven't educated yourself about direct mail marketing. And make sure you collect all the data and make your future marketing decisions based on facts.
There are many ways to get information on which of your marketing actions work. Embrace new technology and use a service like Yodle, which supplies you a tracking phone number, or InfusionSoft, which helps you keep all of your tracking and follow-up straight no matter how many marketing channels you use.
These are great services, but by no means do you have to get that technological. Many times, especially for smaller campaigns — keep it low tech. Start by putting a promotional code on every direct mail piece you create. Then get your receptionist a note pad and, when a new person calls, have them make a note of which code they received. This way you can start collecting the data you need to make informed decisions about where to cut or increase your direct mail budget — no new staff or expenses necessary! See? The benefits of direct mail marketing are right at your fingertips!
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Lexington, Ky. -- Kentucky scored from the penalty spot in the 71st minute to edge Furman, 1-0, in non-conference women's soccer action at the rain-drenched Bell Soccer Complex in Lexington, Ky., on Sunday afternoon.
Furman was whistled for a foul in the top corner of the box at the 70:07 mark and Yuuka Kurosaki slotted her shot past Paladin goalkeeper Kellsey Weaver from the penalty spot for the lone goal of the match.
The loss dropped Furman to 4-2-0 on the season, while Kentucky improved to 4-4-0.
"We gave a great effort today and played extremely physical, but came up a little short in the end," said Paladin head coach Andrew Burr. "College of Charleston is coming to town on Thursday, so we will turn our attention to that match and continue our preparation for Southern Conference play."
The Paladins created several scoring opportunities, including a pair of point-blank chances in the opening two minutes of the second half. With the match knotted at 0-0, Stephanie Arrington found herself alone on the left side of the box and fired a goal-bound shot that UK goalkeeper Hannah Leonard got a hand on to push the effort wide of the left post. On the ensuing corner kick, Erin O'Hearn sent a ball into the middle of the box that Claudia Murphy fired on goal from inside five yards, but Leonard's quick reaction denied the Paladins a go-ahead score.
Kentucky and Furman finished with 11 shots apiece, while the visitors managed a 5-3 edge in shots on target. Leonard totaled fives saves for the Wildcats and Weaver turned away one shot for Furman.
The Paladins are back in action on Thursday at 7 p.m. when they host the College of Charleston Cougars on Seagraves Field at Stone Soccer Stadium. Tickets for Thursday's match are $5 and can be purchased online at FurmanPaladins.com or at the Stone Stadium entrance beginning one hour prior to kickoff. Season tickets, which include admission to all Furman men's and women's soccer home matches, are available for $30 at FurmanPaladins.com and include a Furman soccer scarf for the first 100 fans.
The match will be streamed live on the SoCon Digital Network with live statistics available through StatBroadcast. Links for the video and live stats are available at FurmanPaladins.com. Fans can access in-game updates of Furman women's soccer on Twitter by following @FurmanWSoccer.


I've put up a Disqus feed on my site! Even a guest can now comment on the weirdness that is called games.
In case you want to leave some quick feedback without any restriction for an account, you can now go straight there.
Also, I'm now participating in an collaboration project of the weirdest kind for Game Maker. The hoster called it PassaJolt. Every developer gets one day to work on the game and then passes the file to the next programmer. We have planned to do this two rounds and then see what happens. You can watch the buzz around PassaJolt on this forum topic on GameJolt. The game is already coming quickly along, but we still have a long way to go.
That's it for the day! Bye!


IMS Maxims has released the latest version of its open source electronic patient record, including all of the enhancements made for Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
Taunton was the first trust to go live with openMaxims in September last year and has been working closely with the company on developing new functionality, which is now available on the open source website GitHub.
New features of openMaxims 10.5 include; clinical triage of referrals; elective list management; clinical coding; appointment outcomes; and pre-operative assessment for theatres.
IMS Maxims first released the code for its EPR as open source to the NHS in June 2014. Eighteen months on, there is 50% more source code available.
Further updates to the code are expected as Wye Valley NHS Trust and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, as well as Ramsay Health Care, also have plans to deploy the system.
Wye Valley and Ramsay Health are both due to go-live this year, as well as phase two of the deployment of Taunton.
Paul Cooper, research director at IMS Maxims believes the open source approach is maturing in the NHS.
"This release demonstrates our commitment to the ongoing development of the solution," he said.


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Q: Adding rails web-site to a server running php web-site (linux) I have two sites hosted on one server, site1.com and site2.com, both of them are written on php
site1.com points to default location which is /var/www/html/
site2.com is configured in /etc/apache2/sites-available/site2.com.conf file. Contents of the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName site2.com
    ServerAlias www.site2.com
    ServerAdmin webmaster@site2.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site2/
</VirtualHost>

Now I wrote another web-application, site3. site3 is written on ruby on rails framework. At the moment I start it with rails server -b 0.0.0.0 command at /var/www/html/site3/ directory and access it by entering 'site1.com:3000' url in browser.
What I want to do: create a configuration, which will map 'http://site3.com' url to /var/www/html/site3/ directory.

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A parking facility is only as good as its barrier. Modern barriers require innovative and future-oriented engineering as well as environmentally compatible and energy-saving technology.
The Magnetic.Parking product range not only offers fast opening times, long life-cycle, reliability and quality they also provides extraordinary design, extremely low operational costs, easy handling and almost maintenance free technology.


Bitcoin News: Bitcoin (BTC) obsession has been declining at a staggering pace since the start of this year; the largest coin couldn't sustain trader's attention and the confidence that it had attained in the final quarter of last year.
Cryptocurrency market analysts are blaming declining trader's interest for the bearish trend over the last couple of months. They believe Bitcoin needs substantial fundamental support to rebuild trader's confidence, either from its network or through Wall Street investments.
Searches for Bitcoin plunged almost 75% since the start of this year – which isn't a good sign for the price performance of crypto coins. Searches for Ethereum (ETH) and Ripple (XRP) are also down more than 70% in the past five months.
Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, has shown his concerns on declining trader attention towards bitcoin and other digital currencies.
Nicholas Colas is certainly right about the cryptocurrency markets. Bitcoin and the rest of the digital currencies failed to gain traders attention amid the lack of fundamental support.
The market pundits believe that Bitcoin needs support from regulators all around the globe to strengthen trader's confidence. The reports of fraud, unfair trading practices, and money laundering issues have negatively contributed to the Bitcoin mania. Wall Street Adaptation could also provide a new life to cryptocurrency markets.


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Transfer: Ozil 'closer than ever' to Arsenal exit
January 14, 2021 Temitope ✅ News 0
Mesut Ozil's time at Arsenal looks to be coming to an end, after Fenerbahce Sporting Director, Emre Belozoglu, said the player is "closer than ever" to joining the Turkish club.
The 32-year-old's contract is set to expire at the end of the season.
However, his representatives have held negotiations with Fenerbahce, as well as DC United about a move during this transfer window.
Ozil was not registered in Mikel Arteta's Premier League and Europa League squads for this season and has not played for the Gunners since March.
Speaking to Turkish media about the prospect of Ozil moving to Fenerbahce, Emre said: "We had a meeting with him and his agent. It's happening slowly, but Mesut is closer than ever to Fenerbahce. The fact that Mesut's childhood dream is still alive and Fenerbahce has such a dream has made this step so close for the first time.
"After Mesut is done with the negotiations with his club, we will have our own negotiations among ourselves. If Mesut can make a deal with his club on the terms we expect, it won't be a burden for us financially considering our limits this year.
"Fenerbahce, or any club for this matter, can't afford to pay salaries of 4-5m euros to football players anymore. There's no way we would pay amounts that would upset balances within Fenerbahce or affect other players' salaries; we can't afford that."
Transfer: Fenerbahce gives update on Ozil's move from Arsenal Ozil's new shirt number revealed as midfielder seals Arsenal exit Transfer: Ozil to give up £7million to force Arsenal exit Transfer: Ozil finally agrees deal to leave Arsenal
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The Secret World of Pamela Travers
By Paul V Young
This article was published in New Dawn 170 (Sept-Oct 2018) The masterfully told stories of a magical nanny that held adults and children alike spellbound for decades might incline readers to think that Australian author Pamela (P.L.) Travers merely had […]
Articles, Secret History
Saint Sophia – The Almighty Wisdom" by Nicholas Roerich (1932)
Nicholas Roerich & the Sacred Union of the East
By Andrei Znamenski
New Dawn Special Issue Vol 8 No 3 "The East has said that when the Banner of Shambhala encircles the world, verily the New Dawn will follow." – Nicholas Roerich Late in the summer of 1934, a peculiar sage-looking European appeared in Manchuria and […]
Agarttha: Taking the Lid Off the Underground Kingdom
By Joscelyn Godwin
In 1884 the French occultist Saint-Yves d'Alveydre (1842-1909) decided to take lessons in Sanskrit. Having just published his definitive work on the secret history of the world, called Mission des Juifs ("Mission of the Jews"),2 he was anxious to deepen […]
Michel de Nostradamus: Fraud or a True Prophetic Savant?
By John Hogue
The 16th-century French doctor Michel de Nostradamus, and his obscure yet hypnotic prophecies, have cast their spell on the world over the last four-and-a-half centuries. He has become a wellspring for wisdom and waggishness for a broad range of diverse […]
Saint-Yves d'Alveydre & The Synarchy of Agarttha
By Mehmet Sabeheddin
The French writer Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre (1842-1909) was an extraordinary figure, a strange mixture of occultist and political philosopher. Born into humble circumstances, he led an adventurous life before marrying the wealthy former Countess of Keller. After settling down in […]


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WidePoint Partners with Intercede to Deploy MyID for a New Fortune Global 500 Corporation
WidePoint Corporation
FAIRFAX, VA / ACCESSWIRE / March 31, 2021 / WidePoint Corporation (NYSE American:WYY), the leading provider of Trusted Mobility Management (TM2) specializing in Telecommunications Lifecycle Management, Identity Management (IdM) and Digital Billing & Analytics solutions, has partnered with Intercede (IGP) on a new managed services contract to supply a Fortune Global 500 corporation with identity management credentialing services.
Under this contract, which will see Intercede's MyID credential management software form a core part of WidePoint's managed services, WidePoint will deliver professional services, hardware, and Personal Identity Verification (PIV-I) credentials. WidePoint will issue PIV-I credentials to a segment of the new customer's employees, providing logical access to a large federal agency's information and resources.
"Secure, remote connectivity is critical for many commercial and government entities to perform their work effectively," said Jason Holloway, President of WidePoint Cybersecurity Solutions Corporation. "And as this award, which is the third major IdM contract we have announced since the start of the year, demonstrates, a greater number of enterprises are realizing the value our IdM solutions provide. We look forward to continuing to build upon this momentum throughout the year."
Intercede's Chief Executive Officer, Klaas van der Leest stated, "MyID continues to offer enterprises and federal governments the technology they need to issue and manage credentials simply, securely, and at scale. WidePoint's managed services offering is a natural fit for MyID as it provides the manageability and compliance to federal standards that many organizations in the United States must meet. The fast turnaround of this deployment, from initial discussions to operation in under 30 days, underlines the simplicity of WidePoint's managed services offering, which is something I expect will bring confidence to prospective customers who have concerns about entering into long and complex PKI deployments. We look forward to many new customer wins together."
MyID credential management software will be hosted by WidePoint and used to issue and manage digital identities on behalf of managed service customers. Customers will benefit from WidePoint's PKI-based multi-factor authentication deployment in compliance with current and emerging federal standards, without the requirement to deploy and manage the architecture in-house.
Caroline Godfrey, Chief Security Officer of WidePoint Cybersecurity Solutions Corporation, added, "Over the last year we experienced a new era requiring rapid remote workforce adoption that catapulted Zero Trust to the top of the IT modernization list. No longer can you rely on physical barriers to protect access to your data. Digital identities are the new norm. Getting back to the basics with strong identity proofing is the root for establishing trust, and that's what our credentials enable."
Jin Kang, WidePoint's CEO, commented, "WidePoint is uniquely positioned to help numerous commercial organizations seamlessly access their secure information while adhering to federal policies with our comprehensive offerings of trusted digital identity credentials. We've been effectively doing so in 2021, and we look forward to continuing growing the presence of our credentials to ensure that more government employees and contractors are all able to securely work remotely and on premises."
About WidePoint
WidePoint Corporation (NYSE American:WYY) is a leading provider of trusted mobility management (TM2) solutions, including telecom management, mobile management, identity management, and digital billing and analytics. For more information, visit widepoint.com.
About Intercede
Intercede is a cybersecurity company specializing in digital identities, credential management and secure mobility. Intercede is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with offices in the United States. For more information visit intercede.com.
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Personal Ordinariate
What is an Ordinariate?
While an Ordinariate is a jurisdiction equivalent to that of a diocese, it is not defined geographically by city or territory, but by a unique and significant pastoral need that requires more flexibility. Within the territory of a particular Conference of Bishops, one or more Ordinariates may be erected as needed.
What is the Personal Ordinariate for Anglicans entering into full communion with the Catholic Church?
With the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus dated 2009, Pope Benedict XVI established provisions for the erection of personal Ordinariates for Anglicans entering into full communion with the Catholic Church. Such Ordinariates are erected by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith within the confines of the territorial boundaries of a particular Conference of Bishops in consultation with that same Conference. They are composed of lay faithful, clerics and members of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, originally belonging to the Anglican Communion and now in full communion with the Catholic Church, or those who receive the Sacraments of Initiation within the jurisdiction of the Ordinariate.
Saint John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, Calgary, Alberta, of the Personal Ordinarite of the Chair of Saint Peter.
The Personal Ordinariate in Canada
The personal Ordinariate in Canada, named after the Chair of Saint Peter, was first erected by the Holy See on the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, 1 January 2012, in order to cover the U.S. and was subsequently extended to include Canada in December of the same year, following consultation with the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. As stated in the Apostolic Constitution and on the website of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, the purpose of such Ordinariates is to be an instrument of Catholic unity: an opportunity to model what the future reconciliation of separated Christian communities could be.
The Ordinariate has established the Deanery of St. John the Baptist based in Calgary, Alberta, to minister to groups of Anglicans and Anglican clergy in Canada who come into full communion with the Catholic Church (contact details below).
Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter (TX)
Ordinariate:
The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter
Houston (TX) 77255
The Most Rev. Steven J. LOPES
Bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter
office@ordinariate.net
www.ordinariate.net


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As of now, all 432 board members who made the "final cut" have been added to the board database. The final member tables were imported tonight and confirmation emails were transmitted. If you're pretty sure that someone you know from the site should be one of the 432 and they have NOT received a confirmation email, please have them get in touch with me through Facebook/Twitter/Discord and I will change their email address accordingly and resend a registration email. The list of all 432 members can be found in the attachment to this post.


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Hayley Gonnason Senior Publicist
Sandra Cisneros , acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street
Francisco Jim énez
Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University by Francisco Jim énez Clarion Books
Booklist , starred review "[S]imply and eloquently told. An inspiring account of a remarkable journey." — Kirkus Reviews
Booklist, ALA, starred review The Christmas Gift: El regalo de Navidad
Publishers Weekly, starred review The Circuit
Hayley Gonnason
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Too many children in the United States have never seen their lives in print, nor have they ever been told their story is extraordinary, nor that they themselves are courageous.
—Sandra Cisneros, acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street
Taking Hold
by Francisco Jiménez
In this fourth book in his award-winning memoir series, Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University, Francisco Jiménez leaves everything behind in California—a loving family, a devoted girlfriend, and the culture that shaped him—to attend Columbia University in New York. Carrying memories of years of poverty and prejudice with him, he enters into a world culturally different from his own. Will he find community? Will he be able to excel among his Ivy Leagues classmates? How will he support his family back home now that his devoted father is too ill to work?
Honest and moving, Francisco Jiménez's memoir comes alive with telling details about the warmth and resilience of family and the quest for identity against seemingly impossible odds. Continuing the best-selling life stories told in The Circuit, Breaking Through, and Reaching Out, Francisco Jiménez chronicles his efforts and struggles as he continues his education at Columbia University.
Francisco Jiménez emigrated from Tlaquepaque, Mexico, to California, where he worked for many years in the fields with his family. He received both his master's degree and his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is now chairman of the Modern Languages and Literature Department at Santa Clara University. He lives in Santa Clara, California, with his family.
Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University by Francisco Jiménez Clarion Books
April 7, 2015; $16.99 hardcover; 208 pages; Ages 14 and up; ISBN: 978-0-547-63230-8
Ebook SBN: 978-0-547-64569-8
Praise for Reaching Out, Breaking Through, and The Circuit
2009 Pura Belpré Honor
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2009
"Rooted in the past, Jiménez's story is also about the continuing struggle to make it in America, not only for immigrant kids but also for those in poor families who struggle to break free. Never melodramatic or self-important, the spare episodes will draw readers with the quiet daily detail of work, anger, sorrow, and hope." —Booklist, starred review
"[S]imply and eloquently told. An inspiring account of a remarkable journey." —Kirkus Reviews
Breaking Through
2002 Pura Belpré Honor for Narrative
Americas Award
ALA Best Book for Young Adults
ALA Notable Book for Children
Booklist Editors' Choice
"The images are powerful . . . this is a book for many readers, who may discover an America they didn't know was here."—Booklist, ALA, starred review
The Christmas Gift: El regalo de Navidad
ALA Notable
"Told both in English and in Spanish, this bittersweet tale is base on an incident from Jiménez's childhood in a family of migrant farm workers."
The Circuit
"Highly recommended for both pleasure listening and for classroom use and discussion."
"Readers of this book will gain insight into...the lives of immigrant families."
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"We want to thank the Commission for its hard work in considering instant runoff voting so diligently and hearing testimony on numerous other proposals to better New York City. While we are disappointed that the commission did not include instant runoff voting, we are thrilled that so many of New York's civic groups and leaders joined New York voters in supporting IRV. We look forward to engaging further with the City Council Charter Commission and the state legislature to find other avenues to implement this common-sense reform. We also welcome the opportunity for further discussion with the Mayor on how we can improve New York City elections," said Rob Richie, President and CEO, FairVote.
"While the Commission declined to include instant runoff voting in their recommendations, I look forward to considering other ways to implement IRV through state legislation. There are many options we have to reform our election systems through IRV. New York City should continue to review instant runoff voting as a way to improve voter turnout and save money," said New York State Assemblyman Walter Mosley.


Parasites substantially influence the structure of modern marine ecosystems, but the prevalence, diversity, and importance of parasitism throughout the Phanerozoic is poorly known. The best-known record of parasites in fossil crustaceans is evidence attributed to epicaridean isopods found in decapods. Such parasites can have dramatic effects on the host, including castration. Although these soft-bodied isopods do not fossilize, their swellings (ichnotaxon Kanthyloma crusta) are readily visible in the gill chamber region on dorsal carapaces of fossil decapods. Here we test the hypothesis that the prevalence of isopod infestations decreased through time by studying >5000 specimens from 13 Late Jurassic – Miocene assemblages from Europe and North America. Infestation percentages are significantly higher for Late Jurassic – Early Cretaceous species occurrences relative to those from the Late Cretaceous – Miocene interval. Decreases are also evident using genus-level occurrences and whole assemblages, supporting earlier notions based on less refined methods. This decline cannot be explained by collecting and preservational factors. Instead, this trend may, in part, be explained by a drop in the abundance of commonly infested primitive lineages such as homolodromioid brachyurans and galatheoid squat lobsters, among other factors. Possibly, parasitism contributed to the decline of these clades. This macroevolutionary trend adds to the rapidly increasing knowledge about the importance of parasitism in deep time and opens the door for new studies.
New Caledonia is known for high faunistic and floristic endemism. Only two large branchiopods species were previously known from this island before the "La Planète Revisitée" expeditions: " Triops longicaudatus intermedius Longhurst 1955" and Lynceus insularis Olesen et al. 1996. We present the methods and results of our surveys, which used satellite technology and specific focused investigations based on local conditions. We conducted direct sampling of adult animals and sampled dry sediments for for resting eggs. Representative specimens were sequenced using NGS methods. This method allowed us to identify five species all with a strong Australian affinity. Two species are geographically limited, are probably endemic, and are affected by mining or agricultural activities. Two species are more widely distributed and do not seem threatened. The last species inhabits all areas including mining zones and presents a clear genetic structure suggesting the beginning of a radiation phase. The latter is threatened locally by urbanization and mining activity.
Found in coastal and shelf waters along the Atlantic coast of North America, from Newfoundland to Florida, Jonah crab (Cancer borealis) have been captured as incidental bycatch in the New England lobster industry for over 80 years. In the last 20 years however, Jonah crabs have become an alternative fishery target and landings have more than quadrupled. This has necessitated evaluation of the current status and prospective long-term health of the fishery. The biological implications of harvesting Jonah crab through the live removal of claws remain mostly unknown. The goal of this ongoing research is to evaluate current harvest practices (claw removal) and the implications on the health and behavior of Jonah crabs. Preliminary results from laboratory trials (n = 232 total crabs) suggest that double-claw removal incurs markedly more mortality (~74 %) compared with single-claw removal (~56 %) and control animals (~19 %). Physiological stress, assessed through concurrent haemolymph analyses suggest elevated levels of glucose and lactate in de-clawed crabs. Continued studies on behavior (feeding) and growth are ongoing in an effort to better understand Jonah crabs and manage this rapidly developing fishery in New England waters.


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Our team of attorneys has previous experience serving as general counsel or in senior legal positions, at Fortune 500 companies; health care systems, insurers, and organizations; pharmaceutical companies; and global financial companies, among others. Utilizing this "real world" experience and our industry know-how—as well as the resources of our Health Care and Life Sciences; Employment, Labor & Workforce Management; and Litigation & Business Disputes practices—we can effectively provide advice and counsel to (and, if necessary, defend) companies that need additional legal support.
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Is anyone else having a hard time believing that we're to the end of Justified's second season already? I still vividly remember last season's finale.
While "Bloody Harlan" is no "Bulletville," it's satisfying in its own way, and I can already see the possibilities for season three playing out in my head.
We start with a familiar scene: Raylan walks into Art's office. This time, he's asking for another month off, which Art agrees is a good idea. Then Raylan adds that he wants to transfer back to Glynco and return to his former job as a firearms instructor. Art needs to think about that one. Not the answer Raylan was hoping for.
Doyle Bennett rolls up on the general store looking for his mother. He tells Mags that Boyd Crowder wants to parlay, which Dickie is vehemently against (no surprise). Mags is wary, as she knows they've all been tripped up by Boyd for various reasons. She doesn't know that Boyd is meeting with a friend of Doyle's, who is not happy about her deal with Black Pike Mining and thinks the family has "had their way far too long." In fact, he's gunning for Doyle's job.
Loretta's foster siblings are all headed off to school, but she's not feeling well. Or is she bluffing? Well, she's certainly being watched by that shady dude in the car.
Raylan finally wakes up and tells Winona that going back to Glynco is going to be harder than he thought. She takes this as him not really wanting to go. Oh, and she's pregnant. This motivates him to say that they're going to leave, even if he has to change careers. At least he has his priorities straight.
Boyd and Arlo meet Doyle and Mags at the same church that we saw in "The Spoil." Boyd wants to broker a peaceful resolution before their conflict turns into something bigger. Mags accuses him of breaking their deal, even as Boyd tells her that Dickie did that for him first. Boyd produces the money that he and Arlo stole from Dickie, which Mags calls "a step in the right direction." She says that one of these days, he'll want more and he'll take it. Obviously, she knows him pretty well.
Ava is toting her shotgun again. This makes me happy. She and Boyd's friend Devil are at her house, waiting to hear from Boyd or from his cousin Johnny. The latter is too busy blowing up his house with two of Mags' armed men inside. And Ava and Devil are soon being shot at by three more henchmen. (Poor Ava. Two season finales in a row she's been shot at.) Dickie pops up in the kitchen just long enough to shoot Ava and leave his buddies behind. I'd say that's rude, but we know from last week that he's willing to turn on anyone to save himself. Needless to say, Boyd is not happy when he gets home to find her wounded. He gets emotional before getting Dickie's name out of Devil at gunpoint.
In other bad news, Loretta's gone missing. So has the creepy guy in the car. (Poor Loretta. Twice now she's been stuck in a car with a weird guy. Though at least it's not the trunk this time.) We can connect the dots, and so can a Lexington cop that calls Raylan from Loretta's foster home. Driving Winona to work, Raylan changes course to check things out himself. The cop tells him the car pings back to a Wade Messer (also the surname of the character Timothy Olyphant's character was working with in season two of Damages, natch). Raylan instructs the cop to call Tom Bergen, before interrogating Winona's foster parents. Her foster dad admits that he's missing a gun and a few hundred dollars.
Messer asks Loretta why she's bringing a gun down to Harlan. She replies that she wants to know what happened to her father. He warns her that "there ain't enough money in the world worth crossing the Bennetts over" but she's determined, and they part ways.
In Lexington, Raylan tells Winona that he's figured out what Loretta is up to, and she replies that it's not his problem. "I can't promise you I'm going to be here when you get back," she adds, knowing that he's not going to budge no matter how tearful she gets. Instead, once she gets to work, she walks into Art's office and tells him what her ex-husband is up to. She wants the Marshals to help him, but Art is resolved to let Raylan fend for himself. I can't exactly blame him given how much Raylan has put him through over the last two seasons.
Raylan finds Messer and also gets knocked upside the head courtesy of a downright gleeful Dickie Bennett. Between Helen, Ava, and now Raylan, Dickie just likes seeing how many people he can knock off. Feud aside, I'm pretty sure the guy's a few crayons short of a full box. He strings Raylan up in a tree and decides to take a few swings at him like a pinata. Before Dickie can do serious harm, however, it's Boyd to the rescue. He informs Raylan about Ava's being shot, but Raylan knows they need Dickie alive to find Loretta, who turns up at the Bennett house. Mags is overjoyed to see her, but it quickly dawns on the Bennett matriarch that the young woman is there because of her late father. Loretta pulls her gun on Mags just as Raylan rolls up on the house with his own weapon pointed at the back of Dickie's head.
Mags doesn't think Loretta will pull the trigger, but she does and hits Mags in the leg. This leads everyone outside to start shooting; Doyle has a wounded Raylan dead to rights but is quickly put down by (you guessed it) Tim and his trusty sniper rifle. He, Art, Rachel and a horde of unnamed reinforcements have arrived.
Moving into the house, Raylan, Tim and Rachel find Loretta holding Mags at gunpoint. She wants to know who really killed her father, and Mags finally confesses that she's the guilty party. Loretta is incensed by Mags' idea that she gave the young woman a better life, and wants to shoot her for it, but Raylan reminds her that killing someone will change her life in a severely negative way, and that gets her to hesitate. It's amusing and yet awesome to see the guy with the quick trigger finger talking someone out of becoming like him. Once Loretta is calmed down, Raylan tells Mags that Doyle is dead and Dickie has been arrested. Ignoring their respective gunshot wounds, the two share a drink and shake on the bloody end of their family feud.
But this wouldn't be Justified without a stroke of tragedy. Mags has poisoned herself, just like she did to Loretta's father Walt, and Raylan can't do anything but watch her die. We get another playing of Brad Paisley's "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" as he regards her corpse. And really, did we expect it to end any other way?
Before I get into my analysis of the finale, I want to take a soapbox moment again this week. I was on location with the show during the filming of this episode, and I have to say it's an experience to be able to compare what I saw with the finished product. It makes me appreciate certain scenes more because I know just how many takes there were, how many different line deliveries the actors tried, and how many discussions there were amongst cast and crew about this element or that creative decision. What looks like minutes to you took hours for everyone involved. I'd hope all the fans of the show are cognizant that for this hour of television, a lot of people labored for a very long time. For my part, I truly loved spending time with each and every one of them, and am thankful that they not only invited me to be part of the experience of making Justified, but welcomed me as part of their team. Here's to hoping I see them all again someday.
Moving on, the question in my mind was always how "Bloody Harlan" would stack up to "Bulletville," which was such an amazing season one finale that it stayed on my DVR for a few months. Just because that's the case, I don't feel like this finale was as good; it's obviously very hard to match such a high-quality episode. But I'm left satisfied that the journey of season two was worth the time, and I'm curious to see what will happen in season three.
There are some things that were fairly predictable. Not even Winona believed that Raylan would leave the situation alone no matter how much she told him to. Did we really think Art and Co. were going to leave Raylan hanging? Of course not. I'm also not surprised at all that Mags chose suicide. Given how protective she was over her boys and over her homestead, it makes perfect sense that she would hold herself responsible for everything that happened because of her children and the land deal that she struck. It's disappointing at the same time, though, because I enjoyed watching Margo Martindale so much. If she doesn't get at least an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actress, there's no justice left in the awards-show machine.
I figured that either Doyle or Dickie would join her in the body count, but my money was on Dickie – though I think part of that was wishful thinking as he's the one that deserved it more, and because I started to get tired of him by season's end. I wouldn't be surprised if we see him back causing more havoc with his own weird justifications for doing so (like, say, holding Raylan accountable for his mother's suicide, or at least failing to prevent it).
There are some things that leave other possibilities for stories in season three as well. Winona's pregnancy is not a real surprise either; we knew once Gary got out of the picture that Winona and Raylan were going to become a couple again for the show's long haul and this is just part of that. I do wonder how the impending fatherhood and the long-term re-establishment of the relationship will change Raylan. Are we going to see him continue to be less violent? I don't want to see him lose too much of his edge, even as I understand why he would. If I knew I had a spouse and unborn child to look out for I wouldn't be quite so reckless either. We'll see, but I hope he doesn't stray too far from the Raylan we know and love. I am also automatically wary of pregnancy storylines in any way, shape or form.
And with the Bennetts reeling, one assumes that Boyd and the Crowders will once again seize control of Harlan County and its criminal enterprises. Or will somebody else make another challenge to their authority and we'll be telling another family's story in season three? It could go either way there. Certainly, Ava isn't going to be killed off (unless the writers are downright nuts), and it would be interesting to see if she would end up further involved in the Crowder business should they return to power. Raylan could end up taking her head on in season three. You never know.
Justified has always been, first and foremost, about characters – and not just about characters, but about families. In season one, it was fathers and sons. Season two saw family against family. Now, in season three, Raylan will be building a family of his own. There's a truly great story about family being told here, and I can't wait to see where it goes next.


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Follow the yellow brick road of the 2016 Caper through Oz to... Shelterville?
Kaza's Mate Gwenna accepts the invitation. Three characters will be involved in the crossover.
Kaza- Big beefy jungle hero. Doesn't wear pants. Quick to jump into action.
Jenny Anywhere Dimensional traveler who enlisted Kaza and Gwenna's help in an alternate dimension.
Gwen Davis (the Redhead) the alternate universe Gwenna who is currently traveling with Kaza and Jenny. She will look a little different than her current appearance. She won't have her glasses and she'll only be wearing a pink bikini.
You and them shall be more than welcome to this years Caper Jay!
I'm actually going to have a post setting things up pretty soon.
Today is Jenny Everywhere Day, and so I decided to honor that with an extra comic, which also serves to foreshadow the upcoming Cameo Caper.
Aw man! This is a great start!
Looks like I'll have to Work on the Caber Hubs... pronto!
Well, I have four pages for the story in preparation. Not sure how many more will end up part of it though.
My first page for the story will be updating tomorrow.
Okay, the first page leading up to the Caper is posted!
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With seeing that, it reminds me: I may just be using Johnny Everywhere in this, but I'm not sure. I haven't used him much, but do want him to factor into comics. I like to use trans characters when I can, because I have a bias. As well, I've been thinking of making his evil counterpart, like Jenny Everywhere has Jenny Nowhere, but I'm not sure I'll do it.
I was only using Jenny Everywhere because it was Jenny Everywhere Day. I didn't plan on using Jenny E for this story since I had Jenny A playing a central role.
Well, I was responding to the page you had just posted, in response to you using a Jenny character. Frankly, I'm not as versed in the idea of the others, but I know Anywhere has precedent in your comic. I was also thinking it was interesting that we may both be using a character from that circle, but neither is Jenny Everywhere herself.
And my trio are off to see the Wizard!
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And Jenny Anywhere realizes Gwen's world is weird.
Well, my story is shaping up for a big fight scene in Shelterville. The plan is a bunch of the Ozian monsters (The Wheelers, Whimsies, Gullywogs, and Phanfasms) storm the town in search of something. This results in one big throwdown featuring everybody.
That sounds awesome. Hope you do better than I did for my Kokotomo plans, where I was trying to get a huge battle going, but never got to it and sadly ended things on an anticlimax.
Well, a lot of the Karabear crew's cameo will be part of the fight.
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Your link there goes to a page that doesn't seem to be a part of the Caper, at least as far as I can tell. Maybe it is part, but as it is the page after is probably what you wanted to post.
I was editing my archive earlier today so now all my links are off.


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Q: Is "The Venue in the map" or "...on the map"? How can it be determined, if the correct version is "The Venue is in the map" or "The Venue is on the map"? And which is correct?

A: In the map makes sense if you're talking about a map application on a smart phone.  Since this will soon be the way that most people use maps in practice, it will likely become the dominant form.
For the moment, though, on the map is more general, and it also carries the connotation that the Venue is worth mapping, i.e. it will appear on a screen in the app, but also on other wayfinding displays that the user might encounter on their way to its location.
So I'd say that the correct answer depends on the nature of your audience,  the importance of your venue, and the impression you are trying to convey.

A: A map is a 2-d representation of a 3-d space, in, would refer to "inside" whereas on represents "on-top of", and as there is no inside of a 2-d thing, the correct wording is "on the map"


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Emma beats adversity to win nursing degree first
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A nursing student and single mum of two, has defied the odds to achieve a first as a Bachelor of Nursing (Hons) at the University of Manchester.
Emma Ridpath, from Warrington, was also part of the nursing team who looked after victims of the Manchester Arena bombing at Royal Manchester children's hospital intensive care unit.
She was based at the unit during the final part of her training when the tragedy happened.
Even the loss of her beloved grandfather William, just before she started her final year's studies, did not stand in the way of her success.
Her success has been a family affair: daughter Courtney, 11, son Nathan, 9 and mum Pam have all been doing their upmost to support her.
She said: "There have been a lot of setbacks along the way, but with the help of my two wonderful children I managed to achieve a first class honours.
"It's given me a chance to pursue my life-long dream of being a nurse. I've always wanted to be able to care for people.
"I'll never forget the amazing patients and relatives who came into the unit on that terrible day in May. I could hardly believe it was happening – but the bravery and dignity of those people was a very powerful experience."
As soon as Emma finished her studies she was snapped up by Alder Hey Children's Hospital, intensive care unit, where she has been working since September.
Her studies, she says were tough but ultimately gave her the skills she needed to find her dream job.
The course gave me an in-depth knowledge of anatomy and physiology - which is very helpful for anyone who wants to work in intensive care. I made some wonderful friends on the course. And without my wonderful academic advisor I don't know what I would have done.
Emma Ridpath
She is also hoping to publish her dissertation on the experience of nurses and their families of bereavement in an intensive care unit.
She added: "The course gave me an in-depth knowledge of anatomy and physiology - which is very helpful for anyone who wants to work in intensive care.
"I made some wonderful friends on the course. And without my wonderful academic advisor I don't know what I would have done. Diane was always there for me.
"Dianne and the staff went above and beyond their duty in the help they provided for me.
Dianne Burns who is a senior lecturer in nursing said: "As Emma's academic advisor during her studies, I have seen her work exceedingly hard to develop her academic and clinical skills whilst overcoming much personal adversity.
Even during those hard times her commitment to her learning journey was clearly evident in everything she did, always submitting a high standard of academic work.
As a future Children's nurse, Emma's passion and dedication to the patient's in her care was also clear to see, especially in the wake of the Manchester Arena attack when Emma was involved in providing nursing care to some of the unfortunate victims.
"I think I speak for all of us here in the Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work when I say that she is truly an inspirational student of whom we are very proud."


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Gamifying your booth can significantly increase engagement at your next trade show. Here's how to create games that support your overall message.
You want to stand out. You want people to remember your brand, your sales message, your value. The trick — especially at trade shows, where you're competing for attention with hundreds of other exhibitors — is to deliver an unforgettable experience.
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I've seen a number of companies that incorporated games into their booths, but did so in a way that probably didn't help them reach their sales goals. The games were flashy and exciting, which is great, but didn't do much to support the sales message. In other words, while cool the games I saw probably didn't deliver much value for attendees or for the exhibitors.
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